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. {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 “autarchy” 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. 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.” But rather 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.
[SOURCE]
We are through the looking glass folks. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Take that same $200 into the average USA supermarket and you get one shopping cart or less. This is the scale of what is likely to happen in durable goods. The “cleaving” is underway.
Let me say that again, the “cleaving” of dollar-based price/value is underway.
Starbucks pulled out of Russia. The building still exists, the furniture still there, the equipment still there, just a different name, “Star Coffee” lolol. Starbucks is roughly $6 for whatever, the StarCoffee is $1. Same stuff. A cab/uber ride in USA might be $25, or in EU might be €30, but outside the yellow zone around $6 to $10/max. 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. The increased price of the yellow zone goods transfers into the grey zone when the product is moved. 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. [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. Wait and see.
China needs energy, Russia needs computer chips and tech. They are trading thusly. Now watch… if the sanctions are ever lifted, we will start importing Russian made electronic goods, because less expensive. It’s nuts.
Remember, our ‘western’ government is doing this to us on purpose.
I vividly remember flying into Moscow back in the bad old days, carrying extra pairs of jeans in my luggage and children’s sized t shirts, never mind my own stash of toilet paper (the Soviet stuff was akin to medium grade sandpaper). There were lines everywhere, often leading into stores with empty or near empty shelves. Simple gifts earned a lot of good will from the people I was there to work with.
No more. Russia is prospering, but we should not minimize the fact that it’s birth rate is well below the replacement threshold. They have medium and long term problems that are going to get worse over time.
Ah yes….. Quilted Northern Rustic Weave- Artisanal Toilet Paper.
A great invention…!!!! 🙂
My father had a business trip in Europe back in the ’80’s, so he took his 70 year old parents with him.
They visited Poland behind the iron curtain.
He talked about the stores where there was one type of cheese, one type of everything.
Empty shelves.
Surprisingly, they asked around a town for relatives. They were pointed to a home, and the distant cousins they had never met, let them in and fed them dinner.
My father said that the teenage girl had never heard of London, or Rome, where they had just traveled.
Essentially, this family were peasants. Just like my ancestors had been. Of course, most people hundreds of years ago were peasants.
John Evans: I remember the Soviet era. Let’s not go overboard with admiration of “modern Russia.” Nice grocery stores are today’s version of a Potemkin Village.
I spent a lot of time behind the Iron Curtain in the 70s and 80s, and not all in the Soviet Union. I went back a lot in the period 2003-2013. To me, the biggest comparison and contrast is between fear, and its absence. It isn’t about grocery stores.
John Evans: Of course, it’s not about grocery stores. That’s why Tucker is talking about grocery stores. It’s superficial. The Russian soul is not found in grocery stores, unlike the American soul, which is perfectly reflected in grocery stores.
Speak for yourself.
At some point it is necessary to let the past go. It is quite possible that Russia is a modern state that cares for it’s people. It is also quite possible that Russia does not want to rule the world and wants to be treated as an equal. To consider those possibilities is not overboard. I think it is realistic.
Andrew: Yes, Russia is up-to-date and modern. But, it’s still Russia and Russia has always been a hard place, as reflected in hundreds of years of Russian history and literature.
The big news in the west is the death of Navalny. The question is “Who benefits?”
Is this to the benefit of Vladimir Putin right now? Absolutely not. The Tucker Carlson-Putin interview has had enormous positive reactions in the west. Ukraine is losing – and so is the US, the EU, NATO, and all the western interests.
And Congress has refused to pass the $91 billion boondoggle that the MIC, NATO, EU, US, western intelligence, BlackRock, and the transnational corporations and banks INSIST must be passed.
So, first Mike Turner tells us of super secret nuclear space weapons. Second, the west’s media darling Navalny dies and even before any autopsy or any real knowledge except the bare facts of the circumstance, Putin is a murderous villain. Maybe now, Congress will pass the $91 billion…..hmmmm?
Navalny is a scum bucket. He has multiple times been convicted of fraud and despite those convictions, he was still allowed to run for mayor of Moscow. He lost. He was going to be arrested and suddenly, he is out of Russia because of a supposed “poisoning”. How did he get out of Russia? Was this so he could meet with his masters and get more publicity in the west? Where is the proof that he was poisoned with supposed nerve agents?
Do not trust the media reporting on this any more than any other media reporting. Just like the Nordstream pipelines’ destruction, think about who benefits.
@Belle,You will also find my Russia vs the Western terrorist proxies of Al-Qaeda & ISIS terrorist/mercs in Africa interesting which I posted on this thread today. Muslim terrorism is a construct of the Fabian Globalists and are their proxies or ‘frenemies’
Russia Threatens Moldova With ‘Military Scenario’ Over Transnistria
https://balkaninsight.com/2024/02/16/russia-threatens-moldova-with-military-scenario-over-transnistria/
Is the guy with sunglasses and beard (second from right) in the right-hand photo Al-Baghdadi? The leader of ISIS?
It sure does look like him. There are also other photos of Al-Baghdadi with McCain.
McQaeda was also a big supporter of the Kosovo Liberation Army terrorists
Of course, wherever evil lurks, KLA is there as he/they are the evil, along with their American friends. Tebje Gospodi Boze u Tvoje ruke raspored!
For you dear donna,
Bog te blagoslovio
McCain and the KLA Connection
https://original.antiwar.com/justin/2000/02/25/mccain-and-the-kla-connection/
here is evil right in front of our faces the clown picture in back for
child sex trafficking/harvest.
Benghazi – Benghazi – Benghazi
The story that will not die.
What was Obama’s CIA doing in Benghazi. And why did Trey Gowdy have to take a fall, for Obama stonewalling the entire secret operation?
Use the CTH search bar, enter Benghazi Brief, plan on a few hours catching up.
No one has created a more accurate, detailed and authoritative timeline and explanation of Benghazi than Sundance.
Why do you believe anything they tell you about some guy named Navalny?
turn it off.
Does it sound like she believes what the West is spewing about Navalny?
Quite the contrary, she has sussed out the reality of the man and shared it with us.
Virtue signaling about news sources is just plain silly, especially when dismissing the thoughts of an information omnivore like Belle.
too much fake news imo. All day everyday comrad. What would the MSM do without their unwitting little helpers….
Turn It OFF
My view is the timing raises question marks. In prison his ability to criticize was already severely hampered.
Maybe someone decided he is more value as a martyr than as an ineffective critic.
However knowing what we know and if we ever get the full picture, we can’t rule out that Putin is a murderous stupid villain (as in the Hollywood movies). But between the two I think one is more likely than the other. Can only guess though.
Qui bono is indeed the question.
The death of Navalny was INCREDIBLY FORTUITOUS TIMING for the following reasons / events:
1] Tucker Carlson Interview: was the interview of the century, giving Putin a lot of positive press.
2] The Munich Security Conference: with 80+ heads of state attending, is just starting.
3] US Congress Funding Debate: Will the US send another $60 billion to Ukraine? It is under debate with very thin margins.
4] The Russian Election: is one month away, due to take place on March 17th, 2024
5] Avdiivka Fortress Falling: troops are surrounded and the BBC warns the city could fall at any moment.
And don’t forget they elevated Navalny massively last year with an Oscar Award for Best Documentary, making him hugely significant in Western elite circles.
Thus, the death of Navalny could take the sheen off of the Tucker Carlson interview, cutoff all peaceful avenues at the Munich Security Conference, force the US Congress to provide the $60 Billion to Ukraine, delegitimize the upcoming Russian election and distract the Western public from the fall of Avdiivka.
I just formulated that list extemporaneously, then decided to check the headlines:
1] Tucker Carlson turns on Putin after Alexei Navalny’s death in jail: ‘It’s horrifying, barbaric and awful – no decent person would defend it’ – The Daily Mail
2] Navalny’s wife delivers “surprise” speech at global security conference – The Hill
3] Biden Uses Navalny’s Death To Push For More Russian War Funding – Zero Hedge (media compilation)
4] Alexei Navalny: reported death of Putin’s most prominent opponent spells the end of politics in Russia – The Conversation
5]
Its word craft, as Headline 1 already assumes Putin did it.
Biden in his presser did not know the details, but he DID know Putin did it .. just lol then?
There’s just as much proof to say a 3 letter agency did it.
Not sure why the US is playing this card, as the people stupid enough won’t know who Navalny is and the people smart enough would know better.
Putin mentioned that in the Carlson interview. Why try to publish the Russian findings about NordStream II when it will get buried by Wall-t0-Wall bombardment coverage of whatever the Western media wants report? It is like spitting in the wind. When the Western media shouts, it drowns out everything else. I think we are watching what Putin was talking about in real time with this.
When a useful to the West idiot becomes more useful as a dead idiot, his days are numbered.
Billions are at stake.
$$ Trillions $$
Ultimately, yes, I was contemplating the mere 60 Billion that we are so stingy about coughing up that the Derps had to off a stooge to make it happen.
Leastwise, seems more likely than what the Derps are telling us happened.
Trillions.
Absolutely, but 60B is the magic number du jour.
Alexei Navalny: The Real Story – The Postil Magazine
☝️☝️
written June 2023
“Now watch… if the sanctions are ever lifted, we will start importing Russian made electronic goods, because less expensive. It’s nuts. Remember, our ‘western’ government is doing this to us on purpose.”
Let’s see, we are building and strengthening the Russian tech economy at the same time we are characterizing Russia as the villain? Rings a bell. We shipped American manufacturing to China as part of the Third Way plan to morph the Chinese economy into a hybrid communist/capitalist system. The deindustrialization of America was no accident, no unintended consequence, no contradiction. The plan was to push China to the right while America would be pushed left, both ending up as hybrid Third Way states. Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, all in on it.
So, when the war in Ukraine is settled by agreement, and it’s “war’s over, all is forgiven,” and a weakened America starts buying from a strengthened Russia, well, doesn’t it begin to look like the plan all along was to pump up the Russian economy? Remember, there ARE NO contradictions. When you think you see one, it means one or more of your underlying assumptions is false.
Have our “betters” decided that a unipolar world would be replaced with a tri-polar system? Sure sems that way. I wonder what their name for the plan is?
Trapper, it reminds me of this well-produced ad from 2010, set in 2030, with a Chinese professor lecturing his students about the downfall of America, due to taxing, borrowing, changes in healthcare, etc., and the punchline, “And now they work for us.” It chilled me then, and chills me even more now.
Describe China’s future the day after the US ends trade or shuts off the Persian Gulf.
Shame Meatball didn’t take a page out of Putin’s playbook and own his diminutive stature. Putin is definitely comfortable in his own skin.
Runt’s problem isn’t being short, it’s being small.
Small Runt
-grunt
I have come across a YouTuber in Kaluga Russia. It’s called ” Vasya in the Hay”. He helps a lot of poor and remote folks. It is worth viewing. It is not anything like what is being shown in Moscow, but as with our country there is such diversity of income and living standards. I would like to visit Russia one day.
Thank you, Sundance!
Sundance,
How does this separation of yellow and gray play out within your analysis of how corporations manipulate both to raise money from the yellow zone.
This paragraph got me to thinking that they are related.
“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. Wait and see.”
It is like Soros busting the pound to make a hefty profit. The dollar is being busted and the Davis types will profit while the people suffer.
Anyways, it might be of help to rethink the old thinking to see how current events will play out.
Thanks.
They want to crash the system to usher in the great reset
What the wages of consumers are, taxes, RE costs, and their cost of living, also come into play.
The cart didn’t look like $400 worth to me. That would be 2 full carts to some, unless they loaded up on meat.
Tucker mentioned Whole Foods, which I wonder if that is his frame of reference for where the average American (or he himself) shops for groceries. If so, it’s not called “Whole Paycheck” for n0thing. It’s a lot pricier than the average Giant Eagle or Kroger’s store.
Also, as for the clean streets and nice subways — some of that probably has to do with policing. Many strict dictatorships have very clean and orderly cities, because people know they are being watched, and they are too afraid to break even the minor rules, knowing there will be swift and immediate punishment. So tidiness is not always a barometer for quality of life in a city. (And I wonder if Tucker was corralled or restricted as to which parts of Moscow they could travel to or observe? Just wondering if that would have made a difference.)
However, there is a lot to be said for a well-run city, where laws are enforced, and there is a community expectation of order and cleanliness. I think about my visits to NYC in the ’70s, before Mayor Guiliani, and after. It was a world of difference. The 42nd St porn shops and theaters were gone, and replaced by the Disney shop and other family-friendly businesses. Drugs, crime, and homelessness went way down, the subways were clean and didn’t smell like urine, and you felt a lot safer there, even at night. We could use another round of the Mayor’s leadership in NYC and other American cities today.
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/giuliani-campaign-press-release-mayor-giuliani-cleaned-new-york-city
I watched a similar video filmed when the US was experiencing shortages of baby formula, etc… over 2 years ago. The journalist went to a small market, then to a costco like store in Russia…same results. Fully stocked store, prices way less than here.
Yes, well sorry to say that Disney still represents porn and perversion. If you’ve seen the old black & white cartoons of Mickey Mouse, you’ll know that it was always deeply embedded in Disney’s propaganda/programming.
Eagle, you missed my point.
That’s untrue. Walt was a good guy
Yes. The modern destruction of Disney is an act of spite against Walt’s legacy.
No noticing who’s doing it either.
Its called “broken window policing”, where police enforce even the ‘minor’ laws, like subway turnstyle jumping, and it DOES lower overall crime.
Agree, Dutchman. So different from today’s not prosecuting theft under $500…
Inflation,…in Cal. I beloeve its $900.
And, the thieves know; if they mug you, and you have $1000, they will take your wallet and return $100 to you.
Bizarre.
The cleanliness and lack of crime in Moscow and Russian cities is the result of cultural differences. People take pride in their communities and nation. Just as public politeness to strangers is the norm. The pricing for everything is much lower than the west and quality is equal or higher. People express personal and political opinions openly. There is no sense of fear or oppression. The attitude toward authority is different. People, in general, support a strong government and leadership. The common education level is far higher than here. When the sheer size of the country and the dozens of ethnicities and religious beliefs, the length of time it has remained a united country is remarkable. Criminal activity is treated severely. The current US/NATO war being waged against Russia has unified the country. The young men killed at the front are not from a professional soldier class as is the case for American soldiers killed in remote locations far from our country. They are protecting their country from an existential threat on its’ land borders. Russian civilians are killed in border communities and Moscow has seen terror drone attacks, as well as assassinations against individuals. It is Ukraine that has become a terrorist dictatorship.
Thank you Brian.
I recommend reading on World Island Theory (aka Heartland Theory). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Geographical_Pivot_of_History
In short, unite Asia and rule the world.
My concerns in understanding what is going on on Russia involve the nature of the social situation there.
It is my understanding that the divorce rate is the highest, or amongst the highest in the world. Abortion is apparently extremely high.
I have no solid idea of how influential religion is in Russia. I understand Orthodoxy is growing, churches are going up, but I have little solid on the ground information.
In relation to America it’s hard to compare, as marriage is being destroyed here. Religion is being marginalized and unbelief is growing among the manipulated younger, state “educated” population.
So, it’s difficult to fathom. Before the Ukraine situation I had social media contact with a number of Russians and their families. Their public life is not polluted by spiritually sick sexual nihilism and race division. Their kids seem happy and disciplined in their schools, their public infrastructure isn’t crime ridden. On this basis, I believe they are doing quite well.
Links?
Why?
He cited personal relationships.
Not exactly something for which one can provide, or demand, links.
Oh, and before we swoon with admiration for all things Russian, a little cold water.
“The Russian prison service has said Alexi Navalny “fainted and died quickly”, the death of the political prisoner, opposition leader, and critic of the Russian President already being called a “political assassination”. Anti-corruption campaigner and opposition party leader Alexi Navalny, who had previously survived a poisoning attempt by the infamous Russian nerve agent Novichok in 2020 and who has spent years in prison, has died, Russia says. ”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2024/02/16/putin-critic-russian-opposition-leader-alexi-navalny-dies-in-prison/
And before you swoon over this guy’s death, try reading up on all of his bribery and corruption scandals and convictions that are abundant.
trapper will mourn adam schifft too….
Not good.
This seems similar to what happened in Ukraine to Gonzalo Lira and what the current US government would like to do to Donald Trump.
This guy was convicted by a Russian court.
Of course, that is what a number of American courts / prosecutors are trying to do to Donald Trump. Fani Wills comes to mind.
It is amazing that more people do not seem to see this.
This guy has been the subject of multiple scandals over years.
And that proves what?
Donald Trump is under several prosecutions by our government (Jack Smith, Fani Willis, etc., etc.) and they want to throw him in prison.
Do you think that makes him guilty?
Multiple cases going back prior to 2010.
And you comparing him to the stature of Trump.
This is not the first attempt at diversion/distraction.
But the bottom line is this:
It doesn’t matter what Putin is or is not in his country. That is for the Russians to decide.
&
Putin’s enemy is the same as America/MAGA’s – the corrupt multinationals, WEF, DS/IC, and central banksters.
That makes him an ally of sorts. And a damn powerful one at that.
Chew on that for a while.
Now is not the best time to call Putin an ally, even of sorts.
Silence would be much better right now.
That’s an interesting demand to make in the midst of the best conversation on the web.
You can stay silent if you choose. Not me.
And what is the basis of what appears to be phobias against Putin and Russia?
I try and remind Treepers here about the Globalists creation & collusion with terrorist groups in the Balkans & Middle east. Russia was fighting the terrorists, America & Co, not really.
feral tom saaaadly is not able chew…..
Offing Navalny immediately after the positive consequences of Tucker’s interview of Putin accomplishes what?
Nothing for Russia.
Billions, if not scores of Trillions in light of overall Western goals of dismembering Russia, are at stake.
Navalny was not poisoned by Novichok. This is a lie sold by the media. Your quotation marks are off. Russia never said he was poisoned.
Remember when Gorbachev visited a British grocery story with Thatcher?
I had a friend from Hungary that I decided to hire to write some code (circa 1985). I lived in Arlington at the time. and we went to the grocery store up the street. He was amazed at the quantity and quality of goods. So much so, that he asked if we could go to a different grocery. Same amazement.
And yet much of the mob blindly continues to believe there is a war in Ukraine while posting propaganda video and image clips they found on google.
“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.”
What part of ALL Lies do you not understand?
If people refuse to believe the war propaganda, the new world order loses its justification for everything you just read in the post.
Fake War/s
Walter Duranty called.
He wants his shtick back.
Fake News Junkies
Where have I seen Greta’s look before?
Thats it!
So those few corporations in the ‘yellow’ zones get to poison the people with GMOs and whatever else in the food and water so they are unhealthy.
Those few corporations in the medical INDUSTRY reap the profits of the poisoning with their treatments and vaccines.
The few corporations who monopolize the information sectors -media tell the people through advertising and programing to look down on whites, particularly white Christian males, all ads being multiracial most leading with black female and wearing a hijab.
Those corporations get all kinds of CORPORATE WELFARE from the taxpayers of each of those countries.
The powerful of those corporations meet at Davos and cook up more of their psycho plans for the peasants UNDER THEIR CONTROL.
No one talks much about one of President Trump’s first big deals in office was getting the US out of the TPP and Paris agreements.
Those corporations had given themselves in the TPP the POWER TO SUE COUNTRIES for interfering in their profits.
Clearly, the corporate powerful do not intend to ALLOW him back into the Whitehouse, they are used to being in charge after all. I suspect that is why Sundance keeps mentioning the trillions at stake.
WEF is a suicide pact for the West on behalf of China.
World War Xi.
Conducted by the City of London.
Btw, how come T Carlson got an invite to speak at the World Governments Summit 2024 in Dubai? The truth has no agenda.
-So does Sundance
well said
So true! Me, too!!
Sundance, thank you for this expose´ on what is happening with this sham economy of America. Now we can add it to:
Shampeachment of President Trump
Scamdemic of the ‘Vid-19
Multiple war fronts started ” for our democracy.”
Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
I’m sorry but all this outrage over Navalney by the Biden administration makes me sick.
Putin and Russia are bad, bad, bad for jailing a leader of the opposition party who has now died.
Look at what Biden and his cronies are doing to Donald Trump and people who raised concerns about election integrity, the folks who assembled in DC on J6, parents who object to pornography in schools, and people who shop at Bass Pro Shops!
They aspire to do what they condemn Putin for doing.
Have you read his bio and of all the bribery and corruption convictions he had as the mayor of Moscow?
I wonder if this politician was one of those bribing the Biden mafia?
Navalny? I see your Navalny, and raise you Epstien, Snowden and Assange!
So, shut the F up about Navalny, already!
(Not you, B.K.!) 🙂
😂
You can add Gonzalo Lira as well.
RIP.
The left always accuses others of what they are doing.
If Navalny was working with foreign countries to undermine Russia… (is that his country?) Then a normal person would say he should be jailed.
Anyone remember Clinton working with a British spy to undermine Trump?
Now you know why the Clinton judges are going after him.
you could even say that dollarization was spreading inflation globally into non-yellow zone which is now withdrawn to realistic pricing.
I was at a kid’s sporting meet at an upscale neighborhood where most people work for multinationals, university or government. Someone grabbed me and said “you need to come talk to this Russian woman about Trump”.
I went over to the folks talking. The Russian was the mother of one of the kids and a homeowner there – 40’ish and well educated. She was telling everyone to be very afraid of Trump , that he was a dictator like Putin who she had fled and that like Putin, Trump would destroy this country.
I told her I kind of agreed with her – but its that we need a return to nationalism in America like Russia’s growing nationalism. I said she probably does not yet see it but, the US federal government is basically a form of global fascism. She adamantly insisted I defend that, and then mostly agreed with my characterization of our once-Republic.
“So yes”, I said, “Trump is like Putin” and asked her if it was the new Russia she was escaping, or was it her hatred of Putin. She stormed off furiously.
Was she “Russian?” Or just from Russia?
Exactly!
Well done!
I’m fundamentally confused. A 30 mile cab ride for $5…does that mean that Tucker needs to work at his labor for about 7 seconds to earn that cab ride?
What does it mean that the cab ride costs the ruble equivalent of $5? Seems like pre-Euro Europe, where Germans planned their vacation around exchange rates with southern European countries at the time. Whomever devalued their currency last got the bulk of German vacationers.
How many labor units must a Muscovite devote to pay for that cab ride?
I noticed that also.
Even at 60 mph, that’s 1/2 hour of labor and vehicle use (one way). Add in maintenance and administration and it looks like there must be some pretty big subsidies there.
You missed that it was a posit from Sundance on what the service side , which Tucker did not cover.
That would mean costs of fuel and vehicle, maintenance, etc. are all lower as well.
Market side AND service side are lower in cost.
Abelard: Name any place you would want to go in Russia, other than, say, downtown Moscow, via a $5 taxi ride.
A Uber ride for two people in Brazil is cheaper than to the bus fare. It’s about demand. Also, a lot of young men who can’t find work anywhere else, starts driving for a living.
Conversion rate USD to Rubles = $1.00 = $92.28 rubles, so conversion rate is 92.28, or $92.28 Rubles per $1.00 USD
Cost of Groceries USD to Rubles = $104 x 92.28 = $9,597.12 Rubles
Average Annual US Salary = $59,428
Average Annual Russian Salary = $1,240,000 rubles, or $13,437.36 USD ($1,240,000 / 92.28)
Cost of Groceries in Russia is $9,597.12, or about 0.77% of one year’s salary in Russia ($9,597.12 / $1,240,000)
Cost of comparable groceries in US (say $300) is about 0.50 percent of one year’s salary in USA ($300 / $59,428 = 0.005048)
I’m struggling to see the point. If the above math is right the average Russian family is paying more of it’s annual income in weekly groceries when compared to their American counterparts – right?
I guess if you only factor in groceries into a person’s budget then, okay.
What about medical insurance, housing, vehicles, gas, oil, energy, property taxes, payroll taxes, home/auto insurance, veterinary care, and income taxes?
Before Pedo Joe, poorer people did not complain about the price of fast food. Now, they are being priced out of a Big Mac Meal.
Do you have details about all of those costs in Russia and how they stack up against costs in the U.S.? I would love to see them. Inflation sucks, but my point is that I’m not sure the grocery argument is very meaningful when you compare apples to apples and that’s the example given by Tucker (groceries). It seems they (Russians) are experiencing high costs of living in the food department – higher than in the U.S. if the math is right. Sure, it would be nice to pay $104/week for enough groceries to feed a family of four, but not if the average annual income is only $13,438 – USD.
I agree, I would love to have the cost breakout. I did some looking and haven’t found anything definitive or any good charts. I did find a story that was fascinating to read. It’s a story about how an average Russian spends his money. It’s worth the reading time.
https://www.rbth.com/lifestyle/327613-russians-money-costs
I have friends that lived in Ukraine,. Let me tell you something. When Biden and Obama started the coup in 2014… their Grocery prices skyrocketed. I still remember them posting comparable prices in pics from a year earlier. Guess what? It looks just like the Trump- Biden grocery price Comparison. What a coincidence that is….. not only that, but when the IMF came in they also Jacked up the taxrates on the Ukrainians.
Well done.
Have always hated ’round-abouts’, now I know WHY!
No offense to your comment, for I hate them also, but I cannot stand the people who drive thru the roundabouts, angry. They stick out, like the sore thumb.
I love roundabouts.
Leastwise, in Germany where one signaled one’s intentions for exiting it in order to enable others to enter safely without undue hesitation.
Tried to get the traffic people here in Spokane to make a law requiring people to signal out of the circle, and they thought it was a great idea, but weren’t up for the hassle of education and enforcement.
I still signal out, hoping it catches on, and sometimes I see others doing it now so who knows; it’s the ninnies and the twits that make them a potential nightmare.
It is the people that speed up and pull trains, so no one else can enter that gives me a case of the a**.
There is no substitute for civilization.
Reminds me when Yeltsin, in late 1980s, visited a Randalls grocery store. To paraphrase Yeltsin, ” poor uSA”.
Interesting to see the lack of interest in the US/Coalition of going after Al-Qaeda who we were told did 9/11. The US is also illegally occupying and attacking secular Syria, who should be our ally not enemy, but that is partly because of the war criminal Neocons and other subversives controlling things in the “West”
Interesting map there you have, C!
I could make many conclusions, but I only want to address two:
1. Note that the majority of Russian strikes are made against strong, well armed ‘rebels’ that threaten the various oil/gas terminals near the coast and the Russian naval base at Tartus. Control of the terminals- revenue from taxes/fees to Assad government.
2. Note the majority of the coalition strikes in the North are along a ‘corridor’ in an area where US and Western allies support various factions against Assad. Why?
That ‘corridor’ lies EXACLTY where the Iran/Iraq pipeline was or is!
Good eye sir. It’s always about money and or energy. Note the first thing the coup traitors did after stealing the elections and placing their puppet in was to shut off our domestic energy sources, which was cutting off the real terrorist/globalist funding: Purchasing Petroleum (Spice) from the Middle East, who run the terrorist proxies for the Fabian Globalists.
🎯. All wars are economics.
World ECONOMIC Forum.
See how that works?
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It would be nice if the masses saw this and realized what was going on but few will. Back in the day, people would leave California and say they would never move back because everything there is so expensive. But now when Californians leave California.. everything is still expensive everywhere else.
Meanwhile many of those producers of products are posting record profits. The stock market seems to be rallying.. Money is being made.. by those taking advantage. But this is nothing new.
Many American consumers are so addlebrained and abby-normal at this point they don’t even know which way they’re going. They follow the current of whatever is new and their spending habits feed this nonsense. Was making a joke to my wife the other day that it’s like the 2001 movie -Josie and the Pussycats is playing out in the real world.
On the other side. We have a large push by big companies towards AI. Some people are getting new high paying jobs, many others are getting laid off.
In the middle however you have three large groups who are the life blood of the tax slave system.
The poor who live off Gov funding. All that money comes right back into the system. Even when they spend it on drugs, those dealers then buy nice cars and jewelry.
Those that work for Government. It will only get larger and soon displace the middle class. All that money comes right back into the system. Even when they give it to foreign oligarchs.. Those guys end up donating right back into the DNC/RNC who spend it on personal projects like lip filler and desantis PACs.
The middle class will continue to expand however they are finally starting to see the devaluation of wealth. As this gets worse we will see the Gov class putting even more pressure on the middle class in order to further control every aspect of their life. You see this happening now in Europe but the plan is the same here.
The only way out is through.
I didn’t leave California because of the expense, I left because the state became saturated with nutcases.
Yes, and that too is now spreading everywhere..
Known as the Dumbasspora.
Liberal Locusts destroy all wherever they go.
So the Eurodollar system has allowed the United States to live beyond its means as global trade and bank reserves required it.
Eurodollars, being debt issued outside the United States control ‘but’ are only payable in US dollars.
All debt has an interest payment, thus the need for the United States to run a trade deficit for the new dollars to pay the interest ‘and’ expand the ‘reserve’ capital base underpinning growing national currencies is also required from the modernization of the world driven by energy.
First question, what replaces the system above?
I would suggest that we go back to the system that worked for over 3,000 years, namely a physical gold standard.
In which nations with a trade deficit would deliver physical gold at a floating local ‘market’ prices to settle imbalances. The real price of gold goes up in the trade deficit country, while it goes down in the trade surplus country.
This system naturally acts as both a spur and a brake. A spur to those nations not pulling their weight by lowering the price of goods and services in their nation (relative to gold), and brake for those producing too much by raising the price of their goods and services (also relative to gold).
Frankly, it’s such an elegant system based upon the floating price of the metal that nobody needs and generally is not consumed unlike all other things of value we trade; oil, food, minerals, ideas, etc.
No corrupt leaders, Malthusian Davos cult members, PhDs or other associated parasites need to apply.
Just productive people around the globe exchange goods and services based on who can deliver them best.
Which is the free-market at its best.
Ban corporate lobbying (separation of powers) and ban financial speculation and the financialization of the economy (futures, options). Abandon fractional reserve banking. Abolish the central banks.
Go to sound money, which is not a fiat currency like the US dollar or Euro. All fiat currencies eventually inflate to their real worth: zero.
That would be a good start. Then again the above would probably reset the entire human civilization, or what would be left of it at that point. Might be smashing rocks together in a cave again before the above happens. (as in catastropic failure happens first)
“Ban”? WHO is it that is going to BAN? If you mean the Gummint, aren’t you calling for more of whats already f*ched everything up? i.e. gummint intervention.
I am calling for some principles of statecraft that have been eroded to be restored.
For “everyone branch of government to color between their lines” again.
Note when I say ban, I mean revert the legislation that allowed this in the first place.
Note there was no central banking or FED until the early 1900’s, for example.
If we take your viewpoint to the extreme it could argue that anarchy is a better form of government than a republic. I do believe for society to function there needs to be some framework, just as a house requires load carrying walls so to speak.
Big government is not the answer, but NO government is not the answer either. But maybe the human condition (being flawed creatures) is that we are eternally doomed to swing from one extreme into the other.
True, anarchy is the bottom level of a complete collapse of a tyrannical government. In fact, it’s better described as the rule of the jungle. A fact of life for most life on this planet except humans from time to time.
But this brings up what is the proper role of government. To regulate CO2 emissions, how many children we have, what car we drive, CBDC to limit how, where and what we can spend our purchasing power on etc. In a word absolute NO.
The ‘only’ legitimate role of a ‘legitimate’ government also is required to be ‘elected’ by the will of We the People is to protect; Life, Liberty(the pursuit of happiness), and Property.
Thus the only form of money that works in the above is honest money.
Free productive men can only conduct the exchange of real values using real money.
This is the gift of God, through the Bible, telling us what real money is.
It’s the money of freemen.
Don’t you see what a gift from God this revelation is?
So you either accept the entire bible or you accept none of it.
God had a commandment on what money is and is not.
You need political power to ‘ban’ anything
Yes, we freemen, at least those who can still think and understand, know the problem.
But the goal here is to transition in the least disruptive way possible into a freemen money system.
It will occur regardless, just like the collapse of the USSR, only after much death a suffering.
All lies (Satan, which is the father of all lies) incur a debt to the truth (which is God).
Sooner or later that debt, like all debts, are paid one way or the other.
Given how few comments I have on such a profound concept above, perhaps this is the way of the world, even amongst those who claim to be aware, but with no excuse of ignorance.
However, I’m still glad to be counted before God among the enlightened and not the ignorant intelligent enough and willing to spread the truth.
Such was the same before God came to dwell among us.
His message was the same.
God ordained that only gold and silver are real money. The very same requirement is in our Constitution.
Think long and hard about why that shouldn’t still be the standard of all value.
God created an abundance and the humans fight over scarcity.
So true.
Most don’t know that just one cubic meter of the Earth’s crust has 30x the nuclear energy of oil. We are fracking oil through rock that has many orders of energy vs what we are attempting to produce.
Think about that for a minute.
In short, the Earth has the nuclear energy of a ball of oil 30x its size.
And yet this same energy could be used to destroy mankind as well as save mankind.
Deuteronomy 30:19
It’s shameful that Tricker is such an idiot. He really is stupid. He has access to anyone in the western world from which to learn from and yet he chooses to be ignorant.
Yes. It really is terrible. Shameful.
What a stupid, stupid man.
His choices are horrible.
His ignorance is beyond description.
What a complete waste of time and effort….
Takes me back Dodger Stadium, in about 1978, as I am attending a game with our two young sons. We weren’t quite in the cheap seats, but high up. The man behind us kept on yelling at the umpires and the players, cussing, and waving his arms to point where his beer was being sloshed out of the cup and splashing on my shoulders and back.
I couldn’t help but think to myself that day, “And yet….here you are–screaming and yelling and slopping beer over me while they are down there being paid to play the game.”
Yeah, Bettie, like you said. Shameful, idiotic, stupid, ignorant Tricker…..it’s no wonder he is completely ignored on all sides of media output and consumption.
We’re gonna need a bigger /Sarc!
hehehe
classic
Yes he does, but we’ve heard their broken record songs and dances many times before, so why not a different perspective? Isn’t that what real journalism is all about?
Gonzo Lira…. Tortured and killed in a Ukraine jail.. All governments kill people. Including ours.
Hillary killed Gaddafi and bragged about it.
I’d say less bragged than rejoiced, even reveled.
Evil hag.
God rest Gonzalo’s soul and bless his family.
And Obama killed BinLaden and bragged about it.
So may I take it everyone else here also survived the Russian attack from outer space?
I bought the insurance from that ad on tv.
Insurance against an assurance or “assurance insurance.”
Wasn’t it the WINTER OF Death? ohhh that was our “pole turtle Biden” threatening us with his Winter of Death.
WOW! Sundance love how you explain the truth. Your spot on. Keep CENTERED Sundance for
many like you now are swimming in a ocean of blood thirsty sharks. I say “with God all
things are possible.” Thank you for insight and truth. Blessing follow you
They want us stuck in Plato’s cave. Age old formula…… that works if you can set it up just so.
How to get the word out to the people….
Bet Tucker with his over inflated ego will think he and he alone can stop WW lll. Anyone know who is funding his trips? I know he is a multi millionaire but they usually don’t spend their own money.
His viewers are paying…
Kat Stansell with another great post. This time she reveals the Democrat’s “Project Clerk Work.”
Project Clerk Work has noted that “election subversion” in 2024 is not going to be a mob storming the Capitol; it’s going to be a county clerk in MI, or a supervisor of elections in Florida who decides to fuck the whole thing up.”
Everyone wants the corrupt politicians out, but I don’t see their replacments stepping forward. Meanwhile the Dems are recruiting and training their army of commies to take over election offices
https://pat4evr.substack.com/p/the-enemy-agrees-hear-it-from-politico
Found in the bin… 🙁
Huntington Beach voters deciding three measures in March, including requiring voter ID
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/huntington-beach-voters-deciding-three-measures-in-march-including-requiring-voter-id/ar-BB1hCw3a
The Secrataries of State are how our local elections were ultimately captured.
Our system of elections was PURPOSEFULLY DECENTRALIZED and the Electoral College protected us from any states stuffing the popular vote.
After the hanging chad debacle in Florida, they focused on the SOS position in multiple states and made sure this joke “cErTiFiCaTiOn” process was installed by useful idiots SOSs that would make sure the private vendors INSTEAD OF OUR LOCALS, told us who won the elections.
Over 2 decades, they centralized and federalized our local elections allowing them to steal any race at will.
And like a carnival game operator, the media gamified the process making us think that we just had to try again to win the rigged game.
They had us arguing over two uniparty candidates while the real American First candidates were typically squashed in the primaries.
The first step at fixing any problem is to correctly identify it.
https://pat4evr.substack.com/p/sos-nationwide-caution-is-advised
Consume only State Approved Information and all will be well, Comrade.
George Soros targeted SoS positions all over the Country – for at least 6 years. We knew he was doing it at the time… and yet nothing was really done to stop him.
Soros is working for the British, this is all organized by them.
Still, he has to remember that Putin is no choirboy, either. We’re surrounded by knaves.
Allegedly Navalny has just died recently in a Russian prison.
He collapsed and he was unable to be resuscitated from what I gather.
He was a main Putin critic.
Questions I have on this
Why did he die now? He has been a Putin critic for many years, he spoke his thoughts in public (no doubt his actions reflected his beliefs as well) and some people did not like it. The attempts to silence him went on for at least a couple of years now.
Did someone decide he would be better as a martyr than as a critic (of which the wings were already clipped) – as he was not allowed to speak freely for many years?
It’s strange why would Putin choose to kill his most known opposition voice if he already is in prison, cannot speak freely and just before the election. Your mind goes to something but that is too obvious in this case. What do you think? I am thinking a 3 letter acronym and a color revolution.
I personally feel we should live in a world where everybody should be able to speak his mind freely and we can only have freedom of speech ourselves if we grant it to others as well. That being said people in power often do not share such a belief and they think an “intervention” is easier than debating on facts. Just wanting to explore all angles on this timing and the “qui bono”.
One thing is for sure and that is Putin’s critic dying in prison could not come at a better time for those wanting still more money for Ukraine.
It also takes away from Zelinsky’s critic dying in a Ukraine prison and the fact that Biden wants Donald Trump to die in an American prison.
When Gonzalo Lira – a US citizen- died in a Ukraine prison it was mostly crickets from the MSM, truth.
OK we know the truth when Biden takes the opportunity to speak about Navalny in a public presser.
Apparently Navalny’s death is important enough to pump up Biden with the medications so he can actually read stuff off the teleprompter for 4 minutes.
Whodunit: Navalny was killed by the 61 billion-to-Ukraine US bill.
Would any of these “journalists” inquire about Gonzalo Lira please? Pft.
Pumping up with medications alone is not enough, the subject must be rested to build up sufficient reserves of energy first, essentially stimulants write a check that will bounce if the brain doesn’t have the cash on hand.
Hence, a strong possibility exists that they were preparing for this unexpected event.
Biden heading to Delaware this weekend, to dry out.
The only thing his brain has on hand is tungsten bars wrapped with 18k gold foil….
Remembering George Kennan
https://www.amren.com/news/2024/02/remembering-george-kennan/
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Maybe these should be posted in General topic?
What’s this mean?
How does one go from “technocracy” to “humanocracy?”
Elon: I have a Neuralink chip for your brain’
Looks like the proxy war is about over too.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/02/avdiivka-defenses-collapse-ukrainians-evacuate-chaos-before-being/
“Russian forces have divided the strongly fortified Donbas city of Avdiivka in two and are strangling Ukrainian troops in the southern section as they now control the main supply line – while combat is also ongoing in the north around the bastion of the Coke plant.
One image that surfaced yesterday: the Russian flag is unfurled at the Stella, the exact place where Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky took his defiant selfie picture”
Ouch!
Trust. The. Plan.
Sundance – what sayest thou?
SQuirrel!
Regarding Navalny: Andrew Breitbart, Seth Rich and Jeffery Epstein are unavailable for comment. Among others.
do you believe Epstein is dead ???
It’s the last line that’s key.
The so called elites are doing this on purpose.
Why? To crash the system and bring in the great reset.
Remember Agenda 2030? There’s your time line.
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Reports are that they
currently working on
the next round of
sanctions.
Russian Sanctions package #13.
And that this one includes
China and India.
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The insanity continues….
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I’m curious as to where Russia gets their pharmaceuticals from.
Healthcare in “grey zone” Country, Brazil:
A 76 yo has been waiting for a colonoscopy for 207 days.
She receives a pension of about U$300.00 a month and from it she pays about U$100.00 for condominium, which includes water and electricity on her apartment.
(For the last 6 months she’s living in a care facility, and we pay for almost U$700 monthly.)