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The MoA Week In Review – OT 2024-060
Last week's post on Moon of Alabama:
Ukraine:
Middle East:
Election:
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Other issues:
Nordstream:
Syria:
Russia:
Health:
Boeing:
> Sir Tim Clark told the Financial Times he had seen a “progressive decline” in Boeing’s standards, which he put down to long-running management and governance mis-steps, including prioritising financial performance over engineering excellence. <
Use as open (not Ukraine or Palestine related) thread …
In a nutshell.
This synopsis is only talking about the last 100 years or so but the basic concept is much older than that. Clearly other things have been going on too but this has always been the why and the what for.
For the last 100+ years but mostly after WWII the US and its allies, usually referred to as “The West” have been dominating the global extraction, production, and consumption of the worlds finite natural resources. This process, commonly referred to as the “resource curse” is well known. What is much less well known is the other side of this operation which is called “demand destruction” You see it was never enough to just take the resources, it is equally or more important to make sure other countries, whether they have resources or not, do not grow their economies using those resources whereby driving up the price and accelerating the depletion of those finite resources.
I won’t go into the details of all the myriad ways in which the west/US has accomplished this other than to say they have used every dirty trick in the book economically, financially, politically, militarily, covertly, and more all of which has the net effect of tens of millions dead, hundreds of millions wounded/disabled, and billions living lives of hopeless suffering.
The west, mostly the US, has succeeded in securing for themselves the lions share of what the world has to offer and enslaved a large part of the global population to produce much of what the west consumes.
Well this paradigm is ending. The global majority has tried to resist the west several times throughout history but have always been violently slapped down and set back decades in the process. This time the non-western global majority are better organized and have the backing and support of Russia and China who individually could most likely beat the west and together along with Iran, North Korea, and dozens of other smaller but determined countries could absolutely destroy the US and the west.
So far none of this is going to be easy for Americans or Europeans to swallow however none of it can be denied either. With reference to Overton I believe that the window has been cracked open and is being nudged further open every day.
This new paradigm is a done deal, nothing can stop it now…well except for several big mushroom clouds.
As heinous as it has been the thing is the west had to do it this way. I am not condoning it in any way but lets do a quick thought experiment that may help put things in perspective.
Lets say that things went differently after WWII. All of the legacy colonialist pulled out of their respective colonies. France, Italy, Spain, THE US, fully out of Asia, Indonesia, Africa, Middle East, Latin America, all of it. They allowed all of these regions to develop their economies, industries, extraction and value added production, trade amongst themselves, oh they would still be happy to trade with the west but only for the fair market price and only if the west has something they want. They would not allow western capital to buy their way into their economies and syphon off most of revenues and pay no taxes aka, Globalism.
A couple of things would have happened by now. First the US economy would not be half of what it is today nor would the other western nations. Next with 5 times the number of consumers as the west the worlds finite resources would all be well past peak and hitting a wall, there would certainly be nothing left for them to export. Also the environment would be a steaming pile of toxic shit (even more than it already is) and the CO2 would be twice what it is now triggering a couple dozen positive feedback mechanisms sending the planet into hot house earth at +10c where just about everything dies.
One of my favorite things to contemplate in this scenario is the FACT that we would have hundreds of thousands of absolutely brilliant people of every race and gender possibly free to develop a more positive and equatable future for mankind. I am certain that they could have done much better than the handful of conniving asswipes that have directed humanity to where we are now.
So here we are now at the brink of a new world paradigm where 5 or 6 billion people are free and motivated to make up for the last … forever and start building … everything! Ports, rail, factories, roads, bridges, electric power plants, cars, air-conditioners, and more, more than 3 or 4 times what we already have built.
Anyone really think that can happen?
Posted by: jef | Feb 25 2024 15:27 utc | 13
@Posted by: Exile | Feb 25 2024 20:25 utc | 23
It’s my understanding that net Mexican immigration (both legal and not) has been a tiny bit negative since 2007-08.
From a recent Pew Research Report:
Here are key findings about how the [approx. 4.5 million] U.S. unauthorized immigrant population changed from 2017 to 2021:
The most common country of birth for unauthorized immigrants is Mexico. However, the population of unauthorized immigrants from Mexico dropped by 900,000 from 2017 to 2021, to 4.1 million.
There were increases in unauthorized immigrants from nearly every other region of the world – Central America, the Caribbean, South America, Asia, Europe and sub-Saharan Africa.
Among U.S. states, only Florida and Washington saw increases to their unauthorized immigrant populations, while California and Nevada saw decreases. In all other states, unauthorized immigrant populations were unchanged.
4.6% of U.S. workers in 2021 were unauthorized immigrants, virtually identical to the share in 2017.
So the flow of illegals is equalling those illegals who become legal or leave, and the Mexican share is radically down.
Meanwhile, the lawful immigrant population grew by more than 8 million, a 29% increase, and the number of naturalized U.S. citizens grew by 49%. In 2021, naturalized citizens accounted for about half (49%) of all immigrants in the country.
i.e. lawful immigration (and also permanent residents) are a much larger factor than illegals. Nearly a million legal immigrants were allowed in in 2022.
The decrease in unauthorized immigrants from Mexico reflects several factors:
– A broader decline in migration from Mexico to the U.S.
– Mexican immigrants to the U.S. continuing to return to Mexico
– Expanded opportunities for lawful immigration from Mexico and other countries, especially for temporary agricultural workers.
After Mexico, the countries of origin with the largest unauthorized immigrant populations in the U.S. in 2021 were:
– El Salvador (800,000)
– India (725,000)
– Guatemala (700,000)
– Honduras (525,000)
The Northern Triangle
Three Central American countries – El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala – together represented 2.0 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. in 2021, or almost 20% of the total. The unauthorized immigrant population from the Northern Triangle grew by about 250,000 from 2017 and about 700,000 from 2007.
Other origin countries
Venezuela was the country of birth for 190,000 U.S. unauthorized immigrants in 2021. This population saw particularly fast growth, from 130,000 in 2017 and 55,000 in 2007.
Among countries with the largest numbers of U.S. unauthorized immigrants, India, Brazil, Canada and former Soviet Union countries all experienced growth from 2017 to 2021.
Some origin countries with significant unauthorized immigrant populations showed no change, notably China (375,000) and the Dominican Republic (230,000).
The six states with the largest unauthorized immigrant populations in 2021 were:
– California (1.9 million)
– Texas (1.6 million)
– Florida (900,000)
– New York (600,000)
– New Jersey (450,000)
– Illinois (400,000)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/11/16/what-we-know-about-unauthorized-immigrants-living-in-the-us/
Posted by: Roger | Feb 25 2024 22:17 utc | 26
Since no one asked …, Navalny beat Magitsky’s record for Legislated Outrage in the US Congress.
Genocide Joe’s sanctimonious
Remarks at the National Governors Association Winter Meeting
official | broadcast A/V, run time 19:09
BIDEN [@ 03:46-04:29]: …Failure to support Ukraine in this critical moment will never be forgotten in history. It will be measured and will have impact for decades to come. I want to thank all you governors here for—and I heard you if you agree with me as many of you do—to urge your congressional representatives to force this bill to be brought up. American can hav—to prove American can be relied on. America stands up for freedom. We never bother anyone particularly Putin. Look, folks, now another important work we’re doing—I want to thank you all for delivering historic results for the American people. We’ve been incredible partners….
official Statement Ahead of the Two-Year Anniversary of Russia’s Brutal Assault Against Ukraine
… These sanctions will target individuals connected to Navalny’s imprisonment as well as Russia’s financial sector, defense industrial base, procurement networks, and sanctions evaders across multiple continents….
official Treasury.gov notice, On Second Anniversary of Russia’s Further Invasion of Ukraine and Following the Death of Aleksey Navalny, Treasury Sanctions Hundreds of Targets in Russia and Globally
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In addition to individuals and eNTiTies located in Russia, OFAC [the US Office of Foreign Asset Control] continues to target persons outside of Russia who facilitate, orchestrate, engage in, and otherwise support the transfer of critical technology and equipment to Russia’s military-industrial base. OFAC also will continue to impose sanctions on persons, wherever located, that allow Russia to reconnect to global financial markets using illicit channels. Targeting third-country facilitators is also a focus of our international partners, who also continue to sanction persons outside of Russia whose actions enable Russia to maintain, sustain, and rebuild its war machine. Our international coalition is sending a clear message to would-be evaders and circumventers [sic] that such actions have and will continue to have consequences.
Today’s OFAC targets are located across the world and include third-country exporters and transhippers of technology, equipment, and parts to Russia, a freight forwarder involved in weapons shipments to Russia, and a transnational money laundering network facilitating the illicit movement of Russian-origin precious metals. In all, OFAC today targeted 26 third-country eNTiTies and individuals in 11 countries, including the People’s Republic of China, Serbia, the United Arab Emirates, and Liechtenstein.
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and the G7 Leaders’ Statement (24.02.24) to which Biden referred the US governors—a litany of organized crimes under color of law
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We will continue to apply significant pressure [sic] on Russian revenues from energy and other commodities. We will continue to take steps to tighten [sic] compliance and enforcement of the oil price cap.
[…]
We will continue to impede [sic] Russia’s development of future energy projects and disrupt its development of alternatives for energy shipping and other services. We will continue efforts to reduce Russia’s revenues from metals.
We will continue to take action against third-country actors who materially support Russia’s war including by imposing additional measures on eNtiTIes, where appropriate, in third countries. We call on financial institutions to refrain from supporting Russia’s war machine and we will take appropriate steps, consistent with our legal systems, to deter this behaviour [UK-Eng. ALERT].
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We welcome the adoption of the EU legal acts concerning extraordinary revenues of central securities depositories gained from Russia’s immobilised [sic] sovereign assets and encourage further steps to enable their use, consistent with applicable contractual obligations and in accordance with applicable laws. We ask our ministers [UK-Eng. ALERT] to continue their work and update ahead of the [G7 Italia] Apulia Summit [13-15 June 2024] on all possible avenues by which immobilized Russian sovereign assets could be made use of to support Ukraine, consistent with our respective legal systems and international law.
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reference US criminal code
racketeering, restraint of trade, color of law, deprivation of rights under color of law
Posted by: sln2002 | Feb 25 2024 23:02 utc | 32
@ Posted by: NemesisCalling | Feb 26 2024 0:57 utc | 46
Your failure to understand is understandable but it’s because you don’t want to understand because that scares you or you are a narrative manager to keep that misunderstanding going.
“Only poor people pay taxes” said who?
What EchoChamber is giddy about is that the truth about what Money is can no longer be concealed and misrepresented to the masses.
‘Err … they scratch their head ….how is it possible to have a debt bigger than all the money? ‘
Because poor deluded fools debt IS money.
Bankers are villains.
‘But …but ..taxes! My money that I MADE ‘
No fools ! YOU don’t MAKE it, you EARN it as wages or profits. Taxes just makes your money worth something instead of just being some kind of Monopoly game money .
That is the TL;DR version for these who can’t get their heads around the fact that everything they believe about the nature of Money is a lie.
That some fairytales are actually the truth.
Read on Nemesis and others – if you dare – beware the truth may make you insaner!
Or it will set you and the world free finally.
Ready? Let’s go for a stroll down the yellow bricked road !
It is the truth that taxation by collection of these taxes , in the currency of the state demanding taxes is the ONLY thing that gives that currency ANY value.
It has always been so since Taxes were collected in currency instead of as ‘tribute’ of actual THINGS and LABOUR . Which are actual representation of Wealth.
Like when farmers had to supply a certain amount of what they grew to the local taxman.
Or they had to go and fight a war somewhere their masters wanted.
The proof of this is – if you still don’t believe it – try and go down to your tax office and pay them in the stuff you grow, or furniture you make , or with your labour or some thing you own. What would happen?
It used to be possible long long time ago , and sophisticated even, the tax office would require that you even store the items safely until they sent someone for it ! Through keeping a tally.
Just think it through step by step.
What everyone considers to be the fruit of their labour as them ‘making money’ is a lie.
Most don’t ‘make’ money they ‘earn’ it! Even the ‘owners’ of businesses.
Money is ‘made’ elsewhere by a very few select people. Just two types.
First by the state that issues the money and pays for goods and services with it and gives it its perceived value by demanding taxation from these earnings and goods it buys as direct and indirect tax.
Second the entities that the state gives a licence to also issue that currency – the Financiers , Banks, Credit card companies, Mortgage and credit issuers. They have a licence to print money! Just like the state. Unlike the state They get to charge interest on that magic money and keep the profit.
That’s why being a banker is the height of power. That is why the same old banking dynasties exist in every country. They demand a license from every nations government to issue that countries currency- and that’s how they get to own most of the actual Wealth created by the Peoples of these countries.
That has been happening for centuries ever since they dreamed up Money and Banks as the secret weapon of Power.
There was a time, not at all long ago, when there were many banks , mutual societies of sorts, based around towns, in counties, which would issue their own currencies for the locals to trade with. But they weren’t part of the Banking intranational Giants who had created the system – they were the Jacks who had got some magic beans that allowed Jack to climb into the Giants home high above the peasants and steal that giants magic money trick!
All of these little Jack bankers are destroyed now , all their currencies became worthless one after the other , as soon as the government refused to accept it as a valid currency that the taxes they demanded be paid in!
See? It’s not ‘your money’ it’s Theirs and they can cancel it at anytime. In recent years that has been tried in different countries when the government suddenly announces the cancellation of some note denomination or other and everyone has to go to a bank and convert it to the new note before it becomes worthless !
That’s just a minor experiment with cash under your mattress – what happens when they cancel all holdings , the digital numbers in some electronic ledger and replace it with another? When the value of how many new currency numbers you need to buy your loaf of bread with changes?
In 2000 it happened across Europe as the Euro was introduced. One Euro equalled so many old francs , or peso or lira or marks. The U.K. sterling was never going to be part of that whilst having the European Bank being built and based in the City!
What happened was inflation. A reduction of the buying power in terms of old money. It was easier for these of us who traveled regularly to such countries to note how many £’s it cost to buy a bottle of wine or a pack of cigarettes in €’s and how the relative values changed.
We had it good for a few years as we got more for our buck! Until the exchange rate between the £ and € was allowed to move towards parity. It has led to chaos amongst many who lived abroad but relied on their pensions from the U.K.
That is why countries that refuse to be part of the scam are destroyed , their leaders murdered ,and wars of destruction inflicted upon them with maximum brutality, as an example to anyone else who might say ‘hang on a minute – how can you make magic money that I have to slave my life to earn ?’
The Magic Money Tree ! The Goose that lays the golden egg ! That’s how.
There was a recorded statement by one of the Yankee oligarchs matriarchs from a century ago which was judged as amusing and drunken looneyness of the rich aristo class of Yankees ( yes you have always had them too and the Class system) :
“ Only the poor people pay taxes” she revealed.
That has always been the truth. Because the poor are the ones who have to work and produce actual things that even the rich can’t do without – like food.
And if you aren’t born into that dynastic world families you ARE the poor. No matter how much money you earn in your lifetime and have in the bank. You will NEVER be as rich as them. Ever . Because they can just Magik more into their own accounts – abracadabra! just like that a press of a button on some keyboard and it’s done. Voila.
The Banking class and the Ruling class that provides the licence to print money , never have to lift a finger all their lives. That’s why all politicians are bought, that’s why the aristo class they aspire to end up in careers and positions where they manage the golden egg laying geese and the magic money tree farms for the actual Giants the creators of Money as a thing -which allows them through their international networks to control their Empires and start wars between nations they control and destroy these they don’t yet.
Oh and you might say ‘but.. but they too have all their money in the same currency that you say is Magic and worthless as mine – so it can’t be true!’
Ah I say they have already used their oodles of magic money to buy up all your wealth! The land that you farm , The furniture you made , the houses and offices you built , the infrastructure that was public but now is privately owned by them. The great Art and the shares in all the businesses that own anything of value.
They don’t care about the currency in their name because they have already got their names on all the REAL wealth – they do it periodically by Great Recession , it’s due now,, asset prices collapse they hoover it up with their magic money and then let the currency collapse ! Then come up with some nonsense about New Deal’s and Welfare.
Then the Merry-go-Round begins again ! The poor left to start building some wealth for themselves again after bankruptcy and the kingly class and their Money overlords enjoy the the poore servitude and impoverishment.
It’s called a Rinse And Repeat.
‘But .. but .. but who ARE they and why can’t I become one of them?’
Ah that’s the rub, no matter how good or clever you are and how much better at everything then them – they’ll make you their top house boy , butler, ceo , educator , general , politician , politician , president and king , a multimillionaire and even a billionaire and let you sit at the Top Table with others who they elevate , but there will always another table which only they sit at.
In their Olympian halls where they are beyond mere billionaires , where their wealth is judged in how many kings, how much land, how many slaves, how much art and jewellery. A life of a God.
They may not all look the same because they shapeshift through the ages. Now they look like bit Spanish, Now Italian, Now Dutch, Now British, Now American, now Russian , Now Chinese and yes Now African – a bit but not totally , because you see , you have to be of the blood of the ancient kings , the khazar kings… those who invented Money and it’s magic trees through banks.
See ?
The Only thing they fear is being disobeyed and the threat of an end to their dynastic lineage!
Now if only there were some peoples, somewhere that could resist the Bankers combined might, know who the Bankers were , where they lived and where their secret top table and castles in the sky were, where they grew their magic money trees – AND could destroy all of that with a super force before the Bankers could destroy us – then we could finally rebuild a world without their Money Power forever keeping the Multipolarity of humanity down and their unipolar world order on top…
If only such free peoples free of the Old Bankers existed …. Right in-front of your eyes?
See?
Posted by: DunGroanin | Feb 26 2024 12:00 utc | 67
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