You gotta have the patience of an angel, man. Me, I've just about had it with all these types and their phony "analyses". It's a particularly unctuous mixture of lies, half-lies and make-believe that corrodes almost all of the so called alternative media. Whatever they are up to, they're not helping the cause.
Re: Kissinger-Putin and their relationship, the very experienced American diplomat Harald Malmgren had this to say about it: From winter 2022, shortly before the not-war began:
"In 1999, Vladimir Putin suddenly sprang from bureaucratic obscurity to the office of Prime Minister. When, a few months later, Yeltsin unexpectedly resigned and Putin was voted in as President, governments around the world were taken by surprise yet again. How could this unknown figure have amassed national voter support with so little media attention?
I had first met Putin seven years before and was not surprised by his rapid domination of the new Russia. We were introduced by Yevgeny Primakov, widely known as “Russia’s Kissinger”, who I had met in Moscow multiple times during the Cold War years when I advised Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford. Primakov was a no-nonsense thinker and writer. He was also a special emissary for the Kremlin in conducting secret discussions with national leaders around the world.
When Yeltsin tasked his advisor Anatoly Sobchak with identifying and recruiting Russia’s best and brightest, Putin, then a local politician in his hometown of St Petersburg, was top of his list — so Primakov took Putin under his wing to tutor him in global power and security issues. Eventually, Primakov introduced Kissinger to Putin, and they became close. That both Primakov and Kissinger took time to coach Putin on geopolitics and geosecurity was a clear demonstration that they saw in him the characteristics of a powerful leader. It also showed Putin’s capacity for listening to lengthy lessons on geopolitics — as I was soon to learn.
In 1992, I received a call from a meeting organiser at the CSIS think tank inviting me to join a US-Russia St Petersburg Commission to be chaired by Kissinger and Sobchak. The purpose would be to help the new Russian leadership in opening channels of business and banking with the West. Most of the Western members would be CEOs of major US and European companies, as well as key officials of the new Russian government. I would attend as an expert. I was told that a “Mr Primakov” had personally asked if I could make time to participate. I could hardly refuse such a request, and I was intensely curious about the emerging Russian leadership, especially about Putin.
Arriving at the first meeting, I saw several people gathered around Kissinger and a man I was told was Putin. An official identified himself to me and said he had been asked by Primakov to introduce me to Putin. He interrupted the conversation with Kissinger to announce my arrival; Putin warmly responded that he was looking forward to chatting with me about how I see the world from inside Washington."
Simplicius sounds like so many ":alt" media analysts/commentators and their consumers, in the US and elsewhere in the West. They are *desperate* to have someone, some power figure, they can cling to, so as to attain or retain hope that some knight on shining armor is out there on the world's power play stage, fighting for them against the powers-that-shouldn't-be which they are directly dealing with.
What are they supposed to do, trust their fellow human beings, the rest of the 99.9%? (well, that's where change will come from, if it comes, the future's here, we are it, we're on our own, but they don't wanna hear THAT!). Thanks for continuing to shed light on this dark matter, Riley!
Aug 11, 2023·edited Aug 12, 2023Liked by Edward Slavsquat
GREETINGS to you Riley, on this Friday afternoon from far West Texas.
EXCELLENT piece you've published!
If nothing else, I find it rather bewildering or perplexing that others in the alternative information space are so, shall we say, nonchalant about Putin's signing of the Digital Ruble in to effect.
Perhaps even more perplexing, University of Missouri Economics Professor, Michael Hudson, in an interview two or three days ago was asked point blank about his thoughts as to whether or not the new Digital Ruble would be "different" and "safer" than other CBDCs, particularly those in the "collective West" and "some other countries". My jaw almost hit the floor when, much to my dismay, Hudson rattled off an utterly unbelievable statement, declaring something to the affect of, "Well, you know, I don't know that much about the Central Bank Digital Currencies......."
WHAT!? The Professor of Economics at University of Missouri doesn't know that much about Central Bank Digital Currencies? That is utterly preposterous and entirely implausible, is it not? Any individual in similar position as Hudson would, in fact, have to be living under a rock (and for a long, LONG, time at that), wouldn't he (or she), particularly in light of Agustin Carstens' (Managing Director of the Bank for International Settlements)
2019 public announcement of "Going Direct" and what that initiative means? Let's face it, while Carstens' statement was quite concise, it left no allusion (illusion?) as to it's full gravity, did it? At least for those of us with an understanding of the English language. And, YES, in spite of the current chapter of the decades-plus long debacle between the collective West and Russia (using Ukraine as the pry bar..... remember the neverending message from the collective West : "We'll fight Russia to the last Ukrainian!"), just another spoke in the wheel of "Mr. Global's" overall agenda, the Russian Central Bank is in fact still directly connected to the Bank for International Settlements.
Perhaps not so ironically, I watched the 2011 (or is it 2012?) film titled "The Four Horsemen" the same day as Michael Hudson's live discussion. I had never watched that film before. To my surprise, Hudson provided commentary in that film. Perhaps it is only me, Hudson seemed far more clear-minded back then, than during his live discussion only two days ago. Perhaps I'm missing something, after all, I'm just a regular ole far West Texas working stiff (no doubt, HRC would label me a "deplorable," though I have no political affiliation whatsoever....does that make me even more deplorable? Lol!)
Interestingly, some of the same commentators in the alternative information space that provide daily commentary on the economic and political machinations going on in Europe, are equally ecstatic about the (ironically?) rollout of the new Russian "e-Visa" system! They are flat out giddy about how many countries the new Russian "e-Visa" system has reciprocity with, pretty much the entire E.U., the U.K., the U.S., and several countries in the Global South. Nothing to see here, is there? Especially with all those "sanctions packages" (with van Der Crazy and her cohorts currently working on their 11th sanctions package) against Russia in effect? Nah! Nothing to see here at all.
Interestingly, one or two days ago, one of those same commentators (he is based in Cyprus/Greece), who is currently reporting from Russia, made a visit to the Cultural Centre in St. Petersburg. He was excited about how easy and simple it is to "register" by simply answering some online questions and. "scanning a 'QR Code' to be allowed entry."
How do these people not see any connection with the U.N./W.E.F./W.H.O./B.I.S./I.M.F./World Bank (and those only to list some) driven agendas?
Ok, I get it. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt (and I'll include Simplicius The Thinker too). I suppose it is possible that Putin is looking out for the best interests of the Russian people, even so, he is not going to be around forever. And most certainly Nabiullina and Gref are not the only ones espousing hard-"Mr. Global" allegiances, are they?
I am delighted 'Simplicius' wrote this article. Until then I was not 100% sure the recently paywalled Rolo was right about his function as ZAnon. It is now crystal clear that, as you have divined, his function is to play an entertaining tune for the children so as to hold their attention. Don't worry folks, (Russian) patriots are in control, it's all gonna be fine. Given that Simplicius' main focus is on keeping our eyeballs on the SMO I am now also 100% convinced that its function too is to ensure our gaze is averted, while the digital prison doors are closed behind us.
Who on earth reads doomer blogs that don't promise a happy ending anyway?
Aug 12, 2023·edited Aug 12, 2023Liked by Edward Slavsquat
I’m fluent in German and I frequently watch Thomas Röper’s “Tacheles” show on YouTube (2-3 hours praising Russia & Putin every show) and the way he brushes all criticism under the rug reminds me of Simplicius’ way of thinking. I see the same with ZH TrumpTards and expats that I've recently visited in Russia: they have invested too much mental energy into believing the “Putin is playing 3-D chess against the WEF” narrative that they are no longer able to go back and objectively look at how Russia copies everything the West does; vaccines, war industry, CBDCs, 24/7 monitoring their citizens etc.
"Why would the Bank of Russia need a centralized, programmable, traceable digital token to extricate Russia from the Western financial system, when it already has its own payment system (Mir)?"
Because the current Mir payment system is just a temporary operation deployed until the Kremlin transitions to a CBDC interconnected to all the other central bank digital currences throughout Eurasia, Western Europe, and North America.
That being said, many supposed independent bloggers and YouTubers idealize China and Russia a bit too much. This is particularly the case for Ben Norton, Danny Haiphong, and Brian Berletic. They would like their viewers to believe Xi and Putin are on a mission to slay the big ugly Globalist dragon.
This type of propaganda is extremely useful as it herds the politically disaffected into believing more ideological hopium. A political fantasy which lulls believers into accepting the same repressive technocratic biosecurity surveillance state they initially rejected.🙊
Every good Orthodox Christian knows that so long as more churches are being built in Russia; so long as the Moscow Partriarcate seems to be more traditional than other jurisdictions; so long as Putin continues to denounce gays and trans and the like, it's perfectly ok to accept the mark of the beast. In fact, why stop at one when you could probably have two.
Simplicius is a bloviating blowhard who enjoys being " fellated " on a daily basis by his gaggle of 5D chess yes man. Additionally, The Russian situation is very easy to dissect logically if one asks the right questions.
1) Who wrote the Russian constitution ?
2) Who mandated the rules for Russia's banking and financial systems ?
3) Why doesn't the Russian government print its own debt free money ?
4) Who brought obscure Putin into power ?
5) Why is he still in power decades later ?
6) Why is the Russian central bank setup in a identical manner to the US central bank ?
Well, it's easy and a cheap shot (maybe) to sneer at people who are just hoping/wishing there might be a place in the world where the gov't wouldn't cut off your digidollars and threaten you with prison and financial ruin for misgendering a person/being Christian/objecting to children's castration and in-school exposure to porn/wondering whether vote fraud exists/ etc. I am not speaking of your article, Mr. Slavsquat, which I find to be a refreshing splash of cold water. And, realistically, I don't doubt that you are correct. Still, I wonder whether, withal, Russia might be about the best choice of a place to flee as things get worse and worse here. Except...I also am eyeing Belarus--since I found out Lukashenko would have nothing to do with the covid nonsense. Perhaps you could knock some sense into me on that idea as well.
Not very many people, I think, have ever regarded Putin as god-like. Rather, we have been so consistently lied to about everything we are doing, and everyone we are supposed to hate, that a few have gone overboard in the other direction. Most people here regard Putin as evil and a murderer (Skrypals?) since there must be a fire somewhere, when there is so much smoke. We have been programmed for almost 100 years to believe all Russians are liars and worse! And look at the things our own leaders seem to believe--Russia is weak, a gas station masquerading as a country, they're taking the chips out of washing machines to make weapons, their economy is in tatters, Russian soldiers are hopelessly demoralized, etc. But many are now comparing Putin to what we have...and wondering why we cannot have someone with at least half brain and a modicum of good will toward his/her own country. And toward the rest of the world (as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians die for our delusions). But anyway, sorry for rambling.
Perhaps you could clarify, Mr. Slavsquat, what sort of nefarious controls your adopted country might seek to effect with its digiruble? What kind of behavior/thought might it seek to punish? Perhaps this digiruble will be used primarily to enforce vaccine tyranny? Just looking for your thoughts on this.
The CBDCs are just a red herring they are effectively the same thing as online/cellphone payments, so they are nothing more than government run debit card accounts, as if the governments did not already have access to all the transaction on those from private providers.
NN Taleb, 2020: “every financial transaction done on Planet Earth since 2005 is traceable (the aftermath of Sep 11). Even if one uses prête-noms. Even if one uses cryptocurrencies, art work, etc. You cannot hide anything anymore.”
Damian McBride "Power Trip", 2013, page 124:
“In all the controversy in June 2013 over the US security services accessing people’s social media interactions through the PRISM system, it’s often forgotten that they had since 9/11 been accessing details of most of our financial transactions through the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication system (SWIFT). [ ... ] But it also raised uncomfortable issues around America’s potential access to the private finances and spending records of prominent politicians and businesspeople around the world.”
Look at that: The comment section is opened to us, barefoot volk! Yeehaa! Then again, this is a guest piece, so I guess you can`t just charge for other people`s work right out...well, since I`m on the side of private property, I guess I can not blame ya, Mr Slavskiy, but I feel butthurt for being rejected by my "frens"... 😉
Would be a worthwhile journey for some Russian speakers to dig into the genealogy of this nice lady named in a typical Russian fashion. She reminds me of other squat monsters like nuland, yellen, albright(???), feinstein and such.
Well, if Russia and the WEF are totally on the same page, why is the west trying desperately to destroy Russia? Why did that Verkhovna Rada member (I forget her name) say early in the SMO, that Ukraine is all that stands between the west/WEF/globalists and Russia?Why do they believe they are fighting this war FOR THE WEST, and say they are protecting the west from Russia's predations, if Russia is hand-in-hand with the WEF? Why do the Rothschilds/ (who, with British royals, ARE the instigators behind much of our globalism) have basically zero presence in Russia, by their own admission? Why were Soros' NGOs kicked out of Russia? I agree, and have always agreed, that digicurrency is an unmitigated evil for us proles, but there is something more going on here that doesn't add up. And I don't believe that this can be explained by simply stating that the whole war is a sham. There clearly is a very real struggle going on here. The hatred for Russia is palpable.
Ya gotta wonder about a guy who thinks long and hard about what to name himself and his blog, and comes up with 'The Thinker', it's like he's trying to compensate for something ... It's almost as egregious as 'Slavsquat'. Great criticism Squat, keep it up.
You gotta have the patience of an angel, man. Me, I've just about had it with all these types and their phony "analyses". It's a particularly unctuous mixture of lies, half-lies and make-believe that corrodes almost all of the so called alternative media. Whatever they are up to, they're not helping the cause.
Re: Kissinger-Putin and their relationship, the very experienced American diplomat Harald Malmgren had this to say about it: From winter 2022, shortly before the not-war began:
"In 1999, Vladimir Putin suddenly sprang from bureaucratic obscurity to the office of Prime Minister. When, a few months later, Yeltsin unexpectedly resigned and Putin was voted in as President, governments around the world were taken by surprise yet again. How could this unknown figure have amassed national voter support with so little media attention?
I had first met Putin seven years before and was not surprised by his rapid domination of the new Russia. We were introduced by Yevgeny Primakov, widely known as “Russia’s Kissinger”, who I had met in Moscow multiple times during the Cold War years when I advised Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon and Ford. Primakov was a no-nonsense thinker and writer. He was also a special emissary for the Kremlin in conducting secret discussions with national leaders around the world.
When Yeltsin tasked his advisor Anatoly Sobchak with identifying and recruiting Russia’s best and brightest, Putin, then a local politician in his hometown of St Petersburg, was top of his list — so Primakov took Putin under his wing to tutor him in global power and security issues. Eventually, Primakov introduced Kissinger to Putin, and they became close. That both Primakov and Kissinger took time to coach Putin on geopolitics and geosecurity was a clear demonstration that they saw in him the characteristics of a powerful leader. It also showed Putin’s capacity for listening to lengthy lessons on geopolitics — as I was soon to learn.
In 1992, I received a call from a meeting organiser at the CSIS think tank inviting me to join a US-Russia St Petersburg Commission to be chaired by Kissinger and Sobchak. The purpose would be to help the new Russian leadership in opening channels of business and banking with the West. Most of the Western members would be CEOs of major US and European companies, as well as key officials of the new Russian government. I would attend as an expert. I was told that a “Mr Primakov” had personally asked if I could make time to participate. I could hardly refuse such a request, and I was intensely curious about the emerging Russian leadership, especially about Putin.
Arriving at the first meeting, I saw several people gathered around Kissinger and a man I was told was Putin. An official identified himself to me and said he had been asked by Primakov to introduce me to Putin. He interrupted the conversation with Kissinger to announce my arrival; Putin warmly responded that he was looking forward to chatting with me about how I see the world from inside Washington."
https://unherd.com/2022/01/what-the-west-gets-wrong-about-putin/
Simplicius sounds like so many ":alt" media analysts/commentators and their consumers, in the US and elsewhere in the West. They are *desperate* to have someone, some power figure, they can cling to, so as to attain or retain hope that some knight on shining armor is out there on the world's power play stage, fighting for them against the powers-that-shouldn't-be which they are directly dealing with.
What are they supposed to do, trust their fellow human beings, the rest of the 99.9%? (well, that's where change will come from, if it comes, the future's here, we are it, we're on our own, but they don't wanna hear THAT!). Thanks for continuing to shed light on this dark matter, Riley!
GREETINGS to you Riley, on this Friday afternoon from far West Texas.
EXCELLENT piece you've published!
If nothing else, I find it rather bewildering or perplexing that others in the alternative information space are so, shall we say, nonchalant about Putin's signing of the Digital Ruble in to effect.
Perhaps even more perplexing, University of Missouri Economics Professor, Michael Hudson, in an interview two or three days ago was asked point blank about his thoughts as to whether or not the new Digital Ruble would be "different" and "safer" than other CBDCs, particularly those in the "collective West" and "some other countries". My jaw almost hit the floor when, much to my dismay, Hudson rattled off an utterly unbelievable statement, declaring something to the affect of, "Well, you know, I don't know that much about the Central Bank Digital Currencies......."
WHAT!? The Professor of Economics at University of Missouri doesn't know that much about Central Bank Digital Currencies? That is utterly preposterous and entirely implausible, is it not? Any individual in similar position as Hudson would, in fact, have to be living under a rock (and for a long, LONG, time at that), wouldn't he (or she), particularly in light of Agustin Carstens' (Managing Director of the Bank for International Settlements)
2019 public announcement of "Going Direct" and what that initiative means? Let's face it, while Carstens' statement was quite concise, it left no allusion (illusion?) as to it's full gravity, did it? At least for those of us with an understanding of the English language. And, YES, in spite of the current chapter of the decades-plus long debacle between the collective West and Russia (using Ukraine as the pry bar..... remember the neverending message from the collective West : "We'll fight Russia to the last Ukrainian!"), just another spoke in the wheel of "Mr. Global's" overall agenda, the Russian Central Bank is in fact still directly connected to the Bank for International Settlements.
Perhaps not so ironically, I watched the 2011 (or is it 2012?) film titled "The Four Horsemen" the same day as Michael Hudson's live discussion. I had never watched that film before. To my surprise, Hudson provided commentary in that film. Perhaps it is only me, Hudson seemed far more clear-minded back then, than during his live discussion only two days ago. Perhaps I'm missing something, after all, I'm just a regular ole far West Texas working stiff (no doubt, HRC would label me a "deplorable," though I have no political affiliation whatsoever....does that make me even more deplorable? Lol!)
Interestingly, some of the same commentators in the alternative information space that provide daily commentary on the economic and political machinations going on in Europe, are equally ecstatic about the (ironically?) rollout of the new Russian "e-Visa" system! They are flat out giddy about how many countries the new Russian "e-Visa" system has reciprocity with, pretty much the entire E.U., the U.K., the U.S., and several countries in the Global South. Nothing to see here, is there? Especially with all those "sanctions packages" (with van Der Crazy and her cohorts currently working on their 11th sanctions package) against Russia in effect? Nah! Nothing to see here at all.
Interestingly, one or two days ago, one of those same commentators (he is based in Cyprus/Greece), who is currently reporting from Russia, made a visit to the Cultural Centre in St. Petersburg. He was excited about how easy and simple it is to "register" by simply answering some online questions and. "scanning a 'QR Code' to be allowed entry."
How do these people not see any connection with the U.N./W.E.F./W.H.O./B.I.S./I.M.F./World Bank (and those only to list some) driven agendas?
Ok, I get it. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt (and I'll include Simplicius The Thinker too). I suppose it is possible that Putin is looking out for the best interests of the Russian people, even so, he is not going to be around forever. And most certainly Nabiullina and Gref are not the only ones espousing hard-"Mr. Global" allegiances, are they?
I'll leave off there for now.
Again, EXCELLENT piece Riley! Thank you!
CHEERS!
I am delighted 'Simplicius' wrote this article. Until then I was not 100% sure the recently paywalled Rolo was right about his function as ZAnon. It is now crystal clear that, as you have divined, his function is to play an entertaining tune for the children so as to hold their attention. Don't worry folks, (Russian) patriots are in control, it's all gonna be fine. Given that Simplicius' main focus is on keeping our eyeballs on the SMO I am now also 100% convinced that its function too is to ensure our gaze is averted, while the digital prison doors are closed behind us.
Who on earth reads doomer blogs that don't promise a happy ending anyway?
I’m fluent in German and I frequently watch Thomas Röper’s “Tacheles” show on YouTube (2-3 hours praising Russia & Putin every show) and the way he brushes all criticism under the rug reminds me of Simplicius’ way of thinking. I see the same with ZH TrumpTards and expats that I've recently visited in Russia: they have invested too much mental energy into believing the “Putin is playing 3-D chess against the WEF” narrative that they are no longer able to go back and objectively look at how Russia copies everything the West does; vaccines, war industry, CBDCs, 24/7 monitoring their citizens etc.
My noodle. My poor little noodle!!
Please just Stop!!!
"Why would the Bank of Russia need a centralized, programmable, traceable digital token to extricate Russia from the Western financial system, when it already has its own payment system (Mir)?"
Because the current Mir payment system is just a temporary operation deployed until the Kremlin transitions to a CBDC interconnected to all the other central bank digital currences throughout Eurasia, Western Europe, and North America.
That being said, many supposed independent bloggers and YouTubers idealize China and Russia a bit too much. This is particularly the case for Ben Norton, Danny Haiphong, and Brian Berletic. They would like their viewers to believe Xi and Putin are on a mission to slay the big ugly Globalist dragon.
This type of propaganda is extremely useful as it herds the politically disaffected into believing more ideological hopium. A political fantasy which lulls believers into accepting the same repressive technocratic biosecurity surveillance state they initially rejected.🙊
Right on the target. Great article.
Every good Orthodox Christian knows that so long as more churches are being built in Russia; so long as the Moscow Partriarcate seems to be more traditional than other jurisdictions; so long as Putin continues to denounce gays and trans and the like, it's perfectly ok to accept the mark of the beast. In fact, why stop at one when you could probably have two.
Sarcasm off
Simplicius: ".... Elvira and her cohorts have zero ties to nefarious Western institutions. "
Simplisticus doesn't seem to know that the Bank of Russia is the most nefarious Western institution for the Russian people.
Simplicius is a bloviating blowhard who enjoys being " fellated " on a daily basis by his gaggle of 5D chess yes man. Additionally, The Russian situation is very easy to dissect logically if one asks the right questions.
1) Who wrote the Russian constitution ?
2) Who mandated the rules for Russia's banking and financial systems ?
3) Why doesn't the Russian government print its own debt free money ?
4) Who brought obscure Putin into power ?
5) Why is he still in power decades later ?
6) Why is the Russian central bank setup in a identical manner to the US central bank ?
So many questions, so little time.
Well, it's easy and a cheap shot (maybe) to sneer at people who are just hoping/wishing there might be a place in the world where the gov't wouldn't cut off your digidollars and threaten you with prison and financial ruin for misgendering a person/being Christian/objecting to children's castration and in-school exposure to porn/wondering whether vote fraud exists/ etc. I am not speaking of your article, Mr. Slavsquat, which I find to be a refreshing splash of cold water. And, realistically, I don't doubt that you are correct. Still, I wonder whether, withal, Russia might be about the best choice of a place to flee as things get worse and worse here. Except...I also am eyeing Belarus--since I found out Lukashenko would have nothing to do with the covid nonsense. Perhaps you could knock some sense into me on that idea as well.
Not very many people, I think, have ever regarded Putin as god-like. Rather, we have been so consistently lied to about everything we are doing, and everyone we are supposed to hate, that a few have gone overboard in the other direction. Most people here regard Putin as evil and a murderer (Skrypals?) since there must be a fire somewhere, when there is so much smoke. We have been programmed for almost 100 years to believe all Russians are liars and worse! And look at the things our own leaders seem to believe--Russia is weak, a gas station masquerading as a country, they're taking the chips out of washing machines to make weapons, their economy is in tatters, Russian soldiers are hopelessly demoralized, etc. But many are now comparing Putin to what we have...and wondering why we cannot have someone with at least half brain and a modicum of good will toward his/her own country. And toward the rest of the world (as hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians die for our delusions). But anyway, sorry for rambling.
Perhaps you could clarify, Mr. Slavsquat, what sort of nefarious controls your adopted country might seek to effect with its digiruble? What kind of behavior/thought might it seek to punish? Perhaps this digiruble will be used primarily to enforce vaccine tyranny? Just looking for your thoughts on this.
Спасибо Вам болъшое за ваши замечателъные статъи!
The CBDCs are just a red herring they are effectively the same thing as online/cellphone payments, so they are nothing more than government run debit card accounts, as if the governments did not already have access to all the transaction on those from private providers.
https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1186271838386774018
NN Taleb, 2020: “every financial transaction done on Planet Earth since 2005 is traceable (the aftermath of Sep 11). Even if one uses prête-noms. Even if one uses cryptocurrencies, art work, etc. You cannot hide anything anymore.”
Damian McBride "Power Trip", 2013, page 124:
“In all the controversy in June 2013 over the US security services accessing people’s social media interactions through the PRISM system, it’s often forgotten that they had since 9/11 been accessing details of most of our financial transactions through the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication system (SWIFT). [ ... ] But it also raised uncomfortable issues around America’s potential access to the private finances and spending records of prominent politicians and businesspeople around the world.”
https://www.wired.com/1999/01/sun-on-privacy-get-over-it/
Scott McNealy, 1999: “You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it!”
The real issue is not the introduction of CBDCs which is nothing new, but the potential abolition of government cash. That's the big deal.
Look at that: The comment section is opened to us, barefoot volk! Yeehaa! Then again, this is a guest piece, so I guess you can`t just charge for other people`s work right out...well, since I`m on the side of private property, I guess I can not blame ya, Mr Slavskiy, but I feel butthurt for being rejected by my "frens"... 😉
Would be a worthwhile journey for some Russian speakers to dig into the genealogy of this nice lady named in a typical Russian fashion. She reminds me of other squat monsters like nuland, yellen, albright(???), feinstein and such.
Well, if Russia and the WEF are totally on the same page, why is the west trying desperately to destroy Russia? Why did that Verkhovna Rada member (I forget her name) say early in the SMO, that Ukraine is all that stands between the west/WEF/globalists and Russia?Why do they believe they are fighting this war FOR THE WEST, and say they are protecting the west from Russia's predations, if Russia is hand-in-hand with the WEF? Why do the Rothschilds/ (who, with British royals, ARE the instigators behind much of our globalism) have basically zero presence in Russia, by their own admission? Why were Soros' NGOs kicked out of Russia? I agree, and have always agreed, that digicurrency is an unmitigated evil for us proles, but there is something more going on here that doesn't add up. And I don't believe that this can be explained by simply stating that the whole war is a sham. There clearly is a very real struggle going on here. The hatred for Russia is palpable.
Ya gotta wonder about a guy who thinks long and hard about what to name himself and his blog, and comes up with 'The Thinker', it's like he's trying to compensate for something ... It's almost as egregious as 'Slavsquat'. Great criticism Squat, keep it up.