Pretty much all of us here know that Covid is really nothing more than the flu, that it is nonsense to believe that masks protect us, and that lock downs are a joke that accomplish nothing. We’ve discussed all this in thousands of posts. Yet, there are a Few Really Big Things in the article below that are new, at least to me. So, I thought you might enjoy it.
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The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly
Is the covid ‘pandemic’ merely economic theatre?
Bringing together the US emergency bank lending crisis and the now massive Covid response, I’ve concluded that one of the main reasons it is happening, apart from the corporate looting, is because of a historic event, the USA’s economic collapse and the dollar’s demise, which started just weeks before this Covid operation kicked off, and has been put on hold by a world wide manufactured economic ‘freeze’.
The end of ‘Extend and Pretend’
A few months before Covid appeared, the Fed were busy pouring literally trillions of dollars into the US banks, to prevent inter-lending bank-runs which were starting to develop. These were the same tectonic fissures that developed prior to the 2008 crisis, where the banks became so distrustful of each other’s solvency, that they massively increased interest rates to each other to factor in the risk. If unsuppressed the lending rates would continue to rise, laying a path to bank failures and a contagion which would eventually derail the economy and undermine the dollar itself.
In September 2019 the Fed intervened in the repo. markets for four consecutive days, pumping $75 billion per day into the banks, as the inter-banking interest rate – the repo rate – peaked at a terrifying 10% [1]. If this level were allowed to contaminate regular highstreet lending, it would cause widespread debt defaults & insolvencies.
The dangers are far greater today because, unlike in 2008, Quantitive Easing (QE) has pushed the Fed to the limits of its credibility, and are forcing them into causing some serious currency debasement. If they continue with the forms of QE they are shackled to, then dollar debasement becomes a certainty in a US economy that is far more fragile & indebted generally and less able to cope.
The Fed must have known for a few years that QE was not returning the economy to economic normality, and that they were still trapped in the solvency crisis of 2008. Knowing this, the Fed were prepared for the latest crisis. They had made it possible to inject hundreds of billions of dollars into the banking system discreetly, unlike in 2008, without any additional Congressional fanfare, via the Financial Stability Oversight Council, formed in 2010.
They had given themselves almost unlimited funds and the resources of the entire government if necessary, to reassure the banks that collapse was impossible. This ‘rescue operation’ was being played out, relatively unreported except in the financial press, only weeks prior to the Covid flu appearing on the world stage. Issuing…
….. cumulative repo loans totalling more than $9 trillion to the trading houses on Wall Street that the Fed had been making from September 17 of 2019 – months before the onset of COVID-19 anywhere in the world…[2]
Unlike in 2008, this second use or continued use of mass Fed stimulus is not a new untested idea and, by using it again or continuing to use it more intensely to stabilise the banks, it would eventually lead the markets to conclude that we are locked in a never ending cycle of stimulus, which will inevitably end in hyperinflation and dollar collapse.
That is an uncontroversial economic fact, and will be the conclusion of the Fed’s current policy. In that context, an external ‘event’ could be critical in taking the spotlight off US finance and its woes.
The Fed will not want to exit repo operations until they are absolutely certain the market can stand on its own two feet. [3], [4]
United States Overnight Repo Rate was at 0.11 on Friday January 15
source: tradingeconomics.com
But, as they well know given their experience over the past 10 years, the markets will never be able to stand on their own feet in the current economic model. Now not only companies are being kept afloat by low interests rates, the US itself is dependent and kept solvent by low interest rates.
The fed has injected or made available over 9 trillion dollars to the banks in only 6 months leading up to March 2020, that is over 40% of the USA’s GDP, prior to Covid and represents nearly a 40% increase in the USA’s national debt!
So it is becoming very obvious that we are at the end of this particular monetary road, the ‘extend and pretend’ policy is finished and there is nothing in the economic tool box that can stall the inevitable. Only an external ‘divine’ intervention could, even temporarily delay the dollar’s collapse. As an aside, I should add, although they may be affected later, this is not happening in European or Asian banks, only in US banks.
The Diversion
In my opinion, the US security agencies picked a scenario off the shelf, something they have been justifiably rehearsing for years, the response to a deadly virus, which would produce the required financial shutdown, suppress bank activity, and create a world crisis big enough to eclipse the US economic crisis and produce a ‘flight to safety’ into the dollar, facilitating an economic induced coma, allowing time, a breathing space and justifying massive emergency QE injections into the US and world economy.
It could be sold as a period during which a restructuring of the world banking system could take place and perhaps reschedule debt as well as redefine the mechanisms of a new reserve currency.
This is what I think ‘The Great Reset’ really is about. It is being painted as something intricate and nefarious on every level, but it’s possibly more utilitarian than that, a necessary dialog, where the subject of that dialog is sealed from the public, justified by protecting our worried and panicky ears, and which concerns almost all western world leaders.
I’m sure a major false flag terror attack would have been discussed as an alternative to Covid, but the US is in no fit position economically to respond militarily, and without a military response to a terror attack the US would fear looking weak. Although Wars have been thought to resolve many an economic crisis, it is just as likely, in this instance, that a proxy war with Russia or a direct war with Iran would precipitate a dollar collapse, rather than create growth and a flight to ‘safety’. China would no doubt gleefully humiliate the US during such a conflict. So I speculate that major wars, as an economic solution, are off the table, at least until this crisis is resolved.
Creating a virus out of thin air is a cruel and vicious deceit, but the Fed will no doubt have claimed to its allies that it is far less painful than the total economic implosion we will face in the brewing economic collapse, where financial contagion from the US would cause most western financial institutions to become insolvent, debt would remain unpaid, trade would cease, asset values would crumble, bank machines stop, riots start, martial law be declared, and in many ill-prepared, import-dependent countries like the UK, rationing and eventually hunger would begin.
This is the threat the fed would have made to their allies, as we know for a fact they did in 2008, when asking for a united world central bank stimulus, making it appear vital to world economic survival.
They would have claimed that this time around the economic dangers are of such a magnitude that they even persuaded their foes, Russia and China, to partake in the hoax, because they are also reliant on continued banking & economic stability, and would not be willing to risk political instability at home caused by a second world economic depression.
By creating this suspension of an economic collapse, the US has cleverly turned the dominance of the dollar into a matter of international survival, effectively holding the world to ransom and blocking the baton of world reserve currency being dually transferred over to the next economic ascendant, China, and where the US has effectively engineered themselves a seat amongst the judges at their own bankruptcy hearing.
Believing this to be the case, I am less confused as to why most of the USA’s allies were so helpful and so consistent in making this Covid operation happen, and I have concluded it is their belief in the integrated nature of the financial & currency markets and the threat of economic collapse posited, as in 2008 by the Fed, that is causing their complicity.
Mutual Secrecy
As each irrational, destructive lockdown measure is implemented I am quite sure that our politicians, the very few that are in the know, say to each other: ‘we are lucky because “lockdowns” are as nothing, compared to the calamity that would overtake us in the event of a dollar-induced economic collapse!’ This, for me, explains their apparent insanity, lies and the internationally co-ordinated nature of their response. They too are acting out of fear, not for a virus, but for fear of anarchy and, by extension, the very real threat to their own lives that would result.
The secrecy surrounding this operation is wholly consistent, because it is in nobody’s interests to break ranks. If anyone exposes what is really happening to the US economy then it would precipitate the run on the banks, and then the dollar, that they are being told would lead to a world economic catastrophe.
To explore this hypothesis, we can look at the varying responses of the world players, and measure their reluctance or complicity in the scam, because at this turning point in history, during these shifts of power, loyalty is not guaranteed.
Japan has been strangely reluctant to take part, indicating to me their brooding irritation with US hegemony, which has been growing amongst their population for some years and expressed through the Osprey protests. It looked at one point like they were flirting with the idea of ignoring Covid altogether. Prompting the US to ‘invite’ Japan to join 5-eyes, perhaps to exert more direct control over them, via their security services?
Russia and China are reluctantly playing along for obvious economic reasons, but again we see reluctance to go full hog, despite the attraction of introducing authoritarian measures at home under the cover of Covid. Russia has even invented a non-existent vaccine for the non-existent virus, giving themselves an instant opt-out when required. Whereas China is preferring to just stop testing, and ignore the ‘crisis’ altogether, except for the odd statement about how dangerous it all is.
Non-western Africa, is not taking part at all, in Nigeria there are very few cases, probably because they are out of the loop on what is really happening, and see little evidence of a virus in their population.
Germany although physically occupied by the US, like Japan, have a confidence and independence that marks them apart from other vassal states. Having ‘found’ far fewer cases of Covid, they have tried to preserve their precious economy from any serious harm for as long as possible, demonstrating a cheekiness, consistent with their building of the Nord-stream pipeline project to Russia, ignoring the US’s repeated demands for them to stop.
In contrast, the USA’s closest, most supine of allies, & the 5 eyes states, are enthusiastically taking part, hyping the virus story to the nth degree of absurdity. Notably the UK, France and Australia, each week pushing yet another absurdly fascist response to a non-existent problem to scare their population stiff. In my view each allies’ response is calibrated to their financial dependency on the US and how ‘captured’ their leaders are to US interests.
On the political and media front, alternative media, doubtless spurred on by seeded stories and certain controlled opposition, unwittingly fans these flames by speculating on various kingpins and ideologues central to the plot, like Bill & Malinda Gates, and playing up fear stories of Marxist tyrannies, Communist takeovers, compulsory vaccines, tracking chips and various accusations against the dangers of 5G – targeted for being predominately European and Chinese technology.
The end result is a population left either paralysed by fear of the flu, or in terror of a rising ‘Marxist Fascist tyranny’ run by ‘jewish globalists’ and oligarchs. Either way, everyone is in too fearful a state to logically assess what is really going on around them.
I’m sure, in the dark bowels of Langley, Virginia, this scenario has been pre-rehearsed and stress-tested for years, and pieced together from a huge portfolio of coups and psychological terror operations from around the world.
Perhaps with lessons learned from Climate Change where, as with the weather, the common flu can easily be weaponised. In the case of Covid via a swiftly implemented ‘testing’ regime, simply testing for the common cold and producing millions of false positives, and a hysterical, totally unquestioning mainstream media.
Covid Opportunism
International Covid panic created some short term, but worryingly for the USA, short-lived ‘flight to safety’. ‘International crisis’ is the USA’s traditional and most effective tool to protect the dollar: normally US/UK media-manufactured. It was used to bolster a flagging dollar via the media-created ’Euro crisis’ or ‘Greek debt crisis’. A series of hysterical panics made ‘real’ by US and UK financial press, quickly making the USA’s economic woes old news, and reducing the world reserve holdings of the Euro in only a matter of months.
Along with the ‘flight to (dollar) safety’, Covid has offered the opportunity to freeze the USA’s banking collapse with massive injections of cash. $9 trillions was available to US banks up until March 2020, but in addition to this the Fed produced $5 trillion in economic stimulus to the wider economy and a further 5 trillions recently.
Without this ‘external threat’ – a ‘killer virus’ – this amount of stimulus would have immediately caused panic and threatened dollar credibility. However, with the virus narrative and the world-unified stimulus response to the ‘Covid pandemic’, this modest flight to (dollar) safety, along with the massive cash injections, looked justified and sensible.
It also looks to me like those in the ‘dollar economic zone’ – if there is such a thing – have gone along with their own impoverishment and have wrecked their own economies under the cover of Covid, to save themselves from a perceived greater economic catastrophe, bank contagion, on the basis of what I believe is being secretly told them by the USA, and based on what they have been witnessing in the US banking system prior to March.
It could easily be argued that we are being unwittingly drawn into a conspiracy to protect the dollar and US hegemony, under the cover of Covid, that is not in our own best long-term interests at all (currently being called the ‘great reset’).
Like Brexit and like the War on Carbon, I believe that if an operation or manufactured event seems to offer multifaceted advantages to the USA and their Corporate & military elite, then that operation has revealed its origins.
As it is the case with Covid, not only is there a freeze on the US economic collapse, but US Corporations and Internet services are benefiting massively from the ‘Covid illusion’. Something that must be getting more obvious by the day, and must be giving honest foreign leaders concerns as they see their retail sectors ravaged by Amazon and their cultural institutions replaced by Netflix, Apple TV and Amazon TV.
And the proposed ‘salvation’ involves paying billions to US Pharma, for, at best, a very doubtful vaccine. The least-honest politicians can no doubt engineer their ‘shutdowns’ to preference US corporations, whilst acting as the viceroys of Empire.
This looting could just be a side-show to the main event of dollar ‘transition’ or collapse, or it could be amongst the main aims of ‘Operation Covid’, it is difficult to tell, but it looks like the rest of the world is being looted by US Corporations and their home grown small-to-medium-size businesses bankrupted, with vast additional profits flowing to the USA’s richest, where we see the stella rise in the wealth of America’s robber barons.
From renting taxis with Uber, replacing hotels with flats from AirBNB, ordering meals via UberEats, holding meetings on zoom, spending ‘cash free’ via Visa, MasterCard & the Paypal cartel, ordering food on-line with Uber eats and destroying local culture are all being forced on a gullible world public during the Covid selective collapse. It should be dawning on everyone by now that Covid is a very, very Neoliberal Corporate virus, strangely working in the interests of a continued US Corporate neoliberal rollout against our own national geopolitical interests.
It is not only the Corporates that benefit from US ‘operations’ like Covid, the security state also demands their share of the spoils for assisting in and facilitating much of the operation. US tracking apps, social media and communication platforms are being forced, as a parasitical middle man, into every walk of our lives, taking a thin slice off everyday activities, like an America tax.
The details of the implementation of the Covid operation aside, it is possible that many inside the system regard the ‘Great Reset’ as not a conspiracy to oppress us, to exploit us and destroy our lives in a Marxist tyranny as many believe, but rather regard it as a necessary adjustment to an unbalanced economic system.
To see it like that we must believe that the current system is fundamentally flawed and that good faith solutions are being sought. I think ‘The Reset’ is seen by many honest brokers around the world as a genuine platform to resolve flaws in the current world economy, and to manage a transition from the dollar, in a controlled fashion. We should not always think the worst motives of everyone involved.
Having said that, I have no doubt that the US is busy trying to hijack the agenda to preserve its own supremacy, even during its climactic demise. The US Military industrial complex will be suspicious of any direction not determined by them, and I’m sure in Washington, Brussels and Beijing there is a battle over the measures and direction we need to take.
Like it or not, there may be very good reasons for these discussions to be held in secret, and we are left with only secondhand hints of the battles being fought over our current economic future; like Universal income, a shared international reserve currency, digital currencies or a cashless society, perhaps required through exchange controls or price fixing, to fight coming hyper-inflation?
Many US shills will be telling the world, that this is a ‘crisis of capitalism’, a crisis of western civilisation, and that we all need to preserve the US economy & dollar supremacy to save the world.
I personally believe the US has set us up during this crisis, like they did in the last in 2008, where they dumped all their bad debt on European banks to ‘share’ the crisis out. Working on the principle that: a problem shared is a problem halved, perhaps. Even if we are in this crisis because of a US collapse, and the rest of us could survive relatively unscathed. A ‘Reset’ does appear to be one route that enables a slow deflating of the economic bomb sitting under the US and which may affect the rest of us badly, if it goes off.
“ She swallowed the spider to catch the fly;
I don’t know why she swallowed a fly – Perhaps she’ll die… “
I reference the nursery rhyme as a cautionary tail, because this all started with the relatively normal economic recession of 2007, which if the USA had allowed to burn through its economy, would have been resolved in only a few years, and we would be living in normal times now. But they didn’t. The world’s central banks were persuaded to take measures that caused greater long-term harm, which in turn has led, in my view, to the ‘Covid solution’, a provocation intended to temporarily justify even more of the poisonous QE and low interest rates that didn’t work before.
Whilst perhaps sold as a ‘fire-break for a more long term solution to be found, I don’t see much evidence that the ‘fire-break’ is being used well. It seems more like a pause for the always shortsighted American elites to loot as much as is possible from our states’ coffers before an economic tsunami hits.
A Self-Inflicted Problem
I also believe the US never needed to be in this grave position it is today. Its problems are very much self inflicted. Simply taxing its wealthy and cutting its outrageous military spending would have averted a dollar crisis, leading instead to a slow drift from the dollar over a few decades as China took up the strain. But that is another story related to America’s ideological, political and philosophical bankruptcy and scleroses, that has increasingly driven them into an economic ditch over the past 45 years.
The Covid operation itself is a beautiful metaphor for the original banking crisis, which triggered the Fed to use quantitive easing (QE) – a far, far more damaging response than the original crisis itself, just as the lockdowns are far, far more damaging than this strain of flu, naturally occurring or released deliberately as a marker.
If a consensus resolution is not found quickly for the transfer or sharing of the world reserve currency, as the dollar is about to collapse, I have no doubt we will be required to ‘swallow’ a more drastic intervention than Covid to save the US economy and the dollar, each solution proving more damaging than the last …And of course, as the rhyme goes, we will eventually swallow a ‘horse’… and be ‘dead of course’.
If I am right guys, in one respect you can breathe a sigh of relief: world tyranny, forced vaccinations with harmful DNA changes, sterilisations, and mass genocide are not the main aims of this ‘operation’. They may be the end result of it, if we are not careful, but I don’t think they are the main aims.
The US is trying to stall dollar relegation using the Covid operation, and make it a major event, when previously the transition from old to new world reserve currency would have gone almost unnoticed by most of us. The British ceded the Pound’s world reserve currency status relatively quietly after WWII, under US pressure to float the pound.
It is perhaps a measure of the utility that is now offered by the world’s reserve currency, to facilitate the uncontrolled looting of the rest of the world’s economies, that it is now such a prize and so hard to surrender. Without the dollar and its world reserve status, enabling the US to print pieces of green paper in exchange for real goods, the US would certainly be bankrupt.
But that is not our fault and it is not for us in the rest of the world to save them, especially since it is their ideology that has inflicted so much harm on their own people and the rest of world.
What we are witnessing is an attempt, through foul means, by another once great Empire to postpone the inevitable. To fight off being consigned to obscurity.
So we exist in that mad time, that time of collapse and chaos before a new order asserts itself, which could last a month or 100 years.
You can view Maribel Tuff’s original comment here. The author wished to remain anonymous.
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I wonder how all this coincides with something I heard just today. China is the ONLY mainstream economy that had an increase in GDP. Up over 2%. America is down over 3%.
Fuck this bullshit article. Joe Biden has a plan and he will make everything alright.
casedemic resolved!
He’s already ended the “Muslim ban”, so he’s fixing our biggest problem here in Minneapolis: not enough Somalis. That’s on top of ending the nationwide shortage of Latino criminals.
If Biden can’t save The Republic, no one can.
Yes… I’m serious.
Nice analysis a pleasure to read. Sounds so possible and reasonable in view of what has transpired during the CoVid-19(84) plandemic. Wished it were true– it being the cover story for the global money cabal’s collapsing Petrodollar and U.S. reserve currency arrangements and all.
No, the Evil Fuckers are operating on a Satanic level and have something patently Evil in store for the vast majority of Humans.
The scum who are responsible for bringing this on the world deserve to hang irrespective of their motives.
Exactly, A.C. And why did she put scare quotes around ‘Jewish globalists’?
The author presents a good theory. But I question …Marxist Fascist tyranny’ run by ‘jewish globalists’ and oligarchs…
Remind me again who runs our banking system.
When all is said and done, they just want the money.
Thanks, I thought likewise.
But, Mygirl says there is no Global cabal and Marxists don’t exist and the article has as many holes as Swiss cheese. Others are confused by the convoluted logic. It’s a tough crowd here, man!
“What we are witnessing is an attempt, through foul means, by another once great Empire to postpone the inevitable. To fight off being consigned to obscurity.
So we exist in that mad time, that time of collapse and chaos before a new order asserts itself, which could last a month or 100 years.”
That’s the issue, next month or when i’m dead or when my kids are dead. We are dead in the end man. Look to the Lord eh?
There is no Global cabal, Marxists aren’t real, they don’t want to utterly take over a country using a fraudulent election (no fraud in that election, nossir), and the only reason for the covid story is to cover up an economic collapse which they are exacerbating with their lockdowns. . There are so many holes in this article that it resembles a slice of swiss cheese.
She’s so off the mark about Germany that it boggles the mind. As to the poorer countries not being caught up in covid? Yes, she’s correct, they aren’t and that’s because they don’t have huge incentives to profit off of vaccines
Am not sure it matters why
She swallowed that fly
We know she’ll die.
I prefer the house Jack built.
Basically we are in another Jeckyll Island situation then. They, the allpowerful they we know but cannot quite see, will emerge and let us know where to turn in our guns and silver for bread soon, in a month or a hundred years.
Stucky,
Often just skip your submissions to this site, but thank you for posting this as it makes perfect sense.
The trillions are flowing now like the thousands of times past. A toilet seat for an Airforce plane must now be more than the cost of a B-17.
“The last official act of any government is to loot the treasury.” George Washington.
But hey, George was a sorry white racist, and will soon be removed from all history and dropped down the memory hole, gone forever.
This submission that you found and was printed here will not get the five hundred comments of some of the pure tripe printed, but it should at least be read in its totality. Thanks again.
I like you Grey Man.
I actually decided the house built by Jack is quite different from the lady who swallowed the fly after doing a bit of research and watching the two nursery rhymes to compare. Jack, his house and his cat survive while the lady and everything she gluttonously ate did not.
Tripe is edible offal survivalists should never ignore. Some people have a taste for tripe in the form of chitterlings.
Until I undertook this comparative analysis of the two nursery rhymes, I’d always assumed Jack married the maiden all forlorn with the cow with the crooked horn. Turns out Jack and his cat survived the whole ordeal unscathed and unmarried.
Thanks Ghost
Your allusion to Jack
All I see is rhymes
It’s happening a lot of late
The stage is the time
Everything is an act
And the scene is the crime
Well, you’re missing a LOT of good stuff, man! Hilarious fact!
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I doubt it even gets to 50.
“We should not always think the worst motives of everyone involved”
O h yes we should.
The worst consequences should never be held in disregard.
Why not look at the obvious, that especially China can choose when she says ‘enough’, and has -so far- chosen to wait a few more years (3-5) until it’s semiconductor industries have matched (or surpassed) Western…?
Oh, that’s why they partook in the Navalny hoax?
And by the way I’m tending more and more that Germany will let Nordstream II be finished, but then will find bureaucratic means to block use of it – so to keep it as a joker in future negotiations with the EU and/or US, a ridiculous stance of course.
Other minor quibble:
Why has nobody ever caught on what ZH made known years ago:
The ‘extend and pretend’ phase at some point gets replaced by the ‘delay and pray‘ phase – and it’s the latter that we have exited in late 2019.
I agree with the articles premise 100%. It has been obvious since the repo market imploded a few months before Covidpalooza that the worst financial crisis in history kicked off with a bang. There was no way the world powers would allow a catastrophic, uncontrolled decline in the dollar so a false flag was needed to orchestrate a controlled deflationary depression.
The volatility in the gold and silver markets along with rejuvenation in the mining sector is a big tell.
I’ve held metals and miners for years and watched them languish – until about March of 2020. I also saw the writing on the wall when the Fed ‘s overnight discount rate started to rise.
I bought more and haven’t had a second thought about being wrong about alternatives to a falling paper dollar, even as the banks have held the metals in temporary check.
One morning all of us could awaken, realizing everything we own or saved may be worthless but I think there will be a very large indication as the very rich start scrambling to keep a deathgrip on their properties.
Think Plan B and Plan C before it happens.
I woke up this morning a bit earlier than I usually do for a Sunday. Happy I was to have had once again a great sleep. Going to the front room I could tell right away that it was going to be an agreeable day. I could see thru my front door snow falling lightly and without a breath of air. It’s winter here once again. The leaves have long since fallen, the days short and the bears who once roamed have gone back to their dens. Passing to the kitchen it was tea and toast, I then fired up the computer and TBP to see the latest posts.
One of the problems here in winter is securing the house from foreign invaders that run in the walls. Winters here are harsh but not bitter but as has been told to me many times it is not the cold that gets in your bones but the relative humidity.
So understandable even to me on some level the critters outside seek shelter here in winter. With it every year comes a cat and mouse dance. Long since past our two cats, they died of old age, and with it the mouse problem has gotten worse.
But its back to the dance. At night the mice are once again are running loose and scratching in the in the walls. Its kind of cute at first but it gets old quick. Especially when those critters start gnawing above me on the beams in the ceiling.
A good trap is a hard thing to find and an American traps harder still. Going to the stores in the past couple years it seems the only ones to be found are Chinese made. The programming insists the cheapest ones are picked first, So it’s a dollar ninety nine, for pack of four. Traplines were set and next day checked. Soon after there was a rush as the stupid ones to get the cheese. A few days pass, some skulls crushed, but soon enuf the bounty dries up and back it is to square one again.
The smart ones had figured out the game.
Triggered the traps somehow without doing themselves in. Any cheese put out was just feeding the critters. The next plan was to bait the trap and then wrap it in string. Dabbing it with some peanut butter topping it all off and to hide everything. It worked for a while but soon it was back to square one again. So the solution then was to buy a more expensive trap, another six ninety nine for a pack of two. Chinese made yes but it came with a promise of a quick kill but still a mess. The new trap would succeed where the others had failed.
Being cheap it was just the cheese to start. The same dance ensued till finally forced to use string. Then not long after that the trap failed again.
Leaving only the very smartest left to run free.
The circle returns and I am woken again. Time for a better trap and it’s off to the store again. Soon at checkout with one advertised as a multi-catch it was an added expense, a free glue board included and priced at twenty dollars and ninety eight cents…
This one a Pros-series and those who buy it are certified catch masters.
The mice must know there is no exit once inside. As they run in circles in a panic they don’t bother with the cheese. Where before I could only catch one of them at night, now I catch them all day. Skipping the glue boards, no need to pay for consumables, it’s just 4 inches of water and then watch them swim.
Where once traps got baited every day.
I now do it once and its all Chinese made.
Your obsession with rodents has me worried.
“Don Black and Walter Scharf wrote the seemingly tender ballad “Ben” for the 1972 movie of the same name. It was the sequel to a movie called Willard, which was remade in 2003 starring Crispin Glover.
In Willard, Ben is a pet rat trained by a human named Willard who has learned how to make rats do his bidding. Willard has the rats kill for him, but at the end of the movie they turn against him.
In the sequel, Ben, a young boy befriends the rat, but the rat turns evil and recruits other rats to attack humans. In the remake of Willard, Ben becomes an enormous super-rat.”
Never got into the trap thing, it just thins out the ranks is all. Used poison blocks instead, bromine. Far better at eliminating the pests. On the farm I trained our dogs to hunt the mice and they were far better at eliminating them than cats were any day.
Economic article turns to pest elimination… wonder if there is a government metaphor in there somewhere…
When it comes to economics
the metaphor gets tricky
then ends up skipping
Bruce wrote about a car
A big pink Cadillac
Some think its about wheels
Methinks it’s about a cat.
One is good
Two is better
Three for sure
No doubt about that.
Hey thats like my view of bullets… more is better.
The best mousetrap is a good cat. Maybe two.
That was quite the Jenga tower.
Far too many leaps of logic for me to keep up with, but I love the simplified we had to kill the economy in order to save the economy theme. It was so naive it gave me just a hint of the childlike quality so many possess to feed their inner worm.
GLWT
First they had to squeeze every last dollar from the middle class. CBDC’s (Central Bank Digital Currencies) are the next step to our slavery.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/americans-are-fleeing-lockdowns-when-they-can-afford-it
They are caught between a rock and a hard place and the plan to move to CBDC’s has been pushed back for now. How much it’s delayed is hard to tell.
This video (I know you hate video’s..sorry) goes well with this article and another one here. It’s worth punishing yourself to watch it.
MC
It is indeed worth watching and goes right along with some other information I’ve looked at today.
https://www.oftwominds.com/blogjan21/fed-fails1-21.html
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-06-09/how-hegemony-ends
Much of what is in the stock market will be sucked out in profits.
Look at Tesla and the tech stocks. The P/E ratios are ridiculous.
To date Tesla has just under 1 billion dollars in sales since the delivery of its first vehicle in 2008.
The current value of the company is 860 billion.
Their last prospectus was over 600 pages.
It only took two sentences above to spell out the financials.
Everything- and I mean everything- above the level of a Mom & Pop shop is a money laundering operation for counterfeiting shop.
The zerohedge link led me to this very disconcerting study. Just skimming the chapter titles written in September tells me this whole mess was planned, not predicted.
https://academic.oup.com/jlb/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jlb/lsaa064/5912724
Polishing the brass on Titanic. It never ceases to amaze me at easily people are led astray with emotional manipulation. Just when you think you have seen it all they raise the bar lol.
The churn is here and life will continue, but we need to pull the plug on the ventilator keeping this zombie economy alive. People claim this is what happens with capitalism, but anyone with half a brain regarding economic systems knows that U.S. has never had true capitalism as monpolies and bailed out businesses are actually supported by taxpayer funds via bail-ins and subsidies.
The economy here has been socialized for several decades. Not to mention the century it has been manipulated by the central banks thanks to the fed circus.
Humans are masochists by nature and only derive purposeful existence, in general, by being in a miserable mindstate. Most are too ignorant to know any better or are caught up in the rat race of acquiring useless shit as they have been programmed to do since birth. Which is hilarious since life is finite and wasted by seeking out material comforts that do not enhance one’s sense of self. Mediocrity is the ultimate goal of our government and the vast super majority of the populace, and cousins, we are mediocre as fuck.
Mission accomplished. Keep moving the goal posts and keep trying to find just one major reason why all of this ishappening while never putting the fault where it really belongs: with humanity in general and the human need to suffer.
Idiocracy was foretold in 2006 by Mike Judge and it has arrived a full 500 years early. I like money though…
Welcome to the University of Costco fuckers.
It is high time to hasten the demise and let it die.
Ecclesiastes 4:7-9
7 Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun:
8 There is one alone, without [a]companion: He has neither son nor brother.
Yet there is no end to all his labors, Nor is his eye satisfied with riches.
But he never asks, “For whom do I toil and deprive myself of good?”
This also is vanity and a [b]grave misfortune.
and thousands of NG troops staying in the Capitol until March. Hmmmm….what’s planned to occur during this time? Mums the word.
When the walls come tumbling down, when the walls…..
Thx for posting,Stucky
The authors premise revolves around his belief the dollar is teetering due to the mad printing. I’d lean heavily towards agreeing but I’m still dogged by my ignorance as to how many dollars the globe can absorb.
I do believe the covid was/is an extension of the currency war, absolutely. And I’m not certain what will be the next level of the battlefield now that China has appearingly, outflanked us.
God knows this latest “covid maneuver” by the fascists has thinned the fine line between outright violent anarchy and engineering a soft collapse.
I suppose it’s up to Joe Blow now. (when he gets his head out of his ass and off FAANG)
A very plausible theory, i doubt anybody that has a hand in this reset really gives two shits about preserving middle class Americans. Im sure the writer would also presume that living under a totalitarian government is better than going through the financial collapse of the US in which nobody knew about or could even comprehend the terrors of it if they did. Not buying it.