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Excellent video on “rare earths” in Ukraine, Noirette! Thank you. Geographically, Ukraine is fertile soil precisely because there are no rare earths. The two are mutually exclusive.
If life is a river, what is a dam? The LA Basin in its natural state had enough water to support about a half million people. Without water from NorCal, NOTHING of what we see in SoCal today could even exist. To make modern life possible in Palmdale or Victorville or Ontario, life was stolen from NorCal. Drive around sometime in rural far Northern California to see for yourself.
Water is not wasted on the Delta Smelt; water is wasted on the nearly 1 million acres of nut trees planted in the Central Valley to grow almonds and pistachios for foreign markets to enrich private growers and investment funds at the expense of everyone else who has to “conserve”. The Smelt issue is a distraction from that reality.
Is a river even a river if it doesn’t flow to the sea? Fly over the (former) Colorado River delta in Baja California and see the answer for yourself.
In California, water is for fighting, as the saying goes. I vaguely remember Gray Davis’ “advice” to Arnold Schwarzenegger that his success as governor depended on “rain in the north”.
Newsom is done, he just doesn’t know it yet. And he did have rain in the north. That tells you all you need to know about who is competent and who isn’t.
Nobody knows what is happening in Ukraine. We like to think we know. Our egos tell us we know. But nobody knows the scope and depth of what is happening there.
Change is coming so fast in so many areas, and I think all of it intersects in Ukraine. National interests, personal interests, legal, illegal, fiat, commodity, public, private.
Old world, new world, USA, Russia, Energy, Dollar, Bitcoin, fiat, MIC, WMD, COVID, nuclear, biological, fossil, money laundering, human trafficking.
Ukraine is the “flux nexus”.
Zelensky is a tool. Ukrainians are tools. Boris Johnson is a tool. Bidens were tools. EU is a tool. All are expendable, temporary.
ALL. OF. IT. Intersects in Ukraine. Trump won’t stop it.
Somehow, since 2022, while fighting a war against Russia, “Ukraine” (whatever that is at this point) has managed to accumulate 46,000 Bitcoin. Only USUK and China, as nation states, hold more (publicly anyway).
Some questions:
Is US taxpayer money, in the form of “aid” being used in Ukraine to buy Bitcoin for private entities?
Is “Ukraine” mining Bitcoin? How is Ukraine able to mine Bitcoin with their energy grid under constant attack?
Are Russian “frozen assets” being used to buy Bitcoin for “Ukraine”?
What happens to the Bitcoin “held” by “Ukraine” if Ukraine ceases to exist? Will it go to BlackRock or Clinton Foundation, both of which are positioning to “rebuild” in Ukraine? Will it go to the Oligarchs? Will it be lost?
Will Bitcoin be used to rebuild or will it be used to “re-collateralize” private parties?
If it turns out that 1 Bitcoin is worth $13M in 20 years, 46,000 BTC ($4.6B today) would be worth $600B in 20 years.
Apparently Ukraine holds more Bitcoin than any nation outside of USUK and China. Publicly, it’s No. 4 in Bitcoin holdings, if you assume that Ukraine, as a nation, is “holding” all that Bitcoin. And they did this while defending themselves against Russia and it’s being held for Ukrainians.
We are meant to believe that people who held Bitcoin in 2022 gifted over 5,000 Bitcoin to Ukraine in response to Russia’s SMO. I have a hard time believing any individual would have given up their Bitcoin (approx $40K in February 2022) for Ukraine. but whatever. People do stupid things.
Lots of questions in my mind about this, especially when you consider the timing of the FTX collapse, Clintonworld and Blackrock involvement in “rebuilding” efforts, and US midterm elections in 2022. And the Blackrock Bitcoin ETF, started in January 2024.
What happens to the Bitcoin if Ukraine collapses?
Does Blackrock get it? Who controls it now?
What does it mean to Russia vis-a-vis their confiscated reserves if that money was used to buy BTC for Ukraine?
What does it mean to American taxpayers if “aide” to Ukraine is being used to buy Bitcoin for Ukraine?Anyway, lots of interesting questions in my mind about this; it’s like Ukraine is the black nexus of fiat/crypto/biowarfare/European collapse/COVID.
At this point all I really want to see is Trump and his cabinet perform a MAGA HAKA on January 20. I think it would send a strong and unforgettable message of unity. Instant worldwide virality.
My guess is that – at some point this summer, likely after Butler, Trump negotiated an agreement with the deep state. “The Art of the Deal” and all that.
There’s been almost no talk about the classified documents issues since then; neither Biden’s issues nor Trump’s.
Trump’s reaction at Butler was organic. Everything after was not. Security State went quiet about the shooting. But there was a lot of hoohah just after the shooting, at least until what’s her name at SS resigned.
Was Harris’ campaign inept? You couldn’t run a goofier campaign if you tried. Did they hire a high school campaign manager? Only the Karens and Portland People couldn’t see that. Not even Newsom would sully himself trying to help save it. It was intentionally inept, but it also took almost no effort, just money. And – bonus – the weakest from the Donkey Party were sacrificed. Pelosi’s long face post-election was not because Harris lost, it was because she knows she’s in a weak position, it’s time to leave, and Trump is living rent-free in her head. Although she might stick around to save the family business. MSM is done but now can claim they see the light and try to migrate to or infiltrate social media.
I think Trump closed a deal with Deep State (DS) after Butler that looked like this:
Trump to DS: “If you kill me, one or all of my offspring will come forward with the information in the Mar-A-Lago files. Let’s talk”. Others in my campaign know as well, but they’ll stay quiet for me.”
Deep State: “OK we smoke peace pipe.”
Trump: “I’m going to win this election. We all know it. I want to MAGA.”
DS: “Hmmm, MAGA”.
Trump: “You guys have made a real mess with Barry and Big Mike. I have all the goods. You know it.”
DS: “You MAGA then. But we keep Foreign Policy.”
Trump: “I don’t want foreign policy anyway. Deal”.
All the foreign war BS will continue: lots of domestic jobs for MAGA Country. Israel will get its weapons, so will Ukraine but maybe salted to Trump’s taste. In 4 years he’ll slide the files back where he found them. Maybe the JFK stuff will come out to make it appear that’s what RFK got out of it. Trump MAGAs, Tulsi wins next election with Vivek, then Vivek becomes Pres.
20 years or so of Elephant party to solidify MAGA. But no substantial change to Foreign Policy.
Remember when polling worked? Neither do I. Polling was “broken” in 2016, as the mainstream told us for a month or so after that election. Does anybody know if it has been fixed? Hahaha rhetorical question. Musk’s X poll is more real (even if “non-scientific”) than any “polling organization” poll.
There does not exist in the United States a single voter who would switch from Trump to Harris. Not one. Karens for Kamala, Broads for Harris all simply stand under the “Never Trump” umbrella in the parking lot outside the stadium.
The organism that coerced millions upon millions of people to get vaccinated is waiting for Biden to make his own decision?
Maybe we should give it up for the Biden Famiglia, for showing us all the only way to deal with mental health care costs and Obamacare is with criminal activity or some sort of grift.
Orwell and Shakespeare together in a brainstorming session could not come up with a story to match what we are meant to believe today: that “the most powerful country the world has ever known” is waiting for a president with dementia, propped up on drugs he would have sent himself to prison for thirty years ago, who did not win his own election, to have a moment of lucid clarity and step down so that his vice president, who was selected solely for her sex and skin color in the most racially diverse country the world has ever known can be President for a few months before “a dangerous man” and “convicted felon” is elected by a vast margin of the population because there is a $100M “war chest” OF FIAT MONEY in a campaign fund, and they don’t want the man who denied Ukraine a $1B aid package unless they fired the prosecutor who was investigating his family to spend that money. Did I get it right or is there more to this story?
I don’t have much to add to the conversations here in the comments section, only an occasional sarcastic remark. But I love coming here every day – actually every morning before I even get out of bed – to read what people are thinking.
Many thanks to RIM for curating this website. I started coming here after COVID started (that seems to make me a newb here) and it has provided me with excellent perspective and sanity. And thought-provoking commentary. Also some great imagery, such as “airtight fart bubble” (thanks Dr. D!). I get a great laugh every time I have the opportunity to use that one, which seems to be with greater frequency as time passes.
I read once that the two most important skills to develop for the future are CONCENTRATION (ability to focus) and CREATIVITY. Because computers will do everything else. (For folks on the Left I might add “humor” as a skill to be developed).
I think that actually READING the news is important as opposed to “listening” or “watching”. Reading demands focus. I think reading engages a brain in a different (more important) way. Here is where I come to read.
I can’t remember where I read it (remembering is a skill I need to develop) but I understand that graduate school applicants are saying they are trans when applying for grad school. And then I heard recently about a pilot interviewing for an airline job who was told by the interviewers that they were looking for “diverse” pilots. He responded by saying “OK then I’m trans”.
I think it’s a brilliant strategy. If everybody is trans then nobody is trans and the issue disappears. Because nobody actually cares about this issue except for the paid activists and crazies. Companies can’t ask you to “prove” you’re trans because that would be an invasion of your privacy; not to mention sickening. All they can do is take you at your word. Particularly if they believe trans is a “spectrum”.
Anyway, that’s all I got today. Get some fresh air…
Many boys learn at an early age that, for the machine to achieve its full potential, you must first remove the governor.
It’s time to end the J6 charade. Whether the US was involved in the Prigozhin move or not, this should illustrate to all Americans what “serious” looks like.
I’m confident that the MSM will all be singing the same tune about SBF. Like a psycho killer leaving clues at a murder site, they can’t help it because it’s not conscious. The choir needed time to practice. They do however understand the law of primacy. The first thing people learn about a subject is the hardest to unlearn.
That’s a fascinating quote by Mr. Hayden up there at the top. Everything and nothing all in one sentence.
Only 1 of the 2 following scenarios is possible:
Scenario 1: Gary Gensler, Bill Clinton, Joe Biden, Tony Blair, Maxine Waters (Chairperson of the House Financial Services Committee) among others, KNEW what SBF was doing.
Scenario 2: NONE of these people knew what SBF was doing.The photo the other day of SBF with Clinton and Blair was pretty revealing. Neither of those clowns knows anything about cryptocurrencies, but they certainly know a fraud when they see one. Like a bear sniffing out carrion 10 miles away.
The video of Sunak and Trudeau was about as cringeworthy as they get. Could you hear the Benny Hill theme music playing?
Water levels at Lake Mead indicate nothing with respect to climate change. Consider the timeline. The Powell Expedition was only a few years after the Civil War. By 1922 the Colorado River Compact was complete and by 1936 Hoover Dam was complete. Phoenix population after WW2 was somewhere around 100,000 and Las Vegas far less. What kind of rainfall data do you think was collected by the time the Dam was completed? They only had 18 years of data! And it turned out those were among the wettest years ever recorded. Nobody could have imagined the population growth in the SW US post-WW2.
Point is, the engineers were in thrall to their ability to subjugate nature, and, backed by massive federal spending programs and no regulation, the damage done will reverberate for many years. Is there a lesson there for advocates of climate change programs? I think YES.
Lake Mead is useless as a measure or indicator of “climate change”.
Imagine this: The John Wesley Powell Expedition was in 1869. Only a few years after the Civil War. By 1922 the Colorado River Compact had been drawn up, and by 1936 the Hoover Dam was complete. Less than 70 years had passed. The Phoenix area population was maybe 100,000 around the time of WW2. Las Vegas had far less than 100,000 at that time. What kind of “data” do YOU think was collected by the time the Compact was signed?
If you read Cadillac Desert by Marc Reiser (recommended!) you find that they had – at most – 18 years of rainfall data. This data (sketchy at best?) would now indicate that those were some of the wettest years on record. “Officials” knew by 1953 that data used to draw up the Compact were inaccurate.
Phoenix is well over a million people now, and is just a small part of the explosion of people in the west who rely on the Colorado River. Upstream of Lake Mead as well as downstream.
What sort of “vision” of population growth did those dam builders in the 1900s have? Probably none. Could they have imagined a city like Phoenix today? Or Las Vegas or LA? No way.
I rather like the inclusion of photos or graphics with no captions or hints. When I saw the depiction of the mighty Mississippi drainage, I thought of a lyric from a mid-80s song by the Waterboys, “…That was the river. This is the sea.” Seems fit for these times.
It’s the US Invitational now, not the US Open. It’s been rendered meaningless as a “tournament”, selling eyeballs to Moderna when not busy fluffing for BLM.
I wanted to comment on Zuckerberg providing cover for the Federal BI, but I haven’t listened to the interview yet. When was the last time Z commented publicly on anything? Was it the congressional hearing? 2017?
re: Dr D’s bot matrix theory, I might add that “polling” in this country would be an analog example of TPTB “poisoning their own well and no longer knowing what’s going on”. Polling was “broken” in 2016 wasn’t it? Yet here we are 6 years later still seeing “polling” to support the idea that there are still people (some 30%) who believe “Biden” is doing a good job.
It sure looks like Zelensky is speaking for the Democrats, with his blacklist. It’s no wonder these stick figures thought Trump was playing 4D chess.
I woke up from a dream last night where Russia had captured Volodimir Zelensky, put him on trial, convicted him, and then offered to trade him for Julian Assange.
My own personal suspicion is that the Ukraine/Russia rhetoric is laying the groundwork for a coming “cyberattack”, which will be blamed (with no proof again) on Russia. All to provide more distraction from election shenanigans, the Epstein scandal, COVID policy failure and general economic meltdown, otherwise known as domestic corruption / business-as-usual. Just watch Psaki’s confidence and comfort with tyrannical policy in her “press conferences”. It will probably also provide rationale for more QE if/when QT fails this summer. Follow the money.
The Australian government would rather delegitimize their own major tournament and destroy millions in revenue than admit they are wrong. What a bunch of idiots.
“Follow the Money”. Such a simple concept. Do you think it works the same way in climate research? Do you know of a single private climate research entity?
“The Resistance” was actually only ever “The Compliance”.
Also, remember how much shit Martin Shkreli got in the press back in 2015? Those were the good old days.
Now that Assange will be extradited to the US, Hillary Clinton will be given a position in the Biden administration so that she can personally supervise Assange’s destruction. This is why she’s back in the public eye; to make a personal vendetta the public responsibility of ordinary Americans. And they’ll call her a “public servant”. Some things never change. Just ask Obama.
“The cost to treat COVID” is not a valid argument for forcing someone to take the jab. Anybody with half a brain knows this. We have never talked about medical costs for people who choose to smoke or people who are overweight and suffer medical complications. We’ve never talked about medical costs for people who suffer from substance abuse or alcoholism. It’s NEVER been a thing before. But now suddenly medical costs are a rationale for corporations trying to force people to jab?
DGC Sounds to me like a solid foundation for “systemic classism”. It will be interesting to see which politicians in the US support something similar.
If there is just one simple takeaway from last month’s election, it is that polling is mostly used for molding and shaping rather than for gauging. And yet here’s a poll about the vaccine.
