Debt Rattle April 1 2025
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Pablo Picasso The sculptor and his statue 1933 • Paris Court Finds Le Pen Guilty of Embezzlement of EU Funds (Sp.) • France’s Le Pen Sentenced
[See the full post at: Debt Rattle April 1 2025]Good Morning :-))
I was right about the COVID vaccines setting people up for constant reinfections
I was right about the COVID vaccines setting people up for constant reinfections
A new version of COVID with enhanced potential for brain damage
A new version of COVID with enhanced potential for brain damage
People are suddenly getting unusually sick in Japan
TVASSF – and how!
Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn take apart the NY Times story about US involvement in Ukraine. The story itself reads like Monty Python meets Dr. Strangelove at an academic seminar.
FBI :
AG PAM Bondi is the cherry on top at DoJ for the FBI !
No charges or arrests of anybody for anything so far!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 1, 2025
Let play a word game and reverse some stuff from the Kunstler article:
“The motive behind the [Ukraine War], as conceived by US neo-cons and NATO neo-morons, was to “weaken” Russia, bust it up, and seize its resources….”
In Newsflash:Just Russia and China release a joint statement of intent:
“Our motive towards the U.S., as conceived of by the Russian and Chinese Leadership, is to “weaken” America, bust it up, and seize its resources….”
There, all fixed on the World Stage.
MoA:
From MoA commenter’s, Russia has developed a basic tactical offensive template for how to minimize their casualties while maximizing Ukrainian casualties.
This strategy has turned on it’s head, the normal attackers losing 3 soldiers for each defender’s lost, where defenders are losing more soldiers than their attackers are.This brings up the strange Ukrainian military observation̈ that they lose the same number of soldiers if they counteattack verses just defending.
Thus despite losing ground, Ukrainians frequently counter attack.
This strategy turns normal defensive actions on it’s head.Russia is now using small swarms of drones hitting their targets at the same time, so defenders are no longer able to pick off individual drones, one by one.
Drone warfare has turned normal military offensive and defensive strategies on it’s head.
Attacking Russians are inflicting 10 casualties on the defending Ukrainians for each loss of their own.
Russia’s attacking strategy requires careful planning for each attack, explaining Russia’s slow grinding war of attrition.Russia isn’t trying for immediate territorial gains now, but rather to destroy as many Ukrainian soldiers as possible now.
Quick territoral gains will happen after the Ukrainian army collapses.TopCat:
In the good old days of plate setting newspaper printing, using lead based ink, journalists were often seen staggering home, each evening, from lead poisoning, as if they were drunk!
Today, I guess to keep up their reputation, they have driven themselves to drink!
Of course the drinking hides the reality of their poor reporting!Couple massive drone swarms with Warfare AI’s.
Not the cheap shit ChatGPT, the Good Stuff, the classified stuff.
Like a gigantic murmur of dealy starlings.
Think of each single bird having a ultrahigh explosive payload
MOTIVATORS, MANIPULATORS, ILLUSION
Words are meant to manipulate your thinking, and to motivate your action, and to accepting/doing/approving, what I do.
Watch what I do.
Peace, War.
Hate, Love.
Action, Inaction.
MUSK, WHISTLEBLOWER
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https://x.com/TheLastRefuge2/status/1906738799557898447?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1906738799557898447%7Ctwgr%5Ed4ec31447e741174487540d5890cf7e7e9fa83ec%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theautomaticearth.com%2F2025%2F04%2Fdebt-rattle-april-1-2025%2FNYT story confirms what we already knew: The Pentagon and the CIA have been running almost every aspect of the Ukrainian military for the entire war.
US provided targeting data for inside Russia and Biden lied to America about US boots on the ground.
READ MORE …
https://www.kunstler.com/p/convergence-calling
• Convergence Calling (James Howard Kunstler)https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/29/world/europe/us-ukraine-military-war-wiesbaden.html
Jeff Childers gives us the gist of the New York Times abandonment of the ruling lie. https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/narrative-whiplash-sunday-march-30
• Deep State Uses NY Times to Announce Its Withdrawal from Ukraine (PCR)————
lawfare – legal battles – words
• Le Pen Conviction ‘A Very Big Deal’ – Trump (RT)
• Le Pen Sentence a ‘Declaration of War by Brussels’ – Salvini (RT)Le Pen has been a prominent critic of NATO’s policies in Eastern Europe and has opposed Ukraine’s accession to the military bloc.
She has also advocated against the EU’s anti-Russia policies.
In the 2022 presidential election, she advanced to a runoff against Macron, securing around 41.5% of the vote. Earlier this year, polls suggested that Le Pen would secure 61% of the vote against her main rival in the upcoming presidential election.
The conviction of Le Pen and the disqualification of Georgescu occur amid an emergence of political movements across the EU opposed to the bloc’s policies.
A number of French and foreign politicians have condemned the court’s ruling as undemocratic.
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ILLUSION OF CEASEFIRE – PATH TO PEACE———–
READ MORE …
• Current Status: FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino (CTH)
• Transactional Weakness Tips The Balance of Power (Alastair Crooke)———-
• Gold in Hyperdrive in Hyper-Levered House of Cards – Bill Holter (USAW)“DOGE is basically exposing that the United States is corrupt and a shitty place to do business.”
DOGE and all of this slush money being paid out.
Look at the 14 magic money machines that Elon Musk has found.
All this money being spewed into the economy registers as GDP.
So, if you shut those spigots off, you are shutting off the money, and the real economy slows down.
What you are doing is cutting off new money to the Ponzi scheme, and no Ponzi scheme can survive without continually getting new money coming into it.”
Holter also says, “The United States was considered for years and years the safe haven because of its pristine rule of law.
When you pull the curtain back and everything is rotten, confidence breaks.
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READ MORE …
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/spanish-fluke-repeat-covid-jabs-provoke-two-kinds-inferior-antibodies
• Repeat COVID Vaccines Provoke Two Kinds Of Inferior Antibodies (JTN)—————–
Even though individual drone explosive payloads are relatively small like a hand grenade, a series of drones hitting something at precisely timed intervals would be like a jack hammer and would allow drones to accurately destroy much, much larger targets, think flying controlled demolition charges, a little can go a long way….
Peace demonstrations are labeled antisemitism.
https://www.highereddive.com/news/harvard-university-faces-9b-federal-funding-review/744029/
The Trump administration is reviewing billions of dollars in federal grants and contracts to Harvard University over what it claimed was a failure to protect Jewish students from antisemitism.Silver:
Historically, silver has been valued below a ratio of 20 ounces per ounce of gold, reflecting it’s ratio on earth.
Today, the Gold/Silver ratio is valued above 92 ounces of silver per ounce of gold.
The thing to keep in mind is that the silver market, at these extremely high gold/silver ratios, is quite small compared to the size of the gold market.
So if one wishes to manipulate the gold market price lower, the cheapest way to do so, is to manipulate the silver market lower.It only takes a few hundred million paper dollars to manipulate silver prices lower, thus hopefully dragging gold prices lower.
To directly manipulate gold prices lower, takes a manipulater, tens of billions of paper dollars to do so.
Of course when you can print paper dollars, out of thin air, that isn’t really a problem for US government.The thing to watch for, is the gold/silver ratio to start dropping.
Right now, the gold/silver ratio has been increasing slightly.
That points to the silver price is being heavily manipulated, as we speak.At some point in the future, the manipulation of silver prices will fail, but not likely anytime soon, since it takes peanuts to manipulate silver’s price.
Another arrow in the gold and silver manipulator’s qiver, are the so called paper gold and silver ETF funds setup to absorb/divert retail interest in real gold and silver money.
Another newer arrow in the manipulator’s qiver, are cryptos, like bitcoin.
It is no coincidence that the symbol used to represent bitcoin is a symbolic gold coin.
It is perhaps fitting to note that today is April Fools Day!So countries with no elections: France. Romania. Germany. Holland. Canada (no parliament, no date). Italy. (Draghi). Greece.
Oh, Brazil. Pakistan. Aaaaaand, the U.S. Don’t forget: tried that one.
Many others are arguable too, but let’s keep a stricter list, or in a few tiers.
People are already turning from MAGA, or at least the present actions of it, if you hadn’t guessed. Oh, some cult and leader, eh. I agree, they’re on a short tether and it’s getting shorter by the hour.
“British Council Institutes Harsher Criminal Sentencing, but Only for White Men
See what I mean by FORCING a rebellion while they still have the strength to crush them down? Now, I don’t get why. Wouldn’t it be better to ally with your own people, or appear to? Yet they always do this, worldwide. Now if you look the other way, then you know you’re going to do what the People hate, then you import people to agitate, they can’t help but have a two-front war, with the governments, and the people in the streets as well. Great…except now your productive people aren’t working, they’re fighting, while YOU’RE fighting, against them. So with what resources? Your people/economy/nation isn’t productive, by definition, then.
Wouldn’t you pick an inner ring, of London, Essex, etc, and outer ring York? No idea. Seems like sensible 1st level strategy but if you think for ten more minutes, you’d pick something else.
Again, this is what they did here in the 90s and with Waco, right through to now: force people to revolt if you can. They’re arresting a guy (Jones) who specifically called NOT to go to protests. AND a black FBI informant. (Torrio)
Directly related: “Spain’s Vox Party Spokesperson Faces Hate-Crime Probe After Calling Out Link Between Immigration & Crime
“Sabar, Omar, Nassim, Abdelkader, Salah, Salah, Younes, Karim, Jamil, Amir, Ali, Oussama, Hassan… I can go on. Do you notice any patterns? Do you notice anything?”
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/64/3a/fa/643afabf91aac2cd651f64fdfa592ad4.jpg(Btw, search has hidden this very, very famous quote). Excellent. Proving every point.
“The conclusion of “Joe Biden’s” Ukraine War fiasco looms. You can tell because The New York Times published a gigantic piece Sunday detailing how the Pentagon and the CIA actually ran all of Ukraine’s tactical operations out of a base in Wiesbaden, Germany — after building a colossal Ukraine war machine post our 2014 color revolution in Kiev…They put it out just now because the jig is up and the paper desperately needs to pretend that it’s ahead of events…”
Gold is very, very seriously not a good sign here at $3,130, now clocking one hundred after another.
https://www.kitco.com/charts/goldWorse, confirm from every side not only is it INTO gold, but all the gold is OUT of Europe. London, yes, but ominously Switzerland too. They’re not trusting bank vaults, and I don’t blame them, not if Switz is no longer neutral. …I already jaw-dropped and commiserated on that, most probably the Swiss people agree with me.
BTW, ETH at $1,800, incredible drop, and if the markets break, sure to go lower (at first, like gold). BTC is dominant again, which is generally a sign of “Bottoms” meaning only Institutions are holding, everyone has been flushed.
One for Ezra Klein and Jon Stewart, “Lego Introduces ‘California Home’ Set Where Kids Fill Out Permit And Wait 2 Years For Approval “ –Bbee
“Touching: Libs Spell Out ‘Coexist’ With Burning Teslas” — BBee
“Trump Leaves Presidency To Become Even More Powerful District Court Judge “ –BBee
And better paid!
April 12 Simpson’s Hoax. All made up. And like LOOK! With your Eye-holes! The clock in the supposed frame is wrong. The other one has a clock at 3:12 meaning April 12. Uhhhhh, everywhere I go, APRIL is 4:12. And the rest, the WHOLE SCENE was never in the Simpsons at all creators say.
So add it to the last ten-thousand Blue-Anon hoaxes. Jussie Smollet, Meuller Russia, Laptop, Russia shutting off all power in North Dakota, thousands of others.
Here’s one that’s IN the new docs: CIA says they know where the Ark of the Covenant is. Published this as part of the de-class. Yeah, they also thought Hitler was alive in Argentina too. Also doesn’t make it true, just interesting.
Migrants:
Yes, many reasons. But Increasing monetary creation at ever-increasing rate. Or death. Cake or Death. That’s how it did NOT collapse on Biden’s watch as expected. Dowd said “yeah we didn’t expect TRILLIONS to be Printed to add 10M ppl (all bottom line GDP)” Same as ‘08, same as Covid. Now we’re $1 TRILLION every 90 days and STILL increasing. …Because until there is some air-bag underneath, we can’t allow deflation and price correction. ALSO all the Hotel spending? Same thing: levitates Commercial Real Estate implosion. Yes, they have a write off on Main St Malls, but they are offsetting with a viable float in the hotels. Keeping less-bad under the Red Line, then handing the flaming bag of dog s—t to Cheeto.
“• Paris Court Finds Le Pen Guilty of
EmbezzlementEmbarrassment of EUFunds(Sp.)Read elsewhere: get EU money. BACK-reverse definition of what an “Aide” is. Apply only to LePen. Then convict only LePen for what every European was doing, and convict her for fraud of EU law, but under FRENCH law. Is that illegal under French Law? What’s the jurisdiction? If I defraud someone in Cambodia, doesn’t it have to be Cambodia that has charges?
All this while the HEAD of the EU, Ursula, does a $10B vaccine, no-bid sale in 50 minutes, where she burned all the records, then became head AGAIN when all that was illegal. ROIGHT!
All of this just proves that Vance is a jerk and we was sooper-mean to pick on Europe for having no legal rights and being more oppressive than modern-day Russia. (England has +10x the speech prisoners of Russia)
Talked to a Liberal family this week, exactly what you think it is, every word. Europe is our ally, we are bound to defend them. Me: “They have no army. Why would we do that?” “Because they give us stuff.” “But not an army” “They give us other stuff.” “Can you name the stuff? It’s not GDP.” “–SIGH– It’s not MONEY, how come you guys are always talking about the MONEY, it’s not about the MONEY.” “…If it’s a thing they do, we can name it, right? List it?”
Leftist thing: THEY “R” Us. WE “R” one. So therefore THEY can be conquered by the CubScouts of Ohio and we STILL have to pay 100% of all their defense. …Corollary—yes you knew it – because RussiaRussiaRussia is invading all Europe right now. Me: “Then why don’t they have an army?” “Because they have NATO.” “But NATO is OUR army.” Right. They don’t have an army because they have OUR army. So why don’t THEY have an army? Because they have NATO. But NATO is ALL of us, why don’t THEY have an army?
…Round and round and round and round. So…EXACTLY everything you thought it was, God’s in his heaven and all’s right with the world. I managed to get like two facts through the barricade: One, Europe has 500M people and like 20% larger GDP. And Two, Russia has like 200M ppl and 1/10th of that GDP. But other than that: EVERY AMERICAN IS GOING TO DIE. They (women) will toss every living male in North America into the woodchipper without a thought.
Sleep tight!
Also, all us, them, EU, NATO, and Ukraine, also All One (or none!) I didn’t chase that one. It’s “Us” and “We” R “Us” so anyone who has happy-puppy feelz R Us. All the baddie-bads R Grrrrrrrr…”Them.” And we hates Them forever!
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KievCanada Looking To Further Delay Elections –UkrainianOfficial (RT)“• Current Status: FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino (CTH)
Corrupt FBI officials continue operations as needed (influence selling, evidence burying, pay-to-play investigative outcomes, DC monitoring, money laundering, trafficking, drugs and generally willful blindness to their outside group partners) and simultaneously push specific attention-grabbing info up the ladder toward leadership offices in DC.
“The mechanics within the FBI will simply control the speed and wait out the leadership. Kash and Dan will then play a long game of whac-a-mole, removing each identified agent stalling as they are discovered.”Yes, and we know this because they’ve used a “Scalpel” before. I hate to do it, but you need to “Burn it all” on some way or another. Almost same of NIH. Elsewhere. Do you want NO institutions at all though? So evil won’t come through with NO FBI? No police?
This is why things “Naturally” collapse. They don’t stop until they have no money, no carcasses to feed on. But that means the whole SOCIETY has gotten that small. There may be exceptions, but this appears to be the norm.
So? So supergenius, speak up: what’s your alternative?
“Sovereign Treasuries from across the world can and, highly likely, will default in some cases.
Gold and silver cannot default. Gold and silver are money.”Okay, we know we have these issues. Also know there are hypothecations 300:1 elsewhere, including gold (and Bitcoin). Also “Fail to Delivers” on US TREASURIES. Wait: Wall St owns a Treasury or doesn’t, how can’t they deliver? Uh, yeah, Wall Street has been “Just making up” Treasuries for decades. And remember that hurricane where it hit the center of the NYC vault, in the NYC building, in downtown Manhattan, where they left the vault doors open? Which then burned in a fire while wet? Then blew down, fell over and sank into the swamp? Uh-huh.
THEN we have 7 (and more) “Magic money machines” but I pinky-promise you we never ran anything over $100 on them, honest. No. So we have BILLLLLLLLLLIONS of fake Treasuries, BILLLLLLLLLLLIONS of counterfeit $100s. So…Logic with me here…we have $36 MORE TRILLION out there than the $36T we’re already admitting. Right? No leap of faith there. It’s not $50. It’s not $100. It’s not even $1B. It has to be MANY MANY MANY MANY times that. Or I’m a frog.
Back to Holter: soooo….for WHY would you need gold? As we found out the jawdropping extent of, NOBODY CARED ABOUT FRAUD. At all. We said “Gee, when they find out!!” Ha! No! Wall St didn’t’ care about fraud until somebody ELSE cares about fraud. So long as we hold hands and all don’t care about fraud together, No Fraud! See? So it just keeps multiplying. 10 years…20 years…30 years…40 years…. At an increasing rate since no Magic Money Printer is pulled up by the hooks and destroyed, why would you? Fraud, corruption essentially ALWAYS INCREASE. If they are not increasing you’ll hear the screaming from Space, as we did with Doge. A TINY drop in corruption leads to screaming like you’re being skewered with a red hot poker and when’s the last time you saw what? That CFOs have to actually SIGN docs, in Dodd-Frank? Which was a hollow law?
Uh, no. So then, at last, one fateful day, someone DOES run across the corruption. And for whatever reason, it’s now so large you CAN’T hold hands and pretend.
And then?…And then we admit the amount of magic money printed in 40+ years is a THOUSAND times what we admitted, what people thought and built spreadsheets and trades on. So e.g. our Debt-to-GDP isn’t 150%, it’s 11,500%. And like ALL hyperinflations, then you get a lack of FAITH in currency. SUDDENLY. Slowly at first, then all at once. They re-VALUE promises vs reality. Expectations.
Back to gold. So then The President goes “Whoa, whoa, Whooo coulda KNEEEEEWWWD? Wow. Shock Muchly.” Uh-huh, two streets over from Wall st for 70 years.
Anyway, to “Right the Ship” and “Let’s not worry about who did what to whom” and “What difference does it make at this point” they lop 2-3 zeros off the back. And.
…AND THEN RE-ISSUE ALL THE CURRENCY. So Mr. Tren de Aragua, I see you need to swap $1.5M in small bills within the next 30 days, would you like to explain that for me? Oh Jocko, I see you have S/N “Magic money printer” on this mattress-stuffing, would you like to explain why an Ex CIA-Ops guy has a storage unit with pallets of bills like Walter White? …Same with Bonds. In some capacity.
Soooo…in that environment, what does Gold look like now? What is Bitcoin?
Nothing changes until you fix the money. How much money did Europe re-cycle off that C130 cargo jet filled with $100 bills? Every Soros, every Cheney, every Wienstein and Baker? They ALL have a basement filled from one side to the other with $100s, and they probably each thing they’re the only ones like that, who were that clever. That money buys a lot of Burning Teslas. It has to be erased, OUT of those 1M+ basements of every dirty Ex-FBI agent. How?
You got it.
“• NPR’s CEO Just Made the Best Case Yet for Defunding NPR (Turley)
Contrast with what she COULD have said, even as a pathological mass-murdering villain: “Perhaps NPR has been led astray under my leadership that is for you and the American People to decide – but I believe in our overall mission, and you shouldn’t punish the wonderful writers and staff at NPR for partisan mistakes I may have made…” See? Keep the office open and running nonstop DNC propaganda. Just LESS. She can’t do it. Because there is no I in TEAM, but there is Eat Me. Deranged self-serving narcissists who are capable of those levels of propaganda are unfortunately the same evil that can’t help but be self-serving everywhere else. Evil always backstabs evil, that’s what makes it “evil.”
“• Vaccine Stocks Tank, Moderna Craters As FDA Top Regulator Steps Down (ZH)
If I’m not mistaken, Modern worth billions has no drugs in the pipeline and has never turned a profit. They make PepeCoin look like a sound investment.
Gulf of nada
We could have known this years ago.
• Repeat COVID Vaccines Provoke Two Kinds Of Inferior Antibodies (JTN)
it’s been about 3 years now..
TopCat:
The classic drone video shows the first drone blowing the door to an Ukrainian bunker open, with the second drone then flying down the tunnel, before exploding inside the bunker!
Another classic drone video shows drones chasing Ukrainian soldiers from one house, then to another house!
The increased use by Russia of fiber optic cabled drones, gives the drone operator a crystal clear picture of the target it is pursuing, gives a clear image of exactly where the drone hits it’s target.
This better image with no loss of image until the moment the drone hits it target, allows the drone operator to carefully select a weak spot on an armored vehicle, for example, so no second drone is needed.Examples are all the destroyed vehicles on the supply roads to Krusk!
It got so bad for the Ukrainians, because the Russian drone operators would often just land their fiber optic drones on top of a destroyed Ukrainian vehicle, waiting for the next Ukrainian vehicle to come into view!the u.s. government doesn’t print money. it buys it from citibank, j.p. morgan, royal bank of canada, hsbc, etc.
for a fee.
Pushing “hesitant” parents on HPV vaccine for their kids
It takes chutzpah to refuse the HPV vaccination for one’s pre-teen/teen. When the vaccine is accepted, it is accepted once and no one talks about it again. When it is refused, it gets brought up nearly every time the kid goes to the primary care doctor. It has to be refused over and over and over. I’ve never had a doctor push the issue — they can probably see that I am not going to be swayed — but it is annoying to have to refuse the darn thing for several times a year for a decade. By contrast, the Covid vaccine was only pushed at medical offices for a couple of years.
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“Mike Benz tells Shawn Ryan that stuff Elon Musk is going through are things people have been threatened to be killed over.”
The Military Medical Industrial Complex “medically surgically unalivened” John Murtha, Congressman, Dem PA, Chair House Appropriations at their, the MMIC’s Flagship station Bethesda Walter Reed NMC by butchering Jack’s bowel. I mean, hell, Congressman Murtha got away from the MMIC and died elsewhere a few days later in Washington D.C.
Peritonitis, Catastrophic bowel are horrific sights to behold and more horrific things to experience firsthand.
And TNTC, as in “too numerous to count” members of Military Complex to include fellow Marines openly threatening and publicly contemptuous of John Murtha.
With all that in mind, John Murtha trusted Bethesda Walter Reed arm of the military medical industrial complex with his health and wellbeing.
And many of those sons of bitches said he got what he deserved.
And still 15+ years later nothing but bitchass whining from 400 billionaire Man’s Corner.
Where’s the FBI?
Where’s the action from state medical boards?
Where’s the inquiry into Lockheed, QTC, VA comp&pension, and Tricare Lead Agent Christine Hunter?
Jack started an inquiry into fraud within the military/VA disability (medical board) system as administered by DoD Health Affairs, The VA and……..Lockheed CorpGoogle Anthony Principi
When Mike Benz warns with alarm that the things Elon is going after are the sorts of things people have been death-threatened for, the item worthy of note is not what he says it is. The truly alarming thing is that a reportedly old swamp rat hunter like Benz is unaware that the things Musk is going after have ALREADY gotten MILLIONS of people killed.
Is Benz actually and sincerely unaware that the United States government is owned and operated by stone cold mass murders? What baby crib did he just fall out of?
In other words, how could a Guy As Obsessed With Astronomically Large Sums of Money fail to recognize that other people take it far more seriously when That Guy announces publicly he’s taking away their money and jobs?
Par for the course as D is wont to say
@DrDRich
In other words, how could a Guy As Obsessed With Astronomically Large Sums of Money fail to recognize that other people take it far more seriously when That Guy announces publicly he’s taking away their money and jobs?
That’s a damn good question. Here’s my proposed answer: My take on the whole theatrical clown show (that is deadly serious just under the surface) is that Trump, Elon and the rest of that difficult-to-fully-see-or-understand Presidential Administration, are not oblivious to the threat the DOGE and Tariffs Pony Show pose to the hearts, minds, and pocket books (and power!) of the people who they are taking the jobs and money away from. I believe that Trump & Co view those persons (and their Carlin-esque little “clubs”) as political mortal enemies. Trump & Co expect counter-attack as a consequence, but accurately reckon by removing their enemies’ money Trump & Co can beat that enemy to their knees.
why didn’t mr goldberg call the cops on those psychopaths?
if i ended up on a “chat” where people are discussing murder, i call the cops.
just sayin’..
who wuddathunk a man who understood he had killed a little girl, and wanted the opportunity to be in the same position once again, would end up dropping bombs within minutes of taking office!?
math can be so tough when you are blinded by “hope and change” (or make america hopey again or whateverly).
pro tip: more disappointments to come.
doge*, doge, doo,
where are you?
you’ve got to fake them villians.we can distract, too
doge-doo,
them wokesters gonna listen![bridge]
you know we got get them bombs and jets and rockets to is-ra-a-el, (that’s so swell!)
’cause when benny gets ’em he’ll make ol’ gaza a livin’ hell,
hell, hell, hell!doge, doge-doo
we see you!
you gonna take your fillin’!!!*doge is pronunc’t “dodgy”
the easiest way to manipulate the price of gold is to convince people it is actually worth something.
I can’t give a detailed description, comment, of what happened now to Marine Le Pen, it is very complicated, a long story, the EU financial awards / rules are a jungle (sic), and I have not followed the paper trails.
Recall Francois Fillon was deprived of the Presidency, wiki has it more or less right:
The Fillon affair (also the Penelope Fillon affair or Penelopegate) is a political-financial scandal involving immediate family members of French politician François Fillon being given paid jobs that involved no or very little actual work. The case surfaced during the campaign for the 2017 French presidential election which Fillon, the candidate of the Republicans after winning the primary of the right and centre, was at the time strongly favored to win.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fillon_affair
Sarkozy was condemned after his Pres., in late 2024, to 3 years imprisonment, with him at present locked in at his home with an ‘electronic bracelet.’ Not exactly the same type of case but close – corruption and influence peddling.
for ex.
All I’m saying here is that such LAWFARE in F is very common, it is a tool used by certain factions.
MLP will appeal, but most likely the case will not be resolved in her favor or / delays / and she will be barred from standing for Pres. in the next election.
@tdk
More Gold for the Goldbergs.
You know, I can’t figure whether this fella’s wailing and grinding n gnashing of the teeth is performative emoting or along the spectrum of sincerity.
The question for Goldberg is this, since you wrote those clearly antiRubioAmerican and antiSemitic tweets can you still move freely in and out of Academia or are you tenured by Marco’s Our People?
From (((Goldberg))) another goldberg:
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Can’t get over the IDF killing 15 paramedics in Rafah, attempting to bury them and their ambulance, claiming they were “terrorists” and then shooting to kill the rescue team sent in to find their missing friends. Not surprised, just stuck. Can’t seem to move on from here.
Hey Goldberg, you’ll know you’re in the outside when the people who do it to you, your family, and loved ones HAVE moved on and never give a thought about you again.
A.I. abilities required for rebuilding a better society
SAGE is better/less painful than bankruptcy. (a controlled demolition.)
SAGE is cutting gov. expenses and with increasing cost/taxes/tariffs for buyers of imports.
SAGE and tariffs will attack $36 T debt.
SAGE and tariffs will have lots of unintended consequences.Is AI capable of telling you that {X} content was generated by AI? Will it?
If I ask grok if something spartacus cites as coming from claude, will grok say- “yes, that’s from my friend claude and was generated on x xx xxxx”.
There is no $36 Trillion national debt. It is all fraud. Every penny consists of funny-money printed up special to pay corrupt people to perform corrupt activities for a corrupt government that is not actually a government at all. It is organized crime, just like the organized crime you used to watch in the movies except that today’s version is WAY more organized and doesn’t dress as well because today’s version is run by thugs who are WAY dumber and far less educated. They couldn’t tie their own shoelaces with the help of an unlimited budget, 100% captured Justice System, and near-science-fiction-level AI Systems run by morally agnostic Autistic Savants.
Starmer pretending to care about kids …. would work except he was Jimmy Saville’s personal enabler. An interesting view of the UK government manipulating its so-damn-stupid majority.
Clutching To Power https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/clutching-to-power
Surplus Energy Economics, How bad could this get? THE NEW-AND-OLD MATRIX OF SYSTEMIC RISK
One of these themes, introduced here, is the historic tendency for the collapse of great economic powers to be preceded by finance superseding industry and commerce.
This article aims to do no more than introduce some of the concepts we’ll be following up as we seek to apply the paradigm of the two economies – the material and the monetary – to fast-changing situations…
..The new factor in the equation, of course, is the ending and reversal of growth in the global “real” economy of material products and services.
But intersecting with this is the continuing thread of the process that brought down the Spanish empire of the sixteenth century, the Dutch trading empire of the seventeenth and the British empire of the nineteenth.
In each instance, society prospered as industry and trade took up the baton from agriculture. Latterly, though, each economic giant headed into collapse as industry was itself superseded by finance.
The world of today is not, of course, an empire, in any political sense of the term. But the global financial system has taken on analogous, imperialistic and centralized characteristics because of the globalization of capital within the worldwide hegemony of the dollar.
The essence of the financialization process that has preceded collapse is the skewing of incentives, which realign to prioritize the making of money over the making of things. As financial capital out-grows industry, energies are diverted from the creation of the new to the exploitation of what already exists.
The result is a society in which the priorities of the rentier become wholly incompatible with the best interests of employee, consumer and citizen alike...
..More important than the sheer size of exposure, though, are the processes set in train by the capture of industry by finance.
As capital increases in proportion to the size of the economy, so the sourcing of credit migrates, from the comparatively conservative and well-understood centre of the financial system to its opaque and hazardous periphery.
Again, the contemporary financial system shows all the hallmarks of the migration of risk from the knowable centre to the dangerously unstable margins. We can estimate that, of all credit created since 2009, barely 20% has come from the depositary banking system, and about three-quarters from the opaque and unregulated NBFI (“shadow banking”) sector.
This migration risk brings with it complexity risk, as the system ramifies into almost bafflingly interconnected networks of cross-collateralization. This interdependency has now reached truly byzantine proportions. The fact is that nobody really knows which component of the system, perhaps seemingly-small in itself, will, by failing, bring down the whole house of cards.
All we can really know is that this will happen...
..The inevitability of a financial crash far exceeding anything experienced in 2008-09 is being compounded by the process of global economic inflexion from growth into contraction.
Though much remains to be discovered, evaluated and located within chains of cause and effect, we can be in little real doubt that relentless rises in the Energy Costs of Energy have been combining with deterioration in non-energy natural resources to put prior growth in the material economy into reverse...
..The knowledge that a financial crash cannot be avoided must change our expectations for the future…
..Looking ahead, the challenge is that of trying to interconnect the self-driving, destructive processes of financialization with the new phenomenon of the ending and reversal of material economic expansion. https://surplusenergyeconomics.wordpress.com/2025/03/30/301-how-bad-could-this-get/ Peak Permian? Geology and Water Say We’re Close
After more than a decade of relentless drilling in the top U.S. oil-producing basin, the Permian, some areas have hit geological limits while others, yet to be drilled, are not expected to be as prolific as the prime Tier 1 acreage that producers have started to exhaust.
Top executives at major shale firms have already expressed opinions that Permian oil production could hit its peak as early as the end of this decade.
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/Peak-Permian-Geology-and-Water-Say-Were-Close.htmlEU self-strangulation: Toothless EU Re-Export Ban on Russian LNG Kicks In https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Toothless-EU-Re-Export-Ban-on-Russian-LNG-Kicks-In.html
Charles Hugh Smith, Why the Global Recession Will be Deeper and Longer Than Pundits Anticipate
The degrees of national dependence will become increasingly consequential as mercantilist nations that have relied on exports for growth will find markets for their exports shutting down, crippling domestic growth. Nations that attempt to become self-sufficient will find the demands for capital investment will pressure consumer spending, even as the decline of cheap imports institutionalizes inflation and price increases that outstrip wage increases.
Stagflation will hinder both investment and consumer spending. Austerity will crimp fiscal borrowing and spending, and capital sloshing around the world seeking low-risk returns will face unprecedented challenges as capital controls proliferate and nations change the rules overnight.
I often focus on scale because this is a limiting factor. While there may well be growth opportunities for investing in developing nations, the scale of capital sloshing around global markets will find the investment pipelines the equivalent of a straw: there is no way to deploy $100 billion in small markets and economies, never mind $1 trillion or $10 trillion.
As Immanuel Wallerstein observed, Capitalism may no longer be attractive to capitalists as all these dynamics play out in a vast, inter-connected, unpredictable rebalancing of global interests and increasingly destabilizing attempts to solve complex, intractable problems with cobbled-together expediencies or doing more of what’s already failed.
There won’t be any “saves” in this rebalancing, and so the global recession will be deeper and longer than those relying on models based on the past two decades of hyper-globalization and hyper-financialization anticipate. https://charleshughsmith.substack.com/p/why-the-global-recession-will-beA “limited hangout” reveals a few secrets to limit reputational damage: Key Takeaways From NYT’s Secret History Detailing US ‘Shocking’ Involvement In Ukraine War
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/key-takeaways-nyts-secret-history-us-shocking-level-involvement-ukraine-warPaul Craig Roberts, The Deep State Has Used the NY Times to Announce Its Withdrawal from Washington’s Conflict with Russia https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/03/31/the-deep-state-has-used-the-ny-times-to-announce-its-withdrawal-from-washingtons-conflict-with-russia/
Gilbert Doctorow, Latest twist in the ceasefire talks: Trump says he is “pissed off with Putin”
Trump has said he is ‘pissed off’ with Vladimir Putin for foot dragging over implementation of the talks on a ceasefire with Ukraine. He says he will impose secondary sanctions on Russian oil exports as punishment, so that any country buying Russian oil would be barred from selling anything to the United States.
Sounds tough? Yes, indeed, till you consider who is buying Russian oil. The largest buyers are China and India. Does Trump really believe either country will humiliate themselves by bending the knee and kissing his ring? …
..I conclude from this that Team Trump has indeed read closely Vladimir Putin’s remarks to the crew of the submarine Arkhangelsk in Murmansk on 27 March and understood that the Russian president has prepared an alternative scenario for ending the war when Trump’s initiatives fail. And they are headed for failure unless Trump can beat down Macron, Starmer, von der Leyen and the other European leaders who are working against his peace plans and plotting in every way to keep the war going...
..In the Financial Times article this evening, they say that ‘Trump’s outburst at Moscow’ relates also to Putin’s ‘attacking Zelensky’s legitimacy as Kyiv’s leader.’ This is striking in that Trump himself in a public address called Zelensky a dictator who has not held elections.
Judging by what this same FT article says about the 7 hours that Trump spent in Mar a Lago with the visiting Finnish premier Stubb, who is one of the most active plotters against the lifting of sanctions on Russia, it appears that Trump has decided against challenging the Europeans and is instead challenging Putin.
Needless to say, Trump has no cards to play against Putin. The secondary sanctions are nonsense, as I say above. And military pressure is equally nonsensical, given that NATO has done its best to defeat Russia till now, staying just short of actions that would precipitate WWIII.
My conclusion is that Trump is now throwing away his chances of achieving anything on the Ukraine-Russia war, and with that, throwing away his hopes for participating in the making of the New World Order that BRICS now are directing.
Of course, Trump being Trump, he may well have a 180-degree reversal of his position on all these matters tomorrow. But as I say, he would do much better just to shut up. https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/03/30/latest-twist-in-the-ceasefire-talks-trump-says-he-is-pissed-off-with-putin/ Boeing 747 freighters lead US’s urgent push to arm Ukraine fast
According to a post on X by OSINTtechnical, a widely followed open-source intelligence account, eight Boeing 747 freighters took off from five American military bases—two from McGuire Air Force Base in New Jersey, three from Joint Base Charleston in South Carolina, one from Ramstein Air Base in Germany, one from MacDill Air Force Base in Florida, and one from Biggs Army Airfield in Texas—delivering critical supplies to support Ukraine’s ongoing war effort against Russia. https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2025/03/31/boeing-747-freighters-lead-uss-urgent-push-to-arm-ukraine-fast/Poland’s ammo dwindles as Ukraine aid drains stockpiles fast https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2025/03/31/polands-ammo-dwindles-as-ukraine-aid-drains-stockpiles-fast/#google_vignette
Trump Dials Back Putin Criticism, Renews Attacks On Zelensky Forstalling Minerals Deal https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-dials-back-putin-criticism-renews-attacks-zelensky-stalling-minerals-deal
Ukraine has secret nuclear doomsday plan, according to former Zelensky adviser
Ukraine’s leadership would rather destroy the entire country and the Russians with it than accept defeat, he claims In an interview with a Ukrainian journalist that he gave last month, Arestovych claimed that Ukraine’s current head of military intelligence, Kirill Budanov, has floated a plan to blow up all of Ukraine’s nuclear power plants, and possibly some of Russia’s as well, if all other defensive measures fail. https://rmx.news/article/ukraine-has-secret-nuclear-doomsday-plan-according-to-former-zelensky-adviser/Alastair Crooke, Transactional weakness tips the balance of power – ‘Hold to no illusions; there is nothing beyond this reality’
The post-WWII geo-political outcome effectively determined the post-war global economic structure. Both are now undergoing huge change. What remains stuck fast however, is the general (Western) weltanschauung that everything must ‘change’ only for it to stay the same. Things financial will continue as before; do not disturb the slumber. The assumption is that the oligarch/donor class will see to it that things remain the same.
However, the power distribution of the post-war era was unique. There is nothing ‘forever’ about it; nothing inherently permanent.
At a recent conference of Russian industrialists and entrepreneurs, President Putin highlighted both the global fracture, and set out an alternate vision which is likely to be adopted by BRICS and many beyond. His address was, metaphorically speaking, the financial counterpart to his 2007 Munich Security Forum speech, at which he accepted the military défie posed by ‘collective NATO’...
..The Primakov Doctrine was the avoidance of binary alignments; the preservation of sovereignty; the cultivation of ties with other great powers, and the rejection of ideology in favour of a Russian nationalist vision.
Today’s negotiations with Washington (now narrowly centred on Ukraine) reflect this logic. Russia isn’t begging for sanctions relief or threatening anything specific. It is conducting strategic procrastination: waiting out electoral cycles, testing Western unity, and keeping all doors ajar. Yet Putin is not averse either to exerting a little pressure of his own – the window for accepting Russian sovereignty of the four eastern oblasts is not forever: “This point can also move”, he said.
It is not Russia racing ahead with the negotiations; quite the reverse – it is Trump who is racing ahead. Why? It appears to hark back to the American attachment to Kissinger-esque triangulation strategy: Subordinate Russia; peel away Iran; and then peel Russia from China. Offer carrots and threaten to ‘stick’ to Russia, and once subordinated in this way, Russia might then be detached from Iran – thus removing any Russian impediments to an Israel-Washington Axis attack on Iran...
..U.S. officials say the deadline for an Iran ‘decision’ is in the spring …
And with Russia reduced to supplicant status and Iran dealt with (in such fantastical thinking), Team Trump can turn to the main adversary – China.
Putin, of course, understands this well, and duly debunked all such illusions: “Set illusions aside”, he told delegates last week:
“Sanctions and restrictions are today’s reality – together with a new spiral of economic rivalry already unleashed …”.
“Hold to no illusions: There is nothing beyond this reality …”.
“Sanctions are neither temporary nor targeted measures; they constitute a mechanism of systemic, strategic pressure against our nation. Regardless of global developments or shifts in the international order, our competitors will perpetually seek to constrain Russia and diminish its economic and technological capacities …”.
..These [challenges] are not the ‘problem’; they are the opportunity, Putin outlined: ‘We will prioritise domestic manufacturing and the development of tech industries. The old model is over. Oil and gas production will be simply the adjunct to a largely internally circulating, self-sufficient ‘real economy’ – with energy no longer its driver. We are open to western investment – but only on our terms – and the small ‘open’ sector of our otherwise closed economy will of course still trade with our BRICS partners’.
What Putin outlined effectively is the return to the mainly closed internally-circulating economy model of the German school (à la Friedrich List) and of the Russian Premier, Sergei Witte...
..The U.S. Administration has twow ansers to this conundrum: First, a multilateral agreement (on the lines of the 1985 Plaza Accord) to weaken the value of the dollar (and pari passu, therefore, to increase the value of the partner states’ currencies). This is the ‘Mar-a-Lago Accord’ option. The U.S.’ solution is to force the rest of the world to appreciate their currencies in order to improve U.S. export competitiveness.
The mechanism for achieving these objectives is to threaten trade and investment partners with tariffs and withdrawal of the U.S. security umbrella. As a further twist, the plan considers the possibility to revalue U.S. gold reserves – a move that would inversely cut the valuation of the dollar, U.S. debt, and foreign holdings of U.S. Treasuries...
..Well, it is obvious, is it not? A U.S. economic ‘re-balancing’ is coming. Putin is right. The post-WWII economic order “is gone”.Futures Slide After WaPo Report Trump Seeks 20% Tariffs On Most Imports https://www.zerohedge.com/market-recaps/futures-slide-after-wapo-report-trump-seeks-20-tariffs-most-imports
Thanks Eleni for this explanation of deep neocon and CIA roots and ties between Musk and Thiel:Elon Musk and Peter Thiel: Two sides of one Magic Trick
While Elon co-founded Zip2 as his first technology startup in 1995 (essentially selling digital phone books to various companies), Thiel’s entry into tech start ups also began around that time with his launching of a software company named Confinity in 1998.
Before that, Thiel had begun to make a name for himself as an innovative Straussian in Stanford University, where he founded the libertarian Stanford Review in 1987, serving as its editor-in-chief until his 1992 graduation…
..In 2002, Paypal was purchased by Ebay for $1.5 billion, scoring a $175 million for Elon, and $55 million for Thiel. At this point, both Elon and Thiel were given patronage and direct support by leading directors of the CIA’s official venture capital firm In-Q-Tel...
..In-Q-Tel became the first official financial backer of Thiel’s Palantir in 2004 providing the original $2 million funding to launch the new tech surveillance firm.
The CIA’s interest in Palantir at this period was not so much due to American security as it was due to the failure of an earlier project dubbed ‘Total Information Awareness’...
..Strauss famously rejected the notion that purpose, morality or justice had any existence beyond social convention, and developed an elitist political theory that was exemplified by his statement:
“Because mankind is intrinsically wicked, he has to be governed… Such governance can only be established, however, when men are united and they can only be united against other people.”
On top of his belief in the intrinsic wickedness of humankind, Strauss posited the need to unite humanity under the fear of constant terrors from beyond...
..Thus again, evil and lies are needed to accomplish the thing which Strauss and Thiel label “the Good”...
..Thiel celebrates the need for the cut-throat world of espionage and power projection of a world empire enforced by the military and political influence of the USA when he writes:
“Instead of the United Nations, filled with interminable and inconclusive parliamentary debates that resemble Shakespearean tales told by idiots, we should consider Echelon, the secret coordination of the world’s intelligence services, as the decisive path to a truly global pax Americana.”
The Echelon Project referred to by Thiel is the largest global surveillance program managed by the Five Eyes and created in the 1960s as a military intelligence surveillance program. Echelon would have been the principal agency interfacing with and directing the operations of Palantir at the time of Thiel’s writing. https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/elon-musk-and-peter-thiel-two-sides#_ftn1 Netanyahu vows to escalate Gaza war, implement Trump’s displacement plan
Israeli prime minister vows to increase military offensive and enforce ‘voluntary migration’ plan backed by US President Donald Trump
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed to intensify the ongoing war in Gaza and move forward with a plan proposed by US President Donald Trump to forcibly displace Palestinians from the besieged territory.
Speaking at the start of a Cabinet meeting, Netanyahu claimed that “a combination of military and political pressure is the only way to recover the hostages, not the empty slogans I hear in TV studios”. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/netanyahu-vows-to-escalate-gaza-war-implement-trump-s-displacement-plan-/3524138Israeli troops killed 15 Palestinian medics and buried them in a mass grave, UN says https://www.arabnews.com/node/2595483/middle-east
15 martyred humanitarian workers retrieved with tied hands from Rafah: The bodies of 15 humanitarian workers, previously besieged in Rafah, have been recovered. The workers had gunshot wounds in the chest. https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/15-humanitarian-workers-bodies-with-tied-hands-retrieved-fro
The Israeli military has issued a sweeping evacuation order for the Gazan city of Rafah. At the same time, the Red Crescent has expressed outrage after its medics were killed by Israeli fire. https://www.dw.com/en/middle-east-updates-israel-orders-evacuation-of-rafah/live-72092274
At least 322 children reportedly killed in Gaza in 10 days: UN https://www.arabnews.com/node/2595505/middle-east
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