Major War Next Year
Stock up on food, water and fuel
Making Preparations,
"There Is Simply No Way Out" - Charles Nenner Warns Of 'Anti-Dollar' Global War In H2 '23"
People don’t trust what is going on in the United States. . . . We have seen this happen to other countries. We saw this happen to the British.
They are going to go to another major currency. The BRIC countries and China are preparing to have an anti-dollar. I have told you for years that the dollar is not going to crash, but now it is time.
Is this the set-up for a nuclear false-flag, to be pinned-on Russia? The shelling of Europe's largest nuclear reactor sets the stage and justifies preparations for fallout.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces Gen. Valery Zaluzhny stated "There is a direct threat of the use, under certain circumstances, of tactical nuclear weapons by the Russian armed forces." He wrote this in an op-ed published by state run outlet Ukrinform, with the alarming words being picked up by The Washington Post and others.
"It is also impossible to completely rule out the possibility of the direct involvement of the world’s leading countries in a 'limited' nuclear conflict, in which the prospect of World War III is already directly visible," Zaluzhny added.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraines-top-general-doesnt-rule-out-limited-nuclear-war
Thanks to Mr. House for this in depth analysis, completely worthy of a full and careful read. "Capitalism" is now "casino-capitalism", a vast Ponzi-financial fraud, overdue for collapse
A System on Life Support , Fabio Vighi
The political left is either opportunistically ignorant or caught in the neoliberal illusion that a virtualized type of financial capitalism is possible – perhaps even “with a human face”. As a result, hardly anyone on the left dares or is even able to connect the rapid deterioration of socio-economic conditions with the authoritarian turn of today’s “emergency capitalism” – already explicit in the brutally discriminatory treatment of “the unvaccinated”, or in the rising levels of our mainstream media’s propaganda. Is it not yet clear to the left that the political face of “breakdown capitalism” is fascism, albeit articulated in new and more sophisticated (progressive!) forms of violence and repression?
The only way our comatose system can prolong its lifespan is by ditching its liberal façade and dramatically increase its inherent capacity for barbarism. ["Fascism", by name.]
In capitalist terms, we are facing an ironic twist on Margaret Thatcher’s infamous TINA: there is no alternative. Whatever happens, we will continue to see a drastic devaluation of fiat currencies, and the rapid dissolution of the social bond. As I see it, the endgame involves two main strategies: 1. The manipulation of a continuous stream of fear-inducing global emergencies, whose ultimate function is to shift the blame for systemic implosion onto some external agent while ushering in 2. A novel social-credit system (or rating system) based on mass immiseration and CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currencies), which are now being tested in more than 100 countries. https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/a-system-on-life-support/
Charles Hugh Smith, The EU's Crisis Is Global: Neocolonialism, Hyper-Financialization and Hyper-Globalization Come Home to Roost
The EU's crisis isn't limited to energy. It is a manifestation of the global breakdown of Neocolonialism, Financialization and Globalization. http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-eus-crisis-is-global.html
Pepe Escobar , Germany’s energy suicide: an autopsy [These policies pull the rug out from under modern industrial society, completely literally.] “By systematically sanctioning or closing gas deliveries from long-term, low cost pipelines to the EU, gas speculators via the Dutch TTP have been able to use every hiccup or energy shock in the world, whether a record drought in China or the conflict in Ukraine, to export restrictions in the USA, to bid the EU wholesale gas prices through all bounds.”
Translation: casino capitalism at its finest. And it gets worse, when it comes to electricity. There is a so-called EU Electricity Market Reform in progress. According to it, producers of electricity – from solar or wind – automatically receive “the same price for their ‘renewable’ electricity they sell to the power companies for the grid as the highest cost, i.e. natural gas.” No wonder the cost of electricity in Germany for 2022 increased by 860% – and rising.
Baerbock incessantly parrots that German energy independence cannot be secured until the country is “liberated from fossil fuels.”
According to Green fanaticism, to build the Green Agenda it’s imperative to completely eliminate gas, oil and nuclear power, which happen to be the only reliable energy sources as it stands. http://thesaker.is/germanys-energy-suicide-an-autopsy/
"Money" and "support" are quite different in physical reality, where oil and gas are the lifeblood of industry.
"Wide Rescue Umbrella": Germany Plans To Support Companies As Energy Crisis Worsens
Shutting pipelines and blaming it on Russia...
Is Russia Limiting Gas Flows to Europe? Five Gas Pipelines out of Service
The surprising answer is: no.
https://www.globalresearch.ca/russia-limiting-gas-flows-europe/5792636
Ranks are broken in the EU. Trying to impose gas price-caps on Russia, as Europeans freeze to death, is fratricide against humans at home.
An emergency meeting of EU energy ministers on Friday meant to reassure both energy companies and the European public regarding soaring prices and severely strained supply amid Russian countermeasures in response to Western sanctions is off to shaky and fractured start.Rather than reassure anyone of anything, it's already clear the issue of a proposed cap on gas prices has only divided the bloc further, akin to the same prior question with oil.
Leading the way in pointing out the flawed logic of the plan,Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto pointed out the blowback would be worse than the sting aimed at Russia. "If price restrictions were to be imposed exclusively on Russian gas, that would evidently lead to an immediate cut-off in Russian gas supplies. It does not take a Nobel Prize to recognize that,"he said.
Echoing prior words of Hungarian leader Viktor Orbán, he said "The plan that would impose a price cap exclusively on Russian gas coming via pipelines is entirely against European and Hungarian interests." https://www.zerohedge.com/energy/hard-core-physical-reality-blunts-eu-proposal-cap-russian-gas-prices-hungary
Pepe Escobar again, a detailed news story, worth reading in full Asia's Future Takes Shape in Vladivostok
Rajan remarked how India does not see the SCO as an alliance, but committed to the development and political stability of Eurasia.
He made the crucial point about connectivity revolving around India “working with Russia and Central Asia with the INSTC” – the International North South Transportation Corridor, and one of its key hubs, the Chabahar port in Iran:“India does not have direct physical connectivity with Central Asia. The INSTC has the participation of an Iranian shipping line with 300 vessels, connecting to Mumbai. President Putin, in the [recent] Caspian meeting, referred directly to the INSTC.”
Crucially,India not only supports the Russian concept of Greater Eurasia Partnership but is engaged in setting up a free trade agreement with the EAEU: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, incidentally, came to the Vladivostok forum last year.
In all of the above nuanced interventions, some themes are constant.After the Afghanistan disaster and the end of the US occupation there, the stabilizing role of the SCO cannot be overstatedenough. An ambitiousroad map for cooperation is a must– probably to be approvedat the Samarkand summit. All players will be graduallychanging to trade in bilateral currencies. And creation of transit corridors is leading to theprogressive integration of national transit systems.
A key roundtable on the‘Gateway to a Multipolar World’expanded on the SCO role, outlining how most Asian nations are “friendly” or “benevolently neutral” when it comes to Russia after the start of the Special Military Operation (SMO) in Ukraine.
So the possibilities for expanding cooperation across Eurasia remain practically unlimited.Complementarity of economies is the main factor.That would lead, among other developments, to theRussian Far East, as a multipolar hub, turning into “Russia’s gateway to Asia” by the 2030s.
Wang Wen from the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies stressed the need for Russia to rediscover China – finding “mutual trust in the middle level and elites level”. [That statement chills me.]
At the same time, there’s a sort of global rush to join BRICS, from Saudi Arabia and Iran to Afghanistan and Argentina http://thesaker.is/asias-future-takes-shape-in-vladivostok-the-russian-pacific/
Putin’s 12,000 tonne gold hoard has set the stage for an Asian Bretton Woods and the New Moscow Gold Standard. An Asian Bretton Woods? Alasdair Macleod: [Look for Chinese kilogram gold bars]
The financial war between Russia with China’s tacit backing on one side, and America and her NATO allies on the other has escalated rapidly. It appears that President Putin was thinking several steps ahead when he launched Russia’s attack on Ukraine.
We have seen sanctions fail. We have seen Russia achieve record export surpluses. We have seen the rouble become the strongest currency on the foreign exchanges.
We are seeing the west enter a new round of European monetary inflation to pay everyone’s energy bills. The euro, yen, and sterling are already collapsing — the dollar will be next. From Putin’s point of view, so far, so good.
Russia has progressed her power over Asian nations, including populous India and Iran. She has persuaded Middle Eastern oil and gas producers that their future lies with Asian markets, and not Europe. She is subsidising Asia’s industrial revolution with discounted energy. Thanks to the west’s sanctions, Russia is on its way to confirming Halford Mackinder’s predictions made over a century ago, that Russia is the true geopolitical centre of the world.
There is one piece in Putin’s jigsaw yet to be put in place: a new currency system to protect Russia and her allies from an approaching western monetary crisis. This article argues that under cover of the west’s geopolitical ineptitude, Putin is now assembling a new gold-backed multi-currency system by combining plans for a new Asian trade currency with his new Moscow World Standard for gold. https://kingworldnews.com/putins-12000-tonne-gold-hoard-sets-the-stage-for-asian-bretton-woods-and-the-new-moscow-gold-standard/
So just die quietly? JOHN PILGER: Silencing the Lambs — How Propaganda Works
In the 1970s, I met one of Hitler’s leading propagandists, Leni Riefenstahl, whose epic films glorified the Nazis. We happened to be staying at the same lodge in Kenya, where she was on a photography assignment, having escaped the fate of other friends of the Fuhrer.
She told me that the “patriotic messages” of her films were dependent not on “orders from above” but on what she called the “submissive void” of the German public.
Did that include the liberal, educated bourgeoisie? I asked. “Yes, especially them,”she said.
I think of this as I look around at the propaganda now consuming Western societies...
..The United States dominates the Western world’s media. All but one of the top 10 media companies are based in North America. The internet and social media – Google, Twitter, Facebook – are mostly American owned and controlled.
In my lifetime, the United States has overthrown or attempted to overthrow more than 50 governments, mostly democracies. It has interfered in democratic elections in 30 countries. It has dropped bombs on the people of 30 countries, most of them poor and defenceless. It has attempted to murder the leaders of 50 countries. It has fought to suppress liberation movements in 20 countries.
The extent and scale of this carnage is largely unreported, unrecognised, and those responsible continue to dominate Anglo-American political life.
https://consortiumnews.com/2022/09/07/john-pilger-silencing-the-lambs-how-propaganda-works/
Fauci can take one for the team, a little one, not a big one...
A lawsuit against the federal government – Anthony Fauci in particular – from the Attorneys General of Missouri and Louisiana has been brewing for a good part of the summer of 2022. The issue concerns the censoring of certain high-level experts on social media, three of whom are senior scholars of the Brownstone Institute. We know for sure that this censorship began early in the pandemic response and included exchanges between Fauci and then head of NIH Francis Collins, who called for a “quick and devastating takedown” of the Great Barrington Declaration.
At issue is whether and to what extent the government itself has had a hand in encouraging tech companies to squelch speech rights.
https://brownstone.org/articles/judge-orders-fauci-to-cough-it-up/
Preparing the Subfloor (pictured with elder son)
Some things are hard... sometimes harder...
You cannot even prepare anymore because you only get one packet of anything... that is if you have money.
John Pilger I love his work.
I predicted a nuclear attack on the UN building... a dirty bomb... I hope I was wrong.