1. The lockdown in Shanghai. Was it actually a big fu to the US and a way to jam up the 1000's of ships that bring us junk, ahem goods? A way to throw a big wrench into our spokes right before the Fall elections without coming out and just shutting off the tap? Or just Covid crazy???
2. The regime still behaves like they care not about the mid terms with the exception of some recent dems pushing back on the upcoming border mega-deluge. I see how they try to use every tool in lawfare to try to tilt the scale such as trying to take folks off the ballot (MTG) for insurrection, controlling gerrymandering, and others. Still, what's their shtick for this Fall? Another scamdemic + Zuckerbucks to ensure that the "cheat goes on"??? (thinking of Sony/Cher song). If the D's somehow got help from Xi to get elected in 2020 as they wanted Trump out, I don't see them at all interested in doing anything but what will help them and hurt us.
3. Also, the reduction in rail capacity for fertilizer along with this bird flu breakout sure seems to be optimal to inflict max panic for the public with regards to food access and cost.
1) The Chinese are about the Chinese. They have already bought Zhou so should seemingly have no interest in sabotaging him or his party (but who knows?). That said they would likely be happy to "throw a wrench" in our economy just while it is most vulnerable - after all Commies tend to view economics as a zero-sum game.
2) I would actually be surprised if a new scamdemic is not attempted. Political entities tend to have limited imaginations and also tend to love what has already worked. The Lawfare folks will not stop trying to leverage the Obama-appointed judges to do their bidding; that will never end.
3) Fertilizer is largely a non-issue for this growing season in the U.S., as a practical matter. Most all farmers had already purchased it for this year prior to the Ukraine conflict. BUT it will be a great factor in costs and availability of food in Europe and N. Africa this year and potentially the U.S. next year.
Sheer brilliance in wrapping up the monsters and their stupid ideas. From my perspective reporting on not-city issues, everything is the proposed green economy delivers catastrophic failure. Not little failures, but failure across ALL metrics. It is almost impossible to describe the fuckups resulting from measuring and “allowing” every bit of human and earth energy, but think old, poor, sick, isolated, cold and depressed. That just about wraps it up. Look at the parked out Adirondacks which were the first small scale attempt at de development. Like living in the Soviet Union, with New Jersey 30 minutes away.
I think it’s easy to hate the Globalist Cabal just as much as I fear Russia and China ! It’s beginning to look like a script. Use the Ukraine war as a a way to penalize all energy use in the name of Climate Change. Kill much of the worlds food sources (bird flu, cattle disease) as eating meat is bad for Climate Change. Regulate water sources to choke farm land. Inoculate the West and kill off many more than the virus ever would. Open Americas borders to millions as America will it be allowed to be great ever again. Humiliate America in Afghanistan and now it looks like “they” will push Russia to nuke America! Then what?
I get fearing China. It’s a dangerous dystopian state. But Russia? What have they done to warrant such fear (and loathing)? Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians earnestly tried to earn the respect and friendship of the West. In return they got abuse and demonization.
TGP: White House reporters asked Jen Psaki if the Biden DOJ will appeal a ruling on the federal mask mandate.
“The Department of Justice has indicated that they would appeal, not just because they think it’s entirely reasonable…but because they think for current and future public health crises, uh, we want to preserve that authority for the CDC to have in the future,” Psaki said.
“Our focus here was seeing what power we had to preserve,” Psaki said.
Or about being a Republic. Only about setting up for and leveraging future planned crises to facilitate additional government control. Should we be surprised that Psaki was so blatant in letting that cat out of the bag?
TGP: It’s hard to believe that Biden’s Secretary of Defense took this long to make his first call with the top military general in China but that’s what just reportedly happened. The results of the call didn’t go so well for Lloyd Austin.
The American Military News reports:
During the first official phone call between U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and his Chinese counterpart, Defense Minister Wei Fenghe, the Chinese official demanded the U.S. “stop conducting military provocations at sea.”
The Chinese side has published a readout of the conversation between Austin and Wei, in which Wei asserted that Taiwan is an “inalienable” part of China’s territory and that is a fact that cannot be changed. Wei said if issues with respect to Taiwan are not handled properly, it will undermine the working relationship between the U.S. and China and China will “resolutely safeguard national sovereignty, security and territorial integrity.”
“China requires the U.S. to stop conducting military provocations at sea,” the Chinese side said. “And not to use the Ukraine issue to smear, frame or threaten China.”
China as a stalking horse for the "Great Reset" (as some have speculated) or being in cahoots with its proponents increasingly does not seem likely. Sounds like we are going multi-polar at best in the near term. And after that who would blame the Chinese for making the moves they can in their own self-interest while watching us self-destruct? Sun Tzu was Chinese, right? They have a history of playing the long game so they will think nothing of watching us destroy ourselves whether that takes a few years or a few decades. But make no mistake they will move incrementally when they feel they can succeed or hasten our demise.
CTH: The German government released their version of the producer price index for inflation, and they are reporting 30.9% inflation for products leaving German factories. [DETAILS HERE] That’s the highest rate of inflation since shortly after the second world war. The inflation rate is being driven mostly by energy costs which are more than 80% higher
As Thomas Sowell, Jordan Peterson, VDH, and others have pointed out, it's madness to allow policy to be set by people who suffer no consequences from the failure of those policies.
Russian tank does 360
https://twitter.com/MarQs__/status/1517118868136804352
Black Rock, a cold, dead, barren wasteland will be the end state of this Earth after the globalists achieve their fever dreams.
I see what you did there...
2 thoughts.
1. The lockdown in Shanghai. Was it actually a big fu to the US and a way to jam up the 1000's of ships that bring us junk, ahem goods? A way to throw a big wrench into our spokes right before the Fall elections without coming out and just shutting off the tap? Or just Covid crazy???
2. The regime still behaves like they care not about the mid terms with the exception of some recent dems pushing back on the upcoming border mega-deluge. I see how they try to use every tool in lawfare to try to tilt the scale such as trying to take folks off the ballot (MTG) for insurrection, controlling gerrymandering, and others. Still, what's their shtick for this Fall? Another scamdemic + Zuckerbucks to ensure that the "cheat goes on"??? (thinking of Sony/Cher song). If the D's somehow got help from Xi to get elected in 2020 as they wanted Trump out, I don't see them at all interested in doing anything but what will help them and hurt us.
3. Also, the reduction in rail capacity for fertilizer along with this bird flu breakout sure seems to be optimal to inflict max panic for the public with regards to food access and cost.
As Lloyd Bridges said in Airplane: https://youtu.be/VmW-ScmGRMA?t=18
Random opinions of a non-expert:
1) The Chinese are about the Chinese. They have already bought Zhou so should seemingly have no interest in sabotaging him or his party (but who knows?). That said they would likely be happy to "throw a wrench" in our economy just while it is most vulnerable - after all Commies tend to view economics as a zero-sum game.
2) I would actually be surprised if a new scamdemic is not attempted. Political entities tend to have limited imaginations and also tend to love what has already worked. The Lawfare folks will not stop trying to leverage the Obama-appointed judges to do their bidding; that will never end.
3) Fertilizer is largely a non-issue for this growing season in the U.S., as a practical matter. Most all farmers had already purchased it for this year prior to the Ukraine conflict. BUT it will be a great factor in costs and availability of food in Europe and N. Africa this year and potentially the U.S. next year.
Sheer brilliance in wrapping up the monsters and their stupid ideas. From my perspective reporting on not-city issues, everything is the proposed green economy delivers catastrophic failure. Not little failures, but failure across ALL metrics. It is almost impossible to describe the fuckups resulting from measuring and “allowing” every bit of human and earth energy, but think old, poor, sick, isolated, cold and depressed. That just about wraps it up. Look at the parked out Adirondacks which were the first small scale attempt at de development. Like living in the Soviet Union, with New Jersey 30 minutes away.
"Peace and prosperity." But War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.
But at least you'll be happy, so they say.
I think it’s easy to hate the Globalist Cabal just as much as I fear Russia and China ! It’s beginning to look like a script. Use the Ukraine war as a a way to penalize all energy use in the name of Climate Change. Kill much of the worlds food sources (bird flu, cattle disease) as eating meat is bad for Climate Change. Regulate water sources to choke farm land. Inoculate the West and kill off many more than the virus ever would. Open Americas borders to millions as America will it be allowed to be great ever again. Humiliate America in Afghanistan and now it looks like “they” will push Russia to nuke America! Then what?
I get fearing China. It’s a dangerous dystopian state. But Russia? What have they done to warrant such fear (and loathing)? Ever since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russians earnestly tried to earn the respect and friendship of the West. In return they got abuse and demonization.
I mostly agree with JR Nyquist’s take on Russia and our Elite Leftists. Here is article and podcast from JR….Ukraine is a stepping stone for something much bigger! https://jrnyquist.blog/2022/02/28/russia-consolidates-hold-on-ukraine-readies-nuclear-rockets/
TGP: White House reporters asked Jen Psaki if the Biden DOJ will appeal a ruling on the federal mask mandate.
“The Department of Justice has indicated that they would appeal, not just because they think it’s entirely reasonable…but because they think for current and future public health crises, uh, we want to preserve that authority for the CDC to have in the future,” Psaki said.
“Our focus here was seeing what power we had to preserve,” Psaki said.
So it’s not about science.
Or about being a Republic. Only about setting up for and leveraging future planned crises to facilitate additional government control. Should we be surprised that Psaki was so blatant in letting that cat out of the bag?
TGP: It’s hard to believe that Biden’s Secretary of Defense took this long to make his first call with the top military general in China but that’s what just reportedly happened. The results of the call didn’t go so well for Lloyd Austin.
The American Military News reports:
During the first official phone call between U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and his Chinese counterpart, Defense Minister Wei Fenghe, the Chinese official demanded the U.S. “stop conducting military provocations at sea.”
The Chinese side has published a readout of the conversation between Austin and Wei, in which Wei asserted that Taiwan is an “inalienable” part of China’s territory and that is a fact that cannot be changed. Wei said if issues with respect to Taiwan are not handled properly, it will undermine the working relationship between the U.S. and China and China will “resolutely safeguard national sovereignty, security and territorial integrity.”
“China requires the U.S. to stop conducting military provocations at sea,” the Chinese side said. “And not to use the Ukraine issue to smear, frame or threaten China.”
China as a stalking horse for the "Great Reset" (as some have speculated) or being in cahoots with its proponents increasingly does not seem likely. Sounds like we are going multi-polar at best in the near term. And after that who would blame the Chinese for making the moves they can in their own self-interest while watching us self-destruct? Sun Tzu was Chinese, right? They have a history of playing the long game so they will think nothing of watching us destroy ourselves whether that takes a few years or a few decades. But make no mistake they will move incrementally when they feel they can succeed or hasten our demise.
CTH: The German government released their version of the producer price index for inflation, and they are reporting 30.9% inflation for products leaving German factories. [DETAILS HERE] That’s the highest rate of inflation since shortly after the second world war. The inflation rate is being driven mostly by energy costs which are more than 80% higher
Would make an interesting psychological profile:
Inhabit a bubble of their own making
Repeatedly screw up
Persist
As Thomas Sowell, Jordan Peterson, VDH, and others have pointed out, it's madness to allow policy to be set by people who suffer no consequences from the failure of those policies.
Seems very much the case in econ/finance sectors.