. . .
K “Seems like ten years ago, not two years ago.”
J “It was ten years ago. Covid time.”
K “In mid-February way back then, we were terrified that it was as virulent as a Hantavirus and more terrified that the rest of the public was oblivious to the threat. The threats to the supply chains were obvious to only a few.”
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K “Two years ago they said that we needed two weeks to ‘flatten the curve’ but never said that they would take two years to ‘flatten the economy’ and transfer wealth to the wealthy and undermine small and independently owned businesses.”
J “They launched ‘helicopter money’ that dropped a dollar to the plebs for every hundred thousand dollars delivered to the Kleptocrats. What an experiment. We as a society tried wage and price controls in 1971 and helicopter money in 2021-2022. Inflation is no surprise; inflation is the consequence.”
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K “Biden and Putin agree. Biden plans to boycott Russian oil and gas that is desperately needed in Germany and the West; Russia agrees not to provide the much needed oil and gas to Germany and the West. As dad would say, Biden is cutting off Europe’s nose to spite Europe’s face and Putin is providing the scalpel.”
J “Oil is life. Turning off and turning down the oil wells will not turn out well.”
. . .
K “Biden’s decision to cut off the Russian central bank’s access to most of its $630 billion of foreign reserves is a desperate and frightening move. Once again, the United States weaponized the monetary system and issued a formal declaration of ‘World War E’ against Russia. The rest of the world knows one truth – No one can trust the United States. There is nothing more important or precious than trust. Mark my words, there will be a new economic order that is fundamentally different than the current machinations.”
J “I tell you, for those of us on the outside, the early tell is when the manipulated paper gold price results in few sellers of gold and then a huge chasm between the manipulated price and the actual selling price between a willing seller and a willing buyer.”
. . .
J “Someone said that Russia holds 90% of the world’s neon that is critical for lasers and semiconductor manufacturing, 40% of palladium that is necessary for catalytic converters and 35% to 40% of Boeing’s titanium and over 50% of Airbus’s titanium. And then there is platinum and there is aluminum and there is rhodium.”
K “From what I read, Europe imports 28% of their oil and 40% of their natural gas from Russia. The U.S. is not happy with that reality yet cannot meet the demand. So the U.S. tells the Europeans to freeze. In the dark. That will play well in Potsdam.”
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K “The move from the factory to the farm is as disquieting. In high school, they described the Ukraine as the breadbasket of what was then the USSR.”
J “We always flow back to oil. Oil is life; food is just oil reconstituted in another form. Someone observed that Russia and Ukraine account for 30% of the global wheat trade, 20% of the corn, 80% of the sunflower-oil exports and 12% of all calories traded globally. And they provide fertilizer to grow the products. Without fertilizer, farmers will not plant. The inescapable problem is that a car plant can be closed or opened at any time of the year, but a carrot must be planted at a specific time of the year governed by Gaia not by the government. The times to plant have passed and are passing. You cannot plant yesterday.”
. . .
K “You reap what you sow. We are not sowing.”
J “We are so in trouble.”
. . .
[See “If Russian Currency Reserves Aren’t Really Money, the World Is in for a Shock” dated March 3, 2022 by Jon Sindreu in the “Wall Street Journal”.]
[See the e-commentary at Covid-19: BAU v. BAU (February 24, 2020), Covid-19 PanICdemic/Plague: Basically, Back To Basics: Finding Food; Printing Rutabagas. Happy Earth Day! (April 20, 2020), Is Inflation Inflating!?!? (April 26, 2021) and Careening Toward A Global Totalitarian Authoritarian Behemoth? And Then There Is The Fed’s Self-Inflicted Great Checkmate. (January 3, 2022).]
Bumper stickers of the week:
“Control oil and you control nations; control food and you control the people.” Henry Kissinger
Two is one; one is none; none is none.
Socio-politico-economic experiments: 1971: Wage and Price Controls; 2020 – 21: Helicopter Money
“Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.” Galatians 6:7
Does Any Institution In America Function? Oh, And Happy Friday The 13th! (December 9, 2019)
Posted in Academia, Banks and Banking System, Congress, Democrats, Federal Courts, Federal Reserve, Institutions, Jurisprudence Award, Kleptocracy, Law, Medicine, MIC, MICAC, Military, MSM, Noble Prize in Jurisprudence, Pushitzer, Pushitzer Prize In Commentary, Republicans, Supreme Court on December 9, 2019 by e-commentary.org. . .
J “I need one more day.”
. . .
K “You don’t have to name three, just nominate one.”
J “One institution after the other after the other after the other after the other after the other after the other has failed and continues to fail. And that is even after lowering the standards to the point that the bar is on the floor. One more day, I need.”
. . .
K “The legal system at every level is a fraud and a racket. We live in a country with many, many, many rules and many, many, many laws, but we do not live in a country that believes in or adheres to the rule of law. There is no law, there is only ideology.”
J “The medical and health care / sick careless system is a racket and a fraud. I drive by the health insurance company skyscraper and reflect that not one person in the monolith has ever applied a band aid to a patient. There is no care, there is only profitability.”
. . .
K “The economic system is rigged at every step and turn to loot every last dollar from the people for the benefit of the Kleptocrats. What is the end game for the expendable consumers who soon will have nothing left to bleed?”
J “The MSM media is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Kleptocrats. The message is tightly controlled by obedient droves of stenographers. As a first step, everyone should skip ‘The Wall Street Journal’ and jump over to ‘Wall Street On Parade’ produced by Pam Martens and Russ Martens.”
K “Academia is a substantially owned subsidiary of the Kleptocrats. The message on the critical issues is also controlled and shaped by the corporate sponsors. The campus buildings are all named for brigands; their kids and grandkids are admitted to skip the classes conducted in the namesake halls. The hallowed halls are hollow holes. The MIC is now expanded to include Congress and Academia in the MICAC.”
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K “Every agency from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to the Federal Maritime Commission (FMC) – in the air and on the sea – is corrupt and incompetent. Regulatory capture exists at just about every regulatory agency.”
J “Furlough the ‘L’ out of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (B“L”S). To determine the real rates of unemployment, a citizen must search in the shadows at “Shadow Government Statistics” prepared and analyzed by the dedicated and informed John Williams.”
K “And then there is the Federal Reserve. Probably no other institution, less one and perhaps two, has inflicted more grief and despair on the ordinary citizen with less publicity and notoriety than the Federal Reserve.”
J “And related agencies such as the Securities And Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) are pernicious because they fool the citizen into believing that someone is watching out for him or her.”
K “And the Department of Defense (DoD) exists primarily to spend money, drop bombs, and kill people but not to provide for the common defense.”
. . .
J “The CIA and the FBI are a threat to every citizen at home and abroad and now may be affiliated with and advancing the interests of one political party.”
K “The police in every burg and borough are paramilitary forces occupying the city and the county and the country. Very few understand that the real Occupy movement in America grinds on.”
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K “Even many of the vaunted NGOs (Non-Governmental Organizations) surreptitiously serve the government’s interests. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is a front for the MICAC and shielded by the MSM that advances the propaganda.”
. . .
J “Local EMTs and fire departments are generally contributing to the public good.”
. . .
J “The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) is a credit worthy institution administering its duties dutifully.”
K “Despite unrelenting opposition from the White House, Republicans and industry, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is doing what it can to reduce the plundering and the pummeling of the Planet.”
. . .
K “The ACLU is fighting the good fight.”
J “Planned Parenthood is improving our plight.”
. . .
[See “Journalist: Newsweek Suppressed OPCW Scandal And Threatened Me With Legal Action” and other articles in “caitlinjohnstone.com” by Caitlin Johnstone, the 2019 recipient of the Pushitzer Prize In Commentary, dated December 8, 2019 and the discussion of e-con-omics in “Against Economics” in “The New York Review of Books” by David Graeber dated December 5, 2019.]
[See the e-commentary at “Here Comes Da Judge; Dere Goes Da Justice (August 31, 2015)”, “The FBI File: The American Imprimatur Of Success (January 18, 2016)”, “Suing Law Schools; Suing Gun Makers. Oh, And Happy Law Day! (April 30, 2018)” and “Clinton, Inc., Trump, Inc., Bush, Inc., Kennedy, Inc., O’Bama, Inc. (October 24, 2016)”.]
Bumper stickers of the week:
“Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” Eric Hoffer
America is a racket not a republic.
“If the misery of the poor not be caused by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.” Charles Darwin
There is nothing you can do to make any material change of any kind in any way today.
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” Arthur Ashe
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