The ideology of these elitist minded control officers is really remarkable. The president of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde, has given several statements to media saying policy measures must be put into place in order to stop wage growth from fueling inflation.
Think about this in the most practical of terms. Western politicians have created massive inflation through their collective ‘Build Back Better’ energy policy. The central banks have raised interest rates, an effort to shrink the economy by lowering energy demand, to offset the skyrocketing costs of the energy problem the politicians created.
With workers demanding pay raises to help afford the skyrocketing costs of energy, the central EU bank is now worried that wage increases will fuel inflation.
There’s a truckload of pretending needed to avoid seeing the insufferable dynamic of reality.
Political policy drives up energy costs. Central banks try to drive down energy demand. Workers unable to afford the energy prices created by politicians, are then blamed for the inflation the political policy creates.
Sooner or later ordinary people are going to figure out this abusive cycle.
(Via Reuters) – Euro zone wages are growing quicker than earlier thought and the European Central Bank must prevent this from adding to already high inflation, ECB President Christine Lagarde told a Croatian newspaper.
The ECB has raised interest rates by a total of 2.5 percentage points since July in a bid to arrest a historic surge in inflation and has promised even more policy tightening over its next several meetings as longer-term price growth expectations have started moving above its 2% target.
“We know wages are increasing, probably at a faster pace than expected,” Croatian newspaper Jutarnji list quoted Lagarde as saying on Saturday. “We must not allow inflationary expectations to become de-anchored or wages to have an inflationary effect.”
[…] Lagarde added that the bloc’s expected winter recession, induced by soaring energy costs, is likely to be short and shallow, provided there are no additional shocks. (read more)
That last line is just beyond infuriating.
This era of economic pretending, and the disconnect in the mindset of the self-proclaimed elitist rulers, is just jaw dropping in scale and scope.
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That huge 💍 on her finger was the product of carbon & purchased with higher wages.
The hypocrite should divest herself of that filthy thing.
I had to put on my Hollywoods (sunglasses) just to look at it properly.
Your Hollywoods are apparently famous here, no?
😁
Sorry to say it does not sufficiently distract us from her bobbing horse head.
“We must not allow inflationary expectations…blah blah blah.”
As we used to say in Britain, that’s the Royal “We”.
Check out the $$$$$ bling on her hand. She and her fellow travellers are the origin of all the economic and financial misery we continue to endure.
Nemesis follows hubris. Always. It can’t come soon enough.
I wonder what it will take to scrape technological control from their hands. Would Apophis 99942 be a good start?
Educate me, Greg…Apophis 99942?
An asteroid in relatively near-earth orbit. Apophis 99942 has been a scare for some folks for about a decade now. See YT for some sample videos.
Ah ha! I knew of it, just not the name. Thank you, Yinzer.
The total lack of self-awareness is beyond stunning.
That she and none of her retinue of ‘aids’ (you just KNOW she has them!) saw that taking off her gaudy, expensive jewelry, BEFORE videoing a statement telling the plebes not to demand higher wages, is incredible,…and its not just common, it seems like its almost MANDATORY.
Granholm, LAUGHING at the prospect of $9/ gallon gas, Buttgieg every time he opens his mouth, they are no longer making any pretence, at any sympathy, compassion or understanding of the suffering THEIR public policies are causing.
WHICH would be a prerequisite for admitting their policy failuresand correcting them.
Instead its “Damn the Icebergs (that we just hit) FULL speed ahead! And tell the passengers in steerage, to stop complaining! A little sea water never hurt anyone!”
Yes…it is the obvious glee on all their faces, dutchman. Their own little private joke. They can barely contain themselves. Granholm is the worst offender.
None know “how to do” sympathy, compassion, or understanding. Which they wouldn’t need any of, as all this is deliberate. But I think they’d eat a big juicy hamburger in front of starving children…and never blink.
Perverse, cold, cruel…. sociopaths every single one.
Solar Flare..
Gamma ray burst.
I am not sure how these people keep a straight face when they recite their lines at these death cult forums.
They actually call themselves “the elites”, CR. They’ve forgotten the history of people who thought the same of themselves…if they ever knew it.
They only exist in these positions of control because of the efforts of us Normals. We need to defund their sorry asses in this New Year.
We were asleep when that happened. We trusted. But through the grace of God we are now wide awake. A little late admittedly. But awake all the same.
Destruction and devastation follow hubris. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
I’m waiting…
When leaders are respected, the people are willing to accord them more perks and creature comforts than the average person has. However the best leaders share in adversities borne by the common people. Especially adversities they ask the people to endure.
“Despotic power is always accompanied by corruption of morality.”
~Lord Acton~
It seems we are either almost there, or the train is fast approaching the station.
Look in the rear view window of the caboose.
We passes the morality station, a long time back.
Is it time to jump off the train, perhaps?
Might as well, as its headed directly for a collapsed bridge, that used to span a deep gorge.
As for THEM?
“Ain’t it funny how
FALLING,..
seems just like
FLYING,……
Right up to the end!”
How about we start by taking every red cent these elites have and distribute it and then have them start by making under minimum wage ?
That picture of the Eu bank president has very expensive jewelry on and her dress would sell for enough to feed a village for a year.
These people while steal from countries and citizens deserve to have all their wealth completely wiped and then give them a appliance box to live in.
Europe has a history of violent popular uprisings…..just saying.
This is why all the nations of the West have been overrun by illegal immigrants. To keep wages low! Is it any wonder the Middle Class is shrinking more and more? The Elites must have their cheap labor. Believe me, life was better in the USA in the 50s and 60s and even the 70s. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but the labor movement needs a resurgence.
A second look at Michael Moore?
But we can all remember how labor was doing just fine under PDT.
Edit: Hell, yes, life was better during those decades. And every decade up until the century turned. It always felt like the Earth hit something and went barrelling off into a parallel (and very unpleasant) reality on the morning of 9-11-01. Nothing has been the same since. Not even close.
So, eager-beavers who want to work hard to lift themselves and their families out of poverty — with the promise of a brighter future, paying their won way and NOT being dependent on the socialist state for their bread and board — are to be CRUSHED in spirit with no hope of escaping the cruelty of the demonic elite eugenicists?
Is that the game?
Appears so, combined welfare and in some cases unemployment benefits exceed many lower wage jobs in quite a few states. Who wants to work when you can be on permanent vacation, though with a still modest taxpayer-financed income and Healthcare (such as it is…)
Is the child tax credit still in effect? That was keeping a lot of people home (and of course, people newly arrived with large families….)…$300+ for every child, direct-deposited into the bank acct each month while the couple next door scraped by as they got up to go to work each day never seemed right to me….
That would be my youngest sister.
She is a single mom by choice, with the full slate of bennies;
Rent subsidy, heat subsidy, medicaid, food stamps, welfare cash card. She has even figured out that if she gets a minimum wage job for a few weeks every year she qualifies for the earned income tax credit, which nets her a 4 digit “refund” to taxes she never paid in the first place.
At least once a month she hits me up for help – usually in the form of “my daughter needs…”
Sad..
All these people do is lie.
What wages is she talking about?
All they want is to vampire any wealth and control who gets it.
I’m surprised she also didn’t say, ‘Let them eat cake!’
What are the odds that she and her like will take a salary cut to show the way?
She is echoing Rishi Rich when he was at the Pre-Christmas Soup Kitchen…
https://telanganatoday.com/rishi-sunak-gets-trolled-for-his-out-of-touch-conversation-with-a-homeless-man
We should encourage them to talk more like this… Make no mistake, the EU was created to oppose the United States. They are not our allies.
Yes, the EU was orivinally SOLD as a TRADE Union, to give Europe a better bargaining position, in making Trade Negotiatios with, SPECIFICALLY the U.S.
However, it immediately morphed into something way beyond that, with massive regulations.
So, not an ally of the U.S., for sure. But not an ally of ITS OWN PEOPLE, either.
Look at this article, and listen to/read Neil Olivers latest, on “2022, Groundhog Day”.
Enemy of their own people, enemy of the U.S. (MAGA) ,…..ALL they have is wealth, and control.
And when the people collectively decide that, since the contract with government has been breached (by the government) that THEY, the People will no longer abide BY the contract, either they lose their control AND wealth, usually fairly quickly.
The European Common Market was the forerunner of the European Union. Apparently, a intra – continental free trade program wasn’t good enough for TPTB. Besides, the EU is just the former Soviet Union shifted to the west.
She says they must suppress the little people while her 10K diamond is flashing, “let them eat cake!”
The EU is in for a rude awakening!
Mike Whitney newest at UNZ: Captain Russia quoting Mercouris; Col. Douglas MacGregor, et al.
“Something Big Is On the Way”
“The Russians have decided there is no way to negotiate an end to this. No one will negotiate in good faith; therefore we must crush the enemy. And that’s what’s coming.” Colonel Douglas MacGregor (9:35 minute)
[.] why would Putin even consider negotiating with people like that; people who just lied-to-his-face for 7 years while they flooded the country with weapons that would be used to kill Russian servicemen?
And what was the objective that compelled Merkel and her Washington colleagues to lie?
They wanted a war, which is the same reason why Boris Johnson put the kibosh on an agreement that Zelensky had negotiated with Moscow in March. Johnson sabotaged the deal because Washington wanted a war.It’s that simple.
But there is a price to pay for lying, and that price comes in the form of distrust, which is the pernicious erosion of confidence that makes it impossible to resolve issues of mutual concern. Russia’s deputy chair of the national Security Council, Dmitry Medvedev, expressed his views on the matter just this week in the bitterest terms.
Bottom line: The prospects for peace in Ukraine are zilch. The US foreign policy establishment has decided that the only way it can reverse America’s accelerating decline is through direct military confrontation. The war in Ukraine is the first manifestation of that decision.
On the other hand, Russia no longer puts any stock in negotiations with the West, because western leaders cannot be trusted to honor their commitments or fulfill their treaty obligations. The irreconcilable differences of the two main parties makes escalation inevitable. Absent a partner that can be trusted, Putin has just one option for resolving the conflict: Overwhelming military force. [.]
“The Russians are not going to roll over and play dead. In fact, what the Russians are going to do is crush the Ukrainians. They are going to bring out the big guns. They are going to turn places like Kiev, and other cities in Ukraine into rubble. They’re going to do Fallujas, they’re going to do Mosuls, they’re going to do Groznys ….
When a great power feels threatened…the Russians are going to pull out all stops in Ukraine to make sure they win. …You want to understand that what we are talking about doing here, is backing a nuclear-armed great power– that sees what’s happening as an existential threat– into a corner. This is really dangerous.” (John Mearsheimer, Twitter)[.]
And here’s more MacGregor:
“It is looking more and more like the Russians would like to complete their task in Donbas first. They want to eliminate all the Ukrainian forces that are in the Donbas… Remember, this was always an economy-of-force measure. It was designed to grind up as many Ukrainians as possible at the lowest possible cost to the Russians. That’s what’s been going on in southern Ukraine (and) it continues. It has worked brilliantly. And Surovikin, the theatre commander, has said that will continue until he’s ready to launch his offensive. When the offensive is launched, it will be a very different battle.
But the interesting thing is, that the Ukrainians have taken so many casualties in the South, we are beginning to hear reports that they are on the verge of collapse. And that’s why we’re hearing about teenage boys age 14 or 15 pressed into service. …and we’re getting videos from Ukrainian soldiers saying,”The people in Kiev had better hope that the Russians get to them before we do… because we’ll kill them.” They are talking about people in the government, because they see no evidence that Zelensky’s government …gives a damn about them. They are running out of food and clothes; they are freezing, they are taking heavy casualties, and they are being driven back.”[.]
Alexander Mercouris… recently listed the exceptional series of meetings Putin has held over the past couple of weeks with the entire…. military and national security establishment. In Moscow, the Russian leader met with all of his top military commanders and national security officials (including) Sergei Surovikan, the general he put in charge of the Ukrainian operation….
Putin subsequently flew to Minsk with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu for exchanges with the Belarus political and military leadership. Then it was onward to meet with the leaders of the two republics, Donetsk and Lugansk, that were incorporated via referenda into the Russian Federation last autumn.
It is impossible to avoid concluding that these back-to-back meetings, barely covered in the Western press, portend a new, near- or medium-term military initiative in Ukraine. As Mercouris put it, “Something very big is on the way.”[.]
“The liberation of the Donbas….it is not going to end there.”
John Mearsheimer is the person that predicted back at the beginning of the Maidan in 2014 what has been happening the past year in Ukraine.
In my opinion of taking a historical view of this article, it appears to me that we have old, worn, failed and defeated ideological ideas neatly disguised in new wrapping paper known as WEF Build Back Better, NWO, Climate Change Scam. Those ideas would be Marxist, National Socialist, Fabian Socialist, Globalist Capital Corporatist, Communist all combined into a re-hashed global control scheme.
It appears at the present time, that we have a Vichy French, Christine Lagarde, et.al. teamed up with a German National Socialist, Klaus Schabb et.al., and a Ukrainian Marxist/Communist hero puppet, Zelensky et.all. Going along with this is the installed American regime and many in both parties of Congress, the Canadian WEF puppet and the WEF “leadership” in Great Britain, Australia, etc. Or in other words, the so call “free” Western World outlined in yellow as Sundance has pointed out on his map many times.
These evil, Satanic demons are using as their playbook, Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals”, Karl Marx’s “Communist Manifesto, and The 45 goals of the Communist Party from “The Naked Communist” by Willard Cleaon Skousen, Mao’s “Little Red Book,” and throw in Big Pharma for good measure. As a addeded bonus these evil scum are actively destroying “fair election” systems all across the Western World.
This demonic destruction of the Western Juedo-Christian value system is being distributed throughout the Western World by six (666) Corporate Media Propaganda companies that control appx. 90% of the media, many internet and “Social Media” companies, infiltration of our education systems, religious institutions, CEO’s of banking, investment, manufacturing, food production, etc.
If looking back at history is any indication, we all know what this leads up to and what mass destruction it causes. Tyranny in any form is still tyranny and it cannot be allowed to stand. Whether the good people of the world rise up to stop these demons who walk the earth or the Almighty creator stops them, eventually they will be stopped. Sic Semper Tyrannis.
As an interesting aside (make of it what you will),..
A map showing all the countries that require a Drs Rx for a long list of medications in YELLOW, and all countries that have NO reqirement for a Drs Rx for virtually ANY medications (and cosequently much lower medication prices) in GRAY, would look IDENTICAL to the map Sundance frequently posts, showing WEF in yellow, and BRICS+ and unaligned in Gray.
There are NO coincidences.
Nailed it, Coalman.
Liberal/NWO logic at work. Reduce one’s disposal income which is almost nil anyway due to existing record inflation of necessities while gradually starving or freezing them to death because of the politicians continued liberal/NWO policies that will drive inflation higher making life unaffordable.
Hock that woman’s jewelry, and ten families will eat well for three weeks.
Ok the picture is a thousand laughs!
Thank you Sundance-I’ll laugh into the New Year at the image of t-shirt boy zelensky.
The problem I see the poor workers can’t seem to figure out a way to stop this evil machine from advancing.
The peasants in my family choose to watch the football game instead of sharpening their tools.
I’ll continue to pray for us all. And wait for the Word to speak and Act.
Not sure how George Brassens would have felt about Christine LaGarde:
Depopulation via attrition, it’s not so hard to understand.
Christine Lagarde Antoinette, is a cold hearted wench.
She cares about her closed circle of wealthy, powerful elitists. Haves and have nots, is their endgame.
Hungry and cold people, are angry people. They care about food, shelter and warmth for themselves and loved ones.
These delusional elite are so out-of-touch with reality.
Let her eat — her glittery rings, when she’s hungry.
Looking at her immediately stopped the bulge growth, in my pants.
The Fed says the same thing = it’s wages that are the issue. What a crock. It’s government spending, end of story. They can manufacture all the stats they want but creating money with a tap of a keystroke is the problem.
I despise these WEF clowns. They are so evil.
The leader of Italy NAILED it.
The elites want a world of worker and consumer slaves who don’t know they are slaves.
These globalists are evil to their core.
Can someone photoshop the ugly and smug mug of FCL over the mug of the Progressive woman in that picture / painting where she is being tended to by her ‘slaves’ supporting her daily needs of life?
Might I mention she is well connected with the WEF.
Just leave it to the experts.
Efforts must be taken to stop tyrants from growing old.
The EU is nothing but a bureaucratic entity and has zero productive capacity of its own.
Madame Lagarde is President of a make-believe central bank, and the Euro is backed by absolutely nothing.
These legends within their own minds actually believe that the vast bulk of the population must be reduced (and their assets redistributed upward) in order to save the planet. That would stink up the place bigly. How about this instead: eliminate the entire top one percent and redistribute all of their assets downward, and see if that solves the problem. Much more economical and environmentally friendly.
Pelosi Raises Salary Cap For House Staffers to $212,100 as Bidenflation Hurts American Families
Well, isn’t this special. Can’t raise our own wages, but we’re just peons…… HER peons get raises.
Happy New Year to all…
Hidden in that recent $1.7 trillion Pork Bill was an across-the-board minimum raise of 4.6% for government employees.
All we need now is somebody to drag out the Guillotine and we’ll be back on the track of History ..
These infernal peasants. Let them eat cake. Or something like that. Some things never change.
Plus ca change, plus c’est la meme chose.
Most of the people in this country don’t have a clue about the workings of economics or finance. I wouldn’t count on their waking up to the the ways in which government is manipulating the peasantry for their own fun and profit.
As long as she can skim a billion off the top.
Bring back the guillotine. Let justice be done!
Why do today’s “leaders” all look like they were costumed and made-up in Hollywood?
You should change your tag of Big Stupid Government to Big Evil Government.
I will be most happy when the plebs give this sanctimonious princess the light pole treatment.
Christine Lagarde has always struck me as a witch and tool of Satan.
We are back to tearing it all down! It’s time to ruin them!
It will be the Muslims running FILTHY Europe in a few years so who cares what happens to the Europistanians. It will be Dhimmi life for them. Whogivesastan?
Stop wage growth while experiencing inflation well beyond what’s reported?
You will learn to get along on less…..is the message.
A great world benefit would be doing away with central banks.
Lagarde is an acolyte of Obama…she worked for a big Chicago law firm back in the day. She was installed as head of the IMF in 2011 after a “scandal” drove out the previous head. now head of the ECB. she, like Obama will die of natural causes because no one on our side has enough power to punish them. you’ll never get them through ‘proper channels”
Her face alone strikes horror that her words back up. Those rings on her finger show her elitism Better than thou and “We have tools” methods.
Lower wages–higher profits for these scumbags.
Lower wages and less employees on the Government Payroll. Cut Government Management by 70% ala Musk’s axe to Twitter’s deadweight.
Stop all Government expenditure to taxes taken in. Period.
No more debt, no more money printing. No more blind, mute Princes and Princesses.
Christine’s views and costume suggests she’s Darth Vader’s tranny brother.