As I mentioned yesterday, Tom Luongo and Alex Krainer held a fascinating—and very long—Round Table discussion with Gonzalo Lira. However, the title is deceptive: The Roundtable #33: Alex Krainer, Tom Luongo A conversation about the current state of the global economy.
I know smart people from Chicago who are happily planning their springtime trip to Europe. The NYT and WaPo are their fodder, and they cannot be persuaded to look elsewhere.
I am reminded of the end of WWII when Emperor Hirohito came on the radio, and Japanese people were shocked to just hear his voice. Then he told them they had lost the war...another great shock since throughout the war their media had proclaimed them occupiers of the moral high ground and the clear winners (so your sacrifices are worth it). Finally, he described the Americans swarming ashore as monsters, and so for many citizens of the more delicate sort, it would be preferable to take their own lives.
Propaganda is the oxygen of all wars. How can people forget that!
And Jeffrey Tucker skips lightly over the near collapse of the repo market, and other bigger things that went bump in the night of Fall of 2019 quite aside from Event 201.
"On September 17, 2019, interest rates in the overnight repurchase agreement ('repo') market spiked to nearly 10%. That is to say that banks would not take 5, 6, or even 7 percent interest to lend out cash to other banks that was fully collateralized with Treasury bonds, which are generally called 'as good as cash' or 'risk free'.... More than $200 billion was injected as a backstop into the market to ensure liquidity.... But something else happened around that time, and most people never knew about it, or quickly forgot about. The Federal Reserve also loaned $4.5 trillion to just three banks.... It was only on December 31, 2021 that the Federal Reserve quietly released the names of the three banks: JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and Citibank." ~ Mathew Crawford, Monetary Wars.
Totally OT but fwiw, Professor Turley is in fine form this morning (tinyurl.com/4uy82252). One excerpt:
The President added “the ability of newspapers to have much impact is de minimis.” That last statement seemed to lament the loss of a close and active ally for the Democrats. Neutrality is anathema if you have largely been able to control political and social exchanges on social media.
What the President said next, however, was particularly telling and chilling:
“How do people know the truth? What do they — how do they make — make a distinction between fact and fiction? There’s so much — so much going on. And we’re in the middle of this.”
Indeed, perish the thought that citizens might be left to pursue the truth on their own without the government or surrogates in the media framing it for them. How could we possibly “know the truth” without our social media overlords?
This view of citizens as gullible dupes needing to be lead to the truth is a recurring theme among Democrats and media allies. It was the theme of a “Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy” conference at the University of Chicago with the leading Democratic leaders and media leaders in Chicago last year, including former President Barack Obama. The conference discussed how the views of the public could be shaped if government and media figures worked together to frame what is true and what is not.
Former President Barack Obama flogged this false line at Stanford in April 2022. He started by declaring himself “pretty close to a First Amendment absolutist.” He then called for the censorship of anything he considered “disinformation,” including “lies, conspiracy theories, junk science, quackery, racist tracts and misogynist screeds.”
Speaking of "More about Everything"... Look up Daniel Dale (CNN Fact checker) on Twitter. Read his recent article about Biden's lies. Peruse the Twitter comments. Fascinating sword falling.
Really excellent summary of Luongo's views! Thank you, Mark. I have bookmarked this for quick reference. One thing I had not thought of was the immense cost to the U.S. of a war with Russia and the financial impact of such being used by Davos to attack the U.S. economy and stress the Fed. All the more reason to hope the Russian SMO ends as quickly as possible and that the Republicans will exert some influence to prevent any potential escalation after Nov. 8.
Thank you guys. This talk absolutely blew my mind, not least because it explaines what Oz has been doing behind the curtain. For people like me, ignorant of world economics, it has been moral distress that wears down the feelings of outrage I would otherwise have. Perhaps it's age. War is always about money. It just breaks my heart that all these people in Ukraine have died and are dying for nothing, while Rishi and Christine and Ursula will not even be turning down the temperature in their swimming pools.
"Meaning in History" - this post should be pinned! It does an amazing job ascribing meaning to this monumental shift in power, and its place in history. Great stuff Mark.
Given that I'm not an expert - when you look fe. at the body language between Klaus Schwab and different heads of state and other high ranking politicians. Most of the time it looks like their is a subtle power play going on between Schwab and high ranking politicians from the US (it's always in the handshakes).
They don't behave or look as servile as fe. people like Trudeau, Ardern or all the politicians from the EU.
That doesn't mean, they have noble intentions or different goals, but that there is struggle about who is running the show.
So who is the power behind the curtain? A lot of people say it's Barack Obama, or maybe Susan Rice. But the truth is that neither of them is capable of orchestrating something on this scale. Obama never really got anywhere on his own, and Susan Rice is a middleweight at best.
This has all the fingerprints of the Soros organization.
The anti Nuclear fact of European politics is an exception.
WEF has globalist company influence.
I see this as more an elite credentialed class issue, which agrees with Loungo’s technocratic communist ruling class idea. And lots of Woke Ideology, basically a religion, driving this. And it’s being pushed in the school system brainwashing the masses.
So true! The tail is wagging the dog.
I know smart people from Chicago who are happily planning their springtime trip to Europe. The NYT and WaPo are their fodder, and they cannot be persuaded to look elsewhere.
I am reminded of the end of WWII when Emperor Hirohito came on the radio, and Japanese people were shocked to just hear his voice. Then he told them they had lost the war...another great shock since throughout the war their media had proclaimed them occupiers of the moral high ground and the clear winners (so your sacrifices are worth it). Finally, he described the Americans swarming ashore as monsters, and so for many citizens of the more delicate sort, it would be preferable to take their own lives.
Propaganda is the oxygen of all wars. How can people forget that!
Hey Mark, what do you think? I have a really hard time believing Powell was not aware of the pandemic plan. https://brownstone.org/articles/maybe-the-fed-too-was-trolled/
And Jeffrey Tucker skips lightly over the near collapse of the repo market, and other bigger things that went bump in the night of Fall of 2019 quite aside from Event 201.
"On September 17, 2019, interest rates in the overnight repurchase agreement ('repo') market spiked to nearly 10%. That is to say that banks would not take 5, 6, or even 7 percent interest to lend out cash to other banks that was fully collateralized with Treasury bonds, which are generally called 'as good as cash' or 'risk free'.... More than $200 billion was injected as a backstop into the market to ensure liquidity.... But something else happened around that time, and most people never knew about it, or quickly forgot about. The Federal Reserve also loaned $4.5 trillion to just three banks.... It was only on December 31, 2021 that the Federal Reserve quietly released the names of the three banks: JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, and Citibank." ~ Mathew Crawford, Monetary Wars.
Totally OT but fwiw, Professor Turley is in fine form this morning (tinyurl.com/4uy82252). One excerpt:
The President added “the ability of newspapers to have much impact is de minimis.” That last statement seemed to lament the loss of a close and active ally for the Democrats. Neutrality is anathema if you have largely been able to control political and social exchanges on social media.
What the President said next, however, was particularly telling and chilling:
“How do people know the truth? What do they — how do they make — make a distinction between fact and fiction? There’s so much — so much going on. And we’re in the middle of this.”
Indeed, perish the thought that citizens might be left to pursue the truth on their own without the government or surrogates in the media framing it for them. How could we possibly “know the truth” without our social media overlords?
This view of citizens as gullible dupes needing to be lead to the truth is a recurring theme among Democrats and media allies. It was the theme of a “Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy” conference at the University of Chicago with the leading Democratic leaders and media leaders in Chicago last year, including former President Barack Obama. The conference discussed how the views of the public could be shaped if government and media figures worked together to frame what is true and what is not.
Former President Barack Obama flogged this false line at Stanford in April 2022. He started by declaring himself “pretty close to a First Amendment absolutist.” He then called for the censorship of anything he considered “disinformation,” including “lies, conspiracy theories, junk science, quackery, racist tracts and misogynist screeds.”
And this... https://www.foxnews.com/politics/manchin-demands-biden-apologize-outrageous-coal-comments-time-he-learn-lesson
Speaking of "More about Everything"... Look up Daniel Dale (CNN Fact checker) on Twitter. Read his recent article about Biden's lies. Peruse the Twitter comments. Fascinating sword falling.
Really excellent summary of Luongo's views! Thank you, Mark. I have bookmarked this for quick reference. One thing I had not thought of was the immense cost to the U.S. of a war with Russia and the financial impact of such being used by Davos to attack the U.S. economy and stress the Fed. All the more reason to hope the Russian SMO ends as quickly as possible and that the Republicans will exert some influence to prevent any potential escalation after Nov. 8.
Thank you guys. This talk absolutely blew my mind, not least because it explaines what Oz has been doing behind the curtain. For people like me, ignorant of world economics, it has been moral distress that wears down the feelings of outrage I would otherwise have. Perhaps it's age. War is always about money. It just breaks my heart that all these people in Ukraine have died and are dying for nothing, while Rishi and Christine and Ursula will not even be turning down the temperature in their swimming pools.
"Meaning in History" - this post should be pinned! It does an amazing job ascribing meaning to this monumental shift in power, and its place in history. Great stuff Mark.
"... to get the US into the UK’s war. "
Given that I'm not an expert - when you look fe. at the body language between Klaus Schwab and different heads of state and other high ranking politicians. Most of the time it looks like their is a subtle power play going on between Schwab and high ranking politicians from the US (it's always in the handshakes).
They don't behave or look as servile as fe. people like Trudeau, Ardern or all the politicians from the EU.
That doesn't mean, they have noble intentions or different goals, but that there is struggle about who is running the show.
Hence, US banks warming back up to Trump...
Any thoughts on how this affects Canada?
Lot's of trees here...I'm not sure we're seeing the forest clearly yet.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2022/11/who_has_really_been_running_our_country.html
So who is the power behind the curtain? A lot of people say it's Barack Obama, or maybe Susan Rice. But the truth is that neither of them is capable of orchestrating something on this scale. Obama never really got anywhere on his own, and Susan Rice is a middleweight at best.
This has all the fingerprints of the Soros organization.
Tom Luongo‘s theory does fit the facts.
The anti Nuclear fact of European politics is an exception.
WEF has globalist company influence.
I see this as more an elite credentialed class issue, which agrees with Loungo’s technocratic communist ruling class idea. And lots of Woke Ideology, basically a religion, driving this. And it’s being pushed in the school system brainwashing the masses.