Debt Rattle April 18 2022

Concerning Gonzalo it is possible he just can’t communicate due to the Russian advance on Kharkiv. They seem to be able to crush domestic comms for the duration of their campaigns within certain ranges. It does look as if they’re lining this area up for the removal of the remaining Azovs within this city as well as the area in general. Hopefully this is the case.

Will this transmit your social credit score as well?

Hand implant allows people to pay with chip

The future is here. Those tired of taking out their wallet or phone to pay for things could soon skip that step entirely, thanks to a new implantable payment chip.

The British-Polish company Walletmor has created a microchip that can be implanted inside a person’s hand and used as one would tap a credit card for payment. The technology is only currently allowed to be sold in the European Union and the U.K.

People seem to have forgotten why the 2 eastern provinces in Ukraine wanted to rejoin Russia in the first place. After the US managed to dick around with their election in 2014 and install its puppet president there, the first thing he announced was that the eastern areas would be opened to fracking and to Monsanto-owned farming. As the eastern sections were rightfully proud of their land management practices (there is a reason this is known as the ‘bread basket’ of that part of the world), they immediately objected to both these ideas and broke away from the government in Kiev.

Ukraine should be a fairly wealthy country, all things considered; however, they have been run by oligarchs who stole the common weal for so many generations that they are always in bad shape financially. Zelensky himself is a kind of minor oligarch, so to speak, who has found himself in a position he is entirely unqualified to inhabit. Now, having done nothing for his people, and spent all the country’s money on the stupid and unnecessary war effort – that he drove them straight into because he is just not a very smart guy – he is begging other countries to bail Ukraine out. (Actually, he is asking on behalf of the oligarchy, who will make off with the cash post-haste, but one is invited to politely avert one’s eyes from this little matter.)

But that’s not the end of it. To feather the cap of Ukraine’s future, should it survive as a nation after this fiasco, he is in talks with the IMF to bail out the country. The fucking IMF, for god’s sake! The capo di tutti capi (boss of all bosses) of lenders, whose restructuring demands (the vig, one might call it) imposed on the beggaring country are so onerous that it never gets out from under the ‘loan’.

Opening paragraphs from article below:

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Zelensky, IMF chief discuss post-war plans to rebuild Ukraine

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Kristalina Georgieva on Sunday to discuss post-war plans to rebuild Ukraine and maintain financial stability.

The meeting comes as Ukraine says it is running a multi-billion monthly deficit, with the World Bank predicting its economy will shrink by almost half amid Russia’s ongoing invasion.

“Discussed with IMF Managing Director @KGeorgieva the issue of ensuring Ukraine’s financial stability & preparations for post-war reconstruction,” Zelensky wrote in a tweet on Sunday.

“We have clear plans for now, as well as a vision of prospects. I’m sure cooperation between the IMF & (Ukraine) will continue to be fruitful.”

In a response, Georgieva thanked Zelensky for the call, noting that “continued economic support” from Ukraine’s allies will be key to reconstruction efforts. 

“Thank you @ZelenskyyUA for the very good call today. Continued economic support by Ukraine’s partners is essential to lay the foundations for rebuilding a modern competitive #Ukraine,” Georgieva said in a tweet. 

The World Bank released a report last week that Ukraine’s gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to drop by 45.1 percent this year due to the war, which has now been raging for more than 50 days. […]

Zelensky, IMF chief discuss post-war plans to rebuild Ukraine

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Some details about the disappearance of Gonzalo Lira:

“Racist Twitter Board Declares They Would Rather Go Bankrupt Than Be Owned By An African American” –BBee

Up until this point, it was considered to be nothing more than so-called “Russian propaganda” for anyone to make such a prediction, but now it’s literally the official position of the German government itself…”

Yes, but will he be banned from Facebook and Twitter for the official and unavoidable national policy truth?

What’s the difference between conspiracy theory and news? About 6 months.

“Ever Forward Cargo Ship Freed from Chesapeake Bay” He is Risen!

“Is unexpected death the #1 cause of death for 2022?”

Hepatitis is now an epidemic among children. With heart attacks. But everyone remembers 12-years-old dying of heart attacks while fluffing sheets, right? Hepatitis is not just the common liver viruses, but also the name for any inflammation of the liver. A liver that filters poisons from the system. Like drugs and spike proteins.

“Scarcity Shock”

The West are complete knuckleheads, but China is locking down Shanghai until they can get inflation expectations here to finally move and spiral. Nothing is getting through to us. No one here is acting, setting aside food, planning gardens, anything. Besides being dense as a box of rocks, we’re exhausted, having dragged this too long where nothing we do matters.

“Weapons of Mass Destruction and ties to Al-qaeda.” Don’t let the signal be a mushroom cloud! So golly but we just HAD to kill those 6M brown people! We had to borrow $4T dollars from the victims and transfer it to our MIC billionaires. I mean, who’s the real victim here? I say Erik Prince and Jeff Bezos.

“Internal Affairs Ministry advisor Anton Geraschenko stated in endorsement of the murder of a Ukrainian mayor accused of collaborating with Russia.”

I’m guessing he didn’t have a trial, since that wouldn’t be “murder”. Chilling nobody even bothers to notice, but that’s what democracies do! Nobel worthy, like the last guy who started 5 wars and killed very black and brown person he could find, abroad or at home, yes, Mr. “I’m really good at killin’ some folks”, Barack Obama.

“The Russians want to kill all the Russians.”

Every day, never stops. Yesterday whoever was talking about Mariupol, said it can’t be rebuilt ever. Or not by anyone but Ukraine. Whut? Of course it can be rebuilt by Halliburton, by China, by Russia, by bussed-in settlers from Romania, Argentina, Peru, Fiji, OR by Ukraine. Just hand them the city, leave them alone and they’ll be prosperous in no time. Add government, and you get extracted, dying, rubble wasteland. It’s all a matter of being able to keep your own work.

““The city still has not fallen,” the prime minister, Denys Shmyhal, said on Sunday. “There’s still our military forces, our soldiers. So they will fight to the end,” he told ABC’s This Week. “We will not surrender.”

What a maniac. They own one city block. And they did surrender. Like last Thursday.

Same as usual: “Russia’s failing, Russia’s losing, Russia’s bogged down…This just in, Russia takes another city…” Tomorrow, do it again, everyone believes it again.

“the unacceptable assaults the Kiev regime was inflicting on the Russian-speaking population”

Yes, it’s called ethnic cleansing and genocide. The U.S. is in favor of it. Again.

“It’s about crushing any challenge to the Western order.”

Which means they are now attacking every nation on earth. America (and Euro-poodles) vs the whole combined planet. Including their own heartland and 1/3 of the people in every U.S. city. They’re surrounded.

“Russia’s immediate concerns about Ukraine were based on the increasing threat that this western neighboring country posed from its treacherous involvement with NATO”

I mean yes, but this was also signed by both sides in the original treaty. Russia reserved the right to re-intervene if something like this happened. No one mentions the U.S. signed off on that. It makes it “legal”, strange as that might seem.

“Chinese-Style Social Credit Comes to the Heart of Europe (CP)”

If they can’t get universal totalitarian fascism, with Shanghai-death lockdowns, their system now dies. Since as party members they are never locked down, always get jam, and can do whatever they like up to framing and killing people and renting your daughters, they don’t care. If not they all hang. What’s the problem? That’s a decision that makes itself.

“we remember that the Chinese-style restrictions were introduced in Europe through Italy,”

After they both illegally removed Italy’s elected leader, then illegally installed an EU central banker. No one even blinked.

Where’s the real waste and destruction coming from? 5,000sq ft houses, tax-free private jets, yachts, and $200k/mo expense accounts. Not Antonio pulling cappuccinos on his Vespa in Milan. Everyone knows the waste and bad management is off the charts, nothing’s getting done, and it’s not Maria doing it. Remove these idiot sons of idiot sons, their hookers and blow, screwing up every decision and protected from all consequences and things will be working in no time. (It’s called capitalism; firing and bankruptcy for failure, inside a government of law and property rights)

“New EU Sanctions May Backfire and Benefit China (Lacalle)”

EU sanctions themselves and are probably over the event horizon into dead. Like that Russian said. Now it’s turmoil, crime, and bitter street fighting. With your Draghi warlords on top making it worse.

“without China’s collaboration there can’t be a successful embargo.”

1) Embargoes are an act of open war. 2) But Blinken ordered China to stop! I’m sure they take orders from inbred nitwits like him, and wouldn’t read him the riot act in Alaska just for personal amusement.

“5 Witnesses in Clinton Campaign’s False Russian Claims Take the 5th (Turley)”

Appears that ‘Sussman’ completely fabricated the “Russian phone” ping records. Like the CIA took one look at it and said: this is nonsense, made up, totally false. Couldn’t they at least have carried around a fake phone and fabricated it correctly? It’s embarrassing.

“is old pals at the Securities and Exchange Commission and now the Justice Department have launched a joint investigation into Musk’s business activities,”

What did Musk say S-E-C stood for again that has been eminently proven over the last 10 years?

If you’re a pal, club member, and obedient to the inbreds, there is no crime large enough to matter. If you’re out of the club, any arguable variation in accounting is jailable.

“The world isn’t overpopulated…”

All the cheap, empty houses are in all the rural places you’d rather be anyway. PBS and the NYT say “build moar!” Very environmental of them.

“Cloud Seeding”

Although this is tech from the 70s, Saudi is using it easily right now, other places have proven it works, somehow they can’t fly “Aireoplaneos” in the Western U.S. and you know, TRY anything. Nope! Seeding clouds exists but doesn’t exist. And although it’s a nation-ending crisis, it doesn’t exist so we can’t try it.

Everything exists and doesn’t exist. All things are true and their opposites too. Must be a day ending in “Y”.

The Gonzalo Lira news makes my stomach hurt really, really bad…

Yeah, I’m like 80% certain he’s no longer with us in the corporeal sense. Best-case scenario would be that the Ukrainian secret police arrested him, are slapping him around a bit, and plan on sending him back to the US or Chile in cuffs as the shit-libs chortle in delight. 🙁

• US, EU Sacrificing Ukraine To ‘Weaken Russia’: Jacques Baud

So when you start to lose in a crushing humiliating defeat, now all of a sudden you’re just ‘sacrificing’ a pawn in your ‘grand chess’ strategy.

No, you got snookered by a superior opponent who beat you to the punch by a whisker.

The Empire of Lies proxy is now having the ever loving snot kicked out of it on the world stage by Russia which has been forced to become even stronger financially, militarily and psychologically.

Mission Accomplished

I can’t wait for the Russians to parade the Ukronazis and their NATO ‘advisors’ in chains live before a War Crimes Tribunal in June.

Hey, do you think we could hire the Chechens to round up all the mass murdering Covid Plandemic medical professionals and government health bureaucrats and hold a Crimes Against Humanity Tribunal here in the Empire of Lies???

A guilty verdict gets the death penalty.

Hey, maybe to save time and money just ship all the Covid mass murderers to the Crimea (great pun of a name for trials) and use the Russian infrastructure.

After all, mass murder is mass murder, whether it’s cause is a medical experiment or a military procedure.

https://www.lemonde.fr/les-decodeurs/article/2018/12/04/sur-un-axe-de-melenchon-a-le-pen-ou-se-situent-les-revendications-des-gilets-jaunes_5392592_4355770.html?

Macron to the Elysée, 4 mins, the music is Ode to Joy, the EU national anthem

NATO EU-trash sings and dances.

https://bit.ly/3JS7zmp

freedom and democracy

• Zelensky’s Campaign of Assassination, Kidnapping And Torture of Opposition (GZ)
MAX BLUMENTHAL AND ESHA KRISHNASWAMY·APRIL 17, 2022

“One less traitor”: Zelensky oversees campaign of assassination, kidnapping and torture of political opposition

“There is one less traitor in Ukraine,”
Ukrainian mayors accused of collaborating with Russia for wanting peace.

Read more …
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Desired Qualities of a good citizen in a democracy, by the snobs
People who expect/want/mental stability/peace/unwavering faith/don’t read the blogs/don’t ask questions/are not trouble makers/don’t demonstrate/are team players accept the rules and regulation imposed on them

https://www.rt.com/russia/554029-foreign-mercenaries-ukraine-mariupol/
Russia publishes data on foreign mercenaries in Ukraine
400 foreign fighters remain trapped in Mariupol, where Kiev forces have refused an offer to surrender
18 Apr, 2022

An estimated 6,824 foreign mercenaries from 63 countries have come to Ukraine to fight for Volodymyr Zelensky’s government, the Russian Defense Ministry stated on Sunday. Of these, 1,035 have been “destroyed,” while several thousand remain. Four hundred foreign fighters are holed up in Mariupol, where nationalist forces, including the neo-Nazi fighters, have refused to surrender.
These figures were announced on Sunday by Defense Ministry spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov. According to the general, 1,035 foreign mercenaries have been killed by Russian forces and 912 fled Ukraine, leaving 4,877 active in the cities of Kiev, Kharkov, Odessa, Nikolaev and Mariupol.
“Let me remind you that foreign mercenaries do not have the status of ‘combatants’ under International Humanitarian Law,” Konashenkov said. “They came to Ukraine to earn money by killing Slavs. Therefore, the best that awaits them is criminal liability and long prison terms.”
Some of those who made the journey shared horror stories online of being sent to the front lines with inadequate weapons and ammo, while recruitment suffered after a Russian missile strike leveled a training center for these foreigners near the Western Ukrainian city of Lvov. “Up to 180 foreign mercenaries and a large quantity of foreign weapons were destroyed,” Konashenkov said at the time.

Very sad to see it. Oh golly, how rotten!

Poor editing.
I saw that the Bombed repair shop was less than 100 ft from the railway line.

So sorry to hear about Gonzalo Lira. All along while watching his reports I have wondered how much personal risk he was putting himself at, webcasting inside a war zone with bad people nearby that were certain not to like what he had to say.

The Patrick Lancaster reporting looks mighty risky, too. I hope he can stay out of the line of fire.

Gonzalo Lira, he seemed such a wonderful soul, intelligent and possessing the ability to laugh at himself. So very, very sad. He will be greatly missed.

That is so sad. RIP Gonzalo Lira. My sincerest condolences to his family and friends.

He had muy grande cojones made of steel. An intelligent and inspiring fellow who will be missed.

“Losses” includes a family pic at Saturday’s Easter Party at the homestead. Most of those pictured camped out overnight. Nobody got hurt. https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/losses?s=w

Journalist Gonzalo Lira, who has been reporting from inside Ukraine, while walking around through cities, has disappeared suddenly, and has reportedly been captured and killed by Ukrainian neo-nazi secret police.
https://thesaker.is/gonzalo-lira-is-missing/comment-page-2/#comments

On a much, much smaller note, Google Blogger has enigmatically deleted another post of mine, “Individuals Matter” from Johnday’s Blog,
on April 17, after it was posted April 7.
I must presume that parts of it are outside of the Google-approved scope of American public discourse.
It can still be viewed on Substack https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/individuals-matter?s=w

​ ​Ukraine Conflict Marks End of Era Dominated by Western Power​
​The ongoing military conflict in Ukraine is a watershed event of immense historical significance. It marks a break from the past and the beginning of a new geopolitical reality, one that will encompass progress in international relations towards greater economic development, justice, and peace.
​ ​The military conflict in Ukraine is not about a narrow conflict between Ukraine and Russia. It is but the outward sign of a bigger confrontation between, on the one hand, the U.S.-led Western order and, on the other, nations like Russia, China, and others who refuse to accept a subordinate role.

Ukraine Conflict Marks End of Era Dominated by Western Power

​Former NATO advisor says that US and EU are “Sacrificing Ukraine to weaken Russia”
​ F​ormer Swiss intelligence officer, senior United Nations official, and NATO advisor Jacques Baud analyzes the conflict and argues that the US and its allies are exploiting Ukraine in a longstanding campaign to bleed its Russian neighbor.
..I think it was on the 16th of February—Joe Biden, during a press conference, told that he knew that the Russians would attack. And how would he know that? (Because I still have some contacts, and nobody actually thought that the Russians—before end of January, beginning of February—I think nobody thought that the Russians would attack Ukraine.)
So, there must have been something that made Biden aware that the Russians would attack. And this something, in fact, is the intensification of the artillery shelling of the Donbas starting on the 16th of February, and this increase in the shelling was observed, in fact, by the [Border] Observer Mission of the OSCE [Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe], and they recorded this increase of violation, and it’s a massive violation. I mean, we are talking about something that is about 30 times more than what it used to be, because the last eight years you had a lot of violations from both sides, by the way. But suddenly on the 16th of February you had a massive increase of violation on the Ukrainian side. So, for the Russians, Vladimir Putin in particular, that was the sign that the operation—the Ukrainian operation—was about to start.
​https://thegrayzone.com/2022/04/15/us-eu-sacrificing-ukraine-to-weaken-russia-fmr-nato-adviser/

​ Analysis of the (Russian Black Sea fleet flagship) Moskva sinking in the Black Sea a few days ago, including photographs​ taken from Turkish rescue-ship.
https://thesaker.is/sitrep-operation-z-11/

Moon of Alabama (German)
The Ukraine Is Still Losing So What Is Its Plan?
Russian and Donbas forces have cleared the city of Mariupol except for the giant metallurgic complex of Azovstal which is held by some estimated 4,000 men, including many from the fascist Azov battalion.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2022/04/the-ukraine-is-still-losing-so-what-is-its-plan.html#more

These diplomatic words can be read through a variety of cognitive filters and convey different implications to different people.
​ ​In an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press”, Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer – who met with Vladimir Putin last week – said that the Russian President “believes he is winning the war” almost two months after Russia invaded Ukraine. Nehammer, said that the Russian leader told him that the war is “necessary,” even though Western sanctions have had an impact.
​ ​“[Putin] thinks the war is necessary for security guarantees for the Russian Federation,” Nehammer said. “He doesn’t trust the international community, he blames Ukrainians for genocides in the Donbas region.”
​ ​“So he is now in his world, but I think he knows what is going on now in Ukraine.”
​ ​Nehammer added that Putin told him in German that it was “better the war ends earlier than later,” which led the Austrian leader to believe the Russian president knows “exactly what is going on now.”
​ ​The Austrian chancellor, who was the first Western leader to sit down with Putin since the start of the invasion due to his country’s traditionally close ties with Russia, emphasized the need to confront Putin on alleged war crimes and the need for humanitarian corridors in Ukraine.
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/austrian-chancellor-putin-believes-he-winning-war

Charles Hugh Smith brings up the “very large numbers”, which are so hard to comprehend, focusing on the $33 trillion increase in US national debt in the past 12 years. It is only the additional debt discussed here.
American citizens stand to benefit from the fall of the global dollar regime if they are no longer liable to service this debt until they die, and hand it to their kids and grandkids. https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/debt-repudiation?s=w
​ ​Does it illuminate the $33 trillion to say that’s $100,000 of debt for every one of the 330 million Americans? Are we each $100,000 better off for borrowing $33 trillion? Well, a few folks have benefitted. The top 400 wealthiest folks have seen their wealth skyrocket by trillions of dollars​…​
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogapr22/big-numbers4-22.html

Mask mandate on public transport overturned. Karens screaming.

Meme by @TimRunsHisMouth and @grandoldmemes pic.twitter.com/UHZCxEKHtr

— The Right To Bear Memes (@grandoldmemes) April 18, 2022

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/federal-judge-declares-biden-admin-mask-mandate-planes-unlawful