@FieryButMostPeaceful | Oct 21 2022 16:02 utc | 4
A good and reputable source for Haiti news is Madame Boukman.
https://twitter.com/madanboukman

Posted by: too scents | Oct 21 2022 16:06 utc | 4

People vs Federal Reserve
-could the people sue the fed (private corporation/entity) in class action for damages related to inflating/deflating notes issued by them?

Posted by: meow | Oct 21 2022 16:20 utc | 6

In response to #9 bbear
Comprador means purchaser. It’s a local middleman purchasing a cash crop from peasants on behalf of a foreign, colonial client.

Posted by: Peacenik | Oct 21 2022 16:35 utc | 8

“After Tulsi Gabbard renounced her relationship with the Democratic Party yesterday on the Joe Rogan show — and on the first episode of her new podcast, I kept seeing a lot of people wondering about Tulsi Gabbard’s relationship with the World Economic Forum. That is because back in 2015 the WEF put a picture of Tulsi on their website while claiming she was one of their Young Global Leaders.Here is everything you need to know about the WEF, their Young Global Leaders, and what Tulsi Gabbard has to do with them.” From Tulsi Gabbard and The World Economic Forum — The Whole Story

Posted by: Kali El | Oct 21 2022 16:42 utc | 10

re Haiti
Yves Engler is a good source as well.

Posted by: farm ecologist | Oct 21 2022 16:55 utc | 12

Quote below from ZH which is then from Epoch Times

Pfizer is looking to raise the price of its COVID-19 vaccines in the United States by up to four times once Washington’s purchase program ends, according to the company’s U.S. president, Angela Lukin.
Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is presently provided free for all Americans by the U.S. government. Next year, when the U.S. public health emergency expires, the COVID-19 vaccine market will move to private insurance. The federal government is paying roughly $30 per dose for the Pfizer vaccine. When the government purchase program shuts down, Lukin expects a dose to be priced around $110 to $130.
…..
Recently, Florida Surgeon General Dr. Joseph A. Ladapo issued new guidance on mRNA COVID-19 vaccines like those manufactured by Pfizer. The guidance recommended males between the ages of 18 and 39 against taking such shots, warning about an increased risk of cardiac-related death.
Meanwhile, Pfizer has submitted a request to the Food and Drug Administration to grant Emergency Use Authorization for COVID-19 vaccine boosters for children as young as five.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 21 2022 17:13 utc | 14

Posted by: Kali El | Oct 21 2022 16:42 utc | 10
Thanks for the link to the article by Pam Ho, whom I consider to be trustworthy. Based on the descriptions within, I think it’s safe to ignore all of the WEF “global reset” alarmism.

Posted by: farm ecologist | Oct 21 2022 17:17 utc | 16

Today’s Global Times recap ends with this editorial about China’s “fighting spirit” diplomacy. Such words are refreshing to read:

The strongest reaction to the fighting spirit of China’s diplomacy comes from the US and Western public opinion and some political elites. This shows that only those with sinister motives will be irritated. How many of China’s partners feel threatened and uneasy from China’s diplomacy? Even if Washington is sparing no effort to sow discord around the world, what other countries are concerned about is actually the consequences of such actions and the pressure from the US. Fighting is a necessary form of Chinese diplomacy, which is important means to seek cooperation and avoid conflicts, and often creates preconditions for cooperation in reality.
There is a mild, reserved and introverted aspect of traditional Chinese culture, which is meanwhile also embodied in the style of China’s diplomatic work. However, self-restraint is in no way a sign of China’s submission to powerful forces. Chinese people not believe in fallacy nor are we afraid of evil forces. We’ll advance despite difficulties. The determination to defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity and safeguard the fundamental development interests of the Chinese nation is unshakable and rock-solid. Dare to fight reflects the diplomatic understanding and will, while being good at fighting tests diplomatic wisdom and steadiness. The purpose and goal of China’s foreign policy is very clear, that is, to maintain world peace, boost common development, and promote building a community with a shared future for mankind.
In fact, the international community understands and applauds the fighting spirit of China’s diplomacy, because the fighting emphasized by China is a defensive one based on bottom-line thinking. For the vast number of developing countries that are deeply threatened by power politics, such a fighting is of universal significance. It is impossible for China’s diplomacy to become hideous because of its fighting spirit. On the contrary, the grim face of US-style “offensive realism” diplomacy has been increasingly seen by the world. No matter how much makeup it puts on, it cannot be covered. The fighting spirit will make China’s diplomatic image more vivid, richer and sincerer and give it more room for action.

As the world gathers together to combat the last Imperialist Power, China’s diplomatic stance provides a rallying point, and its goals provide a basic manifesto the RoW can agree upon. I imagine we’ll continue writing/commenting on the New Cold War for the next several years.

Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 21 2022 17:26 utc | 18

Posted by: Kali El | Oct 21 2022 16:42 utc | 14
Thank you for that!
And there’s another annoying piece of propaganda that gets cynically, and often hypocritically, used against Tulsi Gabbard. Namely, “She endorsed Joe Biden!!!”.
There are two important pieces of reality that need to be made clear regarding that. The foremost is that the Democratic party is both legally and in reality a club* that gets run to suit the establishment that pulls its strings and funds it. Directly deriving that is the circumstance that bound Tulsi Gabbard to endorse Joe Biden.
Everyone who officially enters the Democratic primary has to sign a contract that includes a provision that the ultimate nominee has to be endorsed. Hillary Clinton got asked if she’d endorse Bernie Sanders if he beat her out for the nomination, and she said yes, implying an “of course” with that.
Both Bernie Sanders, and Tulsi Gabbard when she ran, got endlessly asked if they would endorse the eventual nominee if they didn’t win, or if they would run third party. Tulsi once noted that she’d been asked that question over and over during the course of just a few days. The interviewer replied, seemingly with hurt feelings, “But I didn’t ask you!”. Jeez Louise, the state of so called journalism these days.
So Tulsi both signed a contract, and repeatedly gave her word, that she’d endorse the eventual nominee. As an aside, do you remember all the speeches she gave afterward, criticizing Trump and telling people to vote for Biden? Me neither, because they never happened.
Unlike Bernie Sanders, to whom I donated a lot of cash and hundreds of hours of my time using my car canvassing for his campaign, phone banking for him, and helping out at his local headquarters, Tulsi didn’t whore herself out emailing her supporters saying just how great Hillary Clinton, or Joe Biden, was after ending her campaign in 2020, or in 2016 seeing Sanders drop out after being a surrogate for him.
I emailed the Sanders campaign back in 2016 telling them that if Bernie was going to lie to me and say the warmonger Hillary Clinton was a good person, they should remove me from their mailing list. I unsubscribed from them, and soon after changed my voter registration so I was no longer a Democrat.
Three last fun facts. When Bernie ran for the 2016 nomination, it was Tulsi Gabbard that gave a yooge boost to his campaign when, as the acting third in command of the DNC, she exposed how the primary process was rigged against him.
When Bernie ran for the 2020 nomination, and Senator Elizabeth Warren (that snake) accused Bernie of pressuring her to drop out, with an assertion that a woman couldn’t get elected President, Tulsi got on stage and said that when she declared her candidacy for the nomination (and she was the first Democrat to do so) Bernie had nothing but encouraging words for her. That deflated Warren’s credibility immediately.
And finally, just before Tulsi Gabbard dropped out of the 2020 primary race, and before she later endorsed Biden, both Tulsi and her campaign staff repeatedly tried to get in contact with Sanders and his top people to see if he’d accept her endorsement. All they got was the sound of crickets as they waited to hear back from Bernie.
So Tulsi made the announcement that she was suspending her campaign (nobody actually closes the books until the last bill is payed. I actually got money back from her campaign as I’d made a final donation to her right at the very end.), and naturally she ended things, leaving no doubt in people’s minds about her running third party, by saying she endorsed Joe Biden.
I hope my post is taken as not off topic, as Tulsi Gabbard has a critically important message regarding the war between Ukraine and Russia, and her voice looks to be growing in popularity by the week. If we can rebuff those who’d try to undermine her credibility by the use of lies or dissembling, we could ultimately be helping to get a quicker resolution to this dangerous war.
P.S. Tulsi’s speaking out has enraged a lot of people with platforms that give them influence, and many of them want her thrown out of the military, and investigated using a no holds barred approach. So while we can think that she’s said some unfair things about Putin and his methods, let’s cut her some slack, and make allowances as she maintains her viability.
* “Update: A federal judge dismissed the DNC lawsuit on August 28. The court recognized that the DNC treated voters unfairly, but ruled that the DNC is a private corporation; therefore, voters cannot protect their rights by turning to the courts:
“To the extent Plaintiffs wish to air their general grievances with the DNC or its candidate selection process, their redress is through the ballot box, the DNC’s internal workings, or their right of free speech — not through the judiciary.”
Rather than reflecting on the consternation everyday voters are having over the conduct of the Democratic presidential primary, the Democratic National Committee is doubling down on the assertion that the primary election belongs to the people who control the party — not voters.”
https://ivn.us/posts/dnc-to-court-we-are-a-private-corporation-with-no-obligation-to-follow-our-rules

Posted by: Babel-17 | Oct 21 2022 17:29 utc | 20

uncensored | Oct 21 2022 17:46 utc | 23
Stop spamming your confabulations.
That’s my comment.
b, any chance you can block this “uncensored” guy?

Posted by: sippy the shot glass | Oct 21 2022 17:52 utc | 22

@karlof1 11
Due to the velocity of money, that $2.5 billion is worth about $90 billion to the US economy over the course of a year. In addition, the bankster’s rely on part on that money, and the resultant flows, to pay the interest on the vast amounts they have borrowed from the Fed (and others) on the strength of money the government printed and handed to them supposedly to help the economy, but which they used to acquire every income producing asset worth stealing. So the damage that the Trump tariffs and Democratic sanctions are causing, together with the failure of the petrodollar after using it as a weapon for half a century, are likely to collapse the US along with any countries linked to the dollar
Should, by some amazing luck we avoid the thermonuclear warfare (which is and has been the end-plan for about the same amount of time – see my Wars of Depopulation), this might not be a completely bad thing, but it is going to be ugly while it happens.

Posted by: Hermit | Oct 21 2022 17:56 utc | 24

@Babel-17 21
The RNC is the same. Watch the rigged vote against Ron Paul in 2012 (e.g. Pardon the source.
George Carlin was correct. “it’s a big club and you ain’t in it”. Me neither.

Posted by: Hermit | Oct 21 2022 18:08 utc | 26

@meow 6
You could. But it would be decided by the US judicial system which is fully owned by the same oligarchs as own everything else, especially “we the people” and who have repeatedly ruled that the only recourse against the government is through the ballot boxes which they also own, for candidates, the nomination of whom is fully owned by the same oligarchs, and so the case will be dismissed at some point
So you can’t win, you can’t break-even, and you are not even allowed to stop playing.

Posted by: Hermit | Oct 21 2022 18:18 utc | 28

Hermit @26–
Thanks for your reply. Yes, I made many comments about the blowback to come from Trump’s Trade War and its continuation by Biden. Back during Trump’s reign, I provided critical info about the Outlaw US Empire’s inability to enrich nuclear fuel for domestic use and its reliance on Russia for it, a fact not mentioned by BigLie Media. RT has an article updating that critical inability, “US nuclear ambitions hindered by ‘Russian problem’: Plans to develop small reactors are reportedly complicated by the fact that a Russian firm is the only supplier of the required fuel.” Rosatom is the only supplier and holds all rights to the technology needed to create the fuel in another example of sanctions blowback. The conclusion spells out the dilemma:
“Reuters noted that, without a reliable source of HALEU, reactor developers fear they won’t receive orders for their new plants. And, without orders, potential suppliers of the highly enriched fuel likely won’t assemble the supply chains needed to replace the Russian producer.”
IMO, the Empire’s interest in Ukrainian NPPs was adapting their fuel for domestic reactors. I believe the fuel issue is rather critical to the point that domestic NPPs will be idled.

Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 21 2022 18:24 utc | 30

In connection with my post at 33, here is bit from another worthy post at the previous ukraine thread, my bolds:
Arron @ 189 (quoting from an Intercept article):

“Everything is more complex than you should like
…Trump stood by MBS when he murdered Kashoggi and his war in Yemen which has starved tens of thousands of children…”(Riedel)

…even top politicians are utterly disposable today if the banks don’t want them…

Posted by: juliania | Oct 21 2022 18:41 utc | 32

I think it has been noticeable in US politics at least since Clinton for the Party in Power to do the most damage to it’s own supporters time and time again, I call it the “Bizarro Superman” effect.
Posted by: SwissArmyMan | Oct 21 2022 17:15 utc | 15
They (the Congress-persons) do not want us (the great un-washed masses) to participate in politics. Hence it is anathema to most of them to do anything that encourages people to see voting as effective to get what you want. It is to be treated as a sport. But they can’t say so.

Posted by: Bemildred | Oct 21 2022 18:52 utc | 34

Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 21 2022 16:23 utc | 7
As for the midterms, he doesn’t expect any changes in foreign or domestic policy, which is bad news for people everywhere living on the edge financially, Europeans in particular. And we did discuss Nader’s suggestion about putting terms into a more practical vocabulary, like Neoliberalism being called a Dictatorship of Bankers or Bankers Dictatorship as the term dictatorship is understood correctly by most people.
Thanks for reporting on your conversation. I emboldened the part I found most interesting since have long felt that a large part of the spellbinding societal matrix we find ourselves confused in is the deliberately obfuscatory use of language. As I’ve complained here on occasion, words like ‘US’ and ‘EU’ in sentences are often close to meaningless, also words like nazi, fascism, liberal, neoliberal, capitalism, communism, socialism and so forth.
So I think a Glossary of Truthful Terms would be a good thing to develop, publish widely and then start actually using those terms. Although quite simple, it could prove a powerful spell-breaking tool. Speech can bind or direct the mind and the mind rules the body and the cultures we live in are mainly mind-created. So speech is key with all societal dynamics.

Posted by: Scorpion | Oct 21 2022 19:11 utc | 36

From Tulsi Gabbard and The World Economic Forum — The Whole Story
Posted by: Kali El | Oct 21 2022 16:42 utc | 10
Thanks for this, Kali El.

Posted by: juliania | Oct 21 2022 19:25 utc | 38

karlof1 | Oct 21 2022 16:23 utc | 7
But it’s not just a dictatorship of a particular relation to the economic foundations of society. Neoliberalism is a theory of state formation, not an unclean person. New actors could spring into the roles at any time, much as some Indian tribes around your neck of the woods had a limited (but large) number of names that were passed on to and animated by new generations of humans. May I suggest this six-word description: “Everything is for sale… or else”

Posted by: sippy the shot glass | Oct 21 2022 19:46 utc | 40

“…The D-Party’s Big Tech allies are going to hurt bigtime as the result will be the complete loss of the Chinese market which will be coupled with the shrinkage of domestic and European markets because of Biden’s policies. They’ll become the Bankers Dictatorship’s newest victims.
Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 21 2022 16:53 utc | 11
This is a needed post, karlof1! Thank you very much.

Posted by: juliania | Oct 21 2022 20:15 utc | 42

@Chevrus 29
One issue is that “informed consent” requires a greater comprehension than that cabbages with which humans share some 28% of their DNA*.Their stupification by a toxic education system and the media means that “informed consent” is no longer possible in a large segment of the US population.
A greater issue is that “informed consent” is not appropriate for pandemics which put the public at risk, and where “lifeboat rules” are the only appropriate response. In societies that value life and cherish civic duty”, like China, the infection and mortality rates for CoViD related infections were negligible as the cost was born by society as a whole. Which is why China, with a population of 1,400 million, saw a reported 5,200 CoViD related deaths. While the USA with a population a fifth of that has had over a million deaths and counting, despite the US having an arguably better vaccine (Moderna).
*Contrary to rumor, this is a general problem, and only more visible in religiots, biosphere collapse denialists and antivaxxers.

Posted by: Hermit | Oct 21 2022 20:26 utc | 44

Ursula the lying has some girlsplaining to do.
Take a read at anti-spiegel.ru
the goblins stole my earlier post .

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Oct 21 2022 21:35 utc | 46

Peak in Infant Deaths and the means of keeping the UK Coroner OUT of the picture:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wj4rE0LrpR0

Neonatal death rates, two spikes over six-months
September 2021, at least 21 babies under 4 weeks died
March 2022, at least 18 babies under 4 weeks died
Average mortality rate among newborns
Two per 1,000 births.
In September 2021, 4.9 per 1,000 births
March 2020, 4.6 per 1,000 births
For all of 2021, 3.9 infant deaths for every thousand live births
For all of 2020, 3.1

Looks like the Coroner is asleep at the wheel as was the case with the murder of Dawn Sturgess. Trust the UK Coroner?

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Oct 21 2022 22:09 utc | 48

It will be interesting to see how generous health-insurance companies are going to be with the Covid shots. I take it that for a newbie they will have to cough up at least 400 dollars for the current Covid-vaccination regimen? Plus 100 or 200 dollars for everyone else. Should be fun.

Posted by: Scotch Bingeington | Oct 21 2022 22:21 utc | 50

Oops – pushed post in error. Anyway here’s the tweet
https://twitter.com/TODAYshow/status/1583429043785170944
The Pentagon is supposed to give a report to Congress by the end of the month.

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Oct 21 2022 22:43 utc | 52

Since Anthony Fauci, Gregory Folkers and their ilk keep making it into these threads, I thought I’d post another interesting find from clicking about earlier today. Back in 2010, they produced a very readable report on the 500th anniversary of influenza. Since then Folkers has written about eastern equine encephalitis a few times, among others. The list, with links to the reports, is in the below link.
https://www.researchgate.net/scientific-contributions/Gregory-K-Folkers-38278504

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Oct 21 2022 22:52 utc | 54

Bruised Northerner | Oct 21 2022 22:43 utc | 54
UFO = *unidentified* flying object.
Doesn’t immediately = visitors from intergalactic realms.
Take a look at all the military flying North American skies right now.
Many ~ Most are “unidentified”.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcIiVbfJb3M

Posted by: Melaleuca | Oct 21 2022 23:36 utc | 56

@50 uncle tungsten | Oct 21 2022 22:09 utc
Thanks for that. The comments with their personal stories are heart-wrenching.
And even now I hesitate to say things plainly here in this forum. Apparently, as Chevrus testifies, the subject here is still heavily censored.

Posted by: Grieved | Oct 22 2022 0:07 utc | 58

fyi – quote for the day, I came across over at pinterest, with a bio of Camara from wiki
my kind of socialist and liberation theologist
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” – Helder Camara, 1909-1999.
Hélder Pessoa Câmara OFS was a Brazilian Catholic archbishop. A self-identified socialist, he was the Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, serving from 1964 to 1985, during the military dictatorship in Brazil. He was declared a Servant of God in 2015. Câmara was an advocate of liberation theology.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 22 2022 0:15 utc | 60

@ 58 Melaleuca
Thanks, I’m aware what UFO stands for and wasn’t posting it to suggest that life from other planets was behind this phenomenon. Rather, I suppose we can consider that there may be other reasons for it, some of which may explain the sudden convo between Austin & Shoigu and the sudden trip to Washington of Ben Wallace to discuss unbelievable topics (or whatever exact words his colleague used.)?

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Oct 22 2022 0:35 utc | 62

a scorpion and a hermit… how about a hermit crab?

Posted by: james | Oct 22 2022 0:47 utc | 64

I am proud of the ADL for opposing the hateful racist Tucker Carlson, when he claims a woman incites hatred against Whites. As the ADL says, that claim is anti-Semitism.
Two good ADL statements from the past, also under the label anti-Semitism:
December 17, 2020:
ADL deeply disturbed by European Court of Justice decision upholding Belgian ban on Kosher slaughter
June 20, 2019:
ADL deeply disappointed in Supreme Court allowing Maryland cross to stand on public ground
I have a long list of statements by proud Jewish brethren opposing the existence of White racism, which as we know exists in all Whites. I’ll give examples from twelve anti-White haters, for every day of Hanukkah. Most from Twitter.
Microsoft’s Christina Warren:
“Fuck white people.” (235 likes)
Homosexual UCB teacher Ben Siemon:
“Trump voters are so fucking stupid they think he “fixed” an Obama problem versus undoing something awful he started entirely himself. I guess that happens when all your voters are uneducated white people.”
Comedian Moshe Kasher, who has been on Conan, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, etc:
“I HATE WHITE PEOPLE.”
Writer Lucia Graves:
“Surprised so many white women back Kavanaugh? You shouldn’t be. White women have been voting their white husband’s interests for as long as they’ve been voting”
The New York Times’ Paul Krugman:
The Angry White Male Caucus
Trumpism is all about the fear of losing traditional privilege.
Philip N. Cohen, professor of “sociology” at the University of Maryland:
“It’s hard for us all to coordinate our stories sometimes, so it appears there are disagreements among us. Fortunately we all agree on the most important issues: eradicating whiteness and undermining its civilizations.”
Rabbi Mike Harvey:
“Time to go to war. For our mothers, sisters, and daughters. We will not stand by and allow a group of white Christians to turn America into the dark ages again. Not this time.”
Neocon Norman Podhoretz, who writes for the Jewish magazine Commentary:
“The Trump era will be seen as a last gasp of white resistance – a reprehensible episode that will be recounted alongside the McCarthy era, the internment of Japanese Americans, and the Palmer Raids.”
David Rosenbaum writing in the Huffington Post, with a graphic close-up of the murdered Ashley Babbitt, right after her death (and of course, capital B in Black but no capital W):
Why police finally starting killing white people is a good thing
While Black people have been systematically hunted down and murdered by the police for decades, only a single white supremacist terrorist was shot by police during yesterday’s disgraceful coup attempt. It’s time white people faced the consequences of their vile actions.
Writer Katie Morgan:
“If you’re a white women and are currently pregnant with a white baby boy.. do us all a favor and take a trip to planned parenthood’‘ She also tweets “I hate white people” and “I hate white culture”.
Buzzfeed’s Joe Bernstein:
“KILL a straight white man on your way to work tomorrow”
Some other statements on Twitter by Joe Bernstein:
“Understand all whites must be perceived as potential predators”
“one thing’s for sure: you’re all white, all sort of detestable”
“i was just trying to tune out all you white folks with some knowledge”
“BREAKING white hicks are frequently racist morons”
Etc, etc, etc.
Laurie Rubel, “professor of Secondary Education” at Brooklyn College in New York, whose university bio says that her “research is focused on equity in mathematics education,” and “much of Rubel’s work is devoted to contending that white supremacy is embedded in many aspects of this country and everyday life – from the nation’s founding to the dislike of the WNBA”:
“the idea that math (or data) is culturally neutral or in any way objective is a MYTH. i’m ready to move on with that understanding. who’s coming with me? #takebackmath
“along with the ‘of course math is neutral because ‘+2=4’ trope are the related (and creepy) ‘math is pure’ and “protect math’. reeks of white supremacist patriarchy.”

Posted by: Ashtog Cohen | Oct 22 2022 0:53 utc | 66

@ uncle tungsten | Oct 21 2022 22:09 utc | 50
My understanding is someone somewhere ordered births which resulted in early death ( b4 ~ 5 days) in some hospitals in the UK to be reported as”stillborn.” This false designation as stillborn rendered coroners in the UK unable to pursue the cause of death. If the babies had been designated, recognized, as live births instead of “stillborn” they would have been entitled to a full coroner’s investigation as to the cause of death. This was preempted, avoided, for whatever reason.
See dr John Campbell’s recent videos on this including recent ec inquiry into if vaccines were investigated re diminishment of viral transmission. The answer from mega profit pharma, no.

Posted by: suzan | Oct 22 2022 2:01 utc | 68

@v 49
With related graduate qualifications at the macro and micro level, and working in finance and investment, I’m very familiar with the mechanics of money, in the USA and elsewhere. You may find that

Mandates recalibration of your ideation. As a bank, I can create as much money as I like.
While the actual process is much more complex, to stop people from looking under the shells and realizing that there are no peas at all, the net effect of the current system in the US is that commercial banks take securities, of which they set the value through various forms of manipulation, to the late-night drive-through at the back of the Central Bank, managed by bankster’s for banksters, (accessed via FedWire to which ordinary people have no access), and exchange them for credits in their drawing accounts, allowing them to exchange paper issued by their investment arms to purchase income producing assets, which are then pledged to their commercial operations. The commercial banks then revalue these securities by manipulating factors under their control. and take the new securities back to the Central bank for their next tranche of loot to keep the merry-go-round spinning merrily. This is primarily why there was very limited inflation caused by QE. The banks with mountains of cash pushed at them by the politicians controlled by their owners, are not competing with the people of the USA for goods or services. Instead they have been cooperating with each other and with other significant investors for income producing assets, not goods, driving up the GDP and all markets. So all the indicators have soared, even though non-institutionalized, working age employment has plummeted and the looting of the middle class and working poor has achieved new heights, depressing demand. Now,
as the flow of government spending has been throttled, and massive increases in supply costs imposed by sanctions, punitive tariffs and rentier greed all impacting the attainable velocity of money, coupled with increased interest rates mandating greater extractive efforts, we are experiencing rampant stagflation and a collapsing economy with no visible exit – at least not while the oligarchs continue with an economic charade that has never actually worked for anyone but themselves – largely because it has never been intended to.
For the last half century or longer, the USA has looted the world to enrich it’s oligarchs, destroying it’s own tax base while strangling it’s necessary government expenditures. Not having a social support net, an effective pension or educational system or government healthcare, the worker has to pay for this along with the inevitable rentiers and profiteers, making US labor outrageously expensive and hopelessly non-competitive, despite it’s population working much harder, to far less effect, than those in any other country. Aging infrastructure and the horrendous cost of blatant corruption particularly by the military and FIRE complices combine to exacerbate the fall.
Which is why, as China has eliminated extreme poverty; is on the way to eliminating all poverty; has a nation full of shiny new infrastructure and thriving businesses; life expectancy and access to healthcare continue to rise; and the median income has risen ten times since 1990, in the USA, poverty is rising; extreme poverty is rising faster; healthcare costs consume 20% of GDP; life expectancy is falling; we have more people known to be incarcerated or under judicial supervision and kill more children in firearm related deaths every year than in any previous totalitarian state in history, while our median income has remained static or fallen since the 1960s.
Small wonder the third-rate failing USA hates socialist countries. Our oligarchs are terrified that Americans might wake up from their media induced stupor and realize how screwed they are in comparison to everyone whose lives the USA has not yet fucked. At least they won’t have to worry about Europe much longer.
PS had you ever contemplated on the fact that money is simply a measure of scarcity, and ignores sustainability and equality, the factors that are fundamental to stable societies. I found that this realization changed my perspective.

Posted by: Hermit | Oct 22 2022 2:28 utc | 70

Love of two is one
Here, but now they’re gone
Came the last night of sadness
And it was clear she couldn’t go on
The door was open and the wind appeared
The candles blew and then disappeared
The curtains flew and then he appeared
(Saying, “don’t be afraid”) Come on, baby
(And she had no fear) And she ran to him
(Then she started to fly) They looked backward and said goodbye
(She had become like they are) She had taken his hand
(She had become like they are) Come on, baby
(Don’t fear the Reaper)

Posted by: blues | Oct 22 2022 3:21 utc | 72

Well it’s not the actual Jews, It’s the Satanists who control them, and who control about half of the Christians as well.
This is a real thing.
Get free of Satanism. Become a free Ubiquitan.

Posted by: blues | Oct 22 2022 4:36 utc | 74

“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” – Helder Camara, 1909-1999.
Hélder Pessoa Câmara OFS was a Brazilian Catholic archbishop. A self-identified socialist, he was the Archbishop of Olinda and Recife, serving from 1964 to 1985, during the military dictatorship in Brazil. He was declared a Servant of God in 2015. Câmara was an advocate of liberation theology.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Oct 22 2022 0:15 utc | 62
Thanks for this 🙂

Posted by: K | Oct 22 2022 4:39 utc | 76

Following from previous comments here, I’ve now watched John Campbell’s latest video detailing the Scottish government’s formal data on anomalous deaths in that country. And I see even more powerful data in the comments below his video that provide real-world details that flesh out the stark yet undeniable data.
Campbell’s review of the data is here:
Excess baby deaths investigation [October 19, 2022]
It’s pure fact, as reported by the government, that the babies who were born with signs of life were nonetheless recorded as being born stillborn, after their eventual deaths. There is a stark difference and contrast between the two conditions, of being born dead and being born alive.
There is no reason, in science, for this mis-recording to happen. But the institutions formally conclude that there is no reason to investigate this.
But as a result, the coroner system in Britain has no jurisdiction to investigate the cause of death of the babies who were born living and who then died in short order. The designation of “stillborn” precludes this.
The surge in babies being born living and quickly dying is a mystery that begs to be examined to find out why, but because of the stillborn designation, the coroner is debarred from this examination – so we will never know why. We the people are now forced to make our own surmise as to the cause of death. The formal institutions will not investigate, and the public platforms of discourse will not allow its discussion.
So we can never know what proportion of incidence the vaccines play in this anomaly – if any. We can never know, one way or the other, because this will not be investigated.
And I can only say that if there had been no underlying secrets or subterfuges that went before this event, if it had occurred out of the blue as pure mystery, then it would be of public interest everywhere, to be pursued or disregarded as every person felt.
But medical professionals would investigate along numerous lines, including any medications recently appearing in the mother’s profile.
But now, we can never know.
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So, it is covered up. It cannot be spoken of. The dog did not bark in the night, because it was muzzled. So what is being hidden?
It appears that the commercial capture of all the relevant professional systems is total. And that the people know what is true, even so, but cannot speak of it publicly.
We the people will dance around on hot coals in public, trying to present information, trying to make a point – but mostly trying to avoid the vast proliferation of censorship traps lying in wait along the road.
But we know what we think. We know what is real. And even Campbell is compelled now to include some of his video comments to form part of his record, because the formal platforms will not allow this record to form in its true meaning.
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I don’t know quite what we do about this. We have entered an age in the west where the Samizdat system of communication has become the actual, on the ground reality. A thing cannot be said in plain language, it must be couched in the language of feet dancing on red-hot coals.
And that thing is that deaths are increasing everywhere, in all ages, for no reasons, except possibly for the one thing in common among all the deceased, which is the thing that cannot be discussed. And that thing is the vaccine, and it looms overwhelmingly into view in common experience and discussion, but is never investigated or measured by the established institutions.
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Like everyone else, I have no answers at present. I have to ponder this. We are simply not allowed to speak. And if we speak, our comment is deleted.
What kind of freedom is this? If the corporations still make abundant profits, then for how little money from their spare change was our freedom bought-off and taken away?
We are dying, we are being killed, and we are being constrained from speaking about this amongst ourselves. This is our situation.

Posted by: Grieved | Oct 22 2022 5:52 utc | 78

@Melaleuca | Oct 21 2022 23:36 utc | 58

Bruised Northerner | Oct 21 2022 22:43 utc | 54
UFO = *unidentified* flying object.
Doesn’t immediately = visitors from intergalactic realms.
Take a look at all the military flying North American skies right now.
Many ~ Most are “unidentified”.
“>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcIiVbfJb3M

I can’t see Bruised Northerner mentioned anything about “visitors from intergalactic realms”, but you did. Why? These kinds of fuzzy images are not anything new.
It is common knowledge on this blog that MSM is constantly lying and creating distractions. Why should we pay attention to this particular distraction by the MSM?

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 22 2022 6:02 utc | 80

With all the limelight on WEF, SCHWAB, FAUCI, GATES..
KInda like missing the forest for the trees.

I accept the risk of triggering your “conspiracy theory” buttons by identifying the widely recognized “global military-medical-petrochemical-pharmaceutical-agriculture cartel” as the only suspect that can wield the powers necessary to effect these frightening outcomes.

https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_sars.htm

Posted by: denk | Oct 22 2022 6:48 utc | 82

Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper reports that Imran Kahn has been disqualified from holding political office.
Imran disqualified

WITHIN days of sweeping to victory on six of the seven National Assembly seats he had contested in the Oct 16 by-polls, former prime minister Imran Khan has been disqualified from being chosen as or remaining a member of parliament under Article 63(1)(p) of the Constitution.
The sentence against the PTI chief was passed unanimously by a five-member bench of the Election Commission of Pakistan over his failure to properly account for monetary proceeds from the sale of gifts he had received from foreign dignitaries while he was prime minister. Apart from depriving him of the seats he had just won, the verdict also formally removes Mr Khan from the National Assembly seat he had retained in 2018.

https://www.dawn.com/news/1716314/imran-disqualified

Posted by: too scents | Oct 22 2022 8:47 utc | 84

Vintage Adult PDF Magazines

Posted by: silnwarez | Oct 22 2022 9:03 utc | 86

@uncensored 23
Interesting fallacy take on the corruption of history in the nth degree.
The Levant region has been occupied by wandering nomadic tribes since 8000BCE.
Archaic Greece, where wandering proto-greek tribes coalesced and merged was dated around 800BCE. You can now clearly see the Ancient Greek invasion of the levant region is…….. much later than the original residents!
Alas, your fallacy theorems were torpedoed and sank without a trace. By real history from the real world of the ancient history of the rise and fall of various ancient proto-cultures from 10,000 BCE.
Please try following Dewey decimal codes 930 to 939, for appropriate real books on the subject you have been misinformed about.

Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | Oct 22 2022 9:43 utc | 88

https://thecradle.co/Article/Interviews/16536
another interesting article at the cradle that I found from following psychohistorian’s link (now oddly placed in the future on this thread??), an interview with Michael Hudson from 10-6.

Posted by: pretzelattack | Oct 22 2022 10:00 utc | 90

Below is the latest from Pepe at The Cradle
‘Peaceful modernization’: China’s offering to the Global South
I think the lines are mostly drawn but many will change given the opportunity

Posted by: psychohistorian | Oct 22 2022 10:14 utc | 92

Interesting Open Source link exposing the Starlink protocol …
Posted by: too scents | Oct 21 2022 15:57 utc | 1
A pipe dream:
Take a drone, put a receiver for the uplink on the belly of the drone; below the receiver antenna you put a semi-circular spinning disc, made of a material that blocks microwaves. If someone uses starlink you will see the signal strength going up and down with the same frequency as the disc is spinning; if you are exactly on top of the transmitter the signal stays the same, no matter the position of the disc.

Posted by: Passerby | Oct 22 2022 10:47 utc | 94

@Bad Deal Motors On | Oct 22 2022 11:53 utc | 98

The good man’s PhD is not issued by a school of medicine!

That’s a variant of the Appeal to Authority logical fallacy. Arguments stand or fall on their own.

Posted by: Norwegian | Oct 22 2022 12:03 utc | 96

Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 21 2022 16:53 utc | 11
“The D-Party’s Big Tech allies”
They are not their allies, the D-Party or the R-party are not principals, they are “trusties” of their “sponsors” (“employers”. Their job is called by political academics “managing/wrangling consensus”, that is to find and activate people with compatible or similar interests to those of the “sponsors”.
https://www.senate.gov/art-artifacts/historical-images/political-cartoons-caricatures/38_00392.htm
Posted by: Scorpion | Oct 21 2022 19:11 utc | 38
“So I think a Glossary of Truthful Terms would be a good thing to develop”
That is a pretty ancient goal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectification_of_names
“Confucius was asked what he would do if he was a governor. He said he would “rectify the names” to make words correspond to reality.”
Also, from 1906:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Dictionary
https://devilsdictionary.org/dictionary/dictionary/

Posted by: Blissex | Oct 22 2022 12:54 utc | 98

Posted by: karlof1 | Oct 21 2022 16:53 utc | 11
“The D-Party’s Big Tech allies”
They are not their allies, the D-Party or the R-party are not principals, they are “trusties” of their “sponsors” (“employers”. Their job is called by political academics “managing/wrangling consensus”, that is to find and activate people with compatible or similar interests to those of the “sponsors”.
https://www.senate.gov/art-artifacts/historical-images/political-cartoons-caricatures/38_00392.htm
Posted by: Scorpion | Oct 21 2022 19:11 utc | 38
“So I think a Glossary of Truthful Terms would be a good thing to develop”
That is a pretty ancient goal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectification_of_names
“Confucius was asked what he would do if he was a governor. He said he would “rectify the names” to make words correspond to reality.”
Also, from 1906:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil%27s_Dictionary
https://devilsdictionary.org/dictionary/dictionary/

Posted by: Blissex | Oct 22 2022 18:18 utc | 100