Debt Rattle August 22 2024

Considering Future Arrangements https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/considering-future-arrangements

It is difficult to pick a first story today, because the global economy, our life support system, runs on fuels and other mineral substrates, which provide energy, transportation, electricity and inputs for manufacturing and agriculture. All of this is coordinated and managed through business-finance, within the paradigm of capital-investment with the expectation of the return of profits, as well as the principle invested, at some point in the future. This assumes the growth of the real economy, which requires the growth of available fuel and mineral substrates, at prices which are low enough to support the generation of profits, with which to regularly pay dividends to investors, and to occasionally return their principle upon demand.
As we know, this system often fails in specific instances of bankruptcy, and occasionally fails as a large, coherent system, as in 1929 and 2008, though the 1929 failure was managed by addressing fundamental problems and the 2008 failure was “managed” by conjuring up enough “money” to pay off all of the players, so the game could proceed as if the system remained healthy, though it was not. The promise of ongoing profits was enough to assure full participation by all economic and financial participants, as long as the system could appear to function as it had before.
The financial failure in 2008 came shortly after the peak of “conventional oil” production in 2005 or so, and oil prices rising to $140/bbl, which was unaffordable to much of the real economy, based upon an oil price of $30/bbl. A lot of assumptions failed when that fundamental price rose so high, as they had in the 1970s, when the Arab oil embargo had also caused “stagflation”. Government sweeteners for investors to finance the “shale revolution” were able to bring oil prices back down, though they fluctuated between choking-the-economy when higher, and leading to oil production cuts when lower. $80/bbl seems to be a fairly narrow “sweet spot” where enough oil can be produced and the economy can be sustained.
The financial system, however, is still a Ponzi scheme, subject to sudden collapse. The financial system has been predicated upon growth of the real economy, which declined in the early 2000s and has further declined since the peak production of “net-oil-and-liquids” at the end of 2018.
Emergencies and emergency-interventions, such as the “going direct bailout” in March 2020, during COVID lockdowns, have been necessary to support the financial Ponzi, but it is tasked with appearing to grow exponentially, while real economy has long been stagnant, bumping between spurts of growth and contraction in most areas, excluding China until recently, and still excluding Russia, which has a lot of energy and other resources, and a low debt-service.
The “owners” of the western financial system re threatened by the exposure of the vast losses of the system, the huge discrepancy between notional-wealth and physical-economic-wealth. Somebody will have to “accept losses” in their portfolios, big losses. The BlackRock class of global investors want that to be the retirement and insurance companies and the retail-investors, please.
That assignment-of-losses is obviously more unfair than the recent increase in disparity between rich and poor, because a lot of people, like retirees, depend upon those assets to live every day. This will be a political determination, even though the BlackRock class has the “legal” rights, “super-senior rights” to all of the assets, which people think they “own”, as Ellen Brown explains clearly and succinctly here:
“The Great Taking”, How They Can Own It All https://ellenbrown.com/2023/10/03/the-great-taking-how-they-plan-to-own-it-all/

“Emergency Powers” during the COVID pandemic allowed vast, invisible creation of money, to be provided to the BlackRock-class, and the inflation followed when lockdowns ended and real-economy picked up again. That will not work when people are actually robbed of their necessities of life in a financial economy, losing large fractions of their income. War-Emergency-Powers are typically used by financial elites when the economic systems are so badly deranged, as was the case leading into WW-2.
I believe that is the precipice where we now stand, looking over the cliff at the wars in Ukraine and Palestine/Israel with trepidation.

​ “War is inevitable between Israel and Hezbollah”, interview with Abbas Zalzali ​ ​[This analysis makes less of the far-right Revisionist Zionist motivations within “Israel”​.]
​ Anthony Blinken left Doha on August 20 empty handed. He had been pushing Israel and Hamas to come to a ceasefire agreement, but the negotiations appear to have once again failed to find peace for the people in Gaza, who have suffered over 40,000 deaths and hundreds of thousands of injuries since the October 7 attack on Israel by Hamas. The US supported Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his revenge attack on Gaza, which has been termed genocide by the UN. However, the US President Joe Biden administration has forcefully demanded that Netanyahu stop the war to allow Israeli hostages out of Gaza, and prevent further Palestinian deaths. Most of the dead have been women and children in Gaza.
​ Biden was assured by Netanyahu that he would sign a ceasefire, but at the last moment Netanyahu broke his promise to Biden, and this prompted Biden to end his re-election campaign. Biden was counting on a Gaza ceasefire to win the votes to put him in the White House for a second term, but had to admit defeat. It appears that Netanyahu is determined to wage a full-scale war against Hezbollah, the Lebanese resistance organization.​..
​ Abbas Zalzali, news anchor, media instructor, talk show host and writer:
​ “It was clear that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the green light for an escalation during his visit to Washington and his speech before the US Congress. The assassination of Hezbollah leader Fouad Shukr in the Lebanese capital Beirut is a translation of this escalation and an attempt to drag Hezbollah into a large-scale war because the Israeli leadership, since the first days of Operation Flood of Al-Aqsa on October 7, has wanted to launch a military campaign on Lebanon and has been trying since that time to separate the fronts to isolate Hamas in Gaza.”​…
..”All indications show that war is inevitable between Israel and Hezbollah. Israel, which received a heavy blow on October 7, wants to restore its prestige as an invincible state… If a comprehensive war does not break out this time, it will inevitably break out in the near future. Speaking of the role of the Lebanese army in the event of a war, the matter is clear: it will confront Israeli attacks in defense of the homeland because it is the homeland’s army, despite its modest capabilities and lack of the capabilities ready for such a war.”….
..”As for Hezbollah’s response to the assassination of “Hajj Mohsen”, it is inevitable, as stated by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah. As for its nature and timing, the matter is subject to several details that cannot be predicted, but stopping the war on Gaza may change something in this equation.
​ As for Netanyahu exploiting this response when it happens to launch a large-scale war on Lebanon, it cannot be confirmed or denied because opening the northern front means a regional war. Here we ask him about the American role and American desire because everything that is happening is with American approval and participation, and whoever says otherwise is naïve.”​ https://mideastdiscourse.com/2024/08/20/war-is-inevitable-between-israel-and-hezbollah-interview-with-abbas-zalzali/

​ Netanyahu’s latest strategy to avoid a ceasefire, explained​
Since the start of the week, two news items about the latest ceasefire negotiations have surfaced that seem to contradict one another.
​ One has gained widespread attention in the international press, claiming that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accepted the U.S. ceasefire deal, with Secretary of State Antony Blinken stating that the ball is now in Hamas’s court.
​ The second only gained traction in Israeli media: Netanyahu told a group of families of Israeli captives held in Gaza that he isn’t sure a ceasefire deal is going to happen because Israel would not withdraw from the Netzarim and Philadelphi corridors in Gaza “under any conditions.” …
​..In mid-July, Egyptian and Qatari mediators called Israel and Hamas back to the table. Netanyahu sent a smaller delegation with limited powers to Cairo. The Israeli team returned to Tel Aviv hours later after an argument with Netanyahu over what was increasingly becoming the Israeli prime minister’s focus in the negotiations — the future of the Netzarim and Philadelphi corridors.
​ But why focus on these two areas? The answer lies in their strategic location and Israel’s vision for the future of Gaza.
​ The Netzarim corridor is a four-kilometer-wide strip of land in the center of Gaza that the Israeli army has cleared of inhabitants and uses as a military zone to station and move its troops. More importantly, Netzarim extends from Gaza’s eastern edge to the west, bifurcating the coastal enclave in two and thus cutting off northern Gaza from the south. The Philadelphi corridor plays a different strategic role; it’s a two-kilometer-wide strip of land along Gaza’s border with Egypt, and Israel claims that Hamas has been smuggling weapons via tunnels that run through it.
​ Netanyahu’s statements about holding onto those two corridors followed Blinken’s departure from Israel to Egypt, where he met with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. Egypt’s position was clear in the meeting: Israel has to withdraw from the Philadelphi corridor. The Egyptian presidency also said in a statement that Sisi impressed upon Blinken that it was time for a ceasefire deal to be reached followed by the international recognition of a Palestinian state as part of a two-state solution.​..
..Upon concluding his stay in Israel, Blinken said that Netanyahu assured him of Israel’s acceptance of the latest U.S. ceasefire proposal, stressing that it is up to Hamas to accept it in order to move forward to discussing implementation details. But as the timeline of events above shows, Israel has consistently undermined ceasefire talks throughout the Gaza genocide, and Netanyahu’s conditions on Philadelphi and Netzarim are just the latest ploy.
​ These demands are a non-starter that Hamas will be forced to reject, which is exactly what Netanyahu wants: he nominally accepted the U.S. proposal, putting the ball in Hamas’s court, but later doubled down on demands that make it impossible for Hamas to accept.​ https://mondoweiss.net/2024/08/netanyahus-latest-strategy-to-avoid-a-ceasefire-explained/

​ IRGC Says Iran’s Retaliation Against Israel for Haniyeh Killing May Take ‘Long’ Time​, The IRGC says the response could differ from Iran’s attack on Israel in April​ “Time is on our side, and the waiting period may be long,” said IRGC spokesman Ali Mohammad Naeini. He added that for now, the “Zionists must remain in a state of imbalance.”​ … “Our commanders know how to punish the enemy effectively and are not prone to hasty action,” he said.
​ The US is still vowing that it will defend Israel from an Iranian attack and has deployed additional military assets to the Middle East for that purpose. “We are fully prepared to defend Israel,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in Tel Aviv on Monday.
​ Hezbollah is also vowing to respond to the July 30 Israeli airstrike in Beirut that killed one of its top military commanders, Fuad Shukr.

IRGC Says Iran’s Retaliation Against Israel for Haniyeh Killing May Take ‘Long’ Time

Canada revokes Jewish National Fund’s charitable status after audit found group used donations to fortify Israeli military infrastructure​ https://www.naturalnews.com/2024-08-20-canada-revokes-jnf-charitable-audit-israel-military.html

​ The Honest Sorcerer​, An AI Takeover (Not)​ Briefly​: AI uses a vast amount of electricity, even in current forms, as do Bitcoin and internet servers. Electricity shortage is part of the developing energy crisis. Human brains are extremely energy efficient, even the good ones.
​ Let’s make it clear because its not obvious to most people: neither human nor artificial intelligence can lessen our energy woes, let alone ‘address pressing national and global challenges’. We are facing a mounting net energy dilemma, where less energy means, less resources, and well, a much smaller economy. Mining is still powered by fossil fuels, and vice verse — so, the less minerals we mine, the less energy we can produce. We need low cost energy to mine minerals, and low cost minerals to obtain energy. Take any of these away, and there goes your economy…
Problem is, as rich deposits deplete, it takes more and more energy to get into the next reserve and deliver the next batch of oil, uranium, silicon or copper. Thanks to four decades of rampant globalization, minerals (especially oil) production is in the same net energy dilemma everywhere. Simply put we have used up the best of our resources already — taking millions of years to form in Earth’s crust — and now we’re stuck with the scrapings left behind by an industrial scale exploitation of this planet… All this at the same time when we would need more energy than ever to fuel “the runaway train of AI’s energy consumption”… ..Energy and resource depletion, resulting in a skyrocketing energy demand just to keep raw material output flat, is thus a predicament with an outcome — not a problem in search of a solution. We have burned through a colossal amount of resources in less than eighty years since the end of WWII, and now we not only face climate deterioration as a result, but risk an outright ecological collapse. https://thehonestsorcerer.substack.com/p/an-ai-takeover-not

​ Surplus Energy Economics, The mythology of growth​, EVEN IN THE GOOD TIMES, THE ECONOMY BARELY OUT-GREW POPULATION
​Conclusions:
​ This has been, by intention, a retrospective review of economic trends dating back to 1980. But most of us are interested, not just in where we’ve come from, but in where we’re going.
The ‘big factors’ that emerge from our retrospective analysis can be listed as follows.
1. Both the non-energy resource base and the ex-cost economic value of energy have been depleting markedly, trends greatly exacerbated by relentless increases in population numbers.
2. Most of the “growth” reported in financial aggregates has been cosmetic, a product of ignoring debt and other liabilities, disregarding ECoE, and excluding natural resource depletion from our measurement of economic output.
3. Four decades of reported “growth” have, in fact, seen material economic prosperity barely outperform the rate of growth in the global population.
​ These underlying trends are continuing. Comparing 2040 with 2023, we can expect the Energy Cost of Energy to rise by about 75%, and the conversion ratio of natural resources into economic value to continue to decrease. Significantly, aggregate energy production is likely to decline, with falls in fossil fuels output only partly offset by increases in the supply of renewables.
​ On this basis, the aggregate of material economic output is likely to fall by around 18%.
​ If population numbers continue to increase – albeit at a decelerating rate – the World’s average person is likely to be fully 27% less prosperous in 2040 than he or she is today. At the same time, the cost of necessities per capita is projected to be about 40% higher in 2040 than it is today.
​ As well as pushing the affordability of discretionary (non-essential) products and services sharply downwards, this trend will undermine the ability of households to support their enormously-expanded commitments to the financial system.​ [“pay bills”]
​ If past form is anything to go by, decision-makers, far from accepting actual economic reality and acting accordingly, are likely to carry on trying to stimulate the material economy with monetary tools.
​ On this basis, a “GFC II” sequel to the global financial crisis of 2008-09 has now been hard-wired into the system.
​ The decisions that we make are ours alone, but the effectiveness of our choices – financial, occupational, political, social and perhaps even geographical – can only be enhanced if we opt for facts in preference to myths.​ https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2024/08/20/287-the-mythology-of-growth/

​Charles Hugh Smith advocates adjusting now to a less-plush future. You Say You Want a Revolution, Owning nothing isn’t happiness. Owning control of one’s life and purpose is happiness.​ I’ve recently covered the current version of this doing-the-minimum form of opting out: The Anti-Consumers. ​ https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/you-say-you-want-a-revolution

Kamala Harris Thread Reader app looks at the “Top Cop’s” long history of accomplishments in detail. Start skimming and scrolling. Lots of content. Thanks Dr. D.​ https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1817937373751091301.html#google_vignette

​Longtime journalist, now blogger, John Ward, “The Slog”, has intimated that a NYC pollster trusted-source, tells him that poll results give Harris 30% and Trump 70%.
Kamala Harris Suffers Triple Polling Blow Before DNC Starts​,
Vice President Kamala Harris has suffered a triple blow after two recently released surveys put her behind Donald Trump in the key swing state of Pennsylvania, while a third showed her trailing the Republican presidential candidate at the national level.​ https://www.newsweek.com/kamala-harris-suffers-triple-polling-blow-before-dnc-convention-1940947

​ More money on Trump? Harris loses lead in betting odds despite polling success
The betting odds for the winner of 2024’s presidential election currently stand at 51 percent (21/20) for Trump, and 48 (11/10) percent for Harris.
​ This is despite ​(because of?) the fact that more bets have been taken out on Harris in the past 24 hours (40 percent of bets) as voters across the United States tune in to the Democratic National Convention this week.​ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-harris-betting-odds-polls-b2599650.html

​ Big Serge, Back to the Bloodlands: Operation Krepost​, Russo-Ukrainian War: The Kursk Operation
​ By creating a front within Russia itself, the Ukrainians have voluntarily accepted a long and exposed logistical tail, while fighting within the shadow of Russia’s own base of material support. The results have been largely disastrous thus far. A running total of 96 strikes on Ukrainian vehicles and positions have been recorded and geolocated in Kursk thus far, and Ukrainian vehicles losses are on par with the opening weeks of the Ukrainian offensive at Robotyne last summer.​..
​..Krepost ultimately reflects a growing Ukrainian frustration with the trajectory of the war in the east, where the AFU has grown weary of the industrial slugfest with its bigger and more powerful neighbor. By flinging a secretly assembled mechanized package at a lightly defended and previously ancillary sector of front, they briefly managed to reopen mobile operations, but the window of mobility was far too small and the gains far too meager. It has now become clear that the decision to divert forces to Kursk has undermined the already precarious defense of the Donbas. Ukraine hold Sudzha and may very well clear the south bank of the Seim, but if it comes at the expense of Pokrovsk and Toretsk, that is a trade that the Russian Army will be happy to make.
​ The AFU is expending carefully husbanded and scarce resources in the pursuit of operationally inconsequential objectives. The exhilaration of taking the fight to Russia and being on the attack again can certainly work wonders for morale and create a spectacle for western backers, but the effect is short lived – like a broke man gambling away his last dollar, all for the momentary thrill of chance.​ https://bigserge.substack.com/p/back-to-the-bloodlands-operation

​ Simplicius, Qatar “Talks” Just Another Ukrainian Perception Management Diversion
The latest lede driving the buzz for the past few days is the claim that Russia and Ukraine were set to meet in Qatar to discuss a mutual ceasefire against hitting each other’s energy grids…​ Following that, we’ve had several statements from official Russian figures denying any such talks were being planned…
​..But now there’s even another old escalatory master plan being tediously revived: the Transnistria gambit. Suddenly, from several seemingly coordinated vectors at once, we’ve had signals that Ukraine may soon attempt to enflame the Transnistria corridor in their attempt to drown Russia in chaos from every side, perhaps imagining they will freeze the Russian general staff in a kind of indecision crisis doom spiral.

Here we have Ukrainian charity Come Back Alive head Taras Chmut dropping a hint:

​ This was suddenly followed by Moldovan ex-Defense Minister Anatole Shalaru declaring that Moldova and Ukraine should jointly “solve” the Transnistria issue once and for all sometime soon.​..
​..And then there were other small hints on rumor mill channels like Rezident UA, etc., that Ukraine is considering opening up that front to stoke the flames against Russia’s war.
​ Of course, as before, this is now the fourth or fifth time Ukraine has threatened to stoke that theater into conflict, and most likely it will come to naught again, but it’s something to keep an eye on as Ukraine enters the ninth inning.
​ Also, Ukraine has telegraphed its own intentions in the coming nuclear falseflag Zelensky potentially plans to carry out.​ https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/qatar-talks-just-another-ukrainian

​Sasha Latypova shows 3-D computer models of structures. Pandemic Preparedness Racket and DOD, Similarities between “spike protein” and synthetic anthrax toxin. https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/some-similarities-between-spike-protein

If you or somebody you know contracts Monkeypox, do not take ivermectin, which would worsen the illness by reducing Gamma Interferon levels. https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-ivermectin-users-will-likely-suffer-severe-or-lethal-mpox-infection-due-to-diminished-interferon-gamma

Bicycles are an efficient mode of human transportation. Ask Amsterdam, old London, China, and India: India’s schoolgirls are leading a silent cycling revolution
Nationally, the percentage of all students cycling to school rose from 6.6% in 2007 to 11.2% in 2017, they found.
​ Cycling to school in rural areas doubled over the decade, while in urban areas, it remained steady. Indian city roads are notoriously unsafe, with low urban cycling to school linked to poor traffic safety and more cars on the road.
​ India’s cycling revolution is most substantial in villages, with states like Bihar, West Bengal, Assam, and Chhattisgarh leading the growth. These states have populations comparable to some of the largest European countries. Cycling was most common for longer distances in rural areas than in urban areas, the study found.
​ India began reporting cycling behaviour for the first time only in the last Census in 2011. Only 20% of those travelling to work outside home reported cycling as their main mode of transport. But people in villages cycled more (21%) than in the cities (17%).
​ Also, more working men (21.7%) than their female counterparts (4.7%) cycled to work. “Compared to international settings, this level of gender gap in cycling is among the highest in the world,” says Ms Agrawal.
​ American suffragist Susan B Anthony famously said that the bicycle “has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. It gives women a feeling of freedom and self-reliance”.​ https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3g98lgyj38o

https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/25-brits-consider-turning-heat-winter-power-bills-soar

I love this. I left the UK some 25 years ago for a lot of reasons, but one of which was the fact that I could not stand the people. There is nothing worse than living with sychophantic, accepting people with super unambitious brains who are being lied to. For example, they admire celebrities … how retarded do you have to be to even care about celebrities, like actors, like musicians. You can appreciate their work, but we all know that people who produce good work are mostly assholes. Get a grip …. there are so many who fail on this on TAE.

Will the British – as in white people – do anything? Of course not. What can they do, they are pathetic, that is why I left. I would rather be in Rwanda arguing with fuckers who will cut off your balls than talking to a bunch of wet diapers in the UK.

You see it in the USA; in the USA, having a gun is the poor man’s equivalent of having a ferrari. You get respect with a gun. But they won’t do fuck. Most people in the world own knives, do they go out stabbing people? Not in the west they don’t. Same with guns, not in the west they dont’t. Everywhere else, sure, they will cut off your balls will their knife, of shoot them off one at a time. But in America, ooooh no.

Now we have the fake billionaire Elon Musk, obviously supported by Jew money, pretending to be the white Jesus. Yes, there are 90% of Americans who will believe him; Americans like to do as they are told. He censors the anti-Jew people then claims he is “an absolutist supporter of free speech”. Bullshit every, like every, like in every corner where where.

America has some of the worst people in this world; greedy for greed’s sake. It is not about survival, it is about greed. The Americans love to greed, and they will greed off everybody else in the world when they can; the people who taught them to greed like this were the Jews, so they are top-grade greeders.

Western humanity is pathetic.

The article list: “growth of the real economy, which requires the growth of available fuel and mineral substrates, at prices which are low enough to support the generation of profits, with which to regularly pay dividends to investors, and to occasionally return their principle upon demand.
As we know, this system often fails in specific instances of bankruptcy, and occasionally fails as a large, coherent system, as in 1929 and 2008, though the 1929 failure was managed by addressing fundamental problems”

Focuses on only the West. As if we matter. We don’t, and there is plenty of energy everywhere in the Non-West. The financial problems are ALSO only in the West, as only we have economy-ending debt levels. Russia has essentially no debt at all.

ALSO 1929 was famously NOT solved. At all. Not a little teeny bit, and even FDR’s people cried Uncle on it. 10 years turned to dial zero. Nothing. Nada. Every Socialist-Lite Policy they added saved no one, moved nothing. Only blowing up all other factories on planet earth did the trick.

All the premises and all the history are wrong therefore. Cumulation of little lies, salted in over the years until there’s nothing but salt, no bacon. I wouldn’t mind but it’s VERY CLEAR that we were in Depression in 1929 and still in 1939, with no change. That’s not secret history, and they just report it as if it’s the #Opposite, every day for generations.

“​The Honest Sorcerer​, An AI Takeover (Not)​ Briefly​: AI uses a vast amount of electricity, even in current forms, as do Bitcoin and internet servers. Electricity shortage is part of the developing energy crisis.”

Sorcerer again, with the same errors as above, that we’re “Running out.” We we’re not. The WEST is. They think only the West matters, but we don’t matter at all. And We have allocated ourselves to utter irrelevancy and probably death because. All these really smart, totally not-racist people don’t think 9/10ths of the planet exist, they don’t speak English. ‘Cause they’re so “diversity-minded” “World citizens” like that.

Anyway, in this quote, THIS IS NO PROBLEM BECAUSE THEY’RE GOING TO KILL YOU ALL. Did you not get 40 years of “Memos”? They are going to produce on AI robots and kill all the humans. USING the AI killer robots. I mean, have they been quiet, made a secret of it? Did they not JUST do this “killing everyone” i.e THEMSELVES, a day before entering the Ukraine war that, if they had, would have crushed Russia via their pricing power?

And we don’t NEED the resources. As we constantly say but can’t point to, Malthus was wrong since the day he was born. We now do NOT need 10 pounds of copper per light bulb, we’re making them out of a tablespoon of rendered crude oil, salted with some metals plus a silicon (sand) chip. No one knew that was possible except, as we find out 100% of the time, it’s always possible. Every object in your house is the same, compared to its 1920 equivalent, yet no one is able to notice. Then we find a new, efficient ore processing method and it drops again.

They are basing on a premise that’s been false for 300 years. Adjust your antenna for God’s sake.

I mean, I’m glad for China, but I have to think that anyone who gets absolute power, they will slowly behave the same way. We mostly have European examples for that, but you can find it in Africa, Japan, etc, so I’d have to think that it’s true. America said just what they’re saying, in 1880, and we did resist the One Ring longer than most, but that’s how humans are. I’m not trading Ameri-Euro fascism for Chinese fascism.

“BYE-BYE PETRODOLLAR: 159 Countries now slated to adopt new BRICS payment system”

Among others, this is the M-Bridge, a highway protocol alternative to SWIFT. Which is badly outdated, like by five decades. (Swift runs on de-facto Teletype) Now we have the “Bridge”; what are the cars and trucks on it, the individual packets? It may matter and it’s not really online yet, but XRP is one. BRIICS, “Unit”, etc. so I hear. (Unit is 40% gold, 60% participating currencies)

Sorry I can’t nail that down for you but it’s like talking about software, it’s all virtual and abstract: it’s the Server drives, which isn’t a REAL server drive, it’s a virtual drive made up of real drives, on which you run a server, but it’s not a real server it’s a virtual server, which isn’t itself a real server, but mirrored in two locations, and runs over a data wire that isn’t a REAL data wire, but a virtual encrypted wire inside the virtual wire, which is inside a real physical wire, somewhere, although it’s using a network of wires, hopping between server racks worldwide that EMULATES a real wire. See why this might be hard to comprehend, or worse, communicate?

Take it at a high level: they have built a communications, like SWIFT, that can move non-dollar currencies around without interference. That’s the only actionable fact. We’re not in charge of sabotaging that system, so we don’t need to know the fine details, but the whole West is, so expect they will, and fail, shortly.

The successful coverup con job of Pedo Jo-jo as “President” for four years followed by shoe-horning a Bimbo Bitch to replace him has got to have Bernays laughing hysterically from Hellsgate.

The Satanist literally don’t give a rats ass what they present to the Duh’merican public.

The Brown Dog slides down their collective throats like a raw oyster.

Yum, lip smacking delicious

Hey Duh’merica!

We rewrote history a bit to fit

Her-story is that she served as VP under the Sharpest Guy like Ever

Totally believable!

A country that actually proves it can’t walk and chew gum

hahahahahahahahahahaha!

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Going once, going twice…

Sold! to the country that lost its Mind

If you want to find the best and the worst of any group of people (or of all of the people as a whole, for that matter) just go find the battle field and they will all be there. The closer you get to the thick of it, where the fight is raging the hottest, the closer together they will be, and the most fierce. (and don’t forget to look for the Commanders, who typically maintain what they hope is a safe distance from real danger.)

The point of the metaphorical simile is that being in the thick of the fight is not what determines the side that someone is on, nor do flags being waved or the uniforms being worn. Neither do any of those outward symbols separate the Best of people from the Worst of people.

What matters is who you are fighting for.

So religions like Jews, Christians, Atheists and Bankers are not “religions”. They are BATTLEGROUNDS, and within them you will find the BEST and also the WORST of people face to face right next to each other, locked in fiercely mortal combat.

Jimmy Dore.

Surviabilities

Which rich and powerful family survived the end of their empires.?
Is anyone left from past Empires?
Did history record any descendant?
Egypt … Cleopatra?
Greeks … Alexander?
Rome … Caesar?
English … ?
Spanish … ?
French …?
Others … ?

Ukraine goes for broke, trying to invade Russia in more spots in Sumy region. 1/3 of Ukrainian forces massed in the region. What’s the objective? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTLRm7PGPjQ

The Slippery Slope

Duh’merica bought it hook, line and sinker

“Abandon All Ye Who Enter”

~Dante The Inferno

I really think there were 2 patsies, like the US-Oswald and the Mexico-Oswald.
New Footage Shows Trump Shooter Casually Strolling Around PA Rally
https://modernity.news/2024/08/22/new-footage-shows-trump-shooter-casually-strolling-around-pa-rally/

Kennedy:

Kennedy as CIA director?
You must be drinking the CIA’s Kool Aid!

Kennedy is a CIA asset!
Kennedy was planted by the CIA to hurt Trump!
Republicans put Kennedy on all the red state ballots to hurt Trump.
Blue states all kept Kennedy off their state ballots.

The CIA would love Kennedy as CIA director to control and neuter Trump!
The only thing Kennedy will blow up is Trump!

Believing in Kennedy is the same as believing in Kamala!

So there you are in the thick of battle. Maybe you went looking for trouble or maybe it came to you. That doesn’t matter at the moment because there is an adversary soldier coming straight at you who means to put you into the ground. The big decision for you to make under those circumstances is whether you should try to kill that guy or not.

From the safety of your home so far from the battlefield that might seem like an easy choice to make, considering things like personal survival, the right of self-defense and things of that nature. But it’s not really that simple. Not by a long shot.

In point of FACT (actual measured and documented fact, entered into the official record), in real battles less than 1 in 5 soldiers fire their weapons at a visible human enemy intending to kill them. 80% of soldiers caught up in the circumstance of close quarters combat with a visible human enemy will not deliberately and knowingly kill even to defend themselves. I can see their problem and well understand how it turns out that way. It’s actually a super-tough problem to satisfactorily solve.

Imagine it. I’m aiming my rifle at a guy who’s aiming a rifle at me. That guy isn’t merely comparable to me. He’s JUST like me because he has the exact same problem that I do. And at the moment it’s pretty much the ONLY problem that he NEEDS to solve. We’re focused. We BOTH need to decide real quick whether (or not!) to kill the guy who’s aiming a weapon at us.

Most armchair warriors (who don’t really see themselves as directly engaged in the fight) reckon that only a total fool or a paralyzingly terrified coward would choose not to shoot and defend themselves from death. Even a scared coward can shoot in self defense, and many have, but to be PARALYZED by fear is pretty extreme and relatively rare. It happens, but not often.

So why do 80% of soldiers choose not to shoot?

The answer to that is in the question itself. The answer is that the CHOSE not to. They decided that under the existing REAL circumstances that the best thing to do was to not shoot (and to do something else instead, such as pretending to shoot, or shooting in the wrong direction, or hiding, etc.)

You just have to wonder why such a huge majority of the men who found themselves in that position would make that same choice, which doesn’t at first seem to be in their own best interests.

And the answer to THAT question is right there in the question, too. They WONDERED. They did it very very swiftly, but they DID wonder. They urgently asked themselves (!) what they should do and why they should do it. It was DECISION time, and so they very quickly wondered why they should do one thing or the other thing, and then they decided, and then they did it. Who am I to judge what calculations that guy had to make to arrive at that conclusion. Everybody has a different set of factors to consider and we have no choice but to accept that they arrived at the best solution that they were capable of under those circumstances.

Two guys, aiming guns at each other and faced with the SAME problem. They might as well be twin brothers of the same parents. Which one should kill and which one should die? Or should they BOTH live or BOTH die and let God sort them out? The clock is running so decide NOW!

20% kill and 80% don’t, and you better be glad that’s the case and recognize it as a VERY good thing, because if all 100% decided to defend themselves with lethal force then there would be no survivors on either side (good OR bad) except the last man standing, and he wouldn’t last for long because he is all alone. No good guys. No bad guys. No anybody. Just dead bodies and game over.

What is the RIGHT thing to do? What is the BEST thing to do? The GOOD thing to do?

Which one should YOU do? You’re going to have to decide soon. This essay is just a heads up.

And by the way, for those awaiting Divine Intervention to miraculously absolve them of the responsibility of needing to decide, I would point out the fact that REGARDLESS of whether God intervenes or not in some supernaturally miraculous way (and I sure don’t have any idea at all about that) that there are some things that even God cannot do.

He cannot, for example, remove your free will (else you would not even exist), so that one remains entirely up to you, and soon you WILL have to start using it because there is a really big decision to make about that guy who’s aiming to put an end to your free will once and for all.

@JohnDay

You’re right, of course, and the military spends a lot of time , money and planning on ways to “work around” the human instinct to not kill other humans. Distance, invisibility and weapons of automated or indiscriminate mayhem have played a huge role in the design and operation of “modern” warfare. Nevertheless, human nature remains what it is, and most humans (by a factor of 80%) decline to kill when they have the choice. Allowing for a certain percentage of psychopaths (maybe 5% ?) that leaves 10 or 15 per cent who do so when they decide that it really is the right thing todo under certain circumstances. I suspect (and hope) that I am in this latter group, but you don’t really know until the chips are actually down. Which seems to be approaching.

A Deep State Manuover:

This whole Kennedy saga stinks to high heaven of deep state!
Kennedy a Democrat, set up by the CIA to hurt Trump and help the Deep state.

This week Kennedy’s VP saying they need to support Trump to avoid Kamala winning!
Yeah, right.

This manuover to place Kennedy into the Trump campaign is what the deep state does.
Remember the deep state putting Jeff Sessions early into the Trump campaign so he could become Trump’s AG, then promptly stabbing Trump in the back, by reclusing himself?
Remember Trump’s VP Mike Pence stabbing Trump in the back on January 6th?

This is Kennedy’s role too.
Get close to be able to stab Trump in the back, at the critical moment!

@zerosum

Ukraine is not a “nuclear power” and does not possess nuclear weapons of its own. Any nuclear weapons employed by Ukrain against Russian forces on Ukrainian/Donbass soil would have to be supplied by NATO. Use of NATO-supplied nuclear weapons against Russian forces remains a “red line” that NATO is very reluctant to cross – and for obvious reasons.

“Someone also warned that the propaganda campaign does not actually need to convince people to vote for her. It only has to convince people that she is a credible candidate — enough to give the Democrats enough cover to steal the election.” – Boogaloo yesterday

I never really believed that the DNC was crazy enough to put Kamala forward as their presidential hopeful, always thinking that she was just a placeholder, while Hillary worked levers behind the scenes so that she could be wheeled out during the height of the convention coup strapped to a handcart like Hannibal Lecter.

But Boogaloo is right. With the captured media and fake polling, all they need do is to create the illusion that Kamala is a viable candidate, that the race is close, and their ballot switching/stuffing operation can do the rest. Americans are being prepped for another steal.

I must keep reminding myself that this is a globalist operation. That those calling the shots are playing for all the marbles. What is a stolen election compared to throwing an entire nation, like Ukraine, into the meat grinder of war with its destruction, misery, and death? Wars, psyops, assassinations, bioweapons, nukes, nothing is off the table for these guys.