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Tens of Thousands of Ukrainians To Receive “Pay” (Our Taxes) During U.S. Government Shutdown!
Posted by M. C. on September 27, 2023
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Why Mitch McConnell Is One Sick F**k
Posted by M. C. on September 27, 2023
David Stockman’s Contra Corner
Rarely has the imperial arrogance of the Washington political class been so succinctly expressed. We are talking about Mitch McConnell’s recent triple bank-shot rationale for inflicting still more misery and death on the god-forsaken peoples of Ukraine.
American support for Ukraine is not charity. It’s in our own direct interests – not least because degrading Russia helps to deter China.
What kind of sick fuck would demolish an entire nation and slaughter tens of thousands of its citizens in order to weaken its neighbor and historic suzerain—all for the purpose of sending a carom shot across the bow of rulers 3,600 miles away. And rulers, at that, who are no boon to their own citizens but also pose no threat to the liberty and safety of the people of Kentucky or any other part of the United States?
Indeed, even when President Truman and War Secretary Stimson ordered the cold-blooded killing of 214,000 Japanese civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki their rulers actually did mean America harm and had already killed thousands of its soldiers from Pearl Harbor to Iwo Jima. But exactly where is the evidence that Beijing is assembling a massive armada of air, sea and land forces to invade the coast of California or is standing up a devastating first nuclear strike capacity to leave American cities in cinders before the awful nuclear retaliatory forces of the US could strike back?
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Reform Is Not Freedom
Posted by M. C. on September 27, 2023
The biggest infringements on freedom are the welfare-state and the national-security-state way of life under which we live.
But such reform efforts have never been about advancing liberty. That’s because liberty requires the removal of infringements on liberty, not the modification, improvement, or reform of infringements on liberty.
When I discovered libertarianism more than 40 years ago, the revelation that shocked me the most was that I wasn’t living in a free society. All my life, especially since the first grade in the public schools to which my parents were forced to send me, I had been inculcated with the belief that I lived in a free country. And here I was — in my late 20s — breaking through the inches-thick indoctrination that encased my mind and realizing that it was all a lie.
It’s got to be an exhilarating and exciting feeling when one is living in a genuinely free society. When I discovered the truth more than 40 years ago, I decided right then and there that I wanted to live a life of freedom before I passed from this life.
The biggest infringements on freedom are the welfare-state and the national-security-state way of life under which we live. In order to achieve a genuinely free society, it is necessary to dismantle these two massive governmental structures and replace them with a structure that is based on the principles of the free market, voluntary charity, and a limited-government republic.
Unfortunately, long ago some libertarians threw in the towel and gave up on achieving freedom. They convinced themselves that the welfare-warfare state way of life was simply too big, too powerful, and too deeply engrained in the United States and, therefore, that it would be futile to try to eradicate it.
Therefore, they resigned themselves to coming up with reforms that were designed to improve, fix, reform, or modify the welfare-warfare-state infringements on liberty under which we live. Oftentimes, such libertarians described these reform efforts as “advancing liberty.”
But such reform efforts have never been about advancing liberty. That’s because liberty requires the removal of infringements on liberty, not the modification, improvement, or reform of infringements on liberty.
Let’s imagine we are living in 1855 Alabama.
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“The Democracy For Which We Are Fighting”
Posted by M. C. on September 27, 2023
I don’t do Twitter, so is the best I can do.
Ukraine’s military has long been employing a disturbed American,
, as its English spokesperson. We covered last week their insane, deranged threats to hunt down and punish all “Russian propagandists,” meaning anyone (including Americans) critical of Ukraine
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War of Economic Corridors: the India-Mideast-Europe ploy
Posted by M. C. on September 27, 2023
The India-Middle East-Europe transportation corridor may be the talk of the town, but it will likely go the way of the last three Asia-to-Europe connectivity projects touted by the west – to the dustbin. Here’s why.
A year later, at a G7 meeting, B3W had already shrunk to a $600 billion infrastructure-and-investment project. Of course, nothing was built. History really is implacable, it came down to nought.
The same fate awaits IMEC, for a number of very specific reasons.
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/war-of-economic-corridors-the-india-mideast-europe-ploy
Photo Credit: The Cradle
The India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor (IMEC) is a massive public diplomacy op launched at the recent G20 summit in New Delhi, complete with a memorandum of understanding signed on 9 September.
Players include the US, India, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and the EU, with a special role for the latter’s top three powers Germany, France, and Italy. It’s a multimodal railway project, coupled with trans-shipments and with ancillary digital and electricity roads extending to Jordan and Israel.
If this walks and talks like the collective west’s very late response to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), launched 10 years ago and celebrating a Belt and Road Forum in Beijing next month, that’s because it is. And yes, it is, above all, yet another American project to bypass China, to be claimed for crude electoral purposes as a meager foreign policy “success.”
No one among the Global Majority remembers that the Americans came up with their own Silk Road plan way back in 2010. The concept came from the State Department’s Kurt Campbell and was sold by then-Secretary Hillary Clinton as her idea. History is implacable, it came down to nought.
And no one among the Global Majority remembers the New Silk Road plan peddled by Poland, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Georgia in the early 2010s, complete with four troublesome trans-shipments in the Black Sea and the Caspian. History is implacable, this too came down to nought.
In fact, very few among the Global Majority remember the $40 trillion US-sponsored Build Back Better World (BBBW, or B3W) global plan rolled out with great fanfare just two summers ago, focusing on “climate, health and health security, digital technology, and gender equity and equality.”
A year later, at a G7 meeting, B3W had already shrunk to a $600 billion infrastructure-and-investment project. Of course, nothing was built. History really is implacable, it came down to nought.
The same fate awaits IMEC, for a number of very specific reasons.
Pivoting to a black void
The whole IMEC rationale rests on what writer and former Ambassador M.K. Bhadrakumar deliciously described as “conjuring up the Abraham Accords by the incantation of a Saudi-Israeli tango.”
This tango is Dead On Arrival; even the ghost of Piazzolla can’t revive it. For starters, one of the principals – Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman – has made it clear that Riyadh’s priorities are a new, energized Chinese-brokered relationship with Iran, with Turkiye, and with Syria after its return to the Arab League.
Moreover, both Riyadh and its Emirati IMEC partner share immense trade, commerce, and energy interests with China, so they’re not going to do anything to upset Beijing.
At face value, IMEC proposes a joint drive by G7 and BRICS 11 nations. That’s the western method of seducing eternally-hedging India under Modi and US-allied Saudi Arabia and the UAE to its agenda.
Its real intention, however, is not only to undermine BRI, but also the International North-South Transportation Corridor (INTSC), in which India is a major player alongside Russia and Iran.
The game is quite crude and really quite obvious: a transportation corridor conceived to bypass the top three vectors of real Eurasia integration – and BRICS members China, Russia, and Iran – by dangling an enticing Divide and Rule carrot that promises Things That Cannot Be Delivered.
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The Fed Holds the Fed Funds Rate Steady—Because it Doesn’t Know What Else To Do | Mises Wire
Posted by M. C. on September 27, 2023
If we read between the lines, it is apparent that the Fed is hoping that price inflation will fall to politically acceptable levels without any additional tightening, and without a recession. But “hope” is all the Fed has. The FOMC voting members have no idea what comes next. But, the members apparently still fear politically damaging price inflation isn’t going away as evidenced by most members’ admission that the target rate is unlikely to fall much before the end of 2024. This is notable because the FOMC members tend to strenuously avoid any predictions that rates might tighten further.
These guys are the best we have? I don’t think so. See mises.org, fee.org.
https://mises.org/wire/fed-holds-fed-funds-rate-steady-because-it-doesnt-know-what-else-do
The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) on Wednesday left the target policy interest rate (the federal funds rate) unchanged at 5.5 percent. This “pause” in the target rate suggests the FOMC believes it has raised the target rate high enough to rein in price inflation which has run well above the Fed’s arbitrary two-percent inflation target since mid-2021.
The press release from the FOMC was largely unchanged from previous recent meetings and contained the usual language about the state of the economy and the Fed’s ability to manage it:
Recent indicators suggest that economic activity has been expanding at a solid pace. Job gains have slowed in recent months but remain strong, and the unemployment rate has remained low. Inflation remains elevated. … The U.S. banking system is sound and resilient. … the Committee will continue reducing its holdings of Treasury securities and agency debt and agency mortgage-backed securities, as described in its previously announced plans.
This rosy and orderly picture of the situation relies on cherry-picking which indicators on which to base an assessment of the overall economy, and in his post-meeting press conference, Fed Chair Jerome Powell repeated the usual stock language the committee routinely provides on how present high labor demand proves there is no economic turbulence on the horizon. This reliance on current jobs data deliberately hides a larger and more accurate assessment of the economy. Nonetheless, in his comments at the press conference, Powell stated some undeniable facts:
Inflation remains well above our longer-run goal of 2 percent—4 percent over the 12 months ending in August—and that, excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core PCE prices rose 3.9 percent. Inflation has moderated somewhat since the middle of last year … Nevertheless, the progress—the process of getting inflation sustainably down to 2 percent has a long way to go.
This meeting of the FOMC was described as “hawkish” by Wall Street observers and pundits, mainly because the FOMC’s Summary of Economic Projections (SEP) suggested that the target inflation rate will remain at 5.5 percent—or even slightly higher—throughout the rest of the year. As Powell noted:
If the economy evolves as projected the median participant projects that the appropriate level of the federal-funds rate will be 5.6 percent at the end of this year, 5.1 percent at the end of 2024, and 3.9 percent at the end of 2025. Compared with our June Summary of Economic Projections, the median projection is unrevised for the end of this year but is moved up by a half percentage point at the end of the next two years.
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Trudeau’s Five Eyes Allegation: Terrorist Died By Assassination
Posted by M. C. on September 26, 2023
Trudeau has levied allegations against India – claiming evidence Modi’s government was involved in the assassination of Hardeep Nijjar, a domestic terrorist in India. Is Canada now a sanctuary state? Does it not recognize reciprocity with one of its biggest trade partners – India? Why doesn’t Trudeau simply provide the evidence that supports his allegations? Likely because evidence doesn’t exist and India’s hard line regarding Russia is the sole motivation.
by Helena
It is NOT Canada’s job to intervene.
Nijjar was born in Punjab, India and joined the Khalistan Tiger Force, a militant group designated as a terrorist organization as of 2023. In 1995, Nijjar was arrested in India amidst the ‘Green Revolution’ initiated by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations. It was triggered by the Golden Rice initiative via the Rockefeller Foundation in the 1980’s wherein production of rice was increased by 100%. But the rice was identified as the reason thousands of Indians died due to lack of nutrients, in particular Vitamin A. Many farmers commit suicide.
Nijjar fled India in 1997 using a fraudulent passport and applied for refugee status in Canada under a fake name. His application for citizenship in Canada was denied multiple times until 2007. At this point he was a wanted man in India and should have been extradited.
The Khalistan Tiger Force was involved in many bombing sprees across India. Nijjar was determined to be leading this organization by India’s government and in 2014 and again in 2016, India issued an Interpol arrest warrant. Canada ignored the warrants. The Trudeau government instead references this terrorist as a religious man who just wanted ‘peace’.
Nijjar was assassinated in June 2023 by two unidentified gunmen who have yet to be arrested.
Three months later, the Trudeau government in true Pink Panther, Inspector Clouseau fashion, decided to arbitrarily implicate Modi’s government because one of the ‘Five Eyes’ said so.
Spies who die. At some unspecified time, Nijjar became an affiliate agent within the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. The larger dangling question would be – why was a terrorist wanted by India indoctrinated into Canada’s Intelligensia? Was this arrangement made in 1997 or 2007 as a term of citizenship?
Every Revolution that is denoted with a ‘color’ originates through the auspices of the US Agency, National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Their objective is to stoke discord and protests and violence. Their Orange Revolution was the catalyst for the Ukraine coup in 2014.
Given Nijjar was thus a project of NED, it is highly likely they represent the “Five Eye” snitch and told Trudeau to call out India. It would also indicate that Nijjar was working as an asset for NED. A valuable one. His protocol? To destabilize India and stoke a revolution.
The end result is the cancellation of trade with India valued at $9 billion.
With China becoming the boogey man, the West looked to India to fill a largess portion of the grand canyon ‘gap’ in trade. I remember when Trudeau dressed his entire family in the classic Indian dress one would wear to a wedding. Trudeau thinks he is a Buddhist. It was a huge faux pas!
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The World Economic Forum: A Farcical Illusion For Fossil Fuel Profits
Posted by M. C. on September 26, 2023
The International Council For Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) is affectionately nicknamed, Local Governments For Sustainability. They are an initiative of the World Economic Forum Agenda 2030 with a goal of building 15 minute resilient cities. Based out of Bonn, Germany, they have 2500 city mayors across the globe that have become members, pay membership dues, and vow to uphold the goals. They state that their member cities are stakeholders. Their current President is the mayor of Des Moines Iowa, Frank Cownie.
There is no conservation sustainable goal! There is only oil and gas, and hedge funds. The movement of money from The People to war in Ukraine, to NGO’s, to trafficking. These are their GOALS.
In the end it is about Eugenics and genocide while hoarding assets.
The International Council For Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI) is affectionately nicknamed, Local Governments For Sustainability. They are an initiative of the World Economic Forum Agenda 2030 with a goal of building 15 minute resilient cities. Based out of Bonn, Germany, they have 2500 city mayors across the globe that have become members, pay membership dues, and vow to uphold the goals. They state that their member cities are stakeholders. Their current President is the mayor of Des Moines Iowa, Frank Cownie.
Conceived by Jeb Brugmann, from Freiberg, Germany, Brugmann received his masters from Harvard in an amazing – one year. ICLEI’s earliest slogan was, ‘For The Common Good’. Partners include Google, Woodwell Climate Research Center, Undisclosed, and the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection. In collaboration with Anthony Blinken, 24 cities across the Americas were chosen to participate in the Cities Forward Program within the ICLEI, including; Denver, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Coral Springs, Hawaii County, Dallas, Dubuque, Austin, Evanston, Hoboken, Chattanooga, and Stockton.
The Cities Forward Program board consists of a number of mayors, but one in particular is worth mentioning; Kelly Takaya King, Former Council Member, Maui County, HI. As in the now destitute Maui central.
Partnering with Secretary of State Blinken in this initiative is The Institute of Americas. One particular advisory member to The Institute – is a Director at Pfizer, Dr. Samuel Dychter. AN ODD COUPLE TO BE SURE. Their partners include: Chevron, Exxon, Shell, Sempra Energy, Pan American Energy, Orel Energy, Interenergy, Pluspetrol, and others. In other words, the fossil fuel industry is partnering to end all fossil fuels? And the Institute is led by Pfizer and hedge funds.
Orel Energy is a holding company with holdings in just about everything with one very small notation of solar amidst fertility, healthcare, quantums, AI, gaming, crypto, food tech, etc…. Not unlike Blackrock, which owns considerable shares in nastypants – fossil fuels. Pluspetrol is the leading private oil and gas company in Latin America – operating in 7 countries…
You get the gist. The ICLEI is a bait & switch operation that has absolutely nothing to do with sustainability – and everything to do with fossil fuels.
Funding is public, private and government in the form of USAID.
The concept of the 15 minute city is a communist/socialist construct wherein you essentially become a prisoner. Leaving the city will require permission and a mode of transportation. Your work will be determined/dictated by Stakeholder Council members, and your life will become a hodge podge of pre-selected spouses, pre-defined food and caloric intake, and 3 changes of clothing – rented, of course.
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A “Trick Question” Police Use To Get Consent To Search
Posted by M. C. on September 26, 2023
Say “No” then STOP TALKING.
All police questions are trick questions. “Do you know how fast you were going?” “No” means you were not paying attention and not in control of your vehicle. “Yes” means you admit knowingly violating the law. Win/win for them. Epic fail for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SYCSG_-ZS0
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