Though for the Day:
“There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it, because they will be distracted from any desire to rebel by propaganda or brainwashing, or brainwashing enhanced by pharmacological methods. And this seems to be the final revolution”
Aldous Huxley
Sound familiar? “You will own nothing, rent everything and you will be happy.” Klaus Schwab

Posted by: Old canadian | Nov 30 2022 16:16 utc | 3

We don’t want PCR testing, we want food
We don’t want lockdowns, we want freedom
We don’t want lies, we want dignity
We don’t want Cultural Revolution, we want reform
We don’t want tyrants, we want elections
We don’t want to be slaves, we want to be citizens.
-Bannerman

Posted by: Antonym | Nov 30 2022 16:24 utc | 5

M. K. Bhadrakumar
@BhadraPunchline
Not only for western media but there’s a whole industry that thrives on doomsday predictions on China. Even some of India’s ‘China watchers’ must be feeling terribly disappointed that Beijing is shoring up its achievement and there isn’t going to be any apocalyptic scenario.
response –
Anyone would think from the way Western media covered the demos in China that it had messed up big-time on Covid and the West had performed brilliantly. In fact, the exact opposite was true. But it has never had the humility to admit it and pay due respect to China’s achievement.

Posted by: james | Nov 30 2022 16:45 utc | 7

yum yum yum! happy baking b!

Posted by: annie | Nov 30 2022 17:50 utc | 9

I love the smell of cookies baking!
The Global South births a new game-changing payment system
Would you think that taking early retirement, when you don’t want to, to cash in a pension to convert it to gold before to it’s too late is a good idea? My gut is saying yes but my head is saying no, don’t leave a good job while you have it.

Posted by: Nathan in WA US | Nov 30 2022 18:32 utc | 11

Nathan in WA US @11–
As long as the job isn’t connected to the discretionary side of the economy, then yes keep it. But if your job’s on that side, do your best to move yourself to a job doing something that people must need.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 30 2022 18:38 utc | 13

@james, #7:

response –
Anyone would think from the way Western media covered the demos in China that it had messed up big-time on Covid and the West had performed brilliantly. In fact, the exact opposite was true. But it has never had the humility to admit it and pay due respect to China’s achievement.

The demos in China is “huge only according to western media. It is reported in Chinese media (including those of Hong Kong’s) that most of those demos are church related groups, and many demonstrators shouted in mandarin with Hong Kong accent.
It’s just another attempt at Color Revolution. The Western operatives will do this over and over again, basically because they have nothing to lose and a income to make. The ones who will ultimately take the consequences are those naive ones manipulated by these western operatives.

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Nov 30 2022 18:59 utc | 15

Big changes coming in Iraq?
Kicking the Americans out and cutting them off from Syria is long overdue. Now that a massive corruption scandal, involving politicians at the very pinnacle of power has been unearthed it is hard to believe that there will not be big changes.
For the sordid detail:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraq-theft-century-ex-head-parliamentary-finance-committee-arrested

Posted by: bevin | Nov 30 2022 19:12 utc | 17

Nathan in WA US @14–
Thanks for your reply. You illuminate another big problem–will wages rise fast enough to match inflation? Another: Will Weimar-like hyperinflation happen here. IMO, the answer to each is no. However, inflation running at 20-25% will certainly crush numerous families and businesses, particularly the latter who have trouble passing on increased costs to consumers. Some of this is already happening with our current rate of inflation which is 2x what the government says. What ought to be confronting the Outlaw US Empire is a Depression and resulting contraction in both money supply and inflation. But what’s actually occurring is akin to the 1970s Stagflation. Removing the Trade War tariffs Trump imposed on China would help as would removing all the illegal sanctions placed globally that’s markedly driven up the cost of trade, particularly since most consumer goods are imported. Current trade policy acts like the Empire’s an autarky capable of supplying the vast majority of its domestic market. And aside from some hi-tech, very little investment is going to the real economy. Indeed, Neoliberal Parasites see the coming debacle as an opportunity to buy even more assets, although some will certainly incur losses. What I’d like to see is an in-depth study of the “informal economy”–all those outside the labor force who have found ways to survive: Shadowstats uses what was the traditional method to attain the unemployment rate and it says it’s just under 25%; so, what are all those millions doing?
Our household’s fortunate to be employed in need-based jobs, although I’m retired. We have very little debt and some savings and IMO are as well placed as we could be, all things considered. Strife is happening, but it hasn’t yet reached a level where the Media can no longer ignore it as it does now.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 30 2022 19:27 utc | 19

Whatever job you have in the US is being paid in USD so if the USD is ‘crushed’ wouldn’t earnings basically become worthless as a result? For example, we’ll end up needing wheelbarrows of cash for a loaf of bread.
Posted by: Nathan in WA US | Nov 30 2022 18:44 utc | 14
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Pro tip: During the period of German hyperinflation, wages were paid early in the morning every day. Workers immediately gave the money to their wives, who ran to buy groceries as quickly as possible, because they did not know if they could pay with it later in the day.
So always remember to keep your wife in a good mood. 🙂

Posted by: Nobody | Nov 30 2022 19:41 utc | 21

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 30 2022 18:34 utc | 12
Here is the article James posted yesterday:
Zoltan Pozsar: We are witnessing the birth of a new world monetary order

Posted by: Zet | Nov 30 2022 20:12 utc | 23

Booze, benzos, guns, ammo (shot and slug), propane, uppers (OTC i.e., caffeine and pseudoephedrine and pharmaceutical), pain killers (OTC and pharma), nicotine of various forms, antibiotics and of course bITcOiN!!!

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Nov 30 2022 20:40 utc | 25

Brian Berletic takes a peek at Anwar Ibrahim and his NED associates plus a broad assessment of Malaysian national government changes.
This is a fully referenced utoob presentation of 46 minutes.
Looks like the Malacca straights are going to remain hot and sweaty – Washington style. More US poking China in the eye.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Nov 30 2022 20:54 utc | 27

pretzelattack #16 don’t forget the bullets! Hard not to keep the booze for yourself, you’ll need it.
karloft1 #19 Thanks, makes me a feel little bit better that we probably won’t end up needing wheelbarrows of cash…
The sense of impending doom is buzzing…speaking of buzzing it’s time to stock up on more booze!

Posted by: Nathan in WA US | Nov 30 2022 21:09 utc | 29

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 30 2022 18:34 utc | 12
Is a complete crypto collapse a way of burning several trillions of dollars?

Posted by: PDidds | Nov 30 2022 22:18 utc | 31

If Turkey invades Syria will the US withdraw its occupying troops?
There are clearly not enough to fight the Turks, just enough to steal the oil and wheat.

Posted by: wagelaborer | Nov 30 2022 22:50 utc | 33

“Israelis Are Not Welcome in Qatar During the 2022 World Cup” documents how the people treat media and others from Occupied Palestine. The opening graphs:

Israeli citizens and journalists are allowed in Qatar in a FIFA agreement during the 2022 World Cup now underway in Doha. Being allowed to enter a country to watch football, or to cover an event as a journalist or media crew, is far different than being welcome.
Israeli journalists have reported numerous interactions with football fans and locals in Qatar that let them know they are not welcome because they are from Israel.
Moav Vardi, Israeli channel KAN 11, was told by a football fan on live TV from Doha, “It is Palestine, there is no Israel. Go, please. You are not welcome here. This is Qatar, this is our country – you are not welcome here. There is only Palestine. There is no Israel.”

And a few more:

Ohad Hamo, Israeli channel 12, was conducting live interviews of fans in Doha but was refused by all Arab fans. After being frustrated, he said, “I don’t know why?”
If an Israeli does not know why Arab fans would be hostile and unwelcoming of an Israeli in Qatar, then that demonstrates the lack of understanding and responsibility of keeping five million persons in an open-air prison….
Palestinian flags are flying all over Doha and fans are also holding the flags. This was sure to be a surprise to Israeli journalists because the flag is banned from being displayed in public anywhere in Israel or the occupied West Bank. The journalists also reported unwelcoming comments from restaurants and taxi drivers.

There’s more, and I must admit to feeling some satisfaction at the illegal occupiers of Palestine being made uncomfortable as they well should given their role in abetting the crimes against Palestinians. I very much doubt this sort of news will appear in any western media product, so please share it!

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 30 2022 23:03 utc | 35

Oriental Voice@15
It is a sad but important fact that among the useful idiots promoting the CIA imperialist agenda in China (and elsewhere) are the legions of Covid Deniers.
If, as they claim, and they are told by people like Global Research, the Covid pandemic was unimportant, a hoax, part of a plan to school the people into blind obedience etc etc, then the demos in China are reasonable. And the PRC government’s policies are at best mistaken but most likely part of the “conspiracy against humanity.”
The truth is as we know, quite otherwise: the PRC and other countries (many East Asian) which followed its lead and tried to nip the virus in the bud were and are correct. They are fighting a lonely battle for humanity against our enemies the capitalists.

Posted by: bevin | Nov 30 2022 23:18 utc | 37

@ uncle tungsten | Nov 30 2022 22:47 utc | 32
that’s interesting what you say.. voice of an oppressor.. yes -perhaps… the reason i shared the link as his analysis and name came up in a link that karlof1 had initially posted which i thought was excellent..The Irreversibility of Change and Prospects for Survival actually karlof1 thought the article was excellent too which i why i made a point of reading it.. at any rate – if you haven’t read it – you might think so too!

Posted by: james | Nov 30 2022 23:22 utc | 39

@32 uncle tungsten | Nov 30 2022 22:47 utc
I think Zoltan’s great insight was the concept of outside money and inside money – namely, value derived from resources versus value derived from fiat paper with foam on top. I think that’s a priceless template to measure events by.
This has certainly been playing out exactly as one would think from using that concept as a basis. We are certainly going to have an eastern exchange currency based on a basket of currencies combined with valuable resources such as hydrocarbons and serious metals – outside money.
All of that’s happening now, and Escobar’s latest is just one more breathless “Hooray!” for this coming change in the world. The free nations are pursuing it single-mindedly now, and it’s very close to hitting the street, it seems.
Against the new, there will persist the old, and for how long, and at what exchange values, and in terms of what it will actually buy, all remain to be seen, or at least forecast in a reliable way.
And like Nathan up-thread, we’re all waiting for that reliable forecast, and keeping our spreadsheet open.
~~
Personally, I’ve been looking for a reliable global currency for a decade. I was interested in bitcoin of course but it rapidly became traded like an asset and thus became worthless as a currency.
A stable currency tied to the future rather than the past is coming – and it’s an Eastern future, of course – and I’m ready to trade whatever I have in USD holdings for that currency when it comes. But will the US allow its people to trade in that currency, or will it sanction it? How usable will that new card be in practical terms? As the western force closes ranks against the new contender, how navigable will the western space remain, and for how long, to deal in that old dollar? And at what costs?
Add to this, several more questions that remain to be answered.
Nathan, don’t worry, we’ll be discussing this forever now until it all becomes clear. You are not alone.

Posted by: Grieved | Nov 30 2022 23:30 utc | 41

Putin was busy with two important meetings today, government ministers and meeting devoted to the opening of social facilities across Russia: “And now Let’s see how the work on commissioning social facilities is going. This is and school buildings built from scratch and overhauled and hospitals, cultural institutions, as well as residential buildings and utilities. All this is necessary for people, our citizens, families with children in all regions of our big country.”
What I want to highlight for MoA readers is reported in the first link. Russia, thanks to the USSR before it, is seen as being environmentally irresponsible. Actually, it’s far more responsible than the Outlaw US Empire and EU, but the bad rap remains, and Russia is sensitive about it, with Putin having taken the lead on this issue back when he was PM. These are Putin’s words of introduction:
“Victoria Valerievna [Abramchenko] – I mentioned this at the previous event – This morning she told me that our environmental agenda – despite everything and in comparison even with other countries – is still actively developing and is one of the most important components of our joint work. Victoria Valerievna, there is such a topic as work on recyclables, on processed raw materials, and the processing of raw materials itself. How is the work on the creation of closed enterprises Cycle?”
Putin, many members of Russia’s government along with many Russians are aware of the toxic inheritance left by the USSR (one of Putin’s many goals is to combat the cancers that inheritance has caused, thus his focus on specialized oncological institutes spanning Russia’s regions), and also the need to move the political-economy to what’s known as a steady-state condition before the end of the century. So, yes, Russia is very big on “green” economic components, far more so IMO than any Western country where the Green Agenda is relentlessly promoted but nothing of substance is done (mandatory recycling being one very basic aspect). And to prove all that, here’s part of Victoria’s machine translated report (the English transcript omits this entire section):

V.Abramchenko:Dear Vladimir Vladimirovich!
Dear colleagues!
One of the sharpest environmental problems at present absolutely for all states continues to be a large amount of production and consumption waste. For example, every year in the oceans there is 10 million tons of plastic waste, and if nothing changes, then by 2050 the weight of plastic debris in the ocean will be more than the weight of all fish stocks. That is why, together with conscious consumption, reduction of waste generation is necessary to actively implement the principles of a circular economy.
Last year, we prepared such a federal project. This one the project was supported by Mikhail Vladimirovich [Mishustin] and included in the list of key initiatives for the socio-economic development of Russia until 2030. The task of this project is to create infrastructure and conditions for reuse use of waste. By 2030, the share of secondary resources used in construction should reach 40 percent, in agriculture – 50 percent, and in industry will exceed 30.
To achieve these goals, the first thing that was needed was To do so, to prepare a regulatory framework. All normative acts had already been adopted, including a basic law on secondary material resources. Based on its requirements, secondary resources are recyclable and from 2030 will be are forbidden to be buried.
Second. An eco-industrial park should appear in every federal district, including processing sites recyclables from different types of waste. For construction of eight such eco-industrial parks The government has provided for in the budget necessary funds in the amount of 9.4 billion rubles and another 909 million rubles allocated for their design. Heads of regions of Moscow, Leningrad, Nizhny Novgorod, Chelyabinsk, Novosibirsk regions, Stavropol, Krasnodar, Primorsky Krai has already selected land plots for construction.
Most the first and active region in the creation of the eco-industrial park was the Stavropol Territory. Now on these lands Surveys are being completed. We will start construction next year.
Each eco-industrial park will be linked to investment projects for the production of new products from recycled materials. We are extended measures of state support to industrial industrial parks to these facilities. An additional incentive to attract investors served to create at the expense of budgetary funds the entire engineering infrastructure. As a result, 25 companies have already signed an agreement on the establishment of 44 productions at the sites of eco-industrial parks.
For example, in the Moscow region it is planned to create a production facility for the disposal of organic waste, construction waste complex, glass and used tires. In the Leningrad Region, Stavropol and Krasnodar Territories – [for waste disposal] polymers and the creation of enterprises for the production of alternative fuels from waste. In the Nizhny Novgorod region, there will be a production of wood-polymer materials and materials for road construction. Production raw materials for new food packaging and heat-insulating building materials will be established in the Chelyabinsk region.
The third important block of the project is stimulation of the use of recyclables in the economy. We started with public procurement. From January 1 next years in public procurement, for example, paper products or paving slabs should be given priority to products containing recyclables. Appropriate the resolution has been signed.
For the government is preparing and industry-specific Program. Two such have already been approved. sectoral programs for industry and the construction complex, two more programs – for agriculture and the use of alternative fuels from waste – will be approved before the end of this year. [My Emphasis]

And there’s more to the report plus specifics on the project in the Stavropol Territory. This endeavor like almost every ongoing project in Russia is a collaboration between Russia’s government and its business sector. The report about the aviation sector follows the above report, so you get to discover what its director has done with 172 billion rubles in subsidies to support civilian aviation.
As I continue to document, these are the actions/aspects of Socialism with Russian Characteristics that differ little from China’s pathway. The aim of both is betterment of the people and thus the nation and is what the Outlaw US Empire and its vassals want to prevent and are willing to kill many thousands in the process as we’re seeing in Ukraine. So, yes, the above is yet another tile in the overall mosaic being made anew by the non-Western world.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 30 2022 23:54 utc | 43

@ Grieved | Nov 30 2022 23:30 utc | 41
thanks for articulating that grieved! my brian is mush, but you said what i intuited from the article..
@ Arioch | Nov 30 2022 23:40 utc | 42
it sounds bizarre to me! i think you are right -> “Talk about hoisting on own petards.” we’ve been seeing a lot of this from the eu lately..

Posted by: james | Nov 30 2022 23:57 utc | 45

@11 Nathan in WA US | Nov 30 2022 18:32 utc
I love gold and the sound it rings out when you flip a coin in the air – who couldn’t love a noble metal?
But here in the US, I see three drawbacks to holding it. One is that its exchange price is still being manipulated in markets that ordinary people do not control, and the value is being held down.
Two is that it’s difficult to transact in gold or even silver on a routine basis for daily needs. You pretty much have to trade the metal for the currency of the day in order to spend it efficiently. I don’t know how much of a gray or black economy we have in the US, or how much these will grow, but today at least, the metals don’t strike me as a handy medium of exchange. Store of value, yes – except see point One above.
And then third, the US government could confiscate precious metals held by citizens. No, they won’t find your stash buried in the garden, but when you need to convert it to cash currency (see point two above), they’ll get you.
~~
I would much rather buy something backed by gold for real – and I mean physical gold that you can take possession of and hold in your hand. I believe this is available in Shanghai through the exchange there, and it’s gold denominated in Yuan, I think – but now I go past the limits of my knowledge. Must study more.
Even better, however, I like the new currency being developed that Escobar writes about in his latest. A global card of solid “outside money” that reaches as close as Brazil – and maybe Mexico? – that’s enticing. And coming closer every day – timing, as always, will be everything.
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If I were you I would want to know how liquid I was, and not in terms of booze 😉 How quickly could you convert your wealth into currency, presumably USD, and what would you trade that currency for? How long would it take? What’s the distance between being trapped in a system you’re not happy with and getting into a system that seems safe? What’s the cost of doing this? Etc, etc…
And if you stay in the Dollar, do you own or could you hold an interest in a rental property? Yes, I know, rentier scum and such, but it’s the only game in town for homeowners in the US right now. That might be a way to remain in the game, denominated in USD, and still have a margin that at least floats up with inflation.
And is there a way to hedge your bets and defray some risk by plunging half of your wealth into one side of the fence, and the other half in the other? As they say in the entertainment biz, don’t give up your day job. At least, not until you know exactly the move you’re making.
I’m not asking you to supply any of this information, by the way, and I don’t want to know – just suggesting these are some of the things that it seems to me one should consider, and calculate closely.
But let us all know when you figure it out because many people will follow you through that window 🙂

Posted by: Grieved | Dec 1 2022 0:14 utc | 47

uncle tungsten | Nov 30 2022 22:52 utc | 34
National interest trumps our so called rule of law. When you look into the abyss, national interest looks back.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Dec 1 2022 0:21 utc | 49

Council of EU Greenlights Visa-Free Travel for Kosovo Passport Holders https://sputniknews.com/20221130/council-of-eu-greenlights-visa-free-travel-for-kosovo-passport-holders-1104887741.html
😆

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 1 2022 0:31 utc | 51

@50 karlof1 | Dec 1 2022 0:25 utc
Thanks for that very compelling response. If you get a chance and read my subsequent comment @47, I would welcome any further thoughts you may have, if any.

Posted by: Grieved | Dec 1 2022 0:42 utc | 53

To Posted by: SeanAU | Nov 29 2022 23:27 utc | 272, and above, on the last open forum (Not Ukraine) concerning plagiarism by Alistair Crooke: thanks so much for your careful response!
First, when I wrote my post to which you responded, it was late at night here (for me), so I hadn’t read further than your first accusation – I hadn’t read the long post where you put texts in parallel to make what I think is a well founded claim.
My own experience reading Crooke’s articles has been on the whole favorable mostly because I enjoy reading or hearing explanatory messages that clarify something I’ve had trouble understanding. It seemed to me that the ‘civilizations’ argument helped explain cultural and historical terminology, and that those were being looked at in a differend and interesting way. And with karlof’s assistance I understood more when going to the links in the article, in particular the Z final link – as karlof’s link to the earlier Russian essay about Z was very helpful in explaining the perceptions of the Russian people as all the stressful events of the SMO unfold.
So, I went to bed without going further, and I now apologize to you. I think your concern is merited on the Alistair Crooke essay, which concern you have substantiated. I am sorry I put my own fogginess and eagerness to learn before proper protocol; you have answered me well, and fairly. Thank you again.

Posted by: juliania | Dec 1 2022 0:48 utc | 55

Thanks to karlof1 and others for the links and discussion about the coming global finance neutron bomb
If/when a new money is created that has some definable conversion to things of value external like FOOD, energy, resource/precious metals and other resources, as well as internal like nations currencies. the establishment of the value linkage will force the US dollar to do the same or not be convertible and there will be an ugly phase where this is worked out temporarily and/or permanently.
What to do to prepare.
It depends on how long before the adults take over in the West.
Property is likely a long term good investment as long as you own it, can pay taxes on it and/or make payments to maintain “ownership”.
Holding industrial/precious metals has been covered mostly and says we will revert to some form of barter for some period before a new “money” is agreed to in all or parts of the West and connect with the RoW.
The God of Mammon cult is relying on propaganda to keep the masses focused on hating left/right and Non-God of Mammon others and how long that house of cards holds up will determine how long the “crazy” goes on….hopefully not long at all if the example is clear of what is going down.
and the typepad 503 errors return

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 1 2022 1:16 utc | 57

@55 juliania | Dec 1 2022 0:48 utc
Crooke has been writing this way for a long time, to a greater or lesser degree. I always assumed it’s because he expects his readers to follow and read the links he provides – which he always cites, if not in the immediate article then in a proximate one.
The value of Crooke to me is twofold. He himself elaborates his own themes over several pieces. More importantly to me, he takes the time to find and read essays that readers might not otherwise find – certainly I never would. Personally, I don’t call it plagiarism when you cite your source, and when you in fact pay homage to your source, as he frequently does.
He mashes it all in, and when he uses the exact terms and language of the source that he’s drawing from, I usually read it more carefully because these are the pieces that bear repeating, and I count it more a form of admiration than stealing. You have to have read his links to know this, but either way you get the best meaning, whether from Crooke or his source. That’s just me of course. For what it’s worth, he does exactly the same with ancient authors and concepts long past copyrighting.
Crooke is an analyst synthesizing what presents, into what it might mean. He comes up with his own words and meanings also, as well as simplifying, into today’s moment, themes that are deeper or less accessible. I appreciate this, because whatever he writes, I can usually count on there being something afoot – even when it’s not immediately clear in one article.
I personally find great value in Crooke’s writings, and I appreciate his introductions to the many other authors and concepts that I otherwise would not have known.
I just wanted to share that value with you – not to debate the matter especially, but just to honor the message, and the messenger who brings it.

Posted by: Grieved | Dec 1 2022 1:28 utc | 59

@ karlof1 | Nov 30 2022 18:34 utc | 12
Thankyou, as always.
As suspected, given China & Japan alone dumping $2Trillion+ in just last two month, we’re headed for a Wiemar Republic level of inflation & economic collapse & concurrent trade isolation. All them Trillions upon Trillions of USD$ are coming home to roost, all alongside more than a centuries worth of associated & accumulated from RoW, even vassals, ‘Blowback’. A hard rain is gonna fall …

Posted by: Outraged | Dec 1 2022 1:49 utc | 61

Thank you, Grieved | Dec 1 2022 1:28 utc | 59. That is very helpful, and I would agree with everything you have said. I appeared to have offended SeanAU, and not having answered until today, I attempted to set things right with him.
I will continue to appreciate Alistair Crooke’s writing and follow karlof1’s links for the reasons I put forward. They still stand, and I appreciate greatly all efforts here to bring essays to our attention, as well as the links they contain. I hope I haven’t insulted anyone; that was not my intention, originally or in my last post. We all can’t read everything, so I very much appreciate what good writers do, as also the good readers we have here. If I’ve made matters worse in seeing how an objection clarified made sense after I had not read that clarification, I’ll apologize for that as well. The important thing is the search for truth, and all of you have my respect for making that possible.

Posted by: juliania | Dec 1 2022 2:02 utc | 63

@ pretzelattack | Nov 30 2022 19:01 utc | 16
Ah no, NOT guns, Ammunition! Any and all kinds …
All the guns are just junk metal, without the right caliber & type of ammunition, let alone any ammo at all. Same for hand-loading equipment, powder & primers to re-use cases … as a form of ‘currency’.
The State will seize & control all available sources of ammunition first & foremost. Then available weapons stocks/production.
Gun owners, 1/3 or more of population, will trade handsomely for ammo …
PS: No, am not a gun-nut, survivalist, etc. Simply rational logical forethought & extrapolation.
@ Antonym | Dec 1 2022 2:08 utc | 64
CPC. Human, bot.

Posted by: Outraged | Dec 1 2022 2:18 utc | 65

Those look pretty good.
When I was a child, we used to make an event of baking pumpkin pies and apple pies around Thanksgiving time (pretty good too).
Happy Yule Tide.

Posted by: Josh | Dec 1 2022 2:37 utc | 67

@ uncle tungsten | Nov 30 2022 22:52 utc | 34
Post hard drive destruction Guardian nominee was added to MI5 Security Committee to oversight media control & secret ‘D’ notice issuance(IIRC). Totally suborned ever since, profound fundamental shift of Guardian content globally inline with Empire propaganda narrative …
@ Peter Kurten | Dec 1 2022 2:48 utc | 68
Why would China ever Militarily ‘invade’ Taiwan when they’ve already demonstrated they can at a moments notice ‘quarantine’ & ’embargo’ the entire island indefinitely until the Taiwanese ‘wake-up’ from their subornation to Empire going back 72 years ? Threat of ‘Invasion’ is a long running Empire propaganda trope IMHO.

Posted by: Outraged | Dec 1 2022 2:57 utc | 69

@ Theodore Roosevelt | Dec 1 2022 3:00 utc | 70
sharks in newport beach… i agree it is all overpriced, but we enjoyed it quite a bit..

Posted by: james | Dec 1 2022 3:05 utc | 71

Britain on Tuesday summoned the Chinese ambassador in London for a rebuke after the arrest and alleged assault of a BBC journalist covering Covid protests
Detention of BBC journalist in China was “shocking and unacceptable” – UK PM Sunak spokesman
Sunak called China a threat to the world, US in particular.
Rishi Sunak has said the so-called “golden era” of relations with China is over, as he vowed to “evolve” the UK’s stance towards the country.

LIke how ?
Do those limeys figure they can still send their gunboats up the Yangzhi to teach them chinaman who’r the boss here… just like the good ole days ?

Posted by: denk | Dec 1 2022 4:00 utc | 73

It just came to me how to describe the neutron part of the “bomb” that a value-based monetary system would represent.
A speculation of what a breadbasket approach to underpin money might look like would include things which I mention in my previous comment:
FOOD ( to big to fit in small box)
energy,
resource/precious metals and
other resources,
as well as nations currencies
The point I want to make here is that when the alternative is available with the value based support described above, what is the West going to put forward to back the US Dollar at the same level of value support?…..that doesn’t come out of the end of a gun!
POTENTIAL BIG BOOM INCOMING!

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 1 2022 4:10 utc | 75

Re Zoltan
Thank you all. I guess its good that someone at Credit Suisse has awoken to the fact that a new world order is emerging based on reality and absent the substantial foam topped puffery of the west.
I trust his employer is ethical and takes his thoughts as meaningful and changes its ways rather than dispose of this messenger. Certainly if the likes of Credit Suisse are to remain in business beyond ten more years, they will need to heed the foundations of resource AND labor based wealth creation.
BOTH are the essence of sustainable economy.
It remains that his thoughts are second hand and the inventors of this new world have written and delivered public treatises well before this dude gets his name in print behind a paywall.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Dec 1 2022 5:06 utc | 77

denk #73

Do those limeys figure they can still send their gunboats up the Yangzhi to teach them chinaman who’r the boss here… just like the good ole days ?

It is possible that they are more confident now they have their stooge Mahatir as president of Malaysia.
Perhaps they think an english warship strutting about in the Strait of Malacca and Strait of Singapore will frighten the China dragon into submission.
There is very little wriggle room and, going by USA destroyer idiocy in freight lanes, there is every chance of collision or even some punitive lessons from the dragon king.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Dec 1 2022 5:19 utc | 79

On the subject of increasing totalitarianism in the west, this is what’s going down in Ontario Canada this past night – Bill 100.
It remains to be seen how the authorities will interpret this and whether our weekly freedom rallies in my town will now be considered illegal.
Guess we will soon find out.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoRvEbaOgyI

Posted by: simon crow | Dec 1 2022 5:31 utc | 81

Xinhuanet has a posting with the title
Uncertain times call for steady China-EU ties
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From January to October, bilateral trade reached 711.3 billion U.S. dollars, a year-on-year increase of 6.3 percent. In the first eight months, the EU’s FDI inflow into China jumped an astonishing 123.7 percent year-on-year, data from China’s Ministry of Commerce showed.

Just how is the West going to cut ties with China? Data says the connections are increasing.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Dec 1 2022 5:52 utc | 83

Trudeau is a genuine WEF turd
“Everyone in China should be allowed to protest. We will continue to ensure that China knows we will stand for human rights and with people who are expressing themselves.”
https://twitter.com/OzraeliAvi/status/1597682051150675968
https://twitter.com/WallStreetSilv/status/1597762336164843521

Posted by: Tom_12 | Dec 1 2022 6:58 utc | 85

littlereddot #86
Thank you for the correction, I did indeed mean Anwar Ibrahim.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Dec 1 2022 7:55 utc | 87

So this happened. …

Quote Tweet
Mélanie Joly @melaniejoly · 13h
Canada government official
Grand corruption is a threat to democracy and security.
Today, the Netherlands, Ecuador, and Canada hosted a high-level roundtable on anti-corruption in The Hague.
Thank you for your leadership @WBHoekstra & @juancaholguin. We stand united in the fight again corruption.

‘parently, Ukraine was either not mentioned or not invited!

Posted by: Laurence | Dec 1 2022 8:07 utc | 89

Caitlin Johnstone nails the Guardian’s phony about face on Assange.
https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/11/30/the-guardian-could-help-assange-by-retracting-all-the-lies-it-published-about-him/
Posted by: pretzelattack | Nov 30 2022 16:10 utc | 2
I think we can be guaranteed that isn’t going to happen.
A mealy mouthed (approved) acknowledgement of mistakes made at very most.
Then back to the narrative.

Posted by: jpc | Dec 1 2022 8:22 utc | 91

Laurence @ 89
With the meeting chaired by Canada, Ecuador and the Netherlands, it’s more likely the selectively-chosen corruption was about drug running than Ukraine (although maybe that’s saying the same thing – a hub of corruption like Ukraine must be prominent in the drug trade?) A European super-cartel for cocaine distribution was just taken down by Europol.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63781424
I worry most about what Canada is up to in Romania.
https://twitter.com/NikosDendias/status/1597616190217629696
I think the concern over reports of Canada’s proposed activities to contain or whatever China are not worrisome, no country on the planet requires a superpower not on its borders more than Canada. I don’t think Canada would ever authentically try to dismantle China as a superpower, only a China-US based one (which would be on its borders, at Russia’s direction, geography reigning supreme over ideology in this assumption of mine.)
https://www.nytimes.com/1973/10/07/archives/trudeau-to-go-to-china-to-better-special-ties-expected-to-see-mao.html

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Dec 1 2022 8:49 utc | 93

Iran-China-Russia new triangular in multilateral diplomacy: Russian envoy
A senior Russian diplomat says his “productive” talks with his Iranian and Chinese counterparts on issues of common interest are indicative of the emergence of a new triangular in multilateral diplomacy.
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Under that strategy, Iran has tried to adopt an East-oriented economic policy, expanding its ties with neighboring and other Asian countries and striving to become self-sufficient in key domains.
Iran and China signed a landmark 25-year comprehensive strategic partnership agreement in March last year in defiance of the US’s unilateral sanctions.
The deal officially documents the Sino-Iranian Comprehensive Strategic Partnership that had been announced during a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Tehran in 2016. It sets the outlines of the two countries’ cooperation in political, cultural, security, defense, regional, and international domains for the next 25 years.
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Iran and Russia are also eyeing a twenty-year strategic partnership treaty that would lay out the roadmap for future expansion of ties at all levels, from politics to economy and security.

Things that make you go, hmmm …

Posted by: Outraged | Dec 1 2022 9:51 utc | 95

01.12.2022
Lavrov: Russia and the West will not restore former relations

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that there will be no former relations between Russia and the West. In his opinion, it will not be possible to restore cooperation on security issues in Europe in the foreseeable future. He added that the discussion of this problem is possible only on “fundamentally new principles.”
“It is only clear that if and when, at some point in time, our Western neighbors, and there is no escape from the neighborhood, our Western neighbors and former partners suddenly become interested in somehow restoring joint work on European security, then restoring will not work. Because restoration means what was before. But there will be no business as usual,” Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference.
Mr. Lavrov is holding a press conference against the backdrop of the start of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the OSCE participating States in Lodz, Poland.
kommersant

Posted by: SeanAU | Dec 1 2022 10:09 utc | 97

Thanks for the link.
Seems like he chickened out and did not attend in person.
You´re right – he is a self-centered, greedy scumbag.

Posted by: Goingo | Dec 1 2022 10:40 utc | 99