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Raising interest rates, is just as much part of Biden’s weaponizing the US dollar against the rest of the world, as the proxy war against Russia in the Ukraine is.
What I am looking for are any signs that the Fed might first break the US derivative market before it breaks the rest of the world’s financial systems, as it continues to raise interest rates as the US engages in an all out economic war.
The first sign of something breaking that we have seen, so far, are 3 small US banks. However, I don’t think this is enough to stop the Fed from raising interest rates higher still.
The Fed clearly wants to break something much bigger, not in the US but something in the rest of the world. My clue is the fact Biden has said nothing about the Fed raising US domestic interest rates.
The reason I am focusing on the derivative market is it is much bigger than all of the world’s economies and is also hidden from our view. Many of these derivatives are based upon interest rate movements.
So the question is which will break first? The US or the rest of the world? The US has successfully done this many times in the past but is this time different?
Oroboros:
When I was a kid in the 1950s/1960s/1970s, my weekly allowance was tied to the cost of a roll of Lifesaver candiesIt started at 5 cents, then 6 cents, then 7 cents, then 8 cents, then 10 cents, then 15 cents, then 25 cents, and finally reaching 50 cents by 1972. Followed inflation.
Dora:
Uniparty’s J6 success has had serious consequences that remain ongoing with no hope for improvement anytime soon.
Fun Facts.
SVB’s CEO was Lehman’s CFO in 2008.
SVB’s employees donated nearly $200K to Democrats last year.
SVB paid fired executives bonuses just before bankruptcy.
So the idiots running the US government are suddenly exposed “like deer caught in the headlights” by Russia’s and China’s reaction to US’s deliberate foreign policies and the US weaponizing the US dollar.
So you punch somebody and then act surprised when they don’t just stand there waiting to be punched again!
So the Fed has implemented another bandaid to fix the impact of their raising interest rates on banks who have no choice but to follow government rules saying banks can only hold government backed securities!
No one, of course, saw this coming. But I think J6 is more important than a bank run. Afterall J6 made the bank run possible. A bank run is a consequence of J6. The Ukrainian War is a consequence of J6. High inflation is another bad consequence of J6.
J6 is full of ongoing bad consequences for us little people.
If you want to see how our master’s, the globalist, succeeded in legally certifying an illegally elected Biden, then go to yesterday’s CTH and read the J6 article.
J6 provided the uniparty with the emergency they needed to shutdown any challenges to certifying Biden as president.
This will make you realize how powerless you are. Absolutely sickening.
It looks like Janet Yellen panicked and is bailing out everyone 100% so they will have access to all of their money Monday morning.
When you are running an “international” Ponzi scheme, you can’t have the suckers losing trust can you? Poor Janet couldn’t connect the “international” dots. Someone had to do it for her!
Bosco:
Thanks for the laughs.
As you probably already know, there are no rules in the English language.
And if there are any such rules, we immediately proceed to break them every chance we get!Those underground US military boots were the frontline part of the over 10,000 plus rear escilon US/NATO personnel involved in running the Ukrainian War against Russia. These people are the decision makers running the war’s three “all seeing” 24/7 survalence systems.
It looks like these decision makers made the decision to eliminate themselves from further participating in this war. Up to now they have been the untouchables. Not anymore. They became touchables and died unexpectedly, when Russia suddenly reached out to touch them.
So, no body bags or burials will be required as their funeral service was brief and over in a flash.
Meanwhile, in the US another helicopter or two just collided and crashed, killing all on board.
These days, I am not sure whether to believe in monkeys or even two legged monkeys running this planet.
So instead this two legged monkey is worshipping the “sun” as at least it is real, when it shines, unlike everything else. Sadly, clouds too often get in the way.I confess that I do this on sunny winter days by taking a mid-day nap, on a lawn chair, in my fossil fuel built sun cave located in my backyard. It doesn’t matter how windy or cold the winter temperature is outside, the sun’s rays make the inside nice and toasty.
One has to enjoy life’s little pleasures since the world could end tomorrow.
The country side area around Bukhmut, Ukraine is full of farmer’s fields lined by long rows of trees and bushes varying in thickness from 5 to 10 meters, perfect places for Ukrainians to dig in. They provide cover while providing a wide open view on either side against surprise ground based attacks from the front or rear.
Not surprisingly, the Russians have formed special battle groups to deal with these fortified wooded areas between Ukrainian farm fields. The systematic manner in which the Russians approach and attack these wooded areas turns them into death traps for the Ukrainian soldiers as they end up being trapped and unable to flee their positions because of the open fields on either side.
First the Russians cross an open field perpendicular to the treed area they are attacking. Armored vehicles follow in the same tracks of the lead vehicle in case there are mines laid. The lead vehicles fire high explosive rounds at the dug in Ukrainians directly ahead of them. Following vehicles behind the lead vehicle tend to shoot to either side of the lead vehicle. I am assuming all of the Russian vehicles are using infrared sights to locate the dug in Ukrainian soldiers.
Once the Russians reach the wooded area, Russian soldiers dismount into the cover of the wooded area and then advance in both directions along the wooded area. Once the armored vehicles reach the wooded area, they then turn 90 degrees, in both directions, and advance slowly parallel to the wooded area, shooting each new dug in Ukrainian position as they move forward. At this point, the Ukrainians don’t seem to be easily able to spot the Russian armored vehicles coming because of the trees and bushes on either side of their positions, so they end up being sitting ducks for the Russians. The Russian soldiers move through the wooded area mopping up behind their armored vehicles.
In addition, drones are used to keep an eye on the operation. Some armored vehicles stay back by the previous treed area to provide any extra firepower if needed.
So what initially was a strong position for the Ukrainians, is quickly turned into a deadly liability by the Russians, as the Ukrainians end up trapped and blind sided with no where to escape too.
Once one field’s treed area is cleared, then the next treed area is attacked.
What surprises me is the Ukrainians lack of anti armor manopods. I have read that US manopods are too complex, fragile, bulky, and can’t be used at such short ranges. The Russians don’t seem to be too worried.
Well that stupid Queen’s professional idiot who isn’t concerned about the Ohio train’s dioxins should look on a map as to where he lives, as Kingston, Ontario is right dab in the middle of that cloud of dioxins!
Sadly, so is my island summer cottage.
AFKTT:
Lol. Right now, I am praying to the CO2 gods to raise daytime high temperatures 1 degree higher, so the sap in my maple tree will start flowing again! Right now daytime high temperatures are sitting at zero or minus 1 so the sap isn’t flowing.
That Hungary sacked hundreds of pro-NATO army officers means they fired pro-war officers who were likely preparing a coup against Orban’s government, just like in Turkey. I wonder what color this color revolution was going to be?
Remember a certain high level US bitch recently went to Hungry to ensure election integery? I have since then been wondering what Orban would do?
Glad to see Orban’s positive response. I bet Orban has his army’s soldiers backing but not the officers. I think he still needs to do more to protect himself and Hungry’s people though.
Zerosum:
Sorry to hear you have to avoid too much sugar.
My younger brother is borderline diabetic and he keeps wondering why I am not in a similar situation too.
For me, so far so good with sugar. Knock on wood!
Now, if I could just do something about my eyes and ears.
Growing old isn’t very golden.I write this in memory of a good man.
He was born in the Czech Republic and was a young Jewish boy when the Nazis invaded. An aunt used her jewelry to save him from being loaded onto a concentration camp bound train. He was hidden with a Catholic priest, serving as a choir boy. One day he saw several drunk German soldiers shoot for fun young school boys playing soccer. Eventfully, the Nazis came after the Catholic priest, torturing him before they killed him. Yes, he witnessed all of this too.
He went on to become a top metallurgical scientist before escaping in 1967 with his wife, also a top metallurgical scientist, with both ending up working for Canada’s top nickel miner. He then created and built a new industry called nickel vapor deposition technology. This allows for depositing nickel coatings on metal in micro millimeters thicknesses.
He did not practice any religion. He couldn’t believe in god because of the terrible things he had seen as a boy. If there was a God, how could he have let such terrible things happen?
On a happier note, so far this spring I have collected 31.5 litres of maple sap. Tonight I am boiling down the 11 litres of sap collected over the last 9 days. This is close to the 33.5 litres of maple sap I collected last year which gave me about 700 ml of maple syrup.
Once this sap is reduced 40 to 1, I should have the grand total of 750 ml of maple syrup! I am sugar rich!
Another interesting little tidbit on the Ukrainian war. I
n the Lviv region, Maxim Kozitsky, head of the Shlyatch system, sold 60,000 exit permits for between $3,000 to $7,000 US dollars each. That’s is somewhere between $18 million and $42 million! Nice pocket change!
This goes to show that it is mostly poor Ukrainians that are dying to the last Ukrainian for the US. The wealthy, wanted no part of this war racket, and have all left the country. If they left early there was probably no fee. But the tardy had to pay.
Prorated this level of corruption to all of Ukraine, and it wouldn’t be hard for over a million Ukrainian men to have actively avoided serving in the doomed Ukrainian army.
Bukhmut is providing a rather interesting example of how the Russians fight urban warfare.
If you look carefully, you will noticed the Russians have surrounded Bukhmut on 3 sides but have still left a small corridor open. All of the major roads have been nicely cut off leaving only a minor backroad open. This narrow opening has been open for quite a few weeks now. Not only that the Russians didn’t blow up any of the bridges either.
The Russians, with fire control over the open escape route, are preventing the Ukrainians from leaving with any of their vehicles or heavy equipment.
Recently the Ukrainians have blown up all of these bridges to try and trap their remaining troops still in Bukhmut, from being able to retreat. But the Russians are still allowing any Ukrainian soldier who want to retreat on foot, to do so, providing there are no Nazis to shoot them for retreating. Unfortunately there are Nazis there to do just that.
You maybe wondering, why do the Russian keep doing this, town after town, and city after city. They always seem to leave a retreat path for the Ukrainian soldier’s. Are they not capable of closing the circle? Yes, they are quite capable of closing the cicle but deliberately choose not to close the circle until the enemy has retreated if they want to.
This strategy stems from a post WW2 analysis of liberating over a 1,000 Russian towns and cities. It is far less costly and time consuming to leave a controlled path of retreat for the enemy than to trap them.
One very interesting thing that the Russians are doing is rounding up and identifying all of the Ukrainian dead. They provide coffins and return them to the Ukrainians. Besides being the right thing to do, it also forces the Ukrainian government to admit that a particular soldier has died. If the Ukrainian government doesn’t admit a particular Ukrainian soldier has died, the Ukrainian soldier’s family can go on the internet and find out from the Russians.
The Ukrainian government is going to great lengths to avoid admitting a soldier died (labeled as missing), so as to avoid having to pay the dead soldier’s pension. I wonder where this money is going since the US is supposedly providing the Ukrainian government with sufficient funds to pay all of their pensioners. Never let a good war go to waste.
Oroboros:
A few days ago I commented upon this 1 to 1 ratio too. I don’t think we can accept these CNN figures as completely truthful but they indirectly tell us something. Since when has CNN ever told the truth about anything?
What we can accept is the Ukraine are sending young boys and old men to fight. We see videos of Ukrainian Nazis press ganging the young and old. If the Ukraine had any more 18 year to 60 year old men left they would be press ganging these instead. But they are not. Wonder why not? Maybe these Ukrainians are already dead? We also know recently wounded Ukrainians are being rushed back into service as soon as possible.
Obviously the Ukrainians must be running short of “available” manpower. If they are, then it says casualty figures must be much higher than being admitted. I would guess well over a million, dead, wounded, captured, not to mention missing. I suspect the number of “missing” is rather staggering. Some of the missing are in hiding, while millions left years ago.
Because the Ukrainians are fighting a WW1 style static trench/bunker war, they are taking tremendous casualties because the Russians are fighting a mobile type of war. I suspect most Ukrainians die without ever seeing a single Russian soldier.
If we look at WW1 casualty figures verses WW2, we would see that about half the wounded died of their wounds. This is what an artillery war looks like. Few bullets wounds. Then add in Ukraine’s poor medical resources, not to mention Ukraine’s all too efficient organ harvesting.
I would not be surprised if well over 500,000 Ukrainians have died so far with over 1,000,000 wounded.
This has been happening for decades, but some people are only noticing it now.
Others are in denial that this has been happening and are fighting it.AFKTT:
And to hide the truth, no death figures are given for the years before 2022!
Sounds just like here in Canada.Good comments V. P.
Le t us list the many European joys of US sanctions on Russia.
In Britain, bad weather in Southern Europe and North Africa is being paroted by the MSM for food shortages in grocery stores. It is the media’s job to lie and cover up the truth. Just like there are no anti-war rallies happening anywhere in Europe.
Just to add to the bad weather lie, British grocery chains are only offering below production cost prices to domestic food growers, since they are price givers, not price takers! Domestic food producers can no longer afford the high gas and fertilizer prices and are shutting down. So you decide to import cheaper food by truck from Spain. Good luck with that, as the truck will be stuck in the cross channel’s choke point of lengthy delays. Even if you succeed, the grocery store won’t pay your breakeven price. Only in Britain! The British treat their own people worse than anybody else!
Meanwhile, over in Holland fertilizer shortages are being blamed for food shortages as 70% of European fertilizer production is currently shutdown due to high natural gas and also high electricity costs. In Spain only 2 fertilizer plants are still operating but only at minimum levels. Most of Germany’s and Poland’s fertilizer plants were shut down to conserve gas supplies for winter heating needs.
So expect more media stories about bad weather lies in Southern Europe as high fertilizer prices and absolute fertilizer shortages prevent European farmers from planting food crops this spring. Spain imports half its fertilizer needs from Germany and Poland. Nice virtuous circle!
So expect food shortages to soar this spring and summer in Europe. Grain production will collapse too, especially in the Ukraine. Many European farmers will simply not pla nt some grain crops as they can not complete with cheap imported Ukrainian grain.
2023 Ehuropean food production will be bad but expect 2024 food production to be even worse. All thanks to sanctions on Russia. Even if peace is declared in 2023, much of Russian gas has be sold to eastern customers and so previous gas supplies won’t automatically return.
So if you are planning on flying to Asia from Europe, on an European airline, your flight will be a little longer than it used to be as your airline can no longer fly directly to Asia over Russian air space! They now have to fly south of Russia! If you want a quicker and shorter flight then fly on an Asian airline!
Sean Penn, the moralistic guy who had no qualms about abandoning a car he rented, from some poor Ukrainian, a few miles from the Ukrainian/Polish border, just so he didn’t have to wait in the miles long car line up at the border. Being a deep state employee has it’s privileges of not having to care about the suffering masses.
Russia is indeed taking the first step towards peace! That is why the war making deep state is upset!
The deep state losing in the Ukraine is the reason why it is now doubling down on sanctioning China. This effort is going as well as it’s Russian sanctions are. If sanctioned, China has nothing further to lose, so will takeover Taiwan.
Since the deep state will be creating crisis after crisis, this proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, to everybody, that they are indeed losing. The quicker the crisises come, will be our proof the deep state is losing faster and faster. The deep state will keep on losing because that is all they know how to do. Losers!
AFKTT:
The best plowing operation I ever saw, a camel paired with a donkey! The camel’s two front legs were hog tied together with a short rope so if it tried to take off, it would immediately stumble and fall onto it’s front knees! This happened about every 100 feet or so. Poor donkey!
The ornery camel provided the mass while the donkey was the slow but steady brains of the outfit! Good enough to pull a single plow. Saw in Morroco’s Sahara Desert!
Doc Robinson:
I like how they announced they have a new bus that can do tests in the bus for real time results but are not publically releasing these results. A dog and pony show of “Oh, look shiny object!” while covering up everything. Nothing has changed. Depend upon government at your own risk.
FDR & Biden:
Both are doing the exact same things. They are completely ignoring what the people want, listening only to the bankers.
1. FDR raised gold’s dollar price from $20 something to $35 to create instant inflation. Biden signed on first day in office Build Back Better to boost inflation. American people do not want higher inflation.
2. FDR told Poland not to give Germany a corridor to Prussia, starting WW2. FDR deliberately pushed Japan into a war with the US. Biden pushed US into war with Russia. Both ignoring American’s desire for peace. Both pushed hard for war.
History repeats.
Phoenixvoice
What you described, was exactly what I saw in communist run USSR in 1983. The people were always promised things would be better, in the next 5 year plan, if they would just continue to deprive themselves today. Utopia was always just around the corner. It never came.
Meanwhile anyone who could, gardened intensively, to provide themselves with food the government wouldn’t/couldn’t provide.
Then in 1991, 8 years later, communism hit the wall, because the people had quietly all quit working hard long ago.
A lot of powerful comments today.
Today on my Wife’s side, an aunt with Parkinsons and very likely vaxxed was MAIDed today. I suspect the vax greatly speeded up her phyiscal decline. The aunt’s son recently suffered a heart attack but survived for now.
AFKTT:
Sorry to hear your kettle and phone just crapped out on you. Engineered that way.
I have never had good luck fixing kettles as either the heating element fails or the on/off switch gets totally fried. As for cell phones, I just buy cheap new ones knowing they will get dropped, go for a swim, get sat on, etc.inside of 2 years.
Aspnaz:
Just remember these types want you to die, to solve their imaginary problem!
They see you as the problem, not themselves!Another interesting comment I saw on the Ukrainian War, had to do with the different killed/wounded ratios ,occurring, depending upon the type of fighting that is taking place (WW1/WW2). This also greatly changes the types of injuries that occurs too. Less bullet injuries, for example.
We are usually told the ratio is about 2 or 3 wounded for each soldier killed.
Since the Ukrainian War has settled into a WW1 style trench warfare, most of the killing and wounding is caused by high explosive artillery shells. Besides fragmentation injuries, shock pressure internal organ injuries also occur. Another fact of life in trench warfare, it is often not possible to immediately attend to and evacuate the injured due to ongoing shelling.
This commentor noted that it was highly liiely that half of the Ukrainian wounded are dying from their wounds due to the types of internal injuries suffered from shelling combined with the terrible state of Ukrainian medical logistics/systems (not to mention Ukrainian organ harvesting).
So recent estimates that 257,000 Ukrainians have died so far, could easily be multiplied by 2 x 257,000 for 514,000 dead or if 3 wounded, 2.5 x 257,000 for 642,500 dead. Sad if true.
So during an usually warm European winter, Britain is suffering from food shortages while the rest of Europe isn’t. Perfectly normal. People have been leaving Britain due to food shortages for centuries.
Ukrainian Nazi press gangs are mostly working in western Ukraine now. Seems like they have quotas to fill or if not, they get sent instead. One Nazi tried to press gang an 85 year old man. The old man said the Nazi was a fu*king moron. The Nazi replied, you’re not dead yet? Regardless, the Russians are confirming that all the captured and dead Ukrainians they are seeing now, all have paperwork identifying them as western Ukrainians.
In recent decades, many of Poland’s young have permanently left and gone to western Europe. This has left Poland short of workers (mostly for poor paying jobs like fruit picking, etc.). Now with the influx of Ukrainians into Poland, this depopulation trend has reversed. Apparently learning Polish isn’t that difficult for Ukrainians. The Pole’s are busy integrating the young Ukrainians into Polish public schools in a big way, hoping they will stay.
In watching the war in the Ukraine, you may have noticed that Russia has not made any big arrow moves, just small local bite size gains here and there. Another observation is that the Russians are not using their air force very much except behind their air defenses. There is a very good reason for this. Whenever Russia launches an air plane or cruise missile, it’s course is tracked by US satellites so the Ukrainians know ahead of time, so the Ukrainians do not need to turn on their missile radar systems, except very briefly if they decide they want to intercept.
This has made it very difficult for the Russians to find and destroy the remaining missile defense systems still operating in the Ukraine. Zerosum mentioned yesterday only 405 such systems have been destroyed in over a year of war. Many of these are the deadly S-300 so now you know why the Russians are not flying all over Ukrainian airspace. They can’t. So the Russians are letting their artillery do the talking!
F.S.
Trudeau is so worried about the environment that he needs to air lift a heavy tank to Europe!
And not a peap from environmentalists!
Yes, I can 100% believe everything Trudeau says!Raul – get better soon but don’t feel you need to rush back too quickly. And yes there is a Debt Rattle today!
Dr. D – I concur with your life’s experiences. They have been lying to us forever. That is why I can no longer believe anything they say now. Instead I now focus on just living my life the best I can.
AFKTT – You haven’t done too badly! All of my ancestors left sunny England in hopes of a better life. Almost none left of their own free will though. More like pushed – one way tickets.
Bridget Bishop’s journey didn’t end very well as she was the first Salem witch hung in 1692. The surviving Bishops fled north from the states n 1776 to Upper Canada as (misguided?) Empire Loyalists. Another ancestor got replaced by sheep. Another married a miller’s daughter, below his class. Another was on the losing side of an Irish clan war. The last, escaping in the dead of night in 1896, was scheduled to be put to work on a factory grinding wheel, a black lung death sentence (can trace lines back to early 1600). So I am mostly English with a trace of Irish for good measure.
On my Wife’s side, in the 1890s, a German stoled away on an ocean ship to Canada to avoid having to serve in the army. A Welch left in 1920s to escape a bad marriage. A Scotish young woman left in 1920s to Canada to find work. My Wife is 1/2 German, 1/4 Welch, and 1/4 Scotish – what a crazy combination!
Google shows that corporations are the law and the DofJ is just pretending to enforce the law.
Notice the DofJ is only pushing civil law, not criminal law.
DofJ exists solely to protect it’s masters from the people.East Palestine shows corporations determine environmental laws.
The EPA is not testing for anything.
The EPA exists solely to protect it’s masters from the people.(⁰
Recently China has come out with a paper on peace and securities. I have to wonder if this is China’s way of defining it’s own security concerns regarding the US? Especially after Biden’s Kiev visit, signaling that the US is doubling down on the war in the Ukraine, despite losing.
We are all familiar, from Putin’s many speeches, what issues Russia considers to be threats to it’s existence.
Maybe China is doing the same?
Are the Biden neocons even listening?
