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  • in reply to: Debt Rattle September 23 2022 #116643
    Redneck
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    Russia will have to spend more blood if they want to win, whatever win means. So far they have not shown the spirit of the Russians of old. Back in WW 2 the Russian soldier was an illiterate peasant hard physically and psychologically. They were brutal even more brutal that the Germans. Back then Stalin was an unopposed dictator the people had a gun put to their heads and told ‘fight”. Putin is a strongman too but he does not have total control like Stalin did. So far Putin has not been willing to put the Russians troops in very hard military confrontations where there will be high casualties because he is afraid of the Russian peoples reaction.That will have to change if they want to really push the Ukrainians hard. The release of the Azov leaders and the unwillingness to execute the foreign fighters is another sign that Putin is not tough enough to do what is needed. I think Putin has totally failed the Russian people in this operation. He had the chance to end it quickly by decapitating Kiev but he was too afraid to make the kill shot. He has failed right from the very beginning, the Donbass should have been annexed at the same time that Crimea was. Remember he only recognised the two republics the day before the invasion , he has hesitated and been too weak. Also his intel people have been a failure. They led Putin to believe that there would be a coup in Kiev and that the Russians would be greeted like liberators.The referendums are a total sham how can Russia have a referendum in Ukraine? The Ukrainians on the other side of the front line in Donbass don’t get to vote do they? Putin has lost the plot , he should be removed. Now he has placed Russia in a very hard position and the people are just starting to realise where they stand . You can see by the look on the faces of the Russians on these TV discussions that now they are afraid for the situation , they now realise this is not a game.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 23 2022 #116588
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    The Ukraine/Russia thing has gone beyond stupid. The “referendum” is being done so Russia can try to scare NATO with it’s nuclear bluff. The Russians did not have the balls to execute one of the foreign mercenaries and the Azov commanders are being allowed to go to Turkey in a forty Russians to one hundred and forty Uky swap! The Russians are total pansies , the old Soviet fire in the belly is gone , the airports are packed with young men trying to leave. What an embarrassment for the Russian people. The debates in Russia are a real eye opener , the Russians are more or at least as disgusting as the Banderas with their calls for the total extermination of all Ukranians. My god , what insanity.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 22 2022 #116500
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    I have family members travelling around Europe at the moment. They say everything is normal , no signs of any kind of restrictions or shortages.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 21 2022 #116479
    Redneck
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    Back in Feb. when Russian troops crossed the border into Ukraine I was a major Putin/Russia supporter.
    The upper most thought at the time was , “ Purin , don’t fuck this up!”
    and what did he do? He fucked it up!
    When the Russian forces made the dash to Kiev the world, NATO , myself thought it would all be over very quickly and it should have been , but Russian intl was fooled by Ukranian intel , there would be no overthrow of the Zelensky government and no Russian puppet goverment put in place to implement Putin’s SMO plan. While the columns were parked on the highways , throwing flowers to the locals and moving to the curb to politely let the civilian traffic through , there was no coup , the Putin plan had already fucked up.
    Then the manpads and Ukranian forces appeared , columns were destroyed as manpads were deployed at close range. The Ukranians had lured the Russians into a trap.
    So then Putin fucked up more , instead of calling in the missles and airforce to vaporise Zelensky and co. he called the first retreat. Many dead Russians and heavy equipment lay burning in the fields and highways and byways of the Kiev region. Rumor has it that many Russian intel personnel found themselves in prison for thatmistake .
    Things like that happen when you have a powerful intimidating leader like Putin. Sychophants tell them what they want to hear , not what the need to hear. For example not so long ago Putin declared war on heart diseae in Russia . The beaurochracy and the system scrambled to acheive his goals. Soon the system was changed and fantastic results were pouring in , Purin’s intitiative was a huge success, but was it ? Slowly it was revealed that all the data was faked and that the health system was actually compromised not enhanced . The event became a national scandal in Russia .
    So the Russins retreated under fire and set up with another plan, fight a long ground and pound war of attrition , a war they were not prepared for.
    They had some success in the south with Mariupol being the moment of greatest triumph. Then everything slowed for the Russians and they had some big setbacks, the sinking of the flagship Moscow , the retreat from Snake island, isolated heavy losses , strikes inside the Russian border occurring.
    Meanwhile the alternative media channels I had begun to watch at the beginning of the op had moved from a position of reasonable neutrality to become full on spruikers of the Russian narrative. About three months ago it started to become obvious that they were being blatantly dishonest in their coverage of the conflict. I refer firstly to the two Alexses , the Duran and co , Ritter and Gonzales.
    Ritter described the debacle in Kiev as a great strategic victory that would go down in the history books as such. They begun to sound like MSM fake news all parroting the same buzz phrases , “ This war is already over , Russia has won” they spewed in unison. Exscuses were made non stop for the pathetic Russian attempt to take territory, “it is not about territory , Putin is playing five-D chess , the rest are running along behind trying to catch up.” On and on it went. The Ukranians were about to break and run their moral was so bad, Russia was systematically destroying their supply lines and ammo dumps , the Uky air force was destroyed on the ground , totally. Russian military tech was so superior , all imports of equipment coming into the country was destroyed as it crossed the border , the HIMARS and triple sevens were all vaporised and they were useless anyway because the Ukys were too dumb to operate them. The UKYs could never mount an offensive , it was all in their imagination Mercurous said. The wall of Russian artillery was invincible and Russia was having no casualties at all while Ukraine was losing so many it was unsustainable , the next big town was a key to Russian victory , take Yzium and all of the Ukrainian plans will disintegrate,they are about to break and run. blah , blah blah.
    Then the imagined and impossible offensive happened and Ukraine took about sixty thousand square kilometers of territory from the Russians.
    Suddenly the emporer had no clothes , Putin was swiming naked , the famed SMO was all fake , Putin had fucked it all up!
    The Russian public were embarrsed , humiliated and absolutely furious, politicians , pundits and the head on RT were apoplectic on Russian tv.
    But no body called out Putin , funny that , scared maybe?
    So there was about three weeks where the Russian people are in uproar and panic , how can they be losing , well Putin had fucked the whole thing up, thats why.
    Putin started fucking it up right from the very start. When the Maidan happened the Donbas and the Russian people were crying out for those territories to be annexed at the same time as Crimea , but Putin was scared and did nothing , remember he only recognised the Donbas republics the day before the invasion!
    Now the fuck up is obvious and some weeks have past Putin is back with a new plan , because he fucked the first one up. However every one in the alt media Putin cult continues to fake it and say that it was always part of the plan , now the final devastating move will be made that will illustrate it was all planned to be like this.
    The Grand Master is in his inner sanctum right now in deep meditation , any moment he will arise and enlighten us with his five-d chess superior intelligence.
    After twenty four hours in samadhi he emerges , “ Our iminent victory is at hand , I have decided eight years too late to have a referendum and take Donbass and the conquered territories, even though it is not about taking territory, or empire , into the RF and also you know that mobilisation I always promised will not happen , well it will happen but only a mini mobilisation , a mobilisation without a mobilsation. I know I said the SMO would be short and sweet but the front , you know the thing ,is a thousand kilometers long! Who knew? I just got word from Intel in the last hour that NATO is involved , Who knew? We are all pure and virginal and never tell lies but the West is so evil and wants to destroy us , who knew? Our boys at the front are all virgins , none of them drink or smoke , they spend all their time in prayer or meditation or talking to there mum , they always give the human flesh eating terrible fascists a tranquilliser shot before they kill them , being so humane and all. Our nukes are bigger than theirs , now the gloves are off we will show really show em!”.
    Apparently the truth is not allowed to surface inside the mind’s of the Putin’s cultists. ‘Cause pain , the pain of cognitive dissonance , it is just so unbearable “MUST NOT THINK WORDS LIKE , PUTIN FUCKKED UP.”
    So the Duran and the choir all sing the Russian anthem and everything will be put right now, finaly Putin the sage is awake and ready to deal the death blow.
    Except the new plan , is it different to the SMO? Well we can expect more violence but are the goals the same? How exactly does the new plan end? To win I would asume that NATO will defeated militarily and will submit to Russia in a total capitulation? What is the last move on the chess board by the master? Is he finally going to grow a set and totally shutdown the Europeans energy supplies? Is that guaranteed to bring them to their knees and the negotiating table? The Europeans have faced much tougher trials than this , London has been bombed, Germany was left a smoking rubble, is the new energy offensive be enough? For sure the Europeans will be pissed but will they love Russia because they have no gas to keep their children warm through winter? Are the shortages really going to be as bad as pro Russian media say? Will they hate their own leaders and ask Puitn to come in and save them? What will the European peoples attitude to Russia be when they are cold and hungry? All the world leaders who flocked to Russia to kiss the ring of the new Christ that had arrived to take then to heaven , what are they thinking now? Are they thinking Putin fucked up and what do we do now? How does Putin bring an end to hostilities? Right now there is only a guarantee for further hostilities. If the Donbas and other territories become part of the RF and Putin declares the new border and that the SMO is over and complete and the Russian guns stop , does that mean NATO and Ukraine also stop? Isn’t the EU and Germany planning to rearm and build a new Eu army , continue to expand NATO and prepare for a larger confrontation in the future? Will that be an acceptable future for Putin? Was not the expansion of NATO his original problem , the problem that brought about this debacle he finds himself in? Will the EU turn on all it’s old dirty energy plants in order to continue to confront Russia? The war can only end with America’s consent. America has intitated this conflict and unless they decide to have peace I can’t see how the conflict can stop. Can the EU apply enough pressure to the Banderas to make them sign away a large portion of their country? Will the Banderas ever surrender? Will Putin have to completely destroy the entire country and everybody in tit ? Has he got the cohones to reduce every city in the Ukraine into another Mosul? Does Putin have definitive answers to these questions? Does Russia still have enough arms in the warehouse to now start and win a much bigger war? Does he have some way to defeat NATO assymetrically other that the energy deprivation plan? Has he finally stopped fuckin up and got a plan that can be seen through to a successful and peaceful conclusion or is he walking into another Afghanistan , a twenty year war of attrition? How long will the Russian people put up with him fucking up? How bad will the repression in Russia get if they won’t?
    The Putin sycophants in the alt media are still kissing his ring and not one negative word has been said about his fuckups. Any criticism in Russia is being met with threats of fifteen year prison terms, some still remember the days of the USSR.
    So it turns out that most of the Russian narrativet was lies , Russian propaganda. Now it is obvious that there was an equal amount of hubris on both sides. The Russian were not the fighting force they had led me to beleive , they are not as technologically advanced as I had understood them to be , and Putin is not the genius he has been made out to be.
    I guess after writing this I won’t be getting a visa to the Russian victory celebrations in Moscow now.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 20 2022 #116381
    Redneck
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    Different plant, same tactics.
    Not sure what you meant by this. DPA said that Russia has confirmed they fired on the nuclear plant which is in Uky Territory. They destroyed a ware house three hundred meters from the nuclear plant claiming the Ukys were storing military hardware there.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 15 2022 #115982
    Redneck
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    Regarding ‘Bullshit stories about Putin is in bad health”.
    Putin himself claims to have had four jabs of the Russian version of Astra Zeneca so it is vey possible that he has been suffering from the effects of the spike protein. Back at the last celebration of WW2 victory he looked , to me to be very puffy in the face and not his usual self and friends who were watching it with me agreed. Also all fax haters but Putin lovers , remember Putin was all in on the vax , mandates , lockdowns and tracking aps. Russian big Pharma did a deal with Oxford and one of the big banks was in control and took profits from the distribution of the first ten million shots.
    Regarding Russia winning folk claim that is is inevitable but I never hear what the end result , the “win” looks like on the ground.
    Every scenario I run , excepting a complete capitulation by NATO , leaves Russia in a world of hurt. Does any one have a realistic description of how Russia wins?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 13 2022 #115846
    Redneck
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    Putin has been found out . The five_D chess player was playing with himself. His reputation will never recover. Right now national leaders who flocked to Moscow to sit at the feet of the new leader of the world will be back-pedalling and wondering how to extricate themselves from their entanglement with a loser. The problem arose because yes men in Intel told Putin what he wanted to hear , not what he needed to hear. That happens when you have a strong stubborn leader who has staff that are afraid to tell the truth.The entire SMO strategy was premised on contrived intel that the Russian columns could drive to Kiev throwing lfowers to their supporter who were going to flock to the Russian tanks to hug and kiss their liberators. Meanwhile in Kiev more pro-Russian forces were going to seize power , align with Russia, cease all hostilities and allow Russia full access to Ukraine to exterminate the Nazis in their ranks , they would declare Ukraine neutral and swear to never join NATO or the EU and Russia would have solved everythiong without a war.
    Unfortunately fpr Russia that was all hubris and the troops that were waiting around Kiev and on the highways to the East were mauled by Ukrainian troops with hand held anti-tank weapons. After waiting for two weeks and suffering heavy losses they retreated and had to totally change their tactics. By this time they were well on the way to annexing the South East of Ukraine and had established a thousand kilometer front with a hostile Kiev still in place who being fully supported by NATO.The promised fall of Kiev totally exploded the plans for the SMO , now they were in a war of attrition without enough forces trying to defend a thousand kilometer front under the constraints of the legally binding rules of the SMO ,meaning no attacks against any non-military infrastruture , an infrastructure that was being used by the Ukranian military to fullfill it’s logistic needs right across the country.
    They were undermanned and survived by forming a wall of artillery that allowed their sparsely scattered troops to slowly inch forward but with having to constantly move their troops up and down the line to cope with the fluctuations on the field. Behind the lines there were no defensive positions , behind the lines life was returning to normal with Ukrainian Russians asking for and receiving assurances that they were safe and would be protected. Now all of the remainers in the newly captured territories must be worried sick about their future and the possibilities of a return of the Ukranians to exact revenge on those that supported Russia. How many souls in Kharkiv will right now be facing a firing squad . What a terrible failure for Russia , failing completely to keep it’s word to the locals who supported them.
    So the offensive that all the pro-Russian pundits said was impossible finally happened with hundreds of thousands of Ukranians troops and heavy equipment throwing themselves at the line from the South to the North searching for a weakness. The front line in the North was bare of all seasoned fighting troops and defensive lines. The Ukranians breached the line and stormed sixty kilometres back into their lost territory. The few Russians on hand fled and the Russian command had to declare a full retreat back to the Donbass border , a total rout in the North was then followed by a massive redployment of Ukrainian troops back to the South for a renewed offensive there , the Russians were in disarray and some body in command struck down the SMO rules of engagement and the strikes against the electrical grid was called in to prevent the Ukrainian redeployment. The rules of engagement for the SMO were legally binding for the Russian military and any commanders breaking those rules were commiting war crimes under Russian military law. So some how the rules of engagement were changed very quickly and in some panic because of the Ukranian pressure. The change of the parameters of the SMO was an act that meant accepting that the SMO was a failure. So now the old SMO is gone but what is the new rules of engagement , what new plan is going to replace the failed SMO strategy? Putin and co. must decide and decide quickly , the battlefield needs a strategic plan to function . Hence we see the debate on Russian TV between the realists and the hubrists that still beleive some how there can still be a Russian victory, but does any body know what that victory actually looks like? Is it a victory where all of Ukraine lies in a smoking ruin with tens of thousands of dead civilians and Russia raising the victory flag over a population that hates them and are ready to fight a Western backed insurgency war against Russian occupation? To negotiate is almost impossible because the West is demanding the complete withdrawal of all Russian troops and the surrender of Donbass and Crimea ,which is totally unacceptable for Russia.So Putin’s come to God moment is here , the Russian bluff has been called and now the decisions will be very tough , there is no really winning option at this point, every move from here is going to have negative results for Russia , is Putin up to the job? Will the West get it’s way and see him offstage soon? This is a real crisis for the Russian leadership and the Russian people , make they make their decisions wisely.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 31 2022 #115501
    Redneck
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    “What is this place? What is that stuff going on all around me? What makes it happen? What am I?”
    A new born has not yet learned to conceptualise so thoughts of any kind are arising until it gets older and learns words.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 31 2022 #115500
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    Afewknow Bett
    “the commencement of the Industrial Revolution has been exceedingly bad.”
    So the Unabomber was right ! Sure looks like it , we have been too successful.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 8 2022 #115489
    Redneck
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    Maxwell Quest
    “I guess this is why I was so impressed with Prof Desmet’s mass formation theory when it first appeared on the scene over a year ago.’
    I listened to the interview with Tucker in my shed over the din of my power tools. What I found most interesting and refreshing was the Prof’s Segway into non-duality. He was rather coy about admitting to who influenced his new understanding and was trying hard not to sound religious , but it was great stuff.
    As someone once said, ” To seek reality by thinking about it is the greatest mistake” and ” the great perfection is non-conceptual awareness ” plus ” the more we talk about it , the further we move away from it “.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 7 2022 #115444
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    Bill 7
    In common? Powdered noses.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 6 2022 #115335
    Redneck
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    Oxy, nicely said.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 5 2022 #115253
    Redneck
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    PHOENIX VOICE
    The take away from this interaction for me apart from the amusement it gave me was just how insulated from each other we are. As I almost never watch MSM and as AM is all I see I always assume that at least a few others out there are aware of AM and subjects like Ivermectin. The staff I spoke to had obviously never heard of the horse dewormer meme or Ivermectin. That still surprises me but it should not . The division seems to split along the lines of TV watchers and non TV watchers , that is the conclusion I have come too from observation.
    I have a young relative who is about thirty I guess , she is a nurse here locally and I found out that she also had never heard of Iver until my sister told her about it a week or two ago. In my mind I imagined the debate about it raging amongst the hospital staff , but apparently not. It is maybe only one person in a thousand or more that have ever heard the alternative Covid treatment debate , I need to keep that in mind when moving through a world of mono media folk. However it does give an opportunity for a good giggle now and then.
    OXY
    I always like your comments about your attempts to carve out your self sufficient abode in the bush.I have driven a few times from Port Pirie SA up to Northern NSW via Broken Hill and was always amazed at he amount of bush tucker wandering around East of the Hill. The flocks of emus , wild pigs , roos and goats is amazing . It is tough country but supports a lot of wandering protein , a survivalist wet dream if you have the means to take them , guns I mean.
    Regarding your brother , I have learned to leave the politics and alternative views out of conversations with friend and family where I know there is resistance , unless of course you want to intentionally stir the pot. I was once a missionary but not so much any more , I find it is almost impossible to change the minds of folk once it is set. Good luck with your project.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle September 5 2022 #115198
    Redneck
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    YYAAAAAWWNNNNN…wake up if there is any new…s.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 31 2022 #114795
    Redneck
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    Birds of course , fuck auto spell.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 31 2022 #114794
    Redneck
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    No wonder those beds are endangered , they can’t fly and they play in the middle of the road!
    Looks like the media has gone on vacation and just left the system on replay.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 30 2022 #114710
    Redneck
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    Protest the vahttps://twitter.com/nikorepi/status/1503096676575236098x or war in the West , get locked up , protest the vax or war in Russia , get locked up.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 28 2022 #114485
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    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 28 2022 #114483
    Redneck
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    It is reported that Putin has had four jabs of the Sputnik vax. The Russian vax is almost identical to AZ , Oxford worked with the Russians to create a slightly different version of their clot shot. Russians have been put through all of the same bullshit as the rest of us with mandates and all. Funny that I tend to think of Russia being anti big Pharma and the WEF but it seems that is not how things are . Big Pharma , Gates and co, have Russia firmly in their grip too , weird.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 23 2022 #114068
    Redneck
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    Not to mention that a large percentage of the English speaking world has lost it’s mind to drugs or insane ideologies , what do we do with them? and 90% of academia …..and the entire medical community ….and……and ….and…….
    Watch “What is a woman” if you dare .

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 23 2022 #114066
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    D.Dr. “It is a war. Strange it’s a murder there and just war a few miles away, they are blowing up a thousand Dugin’s daughters but that’s how we define these things.’
    Exactly , all this virtue signalling and crying about one single adult person who 99.9 % of folk never heard of until two days ago. As for the suspect , points for the Mini Cooper and expertise , but those points nullified by too much Botox.

    Mr. Day ,J.
    “Neoliberal financial capitalism” is an economy consuming parasitic model, a cancerous model. It’s not “capitalism” in the historic sense.”
    Roger that . Mr. Marx would not recognise the swindle that is now called Capitalism.

    Still amazed that folk still think there is a political solution to the West’s problems .
    In the US as Sundance has pointed out there is a coalition of two “parties” that are cooperating to give their donors and fellow wokies what they want , the last thing on their mind is responding to the wishes of the voting citizens. Those circumstances are mirrored throughout the West and plenty of other countries as well.
    Only a complete breakdown of our economies ,I mean complete , no energy , no food , no healthcare , bodies decomposing in the streets , total anarchy will bring about real change. That or the citizens that live in countries that still have weapons storm and burn the houses of government and Lynch about 90%. of the elected ones and start anew.
    But even that won’t do because the power lies elsewhere with the Davos crowd , Soros and other billionaires and then there are the central banks to deal with and fiat currencies etc. etc.
    See how difficult or impossible the situation is ? What are the probabilities of either happening in my lifetime , about zero. Meanwhile who is going to step up to do the rebuilding? They might be worse than what we have now , what reforms would they make?
    We have had a lot of rain the last week , the Tasmanian highland dams will be full or close to being full , guaranteeing enough Hydro electricity for a year or two . The spring bulbs and flowering native wattles are blooming , life is good.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 21 2022 #113919
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    “Whilst Tim frequently discusses energy, in his latest posting he focuses on the instutionalised corruption and self-serving [in the short term] lies that characterise NATOstan countries.”
    C’mon man , it is only NATOstan countries that are corrupt? Name me one country of any consequence that is not.
    Ain’t the oil producing countries , the cabal that controls and manipulates the price to enrich themselves a form of corruption?

    The Russian people had better have a very strong will to continue the fight in Ukraine because I think this is just the beginning of the terror campaign against them. It is very hard to stop these kinds of events. The danger is in trying to prevent them the Russian people will be subjected to very strong authoritarian measures and that will set them against Putin and the war. This entire scenario has a long time to run if Putin wants to continue his SMO.

    Am over the constant speculation about future events regarding Europe and the demise of fiat money………when it is happening actually in the present wake me up.

    Goddam those Dutch cows farting.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 21 2022 #113917
    Redneck
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    The Kagans and their cabal are almost totally responsible for the bankrupting of America. No I will say they are fully and totally responsible. Ever since that group of dual citizens , that would be Israeli and USA citizens , adopted the Oded Yinon plan for destroying their enemies in the Middle East, formed the PENAC think tank and then moved into Cheneys Whitehouse to wait for their “new Pearl Harbour” the country and the world has been on the highway to hell. They took Israel’s wet dream of destroying all the strong middle eastern countries they considered threats to Israel to America , dressed it up as America’s own plan , got their new Pearl Harbour and unleashed the wars that bankrupted America. This group and their affiliates and there are a lot of them , have bankrupted the richest country in the world for Israel and their own personal gain and agendas. Their shield is the holocaust and hate crime legislation , no one dares to confront them , they remain in power , unelected and unaccountable and they will continue to suck the life blood out of America and the rest of the world unopposed for ever .
    https://www.academia.edu/30591347/The_Zionist_Plan_for_the_Middle_East
    https://www.rrojasdatabank.info/pfpc/PNAC—statement%20of%20principles.pdf

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 18 2022 #113696
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    Re the Russian special military operation in Ukraine and Russia winning or a negotiated settlement.
    The war will end when NATO , that is the US decides it will end , Russia does not have a say in it and I think the US is pretty happy with how it is progressing presently.
    It now has Russia in two wars , the one in Syria has kept them occupied for seven years and will go on indefinitely with Israel, the US and Turkey all playing a part.
    Ukraine can go as long or longer. The attacks inside Russia will most likely expand , it will be very hard to stop them with such a long border and with Russian Ukranians ready to act.
    Russia can only decide the peace in Syria or Ukraine by withdrawing.
    Any time Russia declares an end to hostilities and establishes a new border that border will quickly resemble the old border in Donbass with continuous shelling and rocket attacks across it. If Russia goes too far West they will be in hostile territory and be faced with an insurgency.
    Putin has a curious approach to both wars , letting Turkey , Israel and the US do as they like in Syria and restraining the Russian forces in Ukraine with this virtue signalling war , war with a nice face , allowing his enemies to meet and decide on weapon supplies and party on with his foe in Kyiv and continuing to supply his enemies in Ukraine and all of Europe with Russian energy , energy that is being used to sustain the fight against the Russian people.
    Putin is a disappointment , he is forcing his armies to fight without any end game , tolerating his enemies, lacking the killer instinct , unable to finish the fight , facing a decades long war in Syria and and no exit in Ukraine either.
    Russia now has troops in fourteen countries , Mali being the latest. Is Russia going to replace the Western hegemony with it’s own?
    I am still a supporter of Putin and Russia but not as bullish as I was, I fear they are over extending and risk losing the Russian people’s support.
    A large part of the neocon’s confrontation with Trump is because if elected they are afraid he will bring the war to an end , his election prevented them from going ahead with the war a lot sooner , certainly Hillary would have made it a priority.
    If I was a Russian I would be furious with him and vote him out , we hear that he has eighty percent support but some Russian media don’t reflect that.
    As we say , time will tell.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 16 2022 #113603
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    COMPLAINT FOR DAMAGES AND DEMAND FOR TRIAL BY JURY
    The Plaintiff, Donald J. Trump, by and through his undersigned counsel, hereby serves his suit against the Defendants, Hillary R. Clinton, HFACC, Inc., the Democratic National Committee, DNC Services Corporation, Perkins Coie, LLC, Michael Sussmann, Marc Elias, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Charles Halliday Dolan, Jr., Jake Sullivan, John Podesta, Robert E. Mook,

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 16 2022 #113602
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    “The lawsuit was filed against specific persons and most of those persons were interviewed by the FBI as part of the originating investigation. Within the subjects of the lawsuit we find names and groups including:

    Hillary Clinton, Hillary for America Campaign Committee, DNC, DNC Services Corp, Perkins Coie, Michael Sussmann, Marc Elias, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Charles Dolan, Jake Sullivan, John Podesta, Robby Mook, Phillipe Reines as well as Fusion GPS, Glenn Simpson, Peter Fritsch, Nellie Ohr, Bruce Ohr, Orbis Business Intelligence, Christopher Steele, Igor Danchenko, Neustar Inc., Rodney Joffe, James Comey Peter Strzok, Lisa Page, Kevin Clinesmith and Andrew McCabe.”

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 16 2022 #113601
    Redneck
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    Sundance is hot on the trail of what the document raid is about.

    President Trump Wants Full Unredacted Raid Affidavit Released

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 16 2022 #113600
    Redneck
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    “Aboriginal populations used Bogong moths as a food source 2,000 years ago, researchers find. Researchers found food remains of Bogong moths on a stone tool in a cave in the foothills of the Australian Alps in Victoria. Image on the left is by Ajay Narendra and the Bogong moth-covered wall is by Eric Warrant.8 Feb 2021′

    I ate silk worm lava when I was visiting South Korea. I sent a photo to my daughter in Australia to identify what they were before I tried them . Not really my cup of tea as it turned out , not a pleasant taste.

    Thai people eat the most bugs of any country that I have visited. The markets have many stalls selling a variety of bugs , the large green locusts seem to be a favourite.

    If folk want to eat bugs well do so at your own choice and risk. It is the coercion , the demand that we change our diets by rich elites that is so infuriating. “You eat the crickets deplorable , I got a prime Wagu steak thank you.”

    I was unsure when I first saw this if it was a computer animated thingy but looks like it was an actual event which kind of neuters my previous comment.

    https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/nicole-kidman-eats-a-4-course-meal-of-bugs-on-camera-in-an-attempt-to-normalize-eating-insects

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 12 2022 #113334
    Redneck
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    Regarding the IRS thingy , I have never known a government service to improve , beaurocrats love to expand their empires , they don’t do it to create a better service in my experience.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 12 2022 #113333
    Redneck
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    “They WANT you to know. They WANT it to be outside rule of law. That’s POWER. And the purpose of power is power. As Orwell said.”
    Exactly , headlines declaring ” FBI SCREWD UP ” etc. are rubbish. This is and was a demonstration of who it is that realy holds and wields the power in America. The more the people are outraged and disgusted the more the successful the raid , presidents are powerless , look at Trump , under siege for his entire first term and cheated out of his second , now humiliated in his own home. …..six ways from Sunday.
    “er, no skilled, self respecting sailor would ever attempt to sail as depicted in this “Hopper””
    I disagree , sailing parallel to a lee shore is fine if you have the depth of water required , the weather is fine , there is no gale , the sail boat proceeding has successfully negotiated the shoreline and is now tacking away , no problem.
    :I do not see a single analysis that indicates anything other than a rapid decline in the availability of oil from now on that is a direct consequence of geology and falling energy return on energy invested. Political turmoil (pardon the pun) will exacerbate the decline.”
    I had a mate who worked in oil exploration for most of his adult life. His opinion was that there was ” plenty” of oil in the ground but the cost of extraction would result in very high prices at the pump. Folk are screaming about the present prices , how will our economies function when oil is ten fold more expensive? It is a finite resource.There are another three billion people waiting in line to become automobile owners and drivers. As for climate change , be it fact or not the move to battery power and renewables will never be economically viable for the ninety percent , especially where the automobile is concerned. We have had our cheap energy rush and there is no technological development in sight that will take energy prices back down , expect steep increases especially in the West. Stand alone or grid connected solar and wind will work for now for the home but the three electric cars in the garage is not going to happen in the future , there are just not enough of the required resources on the planet to allow for it to be cheap enough for the masses.
    There are some good guys out there.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD-D78Rhqnw

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    in reply to: Debt Rattle August 10 2022 #113212
    Redneck
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    I think this article illustrate how the Russians fucked up bad when they attempted to surround Kiev in the early days of the war. They did not understand that hand held missiles were a game changer and took heavy losses before retreating.https://en.topwar.ru/200011-neobhodimost-jevoljucii-vooruzhenija-i-taktiki-vozdushno-desantnyh-vojsk-kak-sledstvie-provedenija-rossijskoj-specoperacii-na-ukraine.html

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 26 2022 #112232
    Redneck
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    Dear DBS, what a great story , what a dad , thanks.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 15 2022 #111616
    Redneck
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    The socialised medicine vid made me grin as it reminded me of a moment in the past where I was arguing with the cashier in an in-house pharmacy in a brand new clinic in Jakarta Indonesia. I had the shits real bad and had just seen a young doctor in a spotless white coat in this large shiny clinic and was paying for the enormous bag of various potients he had prescribed me. As the amount I paid at the pharmacy was only four Australian dollars I was adamant that I also needed to pay the doctor’s fee.The cashier was also adamant that I had paid for the drugs and the doctor but that just would not compute in my brain so I kept on insisting that I still needed to pay for the doctor as well. Finally I got it , the doctor’s fee was included in the amount and I walked out but still struggling with the concept of paying four dollars for the drugs AND the doctor. During that exchange I am sure the expression on my face must have resembled our actor in the vid , puzzlement and disbelief.
    So the knob-jockeys at WEF& Co. who after totally and unnecessarily fucking our economy, causing untold social misery death and the destruction of millions of folks immune systems around the globe now assume that we the people need and desire that they “Build Back Better”. Fuck them all , a pox upon them and their houses , we need a lot more Abe’n going on.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 11 2022 #111372
    Redneck
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    We will see John , if I live long enough……

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 11 2022 #111363
    Redneck
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    I had no problem opening TAE today but yesterday there was blank space , nothing at all after the first article and nothing was clickable.
    Re the Uber thing, no surprise here about that , only read the headline , that is how shit is now , everywhere and all the time.
    I think after the war and because of the Cold War the middle class was allowed to grow as a bulwark against the Soviets. As a kid I remember watching propaganda on TV where we would see Americans driving huge cars, their house wife’s had washing machine and people were flying around the country in planes. They wore sunglasses and blue jeans too.
    The Soviets were always shown standing in lines in shabby clothes waiting to buy bread.
    After the USSR disassembled itself that bulwark against the commie threat was not needed. So the WEF of the time decided to send the manufacturing that supported the middle class here to China which produced a handsome dividend to the corporations and we got to have a service economy where I mowed your lawn and you cut my hair.
    Debt replaced the wealth created by real production and the bonus was that my lawnmower and your scissors were also made in China too, perfect. So just stir and skim and add war , apply more and more leverage and monetary easing to keep the whirlpool going.
    I have been expecting the economic collapse from the nineties or earlier and thought that 2008 was it ….wrong again , the Greenspan put was just leveraged up to a level I had never imagined.
    So no more expectations even now that the great reckoning is nigh , just wake me up when the bread lines are here are as long as the ones I saw on TV in 1956.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 7 2022 #111138
    Redneck
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    That gold story is so old, ya mean there are still people on the planet that don’t know this?

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 6 2022 #111090
    Redneck
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    Two protests took place in Britain yesterday. One involved a piece of petty bourgeois performance art in which “Just Stop Oil” protestors glued themselves to an artwork at the National Gallery in order – via some unknown mechanism – to bring an end to the oil age. The second involved a more economically grounded disruption of the motorway network by truckers and farmers who have seen their standard of living crushed by rising fuel prices.

    Amongst all the hype about oil there is one actual fact is that is presently being ignored , the undeniable and unavoidable fact that oil and gas ARE finite and will continue to become more and more expensive to the point that they will be no longer economically viable. Climate change is the catchword , carbon is supposedly the problem but the oil and gas and coal are going to run out eventually anyway and with the development of China , India and the rest of the world these resources will dwindle faster and faster.This is the real problem that is now seemingly forgotten about. So either we adapt or we don’t. The ubiquitous automobile will most likely be the first casualty. How and from where are we going to find a minimum of a billion tons of battery materials every ten years and from where is the energy to make them coming from? Thus the WEF statement , “you will own nothing and be happy”. Fossil fuels are running out and all our lives , except for the elites is going to change radically, it is happening right here now already! Australia has signed onto Zero carbon to be accomplished in eight years time , almost none of our autos are electric. Last week the eastern seaboard of the country was having blackouts. Where is the electricity to power all of the cars and trucks and trains to come from? Individual solar systems in homes will take care of some of the cars, everything else? We are facing a crisis and there will be extreme chaos ahead . Starvation is a real possibility. There is no going back to normal , this is a crisis that will be with us all for the foreseeable future , suck it up buttercup!
    Going way back I remember TAE with Nicole was already telling us this but we seem to have forgotten it all and still believe that some how we can continue with the old way of life that cheap fossil fuels made possible. It is over.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 6 2022 #111089
    Redneck
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    Incredible read –

    “An Israeli study of 5.7 million people, published in the New England Journal of Medicine in June, shows that unvaccinated people who gained immunity through infection, were far better protected from Covid than people who were double vaccinated.”

    And so much more ..

    I have doubts that natural immunity to C actually happens. My neighbour’s unvaxed fourteen year old boy has had it twice in the last three months . Many vaxed have had it multiple times. The question then is about the accuracy of the tests, I believe that RAT tests are now the standard here. Also the state Gov. is warning that mask mandates are being considered again.

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 5 2022 #111034
    Redneck
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    I followed George Webb for a few weeks a couple of years ago. The experience was a bit like watching someone searching for a way out of a maze, the exit is always just around the next corner but it is never found . The “aha” , the “gotya” moment , the smoking gun never materialises , just a constant wandering and searching but never finding. I found it a very unsatisfying experience.
    Re Covid or what ever it is , here in Tassie it seems to be manifesting like a traditional flu with similar symptoms , about a week to ten days duration . Some test positive for C , some don’t , god only knows how reliable these tests are . The symptoms appear to be pretty much identical in those found positive for C and those who are not. If C had never been heard of it would just be a bad flu season. This is my take on the situation after talking to friends and family who have been or are still sick.

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