"Libs of Davos"

"Libs of Davos"

Eat bugs. Own Nothing. Be Grateful. 

A message from your Kindly Overlords.

by Joel Bowman

Buenos Aires, Argentina - "...but only just! A few hours from now, we’ll be burning up the atmosphere in a common commercial jetliner, stomping our filthy carbon footprint all across God’s blue skies. (We reached out to St. Greta Thunberg to see if we might hitch a ride but, alas... there’s not enough room in her holy ark for all the wretched animals in this world.)

Still, we count ourselves among the fortunate, the few. To think that Julius Caesar never dined from a seat back tray table... Mark Antony never joined the mile high club... Cleopatra never got the additional pat-down from leering TSA creeps...

Far greater beings have walked the earth before us... and gazed at the heavens in idle vain. It’s time we check our privilege... and give thanks! Thanks to long-dead fossils and wayward meteors and to sticky tar pits too...Thanks to energy-dense hydrocarbons... and inexorable chemical processes... and the slow march of time...Thanks to heavy sour crude and the light sweet stuff... to oil sands and the fracking revolution and holes drilled deep in the ocean floor... Thanks to glorious, super high-octane jet fuel!

And while we’re at it...Hats off to Colonel Drake and his Titusville gusher... to nodding donkeys and humble derricks... to lonely posts on offshore rigs and patient wives, waiting back home...

Cheers to the brave... the Wright Brothers, Orville and Wilbur... to Charles Lindbergh and Howard Hughes and Amelia Earhart, too... and to all the unnamed pilots who dove to watery graves so that their tearful, dogged colleagues might return to the drawing boards, tinker with the models, streamline their designs, and try, try again...

Thanks to the brainy... the engineers and idiot-savants and all the math whizzes who nutted out the dihedral effect and the lift coefficient and the aspect ratio... and all the other ballistic and aeronautical inputs far beyond our own innumerate grasp.

Thanks to the minds behind radar and GPS and even (yes, even) inflight entertainment...

Praise be to the high and the low, the grease monkeys and air traffic controllers and baggage handlers... the airport janitors and the lounge waitresses too...And to everyone who turns the impossible, the miraculous, the positively stupendous – human flight! – into a banal reality at which the elites of the world so dismissively scoff... we salute you!

Owing to their efforts, and standing on their gigantic shoulders, we embark on an air-bound journey to finally reunite Dear Daughter with her antipodean grandparents... after nearly three irreplaceable years of heartfelt absence. And to those who locked the world down, who kept our kinfolk apart, despite the cumulative efforts of these aforementioned heroes...a pox on all your houses! Which brings us to this week’s feature essay..."

"Libs of Davos"

By Joel Bowman

"In a pop-up city, nestled in the lush countryside of one of the world’s richest countries, your enlightened (yet humble) overlords gathered this week to discuss your future... your children’s future... and the future of the entire planet. Chances are, you’re not going to like what they had to say. But hear them out; it’s for their own good.

Spirited on luxury private jets angel wings, 2,000 of personkind’s finest moral exemplars journeyed to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to engage in an cloistered mass debate over how best to organize the miracle of life here on this precious blue orb.

Among the anointed attendees lurked all the usual perps and meddlers – with names like Bill Gates, George Soros and Henry Kissinger – so beloved by their fellow humans the WEF only needed 5,000 uniformed military personnel, in addition to the local police, plus a no-fly zone manned by Swiss Army fighter jets, to keep them safe from their adoring fans. (Boy oh boy, imagine how many windmills and solar panels it took to power those big strong planes!)

Of course, Big Business was in the house too, just checking if anyone needed a hand in the kitchen and generally helping to guide the world toward the best possible version of itself. Righteously conscious of the widening pay-gap between the corner office and the factory floor, multinational corporations sent 600+ of their highest paid, multi-millionaire CEOs and a couple dozen CFO sidekicks along, presumably to mind that the gap/canyon is properly preserved.

Those keeping score at home might be wondering how the oft-cited Wealth Inequality Meter has fared since the planet’s richest insiders first began scoffing canapés and quaffing champagne on their workers behalf at the sumptuously appointed WEF. Oh look, here’s a helpful graph...

(Something else rings a bell about that year, no? Something about a Knock on Bretton Woods? Hmm... It’ll come to us...)

Your friendly Big Tech invigilators were there, of course... including the CEOs of Wokepedia, Microsoft and Cloudfare, plus schmoozing reps from Meta, IBM and Google, all working in tandem with their toy poodles in the official, accredited media to “deliver the message” from on high. Think of Moses descending from the top of Mt. Sinai, but with updated tablets and a goose stepping platoon of question-free “fact checkers” in tow. (All with an approved list of the same “facts,” of course.)

And how could we forget those with their fingers on the planet’s thermostat, the climate experts, there to help us know what type of bugs to eat, how far we may or may not travel, and whether to do so by scooter, bicycle or rickshaw? No fewer than 42 WEF attendees had the word “sustainability” in their “job” title. Bless them! So much sus, stain and inability to go around!

But let us turn for a moment to the grand poobah of the event, that is, part-time Dr. Evil impersonator and the founder and executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Martin Schwab. Here he is, somewhat behind the inflation curve...

Whoopsie! Wrong photo. Apologies to Mike Myers, who is no evil genius; merely a genius actor. Herr Schwab, on the other hand, is the real deal! Excuse us a second while we find another snap...

“But Joel,” we hear you protest, “isn’t Klauss Schwab the son of Eugen Schwab, managing director of the Zurich-based engineering firm Escher Wyss, which supplied armaments to the Nazis during WWII, including flame throwers, gas powered turbines, compressors and propellers?” (Yes - SOURCE)

“And wasn’t the firm ‘an integral part of researching and developing turbines to produce heavy water for the creation of nuclear weapons for the Nazis?’” (Correct - SOURCE)

“And, ahem, not to be a stickler here, but didn’t that very same company, under Klauss’s father’s directorship, use slave labor - Jewish, Russian, Gypsie, homosexual, Hungarian, Romanian, Polish and POWs - to man its factory floors?” (Aaaand... yep again - SOURCE)

“To think they might have even toiled for less than a living wage (gasp!)... you know, before they were tossed into the pit...”

Be that as it may, gentle, well-researched reader, we should not rush to judge a man by the actions of his father, but rather let him speak for himself. Besides, when it comes to using forced labor camps to supply genocidal dictators with critical components for their nuclear weapons programs, who among us has not erred? Eh? Eh? Amiright?

So let’s hear from Herr Schwab Jr., in his own words. Here he is, talking up the “penetrative power” exerted by graduates of his visionary young leader’s program, back in 2017. “I have to say, when I mention now names, like Mrs. (Angela) Merkel and even Vladimir Putin, and so on, they all have been Young Global Leaders of the World Economic Forum. But what we are very proud of now is the young generation like Prime Minister [Justin] Trudeau... We penetrate the cabinet. So yesterday I was at a reception for Prime Minister Trudeau and I know that half of his cabinet, or even more than half of his cabinet, are actually Young Global Leaders.”

Now you see in what capable hands your future rests, you can sleep with both eyes open. And since there’s nothing else to comment on there, nothing notable or out of the ordinary or of obvious concern, let’s move right along, to Herr Schwab’s address at this year’s billionaire convocation... “The future will be built by us,” he rallied his heavily-guarded coven of insiders and political operatives, “by a powerful community as you here in this room.”

Who are these other attendees, cackling around the cauldron? Where is the diversity of opinion? The champions of the working man? The voice of the downtrodden? The people who don’t “have the means,” as Darth Schwab so blithely puts it... or rather, who are presently having the means stolen right out from under them through inflation, taxation and outright confiscation? Where are the dissenters, the gadflies, those speaking truth to power?

Alas, the much-teased mass debate was somewhat anticlimactic. Turns out, the World Economic Forum at Davos is nothing if not committed to a diversity of people propagating identical ideas. As such, pretty much everyone present stood in firm agreement on what needs to be done (de-carbonize, de-capitalize, de-colonize, de-carnivorize), when it needs to be done (“we’ve got 12 years to save the planet”)... and to whom it ought promptly to be done (you).

Here’s Inconvenient Al Gore, boasting of having personally trained 50,000 “climate activists” who, after three full days of on-the-job training, have “all the information they need about the climate crisis” to go out and “implement solutions.” - https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/

Gee whizz... from tens of thousands of pimply agitators bringing rush hour traffic to a standstill around the world with their “communication skills,” to the Climate TRACE program, where a coalition of artificial intelligence companies, universities and NGOs track real time atmospheric carbon emissions; where they’re coming from, in what amounts and from which sources... are you feeling cleaner and greener yet?

Readers who find themselves inconveniently composed of 18% carbon (and 65% oxygen, the other offending element in the planetary hemlock that is CO2), might fairly be wondering what, exactly, a “carbon free” world might look like. The curious mind wonders... Are we the carbon they wish to eliminate?

If so, could the solution be as easy and relatively painless as, say, sawing off a superfluous limb? Hmm... And what if you happen to be composed of cisgender, white, male carbon? Will that cost you two limbs? Four? How else to level the playing field?

Fear not, dear reader! It’s not just Big Al and his 50,000 activists on the job. No siree Bob! From the big picture to individual invigilation, when it comes to tracking, tracing and monitoring your every move, to “measuring and managing” the problem, you can be sure these tireless busybodies have their eyes on you, too. Here’s Alibaba president, J. Michael Evans, not even bothering to hide what’s in store for his “users”...

“But… but… but… Creepy Uncle Evans. What if we don’t want your present.” Stay tuned, indeed!

But wait... if they aim to track where you travel, how you travel, what you eat, what you consume... what else about your private life might they want to keep a big, brotherly eye on? Enter the world’s most infamous veterinary scientist, the CEO of Pfizer, Albert Bourla, with his next great idea: ingestible chips... (NOT Doritos.)

This is Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla explaining Pfizer's new tech at Davos : "ingestible pills" - a pill with a tiny chip that sends a signal to relevant authorities when the pharmaceutical has been digested. "Imagine the compliance," he says #NWO##Davos

“Imagine the compliance.” Uh, no thanks. As the late, great, late-20th century philosopher, Kurt Cobain, cautioned in his delightful teen ditty, Territorial Pissings: “Just because you’re paranoid, don’t mean they’re not after you.” Psst… pass it on."

- bonnerprivateresearch@substack.com

"Here We Are..."

"The human race is a herd. Here we are, unique, eternal aspects of consciousness with an infinity of potential, and we have allowed ourselves to become an unthinking, unquestioning blob of conformity and uniformity. A herd. Once we concede to the herd mentality, we can be controlled and directed by a tiny few. And we are."

- David Icke

"James Howard Kunstler and That Thing We Do"

"James Howard Kunstler and That Thing We Do"

by Tom Luongo

"Author and raconteur James Howard Kunstler joins me for a wide-ranging talk about all things Bond Villain in this week’s episode. Jim’s unique perspective on the world is a welcome one as we try to piece together just how cartoonishly evil these Davos types are."

Please listen to podcast here:

- https://tomluongo.me/

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You can find Jim at his website:

- http://www.kunstler.com/

Musical Interlude: Peder B. Helland, "Sunny Mornings"

Full screen recommended.

Peder B. Helland, "Sunny Mornings"

Absolutely beautiful, relaxing and peaceful piano and guitar music.

Musical Interlude: Kool & The Gang, "Cherish"

Full screen recommended.

Kool & The Gang, "Cherish"

"Cherish the life we live," folks...

"How It Really Is"

"You Cannot Kill Me Here..."

"Relax. They're not going to kill us. They're going to

TRY and kill us. And that is a very different thing."

- Steve Voake, "The Dreamwalker's Child"

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"You cannot kill me here. Bring your soldiers, your death, your disease, your collapsed economy because it doesn't matter, I have nothing left to lose and you cannot kill me here. Bring the tears of orphans and the wails of a mother's loss, bring your Jesus on a cross, bring your hate and bitterness and long working hours, bring your empty wallets and love long since gone but you cannot kill me here. Bring your sneers, your snide remarks and friendships never felt, your letters never sent, your kisses never kissed, cigarettes smoked to the bone and cancer killing fears but you cannot kill me here. For I may fall and I may fail but I will stand again each time and you will find no satisfaction. Because you cannot kill me here."

- Iain S. Thomas

“The Great Reset - What We Know…”

A Comment: Posting this article could well get this blog deleted, as the original was, suddenly and without warning. My defense is that you can handle the truth, given the chance. Think for yourself, gather the most factual information available and draw your own conclusions regarding the effects upon your life. I personally can only say that, having intensely researched all this for many years, there is nothing in these articles I can disagree with. As Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote, "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." "Improbable?" This truth is horrifyingly unbelievable, unimaginable, but it is the truth. What you do with it is of course up to you... - CP

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“The Great Reset - What We Know…”

by Clive Maund

"The Great Reset is the World Economic Forum’s trade name for what is really The Great Collapse. The term The Great Reset is not as negative in its connotations as The Great Collapse as it holds out hope that after everything gets taken down it will come bouncing back. The trouble is that it won’t, especially for the larger proportion of the human race who will not live to see any reset.

The key point to understand about The Great Collapse is that it is inevitable, regardless of any stunts pulled by the globalists such as the Covid Plandemic, the Ukraine war and now the vaccine induced “Monkeypox”, long promised by Bill Gates. It is inevitable because global debt has exploded to unsustainable levels and has become critically unstable. This may well have been a factor influencing the exact timing of the start of the Covid Plandemic, since by the Fall of 2019 the Repo market was going off the rails, and they were looking for an excuse to ramp up debt even further which was amply provided by the “emergency” funding for the Plandemic.

What has become abundantly clear since the Plandemic started is that the Globalists, in accordance with the doctrine “Never let a good crisis go to waste”, have stepped forward to take control of the collapse and manage it to their advantage. They are accelerating it greatly by broad-based acts of economic sabotage such as lockdowns (imposition of Martial Law) which serve to eliminate small and mid-sized businesses in favor of globalist owned big corporations that are allowed to remain open to mop up all the business lost to those ordered to close, and function to train the population to accept submission and subservience ahead of the full-bore Martial Law that will probably be imposed later this year once the United Nations/World Health organization have achieved effective world government which is set to happen this month when the constitutional Independence of most countries will be made subordinate to the will and dictates of these organizations, becoming effective 6 months later.

Other acts of economic sabotage being undertaken by the globalists, in addition to the fallout from the lockdowns in the form of supply chain disruptions, include using food as a weapon by disrupting food supply involving doing such things as starting the Ukraine war which they achieved by putting Russia in a position where it had to act to protect the Russian population in Eastern Ukraine, and to prevent missiles being stationed hard up against its south-western border. The Ukraine war has halted exports of grain from Ukraine, which is one of the world’s biggest grain producers, and in addition from Russia itself and also halted exports of fertilizer from both Belorussia and Russia, which taken together will result in a drastic reduction in the world food supply and consequent widespread starvation. As if this wasn’t enough they are pressing home their advantage by delaying rail freight shipments of fertilizer to farmers in the US so that they fail to arrive in time for planting season, and paying farmers a premium to destroy their crops and we have Bill Gates buying up loads of farmland across the US presumably to either allow it to remain fallow or to grow GMO food.

All this translates into great strides by the globalists towards one of their core goals which is drastic population reduction. Are they right to want to drastically reduce the world population? – it all depends on your point of view. In the first place much of the growth of the world population in recent years has been made possible by the explosion of debt, that has brought consumption forward. So when the debt bubble bursts it is inevitable that it will be impossible to maintain the world population at the current level – and it is bursting. The current world population is way above a level that is sustainable long-term with the result that planetary ecosystems are being destroyed, obvious examples being the destruction of the Amazon rainforest which has passed the point of no return and the oceans being filled with plastic waste. So if you are a friend of the Earth and its plants and animals which are being made extinct at an alarming rate, the first thing you will want to see is a drastic reduction in population. That’s what the globalists want and their point of view is more understandable when you appreciate that they themselves will be exempt from being culled, which is a privilege that comes with being at the top of the pyramid. That’s why members of Congress and Pfizer employees are amongst the privileged groups exempted from taking the death shots. On the other hand, looking at it from the point of view of humanity, many people will not want to accept being culled, or having their close family and friends being culled, in order to save the planet and would resist it if they actually understood what is going on, which most of them clearly don’t.


If you were to take the average citizen aside, explain the overpopulation problem, and say “Now look, don’t you want to do your bit to save the planet by terminating the existence of yourself and your extended family?” you can pretty much guarantee that the answer would be a flat out “No” or more eloquently “Thanks, but no thanks”. So the game is to trick the masses into committing suicide by lining up to voluntarily to take lethal injections. This has been done by peddling them a scare story about how they are going to die from a lethal pandemic if they don’t roll up their sleeves. The facts are that there is no pandemic, just a virus engineered in a lab that maybe kills slightly more than the flu, there was no need for a “vaccination” because this virus can be controlled by means of traditional treatments like Ivermectin that were blocked, there was therefore no need for lockdowns, masks, endless hand washing and social distancing, but the truth doesn’t matter because the globalist controllers have bought off and control all the mainstream media outlets and politicians right across the world and likewise have the legal system and the judges in their pockets. 

The globalists responsible for all of this are actually criminals and this is not a value judgement, it is a matter of fact, because all their draconian measures using the fig leaf of a “state of emergency”, which is itself a fabrication since no state of emergency has ever existed since all of this started, break the laws of most countries and are in breach of the Nuremburg codes and the only reason that they were able to ram them through is because of the connivance of bribed politicians and neutered legal systems, with judges either bought off or threatened into complicity. The Presidents of countries who stood in their way, like the President of Tanzania, were simply assassinated and replaced with stooges.

It has been postulated that what is now going on across the world is the handiwork of aliens who are intent on exterminating humanity but before you laugh and dismiss this as too far-fetched and a crackpot theory, I happen to think that what has happened over the past 30 months is very far-fetched, yet it happened, so I wouldn’t rule out this possibility. As I see it, there would be two possible reasons for aliens to exterminate humanity. One is that they see us as a primitive destructive predatory plague and scourge that is laying waste to this once green and verdant planet, destroying countless species of plants and animals, and I for one wouldn’t disagree with them on that. The other is that, having stumbled upon the Earth, they want to conquer it for themselves, as in “Nice planet, we’ll take it!” and see us as a nuisance that needs to be disposed of. Either way, they are too sophisticated to land in fleets of flying saucers and jump out with ray guns and try to zap us all, like in the film "Independance Day". Instead they will have set in motion a plan to get us to suicide ourselves via poisonous injections and whatever else is needed to complete the job, like war and famine. To this end they have either co-opted world leaders though bribes, promises and possibly coerción or have replaced them with avatars, and they would certainly have the technology to do this. Whether aliens are involved or not, one thing is clear which is that a global genocide program is well underway that will drastically reduce the world’s population by the end of this decade unless the population at large grasp what is going on and mobilize to stop it.

The masses, who by definition are ignorant and have next to no critical thinking capacity, will believe pretty much anything they are told by the mainstream media and politicians and if they are told they should line up for lethal injections, wash their hands in every store or public building as they enter and wear oxygen stealing masks for hours on end, they will do it. They are now part of a psychotic global narrative, whose danger lies in the fact that the majority believe in it, making it possible to subject anyone who doesn’t believe in it to persecution, which is already happening in the form of being denied access to restaurants or permission to board an aircraft if you haven’t taken the lethal injections, and this will later extend to being hunted down and either forcibly injected or dragged off to a quarantine center (concentration camp) and either forcibly injected or exterminated. This is a big reason for the UN/World Health Organization’s current power grab where it is attempting to become the global government via a treaty that overrides sovereign governments’ powers.

This brings us to a somewhat puzzling aspect of this whole business. If the globalists were simply concerned about overpopulation, you would think that they would be content with killing off say 80 – 90% of the population, which, looking at it from their point of view, is understandable, but it appears that they want to wipe out almost the entire human race – kill most people and turn the survivors into genetically modified mind-controlled cyborgs hooked up to the “internet of bodies”. So why is this? The first point to make is that they have absolute contempt for anyone but themselves, who they regard as nothing more than chattels, like farm animals, that they want to cull, especially as most workers can now be replaced by robots that don’t want a salary. 

The second point is that they are on the biggest power trip in the history of the world. Despots from time immemorial have always enjoyed the exercise of raw power involving imprisoning, torturing and killing people, sometimes by the thousands or even by the millions as in Stalin’s Holodomor in Ukraine, on a whim for their own gratification and now, thanks to the docile and submissive nature of most of the world’s population, they are able to do it on a global scale, simple examples of their egregious cruelty being forcing schoolchildren to wear useless and harmful masks all day and in recent weeks the Chinese government locking up the 27 million residents of Shanghai in their homes, in many cases leaving them to starve. 

The third point is that many of them are card carrying Satanists – you don’t acquire the kind of wealth and power they have if you are not. Think of them as being members of a giant global “frat” society. The sordid details of their activities and rituals are beyond the scope of this article but suffice it to say that they enjoy inflicting widespread death, destruction and suffering on others and have carefully engineered the epochal crisis phase that the world is now entering with the masses being complicit as a result of their own growing decadence and degeneracy. The globalists are about to have the time of their lives as billions die over the next several years as a result of the lethal injections and as a result of starvation, war and general chaos. In the past the elites could only enjoy the suffering of the masses secondhand by reading about it in the newspapers and perhaps watching Pathe newsreels unless they took the trouble to go into the center of town to watch the rioting and looting etc., which was somewhat risky. Now they can settle back in their sumptuous armchairs and sofas in their remote and impregnable hideaways as their servants ply them with drinks and treats and watch all the strife with glee on big satellite connected flatscreen TVs.

Uptake of the “vaccines” is now tailing off somewhat as more of the masses are belatedly waking up to the fact that they have been conned. It is understood that about 60% of the world population have had at least one shot, which is a staggering figure considering that these “vaccines” are poison and is a sad testament to how many gullible, ignorant and stupid people there are in the world. As one of the elites recently said “I am looking forward to all these imbeciles turning into fertilizer”. Somewhat surprisingly, takeup of the “vaccines” across the African continent has been very low which is because Africans have a healthy suspicion of Big Pharma having been subjected to nasty experiments by Gates and Co. in the past. While the 60% takeup of the “vaccines” is doubtless a source of good cheer to the Globalists, they are not content with wiping out or “cyborgizing” 60% of the population – they want a higher tally. 

So now they are moving on to create wars, civil wars and mass starvation by the intentional sabotage of supply chains, and just this past week they have unveiled “Pandemic 2”, the monkeypox, which Gates forewarned of with glee a year or two ago. Monkeypox afflicts the vaccinated which is hardly surprising considering that, in addition to genetic material from aborted fetuses, some of the shots contain genetic material from chimpanzees – perhaps some of the symptoms of this ailment include scratching and baring of teeth and a craving for bananas. This new vaccine-induced pandemic may be worse than Covid-19 (Certification of vaccination ID) which of course will play right into the hands of those who created it, as we can expect it to be used to generate a 2nd wave of fear and paranoia and push still more gullible people into lining up for death shots and also provide the excuse for the return of widespread brutal lockdowns, permanent mask wearing and the implementation of other planned measures like the cashless society and global ID and it will help the World Health Organization and United Nations to take center stage and usurp the sovereignty of individual nations, with the World Economic Forum cementing its iron grip over the world population.

The billions of hapless and ignorant victims of this monumental virus hoax and psyop who daily go through the ludicrous and pointless routines that their masters have devised for them have no idea that they are partaking in an occult ritual that will result in either their death or their enslavement, and so they cooperate in bringing about their own destruction. When you witness cognitive dissonance and willful ignorance on this scale it is hard not to start despising them as the globalists clearly do. Yet just because something or someone is stupid, it is not a reason to wish to do them harm. If we take the common sheep for example, it is perfectly suited to its way of life – if it was gifted with great intelligence it would be a curse because it would probably end up getting very bored chewing grass for about 8 hours a day. It has what it needs for the life it leads and sheep are kind of cute when they stare at you with those vacant looking eyes as they munch with their giant molars, and not only that, they provide wool for clothing and tasty meat. Compared to what has been going on the past couple of years, the elites have traditionally adopted a benign attitude to the masses that they “farm” to support their opulent lifestyles, even going so far as to allow them to do things like buy houses and take vacations but now, having decided that most of them have outlived their usefulness, they are turning on them with a determination to kill most of them and turn the survivors into slaves.

The ultimate symbol of the collective mass psychosis that the globalists have skillfully worked up in the masses is the face mask. The acceptance of wearing these masks by the masses was and is only possible because of their pitiful ignorance and suggestibility. Just a few minutes of searching on the internet quickly turns up that these masks are not only useless for preventing infection in the wearer or anyone else around them, but that they are definitely very harmful to health, especially if worn for long periods. From the perspective of the globalists the mask serves many purposes in pursuit of their objectives. The first and most obvious one is that the wearing of the mask signals that you accept the cult narrative, however absurd it is, and are yourself a part of the cult. 

Next is that it is an indication of fear – fear that you will get infected or concern that you will infect someone, which cannot happen unless you are actually ill, which is why they came up with the lie about asymptomatic transmission, or fear of standing out from the crowd who are all stupidly wearing them and if not these reasons then fear that you will be fined. Masks also connote censorship, since they are a form of gagging that is associated with denying the wearer their voice. 

Next, and importantly, they are a sign of submission which shows that you will give up breathing freely, a most basic human right, in order to please your master or fit in with the collective psychosis. Finally, they erase your personality and stunt communication with others, since they can’t see you properly. Overall they should be seen for what they are, a form of self-flagellation which damages the health of individuals through bacterial buildup, oxygen deprivation and the rebreathing of exhaled carbon dioxide and damage society at large through the collective ill health resulting from their misguided use and in addition they are a gross misuse of resources that results in severe environmental damage, but all this suits the globalist masters just fine, since the sicker people are the more likely they are to succumb to the poison shots and die.

The United States has been targeted for destruction, partly because its founding ethos of liberty of the individual and self-determination is at odds with the globalist goal of total enslavement – China meets with their approval much more. In China, most of the population live their lives as permanent schoolchildren whose social credit score rises or falls depending on how naughty they are, and when the government feels like it, it can barricade them in their homes and leave them to starve, as has been happening in Shanghai in recent weeks. So it is clear that the globalists want to move the US in this direction. This is why the election was rigged to instal a corrupt degenerate doddering senile old puppet in office who can be relied on to sign anything pushed in front of him without reading it and then he can get stuck with the blame when it all hits the fan.

Amongst the other methods being used to destroy the country we have the southern border being flung wide open to allow millions of refugees in who will overload the social security system and automatically vote for the politicians that offer them the most freebies, the promotion of freaks and weirdos to high office where they are able to advance their bizarre agendas, the corruption of schoolchildren at a very young age by the introduction of LBGTQ themes in schools, the fostering of ethnic and racial hatred, the weakening of the military, police forces and health professionals by the imposition of vaccine mandates, which result in the best military and police personal quitting, and those left falling sick and later dying, pandering to the “woke” culture and the intentional sabotage of the farming industry, food distribution systems and the oil pipeline distribution network.

So to sum up. The world has been taken over by a satanic cult whose members are unimaginably wealthy and they use this wealth to corrupt and control all the governments, judiciaries and major institutions of the world so that they work to advance this cult’s agenda. Its agenda can be very simply stated – it is to own everything (that’s why you will own nothing and be happy) to exterminate the vast majority of the human population and to transform the survivors into transhuman cyborgs permanently hooked up to the “internet of bodies” who will serve as a slave class. To this end they intend to destroy the world economy and collapse civilization, and you have probably noticed that they have started to do this and anyone nurturing the delusion that once Covid is overcome life will return to normal is in for a horrible shock. The dispossessed survivors of The Great Culling will be herded into tightly packed high-tech urban ghettoes where they will be monitored and controlled 24/7."

- https://www.clivemaund.com/

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"The Vaccine Death Report"

"Complicity: The data suggests that we may currently be witnessing the greatest organized mass murder in the history of our world. The severity of this situation compels us to ask this critical question: will we rise to the defense of billions of innocent people? Or will we permit personal profit over justice, and be complicit? Networks of lawyers all over the world are preparing class-action lawsuits to prosecute all who are serving this criminal agenda. To all who have been complicit so far, we say: There is still time to turn and choose the side of truth. Please make the right choice."

"Get Ready For A Credit Freeze This Summer"

Full screen recommended.

Dan, iAllegedly 5/28/22:

"Get Ready For A Credit Freeze This Summer"

"The Fed is completely helpless to solve the banking problems right now. People need to protect themselves and know that there is a good chance that there will be several large financial institutions that will go out of business during this time."

Musical Interlude: Neil H, "Candlelight Dreams"

Neil H, "Candlelight Dreams"

"A Look to the Heavens"

“M13 is one of the most prominent and best known globular clusters. Visible with binoculars in the constellation of Hercules, M13 is frequently one of the first objects found by curious sky gazers seeking celestials wonders beyond normal human vision.

M13 is a colossal home to over 100,000 stars, spans over 150 light years across, lies over 20,000 light years distant, and is over 12 billion years old. At the 1974 dedication of Arecibo Observatory, a radio message about Earth was sent in the direction of M13. The featured image in HDR, taken through a small telescope, spans an angular size just larger than a full Moon, whereas the inset image, taken by Hubble Space Telescope, zooms in on the central 0.04 degrees.”

- http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160727.html

"The Point..."

 

"What The World Needs Now"

"In this difficult day, in this difficult time for the United States, it is perhaps well to ask what kind of a nation we are and what direction we want to move in. You can be filled with bitterness, with hatred, and a desire for revenge. We can move in that direction as a country, in great polarization and filled with hatred toward one another. Or we can make an effort to understand and to comprehend, and to replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand with compassion and love. What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black."

- Robert F. Kennedy, on the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"What The World Needs Now"

by Tom Clay

"Detroit DJ brought this out early in 1973 and it was seen as 

a celebration of the message behind that spread

by John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr. and Bobby Kennedy."

"Litany Against Fear"

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.

Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.

Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.

Only I will remain."

- Frank Herbert,

"Dune", "Litany Against Fear"

“'Preemptive Nuclear War': The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity" (Excerpt)

“'Preemptive Nuclear War': The Historic Battle for Peace and Democracy. 

A Third World War Threatens the Future of Humanity"

By Prof. Michel Chossudovsky

Excerpt: "At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the unthinkable. All the safeguards of the Cold War era, which categorized the nuclear bomb as “a weapon of last resort”, have been scrapped.

Vladimir Putin’s statement on February 21st, 2022 was a response to US threats to use nuclear weapons on a preemptive basis against Russia, despite Joe Biden’s “reassurance” that the US would not be resorting to “A first strike” nuclear attack against an enemy of America:

“Let me [Putin] explain that U.S. strategic planning documents contain the possibility of a so-called preemptive strike against enemy missile systems. And who is the main enemy for the U.S. and NATO? We know that too. It’s Russia. In NATO documents, our country is officially and directly declared the main threat to North Atlantic security. And Ukraine will serve as a forward springboard for the strike.” (Putin Speech, February 21, 2022)

Last July 2021, the Biden administration launched its 2021 Nuclear Posture Review (NPR) to be completed and formally announced in 2022. The 2021 NPR is to include what is described as a “nuclear declaratory policy of the United States”. It is unlikely that the 2021 NPR will repeal the nuclear options of the Obama and Bush administrations which are largely predicated on the notion of preemptive nuclear war raised in President Putin’s speech. The underlying US nuclear doctrine consists in portraying nuclear weapons as a means of “self defense” rather than as a “weapon of mass destruction”. Moreover, there are powerful financial interests behind the NPR which are tied into the $1.3 trillion nuclear weapons program initiated under President Obama.

Although the Ukraine conflict has so-far been limited to conventional weapons coupled with “economic warfare”, the use of a large array of sophisticated WMDs including nuclear weapons is on the drawing board of the Pentagon.

According to the Federation of American Scientists, the total number of nuclear warheads Worldwide is of the order of 13,000. Russia and the United States “each have around 4,000 warheads in their military stockpiles.”

Please view this complete, most highly recommended, article here:

- https://www.globalresearch.ca/

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Related:

"World War 3 Nuclear Weapons MAPPED: 

14,535 Nukes Exist TODAY In These 9 Countries"

Excerpt: "The last time a nuclear weapon was used to attack people was on August 9, 1945 in Nagasaki, Japan. Only a few days prior, a bomb was dropped over the Japanese city of Hiroshima, causing an explosion which killed tens of thousands of civilians and made thousands sick in the weeks after the attack. The two bombings remain the only use of nuclear weapons in the history of warfare - but countries continue to stockpile and hard the deadly devices. Between nine countries, the most current estimate suggest they possess 14,525 nuclear weapons - including those deployed, stockpile and retired."

Please view this complete article here:

- https://www.express.co.uk/

The Daily "Near You?"

Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. Thanks for stopping by!

"The Definition Of Hell..."

 

"Mencken, Where Are You Now That We Need You?"

"Mencken, Where Are You Now That We Need You?"

"Henry Louis Mencken, The “Sage of Baltimore”, (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English. He commented widely on the social scene, literature, music, prominent politicians, and contemporary movements. His satirical reporting on the Scopes Trial, which he dubbed the "Monkey Trial," also gained him attention."

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken

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'The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.'

"The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots."

"When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre."

"When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money."

"A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker."

"The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought."

"I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy."

- H. L. Mencken

"And There Comes A Time..."

“Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.”

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"How It Really Is"

"Strange Prices At Kroger! This Is Crazy! What's Next?"

Full screen recommended.

Adventures with Danno, 5/28/22:

"Strange Prices At Kroger! This Is Crazy! What's Next?"

"In today's vlog we are at Kroger Marketplace and are noticing a lot of price increases! We are here to check out skyrocketing prices, and a lot of empty shelves! It's getting rough out here as stores seem to be struggling with getting products!"

"An Empire Of Lies"

"An Empire Of Lies"

by the ZMan

"An informal metric for measuring the stability of a society is the distance between reality and the official truth of the ruling regime. The more lies the regime tells, the less stable it and the society over which it rules. Official lies are a good proxy for the degree of authoritarianism within the regime. The degree of authoritarianism is a good proxy for the level of official insecurity. The more thuggish the regime the less support it enjoys, thus the more it needs to lie to the people.

At the extreme end of this metric is a place like North Korea. The regime is deeply paranoid about everything. The Kim family does not trust anyone in the ruling class and no one in the ruling class trusts anyone, especially Kim. The one thing everyone agrees upon is they cannot trust the people. This is why they get images of the tubby Kim in heroic poses or stories of him making ten holes in one playing golf. The regime feels it needs to present him as a god to intimidate the people.

On the other end of the spectrum, you get a place like Switzerland that barely has a government relative to the rest of Europe. Many Swiss residents do not know who is currently holding the position of president. It is a rotating position currently held by someone calling herself Simonetta Sommaruga. The Swiss government has no need to turn her into a rock star or make while claims about her. The official truth of Switzerland is easy for everyone to see, so they have no need to lie.

Obviously, it is an informal metric that is subjective. An extreme case like North Korea is easy to use, but where would France or Germany fall on the scale? They are closer to Switzerland than Ukraine or the United States, but not so close that anyone in France would say they believe their government. In fact, that is the story of the West since the end of the Cold War. Every Western nation has moved down the scale of honesty toward the North Korean pole over the last three decades.

Lying has consequences. One lie begets another lie which then requires more elaborate lying to cover up the previous lies. This lowers trust in the state, but it also lowers trust in institutions and eventually lowers social trust. Step one is the lies erode faith in the ruling class of the country. Step two is people lose faith in the institutions for not having punished the liars. The final step is the people who wake up to the official lies lose trust in those who keep falling for the lies.

You see this with the school shootings. Generations of lying about the nature of crime and the role of guns in these school shooting, have made it impossible to have a civil conversation about the issue. The bodies were not even cold after the latest school shooting and the usual suspects were out in public telling the all too familiar lies about the causes of these crimes. The only thing that comes from this is normal people grow to hate these liars a little more than they did yesterday.

How many people watched President Biden speak about the Texas shooting? The answer, if it was possible to get an honest one, was close to zero. Joe Biden has been a promiscuous liar for generations. Now he is an incontinent zombie barely able to read his script. That script is written by the same collection of sociopaths that have infected politics since the Clintons blew into town. Even the sociopaths have lost interest in the production of these ridiculous theaters of mendacity.

Tragic outliers like a deranged lunatic going on a rampage are just part of the human condition, but can something be done to limit it? It feels like this stuff happens more often now, but who can know? The even bigger question is why are these obviously deranged people ignored by the people around them? The Buffalo shooter was ignored by everyone, despite the obvious signs. The liars fill the space with lies about the subject so that getting a straight answer is impossible.

Of course, the reason the liars exist is they keep people off balance. Official lying has been outsourced in what may be the most cyclical public-private partnership in human history, so that the rulers can just nod along with the symphony of lies. Biden’s script writers just go to one of the websites of the many organizations who exist to produce official nonsense and jot down a few of their lines. The mass media, of course, then blasts this and their own lies to the public.

One of the underrated aspects of Orwell’s "Animal Farm" is how the pigs used deception to create doubt among the animals. It reached the point where the animals could not trust their own memory. The other day, the Washington Post claimed George Floyd was shot by police. How long before school children are taught that he was hanged by the Proud Boys? More important, how many people will tire of correcting the record and this lie becomes official truth?

The official lies are not just about keeping the public confused. It also serves to keep the managerial class huddled together. On the topic of official lies, the classic Vaclav Havel essay, “The Power of the Powerless” comes to mind. Amazingly, the people who shower the public with disinformation, the official lies, claim to be fighting against disinformation, often citing Havel’s essay. The lying is an important part of their identity as a besieged group defending “our democracy.”

In the final years of the Soviet Union, the general public no longer believed anything said by their government. The people in government were every bit as cynical about the official truths, but they were paid to lie so they lied. What held it together is both sides were sure the other side believed the lies, at least enough of them that the rest dared not question the lies. The collapsed came when everyone realized that no one believed what they were forced to say or forced to hear.

Havel opened his famous essay with this line. “A specter is haunting Eastern Europe: the specter of what in the West is called dissent.” He then explained, “It was born at a time when this system, for a thousand reasons, can no longer base itself on the unadulterated, brutal, and arbitrary application of power, eliminating all expressions of nonconformity.” That was almost fifty years ago in a world that is largely forgotten by modern people, yet terribly familiar to us now.

The final sentence of that opening paragraph is, “What is more, the system has become so ossified politically that there is practically no way for such nonconformity to be implemented within its official structures.” One paragraph from a dissident operating in an alien system from the past captures the current moment in America. A decade later that system collapsed. That is what the sea of lies from our rulers tells us about what lies ahead. A regime built on lies always ends in collapse."

- https://thezman.com/

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Related:

"Empire of Hypocrisy"

“Credit Cards Keep The Consumer Alive; Car Lots Are Dead; Home Prices Falling Fast, Home Sales Drop”

Jeremiah Babe, 5/27/22:

“Credit Cards Keep The Consumer Alive; Car Lots Are Dead; 

Home Prices Falling Fast, Home Sales Drop”

Canadian Prepper, “I’m SO MAD Right Now”

Full screen recommended.

Canadian Prepper, 5/27/22:

“I’m SO MAD Right Now”

"Supply Chain Crisis Turns Into A Nightmare As Shipping Crisis Push Prices To Stratospheric Levels"

Full screen recommended.

"Supply Chain Crisis Turns Into A Nightmare As 

Shipping Crisis Push Prices To Stratospheric Levels"

by Epic Economist

"The supply chain crisis is creating the worst logistics nightmare the industry sector has ever seen. The people who actually run the supply chain industry are becoming increasingly desperate as disruptions continue to emerge in every link of the system. A myriad of problems is creating new chokepoints, and backlogs, and also sparking chaos at ports all around the world. And a new survey has exposed the many challenges plaguing supply chains and why they are likely to stay broken for the foreseeable future.

Several supply chain data sources reveal that many professionals are having problems tackling supply chain challenges this year. It’s never been harder to find solutions that actually help to fix this fragile system. According to Blue Yonder's 2022 Supply Chain & Logistics Executive Survey, almost all businesses, or about 88%, have faced disruption this year, with over a quarter, or 26%, facing prolonged interruptions in their operations due to supply chain issues.

On top of that, at least 43% of companies are experiencing staffing shortages, and 38% reported that their production is currently stalled. All in all, 58% of businesses said their customers will be facing delays this year as the port of Shanghai restarts and the shipping nightmare begins.

“It may not come as a surprise that most businesses are facing supply chain challenges over the past year, but the research demonstrates that supply chain disruptions are here to stay,” warned Shri Hariharan, Blue Yonder’s corporate vice president. In the US, an unexpected explosion of demand, a shortage of port workers, an absence of available chassis to move freight, and a weakened transportation infrastructure for domestic deliveries have combined to cause companies to fail to meet production, delivery, and distribution targets over the past 12 months.

Complex issues require multifaced solutions, and significant changes take time to occur. However, supply chain market research shows that the majority of companies, specifically 69%, do not have complete visibility of their supply chains, and around 30% of companies don’t analyze the source of supply chain disruptions whatsoever. This means that almost 70% of businesses are in an extremely vulnerable position and are still at risk of facing further disruptions.

All of these logistics headaches have largely fallen to supply-chain managers to sort out, making their jobs far tougher and mentally straining over the past two years. For that reason, supply chain managers are quitting their jobs at the fastest pace since 2016 due to a mix of burnout and late payments. The survey also found that loss of talent accounts for 51% of supply chain disruptions.

As problems pile up, those who run the system are getting absolutely overwhelmed and many are just throwing in the towel and giving up. The widespread nature of the disruptions is going to keep the system clogged for decades to come. In essence, supply chains are only as strong as their weakest link, and the myriad of issues emerging across every sector of the supply chains have demonstrated that weak links are multiplying much faster than resilience can be built. In other words, as disruptions mount and the system crumbles, the countdown to the next supply chain shock has already begun."

- https://www.epiceconomist.com/

Greg Hunter, "Weekly News Wrap-Up 5/27/22"

"Weekly News Wrap-Up 5/27/22"

Mysterious Vax Deaths? Gun Control Diversion & Food Crisis

By Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com

"Every week we are seeing what the legacy/mainstream media describe as “mysterious deaths” or “died suddenly.” There is no other explanation ever given. The latest is actor Ray Liotta who “suddenly” dies in his sleep. As a reporter, the question is a simple why? What is the cause of death? Sometimes you get the family wanting “privacy.” It’s almost a sort of “Stockholm Syndrome” where the victims protect their abusers. In this case, is it the vax makers? Does it have something to do with the global experiment of so-called CV19 vaccines? Does simply asking the question mean you are an “anti-vaxer” or a “conspiracy theorist”?

The school shooting in Texas took the lives of almost two dozen people, mostly children. The Democrats wasted no time in making gun control their new campaign rallying cry, and, thus, creating a huge diversion for all the problems they caused. I guess they cannot talk about out of control inflation, record fuel prices, a failing housing market, sky high rising crime, a wide open southern border and the real possibility of nuclear war they are trying to start with Russia. Hard to run on that. Instead, they want to run on killing less people with guns while they fight to kill babies with unrestricted abortion up until the day of birth. What a campaign platform!

There is no doubt a food crisis is coming with planting problems in the USA, a fertilizer shortage and war in Ukraine restricting the export of wheat. Russia wants to make a deal to stop the food shortage in exchange for what it calls politically motivated restrictions by the West. The response by NATO and the U.S. is to send more weapons and money to Ukraine to keep the war going. Count on higher and higher food and fuel prices for as far as the eye can see."

- https://usawatchdog.com/

Join Greg Hunter on Rumble as he talks about these 

stories and more in the Weekly News Wrap-Up for 5/27/22:

- https://rumble.com/

"Ukraine Is Losing the War"

"Ukraine Is Losing the War"

by Jim Rickards

"The propaganda campaign on behalf of Ukraine is remarkable. You would think the U.S. itself was at war with Russia. All you hear about in the media is how many Russian soldiers are being killed and how much Russian equipment is being destroyed. Videos are everywhere depicting Russian tanks being destroyed. You never hear anything about Ukrainian military casualties or see any videos of Ukrainian tanks and other military equipment being destroyed. But rest assured, Ukraine has suffered heavy losses in its war with Russia. Meanwhile, Russia is making steady progress in eastern Ukraine. Russia has taken Lyman (a key logistics hub) and is encircling the Ukrainian army in the city of Severodonetsk.

The Mainstream Media Can’t Ignore the Facts Anymore: Even The Washington Post is admitting to Russian successes: "The city of Severodonetsk, near Lysychansk, is surrounded on three sides by Russian forces. Over the weekend, they destroyed one of three bridges into the city, and they are constantly shelling the other two. Ukrainian troops inside Severodonetsk are fighting to prevent the Russians from completely encircling the city…"

The Russians can advance north toward Lysychansk and completely surround Severodonetsk. That would also allow them to go after larger cities in the region. Meanwhile, Bloomberg is now admitting that “Russian troops control almost all of Ukraine’s eastern Luhansk region.” One Ukrainian unit commander in this area concedes that the truth is being covered up for propaganda purposes: The casualties here are largely kept secret to protect morale among troops and the general public. “On Ukrainian TV we see that there are no losses. There’s no truth.”

I don’t report any of this because I’m pro-Russian. I’m not. I’m just interested in the truth, and the media haven’t been reporting the truth (what else is new?).

Sanctions: Apart from the kinetic war, there’s also the financial war against Russia. Sanctions included seizing the assets of Russian oligarchs, excluding Russian banks from the international payment message system called SWIFT and freezing the assets of the Central Bank of Russia. Sanctions also prohibited new investment in Russia, banned exports of semiconductors and high-tech equipment to Russia, banned Russian commercial aircraft from landing in the United States (except for emergency landings) and blocked exports of Russian oil to the U.S.

The EU, U.K., Canada, Japan and other allies introduced similar sanctions. Russia retaliated by prohibiting exports of strategic metals and other essential inputs to its adversaries and selectively cutting off its exports of natural gas to Poland and Finland. What has been the effect?

U.S. Is Losing the Financial War: That’s not going so well for the U.S. and its allies. Oligarch assets such as yachts and townhouses have been seized, but that’s exactly what Putin wants. Putin’s support comes from the military, intelligence services, the Orthodox Church and everyday Russians. Putin regards the oligarchs as potential threats, so he’s happy to see the U.S. destroy them financially.

The Russian ruble is actually stronger than it was before the war began. It was 80 to US$1 in late February and today is about 70 to US$1, a 13% gain. The Central Bank of Russia (CBR) is even cutting interest rates at the same time the Federal Reserve is raising U.S. interest rates. The CBR is even signaling they may cut rates further in the near future as a response to the strengthening ruble.

Most importantly, Russia’s trade surplus rose to $96 billion in the January-April 2022 period, which is more than triple the surplus for the same period in 2021. China, India and others are lining up to buy Russian energy exports in case the Europeans decide not to buy anymore. It’s not clear how Europe can make up the energy deficit that would result (they probably cannot in less than three years), but they’ll be paying higher prices in any case.

And despite all of the sanctions talk in the media, oil and natural gas are still flowing from Russia to Europe and Russia is still being paid in dollars or euros. These payments are directed to a special account at Russia’s Gazprombank and are not subject to seizure by the U.S. (although Russia is limited in terms of what they can ultimately do with the funds).

Putin Is the Biggest Winner: The officials in the U.S. and EU who are imposing these sanctions don’t seem to understand that basic commodities, such as oil and natural gas, trade on world markets. If Europe can replace the energy, they will have to pay the world price even as Putin receives the same world price from India or others. That’s how commodity markets work. The only difference is the price will be higher for everyone, including drivers and homeowners in the U.S., because of the boycotts and sanctions. The biggest winner is Putin because he’s a net seller, not a buyer.

The same dynamic will play out with strategic metals like aluminum, titanium, palladium, platinum; in precious metals like gold and silver; and in commodities markets for wheat, barley, and corn. The U.S./EU sanctions are causing disruption to global markets and imposing some costs on Russian citizens. Still the big winner in Russia itself.

It’s true that Russia has suffered a slight decline in GDP and mild inflation, but the U.S. has suffered far more. Prices for energy, food and housing in the U.S. are soaring in part because of the supply chain disruptions caused by the financial warfare started by the U.S.

Beware the Warmongers: It’s another case of the U.S. not being able to think even two moves ahead when it rushes into feel-good sanctions. The U.S. has said that the sanctions will not be lifted until the last Russian troops leave Ukraine. Well, the Russians are not leaving Ukraine. So, get ready for a lot more financial pain as the war drags on and the costs pile up.

In the meantime, we can only hope that the warmongers in the media and in both political parties don’t drag us into the ground war in Ukraine. Unfortunately, their rhetoric is increasingly leaning towards regime change in Russia, which will only back Putin into a corner. And a cornered autocrat, like a cornered animal, is extremely dangerous. You never know when or how he might lash out."

- dailyreckoning.com

Gregory Mannarino, "Must Watch! Mannarino Epic Rant! Calls Out All Fear Pushing YouTube 'Crash Channels'"

Gregory Mannarino, PM 5/27/22:

"Must Watch! Mannarino Epic Rant! 

Calls Out All Fear Pushing YouTube 'Crash Channels'"

- https://traderschoice.net/

Musical Interlude: Alan Parsons Project, "Ammonia Avenue"

Alan Parsons Project, "Ammonia Avenue"