MY BOOK, “The Financial Jigsaw”, is published at my academic network. Scroll for full view: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358117070_THE_FINANCIAL_JIGSAW_-_PART_1_-_4th_Edition_2020 Email for a free PDF at: [email protected]
A QUOTE, to remind us all what it’s really all about: ” Shortly before his death, Christophe de Margerie, the late head of French Oil Giant Total, said: “Anything can be bought, including men, it’s just a question of price”. And he should know.
THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK: Will the proposed CBDCs succeed? There are several serious obstacles to overcome first. The Canadian government’s (Trudeau) criminal seizing of people’s bank accounts when they were supporting the ‘Truckers’ has caused some ripples in the central banker’s plans to enslave populations with their total monetary controls. ZeroHedge has the story – most revealing: https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/central-bank-digital-currencies-are-doomed-fail-and-heres-why
BREAKING NEWS: Britain is in serious economic trouble and there is little that the authorities can do to save us from the coming Great Depression II – it’s baked in the cake now, with stagflation being the current prelude, reported by the ONS yesterday: “Collapsing consumer confidence shows how the cost of living crisis is weighing down growth. How many warnings like this does the chancellor need to grasp the seriousness of the cost of living crisis?https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/apr/22/uk-consumer-confidence-even-lower-than-in-2008-financial-crisis
CHS HAS AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE at ‘Collapse Monitor’ below, debt saturation has arrived; stagflation is a very difficult monster to slay. Brandon Smith is following my own solution for the construction of decentralised financial and economic models allowing free markets to fix the present economic disaster. It will of course cause the Globalist Banksters to lose control because their model depends on the centralisation of the global financial system (CBDCs) which has already brought us to the edge of collapse. There is no going back and Blackrock’s Larry Fink’s ‘Going Direct’ is bound to fail as sober minds push back hard.
“Ultimately, the clearest solutions to our fiscal fate are not pursued because the elites do NOT WANT to save the economy, at least not in a way that ends up with them having less power. They want even more power and centralization that extends beyond national boundaries into the realm of global management. Fixing the system can’t happen because they won’t let it happen.
This means that the fix that will save us in the long run will be the one that allows all others to progress; and that fix is to remove these people from positions of influence and authority. You can’t really repair the body in the wake of an illness until the offending disease is eliminated. For now, all we can do is keep the country on life support until a cure is applied.” https://alt-market.us/basic-solutions-to-our-economic-problems-that-establishment-elites-wont-allow/
AND WHILE ON THE SUBJECT of money, let’s see who really owns the world. It’s painfully obvious that Vanguard, State Street and Blackrock between them own all the major corporations in the world. Vanguard and Blackrock have a monopoly on Earth. They own all the major pharmaceutical companies, food companies, gas companies, electric companies, computer companies, banks, governments, and media. This is not a conspiracy theory. This is an inescapable fact easily verified here: https://rumble.com/vn7lf5-monopoly-who-owns-the-world-must-see.html
For these MegaCorps, and their lessor camp followers, power comes from their zillions of bucks giving them ownership of 90% of the global economic factors. They can instruct BigMedia, BigPharma or BigBankers et al, to report what they want or censor at their leisure. The list of examples is endless and if they ever become frustrated enough they could easily ration the food supply or ignite a nuclear war which they know, with modern weapons, is survivable, and they will be in their bunkers anyway.
Yet, there is an alternative, if enough people no longer allow themselves to be controlled by money. This is my PLAN B and is encapsulated in this book. It is worth understanding how it works in practice: UBUNTU-Contributionism-Blueprint-Prosperity
EXAMINATION OF THE BODIES at Bucha by a forensic expert uncovers several clues to a staged event. Other well-founded doubts on the official narrative of the “Bucha massacre” emerge from the same chronology of events: on March 30 the Russian soldiers leave Bucha; on March 31 the mayor of Bucha confirms this and does not mention any dead bodies; on March 31 the neo-Nazis of the Azov Battalion enter Bucha; on April 4 the satellite photo with the corpses in the streets is published.” https://www.globalresearch.ca/fakes-anti-russian-propaganda/5777833
AND FROM OUT OF AFRICA yet more solidarity with Russia’s battle for freedom. You won’t see this report in the captured Western MSM: “On 17 March 2022, the African People’s Socialist Party (“APSP”) held a press conference putting forward the official position of the African Revolution regarding “Russia’s defensive war in Ukraine against global colonial powers. It is absolutely necessary for Africans and all the victims of European colonialism to take a definitive stance in solidarity with Russia,” APSP announced.
“Since the 1991 dissolution of the Soviet Union, the U.S. has escalated its efforts to contain Russia. While many have been forced to recognise the existence of colonialism as it relates to individual countries, the African People’s Socialist Party has determined that the initial 15th-century European colonisation, begun in Africa, developed into a mode of production, a colonial mode of production that continues to define the political landscape of the world.
“Unlike most of Europe, Russian development from feudalism did not go through the colonial mode of production but is a product of the Russian socialist-led revolution of 1917. This is why Russia today, although it makes no pretence of being communist or revolutionary, has been able to briefly enter into the colonial mode of production on its own terms, free from the absolute dictates of the US. Under the leadership of Vladimir Putin, Russia has become an active, aggressive opponent of the unipolar world domination of the US.” https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/04/17/apsp-russias-defensive-war-in-ukraine/
THE RISK OF NUCLEAR CONFLICT is escalating; the probabilities are increasing. In this prescient interview with Robinson, Professor Chomsky explains the US Strategic posture and delves into the history of American and European aggression over the centuries. Here is what he says about the British Empire:
“We [America] are no different from others. Take our predecessor in imperial domination, Britain. The hideous record of centuries of British imperialism is just barely beginning to come to light. Now, Caroline Elkins has a very important book [Legacy of Violence] just out on the history of British imperialism. Shashi Tharoor, who’s Indian, came out recently with a book on the history of British imperialism [Inglorious Empire: What the British Did to India]. This is just beginning to lift the veil on the hideous crimes that Britain was committing for centuries.
Meanwhile, the British intellectuals were praising themselves as the most moral people in the world, even including the best of them, like say John Stuart Mill. It’s pretty hard to find an intellectual of higher moral standing. So what was he doing? Well, go back to 1857, one of the peaks of British criminal activity: vicious, murderous destruction of uprising in India. Mill knew all about it. He was an agent of the East India Company. Mill wrote a famous essay, which is taught in law schools in the United States, apparently without understanding what he said. It’s worth reading. It’s an article on intervention, and he said we should be opposed to intervention in the affairs of others, but he said there are exceptions. One exception is when a country like Britain carries out the intervention because Britain, he said, is an angelic country. It’s not like other countries. In fact, we’re so magnificent that other countries can’t understand it and they heap obloquy upon us because they can’t understand that the actions we take are for the benefit of mankind.
When we slaughter Indians, and conquer more of India, to increase our control of the opium trade, so we can break into China by force, they just can’t understand how angelic we are, so they criticize us. But nevertheless, we have to put their criticism aside, recognize that they’re just not capable of understanding our magnificence and go ahead with our humane actions. That’s John Stuart Mill. I don’t know of any American intellectual who is capable of shining his shoes. So are we surprised when they say the same?”
“AND further he explains the current American strategy vis-à-vis Russia and China: “The U.S. strategic posture—the current one—was established by Jim Mattis of the 2018 Trump administration. [It’s as follows:] We have to shift from what was called the Global War on Terror. (I won’t talk about what it really was, but what was called the Global War on Terror.) We have to shift from that to confrontation with peer powers, to confrontation with China and Russia. We have to be powerful enough to be able to defeat both of them in a nuclear war. If there’s a better definition of lunacy, I’d be interested in hearing it.
Actually, we did hear a better definition of lunacy. When the Democrats came in, Joe Biden updated the strategic posture by saying that—they don’t use the word contain anymore—we have to encircle China with a rim of sentinel states. And we have to advance their armament with precision weapons aimed at China. So we have to form a rim from South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, India—which is a reluctant partner—to encircle China to deter their aggression. So we’re deterring Chinese aggression off the coast of China. Okay.
In other words, we own the world. We carry out aggression and violence anywhere we like because we own the world. But if China is doing things we don’t like, off its coast, we have to encircle them with sentinel states, armed to the teeth and aimed at China. That’s considered very liberal…forthcoming. Yay, Biden. We have to defend ourselves from Chinese aggression.
And there are things that China is doing that they shouldn’t be doing, like they’re violating international law in the South China Sea. The United States is not in a particularly strong position to make a fuss about that, since the United States is the only maritime power not even to have ratified the ‘Law of the Sea’. But that’s us. We own and run the world. So we don’t have to ratify anything. We establish what writers of foreign policy will call the ‘rule-based liberal order.’ We do support that because we set the rules. So, therefore, we want the rule-based international order, not this old-fashioned, UN-based international order where we don’t set the rules. That’s no good; that goes out the window.
Now we have our rule-based order, and part of it is to encircle China with sentinel states with more advanced precision weapons. Meanwhile, we send Australia a fleet of nuclear submarines to combat China in the South China Sea, where China has maybe half a dozen old-fashioned diesel submarines, which you can easily detect. They don’t have what we have. We have to send a fleet of nuclear submarines, which are advertised publicly as able to enter a Chinese court and silently attack any Chinese target.
We have to defend ourselves against the Chinese threat. We, of course, have a fleet of advanced nuclear submarines, but they’re not sophisticated enough. One Trident submarine now can destroy almost 200 cities anywhere in the world. But that’s not enough. So we have to get rid of them and upgrade them to more advanced ones, Virginia-class submarines. One Trident submarine destroying 200 cities anywhere in the world: We can’t get by with that. We’ve got to update it.
Well, we send nuclear submarines to Australia to counter the Chinese threat off their coast. Well, that’s liberal America. Okay. You go over to the Republican side: not enough. It’s what you quoted. We have to increase our military budget to defend ourselves from the Chinese and the Russians. Germany has to raise its defense budget because Russia might attack it. The Russian army—which can’t conquer cities 30 kilometers from the Russian border which are not defended by a modern army—is poised to attack Germany. So we’re supposed to believe. So Germany has to increase its military budget.
You can see why we’re so terrified. This goes way back in American history, back to the Declaration of Independence. We piously cite it every July 4: condemning King George the Third for unleashing against us the “merciless Indian savages,” whose known way of warfare was destruction and torture against the innocent Americans who are just coming with a peace pipe. We just have to defend ourselves. It’s terrible how we’re attacked all the time.”
This is a long read but worth it if you wish to understand how we got where we are and why the world is facing the greatest potential for massive destruction of much of the northern hemisphere. I recommend that all caring and thinking people everywhere who wish for peace and security start praying and meditating for our salvation against the evil amongst us. https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/04/noam-chomsky-on-how-to-prevent-world-war-iii
BUT what if NATO and the Globalist cabal are unable to avoid what Chomsky fears? Caitlin Johnstone has some observations which might interest you and rightly places the emphasis where it belongs: https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2022/04/22/shitlibs-are-foam-brained-human-livestock-notes-from-the-edge-of-the-narrative-matrix/
COLLAPSE MONITOR: Charles Hugh Smith has an excellent argument; have we reached debt saturation limits? “The game plan for the past 13 years was to fund “growth” today by borrowing vast sums from future incomes: the $1.6 trillion in student loan debt, for example, was supposed to be paid by the soaring wages of all those student-loan-serfs, and all the sovereign debt was supposed to be paid by the soaring tax revenues from rapidly expanding economies. These fantasies have now run aground on the unforgiving shoals of reality. There’s no way to expand debt if income is losing ground and the cost of borrowing is soaring.” http://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2022/04/debt-saturation-off-cliff-we-go.html
SO, CONTINUING, as I have been urging for some time – we need a Plan B. However, CHS has expanded on my prodding suggesting a prudent Plan A & C as backup and I always prefer two backups: https://charleshughsmith.blogspot.com/2022/04/whats-your-plan-b-and-c.html
THE NARRATIVE BATTLE: Standard statistical analysis predicts that in any given controversy, the law of big numbers returns 30% against, 30% for and 40% undecided. This is precisely what has finally been returned by HMG government results for the Vaxx take-up. “An official UK Government report proves that in England alone there are at least 19.2 million people who have not had a single dose of a Covid-19 vaccine,[28%], 21.8 million people who have not had two doses of a Covid-19 vaccine, [32%] and 31 million who have not had 3 doses of a Covid-19 Vaccine,[45%] meaning nearly half of England’s population has become wise to the propaganda and lies spouted by the Government and mainstream media over the past two years.” https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/04/18/19milllion-unvaccinated-31million-not-boosted-england/
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The only actual productive industries in Britain are mining coal, fishing and agriculture.
And I’m not sure if they still mine coal.
Good observation, august, thank you, and you are right to question mining etc. The last operating deep coal mine in Britain, Kellingley colliery in North Yorkshire, closed in December 2015. Most continuing coal mines are collieries owned by free-miners, or are open pit mines of which there were 26 in 2014 and by 2017 production volumes had fallen to just 20 metric tons!
Coal production became uncompetitive on a global scale. With higher wages and uncompetitive unit costs of production, (deep mines), it’s cheaper to import; some is from Argentina for example. On agriculture: “The UK has a highly successful agricultural industry, but many domestic and international factors affect food production and prices for consumers in the UK. This became evident during the world food price spike of 2008. The UK is not self-sufficient in food production; it imports 48% of the total food consumed and the proportion is rising. Therefore, as a food-trading nation, the UK relies on both imports and a thriving agricultural sector to feed itself and drive economic growth. Behind the always full-looking supermarket shelves lies a supply chain that is sensitive to economic and environmental events. Too much or too little rain can reduce harvests.” https://www.foodsecurity.ac.uk/challenge/uk-threat/
“Before the UK joined the European Common Market in 1973, the UK’s fishing fleet was vast, and supported numerous coastal towns and cities. In the subsequent 43 years it had dwindled to next to nothing in many of these locations.” But it had been on the decline long before Britain joined the EU. https://www.investmentmonitor.ai/sectors/agribusiness/who-killed-the-british-fishing-industry
So there really is little good news coming out of Britain as it enters terminal economic decline. Few Brits realise what is going on and happily engage in mindless entertainment as the Titanic slowly sinks beneath the waves. Brexit caused the exodus of millions of EU workers who at least kept some of our services functioning. A common observation is when you see the roads deteriorating it’s a key sign of the beginning of the end. Which is why we are exiting early next year, hopefully, before the roof falls in.
I thought the point of the corn laws nearly 200 years ago was to end the agricultural subsidies that allegedly existed to keep the UK food self-sufficient.
Yes, and it worked, Deacon, until the idiot politicians screwed up following our joining the Common Agricultural Policy in the EU. “In 1984, there was enough food produced in Britain to feed the nation for 306 days of the year. Today, that figure is 233 days. But we can recover as we did in the war.
“We are facing an extremely tense food world,” says Professor Lang. “The future is one of volatile world prices. We can’t say that we will not produce our own chickens and import them from Brazil instead. We need to change the way the system works, and invest in wages and skills for those who work the land.” More land needed for growing.:
https://www.countryfile.com/news/can-the-uk-feed-itself-after-brexit/
Took time out from working outdoors to read my favorite weekly column.
Thanks Peter.
Thank you for your kind words Saami, it makes my scribbling worthwhile 🙂