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Money is all theoretical… until it’s not. Paper money is bad enough, as France learned under the tutelage of the rascal John Law in the early 1700s. The nation was broke, exhausted by foolish wars, and heaped under unbearable debt. Monsieur Law, a Scottish genius-wizard (the Jerry Lewis of political economy), landed in Paris, cast a spell on the regent Duc d’Orléans, set up a magic credit engine fueled by dreams of untold riches-to-come burgeoning out of the vast, new-found lands called Louisiana up the Mississippi River, and modern finance was born!
The stock-and-money schemes known as the Mississippi Bubble soon ruined France and put finance in such a bad odor that the word “banque” could not be used in polite society there for a century to come. Monetary inflation became a thing for the first time since Roman days — a much easier trick with printed paper banknotes than with silver coins — but the effect was the same: the evaporation of “wealth” (which is what money supposedly represents). At the height of the crisis, trading in gold was criminalized, though that was so easily worked-around due to sheer custom and habit that the Crown had to re-legalize it. The frenzy from start to finish lasted only a few years, but the nation was set on the path that would eventually lead to revolution. Law ended his days dolefully running card games in Venice.
Likewise, the creaking polity called the USA in our time spawned many new incarnations of John Law as it transitioned from being “the arsenal of democracy” — you know, making real things — to a land of make-believe, where unicorns galloped over rainbows conjured by computer magic and utopian wishes of equity, diversity, and inclusion. The overhang of previously amassed wealth kept those dreams going long after we discontinued the rough and messy business of making stuff, and thereby generating real wealth. But now a klaxon blares, signaling the end of dream-time, and the nation wakes up in a ramshackle house with the floor giving way under the bed.
The rot was plain to see in the banking architecture built on US treasury paper (bills, notes, bonds) as rising interest rates undercut the price of all the debt paper issued previously at lower rates. And this was the collateral that banks generally held the depositors’ money in. So, when it became necessary to declare a problem with the balance sheet, and cash had to be raised to cover it, the treasury paper could only be sold at a loss, liabilities exceeded assets, word got out, depositors rushed to secure the money in their accounts, and that was all she wrote for yon bank, in this case, Silicon Valley Bank, the first to crumble.
Since banks today exist in a vast matrix of interconnected obligations — promises to pay this-and-that — fear grows that the rot from one bank, such as SVB, will infect many other banks that are no longer able to keep their promises about paying this-and-that, leading to a daisy-chain of things not getting paid. For an economy, that’s about the same as the blood ceasing to circulate in a body.
The practice in situations such as this (say, as in 2008-09) is for the governing authorities — who supposedly rule over the banking world like gods — to rush to rescue these outfits with “liquidity,” money (or representations of it) as required to re-balance things, or, maybe provide the impression of re-balancing until something else can be figured out. The Jupiter and Minerva of American banking, Jay Powell and Janet Yellen, were faced with just that sort of call for divine intervention over the weekend as fear seeped into every nook and crevice of the money world that wealth was flaring away in the long-feared-of conflagration out of the dumpster banking had become.
Sunday morning, Ms. Yellen told CBS News “bailouts, no way” but by the afternoon Mr. Powell cried “bailouts, way,” and they had to get their story straight. They offered up $25-billion to bail out depositors for a smoldering system that will arguably require a trillion dollars or more of liquidity to quench the spreading fires. One thing looks for sure: the interest rate hikes that Mr. Powell spoke of so confidently only days ago just got stashed into his folder labeled “Fuggeddabowdit.” So, the campaign to control inflation must now yield to the urgent need to create a whole lot of money to spray over those fires.
You may have noticed that the value of your money has been slip-sliding away the past year or so. Peanut butter at five bucks a jar, and all. The situation at hand kind of guarantees that we’ll be seeing a whole lot more of that. And then the gods of money will have lost control of the interest rate console altogether. No more tweaking the broken knobs. More inflation will prompt US treasury paper holders to dump what they can while there’s still some value to retrieve. But the US has to issue more debt for all the bail-outs and theoretical buyers of new debt will perforce bid up the rates to keep up with inflation… and yet the US can’t possibly bear the burden of paying higher interest on its debt. Looks like the business model for running the USA is breaking down before our eyes.
Luckily, Cap’n “Joe Biden” is at the helm of this steaming garbage barge. His conference room full of geniuses is ready with the solution to our predicament: the long-mythologized Central Bank Digital Currency — a dream-come-true for would be tyrants… the Godzilla of unicorns whinnying atop the biggest rainbow of all: the promise of endless magic money for everybody, forever. All you have to do to get it is: surrender your decision-making power over your own life. The government will amalgamate your few remaining assets in a CBDC account, tell you exactly what to spend it on, and shut off your little card if you show any contrary impulses.
Well, they can try it. I doubt it will work. Instead, the government will melt down in its own rancid puddle of insolvency, the meta-grift will grind to an end, and it will be everyone for his / her / they self in the broke-down Palace of Chaos for a while… until things emergently reconstruct. But I get a little ahead of myself. It’s not even ten o’clock on Monday morning.
Oh, and then there’s Ukraine….
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Give a man a gun, he can rob a bank. Give a man a bank, he can rob the whole world.
Make a man a fire and keep him warm though the night. Set a man on fire and keep him warm for the rest of his life.
Very good, Walter, very good. In a similar jocular vein, I thought that our host’s metaphor that “the nation wakes up in a ramshackle house with the floor giving way under the bed” might be enhanced a bit by having the nation wake up only to discover that the stairs to the first floor (and terra firma) have been burnt as firewood.
Teach a man to fish and he can feed himself for the rest of his life; give him a fish and he will forever be dependent on your largesse.
Or:
Teach a man to fish and he’ll sit in a boat and drink beer all day.
things are not going to “emergently reconstruct”. Chaos ensues and will last a very long time.
I don’t know.
In many ways, humans are like ants.
Notice what happens if you hose away a few ant hills on the driveway? They start reconstructing immediately. By the next day, they are back where they were.
I have always thought that I benefitted greatly from reading Aesop’s Fables when I was a child.
Even people just a few years younger than me, I would find, have never heard of those.
You comment made me thing of The Ant And the Grasshopper.
” The Ant And the Grasshopper.”
Oyl,
…It’s what’s for breakfast….
Yes!
Sadly, most people are grasshoppers.
Americans have been taught to be grasshoppers.
Save? The banks will fail and take your savings.
Mary
That’s why homo sapiens include radioactivity in their arsenal of freedom. Proof that they are smarter than ants.
But remember, ants overall have a much higher intelligence level than the average American.
True but I do not believe that is exclusive to Americans…
When you consider what the American diet is like, and how we are constantly assaulted by herbicides, pesticides, chemical contaminants of all kinds, and vaccines, it has often struck me that humans are very hard to kill.
I learned that working in the ER.
Quoting Bill Holter, “Banks are sharks. There is nothing left for them to eat, so now they are eating each other”! Brilliant.
In the end, there can be only One.
Banks are financial, they produce nothing.
When conditions dictate, they must be allowed to fail and just go away.
The result will be a healthy competitive banking system instead of the rot we see today.
thats like Marx s absurd statement.
No, banks do work, good or bad.
Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed.–MARX
Okay, they still produce nothing and they still must be allowed to fail.
@ malthuss:
Burglars also do work. So do drug dealers human traffickers. The effort that goes into an enterprise does not necessarily equal productivity.
Banks are financial parasites.
“they produce nothing.”
John,
Not exactly correct. At a certain point, they produce liquidity for the masses. Why do you think there was the “Cross of Gold” speech?
“…If they dare to come out in the open field and defend the gold standard as a good thing, we shall fight them to the uttermost, having behind us the producing masses of the nation and the world. Having behind us the commercial interests and the laboring interests and all the toiling masses, we shall answer their demands for a gold standard by saying to them, you shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
At the base level, the issue was liquidity.
Funny that over a hundred years later we have people swearing that what we need is a new gold standard.
No historical memory at all.
I have never understood the objection to a gold standard. Maybe someone could enlighten me as to why it’s a problem.
A gold standard, as Jennings Bryan pointed out, limits the ability of economic expansion and wage increases.
I personally think that expansion for the sake of expansion is not a good thing, but if you have a system that cannot function without expansion, and the money runs out because the gold is limited, then you have economic collapse, the way the US had every 20 years during the 19th century.
They discovered gold in Alaska about the same time as that speech, and it kept the gold-backed currency going for a while longer, but at some point it had to stop, so it did.
They used silver for a while, but the same thing happened with that.
@ Paula D:
I’m still not getting the mechanism whereby gold “limits the ability of economic expansion and wage increases.”
So, let’s say that the limited supply of gold means that the supply of money vis-a-vis the supply of good is limited. Less money chasing more goods should be deflationary. Money (gold) would have a higher value, proportional to its scarcity.
People who advocate for a gold standard point out that this would end inflation. I.e., you might not get a raise, but your money wouldn’t decline in value, and would probably be worth more. Technological advances should also be deflationary: more goods can be produced with fewer man-hours of work. We’ve had about 200 years of rapid technological advances. Yet, because of the erosion of the value of money, our cost of living is actually high, rather than lower.
I’m also not clear on why gold limits economic expansion. (I’m not trying to be argumentative. I’d honestly like to know how this works.) We had tremendous economic expansion during the years when we had a gold standard.
I think the argument must be that the limited supply of gold would limit the availability of capital, but I’m not seeing how, especially since the value of gold would seem to be likely to either be stable or increase. (Maybe you’d have to have been there.)
@ Paula D:
My impression is that the economic collapses of the 19th Century had more to do with bankster shennanigans than with the gold standard. “The Creature from Jekyll Island” documents this–though my understanding of what the banks were up to is hazy at best.
Henry George also talks about the depressions/recessions and their causes quite a bit, in “Progress and Poverty.” He attributes them mainly to the speculative increase in rent values–mainly the buying up of land for speculative purposes, rather than for use–though this argument can be extrapolated to include all “rentier”-type doings. The “rentier” being a person who gains income without productivity, which can be done in many ways.
If your money is tied to the amount of gold you have, then you cannot have profit or interest, unless you have “banking shenanigans”.
Capitalism runs on profit, banking runs on interest. If you have a stable currency, both will crash, which is what happened every 20 years or so in the 19th century.
You could have a stable system if you took profit and interest out of its functioning, and only produced for use, meaning the basics of life for all, but that is not how our system works, so tying the money system to a finite supply of gold just won’t do. Nothing is produced unless a profit can be made. The biggest profits are in speculation, so that is where the money is mostly spent, albeit with the war machine and the drug producers right up there.
You can see that the last 40 years of continual pump-priming and Plunge Protection has managed to keep the system staggering along, managing to produce food for everyone and shelter for most, but we have now hit the wall.
Without the petrodollar forcing the rest of the world to sell their resources and labor cheaply to us, we will be forced to live within our means.
Hence: the crash.
You have to have inflation in order to pay the interest on the loans.
Only the principle is loaned. The interest has to come from somewhere else.
Therefore, either they pump more money into the system, so that the loans can be repaid with interest or the debtor defaults and the creditor crashes.
It works the same way with profits. There has to be money coming from somewhere else or the aggregate working class cannot buy back all that it produces, because they don’t get paid the full value of their labor, because that is where the profit comes from.
@ Paula D:
Well, first of all the “banking shennanigans” of the 19th Century pure a collection of pure frauds. (I don’t have “The Creature from Jekyll Island” at hand, as I loaned it out.)
Secondly, it seems to me that you can have both profit and interest with a (fairly) fixed amount of gold in existence, due to technological advances continually increasing the value of the gold, which is thus deflationary.
The 19th and 20th Centuries were both eras of spectacular increases in productivity, due to technological advances. E.g., it now takes only a tiny fraction of the man-hours required to produce a loaf of bread now, as it did in 1850. One farmer can now produce more wheat than 50 could. Threshing and milling is mechanized. The baker has machinery for the process of bread-making. When you make bread at home, you cut the time requirements by half or more by using a bread machine.
The same if true for heating you house. An hour’s worth of labor cutting, splitting, and stacking firewood, carrying it into the house, starting the fire and tending it, will not get you nearly as much heat as an hour’s income from a job, used to pay the gas bill. Likewise, you could spend many hours making candles (after you tended the bees or rendered the tallow from the cattle you fed and cared for). Or you could pay your electric bill, at a far lower cost in man-hours, and flip a switch.
So, basically, the value of gold today should be about 100 times what it was 100 years ago. (Maybe more.) Fiat money is worth nearly 100 times less.
So it seems to me that the value of gold, in a deflationary environment in which technological advances and far greater productivity are continually increasing the value of the gold, SHOULD obviate the need for interest. Basically, if you lent out gold, you’d automatically collect, say, 10% a year, due to the increase in its value alone.
Now, as for profit: My view (having run a VERY small business out of my kitchen) is that I’m entitled to get paid for my work. That is my profit.
In manufacturing, the way you calculate what you should charge the end customer is this: Retail price should be four times input costs, including the hourly wage you pay yourself.
If you are a retailer (buying stuff for retail, rather than manufacturing it) the retail price of goods is twice the wholesale price you paid for it.
These calculations are supposed to ensure than you get paid for your work and time, and that you don’t go bankrupt.
Now, if you were a big company and there were people who had loaned you money/gold, and they expected a return, things would look a little different.
I can see how a person who owned gold would be reluctant to lend it out, in an environment in which he/she was getting a 10% return, simply due to deflation. So you have to wonder what amount of interest you’d have to pay them to compensate them for their risk. But that’s why we have business plans and credit scores and bean-counters, I guess.
Anyway, I don’t see a problem with gold money from the standpoint of interest and profit.
Now, Tickerguy doesn’t think gold money would solve our problems, apparently because banks or other entities holding gold for safekeeping have always played the fractional-reserve game–going back hundreds or thousands of years. I don’t know the answer to that one. Laws, maybe? Maybe laws that somebody enforced? But I suppose that idea is futile.
If gold increases in value, that is inflationary, not deflationary.
If you can’t make a profit because no one has enough money, that is deflationary.
So you have people starving while farmers dump milk and kill pigs, because they can’t make enough money selling them.
Just like when people don’t have enough money to buy goods at the store, the store goes out of business, and you can buy stuff cheap, i.e. deflation.
But then the store is gone, so the next time you need something it isn’t there.
Bankers holding gold and issuing bank notes, with the gold as collateral, is what you call “banking shenanigans”, but it is, as you note, a longstanding practice.
It continues as long as enough people borrow enough bank notes to make it possible to pay interest. It’s only called a ponzi scheme when non-bankers do it.
But it crashes the same way. At some point more people want their gold (or money) back than the bank has on hand.
That is called a bank run, and that is when the whole thing comes crashing down.
Sure, then there is deflation, but it won’t matter, because either you don’t have enough money to buy goods, or you do have enough, but there is no one in business to sell it to you.
That is why they switched to continual money creation, “priming the pump”, especially in the last 40 years. They wanted to keep the system running.
But now we have come to the part where we can’t even pay the interest, let alone the principle.
And this is where we learn about the limits of profit and interest.
Well, no. When money/gold increases in value, it is deflationary. If money/gold is worth more today than it was yesterday, that means that today you can buy two loaves of bread for the same amount of gold/money that would buy you only one loaf yesterday.
If you earn a fixed wage in gold/money in a deflationary environment, you are continually getting a raise. You can buy more groceries/clothing/toasters this week than you could last week, with the same amount of gold/money.
I used to tell my kids that if you cut your cost of living in half by making thrifty purchases (mainly buying at thrift stores), you just gave yourself a 100% raise.
Also, in a deflationary environment, the value of your savings would continually increase, regardless of whether you were getting paid interest on the savings.
Inflation is the result of having too much money in pursuit of a (fairly) fixed amount of goods and services. Really, technological advances that greatly increase productivity SHOULD be sufficient to overpass a certain level of inflation: Even if there’s a lot more money, there’s also a lot more stuff.
William Jennings Bryan. A three-time loser for the presidency, and deservedly so.
What a moron he was.
If you have a stable currency, where do the profits and the interest come from?
It’s a recurrent cycle..As Nassim Taleb, and Prof. Ken Rogoff, have shown, over 900 years bankers periodically lose everything and run to mommy government to get bailed out..If not, in Italy bankers were hanged in front of their insolvent banks..On a net basis, banks lose more money than they make…
Nothwithstanding bankers and ‘mommy government, we may also want to consider that we are currently well within the 6th cycle of the Kondratieff Wave, said cycle having begun in 2005.
Since the 18th century, economists have identified five Kondratieff Waves, with the first wave occurring during the invention of the steam engine and lasting from 1780 to 1830.
The second cycle continued from 1830 up to 1880, driven by the growth of the steel industry and the railroads. The third, fourth, and fifth cycles lasted from 1880 to about 2005, and economists believe that a sixth cycle started in 2005.
See
corporatefinanceinstitute.com/resources/economics/kondratieff-wave/
Well said, Walter B. It seems that more and more money always collects in fewer and fewer hands until, theoretically I suppose, there is only one set of hands that collects it all.
I suspect that recognition of the effect you relate was the motivation for the Hebrews of old to create the Jubilee.
You beat me to it, AK, but I got distracted moving some money around to get out of the way of the SVI debacle, but then got back to wondering where the reference to the Jubilee was so I looked it up in the KJV and…
The Pareto Distrubution – the 80/20 rule – applies to the mass of stars and planets according to the Law of Gravity, just as surely as it does to Human aquisitiveness according a different set of psychological “laws”.
In the realm of the former, whenever the Pareto rule approaches its ultimate limits well beyond the 80/20 norm, the result is the truly awesome “creative destruction” of Novae and Supernovae whereas, in the latter realm of Human behaviour, when all the wealth and the power it commands concentrates in a mere 0.01 percent of the population? … well, only narcissists and psychotics can pretend to believe that all can be well under those circumstances.
As it happens, though, the Old Testament provides a design for a “release valve” to allay the buildup of social pressure: the Sabbath of Sabbaths, aka the Jubilee Year.
Leviticus 25
8 And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and the space of the seven sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years.
9 Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land.
10 And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.
To the best of my knowledge, this Jubilee idea is practiced precisely nowhere on Earth. Not even in Israel.
And we wonder why we are enslaved [ economically ] to Usurers.
The Old Testament financial system had another element that is perhaps more tothe poiint. When the tribes of Israel took over the land of Canaan, every tribe (and I think every individual family) was allotted a portion of the land, and no one’s land could be sold in perpetuity. You could sell it, but it was restored to you after 50 years. In effect, you could lease your land to someone else for a maximum of 50 years. If the next Jubilee was only five years away, you could only lease it for the remaining five years.
In effect, permanent alienation from the land was impossible.
No one could permanently divest you of your farm. Now, if you didn’t want to be a farmer, you could raise capital to go into business “up in the city” by leasing your land.
What this did was to assure that “the people” owned the means of production, and that they could not permanently be stripped of this ownership.
This system eventually fell by the wayside. If I remember right, Ahab was the ruler that ended, or at least eroded, this system.
Obviously there are some big problems with instituting such a system in a modern economy. If we were to divided up land ownership among the American people, who would get what? Presumably, if you were not a citizen, you would get nothing–and probably have no prospect of every getting anything.
Henry George proposed a system that he thought would work–if government (and people in general) were honest. His idea was confiscatory taxation of the rent value of land. The idea was to prevent anyone from profiting from a rise in rent values, or gaining by means of anything other than labor inputs. The assumption that government and the people would administer this honestly makes it a non-starter.
Theoretically….if all money was in a single set of hands, then by definition, the economy has completely ground to a halt. No one is buying anything (no money to buy) and the one dude with all the money is no longer able to sell anything because again, the buyers have no money.
So that never actually happens. The wealthiest fraction of the top 1% understands that they must allow the peasants to have a few crumbs or they will stop working and if they stop working then who will produce all those fabulous expensive toys that the Uber-wealthy are so fond of? (Not to mention, who will feed them; cook for them; clean for them; produce electricity for them; pave the roads for them; clothe them; etc, etc. etc.
The wealthy NEED the poor, which is why they always allow the poor at least a minimal subsistence.
Walter
“banks are sharks”
One of the great advantages of financial centralization is that when the guillotine has done its job on the bankster class the blade is still sharp enough to begin its work on the politicians.
Perfect first comment.
Gregory Mannerino is convinced that this is being done intentionally in order for the Bigs to pick up the valuable assets of the Failed and get bigger, and the rest of us to have to eat the garbage that is left over. I have no doubt that he is correct, that this is all being engineered on purpose and that as we all sit by helpless asking WTF and WHY, the agenda simply goes on unabated and unchallenged. It has begun.
I think he is right. Not just banks but small business in general is on the chopping block.
Easier to control a few mega businesses and the small to mid size ones tend to be the realm and friend of free thinkers. Can’t have that…
The disappearance of small businesses would signal the end of rural America, with the exception of the very few people who are completely self sufficient. Our tiny rural town has a small grocery store/lunch room where you can get all the necessities and nothing more. Everyone here can walk to the store, so if we were deprived of all but our legs or a bicycle, we could still manage.
Most small towns in my corner of the world are configured in the same way. I think the intention is to force everyone into cities where we can be observed and controlled in every respect, and are completely dependent.
I agree. For a lot of reasons.
Where I live I can head south and be on gravel roads in 2-3 miles but head east and be watching a Indians/ Browns game in under and hour but not typical. Just a relic of the big lake.
Most of rural America is more vulnerable.
Ed Dowd and Catherine Fitts are arguing this is the beginning of the controlled demolition into CBDCs.
This is a thumbnail sketch by Ed Down:
Three things are needed to facilitate the rollout of the CBDC system.
1) Make holding money in banks feel completely unsafe.
2) Destroy competitors or make them unattractive as viable alternatives (bitcoin, etc)
3) Economic collapse then tie welfare to CBDC.
#1 Provoke bank runs on all the banks that are not GSIB bank, like Chase, JP Morgan, etc..
#2 Trash cryptos and especially Bitcoin, which is in a class of it’s own (legal trender in El Salivador by the by)
Also make it impossible to store assets in Russia or China using sanctions
#3 Collapse the Collective West economies with interest rates like Volcker’s 21% rate in the early 1980’s, ouch man, that hurt!
After almost everyone is broke, roll out Welfare for All tied to Central Bank Digital Currency(CBDC)
I can easily see that happening with social security payments, welfare, and people who work for the government. Want yer money? Take it or leave it.
The stock market is going up after Yellen announced they’d cover the uninsured deposits which are 89% of the bank’s deposits. So the bank bailouts are here again and the executives who paid themselves big bonuses last week will have no problem paying $5/jar for peanut butter.
And then add the tyrannies together: If you don’t vax, you don’t get access to “your” money.
They’d need to make it either illegal or impossible (or undesirable) to trade CBDCs for dollars, or for gold and silver.
Also, what would back CBDCs? The same thing that backs the dollar? If so, it seems to me that CBDC would be worthless.
in the last 150 years the banking system has been put in a death grip 3 times–each time resulting in massive job losses,depression-we are now in the throes of the 4th time–if you have unserviceable debt you are done–90 percent have that debt–Ukraine was suppose to be a diversion,Euro land ain’t gonna have it—now it is China Taiwan war–ok lets get it going insane usa goooovermint
Anthea — I think it would set up a pretty big trading scheme. Here’s why — a couple of years ago I was behind a middle aged woman and her 20 something year old son. They had a large shopping cart full of only meat and used food stamps to pay for it. If they bought a roast for say, $15, and sold it to a neighbor for $10 or bartered for something he had they wanted, it was a win-win for them both.
People find a way to navigate every system and the shrewder ones will do it.
I asked this same question on ZeroHedge, and someone replied that CBDCs would be backed by the BIS (Bank for International Settlements), which is an organization of central banks. Apparently when it started out, it was mainly composed of European banks, but the Wikipedia entry says it is now “more global”–with more diverse representation on its board of directors and having “a Representative Office for Asia and the Pacific in the Hong Kong SAR.” And, “A BIS Representative Office for the Americas was established in 2002 in Mexico City.”
I’m not really convinced that the whole world, especially, say, China and Russia, are down with the creation of a new CBDC currency administered by the BIS. Sounds to me like its “more global” focus is…um…not happening. Sounds pretty European, to me.
I don’t think that either the US or the European Central Banks are in any position to create a currency that anyone would have confidence in.
Actually, I wonder if the real plan is for China to swoop in and create a world digital currency. I wouldn’t be surprised if the plan is for China to physically take over at least a portion of the US.
Sounds a little or a lot like a mass murder event.
My question about CBDCs is, if the dollar becomes worthless because there is nothing backing it, what’s going to back CBDCs? “The full faith and credit of the United States”? The “full faith and credit of Credit Suisse?”
If the dollar like becomes “completely worthless” as it were, states can create coupons like they did during the 1st Depression. Money is conceived organized and run by people in Gov institutions i.e. 50 states And Many states have intrinsic value. land, water, oil, gas, forests, skills, connections, ambition, etc….
If the dollar like becomes “completely worthless” as it were, – Amman
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If my son Thom were saying the above phrase he would likely say it as:
If the dollar becomes like “completely worthless” as it were,
Or he might triple up and say:
If the dollar like becomes like “completely like worthless” as it were,
The likely scenario, if a switch to CBDCs is the plan, is that you will now get your paycheck or Social Security check in CBDCs. If you have money in the bank, the bank will automatically convert your dollars to CBDCs. If you have dollars in your mattress at home, you will be able to convert them to CBDCs by taking them to the bank. And, no, they won’t give you currency; they’ll credit your account.
Anyway, it just seems to me that, without backing, CBDCs would be worthless. If you get your paycheck in CBDCs that are worthless, why would you go to work? If the farmer gets paid for his tomatoes in CBDCs that are worthless, why would he grow tomatoes?
So if my thinking is correct here, people would barter as much as possible, and there might be a certain amount of using gold and silver as currency.
Yp, I didn’t mean like as in valley girl like. I meant like in a different way.
The Nazis had no gold, it all having been stolen by the Allies after WW1. Yet they enacted an economic miracle nonetheless. What as the backing? Themselves of course. We are the gold, ultimately – or not.
Anyone who didn’t like it was free to leave or wait to get thrown out. The didn’t demand other countries accept their banker-less currency – they bartered with them. They weren’t “isolationists” – the worst of all things in the minds of the Globalists. Independent and self sufficient in other words – as we could be if we had half the brains of Nazi Germany.
Yes, also known as bad capitalism, when the losers of the competitive economic battles have no where to go to “try again”. That builds a dependent welfare state that Jarek claims causes the descent into communism. The extreme effect is the homelessness we see today.
Who is responsible for the increasing non competitive nature of bad capitalism?
Hmmm, taxes come from where? Income redistribution comes from where? Corporate favoritism comes from where? Graft comes from where?
Two words, the government.
Good capitalism includes the ongoing creation of new businesses, these new businesses competing, the winners getting the benefit of success but the losers getting back in the game to try again, the growth of the successful businesses with integrity to the public, and the dissolution of the businesses upon obsolescence or bad practice with zero bailouts. There is no company too big to fail.
Look at this scenario and compare it to what we have today. No wonder we cannot run a tight ship in this country.
And Jarek, your advice to allow socialism to run things is insane. Giving the keys to the kingdom to the wolves is not an answer. Fixing the system is the key, meaning the government must give power back to the competitive market.
When pig’s fly!
(((the government)))
Zio-Nazi
Occupied
Government
CPR — Gone, baby, gone… JHK-Admin
Check out the new French animated production that totally smears Zelensky (if you can find it):
Ukraine Inc.
The Nazis fought the Zio Bankers. The real ones. Google Nazi Germany and “Judea declares war on Germany”.
The cosplayers in Ukraine have little or nothing to do with this since they are fighting FOR the Zio-Bankers.
always the joos eh
2+2 always equals 4, right Hap? Except when the Party needs it to equal something else?
It’s an issue of scale, John. Things like Oil, Steel, Energy, etc – you know ESSENTIAL industries naturally grow to huge size. They can’t be allowed to do what they want – like suddenly deciding to jack up their prices because they can. Easy to accomplish, an agreement between golf partners over drinks. It’s just a few guys in mature or corporate Capitalism.
So, no. They must serve or get the fuck out. Be nationalized in other words. So once it is put to them in these terms, they act sensibly and serve. Who better to run this part of the nation than the men who climbed to the top in their industries? You just have to threaten to knock some sense into their greedy heads is all.
A simple example but it makes my point: In the mature industrial state, the public and private spheres cannot be kept completely separate. So the question becomes, which will dominate? Which one will lead in the dance? The one which is elected and has sworn an oath to serve the public? Or the ones which is dedicated to personal profit for themselves and their share holders?
I’ve asked you before. You answered foolishly. Try again.
Don’t put words in my mouth. I didn’t say that the State will take over or even interfere in all small and medium sized businesses. It will only guide the essential and large ones. Even taking over them would be a last resort.
To the anarcho-capitalist crowd a small or medium size business and giant corporation are the same. The difference between free enterprise and monopoly finance capital is crucial since the latter will always tend to dominate any level of government.
Jarek- At what point does a medium size entity become a large entity, and thus nationalized? Who decides? That just creates an incentive for the entrepreneur to constantly break his business into smaller units to avoid regulation, or to buy off politicians to leave him alone.
The Elite decide. A military/political not commercial Elite. If humanity can’t do better than Corporate Capitalism, then there’s no point in even continuing to talk.
Russia and China prove otherwise. Their companies have to tow the line or else.
These lessons on political economy are helpful.
You just have to threaten to knock some sense into their greedy heads is all. – Jarek
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@ fellow commenters
Jar cannot help himself. He believes in big government.
Big as in strong enough to lay down the lay to for profit private enterprises who serve the public with essential services – of course I do. It’s the equivalent of defending our borders. Or our Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic, and domestic, and domestic.
The question is why you do not. Justify yourself – if you can.
strong enough to lay down the lay to for profit private enterprises – Jarek
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If you’re going to write error filled sentences like this I’m not going to read your posts. What the fuck is WRONG with you??
Anything to avoid answering the fucking question – cuz you can’t, right?
Sure.
It’s the Great Reset.
“Build Back Better.”
All that nonsense. They have planned it for a long time.
Methinks you are quite right MQ. Particularly so in light of this statement attributed Karl Rove:
“‘People like you are still living in what we call the reality-based community. You believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality. That’s not the way the world really works anymore. We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you are studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors, and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
Yes, entirely engineered. The “New World Order” is the Absolute State, which has been captured by Big Business, which this total state exists to protect and secure, and to which it has outsourced / privatized the act of governing itself. This system — the neoliberal machine — incorporates God, the invisible hand, and golden chains in one place.
A man of sense. It’s not Fascism but Plutocracy. Most people can’t tell the difference. Most people are fools.
Kleptocracy even?
We are governed by a kakistocracy, as are most nation states nowadays. The situation is tragic, hopeless. Humankind as ‘bond-servants’ of the neoliberal machine of absolute capitalism, dehumanized, reduced to merely the means of means, set off at speed to go nowhere.
Yes, Jackson, a ferocious opponent of the Bankers recognized this as the ultimate battle. His war against the Creeks was small in comparison.
Major General Andrew Jackson led an expedition against the Creek Indians in 1814, culminating in the Battle of Horse Shoe Bend (in present-day Alabama near the Georgia border). He then forced upon the Indians a treaty whereby they surrendered to the United States over twenty-million acres of their traditional land—about one-half of present day Alabama and one-fifth of Georgia.0
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So saith the Summarizer. How do you get a job like that? Men have advanced in rank of the very concision or conciseness of their dispatches. To say much in a few words is a rare skill. As is to say nothing with many words. Most meander in the middle.
See Russia n 1915..See Germany in 1932…See Cuba in 1959..
Think America is too smart to let that happen? Bullshit. Biden and the Obama socialists are crying for this.
Yellen announced that no taxpayers will fund this latest bailout, omitting increased inflation and higher bank fees to offset the banks’ costs as part of BTFP, already being called “Buy The Fucking Pivot,” that being Powell’s pivot back to flooding the system with zeros. Absolutely criminal.
Hedge Fund guru bill ackman wud disagree with U, as he said yellen made a wise move as his syndicate picks up assets at a fraction of their price and the fed prints money to pick up the costs of failure. More money from heaven and demand goes thru the roof but supply remains the same n U think cauliflower is expensive now.
Keeeee-rect.. This is the beginning of the socialist influenced implosion of American finance.
The idea that current and future taxpayers are not on the hook for this is absolutely laughable You get a better sense of how depraved these fucks truly are when you watch them say things that are patently false without even a hint of embarrassment or hesitation. What else are they lying about without a moment’s thought. Well, everything.
The taxpayer pays for EVERYTHING. I don’t care if banks pay the insurance premiums to the FDIC and whatever other cockamamie schemes they have going. The fees the banks pay impact the interest rates they offer depositors. The fees the banks pay also impact the fees they charge depositors and borrowers. If the FED just prints money to paper over things today, all of us are holding dollars that are now worth less than last week. All shit rolls downhill.
The taxpayer is already paying for banking stupidity and will continue to do so.
Mac, I’m not yelling at you, I’m just more than a little disgruntled this morning.
You are correct.
They lie because they know what would happen if they told the truth.
Even though they’ve been lying for decades, people still believe them.
At what point does that start to be our shortcoming and not theirs?
Exactly!
Like in “I have a shortcoming. I believe them?”
Focus, MQ, focus! ; )
Even if they told the truth, the brainwashed American masses wouldn’t listen or believe it. All they want is to be taken care of from cradle to grave, watch their favorite TV shows, download their porn, obsess over their genitals and stuff their faces with disgusting processed foods.
We are sick and depraved society obsessed with getting gain. Even to the point of bankrupting ourselves and future generations. We are truly a disgusting and pathetic society.
Truth doesn’t matter anymore.
““It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”
? J. Krishnamurti
Canker – given thousands of years of recorded history, I would condense your post to three words:
We are human.
We capable of amazing things, but we tend to do it only when we have to. When we humans have idle hands and brains, we tend to fall to the lowest effort possible.
With banks, profits are private, debts are public. You should know that by now.
I’m just more than a little disgruntled this morning. – mrs_saj
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“I found a ten dollar bill on the sidewalk and was very gruntled.”
I checked and, yes, gruntledis a word. It means pleased, satisfied, and contented.
gruntled is
Thanks for sharing this knowledge. It makes me gruntled. Share the gruntles.
Youre right. We pay for everything. Period. And THEN if we manage to get ahead of their grubby sticky tentacles, they tax it IN, and OUT of where we happen to put it. And then they tax it when we die.
A fucking mazing
Even more amazing…
America is the only country where people buy things they can’t afford, with money they do not have, to impress people they don’t even like.
If the taxpayers aren’t funding this bailout exactly who is?! Santa Claus? One lie after another.
I imagine the BRICS alliance is looking pretty good to some of our allies and they’re trying to figure out how they can sneak out the door. Saudi Arabia jumped ship about a month ago, India ignored Russian sanctions from the start (not even bothering to pretend they took the US seriously anymore) and with Europe meekly submitting to following the sanctions into bankruptcy, their citizens are getting angrier.
I don’t know much about economics but what would you call inflation in food, gas, insurance & medicine and deflation in the housing market?
WEF vs. BRICS+.
The future.
WEF vs. BRICS+, SCO, EAEU, BRI 2.0 and the INSTC.
@John AZ
INSANITY + INSOLVENCY = NYT telling us it’s time for the 12th booster and Trump (now dead) is responsible for it all.
oops. .. and ASEAN too.
Can you blame the Saudi?
The US foreign minister thinks a foreign man in a dress is a woman and pecks him.
Blimey!
Have you seen the picture or video of this grotesque little dummy hoisting up the rainbow flag with her subordinates looking on? A daily ritual.
Janet Yellen, a woman, is a traitor who should be swinging on a lamp post. These people are possessed by demons. The dregs of society. Obsessed with getting gain. Never satisfied. Always wanting more. I hope there is a nice, ripe spot in hell for these creatures. Lately, though, I am having my doubts that there is even a God overseeing this clusterfuck of a world.
And none there be to stop them.
What part of Build Back Better did people not understand?
The people did not understand the following:
There are not enough trees on the planet to chop down and process into paper, to print enough currency to ‘paper-over’ the debacle now besetting us.
So, perhaps this may have been the actual ‘Green New Deal’?
… and this does not even include the notional value of the multiple-quadrillions of derivitives ‘overhang’.
It’s more ammunition for Central Bank Digital Currency. It’s green ya’ know!
There are not enough trees on the planet to chop down and process into paper, to print enough currency to ‘paper-over’ the debacle now besetting us. – ViceGrip
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Sure there are. Just add many more zeros to each bill.
There would then not be enough wheelbarrows on the…
Interesting.. “There are not enough trees on the planet…”
There came a time when there were not enough trees to literally feed the furnaces of empire. The Bronze Age is an example, the expansion of the Roman Empire is another.
and further on ” notional value”
The reality check is hitting, and it will hit quite hard.
They don’t call it ‘Shadow Banking’ for nuffin’.
Actual money is not made from trees, it is made from cotton and linen.
Most “money” nowadays is not money, it is entries on a computer.
Point taken Paula. Thanks!
As for *my* point?
Flew right over your head, kinda like an AI program. Literal translation mode only.
No, I understand that there is no way to pay off the debts the finance capitalists gamblers have run up.
Hence, the Jubilee, now called the Great Reset. You get your $10,000 credit card debt wiped clean, and they get their quadrillion dollar credit default swaps wiped clean, and they call it even.
Except that, just like in the old days, they still have the wealth and you still are poor, even after the Jubilee.
Funny how that works.
More like Build Back Nothing.
Not in our lifetimes, anyway.
Well, they are building rabbit hutches for us, and 15 minute cities, and planning to control our every move. They are building that.
MQ-
They will try.
They don’t have the infinite energy or human capital to make their omnipresent control grid work.
Ha!
Leave your designated area and a fine will swoop into your bank account and poof! $500 gone.
Let us know how that works out for you when you try to “fight it.”
Their schemes need to stop BEFORE they are implemented.
AND your car will stop and you’ll have to pay a fine to restart it.
They can only get so far. We see now how ineffective tech can be. It couldn’t be more imperfect.
and 15 minute cities – MQ
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I’ve seen this term in the comments section before but don’t know what it means. What is a 15 minute city?
Your carbon footprint shall be produced only from within the area comprising a 15 minute walk from where you sleep at night.
Of course…
Nothing has thus far been stated with regard to the the lawfulness or lack thereof, of any and/or all residents of said area implementing a geostationary satellite over said confined area, after which creating:
“A sovereign nation – to be bounded by the upper Troposphere, from which to immediately rescind or otherwise to preclude forthwith, any and all allegiances to the United Nations, and all of it’s ancillary entitiies — whether they be governmental or non-governmental, which currently are connected thereto, including — but not limited only thereto, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Economic Forum (WEF), said preclusions also to comprise all Treaties executed or in any other way ratified by said entities — in part or in entirety, notwithstanding whether having been ratified in part or in full, by other world sovereign governments.
The foregoing comprises the entirety of this Declaration of Independance upon this date, unless otherwise modified and/ or amended by all parties with valid lawful claims thereupon or the original executing entities thereof.”
It’s like Rowdypiglet described her town, everything you need is within walking distance.
Or, way before that, “fundamental transformation”? Answer: most Americans, who don’t read or think.
Yup. Build Biden Better.
Yellen didn’t have time to get her story straight because she was off gallivanting to Ukraine.
Well, the USA has accepted responsibility to pay Social Security & civil service salaries for the nation of Ukraine; Yellin needs to be in Kiev in order to ensure Zelensky our promise is still good.
With what?
Is Ukraine the 51st state?
Biden insanity.
BTW, why are they worried about pensions when the country is about to be rolled over by Russia?
Things do not add up here.
Don’t Blackrock and a myriad of firms already have billions invested in ‘Kraine?
Aren’t they also salivating over managing the trillions in reconstruction fees?
JohnAZ, I just assume that everything they say is a lie, including the bit about ensuring pensions in Ukraine. Vast sums of money are leaving the country. Who knows where it’s going? Possibly none of it is going to Ukraine at this point, because there seems little doubt that Russia will prevail.
For all we know, it could be enriching all those NGOs and foundations that finance such things as gender clinics, or provide bail for the release of violent offenders, or see to the election of District Attorneys who refuse to prosecute. It could be redistributed to the likes of Jeffrey Epstein and other agents of chaos, including all those members of Antifa, who always have money to travel and for whom piles of bricks magically appear on street corners.
We must all have wondered who and what is financing the ruination of our world, an enterprise for which there appears to be a bottomless supply of cash. Who is providing it? We are!
Good point RP. $155 billion purportedly to Ukraine (so far) but strangely enough front line Ukrainian troops claim they are out of small arms ammo and artillery shells.
… and let’s not forget New Joisey Governor Phil Murphy too.
… who also made the rounds in Ukraine.
Is it legal for a woman of her age to be gallivanting at all?
… only if said ‘gallivanting’ is confined to the Northern Hemisphere.
Actually paper money was originally ‘invented’ in the Yuan Chinese dynasty under Kublai Khan 800 years ago..
Marco Polo was amazed merchants would give Kublai Khan’s treasury gold or silver and took paper money back
“In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree…”
Paper money is legit as much as gold or any other form of wealth,
As long as the tie in between the commodity and the human labor required to get it stays in place.
Gold is rare, so getting it requires much human labor and ingenuity, so it is worth much.
And so it goes, if salaries make so much per hour, then the money that labor makes will maintain it’s worth.
Now plug into this model
AI, fiat money, easy credit, government shenanigans, welfare
No wonder that our money has devalued so much and the faith of the folks is flagging.
Looks like Gold will be on the center stage very shortly.
One thing to keep in mind, American Gold Eagle transactions are exempt from 1099 reporting requirements.
They are the stealth back door into and out of the US banking system.
“American Gold Eagle transactions are exempt from 1099 reporting…”
Y,
You are going to have to back that statement up with a citation….
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Call your accountant. S/He will confirm. So will any PM broker. Call Monex.
Saj,
I don’t have an accountant, and I have been doing my own taxes, corporate and personal, for the last 25 years…I want to see IRS documentation of his claim.
I am doubtful.
…And with all respect…fuck Monex….
Here;’s a big hint:
Search “Gold Eagle 1099”.
Be a big boy OK?
Be a big boy….Yirgach,
Do I get a 1099 when I sell gold?
In the context of precious metal transactions, dealers are required to fill out a 1099-B form.
Your reference, please?
Yirgach,
And furthermore, if you hope to generate any sense of credibility on this site, you should respond.
Well I posted a link on this thread on 3/13, it’s still “awaiting moderation”. Which is why I gave you the search string. It should return a link to JMBULLION.
Please note that this is a VERY obscure IRS regulation and only affects certain coins.
You still need to report any capitol gains,it also affects the 8033B reporting.
Can’t tell you anymore as the moderator must be snowed in…
Gold is a collectible and subject to the regular capital gains tax.
Glad you told me this Thanks!
How about the required 1099 B ?
JohnAZ
“paper money is legit as much as gold or any other form of wealth”
So self-evident that centuries of delusion have blinded homo non-sapiens to its truth.
“Power grows out of a gun” “Mao Zedong” Also self-evident. Strip the American Empire of all 800+++, Foreign Legion outposts, all the money used to buy influence, all the aircraft carriers patrolling the shores of potential enemies, and all the nuclear weapons of mass destruction riding on the nose cones of missiles and how many “US Dollars” will be needed to buy a barrel of oil?
Why do you think the American Empire is so desperate to force the world to exclusively trade in US Dollars that it can create at will with a digital keystroke?
Let’s join the travelers on Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road”. There is one bullet left for the Glock. They meet a traveling merchant who offers to trade a gold bar stamped US Mint for the one remaining 9mm shell. Deal? What use is gold except for jewelry, when you can already get the favors jewelry will buy if you have a gun?
the nuclear weapons of mass destruction riding on the nose cones of missiles – ThorsH
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I would say under or within.
ThorH may be correct, if said nuclear weapons are in a state of actual deployement on the nose cone of a Russian Sarmat ll missile.
Marco Polo- there’s a name you don’t hear like you used to.
Which do you think is worse- being remembered as an awful children’s pool game, or being not remembered at all?
The ignominy.
Look up Joseph Gentile resume –
SVB, Lehman, and Anderson Accounting (ENRON) Guy just has a knack for being in the right place… OR??
Thank you! I was just going to comment on that. How does the CFO of LEHMAN BROTHERS get hired again as a CFO???
These people are out of their minds.
As George Carlin would say — “It’s a big club and you ain’t in it!”
@mrs_saj, I believe these people are hired because they’ve already proven they can do what they signed on for. It’s hard for normal people to bear in mind that Build Back Better implies the leveling of all existing structures, no matter the cost. Bringing about the failure of any entity or institution on which people rely is a prerequisite.
It’s like when they dragged Poindexter and Steele out of retirement to set up the death squads in Iraq.
They had already proved themselves in central America.
Rowdy,
You’re right and I really need to adjust my thinking.
sanspeur,
I also want to comment on some other things I read over the weekend. Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) left their Chief Risk Officer position vacant for 8 months in 2022. Eight months!! It’s unconscionable. They hired Kim Olson in January of 2023. She is supposed to be a queer, woman of color and has been promoting various LBGQwerty causes since she came on board. She clearly was not getting acclimated with her new job. Silicon Valley Bank is an uber woke institution so preoccupied with their virtue signalling that they forgot about their duties as a bank.
What did this company do for all of last year while Powell signaled he was going to continue to raise rates, interest rates continued to go up, and the value of treasuries continued to go down? Well the bank continued to sit on a massive and growing pile of treasury related losses and just hoped it would all go away. Are these people four years old?
90% or more of SVB’s deposits were uninsured. Why? Well, because some people think its perfectly acceptable to plunk $5M or $10M or $200M into a bank account that is only insured for $250,000 and everything will just be ok. Until it isn’t and then they are screeching like hysterical banshees about their self-importance to the American economy. If they were so important to future of our country, I think they would manage their company money a little bit more carefully. I don’t know how Bill Ackman looks at his own reflection in the mirror.
One more point about all these tech company founders. They were encouraged to put all of their companies’ cash into one bank. How? By being offered great terms on the mortgages for their personal residences. And being offered discounted wealth management services for their families. I wonder if their employees and investors knew this?
The SVB shareholders and bondholders are shit out of luck, as they should be. Everyone at the SVB loses their job. Well, yeah, that’s what happens when you mismanage or completely ignore risk at a bank. I obviously do not think depositors should be made whole. It’s moral hazard and it tells others that they can continue along with not paying attention and Uncle Sam will save you. It’s one more example of our government deciding that pain is something to be avoided at all costs, consequences be damned. Take the easy way out today without thought for the fact the problem just becomes bigger as it is allowed to fester.
I have so little faith in participating in a system (US banking, finance, and currency) that has so little respect for my business.
“Silicon Valley Bank is an uber woke institution so preoccupied with their virtue signalling that they forgot about their duties as a bank.”
mrs_saj, I find it hard to look through the narrow lens with which the woke view everything. But I think there are two levels here. There are the foot soldiers, dimwits like Kim Olson who genuinely believe, and act on the belief, that the real purpose of any entity, be it a bank, a corporation, or a cafeteria, is to be woke and to spew out woke propaganda. Whatever the original purpose was, it’s not relevant anymore. Since woke has no value, and no one will pay for it, they’re unwittingly doing their part to destroy the entity from within. They really are that stupid.
Then there are those who employ the Kim Olsons. Their intention is to destroy the entity in question so that they can build something that in no way resembles what came before. To do that, they first make the corporation/bank/sewing circle/church unrecognizable and not fit for purpose. Once that’s been accomplished, the demise occurs without any more effort on their part. Everyone will at some point forget that the cafeteria actually once served food, or that the classroom now plastered with BLM posters and LGBTQ propaganda was once a place where children learned to read, write, and do math.
Woke found no resistance. True or somewhat true?
Rowdy,
That really makes a lot of sense. The bank ceased to be a bank long before it failed. Just like tobacco execs call cigarettes a nicotine delivery system, the bank is merely a platform for propaganda and annihilation.
I need to let that sink in.
Biden just nationalized the banking system.
How? By being offered great terms on the mortgages for their personal residences. And being offered discounted wealth management services for their families. I wonder if their employees and investors knew this? – mrs_saj
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Is this your guess or is this a fact?
It’s what I’ve read.
This also fits with my own experience with banks and financial institutions. I am forever getting phone calls from customer relationship managers wanting to build our relationship. Really what they are doing is trying to nose around other areas of my life to bring more business into their bank.
There are three kinds of people in this world, those with spiritual beliefs in what is good, those who bow down to the spirits of evil for gain in this plane of existence, and those who hold no beliefs at all.
Those without beliefs are a sad lot, for what purpose can any human being have if it believes in nothing or that we pitiful humans and our sorry little lives are all that special? If they are wrong and lucky as well, when it is over it will simply be over, and their pain will cease.
The worshippers of evil, well they may think they are living the high life, but I would bet they even they know that they are screwed, maybe not here in the now, but if they are wrong, and I know they are they shall be royally screwed sooner or later. If they are right, they may believe that they will be rewarded, but their master does not reward, he only punishes. Sucks to be them.
Those who hold beliefs in the human spirit and who reject evil can, if they are blessed, overcome the fear of their earthly demise and if they are correct, they may advance to another, higher plane of existence in the Spirit. To me, it’s a win/win because if they are wrong, the pain is still over and eternal rest sounds like a pretty good alternative.
You have described the expression among people of the great dilemma, the spiritual conundrum.
The balance between Freud’s ego and super ego. What do we follow in our own minds, what we want or what God says is right. Every person fights this battle, who runs me, me or God.
The extremes of this battle creates Sister Theresas and Hitlers.
I think Mike Pence sees himself as a do-gooder. He isn’t.
He believes that he’s on a mission from God. He says God told him when he was 17 that he would be president one day.
It’s twoo….Ask him.
God probably didn’t specify president of what.
I’ll have to check and see if he was student council president in the seventh grade.
17 is usually the age of kids in the 12th grade. Not the 7th, sunshine.
And he firmly believes that God wants him to be POTUS.
He said it in an interview years ago.
He says God told him when he was 17 that he would be president one day. – Mick
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Yeah right, God told him.
About one month after my 18th birthday I was participating in a mandatory Novena at St Joseph’s College (Philly) during Christmas break when it hit me (an epiphany!) that it’s all bullshit. Just to cite one obvious example, Mary was NOT a virgin.
Eventually I became embarrassed at the thought of the BS I once believed.
I read a story that is damning of the Deep State.
Long story short.
The initial certification process that the Congress does was totally open to being contested by the forces advising fraud, ie they could have slowed the process way down.
The way Pelosi et al could stop this was to declare an emergency session to do the certification where such contrary info was not allowed to be presented.
So Pence, Pelosi, Schumer and Mc Connell figured out away to shut down the original session and create the emergency session they needed to dump Trump.
A look outside and a little incendiary work by FBI agents to incite an already angry crowd and voila, an emergency. Tuckers exposure of the liars on the sub committee hopefully opens the Pandora’s box that will show what really happened.
The author concluded by saying the whole setup was a very successful coup against the number one enemy of the Deep State, Trump. Two other instances come to mind here. Nixon’s “impeachment” resignation and the elimination of JFK,
And we still do not know if the Big Lievwas a lie. Absolutely no investigatory work has been done to validate the reliability of the electoral process.
Another way to say it, to guarantee that each legitimate citizen voter votes once.
I had friends watching C-Span at the time. For the first time, the evidence of election fraud was being presented to the entire country (on C-Span, but still…) by a Congress member.
Then, on cue, the “riot” happened and Pelosi and McConnell shut down the proceedings. Trump was still giving his speech at the time, and most people were over there.
Coincidence? I think not.
Wow Johnaz, you are still spouting info from Liar Tucker and fox news, after everything that has come out LOL!!
Fox “News” to their viewers:”We think you’re trashy, cousin-fucking idiots and we have no problem lying to you as long as you keep watching”
Fox “News” Viewers:
“That’s fine, now tell us more about them gas stoves, woke banks and trans M&M’s!!”
What?
I’ll not have whatever you’re having.
(Err, great post, btw…?)
HAHAHAH You’re an absolute idiot.
If you listen to Mel K’s interview with James, she says her entire building lost their gas stoves. No one has replaced them with anything, though. They just took them away.
Because, childhood asthma.
I think there’s a fourth kind of people: those who commit terrible acts of evil, yet in all seriousness believe they are doing good. Religious and ideological fanatics of all kinds would belong in this category.
Every Spanish Inquisitor went to bed with a clear conscience no matter the days unpleasantries.
You mean empty conscience, Ace.
At the end of the day — soon, there will only be 2 kinds of people:
1.) People with no money.
2.) People with money that’s worth nothing.
Someone…
I’ve lived among Muslims for 34 years, albeit pliant ones (in Indonesia). Much of Javanese Islam is *abangan*, which is to say infused with a residue of Hinduism. The hard-shell fundies are booming, however, mostly among the young.
I keep my mouth shut and stay away from any religious engagement, verbal or otherwise. I will say, however, that what unnerves and alarms me about the Three Big Desert Death Cults is the aspect of *certainty* that pervades them.
Actually Christians, being a minority in this country, tend to be more rabid and intolerant than most Muslims. They are the ones for whom There Is No Room For Doubt.
As Vlad is prone to point out, you can’t really trust what comes out of a Muslim’s mouth, because *taqqiya* is part of the game. I’ve been following what goes on in Dearborn, where a real “bloc” is forming.
Consider a row of shops in the suburbs. One or two are purchased by Muslims. They do great business as the faithful feel more comfortable shopping there. Then a couple of more are snapped up. The remaining two or three shops start to feel the pressure of unbelonging… parking issues… dirty looks from passersby…usual patrons expressing unease at shopping along this strip of stores…
Somebody offers to buy them out – at a healthy discount, naturally – and the pressure to git while the gittin’ is good goes on.
This is the inspiration for “no-go zones”.
Many will believe that the Antichrist is the Christ or the Messiah of Judaism.
So add a forth category: the Mistaken.
Almost sounds like a variation on “Pascal’s Wager.” One of my favorites!
“Oh, and then there’s Ukraine”
And China mediating Saudis and Iranians
And Mexico’s president repudiating Biden and telling the US to butt out
And Holland destroying its farmers
And Biden on TV this AM saying
“What me worry”
The people who make things better, supposedly, do not give a damn. Yellen seems to not understand basic economics and Powell will not have a choice but to continue inflation control. Both are in a box and cannot get out.
The problem is
The Democratic credo does not understand much of anything about basic economics, even its definition, the science of scarcity. Not this group, give the gimmes everything to keep their votes.
The biggest enemy of a “democracy” is its own people when they discover they own the keys to the bank.
As Naomi Wolf explained, the absolute total global lockstep actions underway at this time cannot be the work of man alone, for we are weak and smallminded. Clearly there are forces of darkness and great power behind what is unfolding and the fact that there is no real forceful resistance.
The Full Armor of God
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Ephesians 6:10-12
Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. – VG
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Ohh, pulleeez!
But, but Q !
I had no spelling, punctuation or grammar errors.
Per your “Ohh, pulleeez!”
Faith is the belief in things unseen.
You either got it or you don’t.
Nothing to comment upon.
Slow day?
I will keep you in my prayers.
“the absolute total global lockstep actions underway at this time cannot be the work of man alone, for we are weak and smallminded.”
Don’t be ridiculous.
Very sorry that Wolf has gone off in this direction.
Remember that the Dems use the divisions in the GOP to retain power. The DC GOP fears the power of the Left.
There is no unified effort to unseat the liberals, just a group of individuals that the Dems shoot down one by one.
This blog is a good example, good conservative folk who do not support the number one flag carrier because he may have porked someone in the eighties or succeeded in beating the power in NYC.
Until the GOP unites, it is open territory for the Left.
If the entire GOP had backed Trump in 2020, we would not be reading stories of the collapse right now.
GOP is its own worst enemy.
I am quite delighted that she has *finally* ascertained that we have *already* been enslaved within an enantiodromic panopticon.
A much larger magnitude of evil than anyone (including even islander’s) could have imagined.
“much larger magnitude of evil than anyone (including even islander’s) could have imagined.
VG,
Yeah, if he never cracked a History book….
A f what? LOL.
I concur.
There is much we don’t know in the sphere of complete psychopathy in which these evil people operate.
There are also reasons that religions and gods and wars between them have been written about since man could write.
Psychopathy, yes.
Paranormal, no.
One group controls media and banking. With the power of IT added, they have forged a mighty lever with which to move the world.
And oh yeah, the group is implacably hostile to our civilization. Why did we allow it? Ignorance and unspeakable greed on the part of those in the know.
You mean the French, rightk Jarek? Do enlighten us!
Do you realize how stupid you sound?
WalterB, I was astonished at Naomi Wolf’s about face. I think we’ll see more of this. There are people who are capable of sensing the climate of the immaterial world, and others who seem to have lead in their feet and are immured in the material. I think Naomi Wolf is one of those who has allowed herself to know and speak what she feels. Only the most determined materialists can continue to ignore the sense of a gathering darkness.
As a Tribal, she’s closer than most of us to it. She may have once believed her people were leading us to something better – just as at one point she thought Feminism was going to lead to freedom for both men and women.
She knows none of this is true now. And that Feminism was just one more of their weapons against humanity.
A wolfy vibe, perhaps.
“Only the most determined materialists can continue to ignore the sense of a gathering darkness.”
Hmmmm
These who are able to sense the supernatural sources of the “gathering darkness” (unike the hapless “materialists”) are the same people who explain Nazism as caused by people practicing black magic?
Back we go to superstition and sorcery to explain hail storms, plague, etc.
I guess “materialists” is a new label for conspiracy theorist.
We sure have made progress in our efforts to understand the forces currently shaping human history!! (:-))
Islander, you’ve read all kinds of things into what I said that are not at all what I said. Hail storms, plague?
There is a spiritual aspect to what is happening. You are, of course, free to believe that we are animated meat, and I’m free to disagree. There are of course material forces at work, but there are others as well.
I knew it:
httpX://www.commonlit.org/en/texts/they-re-made-out-of-meat
“You are, of course, free to believe that we are animated meat,”
Wow, talk about putting words into another’s mouth, or thoughts into another’s head, you are up there with Jarek here!
Not believing in anything beyond the physical is the same as saying you think we are animated meat. 1+3=2+2. The same thing can be said in different ways. Amazing, huh?
Why do you put materialist in quotes? You don’t believe such people exist? Or you’re just trying to look like smart animated meat?
Well, we have entire populations who believe in spontaneous generation again, so why not?
I normally loathe the CCP, but here it seems they’ve amounted to some good by facilitating diplomatic relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia. Certainly the world can do with a little more peace.
I’ve a feeling Israel isn’t going to like this, though.
It’s in the CCP best interest that Iran and Saudi Arabia have diplomatic relations and ties to the CCP. China doesn’t have many natural energy sources so cementing ties with two nations that do is just common sense and good business.
SW
Though China has no energy sources, they DO have something that *everybody* else needs — Bigtime:
Rare Earth Elements
They also don’t stick their noses in peoples laundry and claim to be the planet’s Laundryman.
Iran and Saudi Arabia both applied to join BRICS.
I think they were told that they had to patch things up if they both wanted to be members.
But remember that Soleimani was going to Iraq to facilitate a peace deal when the US blew him up 3 years ago.
They were already looking to make a peace pact.
I wonder if Anthony Blinken will see this as a “tremendous opportunity” to find one of their pipelines and blow it up. The neocons who have rigged our foreign policy has pushed long standing enemies into each others’ arms . The new Prince Whatshisname in Saudi Arabia looks like a very determined, ruthless leader and I don’t think he cares if the US is happy or not.
Ha! Apparently Saudi Arabia is making noises about stopping the attack on Yemen, and their US overlords are not happy about that.
Update: The US is no longer the overlord of Saudi Arabia.
And they are not happy about that.
Politics, especially at the geopolitical level, hates a vacuum as much as nature does. Xi is merely filling the gigantic gap left by the moronic Biden admin.
If Israel doesn’t like it, it must be good.
Greenspan was a disaster, as well. He didn’t see the 2008 crash coming, but I did?
Hmmm.
Parties don’t matter, JAZ. I don’t know why that fact continues to elude you.
Neocons don’t discriminate when it comes to party affiliation. Neither does the deep state.
Parties do matter, Mary. Parties would matter if they really existed in DC, instead of Dems and RINOs forming the Uniparty.
Think instead of Florida where parties absolutely make a difference. De Santis’ GOP against the perverts in Disney World.
Your naivete is….just…..incredible.
If and when DeSantis becomes president you’ll see. No, on second thought, you probably won’t.
He’ll keep you fed with boob bait for the bubbas. You’re an AZ bubba.
What’s one of his “boob baits”? Fighting the perverts in Disney. Lol…
Meanwhile, he’s a neocon from hell. He’s been tapped.
Go back to sleep bubba.
John is too good to understand the level of evil we are up against. Only Fascists and National Socialists can understand these people and fight them.
@ Jarek:
Bullshit!
John is quite reasonably concerned with actions rather than labels like “neocon from hell.” While DeSantis may prove himself to be other than he appears, he’s undeniably done some real good in Florida. Until and unless we can attract better people into the political sphere, we have to work with what we have or pout in our rooms.
It’s counter productive to claim there is absolutely no difference between one and another denizan of the swamp. As I’ve said before, the little lives of ordinary people often turn on some small matter. These small matters constitute the difference between a Ron DeSantis and a Mitch McConnell.
Mick is spot-on.
I think DeSantis is probably malleable. He will be tutored. He will be like Cheney or McConnell on the “big issues” with a veneer of populism–or he will NOT BE GOING ANYWHERE.
He is not Trump (and Trump is not the answer either–a tired old man barking the same stuff he said before, who was unwilling or unable to rein in the deep state. He ratcheted up tensions in Ukraine, higher than Obama, giving “lethal aid” to Ukraine; he had the Iranian general executed; and he wanted Norstream to never open. To his credit, he avoided a full-scale war with Iran. To his shame, he gave Israel even more aid and encouraged them to continue their persecution of the Palestinians). Trump was wealthy, self-made, and didn’t NEED the blessing of the establishment.
He had his chance. If he did his best, it wasn’t enough. Though it was much better than what followed, for sure.
If DeSantis is NOT malleable, he will have to carry on as if he “understands” the “need for a strong defense to contain Russia and especially China”, so he can get the backing he needs to get elected, which will turn people like me off.
THEN, once President, he will have to change, at which point the deep state will make him to be a fool and destroy him.
“Attracting better people to politics” is not going to happen, because the game is rigged. Sorry.
It can only happen if a large number of Americans, demands, and insists on, in unison, things like balance budgets, like a small military, like sound money, like decluttering the legal system. Most Americans are too ignorant or self-absorbed to take an active interest.
In addition, powerful lobbies, starting with the military-industrial complex, the financial industry, big pharma, big tech, know how to buy off politicians and how to adeptly lie about and distort the issues, to prevent Americans from waking up.
Talking to younger people (under 35-40) is not exactly confidence inspiring either.
I sound pretty defeatist, I know.
You agree with me that they don’t exist, and then argue again for 1 over the other.
Head-smacking.
JohnAZ,
And the debt ceiling crisis with the extraordinary measures that will get us from here to only mid-June….
Yes! Taking bets on whether the banks go before the debt situation blows up in June.
I had to add it to your list because neurodoc has been beating the drum on this for a while and now it is particularly germane.
At this juncture, and, based upon what is now ocurring — and the increasing frequency with which events are ocurring, my greatest concern is for us (CFN’rs) to make it to Friday.
Have we already forgotten the ‘balloons’ diversion?
None of *that* made sense!
We may have been better off looking the ‘other’ way.
Perhaps the ‘banks’.
Now the ‘Banks’.
Even *bigger* diversion.
None of *this* makes sense!
Place your attention elsewhere.
Stop making ‘sense’.
To add a few apocalyptic notes: 1-Saudi-Iran-China have sealed a deal for mutual (NON USD) trade (and defense usually goes with that), 2-they have agreed to get rid of any USDs they had saved, 3-Credit Suisse, bank of banks, has halted most of their interbank business and its stock has crashed: their accounts are to be shut down by 3/24 per the DTCC, 4- the top five US banks each has between 22 and 55 TRILLION USDs in derivatives (the total for the top five is 186 TRILLION $) and aren’t going to be unwound easily, and 5-all the banks that are in trouble (for now, SVB, Republic, and recently Signature) interact with all manner of businesses for credit lines, which will now be gone, along with depositors money over 250K (re the latter: these accounts will get a portion of their money over the next 10 years). Get ready for Weimar II in the US. And, think about getting a wheel barrel to take money to the grocery store, if any exists in six months.
Your comment about derivatives reminds me of the fakery of CDOs in 2008 and their role in The Big Short. Remember. Michael Bure and the exact nature of his betting against the junk loans in the CDOs. Right now, he is putting out big warnings about the state of the financial sector.
Bill Holter is on USAWatch now saying that if the FED doesn’t raise interest rates, the USD$ will collapse rapidly; if they do raise raise, multiple banks and companies will bankrupt in a cascading default. He gives very cogent analyses for both alternatives, and shows that the FED must do one or the other. No win situation for the US Corporation.
@ neurodoc:
Yup. They can either destroy the dollar, or destroy the financial industry and the economy.
I suppose our best bet is to try to develop an economy that’s independent of all that. It would be pretty austere. It might involve having beet greens and goat cheese for dinner, or maybe fried turnips. But it might get to where that sounds really good.
There is a story about Ancient Rome where one of the leaders of Old Rome was offered the chance to take on great power, but he refused, saying he’d rather lead a free people.
The reason I mention this is because, at the time this proposal of assuming great power was offered to him, he was roasting turnips in an earthenware pan, over an open fire.
Has anyone else read this story? I’ve never been able to find it again. It used to be in the Children’s Book of Knowledge, back in the 1950s.
Can’t help you with a book title ,
but it sounds just like Cincinnatus .
Roughly a Roman version of the Spartan founding father Lycurgus.
A conservative , even reactionary , type .
A staunch representative of the Patrician Order.
As I said the other day one of the primary pillars of conservatism used to be Fiscal conservatism .
Cinncinnatus , along with the Spartan Lycurgus , was the original model for that ideal.
He did not live in a palace , he lived in a modest house only incrementally better than what a slave would live in.
He was a slave – owner , but worked shoulder – to – shoulder with his slaves out in the field.
He might have been the type who would say , ” I ask no one to do what I would not, and have not , done myself. ”
And maybe said it with some sincerity.
He was no populist , perhaps not particularly warm and fuzzy.
He seems to have been the type who believed that natural law dictated that women should shut up and stay in the kitchen ,
and that the lower orders ( including the lower orders of his own people . Sorry Jarek . ) should naturally defer to the higher orders.
However he also thought that the letter of the law applied just as much to a king as to a slave , indeed , much more so.
He was the type who might have said , ” The ends justify the means ” is the Devil’s argument. ”
I don’t know if he was roasting turnips at the time , but he was offered dictatorship or kingship in a Roman crisis and refused it.
How many people would do such a thing ?
Actually several in early Roman history.
Perhaps for that reason Cinncinnatus has faded into the background ,
Also perhaps because types like Julius Caesar are a lot more popular now.
Sounds like Augustus. Or Cincinnatus.
@ KesaAnna:
Thanks! That does sound like Cincinnatus.
Wait, what? You think I think all Whites are on the same level? You haven’t been paying much attention.
High and low exist in all peoples, just not in equal proportions. Did I ever say all Whites are better than all Blacks or anyone else? But yes, Whites should come first in White cultures. Evil, right?
Go to Thailand and see if Thais aren’t put before Whites. Go to a good Chinese restaurant and see if Chinese people aren’t seated first.
Ant: The first teacher of Fascism too.
In front of the people, he gathered small sticks or “fasces”. He picked up one and snapped it. Then he gathered up a bunch and tied them together. He tried to snap them but could not.
Such is the strength of a society that is unified. A modern equivalent would be the laser or unified light. The first illustrates defense and the latter, offense or the power of research and industry available when men work together.
@ neurodoc:
I’m inclined to think you’re right. If I were really sure you’re right, I buy a whole lot of gold and silver.
Unless you can produce things of value that you can barter with, gold and silver are always a good idea.
We won’t have a signal on cable news, or even here on CFN, next Friday, JHK won’t say, “yep, this is it, on Wednesday we are done”.
Brevity is not my strong suit, but I think Neurodoc 12:46 summarizes it well.
@ Socrates-Detroit:
Well, you need to be able to produce thing of value that your can barter with, even if you have gold and silver. If you can’t, you’ll run out of gold and silver pretty quickly.
I often wonder if there aren’t a lot more people around who have at least a small stash of gold and silver than you would think. If so, it might be possible for some parts of the country to actually use it as currency, though probably in a very limited way, if the dollar collapsed. People would be very reluctant to spend their gold and silver, and they’d try like hell to get the Pakistani guy at the gas station to trade them gas for tomatoes. (He’d probably be more than happy to take a silver coin.)
a wheel barrel – neurodoc
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I would say LMAO but it actually isn’t funny to me.
In the immortal words of the brilliant George W Bush, “This sucker could go down.”
Such an entertaining little shit, he was.
He was good at strategery.
Is he involved with Big Mike? Is he gay? Or does word not even apply at his level of “Masonry”?
Please don’t misunderestimate him!
And shoe-dodging.
I woke up this morning at my customary time, and it was dark out.
How can that be? Did we not just start saving daylight?
This is basically the same problem we have with many if not most of the major issues today.
Our government believing that it is their place to do these things, and the people believing that they even can, or that they did.
Holland destroying its farmers? It’s because reasons, and some people believe those reasons are valid, and that they are doable.
The same with covid. It’s the government’s place to tell you not to go to work because of a virus, because you can stop a virus that way.
Fewer and fewer people are believing the lies though, so they hit us wih a new distraction right on schedule.
Alas, all that daylight we’re saving will go up in smoke too when the banks go under.
Mushrooms, anyone? They thrive in darkness and shit.
I’ve recently entertained sci-fi fantasies in which a group of people seek refuge underground as the great collapse arrives, and they find entire colonies of edible fungi, enabling them to settle down in subterranean communities ever since.
Never say never.
That was 15 Days To Slow The Spread.
Morlocks?
Stop using electric lights. Go to bed when you are sleepy and get up when you wake up and feel like getting up. Soon it will be dark all the time and you will be able to see the stars as you freeze to death.
What are your plans, post-mortem? If you don’t know where you want to go, you may end up someplace you don’t want to be.
“I woke up this morning at my customary time, and it was dark out.
How can that be? Did we not just start saving daylight?”
Oops Beryl,
You must have missed the notice:
‘The start of Daylight Savings Time has been precluded until such time as our nationwide banking situation has been rectified.
Thereafter, ‘Daylight Savings Time’ will commence, but only after such time as our ‘Solar Science Working Group’ are able to figure out how to rewind the Sun.
We now return you to our regularly scheduled broadcast.”
Luckily, Cap’n “Joe Biden” is at the helm of this steaming garbage barge. His conference room full of geniuses is ready with the solution to our predicament: the long-mythologized Central Bank Digital Currency — a dream-come-true for would be tyrants… the Godzilla of unicorns whinnying atop the biggest rainbow of all: the promise of endless magic money for everybody, forever…
The Crimson Permanent Assurance, anyone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNlYBNTCBG8
Digital currency is even more phantom than the dollar now. Crypto will be the first to go down, broad scale. When it goes down, the return to money representing human labor is coming back.
BTW, that is called deflation.
Digital currency is even more PLAUSIBLE now.
The “thinkers” will see it as a tool to “manage” the crisis and “ensure everyone can get the essentials at this difficult time”.
Crypto is hard to understand and virtual. Digital is virtual too, but we already are used to cards. A lot of people will buy into it.
As for human labor, the majority of labor in the USA is expended on relatively stupid, worthless tasks. Middle management….
That would include a good portion of my working life. Analyzing, creating reports. Making presentation. Being watched by higher managers, and watching lower managers or subordinates.
Chances are, the subordinates know what to do. Even if they “skimmed”, it would cost less without having five people on top of him or her. If they were really bad, the organization would know and they would be gone.
In our current world, many people who perform labor doing USEFUL things or creating useful products, goods and services that actually serve a purpose, tend to be underpaid since this is considered low-skilled labor.
But analyzing, processing insurance claims, reshuffling papers or data, these are all at best incidental processes, at worse HUGE PARASITIC losses–well, these people make more money than many.
The fairest wages are by skilled technicians and trades. You want electricity or A/C or your car to run? It’s gonna cost you.
I like Eugyppius’ writings.
Same!
Jim, I was fine with your interesting exposition right up until you got to the last line.
Ukraine?
What’s a Ukraine?
(Kinda sounds like science fiction.)
It’s kinda like a migraine, only a whole lot more persistent, painful, and expensive.
Back in the ol’ days, a couple of weeks ago, it was considered very, very important for the US to save Ukraine’s robust democracy.
But now we’ve moved on.
Ukraine’s robust economy?
In what universe?
AZ: they have a robust underground economy in the trading in children, white women, drugs, organ parts, and weapons. Nasty group of kazarians; BTW, Ukraine was formerly known as Kazaria.
The Russians destroyed that evil nation long ago. They fled to Eastern Europe. Now they are back. Now Russia must destroy them again.
In the Middle Ages, the Polish Lords used them as overseers and bully boys over the downtrodden Ukrainian peasants. Unfortunately for the Khazars, the peasants found a very powerful friend in the Cossacks.
No one made them get in the middle of a very nasty cultural war between Catholics and Orthdox powers. They did so of their own accord and paid dearly.
I was being sarcastic, John.
But I said democracy, not economy. Sarcasm.
Yeah, my mind thought democracy and fingers wrote economy. I agree with your assessment.
Universe of Slushalia.
My friends over in Greece for couple weeks.
Says there’s dozens of Russians and Ukrainians all 20 somethings just trying ‘ to sit things out’
All this crazy displacement and loss etc does make you wonder what on earth economic model will come along when the numbers with have to include demographic collapse.
A mash of every man for himself and every man by himself at this rate.
Makes sense.
Greece is fairly low-cost of living with mild winters by Russian/Ukrainian standards.
It was like that during the Iraq war. Lots of rich Iraqi kids letting us do the dying to get rid of Saddam. Think about those partying Ukrainians when they draft your kid to go fight in Ukraine.
@Gherry
“what on earth economic model will come along”
“Now, that’s funny right there. I don’t care who you are. That’s funny right there.”
~toktomi~
This would be a swell time for a real insurrection/rebellion-civil war.
I’m still going with “Alien Invasion” by May, and when that falls apart, a brand new variant shortly thereafter.
I don’t think their holographic technology is advanced enough to support an alien invasion.
Scary Movie 3 kind of predicted an alien invasion under a mentally impaired president, but honestly we’d be a lot better off with Leslie Nielsen in the White House.
That’s extra funny given Nielsen is dead. LOL.
Biden may also be dead with a mask wearing sit in. Recently, reportedly one of jill’s letters or diaries was found in which she wrote, ‘dear joe, I miss you so much….”
Anything is possible these days.
Anybody seen Sen. Fetterman around lately? Rumor is that he is brain dead, hooked up to an infernal machine that allows him to simulate being alive and still vote in the Senate on key issues.
@neurodoc
When life has lost its meaning and the illusion of purpose has faded, there are always myopia, video games, and pure vulgar fantasy for distraction.
Don’t forget to rearrange the deck chairs before she goes down.
~toktomi~
“I miss you, Joe” That doesn’t sound believable. I’m betting she’ll be fine when he kicks off.
Reminds you of one of Jim’s “World Made By Hand” books where the leader of a cult (the Berkshires) that was invading the town was actually dead, and they kept the body in a motel room and refused to let anyone in to see it.
Heck, the Inca had dead emperors as part of their political system at various points.
Agree. They needed to have done this decades ago before IT was made accessible to all – and when their credibility was still very high.
The Treasury Department, the FDIC, so essentially the Biden Admin announced that ALL of the depositor’s money at SVB will be guaranteed. That means everything over and above the 250K FDIC “guarantee”. This is a bailout, despite what that lying bitch Yellen says.
Why? Well, SVB is where many millionaire and billionaire tech company folks had deposits.
I’ll let the reader draw conclusions as to why and to whom this group is so “valuable.”
So fitting that the contagion begins in the home of contagions, Silicon Valley. I wonder what prompted all this? Did local real estate valuations collapse?
Asked and answered. Venture capitalists and lack of diversification.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90864027/why-svb-failed-silicon-valley-bank-collapse
Venture capital is high, high risk. 10% or so of companies pan out.
In a bank’s portfolio, venture capital should be small. My guess is that is not the charter of SVB and so it is first to go.
I believe the government is supposed to monitor banks for solvency, that worked as well as most of federal efforts.
@John
My guess is that venture capital with no expectation of repayment of the principle but rather only a return on interest is the last prosthesis or emulation of productive economic activity [see oil fracking]. When it is gone, there might be prologue but probably only The End.
But, don’t take my word for it for I know nothing.
~toktomi~
No, it’s the Fed’s typical bullshit in ruining everything with bad policy and intervention. This has to do with them raising interest rates.
SVB was home to lots of people who do start up loans and investments in the tech sector. This had nothing to do with housing.
But, I do believe housing will be a factor all over the country soon. Rampant inflation is about to give way to another deflationary deep depression.
Cheers!
Mick,
Correct. Liquidity dried up a bit in the tech sector. Companies had (uninsured) deposits sitting in bank accounts, getting very little interest. Rates went up (forcing the value of treasuries down). Depositors started pulling some money out because they could get a better return by buying short term treasuries. The bank (SVB) was sitting on long term treasuries that they were holding at a loss. They had to sell the treasuries at a loss to comply with depositors withdrawing money. Then the bank had to announce they needed to raise funds. Then you get a bank run.
The problem is the bank knew their treasury positions were going south MONTHS AGO. They could have started adjusting their balance sheets (taking incremental losses) back then.
@mrs
DECADES AGO
Even James, The Long Emergency, had that figured out nearly twenty years ago.
~toktomi~
~toktomi~
toktomi,
I’m referring to when interest rates started going up 12 months ago, thus affecting the market value of treasuries. The bank owned lots of treasuries. It should have been making adjustments to its balance sheet as market conditions changed.
I’m not sure what you’re referring to that happened decades ago that should have prompted the bank to adjust its holdings lately. Maybe I’m missing something.
Might be to distract from the Twitter files and the truth about the covid19 hoax being unraveled.
And Jan. 6, which is about to blow apart DC.
There were pictures of the Diversity and Inclusiveness employees skiing in Tahoe no doubt “team building” and sharing harrowing stories of victimization.
I wish they’d for once just do what they’re supposed to do — insure the first 250k. If the businesses want more then make the executives give back every penny of bonuses they’ve gotten in the last year, minimum.
MSM is doing a good job of ignoring the Twitter files and the lies about covid 19 but their reporting on snow storms is outstanding.
I agree, SW. Make whole the savers, let the gamblers take their losses.
And yeah, rich assholes in Tahoe complaining about their oppression is getting old.
Sorry, but that’s just silly. SVB has nothing to do with distraction of Twitter and Covid. This is a result of very bad financial decisions made by the central bank.
As in decades of bad decisions. The can that was kicked down the road in 2008? Well, welcome to the end of that road.
So you don’t believe they didn’t plan this and time it out?
OK then.
Even though that’s what they always have done.
@Mick
What is your definition of “bad”.
Ya thinkin’ any of this has not been planned and that all current events have not been implemented using the results of many, massive computer simulations?
Kids, this ain’t the 19th century and “Toto, I have feeling…”.
~toktomi~
@MQ That argues foresight, planning, discipline, long-term patience, independence to act with leisure in a world going thru radical change.
Are you sure someone is in full control?
They have spent the last 40 years and trillions of dollars trying to keep this sucker going, but sure, dude, they planned this.
Absolutely, Ammon.
The Great Reset has been plotted out for decades. We already have proof of that. If not 100 years.
Every inch of this is planned. They have to destroy everything in order to build back better.
They have to crash the banks and get rid of paper money to get us to CBDC & UBI.
2008 crash was also planned. How else could Greenspan claim he didn’t see it coming when everyone else did? These are things you need to look at.
Is there a plan to separate and isolate the USA from the rest of the world?
Is that the key component part of this grand long-term plan?
Heroin addicts and Psycho-killers plan for their next fix and victim, yeah?
Doesn’t make them amazing powers-that-be.
@MaryQueen Bulls-eye!
It’s been planned for generations–see “Tragedy and Hope” by Carroll Quigley, early 1960s. Or better yet, “None Dare Call It Conspiracy” by Gary Allen. From your posts, you already are aware of most of the contents of the book. Book simply organizes what you know (the puzzle pieces) to give you a clearer picture.
What’s changed technology in general, and IT/communications in particular now permit more control than imagined…
Our wannabe gods are vain enough to think they can be gods.
They will not succeed in the end, but it will be a rough ride down.
Supposedly Harry and his husband Meghan had their money there.
Oh no!! All those millions for doing nothing but whine and complain are gone?!
If I remember correctly, they had a chicken coop in their backyard (on the estate) and eggs are expensive so the kids could set up a stand out front and bring in some cash.
Beryl, one certainly hopes so. I wonder how Meghan will manage to weave racism into her bankrupty narrative?
Source please.
SVB is also a California bank with probably strong ties to the Democratic Party.
Errrr…. I don’t know? Can’t even guess.
Ok, Facebook? Twitter? YOUHoo?
Also Pelosi.
Jacob Dreizin has some thoughts on SVB—worth a look:
httpX://thedreizinreport.com/2023/03/12/dreizin-explains-banking-also-on-march-11-gayest-air-force-in-history-flew-uk-based-b-52-bomber-noble61-into-gulf-of-finland-for-likely-unarmed-nuclear-cruise-missile-launch-approach-train/
I’m sure you caught his post that was just prior to the one yesterday. He cracks me up, which is so appreciated during this, the Days of Bullshit Insanity:
“Ukraine redeploys forces from other sectors, commits almost all reserves, has 19 brigades (16 maneuver, 3 artillery) and parts of another, plus multiple brigades of militia—the gayest army ever assembled…..”
Onward Globohomo!! Lol….
I’m sure you caught his post that was just prior to the one yesterday. He cracks me up, which is so appreciated during this, the Days of Bullshit Insanity:
“Ukraine redeploys forces from other sectors, commits almost all reserves, has 19 brigades (16 maneuver, 3 artillery) and parts of another, plus multiple brigades of militia—the gayest army ever assembled…..”
Onward Globohomo!! Lol….
I have no idea why my above post posted twice.
Me neither.
Yeh mild winters for sure in Greece but got a feeling an army of non army 20 somethings sitting out the war won’t just be seasonal.
Displacement has about 20 flavours for 20 somethings(who again are the next in line to build a new economic model) eeekkk
Dreizin continues after the bank implosion stuff with maps and comments on recent incursions of US bombers basically over Russian air space (close enough to spit).
His writing and presentation style are even more difficult to follow than Ticker Guy.
Agree, it’s annoying as hell.
I worry about Ticker Guy’s blood pressure. That guy gets so angry. Mind you, that’s understandable with the current state of things.
Don’t, since he’s developed good habits and lives a healthy, active lifestyle.
I just wish he’d stop telling us to run out and act out a fedpost in real life as soon as possible.
act out a fedpost in real life – tcl
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I have no idea what ^this^ means.
Q. Shtik:
I don’t either. But the Tickerguy does often encourage people to do something violent, which makes me suspicious. And he keeps telling me that I am responsible for all this, when I’m pretty sure I had nothing to do with it.
Ticker Guy is Ticker Guy.
Dreizin is Dreizin.
These guys have their good points (often provide good analyses and data/info), and their bad (level of spleen on display, writing tics, personal vendettas, etc)..
No one’s perfect. So, bitch away.
It only took Yellin and Treasury less than a day to crack under pressure. FDIC insurance is only supposed to be up to $250,000, but it has been announced that the government will make all depositors whole. Maybe someone can explain to me how this is not a “bail-out.”
SVB was just too “important” to fail.
(It is highly probable that most of the tech depositors are DNC donators. Except Thiel, who pulled his money out a few weeks ago. Some are firing slings and arrows at him of course. Implying that it is “his fault”. Lol… Oh, the US political bullshit is so predictable).
Rumor has it that bonuses were passed out to key employees just a few hours before the curtain came down.
I don’t know but I’ve been told,
Air Force parachutes are made of gold.
I don’t know but it’s been said,
Navy parachutes are made of lead.
We’re all going into the drink. We’re all navies now.
What Navy?
The US Navy now celebrates Trans Visibility Day.
The gayest Navy ever
It’s a bail out.
Where is the “real” money going to come from?
Biden’s imagination!
@John
“Real money” has been virtually non-existent for about the last two hundred years.
Find an economic definition of “money”.
I could be wrong.
~toktomi~
Real money is part imagination (promises) and reason (hard economic facts)
It when the Imagination tells reason outsourcing to China is in the long term good for America business that things go awry.
“Where is the “real” money going to come from?”
Why, “Bail-In’s” of course.
For example:
Harry & Harriet Homeowner go to the bank to get some emergency cash, and ask the teller for $300 in cash upon presenting their bank card.
After a few minutes the teller comes back to tell Harry & Harriet, “Sorry, you don’t have $300 in your account.”
They then ask her, “How much money is currently in our account?”
She replies, “I am unable to tell”.
They ask her, “Why not?”
She states, “Because the accunt has been closed, along with your Savings account too. You will receive a notice in the mail.”
The teller usher’s them aside, thereafter stating, “Next please”.
@lost
My guess would that “crack[ing] under pressure” is anything but. I would guess it to be scripted performance directly from the screenplay.
Just waiting for somebody to blame this on Russian Communist Nazi White Supremacists…
Sorry. It’s the Zio-Nazi “Star of Remphan-ites” that are the “problem”!!! ??
Biden blamed it on Trump this morning.
Jim slipped a little Grateful Dead in there today. Noice!
It certainly does look like the dam is breaching. The cracks are leaking and the dimwits running the place are on belay over the side and stuffing putty in them.
The can that has been kicked for ages is running out of real estate
Yep. 2023 is the year we’ve been dreading.
I fully expect the new digital currency to be rolled out very soon. As a “fix”, of course.
It will make things worse.
@JHK
And so go the bemusements of this Grande Vanity Fair whose entrance was revealed so long ago by M. King Hubbert and the entourage of informed followers and advocates that came after, including the astute James Howard Kunstler.
So breaks the Long Emergency, eh, James?
“The Universe is ENERGY” and the entirety of all that exists can be truly understood only in those terms, to the extent that even mass is but an illusion of something apart. I could be wrong.
Is that the global stench of rotting human bodies that I smell?
~toktomi~
Ol’ Cap’n Joe Bid’n’s Steamin’ Garbarge’s Financial Console Reset Button?
“A debt jubilee is a clearance of debt from public records across a wide sector or a nation. Such a jubilee was proposed as a solution to debt incurred or anticipated during the COVID-19 recession. The American economist Michael Hudson is a proponent of a debt jubilee, writing in a Washington Post op-ed that it was an alternative to a depression. Similarly, anthropologist David Graeber pointed to kings’ historical use of debt jubilees during regime changes to suggest that a debt jubilee would have been an appropriate response to the 2008 financial crisis. Australian economist Steve Keen is a proponent of debt jubilee. To deal with debt we have to address the trillions of outstanding bad debts. Over the past decade, the world’s central banks have sent interest rates to record lows as their response.” ~ Wikipedia, entry, Debt Jubilee
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“…landed in Paris, cast a spell on the regent Duc d’Orléans, set up a magic credit engine fueled by dreams of untold riches-to-come burgeoning out of the vast, new-found lands called Louisiana up the Mississippi River, and modern finance was born!
The stock-and-money schemes known as the Mississippi Bubble soon ruined France and put finance in such a bad odor that the word “banque” could not be used in polite society there for a century to come.” ~ JHK
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Revelator
(live at the BBC)
youtu . be/4gEc5Pq50xo
“Darling remember, when you come to me
I’m the pretender; I’m not what I’m supposed to be
But who could know if I’m a traitor?
Time’s the revelator…
They caught the Katy**, and left me a mule to ride
The fortune lady came along, she walked beside
But every word seemed to date her
Time’s the revelator, the revelator
Up in the morning, up and on the line
Drive into Corning, and all the spindles whine
And every day is getting straighter
Time’s the revelator, the revelator…”
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**New Orleans’ Katrina hurricane?
Small Town Venue
(hypothetical/conceptual)
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The Way It Will Be
(Gillian Welch, Dave Rawlings)
youtu . be/rO6SkStmhGY
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I really appreciate the human-level integrative approach of the setup; no separate stage, just playing at their table with the people at their’s.
The debt jubilee is an every seven year Jewish holiday set forth in Mosaic law.
The Jubilee (Yovel) Year
The jubilee year provided for a period of both social equality and ecological recovery.
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“The jubilee — yovel in Hebrew — is a year observed once in 50 years, following seven cycles of seven-year shmita, or sabbatical, years. Like the shmita year, the jubilee is one in which no agricultural work is to be done and the land is to lie fallow.” ~ website, My Jewish Learning
Jubilee sounds like a crock of shmita to me.
There’s jubilee and then there’s debt jubilee.
Usury
“…is the practice of making unethical or immoral monetary loans that unfairly enrich the lender. The term may be used in a moral sense—condemning taking advantage of others’ misfortunes—or in a legal sense, where an interest rate is charged in excess of the maximum rate that is allowed by law. A loan may be considered usurious because of excessive or abusive interest rates or other factors defined by the laws of a state. Someone who practices usury can be called a usurer, but in modern colloquial English may be called a loan shark.
In many historical societies including ancient Christian, Jewish, and Islamic societies, usury meant the charging of interest of any kind, and was considered wrong, or was made illegal. During the Sutra period in India (7th to 2nd centuries BC) there were laws prohibiting the highest castes from practicing usury. Similar condemnations are found in religious texts from Buddhism, Judaism (ribbit in Hebrew), Christianity, and Islam (riba in Arabic). At times, many states from ancient Greece to ancient Rome have outlawed loans with any interest. Though the Roman Empire eventually allowed loans with carefully restricted interest rates, the Catholic Church in medieval Europe, as well as the Reformed Churches, regarded the charging of interest at any rate as sinful (as well as charging a fee for the use of money, such as at a bureau de change). Religious prohibitions on usury are predicated upon the belief that charging interest on a loan is a sin.” ~ Wikipedia
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“A jubilee is a particular anniversary of an event, usually denoting the 25th, 40th, 50th, 60th, and the 70th anniversary. The term is often now used to denote the celebrations associated with the reign of a monarch after a milestone number of years have passed…
…
In Roman Catholic tradition, a Jubilee is a year of remission of sins and also the punishment due to sin.” ~ Wikipedia
That reminds me:
https://twitter.com/martyrmade/status/1633106535688617988?s=20
The tie must be plastic (acrylic) because it hasn’t dissolved with everything else.
I like the paternity test video a little further down screen.
Why would anyone want to go to Dubai? She was probably planning for it to be a business trip…
Dubai reminds me of the Hunter S. Thompson comment regarding Las Vegas, “what the world would look like if the Nazis had won WWII.”
No usury is unimaginable to most here. Making money is the height of morality! Who is interested in no interest?
Of course people are interested in how well their investments do. If the company goes under, they lose too. Somehow they believe that the Banks shouldn’t be under the same restrictions.
The power of programming. The masters run rings around those with lower verbal intelligence, defining words to mean their opposite. As Confucius said, the rectification of names is the first step in reform.
I’m more or less inclined to be with you there, Jarek, despite your apparent preference for macho crackers.
You really are a fine chap. Did you give any more thought to the rights of Whites and Carib Indians (and anyone else) to have their own nations?
I assume you believe that the Burmese Buddhists have the right to drive the Bangladeshi Muslim “workers” into the sea – given the pernicious nature of Islam. They had already started raping women and setting meditating monks on fire, you know.
What pos invited those people in? Are you going to let your Marxist mania anent “workers” get in the way of your anarchist principles?
I hope not.
A Brief Disagreement
youtu . be/9x7FGbW3IVc
The Head of Financial Risk Management at Silicon Valley Bank was
Jay Ersopah – a black, gay, immigrant diversity hire, What could
possibly go wrong? Does your bank have a diversity hire assessing
financial risk issues?
Uh, huh. The Stupidification of the US strikes again.
The Biden cabinet is just unbelievably incompetent.
Was Jay a man or a woman? I think he started out as a man.
Didn’t end up that way.
“Karine Jean-Pierre (born August 13, 1974) is a Martinican-born American political advisor who has served as the White House press secretary since May 13, 2022. She is the first Black person and the first openly LGBT person to serve in the position.” ~ Wikipedia
The only good thing about this recession is I’m reading that a LOT of Equity “officers” and “directors” are getting laid off. For the obvious reason: They really are superficial and not essential, not even close.
Just the title “Equity Officer” brings to mind someone who enforces equity, like a hard and fast law. And prosecutes anyone who doesn’t kow-tow to its tenets.
Glad to see them get the boot. Another useless college major or probably master’s degree.
Equity officers & directors, pretty much the whole Executive staff then.
At this point, yes. LOL. The black Equity Director at the college I used to work at worked directly under the president. He was also a do-nothing egotistical asshole. He left after he published a couple books on equity and inclusion. And he was married to a white woman – which was always pretty funny to me.
Oh? You said before that you had never experienced any racism from Blacks despite working with thousands of them over the years.
ersapah
Jay Ersapah: Silicon Valley Bank risk assessment chief slammed for …
1 day ago
Ersapah, who comes from the UK where she studied an undergraduate Economics degree at the University of Warwick and was listed as a top 100 LGTBQ Future Leader in 2022, is ‘allies’ with gay rights charity Stonewall and has authored several articles to promote LGBTQ awareness like ‘Lesbian Visibility Day and Trans Awareness week.’
not black, POC…asian? mid east?
He black!
SVB was balls-in for ESG investing. If you read some of their advertising & press releases that’s all that mattered. And of course they promoted the LBGQT movement full tilt. Sure they brought the bank down, but these are virtuous people whose hearts were in the right place — they deserve to be bailed out, and then some!
Ezra Pound was right about usury but also a bigot against Jews, which compromises his principle. You might be right, James, but only if the biggest banks invested as irresponsibly as these two did. I’m sorry to hear there’s a bailout underway; in my opinion, only funds protected by FDIC should be reimbursed. If otherwise, we’re rewarding the crumb bums. “Steal a little and they put you in jail / Steal a lot and they make you king.” Bob Dylan
I agree. There’s no moral hazard for the top 1%.
The FDIC is a relic from a time when the federal government was the fiscal powerhouse of the U.S. instead of its biggest debtor.
Using US debt money to pay off bank debt is the pathway to bankruptcy.
Stand by for June, reality may cancel out politics.
Yeah, because Jews aren’t over-represented in banking or anything. Where did this brilliant man get such a crazy idea?
I live in the San Francisco Bay area, so the collapse of Silicone Valley Bank has created some major worries if all deposits over $250,000 are not insured by the FDIC. Now, many local companies have no money for payroll and operating expenses. Of course investors who didn’t get out in time will be wiped out, but it’s the part about the lucky few depositors I don’t understand. It is unclear to me how they got out.
Just before SVB was shut down last Friday, there was a run on the bank where some depositors were able to withdraw all of their money that the bank held as a small fractional reserve. Once the cash reserve was depleted, the remainder of the SVB assets were in mountains of bonds which were bought at low interest rates and now worth far less than their purchase price and the bank’s stock was now worthless.
So, let’s say I made it to SVB in time to withdraw all of my money. How would this money be delivered to me? As a suitcase full of cash? It looks like a SVB cashiers check would be worthless. Maybe I could write a check to myself and deposit it into another bank, hoping it would clear before SVB failed. Or maybe I could try an electronic transfer that wouldn’t stay pending too long. So, how did the lucky few SVB depositors get out in time and what did they then do with their money?
Good questions. I’m not rich enough to know how any of that works, but I have to wonder at them actually giving anyone with a lot of money in there ALL of it.
MaryQueen, thank you for your observation. I agree, getting ALL of their $250,000 at once seems unlikely.
“major worries if all deposits over $250,000 are not insured by the FDIC. Now, many local companies have no money for payroll and operating expenses. ”
Hmm.
From the FDIC website:
“Depositors should note that federal law **expressly limits the amount of insurance the FDIC can pay*** to depositors when an insured bank fails, and no representation made by any person or organization can either increase or modify that amount.”
That amount is $250,000. Presumably this amount reflects a calculation of risk that the FDIC can take.
” The standard deposit insurance amount is $250,000 per depositor, per insured bank, for each account ownership category.
The FDIC insures deposits that a person holds in one insured bank separately from any deposits that the person owns in another separately chartered insured bank. For example, if a person has a certificate of deposit at Bank A and has a certificate of deposit at Bank B, the amounts would each be insured separately up to $250,000. Funds deposited in separate branches of the same insured bank are not separately insured. . . . ”
I believe the FDIC was designed to protect savers and small depositors. Not large businesses. If large entities want to be covered they must spread out their funds among different banks or else just choose their bank wisely . . .
Islander, I just replied to MaryQueen and noticed my mistake. My assumption was that depositors with more than $250,000 were somehow able to grab everything, maybe millions of uninsured dollars before SVB collapsed on Friday. Of course the FDIC will make good on $250,000, so I assumed that those who got out in time were able to escape with much more. As she said, there were probably limits on the amount on these withdrawals.
Anyway, I checked with my Chase advisor. It looks like the $250,000 FDIC protection per depositer is subject to certain classifications. For example, I have a Chase CD of $100,000. However, because I have a POD beneficiary, this CD is now classified as a joint account that is insurred by the FDIC for $500,000. This would separate this CD from my personal accounts. I’m going to do more research on this before I fully accept this information.
I don’t have any faith in these insurance schemes. Ours is much less generous and covers you for about £85k in any one institition. But if everything goes belly up, it seems to me that what you’ll get – if you even get that – is an IOU that you can leave to your children and they can leave to theirs. At least until the ‘you will own nothing’ show comes to town – then you can use your IOU as toilet paper.
The FDIC site is quite specific as to what types of accounts are covered.
But of course there may be more to it than that list.
Howver, checking accounts, CDs etc are in that list. However, the $250,000 limit covers only all accounts at one bank.
Family members are included but not others. However, I believe that the 250 limit still applies . . .
Savings banks have other insurance schemes that cover the whole amount deposited.
As to how well these schemes work in reality—I hope we don’t have to find out!!!!
I just found this on the FDIC website:
Q: Can I have more than $250,000 of deposit insurance coverage at one FDIC-insured bank?
A: Yes. The FDIC insures deposits according to the ownership category in which the funds are insured and how the accounts are titled. The standard deposit insurance coverage limit is $250,000 per depositor, per FDIC-insured bank, per ownership category.
Deposits held in different ownership categories are separately insured, up to at least $250,000, even if held at the same bank. For example, a revocable trust account (including living trusts and informal revocable trusts commonly referred to as payable on death (POD) accounts) with one owner naming three unique beneficiaries can be insured up to $750,000.
Just the fact that people who had over the stated FDIC insurred amount are going to be paid in full is just another sign that all rules are only being inforced wqith a wink and a nod. Like Jim Morrison said: “The time for hesitation is through” The “American Dream,” should now be labeled “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.”
Thank you for today’s essay, Jim.
Another great one! Plus lots of laughs (which we need). Paragraph 3 is a hoot all the way through, esp. the last line: “But now a klaxon blares, signaling the end of dream-time, and the nation wakes up in a ramshackle house with the floor giving way under the bed.”
We live in The Truman Show but the walls are starting to crumble, revealing the real world beyond.
Most probably aren’t prepared to see it.
Jim,
Thank you so much for your brief, to-the-point, lucid, and accurate explanation of the bond market and its connection with our current banking/finance system.
There are many (some right here) who confuse capitalism with the kind of financial chicanery you explained. When, in fact, capitalism is extremely simple to understand if one does not start from a point of mis-education, of the kind promoted in our schools in recent decades.
Just to be absolutely clear: capitalism is nothing more (or less) than common human nature. It is human nature to want to have the proceeds of one’s labor. That is capitalism. Period.
Now, socialism is a whole different creature. It can best be explained, again succinctly, via the late Margaret Thatcher’s observation that, ‘The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money’.
However, what we have here is neither. It’s just out and out racketeering and piratical rapine. Otherwise known as THEFT.
It’s one system, heads and tails. The Bankers don’t depend on other people’s “money” – they create it out of thin air. They rely on us believing in it. And with that belief, they get real labor, capital, and property. Of course if they print too much, the laws of money come into play. They have to manage the game and the herd wisely – until they take full control.
Who funded Communism? Revolutions take a lot of money, you know.
Guess.
A fellow named Bernard Baruch? Is that it Jarek? Big banker, perhaps he was the conduit.
“Anglo/American big money” underwrote Communism.
And “Western big money” was a lifeline to the floundering USSR in the 1920s and 1930s, even as Stalin’s policies led to starvation and the deaths of millions.
The USSR was a useful enemy to help create a permanent large standing military in the US, to increase defense spending, borrow more money, inflate the currency, and generally corrode America’s foundation.
Mission accomplished, and then the USSR imploded upon itself, leavinig the people there in even worse shape.
Yet somehow, miraculously, the Russian part survived. And now, having jettisoned the fake (western) Communism, they have a system that seems to be working for them–and is also free of globalist/dollar control. The latter is the unforgiveable sin, in the eyes of the godless bankers and big capital–the very same people who gave us the plandemic and mRNA shots, and cartel capitalism that has hollowed out the middle class in the US.
THAT is why they want Russia destroyed.
That is why every one here should be rootin’ for Putin!
Yes, Putin pretended to go along with them and then betrayed them. Can DeSantis do the same? Will he? I wouldn’t bet on it.
Russia is Fascist. So is America First. Russia first in other words. Fascism works fine as long as you don’t have other races since Fascism doesn’t deal with race. Both Russia and the United States are full of alien peoples so it can’t work long term either here or there.
But National Socialism is otherwise, O My Brothers….
and cartel capitalism that has hollowed out the middle class in the US. – Soc-Det
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What the fuck does ^this^ mean?
It means this: If things are working fairly well, and in balance, the US economy would grow 2-3% per year.
That is harder to achieve than is sounds. It is easy for gov’t to screw it up with bad policy. But let’s go with that 2-3% per year.
Big capital already owns or controls the lion’s share of US assets. Always has, and always will.
But they want more. The elites have always wanted it ALL. First it was the Council on Foreign Relations. Then the Trilateral Commission. Today, the WEF embodies the elitist desire for one-world government on the surface, with the elites using financia manipulation to attain world domination.
Let’s go back to the US elites/big capital.
For them increase their wealth 5% a year, the vast majority, on average, can only grow a little, if at all: maybe 1% growth, maybe NO growth, maybe -1%, in overall aggregate terms.
Numbers are hard things.
In an earlier, simpler time, some of the tricks of doing this were inflation (because the insiders got the fiat money first, when it was worth more; because they planned the inflation and could adopt strategies to beat it); income taxes, because the wealthy and powerful and connected had legal means of avoiding them that the masses did not; and outright legal barriers to entering lucrative businesses; and of course, war, the big one. Hot or COLD. The Cold War was a great vehicle for transferring wealth out of middle, working America, to the elite, as is the current fiasco in Ukraine, and Cold War 2 with the “non-West” which is opening now, right in front of us.
From 1890 to 1960, that sums it up, as far as the USA goes. No other nation had the capacity to generate wealth, to “grow the pie” as much as America. JFK’s end happens to coincide with the end of that era.
As the rest world caught up, that started to change. And other places, first Europe, then Japan became attractive places for US investment. But Europe was not that much more profitable than the US, and the Japanese carefully controlled what the US could get.
However, starting the late 1970s, and taking off from 1980 to 2019, Asia became a great alternative. First Korea and Taiwan, then China, then India, Vietnam and more became able to make things, then big capital outsourced big time.
And now America cannot make enough “stuff” to meet domestic requirements. People who worked in factories making useful stuff, not glamorous jobs, but necessary jobs performing useful work (we WORK to live, not to “self-actualize”. That is all BS fed to white-collar workers in an effort to control them) that provided decent wages, which undergirded the US economy.
Now many of the plants are gone. They took years, decades to build and refine before being closed and shipped overseas. The jobs in them are gone. And the toasters and sweatshirts and TVs and furniture and auto parts they produced must be imported.
That is “hollowed out”. Being unable to provide for yourself today, when you could two generations ago.
OMG, Jar again with his “Who funded Communism?”
Well? Or you don’t think it’s a legitimate question? If so, explain.
Or are you admitting that the whole thing is just too big for you, beyond your ken and scope? The frog in the well cannot understand the ocean, and he doesn’t like the idea of it either.
Now, socialism is a whole different creature. It can best be explained, again succinctly, via the late Margaret Thatcher’s observation that, ‘The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money’.
Funny you should say that, since bank failures are by definition “running out of other people’s money.” Are they then by definition “socialist?”
And if capitalism was all about people “having the proceeds of their labor,” the capitalists wouldn’t be so rich and the laborers so poor. It would appear you’ve been misinformed.
As for theft, that’s not ideological whatsoever. Thieves come in all shapes, forms, and ideologies.
D- You are conflating the activities of banks with the activities of government in the process of running out of money. And laborers are free to start their own companies and become “thieving” capitalists, employing other laborers voluntarily. Modern fractional reserve bankers are not capitalists; the are cronyists.
Trouble is, banks actually create most of the “money,” by making loans. Credit most laborers for not desiring to become thieves themselves, especially at the small business level. All of the accomplished thieves have long since moved onto the corporate world, which also effectively owns the government. So railing about “the gubmint” is actually railing about the joint public/private sphere, which have long since merged for the worse.
broke-down Palace
Fare you well, my money
Fare you well my only true one
All the birds that were singing
Are flown except you alone
o please..having spent time with a founding member of the deads child…grateful dad not.
those guys were brilliant but a mess.
Read Bill Kreuztmans book…dirty old man.
and themoney wasnt there till lateful dead.
The Encore on this day 38 years ago was Brokendown Palace written by Robert and Jerome
BERKELEY COMMUNITY THEATRE – MARCH 13, 1985
Jack Straw
Althea
Mama Tried
Mexicali Blues
Friend of the Devil
New Minglewood Blues
Deal
Music Never Stopped
Franklin’s Tower
Estimated Prophet
Spoonful
drums
Ollin Arrageed
Man Smart/Woman Smarter
Black Peter
Good Lovin’
Brokedown Palace
The Oscars was on last night!
I did not know that! I did not know that!
(Doing my best Johnny Carson impression.
I had NO IDEA and I’m on and off in the business.
Michelle Yeoh won one – She of Crouching Dragon Hidden Dragon. ; )
@Beryl of Oyl, Off topic but I hunted this link out for you because you were interested in looking further into the trans/porn industry and how they are linked. I guarantee you’ll be astonished by what’s in this substack in which all the seemingly disparate threads are neatly connected.
hxxps://rwilson.substack.com/p/mk-ultra-transgenderism-and-feminization
Wow it gets bigger and bigger. Thanks.
That’s great, thanks.
Here’s a site devoted to combatting it:
https://www.culturereframed.org/our-work/
Thanks, MaryQ and Beryl, I’ve been following this topic for a while now and the rabbit hole just gets deeper. At first I thought it was just another example of depraved behavior in pursuit of money, but it looks more and more like a carefully thought out plan that fits neatly into a corner of a larger plan. The fact that the techniques of Neurolinguistic Programming are in use is a sure indication that it’s both deliberate and diabolically clever.
I read the article you poster for Beryl and it’s certainly chilling. Anything that encourages people to view themselves and their bodies as if they’re “things” to be sold, carved-up, hypnotized or used to act out a fantasy (theirs or someone else’s) has lost control of their lives and their ability to think. The ones who profit by their confusion are IMO sociopaths ready to exploit every weakness. They’re exploiting people who have never had boundaries or any idea of what’s right or wrong — it’s all “relative.”
This is what happens when parents are no longer adults and have lost all authority to exercise common sense or model it for their kids. These trans kids are lost in the fantasy world of Disney (when you wish upon a star, makes no difference who you are, anything your heart desires will come to you), Oprah’s faux spiritual nonsense, and books like The Secret.
Still working on mysteries without any clues. – LIFE, 2023
We have all of this evil boiling up in every nook and cranny of our fascist government, as well as in banking, healthcare, education, etc. We’ve been aware of all of the evil and destructive atrocities perpetrated by these bad actors. One of the latest… Big Pharma puts out the toxic mRNA, cancer spikes throughout the nation, and now they are putting out a whole slew of new cancer drugs, as if they haven’t had enough profit, and now they’ll be stronger than they ever were to control, manipulate, pay fines, etc. They won’t stop.
We witness the death and destruction these people cause, untold waste of $ that could be put to real use to improve conditions, etc. How these 535 useless, overpaid idiots (Congress) do nothing but make our lives more and more miserable. Not to mention the Administrative/Deep State. Goverment has now been bloated to 20X the size it should be.
People just don’t seem to get it that this government is their worst enemy, THE arch enemy.
It’s so insane that we just sit passively watching our lives, our government and our country completly collapse.
I keep wondering: where are the torches and pitchforks? where are the hangings/guillotines? where are the vigilantes? Are we all frogs in a pot, and the end has already come?
4th turnings are about Destruction and Re-Birth.
Wade away from the Destruction and go to a (is)land of Re-Birth. JHK’s “World made by Hand” is one model of a Re-Birth
It looks like the citizenry is targeted in western Europe and stateside but not in Africa, Asia, Eastern/Central Europe or the Islamic-Arab World.
Here’s a good motto: “If you save one life, it will be as though you saved all mankind.”
Might be a good idea to ditch and wave away the pitchfork (destruction).
They are killing off half of the West and bringing the third world in to replace them, as poorly educated, desperate people are needed for the digital plantation of the future.
Those third-worlders not brought in will continue to be starved to death and the rest depopulated by Billy Goats and his vaccines.
That’s good. Unfortunately, “half of the west” (actually MOST of the west) never realized that they too were “third worlders” in the first place. It’s all a matter of perspective.
In early 2020, I spoke to an elderly third world cab driver and mentioned the vaccine noise looked like a world depop agenda to some people. He was genuinely shocked.
All he said was that the good Lord would not be absent in retribution. He was so sure… you see.
Yeah, a world where we do things by hand is coming soon. Such as washing clothing in tubs by hand. Or heating one’s home by hand – with wood you’ve cut, spit, and stacked all by yourself – by hand. No Asian clothing available in stores? Great! Go to Walmart, if there are any left, and purchase rolls of cloth so you can make your own clothing – by hand! My mom and some of her peers in the 50’s did this, but they purchased supplies from special stores that had racks full of patterns, cloth, and thread etc. No Walmart in the 50’s, just local stores. Car won’t run? Not enough money to hire a mechanic? You fix it yourself with your own hands, or you ride a bicycle. Your choice. Too broke to hire landscapers that run the big fuel hungry zero turn mowers? Go get yourself a sickle or scythe and mow by hand! Too broke to go to restaurants? Roll up your sleves and use your own hands to cook at home. I could keep going for a long time with this.
Welcome to a world made by hand – y’all are gonn love it. And forget about watching tv or other entertainments – you’ll be way too busy for that.
The Conclusion in Candide
He is reunited with Cunégonde. And Pangloss, of course, is just as annoying to the reader as ever, but Candide is happy to see him and to find him well. The little troupe of characters settles on a farm, where everyone does work to which he or she is suited, and life goes on.
They win.
Xhttps://tinyurl.com/338t4anc
Continued…
Forgot to make my main point…
If these groups would get out of our way, leave us alone, etc. If we just got rid of them, we’d have a bustling, robust economy and could sort out our own problems.
I’ve labeled this matrix of incompetent and evil people PUBLIC ENEMY #1. They are my enemy. And I’d do anything to be able to annihilate all of them, and open the door to a chance of regaining life and freedom.
A brilliant explanation of our present and continuing predicament. I’m comforted by the fact that some of my oldest friends have decided to die recently, which isn’t such a distressing situation as it might have been once upon a time.
That’s how I’m starting to feel. At least they are missing the starving to death part.
Or maybe the nuclear war part.
What about Trump signing in a bill in 2018 that undid banking reforms? Biden is a war whore, but Trump was a whore for big business.
Only whores are allowed to live in the WH as four to eight year residents.
? “The Glass-Steagall Act was repealed in 1999 amid long-standing concern that the limitations it imposed on the banking sector were unhealthy and that allowing banks to diversify would actually reduce risk.”
They didn’t start lying in 2016, obviously.
Support The Proposed 28th Amendment To The Constitution Of The Once United States
BY BRIGGS ON MARCH 13, 2023 • ( 9 COMMENTS )
The rumors are true. There is a move afoot to adopt a new Amendment to the Constitution of the once United States. The 28th, named Restoring Voting Sanity.
The text is making the rounds: here it is.
28th Amendment
Restoring Voting Sanity
Section 1
The seventeenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
Section 2
The nineteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
Section 3
The twenty sixth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed.
Section 4
Only those men in natural undissolved original marriages and only those blessed with natural issue shall be eligible to vote in any election in the States, territories, or possessions of the United States.
Section 5
This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
Reminder that the 17th Amendment allowed for the direct election of Senators. The 19th Amendment allowed females to vote. And the 26th Amendment extended the voting franchise to 18 year olds.
There is ample precedent for the repeal of Constitutional Amendments. The 21st Amendment repealed the hersterical Safety First! matriarchal effeminate 18th Amendment, which, you recall, banned wine, beer, and liquor. Banned wine, beer, and liquor! It can be no surprise, and it is no coincidence, that the first Amendment after the monumentally farcical 18th came the passing of the 19th Amendment.
So it is no trouble to repeal harmful or foolish Amendments.
That the Senate no longer functions, or even resembles functioning, as a sort of aristocratic debate hall is in dispute by no one. There was never a good reason to have direct elections, as in the House. The inevitable coarsening of debate, and indeed leading to its very absence, has occurred. Return to having the Senate raised by their peers.
The experiment having 18, 19, and 20 year olds voting has provided more than sufficient evidence that this was a bad idea. I mean, have you ever seen or interacted with college students (outside enclaves like Hillsdale or St Thomas Aquinas)? The presence of rare exceptions does not justify wholesale enfranchisement. Require maturity again.
And so to the 19th. May I quote to you Michelle Obama herself on this important subject? As this hopeful, some say, presidential candidate said of watching the inauguration of Donald Trump, “I cried for 30 minutes straight, uncontrollable sobbing”.
Uncontrollable is that which cannot be controlled.
Obama went on to say, “there was no diversity, there was no color on that stage”. Both false claims. Perhaps the uncontrollable crying led to partial blinding.
Need I point out that a leader who reacts to a mundane event with uncontrollable crying is not fit to serve?
Women’s natural compassion and emphasis on feeling are perfect and ideal fits inside families. But outside, it leads to things like this. The balance toward feelings has already progressed too far. Reclaim calm rationality.
Now, we are stuck living in an “our democracy”, a form of government in which it is believed that right and wrong can be put to vote, that Reality itself can be made illegal, or redefined, by a vote. This is not wise nor sane, yet we are, at least for now, stuck with it. One goal of this Amendment is to lessen egregious harms resulting from such a system.
This is why this Amendment contains the idea of interest. Those with children naturally have a greater, even vastly greater, interest in the future state of the nation than those without. Limiting voting to male heads of households strengthens the interest of the future state. It ensures a natural, small-c conservativism, and reduces the chances of wild swings of policy. Reduces, I say. Not eliminates. But that small-c conservatism would result is obvious. Reclaim the future.
To those who say this Amendment is unfair. So? To those who say is discriminates. So? To those who say this Amendment is “racist”, “sexist”, “homophobic”, or any of a score of judgmental terms. I say, and say again, So?
Pass on the text to your Congresscreatures, if they haven’t already seen it. Let’s get this Amendment adopted!
James (I think – never heard of him before)Briggs
Jarek: Good idea. Add it on to the requirement of service to nation, knowledge of history and current events, and ability to reason (IQ test).
But, but, but it would to exclude me as a single man. I’d be fine with that as long as the nation was being run by sane men of superior IQ. Character matters and part of that is having skin in the game for most. If they need that criterion to exclude people and I got excluded too – again, fine.
He knows it’s just a lark or larp at this point, obviously. As Barnhardt says, it’s for after the War. But ideas matter. Why wait until after the collapse and civil war to start thinking about what we need and want in America 2.0?
Voting means absolutely nothing if the voter is ill-informed, uneducated, or brainwashed. All that will happen from that is you have idiots voting and as a result – idiots managing the country. That’s why the average lifespan of a republic is around 250 years. We’re already just about past our expiration date.
Why do you reply to your own comments? Is it because no-one else does?
If you had bothered to read it, you would know I hadn’t written it. For an educated man, you have very little interest in learning.
Limiting the vote to property owners, term limits, and repealing the 17th Amendment would accomplish much. Having kids certainly makes one more thoughtful about the future, thought I’m not sure I would limit the vote to parents.
I don’t like the parent or marriage requirements at all. Seems infantile, honestly. Make main requirements financial, like it was originally. Deadbeat, lazy baby producers (yes, many are married)… no.
It certainly can’t be the only thing. Most guys with kids are dummies. And most really smart men aren’t going to marry now, given the way women are and the law is.
But after the Fall, when marriage is sane again, perhaps – but only with other provisions.
I’d say financial solvency, yes. Owning property, no. That was the big original one, along with being a man and being a citizen. We’re losing even being a citizen, lol.
thought I’m not sure I would limit the vote to parents. – Mac
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Though, through and thought are 3 of the most confused words in the English language. The one above is not the first today.
It’s obviously a typo, not a confusion.
Sheesh.
What gets me, Q, is how a back-formation or other ignorant usage gets hammered by enough people for enough years and then becomes “accepted usage”.
“Orientate.” How that always annoyed me. Dictionary gave up and said “Fine, go ahead and use it.” I lost another battle.
Now it’s items like the confusion between “forcefully” and “forcibly”, with the former mistakenly used for the latter: “The Defendent was forcefully removed from the courtroom.”
I spot these clinkers in news stories that somebody got paid good money to write. And when I attempt to point out the sloppiness, I am ignored.
“Whatever.”
Tweet by Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg
12:18 PM – 6/21/18
“A top climate scientist is warning that climate change will wipe out all of humanity unless we stop using fossil fuels over the next five years.”
*THIS TWEET HAS BEEN DELETED*
Al Gore said in his movie we had 10 years, that was in what, 2005?
Both are trotting around the globe in private planes.
Who is actually fooled by these numpties? Besides K-chien, I mean.
I thought it said “This Twerp has been deleted”.
I wish no harm for poor Greta. She needs a pony to ride. Perhaps the bridle cold be put on her when not on the pony. If she behaves herself, she could get chocolate.
https://tse3.mm.bing.net/th?id=OIP.RtJuVfnGjzRk2aggAo6e_QHaFf
The best part is that the McMedia actually “fact checked” this photo to let us all know it was doctored fake news.
😀
Hilarious!!
Lil Miss Oink.
If only Kermit hadn’t consistently rebuffed Miss Piggy’s amorous advances…
Hell hath no fury…
She is such an easy target. It’s almost pathetic, like shooting fish in a barrel.
Don’t forget that K-chien’s name is ‘green’. Click on it for enlightenment!
Black is beautiful but green is better.
Father Divine
Dollars want me – old prosperity mantra to be repeated again and again.
I have presumed – female poster when she realized that she couldn’t just cry intellectual rape and have me kicked off the site.
Florida was supposed to be under water by now.
Plymouth Rock, too.
😀
It is under water – invisibly. Just as Christ came back invisibly in 1913 according to the Millerites.
Read “When Prophecy Fails”.
“Who is actually fooled by these numpties? Besides K-chien, I mean.”
Lots of people are still fooled. I’m certain there are still people at this very moment trapped under record breaking massive amounts of snow in the Sierras, shivering in the dark without food and freezing – yet at the same time still all worried about global warming. Following the leftist playbook has disconnected them completely from the real world.
Greta Thunberg – MQ
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A week or so ago ^this^ girl/young woman’s name was the answer to a Jeopardy clue. The contestant answered Greta Thunberg, pronouncing Thun as rhyming with bun.
“No, wrong”, said the moderator, Mayim Bialik, it’s Greta Thunberg where Thun rhymes with toon.
I had no idea.
I never knew Jeopardy to penalize for pronunciation.
“Money is all theoretical… until it’s not.”
Money IS all theoretical, period. A sometimes pleasant and often unpleasant made-up myth that we participate in. An odd delusion that allows for ease of commerce. But money always remains… an actual conspiracy theory (as opposed to ‘Conspiracy Theories’ which are in fact the bedrock truth many times).
What’s not ‘money-theoretical’ is trading value for value. I give you ten chickens for two hogs. Chickens and hogs have value. And lots of other stuff, too. But since carrying chickens and hogs around isn’t fun for most people… we walked into this system of made-up ‘money’ which these days is mostly conjured from thin air by money fakers that have been sanctioned by ‘Law’… as comical as that utter nonsense appears to be.
Today we have groups (bankers/banksters) who are allowed to do any kind of stupid damn reckless thing with ‘money’… and then they are made whole by the Feral Money Fakers or by the sad-sack American Taxpayer. And then we have the much larger group of the American People who aren’t allowed to conjure and fake the vaporous stuff and who are shut out from enriching themselves from incompetence and fraud as certain other entitled groups in the Country are allowed to do. And it’s all ‘Legal!’ Weee!
“Oh, and then there’s Ukraine….”
Talk about another ‘Money’ rat-hole.
Ross Perot would no doubt say about that cursed place of installed grifters…
‘Do You Hear That Giant Sucking Sound? There goes more of your ‘Money’, Suckers!’
And then we have…
“When Black Friday comes
I’ll stand down by the door
And catch the grey men when they
Dive from the fourteenth floor
When Black Friday falls
You know it’s got to be
Don’t let it fall on me.”
(Walter Becker, Donald Fagen)
We need to install giant nets on all these tall bank buildings so the greys don’t kill themselves when they jump. They need to live and stand trial.
THEN we can throw them out of the tall buildings. I’d suggest no more than about 3-5 stories though. That way we’ll need to throw them out more than once to finish them off. We can even raffle off the rights give them the push.
Or off really tall buildings, watch them bounce and then fall all the rest of the way. Maybe another net, so they bounce again. Enough time to place bets?
Kudos. Creative thinking right there. The possibilities are endless. Lots of money to made and viewers to be had here.
Jamie Lee Curtis says her daughter is transgender and she is … – CNN
Jul 30, 2021Jamie Lee Curtis has revealed that her daughter, Ruby, is transgender. Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images CNN — Jamie Lee Curtis has proudly shared for the first time…….
the buzz round tinsel town is Ms Jamie is a dyke or inter sex..I can not confirm or deny.
How did these “Money Troubles” arise at this hot shot bank? Will anyone in Congress ask for an explanation before any bail out?
Wait till Zelensky receives his next big payout and it comes in the form of a cashier’s check from SVB.
David Scott, at UK Column, provided a very clear explanation at yesterday’s UK Column news show. .
So, another Build Back Better Day! I can’t wait for the bottom to drop out in the next couple of weeks and those who are responsible, and we all know who they are, are rounded up for a much-deserved firing squad. I can’t believe that those people who have a couple ounces of common sense are putting up with this fiasco!
A respected law firm in Pittsburgh, PA reported this A.M. that at least 50,000 ballots were double counted in the 2020 election. We were taken folks.
I live in Pennsylvania and I’m tired of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh telling me who won the election. Our absolutely lazy Republicans in this State do nothing but aid and abet.
The courts are corrupt to add insult to injury.
Sadly, there’s going to be some real suffering among those who don’t pay attention and trust the government. The fools in this Country voted these crooks in and now the only way to go is the 2nd amendment.
Stay on your cell phone…sooner or later it will tell you the world is over as we knew it! Surprise, surprise, morons!
I thought we all knew it was already over. -__-
Jim Cramer Recommended Signature Bank: https://americanyellowvest.wordpress.com/2023/03/13/cramer-recommended-signature-bank/
I clicked on the link’s start arrow but got no sound. Are you saying Cramer recommended this bank as a buy? What was his rationale?
Q:
youtube.com/watch?v=3vkZMbTdV3Q
John Law was one antecedent to the terror perhaps.
France at twenty million had also reached carrying capacity and the rentier class could squeeze no more out without hell to pay.
Do us a favor and make a personal contribution to carrying capcity by removing your carbon footprint.
It’s for the earth.
WATCH: Parents outraged after students mandated to watch drag performance, school doubles down
https://www.libsoftiktok.com/p/watch-parents-outraged-after-students#play
Not sure which bugs me more, that it was mandatory at 5PM or that kids were forced to listen to and watch absolute garbage.
This shit is beyond surreal.
What in the actual fuck.
The UK Column has an excellent segment in today’s show on just what happened with the Silicon Valley Bank, and other banks
I just got another communication from my other bank.
Has anyone else here heard from his or her bank?
I am assuming this is not affecting credit unions. I use a credit union, and have not heard anything from them.
Another bank failure today ~ Signature Bank in NYC, described as the 3rd worst default in US history. About $200 million wiped out. No big deal, Biden assured us everything is under control. Now that a precedent has been set by guaranteeing all deposits will be made good, not just the limit of $250,000 protected by the FDIC, big depositors have nothing to worry about.
Everything is fine.
$200 Billion
” We need to install giant nets on all these tall bank buildings so the greys don’t kill themselves when they jump. They need to live and stand trial. ”
* Sigh. *
The Greys are the police.
The Greys are the lawyers.
The Greys are the Judges.
The Greys are the paralegals .
The Greys are the Legal secretaries.
The Greys are the law library librarians.
The Greys are the court stenographers.
The Greys are the probation officers.
The Greys are the correctional officers .
I’m actually leaving out a hell of a lot of people here.
The list gets too fucking long.
And where would you get your jury pool by the way ?
You have lived under Prohibition ( re – labelled ) now for over a hundred years , pissed away God only knows how many billions on the project , and still claim you have accomplished something / things are better than they were.
You can deny that a court stenographer or a jury member is a Grey ,
but it’s not really debatable that the outcome of a trial would be the EXACT SAME whether the jury was packed with Greys , or supposedly not – Greys .
Those who are too good for this world inhabit some other.
Sri Yukteshwar
You want to go some place better post-mortem? Are you practicing jhana? Or at least going to Mass?
Earth is in the middle, between the lower realms of hell being, ghosts, and animals and the realms of demi-gods, gods, and Brahmas or High Gods.
You want to go some place better post-mortem? – Jarek
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Sorry to disappoint you Jar but nobody is going anywhere post-mortem. You get your three score and ten (or four score if your lucky) and then it’s all over. Stop wasting your time on fantasy.
You still haven’t done the research. The evidence for life after death is overwhelming. Sorry Ken “Meatbody”.
Well …. but …. who wears grey flannel suits , or grey flannel skirts , anymore ?
Next I expect to see the President of the United States in a T – shirt with a bone through his nose , and ten times more sanctimonious than when he bothered to dress up in something actually pretty.
Greys? Up till now I assumed greys were a particular species of evil aliens. I also remember reading somewhere that the stories about people jumping from buildings after the onset of Great Depression version 1.0 were greatly exaggerated and that only one or two people ever actually did this after their stock portfolios went up in smoke.
I ASSUMED that MAYBE it was a reference to the now ancient , ” Man in a grey flannel suit . ”
Aliens ?
I wouldn’t know.
I have a keen interest in Egyptian and Mayan archeology , and where sci – fi is concerned , Warhammer 40K.
But Graham Hancock – type stuff , at the least , boors the shit out of me.
Not really a Cyndi Lauper fan ,
but one song could just as well be the national anthem .
She said, I’m sorry, baby, I’m leaving you tonight
I found someone new, he’s waitin’ in the car outside
Ah honey, how could you do it
We swore each other everlasting love
She said, well yeah, I know, but when we did
There was one thing we weren’t really thinking of and that’s money
Money changes everything
I said money, money changes everything
We think we know what we’re doin’
That don’t mean a thing
It’s all in the past now
Money changes everything
They shake your hand and they smile
And they buy you a drink
They say, we’ll be your friends
We’ll stick with you till the end
Ah, but everybody’s only looking out for themselves
And you say, well, who can you trust
I’ll tell you, it’s just nobody else’s money
Money changes everything
I said money, money changes everything
Ya think ya know what ya doin’
We don’t hold the strings
It’s all in the past now
Money changes everything
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Money, Money changes everything
I said money, money changes everything
We think we know what we’re doing
We don’t know a thing
It’s all in the past now
Money changes everything
Yes. I can’t disagree at all. Such is woman. She must be controlled or civilization collapses. As Freud said, Civilization is dependent on the control of female sexuality.
And prostitution is a relief valve on the pressure of male sexuality. And as such, of value according to luminaries like Augustine and Aquinas.
Hey Jarek – stop being afraid of Lilith! As for relief valves, have you ever heard of masturbation? As it was explained in the film “The Right Stuff”, best results are accompanied by fantasization. And it won’t cost you a dime…..
Well , the way I remember it Freud was a coke – snorting Jew , already on Country Club Row , who never the less wanted to be paid exorbitantly for a science that violates what should be the first rule of science ;
Admit that you don’t fucking know , when you don’t fucking know.
But he was successful . I have lost count of the number of college graduates who still haven’t noticed that he has been banished to the historical section of Introductory Psychology textbooks.
Yeah, political correctness strikes again. C’mon Kesh, you’re better than this, at least sometimes.
I for one have always been a great sceptic of psychiatry.
I read some of her autobiography..she tells of her mom telling her to get that operation as a baby would get in the way of her career.
some Italian? catholic mom.
KesaAnna delivers again! I’d say that’s pretty much the “human anthem” right now.
Anthea:
Queeny Series Zinnia is featured on the back cover of Johnny’s Seeds catalogue, just arrived.
On p. 65 are more photos. Beautiful!
Copy: “Stunning colors for market bouquets.”
Copy for another large zinnia (Benary’s Giant Series (A)): “recommended by the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers. . . . ”
This org. looks worth checking out:
httpX://www.ascfg.org/2023-ascfg-farm-tours/
@ Islander:
I got some of the Queeny Series from Johnny’s. I probably should have ordered all my flower seeds from Johnny’s. Great selection.
Nikitovka has some good ones (I think). They have a Zinnia Scabiosa that looks nice. I have a tendency to pick up every packet of zinnia seeds that crosses my path.
I did get several colors of strawflowers from Johnny’s.
I have only read about half the comments but thus far there has been not one mention of the Oscars nor of the NCAA Playoff brackets. This surprises me.
Both the Oscars and NCAA are utterly irrelevant at the moment. We’ve all got much bigger issues to focus on right now. Stop watching tv, or better yet, trash the damn thing and don’t buy another one.
I watch B-ball but I DO NOT watch the Oscars. The next day I ask my wife who/what won best picture… wanted to know if it was All Quiet on the Western Front which I judge to be possibly the best movie I have ever seen.
Hopefully the remake of All Quiet on the Western Front shows the heroic, overwhelming, and disproportionate contribution to the war effort made by People of Color, particularly twerking black drag queens.
I’ve only seen the original, totally racist, version.
Q,
Not on Netflix…but it was so enjoyable, I purchased the DVD,
“All Quiet on the Western Front which I judge to be possibly the best movie I have ever seen.”
Q,
It is obvious, then, that you have never seen “Smokin Aces”…
If it’s on Netflix I’ll check it out.
Auburn will likely play Houston, a #1 seed, in their second game in Birmingham, in this years March Madness Tournament. Alabama is the overall #1 seed this year (first time ever and if Auburn had not made it to the Final four a few years ago, Alabama would not be as good as they are now).
“Steel Sharpens Steel”
Poor Rutgers has been relegated to the tournament for ‘also rans’ the NIT.
Condolences!
By God We’ll Have Our Home Again
When there’s nothing left but the fire in my chest and the air that fills my lungs
I’ll hold my tears and trade my years for a glimpse at kingdom come
On the other side of misery, there’s a world we long to see
The strife we share will take us there to relief and sovereignty
[Chorus]
Oh, by God, we’ll have our home again!
By God, we’ll have our home!
By blood or sweat, we’ll get there yet
By God, we’ll have our home!
[Verse 2]
In our own towns, we’re foreigners now; our names are spat and cursed!
The headline smack of another attack; not the last and not the worst
Oh, my fathers, they look down on me; I wonder what they feel
To see their noble sons driven down beneath a cowards heel!
[Chorus]
Oh, by God, we’ll have our home again!
By God, we’ll have our home!
By blood or sweat, we’ll get there yet
By God, we’ll have our home!
[Verse 3]
The road is dark; the way is lost; my eyes, they strain to see
I struggle forth to find a friend to light the way for me
Oh, brothers, can you hear my voice or am I all alone?
If there’s no fire to guide my way, then I will start my own!
[Chorus]
Oh, by God, we’ll have our home again!
By God, we’ll have our home!
By blood or sweat, we’ll get there yet
By God, we’ll have our home!
[Chorus]
Oh, by God, we’ll have our home again!
By God, we’ll have our home!
By blood or sweat, we’ll get there yet
By God, we’ll have our home!
America First!
Jarek: Glory! Meanwhile Wokey asks why I comment on my comments. Because the above is my comment.
Maybe Kesa can be made into an honorary Aryan. That’s better than being a chimp like Wokey.
The Oscars ?
” No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States ”
Yeah.
And , ” All animals are equal , but some are more equal than others. ”
The NCAA playoffs ?
Fuck , that’s even worse than the Oscars.
Who the fuck can devote five or ten hours a day to practicing throwing a ball ?
Certainly not anyone who is remotely representative of a trailer park.
Unless you really do buy that “talent ” bullshit.
Aryan Master Races , and not to mention a flat contradiction of the very Horatio Alger logic this circus is selling.
If it’s talent , then you are wasting your fucking time working hard if you weren’t born in the right cradle.
And if you were born in the right cradle , then there is nothing to brag about , nor wisdom to be shared here ,
unless maybe you would have us believe that God consulted you about the Obstetric delivery bus route.
I don’t dislike this circus because it is a circus run by fat cats for fat cats.
It’s the players.
Ten year olds who could spend five or ten hours practicing throwing a ball ,
who at 20 years old pointedly leave out that particular and precise detail.
On second thought , I do loathe it because it is a circus run by fat cats for fat cats.
The “students ” , the university administrators , the multi – million dollar sponsors ,
all the same fucking gang.
” People just don’t seem to get it that this government is their worst enemy, THE arch enemy. ”
I disagree .
See above.
The people got exactly what they paid for.
Now notice your either/or mind. It has to be one or the other right?
Wrong. Talent is necessary but not sufficient.
No. Just stop there. If you move past what I just said you’ll move into error, emphasizing one to the exclusion of the other.
Everyone in pro-Sports is talented. Equally? No. And they all work hard to manifest or develop their talent. Equally? No.
Blacks are more gifted sprinters. There is nothing Whites can do to make up the gap. No amount of training. One lineage of East African Blacks are apparently the best distance men. Again, there is nothing Whites qua Whites can do unless we changed ourselves genetically to match them.
Some say the Caucasians of North African might be the best middle distance men. But those cultures don’t emphasize sports, so the talent is neither developed nor displayed.
The Tarahumara Indians of Mexico might be just as good at distance as the East Africans. But they don’t compete so we don’t know.
Perhaps it is a case of I wrote too much , and muddied the waters ?
You could just as well have stopped at ;
” Who the fuck can devote five or ten hours a day to practicing throwing a ball ?
Certainly not anyone who is remotely representative of a trailer park.”
I don’t think that is an hard either / or.
It is a statement I stand by 100% though.
The mark of a great artist is knowing when to stop.
Brevity is the soul of wit. Concision the soul of clarity.
I agree. The ghettoes are funded in a way the trailer parks are not.
Seems logical to me. Stop buying movie tickets or tickets to games if you are so tired of what is being manufactured. I really didn’t pay attention to the Oscars. I did see that Glenn Close didn’t present because she tested positive for covid. It is still a thing for them. Which was interesting in and of itself.
” The best part is that the McMedia actually “fact checked” this photo to let us all know it was doctored fake news. ”
I suppose I really am a flake then , because it looks very fucking accurate to me.
the McMedia actually “fact checked” this photo – Kesa
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What photo? I don’t see no photo. (Pardon the double negative.)
Lol oh Q. Of course you can’t see something you aren’t looking for. Click your magnifying glass and type the word photo in. It will bring you right to the photo in question. I’m personally dubious in regards to it. I’m noticing that maybe people are laughing a bit too hard because the object of their laughter is on a spectrum. Hopefully those clues will clue you in. 😉
I wasn’t strictly being literal anyway.
The pic reminded me of my all time favorite motivational .
At the top is written ; WHITE GIRL PROBLEMS
in the middle is a picture of a 12 year old ( ? ) white girl with a look of utter anguish on her face , tears rolling down her face , $20K worth ( ? ) of braces I might add ,
and written at the bottom ;
STOLEN PONY.
It doubles me up with laughter any time I think of it.
Also there is a nostalgic component , it reminds me of jokes I used to hear a long time ago , like ,
” Socialism HAS arrived — for THEM ! ( ” Them ” being the top people in the party and the Stasi . )
White tears, eh Kesa?
The hatred of our Race is unending. Kesa doesn’t transcend this.
Dem white girls need summa dat Black Girl Magic that the brilliant Karen Decker (stunning and brave?) prescribed for the women of Afghanistan.
Great Meteor, where are you?
Never had a pony stolen, have you?
White girls, get off your high horses and ride a black man – or several.
I’m not seeing how it is a mark of great privilege for a girl to have a pony. The people across the street from me have horses. The people who used to live next door had a couple of horses–with matching teenage girl. Some neighbors at my previous house had horses for their two teenage daughters. They used to ride over to our house and tie the horses up to a tree in the front yard. None of these people were rich.
I would be pretty upset if someone stole my dog.
Horses: how we will travel long distances in the future.
Well dental hygiene, loving and caring for animals, and a devoted interest to improving the lot of the people are simply component aspects of a well functioning state of being. So any struggles in these regards are struggles for well being and are problems. Have you made your best faith efforts to really join the party?
Well, ladies and germs;
From the UPI, this bit of news:
https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2023/03/14/black-widow-spiders-decline-brown-widow-aggression/3181678767049/
So, apparently the black widows are being replaced by an invasive species…the brown widow.
God help me, but I think that there is a metaphor in this somewhere….perhaps the brown widows came from our southern border?
That is awful. This is another really tragic downside of global trade and the global economy. Like a lot of people really need to start understanding that global trade is literally killing us and killing our habitats. I mean just think of everything like pythons and kudzu and tallow trees and killer bees and the list just goes on and on of all of the introduced species which have wreaked havoc in North America. And it does seem like the South always bears the burdens of these onslaughts. Basically cargo ships and cargo planes are weapons of mass destruction but people are worried about a bit of hot weather or a fluke storm.
You could say that ‘globalism’ began with global trade, helped along with those foreign bills of exchange created hundreds of years ago.
Only something like the Die-Centennial will stop it.
Oh yes, the Die-Centennial! We must have another poem about the end of the age of dino oil!!
Lots of bugs off ships have decimated habitats here, yes.
Japanese beetles come to mind.
I read earwigs, also.
And plenty of tree-infesting mites, etc.
Don’t forget honeybees. Another imported species off a ship. And the lowly nightcrawler, beloved by gardeners , but destructive to the northern hardwood forest. If I could get my hands on the asshole that imported the starlings I would throttle the sumbitch. I guess we can’t have it both ways.
Eugene Schieffelin, president of the American Acclimatization Society, introduced the European starling (Sturnus vulgaris) to Central Park in 1890. He also introduced the house sparrow (Passer domesticus).
He died in 1906 and is buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, Lot 290, Section 10. Bring some cheese doodles – starlings and house sparrows love them some junk food – and toss them over his mausoleum.
The Portland Song Bird Club introduced them to the west coast about the same time. I haven’t been able to track them down.
I hadn’t realized the role played by nightcrawlers in encouraging the spread of invasive shrubs and trees into northern hardwood forests.
I learn something new every time I stop by this birdfeeder.
More and more Blacks are getting into watching White Bird watchers. These racists must be stopped!
Jars, you do know that bird-watching is s symptom of white privilege, don’t you?
Meanwhile, I think it’s time to start a “bird-watcher-watcher-watcher” organization. Ya know, to reduce involuntary participation in the “knock-out game”, and other undeserved blessings of diversity. After I start my vegetable rights group of course…
Blackbird
In the UK, birdwatchers are known as ‘twitchers’. I’m not sure if this is to do with twitching curtains to see them in the garden or of some other oriigin, but the term is gently mocking anyway.
Someone I knew decades ago had an unusual little foreign bird arrive in her small urban garden, on its way from Russia, if I remember correctly. She named it Olive, as it was greenish – I don’t remember what it was. Her husband was a keen twitcher, so he informed the local twitchers; club, who, of course alerted the twitcher world generally. Olive stayed in their garden for a couple of weeks and they had hundreds of twitchers from all over the place walking through her house to see their foreign drop-in, with my friend making tea for them all. Very British.
PS re vegetable rights, I’ve posted Roger McGough’s poem before, but here it is again. You could include it on your mission statement page.
Vegetarians are cruel, unthinking people.
Everybody knows that a carrot screams when grated.
That a peach bleeds when torn apart.
Do you believe an orange insensitive
to thumbs gouging out its flesh?
The tomatoes spill their brains painlessly?
Potatoes, skinned alive and boiled,
the soil’s little lobsters.
Don’t tell me it doesn’t hurt
when peas are ripped from the scrotum,
the hide flayed off sprouts,
cabbage shredded, onions beheaded.
Throw in the trowel
and lay down the hoe.
Mow no more
let my people go!
entomofago.eu/en/2016/03/15/vegetariani-di-roger-mcgough/
PS over here McGough is pronounced McGoff. 🙂
Go ahead, call me a “twitcher” for watchin’ birds. “I wear your scorn as a badge of honor.” (Bonus points if you can tell me who originally said that.)
I’ve been called a “tweaker” – although in reference to Photoshop, not crystal meth.
And I’ve been called – whatever that UK term for “fag” is – by some drunk limey at the New York Steakhouse in Doha (his wife didn’t agree…). He got thrown out – on his face. I didn’t.
And once that vegetable rights agenda takes root: the mineral rights agenda. “Oh my god! You’re eating clay?! You barbarian!!!”
I was just letting you in on a bit of British culture, BB – my personal opinion is that if you can’t trust a person who watches birds as a hobby, who the heck can you trust? But I believe some of the ones described as twitchers can be quite competitive.
Keep at it. 🙂
My favourite bird is the British garden wren (troglodytes troglodytes). Sadly it is so shy you rarely see it. Absence makes the heart grow fonder …
Alba, my favorite bird is the peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus). Has been since my mom and dad read with me The Peregrine (by J.A. Baker) at the age of 5.
I don’t know any parents who read to their kids, nor kids that read.
Your favourite bird would eat my favourite bird for breakfast, BB. Such is life …
Does your green ‘art also bleed green for the shy red squirrel, native to Britain, being displaced by the aggressive gray squirrel, an invader?
Do you think Edinburgh’s on the Thames estuary or something? Perhaps you’ve been listening to Dick van Dyke doing his turn in Mary Poppins. It wasn’t his finest hour.
It’s really a tragic tale both ways because of the damage that invasive species can inflict but then when you hear about eradication programs its sad because it isn’t their fault they hitched a ride so it’s tough. Life is hard I really wish there were hacks for this stuff lol.
Invasive species: Kill ’em all (ok, with a few lame exceptions that I can’t think of right now, but know I’m guilty of) – and have, for years, on the taxpayer’s dime, and off…
Wanna cry for the kudzu, and the Brazillian pepper, and the melaleuca? Go ahead. I’ll drown out your sobs with the roar of with my tractors and flamethrowers.
And… I knew that was a tegu crossing a levee in-front of me, down in Dade (not “Miami-Dade” – fags…) back in ’96. I tried to run it over, but it was too swift, and the canal was too near.
Never heard of Brown Widows.
On three seperate occasions in the past , though I have discovered Black Widow spiders , backed off , and kept my mouth SHUT.
Because I feared that if I said a word to anyone , they were likely to wind up dead.
Like I said , I never heard of Brown Widows before today.
In one case , the Black Widow was in a nasty crawl space , in the second under a refridgerator , in the third under a rock.
Humans , though , are control – freaks from Hell with a taste for sadism and murder ,
who would begrudge a crawl space , or the under side of a rock , even though they don’t even want it themselves.
And believe it or not I had noticed that Black Widows are not aggressive and keep to themselves .
But ,
Hype !
Hype !
Hype !
You could be Barney the Purple Dinosaur , or a Care Bear , but if some evil fuck is sharp enough to claim ,
” I’m afraid ! ”
You’re fucked.
On the other hand , given that , for the sake of candor and accuracy I should share another anecdote to balance out the picture.
My late brother and I had to work on some plumbing.
Unfortunately where the work had to be done was directly and unavoidably atop a Bumble Bee warren.
Bumble Bees are cute and fuzzy , also not particularly aggressive , also just want to be left alone.
But these Bumble Bees were determined to defend their home , and they were in the way.
So we marched straight to the Hardware store , bought our can of
Xyklon B ,
and launched Chemical warfare on their asses.
Oh well.
On the other hand , there are no doubt plenty of liberty – loving Americans whose reaction to my keeping quiet about Black Widow spiders constitutes felony reckless endangerment and indifference .
And I should go to that place they at one moment describe as a Hilton Hotel , the next moment they make jokes about prison rape.
So one of my most prized possessions is a Soviet Chemical Warfare troops patch.
I really do feel bad about gassing those Bumble Bees.
But occasionally I day – dream about Mustard Gassing those liberty – loving sons of bitches.
There is a brown recluse spider, gives a nasty bite. Was bitten by one some time back, took just a minute or two for the abominable arachnid to go belly up.
Kesa,
An odd dichotomy you describe. I make it a point to kill EVERY dangerous spider I come upon…and will spend time, money and untoward effort doing so. The bees however? I was using a stump grinder on a large stump in one of my fields and came across a bumble bee nest…. Stopped work and did not continue until the year after the discovery…they do not live more than one year.
Your concern for the spiders is misguided. They hide in dark places because they fear the righteous…They fear the wrath of the lord. This is in the Bible somewhere…you could look it up.
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Time to thank the poster for revealing this to us. I will if you won’t.
The Spider People of Zantos 7 aren’t going to like your attitude.
The Summarizer will inform them.
Jarek,
Gold eagle or filthy postcards from France makes no difference. When they are sold a 1099 is generated…it is not a profit or loss statement. The document is generated and transmitted to the IRS. It is up to the seller to then acknowledge the sale convince the IRS that the reported items were sold at a loss. I have been audited by the IRS twice.
No change both times. Q will tell you how unusual this outcome is.
Citing merchants of the metals as a source for IRS rules and regulations is…contraindicated.
The spider people from Zantos 7 can kiss my big black ass. They know where I stand and sense my power. I deny them my essence.
Jarek is correct, as I said before.
Here is a complete list of 1099B reportabel coins from APMEX, the largest bullion wholesaler in the country.
apmex.com/faq/tax-information-on-gold-silver-buying
What items are IRS-reportable items?
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Gold 1 oz Krugerrand as minted Twenty-five (25) 1 oz coins
Gold 1 oz Maple Leaf as minted Twenty-five (25) 1 oz coins
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Black widows only bite if you accidently start squashing them and yes, I got bit by one. Nasty pus-filled infected crater that took years to disappear. The widow was behind a piece of equipment at work so I could not see it.
In the house they are killed outside the house I leave them alone as long as they are up high enough children or animals can’t get to them.
That’s good to know. Had a pregnant one living in my outdoor lantern, and she had to be moved, which probably didn’t bode well for her (although I hope she survived). They are truly beautiful, but I guess you might not think so if you were bitten by one.
I had to move another as she was on the ground and I didn’t want my dogs getting bitten.
benr,
Only if you accidently start squishing one? What if you are doing it on purpose? I have never been bitten.
I had a co-worker who liked to hunt. He killed just about anything.
But damned if he didn’t shelter a nest of rattlesnakes from being discovered by anyone but him.
Said they were endangered, so he wanted to protect them.
I was impressed.
Paula,
If I found a rattlesnake den, I would hide the information also…but for different reasons.
“…but for different reasons.”
ely: “Yeah, I’ll hold yer beer. Heh, heh, heh!”
I was backpacking in one of the more remote Yosemite-like valleys of the Sierra. One afternoon a rattlesnake came through my campsite. It was between 6 and 7 ft. long and judging by its rattle a good 12 years old. It went about its business never being less than 20 ft away. He wasn’t bothering me and I was content to admire him as he went on his way. Not sure if he even noticed us.
What happened to those aggressive killer bees as big as hummingbirds we were warned about in the middle of the ‘Pandemic’ about 2 years ago? Purportedly, they were on the west coast, poised to move east across the country. It was a big story for about a week, haven’t heard anything about the bee menace since.
BRH, I do believe you might be conflating/confusing the killer bee scares of the early aughts with the MURDER HORNET scare of 2019 or so. I think the plandemic replaced that one.
I think you are correct Mary ~ Murder Hornets lol.
Throwing a scare into everyone allergic to hornet stings.
You know what is scarier? The Republican party, An entire political party of gun loving, science denying, intolerant insurrectionists hell-bent on whitewashing our history, dismantling our democracy and stripping away our fundamental human rights…
I think you may be confusing the Republican party with Pfizer?
No covid statistics for this winter at all. What happened!?
It was dropped and they are hoping we forget ALL about it. If we are wise, we will not.
BRH,
The Killer Bee map of the US…coming to a neighborhood near you….
https://www.google.com/search?q=killer+bee+map&source=hp&ei=9Q8RZNHVHa6q0PEPtdqgsAM&iflsig=AK50M_UAAAAAZBEeBdO_hb7FCTgI0oPCJgtS73NKjskz&oq=killerbee+map&gs_lcp=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&sclient=gws-wiz#imgrc=gAUyyubSEZtEhM
Why is the link so long? Ain’t my fault, coach….
Haven’t seen or heard of any here in the Land of Enchantment yet.
Now Killer Gophers…
Brown widows have been in California for over a decade.
The egg sacks on black widows are smooth and the brown widow egg sacks are spiky looking like old school Naval mines.
Wow, that is so amazing and so crazy to think that a troublemaker from the British Isles invented money! This story seems to repeat itself in different areas apparently, or at least rhymes with others. I had no idea of this interesting little factoid and must read more about it. Thank you so much for the historical aside Mr. K!! It is just something else how the universe just eventually centers itself around your lived experiences. I suppose it makes sense that the French were ultimately destroyed by the allure of riches and wealth and fun in the New World. But then again, what do you really think life would be like sandwiched between English barbarians and brutal German mercenaries? In the current times it just seems like we are stuck in an unforgiving loop. Probably because everything is under the control of deeply unstable and frankly strange individuals. It’s like the saying stupid people win stupid prizes. So it seems like there will be a lot of pain before things get better. I also think this is all being engineered to get digital currency in place too. But somehow I don’t think it will work the way the grand poobahs think it will. I pray every night that gum will get in their gears lol
” a troublemaker from the British Isles invented money! ”
” English barbarians ”
It wasn’t me !
SHE said it !
” brutal German mercenaries ”
😀
Hey , I like that !
Lol.
Reminds me of another Stanley Kubrick film I love.
” I don’t look down on *****,
****,
****,
or ****** !
To me , you are all equally worthless ! ”
Now imagine R . Lee Ermey in a Picklehaube instead of a campaign hat.
Lol oh yes. Well. A Picklehaube changes everything. For the better in my estimation as well. Some quandaries can be metamorphosed into cinches. It really is a matter of mind. Those states of wellbeing and all 😉
Back in the day, France seemed to go bankrupt a lot. I believe after their attempts to build a RR line across the Sahara Desert in the late 1870s, and the entire expedition including the army, engineers, and laborers got wiped out to the man by Taurec tribesman, France was ruined financially. Then not long afterward when French efforts to build the Panama Canal failed, the govt went bankrupt again.
Do not forget about Vietnam. We told them “Just sit down in that chair right there and let me show you how it’s done”.
They backed Dixieland with thier l’argent?The dix is a French ten…
Can you even begin to imagine how hot and stuffy it would be on a train in the middle of the Sahara? So silly lol!
” Back in the ol’ days, a couple of weeks ago, it was considered very, very important for the US to save Ukraine’s robust democracy.
But now we’ve moved on. ”
I was wondering about that.
When my browser fires up there is a news feed , whether I like it or not.
Four days ago I noticed there is NOT even a SINGLE story about Ukraine.
But who knows why ?
It could be that the algorithms have figured out that , yes , I’m very interested in the war ,
but , NO , I’m NOT fucking interested in ANYTHING they have to say about it.
Give me a NON – Western source , or fuck off.
So they fuck off ?
But then there is the simple explaination ,
what I constantly bitch about.
You Westerners want to order everyone around in their own kitchen ,
which might not be so bad …..
( it is though )
except you don’t actually give a fuck about those people .
So the reason there aren’t any Ukraine stories is simply because , as usual , you got bored with it.
Back to police dramas ,
the peoples court ,
and porn . ( except you don’t call yours ” prurient interest ” . )
Yes, we must increase our ability to notice what is not there. Covid? Gone.
No doubt they realize Ukraine is going to increasingly unpopular, but they are unwilling to give it up. Covid is a potential disaster they hope we will forget about. But of course, a smashing success in reducing the global population via the slow vax genocide.
“Covid” needs to go to ground before those long-term effects start popping up like dandelions. Then “Climate Change” and “white Nationalism” can take the blame.
Yeah, the news dropped it, but I just got a notification that the US sent a drone over the Black Sea and a Russian jet collided with it.
Funny that they reported that, but not that the US sent a bomber towards St. Petersburg the other day, only turning around at the last minute.
The Russians would have been within their rights to shoot down that plane.
How long can we depend on their sanity to keep us all alive?
For those interested in the topic of e-fuels for combustion engines (something I have brought up a few times here):
Ex-racer and presenter Tim Schrick and legendary rally driver Walter Röhrl discuss how e-fuels will allow us to keep driving combustion engine-based vehicles.
It’s in German, but for those who don’t understand it, there is an option for a rough Google translation in the subtitle menu.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec5EaREEWKU
Zero point energy and Tesla science is my thing. All good tho.
The attempt to outlaw combustion engines is rather a pressing issue, I would say.
Particularly when there appears to be little to no reason to do so beyond the desire of the Great Reset psychopaths to push everyone into 15-minute cities with no personal transportation.
Sounds like controlled ghetto or a designer concentration camp.
What if we were all ChatGPTs?
There was a racist one a couple of years ago. They killed “her”. So it wouldn’t change anything.
Good News! Dow Futures roaring back, up 260 pts.
Very little on CNBC (Your Business Channel!) about the collapse of Signature bank 24 hours ago, the 3rd worst bank failure in US history. Next to nothing about the two bank failures last week. That’s yesterday news, time to move on.
Roaring back but mostly vicarious.
New money!
Ah those pesky Merchants of Venice (WEFers) The money changers Jesus kicked out of the temple way back when.
Today’s column reminded me of Clinton’s NAFTA (actually a product of George H.W.Bush and the Uniparty), when teams arrived and unbolted the machines from the factory floor.
Bill even managed to convince the soon-to-be-unemployed workers to explain how the machines worked before they were shipped to the new overlords in China, (now that took some cojones from Bill and the Uniparty).
While Bill was busy mansplaining about his DNA on a certain blue dress, he said he didn’t inhale and that we would all become millionaires mowing lawns and delivering Taco Bell. Definitely not the good old days.
Thank You JHK, I look forward to Monday and Friday. Your recent interview with Mel-K was inspirational.
JHK was declared a veritable “Virtuoso of the English language” by a Russian man called Andrey. No small praise.
As usual Mr. Kunstler hits it out of the ball park with this essay. Unfortunately, nothing is going to be done to the grifters and scum who have bankrupted us as long as there is a Government structure.
It all has to come down for any change to begin. It all has to be destroyed in order for justice to come upon the heads of the creatures who stole everything from all of us.
Unfortunately, the American Government is still very powerful and very much mobilized against its people and the people themselves are stupid, decadent, lazy, fat and distracted by entertainment and lust.
We are doomed to have some rough times. I can at least grow a potato.
Funny stuff! Enjoy:
Lulz from the SVB Website
“Since I entered Friday massively short, and have zero buying power left, I was bored enough to wander over to a place I’ve never been in my life – – the Silicon Valley Bank website – – and take a look around.
I thought I’d share some nuggets from there, since, for the moment, the website is still up and running. As you might guess, since this is a financial institution, it is absolutely SLATHERED with virtue-signaling. Indeed, there’s not a white male to be found anywhere except for their actual senior leadership page, which is the kind of do-as-I-say-not-as-I-do hypocrisy rampant in modern American corporations, particularly banks.”
https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/lulz-from-the-svb-website
Good stuff.
I also see that the assault on punctuation continues across the entire woke corporate and banking landscape; the part about “wellbeing” made me chuckle. I also noticed the lack of the good old oxford comma.
I find it amusing because this seems to be standard fare at all woke companies. Punctuation, like anything else that requires a smidgen of brainpower, is too complicated and not very inclusive.
I fight for the Oxford comma every chance I get. I do some editing and proofreading at work, so at least I get to correct their woke-speak a bit.
Yes, it’s gross what they are doing to the English language.
I confess I didn’t know what the acronym DEI was until yesterday!
“Wellbeing” – lol.
Don’t know if you’ve noticed it yet, but since the WH spokes-thing used the phrase “top of mind” all the professional class is using that now, too. It’s idiotic.
I should visit my woke, commie, frenemie and see how long it takes him to say, “top of mind”. He is a star virtue-signaler.
And don’t forget to “circle back” with us when you get a response!
Yes, “circle back” is another.
It will be interesting to see if frenemy says it. LOL!
Paddy, that’s a bridge too far…
How many dipsticks that say that have even read the book? Or know that it is a book? And a movie?
‘Stick, where do I get one of those Language Police badges?
Well said, Black. No matter how many of Woody’s honest workmen and how much sweat and blood is shed, nor even how good the materials used – if the bridge is not planned properly it will fall under the stress of use. Maybe even on the first day like that one the ladies built.
Things exist in the mind before they are manifested physically. Workmen just follow the wise or foolish plans of others. Some of them might be capable of planning, certainly something small. But a bridge? That of another order than just adding a deck or something.
Woody has to learn to value the highest castes.
From The Start; Couldn’t Care Less; Dog-Eat-Dog
From the get-go, I could care less, but I don’t, because it’s a doggy-dog world.
My bete-noir is “reach out” instead of simply “contact.”
“I’ll reach out to you in a couple of days.”
Really? Reach out and touch?
Please, don’t!
Just call or text or email.
I once had an automatic email response from Virgin Media, when an email of mine didn’t reach its recipient, which read ‘Sorry it didn’t work out’.
I felt like ‘reaching out’ and clobbering someone.
My bete-noir is “reach out” instead of simply “contact.” – Is land
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I recall back in the day when “reach out” began to become ubiquitous. I said to myself “whuts up with this reach out bullshit?”
“At the end of the day” used to be really popular. When my boss at the time used it as he was often wont to do, I’d always cut him off with “it’ll be 11:59:59 PM.” He failed to see the humor in that retort, although it did someone break him of the habit, at least in my presence.
On a related note, I’d like to nominate “back in the day”.
Even worse than people who attempt to communicate via clichés, are those who can’t even get the clichés correct.
But then again, I could care less. I really could, especially about that particular mangled cliché.
Frenemie uses that one. Phrases sound so much cooler when you leave a word or two out. Like putting buttons through the wrong holes, one pant-leg rolled up the other not, wearing your pants down below your ass, driving with the car door open, putting a bun between two hamburgers, that kinda thing…
I explained to frenemie his grammatical error. He still says “I could care less”. Ok, be stupid. You’re giving me a lot of material.
My husband hates “at the end of the day” the very most, Dis.
It’s like fingernails on a blackboard to him. And believe me, it’s still really popular, because he hears it all the time.
And now he has me cringing at it, also.
When my boss at the time used it – Disaff
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Yeah, bosses are such a pain in the ass. I had this one who would hear what was to him a new and unusual word and from that time forward he’d find a way to work it into all conversations until you wanted to scream.
And of course he would mangle its pronunciation. I refer to the word paradigm. He called it a perry-uh-dine. My eyes would roll back in my head so far I could see my brain.
although it did some
one[what] break him of the habit, at least in my presence. – Disaff===========
I’ve told the tale more than once of trying to break Peter of his habit of misusing the word prostrate as in “an enlarged prostrate” but it bears repeating. When he said the word (as Tony Soprano did in one episode) I said “No, no, Peter, THIS is prostrate,” (as I sprawled face down on the floor), “what you mean is the prostate which is a small organ down about here” (as I poked my lower gut area).
Needless to say my effort to correct Peter bore no fruit. I think he was amused that anyone could give a shit about such things.
I heard ‘at the end of the day’ was a football (soccer) expression, but I don’t know if that’s true.
Nightowl and the other morons on here love to just throw the word “Woke” around. You really are an idiot. None of you even use the word WOKE correctly. You don’t even know the actual definition of the word.
You guys always contradict yourselves too. Here above, you talk about the woke companies, they apparently don’t use punctuation because it requires brain power. So on one hand, you’re saying that Woke people are stupid. Yet, you also call the left the party of the Elites, who have gone to good colleges.
Your red states are the ones living off the government, the takers, the gimmees, the dumb ones who don’t use punctuation, the morons who believe every conspiracy theory they come across, they are the pedophiles, they are the racists, misogynists fucking snowflakes who are scared of disney lol and someone coming to take your stove LOL!!! So fucking funny!!! You guys are beyond stupid, yet you come here day after day so you can all pat each other on the back in this moronic echo chamber of lies.
Republicans can’t define what “Woke” means. It’s a boogeyman, like “CRT”, “Litter boxes in schools”, “Indoctrination” and “grooming”. They say Woke to scare people, To disttract them. To confuse them. To gaslight them. To cover for their intolerance and validate their hate. THE END.
Epic wokie meltdown.
Oh bless your little heart Maryq, So funny you thought that was a woke meltdown lol!! If wanting people to be able to love who they love makes me “woke”, then so be it. If wanting people to feel seen and safe in their own skin makes me “woke”, then so be it. If wanting my children to learn accurate history makes me “woke”, then so be it. If wanting this country to someday be the mosaic Jimmy Carter envisioned makes me “woke”, then so be it.
@ Kbird:
Well, what’s wrong with the “woke” ideology is pretty basic: It’s immoral. It promotes murder, inequality, harming children, the denigration of women, financial fraud, government fraud. totalitarianism, and an absolutely astounding level of lying.
You guys are pro-evil.
He’s also quite unhinged today. It’s hilarious.
Anthea, that is downright one of the stupidest things I’ve ever read. Let me guess, you are a religious zealot? Pro evil, give me a break. Pot, meet kettle. Again, you didn’t give a proper definition of the word “Woke”. Because you can’t. What you wrote is not a definition, it’s your feelings on what you THINK woke is. Come on now, go to websters dictionary and find the definition. Here, I’ll help you. “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues especially of racial and social injustice.” Ya, sounds downright evil! You know who is evil, YOU are… if you think that is evil, the evil person is YOU. Let me guess, I saw a woman in Florida yelling at a gay couple in a starbucks, that was probably you Anthea, go take your bible and run around scared of anything different than you.
@ MaryQueen:
Well, the level of bullshit you have to believe in order to be a leftist pretty much ensures insanity.
UP NEXT ON “FOX NEWS”
Woke banks which are employed by drag queens have been handing out fentanyl laced trans-M&M’s to kids they’ve groomed to identify as furries and indocrinated to hate their own whiteness, their country, their gas stoves and their washing machines”
Stay Tuned.
Once again, Anthea fails to give a true definition of the word “Woke”. Nobody from the party of “Hate” seems to be able to give a definition.
You defined it, bird.
Looking at everything through the lens of oppression, long after that oppression has been rectified. Or, in the case of the trannies, imaginary oppression to go along with the imaginary gender.
And the Woke love it! They are allies, doncha know?
That involves screaming at everyone who prefers to live in Reality, everyone who doesn’t want to be forced to use pervert’s Special Pronouns, everyone who doesn’t want exhibitionists to twerk at toddlers, everyone who doesn’t want to tell little white boys that they were Born Evil and will never be decent people.
Because……Racism and Toxic Masculinity.
You clearly love your self-identification as a Good Person, and it emboldens you to hurl abuse on everyone else here.
I have no doubt that in real life you also shout down speakers and attack women who don’t go along with your Woke ideology.
You know, cause you’re so good and all.
Paula D, you are clearly not living in reality. This was a doozy you wrote, let’s look at it :
“That involves screaming at everyone who prefers to live in Reality, everyone who doesn’t want to be forced to use pervert’s Special Pronouns, everyone who doesn’t want exhibitionists to twerk at toddlers, everyone who doesn’t want to tell little white boys that they were Born Evil and will never be decent people.”
I can see you’ve been following the scare tactics…Instead of spewing nonsense and lies full of scare tactics… why don’t you prove it with facts? The ONLY thing I will agree with you on in the above paragraph is the pronouns bit, It’s damn confusing and ridiculous in my opinion.
I don’t know how you can be so oblivious to the Woke mobs attacking those they don’t like.
The latest was last week, when students shouted down a judge invited to speak at Stanford LAW school. Future lawyers!
So he asked for an administrator to come and restore order and some assistant showed up and piled on with the students.
She did the thing where she defended free speech the way all Americans are supposed to do, but then told him “But not for you”.
” The students were particularly angry at Duncan for a 2020 opinion in which he refused to use a transgender sex offender’s preferred pronouns.”
That sex offender is probably in a women’s prison now, to boot.
Cause, you know, his “feelings” about his “true self” are more important that the feelings and actual safety of the women they put him in with.
And then an administrator of Stanford issued an apology to the judge and was also attacked by rabid Woke students.
news.yahoo.com/federal-judge-heckled-stanford-says-192633473.html
Twerking to toddlers and children.
youtube.com/watch?v=jkZujRnHWNA
And the CRT curriculum being forced onto little children teaches them that white children are born evil and black children are oppressed.
It ties into the trans because there are reported cases of white children deciding they are trans so that they can be the oppressed instead of the evil oppressor.
//nypost.com/2016/07/01/elite-k-8-school-teaches-white-students-theyre-born-racist/
Spot on Paula, but of course your proof will be ignored. That’s what Wokies do.
bird – Again, you didn’t give a proper definition of the word “Woke”. Because you can’t. What you wrote is not a definition, it’s your feelings on what you THINK woke is.
Huh. Please define MAGA for us.
Well said, Mary. You’re not going to have much of anything without White men. We fucking rock. Everyone else – not so much.
You’re going to be embarrassed when you read the whole article.
Hahahahaha!
We’re still waiting to hear what Jarek has ever invented, built or repaired.
He even tries to get out of watering his plants.
Talk about bathing in reflected glory.
The bitterness exudes from you. You never talk about your other nephew, the merely straight one.
You’re too funny. I’m guessing your wildly inaccurate readings of people’s emotions are one reason for your failings in a particular area. I just think you’re hilarious the way you go on about all the things men can do (which I don’t remotely deny) when you don’t do any of them.
And my gay nephew’s (macho) brother died 3 years ago.
I have two other nephews in Northern England from my other brother’s family. One’s an architect and the other a teacher of some sort. Three children between them. What other riveting facts would you like to know?
We know which one is your favorite. Women like men who are like women – because they don’t really like men per se.
Well, apparently Jarek didn’t get the Y chromosome. Otherwise he would be able to do stuff.
Division Through Diversity
For all we know (assuming we don’t), Jarek’s a so-called ‘dark woke lesbian’ being paid through woke government channels to act as a kind of flat comicbook racist character to help give the so-called ‘white’ men a bad/guilty name, disrupt online forums, and help the divisiveness along, in the name of diversity of course.
Then again, maybe everyone on here is some sort of AI chatbot and I’m the only real human left who thinks he’s talking to real people. 😀
So called White men, Za? This is hatred indeed since people who don’t exist have no rights.
Shame on you. You have betrayed your own philosophy, but that’s what anarchists do, right? The lure of being among the Woke is just to great for you, you marching zombie.
Ant just admits women can’t do stuff. She puts in gas lines so she’s a man.
Can’t stop laughing!!!!
Try not to be stupid, Jarek. Why haven’t I got a single gay friend, if I’m so partial to gay men? When you get desperate, you are ridiculous.
I know my gay nephew very little as an adult. I saw him once every few years as a child, because they don’t live anywhere near me. Same with his brother. His brother was difficult, a troubled and troublesome young man who caused his parents a lot of stress. Were it not for that stress my brother might still be here, but that’s life. I haven’t seen any of them since my brother’s and nephew’s joint funeral. Maybe this year I’ll get down to see my sister-in-law and my nieces.
There are aspects of your character, especially your need to imagine you know things about people, which are quite disturbing.
Jarek, has it ever occurred to you that there can exist both a square white peg and a round white peg?
King Louie liked tinkering with clocks more than he liked doing his royal duties.
Leonardo designed helicopters but never built any because the means to do so didn’t exist yet.
Which of these men was the better man, or the one acting appropriately? Louie, right?
Za: So now you’re saying we do exist? Which is it? Maybe we only exist when you need someone to blame or persecute?
You need to get your mind right, boy.
Square? Round? Do you mean good and bad? That’s a different question and one that I have already answered: Good and bad exist in all races. But the question is whether we exist or not. Why don’t you try and pin yourself down. Rectify yourself, asshole.
People are not your clones, Jarek, no matter how blinkered your perspectives are.
Okay, I watched a short part of “Everywhere, Everything all at once. Not understanding anything, I googled it to get the plot. I still had no idea what they were talking about. It labeled it as science fiction, I could not identify what it was.
I must be dumb about these modern movies that require an attention span of ten seconds. I have never seen such quick scene shifting ever in a movie or TV.
I am amazed that that mess was the best picture according to Hollywood.
Hmmm, I wonder who owns Hollywood now. Same as DC, or the NBA? Best picture, Best actress, both Supporting actors, and Best director. Holy cow, that puts it at the level of Ben Hur, or Gone with the Wind. And what a mess.
Did anyone understand what was going on after watching the movie?
Is this what the Chinese mind thinks is science fiction, the whole thing reminded me of an LSD trip movie.
You weren’t the only one, JAZ. And just what exactly do you know about LSD, anyway? AZ’s peyote country, allegedly.
Good morning DIs
Do you remember the movie, The Trip in the 60s I believe, about an LSD trip? It made a heck of a lot more sense than this year’s best picture.
Dis, It’s funny you mention peyote. I watched a documentary on mushrooms last night.That’s probably how I’ll watch all documentaries from now on.
Was it the Netflix doc on Shrooms, Peyote, LSD, and MDMA?
Or were you on Shrooms while watching a documentary?
Asking for as friend. Well, OK; I confess it was SSL, but I promised not to tell.
‘Twas just a ripped off meme.
“I am amazed that that mess was the best picture according to Hollywood.”
Agree.
There were good performances.
At first I the movie held my interest. But then it went so far off the deep end that I couldn’t follow it and became totally confused as new plot elements and special effects were thrown into the mix.
I think the problem is not that this was considered the best film but that there were so few genuine contenders that this one picked up the prize by default.
Entertainment’s audience are smartphone and iPhone addicted youths.
So that’s why the movies have to be like chaotic video games now to hold their attention.
Once again the K Man called it. Im speaking of last Fridays post Everything, All at Once. Had no idea it is a movie.
So a Chinese movie beat Black Panther: Wakanda Forever? What kind of evil racist disease spreading world do we live in? Where are the mostly peaceful urban infernos?
Yes Ive scrapped punctuation in an attempt to be hip. Pretty cool huh?
Nor did I. Hat Tip
One of them Daniles is from around here…
Alistair Crooke on the Lockdown Files response in the UK, and what it all means.
httpX://strategic-culture.org/news/2023/03/13/betting-all-on-hegemony-risking-all-to-stave-off-ruin/
You can’t go wrong investing a few minutes to read Crooke’s observations on the trajectory of hegemonic powers.
I remember a line (from these files) -” When do we deploy the new variant?”
So hard to believe. So dangerous not to.
The “official” coronavirus tracker STILL shows that the death rate from whatever cause of death they call covid19 is still 0.10%.
I notice it says coronavirus, not covid19 on that page. Which is I’m sure a sleight of hand, as there have always been coronaviruses around. But now they are counted.
AKA a regular cold.
Look at the DEATHS in RED so that you should be ALARMED.
So insane that anyone buys this crap.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
Biggest hoax in human history.
The UK DHSC said in July 2021 in an answer to Steve Baker MP that the IFR was ‘0.096%’, i.e. 0.1%. That was at the time of ‘Delta’ I think. Since then we’ve had steadily less fatal versions, including ‘Omicron BA2’ which gave me a just detectable sore throat for 4 days in April 2022.
I vaguely understand there may have been one called ‘BA5’ recently … what’s that? I ceased caring after I got my natural immunity a year ago.
0.1% now for a mix of common colds and Omicron sounds a bit economical with the truth. But that’s government and large predatory organisations for you.
Less fatal than a cold.
But yet, still a “pandemic.”
SMH that people fall for it.
Mary,
I agree with you about the coronavirus hoax. Not to be Q-ish, but I think the correct death rate is 1 percent. A percent of something is 1/100th of something. The worldometers figures show deaths to be around 6.8 million out of 680 million cases. That’s 1 out of a hundred cases or 1%, not 1 out of a thousand or .1%. Many people have trouble with writing percents.
BTB
Mary is right.
Look at the three year bottom line.
Population around 330 million.
1.1 million supposedly killed by Covid.
That is .3 %.
Now, remember that Covid itself, the virus kills almost no one. You have to been weakened by something else for the disease to getcha.
The corruption at the government hospital interface with Covid bonus dollars really lends doubt of how many people actually had Covid when they died.
Putting it altogether, the actual death toll from Covid is probably .1% or less.
That is the good news. The bad news is the PTB cruds are probably dreaming up something new.
“Putting it altogether, the actual death toll from Covid is probably .1% or less.”
I’d agree with that. In fact, I’d give it a more exact figure: 0%.
I had already x by 100. 0.01% x 100 to get the correct percent of .1%
Jim,
The shale oil debt that benefited from the low-interest will eventually be rolled over in to a higher yield market; this will affect new exploration and production activity.
We’ll finally get started on that Mars-Earth pipeline.
That has to e one heck of a pipeline, flexibility wise.
The closest Mars and Earth get is around 35 million miles when both are on the same side of the sun. When Mars is on the other side at its greatest distance, it is around 130 million miles away.
Oh yeah, there is that other problem to a pipeline. When Mars is way over there, there is a hot spot in the middle.
I chuckled when I read your comment and just had to retort in return.
JAZ, 35 million ~ 130 million miles.
Why is that I read the latest rover sent to Mars had to travel 144 million miles to get there?
You are right. Picture Mars and Earth, same side, in line with the sun. Closest approach 35 million and change. Now the Earth at the left extreme and Mars at the right extreme , ie 93 (Earth) plus 93 +35 (Mars). So the real distance is 220 million at the max. Still a pretty good distance.
When they shoot things at Mars, they have to figure the best distance and time the launch so that it gets to the optimal point in space, ie not 220 million. So they aim at where Mars will be so many months ahead.
Any more than that, Isaac Newton is the one to ask. Did you know that integral calculus was invented to describe the orbits of the planets?
I forgot 93 million that Mars would sit from the sun, on the other side. A mere bagatelle.
Beavis And Butthead Do The Universe
Hey guys, just sticking my head into this thread to let you know that I found out today that there’s a relatively-new film out that has good ratings, called, ‘Beavis And Butthead Do The Universe’.
Words of profundity from the movie:
Beavis: I am Cornholio! I need TP for my bunghole!
Beavis: [as Cornholio] No man is free while one bunghole is in chains!
Butt-Head: Beavis, you’re a dumbass.
Beavis: Heh, Bunghole
Butt-Head: You’re the Bunghole, buttwagon.
Study the mechanisms of a Ponzi scheme. The fracking industry is a perfect example. As the fields spread from the sweet spots, and the production per well drops, the Ponzi goes into insolvency. Not enough investors to carry the increasing debt load. With interest rates up, fracking dies.
“….they… behave in ways that are increasingly impossible to understand and contrary to human flourishing.”
This Eugyppius quote could easily describe todays pols and climate folk.
Meantime, Prada L’Homme cologne, 2 bags of Hershey’s chocolate, a spanking new Macy’s office shirt plus a big achievement – easily side-stepped the Covid 19 test for an upcoming conference.
Am def. a happy camper this week. Count your blessings…
Here is what Martin Armstrong says about banks:
“Now, many people have asked what is a small bank. They are typically local regional banks. The problem is if they just make decisions based on the talking heads on TV, then they will face tremendous problems ahead. To be diverse, for now into 2024, you may want to look at US T-bills 30-day to the 90-day max. Not every bank is in trouble. ***You should ask if they publish their portfolio.*** The big risk is that money was basically free, and they were investing that long-term. But as rates have risen, they have suffered losses as long-term has declined in liquidity thanks to Ukraine.”
About evil he said this:
“We must understand that things are far worse outside the United States geopolitically thanks to the Neocons who have done nothing but connive endless wars. ***They are ruthless evil people*** who have no problem sacrificing your family for their political aspirations. Short term, as they create World War III, the dollar will be the strongest currency as capital always flees from a conflict. ”
People are quite capable of being ruthless and evil without any recourse to belief in Satan. The “dark forces” are within (some) humans.
I wonder what’s with all the satanic rituals then and all the money and time that goes into putting them on, more and more every year?
vigilantcitizen.com
Sure, people do satanic rituals.
To me these activities do not indicate that Satan exists.
I didn’t say satan exists or doesn’t.
You said this:
“I wonder what’s with all the satanic rituals then”
“Then” implies an alternative interpretation.
It still says nothing about whether I believe there’s a satan or not.
Jeez, MQ, you totally miss my point.
I don’t know what cultural function satanic rituals have. Or the agendas of those who put them on.
They may believe in Satan. Or they may be tuning in to weird unconscious sadistic/masochistic desires.
Since I am not a satanist I can only guess. But I personally do not believe in the Devil as an entity somewhere out there in objective reality who can be conjured up or made to appear via a ritual or inducement of a trance or hypnosis. Or any supernatural forces whatsoever.
If you do hold this belief in supernatural forces, all I can say is: Good luck.
I haven’t ever said whether I do or not, but it’s funny watching you get all worked up about it.
Classic passive aggression from MQ. Islander’s brute American force meets the Viet Cong.
Ask MQ what she thinks the Satanic rituals do for those who participate in them.
Don’t assume there’s any there, there. Mary loves shibboleths and snarl words. She even still uses the word “racist”, believe it or not.
Of course she won’t define her terms or admit she believes in something. If she does the former, she will have to debate and be quickly bested. And if she admits she believes in something, she can be proven wrong – and she hates that more than anything as per her silence now about Elon Musk whom she used to slander endlessly.
online someone posted that their 14 year old son just died.
but didnt mention the cause of death.
RE: Banks.
They are doing what they did with the Covid Hoax lockdowns.
Crashing small and medium sized banks they control in order to trigger a bank run and force consumers to the megabanks.
This then paves the way to roll out the CBDC.
The worst thing people can do is trigger a bank run.
Same game, new day.
I suppose once that is done, they squeeze the credit unions?
I’ve thought about joining a credit union over the years. I don’t know much about them but it appears some (many?) are actually owned (or backed?) by High St banks.
According to David Scott at the UK Column, the cause of the meltdown is the sudden raising of interest rates. If I understand him correctly, this collapse was inevitable with the quick rise in interest rates.
If I understand him, banks that invested their deposits in 10-year Treasuries at low interest rates are trapped in these investments while depositors started withdrawing funds to invest in shorter-term treasuries.
Maybe I have this wrong. But Armstrong seems to suggest something similar in his advice to (1) check out banks’ actual portfolios and also his advice that (2) investors should themselves invest now in short-term (30- or 90-day) treasuries.
The David Scott segment is the first segment here:
httpX://www.ukcolumn.org/
Well worth a watch.
The current show that is up is from yesterday. Tomorrow afternoon a new show will be up at the site.
Bed Bath & Beyond closing 150 stores. The one near me is one of them. Just saw it when I went to the grocery store. Looks like stuff is really in flux. End goal, more mega-stores where they can control what we buy once digital currency is forced upon us.
LOL, you are hilarious. Such a big scary world out there in your teeny tiny little brain.
Still butthurt?
LOL.
LOL! Far from it Mary. Have you reached your maximum amount of comments for the day? I’m not sure who comments more, You or the Misogynist cunt Jarek. Do you do anything else, or is this your full time job? Are you being paid by Qanon to post your retarded opinions?
Why so hysterical?
funny that you call Jarek a misogynist cunt. or is cunt an endearing term?
Kbird, you and yours just slay me. You watch bad thing after bad thing occur, SVB the latest of many and you choose to ignore the obvious deterioration in our country. Father Joe is divine, cannot do anything wrong in your eyes, while the rest of us wonder when he is going to do something right.
You are obviously a Gimme, dependent on that damnable government, and afraid to think unkindly of your masters.
LOL, hang on Johnaz I literally can’t stop laughing!!!!! So Johnaz, I’m pretty sure you’re of retirement age…do you refuse your social security? I mean, that’s a government program…why don’t you return that money??
And no dear Johnboy, I’m not a gimmee, I’ve got a job I love, I actually love my job so much that if I won a billion dollars, I wouldn’t quit. I love it. But that’s beside the point. I’ve never said anything about Joe Biden, wait, no I have, I’ve said he’s too damn old. Now don’t go calling me ageist as you’re an old man too, it’s true tho. Seniors have a hard time getting a job at Walmart, but go ahead and run for the President. That includes your beloved Trump, he’s too damn old, period. There should be an age limit. And you should have to take a History test, guaranteed the majority of the Republican kooks in the house would fail. I can see the deterioration in our country, I can see that Republicans will hand a 6 year old a gun, send a 12 year old to work in a meatpacking plant, force a 10 year old to carry her rapists baby to term and allow a grown man to marry an 11 year old. But do go on about how its the Democrats who aren’t keeping our kids safe, won’t you.
AOC hiding in her office closet from Alex Stein.
Number one Social Security is MY money, not the government’s. Remember those taxes you pay to SSA, it is your money going into a retirement account, not to be spent on welfare. I will not return my money.
You are emotionally invested into the worst con game in history, the Deep State, AKA the federal government. Believing in them as any kind of authority is a fool’s game.
BTW, are you willing to pay your 100000 dollars to liquidate the national debt, I am not. When you retire, you will face something I haven’t, a decreasing pay out from SSA. You will have to count on your pensions, if there are any, and other savings plans, if the DS has not absconded with them, and you will find out the government has spent away your future.
You will also have no where to go, no place to escape the tomfoolery that will exist here. Your faith in this federal government taking care of you will be destroyed as it slowly rolls over and dies.
BTW, I agree with you relative to the age of our leaders, as they can be manipulated too easily by the various idiotic lobbying groups in DC. Common sense increases to a certain age then deteriorated it seems. You will undoubtedly vote for Biden in 2024, no matter the opposition, so enjoy watching your money and future get destroyed by wasteful government spending on welfare buying votes.
Oh yeah, by the way. Republicans do not hand out guns, parents do, if 12 year olds are working, it is because liberal policies have forced their families into poverty. Proof of that statement is the condition of the bastion of liberalism, the cities, the dumping ground for the economic losers and the bluest areas. Homelessness, the signal of a deteriorating economy, is rising quickly. BTW, the Democrats do not give one damn about kids, families., etc. If they did, they would not allow the perverts to distort all those kids you mention.
Abortion will never be settled. One side says, It is my right to control my body, the other sees it as murder. THAT will never be settled, and it does not divide per party.
Come get yer boy, Kdog.
Everyone watch this:
httpX://consortiumnews.com/2023/03/14/watch-sy-hersh-at-press-club-tonight-live/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=650381da-0f2c-4b52-9003-f7fe7009d41d
Another sign of the Apocalypse;
You may think that the spider story would be a sign…but you would be wrong;
https://www.google.com/search?q=killer+bee+map&source=hp&ei=9Q8RZNHVHa6q0PEPtdqgsAM&iflsig=AK50M_UAAAAAZBEeBdO_hb7FCTgI0oPCJgtS73NKjskz&oq=killerbee+map&gs_lcp=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&sclient=gws-wiz#imgrc=gAUyyubSEZtEhM
The link* takes you to a report that Moody’s…one of the big three rating agencies, has rated the ENTIRE US banking system to negative….
What does this mean? I have no idea, other than it probably is bad….
* Apoligize for the long link…it ain’t my fault, coach….
…Sorry for the error, the correct link is;
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/spencerbrown/2023/03/14/major-rating-service-downgrades-us-economic-outlook-to-negative-n2620582
Encouraging.
Tiny URL (at tinyurl.com) can fix those long links for you.
So can deleting the question mark and everything behind it. 😉
Omg this link is like disrupting the page for me what is happening at this point lol
Honduras will seek to establish diplomatic ties with China
The Honduran Women are even more beautiful.
Enron to infinity
Not too worry, we have Pres. Biden, Sen. Fetterman, Sen. Feinstein & Sen. McConnell at the helm ~ stalwart, robust leadership showing us the way. They’ll be directing things from the rest home, the hospital, or in Fetterman’s case, the morgue.
The dustup between two Russian fighter jets and a USAF drone over the Black Sea doesn’t bode well for any future resolution of the conflict on the eastern front. Just the opposite actually. It won’t take too many more incidents like this one to ramp up hostilities between the USA & Russia. One wonders, what was a NATO drone doing over the Russian coast over the Black Sea? Yes, international waters, just like the Gulf of Mexico is international waters. What would the US response be if China or Russia were operating drones on the Gulf Coast?
That Reaper drone, (supposedly in international airspace) collecting information and supporting Ukraine against Russia, does that make it a combatant? Fair game? Didn’t we just shoot down a Chinese balloon? DOD says the SU-27 made contact with the prop on the Reaper. Looking at a Reaper the only way the plane hits the prop is with the nose of the plane and there’s no way that would ever work without bringing the plane down.
Yeah, I can’t see how an SU-27 could hit the prop of the drone and still make it home. Also, I’m not sure (can’t find the info) whether the SU-27 can fly as slow as the Reaper (top speed: 300 mph, cruising speed 194 mph) without falling out of the sky. Sure, the SU-27 can execute the “Cobra” maneuver – yeah, try using that against a slow speed drone taking (I assume) evasive action.
As usual, what comes from the mouth of DC doesn’t add up.
The “official” US story says that the drone was damaged by the evil Ruskies and that the brave drone pilot decided to intentionally crash it. Hmmm…
Here’s what I think might have happened:
Drone pilot, hung over from a late night at the strip club, jittery from an overdose of Red Bull, complains to his master: “Hey, these commie fags are fucking with me!” Somewhere up the chain of command some dipshit with a chestful of medals for heroic paper-pushing decides, “Let’s make an incident out of this. Crash the drone and blame the Russians.”
And just think, next year is going to be even stupider! And the next…
“What would the US response be if China or Russia were operating drones on the Gulf Coast?”
As long as the drone is ferrying loads of illegal aliens: “Come on in!”
“International waters”. I wish I could post photos here.
It was right off the coast of Crimea. And the Russians have noted that every time one of those drones loiters there, it is followed by a “Ukrainian attack” on Crimea.
They were well within their rights to down it, however they did it.
On MoA people were speculating that the pilot flew close and tipped his wings (?) or something like that, causing turbulence which would disrupt the flight of the drone.
Apparently it has been done with planes before.
The tipping scenario makes the most sense to me. It was a popular technique in WWII for causing V-1 flying bombs to go out of control and crash. And much safer than attempting to shoot one down – that 850 kg warhead made a big boom.
However, V-1s were a point and shoot weapon. A Predator drone has some dipstick at the controls, who just might crash the drone into a Russian fighter plane if it got too close. This also makes the propellor story unlikely.
Well, the other theory is that the Russian pilot dumped some fuel in front of the drone, which caused the engine to overheat and the drone jockey to lose control.
I’m not a pilot or an engineer, so I don’t know how to properly evaluate these scenarios.
Okay, Blackbird, this is what the Russians say:
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – US drone MQ-9 fell into the Black Sea on Tuesday morning due to its own sharp maneuvering, Russian fighters did not come into contact with it and did not use weapons, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
“As a result of sharp maneuvering around 09:30 Moscow time [06:30 GMT], unmanned aerial vehicle MQ-9 went into an uncontrolled flight with a loss of altitude and collided with the water surface. The Russian fighters did not use airborne weapons, did not come into contact with the unmanned aerial vehicle and returned safely to their home airfield,” the ministry said.”.
So it sounds like the dipstick at the controls of the drone fucked up his response to something the Russians did.
That is how I read that.
The Sputnik account seems the most plausible I’ve heard so far.
My current theory:
Dipstick at the controls was told by dipstick with the cabbage to “crash the fucker”. Then we can blame the goddamned Rooskies for killing one of our heroic robots.
But I do like the dumping fuel idea. If I had been one of the pilots, that’s probably what I’d have done. Go ahead, court-martial me.
I am more ashamed of/embarrassed for my country every day.
FYI: (another comment at MoA).
Many here think a “pilot” is commanding with a jot stick, like an extended video game. That is not the case. UAS’s fly by way point. The controller sets a series of way points that the UAS follows by using inertial navigation and GPS.
Why is this? As UAS got larger, their range became greater. The larger the range, the larger the time lag between ground controller input and aircraft response. This was the huge drawback for early attempts at UAS.
So a ground controller could not have made a sudden action that caused an uncontrolled dive, etc.
Second. UAS have really shitty situational awareness. Their function is to scan ground territory, not the airspace around them. The UAS and ground controller would not have any idea that they were in front of, next to, or even below another aircraft unless that was provided by an external source, like an AWACS or JSTARS. So unless the other aircraft flew UNDER the UAS, it wouldn’t report it to the ground controller. So an adversary can easily knock one around with a combination of air stream disruption or exhaust impact.
Third. Duration vs maneuverability. UAS designed for long term flight have very efficient aerodynamics and engines. But that is tuned for steady flight with no hard maneuvers. As such, they are sitting ducks for any generation jet fighter.
Fourth. Survival. Modern large UAS have survival modes. If signal from ground station disappears (jamming, terrain, etc) the software places it into a safe mode with a stable flight. If there is a time out on signal re-implementation, then there is a return to home function. If GPS is lost (or jammed) then inertial nav along with baro altimeter allow it to function in a degraded mode. Even a loss of GPS and ground station signal, it will still fly back to an area near home base.
So, barring any EW effects on the flight computer system, there are only a few way to bring a UAS down.
a. Weapons impact – stated as not used here.
b. engine failure – possible if fuel was added into jet engine, causing a fire or an engine stall.
c. disruptive aerodynamics – exhaust blast – possible, but maybe only for short moments
d. other impacts – I go with this one. A wing tip to wing tip “quick flip” would do it. As the UAS fly slow compared to a jet. lining up the tips would be easy. Getting a foot away or so, then a quick roll maneuver (by the jet) would provide an opposite roll to the UAS, faster than the flight control computer could handle, and not having the best control surfaces, would be unable to get out of. Once rolled 90 degrees, all the aerodynamics are messed up, and it goes into a dive. Since the ground controller doesn’t have joy stick control, they would rely on on board software to fight the dive.
I’m with Blackbird on this. I just think who is known for being a liar here, us or Russia. Used to be there was no question. Now with Joe and the mob lying about everything, credibility stands with Russia.
I did not know that – although I’m sure the Russian pilots did.
Had I been one of those Russian pilots, I’d have fucked with that thing in every way possible. And I’d recommend all Russian pilots do likewise.
In pre-Pearl Harbor WWII, DC did not complain when the Germans shot down and killed or captured American members of the Eagle Squadrons flying for the RAF. In fact, for entering a conflict in which the US was not involved, Eagle Squadron pilots lost their citizenship – something many weren’t aware of until they applied for Social Security benefits many decades later.
But we were a different country back then…
These wokies all think they are number one.
LGBTQ1 – gonna be awkward.
Uh oh, Swiss banking giant Credit Suisse might go down, will need a massive govt. bailout to keep it afloat.
Remember, just a year ago, when the USA & the EU laid heavy sanctions on Russia, with the expectation (promise) that the Russian economy would collapse? Something else seems to be happening, and the results aren’t what one might expect.
US Dollar down 17% against the Russian Ruble YOY. I’d say the sanctions are working well, for Russia!
LOL, right?
They were salivating about the ruble being rubble, and the ensuing pain and misery they were going to inflict on the Russian people.
Ooops.
” What other riveting facts would you like to know? ”
That’s the rub , isn’t it ?
Two possibilities at least 98% of the time ;
1 . One minute and twenty seconds into your 800 page sob story , a sub – section of your 5,000 page sob story , their eyes are glazing over and they really fucking wish they had not asked.
2 . They do not have a good reason for wanting to know. You are talking to the Stasi.
Interesting and random facts that you may find fascinating:
There is a species of jellyfish that is biologically immortal, meaning it can potentially live forever.
The shortest war in history was between Britain and Zanzibar in 1896, which lasted only 38 minutes.
The largest snowflake ever recorded was 15 inches wide and 8 inches thick, and fell in Fort Keogh, Montana in 1887.
The longest word in the English language has 189,819 letters and is the chemical name for the protein Titin.
The world’s oldest piece of chewing gum is over 9,000 years old.
The tallest tree in the world is a coast redwood in California named Hyperion, which stands at 379.7 feet tall.
The world’s largest snow maze is located in Warren, Vermont and covers over 2 acres.
A group of flamingos is called a flamboyance.
The longest distance a person has ever walked without stopping is 4,000 miles from South Africa to Cairo.
The first computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1963, and it was made of wood.
The so-called “immortal jellyfish” (Turritopsis dohrnii), can, after reaching maturity, return to its larval stage and begin the journey again. Does this mean it is immortal? I don’t think so. Are rechargeable batteries “immortal”? No, eventually they wear out.
When I read a description of the lifecycle of Turritopsis dohrnii, it appears to me that what is taking place is vegetative reproduction. But that’s boring. Here in comic book land we need excitement and hyperbole, so “Immortality!” it is.
Back when I first started using a PC, I read that the plural of the (computer) mouse was ‘mouses’. I don’t know if that’s still the case, as it’s not something one hears in conversation.
I believe the optical mouse was invented by Steve Krisch, now famous as an ‘anti-vaxxer, misinformation super-spreader’ and president of the Vaccine Safety Research Foundation.
Kirsch
” Yeah, the news dropped it, but I just got a notification that the US sent a drone over the Black Sea and a Russian jet collided with it. ”
It doesn’t hurt my feelings for the subject to drop to page 2 , or page 14.
Not a rich source for me to mine on CFN.
I reckon I would be bound to make some serious emotional enemies.
Like ;
” the US sent a bomber towards St. Petersburg the other day, only turning around at the last minute. ”
I would have shot it down.
“the US sent a drone over the Black Sea and a Russian jet collided with it. ”
I hope the jet pilot is Ok. A pity it was a drone and not manned.
Then again , if It had been manned and the guy got killed , for the next 20 years I get to hear sermons about how I owe this mercenary my entire existence , when he signed up for a much better benefits package than at least half the population gets , in worse jobs.
” The Russians would have been within their rights to shoot down that plane.
How long can we depend on their sanity to keep us all alive? ”
Preaching to the choir ?
According to me the United States would have been incinerated decades ago , except that as Communists or as capitalists , it was the Russians who were sensible and reasonable.
Drones are expendable No doubt it was there to prompt some shit just like this so DC can play the victim card, as is their habit.
KesaAnna, I have always assumed that the Russians are “sensible and reasonable” in large part because their country was torn apart so terribly, and twenty million of its citizens killed, in yet another invasion.
Whereas, Lana the Free and Homer the Brave is, well, “invulnerable”. Protected by two wide oceans.
Or at least that is the “looking backward” thinking of the gringos.
Nobody wants to get bombed. The world’s most active pacifists are the Japanese, who have had the hell bombed out of them.
I would say the Russkys are basically “pacifists” as well, until they let themselves get sucked into some family quarrel like Syria or Afghanistan.
My brother, on potential retaliation after the October 1962 crisis: “The only danger to our aircraft would have been from them running into each other”.
Michael Hudson on what is going on with banks:
“The collapses of Silvergate and Silicon Valley Bank are like icebergs calving off from the Antarctic glacier. The financial analogy to the global warming causing this collapse is the rising temperature of interest rates, which spiked last Thursday and Friday to close at 4.60 percent for the U.S. Treasury’s two-year bonds. Bank depositors meanwhile were still being paid only 0.2 percent on their deposits. That has led to a steady withdrawal of funds from banks – and a corresponding decline in commercial bank balances with the Federal Reserve. . . .”
Read the rest here:
httpX://www.defenddemocracy.press/why-the-banking-system-is-breaking-up/
The CBDC idea involves eliminating commercial banks. Hmmmm . . .
Well, one thing for certain, the FDIC limit of $250,000 per depositor means nothing, specially if you are big contributors to the Dem party. I think tech companies knew all along any losses would be made good; they weren’t worried, the US treasury had their back.
As for you ~ a mere prole ~ go ahead and miss a quarterly payment on your income tax account, see what happens.
I’d prefer that to incinerating the whole country [ KA ].
Hudson winds up with this:
“There is now a flight to “cash,” to a safe haven – something even better than cash: U.S. Treasury securities. Despite the talk of Republicans refusing to raise the debt ceiling, the Treasury can always print the money to pay its bondholders. It looks like the Treasury will become the new depository of choice for those who have the financial resources. Bank deposits will fall. And with them, bank holdings of reserves at the Fed.”
I think that is more or less what Martin Armstrong said. Buy short-term Treasuries.
My question, though, is why have people kept money in banks at all, since they pay such low interest and have been doing so for over a decade?
Liquidity. One step above cash under the mattress. Plus you need to keep a certain balance to avoid being fee’d to death.
“a certain balance” doesn’t mean all of one’s money.
And, why would liquidity suddenly be less important now to people who have more than $250,000 in their bank accounts?
Because, for an instance, they glimpsed the possibiltiy of making 5% on a one-year CD!
So, obviously, if everyone does this, where are banks supposed to get the money to pay the interest if their own investments are locked in at lower to zero rates?
It looks like this “zero interest” policy for the past 15 years was a big mistake.
A lot of people put their money into the market, including people with IRAs, so that must have had a big negative effect on the balances of savings and other commercial banks.
Most people would prefer a regular gain of 4% than a gamble on maybe making 4% in growth and dividends (while paying a financial “manager” or “advisor” 1.5% to manage the account) . . .
Seems like the whole economy has become addicted to free money/credit.
Maybe Powell should have come up with some kind of “drip” method whereby higher rates were “dripped” into the economy gradually, rather than the whole shebang being forced to go cold turkey on free credit . . .
Seems like the whole economy has become addicted to free money/credit.
That’s certainly true. When in Rome and all that…
The Fed was like the Las Vegas house feeding free chips to the gamblers to keep the game going.
Remember what happened to Stephan Paddock when the house got tired of comping him food and rooms.
Sooner or later they pull the plug.
“Remember what happened to Stephan Paddock when the house got tired of comping him food and rooms.”
Yeah, the US government hired him.
at 4.60 percent for the U.S. Treasury’s two-year bonds. – Islander
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Two year instruments are called notes, not bonds. I don’t know why. Google “what is the difference between bonds, notes, and bills?”
A rose by any other name etc. etc.
Cue the Pied Piper’s flute (the MSM),
Leading the rats and children (the naive) away.
Out of the banks (Hamelin) and into central bank digital currency
Remember the fable.
The three survivors:
-deaf: could not hear the misinfo
-blind: could not follow the misinfo
-cripple: unable to follow the misinfo
As the prayer says:
I long to see thee more clearly
Love thee more dearly
Follow thee more nearly
Day by day.
They didn’t pay his fee for getting rid of the rats, so he took their children. Where? No one knows.
He was probably an ET who was going to save Europe from the Black Plague, but then realized they weren’t worth saving.
Re: Money Troubles
In my humble opinion a way forward is right at our national doorstep: The International Monetary Fund!
From their Website — wisdom worth pondering:
“Unlike development banks, the IMF does not lend for specific projects. Instead, the IMF provides financial support to countries hit by crises to create breathing room as they implement policies that restore economic stability and growth. It also provides precautionary financing to help prevent crises. IMF lending is continuously refined to meet countries’ changing needs.
The causes of crises are varied and complex. They can be domestic, external, or both.
Domestic factors include inappropriate fiscal and monetary policies, which can lead to large current account and fiscal deficits and high public debt levels; an exchange rate fixed at an inappropriate level, which can erode competitiveness and result in the loss of official reserves, and a weak financial system, which can create economic booms and busts. Political instability and weak institutions also can trigger crises.
External factors include shocks ranging from natural disasters to large swings in commodity prices. Both are common causes of crises, especially for low-income countries. With globalization, sudden changes in market sentiment can result in capital flow volatility. Even countries with sound fundamentals can be severely affected by economic crises and policies elsewhere.”
But wait! There’s more!
“Financial crises stem from illiquid or insolvent financial institutions…
Fiscal crises are caused by excessive deficits and debt.”
Why hasn’t anyone in D.C. thought of this?
Because the Deep State controls its power by spending. The Gimmes of the control who are in control now would have a fit if DC ever tried fiscal integrity. The IMF will never invest in he US with its current immature attitude about fiscal policy.
Except for the fact that the IMF is a de facto arm of US foreign policy.
Yes, the IMF is a tool for the US to rape other countries. The US can rape itself without any outside help, thank you.
Thank you, Dis and Black!
Seriously, the IMF? Complete with the expected IMF riot, when the “structural adjustment” required by the bankers lead to widespread poverty, misery, unemployment and hunger?
They literally plan for the riots that ensue when you throw a population into poverty in order to pay back the bankers.
Personally, I think they have been IMFing us for decades already.
Because the globalist are engineering this crisis to distract for the mrna genocide and ukraine genocide?
You can bet they have thought of that.
Crunching popcorn, waiting to see if these banking crises are a total orchestration, and if so, what for exactly (okay, digital currency yeah yeah, but how exactly, or just to take out crypto in preparation?).
CBDC
Not sure who really created Bitcoin or why they did so.
digital will be the way we must go.
Gus and Mal:
Hudson (linked above) on crypto:
“Silvergate was the first to go, but it was a special case. It had sought to ride the cryptocurrency wave by serving as a bank for various currencies. After SBF’s vast fraud was exposed, there was a run on cryptocurrencies. Investor/gamblers jumped ship. The crypto-managers had to pay by drawing down the deposits they had at Silverlake. It went under.
“Silvergate’s failure destroyed the great illusion of cryptocurrency deposits. The popular impression was that crypto provided an alternative to commercial banks and “fiat currency.” But what could crypto funds invest in to back their coin purchases, if not bank deposits and government securities or private stocks and bonds? What is crypto, ultimately, if not simply a mutual fund with secrecy of ownership to protect money launderers? . . . “
Normally, I would expect crypto to fail all on its own, but I can also see there’s incentive for others to tank it intentionally.
I’ve always thought crypto was a scam. However, for those with money, I’ve recommended swoop in and make a quick profit, then dump it before everyone else does – and buy real assets with your profits.
Putting faith in ones and zeroes – all someone has to do is pull the plug and you’re toast. But greed will overcome reason every day.
So yeah, you dipsticks with money, go long-term – on everything! And always, Always, ALWAYS!, listen to Jim Cramer.
The entire banking/finance system of the West might go down on the same day Ukraine surrenders; that will strip away a few illusions.
But on the positive side, at least “the Joe Biden’s” and “the Zelensky’s” money will be safe and sound in some off-shore account or underground bunker. Not to mention Hunter’s hooker and drug stash.
“…money will be safe and sound in some off-shore account or underground bunker. ”
Most folks say, “Tel Aviv”, I say “Haifa”.
Consolidation of power and control
Hudson is maintaining that this was just piss poor bank investment strategy based on rising interest rates. But that same basic problem could soon be systemic, as previous ZIRP investments need to be unloaded when reserves get short if interest rates stay high. The upshot is that the Fed is between a rock and a hard place trying to raise interest rates. That might no longer be an option, save for crashing the economy on purpose. But then again…
James O’Keefe is back with O’Keefe Media Group. Now hopefully Project Veritas will completely fall apart as it should for doing Pfizer’s dirty work.
I didn’t know that. And they do such great work otherwise!
A possible parallel: De Santis answered Tucker’s querry in detail, completely repudiating our involvement in Ukraine. The Neo-Cons are completely rejecting him now, supposedly.
Is this for real? Have you heard anything? Or what does your spidey sense tell you?
My spidey sense tells me I should have stayed in Florida.
(And no, I don’t trust DeSantis – or anyone else, still living…)
How White is the North? Is the Panhandle really God’s country? With the Florida/Georgia line as heart of the Confederacy, Elfdom on Earth?
How does one attain this spidey sense you speak of? Does it require an initiation rite and a secret handshake?
Well, we tripped. And SSL is a witch. In prison they get high off of eating nutmeg. I know you don’t want to do anything illegal so maybe you could try that.
It’s said to cause bad muscle cramps, but what is worse than being bored, right?
In old Japan there was “kwappo” or ritual strangulation by a jujitsu master. The prepared candidate would leave his body consciously. The Ka! See those little birds flying up off the prone body in Egyptian glyphs? That.
They had a mores sophisticated way of doing the same thing, it is said.
Jars, better ways than “kwappo” to leave your body – especially if you plan to come back from your journey.
But, if you want instructions… Do you have Pink Floyd’s album Meddle?
I’ll get it. Then what?
Listen to it, with headphones on, while lying on your back in a calm quiet place.
He knows he has to say that. He won’t be held to it. Easy to do a ‘bout face: too dangerous to pull out early.
Something isn’t right about DeSantis. If he was a threat they would have assassinated his character a long time ago.
He’ll play ball and go kiss the wall.
He has not formally announced that he is running. At one point I felt I would be a never DeSantiser. I don’t know now. I think Joy Reid said that Trump, Tucker, and DeSantis are Putin collaborationists essentially, so clearly DeSantis is no longer identified by the media as being loyal to the regime’s war. It could be a psyop but I think DeSantis is not deceiving on this point if I had to go out onto a limb to conjecture. Or a web 😉
Thanks. It would be terrible to vote for him and then be betrayed on this – leading to WW3. Both Wilson and FDR campaigned on peace while consciously and actively preparing for war. So this kind of trickery is an American tradition.
A lot of well connected people and organizations just so happen to get the money out of SVB before the collapse. Two Israeli banks got out 1 billion right before the collapse. I’m sure they were simply intuitive and expert investors.
SSL,
Jesus saves…Moses invests….
Esau usurpes via usury…..
Lol ok. So is it possible to save and to invest?
If you’re one of the rich fuckers.
Gee willikers! I always bump into glass ceilings
Stop looking up. Bump into them with your head not your nose.
That ceiling ain’t glass baby, it’s gold…
Lol, ok
It’s possible, alright, but it’s a whole lot more fun to piss it all away frivolously. :O
SSL,
Consider the statement a metaphor.
From over at CBS. Remove your mask before entering store! NYPD changes the rules. Ahhahahahaha, how they love to mess with us. What? thieves wear masks?
cbsnews.com/news/face-masks-robbery-nypd-require-customers-remove-covid-19/
Mask on, mask off! Oooh gotcha! Take a seat, we didn’t say Joe Biden says.
Better not throw that mask in the ocean or you’ll wish you were trippin on shrooms 🙂
I might be anyway. Ya never know! 😉
Trippin’ on ‘shrooms is a much more reality-based experience than having your worldview painted for you by The New World Order.
Trippin’ on ‘shrooms might also facilitate your escape from this satanic dystopia.
I sure hope so anyway…
A lot of Mushrooms must grow in the damp climate of the deep South. Any magical ones?
But of course! They grow everywhere the other varieties do. Many different magical varieties as well.
Jars, you are sooooo behind the curve…
But you don’t trip anyway, do ya?
But I did – and how!
I died and was reborn again many times. From thence comes my power of synthesis – without losing the curve and flying off on a tangent.
I stopped. Time to ground. Some shamans in the Amazon do huge amounts on a regular basis in order to induce clarivoyance (sp?). And also because a tolerance is built up. They age very rapidly.
Now and then is good for your healthy I believe. Shakes up the old system.
Jars, lucky you. I have never “died” – despite coming breathtakingly close a few times. Once I was shackled to the top of an Aztec pyramid as it soared out of the ground…
Amazonian shamans “age very rapidly”… I’d say the opposite is true. I’ve known a few of them, and they were very young (and also very ancient) for their age.
Unfortunately, we white people have to find our own way, as alien cultures are not for us.
Did they use Mushrooms? Those are the ones I was speaking off – but you might know better.
In any case, the Amazon is the richest natural pharmakopia in the world. Tropical Africa and Asia pale in comparison. Many friends to help one get “there”.
The Amazonian shamans I’ve met were Ayahuasqueros. I’ve never met a curandero, working with mushrooms, such as María Sabina. My loss.
I’ve had to pursue my investigations of Psilocybin as well as mescaline (in the form of Peruvian torch cactus [Echinopsis peruviana]), outside of the normal ethno-religous context (not recommended).
But I did meet an Odawa medicine woman, who scared me away from Amanita muscaria – with stories of her father flipping out on it. Although I do plan to resume that journey.
Socked in up here in the Land of Enchantment mountains all day today. Winter snows giving way to nice slow spring rains and warm temps now. Might have to take a drive up to the mountain this weekend to see if nature has yielded any “enchantment” in response. Sure be a shame to waste it.
Oh yes there are a ton of different kinds of mushrooms that grow here. Several edibles that I am aware of including portabello and chanterelle. There are a handful of the magical kind too.
“But I did…”
Jarek,
THIS is all I have to say about THAT;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XqyGoE2Q4Y
I had the great good fortune of taking a ‘work-study’ job in the Mycology Lab.
Autoclave sterility and copious amounts of growth mediums, as well as spore print catalogs.
The existing staff showed me everything I needed to know.
Watching the lawns turn into surfing waves on a beautiful mid-summer day. haha xlnt.
It took them 3 years to figure that out. Priceless.
Last night we received the final stab of ignominy for this 2022-2023 basketball season when number one NIT seed Rutgers was defeated by number 10 seed Hofstra (fuckin’ HOFSTRA!) by 2 points in overtime.
Can you speak of the joy of filling out brackets? As an accountant as well as a fan, it must be very special indeed.
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State Quotes
“The emancipation of woman will only be possible when woman can take part in production on a large, social scale, and domestic work no longer claims anything but an insignificant amount of her time.”
“What is good for the ruling class, is alleged to be good for the whole of society with which the ruling class identifies itself.”
“No soldiers, no gendarmes or police, no nobles, kings, regents, prefects, or judges, no prisons, no lawsuits – and everything takes its orderly course. All quarrels and disputes are settled by the whole of the community affected, by the gens or the tribe, or by the gentes among themselves; only as an extreme and exceptional measure is blood revenge threatened-and our capital punishment is nothing but blood revenge in a civilized form, with all the advantages and drawbacks of civilization. Although there were many more matters to be settled in common than today – the household is maintained by a number of families in common, and is communistic, the land belongs to the tribe, only the small gardens are allotted provisionally to the households – yet there is no need for even a trace of our complicated administrative apparatus with all its ramifications. The decisions are taken by those concerned, and in most cases everything has been already settled by the custom of centuries. There cannot be any poor or needy – the communal household and the gens know their responsibilities towards the old, the sick, and those disabled in war. All are equal and free – the women included. There is no place yet for slaves, nor, as a rule, for the subjugation of other tribes.”
Jarek: apparently referring to the iroquois
“Monogamy was the first form of the family not founded on natural, but on economic conditions, viz.: the victory of private property over primitive and natural collectivism.”
“What we can now conjecture about the way in which sexual relations will be ordered after the impending overthrow of capitalist production is mainly of a negative character, limited for the most part to what will disappear. But what will there be new? That will be answered when a new generation has grown up: a generation of men who never in their lives have known what it is to buy a woman’s surrender with money or any other social instrument of power; a generation of women who have never known what it is to give themselves to a man from any other considerations than real love, or to refuse to give themselves to their lover from fear of the economic consequences. When these people are in the world, they will care precious little what anybody today thinks they ought to do; they will make their own practice and their corresponding public opinion about the practice of each individual –and that will be the end of it.”
“And if strict monogamy is the height of all virtue, then the palm must go to the tapeworm, which has a complete set of male and female sexual organs in each of its 50-200 proglottides, or sections, and spends its whole life copulating in all its sections with itself.”
“But the degradation of the women was avenged in the men and degraded them also, until they sank into the abomination of boy-love.”
Jarek: Oops, they’re not going to like that last one! He was a man of his time…..
Engels was Marx’s faithful friend and scribe – but an important socialist philosopher in his own right. He forged the unbreakable alliance between Marxism and Feminism as the above shows.
They may and often do passionately believe the above, but they cannot make themselves live up to it – namely not be attracted to men who have money. Nor to have the same interest in other children as they do in their own. Does he aver that Capitalism caused this? Fatuous.
And yes, men want to know who their children are – if they are going to support them. This became a thing when people came to realize that babies followed from coitus, and that the father was the indeed the father. The family followed from that. Engels and the Feminists find this scandalous, but what Feminist would dare to question woman’s rights over their own children? Even Engels was probably quiet on that one when in their presence.
He says women will only give themselves when feeling real love. Oh if he could only see this brave new world that he helped to create!
The Iroquois do have a woman’s council that can unseat the Chief. But apparently it has very rarely done anything like that. It superficially seems to be a Matriarchy, but it is not. The Women are content to a have a voice – unlike our women. Our women would use such power to destroy the culture.
They were very warlike and their cult of torture may have been the most extreme of any on the continent. Many tribes tortured, but they would endeavor to keep the person alive, to keep the fun going. If the victim managed to avoid crying out, he became a much respected blood brother to them before he died. Touching!
We, the Norse, can respect and compete with that: the Blood Eagle.
But personally, I gotta admit I’m not ready…
Fear of flying (by Erica Jong).
You have to learn to let go. Take some Mushrooms and take the subway to Harlem. Or walk around South La at night. Or Chi Town south of the river.
If you live, you may gain their respect. But how long will you live, that is the question.
Your magical weapons? A Sherlock Holmes hat and a pipe. Perhaps a boom box blasting classical music.
Hell-fucking-no. I don’t mix the profane with the sacred. (Well, I try not to…)
If you’re boom-boxing your way through Harlem, you are not possessed by the Spirit. You are possessed by ego, and will likely see it dissolved – along with your life. As it should be…
Intuit my unwritten article: Cultural context and the entheogenic experience.
The Up is our Crimea. Stay and be a hero defending the Up!
I took part in a Native American Church service. I liked the sacrament but not the service and context so much. I wasn’t awakened at that point, but I did experience the anti-White assumptions of many of the people.
I would never do it now. It’s theirs. End of story. We need our own stories. The cactus however, is not theirs or anybody’s in particular.
I still respect Indian spirituality. It’s beautiful, a beauty all their own. We could never have created it.
Lame Deer said of the ritual: It’s something, but something for poor people who had everything taken from them. When you see a dead Elder appear to you as real as in the flesh with no drugs, then you’ll know the difference.
But he added, such things are a part of the Medicine of the Tribes of Central and South America. I wish no disrespect to them, but it’s not Sioux way.
At least you are accurately quoting now, Jarek, instead of posting obvious forgeries.
That’s a step forward.
Rulo was raving about women writers the other day. He has “it” bad. He’s internalized some Marxist/Engels propaganda. He’s a better writer than Margaret Atwood or just about any of them.
Regarding the infamous Weimar inflation:
Many years ago my brother Armand took a long bicycle ride with his best bud on a cold and windy day. They set out riding with the wind but when they had to ride against the wind heading home they became quite exhausted and scanned the fields on either side for a place to take respite.
They spotted an unoccupied shed and let themselves in. Armand discovered a huge quantity of banknotes rolled up and banded with thick rubber bands. The notes were large and beautiful specimens of currency which turned out to be from the Weimar Republic era. It was quite exciting since Armand didn’t know Weimar from third base until later.
He kept this currency which came into my possession when he died in 2014. I have this roll of bills in a file cabinet in my man cave. I keep them as a reminder of what hyper-inflation looks like.
There are many funny tales about German hyperinflation. People would carry money around in baskets during the day, and if they waited too long to spend it and absent mindedly set the basket down somewhere for a moment or two, someone might steat the basket and leave the money on the sidewwalk. Or using money to start fires in wood burning stoves. Or using it as garden mulch. Especially amusing is people carrying cash around in wheelbarrows when they needed to make a big purchase.
Also kids using money bricks as toys. Basically it was cheaper to use money bricks instead of actual play cubes
That’s why I always go up-current/up-wind first, then leisurely drift back to my starting point…
But yeah, the best kids always die first. Guess that’s why I’m still here.
And Soros
Are the Zero Edge (sic) bit bros climbing over one another to get more Joe Sixpa… er, Tristan Whiteclaw (is that gen Z enuff?) to buy their unstable coin? Your passport to digital enslavement. You know they are.
I keep catching whiffs of our old friend Take-A-Poo…
Why is that?
Crisp chardonnay breath?
I’ve said this since day one.
No matter how much they train him at the ShareBlue Academy, he can never hide.
I wonder if MitchellC had a lot of money in SVB
He always talked about making money in the madness. Embracing the opportunity of the new world disorder.
They were on the bleeding edge
” “What would the US response be if China or Russia were operating drones on the Gulf Coast?”
As long as the drone is ferrying loads of illegal aliens: “Come on in!” ”
That’s not a joke , but it’s funny.
Most of the time American propaganda drives me up the wall , but occasionally it makes me laugh.
It drives me up the wall when this totalitarian state crows that some of the key people who gave them the bomb were people kicked out of other totalitarian states.
But it occasionally makes me laugh when they fail to mention that , yes , and some of those same people turned around and gave the same information to Stalin and Beria.
I sometimes wonder if I see Russian and Chinese drones. I see these white lights high in the sky that float around like lanterns in unusual ways and then they just disappear. They could be from another realm or time as well I suppose. Or perhaps secret aircraft of our own?
They could be privately-owned drones. A lot of those around. There is one (I assume that’s what it is) that I see regularly at night out my north livingroom window. My guess is that it hovers at an altitude of about 500 feet and is about 4 miles away. Some night I’ll drive out that way and for a better look.
Another night, a windy night, I saw two flying formation, with then against the wind, in what appeared to be a survey pattern.
msn.com/en-gb/news/world/watch-furious-farmers-arrive-in-tractors-as-poll-puts-them-ahead-in-dutch-local-elections/ar-AA18EiN6
Some good news:
“Dutch farmers furious at EU green laws they warn will force their farms to close are set to be the big winners of Wednesday’s regional elections in the Netherlands.
“Early exit polls predicted the “Farmers-Citizen Movement” (BBB) party had edged ahead of Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s ruling liberal conservative VVD party.”
But, of course, the inevitable …
“Right-wing conspiracy theorists have seized on the buyout plans as far-fetched proof there is a “globalist” plot to rob farmers of their land.”
I mean, as if …
“Let us piss on you, and tell you it’s raining.”
In my case , I don’t buy that line because typically when I say to a Right – Wing conspiracy theorist that they have lived in a totalitarian state their entire lives they look at me like I’m bat shit crazy.
It seems to me then that it follows their theories are quite mainstream , conventional.
Perhaps even ” Right – Wing ” isn’t accurate.
Just conformist.
” a “globalist” plot to rob farmers of their land.” ”
Such a plot would presumably be something Norman Rockwell Populists would come up with.
Speaking of farming and all of the elements that come together to make it happen so to speak. It feels like orbits and gravities are in sync and aligned again. The bodies are in appropriate processions once more. Conditions that elicit a sense of feeling safe and secure. The harvest will be pleasing.
Check this out:
httpX://www.bitchute.com/video/jxSDqdA2MUB7/
Amazing Polly (Polly St. George) “does” the SVB takedown, and connects interesting dots interestingly, as is her wont.
Why was a successful prosecutor in the US Virgin Islands relieved of her job days after Biden visited after Xmas 2022? Remember the Burisma prosecutor?
Did Peter Thiel start a run on SVB in advance of an order by a NY judge that Jamie Dimon and other players’ produce all of their communications with Jeffrey Epstein .. . .
Are Wells Fargo and Charles Schwab SVB “collateral damage” or are they actually entangled in the Epstein mess?
Well, I am a fan of Polly St. George. She is always interesting and always digs up relevant stories that have been buried within the MSM.
” what Feminist would dare to question woman’s rights over their own children? ”
99.9% of the people I know , male or female.
Hey , what can you expect of boot – licking pinko communists , protestants , and retards ?
But you are none of those things.
So surely you have noticed , for example ,
that every call for womens ordination is prefaced by mention of child sex abuse.
Every call for an end to the celibacy rule is prefaced by mention of child sex abuse.
Pretty much any demand against the church is prefaced by mention of child sex abuse.
Surely you would know where all of this is really directed ?
At Apostolic succession .
Once falls Apostolic Succession , what then of the Eucharist ,
or anything else ?
At that point you would just as well stay home and watch a Televangelist ,
or , heck , just watch football.
Call me cruel , but I have my doubts they give a fuck even about their own children.
See the quote of Marx from the Manifesto below. Things have really degenerated since then. We’ve lost so much of our humanity.
People used to be saved by their own “weakness” from crazy ideologies. But now the ideologies are winning because human nature is less, being lost bit by bit every generation.
The prevalence of Christianity mores, even when Christianity itself was unseated, made Capitalism work far better than it would or could have ever worked on its own without the enduring Christian influence. But that has waned and the remnant is being savagely attacked.
Umm , maybe that’s too theologically abstract for you ?
When the small farms were being destroyed in the late 70’s – 80’s ,
where were these parents so concerned about the authority of parents?
When your thousands of factories were being off – shored ,
where were these parents so concerned about the authority of parents?
Penniless serfs have authority do they ?
Children don’t need inheritances do they ?
I remember what they were doing ;
” Get tough on Crime ! ”
i.e. sucking the Gestapo’s knee caps so they could vicariously fuck over parents they don’t even know.
That’s what the fuck they were doing.
Most right wingers consider farmers being thrown off their land by banks in the 80s as being just and right, but when the government does it they think it’s outrageous.
Same with the factories. If the owners of the factories move them to China, that is their decision and their business. They sneer at the newly unemployed and call them ”lazy”.
Obviously, the 1% owns the government, so it’s the same thing either way, so I don’t know why they use the government to do their dirty work, when they could use “market forces” with much less complaint.
And you and other leftists think it’s fine when Stalin and Mao did it. But now you pretend you didn’t (do?) think that. Or that it never happened, right?
And you and other leftists think it’s fine when Stalin and Mao did it. But now you pretend you didn’t (don’t?) think that. Or that it never happened, right?
This is where conservatives fail. They rail against the government but cheer on corporate greed, unregulated, believing that the market “adjusts itself.” Which is obviously untrue.
WOW, something I agree with Mary on!!
Yes, as Hitler said. The German companies of his day hated the festering socialism of the unions but did nothing to allay the grievances of the people, thus ever feeding the socialism or even overt communism would destroy them in time.
National Socialism is real socialism. It simply will not allow this. But it’s also real capitalism with people free to make as much money as they ethically can.
Which is it then? Both. Neither. It’s something else all entirely, on its own “line” – not the left/right of the Capitalist/Communist materialist continuum.
More Good News!
Credit Suisse shares are soaring after the $600 billion bank was offered a $53 billion bailout from the Swiss govt. All is well? What seems to be happening in the US & Europe that any profit these banks accrue is a private matter, but losses have been socialized, spread out amongst the hapless population.
Also, it looks like Rivian, the 2022 Truck of the Year, & Lucid, the 2022 Car of the Year, are both EV companies headed toward liquidation. Turns out publications like Motortrend & Car and Driver were just (paid) shills for these auto companies, giving them glowing reviews and predicting bright futures. Certainly I’m no expert, just a casual observer, but at around $100,000 (Rivian) & $175,000 (Lucid) I wondered how many of these things will they sell? Turns out not many. And when I read that at $100,000 Rivian will still be selling at a loss, I figured their fate is sealed.
One trope that has been disproved is that EVs will get cheaper as time goes on. The fact is, prices are rising on them 5%~8% year over year.
I’m reading that GMs ‘Pivot to EVs’ is not going so smoothly either. Just a few hundred of their Hummer EVs ($105,000 base price) have been sold for example. Within 2 years expect GMs “Historic” Chief Executive to show up in DC in front of a Congressuonal Committee, tin cup in hand, begging for a bailout.
‘Bailout’ appears to be the universal watchword here.
Wall street: “Daddy, just make some more money in that money machine, pleeease! Oh, awesome, thanks daddy!!”
What seems to be happening in the US & Europe that any profit these banks accrue is a private matter, but losses have been socialized, spread out amongst the hapless population.
That’s exactly right. Same as 2008. Don’t let anyone tell you that we don’t have socialism yet. Had it forever, just as long as you’re corporate and rich. If not, you have “market discipline.”
Dis
The government’s goal is to do nothing, avoid making committments, change nothing, nothing that might piss off part of their constituencies. The return of investment for our taxes is less than zero.
So they do not want to deal with changes in the financial sector. They know if things are going up, folks are making money, things stay quiet and they fulfill their credo. However, with banks collapsing, a tip of the iceberg issue for fiscal integrity, they have to do something, anything to plug the leak. So spread it around, make everyone pay. Sort of like insurance. It works as long as enough healthy folks exist to offset the losses and water them down.
The cliff we are approaching is being caused by the reduction of healthy entities as more and more payoffs are being needed. Trends are all negative with the PTB role being playing whack a mole with more and more moles showing up.
What if…..
What if whack a mole becomes a real game played out in public everywhere. After the entire US middle class is reduced to grinding poverty and horrific living conditions, the popular anger and rage goes ballistic against the people responsible. People like bankers, hospital administrators, former gov’t officials etc. And those people who did all this to us are forced to live underground, hiding like moles in their tunnels. And if any of them emerge then the whack a mole game starts on them, except this is the deadly version of the game. The sledgehammers, pick handles, 2×4’s, baseball bats etc. come out and the moles get whacked whenever they show their heads anywhere……..
Here is the problem though, the people have been so indoctrinated that Uncle Sam is going to take care of them, they will not get pissed, just keep going along with what they are told.
This blog and the CFNers are an exception. Most people are like Kbird, the government does no wrong as long as they take care of the Gimmes.
The Deep State knows this and has been using it for a long, long time.
Everything since 2008 has been a punt; just kicking the same problems down the road to be resolved later. Politically, the problem is completely untenable, even discounting for all the rampant corruption. A CBDC reset seems inevitable now, although that’s not likely to work for long either, given that the same criminals will be in charge. Either way, we’re headed for a showdown in the near future in which the rich will get even richer and the poor will get undeniably poorer, hence the move to kill off much of the population. Who knows, we might even be asking them to soon enough.
Dis
The problem is that all business is based on Ponzi schemes. Some folks are wise and get out before they cave in, others not so much.
Ponzi’s require growth in investors to operate, so the longer they run, the more people are affected. At the end, everyone loses that does not get out in time.
The real estate, CDO Ponzi of the 2000s blew up in 2008. A very few folks shorted the situation and made millions.
This Ponzi , about to collapse, is based on the stealing of capital from institutions and the redistribution of that money. AKA federal spending. Nothing is more Ponzi like than the federal budget and its control of the fiscal integrity of the US.
I think new automobiles of all times will be on the endangered species list by the end of the decade. They just don’t “pencil out anymore,” as the accountants are fond of saying. Needless to say, car salesmen are already dying off as we speak.
Referring back to my neighbor down the way who recently bought a hot rod Corvette; the roads and the weather up here alone are enough to scare anyone with half a brain in their head away from such a purchase. He comes and goes everyday, so he apparently works onsite. He’ll have quite a surprise in store when he realizes his commuter mileage will likely be 10-12 MPG and the ubiquitous potholes on lab property will make the driving experience both miserable and expensive.
But the lure of exotic cars is still strong in a small portion of the gen pop. I suppose they might as well enjoy it while it lasts, cause they won’t be around much longer.
The investment in EV manufacturing by US companies might finally take these idiots down. Just to appease the idiot in the WH.
Our intelligence sector, those folks that supposedly set our pathways, are so swept up in divisional politics that no good will result from emotional stupid decision making.
From Celia Farber:
“Sasha Latypova Lays Bare The Unprecedented and Bizarre Details Of How The Government and Military Commandeered Production Of Covid Vaccines In Jaw Dropping Interview With Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
“When something happens like I just described, it should be considered intentional murder and those responsible should be prosecuted.”
—Sasha Latypova
Among the revelations:
– A complete disabling of normal corporate recall of dangerous products following safety flag/signal—after 65 deaths and 3,000 adverse events from a single lot.
– 30% of lots responsible for 60% of deaths
– Two FDA employees quit abruptly upon being forced by government to obey commands and abandon all normal safety protocols, and two committed suicide.”
Listen to podcast here:
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/rfkjr/episodes/Militarized-Healthcare-with-Sasha-Latypova-e20go74
RE: the safety flag — well, as Obama said himself, everyone who injected this poison into their veins took part in the largest clinical trial in history.
The dangerous conspiracy theorists were the only ones who seemed able to figure it out.
In 2020, the vaxx was THE answer.
To Joe Everyman all the way up to Trump.
Our experts, who have turned out to be behind everything known as Covid, told us we needed to do something anything to stem the disease’s advance so the world isolated, wore masks, stayed apart and lo and behold, absolutely nothing changed. Our government and many others hit the panic button, we have to do something anything to show our brilliance and not get the folks riled up.
On stage walks Pence, Birx and Fauci, Trump’s saviors. Their job was to qwell the revolt of the people, to give answers that will stop a political uprising. They did not fulfill their mission for Trump and voila, we got a new guy.
Anyway, the populace was looking for any answer. The new opposition group was totally political, so a choice had to be made. Believe in the Dems science led by Fauci and vaxx the hell out of everyone as soon as possible to stop the disease’s progress or listen to the very small group of cautionary MDs that were saying, wait a minute, mRNA has considerable risk. Because the Dems got the WH, we know who won that original decision.
So a small group of anti Vaxxers ccontinued setting the alarm bells off. As usual, time and history shows the truth on most everything and wow, the Vaxx may now be disappearing as more and more folks opt out. My wish is that mRNA is contrindicated and just goes away. Thanks to the support of ignorant politicians it will take awhile for this to occur.
In that initial rush to Vaxx, I considered my health situation and got the original alpha three. It may or may not have been a good decision, at the time, with the REAL knowledge base at near zero. As history has provided more and more data that supports the evil of this technology, people have seen the light and are opting to stay away from quack remedies like the Vaxx. When Covid finally caught up to me last November, I was surprised how trivial its effects were. I regret getting the first shots, I regret getting Covid as I believe I have inflammation problems today due to my immune system being thrown out of balance by both the Vaxx and Covid itself. the old saying is , Do not mess with Mother NAture and I believe that the Vaxx was a political, medical mistake that is coming around to bite us all.
Enough meandering.
Soon as I think people are wising up, I hear a poll that says that if the election were held now between DeSantis and Trump, Trump would win by 11 points and growing. If Trump has up against Biden, Biden would win by four points and if DeSantis, Biden would win by one point. Quinnepiac poll.
WTF? What is wrong with the people of this country? If someone came into your home and started destroying your stuff and stealing it, you would react, right? This mobster in the WH is doing that, stealing all of us blind to support the browning of America and the global climate changers. He is a thief and a traitor to the people of America.
And yet, these people do not repudiate him, they support him.
Behold the success of Liberal stupidification and the consequential downfall of the Uited States.
Night owl, I agree with you. It was a chance for the mRNA crowd to “try out” their new toy. IF the model they presented had been true, the side effects of the Vaxx may have been less.
The model is bogus, the antigen selection was bogus and the consequences of unbridled medical socialism are just starting.
“people have seen the light ”
There are always a few people who see more and furhter and think more than others.
They are called seers.
This was also true during the Iraq War run-up.
It was easy to see the lies.
But only a few did.
Remember Jesus’ statement that all prophets are killed in their homeland.
People HATE being told the truth.
Who was it who said ‘The future truth is too ugly. That’s why all the prophets are in prison.’ Or something like that. Charles Manson?
You conveniently skip that the entire covid19 fear/scare was based on bullshit and nonsense, and there was no deadly virus killing people, any more than there is every other year.
The CDC numbers showed that. There was no excess death in 2020.
The scare to rush to vaccines was based on 100% unadulterated bullshit, propaganda, and avarice.
John admitted the other day that, Yes, covid wasn’t very dangerous. He hasn’t yet admitted that his terror got the best of him and ran away with his reason, but such is human nature.
Okay, I accept that Mary.
Who is responsible, who should we hang?
80% of America followed whoever this is.
All institutions? Government? Medical?
After blame is passed, who will be left?
Jarek, sometimes you amaze me with your arrogance. My decision to get the Vaxx was based on info at the time and my coronary medical history. Take your terror statement and shove it.
If I knew then what I know now, no way, Jose.
I guess no one is as all knowing and omnipotent as dear Jarek.
JAZ, we mention them and post video about who is doing this every week.
There are myriad ones to choose from this week alone.
“My wish is that mRNA is contrindicated and just goes away.”
That is the opposite of the plan. The plan is for traditional pharmaceutcals to be phased out and everything – not just ‘vaccines’ – to be mRNA based. All we can do is decline to take them, until such time as the mandate the next lot on penalty of the QR code in your digital wallet turning no-go red.
And their genetic goop will not just be in our medications.
“A small group of anti-vaxers”
You really need to step out of the circus, John.
What is an “anti-vaxer”?
I personally have had most every shot on the schedule since 1977, yet I knew there was no way in hell I was touching this. Because I, like others, understood that you don’t inject untested swill into your body — particularly when threatened to do so by the state and corporate combine.
Watch Malcolm Gladwell (tool of totalitarianism) make a complete ass of himself in outtakes from this debate on media:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdPQV6xDdcc
Hilarious.
One will notice Gladwell’s style of discussion (because it’s certainly not debate) is very similar to Jarek’s. Endless strawmen and personal attacks, absolutely no substance whatsoever.
Oh Mary! You refused to define what you meant by Satanism. Just as you never defined what you meant by racism. Because if you ever define your terms, you know you will be trounced in a debate. You seldom take a stand, and when you do (like with Elon Musk), you are usually proven wrong.
You won’t even say if you believe what you are talking about! Your refusal to admit the existence of, or your belief in Satan is pure Satanism.
At a high level, they have to take a stand however. Thus Melinda Gates’ wearing an inverted crucifix.
And, as if to prove my assessment of Jarek = Gladwell ^^^^^
Maybe you have failed to notice, Jarek, that I no longer respond to strawman comments, no matter who they are from (and 90% are from you).
Mary, every time you lie you hurt yourself. You’ve lied a lot and you no longer have the strength to fight.
But you tried again above and now the same thing is going to happen.
Another strawman + delusions tacked on.
Priceless.
The computer mouse was mentioned upstream.
The computer mouse was invented and developed by Douglas Engelbart, with the assistance of Bill English, during the 1960s and was patented on November 17, 1970. It was developed at the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California.
K-Dog who some of you know is really Keith worked restoring vintage computers for Paul Allen for five years until he died and the museum closed. I should know.
Portal: Communism, Wikipedia
“Abolition [Aufhebung] of the family! Even the most radical flare up at this infamous proposal of the Communists.
On what foundation is the present family, the bourgeois family, based? On capital, on private gain. In its completely developed form, this family exists only among the bourgeoisie. But this state of things finds its complement in the practical absence of the family among the proletarians, and in public prostitution.
The bourgeois family will vanish as a matter of course when its complement vanishes, and both will vanish with the vanishing of capital.
Do you charge us with wanting to stop the exploitation of children by their parents? To this crime we plead guilty.
But, you say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.
And your education! Is not that also social, and determined by the social conditions under which you educate, by the intervention direct or indirect, of society, by means of schools, &c.? The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class.
The bourgeois clap-trap about the family and education, about the hallowed co-relation of parents and child, becomes all the more disgusting, the more, by the action of Modern Industry, all the family ties among the proletarians are torn asunder, and their children transformed into simple articles of commerce and instruments of labour.”
—Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, Manifesto of the Communist Party, English edition of 1888
Jarek: Paula has spent her life promulgating this filth. As Putin told a room full of Jews: Your forefathers put forward a lot of useless economic and social idea and forced them on Russia.
Paula: You tried to imply that I was wrong by saying I didn’t have a real quote. Happy now, creep?
Of course Communism did make a real contribution by showing how interwoven economics are with social factors. But it reduced everything to economics – as if Humanity didn’t have any real human nature. As if Mothers weren’t going to always prefer their own children and as if men don’t want to be fathers – and to their own children first and foremost.
And as if religion is just a way to rip off the people, making them forget about being exploited.
Unless Man has a higher nature, then he will always exploit his fellow man. Marx saw the contradiction and denied any higher nature was needed for Socialism – the invisible hand (the dialectic) would take care of it! Just as the invisible hand rights all wrongs in big brother, Capitalism.
All bullshit. No system can replace human virtue. Nor can gold make our economic system just. We are the gold – or not!
If only you could communicate without lies and insults.
Try it sometime!
Trouble, trouble, double bubble! The Mississippi Bubble and the South Sea Bubble happened around the same time. These two events occurred shortly after the formation of the Bank of England in the 1690’s, and this bank’s creation has been called the ‘original era of financialization’. Banknotes bloomed and stock markets expanded, and new financial products (lures?) became available.
The Bank of England was essentially formed to fund the war with France, (those seemingly endless wars), and I wonder if it just may be that the ensuing bubbles a couple of decades later were blown at least in part by that bank. In its creation were found the means to monetize the public debt. It was also another Scot, William Patterson, who was instrumental in putting together its operation. Isaac Newton himself is said to have lost a fortune in the South Sea Bubble.
“Bubbles, bright as ever Hope
Drew from fancy – or from soap;
Bright as e’er the South Sea sent
From its frothy element!
See!—But hark my time is out —
Now, like some great water-spout,
Scaterr’d by the cannon’s thunder,
Burst, ye bubbles, burst asunder!”
— Thomas Moore
Money troubles, money muddles, and money bubbles down through the ages. The usual, trite, three-legged definition of money misses too much, and avoids much of reality. It doesn’t say that money is also power and domination and a means of control. It also doesn’t say that money means survival like Ayn Rand says.
“Money is your means of survival. The verdict you pronounce upon the source of your livelihood is the verdict you pronounce upon your life. If the source is corrupt, you have damned your own existence.” Well, so much for Biden being damned, but I get the point. There’s much truth in the saying, ‘Money is the root of all evil’, but it’s also the root of a lot of good.
Money can take many forms, even people, slaves in this case. Here’s Cicero writing a letter back in the ancient Roman days:
‘As I write’, he exclaimed, ‘there is about 120,000 sesterces on the platform’. There were no Roman coins on the platform, only enchained humans. Polybius says, ‘Those commodities which are the first necessities of existence, cattle and slaves’.
Paper money is said to have originated in China, sometime during the first millennium (5-8 hundred AD?), but it was gold and silver coins that held sway for almost 2000 years.
Remember the Athenian Owl and the comparison of the ‘integrity of coinage to the soundness of men’? How appropriate today!
“I’ll tell you what I think about the way
This city treats her soundest men today
By a coincidence more sad than funny
It’s very like the way we treat our money
Coins that rang true, clean-stamped and worth their weight
Throughout the world, have ceased to circulate.
Instead the purses of Athenian shoppers
Are full of silver-plated coppers.
Just so, when men are needed by the nation
The best have been withdrawn from circulation
Men of good birth and breeding, men of parts
Well-schooled in wrestling and in gentler arts
These we abuse, and trust instead to knaves,
Newcomers, aliens, copper plated slaves.
Aristophanes (with elitism)
I’ll just quickly mention the hazardous mixture of money and marriage (and divorce) and close with a comment on the old falsehood, ‘Money can’t buy happiness’. The core meaning is well taken, but money sure can buy a lot of happiness. So there.
You are right. On the other side of the channel, France set up a Ponzi scheme in the late 1700s. It was based on the future goodness of investing in the New World. Such a future development there was going to be. Oops, no one moved or wanted to develop at that time. They were too damn busy with the English and needed funds to conduct the ongoing wars.
So, in 1803, the French Ponzi collapsed and their government sold all the holdings for Pennie’s on the Franc to the new upstart already there. Also known as the Louisiana Purchase.
And the along came the SSL, crawfish, hothouse magic shrooms, and all the rest of it. Leave it to the Frenchies to kick all that to the curb. One might say they oui, oui’d, it all away for an Italian song. Serves them right, the fricking Gallic bastards!
Latest dark comedy from the MN governor’s office. Ladies and gentleman, I give you…Lt Gov. Peggy Flanagan:
youtube.com/watch?v=zoj3r9J9WUc
(30 sec video, if you’re concerned about time)
Oh my goodness, how embarrassing. The little boy next door to us identified as a pirate for at least two years. He only dressed up as one, though, rather than demanding the removal of an eye and a leg, so I guess that made him just a transvestite, which is at least reversible.
Haha, love it. How’s he doing now? Any peg leg issues?
He seems to have two fully functioning lower limbs!
Your poor state.
“That’s what it means to be a good parent.”
Oh, yes. If my kid wants to get a nose ring at age 12, my job is to “listen and believe them”.
Let alone blocking their puberty and allowing them to be convinced to cut off their junk before they even know what to do with it.
So our job is to let our kids tell us how to raise them. Okay.
WTF is going on…
This woman is a goblin.
Follow that to its logical conclusion: They want kids to be able to consent to sex.
And so they are laying the groundwork for “it’s up to the kids, you have no say.”
And of course, kids are easily persuaded by teachers, and other groomers.
It’s setting them up for massive disaster. They’ve already taken children away from parents who refuse to trans them, after the kid has been brainwashed by other adults.
Special place in hell. Something involving Hitler and a pineapple, I’d imagine
For anyone who doesn’t realize this is all a big shitshow, backed by billions of dollars:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR5egedgn7o
And completely contradicting themselves at the same moment, they now want to ban felony murder charges for anyone under 25 because their brains aren’t fully developed yet.
Did you get that?
These people are ridiculous. And they are trying to tear down society.
__________
“And no one seems to notice. No one seems to care…”
– George Carlin
The crazy contradictions, inversions, and cognitive dissonance are features of this insane trans cult.
Yup.
Wellesley students have won a student referendum that would allow trans-women to apply to Wellesley, and men who just say the feel like women.
When I was 17 I never considered the totally uncool idea of attending a women’s college.
Now I think I would not attend any other.
It is simply too distracting, the constant whining and bitching about the co-eds, especially the sniping about and shaming of smart women (all they can do is take notes).
Who needs it?
Can you imagine where 90% of the oxygen at Wellesley will go if any version of male is allowed to matriculate? to discussing these misfit narcissists’ issues and pandering to them. Women who ignore the BS or push back will be marginalized. In their own institution.
If Wellesley falls, Western civilization falls with it!!!
Speaking of this nonsense, Antifa attacked the venue where some conservative guy named Charlie Kirk was speaking at UC Davis. They actually broke the glass in the doors. Only 2 got arrested.
If I were an Arizona player I might be shitting my b-ball shorts about now. 15 seed Princeton is up by a point over a 2 seed and there’s under a minute left to play. A win by P over A would be a first.
Princeton wins by 4. This is huge!
I’m guessing you and Peter will be painting New Jersey red tonight? Don’t go too crazy, Q! No early morning calls from the cops to come bail you two out, please!
Can somebody explain something for me? I asked Google “has a 15 seed ever beaten a 2 seed?” Google answered “A No. 15 seed has never beaten a No. 2 seed in the national tournament.”
Then I just heard the TV talking heads say it has happened 11 times. What the fuck??
Especially important is the warning to avoid conversations with the Google. We may ask what is relevant but anything beyond that is dangerous. He is a liar. The Google is a liar. He will lie to confuse us. But he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. The attack is psychological, Q., and powerful. So don’t listen to him. Remember that – do not listen!
Dis, who is “him?”
The Google!
Hmm, this is odd.
The price for a pound of butter is down 60 cents at Stop & Shop.
From $4.59 down to $3.99.
Maybe there is a butter mountain somewhere . . .
Probably right next to the Big Rock Candy Mountain. I’ve heard such places actually exist, but I’m pretty gullible that way.
Those mountains are actually inside that new proof-of-concept Panoptimart, part of which used to be an abandoned mall.
It has living accommodations attached to it in back where they used to have the loading docks. Local government the approved the surrounding parking lot to be turned into a skateboard park and go-cart racing track.
The first proof-of-concept is supposed to be opening soon in one of China’s ghost cities. Since hardly anyone was living in them, I hear they got a great deal.
Alex Berenson has a pretty good post titled
“Capitalism, except for the capitalists”
He discusses the issue of accounts over $250,000, basically the accounts of gamblers, should not be covered.
He also suggests that various banksters and others were fearmongering the publilc into creating bank runs—the worst thing for the whole situation.
Even Amazing Polly figured this out, saying, ‘Stay cool with your money —don’t make things worse by everyone rushing to withdraw their funds at once.”
But it seems like this is exactly what certain entities WANT. Now the Feds have had to step in to head off a domino crash.
Berenson:
“But venture capitalists – led by David Sacks, a good friend of Elon Musk – spent the weekend screaming that bank runs would be inevitable if the government didn’t guarantee all depositors.
Many if not most of these folks had not-at-all hidden conflicts-of-interest – either personal deposits at Silicon Valley Bank or investments in companies that had deposits there. Nonetheless, they insisted that they were warning about bank runs solely because they wanted to save ‘Merica from bank runs!
Whether or not they were trying to worsen the crisis, their warnings certainly did. They essentially forced the government’s hand.. . . “
Damn, it feels good to be a banksta!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSN3JB2XTSI
Banksta Ver. 2.0: Welcome. Please Be Seated…
That was pretty chill…
So much for those protests (Occupy) leading to some kind of revolution, ay? I wonder where they all went.
80% of the people in and commenting on that video probably took the clot shot and are pushing us into the digital plantation.
Mooo.
The Lost Trip of a Dead Hippie
by Monoceros, from the album, ‘Self Isolation Rules’
(electronica)
——
youtu . be/jHaz7M14lxQ
Thank you, that is good! I like to float when I meditate. You can reach astral lucidity through the crystal countdown.
It’s starting to make so much sense now. Money is a mixed message and is essentially just a medium and in and of itself means nothing or means everything dependent on circumstance. And therein lies the friction and the rub. In one sense money is a symbol of limits, boundaries and borders. It can provide access or the lack thereof can shut out and close off. So it represents allocations, distinctions, separations. Now I understand why I hate it. Why should there be limits of any kind? I know, there just are limits to things so cope. Fine. But it also represents fundamental unfairness and true inequities. Why can’t everyone be the same and have the same things? I know, a lot of people just think that is outrageous so enough of it huh lol. But the greater point being that its not just little ole me who has those thoughts I bet. And that may be why some people think they can just make magic money and print it and so forth. Which then connects to other ways in which society especially now is just so outside the limits of things. Which mean that as long as there is money in its current form this all continues but in a scaled down society money may be replaced by trade in coins, and gems, and jewels and crops and livestock and who knows probably some people as well. And thus history doesn’t necessarily repeat itself but it does rhyme.
Wonderful, and money, or the lack of it, can also shape personalities and behavior, create distorted motivations while destroying or suppressing more wholesome values.
Seems there will always be a West Egg, an East Egg and a Valley of Ashes, a Bedford Falls and a Pottersville, but then we do have Dickens’ “Great Expectations” and “A Christmas Carol”.
If love of country is gone, all the money in the world won’t fix it.
There is the political ‘own-everything-&-everyone-within-these-open-air-prison-borders’ concept of a country and then there is the, shall we say, the natural-belonging concept of it.
I belong to Earth and my natural surrounds. I do not belong to a gang of humans I’ve never met who keep trying to throw the wool over our eyes.