Open (NOT Ukraine) Thread 2022-131
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Posted by b on August 17, 2022 at 15:18 UTC | Permalink
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“…51 years ago today, on 08/15/1971, Nixon suspended the convertibility of the US dollar into gold.
This was the beginning of the largest Ponzi scheme ever seen. The value of the US dollar has been steadily falling ever since. “
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1559102373733081088?cxt=HHwWgIChrabWhaMrAAAA
Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 17 2022 15:24 utc | 2
Precious Metals
Post about Moscow setting up a PM exchange @ psychohistorian | 3:56 utc | 157 [A Multipolar Expo Shows Unipolar Wreckage]
It is necessary to create a new international standard of the precious metals market - Moscow World Standard (MWS), which will become an alternative to the standard of the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA), the Ministry of Finance of Russia said.
…independent international infrastructure" is needed to "normalize the functioning of the precious metals industry."
……In the "fundament of the structure" it is proposed to "put a specialized international precious metal exchange headquartered in Moscow" using the "new international standard MWS". It is also proposed to establish a Price Fixing Committee. Subject to the application of the MWS standard, it will include Central Banks and the largest banks of the EAEU countries represented in the precious metals market.
This^ post I found fascinating….
At the very start of the SMO the London Metal Exchange puked. Platinum went to $100k a tonne overnight and a guy with billions in shorts basically broke the market… LBMA shutdown for 10 days… and later a few whiting have been charged to show that something is being done and being seen to be done.
The corruption of the LME has been widely known for decades.
Also at the start of SMO LBMA said it would no longer certify Russian gold.
Gold bars and bullion must be certified as to purity. With no certification Russian gold can only be used in jewellery … not as a store of wealth. As in national holdings on gold.
So after reading psychohistorians comments earlier… I was intrigued to see this on twitter:
Wall Street Silver.
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1559797173411352578?cxt=HHwWhMC8rfvQwaUrAAAA
The #gold and #silver plunge at Comex continues with 8-1/4 tonnes of gold our of the vault, bringing the 62 day cumulative decline to 225 tonnes.
Registered silver resumes its decline dropping by 230,000 oz to 55.0 million oz. The 97 day cumulative decline is 37.3 million oz.
> Pay attention to this:
The Comex is being drained of both Gold & Silver.
Big money is taking delivery of physical metal in record amounts right now. #gold #silver
https://twitter.com/mikesay98/status/1559635633886310400
#GOLD IS FLYING OFF THE COMEX LIKE NEVER BEFORE
The 50-day and 100-day average rates of gold withdrawal have NEVER been as high as they are now and they are continuing to accelerate.
>>>Well if you wanted to open an exchange in Moscow for the same commodities, then I guess you'd first have to drain the old exchanges which own the monopoly on those commodities
§§…”Russia proposes a new international standard for trading in precious metals: the Moscow World Standard which will become an alternative to the London Bullion Market Association which systematically manipulates precious metals markets to depress prices’
^ https://twitter.com/wmiddelkoop/status/1559594793931624448
> Actually they propose nothing, they're just doing it. And let's not forget it maybe not the biggest economy, however it is far out the biggest country.
Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 17 2022 15:31 utc | 3
This was the beginning of the largest Ponzi scheme ever seen. The value of the US dollar has been steadily falling ever since. “Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 17 2022 15:24 utc | 2
If you look at the purchasing power graph since 1913, the 1971 removal of the gold standard conversion did almost nothing to the long term devaluation trend.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/purchasing-power-of-the-u-s-dollar-over-time/
Only the great depression and a contraction in money supply caused an uptick in dollar strength. TPTB will not let that happen again ;-)
Also, while the USD is the primary vehicle for the global debt Ponzi, the currency has still outperformed almost all others.
Posted by: Opport Knocks | Aug 17 2022 15:39 utc | 4
little bit of good news: corrupt psychopath daughter of infamous neocon war criminal and profiteer Dick Cheney lost the primaries. I'm guessing the swamp monsters have started eating each other.
Posted by: SumGuy | Aug 17 2022 15:51 utc | 5
In response to
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Also, while the USD is the primary vehicle for the global debt Ponzi, the currency has still outperformed almost all others.
Posted by: Opport Knocks | Aug 17 2022 15:39 utc | 4
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LOL!!! When you own the casino, of course you will control the winnings of all to insure yours are the best....grin
Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 17 2022 15:58 utc | 6
From Reuters
Chinese troops will travel to Russia to take part in joint military exercises led by the host and including India, Belarus, Mongolia, Tajikistan and other countries, China's defence ministry said on Wednesday.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 17 2022 15:59 utc | 7
Melaleuca | Aug 17 2022 15:31 utc | 3
Note that they are taking physical delivery. As well as "paper" gold rapidly becoming worthless, this can point to a shortfall in actual gold.
Remember JPMorgan has a direct tunnel to the Feds Gold reserves in NY, and so they can literally get a wheebarrow and move gold from one to the other, to cover "shortfalls" or embarassing moments, when someone wants some back (ie. Germany)
Gold with hard crunchy centres of Tungsten? Been there, done that.
Other people's Gold reserves (Libya, Ukraine, Venezuela for the UK) also come in handy when the Feds' reserves spring a visible leak.
There is almost certainly not enough Gold to go round, first come, first served.
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PS. Is this called an "Eureka" moment for the fans of Archimedes? The very thought of hundreds of stark naked Bankers and investors leaping out of cold baths and running down the street, yelling "I've got it" or something similar, is one to treasure.
Posted by: Stonebird | Aug 17 2022 16:26 utc | 8
Stonebird | Aug 17 2022 16:26 utc | 8
Note that they are taking physical delivery.… this can point to a shortfall in actual gold.”.
Yes. Couldn’t copy/paste every tweet + reply… but yeah, some buzz from this that know… meanwhile bed-bath-beyond is the laser pointer teasing the kitten….
Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 17 2022 16:32 utc | 9
“This changes everything…..”
“From a reanalysis of Pfizer’s and Moderna’s original trial data it appears that one was more likely to suffer a serious adverse event from the vaccine, than they ever were to be hospitalised from covid. This changes everything.” -
@DrAseemMalhotra
https://twitter.com/EvaVlaar/status/1559859958316994565
[❗️misleading: learn why health officials* consider coofvid-19 va cine safe for most people….this tweet cannot be replied to, shared or liked].
*health *officials*…. Not health *professionals*….
Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 17 2022 16:33 utc | 10
I found a very good youtube channel "Tales of American Empire" that produces short history lessons of 10-15 minutes which delve into a more truthful version of history rather than the official version that the Western schools and media teach. Such as:
The 1954 CIA Coup in Guatemala
The Dark Side of the 1991 Gulf War
Very useful for finding background information to current issues in an easy to digest way, and triggering deeper research.
"This Tweet can’t be replied to, shared or liked."
Pfuzer angry. They can't lose the market. What if people ask for JJ, Astra or God forbid, Sputnik!?!
Posted by: rk | Aug 17 2022 16:42 utc | 12
W/r/t vaccines, while I doubt the vaccine was ever more likely to cause an adverse effect than actually getting SARS/covid, the sheer amount of hype that went into mRNA vaccines, hype which is now practically non-existent, is something I've found odd. Just a year ago, we were being told that mRNA vaccines were so revolutionary that deaths from just about any illness were going to be a thing of the past. Now, available mRNA vaccines are less efficacious in preventing serious illness from SARS infection than traditional vaccines, including Novavax and the Cuban series of vaccines.
Indeed if Cuban covid data is to be believed, then Cuba now has the most efficacious vaccine regime perhaps in the world, all without the magic of mRNA. With ~99% of the population vaccinated, covid cases have not been eliminated, but daily cases are only in the double digits, compared to quadruple digits in nearby US states like Louisiana, Mississippi, or Florida. Now of course, only barely a majority of the populations in those states are vaccinated against SARS at all, but my hunch is that breakthrough cases are occurring at higher rates in populations mainly vaccinated with mRNA vaccines.
Posted by: fnord | Aug 17 2022 16:55 utc | 13
"It would all be a laughable comic opera except for their obscene grotesqueness. Every single time the so-called elites latch onto and then vigorously promote and demand submission to whatever The Current Thing is at the current moment — one thing we can be sure of is to follow — it always always ends up badly for them. Every. Single. Time.
Remember when The Korean War was The Current Thing? No? Literally they burned down/bombed down the entire north part of Korea. The whole thing flattened, like a pancake. Our Own Dear Leaders now say: Why does North Korea not trust the Rules Based Order and just surrender their nukes? " The Current Thing or :A history of how we ended up in this sorry mess
Posted by: Kana | Aug 17 2022 17:14 utc | 14
https://off-guardian.org/2022/08/17/putin-sputnik-v-mass-vaccination/
:Putin<= ask ..for.. opinions on the possible timing of the development of a vaccine. It is important for us to know this now in order to reserve and prepare industrial capacities in advance in order to quickly launch the production of the vaccine in the required volumes.
Nikolai Durmanov, Special Representative of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education for Biological Safety.
Our experience with Ebola and with swine flu showed us that we can make a very good vaccine that works well on 90 percent of the population, but it will kill 10 percent of the population (in this case mice, thank God) by stimulating this cytokine storm of which we hear so much about.
“We will just make fools of ourselves with this early vaccine, which can bring us a lot of trouble,” Chuchalin warned a month after participating in the April 20 videoconference with Putin.
At the same time, Putin has raised questions about the safety of foreign-made vaccines.
Putin noted that the level of patient protection when vaccinated with AstraZeneca is 63%, while the Sputnik V vaccine shows an efficiency level of 91.6%. The President also mentioned several deaths after the use of the Pfizer vaccine. “Thank God, we don’t have a single case of severe side effects, 10% may have a fever on the second day, but the level of protection and safety is high,” he added.
Posted by: fnord | Aug 17 2022 16:55 utc | 13
if Cuban covid data is to be believed, then Cuba now has the most efficacious vaccine regime perhaps in the world, all without the magic of mRNA.
what vaccine did Cuba use?
Posted by: snake | Aug 17 2022 17:44 utc | 15
Tis oft said, In geopolitics, that the US is playing checkers while Putin (Russia) is playing chess. And Erdogan? Why. He’s playing Turkish draughts…. And seeing this, that explains everything.
https://twitter.com/TheFigen/status/1559537070196006912
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_draughtsPosted by: Melaleuca | Aug 17 2022 15:23 utc | 1
Checkers has in my opinion gotten an undeservedly bad rap, probably it involves only two types of unit (and the second doesn't come about for some time). In my experience, that makes checkers by far the harder game than chess, because the tactics in checkers are wide open. In contrast, the pawns in chess severely limit the possible tactics, at least in the early stages of a game. This often permits an accurate assessment without requiring a ton of calculation.
Maybe a better metaphor would be that the US is playing Candy Land.
Posted by: David Levin | Aug 17 2022 17:55 utc | 17
@ Posted by: snake | Aug 17 2022 17:44 utc | 15
Cuba developed at least two vaccines of its own: Abdala, which is intranasal, and Soberania, a conjugate vaccine.
Posted by: fnord | Aug 17 2022 17:57 utc | 18
Posted by: Roger | Aug 17 2022 16:39 utc | 11
Magnificent - thanks. When people ask if there is a great conspiracy or if the leadership class are just dumb, my theory of the case is that BOTH are true: the concerted effort we see unravelling before our eyes is an attempt to cover the tracks of crimes that have been continuing for decades. Rather than information technology being a friend of the elite (to control us), it is its worst enemy: information technology can be used to uncover their crimes which they thought would be forgotten - until the internet came and now we can in principle uncover anything. The "big brother" routine currently underway is more of a defensive and reactionary posture than a progressive one.
Posted by: Jonathan W | Aug 17 2022 18:00 utc | 19
Those who follow markets for monetary metals might want to take a look at Harvey Organ's website (harveyorganblog dot com), where he posts details on monetary metal market activity each business day. The information is way beyond my interest/expertise, but his posts also include many interesting articles that aren't directly related to metals.
Posted by: David Levin | Aug 17 2022 18:05 utc | 20
One bit of recent good news is that Colombia has elected a progressive president (at least compared to the last few) and is in the process of normalizing relations with neighboring Venezuela.
Posted by: farm ecologist | Aug 17 2022 18:10 utc | 21
@Melaleuca #2
A gold standard is not a panacea.
Read up on the travails of farmers in US in the gold standard era to get an idea how "hard" money is just as weaponizable as fiat money.
Posted by: c1ue | Aug 17 2022 18:52 utc | 22
reminds me of William Jenning's Bryan's memorable "Cross of Gold" speech during the gold-silver disputes back in the day. of course Silver is the same. i guess the value of metals is they cant come in and turn them to sawdust the way they can just "disappear" digital dollars, but money is based on social agreement about its value, once you get past barter of salt for wheat or whatever.
Posted by: pretzelattack | Aug 17 2022 19:00 utc | 23
i think there are a lot more tactics in chess, more pieces, more varied properties of the pieces. if you want a more complicated game than chess, go would be an example, maybe no limit poker. there is also a more complicated version of checkers played in Russia and probably other places, on a 10 x 10 board.
Posted by: pretzelattack | Aug 17 2022 19:02 utc | 24
@22 c1ue
Hard times are endemic under a sound-money economy. But they are relatively manageable. Human ingenuity becomes an asset as a people weather a situation and emerge stronger.
Weaponized-fiat of empire creates two eras in its teleology: the cheap-debt times of its apex and the horrific bloodletting catastrophe of its end game during currency collapse.
I would still choose sound-money any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
It is not perfect by any means but society can never be perfect.
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 17 2022 19:03 utc | 25
... There is almost certainly not enough Gold to go round, first come, first served. ....
Posted by: Stonebird | Aug 17 2022 16:26 utc | 8
While the apparently imminent Reset has about it the air of a standard Disaster Capitalism smash & grab, this time it also seems to be about concealing past criminal activity like worthless, fraudulent paper assets and, via your observations, the behind-the-scenes pilfering of reserve metals.
The years Germany was forced to wait for its own good to be repatriated and the fact that none of the original bars was returned tells the real story. The US & UK have been confiscating gold and other assets out of necessity.
Posted by: anon2020 | Aug 17 2022 19:30 utc | 26
@pretzelattack #23
William Jennings Bryan was the Presidential candidate for the Populist party. The Cross of Gold speech was specifically to "fiat" increase the money supply by making gold, money.
As I have pointed out many times before: the Wizard of Oz is a movie version of a book specifically based on the Cross of Gold idea; Dorothy's slippers were originally silver...
Posted by: c1ue | Aug 17 2022 19:32 utc | 27
i think there are a lot more tactics in chess, more pieces, more varied properties of the pieces. if you want a more complicated game than chess, go would be an example, maybe no limit poker. there is also a more complicated version of checkers played in Russia and probably other places, on a 10 x 10 board.
Posted by: pretzelattack | Aug 17 2022 19:02 utc | 24
The difference between champion level chess and checkers, as I understand it, is that "paradoxically" because the Checkers rules and pieces are simpler, you must look much farther ahead to find some exploitable advantage. Checkers is simple enough to be well-analyzed, but still does not produce a determinate outcome (I think?), unlike say Tic-Tac-Doh.
Posted by: Bemildred | Aug 17 2022 19:33 utc | 28
@NemesisCalling #25
I disagree vehemently.
Hard money enshrines the financial power of those who hold the gold. Hard money would have prevented China's lifting of billions of out poverty just as it would have prevented many of the New Deal's actions (FDR confiscated gold and revalued it precisely because of this).
Those who push for hard money are either stupid or believe they have enough of it that they will benefit; in almost all cases, the latter are wrong.
Posted by: c1ue | Aug 17 2022 19:34 utc | 29
Re: 27
"making gold, money" should be "making silver, money"
Posted by: c1ue | Aug 17 2022 19:36 utc | 30
yes i know he was the candidate. he wanted bimetallism. that was the point of the speech. he wanted to increase the money supply by making silver legal tender. gold was already money. Bryan lost, and the gold standard was adopted.
Posted by: pretzelattack | Aug 17 2022 19:36 utc | 31
Posted by: Bemildred | Aug 17 2022 19:33 utc | 28
well checkers is considered "solved" for what that's worth. there is a lot more information to consider in chess--on a practical level it is harder to play, the decision tree has a lot more branches. checkers seems to be a declining game, at least the american version. i know that computer analysis is crucial to succeeding at chess or backgammon or poker now, i strongly suspect go is the same though i think it is further from being solved than the other games. is there a "deep blue" counterpart in checkers?
Posted by: pretzelattack | Aug 17 2022 19:50 utc | 32
Why all this BS about gold when both Russia and China have made it clear that the new money with intrinsic value will have precious metals, commodities, raw materials, energy and participating nations currencies as part of a breadbasket of things that are harder to manipulate than just gold or silver or oil.
I am looking forward to the final mix of stuff in and how they intend on managing the breadbasket....we can be sure that it will try to be gamed by those who think there is merit in fleecing others.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 17 2022 19:51 utc | 33
damn i never knew that about Wizard of Oz, Bryan would probably be apopleptic over the whole idea of following a "yellow brick road", can't lead anywhere good he would have said.
Posted by: pretzelattack | Aug 17 2022 19:52 utc | 34
William Jennings Bryan was the Presidential candidate for the Populist party. c1ue @27
Bryan- 'Prairie Avenger, Mountain Lion' in Vachel Lindsay's poem- was the candidate of the Democratic Party in both 1896 and 1900. The People's Party subsequently nominated him but ran Thomas Watson of Georgia as V-P.
The main plank in Bryan's platform was to coin silver as currency at the (historic) ratio of 16:1 to gold. I believe that it was also part of FDR's platform in 1932 as were sub-treasuries and other reforms aimed at restoring the purchasing power of farmers.
China was the big loser from the demonetisation of silver which it had always valued more highly than London where 15.5:1 was the ratio. Contemporary commentators talked of the threat of "The Yellow Man with the white metal" to "The White Man with the yellow metal."
Currently silver is valued in the region of 100:1. It might be reasonable to bet on an adjustment.
Posted by: bevin | Aug 17 2022 19:52 utc | 35
Roger @ 11:
Carlton Meyer is the fellow behind "Tales of the American Empire". He puts up a new video every second Thursday or Friday. (I live in Australia so I'd be at least 12 hours ahead of him.) A new video should be due this week. Meyer occasionally visits the MoA comments forums as well.
Posted by: Jen | Aug 17 2022 19:53 utc | 36
@29 c1ue
You are looking at historical instances without context. Not only that, but you focusing on a paradigm where TPTB were busily trying to conceal and repress the price of gold after the birth of the Federal Reserve.
This makes sense when you look at the unveiled attempt to confiscate precious metals in the 30s in the States because TPTB could not get their system up off the ground. They needed a war...and they got one. And we have been in a war ever since.
China was struggling to launch itself after decades of imperialism. Now what are they doing after they have used Uncle Sambo and the west, having given the empire its material goods it needed for the empire to gut its own manufacturing base (read: sovereign and functioning economy), simultaneously building up the capability of China? The Chinese are buying gold and cashing in their U.S. treasuries to buy more gold/assets.
Just because I happen to have traded the value of paper for a miniscule amount of pm to safeguard my family's wealth, does not mean I hope to get rich off a collapse. No, like any good Christian I am waiting for hard times to be able to welcome more Christians home and to be ready with stored wealth for the big feast of the prodigal son.
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 17 2022 19:57 utc | 37
What I forgot to add was that the current push to de-monopolize the metals/commodity/energy markets is part of the strategy to "normalize" international markets before establishing a Reserve Currency based on this breadbasket of things whose values will fluctuate over time.
I expect there will be problems along the way as understandings are formalized and evolve to fit the various markets better. That said, extracting the private finance rentiers from the political economy will be a joy for all to savor.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 17 2022 20:00 utc | 38
Wow!
The big news on Al Jazeera today is the bombshell dropped by Mahmoud Abbas in Germany today. Abbas accused "Israel's" (((Holocaust Survivors))) of perpetrating 50 Holocausts in Occupied Palestine since 1947.
Surprisingly, or not, Germany's political bigwigs accused him of Holocaust Denial, cut his speech short, and had a verbal brawl about whether he should have been asked to leave the conference or bashed senseless and tossed into the carpark.
They also cast doubt on the future of Germany's 1 $Billion per annum Palestine aid program - apparently the largest of any country's Pal Aid program.
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Aug 17 2022 20:03 utc | 39
is there a "deep blue" counterpart in checkers?
Posted by: pretzelattack | Aug 17 2022 19:50 utc | 32
Thanks. I thought there might be a "solution" for checkers by now. There used to be checkers playing programs, but I don't keep up. So I dunno if there is still is, as you say checkers is in decline as a competitive spectacle. Chess seems to be doing fine, but I think there is a lot more computer analysis being used. I play a couple postal games and I routinely play over variations with a computer game to get a quick read on what it would be dumb to do. So in tournament, more memorizing variations and less raw analytic brainpower. Although Larsen the current Chess bad boy, seems to like to play lightning chess while inebriated.
Posted by: Bemildred | Aug 17 2022 20:08 utc | 40
Posted by: Bemildred | Aug 17 2022 20:08 utc | 40
lightning chess is the best chess imo. yeah, tournament chess, and especially top tier tournament chess, is heavily dependent on memorizing computer lines. and they have these endgame tablebases that have solved a lot of endings. too much memorizing in my view, takes all the fun out of the game.
Posted by: pretzelattack | Aug 17 2022 20:12 utc | 41
According to Covert Action Magazine, Walden Bello has been arrested in The Phillipines, almost certainly at the behest of Blinken and the US.
Bello is a well known scholar, a Senator and a consistent, effective critic of imperialism.
For a century and a quarter the USA has been the sworn and vicious enemy of freedom in The Phillipines which was a point of view that WJ Bryan put forward in the late 1890s and during his Presidential campaign of 1900.
Posted by: bevin | Aug 17 2022 20:21 utc | 42
@ psychohistorian & Melaleuca
Gentlemen (I assume), thanks for the gold info! I have nothing to do with gold myself, but it fills me with joy that Russia will do gold certification and trading in the future. Actually, might not the storing of gold for foreign central banks also be a welcome option? Thinking of the brazen robbery they performed on Venezuela.
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SumGuy | Aug 17 2022 15:51 utc | 5
"little bit of good news: corrupt psychopath daughter of infamous neocon war criminal and profiteer Dick Cheney lost the primaries. I'm guessing the swamp monsters have started eating each other."
Ah, the glee! Did you see the Twitter picture with Cheney as Miss Piggy?
Posted by: Scotch Bingeington | Aug 17 2022 20:38 utc | 43
it may soon be possible to have a conversation with Biden, or at least a reasonable facsimile thereof.
"A Los Angeles-based start-up company has developed a ‘holographic conversational video experience’ that allows mourners at funerals to have conversations with the dead.
StoryFile creates a digital clone of the subject by using 20 synchronised cameras to record them answering a series of questions. The footage is then processed, with clips tagged and used to train an artificial intelligence (AI) that can provide responses to questions in natural language.
from a comment on a Naked Capitalism thread.
Posted by: pretzelattack | Aug 17 2022 21:03 utc | 44
Re: Farsi / Dari languages (etc) translator
I’d like to learn to speak a few Farsi and Dari words, for the people I meet in my Neighbourhood.
Google translate usually does OK. but this time only gave me the Arabic written squiggles, which I can’t make heads or tails of. No Persian, Farsi, Iranian, no phonetics nor Audio :(
DeepL wasn’t any better for Iranian languages. They probably don’t have Pashtun either.
Does anybody have a decent app/whatever for Farsi/Dari, SPOKEN, not in Arabic written squiggles (no offense).
Thank you ;1
Posted by: Featherless | Aug 17 2022 21:35 utc | 45
Stonebird @ 8
Gold with hard crunchy centres of Tungsten? Been there, done that.
Ring it with an ultrasonic wave and that clears up the question rather quickly. The instrument for that is pretty cheap.
I have read that the boys do not let the little fish take physical delivery if they win their futures bet. Cash only.
Posted by: circumspect | Aug 17 2022 21:46 utc | 46
Checkers and Chess
Checkers might have been solved as early as 2001, but the first peer reviewed paper(that I know of) confirming this was published in 2007.
Chess is quite a ways from being solved, although computer analysis has played a big role in training for a couple decades.
As far as memorization goes, unless one is playing at master level, too much focus on memorization will hurt one's game. I play at the expert level (1900ELO) and memorize very little.
Computers have ruined correspondence chess, to some degree, as there are a lot of cheaters out there using computers.
Even when computers do solve chess, I don't think it will affect the game much. It is impossible for the human mind to memorize all the variations.
The rapid chess variations are a lot of fun. They are also good training tools as one will see unorthodox positions arise that can have useful application in standard games.
Posted by: Haassaan | Aug 17 2022 21:50 utc | 47
🇷🇺🇵🇸 Russian Ministry of Defence is ready to develop a full range of relations with military organisations and special services in Palestine
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The Syrian, Iran, Israel, Russia, Turkey, Palestine issue is heating up also.
Russia has apparently said that Syria could be a battleground between Iran and Israel.
Also Turkey may make a move on ‘US assets’ in northern Syria.
Posted by: financial matters | Aug 17 2022 22:02 utc | 48
Pepe:
The financial lineaments of the post-SWIFT world will have to come out of a SCO-EAEU association, in connection with BRICS+.
Posted by: financial matters | Aug 17 2022 22:12 utc | 49
@pretzelattack #34
The gold road leading to the green Wizard of Oz - a wizened charlatan behind a curtain - the parallel should be pretty obvious :)
Posted by: c1ue | Aug 17 2022 22:30 utc | 50
@NemesisCalling #37
It is quite clear that your understanding of what a collapse entails, is not well thought through at all.
A small amount of gold isn't going to do squat except delay starvation. Nor is a small amount of gold going to protect against the looters and bandits.
If you're not part of a moderately large, well supplied, band of people - it is a waste of time.
The apocryphal stories of 2 gold coins buying a square block of Berlin are what fuel a lot of gold doomers' fantasies, but that was a very unique situation - one which the US does not face.
The issue now is more about pricing power: are you of the labor type that can push through wage increases to keep up with inflation? Are you of the business type that can sustain significantly long periods of stagflation because you are selling things people can't do without? Or are selling the things which the few rich, want?
None of this has anything to do with gold, nor is any "collapse" going to be Zimbabwe.
A reprise of the Great Depression would be plenty bad enough...
Posted by: c1ue | Aug 17 2022 22:35 utc | 51
and the fact that none of the original bars was returned tells the real story.
Posted by: anon2020 | Aug 17 2022 19:30 utc | 26
They're not called 'Banksters' for nothing!
Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 17 2022 15:24 utc | 2
“…51 years ago today, on 08/15/1971, Nixon suspended the convertibility of the US dollar into gold.
This was the beginning of the largest Ponzi scheme ever seen.
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That sounds about right. However, the gold standard was the biggest Ponzi scheme ever seen before that.
Personally I think when tulips were the standard by which value was judged it was the epitome of sensible economics in the Western world.
In the East rice was the standard for value for a long time. That was when the vast majority of people produced rice.
Posted by: jinn | Aug 17 2022 23:13 utc | 53
Published the sequel today, "Overcoming Systemic Plunder". Within it I made a parenthetical note about the worthlessness of the dollar and linked to the most recent balance sheet published by the Treasury Department. When you look, do note the amount of negative equity. And in case you've forgotten or just don't know, the formula is Assets-Liabilities=Equity. Elsewhere in that overall report is the accumulated amount of all that negative equity, $123.5 Trillion. That's how much Neoliberalism has plundered from US citizens, so the rest of the world shouldn't feel too bad.
jinn @53--
I recall when salt was used as currency. I also admire the Melanesians who used yams as currency. I did as much study of their political-economy as I could given the sparse resources. They were 100% collectivist societies living as one within their surround. Many were successful at defeating the British and Dutch attempts to colonize them by refusing to adopt a cash economy. Fascinating study that pushed me to think of how a cashless society might be configured.
I find comments at nakedcapitalism.com to be recently very worth consideration. Here is just one from today's Links there:
Karenica
August 17, 2022 at 3:56 pmThe reinfection study done in Iceland has two groups of people. Those who had zero or one covid shot, and those who had two or more covid shots. It is so odd. You would think there would be three groups: no shots, one shot, two or more shots. But they combined people who had had no shots, with those who had had one. Isn’t there a big difference between no shots and one shot? I guess we can’t know, since they aren’t telling us.
I just checked and 84.5 percent of Iceland’s population has had one or more shots, so that means that about 15 percent of the population has had no shots at all. And there presumably were people in their study who had had no covid shots (otherwise why would they describe one subset as being zero or one?). Why would they leave this data out of the study results?
As someone who has not had a covid vaccine, I would find it to be helpful information.
Posted by: juliania | Aug 17 2022 23:55 utc | 56
Posted by: Haassaan | Aug 17 2022 21:50 utc | 47
i quit when i reached NM, the only way to progress further would be lots of memorization. unless you enjoy that, it's a total waste of time, all in order to gain some rating points that you can't even buy a cup of coffee with. all i play these days is 1 minute, the reason i started playing in the first place was to have fun, tournaments and slow time controls are just too much of a grind. it's not like chess has any practical relevance, look what a tool Kasparov is in his "second career".
Posted by: pretzelattack | Aug 18 2022 0:07 utc | 57
I gave the link yesterday to Philip Roddis' Why read Michael Hudson Part 1. "That post concluded with Wen Tiejun, author of the first of two forewords to Michael Hudson’s 2022 book: The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism.
"This post offers the second and – at over 4800 words – longer foreword by Lau Kin Chi.
http://steelcityscribblings.uk/wp/2022/08/16/why-read-michael-hudson-part-2/
The latest piece, by Lau Kin Chi gives a condensed biography of Hudson's remarkable life, as well as tracing the course of his intellectual journey from a socialist household (his father was imprisoned for a year under the Smith Act) through every nook and cranny of Wall St and Academic Economics to his current position as one of the era's most challenging political economists. And a socialist at 82 years of age working, we are told, 16 hours a day.
I hope that these references to Hudson's socialism do not put people off, there is nothing of the dogmatist or theologian about his work which is grounded in empirical study and mastery of the facts. Not unlike Karl Marx's.
Posted by: bevin | Aug 18 2022 0:08 utc | 58
Posted by: c1ue | Aug 17 2022 22:30 utc | 50
yeah but the wizard won, and the munchkins, and the good witches, and at least he admitted he was a charlatan, unlike Anthony Watts, or the rest of the army of shills.
your interpretation of this as a political fable is also questionable
Numerous political references to the "Wizard" appeared early in the 20th century. Henry Littlefield, an upstate New York high school history teacher, wrote a scholarly article in 1964, the first full-fledged interpretation of the novel as an extended metaphor of the politics and characters of the 1890s.[51] He paid special attention to the Populist metaphors and debates over silver and gold.[52] Baum was a Republican and avid supporter of women's suffrage, and it is thought[by whom?] that he did not support the political ideals of either the Populist movement of 1890–1892 or the Bryanite silver crusade of 1896–1900. He published a poem in support of William McKinley.[53]
Since 1964, many scholars, economists, and historians have expanded on Littlefield's interpretation, pointing to multiple similarities between the characters (especially as depicted in Denslow's illustrations) and stock figures from editorial cartoons of the period. Littlefield wrote to The New York Times letters to the editor section spelling out that his theory had no basis in fact, but that his original point was "not to label Baum, or to lessen any of his magic, but rather, as a history teacher at Mount Vernon High School, to invest turn-of-the-century America with the imagery and wonder I have always found in his stories."[54]
Baum's newspaper had addressed politics in the 1890s, and Denslow was an editorial cartoonist as well as an illustrator of children's books. A series of political references is included in the 1902 stage version, such as references to the President, to a powerful senator, and to John D. Rockefeller for providing the oil needed by the Tin Woodman. Scholars have found few political references in Baum's Oz books after 1902. Baum was asked whether his stories had hidden meanings, but he always replied that they were written to "please children".[55]
Posted by: pretzelattack | Aug 18 2022 0:16 utc | 59
@ karlof1 | Aug 17 2022 23:19 utc | 54
thanks for the plunder part 2 article karlof1...
Posted by: james | Aug 18 2022 0:22 utc | 60
Canada Files, which goes from strength to strength, publishes a story on the relationship between one of the country's top reporters and his patrons at CSIS.
Some may be interested in this: "The Canada Files is pleased to confirm that we can offer financial compensation for two kinds of articles: news analyses and investigations..."
Posted by: bevin | Aug 18 2022 0:41 utc | 61
karlofi did you see that Walden Bello had been arrested by Marcos Jr?
Covert Action has the story.
Posted by: bevin | Aug 18 2022 0:44 utc | 62
Liz Cheney doomed any anti-Trump efforts within the GOP:
*Extreme election defeat
*Sent a letter asking Democrats to vote for her
*Talks only about neocon policy, not Wyoming
*Dad's ridiculous video saying Trump is "the biggest threat to our republic" in U.S. history
*Forgot the election and only focused on some other future career with leftist media help
She has completely shamed the GOP's anti-Trump side, who now look like greedy Democrat agents.
Posted by: Tenet | Aug 18 2022 1:06 utc | 63
Posted by: pretzelattack | Aug 18 2022 0:07 utc | 57
Once one gets pushing above 2000 ELO or NM level play, memorization becomes more important. I don't care for memorization either, which is partially why I peaked just under NM.
Yes, Kasparov is a tool, but I don't see that as related to the game.
Chess is good for the brain, but one doesn't have to be very good to get that benefit.
Like you say, at a certain point to get better, chess becomes a chore, a job a grind. With limited spare time it is a commitment that isn't worth it for me either.
I still enjoy playing friends and family face to face. If the game isn't fun, what is the point?
Posted by: Haassaan | Aug 18 2022 1:33 utc | 64
Hmm, Richard Haass of the Council of Foreign Relations says, regarding pro-Trump Hageman victory:
"This is as dangerous a moment for this country as we've seen since the run-up to the Civil War."
Checking Haass' race in Wikipedia. Yep.
During the Civil War this guy's ancestors were selling liquor to alcoholic Russian peasants despite the men's wives begging the sellers to stop taking the money they needed for their children.
Posted by: Tenet | Aug 18 2022 1:37 utc | 65
bevin @62--
No, that's news to me. Ah, politicized cyber libel charges. I wondered how long it would take for Marcos to show his true colors. Yet another immature bully in an undeserved position.
Posted by: Haassaan | Aug 18 2022 1:33 utc | 64
To discern whether my comment that started the "chess v. checkers" subthread might have been unduly influenced by the disparity between my study of chess and of checkers (which isn't much above nil), I decided to try to learn more about checkers strategy, if I could find a useful resource freely online.
The best source I've found thus far (and a fine one at that) is Move Over by Derek Oldbury. Having read about 15 pages, I believe that my earlier comment might have somewhat overemphasized the role that tactics plays in checkers. But I'm still not sure that mastering checkers isn't at least as challenging as mastering chess.
Posted by: David Levin | Aug 18 2022 2:32 utc | 67
@51 c1ue
Once again, my intention is not to get rich.
While there are precious metal stackers out there who have more than their fair share, the vast majority of us are just red-pilled students of empire: we can see correctly that precious metal values are suppressed when the empire printing press is in full-swing.
Does not take an economist to know that silver, as bevin correctly points out above has historically been ratioed about 16:1 to gold. Currently, it sits at about 90:1, so we can expect a massive correction the moment a general consensus emerges that the markets are heading down alongside the available tools of empire: namely, its ability to print money ad infinitum.
TPTB have also concealed the value of silver by its paper-game in the comex. Couple that with the fact that JP Morgan is one of the largest physical silver holding banks, you have a recipe for mom and pop retail traders holding the bag of shit yet again when silver begins its value-seeking and the whole house of cards falls flat. Silver paper contracts will all be settled in worthless fiat.
If I spoke about a gold-backed currency above, and I may have, I would offer that "sound-money" is better terminology to pursue and that includes trade-exchange via a basket of commodities that Russia are China are currently working out.
You assume that I will not like the world that is approaching where silver will bust out of its shackles. In my writing I hope I have made clear that it does not matter what you want this life to be, it is all about what spirit advances. In this case, it is in my opinion that far from living in a nightmare in the future, we are currently living one now, and regardless of the hardships this unveiling will make, it is still living in the light of truth which is to be desired.
Posted by: NemesisCalling | Aug 18 2022 2:56 utc | 68
"This is as dangerous a moment for this country as we've seen since the run-up to the Civil War."
Posted by: Tenet | Aug 18 2022 1:37 utc | 65
Agreed - though not for the same reasons as Haass.
Following on from a discussion yesterday on the Multipolar issue following b's article, I managed to locate the 7th century Edicts mentioned. This is a contemporary translation but I believe faithfully follows the original:
EDICT OF WHOLESOME HUMAN CONDUCT
by Dharma King Tsongtsen Gampo 569-650 AD
A. RESPECT
1. Arouse faith and respect for the Three Jewels.
2. Seek out and practice the divine holy dharma.
3. Respect your parents and repay their kindness.
4. Revere those who have accomplished great learning.
5. Honor and pay heed to noble elders.
B. LOYALTY
6. Be decent and trustworthy with friends and relatives.
7. Exert yourself for the welfare of neighbours and countrymen.
8. Be law-abiding, humble and act with decorum.
9. Continuously emulate those who are excellent.
C. DISCIPLINE OF BODY, SPEECH AND MIND
10. Possess only as much food and wealth as needed.
11. Never disappoint those who have been kind to you in the past.
12. Do not waver in repaying your debts on time.
13. Be generous to all without bias.
14. Refrain from slander and maintain your dignity.
15. Speak gently and restrain idle chatter.
16. Expand your mind in the vision of Mahayana.
+++++++++++++++++++++
As with the Qing Dynasty one, this come from a different culture and a different era. King Tsongsten is known for having introduced Buddhadharma to Tibet which at the time was the most powerful force in Asia with fearsome military. Buddhism was not entirely welcome in that country and in fact was rejected for a century or so before returning and this time sticking. In any case, any reference to the dharma and Three Jewels would not be appropriate for a modern equivalent but I still think that something like this can be used as a model to craft a geopolitical nation state set of principles which ideally, like this, can fit on one page.
If Putin or karlof1 were to craft such an equivalent, I'm sure many would like to read it!
Tenet @ 65
"This is as dangerous a moment for this country as we've seen since the run-up to the Civil War."
So the alt right with Trump at the front defeated Clinton Bush Cheney. Somehow I feel a bit safer. I wonder why?
Posted by: circumspect | Aug 18 2022 3:17 utc | 71
I’ve been enjoying the YouTube videos of an American woman (who calls herself Katherine) traveling in China. She mostly specializes in obscure countryside places, so that’s a pretty candid view of the less developed, less glamorous side China:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrcDPAshreK6gXlDIrDgYjQ/videos
After watching her videos, I’ve become convinced that the CCP are not Neoliberals in Marxist clothing after all, but real socialists. Why this lingering suspicion about the CCP? Last time I checked (circa 2020), China’s GINI coefficient was about the same as the US, surely not a good sign. Now I’m starting to think that maybe the GINI is about as useful a measure as the GDP.
So, this woman goes biking in random places in the countryside. She even goes to the 2 poorest provinces: Gansu and Heilongjiang. And everywhere the government has built new roads and new subsidized housing for the poor. Maybe Prof. Michael Hudson is right after all: what the US fear most is the success of a socialist system.
Watching her videos you learn interesting stuff about the Chinese countryside: 1) Country roads are full of free-range chickens, ducks, geese, water-buffaloes (Guangdong) and yaks (Tibetan Sichuan). 2) There are still many Chinese (even Hans) who can’t speak Mandarin. 3) Even in the most remote villages, people are very aware of the international political situation. 4) The infrastructure for electric cars is so good, you can pretty much go anywhere. 5) You can find abandoned houses everywhere.
This video is particularly interesting:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V976H5Gz3aw
She’s in Tashkurgan, in the Tajik part of Xinjiang. She meets that old guy, who calls himself a veteran. He tells her to bring her family to China because Putin is gonna destroy the US. I hope this guy is not representative of the views of the Chinese people. Just waiting on the Russians to do all the heavy lifting.
Posted by: Robert Macaire | Aug 18 2022 3:31 utc | 72
I’d like to learn to speak a few Farsi and Dari words, for the people I meet in my Neighbourhood.
Posted by: Featherless | Aug 17 2022 21:35 utc | 45
Severe undertaking, no audio; I read and write Farsi, so farsidic.com works for me. Here is poke at it, to just get you started, but goes a long way since etiquette is paramount in the culture.
Salam (sa as in sag, la as in lawn) —> hello
Haletoon (ha as in haha) chetoreh (formal) — how are you?
Halet (ha as in haha) chetoreh (familiar) — how are you?
Esmeh man Featherless hast. —> my name is Featherless
Esmeh shoma chieh? —> what is your name?
Merci or Mamnoon or Motoshakker —> thank you.
Baleh (ba as in back) — > yes.
Nah (na as in nap) or Nahkheir —> no.
Sorry this is all the time I have now for this post. I will try to make a better effort later, time allowing.
Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | Aug 18 2022 3:39 utc | 73
This was the beginning of the largest Ponzi scheme ever seen. The value of the US dollar has been steadily falling ever since. “
Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 17 2022 15:24 utc | 2
Wrong. The beginning of the largest ponzi scheme ever was the privatisation of the US Federal Reserve in 1913 by Woodrow Wilson in subserviance to the Jewish bankers. One year later WWI broke out and we have been at wr ever since. The ponzi scheme created is known as the fractional reserve.
Nixon's feat was to tie the USD to oil and thus created a dependency on the rest of the world to trade petroleum products in the USD
Posted by: Bluedog57 | Aug 18 2022 3:50 utc | 74
Robert Macaire | Aug 18 2022 3:31 utc | 72--
Your comment illustrates the very unusual dance ongoing between Russia, China and Outlaw US Empire. China and the Empire are locked in a geoeconomic co-dependency waltz that would deepen if Biden removed Trump's Tariffs, while the Empire is very dependent on many products supplied by Russia, Europe's desperation proves the deep nature of its dependency on Russia, while Russia has weaned itself from any dependency on the West. The old man's comment accurately reflects China's pickle--China remains too dependent on trade with the Empire; Trump's Trade War was actually beneficial to China as it forced China to become less dependent. This short column by Crooke makes some important points.
Now Liz Cheney can return full time to fellating all the Pharisee dick she so craves for validation.
Posted by: TimesUp | Aug 18 2022 4:00 utc | 76
ZH has a posting up with the title
Russia, China And India To Hold Massive "Vostok" War Games In Two Weeks
The take away quote
Chinese troops will travel to Russia to take part in war games along with India, Belarus, Mongolia, Tajikistan and other largely anti-Western countries, China's defense ministry said on Wednesday, adding redundantly that China's participation in the joint exercises was "unrelated to the current international and regional situation." (Narrator: it is related.)Last month, Moscow announced plans to hold "Vostok" (East) exercises from Aug. 30 to Sept. 5, even as it wages war in Ukraine. It said at the time that some foreign forces would participate, without naming them. It turns out that the "foreign forces" account for just under half of the world's population.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Aug 18 2022 4:37 utc | 77
Personally, I suspect that a bifurcation is under way moreover one that all sides are fully on board with, by happenstance or more likely design. Pelosi is an old China hand with contacts in both Taiwan and PRC and family investments and partnerships apparently all over the place. The purpose of Pelosi's trip was to provide a pretext for China to get tough finally, which happened. Now a sanctions war will gradually unfold and the supply chains and financial flows will decouple.
Will this be forever? That will depend. But it will go on at least until the West can have its Reset Revolution Fandango and the Eurasian alliance can get its new financial system humming. Perhaps it will take more than 5 years for the West to finally collapse, functionally speaking, after five long years of hardship and cognitive dissonance stress-bewilderment.
At which point Eurasia will be going forward so well and effectively that maybe the West can adapt its methods and practices and join in. If not, then they will be cut off for a generation or two until they can wise up.
So whether with collusion or not, whether with good will or not, it seems that all roads lead to bifurcation right now. China wants it. Russia wants it. America wants it. Europe wants it. At least they keep doing things which make it increasingly inevitable so maybe we should just take them at their word and deed.
23 is the Hexagram Peeling away or splitting apart. It also involves getting down to examining what really matters, paring away excess. All educated Chinese know these hexagram numbers, a sequence developed a very long time ago by the Duke of Chou whilst he was imprisoned for seven years.
2023 will be the year of Splitting Apart. Eurasia will rise rapidly. The West will flounder dramatically. It's going to be epic.
Posted by: Robert Macaire | Aug 18 2022 3:31 utc | 72
Great Youtube channel. Thanks.
Boy, she speaks excellent Chinese!
Trump to be indicted?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGrquv0ObME
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2022/08/17/the-democrats-putsch-takes-another-step-forward/
Personally, I think he wants out but he doesn't want it to look that way. The only chance the Republic has is for a widespread well-organized non-partisan movement to dismantle the Administrative State and start over. If they keep depending on a charismatic larger-than-life leader to magically fulfill their desires they won't do the work on the ground level to build momentum and discipline to make such a thing possible. The sooner they drop this ridiculous obsession with useless federal elections the better. Hardly any jurisdiction have gotten rid of machines mass and mail-in voting so it's a complete joke at this point though most people are too decent to be able to grok it.
Or: just let the totalitarianism come. Stop pretending to have a two-party system etc. Stop the charade.
Personally I think they should close DC for a generation and devolve back to the States. Then if they really want a Federal gov again it should be FAR smaller and located in the middle of the country in like Denver or Kansas City. It should have hardly any executive powers and mainly meet once a year for a month to fine-tune any Union-wide legislation which needs changing. But if none of that is possible, somehow there has to be a push for MAJOR reform and the disbandment of a huge number of departments, at least 50% of them including DOJ FBI CIA at very least.
The recent revelations of the extraordinary secret attempt by the then Prime Minister of Australia to aggregate to himself the ministerial powers of at least five ministries (Health, Finance, Treasury, Science & Resources and Home Affairs).
I say "at least five" because the tally has gone from two to three to five in short succession - he has claimed that he completely "forgot" that he made himself Treasurer; it is possible that he has "forgotten" others.
It is the secrecy which is most troubling about this; his excuse now is that he was protecting the nation from being without responsible ministers in the case of COVID-19 cutting a swathe through the Cabinet, but that really doesn't wash. He was setting himself up to be able to be a one-man government. Whether he recognised it or not, it was attempted dictatorship. Legal advice needed as to whether this subversion is a crime.
Secondly, he did this "legally" by using the Governor-General's constitutional powers - that the Governor-General went along with this (in secret) has totally damaged the reputation of that office. The Governor-General should be sacked, now. Further, the whole constitution plainly needs an overhaul.
Posted by: Hope | Aug 18 2022 5:35 utc | 81
Posted by: Scorpion | Aug 18 2022 5:23 utc | 81
Grassroots are more active than ever and MAGA is killing it in the Republican primaries. The more they beat it the stronger it gets.
Posted by: Jonathan W | Aug 18 2022 6:17 utc | 82
"Pelosi is an old China hand with contacts in both Taiwan and PRC"
you mean In US backed companies operating in China?
Big difference.
Posted by: K | Aug 18 2022 6:20 utc | 83
Tenet @ 63:
I suppose Liz Cheney should be wary of accepting any invitations from her Dad to go quail-hunting with him from now on. :-)
Posted by: Jen | Aug 18 2022 6:25 utc | 84
Hope | Aug 18 2022 5:35 utc | 82
Australian Governor General
[latest]…
“……has totally damaged the reputation of that office. “
Nope. No one who knows has had any respect…. nothing but contempt…. for the “office” of GG since the 1975 Whitlam Dismissal.
“……The Governor-General should be sacked, now.
Abolished.
“… the whole constitution plainly needs an overhaul.
You can thank Malcolm Turdball for sabotaging a reasonably solid previous attempt.
Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 18 2022 6:31 utc | 85
Looking at the 5 additional portfolios moriscum appropriated to himself….
My conjecture is it’s something very darkly vaccine contracts related…
He needed to intersect across a few pivotal departments… especially finance/ treasury.
We don’t know if / what deals / agreements / contracts have been entered into under this secretive and unique arrangement.
Just because we don’t know, doesn’t mean something might untoward isn’t lurking in the dark…
Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 18 2022 6:36 utc | 86
Attention Canadians
There is material to be digested at ZeroAnthropology.
;)
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Aug 18 2022 7:28 utc | 87
Attention Canadians
There is material to be digested at ZeroAnthropology.
;)
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Aug 18 2022 7:28 utc | 88
Re: Lying asshole ex Oz PM, Scum Mo.
A few years ago ABC.net.au's then Chief Political Correspondent, Annabel Crabbe hosted a show along the lines of Let's Do Lunch. Annabel would prepare a dessert and take it to the/a home of a hi-profile politician, who would personally prepare the rest of the meal which would be consumed during an informal filmed interview.
Each show begins with Annabel preparing dessert in her kitchen, during which she tells us who today's lunch host will be and which direction her curiosity might take her/us.
Anyhow, she described Scum Mo as a Christian Zionist. And he makes no secret of the fact that he's a member of Hillsong, an Evangelican Christian outfit. So lots of room for loony ideas in that combo - not to mention the God-bothering potential....
Posted by: Hoarsewhisperer | Aug 18 2022 7:32 utc | 89
If you're interested in AI and the game Go then "AlphaGo" on youtube might be worth 60min of your time. I enjoyed it more than I thought when I first randomly clicked on it about 6 months ago. Its not an easy game to learn so I stick to chess.
Posted by: Alogon | Aug 18 2022 8:00 utc | 90
Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 17 2022 16:33 utc | 10
Dr Malhotra has a valuable contribution to the debate about refined added sugar being a major cause of obesity and diabetes. Some however think that his approach, which advocates stopping statins and cutting out sugar from diet is the answer and is a member of the so called 'statin deniers', is problematic and can be dangerous as it stops vulnerable people from taking statins. What has to be considered is that given the large number of people who are obese and the other connected lifestyle features, that at present there is no quick answer and statins have been shown by extensive trials to be safe and to reduce the risk of heart disease and strokes. So he is partially correct, but we are where we are and maybe the new generation will not need statins if they reduce their sugar intake.
But Dr. Malhotra's contribution to Vaccine skepticism is only because he quite rightly feels that major risk factors (but not the only risk factors) of dying from Covid are obesity and diabetes and therefore the answer is a change of diet, is exaggeratedly simplistic and typical of the sort of scientific tunnel vision of some dedicated doctors and researchers and this can do more harm than good.
There is no evidence nor a consensus in the scientific community that covid vaccines are more dangerous than covid infections. This is utter nonsense.
Posted by: Orage | Aug 18 2022 8:41 utc | 91
Posted by: Scorpion | Aug 18 2022 5:08 utc | 80
And this is Rachele, an Italian. Good content on her channel as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR9MLlQakK8
Posted by: Another Brother Ma | Aug 18 2022 8:49 utc | 92
Melaleuca #10
Re pfizzer see my link to zeroanthropology.net
Public tribunals have commenced.
Posted by: uncle tungsten | Aug 18 2022 9:10 utc | 93
@10, 13, 15
Specifically Pfizer.
It has now been revealed that 40% of women who were pregnant during the "trials" had miscarriages. (Revealed recently through legal processes against Pfizer for them to supply data)
Add to that ; that all the test animals (dogs) were put to death immediately the desired results could be "shown", so there are NO long term trials of their Vaxx on living beings.
Then the CDC authorized all this travesty of "tests".
*****
Astra Zeneka was not any better. https://twitter.com/2ndNewMoon/status/1560037397143998464/photo/1
***
Link to previous attempts by the WHO for depopulation since 1970's. (In Africa)
https://www.globalresearch.ca/video-infertility-diabolical-agenda/5786128
(I have not looked at the film that also goes with this article.)
"Both Ngare and Karanja paid a steep price for their vigilance. The medical board called them for disciplinary action. Karanja was issued a gag order, and since 2014 was not allowed to speak publicly about vaccines in Kenya. He broke that gag order for this film. April 29, 2021, Karanja died, allegedly from COVID infection."
Ongoing?
****
The next bit is "hearsay or equivalent", as I don't have the time now to chase up the origins
Increase in child deaths. Several reports but they are trying to hide these. (Scotland had several unexplained deaths of recently born children as well as miscarriages, coffin makers reports on increase in "child" coffins etc.).
Miscarriages. (Does this also include future sterility?)
General death rate increase per country?
*
The "dropping" dead of sporting or youngish people realtime on video/TV.
*
None of these are coordinated/related publically to show what is really happening. The inference is that mass depopulation is again the aim of the euthanasists, and it is related to the boosters.
Please prove me wrong. I don't like where this leads.
Posted by: Stonebird | Aug 18 2022 9:16 utc | 94
Apologies if already posted:
Lijian Zhao 赵立坚
China government official
Spokesman & DDG, Information Department, Foreign Ministry, China.
“Everyone needs a clear understanding of himself.
So does a nation. (America)”
https://mobile.twitter.com/zlj517/status/1559530185686675457
Posted by: anon2020 | Aug 18 2022 9:51 utc | 95
Posted by: anon2020 | Aug 18 2022 9:51 utc | 96
Forgot to mention, that was via Intel Slava Z
Posted by: anon2020 | Aug 18 2022 9:54 utc | 96
Orage | Aug 18 2022 8:41 utc | 92
There is no evidence nor a consensus in the scientific community that covid vaccines are more dangerous than covid infections.
And yet. What Dr Aseem Malhotra is stating in the twit I linked, is that the *raw trial data* from both Pfizer and Moderna evidence exactly that.
>This is utter nonsense.
Is it?
Then it would seem your quarrel is with Pfizer and Moderna, not me.
Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 18 2022 10:00 utc | 97
@ Posted by: Scorpion | Aug 18 2022 4:54 utc | 79
“2023 will be the year of Splitting Apart. Eurasia will rise rapidly. The West will flounder dramatically. It's going to be epic.”
Don’t completely agree. If we want to get numerological, there are many ways to skin that cat. The split works better in the DMY format of the Collective Waste. Wit
02022020 was the beginning - start of Covid Lockdowns in the CW
22022022 was the end - End of Unipolar World Order of the CW
Neat isn’t it? Some saw it coming like a new star in the heavens.
If the Great Splitting was the desire of the Dying Empire - they are playing the game of Tolkien’s retreat of the Elohim across the water to the west to leave the world to Humanity. Whilst they go hide in that fairyland where men and women don’t exist just their weird smeared gender superiority bullshit. Mostly ghostly pale skinned. I ain’t completely joking.
I have tried to explain the rise of Occultism in play and the final battlefield In Ukraine as the inevitable Narrative.
The truth is that we in the pampered Waste were using way too much resource and had way to much spending power than most other humans, that allowed us to lord it over the rest of them with our purchasing power, by virtue of the Dollar Hegemony.
It could not persist, as the rest of humanity is raised. The super wealthy will always remain, so the middle has to meet its fellow humanity.
That is why talk of Gold and Silver as a means of exchange is doomed. Never to return. Governments will Tax to control the Wealthy, not because they need their wealth - but to stop them regaining the Power they have had for ever as the fraction of a percent they always were. That tax will not be in Currency or Precious Commodity but by simple sequestration of their Wealth in whatever physical reality it exists. Land, Property, Yachts and most of all Art where they have been busy trying to hide it for the last 20 years.
Their zeros in bank accounts are just easily cancelled - as they were to create - magically.
Ah their Brave New World is no more! Good riddance.
Posted by: DunGroanin | Aug 18 2022 11:08 utc | 98
I realise Olaf Scholz is qualified only to be a supermarket department manager and Habeck well-suited to the role of Substitute Teacher, but what was the point of imposing a Surcharge ("Umlage") on Gas Consumers to fund the State rescue of Uniper - whose contracts to buy Russian gas had been up-ended by Habeck in Berlin - leaving them with a €12,000,000,000 loss for the year.................
When to mollify anger over this Surcharge to pay for Habeck's ideological rigidity on Nordstream 2 and on fossil fuels - they decide to cut VAT on gas from 19% to 7% for the period the Surcharge is being levied ??????
They lose more money by reducing VAT than they were going to raise with the Surcharge itself !!!!!!!!
These people are dedicated to FUBAR and Clusterfuck.............how did such people ever find each other to create such a policy of National Suicide and Insolvency ?
Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Aug 18 2022 11:32 utc | 99
Posted by: Stonebird | Aug 18 2022 9:16 utc | 95
You may find Pfizer has insulated itself. IT did not create this genetic injection - it was BioNtech in Mainz. This company was funded by the Berlin regime and was owned by the Strungmann Brothers - who have become mega-rich faster than anyone in German history - and outpaced the Albrecht Brothers who built ALDI.
Pfizer was the marketeer of the genetic injection. I bet they laid off liability onto BioNtech and the German Government.
The Moderna injectable uses NIH Patents held by Fauci.
The nano-lipid component is based on a patent held by the Ottawa regime.
The US regime is so deep in this - Trump funded the "warp speed" development and paid for the factories just as the London regime paid for factories to be built and underwrote fixed costs.
NONE of these Pharma companies used their own money.
AND.......they succeeded in hollowing out the whole Drug Testing System ........whole classes of drugs are now being "Emergency Approved" circumventing the expensive field tests and certification procedures - after all - a Willing Public Volunteers to test out unproven medications............!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Paul Greenwood | Aug 18 2022 11:40 utc | 100
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Tis oft said, In geopolitics, that the US is playing checkers while Putin (Russia) is playing chess. And Erdogan? Why. He’s playing Turkish draughts…. And seeing this, that explains everything.
https://twitter.com/TheFigen/status/1559537070196006912
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_draughts
Posted by: Melaleuca | Aug 17 2022 15:23 utc | 1