It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. - Yogi Berra
I needed no crystal ball to anticipate in mid September of 2022 that something nefarious was about to happen to the Nordstream pipeline. Germany was within a few days of getting a critical infusion of cheap natural gas from Russia, which would enable it to continue as the industrial powerhouse of the European Union. Sure enough, “someone” wrecked that eleven billion dollar investment, which had been undertaken jointly by Russia and our German “ally.”
Why did I expect that to happen? Keeping Germany and Russia from making an alliance has long been a fundamental tenet of US foreign policy, inherited from the British Empire. At the moment the gas started flowing, Germany would have much more incentive to build close ties with Russia than to continue to be one of America’s NATO lapdogs.
Recall that candidate Trump very sensibly advocated ending NATO eight years ago – a move made impossible by subsequent US actions and which, in any case, would have gotten Mr. Trump assassinated by the CIA during his first few months in office.
NATO is, of course, far from a defensive alliance. It is the rationalization and instrument for the projection of would-be US hegemonic power through Europe and beyond, pushing ever eastward. Just ask Germany, with its post-Nordstream economy in tatters, how beneficial NATO membership is.
Perhaps my Nordstream prediction was a lucky guess, but I have a similar feeling as we approach October 22nd. That’s the opening day for the BRICS summit scheduled to be hosted by Russia in Kazan – 550 miles East of Moscow. At that meeting Turkey, Pakistan, Malaysia, Thailand, Nigeria, Cuba, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Venezuela, Bolivia, Syria, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, and Bangladesh anticipate BRICS membership - the hopeful future of the world economy. (Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Iran, and Ethiopia already joined BRICS on January 1st.)
For the failing US economy’s Dollar to continue to serve as the planet’s reserve currency – enabling us to export our deficit spending to the rest of the world – has become increasingly dubious. With the future belonging to the BRICS nations, it will be untenable. Arrangements are already being devised for BRICS exchange rates to be based upon a basket of currencies and commodities, independent of the Dollar.
The future of the US economy without reserve currency status is dire – far more unthinkable than a German-Russian alliance. And, as we have seen, our “leaders” have no scruples about taking such matters into their own hands.
While I would be very much surprised if our “leaders” don’t manage to slip some sort of turd into the BRICS punch bowl before the 22nd, predicting the timing of their gambit is more difficult. Both Zelensky and Netanyahu are desperate to induce the US to engage in a potentially catastrophic war with Iran and Russia, respectively, and they are surely cognizant of the US motivation to do something disruptive in time to throw a spanner into the gears of the growing BRICS juggernaut.
As for my prediction of what good can possibly come from any mischief the US may commit at this juncture, that’s easy: approximately zero.
Always remember that Ukraine was started by a coup fomented by Biden and his mob. Putin set a Red Line, No NATO membership for Ukraine, and the USA hegemony crossed the line gleefully. A comparable scenario would be Russia or China setting up Mexico to be a BRICS+ military member with tons of weapons up against the border. Do you think this country would stand by for that? Or Cuba? Ukraine was a surprise to the USA idiots that figured they could do whatever they wanted after the Nuland/Biden coup getting rid of the Russia backed elected president.
Putin didn't actually create the red line of no Nato membership for Ukraine, he inherited it really. Yeltsin and Bush Sr. agreed to not allow NATO expansion eastward in return for Russia allowing Ukraine to exit USSR peacefully.
Secretary of State James Baker and Gorbachev reached an oral understanding that NATO would not be expanded eastward. But Bush 41 would not go along with Baker and nothing was committed to in writing.
The Maidan Revolution of 2014 was fomented by Victoria Nuland and cronies in the State Department and CIA. I don't recall Biden (then VP) or John Kerry (then Secretary of State) playing a major role in the coup. The talk of NATO admitting Ukraine into NATO at some future date greatly concerned Putin for the reasons you mentioned. Putin was never going to allow a major Russian naval base at Sevastopol in Crimea to become a NATO naval base.
He also was never going to allow NATO troops, Ukraine, 700 miles away from the oil country of the Caspian Sea. Or allow the European countries access to Russia that was followed by Napoleon and Hitler. Ukraine is Russia’s DMZ in their eyes. USA bullshit, some of which Mike B has enunciated, will no longer be tolerated in Ukraine, hence the war. Good job, Deep State , you have killed and injured a million folks in Ukraine and Russia. Also created BRICS+ and made Russia much stronger in its alliance with China. I picture Washington DC under Leftist control as a man with a gun to his head trying to commit suicide.
The 10s of thousands in the Middle East are a mere bagatelle, where is the repugnance of the US people at what our Biden Mob has one in Europe.
Watch Glen Beck’s chalkboard description of what Biden and Victoria Nuland did with Ukraine during the Obama years. It is on You Tube under Glen Beck. I do not have to defend anything, Biden and his Mob are crooks and half the people in the USA are too dumb to realize their government has been taken over by the Mob. Ukraine and Russia have a million casualties between them to protect the Biden Mob. Evil on earth.
Hey, JohnAZ...Glen Beck is hardly a reliable source of anything much. A Dry Drunk who blew up his somewhat shabby career ending in tears. He;s also a crazy Christo-fascist.
OK, pot, kettle, black, but here goes - off topic, but bear with me. This from a friend in Marshall, NC, after my inquiry about the Helene response - after hearing about armed militias chasing FEMA out and reading about potentially 13K deaths - estimated by a travelling nurse in situ. Below is his copied & pasted comment:
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13K dead & missing?
I would guesstimate north of 3,500K to start by what I have seen and firsthand boots on the ground stuff;
What they are not publishing is the missing list from family;
A lot of people still not gotten too
Over 1000 bridges out and damaged;
Must be over 50+/- miles of r/r tracks wrecked and a lot of the r/r bridges gone
And they are stronger than DOT bridges
Some places are still cut off with people in the remote places;
pharaoh did not show up anywhere till day 11, then the 101st and guard not a lot though
**I know of one looter who the residents, workers, helpers etc. shot and left lay, Sherriff did nothing**
A lot of the helpers are armed; a lot
20X worse than what they are saying; especially the body count
Most will never be found as buried under 20’ of mud, rocks etc etc etc.
Mission had over 1000 bodies in the morgue and then they had to start stacking in the mobile morgues.
Not a peep of that
So they will write them off in a different category from the bean counters;
FEMA stays in town hiding in the parking lots around back etc;
Go to u tube
I have not seen militia keeping them out; but they (FEMA) are not showing up at the base camps
Militia have a well-oiled machine going
Most every road fixed, repaired now passable is from the locals and all the outside help;
Seen track hoes working like just a few minutes after the storm passed trying to get people out;
PJ’s Airforce black hawk rescue helicopter teams;
Sitting on the tarmac at Asheville airport for 8-11 days because they have no section 10 papers to let them help
pharaoh says no;
Over 50 private helicopters bussing like 24/7 helping the inaccessible and getting supplies in the remote areas
Homeless survivors must be 2500+ north
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Note the information about the looter. Those of you who have read WMBH, by JHK, and One Second After by Forstchen (the setting incidentally was Black Mountain, just outside Asheville, NC), read fairly similar accounts of what some think may be vigilante justice.
You'd be wrong - the fictional accounts, and the true story from Marshall , were the reestablishing of the Rule of Law, which is the first order of business as a society reorders itself, after any post-apocalyptic event. Without rule of law, there is no civil society - lawlessness.
In the fictional accounts and in this real account, the example is made for all to see - to restore order. We'll see this going forward - this same example. It is what must be done and will be done. Many won't have the stomach for it - nor the mental toughness to get by.
Mental toughness is, not will be, a necessity. Those without, will fall by the wayside, regardless of the amount of their preparations. The strong will survive, and that means body and mind.
Apologize again for this being off topic, but the 72-hour news cycle on Helene has passed.
Janos - maybe not a new kind of man, but one, who has a higher intention. I don't see anything wrong with seeking more, provided the intention is having more to give - not simply just having more.
Yes, put everyone in your debt. Or the self interest of giving away free computers to hook people on computers.
In terms of the four castes, material gain IS life to people of the vaisya caste. Not letting them doing it would be utter cruelty. The trick is to control it and them to make it and them serve Life, that is to say, the nation and its people. Control in the sense of guide not confiscate. If they won't have it, then the gloves come off. There are higher castes, higher men. They must rule the low men - and profit seekers are fairly low. Let's just face that fact. In a well run society, these people would be eager to please those above them. And they would be well rewarded for so doing by being respected and allowed to continue. Not bribed into doing good, but afraid of not doing good. It must never be forgotten what these people would do if they could get away with it - like making little children work long hours until they fall into the machines. That's who they are. They are the low.
E - agreed, unrealistic expectations, only lead to disappointment. In a broad sense, that's where that's headed. Now given the current slew of miscreants - not hard to find men with higher intentions.
Rather than changing man, why not change Capitalism? Why does capital accumulation continue after death? Why does being born to a rich family automatically bequeath unearned power over others.
We could eliminate all taxes, simply by enacting 100% inheritance taxe and with that provide universal housing, healthcare and food. After that it’s up to you to make your life better and teach your children well.
He totally is on the wrong planet. The only way out of poverty is through capitalism. Whether or not one agrees or not it is still true. However, nothing is perfect. If one just knows history…it been proven that all the government systems that pretend to be for the people (socialism, communism, dictator, Popes, kings, queens, despots, and Lords etc.) really meant…..for me….not thee.
Well if you truly believe that, then you must be deliriously happy because that’s basically what we’ve got.
The really big Capitalist are winning! Yay! Big Pharma has gotten so powerful it owns the media and government regulators. Black rock is busy buying up everything and the really huge corporations are working on how to eliminate humans from the equation.
+1 Either it's a bot or that's the jab-related neurodegeneration talking. Let it keep masturbating to "universal housing" until the day it has to hold its asshole open Goatse fashion for the commie Chink invasion.
This was done by the increasingly odious Churchill.
Death duties destroyed the greatest Empire in history.
Families are the most stable unit, far more so than ever changing government.
For social capital- the seed corn of our grandchildren- for social capital to accrue, it best does so along family lines.
The landed aristocrats of the Empire worked for little to no pay.
The economy was based on the seed capital they accumulated; debt was repaid to the nation of their countrymen, not a foreign bank or fictional State, a virtuous expanding circle, a springboard for both the Industrial and agricultural revolution.
Communism's purpose is to overthrow the monarchies, and the aristocratic class.
The pillar of identity and stability, and the well of seed corn and merit.
Income taxes, death taxes, and rising debt are communism's tool in a war without weapons against European civilization.
Communism springs from the original Great Replacement. An implacable force who takes what they did not build, twists and inverts it, and then promises that it is better than the original version they deride, a counterfeit.
Ridge sounds like a good Democrat, always looking for a new tax that can be snuck into a society that is too dumb to realize it is being screwed. The goal being universal housing, healthcare and food. Look around Ridge, we are $36 trillion dollars in debt now trying to pay the welfare on the jobless the government has created with Obama taxing the corporations into exiting stage left and the Covid fiasco. What exists now is a drop in the needs bucket. You want universal welfare? Better find a way to raise quadrillions of dollars to pay the freight.
The governments created the Covid recession and layoffs, to protect us from a flu. Nice work, I do not want them even close to my money.
You’re delusional Ridge. We pay fucking taxes all our lives & THAT annual illegal confiscation rape should be enough after I’m dead. Whatever I want done w/ my possessions including $$ is no longer the government’s business
What?? Inherited assets are no different from inherited rule (monarchy)?! Balderdash! Don't you understand that the now-dead person -- oddly mute but indisputably smiling down from heaven -- retains the *freedom* to *choose* where their things-they-can't-take-with-them go? It's the very *essence* of capitalism!
This “solution” is rooted in envy, like all socialist policy. No one holds a gun to anyone’s head to buy from Amazon. It’s voluntary exchange. Bezos only gets rich by providing more value to his customers than the value of the cash in their pockets. If he didn’t, the exchange or voluntary transactions would not occur. To be jealous or envious of Bezos trying to provide more in product value for his customers with lower prices for them, this improving their quality of life is what socialists do. The original idea in the thread is seeded in envy and jealousy of what other people have accumulated, and displays a lack of understanding of what capitalism is.
I'd allow some level of sentimental assets transfer. Of course, how the hell can one determine that (even assuming a well-running small-r republican process)? So, in the real world we live in, I'm guessing in the US a (current dollars) $5-10 million absolute cap per inheritance sum might be what could be agreed on, along with a true-inflation COLA following the law, and some kind of rock-solid pledge not to change the portions, by passing it as constitutional amendment. Of course, not likely happen in my lifetime, LOL.
Well, one of the deepest human desires to help one's children. One would have to change human nature to get this whopper passed. But yes, any viable society need cooperation, not just competition. And in the modern industrial state, that means more than a little bit of socialism. Not Marxist of course, that's vicious, hateful and anti-nation.
If children can inherit a place - that’s all they need, eh? A farm or ranch. And if no taxes are levied, they can improve their property and pass it on to their children but they must inhabit to keep it going generationally
The US government, who fought the planned pipeline for years, claimed after its destruction, that Russia destroyed it. The same Russia who spent years and billions of dollars building it and negotiating with Germany and others over its utilization. They don't even try to make up plausible lies any more.
Sad, but true. They aren't good at it, and their lies, from JFK's assassination to 9/11 are ludicrously lame, but with Nordstream they didn't even try. I guess they figure they've got us so well trained that they can insult us with a transparent lie and laugh among themselves afterwards.
maybe it’s because they have a special department called the fairytale department that gets to produce private yachts with divers narratives as the culprits.
Lucky Guess? The perpetrators announced it! Anyway, one of my far-out claims is that the US and Britain still consider German prosperity to be verboten. "Still" means as far back as the early 1900s when Britain was planning WWI. Comments welcome.
While Skillington pats himself on the back for his prediction powers he suggests preventing an alliance between Russia and Germany has "been a fundamental tenet of US foreign policy, inherited from the British Empire."
Mackinder's Heartland was based on the idea that land railroads would unite the northern and southern oceans, obviating the seapower nations' trade advantage over land-based powers.
When Bismark organized the chaotic fiefdoms of Germany into a self-sustaining industrial power building its own formidable navy, as well as German railroads competing with British rail all over the map, well, that mightily spooked the British, who suffer no competitors.
As well, Germans, Irish, and Irish-Scots far outnumbered the original Anglos in America, the French Bourbons and Catherine the Great threw in with us in the war of Independence and of 1812. The Brits, meanwhile, had succored the Confederacy. Since the Russian bureaucracy was mostly German anyways, had Russia and Germany (and Austro-Hungary) united, with American favor, the Balance of Powers would've been severely against the British.
Bonus: the Communists, funded by their Kapitalist brethren, would've never gotten off the ground.
Yes. You suggested we "inherited" this tenet from the British Empire and I'm suggesting the formation of the Atlantic Council just inculcated us into British notions of who should run the world. Hint: it isn't us – it's them. Always.
"We" didn't care much for foreign affairs until the Bolsheviks began WWI and there is little evidence that this is a "fundamental" tenet of US foreign policy because previous to that the US and Russia were allied in their hostility towards Great Britain.
Was watching old school investor Jim Rogers on The Duran last week and his take on BRICS is very realistic.
The "falling" Dollar is still safer then a bunch of sub-par economies grouping together to form a currency. It's laughable to suggest it's a "juggernaut" at this point.
BRICS must provide value not just "we're the anti Dollar" which seems to be all that is on offer. The "basket" idea is ALL they can come up with to counter what the U.S. Dollar represents.
A smorgasbord of a bit of this and a bit of that from a variety of countries sounds highly unstable.
In any case IF they come up with a currency there won't be institutional investors taking a chance on a risky venture any time soon (see Bitcoin) And though it will take years it won't stop folk like you from salivating at the idea that the Dollar has collapsed.
BRICS+ is fighting an infiltration war with the West, they are overwhelming the Western political systems. Money is worthless world wide, right now. The dollar is done, everybody else in the West goes down with it. BRICS+ is not only economic, it is military proxy fighting world wide. At least half of Ukraine will go into BRICS+ and if the USA does not support Israel, Israel may go BRICS+ and join with the rest of the Middle East via the Abraham accords. BRICS+ is a world reaction to the dominance of the USA for 70 years and will use all means necessary to shut the US down.
Just a bit of proof is all you need for your hyperbolic claims:
• Fighting an inflation war with the West - How? Please explain. *They* are simply an acronym without structure at this point.
• If the dollar is done then why aren't banks, institutional investors and governments currently pulling their dollars out and investing elsewhere? Also, what currency is replacing it?
• "BRICS it's fighting wars world wide" - with what Army? Besides Ukraine and Israel where else?
• The worthless economies of Ukraine and Israel will might join - why would that matter?
Likely you can't answer any of these questions because you are just giddy with the idea that BRICS will "use all means necessary to shut the US down".
Tipped your hand. Your hate of this country is repulsive.
The financial capital of the world is slowly shifting from the West (NYC and London) to the East (China). If the neocons' wet dream of an American Empire blunders us into WW3, a war we will lose, the shift will occur more rapidly.
As for the dollar losing status as the world's reserve currency, that will be more difficult to achieve. Most U.S. dollars are held overseas. Literally, in cash. It's the only major currency that has never been cancelled. That advantage, along with the fact that the world's most liquid and largest bond market is traded in dollars, means the reserve status is ours to lose.
That said, losing reserve status would be the best outcome for Americans like me who wish to see us get out of other countries internal affairs, whether political, economic or spiritual. I wish to see us stop using the dollar as a weapon to bring other countries to heel at our every wish and whim--from overthrowing governments to forcing abortion laws to flying rainbow flags. More importantly, it will help us to avoid foreign engagements, thus focusing our wealth and resources (the American people!) on solving our problems at home, instead of looking for them abroad.
We can't afford to be the policeman of the world, but we keep trying. We spent over $6 trillion trying to impose our version of democracy on Iraq and Afghanistan but the region is less stable now than it was in the year 2000. Say what you want about Saddam Hussein but he did keep a lid on terrorism financed by Iran.
It's much more nefarious than trying to be the policeman of the world. The Blob, Deep State, WEF, military industrial complex or whatever label we put on it, wants instability. They create the chaos. It's good for business. As you point out with Iraq and Afghanistan, there are literally $trillions at stake. Just imagine how much wealthier, healthier, happier and more peaceful America (and the world) would be had that money stayed home.
Deana, friend, none are more patriotic than JohnAZ. He loves his country and hates what the government has become, as we all do. The Blob must die that the Country may live.
Not this country, the Deep State. I put six years of military service into this country, what have you done? I do hate what the Left has done to this country, with a passion. And I have lots of company.
Infiltration war, not inflation. Look around you, you will see the infiltration war. No one is going to fight a superpower war, so what is BRICS+ to do. Just take over by displacing the current population.
Because there is not another currency that is as good, yet. BRICS+ is working on it own and Saudi Arabia has already stopped taking dollars exclusively. When oil is traded with currencies worldwide, the domination of the dollar is over. China and India are already buying gold in droves, I wonder why?
BRICS+ will not fight its own war, like NATO or SEATO, but its components will, such as China with Taiwan, or Russia supporting Iran or NOKO intimidating Japan.
So there are the answers to your giddy questions. Look around, you might find some powers closing in on the USA. But the biggest enemy of America is Amerika.
NORDSTROM? THATS IS A DEPARTMENT STORE. And they happen to be supporting blm and the democrats. So if they were destroyed it wouldn’t be so bad. (Just sayn)
Both the older Nordstream 1 and the new unused Nordstream 2 consist of twin lines. We blew up both lines of Nordstream 1 and one of two of the Nordstream 2 lines. So one line is available but without any redundancy so the gas supply would be subject to interruption for turbine service for example. I have no idea if a storage facility on Germany’s side to even out the supply for incidental gas flow stoppage is feasible. Seems too risky to rely on that until the blown line is rehabbed/replaced.
Spiritual transformation - as in loving our own people first and foremost, and not feeling like we have to choose between warring Semitic tribes, much less letting ourselves be ruled by the one that has eliminated our Southern border.
Hey ridge go for that horseback riding on the prairie and catch some coyotes. Life is just to short to have that kind of identity and not be happy. 😊 I happen to ride horses and excel at archery. Yet I still love to be able to work for a living and get paid so I can go out and buy mores horses and just enjoy life. Capitalism without greed is the elixir of life. I bet you have more money stuffed away than most on this platform. 😉
As a point of interest, I have a fried who had a career of underwater welding, mostly in the North Sea. He says that the nordstream pipeline could be repaired in less than 30 days if there was a will to do so.
I believe you, but after losing a month's revenue it could just be blown up again. In the meantime, Russia is selling their gas to the Chinese, instead, without having to worry about more NATO sabotage.
Russia had an allegiance to Europe sending energy to them for decades. Thanks to the USA government, Biden’s Mob, interference, they are settled into sending FF to BRICS+ and Europe will slowly decline as a result. If things keep moving in today’s directions, the West is doomed.
John, I've been reading you for a while now and I cannot understand how you have come to the conclusion that EVERYTHING that is wrong is Biden's fault and that the USA is in decline. It's a depressing worldview and just not accurate.
We follow Alex Mercouris, who discusses geopolitics. He was saying, during the days leading up to the Nordstream destruction, that Olaf Schultz was beginning to waffle. He had been to the US a few days before, if I recall.
Remember. The rhetoric was Five Months to take down Putin. It was well past 5 months, and winter was coming. I thought the EU was having second thoughts. If so, they had their choice scuttled with Nordstream.
They don't seem to have any conception of the relationship between Mr. Putin and the Russian People and the Motherland. I believe it's beyond the ken of this shallow, fractious nation.
As a fellow Jew, thoroughly happy to have been born and raised in the United States, I find it similarly embarrassing and upsetting to find so many of my co-religionists in the forefront of the fight to destroy the system of government of the country that gave our ancestors refuge (not that most of them give a damn about the faith of their fathers, but that’s another issue). These people are mentally ill, but unfortunately are quite intelligent, and without much in the way of morals, so they can do a lot of damage. Their record, tragically, speaks for itself.
The joy of tearing down White Christian nations is simply something they can't resist. Indeed their scripture demands that they cut down our sacred groves and throw down our high places.
"Civil rights" was one of their first gambits, at least openly.
Their covenant with God was to be a servant to the world, to educate them about God commandments and stop the worship of other gods….other gods means serving the almighty dollar or working for the destruction of a country that allows freedom and opportunity to those who flee poverty or oppression. Most people living in America were not born here. My relatives all came from Italy in 1912 and all did extremely well in this country. My husband’s family all came from Russia and Ireland. The Russian fled persecution in Russia for being wealthy Jews, during the Russian Revolution and the Irish came here to escape poverty that England purposely did to them with the potato famine.
America is the jewel in the crown for the evil bastards of every creed. It just so happens all the names above were Jewish and shame on them. However The Clintons and the Bushes are worse. We will prevail though, I firmly believe God doesn’t want to destroy America.
The Protestant Establishment sold us out with the Federal Reserve Act, consenting to be Jr partners in the Anglo-Jew alliance. One nation under International (Jewish) Bankers.
Denis. There is only the ONE . The names are superfluous. Christopher Hitchens was welcome to his own beliefs are so are you. It’s what you do in life that counts. Beliefs are personal and if one causes no harm and tries to sincerely help others when one can there really isn’t much more we can do since the world is not based on truth and was always in a fallen state where duality reigns and evil does exist in conjunction with good, all intentions and beliefs are your own to make.
Kudos to JHK for having the courage to 'go there'. I do see online that more and more people are noticing this anomaly - and not just in the area of lawfare, but other important power centers that have gone bad.
I feel like the only productive way to confront this problem is for the Jewish community itself to oppose these bad actors. The alternative - external opposition - invariably takes dark turns. No one here, I trust, wants to go down that road!
There are many patriotic Jews already in opposition of course. (Praeger and Mark Levin come to mind.) But overall, it doesn't seem to have much impact.
I'm a Gentile (that God loves, inexplicably, and thankfully nonetheless. lol!). I'm curious what Jews on this board think? Is there growing internal opposition?
As time goes on, and it becomes clear that the Democrats and Leftists have thrown the Jews under the bus, there are more and more politically conservative Jews. We are also much more vocal than we used to be, because we realize that we’re no longer alone. By the way, for the most part, the split between politically conservative and politically liberal or Leftist Jews is correlated to how religious someone is. It is most certainly not a perfect correlation, but the more traditionally religious a person is, the greater chance that they are also politically conservative. This is because the values of traditional Judaism are the values upon which this nation was founded, and are the same values which the non-religious and Leftist Jews (and Leftists of all stripes) are trying their best to undercut and destroy.
It does my heart good to see people like Dennis Prager, Mark Levin, and Ben Shapiro out in full public view, condemning Leftism in all of its forms, but particularly condemning Jews for subscribing to this poisonous ideology. At least with them out there pushing more traditional Jewish and American values, the rest of us don’t look like a bunch of crazy and disloyal Leftists.
I will be honest, I simply do not understand how so many Jews can be on the far left portion of the political spectrum. A great number of American Jew are descended from Russian Jews, who know what Communism is, and one would expect them to oppose any ideology that was even remotely similar to it. As for me, Communismripped apart my paternal grandfather’s family, and Stalin’s NKVD brutally murdered one of my great grandfathers (when he was an old man suffering from cancer, no less). To say that I utterly despise communism, socialism, leftism, and all of their sister ideologies, is the understatement of the century.
Aren't the people you mentioned Zionists, certainly neoconservatives? Shapiro and Praeger have been rumored to be Mossad agents (conspiracy theory). Look at the way Shapiro treated Candace Owens, an America First, Traditional Catholic, anti-vax, peace-promoting, truth-seeker. Perhaps we need a different kind of Jewish patriot than Levin, Praeger, or Shapiro. Perhaps Jim Kunstler? We need to go all the way.
Candace Owens is Protestant. She married a Catholic, not a traditional Catholic. She has spoken about converting, but that was after her run in with Shapiro. Your ignorance is also apparent in the rest of your comment.
My take on why there are so many Jews on the left is that there's a seemingly reflexive fear of whatever dominant culture exists where they live. In American and the West, that used to be Christianity. Taking a sober view of our culture today, I don't think that's the case anymore.
Anything that opposes, or weakens, the dominant culture makes them feel 'safe' from oppression. And the Left is most certainly opposed to anything Christian (and Judaic by extension).
But I'd ask you, do Jews feel safer in the West now that Christianity has been so weakened?
Jews want perfection, just like many others. Everything going their way and giving up as little as possible. The view that a stable dominant culture, ruled by laws, not men, gives them a fighting chance at that perfection is not perhaps in their culture.
It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future. - Yogi Berra
I needed no crystal ball to anticipate in mid September of 2022 that something nefarious was about to happen to the Nordstream pipeline. Germany was within a few days of getting a critical infusion of cheap natural gas from Russia, which would enable it to continue as the industrial powerhouse of the European Union. Sure enough, “someone” wrecked that eleven billion dollar investment, which had been undertaken jointly by Russia and our German “ally.”
Why did I expect that to happen? Keeping Germany and Russia from making an alliance has long been a fundamental tenet of US foreign policy, inherited from the British Empire. At the moment the gas started flowing, Germany would have much more incentive to build close ties with Russia than to continue to be one of America’s NATO lapdogs.
Recall that candidate Trump very sensibly advocated ending NATO eight years ago – a move made impossible by subsequent US actions and which, in any case, would have gotten Mr. Trump assassinated by the CIA during his first few months in office.
NATO is, of course, far from a defensive alliance. It is the rationalization and instrument for the projection of would-be US hegemonic power through Europe and beyond, pushing ever eastward. Just ask Germany, with its post-Nordstream economy in tatters, how beneficial NATO membership is.
Perhaps my Nordstream prediction was a lucky guess, but I have a similar feeling as we approach October 22nd. That’s the opening day for the BRICS summit scheduled to be hosted by Russia in Kazan – 550 miles East of Moscow. At that meeting Turkey, Pakistan, Malaysia, Thailand, Nigeria, Cuba, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Venezuela, Bolivia, Syria, Kazakhstan, Saudi Arabia, and Bangladesh anticipate BRICS membership - the hopeful future of the world economy. (Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Iran, and Ethiopia already joined BRICS on January 1st.)
For the failing US economy’s Dollar to continue to serve as the planet’s reserve currency – enabling us to export our deficit spending to the rest of the world – has become increasingly dubious. With the future belonging to the BRICS nations, it will be untenable. Arrangements are already being devised for BRICS exchange rates to be based upon a basket of currencies and commodities, independent of the Dollar.
The future of the US economy without reserve currency status is dire – far more unthinkable than a German-Russian alliance. And, as we have seen, our “leaders” have no scruples about taking such matters into their own hands.
While I would be very much surprised if our “leaders” don’t manage to slip some sort of turd into the BRICS punch bowl before the 22nd, predicting the timing of their gambit is more difficult. Both Zelensky and Netanyahu are desperate to induce the US to engage in a potentially catastrophic war with Iran and Russia, respectively, and they are surely cognizant of the US motivation to do something disruptive in time to throw a spanner into the gears of the growing BRICS juggernaut.
As for my prediction of what good can possibly come from any mischief the US may commit at this juncture, that’s easy: approximately zero.
Always remember that Ukraine was started by a coup fomented by Biden and his mob. Putin set a Red Line, No NATO membership for Ukraine, and the USA hegemony crossed the line gleefully. A comparable scenario would be Russia or China setting up Mexico to be a BRICS+ military member with tons of weapons up against the border. Do you think this country would stand by for that? Or Cuba? Ukraine was a surprise to the USA idiots that figured they could do whatever they wanted after the Nuland/Biden coup getting rid of the Russia backed elected president.
Putin didn't actually create the red line of no Nato membership for Ukraine, he inherited it really. Yeltsin and Bush Sr. agreed to not allow NATO expansion eastward in return for Russia allowing Ukraine to exit USSR peacefully.
Secretary of State James Baker and Gorbachev reached an oral understanding that NATO would not be expanded eastward. But Bush 41 would not go along with Baker and nothing was committed to in writing.
The Maidan Revolution of 2014 was fomented by Victoria Nuland and cronies in the State Department and CIA. I don't recall Biden (then VP) or John Kerry (then Secretary of State) playing a major role in the coup. The talk of NATO admitting Ukraine into NATO at some future date greatly concerned Putin for the reasons you mentioned. Putin was never going to allow a major Russian naval base at Sevastopol in Crimea to become a NATO naval base.
He also was never going to allow NATO troops, Ukraine, 700 miles away from the oil country of the Caspian Sea. Or allow the European countries access to Russia that was followed by Napoleon and Hitler. Ukraine is Russia’s DMZ in their eyes. USA bullshit, some of which Mike B has enunciated, will no longer be tolerated in Ukraine, hence the war. Good job, Deep State , you have killed and injured a million folks in Ukraine and Russia. Also created BRICS+ and made Russia much stronger in its alliance with China. I picture Washington DC under Leftist control as a man with a gun to his head trying to commit suicide.
The 10s of thousands in the Middle East are a mere bagatelle, where is the repugnance of the US people at what our Biden Mob has one in Europe.
Good point. The deep state and its policies are not a Biden scheme- he’s just been a useful idiot and loyal functionary
Well JohnAZ, what’s your source or sources for that
bizarre conclusion? “It’s all Biden’s fault” is a notion
used mostly by magas who have a less than stable relationship with the truth and no reliable source to support their beliefs, just like Mr. Kuntzler.
Watch Glen Beck’s chalkboard description of what Biden and Victoria Nuland did with Ukraine during the Obama years. It is on You Tube under Glen Beck. I do not have to defend anything, Biden and his Mob are crooks and half the people in the USA are too dumb to realize their government has been taken over by the Mob. Ukraine and Russia have a million casualties between them to protect the Biden Mob. Evil on earth.
Hey, JohnAZ...Glen Beck is hardly a reliable source of anything much. A Dry Drunk who blew up his somewhat shabby career ending in tears. He;s also a crazy Christo-fascist.
Not a Glen Beck fan, but he nailed this one.
Morning Howard - maybe let Jim set the tone and topics of his post, and then respond to his thoughts accordingly?
Richard - you too. Jim was kind enough to acknowledge your writing a while back. Stop the self-promotion, or give him a cut.
OK, pot, kettle, black, but here goes - off topic, but bear with me. This from a friend in Marshall, NC, after my inquiry about the Helene response - after hearing about armed militias chasing FEMA out and reading about potentially 13K deaths - estimated by a travelling nurse in situ. Below is his copied & pasted comment:
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13K dead & missing?
I would guesstimate north of 3,500K to start by what I have seen and firsthand boots on the ground stuff;
What they are not publishing is the missing list from family;
A lot of people still not gotten too
Over 1000 bridges out and damaged;
Must be over 50+/- miles of r/r tracks wrecked and a lot of the r/r bridges gone
And they are stronger than DOT bridges
Some places are still cut off with people in the remote places;
pharaoh did not show up anywhere till day 11, then the 101st and guard not a lot though
**I know of one looter who the residents, workers, helpers etc. shot and left lay, Sherriff did nothing**
A lot of the helpers are armed; a lot
20X worse than what they are saying; especially the body count
Most will never be found as buried under 20’ of mud, rocks etc etc etc.
Mission had over 1000 bodies in the morgue and then they had to start stacking in the mobile morgues.
Not a peep of that
So they will write them off in a different category from the bean counters;
FEMA stays in town hiding in the parking lots around back etc;
Go to u tube
I have not seen militia keeping them out; but they (FEMA) are not showing up at the base camps
Militia have a well-oiled machine going
Most every road fixed, repaired now passable is from the locals and all the outside help;
Seen track hoes working like just a few minutes after the storm passed trying to get people out;
PJ’s Airforce black hawk rescue helicopter teams;
Sitting on the tarmac at Asheville airport for 8-11 days because they have no section 10 papers to let them help
pharaoh says no;
Over 50 private helicopters bussing like 24/7 helping the inaccessible and getting supplies in the remote areas
Homeless survivors must be 2500+ north
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Note the information about the looter. Those of you who have read WMBH, by JHK, and One Second After by Forstchen (the setting incidentally was Black Mountain, just outside Asheville, NC), read fairly similar accounts of what some think may be vigilante justice.
You'd be wrong - the fictional accounts, and the true story from Marshall , were the reestablishing of the Rule of Law, which is the first order of business as a society reorders itself, after any post-apocalyptic event. Without rule of law, there is no civil society - lawlessness.
In the fictional accounts and in this real account, the example is made for all to see - to restore order. We'll see this going forward - this same example. It is what must be done and will be done. Many won't have the stomach for it - nor the mental toughness to get by.
Mental toughness is, not will be, a necessity. Those without, will fall by the wayside, regardless of the amount of their preparations. The strong will survive, and that means body and mind.
Apologize again for this being off topic, but the 72-hour news cycle on Helene has passed.
@Ron Anselmo, God Bless your friend and the NC locals! Way to be!
Keeping your post on topic, DOESN'T SOUND LIKE TOO MANY JEWISH LAWYERS (OR BANKERS) ARE ON THE SCENE.
Oh, and I'm sick and tired of those mentioned above, plus the politicians and bureaucrats, constantly swiping their Discover cards in my ass.
Of course not. Why would they be? Appalachia is just another Gaza to them. Except that "YHWH" did their work for them.
The death toll will rise as people slowly starve to death and are cut off from access to the life-sustaining meds on which they depend.
Thank you Ron
You're welcome, just sharing some real on-the-ground information from a trusted source - the only kind I believe anymore.
Guy writing the first comment needs his own blog so I can tune out! I read JHK for HIS thoughts!
AMEN, sistah!!!!
This is Capitalist man, always on the make. We need a new kind of man, do we not?
Janos - maybe not a new kind of man, but one, who has a higher intention. I don't see anything wrong with seeking more, provided the intention is having more to give - not simply just having more.
Yes, put everyone in your debt. Or the self interest of giving away free computers to hook people on computers.
In terms of the four castes, material gain IS life to people of the vaisya caste. Not letting them doing it would be utter cruelty. The trick is to control it and them to make it and them serve Life, that is to say, the nation and its people. Control in the sense of guide not confiscate. If they won't have it, then the gloves come off. There are higher castes, higher men. They must rule the low men - and profit seekers are fairly low. Let's just face that fact. In a well run society, these people would be eager to please those above them. And they would be well rewarded for so doing by being respected and allowed to continue. Not bribed into doing good, but afraid of not doing good. It must never be forgotten what these people would do if they could get away with it - like making little children work long hours until they fall into the machines. That's who they are. They are the low.
Agree. The intention has to be give-to-give, not give-to-get.
You are correct in phrasing - doing good. I'm often accused of using poor grammar. Doing good is for others, doing well is for oneself.
There are not enough men doing good, and too many doing well. Want proof? Just ask them.
@Ron Anselmo: "I'm often accused of using poor grammar.".
And I've been told by more than one HR vagina that I've "a mouth like a sailor".
I'll take grammatically poor, profanity-laced, straightforward sincerity any day over cuntrol-freak HR indirection.
"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" then.
Pretty simple stuff as long as rules are the same for both sides then enforced with meaningful results.
Ron,
Seeking a new kind of man with higher intention? Nothing is wrong with the search, just the expectation of success.
E - agreed, unrealistic expectations, only lead to disappointment. In a broad sense, that's where that's headed. Now given the current slew of miscreants - not hard to find men with higher intentions.
Rather than changing man, why not change Capitalism? Why does capital accumulation continue after death? Why does being born to a rich family automatically bequeath unearned power over others.
We could eliminate all taxes, simply by enacting 100% inheritance taxe and with that provide universal housing, healthcare and food. After that it’s up to you to make your life better and teach your children well.
Ridge, you're at the wrong address.
He totally is on the wrong planet. The only way out of poverty is through capitalism. Whether or not one agrees or not it is still true. However, nothing is perfect. If one just knows history…it been proven that all the government systems that pretend to be for the people (socialism, communism, dictator, Popes, kings, queens, despots, and Lords etc.) really meant…..for me….not thee.
Well if you truly believe that, then you must be deliriously happy because that’s basically what we’ve got.
The really big Capitalist are winning! Yay! Big Pharma has gotten so powerful it owns the media and government regulators. Black rock is busy buying up everything and the really huge corporations are working on how to eliminate humans from the equation.
Yay capitalism
+1 Either it's a bot or that's the jab-related neurodegeneration talking. Let it keep masturbating to "universal housing" until the day it has to hold its asshole open Goatse fashion for the commie Chink invasion.
This was done by the increasingly odious Churchill.
Death duties destroyed the greatest Empire in history.
Families are the most stable unit, far more so than ever changing government.
For social capital- the seed corn of our grandchildren- for social capital to accrue, it best does so along family lines.
The landed aristocrats of the Empire worked for little to no pay.
The economy was based on the seed capital they accumulated; debt was repaid to the nation of their countrymen, not a foreign bank or fictional State, a virtuous expanding circle, a springboard for both the Industrial and agricultural revolution.
Communism's purpose is to overthrow the monarchies, and the aristocratic class.
The pillar of identity and stability, and the well of seed corn and merit.
Income taxes, death taxes, and rising debt are communism's tool in a war without weapons against European civilization.
Communism springs from the original Great Replacement. An implacable force who takes what they did not build, twists and inverts it, and then promises that it is better than the original version they deride, a counterfeit.
Why not change capitalism? Cause it don’t work, and when you change it to your brand of socialism - it’s no longer capitalism.
We could eliminate all taxes, simply by enacting a 100% welfare free society. Fixed it for you.
Tax the dead. Not the living.
Whatever aspirations our forbears had for security for the descendants, what we ended up with is Blackrock and insecurity for all
Ridge sounds like a good Democrat, always looking for a new tax that can be snuck into a society that is too dumb to realize it is being screwed. The goal being universal housing, healthcare and food. Look around Ridge, we are $36 trillion dollars in debt now trying to pay the welfare on the jobless the government has created with Obama taxing the corporations into exiting stage left and the Covid fiasco. What exists now is a drop in the needs bucket. You want universal welfare? Better find a way to raise quadrillions of dollars to pay the freight.
The governments created the Covid recession and layoffs, to protect us from a flu. Nice work, I do not want them even close to my money.
You’re delusional Ridge. We pay fucking taxes all our lives & THAT annual illegal confiscation rape should be enough after I’m dead. Whatever I want done w/ my possessions including $$ is no longer the government’s business
What?? Inherited assets are no different from inherited rule (monarchy)?! Balderdash! Don't you understand that the now-dead person -- oddly mute but indisputably smiling down from heaven -- retains the *freedom* to *choose* where their things-they-can't-take-with-them go? It's the very *essence* of capitalism!
Tax the dead. Not the living. Seems simple to me.
This “solution” is rooted in envy, like all socialist policy. No one holds a gun to anyone’s head to buy from Amazon. It’s voluntary exchange. Bezos only gets rich by providing more value to his customers than the value of the cash in their pockets. If he didn’t, the exchange or voluntary transactions would not occur. To be jealous or envious of Bezos trying to provide more in product value for his customers with lower prices for them, this improving their quality of life is what socialists do. The original idea in the thread is seeded in envy and jealousy of what other people have accumulated, and displays a lack of understanding of what capitalism is.
Steal the grandkid's inheritance so you can buy loyalists for yourself, seems to me.
And the RICH dead have all manner of ways to shelter their assets that will go to their families & never be taxed
I'd allow some level of sentimental assets transfer. Of course, how the hell can one determine that (even assuming a well-running small-r republican process)? So, in the real world we live in, I'm guessing in the US a (current dollars) $5-10 million absolute cap per inheritance sum might be what could be agreed on, along with a true-inflation COLA following the law, and some kind of rock-solid pledge not to change the portions, by passing it as constitutional amendment. Of course, not likely happen in my lifetime, LOL.
Well, one of the deepest human desires to help one's children. One would have to change human nature to get this whopper passed. But yes, any viable society need cooperation, not just competition. And in the modern industrial state, that means more than a little bit of socialism. Not Marxist of course, that's vicious, hateful and anti-nation.
If children can inherit a place - that’s all they need, eh? A farm or ranch. And if no taxes are levied, they can improve their property and pass it on to their children but they must inhabit to keep it going generationally
Who are YOU to decide, tyrant?
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Thank you, Brian, that's very illuminating. What's your point?
I think the point is that Skillington needs his own Substack if he's so fucking popular.
Ding! We have a winner! <3
What do I win? <3
Well...I'll have to think about that for awhile...maybe an unlimited-access backstage pass? ;-)
The US government, who fought the planned pipeline for years, claimed after its destruction, that Russia destroyed it. The same Russia who spent years and billions of dollars building it and negotiating with Germany and others over its utilization. They don't even try to make up plausible lies any more.
Sad, but true. They aren't good at it, and their lies, from JFK's assassination to 9/11 are ludicrously lame, but with Nordstream they didn't even try. I guess they figure they've got us so well trained that they can insult us with a transparent lie and laugh among themselves afterwards.
maybe it’s because they have a special department called the fairytale department that gets to produce private yachts with divers narratives as the culprits.
Lucky Guess? The perpetrators announced it! Anyway, one of my far-out claims is that the US and Britain still consider German prosperity to be verboten. "Still" means as far back as the early 1900s when Britain was planning WWI. Comments welcome.
Not a far out claim at all.
While Skillington pats himself on the back for his prediction powers he suggests preventing an alliance between Russia and Germany has "been a fundamental tenet of US foreign policy, inherited from the British Empire."
Uhm yeah, it's called the Atlantic Council.
Founded in 1961. The British Empire was a bit earlier than that.
Americans in, Germans down, and Russians out.
Mackinder's Heartland was based on the idea that land railroads would unite the northern and southern oceans, obviating the seapower nations' trade advantage over land-based powers.
When Bismark organized the chaotic fiefdoms of Germany into a self-sustaining industrial power building its own formidable navy, as well as German railroads competing with British rail all over the map, well, that mightily spooked the British, who suffer no competitors.
As well, Germans, Irish, and Irish-Scots far outnumbered the original Anglos in America, the French Bourbons and Catherine the Great threw in with us in the war of Independence and of 1812. The Brits, meanwhile, had succored the Confederacy. Since the Russian bureaucracy was mostly German anyways, had Russia and Germany (and Austro-Hungary) united, with American favor, the Balance of Powers would've been severely against the British.
Bonus: the Communists, funded by their Kapitalist brethren, would've never gotten off the ground.
Yes. You suggested we "inherited" this tenet from the British Empire and I'm suggesting the formation of the Atlantic Council just inculcated us into British notions of who should run the world. Hint: it isn't us – it's them. Always.
"We" didn't care much for foreign affairs until the Bolsheviks began WWI and there is little evidence that this is a "fundamental" tenet of US foreign policy because previous to that the US and Russia were allied in their hostility towards Great Britain.
And those who created WWI called themselves "The Secret Elite."
"The perpetrators announced it!"
They sure did!!! Wish it made more than a fruitfly's shit of fucking difference to notice this.
It made a difference to the Germans, but they are afraid to do anything about it.
Was watching old school investor Jim Rogers on The Duran last week and his take on BRICS is very realistic.
The "falling" Dollar is still safer then a bunch of sub-par economies grouping together to form a currency. It's laughable to suggest it's a "juggernaut" at this point.
BRICS must provide value not just "we're the anti Dollar" which seems to be all that is on offer. The "basket" idea is ALL they can come up with to counter what the U.S. Dollar represents.
A smorgasbord of a bit of this and a bit of that from a variety of countries sounds highly unstable.
In any case IF they come up with a currency there won't be institutional investors taking a chance on a risky venture any time soon (see Bitcoin) And though it will take years it won't stop folk like you from salivating at the idea that the Dollar has collapsed.
Also I second Ron Anselmo.
BRICS+ is fighting an infiltration war with the West, they are overwhelming the Western political systems. Money is worthless world wide, right now. The dollar is done, everybody else in the West goes down with it. BRICS+ is not only economic, it is military proxy fighting world wide. At least half of Ukraine will go into BRICS+ and if the USA does not support Israel, Israel may go BRICS+ and join with the rest of the Middle East via the Abraham accords. BRICS+ is a world reaction to the dominance of the USA for 70 years and will use all means necessary to shut the US down.
Just a bit of proof is all you need for your hyperbolic claims:
• Fighting an inflation war with the West - How? Please explain. *They* are simply an acronym without structure at this point.
• If the dollar is done then why aren't banks, institutional investors and governments currently pulling their dollars out and investing elsewhere? Also, what currency is replacing it?
• "BRICS it's fighting wars world wide" - with what Army? Besides Ukraine and Israel where else?
• The worthless economies of Ukraine and Israel will might join - why would that matter?
Likely you can't answer any of these questions because you are just giddy with the idea that BRICS will "use all means necessary to shut the US down".
Tipped your hand. Your hate of this country is repulsive.
The financial capital of the world is slowly shifting from the West (NYC and London) to the East (China). If the neocons' wet dream of an American Empire blunders us into WW3, a war we will lose, the shift will occur more rapidly.
As for the dollar losing status as the world's reserve currency, that will be more difficult to achieve. Most U.S. dollars are held overseas. Literally, in cash. It's the only major currency that has never been cancelled. That advantage, along with the fact that the world's most liquid and largest bond market is traded in dollars, means the reserve status is ours to lose.
That said, losing reserve status would be the best outcome for Americans like me who wish to see us get out of other countries internal affairs, whether political, economic or spiritual. I wish to see us stop using the dollar as a weapon to bring other countries to heel at our every wish and whim--from overthrowing governments to forcing abortion laws to flying rainbow flags. More importantly, it will help us to avoid foreign engagements, thus focusing our wealth and resources (the American people!) on solving our problems at home, instead of looking for them abroad.
We can't afford to be the policeman of the world, but we keep trying. We spent over $6 trillion trying to impose our version of democracy on Iraq and Afghanistan but the region is less stable now than it was in the year 2000. Say what you want about Saddam Hussein but he did keep a lid on terrorism financed by Iran.
It's much more nefarious than trying to be the policeman of the world. The Blob, Deep State, WEF, military industrial complex or whatever label we put on it, wants instability. They create the chaos. It's good for business. As you point out with Iraq and Afghanistan, there are literally $trillions at stake. Just imagine how much wealthier, healthier, happier and more peaceful America (and the world) would be had that money stayed home.
And Ghadaffi kept a lid on all the illegal mass-migration to Europe and elsewhere.
Deana, friend, none are more patriotic than JohnAZ. He loves his country and hates what the government has become, as we all do. The Blob must die that the Country may live.
Not this country, the Deep State. I put six years of military service into this country, what have you done? I do hate what the Left has done to this country, with a passion. And I have lots of company.
Infiltration war, not inflation. Look around you, you will see the infiltration war. No one is going to fight a superpower war, so what is BRICS+ to do. Just take over by displacing the current population.
Because there is not another currency that is as good, yet. BRICS+ is working on it own and Saudi Arabia has already stopped taking dollars exclusively. When oil is traded with currencies worldwide, the domination of the dollar is over. China and India are already buying gold in droves, I wonder why?
BRICS+ will not fight its own war, like NATO or SEATO, but its components will, such as China with Taiwan, or Russia supporting Iran or NOKO intimidating Japan.
So there are the answers to your giddy questions. Look around, you might find some powers closing in on the USA. But the biggest enemy of America is Amerika.
You are eager to see the death of the Blob, and hope you live long enough to see it. I would be eager as well.
Have hope. The latest BRICS announcement re their summit is that they've given a timeline: 2 years and they should be off and running to the races.
Not as a replacement, mind you, but as a steadied foundation for what can become a multipolar replacement.
I do have hope, otherwise I would ex-pat. Harris’ possible victory will be a real downer.
I was wondering…is the damage to the Nordstream pipeline repairable? Or is it just going to stay broken forever?
Probably cheaper to lay in a new section of the pipeline. Once the US gets its nose out of Russia-Europe business.
NORDSTROM? THATS IS A DEPARTMENT STORE. And they happen to be supporting blm and the democrats. So if they were destroyed it wouldn’t be so bad. (Just sayn)
Heh. Smartass. *grin*
😂 Autocorrect changed it from Nordstream, and I hadn’t noticed. Corrected now.
Both the older Nordstream 1 and the new unused Nordstream 2 consist of twin lines. We blew up both lines of Nordstream 1 and one of two of the Nordstream 2 lines. So one line is available but without any redundancy so the gas supply would be subject to interruption for turbine service for example. I have no idea if a storage facility on Germany’s side to even out the supply for incidental gas flow stoppage is feasible. Seems too risky to rely on that until the blown line is rehabbed/replaced.
Preparing for “government induced Civil War?
https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodd/524001p.PDF?ver=UpTwJ66AyyBgvy7wFyTGbA%3D%3D
Absolutely right. Please see this:
https://www.globalresearch.ca/world-war-iii-is-on-but-the-empire-has-already-lost-an-american-civil-war-looms-spiritual-transformation-is-the-only-way-to-prevent-extinction/5868285
Spiritual transformation - as in loving our own people first and foremost, and not feeling like we have to choose between warring Semitic tribes, much less letting ourselves be ruled by the one that has eliminated our Southern border.
My race is my religion: Arya for the Aryans. Skyrim belongs to the Nords!
https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/dodd/524001p.PDF?ver=UpTwJ66AyyBgvy7wFyTGbA%3D%3D
It must be very pleasant and satisfying to live in an alternate reality. Mr S. should visit this reality more often.
Hey ridge go for that horseback riding on the prairie and catch some coyotes. Life is just to short to have that kind of identity and not be happy. 😊 I happen to ride horses and excel at archery. Yet I still love to be able to work for a living and get paid so I can go out and buy mores horses and just enjoy life. Capitalism without greed is the elixir of life. I bet you have more money stuffed away than most on this platform. 😉
As a point of interest, I have a fried who had a career of underwater welding, mostly in the North Sea. He says that the nordstream pipeline could be repaired in less than 30 days if there was a will to do so.
I believe you, but after losing a month's revenue it could just be blown up again. In the meantime, Russia is selling their gas to the Chinese, instead, without having to worry about more NATO sabotage.
Russia had an allegiance to Europe sending energy to them for decades. Thanks to the USA government, Biden’s Mob, interference, they are settled into sending FF to BRICS+ and Europe will slowly decline as a result. If things keep moving in today’s directions, the West is doomed.
John, I've been reading you for a while now and I cannot understand how you have come to the conclusion that EVERYTHING that is wrong is Biden's fault and that the USA is in decline. It's a depressing worldview and just not accurate.
We follow Alex Mercouris, who discusses geopolitics. He was saying, during the days leading up to the Nordstream destruction, that Olaf Schultz was beginning to waffle. He had been to the US a few days before, if I recall.
Remember. The rhetoric was Five Months to take down Putin. It was well past 5 months, and winter was coming. I thought the EU was having second thoughts. If so, they had their choice scuttled with Nordstream.
They don't seem to have any conception of the relationship between Mr. Putin and the Russian People and the Motherland. I believe it's beyond the ken of this shallow, fractious nation.
As this blog shows, Howard, it is the government, the Deep State, not the USA.
As a fellow Jew, thoroughly happy to have been born and raised in the United States, I find it similarly embarrassing and upsetting to find so many of my co-religionists in the forefront of the fight to destroy the system of government of the country that gave our ancestors refuge (not that most of them give a damn about the faith of their fathers, but that’s another issue). These people are mentally ill, but unfortunately are quite intelligent, and without much in the way of morals, so they can do a lot of damage. Their record, tragically, speaks for itself.
They are Bolsheviks in Jewish clothing. Most sElected democRats are NWO and/or Bolsheviks.
We are in a 1918 Russian Revolution, at the end "political" stages before the Russian civil war breaks out ..... which Liberty lost, btw.
The joy of tearing down White Christian nations is simply something they can't resist. Indeed their scripture demands that they cut down our sacred groves and throw down our high places.
"Civil rights" was one of their first gambits, at least openly.
Their covenant with God was to be a servant to the world, to educate them about God commandments and stop the worship of other gods….other gods means serving the almighty dollar or working for the destruction of a country that allows freedom and opportunity to those who flee poverty or oppression. Most people living in America were not born here. My relatives all came from Italy in 1912 and all did extremely well in this country. My husband’s family all came from Russia and Ireland. The Russian fled persecution in Russia for being wealthy Jews, during the Russian Revolution and the Irish came here to escape poverty that England purposely did to them with the potato famine.
America is the jewel in the crown for the evil bastards of every creed. It just so happens all the names above were Jewish and shame on them. However The Clintons and the Bushes are worse. We will prevail though, I firmly believe God doesn’t want to destroy America.
They own people like the Clintons and the Bushes.
I don’t think so. They are partners in hell for sure
The Protestant Establishment sold us out with the Federal Reserve Act, consenting to be Jr partners in the Anglo-Jew alliance. One nation under International (Jewish) Bankers.
Denis. There is only the ONE . The names are superfluous. Christopher Hitchens was welcome to his own beliefs are so are you. It’s what you do in life that counts. Beliefs are personal and if one causes no harm and tries to sincerely help others when one can there really isn’t much more we can do since the world is not based on truth and was always in a fallen state where duality reigns and evil does exist in conjunction with good, all intentions and beliefs are your own to make.
https://www.cia.gov/library/abbottabad-compound/FC/FC2F5371043C48FDD95AEDE7B8A49624_Springmeier.-.Bloodlines.of.the.Illuminati.R.pdf
Kudos to JHK for having the courage to 'go there'. I do see online that more and more people are noticing this anomaly - and not just in the area of lawfare, but other important power centers that have gone bad.
I feel like the only productive way to confront this problem is for the Jewish community itself to oppose these bad actors. The alternative - external opposition - invariably takes dark turns. No one here, I trust, wants to go down that road!
There are many patriotic Jews already in opposition of course. (Praeger and Mark Levin come to mind.) But overall, it doesn't seem to have much impact.
I'm a Gentile (that God loves, inexplicably, and thankfully nonetheless. lol!). I'm curious what Jews on this board think? Is there growing internal opposition?
As time goes on, and it becomes clear that the Democrats and Leftists have thrown the Jews under the bus, there are more and more politically conservative Jews. We are also much more vocal than we used to be, because we realize that we’re no longer alone. By the way, for the most part, the split between politically conservative and politically liberal or Leftist Jews is correlated to how religious someone is. It is most certainly not a perfect correlation, but the more traditionally religious a person is, the greater chance that they are also politically conservative. This is because the values of traditional Judaism are the values upon which this nation was founded, and are the same values which the non-religious and Leftist Jews (and Leftists of all stripes) are trying their best to undercut and destroy.
It does my heart good to see people like Dennis Prager, Mark Levin, and Ben Shapiro out in full public view, condemning Leftism in all of its forms, but particularly condemning Jews for subscribing to this poisonous ideology. At least with them out there pushing more traditional Jewish and American values, the rest of us don’t look like a bunch of crazy and disloyal Leftists.
I will be honest, I simply do not understand how so many Jews can be on the far left portion of the political spectrum. A great number of American Jew are descended from Russian Jews, who know what Communism is, and one would expect them to oppose any ideology that was even remotely similar to it. As for me, Communismripped apart my paternal grandfather’s family, and Stalin’s NKVD brutally murdered one of my great grandfathers (when he was an old man suffering from cancer, no less). To say that I utterly despise communism, socialism, leftism, and all of their sister ideologies, is the understatement of the century.
Aren't the people you mentioned Zionists, certainly neoconservatives? Shapiro and Praeger have been rumored to be Mossad agents (conspiracy theory). Look at the way Shapiro treated Candace Owens, an America First, Traditional Catholic, anti-vax, peace-promoting, truth-seeker. Perhaps we need a different kind of Jewish patriot than Levin, Praeger, or Shapiro. Perhaps Jim Kunstler? We need to go all the way.
Candace Owens is Protestant. She married a Catholic, not a traditional Catholic. She has spoken about converting, but that was after her run in with Shapiro. Your ignorance is also apparent in the rest of your comment.
Candace is a Catholic. She converted after marrying.
My take on why there are so many Jews on the left is that there's a seemingly reflexive fear of whatever dominant culture exists where they live. In American and the West, that used to be Christianity. Taking a sober view of our culture today, I don't think that's the case anymore.
Anything that opposes, or weakens, the dominant culture makes them feel 'safe' from oppression. And the Left is most certainly opposed to anything Christian (and Judaic by extension).
But I'd ask you, do Jews feel safer in the West now that Christianity has been so weakened?
Jews want perfection, just like many others. Everything going their way and giving up as little as possible. The view that a stable dominant culture, ruled by laws, not men, gives them a fighting chance at that perfection is not perhaps in their culture.