Perfect Girl, pretty good track. Hey Ed, i love ur blogs, u crack me up. in an insane clown human world, you make gettin up an readin an email fun an full of gallows humour.. - lee in taiwan
An act of kindness is free. The only inflation is the blossom of friendship.
Mirrored from article by Iris Jung> A 7-year-old boy from Hyogo, Japan, was gifted a letter of gratitude by the police for directing a lost 3-year-old to safety.
Ruito Murai, a second-grade student at Amagasaki Municipal Tachibana Minami Elementary School, found the infant standing at an intersection near Santanda Park on April 19, reported The Mainichi. After asking the young child if he was lost, Murai took him to the local park and promptly informed a police officer, who was already searching for the infant after his mother filed a report.
On May 25, Murai was presented with a letter of gratitude for his actions by Tadashi Hamada, chief of the Hyogo Prefectural Police’s Amagasaki Kita Police Station. Along with the letter, Hamada said, “We praise your brave action.”
When inquired about his actions, Murai explained, “I talked to him because he looked lonely. I want to help children again if I find them in need.”
Every day is beautiful to me as I am outside for 8 or 9 hours straight soaking up the sun this time of year. I played football in the park with teenagers who are way better than me so I was just the goalie. (The park very nearby has professional football goal nets (3 meters long and 2 meters high). This time of year the weather is so comfortable in Belarus. Today was 19 degrees with crystal clear blue sky and cool breeze. The drawback is I do NOT go to Minsk so much to talk to college students now. Some college students are getting ready for their examinations now anyway. I am waiting for a rainy day to continue my business card project (predicted rain on Thursday).
I have a TV that has NOT been turned on in 5 years. I used to watch NHK (English dubbed) approximately 15 years ago while in Japan. I get ALL info from my laptop so I just happened to run across that article while browsing Yahoo news. That article was a perfect fit with my "kindness is 'free' and real friendship grows like 'inflation' post and related rather well with Riley's 'inflation' article too in my opinion. I plead guilty to reading yahoo, newspunch, tass, RT, Belta, zerohedge and watching bitchute videos. Someone recommended Riley's substack on a RT article comment in January and I have been hooked every since. Last, not least, special thank you for your kind words and positive posts.
Your positivity is inspiring to read. Your viewpoints are always on target. And your references are educational with the preponderance of evidence. I must say that I am very thankful in finding someone like you who shares most of my viewpoints. This entire time, I only found 2 people in Belarus who believe that a virus does NOT exist. According to Doctor Robert Young, before 1950. the word "virus" was NOT in the dictionary. The medical term was "filtered bacteria".
Yes, I also quit posting on RT when disqus left. I only post here and on bitchute channels.
2) bilderberg group met last week in Washington DC
Anyway, I wish to keep you posted on my projects. I really want to start an interview channel on bitchute (using streamyard) and simply interview people. Philosopher (who posts here) gave an indication that he is interested in a future interview with me. I would be most gracious if one day I could interview you because your wavelength of thought is very intellectual.
Yes, the common Russian cat served rich caviar. Is there an invisible yet divisible string attached? Did the owner have to be coerced into an injection in order to enter the store with digital ID QR code to buy the caviar?
Okay, but Putin endorsed Elvira Nabiullina for another five-year term so………….?>>
Those who observed Russian politics for a long time, like I did, know that Putin has never appointed a non-liberal to a position in the financial/economic government block. Even the ever prominent academician Sergey Glaz'yev that has advocated economic sovereignty for Russia for the past two decades was only appointed as a general advisor to president Putin, not an economic one. He since was moved to a position in the EurAsian Economic Union (EAEU) overseeing integration processes there. People that know how things are done in Russia know perfectly well that finance and economic ministers have ignored Putin's direct orders like "May's Edicts" (Майские Указы) two times in a row in 2012 and 2018 with no consequences for themselves. All this independence of financiers and other shakers and movers of Russian economy stems from the arrangement that brought back in 1998 at the time "unknown dark horse" called Vladimir Putin to the top power in Russia. He and his group called "Siloviki" (Sila translates as Power) were given armed forces, the law enforcement agencies, the foreign policy and the patriotic facade for the people, but he was strictly forbidden from interfering in the core economic and financial decisions. And Vladimir Vladimirovich is adhering to these rules until now, as we can see from his reappointment of the criminally guilty according to Russian laws Elvira Nabiullina as a head of the Russian CB. However what the start of this special military operation did, it turned the table, where instead of Putin fighting the fifth economic column inside of Russia, this is now done by the West itself! Just as one example, the most pro-Western and integrated into the Western economy and even civilization are Russian oligarchs. They spent decades benefiting from Russian resources and taking their money (cumulatively 2.5 trillion dollars), their families, their interests and their hearts to the West. Yet, who was made the biggest scapegoat in this fallout between Russia and the West? West's most ardent supporters in Russia, Russian oligarchs and even people of lesser means that have chosen to connect their lives with the West but made a stupid mistake of keeping their Russian passports! So overall it looks like the "special military operation" wasn't as dumb of a move as I personally thought it was at the beginning. On one hand Putin played into the hands of the globalist elites and his old buddy Klaus Schwab, accelerating the coming of economic crisis of unheard of proportions, but on the other hand he delivered as strong of a blow as he could to the fifth column inside the country, the move that he is banned from doing directly by the 23 year old power sharing agreement. This push toward sovereignty against the wishes of many, but by far not all, of Russian elites gives Russia a fighting chance to survive and find its place in the coming NWO. To evaluate actions of Putin we have to go back to a Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin that once written: "Putin is like a twilight star - he gives a glimmer of hope and then he goes dark again. With Putin no one really knows, is his glass half empty or is it half full", I quoted Dugin by memory, but pretty close to the meaning.
I am doing fine. At the present moment, I am typing that message with "pique puce", ma chatte, on my legs. Your French exercice of the day will be to translate her name in Japanese. Take care
Okay, but Putin endorsed Elvira Nabiullina for another five-year term so………….?"
I get this narrative all the time on FB from Putin groupies and others who are merely grasping at any straws they can reach: Putin is dealing with all sorts of globalist infiltrators, and will eliminate them one by one. Yeah, by appointing and re-appointing them, he is eliminating them. :-) This is how intellectually bereft and desperate many of those in the "resistance" in the West have become. Thanks for helping to tune up reality with..... FACTS, Riley!
War abroad is almost always a pretext to militarize society at home, like sanctions’ dual-edged sword. Modern military doctrine sees civilians as a threat and voters as domestic terrorists.
Russia controls 1/5 of #Ukraine, Zelenskiy admits; and it’s the best bit of the country. Moscow threatens to attack “decision-making centres” if Kyiv strikes Russian land.
Inflation is much worse in USA/EU than in Russia/Belarus. Proof> Gasoline/petrol has risen from 1.99 Belarusian rubles in Dec 2021 to 2.25 Belarusian rubles per liter now in June 4, 2022. Exchange rate is 1 dollar is worth Belarusian 2.61 rubles and 1 euro is worth 2.78 rubles. So a gasoline liter is LESS than 1 euro in Belarus when the EU has to pay MORE than 2 euros and USA has to pay around 5 dollars. Bottom line> EU and USA citizens have to pay MORE than double than Russian/Belarusians citizens. Just wait until this winter when USA/EU citizens have to heat their homes. In winter, I will be warm and cozy in Belarus with a monthly natural gas bill equivalent to ONLY 50 dollars.
Keep in mind USA is #1 oil and natural gas and gasoline producer in the world so USA is MUCH MORE cheating their citizens with inflation. Times are tough in EVERY country MOSTLY because of poison injections and QR code digital ID and erosion of freedom.
I am too old to believe in good-guy leaders. However, I do see close to 200 idiots posing as super-patriots while Putin makes moves on the global chessboard look like child's play.
So. although Putin has an agenda that I cannot hope to glimpse, his walloping of western arses, perticularly that of Biden and Blinken, puts a smile on my suntanned Aussie face. Ruskis, please tolerate a bit of inflation for a while longer, at least until you have crushed the US economy, frozen a million or so French and German arses this coming winter, and forced the US to withdraw their military and media from my homeland.
Then I suggest you look at your central bank and identify the ownership by the Bank for International Settlements, in Basel Switzerland, exactly as it owns every other central bank in the world except Cuba's.
How could I possibly empathise when I am neither French nor German?
What I do know is that both peoples permitted their governments to imprison objective historians. When the truth is a crime the law of that nation is the Law of Oppression and Totalitarianism.
Right now, the French and German people are supporting Globalism and Naziism in Ukraine. If you are fight this, then you are my friend. If not, you are my enemy. This is why all resistance movements shoot colaborators. The French at least, should understand this.
As for Putin, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Russia is defending its borders. In doing so, it is weakening my country's main oppressor, the US military occupation. So good luck to the Russians.
As to reserve banks, if these do not matter, why did the Rotchschilds go to all the trouble to set these up in every nation. And ideology is a belief system, the source of all conflict and wars. If you want to cling to that, you deserve conflict and war.
In 1968, the French had the opportunity to reshape their future. This was the "almost French Revolution II". They chickened out, betrayed, ironically, by the Russian oriented Left.
Last year, the French could have followed the valliant Yellow Vests, but betrayed them.
I was part of that revolution and you were not even born. But by concluding that the Yellow Vests are the bad guys you have demonstrated just how stuped the French can be. Vive Morte.
I should like to note here, said Bosco adopting a pretentious Anglophilic accent, that the idea that any government is in significant control of its economy these days is a difficult case to prove by me. A global economy is irrevocably collapsing with both the help and hindrance of all parties involved, who don't seem able to tell a good move from a bad move both for themselves or their loyal oppositions both abroad and within.
will naturally lean toward the polity with the most of the most necessary resources and the military power to defend it from foreign polities.
Clot-shots notwithstanding, nor the whirlwind of rubles and dollars and yen etc., Edvard has picked the best polity in which to reside during such times. Certainly beats SoCal.
EXCELLENT INSIGHT . . . in the end, all currency is a confidence game. I had wondered, at the time, where all this gold for the gold-backed ruble was located (thanks to your intrepid work exposing the repatriation of Russian bullion starting in March 2020). Comparing pretty much any currency to the U.S. dollar or Euro is like comparing the value of toilet paper to that of stiff sheets with Illuminati symbols in ink, respectively . . . one of which has a practical value, at the very least, and the other of which is likely to give you painful paper cuts if you try to use it to clean yourself after toileting.
The bottom line is that the current geopolitical psychology favors the ruble and rejects the USD & EURO . . . this is good news for us plebes working to cast off the slave system, backed by those Western currencies, regardless of the corruption at work inside the Russian government (though that must continue to be exposed as it as much a threat to the Russian people as it is to the rest of the world).
In the long sustainable run, all that matters is a currency's domestic strength. Reliance on foreign polities to a) provide goods for domestic consumption or b) provide markets for domestic export, is an inherently unstable reliance doomed to, well, insane crap like we witness these days.
Because most of you are curious about what is going on in Little Russia, Donbass, Ukraine, I give you a link to a very interesting blog by a French who has been fighting for years as a sniper with the DPR.
He is, according to me, a very good human being and while fighting and reporting from the ground is very, very critical of armchair propagandist for Russia and their lies. It is therefore different from the very courageous Christelle Néant of Donbass Insider who is far less critical but nevertheless interesting as an active member of the DPR as a journalist: https://www.donbass-insider.com/fr/accueil/
This is how Erwan Castel introduces himself in his 'who I am' section:
"56 years old, "Breton, polytheist and European", successively French paratrooper officer, Breton independence activist and then expedition guide in the French Amazon, I decided to join the Donbass rebellion opposing the military operation launched against its Russian population in 2014 by the Maidan putschists
Enlisted in early February 2015 in the army of the Donetsk People's Republic, I served on the fronts of Debalsevo, Marinka, Dokuchaievsk, Donetsk before becoming a volunteer in 2017 in the International Brigade Piatnashka and serving on the front of Yasinovataya as a sniper.
Opposed to any form of unique thought (religious, economic, cultural or political) and fighting against the commodification of the living committed by an amoral and criminal globalist plutocracy, I inscribe my principles and my acts in the ideal of a "conservative revolution" defending the freedom of peoples to dispose of themselves and an ascending subsidiarity of native identities building a multipolar world."
Good reading, worth adding to your list of sources.
This is an extract of his last article about Severodonestk battlefront:
"I admit that I am tired of seeing with what narcissistic immaturity certain pro-Russian analysts who want to be the first heralds to announce Russian victories at any cost, even the cost of lies, impose on their public stupid and even unproductive fantasies. Being involved on the side and even physically participating in the conflict should not be done at the expense of truth and rational analysis. And all these experts who have been talking for 100 days, announcing every week the imminent defeat of the Ukrainian army "disintegrated", "demoralized", "unfit" in front of a "perfect", "invincible" and "crushing" Russian army should learn humility, avoid confusing ideological dogma with rational analysis and especially stop taking people for more stupid than they are! Their propagandist flunkeyism is only matched by that of the experts invited on BFM TV and Co - Gamelin, Gamelin and a half!"
Isn't this precisely what China tried to do starting a few years back when the CCP stated it would "fix" the value of the yuan regardless of what capitalist dogs in international currency exchanges said it was worth?
Perfect Girl, pretty good track. Hey Ed, i love ur blogs, u crack me up. in an insane clown human world, you make gettin up an readin an email fun an full of gallows humour.. - lee in taiwan
An act of kindness is free. The only inflation is the blossom of friendship.
Mirrored from article by Iris Jung> A 7-year-old boy from Hyogo, Japan, was gifted a letter of gratitude by the police for directing a lost 3-year-old to safety.
Ruito Murai, a second-grade student at Amagasaki Municipal Tachibana Minami Elementary School, found the infant standing at an intersection near Santanda Park on April 19, reported The Mainichi. After asking the young child if he was lost, Murai took him to the local park and promptly informed a police officer, who was already searching for the infant after his mother filed a report.
On May 25, Murai was presented with a letter of gratitude for his actions by Tadashi Hamada, chief of the Hyogo Prefectural Police’s Amagasaki Kita Police Station. Along with the letter, Hamada said, “We praise your brave action.”
When inquired about his actions, Murai explained, “I talked to him because he looked lonely. I want to help children again if I find them in need.”
Every day is beautiful to me as I am outside for 8 or 9 hours straight soaking up the sun this time of year. I played football in the park with teenagers who are way better than me so I was just the goalie. (The park very nearby has professional football goal nets (3 meters long and 2 meters high). This time of year the weather is so comfortable in Belarus. Today was 19 degrees with crystal clear blue sky and cool breeze. The drawback is I do NOT go to Minsk so much to talk to college students now. Some college students are getting ready for their examinations now anyway. I am waiting for a rainy day to continue my business card project (predicted rain on Thursday).
I have a TV that has NOT been turned on in 5 years. I used to watch NHK (English dubbed) approximately 15 years ago while in Japan. I get ALL info from my laptop so I just happened to run across that article while browsing Yahoo news. That article was a perfect fit with my "kindness is 'free' and real friendship grows like 'inflation' post and related rather well with Riley's 'inflation' article too in my opinion. I plead guilty to reading yahoo, newspunch, tass, RT, Belta, zerohedge and watching bitchute videos. Someone recommended Riley's substack on a RT article comment in January and I have been hooked every since. Last, not least, special thank you for your kind words and positive posts.
Your positivity is inspiring to read. Your viewpoints are always on target. And your references are educational with the preponderance of evidence. I must say that I am very thankful in finding someone like you who shares most of my viewpoints. This entire time, I only found 2 people in Belarus who believe that a virus does NOT exist. According to Doctor Robert Young, before 1950. the word "virus" was NOT in the dictionary. The medical term was "filtered bacteria".
Yes, I also quit posting on RT when disqus left. I only post here and on bitchute channels.
Zerohedge had 2 interesting articles last week. 1) WEF article https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/top-10-creepiest-and-most-dystopian-things-pushed-world-economic-forum-wef
2) bilderberg group met last week in Washington DC
Anyway, I wish to keep you posted on my projects. I really want to start an interview channel on bitchute (using streamyard) and simply interview people. Philosopher (who posts here) gave an indication that he is interested in a future interview with me. I would be most gracious if one day I could interview you because your wavelength of thought is very intellectual.
very interesting commentary. i was jus listening to Solzhenitsyn addressing harvard in '78.
u can find me here; https://discord.gg/bBQckG4vWV
Yes, the common Russian cat served rich caviar. Is there an invisible yet divisible string attached? Did the owner have to be coerced into an injection in order to enter the store with digital ID QR code to buy the caviar?
<<Yes, we already know what you’re thinking.
“The Bank of Russia is a counter-gang psyop.”
Okay, but Putin endorsed Elvira Nabiullina for another five-year term so………….?>>
Those who observed Russian politics for a long time, like I did, know that Putin has never appointed a non-liberal to a position in the financial/economic government block. Even the ever prominent academician Sergey Glaz'yev that has advocated economic sovereignty for Russia for the past two decades was only appointed as a general advisor to president Putin, not an economic one. He since was moved to a position in the EurAsian Economic Union (EAEU) overseeing integration processes there. People that know how things are done in Russia know perfectly well that finance and economic ministers have ignored Putin's direct orders like "May's Edicts" (Майские Указы) two times in a row in 2012 and 2018 with no consequences for themselves. All this independence of financiers and other shakers and movers of Russian economy stems from the arrangement that brought back in 1998 at the time "unknown dark horse" called Vladimir Putin to the top power in Russia. He and his group called "Siloviki" (Sila translates as Power) were given armed forces, the law enforcement agencies, the foreign policy and the patriotic facade for the people, but he was strictly forbidden from interfering in the core economic and financial decisions. And Vladimir Vladimirovich is adhering to these rules until now, as we can see from his reappointment of the criminally guilty according to Russian laws Elvira Nabiullina as a head of the Russian CB. However what the start of this special military operation did, it turned the table, where instead of Putin fighting the fifth economic column inside of Russia, this is now done by the West itself! Just as one example, the most pro-Western and integrated into the Western economy and even civilization are Russian oligarchs. They spent decades benefiting from Russian resources and taking their money (cumulatively 2.5 trillion dollars), their families, their interests and their hearts to the West. Yet, who was made the biggest scapegoat in this fallout between Russia and the West? West's most ardent supporters in Russia, Russian oligarchs and even people of lesser means that have chosen to connect their lives with the West but made a stupid mistake of keeping their Russian passports! So overall it looks like the "special military operation" wasn't as dumb of a move as I personally thought it was at the beginning. On one hand Putin played into the hands of the globalist elites and his old buddy Klaus Schwab, accelerating the coming of economic crisis of unheard of proportions, but on the other hand he delivered as strong of a blow as he could to the fifth column inside the country, the move that he is banned from doing directly by the 23 year old power sharing agreement. This push toward sovereignty against the wishes of many, but by far not all, of Russian elites gives Russia a fighting chance to survive and find its place in the coming NWO. To evaluate actions of Putin we have to go back to a Russian philosopher Alexander Dugin that once written: "Putin is like a twilight star - he gives a glimmer of hope and then he goes dark again. With Putin no one really knows, is his glass half empty or is it half full", I quoted Dugin by memory, but pretty close to the meaning.
Interesting article from a French Russian scholar living in Russia whom I have already mentioned. She deals with the FanID thing. It can be translated directly on the site:http://russiepolitics.blogspot.com/2022/06/fan-id-de-la-russie-au-stade-de-france.html#more
This a a beautiful light song for you, in hope it will bring some joy in your heart.
Respect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4F3gm-f0fI
While waiting "The triumph of Love"
Hello Anri,
I am doing fine. At the present moment, I am typing that message with "pique puce", ma chatte, on my legs. Your French exercice of the day will be to translate her name in Japanese. Take care
"“The Bank of Russia is a counter-gang psyop.”
Okay, but Putin endorsed Elvira Nabiullina for another five-year term so………….?"
I get this narrative all the time on FB from Putin groupies and others who are merely grasping at any straws they can reach: Putin is dealing with all sorts of globalist infiltrators, and will eliminate them one by one. Yeah, by appointing and re-appointing them, he is eliminating them. :-) This is how intellectually bereft and desperate many of those in the "resistance" in the West have become. Thanks for helping to tune up reality with..... FACTS, Riley!
Isn't Putin the Second Coming? :-)
Couldn't agree more, Sarah!
buy high, sell low?
Yes, and send some (most) of your profits to Edward. Get with the crazy, man! It's hellafun (and it's "trending"). (:
War abroad is almost always a pretext to militarize society at home, like sanctions’ dual-edged sword. Modern military doctrine sees civilians as a threat and voters as domestic terrorists.
Russia controls 1/5 of #Ukraine, Zelenskiy admits; and it’s the best bit of the country. Moscow threatens to attack “decision-making centres” if Kyiv strikes Russian land.
https://moneycircus.substack.com/p/eurasia-note-53-100-days-and-8-years
Moneycircus. Just to say I appreciate your writing. Keep on the good work. Respect
Inflation is much worse in USA/EU than in Russia/Belarus. Proof> Gasoline/petrol has risen from 1.99 Belarusian rubles in Dec 2021 to 2.25 Belarusian rubles per liter now in June 4, 2022. Exchange rate is 1 dollar is worth Belarusian 2.61 rubles and 1 euro is worth 2.78 rubles. So a gasoline liter is LESS than 1 euro in Belarus when the EU has to pay MORE than 2 euros and USA has to pay around 5 dollars. Bottom line> EU and USA citizens have to pay MORE than double than Russian/Belarusians citizens. Just wait until this winter when USA/EU citizens have to heat their homes. In winter, I will be warm and cozy in Belarus with a monthly natural gas bill equivalent to ONLY 50 dollars.
Keep in mind USA is #1 oil and natural gas and gasoline producer in the world so USA is MUCH MORE cheating their citizens with inflation. Times are tough in EVERY country MOSTLY because of poison injections and QR code digital ID and erosion of freedom.
I am too old to believe in good-guy leaders. However, I do see close to 200 idiots posing as super-patriots while Putin makes moves on the global chessboard look like child's play.
So. although Putin has an agenda that I cannot hope to glimpse, his walloping of western arses, perticularly that of Biden and Blinken, puts a smile on my suntanned Aussie face. Ruskis, please tolerate a bit of inflation for a while longer, at least until you have crushed the US economy, frozen a million or so French and German arses this coming winter, and forced the US to withdraw their military and media from my homeland.
Then I suggest you look at your central bank and identify the ownership by the Bank for International Settlements, in Basel Switzerland, exactly as it owns every other central bank in the world except Cuba's.
You are cruelly lacking empathy for the German and the French people...
Lacking empathy?
How could I possibly empathise when I am neither French nor German?
What I do know is that both peoples permitted their governments to imprison objective historians. When the truth is a crime the law of that nation is the Law of Oppression and Totalitarianism.
Right now, the French and German people are supporting Globalism and Naziism in Ukraine. If you are fight this, then you are my friend. If not, you are my enemy. This is why all resistance movements shoot colaborators. The French at least, should understand this.
As for Putin, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Russia is defending its borders. In doing so, it is weakening my country's main oppressor, the US military occupation. So good luck to the Russians.
As to reserve banks, if these do not matter, why did the Rotchschilds go to all the trouble to set these up in every nation. And ideology is a belief system, the source of all conflict and wars. If you want to cling to that, you deserve conflict and war.
In 1968, the French had the opportunity to reshape their future. This was the "almost French Revolution II". They chickened out, betrayed, ironically, by the Russian oriented Left.
Last year, the French could have followed the valliant Yellow Vests, but betrayed them.
You get what you deserve,
I was part of that revolution and you were not even born. But by concluding that the Yellow Vests are the bad guys you have demonstrated just how stuped the French can be. Vive Morte.
A tribute to all women: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_K4Tp-AcRp4&list=RDMM&index=31
Sarah, sista, death to all Black and White oppressors.... Down with the synagogue of Satan...
banks do not matter as much as ideology..
https://www.corbettreport.com/desmet-massformation/
I should like to note here, said Bosco adopting a pretentious Anglophilic accent, that the idea that any government is in significant control of its economy these days is a difficult case to prove by me. A global economy is irrevocably collapsing with both the help and hindrance of all parties involved, who don't seem able to tell a good move from a bad move both for themselves or their loyal oppositions both abroad and within.
What will follow from this:
https://media.giphy.com/media/10mYDN193yIWgo/giphy.gif
and this:
https://giphy.com/gifs/acid-october-gifdump-U0EBvW3V0XZu0
will naturally lean toward the polity with the most of the most necessary resources and the military power to defend it from foreign polities.
Clot-shots notwithstanding, nor the whirlwind of rubles and dollars and yen etc., Edvard has picked the best polity in which to reside during such times. Certainly beats SoCal.
There seems to be no escaping from these:
https://youtu.be/MNT-rAqzpj8
EXCELLENT INSIGHT . . . in the end, all currency is a confidence game. I had wondered, at the time, where all this gold for the gold-backed ruble was located (thanks to your intrepid work exposing the repatriation of Russian bullion starting in March 2020). Comparing pretty much any currency to the U.S. dollar or Euro is like comparing the value of toilet paper to that of stiff sheets with Illuminati symbols in ink, respectively . . . one of which has a practical value, at the very least, and the other of which is likely to give you painful paper cuts if you try to use it to clean yourself after toileting.
The bottom line is that the current geopolitical psychology favors the ruble and rejects the USD & EURO . . . this is good news for us plebes working to cast off the slave system, backed by those Western currencies, regardless of the corruption at work inside the Russian government (though that must continue to be exposed as it as much a threat to the Russian people as it is to the rest of the world).
In the long sustainable run, all that matters is a currency's domestic strength. Reliance on foreign polities to a) provide goods for domestic consumption or b) provide markets for domestic export, is an inherently unstable reliance doomed to, well, insane crap like we witness these days.
Because most of you are curious about what is going on in Little Russia, Donbass, Ukraine, I give you a link to a very interesting blog by a French who has been fighting for years as a sniper with the DPR.
https://alawata-rebellion.blogspot.com/
He is, according to me, a very good human being and while fighting and reporting from the ground is very, very critical of armchair propagandist for Russia and their lies. It is therefore different from the very courageous Christelle Néant of Donbass Insider who is far less critical but nevertheless interesting as an active member of the DPR as a journalist: https://www.donbass-insider.com/fr/accueil/
This is how Erwan Castel introduces himself in his 'who I am' section:
"56 years old, "Breton, polytheist and European", successively French paratrooper officer, Breton independence activist and then expedition guide in the French Amazon, I decided to join the Donbass rebellion opposing the military operation launched against its Russian population in 2014 by the Maidan putschists
Enlisted in early February 2015 in the army of the Donetsk People's Republic, I served on the fronts of Debalsevo, Marinka, Dokuchaievsk, Donetsk before becoming a volunteer in 2017 in the International Brigade Piatnashka and serving on the front of Yasinovataya as a sniper.
Opposed to any form of unique thought (religious, economic, cultural or political) and fighting against the commodification of the living committed by an amoral and criminal globalist plutocracy, I inscribe my principles and my acts in the ideal of a "conservative revolution" defending the freedom of peoples to dispose of themselves and an ascending subsidiarity of native identities building a multipolar world."
Good reading, worth adding to your list of sources.
This is an extract of his last article about Severodonestk battlefront:
"I admit that I am tired of seeing with what narcissistic immaturity certain pro-Russian analysts who want to be the first heralds to announce Russian victories at any cost, even the cost of lies, impose on their public stupid and even unproductive fantasies. Being involved on the side and even physically participating in the conflict should not be done at the expense of truth and rational analysis. And all these experts who have been talking for 100 days, announcing every week the imminent defeat of the Ukrainian army "disintegrated", "demoralized", "unfit" in front of a "perfect", "invincible" and "crushing" Russian army should learn humility, avoid confusing ideological dogma with rational analysis and especially stop taking people for more stupid than they are! Their propagandist flunkeyism is only matched by that of the experts invited on BFM TV and Co - Gamelin, Gamelin and a half!"
Gamelin was a French General in 14-18...
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Inflation is just another ‘secret’ name for wealth confiscation. - ex-Fed Chair Alan Greenspan
War beginns now. Newest text by Paul Craig Roberts on his blog;
Decision Time Has Come for Russia in Ukraine
Isn't this precisely what China tried to do starting a few years back when the CCP stated it would "fix" the value of the yuan regardless of what capitalist dogs in international currency exchanges said it was worth?
> Will barely cognizant Joe Biden press the wrong red button...
Press the WRONG button?! What is it, a Freudian lapse?
Could you have just taken Tom Cruise's hound dog ass face?
*Facia da cul de can da cacia,* [facia rimes with cacia] faccia da culo di cane da caccia. Parolacce in Milanese https://www.scuolissima.com/2013/04/parolacce-in-milanese.html
Very common in Lombardy, inclusive Italian Switzerland, just act/appear like an asshole, and you will see.