apologies if this is a dupe, but I do not have the time to check every thread at MoA every day so I checked ou this thread and saw that thus far there has been no comment on something which is both mundane, to be expected in 2023 AND horrifying. I refer to this whitehouse announcement published in Forbes Biden Nominates New World Bank Chief After David Malpass Steps Down

” President Joe Biden nominated former Mastercard President and CEO Ajay Banga to direct the World Bank Thursday morning, one week after the international financial organization’s current leader stepped down amid heavy criticism from climate advocates.
The Biden administration announced its nomination of Banga, who currently serves as the vice chairman of U.S. private equity firm General Atlantic, in a statement Thursday, lauding Banga as a “global leader in technology, data, financial services and innovation for inclusion.””

Now just to refresh a few brains let’s jump back to 2019 when this story surfaced for far from the first time Hunter Biden was paid consultant at age 21 to large credit card co. while dad helped credit card industry with legislation
Read it yerself but the impetus of the story reminds everyone that sleepy Joe Biden, when occupying the senate, was known as ‘The Senator for MBNA’.
Hands up who thinks that this typically greedy Biden move will have the global South running to sign up to China’s Belt & Road initiative, this whitehouse move is absolute madness considering that the last WB boss had already drummed up a lot of business for China with his unrealistic demands that states in need of a world bank loan are going to be required to privatise state assets & crush trade unions, now they are gonna whack in a bloke who reckons nothing stops a loan and its interest meter – not war, massive illness or natural disaster killing off the population makes an iota of difference to any terms.
Line that up against China’s development which guarantees massive infrastructure construction, not a money ‘loan’ where that money disappears too quickly into some greedy slug’s pocket and which always costs tho never ends.
Yet only a moron could possibly have doubted what sort of nominee (iirc the amerikan gov always picks world bank, other G7 nations IMF boss) the World Bank was gonna get.
Most of these fuckfaces must be aware that the vast majority of the rest of the world is simply holding their nose, knowing that all of this is gonna change as the rotten edifice is about to collapse, the fuckfaces imagining that is a fantasy because ‘getting our own way’ has always worked before. They are like old generals always fighting this war like the last war which they won, what they fail to realise is that amerika has only won these fights since 1945 and between 1945 and 1990 they won a little over half of them, they have only “won them all” one way or another, by hook or by crook, since 1990 and it has been what happened since 1990 that is the aberration about to be corrected.

Posted by: Debsisdead | Feb 25 2023 6:25 utc | 104

Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 25 2023 6:45 utc | 106
Well he was a former employee of the current president. What were you expecting?

Posted by: Traveller | Feb 25 2023 11:03 utc | 106

I mean, it’s mathematical, negative birth rates mean no future.
Posted by: john | Feb 25 2023 11:57 utc | 108

Almost every country in the world has a birth rate below the replacement rate. If populations in some countries increase, it is due to people living longer and immigration.
As for “no future” it would take centuries to “mathematically” reverse the world population growth from 2 billion to 8 billion that happened in my lifetime.
The debt Ponzi will be the first casualty.

Posted by: Opport Knocks | Feb 25 2023 12:39 utc | 108

Opport Knocks | Feb 25 2023 12:39 utc | 109
Almost every country in the world has a birth rate below the replacement rate
The total fertility rate in the world is projected to achieve zero growth sometime in the second half of this century. I’m not particularly concerned about this, certainly not hysterical. I’m mostly interested in the more evolutionary ramifications. As in hopefully with a view to improving them.
The debt Ponzi will be the first casualty
Yeah, ironic that ‘prosperity’ is one of the leading factors in declining birth rates.

Posted by: john | Feb 25 2023 14:14 utc | 110

@ jinn
@ John
There is this from Rome, from within the state system, a call to reassess benefit/risk of injecting people with lnp coding for known toxin. See below.
If Italy has public health care, then this reassessment by the state follows logically, mild though it may be. In USA where health care provision and health insurance are both privatized and where those private interests govern via regulatory capture etc, causing iatrogenic harm is viewed as GDP growth. Here rigorously maintained echo chamber of interested narratives and biased/curated science data does not create state incentive to reassess. On the contrary, the more people end up on meds, possibly for life, to treat the iatrogenic and failed non-medical public policy outcomes, the more those same interests benefit $$$.
Although I am happy to report that the representative from here, a MD, here has called for such an assessment t
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“Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines in Patients with Autoimmune Diseases, in Patients with Cardiac Issues, and in the Healthy Population”
National Center for Drug Research and Evaluation, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, 00199 Rome, Italy
Pathogens 2023, 12(2), 233
Published: 2 February 2023
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“We debate here the safety aspect, with a final section on the discussion of the mechanisms of escape of mutant viruses, and the ADE phenomenon (antibody-dependent enhancement, see below), which is an additional unwanted side effect of these vaccines. The latter effect, as well as the variability of the virus, which impairs the durability of the protection of COVID-19 vaccines from death or severe disease, is also the object of the present review.”
Abstract
Introduction
2. Safety of COVID-19 Vaccines in People with Autoimmunity and Healthy People
2.1. COVID-19 Vaccination among At-Risk Individuals Such as Patients with Autoimmunity
2.2. Risk of Myo/Pericarditis in COVID-19 Infections and COVID-19 Vaccines
Table 1. Frequency of myo/pericarditis and/or other cardiac events after COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines.
3. COVID-19 Vaccines Safety in Autoimmune Patients and Patients with a History of Myocarditis
4. Possible Mechanisms of COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine-Induced Tissue/Organ Damage and Virus Immune Evasion Strategies
4.1. Spreading and Persistence of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein in the Body
4.2. Pathogenic Role of the Spike Protein of SARS-CoV-2
4.3. Mechanism of Immune-Evasion of Mutating Viruses and Vaccines
4.4. Autoimmunity after COVID-19 Administration
5. Conclusions
Funding
This study received no external funding.
Conflicts of Interest
The authors declare no conflict of interest. The opinions expressed in this work do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the institution of the authors.

Posted by: suzan | Feb 25 2023 18:28 utc | 112

Posted by: john | Feb 25 2023 11:57 utc | 108
“I mean, it’s mathematical, negative birth rates mean no future.”
Well, wildlife certainly can use a break…

Posted by: nathan in WA US | Feb 25 2023 23:15 utc | 114

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Feb 24 2023 16:57 utc | 87
Thanks, Bruised Northerner. I’ve for years brought tubs of veggies inside for the winter. I don’t have a greenhouse, but my sunroom facing south has adequate windows in wintertime. I don’t grow and have never grown lettuce. Dwarf kale and chard are more nutritious and the plants last much longer than lettuce does- you simply remove the larger leaves on the outside as the plant keeps growing,and in the cool weather they don’t bolt.
I also bring in tomato plants – the best this year have been black krim. They are in quite small plastic pots, with usually a deep saucer of earth for the roots to go to if they are getting cramped. In general the fruit is not large; the black krim though have delicious flavor even so. I will only do that variety next year inside, though I have some moskvas reaching the ceiling – not fruiting though as yet.
My canary loves all the foliage, and it keeps the air fresh also. I even brought in a very sad looking red petunia – it has done much better, loaded with blooms now, than it did outside. Very cheering!
Plants really follow the ‘be fruitful and multiply’, so there’s no excuse not to be a seed saver! (I stay away from hybrids.) I like jinn’s thought that covid has backfired on Big Pharma. It has also worked out that way for ‘genetically modified seeds’ in the end. That was another costly horror we had to live through.

Posted by: juliania | Feb 26 2023 1:14 utc | 116

@ jinn re ivermectin studies
Here is a pharmacologist’s view of the situation in Australia. He provided the link to the meta analysis below.

“…the published available data [on ivermectin] comprises more than 90 clinical trials and more than 100,000 patients worldwide.  Ivermectin has been shown to prevent COVID-19 and to be effective in treating mild to severe symptoms of the infection and preventing hospitalisation and death.  In national treatment programmes countries such as India, Mexico and Peru have demonstrated, without any doubt, that ivermectin can be used safely and effectively thus saving many lives.
The only problem with ivermectin was that it was inexpensive and widely available.  In order to overcome vaccine hesitancy of people properly suspicious of experimental gene-based so-called COVID-19 “vaccines”, it was necessary for the heavy hand of government to deny the availability of ivermectin.  The Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) have publicly admitted this was a primary reason for banning ivermectin prescribing for COVID-19…”

(from Philip Altman’s substack: OPEN LETTER TO THE TGA REGARDING IVERMECTIN)
“Ivermectin for COVID-19: real-time meta analysis of 95 studies”
Feb 23, 2023,
https://c19ivm.org/meta.html

Posted by: suzan | Feb 26 2023 2:32 utc | 118

@118 psychohistorian | Feb 26 2023 1:39 utc
Thanks for that. We have all these good people in our bookmarks but it takes a village to let us know when one of them has just published something big. This is how the MoA comment thread is priceless.
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Returning the favor, I hope – Dr. Richard Werner is talking with Kim Iversen. She’s actually been on a terrific roll lately, I hadn’t checked in for weeks but she’s interviewed everyone about everything important.
Werner here explains what the central banks of the world did during the early months of 2020, launching policies that were guaranteed to cause inflation. We generally knew this, but Werner explains specifically how:
The Pandemic Was Used By Central Banks To Usher In TOTAL CONTROL | w/ Richard Werner
As to WHY? He says it’s always for more control, and in this case the central banks are working backwards to create their digital currencies – a clear agenda item for them – by first having to create the digital ID in order to tie the money to it.
I’ve only just started watching the interview so I can’t offer any more than that teaser. Some may find this worth pursuing.
As those will know who read/watched his Princes of the Yen documentary on how the central bank of Japan strong-armed the national Finance Ministry into compliance by deliberately creating the crisis that gave it the leverage to do so, Werner is the expert on how central banks manipulate political climates and policy decisions through their operations. He was there at the time and advised various things, and watched other things happen, to the detriment of the Japanese polity, people and wealth.
I regard Werner highly, and think he’s always worth listening to. So that’s what I’ll go back to…

Posted by: Grieved | Feb 26 2023 2:40 utc | 120

ZH has a posting up that barflys might be interested in…the title is
Erin Brockovich Says There’s No “Quick Fix” For Ohio Train Derailment

Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 26 2023 5:07 utc | 122

Below is the Xinhuanet posting about the G20 finance minister meeting in which there is no hint of the pressure on China to condemn Russian “aggression”….grin

NEW DELHI, Feb. 25 (Xinhua) — The G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors on Saturday reiterated their commitment to enhancing international policy cooperation and steering the global economy towards securing strong, sustainable, balanced and inclusive growth.
They also stressed on the need for well-calibrated monetary, fiscal, financial, and structural policies to promote growth and maintain macroeconomic as well as financial stability globally.
Besides, they recognized the urgency to address debt vulnerabilities in low and middle-income countries, and declared that strengthening multilateral coordination by official bilateral and private creditors was needed.
At the conclusion of the two-day meeting in India’s southern city of Bengaluru, the “G20 Chair’s Summary and Outcome Document” stated that the global economic outlook had modestly improved since their last meeting in October 2022.
“However, global growth remains slow, and downside risks to the outlook persist, including elevated inflation, a resurgence of the pandemic and tighter financing conditions that could worsen debt vulnerabilities in many Emerging Market and Developing Economies (EMDEs),” said the document.
“We will continue to enhance macro policy cooperation and support the progress towards the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. We will use macroprudential policies, where required, to safeguard against downside risks. We will prioritize temporary and targeted fiscal support to vulnerable groups while maintaining medium-term fiscal sustainability,” it said.
Central banks remain strongly committed to achieving price stability and will ensure inflation expectations remain well-anchored, the document said.
The ministers and governors look forward to the mapping exercises on food insecurity currently being undertaken by the Food and Agriculture Organization and the World Bank, it added.
The officials said that while maintaining their focus on poverty reduction and all other Sustainable Development Goals, they will work to strengthen the key role of Multilateral Development Banks in development financing.

Its stormy in the schoolyard these days with bullies stalking around saying aggressive things but not getting their way.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 26 2023 6:39 utc | 124

Further to 126, 117, 87
[Soap box] These problems come from allowing non-Indigenous settlers to determine land use policies. It would seem that UNDRIP should be somewhat of a remedy to that?

Posted by: Bruised Northerner | Feb 26 2023 12:54 utc | 126

This 2015 report details systemic train derailments: https://abc7chicago.com/galena-derailment-train-delrailment-illinois-crash/547138/

Posted by: UnionHorse | Feb 26 2023 14:02 utc | 128

Posted by: james | Feb 24 2023 23:02 utc | 92

thanks ken! i am not sure how far down the rabbit hole i want to go, but thank you regardless…

james I hope you don’t mind, but I’m practicing here a bit to better communicate using the tools at hand, but I will say this about Ms. Margaret Anna Alice, and yes I am a “founding member” of her place, so ought be evident I’m biased, but I will say this.
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I found her place when I was looking for somewhere, somebody, anybody speaking to what I sensed, and she not only did that, but she had wisdom to share. I found her assessment of things accurate, and it didn’t take me long to figure out that I wanted to support her, and so I did. Financially – as a founding member of her efforts.
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Nothing is forever in that regard, but if you go down that rabbit hole it is one where much info is freely shared, and truly if we get better at sharing with each other honestly, then good times beckon. Not only that, but she is fine with the written word, and she backs up her sentiment with rock solid evidence – which typically in the rabbit hole, rock solid evidence is hard to come by because the level of flux is so high, and the trickery down there the deception (let me just say – rabbits can be tricky) – if you don’t keep your wits about you, if you have no principle, you will soon be subsumed and will perish….and I’m talking now about “rabbit holes” in general and not Margarat Anna Alices place. She is a beacon of truth, but understanding truth (as best it can be known) takes an open mind, and an open mind only happens internally initially….and not much can be done to train or teach or preach to anybody about that – especially when you are already deep in the hole. Once you are there it is survival of the best talkers who keep their wits about them even if they can’t help but wonder – how did I get here in the first place? You know….ha, ha….not funny but true based on personal experience.
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So, the point of this post is what?
Well, I wanted to practice using “blockquotes” to get that small text, and I wanted to share some thoughts about rabbit holes, and not all rabbit holes are scary places, but if you ever been down there deep down, let me tell you, like on Monty Python when they were hunting the grail – sometimes a rabbit can be really mean – I mean like killer mean sort of rabbit – blow your mind a way in a heartbeat….and then when you wake up, if you do, you must wonder – was it all just a dream?
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Peace is easy,
BK
* typos will not be corrected – because no way to do that here on this old platform, and maybe there is wisdsom in that….still, you want a good summary of the whole “Covid” virus of fear as I consider it and have considered it as such from the get-go, then no place better have I found than the link above.

Posted by: Buffalo_Ken | Feb 27 2023 0:29 utc | 130