As Tucker Carlson talks about feeling “radicalized against western leadership,” I find myself rolling my eyes and saying, “welcome to the party pal.” But seriously, it’s good to see him awakening more people.
When I began talking about the western created propaganda in 2023 people had a difficult time understanding it.Β {GO DEEP} As I began researching and explaining the futility and fraud of the Western sanctions against Russia, the confusion expanded. {GO DEEP}
Nothing makes sense until you realize we are being lied to by every element of Western review, government, media, corporations, academia, financial punditry, the works… all of their claims are based on lies and false information.
Tucker Carlson visits a grocery store in Russia {Direct Rumble Link} and immediately starts to get red-pilled on the truth. WATCH:
Keep in mind that Carlson is only looking at the ‘goods’ side of the ledger. On the ‘service’ side, the disparity in pricing is beyond jaw-dropping. {Example: A 30-mile cab ride for $5}.
From a production side perspective, Russia actually has a larger economy now than Germany, the largest EU nation. The cause for this is βautarchyβ or self-sufficiency. Indeed, as the timeline of the sanctions completes the second full year, the Russian production economy is even stronger than when the sanctions began. Quite simply, they are making even more of their own goods now.
The sanctions typically fall into the service side of the economy, as well as financial and economic roadblocks. However, that aspect of the Russian economy was much smaller than most suspected and there were sanctions going back to 2014 which made the outcome of the 2022 western imposed restrictions far less impactful.
I’m very serious when I share with people that almost everything we understand about the geopolitical purposes and impacts of sanctions against Russian economic interests is entirely fabricated.Β However, because the scale of the propaganda against us is so effective, breaking the mental/cognitive barrier is almost impossible.
It’s not that situations are ‘shaped’ or information is ‘manipulated,’ as in the definition of the term “disinformation.”Β But ratherΒ the entire construct of reality regarding the economic issues -as presented- is fabricated, created by massive financial interests, and flat-out lies; I mean, total unadulterated nonsense. Complete fiction.
This article from Reuters, and the accompanying graphic from ZeroHedge, only scratches the surface.
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We are through the looking glass folks.Β Literally captive to the narrative as sold by our Western government officials, and there’s a huge one-way mirror; beyond which, massive segments of the grey zone are looking at us as if we are pathetic victims of professional propaganda.
The worst part of this dynamic is how the USA looks insufferably weak, because we are playing this massive game of pretending that only the Yellow Zone is participating in.
MOSCOW, Dec 27 (Reuters) – Almost all of Russia’s oil exports this year have been shipped to China and India, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Wednesday, after Moscow responded to Western economic sanctions by quickly rerouting supplies away from Europe.
Russia has successfully circumvented sanctions on its oil and diverted flows from Europe to China and India, which together accounted for around 90% of its crude exports, Novak, who is in charge of the country’s energy sector, told Rossiya-24 state TV.
He said that Russia had already started to forge ties with Asia-Pacific countries before the West introduced sanctions against Moscow following the start of the conflict in Ukraine in February 2022.
“As for those restrictions and embargoes on supplies to Europe and the U.S. that were introduced… this only accelerated the process of reorienting our energy flows,” Novak said.
He said that Europe’s share of Russia’s crude exports has fallen to only about 4-5% from about 40-45%. (read more)
What Alexander Novak shares is stunningly accurate, only the ramifications are far more serious.Β This is why I am spending so much time trying to break the issue down into digestible portions.
Russia and Iran are now trading oil (and other things) in their own national currencies, not the petrodollar.Β This is the epicenter of a process initially triggered by the BRICS economic alliance and is now taking place in real time while the proverbial WEST pretends it is not happening.Β Β Now, it might sound esoteric, as if it is a disconnected or academic issue that doesn’t have real substantive ramifications, but that’s not true.
I can literally see how global trade is now cost-shifting as the dollar starts to weaken (become less used) as a trade currency.Β Again, like our domestic social issues, this de-dollarization process is “slowly at first,” but eventually this is going to come all at once.
As USA consumers we cannot see it yet, because we are inside an economic system that is entirely dependent on dollars.Β However, as the devaluation of the dollar continues slowly to happen, outside our dollar-based economy, the cost of goods, products and stuff in the ordinary life of people within the GREY ZONE is now stunningly less.Β It’s not showing up in currency markets (dollar -vs- fill_in_blank), because the currency trades are not part of the trade/cost dynamic outside the YELLOW ZONE.
Go into the grey zone and compare the price of “product X” to what you would pay in the United States for “product X”, and you will see the difference in the end consumer price is starting to widen faster.Β Β Identical goods in the USA cost much more than goods outside the “west.”
As the de-dollarization continues (mostly driven by the lessening of oil sold using the petrodollar), the disparity in price will get even more stark.Β Β As a result of this dynamic, wages in the USA (or the “west”) must necessarily rise faster; however, that’s only part of the issue.
If I took $200 into a Russian supermarket, buying only consumable food products, I would end up with about 3 shopping carts full of food.Β Take that same $200 into the average USA supermarket and you get one shopping cart or less.Β This is the scale of what is likely to happen in durable goods.Β The “cleaving” is underway.
Let me say that again, the “cleaving” of dollar-based price/value is underway.
Starbucks pulled out of Russia.Β The building still exists, the furniture still there, the equipment still there, just a different name, “Star Coffee” lolol.Β Β Starbucks is roughly $6 for whatever, the StarCoffee is $1.Β Same stuff.Β Β A cab/uber ride in USA might be $25, or in EU might be β¬30, but outside the yellow zone around $6 to $10/max.Β It’s getting crazy how big the difference is.
Now, the price disparity is not in everything, only in the products that do not originate from inside the yellow zone.Β The increased price of the yellow zone goods transfers into the grey zone when the product is moved.Β However, if the yellow zone and grey zone both produce an identical product (or service), that’s when you see the massive difference in price.Β [And no, this is not a lower cost labor issue]
Conversely, prices of goods originating from the grey zone shipped to the yellow zone will be far less than the comparable product created from within the yellow zone.
What is going to happen?
I suspect we are going to import even more products from the grey zone at a greater rate, because there’s a lower origination price and greater opportunity for profit.Β Wait and see.
China needs energy, Russia needs computer chips and tech.Β They are trading thusly.Β Now watch… if the sanctions are ever lifted, we will start importing Russian made electronic goods, because less expensive.Β It’s nuts.
Remember, our ‘western’ government is doing this to us on purpose.
I heard on a blog that the average monthly wage for a Russian is about $700 – so what Tucker spent is, roughly, the same ratio as for the US.
Just putting that out there, sorry if it is repeat observation.
As a side note, thanks for again showing us that map depicting the “Golden Billion”…. π
i take home over 9 times that. i should move to moscow.
The GDP per capita (PPP) in Russia is ~$35K so that $700 a-month figure is incorrect. This compares to a GDP per capita (PPP) in the USA of ~$80K. The average Russian makes almost half what the average American makes.
When Tucker went shopping in the Moscow supermarket he bought what he and he crew believed would cost $400 in the U.S.. Tucker paid just over $100. If Tucker is right about the $400 figure a typical Russian is paying about 1/4 the price for groceries than an American while making a little less than 1/2 what an American makes. Based on this comparison it is easy to see that the Russians are much further ahead and with inflation, Americans are getting further behind.
Tucker was attacked for this segment with most people saying to the effect “Of course groceries cost less – Russia is a very poor country – Russians don’t make much money”. Tucker should have anticipated this and provided the above context I have provided comparing the relative GDP per capita (PPP). Without knowing what Russians earn comparison of store prices is meaningless.
Source of GDP figures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)_per_capita#:~:text=A%20country's%20gross%20domestic%20product,population%20for%20the%20same%20year.
re: “Tucker was attacked for this segment with most people saying to the effect βOf course groceries cost less β Russia is a very poor country β Russians donβt make much moneyβ. Tucker should have anticipated this”
Well, Tucker’s approach draws out all those who would complain, and don’t do their own research, so, he can now call THEM out …
You go back 5,6, or 7 years America under Trump was close to that my wages now have not increased a whole lot from then and can remember getting a cart of groceries for $125/150.What is happening now is all being orchestrated by the powers to be in DC/Corporations/Bankers all talking orders from those in the WEF/NWO.
This article in TheConservativeTreehouse is about economics and of course money. … With Bidenomics, Americans are being squeezed by inflation. Our dollars have less value; the buying power of the dollar is shrinking. … The Russian people are experiencing a more prosperous economy; = the value of the Russian Ruble (money) is increasing. = [All thanks to Bidenomics and Sanctions on Russia. Fossil fuels, particularly petroleum, is the life blood of a modern prosperous economy.]
+There’s the ‘quality’ of life issue, when comparing Russia to the USA. … It seems younger Russians can walk around about town at night; no squalor, no drug addict tents, no trash on the streets, and no poop on the sidewalks. … I’m sure all the parents watching the videos would think the public schools must be safe in Russia, and the kids must be learning reading, writing and arithmetic in school. … I’m an old man living in California, I have seen ‘homeless’ people walk pass a checkout stand, with a bag of ‘free stuff’ stolen from the store. [We the paying customers end up paying for the theft.]
& Senator Marco Rubio (FL) recently said, “Refugees in their 20’s get more than what retirees who worked & paid taxes get from social security.” … Old people on Social Security are being squeezed economically by Bidenomics. [+The unsafe streets in America are especially a disaster for older Americans.]
No, average monthly wage is 300-400$
For those trying to justify the death of Alexei Navalny, question: whom do you think President Donald Trump βidentifiesβ with more, the dictator Vladimir Putin or the dissident Alexei Navalny?
One could also ask: whom do you think President Donald Trump βidentifiesβ with more, the dictator Volodymyr Zelensky or the dissident Gonzalo Lira?
Since Navalny was outed today working for British Intel to foment a color revolution with possible CIA help AND Putin is fighting globalists and Banksters just like Trump, it is obvious that Putin and Trump have more in common.
This makes 3 major attempts at promoting Putin bad / poor Navalny today.
That can be construed as βconcern trolling.β Which is forbidden by the guidelines.
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“it is obvious that Putin and Trump have more in common.”
That’s the very same thing the leftists say.
“That can be construed as βconcern trolling.β Which is forbidden by the guidelines.”
Stalking is not allowed on most blogs.
BTW, you must get over your obsessive stalking. It’s like you think you are Fani Willis and I’m Donald Trump.
Wolverines patrol the perimeter.
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That leaves you out. You are a stalker and someone who thinks he is the Censor Czar.
You have also become a very repetitious bore, so I’m just going to ignore you from now on as it is the proper thing to do.
He has stalked me in the past. I suggest you contact the administration regarding this person and file a complaint.
I love Wolverines on patrol..ππππ
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I think you should have left it how you posted,before you edited…
I think I corrected some spelling. Really nothing to get excited about.
Weird misspelling….
And Putin said he preferred Biden over Trump for the 2024 election. Why not? Biden is a demented, brain dead person, easily intimidated. Trump is on the same level of intelligence
Oh my, Putin and Trump have nothing in common except lots of money, which Trump earned honestly and Putin did not. Putin stole his money from the Russian citizenry.
Putin is not the cuddly teddy bear you think him to be. He is a murderer and a thug. He has a great poker face and plays the game well.
Were you aware that Putin has had most of the heads of the Russian security agencies killed, jailed or disappeared? Oligarchs who opposed Putin were killed, even when they had fled to other countries. Putin had their wives and children killed as well. He had an entire family killed in Spain.
This is all documented in eastern European and European news.
Please provide those sources.
Most of those βoligarchsβ were Russian mafia that took advantage of the situation when the Soviet Union failed.
And arenβt the same forces aligned against Russia in Ukriane the same ones attacking Trump?
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And how does that change the fact that Navalny turned out to be a traitor to his own country?
Thanks for playing.
Dog gone, if he isnt getting up there toward Hillarys body count.
Putin Calls Billionaire Oligarchs “Cockroaches” For Closing Factory Live On Camera – YouTube
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Yep, Putin is a thug, how else would one expect a former KGB agent to be. However, he is a consumat politician. He is not “our” friend, he is not stupid.
Update: Navalny is also part Ukrainian, on top of being a spy for the UK and possibly the US!
Screw the corrupt Ukrainians and our money going over there.
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The British are trying to undermine the USA as well… Most notably via HRC cabal and the British agent Steele Connection.
Yep and was recently outed as stopping peace in Ukraine early on.
The British, or UK Deep state?
if the cretins have their way it will be lira before the year is out.
Young man, I could tell you EXACTLY whom DJT most identifies with in absolute accuracy. I will not give you a fish but I will Teach You To Fish. DJT has read Sun Tzu’s The Art Of War more than 40 times in his life and even based his own book (The Art Of The Deal) on it as applied to business. If you will read the 82 pages of The Art Of War you will have the answer to your question… and a whole lot more.
Although we have seen stupid haste in war, there has never been a case of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare.
– Sun Tzu
We spent $7 trillion in the Middle East. What do we have for it? Nothing.
β President Donald J. Trump
The marxists inside the gates here in the usa since the 60’s….
What does Sun Zu say about a country not realizing its being subvertted by 10,000 trojan horses/ leftists.
If you could take the story of Donald Trump and what he had already achieved well before he ran for President, I think he could and should be credited for helping New York City turn around in a big way from the direction in which it was headed.
Remember “The Out-of-Towners” (the original, made in 1970) with Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis? What a nightmare!
IMHO, Donald Trump and the Trump Organization had a great deal to do with making New York City a more attractive place to visit, perhaps even helped save Broadway in his own way in making the “Big Apple” a more hospitable place to visit, go out, go to a show.
Donald Trump is a generous, creative, positive person who has always worked to make the most of every hour, every day.
Now the state and the city that he worked to help make strong and successful is looking at him like hungry jackals, slavering as one predatory pack to take down a man and a company that has done so much, has given so much.
Donald Trump certainly qualifies as an “Atlas Shrugged” example who produced, built up and gave opportunities to others.
It would seem to me that anyone who has lived in and cares about New York City and the future of the State of New York should stand on the side of Donald Trump and the Trump Organization.
He will of course appeal this absurd ruling by Judge Engoron but it is just obscene that this has even gotten to this point, along with the E. Jean Carroll case.
Recently, a statue of one of our founding fathers, Thomas Jefferson, was removed from City Hall in NYC. Can anyone say “stop, this is all insane” . . . that image of the statue of Jefferson being removed seem to me a suitable scene for a sequel for “Escape from New York” . . . actually, the “prequel” . . . the explanatory scenes showing what happened that caused NYC to become a high-walled prison, well before the appearance of Kurt Russell’s character, Snake Plissken.
Both rulings were despicable and obscene. Of course PDJT will appeal.
OTOH, it’s kinda fun to watch Fani & Nathan’s case implode.
Alvin’s case will go down, too. And then there’s Jack’s documents case . . . and Hur’s report on Joey the Puppet . . .
Hey Tom get back with me when Trump finds out what the CIA has been doing in Ukraine. We can ask him then.
I think he already knows and has for some time.
You sure know a lot about what PDJT’S thinking. Wish I had that ability…
Exactly, which means the only question that should be addressed to Trump is who does he see as the greatest threat to our nation, the CIA or Putinβs FIS?
Not all this nonsense about a dissident who dies in prison. There have been too many to count especially the ones not reported on by the American Media.
While the MSM get all excited about this guy in Russia being knocked off like the the USA is a saint I like to bring up the CIA/JFK we went to the head of the list.Let’s not forget also the almost dozen J6ers who have committed suicide under the current DOJ and one dying in custody.I say the Russkies is the least of our problems ATTM we have a pack wolves within our own borders mainly in DC.
Another dead spy is no tragedy.
Either or? C’mon man!
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It does not look like humility if you purport to know what someone is thinking or with whom that someone identifies [more].
Then you go next level: Not only do you then think for someone else (Trump), but what that someone else is then thinking about someone else (Trump identifying with … based on …)
How do you “identify” with someone. Do you identify what toilet paper he uses in the bathroom? What dessert they like? What they say to their wife before going to bed? How … ? Or do you just cherry pick the pieces of what you believe. How can you ever know someone else in order to identify with them as a person. Does anyone ever FULLY understand themselves, let alone another person at that deep a level? Maybe it is better to not know.
Just saying that you should be careful in wording.
Kinda like the Biden DHS denying secret service protection for his political contender Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
What is this “identifies with” garbage ??? That is democRAT talk.
Adults don’t identify with anything, that’s what makes them adults. Children and women (but I repeat myself) identify with such abstractions. Adult men… do not.
We’ve been SOLD the ILLUSION of Freedom, when in reality we’ve ALL BEEN SLAVES TO THE SYSTEM SINCE BIRTH.
The shift is happening, I do believe people are finally waking up.
2020 to now has been beyond strange, never wavier in your trust with GOD!
Democrat Supporters aren’t going to change until they are practically starved in a famine…. which is where Biden and his regime will lead us. The Democrat voter is so far lost, they will pay more for everything under Biden/Biden Policies and still blame Republicans for it.
wonderfully disturbing and accurate Tom Mc Donald Video
God is working his wonders as we watch look hard enough you will catch glimpses how about the St.Peters statue struck by lighting in Argentina?on the Pope’s B-day?I think God sent the POS a message.
The most relevant fact is that Russia is a part of BRICS and has based the value of the ruble on the gold standard since March 2022.
I suspect that this is the reason that the cost of their goods & services is so much more reasonable.
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God speed. You are the only voice I follow for the truth.
I get red-pilled with every visit to my local N.CA Safeway store charges at least 30% more for a basket of groceries than my daughterβs SO CAL Ralphβs market β¦ and surely 250% more than a Moscow grblinsk grocery
Words you will never never never hear, not in a million years, from Tucker Carlson, nor even more importantly from Donald Trump, “Yes, I think the death of that dissident in a Russian prison was a good thing. He deserved it!“. Neither will they ever say, or even think, anything like it.
Why? Because they are not depraved nor are they idiots.
Maybe not say it but are you an expert on what they THINK. ??
Because he was a traitorous spy for Western IC and half-URANKIAN to boot.
Screw the Ukrainian war and our money going to it.
Yes, not knowing the full story I would agree with you. But if he was cooperating with the CIA and British intelligence then it would be easy to see how Russia and Putin would view his cooperation. The same way we would view Robert Hanssen.
Maybe, just maybe, we should get to the bottom of Epstein first before we cry foul toward Putin. Who employed this guy and who murdered him in prison. We get the answers to those questions and then we can talk all you want about dissidents because I’m starting to feel like one in my own country.
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Perzactly!
Maybe, just maybe, we should get to the bottom of Epstein first before we cry foul toward Putin.
βI was stunned by Epstein’s suicide, though probably not as much as Epstein himself.β β John McAfee
Foolish of Tucker to bang the cheaper groceries drum with no mention of much lower Russian average income.
Well his larger point was that the sanctions are not working and we are being lied to by our own politicians.
Is it odd that the climate change marketing scheme would not want you to look outside the theater? Just sit through the time share high pressure sales presentation and you get a “free” weekend getaway.
Would the plan to break the “west” (and civilization itself) necessarily shield from view the other side of the fence?
If you gaze at other pastures or assess your own then what is hidden? What is secret?
I don’t care for a lot of what this person has written but this is to the point.
βSecrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. When any government or church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, “This you may not read, this you must not know,” the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man who has been hoodwinked in this fashion; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, whose mind is free. No, not the rack nor the atomic bomb, not anything. You can’t conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.β
β Robert A Heinlein
also
βIf you’ve got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn’t prove it.β
— Robert A. Heinlein
The USA’s tax system causes higher prices. Every producer is taxed on total price of the goods produced, at every step of sale to the next step of manufacture. Taxes compound on previous taxes. In Europe, it is much more common to tax on added value” at each transfer sale as part of production. I do not know if overall taxes are higher or lower for manufactured goods, but it is certainly more transparent.
What!!? US does not have a V.A.T., Europe does … Final retail sales in Texas for instance is taxed, but not intermediate sales TO a retailer who then sells to retail customers.
The “tax code” is largely set up to create winners and losers.
“We reward our friends, and punish our enemies”
Anything that creates havens of democrat voters is tax deductible, at a
very lucrative level.
Low Income Housing Tax Credits? 900K off federal taxes over 10 years
for every million dollars invested in set aside units. The units are income
capped, and tend to attract either single mother families, ie democrat voters.
Same goes for Section 8. Same goes for historic preservation tax credits.
A LOT of historic preservation tax credit rehabs are two-fers: % of “low to
moderate income families”, alongside extra tax credits for historic preservation.
The historic preservation units tend to be built in desirable, walkable neighborhoods.
So…… the tenants paying full tab in them tend to be edumacated, brain dead lefties.
Tax credit voting districts. The big boys get the mine, we get the shaft.
Higher crime, shittier schools, less desirable retail, once it reaches critical mass.
Anyone who has live in Dekalb County, GA. Can tell you all about it.
Same goes for Prince George county, Md. And Westhchester County, NY
for those that have paid attention over the long run
TC “RED-PILLed” ? hardly. lol. He is Red Pilling American.
Tucker obviously doesn’t do the shopping at home.
The first thing he put in the cart was the bananas.
I’m a long-time Treeper and have been inspired and guided by Sundance dozens of times. I DO NOT understand the romanticization of Putin or his Russia. I get it, I get it. I do understand how we are universally lied to and appreciate how
the war in Ukraine has huge hidden elements. I get it. But all those factors can be contemplated and acted upon without romanticizing that freak, his poisonous/murderous rule over Russia, and the immense suffering that many decent Russians withstand under Putin’s rule. Do Mr. Carlson and Sundance not understand the fallacy of translating Russian ruble prices into dollars then thinking of the cost on those terms?? Does it not dawn on Carlson and Sundance that the current dollar value makes London and Tokyo seem inexpensive?? Sundance’s romanticization of Putin is sickening and makes me question his judgment, which I have trusted now for more than a decade.
As a way to keep score of who is a flop and who is a success:
Globalists = 0
Nationalists = Bigly
FYI it’s “autarky.”
FAKE WAR