The propaganda effort by western media, specifically but not exclusively U.S. media, to shift blame for massive economic damage from Joe Biden to Russia is reaching a stunning level of coordinated intent.
The cognitive dissonance (fancy words for telling lies under the cloud of economic analysis) is not only happening in the U.S; a similar level of blame-shifting is happening in Europe, Australia, Canada and most western media outlets.
The global economic contraction, which was specifically and intentionally created by the collective ‘Build Back Better‘ promoters, is now being blamed on Russia; and, quite frankly, the motive behind the corporate media shifting the blame is because the underlying ideology (western policy) was/is supported by the leftist media tribe.
Throughout 2021, it is well documented how government COVID policies of lockdowns, economic consequences and insane spending, created the baseline problem behind inflation. Simultaneously, the western approach toward energy development and the “opportunity” the EU and U.S. sought to exploit within the BBB agenda to radically transform energy use, was simply pouring super-volatile fuel on an already burning fire.
In 2021, gasoline prices increased 60 to 80 percent. Food prices jumped 15 to 40 percent, with some sectors even higher. By the time the EU central bankers and U.S. Federal reserve finally admitted inflation was no longer “transitory,” we were facing next harvest fertilizer prices that tripled in price from 2020, and oil prices that had doubled in the span of 12 months.
None of this had anything whatsoever to do with Russia’s plans for Ukraine. Every part of the economic problem was created by government policy.
The western working class are in an abusive relationship with western government.
Reckless spending during an intentionally blocked economy, combined with radically changed energy and monetary policy, created this storm of economic consequence. At no point in this scenario was the outcome not in the control of government.
These consequences were specifically caused by ideological decisions made by people who are never affected by them. However, in a sick, twisted and Machiavellian effort to avoid the pitchforks now heading in their direction, these government leaders and their media stenographers are trying desperately to pin the blame on Russian President Vladimir Putin.
This example from Axios today is a case study in blame shifting:
Economic forecasters are starting to plug the effects of the Ukraine war into their models. It doesn’t look good, especially for Europe.
Why it matters: Much of the world is set to experience weaker growth and higher inflation than seemed likely mere weeks ago. And that’s assuming some of the more dire possibilities that further escalation of the conflict could bring don’t materialize.
The big picture: Soaring energy prices are the most direct channel through which the world economy stands to be battered by the conflict. But rising prices for other commodities will also fuel inflation and could disrupt supply lines.
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- These forecasts were made last week before a new surge in oil futures overnight Sunday into Monday that will only intensify these pressures.
- Moreover, geopolitical risk has tightened financial conditions, which could constrain investment — though that effect is modest so far.
By the numbers: Economists at JPMorgan said Friday they expect the world economy to grow 0.8 percentage points slower in 2022 than they did on Feb. 18. (read more)
Everything is obtuse crap.
However, in our discussions we do not need to pretend. Preparations require a brutal acceptance of the landscape that is in front of us, not some clouded avoidance that will only make us victims to our lack of acceptance.
In May and June of 2021, the entire economic machine shifted. That was when the final cash dump into the economy became visible. Everything since then is a direct outcome of that inflection point. It has been eight months of economic smoke and mirrors.
Inflation in the last half of 2021 was driven by spending decisions in the first half of 2021. That oil in the machinery has dried up. As we watched the reserve tanks emptying, CTH was warning -repeatedly- to prepare. Now, things are about to seize. We will see even more inflation as massive increases in fuel will drive up the costs of everything again.
It’s not an issue of whether a recession is possible, likely or probable. As we noted last year, the recession would have naturally taken place in the third and fourth quarter. It was clear that overall consumer demand was artificially propped up by govt subsidy. Government intervention stopped the natural demand contraction from surfacing.
Now, with even higher oil prices leading to $7/gal gasoline, there will be no way to avoid seeing the pain of an economic recession under much steeper terms than before. None of this is accidental. All of this is by design.
Massive increases in energy and gasoline costs are a feature of their plan, not a flaw.
Joe Biden always was the disposable political tool within this insidious scheme.
Somewhere George Soros & Klaus Schwab are smiling.
Laughing. More likely.
As they collect their paychecks from their handlers.
Soros handles the entire Democrat Party. He is probably handling most of the Republicans too. It is why the Republicans do nothing. We elect them and Soros sucks them into his Center for American Progress.
He handles more than the democrat party. Miss lindsay wants Putin killed, how about sor*ss instead.
We NEED to suffer.
The dollar is the LIFEBLOOD of the globalist cabal. If the dollar collapses, they’re as good as finished.
This is why we needed to prep, so when the dust settles, we can emerge and rebuild our republic from the ground up.
Just in time to destroy my retirement savings that I’ve busted my hump for over the last 41+ years! FJB all the way to the gates of hell. And all of his cohorts too. Why do we put up with this crap?
You ain’t alone with that problem, buddyroe.
Same Here.
I really didn’t want to retire in 2019 but I wanted to walk the Camino de Santiago while I still had the strength. That was the best year of my retirement. Do as soon as you can because one never knows.
I’ve been wanting to walk the Camino for a few years; then came covid and masks and injections…soo…I still would like to do it; how was it?
I wonder about SOME of the consequences of current events.
How much will the COLA’s be, next year, as a result of inflation?
COLA’s are retroactive, theoretically responding after increase in “cost of living”, and are manipulated, not truly reflecting inflations effect on actual cost of living…
Still, LAST years was 5.9 percent, so what will it be for 2023?,…10-15 percent?
And, IF we actually start to see INTEREST again, will banks start to pay interest,…I still remember a relatively brief time when retirees LOVED Certificates of Deposit, which payed interest rates which more than offset inflation,..
And I wonder whether the effect of Trudoes brief freezing of accounts, resulting in many cash withdrawals in Canadaand elsewhere, is an intentional, or unintentional effect.
Seems to me these people who collectively are The Enemy are NOT as smart as they think they are, are overflowing with Hubris, are guilty of underestimating their enemy (US) and overestimating their abilities, guilty of groupthink which, by suppressing any opposing view BLINDS them to realities,….
And, even with the best made plans, you can plan for what you know, and for what you KNOW that you don’t know, but you can not plan for what you don’t know that you don’t know.
Unintended and unforeseen consequences,..
Well, you recall that all the political hacks got their increases don’t you? Well, they did, so we won’t.
Same here, during President Trump’s term we bought an RV. We thought we’d enjoy our retirement after decades of doing the right thing, taking care of numerous family members, ect. We were finally able to do something we always wanted to do. Not no, but hell no! I am stirred up worse than a nest of hornets and I don’t see myself calming down either.
Speaking of hornets…may a large group of angry Asian Murder Hornets descend upon Pelosi’s office this fall. may it all be captured live on tv.
😂 I’d love to release millions of hornets and yellow jackets into their hallowed sanctuary. I once lived in a house with a huge old magnolia tree near the front porch. There was a giant honet nest in that tree. I figured, if need be, I would shoot that nest with my shotgun thus removing any unwanted intruders.
A couple of frustrating “feel good” posts.
Yeah, but if they want to play “let’s go green” we country gals can think up some pretty good ways of using nature and saving the planet to get some things done.
I drove back from Tucson AZ to Illinois last week. There were RV businesses filled with RV’s for sale
and they will not be sold now; those businesses will go bankrupt.
I imagine so. It is infuriating all the way around. The hopes and dreams of all hardworking Americans up in smoke. The small businesses owners, retired, young couples, middle aged with kids…..all of us. I guess this is the real “new normal “
Great Question!! WHY!!! When everything thing we ever worked for is being flushed down the F-ing toilet to allow these Satanic followers to kill us slowly. WHY!!!! What should we be doing? I’m old and I hate this, I just would like to storm the anti-capitol and die on that ground. It’s is over they have taken control of the monetary system….
Been trying to figure that out myself…..besides sitting on my backside tapping the keys, I don’t know what an old person like me can do……nobody to shoot here …. yet.
It is the result of a long-term design. Get the public more concerned whether “racist” or not and thus less attention to their own financial security.
Same here, sooooo frustrated with all this crap.
National Strike anyone? That would be a definitive way to get rid of theses criminals. Clean out the whole bunch.
I made the decision today… 47 years old, two kids in elementary school and I am liquidating everything but my company 401K to securely purchase everything I own under my feet and cancel the debt. I’ve been saving for 25 years. SCREW retirement, and playing the finance game of interest rates and return / balance…. unfortunately these times call for security.
Make sure you are in a low tax state before you tie that ball more securely around your neck. I got out of my farm in PA a few years ago-property taxes had reached $28k !! If you are in a high tax state take out a second mortgage and get all the equity out. Put the money in cash, gold, ammo, something useful.
Learn from the Great Depression. Home values plummeted but taxes kept going up, many lost their properties. If a low tax state, you can likely ride it out. If a high tax state you may want to be able to walk away and give the house to the banks.
Remember, houses are depreciating assets
There is going to be a home equity burn.
Good for you. Much easier when you only have electric, gas, and food to worry about. You will survive.
People are going to someday realize the invention of 401-k was nothing but a scam in so many ways.
Exactly. All the years of really strict budgets, careful spending, doing without extras, thrift store shopping, working extra jobs when available. Living very lean to put off starting Social Security. Those savings already in decline with the present inflation and wondering now if it will be enough.
I feel your pain. I’m just going to stay the course with 6 years to go. Along the way, I will try and live each day to my fullest, since nothing, including retirement is guaranteed. I look at my balance which is NOT large and now 14% lower since 12/1/21 and I’ve decided I won’t check for a while. Tonight I’m speaking to someone that understands Gold and Silver much better than I ever will and I may shift some of my limited retirement funds there.
It is what happens when people let “George do it”. It is why we are in the political mess we are in. Too many people stuck their heads in the sand as a result of apathy and complacency. Freedom requires constant maintenance and so does personal financial wellbeing.
You’re seeing stagflation in action.
The 0bama/Soros plan: Destroy America completely to ash then rebuild America in 0bama’s image.
I think George really liked the National Socialist Workers Party of Germany.
Well, he WAS a Nazi. Just saying….
still does….so does O.
Is it true that while J.P. Morgan is on the “Russia bad” bandwagon and helping crash the Ruble, they are actually buying Rubles?
Yup, along with BlackRock and Goldman Sachs.
Absolutely, crush a commodity, then buy big while it’s down. That’s the robber baron way.
My own humble observation: Just like covid, people have their own PERSONAL experience with inflation. I know, for a fact, that the high prices I have been paying for food, gas and necessities began WAY before the Russia/Ukraine conflict. The government, media and all of their enablers can and will gaslight you, but people’s budgets are cemented in stone. You know what you can and cannot afford, what drives the price, and no amount of lipstick can beautify that pig. The more people are lied to, the more they are red-pilled.
I track all of my gasoline purchases for my new truck. I paid $1.67 the week of the election in 2020. There is a steady track up to $3.19 on 2/23/2022. Yesterday I paid $3.84.
Gas prices were up 48% before the Ukraine War started. If you see anyone saying that the high prices are because of the Ukraine, they are lying.
Or they have their heads up their asses.
A lot of that going around.
Biden and the keystone pipeline is the main culprit.
Problem is that over half this country are total idiots, they are already saying the gas increase is a small price they gladly pay to pay to “help Ukraine”
Typical morons that ignore prices have doubled way before the “war” and blame the recent additional >20% on bad Putin.
Same jackasses that will be voting Demonrat in November, even if they have to walk to polling booth barefoot because of no supply of gas or shoes
Sorry, but I can no longer blame JoeBama and the evil globalists as the majority of citizens of the world welcome this tyranny and oppression with open arms and smiles
The television is their God.
Any screen they can look at is their god…..phone, ipad, computer, tv….makes no difference….get er out there…..that is all that matters.
You bet! My brother and sister-in-law actually voted for Biden….believe me, I completely understand the whole brother against brother in the last Civil War. Anyone I know that voted for Biden is the enemy and will be treated as such.
Lol ask they why they support the neoNazis
“Ukraine” is nothing more than a diversion. Think of it as wearing a “Mask” to prevent Covid.
You are so right. There are a lot of things the Legacy Media can lie about, but money issues, is not one of them. The people have seen this inflation take off ever since China Joe was elected. May be the Liberal Loons believes them, but that is just about the only ones.
the Liberal Loons believe the Body Bag Ruse and the Ukrainian Tank on the Loose that is supposedly Russian . . .
There is another not insignificant group, in addition to the “liberal loons”; call them the “disconnected”?
“Liberal loons” believe everything the MSM tells them, we all know what me mean, by “libtards”.
The “disconnected” don’t register to vote, and don’t realise or care that motorvoter registered them, and would be shocked to realise they have voted in last election.
They don’t pay much attention to “the news” or “World events” believing “it doesn’t effect ME, and in any case I can’t effect IT, so why concern myself?”
This group, collectively ALSO has contributed to the decline, because of their ennui, lack of interest or involvement.
And, I THINK the actions of “the Enemy” have, over the past several years, made it more and more difficult for this people to remain disconnected and uninvolved.
Inflation at 2 percent, they can ignore. At 10 or 15 percent, much harder.
Hard to ignore when your employer closes, due to “Covid”.
Anyway, seems to me the “sheeple” are composed of a combination of “libtards” who are conned by CRT and CC bullshit, AND the “disconnected” and it is not only lifelong “conservatives” who have awakened, but a significant portion of these “disconnected” as well as “walkaways” who were FORMERLY “lifelong Democrat voters” now swearing they will “never vote Democrat, again.”
Precisely. Roughly 25-30% of the electorate want to believe in “Russia, Russia, Russia,” and they will continue to do so until the MSM leads them off in a different direction. The rest of us will see our patience run thin by the end of the month, so then it will be time to shelve Ukraine and trot out still another end of the world crisis with which to scare us.
But it won’t work. The MSM has lost its grip on the American public, whose common sense is not to be underestimated here. The only way the Democratic party has any chance of avoiding a bloodbath up and down the ballot in November is to hit us with another crisis induced set of lockdowns that restrict voting to mail-in ballots. And yes, they are definitely going to try.
Not sure its possible for anyone to get accurate #’s, at this point on what percentage still believes the bullshirt; and its a constantly changing #.
The Uniparty KNOWS “the Dems” are going to get swamped in the midterms; its already factored in.
It is obvious from their actions, THEY DON’T CARE.
What they are concerned about is NOT a “red wave” meaning “Republicans” gain “Control” of Congress.
As Sundance has noted, a change in the flag over the Capitol bldg. means little.
What they are actively doing, is trying to prevent a MAGA wave, and the effort is as extensive and comprehensive as the 2020 election steal.
In Az, they just changed the process for district committee persons, from election by the people of the district, to appointment by the State party.
They are blocking election reform bills, by using parliamentary procedured,..
They are redistricting to break up MAGA districts,..
They will run splitter candidates, posing as MAGA candidates in primaries,..
They will brand ANY candidate who calls 2020 a “stolen election” as an “insurrectionist”,..
They will use MSM and Big Tech to undermine any MAGA candidate, while supporting Rinos and Dem Uniparty.
There IS a major political war going on right now,..but it is NOT between R vs D, or R vs L, or Conservative vs Liberal.
It is Uniparty vs MAGA, Globalist vs Nationalist.
And failing to GRASP this, and adjust our thinking accordingly, and get as many others to grasp it and conduct themselves accordingly, is a fatal flaw that dooms us.
The Globalist are desperate; thats WHY they are fighting so hard, pushing there agenda with such speed.
IMHO, we need to push just as hard, and it starts by understanding the true nature of the conflict.
No, Dutch, they do care … just not about DC. During the Obama years, the Dems lost a thousand legislative seats down ballot, effectively wiping out an entire generation of office holders. This is the principal reason the DC arm of the Dems is all on geritol. What the national party is frantic to avoid is a repeat performance — but it is already happening. In the Rio Grande valley, Dem office holders in places like McAllen are switching parties to avoid the bloodbath that is coming.
There are too many who refuse to fight for what they say they want. How many really know and understand the local economy and or politics where they actually live. How many have they voted for who actually live where they are supposed to represent? How long have they lived there and what was their previous voting record etc….. Most of us are unaware.
Very good point!
(more lies = more red pills)
VERY clear reminder! Thank you!
Which is why I was buying oil stocks after the election was stolen since I knew Obama wanted $10 gas. Best decision I ever made.
Don’t wait too long to sell … unless you’re okay with receiving digital currency as payment.
Money and Payments: The U.S. Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation
January 2022
https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/money-and-payments-20220120.pdf
Asking for public comments through May 2022
Looks like I may have to rent a Yoder Toter just to get to where I am going.
A SHARED Yoder Toter.
This is just straight out of the Democratic playbook sans starting a war for cover. That said, normal Americans, and I dare say that likely covers a solid majority of voters are less concerned about the “why’s” than they are about the “what’s”, as in What are you doing to solve the problem. The lack of a coherent response to actually fix the problem will be their downfall.
A solid majority of voters become less meaningful by the day. Witness Arizona Republicans as the party no longer permits direct election of precinct chairs. Precinct Chairs will now be named by county chairs.
Rusty Bowers purposely hid the bad parts of the bill
Fann had a conf call today about this. This was all cooked up by GOV’T ENTITIES. Gov’t is THE PROBLEM, NOT THE SOLUTION.
So, This happened in an emeergency bill, so it didn’t go thru committee, have public hearings, even deteemine jurisdiction.
Very sly.Get it through without examination, make it effective upon passage, so you have to have 2/3 to repeal.
Absolutely evil.
Indeed. Sundance doesn’t seem to understand that the well documented, widespread public distrust of the MSM means that the old playbook won’t influence near as many voters going forward. As I have written many times before, this is Trump’s enduring legacy.
How right you are. Too many of us don’t actually KNOW WHAT or HOW….to start or to do. We would like direction, not a leader….. already have had too many of those so called folks, just help in finding the right path would be nice.
Gather around yourself like minded people. Agree to share blessings and burdens.
We will survive by coming together in genuine fellowship and community.
Why can’t the oil companies and pipeline open without government approval?
How many law enforcement officers, judges, lawyers, and government bureaucrats do they possess?
Then of course, you have lawfare.
And the military.
One can also consider corporate fascism in the mix. We’ve seen many examples of it during the bioweapon operation. They’re still going on.
I see microcosm of the dynamic watching the trucker convoys; clearly a demographic that’s using a lot of fuel to their thing and those of us who are following matters closely are seeing a real cross section of America and its politics represented, not just at the macro level but at the micro level within the convoys themselves.
Americans who decry the tyranny being foisted upon us under color of law could wield a lot of power if they could coordinate and cooperate. Apparently that’s simply not in our nature. The dispersed few who do are simply pissing in the wind. Sad. However, I’d rather piss in the wind and die on my feet than live on my knees supplicating to those cretins in human flesh suits.
Good points.
All told, this all should be a death knell to the perceptions of even having a (marginally) free market.
Corporate fascism…”free” vaccines, anyone???
More supported PDJT in 2020 than in 2016, despite constant barrage of negative press, etc.
Many deluded into taking the vax, didn’t take boosters.
Point being, our #’s are steadily growing. The temporary blocking of the U.S.Canada ports, was simply an early, tenuous demonstration of OUR Power, opposing their CONTROL.
They HAVE Control, no question. WE have POWER.
USE that Power, and their Control evaporates like a fart in a hurricane.
THEY have been steadily increasing their CONTROL, by their long march thru the institutions, massive expance of Fed. government, and making advances in the culture war, while WE slept.
So, its been mostly a one-sided war,…but we have begun to awake, and put our forces on the field.
The Tea Party begat “Trump”, begat the Trucker Convoys.
Each caught them by surprise.
Each forced them to take defensive actions, which forced them to drop their stealth mode, and shred their credibility, both awakening the sleeping masses, and by shredding their credibility, rendering inert what had been one of their most effective weopons.
WE still aren’t there yet, but we are very close to the inflection point, the “tipping point” where WE quit tip-toeing and with UNITY, exert our POWER to wrest back CONTROL from those who have clearly demonstrated their intent.
Good question, must be due to regulation but of course we’re not supposed to know too much about it or they won’t be able to deceive us.
Federal govt has used any excuse, and created or manufactured phony crises, to justify Federal overreach for 100 years?
Oil companies need Federal approval, to THINK about taking a dump.
Read “Three Felonies a Day”; the author spells out how the average business owner commits 3 felonies, or violations of Federal regulations, every day without realising it.
And bigger companies, or major industries, are MORE regulated.
Our pastor preached such a good message on Sunday about how to live within our means, and how to ensure that money does not become the root of all evil in our lives. The church has been far too silent on the covid agenda. Those that have been entrusted as the watchmen on the towers have fallen asleep and are no longer sounding the alarm.
What ails Canada and also the US probably could have been remedied early on if every Christian had been more schooled in the WEF agenda, and also the shenanigans around Covid.
DD
Many tried, they were called conspiracy theorists and mocked.
Too many pastors are afraid to school their flock in the evils of the WEF and the deep state. They don’t want to lose their “place”.
Amen! I listened to many online sermons during the covid shut down. ALL of them, with the exception of one, failed to address the ” elephant” in the room. I was very disappointed and found some of the pastors willfully ignorant. However, a friend sent me a Sermon from Pastor Danny Jones of Northlake Baptist church in Georgia and I have been listening to him ever since. Here is his April 2020 sermon on the COVID AGENDA.
https://youtu.be/0NROvEMNqx8
Sermon begins around the 24:00 minute mark.
Yeah, that Pastor is great!! We need more like him!!
thanks for posting this guy, I have subscribed to the channel.
Prior the American Revolution, a lot of the moral, emotional and even intellectual groundwork for supporting separating from England was done by the Black Robed Brigade–Ministers.
We need such a revival again.
I think its a safe bet FEW paid a lot of attention to the WEF, or knew who/what Klause Schwab is, even 3 months ago.
A lot more are paying attention, now.
Too me, your Pastor is preaching “surrender” instead of striving and fighting to be all you can be.
I just saw one of my most peace-loving/all we need is love/I just want to buy the world a coke friends, who (having never endorsed any war or military action EVER) was endorsing a Putin assassination. Propaganda is effective. Some people, just like those who were completely disoriented by Stalin’s death, will be very distraught one day when they find out how the world really works.
Just like the vegan, yurt loving, go green, yippie running to be first in line for the clot shot
Folks who wear their snout woobies in the car will buy into the ruse.
Doesn’t matter who they blame. Those who can’t see the economy for what is really happening will continue to suffer with each worsening step.
THATS the thing. Those caught up in virtue signaling, who are never the less, in terms of “household income” ,..”middle class” are in for a rude awakening.
“$10/gal for gas, $7 for a loaf of BREAD? But, but, but I have ALWAYS worn my face diaper, still have the lawnsign proclaiming no hate in my household, right next to the one saying “Assasinate Putin!”…don’t I get some kind of “virtue discount?”
Debkafile is suggesting that there is a slight calm right now as Russian troops amass for another push.
https://www.debka.com/putin-mulls-mass-mobilization-to-push-his-ukraine-objectives-oil-hits-149/
DD
My hunch is that Vuvuzelan oil fields are in such disarray that they wouldn’t be particularly helpful.
Also, I thought they produced heavy crude which may have a different degree of usefulness than lighter varieties.
Yes
Both!!
All the above.
Will they even sell us oil after the sh*t Pompeo tried to pull off?
Insidious and insipid.
And now the Pfizer documents show that 12 weeks after the rollout Pfizer knew there were 1300 adverse effects, including sudden death upon inoculation…https://clifhigh.substack.com/p/vox-populi-legislator-be-advised-dda?s=r
Pfizer will be consulting with its insurers and beefing up its legal staff, as its immunity is likely void..
Modern may be even worse…
One thing to remember. Russia / Ukraine is over there. 😉
Is that where there’s a big country next to a small one? Geography is so confusin (for some).
It’s a disgrace
Everyone far and wide must push that back in their faces, it’s the BBB scam and only that
the ukraine russia conflict is not the driver
tell everyone that will listen
FJB
a clip from a wonderful movie (IMHO), “Angel and the Badman”
it’s actually water – not oil – in this movie –
John Wayne gets this fellow to let the neighbors (kindly, hard-working Quakers) have some water . . .
just picturing someone turning on the spigots to our own sources of oil right here in America and how great that would be!
Now, if some people in Congress would recognize what a turning point back to our American greatness that would be, if some members of Congress would demand and bring about a reversal of the horrific policies that are threatening to crush us, come on – go for it!
Share this one w/ your braindead Dem friends and family.
It’s even got the “acceptable” PBS logo:
Trump was correct … AGAIN.
And those stupid Germans laughing at him are now sh*ting their pants cuz Russia will cut their flow of oil.
Frankly “couldn’t happen to a more deserving group of people”.
Germany has been the leading country of EU, since its inception, ditto for NATO.
Thru trade sanctions, and underfunding NATO for 30+ years, western Europe has ripped off the U.S. for 1/2 billion/year, for 30 years.
And while my hostility is directed at the Governments of Europe who perpetuated the theft, and our own who enabled it,…the people if Europe bragged about their fantastic pension system financed by the theft, while our system has been bankrupt.
Just not feeling any sympathy, right now,..
The EU is going to freeze its bollocks off
Putin will cut off gas because the EU/NATO sent arms to Ukraine and are planning to add more states to the EU
Looks like the term “disposable income” could be placed on the endangered list.
So the last time we had an apocalyptic event was an election year. Apparently, for the foreseeable future, we are going to be dealing with a world crisis every two years.
Hell has a permanent reservation for the people responsible.
Saw a Rasmussen Poll headline today 70% FAVOR Increased US Oil and Gas Exploration.
I’m sure it’s skewed by 10 pts; so it’s really about 80%…not good for the BBB clan.
Why is it not good for the BBB clan? They apparently don’t have to pay attention.
@1530:
That may seem to be the way it is today but it will not be that way for them tomorrow.
Even the 33.33333333% who fall in line will eventually pay a huge price for being led over the cliff, because they will die or be maimed for life from the BBB clan’s jabs, inflationary prices on what THEY DESIRE and they will suffer/starve/or be tormented daily.
It will happen. Nothing lasts forever that I know.
ONE thing does last forever. He is the alpha and the Omega, if you don’t know him, perhaps you should.
If you knock, he will open.
I am hoping that in the end, all of this actually ruins their plan for BBB and the Crap New Deal. Now that would be a reset I can get on board with!
I think there are a # of basic flaws, that inevitably doom them to failure.
I don’t think they really had a sound, workable plan for how to transition from “boil the frog slowly” to “you will own nothing and be happy”.
And, it MAY be that whatever plan they DID have, was spoiled by the escalator ride.
They exhibit extreme hubris, and their group think seems to blind them to any flaws in their plans, strategies and tactics.
They are very vulnerable, and do not react well to surprise.
In order to defend themselves against attacks which caught them by surprise, they have disarmed themselves of the main weopon which enabled them to proceed so far; CREDIBILITY.
And, while they exhibit a profound knowledge of some aspects of human nature, they exhibit a total lack of and lack of understanding of others.
And, they mistake CONTROL for POWER, and their lust for the former, blinds them to the superior nature of the latter, which WE retain.
And, of coarse they eschew GOD, attempting to elevate MAN to his position.
In the end, they WILL be defeated, just a question of at what cost, and what comes after.
True, but the enviro Nazis write REALLY big checks. Money, after all, is the mothers milk of political power.
I am angry and I hate them.
There isn’t one of them I would waste my spit on….if their hair was on fire.
Not even a bit sorry. They earned every bit of scorn and disgust from me.
Agree! Hoping bad karma comes their way! non-stop bad karma as they deserve it.
Understandable FEELINGS,..however THEY spew hate, violence and Divisiveness in everything they do.
We can not overcome hate with more hate.
We can not overcome violence, with more violence.
We can not overcome the DIVISIVENESS they exploit, with more divisivness.
UNITY is the one thing they truly dread, as they have NO counter.
And, hate and violence does not foster UNITY, it only fosters DIVISION ans so furthers the enemies cause, and hurts our own.
So, to fight smarter, not harder, as difficult as it is, we need to open our hearts, and purge ourselves of the hate THEY have seeded there.
Cause (if for no other reason) its the only way we win!
The CanadianConvoy was, IMHO a great Victory. Examine in detail the tactics and strategies employed by the Truckers and their supporters; NO hate, NO violence, a vast infection of UNITY, COMMUNITY, Love and brotherhood.
THATS how we win.
Malagator, I couldn’t agree with you more.
Ever since the news came out that Biden paid the media to lie about the Covid and the vax, we should know that Biden would pay them to push the Russia Russia Russia narrative as well. Nothing they say is to be trusted.
This time the propaganda push is 24/7. No other news in the whole world. Build Back Better will be the next paid media ploy.
Here is something the news is hiding: https://www.onenewspage.com/video/20220124/14210596/Del-Bigtree-Defeat-the-Mandates-DC-Rally.htm
Two questions
1) Have we now reached the point where the Democratic party is disposable and not simply Biden?
2) Is it a mere coincidence that Putin as well as Biden has a foreign devil to blame for all his problems?
1 Sure, they are all disposable, but especially the Dems. But it’s not like the Rinos will save us. You know this.
2 I think they have different motives. But I get your point, and I don’t think the backers are the same.
Putin is a politician, not a hero. So he will play a similar game as Bidens handlers. That’s just ploitics. And in this case, global politics. We should probably look to who ISNT being sanctioned to identify the difference between the two.
Smilin’ Xi…..
Well John, here’s a piece which puts into perspective where WE are in this mess. Some historical facts that our dear leaders fail to understand…WE helped make this mess.
https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?blog=Market-Ticker-Nad
Yes, they will. My daughter thinks that if people had just stayed 6 feet apart and worn masks early in the pandemic, then COVID would have gone away in 2 weeks like the government said it would. She blames PDJT for not “enforcing” the rules.
Have you ever wondered how the deer in northern Wisconsin were able to contract covid. The DNR probably knows. DNR stands for The Department of Natural Resources and not Damn Near Russia as some people up there claim.
Kind of makes one wonder how much legacy media is getting paid for this one, too.
It’s just the way they have been doing business for many decades. Only difference today is; they got caught!
So let me get this right.
Regan used the oil price as a weapon to take out the USSR.
Putin uses Reverse Reganomics to take out the world.
That crafty little Putin!
Reagan used closer relation with China, to take out USSR.
We SHOULD have then developed a closer relationship with RUSSIA, to ally with us to counter China.
But, with a dominant group of “cold warriors” with no cause without maintaing Russia as an enemy, Stalin apologist marxist red diapers in out Government, and WEF and CCP infiltrators, that obvious pivot didn’t happen.
RUSSIA, PUTIN after fall of USSR proposed Russia join NATO, to develop a defensive alliance to defend EUROPE.
The West repeatedly rejected his obvious geopolitic world view; Russia IS a part of EUROPE, that extends to ASIA.
It COULD have been a “good deal” for all concerned, and far better than the mess that is EU and NATO.
True dat Dutch
It was obvious that a west/russia alliance would be the smart move.
A united US/NATO/EU/Russia to take on the rest (China)
But the US leaders are stuck in 1991. They still haven’t changed.
Thats the grand strategy problem.
We failed to leverage our western advantage into a modern, multi polar strategy.
As I said on 4 Nov 2020, We are now Venezuela.
I agree. Dominion pulled off a Coup and even the Republicans don’t care.
Dominion pulled off a Coup and even the Republicans don’t care.
Oh, the Republicans were not passive in their coup assistance. They were every bit as active as their senior partners, the Democrats.
remember the golden rule …
when men with guns come to take your freedom don’t resist the ones from your own government. Just resist the ones from a foreign government …
My bet is on Putin – he just seems…smarter and better at reality
Putin also has time on his side. 😏
I HOPE. I remain convinced the goal all along was to eliminate Putin, and any in Russian leadership that support Russian “Nationalism” and in exchange to get a Globalist leader in Russia.
And, the way to do that is to undermine his support, of the leadership, the oligarchs. If THEY decide Putin is done, stick a fork in him.
Support from the Russian people is, apperently secondary. This is yet another attempted “color revolution” with Ukraine just a pretext.
Two main impediments to the Globalist plan; A Nationalist/Populist U.S. (PDJT) and a Nationalist/Populace Russia (Putin).
They succeded in ousting PDJT, and are trying to so break America, that even if PDJT should reoccupy the Oval, it will be so broken even he can’t fix it.
And, they are trying to eliminate Putin. So, they give me no choice but to root for Putin.
Well, if the conversation in our staffroom today is anything to go by the tactic will fail pretty badly. even the lefties were aghast at the price rises these last months and agreed with my statement that the war could not be blamed for the previous sharp increases. I think perhaps another angle to consider is that these are increasingly desperate attempts to try to ringfence the core leftist vote so an electoral rout is not on the cards.
You have nailed it. The Dems have to stop the bleeding down ballot. Remember, the Democrats lost a thousand elected officials at all levels during the Obama years. This is the major reason they are so visibly a collection of geriatrics in the House and Senate.
Never, never forget this: what worries the Dems isn’t DC; Sundance is quite right in his assessment of the UniParty vulture. Where they fear being wiped out is at the municipal, county and state levels. Believe me, there is a reason hitherto Dem office holders in the Rio Grande valley are switching parties as we speak.
Terence Corcoran: Putin blows up NetZero and the green reset
Massive failure of two branches of the United Nations
https://financialpost.com/opinion/terence-corcoran-putin-blows-up-netzero-and-the-green-reset
“Every nation has the government it deserves.”
Joseph de Maistre (1753-1821)
While we were not paying attention we let it happen……… so let us put the matter right asap!
In the past, the radio/tv transmission towers were the first casualty of a revolt.
We will pay more. Many of us have been here before. What scares me is the worry of shortages. Been there before as well. If Biden ditches Russian oil, we may see the old long lines again. Experts say that even “if” he opens up our energy production, it isn’t like turning on a key to produce it after the effort to shut it down. They would require capital, and who in their right minds would invest when this administration could shut it all down again?
Are people’s memories so short they can’t remember the trip from $2 gas to $3 gas prior to Russia doing anything? Please tell me average Americans are smarter than that
The majority of people out there are smarter than that. But are lifelong “I know so much that just isn’t so” Democrat-voting NPC’s smarter than that?? I’d say nope!
You will never reach about 28% of the electorate, who are conditioned mindlessly to repeat every government lie. Forget them, and zero in on the proverbial suburban soccer mom. These are the swing voters, and pocketbook issues will decide their votes. Think of them as a feel good crowd who will always vote Left in the good times and Right when the Dems devastate their checkbooks. Unfortunately, they never learn anything meaningful from the experience.
Please understand that HALF the public is to the left of the IQ Bell curve, and that doesn’t even include college educated, upper-middleclass suburban females.
IMO, the petroleum companies share part of the blame for this.
SHELL blames Biden
Biden blames Putin
WE get screwed
I didn’t know how much of this twit was true, but when I tried to copy it, Twit wouldn’t let me cuz they’ve “restricted ” it.
So, probably true!
It’s about Russian Humanitarian aid being brought into a recently “conquered” Ukrainian city.
Gas between 4.90 and 5.97 in my neighborhood today.
Northern California.
Libs are pissed.
They are trying to stop us buying gold and silver
nothing stops the country from going to war with the Central Bank.
When the sleepwalkers, tick tockers, and social media wannabes pull their heads outta their phones and see $7 gas, they’re not thinking oh these SOB Rooskies, guaranteed!
They’ll be no poll bounce.
They’ll be no rallying around a war time President!
They’ll only be the real choices, by real working people having to stretch a dollar in the real universe of $7 gas, $5 milk, etc., etc., etc.
The democrats numbers only get worse from here.
They’re in charge and they’ve made sure everybody knows who’s to blame.
I’ll make a prediction right now: even IF the Republicans win historic victories in both Houses of Congress this November, it won’t make any difference–not one!
I went long energy January 2021. I was a young guy in the 70’s and saw what an imbecile Democrat can do to America – it altered the trajectory of my life. This time though, it’s pure malice by the UniParty. People are slowly waking up. Idiot Democrats are now starting to admit how much harm the jab has done as their lifetime Democrat friends have been injured by unexplainable strokes, or cut down by unexplainable heart attacks. Yes, the UniParty is full of evil bastards.
https://beckernews.com/here-are-the-documents-the-u-s-embassy-in-ukraine-scrubbed-on-biological-threat-reduction-labs-44315/
It’s nearly over.
“Russia claims it will stop the war immediately if Ukraine agrees to:
– cease military action
– change constitution to enshrine neutrality
– recognize Crimea as Russian territory
– recognise the Russian-controlled areas of Donetsk and Luhansk as independent state”
Nothing that isn’t de facto in that. A pledge of “neutrality” is meaningless, in this context it merely means ‘not in NATO’….
Russia might just be able to theorise that ruling the whole of a rebellious Ukraine will result in many years of sanctions ……