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Kultsommer:
Your comment about “a communist standing on a street corner being institutionalized” made me chuckle&!
This brought back memories of way back in 1983, when I was serving, a 6 month sentence of hard labor, in a Siberian coal mine. One evening we invited our woman interpreters to view a video with us. The movie was “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” about a mental asylum.
Well to say our Russian interpreters were totally confused was an understatement! They could not understand why we were laughing so hard. This movie proved to them that everything the communist government had told them was indeed true!
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The petrodollar conceptt is kind of outdated these days. First the US no longer buys very much oil from the Saudis, ever since the fracking revolution began in the US.
Now the US fracking revolution largely depended upon free money from the Fed. With the era of free money fast disappearing, don’t be surprised if the fracking boom starts going bust.
If you look around the world, you will also notice there is very little franking going on outside of the US due to the lack of free money. Europe did see some franking.
So far no Russian has collected the rewards for destroying the first Lepard tank. They will have to wait until the Ukrainians get permission to use these western tanks at or behind the frontlines.
The west has given the Ukrainians these tanks with the strict understanding that they can’t be used anywhere near the frontlines. The Ukrainians are busy trying to eliminate these restrictions on western tanks usage. So the Russians have to wait.
This winter the called up 300K experienced Russian reserves have so far remained in reserve continuing their training. None of these forces have yet been committed.
All of the fighting this winter has been from the previous 90K Russian forces committed in February 2022. Only new Russian volunteer forces and new Wagner forces have seen any heavy fighting this winter.
This is verified by looking at the Russian casualty figures. Regular Russian army casualties has dropped dramatically over the winter months while the Wagner casualties have sky rocketed this winter. On a good day Wagner only looses 20 men. On a bad day they lose 50 men.
This winter Russia has clearly shifted to waging war on a more economical basis. Shell usage has dropped from 60K to 10K per day, so the Russians can rebuild their stockpiles for use by their 300K reserves. Russian shell production is being raised from 3.5 to 7 million per year.
Russia has tremendous stockpiles of old dumb 500kg – 1,000kg – 1,500kg bombs for which they are now adding gliding kits which allow their airplanes to release the gliding bombs at high altitudes safely well behind their frontline’s air defense systems. Gliding distances depend upon the release height from 30 km up to 70 km.
It is estimated one of these bombs replaces about 200 – 300 artillery shells. Dozens of these gliding bombs are now launched every day now. The Russians are now usingover 1 meter long laser guided 120 mm mortar shells again greatly reducing the use of dumb mortar shells.
So one could argue the Russians have not really reduced their shelling down to 10K shells per day. They have simply switched to more deadly guided and efficient ammunition.
I have heard you can now buy a train ticket in Rubles at the Bukhmut train station. The wait for the next train might be rather long though!
This reminds me of FDR telling the Polish in 1939 to not negotiate with Germany about a land corridor to Prussia.
In the Ukraine’s new spring offensive against Russia, Ukrainian forces brillantly staged a western breakthrough in downtown Bukhmut, thus cutting off Wagner forces from being able to retreat eastward.
In other Ukrainian news, reporters are no longer allowed to mention the Bukhmut “meat grinder” due to it’s negative tone. To save money and thus increase it’s chances of winning the war lottery, the Ukrainian government is cutting bonuses to it’s soldiers fighting on the front lines. Soldiers back of the front line will now no longer get any bonuses at all. This is expected to greatly increase sagging moral amoung those fighting.
Ukrainian food companies, contracted with supplying food to the soldiers have reach new highs in corruption. Thinner soldiers are harder to shoot. Starving soldiers fight harder. Why waste food on a soldier who will die tomorrow?
To save even more money all dead Ukrainian soldiers are now classified by the Ukrainian government as missing, so no pensions needs to be paid. To obtain a pension, the dead soldier’s family has to provide an eye witness who saw the soldier die. All eye witnesses are repeatedly sent back to the front line until they die.
The Ukrainian government, not wanting to waste a good crisis, is shutting down the Russian Orthodox Church as part of it’s ethnic cleansing of all things Russian. Their is a lot of very valuable church treasure, authorities are eager to seized too.
Soros is in the middle of purging all of Ukraine’s existing judges and prosecutors. These judges are being replaced by politically correct judges. Just like in the US because Soros’s new woke model works so well.
The striking Russian lady, bearing a gifted bomb to a Russian blogger in a restaurant owned by the Wagner head, finally figured out after the bomb exploded, that she had been setup and was also considered expendable by those who used her. She was supposed to have been killed by the shaped charge. Somehow she survived the explosion without a scratch! With her hair cut shorter, she does not look nearly as pretty as she did in her Hollywood videos. She was used big time by her ruthless handlers. Sadly she will suffer dearly for it too.
It seems half the EPA’s personal investigating the toxic train spill in Ohio, fell ill during their very brief investigation.
My guess is they cut short their inept investigation to prove there were no toxins released during the train derailment.
With friends like the EPA, you want me to get worked up about climate change?
Last week Wagner forces took advantage of a snow storm to launch a surprise attack in Bukhmut. The reason for doing this was to take advantage of the Ukrainian’s temporary lack of real time battlefield visual survalence.
First the heavy snow clouds blocked US satellite coverage. Second the falling snow prevented the Ukrainian’s light quad copters from being able to fly. So , the Ukrainians were not able to coordinate their forces very well.
Wagner instead used their ample supplies of night vision googles and radio identification systems, during the snow storm attack.
In addition, the fresh blanket of snow made it easier for the Russians to track Ukrainian movements by simply following the tracks left in the snow.
Ukrainian Nazi Humor. Sort of.
Everybody knows the Ukrainian Nazis use rear blocking forces to prevent their hapless conscripted cannon fodder from being able to retreat. They have also been known to weld close all escape hatches trapping crews inside their tanks.
However, one time the Nazis did this to a tank’s crew, to force them to fight, they got a rather unexpected surprise result.
The trapped tank crew quickly turned their tank around with the gun and the heavy frontal armor facing the Ukrainian side, for added protection, then proceeded to drive the tank in reverse gear over to the Russian side, where the Russians very helpfully unwelded the welded hatches!
TDK:
When it comes to challenging covid vaccines in court, no court will support a challenge. All the judge needs to know is who appointed him. End of story.
Same here in Canada. There is no judge who will accept a challenge of the vaccines. Not even one judge. Same story. Who appointed you?
The vaccine is legally set above all basic human legal rights.
Trudeau the Environmentalist.
Introduces new carbon taxes on natural gas used for heating homes to save the environment.
Buys a new large Airbus jet to travel in, replacing a much smaller fuel efficient Canadian made Challenger jet because it is too small for him.
Flying 8 Leopard tanks to Ukraine rather than ship them by boat.
Yes,Trudeau will save us. That is why I ignore the climate change nuts.
US Arlington Military Cementery in March has been exceptionally busy holding multiple funerals every day. We all know why this is happening. Nothing to see here. Move along.
Helicopter crashes have likely increased too.
I have been rather skeptical of the current media narrative of the Ukraine running out of cannon fodder. Right now many Ukrainian soldiers are currently on leave/vacation. That doesn’t sound like a shortage of cannon fodder.
The last Ukrainian mobilization supposedly raised 500,000 new cannon fodder. So if the Ukraine only loses 500 soldiers a day, it would take the Russians another 3 years to destroy them all. The Ukraine still has another 3 to 4 million men left to mobilize.
The US is planning for a very long war. They have been very busy repainting national guard military equipment from desert tan to summer green/olive colors and then shipping to US coastal ports. They have even been taking US 9military museum artillery piece5s too.
Until the mud dries up, there will be no spring offensive.
Wagner forces are now using over a meter long 120 mm laser guided mortars. This has greatly reduced the use of both dumb mortar and artillery shells while getting the job done. These new mortar shells can even hit military vehicles safely hiding behind buildings.
Ukrainians are doing a really good job of messing up Elon Musk’s Skylink terminals, that cost more in the Ukraine than in the Eu. They buy units in the EU, then try returning them to get their money back. They send them to the Ukraine where hapless buyers then discover they don’t work. Ukrainian corruption still works outside of the Ukraine for Ukrainians!
Aspnaz:
A good different viewpoint on patents. Unfortunately no patent protection also has it’s discouraging downside too. But we know corporations abuse patents through their deep pocket abilities to bankrupt others too. It is a corrupt game all unto itself.
Noirette
It is interesting that Greta’s parents had no problem with abusing their daughter while normal parents preferred to protect their children from being abused by the press/environmentalists.
Doc Robinson:
Lol! I don’t know exactly what power it is but my spouse always shows up (weak bladder) urgently needing to use the toilet, just after I have sat down on the toilet, to do god’s business! Never fails!
Concerning the covid scam, it is hard to believe the Israelis were amoung the first to fall for the covid scam and then they ensured that they were amoung the first in line to receive the deadly covid vax. They drank the kool aid more deeply and frequently than anyone else.
It certainly shows the Israelis elites must have been on one of the losing sides of the multi sided ruthlessly sick WEF/Davos/Globalist/CIA/Deep State power elites, who claim to control us.
Since the covid death scam was the brainchild of the US DoD, I can’t help but conclude that this Israeli vax outcome somehow is connected to Israeli 2016 election interference and the US Deep State’s desire to punish the Israelis as payback.
Dr. John Day:
Yes, the fact that there was no discussion beforehand of the introduced legislation tabled is proof of the the politicians wanting control over the courts. I am sure the US Deep State is in there being as helpful as only they can be, still sore for being cheated out of their broom flying witch Hillary.
But this is no different than Biden wanting direct control over the auditing department of the US Fed.
Politicians always want more control over more things and people. So they nibble away everywhere. In Canada the politicians have already succeeded in gaining total control of the central bank and the courts, so it is already way too late for us in the land of igloos.
Interesting little spontaneous color revolution going on in Israel. Maybe a little pay back from the US Deep State for a little Israeli election interference in 2016? Do you think the deep state might still be a little sore about being suckered in 2016?
The US succeeded in a color revolution in Pakistan but has hit a brick wall with all the other “stans” in central Asia. It seems that Russia has de-colored the other 4 “stans”. The 4 “stans” have also taken note how quickly the US “cut and ran” from Afghanistan. Meanwhile Russia is still there.
Yes, the French are protesting in their usual flamboyant manner but nothing will change. Just like nothing ever changed after all of the other previous protests. It is the French way of protesting after a change has been made, to ensure the change isn’t changed! Vive la change!
Doc Robinson:
EPA. Another 3 letter agency. “I am from the government and I am here to help you!”
EPA is not your friend! Just like the CIA, FBI, DoJ, DHS, NSA, SEC, etc.
The Ukraine has not run out of either ammunition nor people. That is just today’s MSM narrative to deceive. The US and Nato have huge stockpiles of ammunition and weapons. Ukraine needs to lose another 3 to 4 million men before they run out of future dead bodies.
Russia isn’t buying this narrative. They are rationing and stockpiling ammunition.
US interstate highways are full of trucks hauling military vehicles to coastal ports. US Billboards are advertising for tank and F-16 mechanics. This isn’t the signs of a short war.
Exlxa1949:
I suspect Russia will actively encourage any remaining “Ukrainians” to leave for the EU.
It won’t be very hard. Are you a Nazi?The low on ammunition narrative is just a narrative. Currently there is no shortage of ammunition. NATO still has plenty of ammunition stockpiles. The US has big stockpiles in Israel too. They have huge stockpiles in Nevada too.
This is likely just an effort to lull Russia into a false sense of security. However, Russia isn’t buying this narrative as there have been signs Russia is now rationing ammunition usage, while building up stockpiles.
The same narrative about the Ukraine running out of manpower is also a fake narrative. (Training/logistics is a separate issue.) The Ukraine would have to lose another 3 to 4 million men before it runs out of future dead bodies. So far they have probably only used up the best part of a million.
There are comments saying truckers are hauling hundreds if not thousands of US tanks andmilitary vehicles on the US interstate highways to coastal shipping ports. More comments have been made about numerous highway billboards advertising for experienced tank mechanics and F-16 pilots, ground crew, and mechanics too. I don’t think this is going to be a short war.
When it comes to the future of Ukraine, Russia knows there is nobody available that is agreement capable. So there will be no negotiations as there is nobody to negotiate with!
DB Smith:
Happy belated 75th birthday!
In 10 months, I get old at 70!As for the old pin in the electrical outlet, I discovered this trick before I could walk!
Later I discovered sawing a leg off the dining room table was also not a good idea either! Mom’s have no sense of humor!
I had first tried sawing one of my Father’s work bench legs off, but since they were made of 4 x 4s, I soon went in search of easier prey! Another of my not so brilliant ideas!Oroboros:
That kid sticking a knife into an electrical outlet, that was me!
Only I used a Bobby pin!
My Mom said one moment I was on one side of the room.
The next moment a vary pale me was sitting on the other side of the room!
Crime scene evidence was a Bobby pin stuck in one of the 2 outlet slots!
Grew up and took electrical engineering!
Obviously I was pre-programmed that way!I would gladly eat crow but do you know how hard it is to get within gun shot range of a crow? Them dam crows know a gun when they see one, and always fly to the next tree just out of range of your gun!
Riddle me the best
Riddle me you jest
Riddle me an egg nest
Riddle me this mess
Riddle me less
Riddle me to deathRiddle me some grain
Riddle me a train
Riddle me some rain
Riddle me a drain
Riddle me a brain
Riddle me in vainTT4TW:
I would like Russia to drop a dirty bomb over the City of London in response to DU ammo to Ukraine. Then they can glow in the dark like their victims too!
TT4TW:
Russian and China do not have privately owned central banks and this poses a problem.
Thus the war to weaken Russia, then China.
A deadly struggle that spills a lot of blood.
Has been going on for a long time.
However, weakening your host (the west) is not a great move when in a deadly struggle.Fed Raising Rates;
My take on the Fed raising interest rates, has much more to do with the US’s economic war against the rest of the world, than it has to do about the US domestic economy, even though this is never mentioned in the Fed minutes released to the public.
The US dollar is used as a weapon, and interest rates is but one of the swords’s two sharp edges.
AFKT:
Thanks for yesterday’s link to Dima. I had heard of him but had never listened to him on video before. I guess we will soon know if the Ukrainians are going to counter-attack or not. The DU is sure to provoke a response from the Russians because they are going to have to live with the result. Radiating the City of London would be nice!
MPSK:
Thank you for checking out that there was no closed caption feature available and also the link to the summary which greatly improved my grasp of what he was saying.the
Germ:
I listened to the tour de force lecture but being hard of hearing found it very confusing what he was saying. Is it possible to provide a link to this video so I might be able to turn captioning on so I can read the words as he talks?
Thanks
If you are wondering why the US government is considering insuring all bank deposits now, but never considered doing this before, it might have something to do with the value of US dollar.
When the US dollar was worth something, insuring all bank deposits would have been considered too expensive to do.
When the US dollar is nearly worthless, it is now possible to insure all bank deposits because the cost to do so, is no longer too expensive. In fact it will cost nothing, since the US dollar will be worthless!
The Fed by raising interest rates has been trying to slow down the economy.
Commodity charts, like oil and copper, are now showing early signs that the economy is starting to roll over.
For what it is worth.In case you are wondering why Ukr fighter pilots want to fly F-16 fighter jets over old UsSRfighter jets is very simple.
Both the old USSR planes and the F-16 will quickly get shot down, but at least in the F-16 the pilot will have enough warning that he is about to get shot down, that he can eject and survive.
Now you know why!
The US has given Ukraine enough air defense systems that Russian airplanes can not fly into Ukrainian air space. US air defenses can stop anything with wings from flying. Unfortunately US air defenses can not stop anything without wings, like pesty Russian artillery shells, missiles, and drones! Because these don’t have the angel wings! Air superiority US style!
The US is clearly doubling down again, on the war in the Ukraine to the last Ukrainian, with no let up in sight. The US knows Russia will win, but the US is pursuing it’s “scorch earth” policy of having the Ukrainians and Russia destroy as much of the Ukraine as possible.
The US provoked the Ukrainians and Russians to fight each other and are now standing back laughing while throwing more fuel on the fight whenever the two fighting get tired and want to stop fighting.
So how did the US manage to get the Ukrainians to fight the Russians? Simple, since the Maidian coup in 2014, the US funded their proxy government to re-educate Ukrainians by banning the use of Russian in all public media and in the schools. The Ukrainian government declared war on the Russian language in 2014 with US’s help. That is how the US prepared the crime scene for the coming war they were planning.
So when Russia finally wins, it will have to bear the costs of rebuilding the Ukraine. So the higher the future costs of reabsorbing the Ukraine back into Russia, the better!
Now you know why the US is against ending the war in the Ukraine and all for continuing the war for as long as possible.
About CBDCs in Nigeria.
Contrary to the article about the Nigerian central bank backing down on their CBDC push, the Nigerian central bank hasn’t stopped at all. They are still pushing forward at full steam!
The bribed Nigerian politicians don’t give a crap about how much the people suffer because they are being richly rewarded to do this. If they stop, then their rewards money stops too. So they won’t stop ever!
You will love CBDCs and be very happy!
