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Post by srr on Apr 13, 2022 4:13:57 GMT 8
Gee @gee 11h · Edited 🔹 Tucker Carlson: ... if you watch carefully, you can see all of this taking shape, and why wouldn't it be taking shape in this country? We've got midterm elections coming and the ruling party is predicted to be in tough shape. So they're doing something about it. In the city of Philadelphia, authorities just announced the return of an indoor mask mandate. Is there science to justify this? Philadelphia has a seven-day average of two COVID deaths. Two COVID deaths in a city of 1.5 million people over a week. Now, of course, when your strategy is "COVID zero" two dead from COVID is more than enough to justify another mass quarantine. Tucker Carlson: If we want to know what the future looks like, you can look at China and shiver.
April 11, 2022 tv.gab.com/channel/gee/view/tucker-carlson-if-we-want-to-625539623f24521ab77d76abtv.gab.com
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Post by srr on Apr 13, 2022 4:29:26 GMT 8
Tom Jones @heytomjones 6m · for years it was book publishing deals, and people caught on. then it was selling art like a Hunter which lasted for a minute because it was just too obvious a scam.
now i feel like the 'subscription-based streaming service doomed to fail' model is the latest way to launder money to multiple people at once.
how else would a people like Wallace & Hunt get paid off? www.zerohedge.com/political/epic-failure-cnn-sight-behold-big-cuts-loomThe Epic Failure Of CNN+ Is A Sight To Behold As "Big Cuts" Loom
WEDNESDAY, APR 13, 2022 - 03:48 AM Less than two weeks into existence, CNN's paid streaming service, CNN+, has failed to attract even 10,000 daily users, according to CNBC, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Post by Struth on Apr 13, 2022 11:56:30 GMT 8
Hi Struth,
The world is pretty messed up.
We have wars, famines, food restrictions, dysfunctional governments and we are all fed a staple diet of lies and misinformation.
However all of those problems can be overcome if the people have a commitment to making that change.
Therein lies the biggest problem with where we are at.
People have been infantilised to such an extent that they no longer resemble the adult human species.
They have the age but not the essential defining characteristics of a mature being.
Real adults are resilient, have pride in their ability to reason and are openly sceptical of government involvement in their lives.
Now it seems we have conditioned generations of adults to look to government for solutions, absolve themselves of blame for any failings and content to be told what to do and think.
It's why so many of them react so badly to hearing information or perspectives they don't like.
I won't even say that it is things they don't agree that triggers them. So many no longer think past headlines that they don't really know what to think about much at all. Instead they just regurgitate whatever they are fed.
We saw it recently with the COVID vaccinations. Despite the evidence about the rushed testing of mRNA vaccines and their reported side-effects, any public concern about them was suppressed.
Those that did manage to break through the cone of silence were labelled as anti-vaxxers and worse. They were then dutifully reported by incensed citizens to any authority figure that might listen - social media gatekeepers, employers, media or their local politicians.
That saw people cancelled and condemned. The accuracy of their statements never figured into it. They simply pushed too hard against the vibe.
Since those early days, much of what was dismissed has borne true. There are serious side-effects with mRNA vaccines. Their efficacy is diminished with each shot and some research now suggests a negative efficacy with shot four.
As the facts are revealed, they are still not widely discussed because the world has decided to move on and focus on the war between Russia and Ukraine.
As discussed previously, I don't think Putin should have made the decision to invade but any conversation about why he may have made that decision is verboten in most circles.
Most won't know that the Belgrade agreement of 1991 binding was supposed to ensure Ukrainian neutrality - neither aligned with neither NATO or Russia.
Most don't know that the Minsk Agreement of 2014 was supposed to give the largely Russian regions in Donbas a vote for their independence. Most don't know how appallingly these ethnic Russians have been treated by the Ukrainian governments since then - while denied their promised vote.
This has resulted in an eight year long civil war.
You can see some of the consequences of that war - including the 75K Ukrainian refugees who fled to Russia in the document below.
2019 05 UNHCR UKRAINE Operational Update FINAL 2019-05-UNHCR-UKRAINE-Operational-Update-FINAL.pdf • 6 MB
Again, I say that these are not to be seen as excuses for Russia but they are some reasons why tensions were high in the first place.
These tensions have been heightened by the behaviour of senior politicians around the world. The Ukrainian President has repeatedly sought to join NATO in violation of the 1991 independence agreement and has not upheld the Minsk agreement.
US Vice President Kamala Harris publicly supported that position just prior to Putin's invasion.
Ukrainian President Zelensky has even been a supporter of the neo-Nazi Azov Battalion who have openly targeted culturally Russian Ukrainian citizens.
Who knows what impact they both had on Putin's disposition.
Since then, figures like Joe Biden have gone to great lengths to escalate tensions by calling for regime change and labelling Putin a war criminal.
In the case of US Senator Lindsey Graham, even publicly calling for Putin's assassination.
I'm old enough to remember when no responsible politician would ever do that.
They certainly didn't when America invaded Iraq ( without UN sanction) in 2003. Nor did they respond like that when the United States bombed Sarajevo without global authorisation in 1999.
Even the Communists of North Vietnam didn't do that when the US manufactured an incident to escalate the Vietnam War.
History shows that when Indonesia invaded East Timor in 1975, resulting in a 25 year occupation that killed an estimated 180,000 people, Australia supported it for decades.
So it's not principle at work here, it is something else.
For some reason, it suits the Western world to escalate this crisis and to make a hero of the Ukrainian President and a greater villain of the Russian leader.
In truth, both have behaved poorly but the West doesn't want you to know that there are many dimensions to this battle.
They also don't want you to know that most of the world's population - as represented by India, China, Iran, Brazil and Pakistan are remaining neutral or tacitly backing Russia.
Even the European Union, while donating $1 billion to Ukraine to repel the invaders has spend nearly $40 billion buying energy from Russia.
Merely calling into question the narrative we are presented with triggers an infantilised response from supposed adults who are unable to see things other than a single side of the propaganda.
That weakness, that ignorance and that apathy, is the greatest problem the world faces today.
Have a great day.
Cory
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Post by Struth on Apr 13, 2022 13:48:41 GMT 8
It's obviously a letter that Cory Bernardi sends out.
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Post by Chilli on Apr 14, 2022 21:32:13 GMT 8
Seeking refuge.
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Post by Chilli on Apr 16, 2022 19:15:04 GMT 8
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Post by Tongan Financial Wizardry on Apr 18, 2022 10:21:49 GMT 8
Worrying currency mismanagement by the Russians.
I don't agree with all the analysis below. But early on he is pointing out these measures that the Russians have taken to get the rubel to soar. There are few things more foolish than buying your own currency to prop up the price. Since this wastes good foreign currency that you need for valuable imports. Plus it damages your exporters capacity to adapt to the situation. To be sure it was a public relations triumph for the rubel to bounce back, but its better to focus on reality, as Russia has done in comparison to their opponents, in most other measures.
Another terrible measure is paying foreigners a 17% interest rate on domestic bank deposits. This amounts to a hidden and very expensive budget deficit. A very foolish measure. The real answer is to stop money supply growth until your currency recovers. And make the budget cuts necessary to make this work. Then go to your Chinese allies and try and get them to buy advance purchases of everything they can. Tuvalu not long ago was running a budget surplus of over 20% of GDP. You can cut expensive public service jobs if you need to. You can suspend great sections of the public service if you have the will to do so. But I guess the political pressure makes this easier said than done.
Now this fellow has a lot also to say about other countries weening off the Russian energy sources. That won't happen. Its not going to happen at all since to even happen in the long run you have to have a realistic understanding of energy that global warming bullshit makes impossible.
Instead the foreign countries, will do short term deals, and the buyers of Russian energy will effectively exercise a kind of monopsony negotiating power. So while they will be able to chisel Russia for fair margins and get their energy at a discount, they will not ween at all. The only apparent weening will be from sending themselves into recession by way of their manifest stupidity.
Everyone looks to be going into recession. America and Western Europe through stupidity. Russia through persecution. China through demographics and debt. But with China their version of recession still means modest growth for the moment.
Chinas debt is a disgrace in terms of dollar for dollar amount. But Japanese and Chinese debt is less harmful per dollar than Western debt. Since they tend to owe money mostly to their own government outfits, and central banks. Rather than to foreign usurers. Thats not nearly as bad dollar for dollar. But the sheer size of these debts still amount to a catastrophe.
If places like Tuvalu and Tonga can recently run massive budget surpluses, there is no real excuse for the rest of us.
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Post by Tongan Finance Wizardry on Apr 19, 2022 16:46:58 GMT 8
Seymour must be getting old. I saw him in Dunedin in 1983.
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Post by Tongan Finance Wizardry on Apr 19, 2022 16:55:13 GMT 8
Seymour makes me think of songs back then that I liked but didn't think I ought to like because I was a right wing government minimalist. And fan of Ayn Rand. So these stirring leftist songs I kind of felt like I shouldn't like them as much as I did.
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Post by Tongan Finance Wizardry on Apr 19, 2022 16:59:36 GMT 8
Socialist Billy Bragg did want to change the world. And he was indeed looking for a New England. But that reality didn't stop him from writing this excellent but rather cruel song.
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Post by Tongan Finance Wizardry on Apr 19, 2022 17:01:58 GMT 8
Another socialist. Mad as a cut snake. But great songwriter. I thought Thatcher was marvellous back then. But I still liked this song.
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