Cyberwar Has Begun. Why The Silence? I Ain't Nor Have Been Nor Will Be Your Problem. Ross Rants. Two theories on Ukraine.

At least it is not those pesky Mormons.

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Russian cyber "s---" just hit the fan (Feb 23.)

‘Massive’ Cyberwar Attack Underway

(TheRedAlertNews.com) – BREAKING NOW: According to multiple sources, Ukraine is now under a “massive” cyberattack and has declared a state of emergency.

In the past, Russia has repeatedly targeted Ukrain with cyberattacks. It has some of the best hackers in the world, both within the government and outside experts, who often align with the government to use cyber capabilities to hack the infrastructure of other countries. In this case, this may be the first real look at the future of cyberwarfare.

Experts say that it is all but inevitable that Russia will launch a cyberattack on the United States in retaliation for the sanctions President Joe Biden imposed on Russia yesterday.

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This from a dear friend and fellow memo reader about why the silence.

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I am going to engage in some admitted plagiarism for the purpose of explaining and expanding on why the pursuit of equity is a cover for racism purposely perpetrated by the CRT, BLM movement and why other such fraudulent pursuits are simply a cover for painting whites as racists so all those of other color are scot free.

My comments are drawn from a fascinating article by Tom Fitton.

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The radical elements and philosophy that comprises CRT springs from Marxist theories drawn from the far left academic world. The core of CRT theory is that Western civilization, especially America, is based on "white supremacy."  It is a convenient way to tag all white people as "oppressors."  The big lie is like a cloud and therefore un-rebuttal.  You can't grab it because it is made of pure fluff.  It is akin to "Jews control the world."

This extreme ideology gained traction as BLM became popular. As rioting spread, along with the ensuing chaos, our country buckled/ surrendered.  Cancel culture is directed at shutting down and silencing anyone who seeks to challenge. Everyone in our society from children to corporate America and even the military are in their sights.

Race rather than class has now become the more effective way to justify their revolutionary agenda. Thus, the push for equity versus equality. Equity refers to outcome and is what government determines you get. Equity enhances government growth and justifies power shifting from the individual to government.  Think Obama's health care bill and 16% of GDP.  Control of public education and more usurpation of GDP by government and thirsty bureaucrats and union bosses..

All the new rhetoric swirling around provides and supports totalitarianism and the impulse of bureaucrats, politicians, teachers and "Social Justice Warriors."  Free speech is a relic of white supremacy. School children are meant to be weaponized so they can be turned into revolutionaries.  

Since everything is now racist it must be destroyed and overturned. Therefore, the most radical elements must lead the way. 

Transparency, free speech are out the window because tyranny is their goal. Biden's, proposed "John Lewis" Legislation  and his and Stacey Abram's opposition to Georgia's new election law is premised on restricting black voting.  This in the face of fact that more blacks are voting than ever before. Voting laws are within the constitutional purview of states. Because Georgia's new voting law was sponsored by white legislators, ipso facto, it is racist.

The radical left does not believe in a race neutral application of the law. No totalitarian plan is complete without abusing school children and teaching them hatred of "whitey."

From a personal standpoint I am now a "freed" man because, by definition, being white I am a racist so I can say whatever I want and it matters not because I can't win so let me end by saying some "naughty" things.

1) It seems to me cities run by black mayors are having serious crime and law issues. These mayors are both incompetent and law breakers. They are a disaster to their own because the black populations in these cities bear the brunt in the greater of ways. Blacks in New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Atlanta etc. have paid a very heavy price yet, they continue to vote for black Democrats to run them.  Returning to a prostitute that is ill is sort of dumb. 

Everything black citizens  accomplished under Trump has been thrown to the wind by Biden.

2) Education and personal responsibility are two critical characteristics everyone should embrace. Blacks traded welfare for freedom and opportunity.  Moynihan warned his progressives and the black population but they chose not to listen. Now they are paying the tragic price of broken families, disconnection from the church and affirmative action's unearned advances.

3) When blacks were enslaved they were a moral burden and a financial benefit to their owners.  Now that they are free they are more of a financial burden because they are undereducated and cannot contribute to their own enhanced living standard.

4) As a result, they resort to crime and extract a terrible price mostly from their own citizens though, of late, they have learned they can steal and rob at no significant price.  Why?  Because their behaviour breaks no laws, police are less likely to confront them and killing a black person earns them entry into their new "gang" family structure.

5) There is no question blacks have made great contributions to America, even fighting it's wars when they enjoyed none of the rights of citizenship. That said, they have also become a large burden both to themselves as well as to "whitey" who they are now being told has been and always will be their enemy.

Everything I have just written is racist but It also has, at the very least, a modicum of truth. The answers are not likely to gain much credibility because they begin by lifting oneself by their own initiative(s.) Throw off the shackles of government dependency, demand a solid education and endure the hardships that comes with self-responsibility so there will be ultimate rewards from the fruit America has to offer. 

Tom Sowell, and now, Jason Riley, among many others in your race, have been lighting the path but only a limited number have followed because it was more comforting to stick with the fraudulent message from hypocrite Democrats. 

Don't blow this opportunity and succumb to the garbage of the BLM's.  It might not come again for a long time or ever because the world is moving at a faster and faster pace.

"Whitey" ain't your problem nor I have or am.  Like it or not, I hate to inform you, you are your own worst enemy.

And:

https://pjmedia.com/columns/chris-queen/2022/02/22/atlantas-soaring-crime-rate-is-the-legacy-of-leadership-caving-to-wokeness-n1561097

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 One would think it the duty of every pragmatic and thoughtful western leader to call out the suspension of basic human rights and civil liberties where they see them, and yet with the exception of Nayib Bukele, president and self-proclaimed CEO of El Salvador, all of them are terrifyingly silent on the matter.

When peaceful protest is criminalized by political opponents in power , it will engender the kind of violent rebellion the Trudeau regime has fabricated as justification for its tyranny. They are using JFK's famous words to their advantage: "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. They can point to any resistance as violence and offer their prepared solutions — more tyranny.

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Only took them 150 plus years:

Blacks Saying Bye-Bye to Biden

By Star Parker

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Order out of chaos: How the Ukraine conflict is designed to benefit globalists

By Brandon Smith

Within the next few months, it is likely that there will be a direct military conflict in Ukraine, with Russia now openly supporting and recognizing separatist groups in the Donbass region on the eastern edge of the country and apparently positioning to aid them militarily in separation. This is not the first time Russia has sent military units into Ukraine, but it is the first time since 2014 and the annexation of Crimea that the threat of military action has been overt rather than covert.

When conflict erupts, you are going to see a swarm of media stories in western nations trying to outline the complexity of the relationship between Russia and Ukraine since the fall of the Soviet Union, while ignoring certain inconvenient truths. You will see many of these stories construct a narrative that then oversimplifies the situation and paints Russia as the monstrous aggressor. The goal will be to convince the public that our involvement in Ukraine is a moral and geopolitical necessity. There will be attempts to gain American favor and a call for U.S. military involvement. Joe Biden will be at the forefront of this push.

The surface trigger for the confrontation is obviously rooted in the 2009 decision by western powers and Ukrainian officials to consider the country for membership in NATO. Most of Russia's actions when dealing with Ukraine can be owed to NATO involvement in the region, including the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014. Strategically, it makes sense. Imagine if Mexico suddenly announced it was joining a military alliance with China and that Chinese military assets were going to be transferred near the U.S. southern border? It probably would not end well.

To be sure, Russia has a history of hypocritical behavior when it comes to its involvement in the affairs of its neighbors. For example, only a few months ago Kazakhstan was facing mass protests which the government claimed were caused by "foreign manipulation." Zero proof was presented to justify this assertion. However, the claim was enough to rationalize the deployment of 2300 Russian troops over the border to shut down the protests.

In reality, citizens of Kazakhstan were angry over a spike in inflation and high gas prices which continue to grind down the middle class and those in poverty. In 2019, only 4% of the population lived under the official poverty line. In 2020, that number exploded to 14% of the population. Accurate numbers are difficult to find for 2021, but it is likely that poverty levels are now closer to 16%-20%. The reasons for civil unrest were obvious and justified, but the Kazakhs were accused of being pawns of foreign enemies. As I have noted in many articles lately, this is a typical strategy of governments trying to retain power when the people rise up to rebel for legitimate reasons.

Again, imagine if the Canadian government under Trudeau asked for US military assistance in scattering the trucker protests against his draconian vaccine mandates? We need to look at these decisions in context in order to grasp how insane they really are.

Ironically, Russia is happy to support the unrest of separatists in Ukraine while helping to silence unrest in Kazakhstan. Keep this pattern in mind because it will help in understanding how events surrounding Russia reflect a global trend that might affect Americans in the future.

The diplomatic mess between Ukraine and Russia can be blamed in part on both sides, and it's this kind of historical ambiguity where globalists tend to thrive. The fog of war helps to obscure their activities and often it is hard for people to see who is truly benefiting from the chaos until it's too late. It is my belief that the Ukraine problem is at least partially engineered and that it is designed as a first domino in a chain of intended crises.

I don't think there is anything unique to the Ukraine conflict for the globalists; they could have just as easily tried to initiate a regional war in Taiwan, North Korea, Iran, etc. There are numerous powder keg countries that they have been cultivating for a couple of decades. We should not hyperfocus on who is to blame between Ukraine or Russia, but on the effects that will result from any major regional disaster and how the globalists exploit such catastrophes to further the agenda of total centralization of power.

The Ukraine scenario could be easily defused if both sides took some basic diplomatic measures, but this is not going to happen. NATO officials could take a step back from the pursuit of adding Ukraine to the ranks. The U.S. could stop pouring cash and weaponry into Ukraine to the tune of $5.4 billion since 2014. Over 90 tons of military equipment has been sent to the country in 2022 alone. Russia could stop sending covert special operations units into the Donbass and be more willing to come to the table to discuss diplomatic solutions. The reason these things do not happen is because they are not allowed to happen by the power brokers behind the curtain.

We are all aware of the globalist influences behind US and NATO leaders, we present undeniable evidence of this on a regular basis. Biden's penchant for globalist institutions is well known. But what about Russia?

There are some in the alternative media and the liberty movement who falsely believe that Russia is anti-globalist. Nothing could be further from the truth. As with many political leaders, Putin will sometimes use anti-globalist rhetoric, but his relationships tell another story. In Putin's first autobiography, titled First Person, he discusses with fondness his first encounter with New World Order globalist Henry Kissinger as a member of the FSB (formerly the KGB). As Putin rose through the political ranks, he maintained a steady friendship with Kissinger and to this day they have regular lunches and Kissinger has been an adviser to multiple branches of the Kremlin.

It doesn't stop there, though. Putin and the Kremlin have also kept a steady dialogue with the World Economic Forum, the project of the now notorious globalist Klaus Schwab. In fact, only last year Russia announced it was joining the WEF's "Fourth Industrial Revolution Network" which focuses on economic socialization, artificial intelligence, the "internet of things" and a host of other globalist interests which will all lead to worldwide technocracy and tyranny.

Again, the Russian government is not anti-globalist. This claim is nonsense and always has been. I would attribute the fantasy of Russian opposition to a steady stream of propaganda and what I call the False East/West Paradigm. The fraudulent notion that the globalist agenda is a purely Western or American agenda and that countries like China and Russia are opposed to it. If you look at the close interactions between the east and the globalists, this idea completely falls apart.

It's important to understand that most conflicts between the East and the West are engineered conflicts and the leaders of both sides are not really at odds with each other. Rather, these wars are Kabuki Theater; they are wars of convenience to achieve covert ends while mesmerizing the masses with moments of terror and calamity. For anyone who has doubts about this, I highly recommend they read the thoroughly researched and evidenced works of professional historian and economist Antony Sutton, who quite accidentally stumbled onto the facts surrounding the globalist conspiracy and went on to expose their habit of playing both sides of nearly every war over the past century from the Bolshevik Revolution to WWII and onward.

The strategy of order out of chaos is nothing new, it's something the globalists have been doing for a very long time. The number of open revelations post-COVID about the "Great Reset" that globalists have publicly admitted to is so staggering that their plans can no longer be denied. Anyone who does at this point should be suspected of having a single-digit IQ.

So, now that we have established the reality of globalist involvement in both the West and in Russia, we need to ask ourselves how they benefit from initiating a crisis in Ukraine? What do they get out of it?

As I have noted in recent articles, it appears to me that Ukraine is a Plan B attempt to conjure more smoke and mirrors where the COVID pandemic in many respects failed to satisfy the Great Reset plan. As Klaus Schwab and the WEF have constantly asserted, they saw the pandemic as the perfect "opportunity" to force the Fourth Industrial Revolution on the world. As globalist Rahm Emanual once opined in the wake of the 2008 economic crash:

"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before."

The WEF is an old hand at this tactic. Klaus Schwab also used the same exact language right after the credit crash of 2008 as he has used after the spread of COVID, always trying to sell global governance as the solution to every disaster:

"What we are experiencing is the birth of a new era, a wake-up call to overhaul our institutions, our systems and, above all, our thinking, and to adjust our attitudes and values to the needs of a world which rightly expects a much higher degree of responsibility and accountability," he explained. "If we recognize this crisis as being really transformational, we can lay the fundaments for a more stable, more sustainable and even more prosperous world."

- Klaus Schwab on the Global Redesign Initiative, 2009

Schwab jumped the gun back then just as he jumped the gun in 2020 when he declared the Great Reset an inevitability in the face of COVID. The globalists must have expected a much higher death rate from the virus because they were practically dancing in the streets, elated over the amount of power they could steal in the name of "protecting the public from a global health threat." If you look at the WEF and Gates Foundation simulation of a COVID pandemic, Event 201 which was held only two months before the real thing happened, they clearly expected COVID to do way more damage, predicting an initial death tally of 65 million. This never happened; it isn't even close.

It's hard to say why an obvious bioweapon like COVID failed to do the job. Viruses tend to mutate rapidly in the wild and behave differently than they do in a lab setting. I would even consider the possibility of divine intervention. Whatever the reason, the globalists did not get what they wanted and now they need yet another crisis to oil the gears of the Reset machine. With the already tiny death rate of COVID now dropping even further with the Omicron variant and half the states of the U.S. in full defiance of the vax mandates it is only a matter of time before the rest of the world asks why they are still under medical authoritarianism?

War in Ukraine and the mere threat of that war expanding beyond the region could accomplish a number of things COVID has not. It provides an ongoing cover for the stagflationary collapse which is now in full swing in the U.S., the supply chain problems that continue globally, as well as the destabilization of the European economy. In particular, the EU is strongly reliant on Russian natural gas in order to heat homes and maintain its economy. Russia has strangled natural gas supplies to Europe in the past and they will do it again.

War is always a distraction from economic sabotage. Even though the seeds of financial crashes are often planted and watered well in advance by central banks, the banks never get the blame because international conflicts take center stage. By extension, global economic crisis causes mass poverty, mass desperation and mass hysteria, and globalists will say that it requires an international solution that they will happily provide in the form of centralization.

In the U.S. and in many other western nations which have a large number of people still defending individual freedom, the globalists clearly want to use tensions with Russia as a means to silence public dissent over authoritarian policies. Already, I am seeing numerous instances of establishment officials and leftists on social media suggesting that liberty activists are "pawns of the Russians" and that we are being used to "divide and conquer." This is nonsense backed by nothing, but they are trying out the narrative anyway to see if it sticks.

I have no doubt that any rebellion in the U.S. against the globalists will be blamed on foreign interference. As mentioned earlier, the last thing the elites want is movements of free people obstructing the Reset in the name of liberty. We witnessed this in Canada where Trudeau announced unilateral emergency powers against the trucker protests, giving himself totalitarian levels of control. Even the Russian government has intervened in such public actions to prevent any kind of activist momentum. Biden will try to do the same thing, and war, even a smaller regional war, gives him a rationale to oppress public dissent in the name of public security.

Interesting, martial law in the U.S. is also much easier to legally and historically justify for the government as long as it is done in response to the invasion of a foreign enemy. The Russian influence narrative may very well be in preparation for martial law within America. Whether or not this actually succeeds is another matter.

The consequences of a shooting event in Ukraine would be far reaching well beyond a distraction for the American public; my intent here is not to suggest only Americans will be affected. My point is that there are certain places in the world that are naturally resistant to the globalist scheme, and freedom-minded Americans are a primary obstacle. If there is a large-scale rebellion against the Great Reset, it's going to start here. The globalists know this as well, which is why the U.S. will undoubtedly be centrally involved in the Ukraine quagmire. While the event would be disastrous for Ukrainians and probably many Russians, there are deeper and more dangerous underlying threats intended for the U.S.

To truth and knowledge,

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Ross rants:

I often talk about black swans. We are in one of history’s biggest black swan moments right now. While the Ukraine situation was developing over the past several months, none of us thought it would come to where it is-a potential shooting war in Europe with potentially tens of thousands dead. It is impossible to know what Putin is really going to do, but he is putting on a very effective power show if he is not intending to really invade. He has the whole world running to Moscow to beg him to stop. What a great position he has created for himself while doing nothing other than moving troops around and staging training exercises. The fact seems to be he has done nothing new, and not really pulled back any troops. I still do not believe he will fully invade Ukraine, and will instead use other means to continue to apply pressure, and to try to overthrow the government so he can install his puppet. Invading means thousands of dead and wounded Russian soldiers and serious economic problems for the Russian civilian population. 40% of Ukrainians are Russian origin, or related, with family in Russia. If he kills tens of thousands of Ukrainians in a senseless war, he just angers his own people, and he ruins the wealth of his oligarch buddies, and his own secret holdings. None of this makes sense to me which is why I continue to think this is all a masterful bluff. If he was going to kill a few million Germans, or Muslims, he likely would have the support of his people, but killing other Russians living in Ukraine is very different. He can, and will, use other means and continued pressure on Ukraine thru disinformation, street protests by his people in Ukraine, cyber, and economic strangulation, to get much of what he wants in the 2023 Ukraine elections without the bloodshed and economic problems for Russia. He wants regime change, and he will continue to press to get that. He got Belarus even though the populace did not want that. He will not let up the pressure. It occurs to me the White House suddenly ramped up talk of war threats soon after the inflation report came out and Biden’s poll numbers dropped to a record low. What a great diversion. Don’t get excited by talk of a diplomatic solution that the stock market will go up, or oil will now go down. Neither is going to happen

If the west really does sanction Russia, keep in mind, Russia supplies a lot of oil to the world, and a large portion of energy to the EU. They also supply 90% of freon used in semiconductors, 35% of palladium, 2/3 of the world’s ammonium nitrate used for fertilizer, and much of the titanium used by Boeing. If things really do blow up, the economic damage to Russia and the world would be bad. Germany would be hard hit, which is why they will do anything to prevent this from going to war and sanctions. The economic damage to Russia would be substantial. This is one of the big reasons why I do not believe he will invade. There is too much at stake for everyone in this interconnected world. The whole thing could spin out of control when the cyberattacks begin, as that is a new form of warfare where there are no rules. Ukraine has a lot of raw materials the world needs and Putin would also like to get control of those.

Oil prices may have declined a little temporarily, but with Covid now quickly going away, and the world reopening, travel and production will pick up around the world, and oil demand will rise materially. There is no reason to believe oil prices will decline as we get to summer. There are several oil industry forecasts that oil will soon be at $125 and could go as high as $150. Even though the US drillers are ramping up as prices rise, and if Iran comes back into production, the demand will still outstrip supply. OPEC has been under producing by up to 700,000 barrels per month. They are enjoying the huge profits, and have little incentive right now to increase production and push down prices. Inventories need to be rebuilt, especially for LNG in the EU. There is only minimal increases in production capacity as the US does all it can to end oil drilling. The oil companies are making a fortune right now, and will continue to have great cash flow all year. Even though they are once again opening some new wells, the margins at $90 -$100 are huge. The oil company stocks should do very well all year as they raise dividends and possibly buybacks. I have sizable holdings in oil stocks. Reality-there was never going to be an invasion, and so Ukraine has no more than a very brief impact on where oil prices are going. Demand is going to far outstrip supply. Larry Fink is doing a lot of damage to US national security and the economy.

Last year many pointed to a steep drop in lumber prices starting in May to prove inflation was headed down. They are way up again to 3x their pre-covid level, although still below the last April peak. One commodity does not determine inflation so just because lumber or some other commodity drops temporarily in price is no indicator of a drop in inflation ahead.

The market could go down considerably further despite the remaining cash consumers and corporations are sitting on, and even if there is some sort of agreement on Ukraine. The PPI is at a record high. That means Inflation will remain high for a quite a while as oil prices continue to go higher. As long as the administration continues to push to quash new wells, and to add regulations and fees to oil production, there is no reason the price will decline. If Raskin is confirmed, along with the other far left FMOC nominees, then capital for the oil drillers will be constrained. It appears the Republicans now have a way to stop Raskin, but they need to stop the other two as well. Cook is a far left activist who is more interested in stirring racial issues than monetary policy. I am 25% in simple cash plus a sizable piece in oil. I may go higher in cash. I am happy to just sit on plain cash and earn nil than to buy bonds or other fixed income. Losing a little value to inflation is far less than losing 25%-40% in holding stocks of companies with little cash flow or little upside for the next year. Cash is king right now.

It is absurd that we have high inflation, but the administration continues to try to eliminate oil production in the face of Ukraine which just raises the cost of energy for everything. Stupid does not begin to describe the left focus on ending fossil fuels with no recognition that by doing so they are doing a lot of damage to national security as well as low and middle income people. Their answer seems to be to try to push OPEC to produce more, and to make America dependent once again on Mideast and Russian sources. We have been increasing imports of oil from Russia while we threaten them with sanctions if they invade. Putin must be in awe of the stupidity. Why would OPEC limit prices when Biden is publicly begging them to cover our needs, and the EU is desperate for gas supplies due to their own insanity of shutting down the nuke and coal utilities and the Dutch gas fields. Germany created its own energy problems of shortages and extremely high prices by adhering to their climate ideology instead of economic reality. We will have the same situation here if Biden does not shift his anti-fossil ideology, or until the Republicans get full control in January. The good news is the EU is now importing a record amount of LNG from the US and will continue to do so. This will continue all year. We should be building another LNG terminal.

Goldman and some others in Wall St are forecasting the stock market will end the year higher then ever. 4900 on the SPX, and maybe even higher, over 5000. I think that makes no sense. Their reasoning is not even intellectually consistent. On the one hand they say the Fed will raise 7 times, which implies they believe inflation is going to continue at too high levels all year, and rates will rise all year. If that is the case, which I believe it will be, then it means the economy has a real problem with inflation, and will be declining as consumers and producers pull back. It also implies that housing will be further priced out of reach for most people, and the rise in home prices could potentially turn down. If that happens, and housing development and sales turn down, then the economy starts to decline. Goldman is also forecasting very high oil prices. Another reason for high inflation leading to high interest rates and high inflation, which means lower stock prices. You don’t have a record high stock market in such a situation. Goldman has been wrong often.

People are never fully returning to the office, 76% have no intention of 5 days a week in office. In NYC and several other major urban locations the occupancy is still under 30%. That will grow to maybe 40% per day, or maybe a little over 50% but from here on, hybrid is going to be the rule. Two or three days in office for most will become the norm. Think of the ramifications for landlords of B and C buildings and local small businesses and city tax revenues. The results are only starting to be known. A lot of courts are continuing some hearings and some testimony on Zoom. For simple hearings that might never change back. Zoom changed the world. There are all sorts of social and cultural changes coming if there is no full scale return to the office.

The White House and the Dems in Congress still believe in their Modern Monetary Theory, and Yellen’s make believe Modern Supply Side theory, and they will continue to push for more spending and higher taxes on the successful. The underlying basis is that more spending on social programs will create jobs and lower inflation, and make everyone more prosperous, thereby assuring Democratic control. This is right out of Bernie’s and the squad’s socialist playbook. It is the underlying theory that Moody’s was paid to put forth in economic models for the White House, which said: the main goal needs to be increasing jobs, and the only way to get there is by materially ramping up spending. What I am told directly by the head of Moody’s Analytics, which you will never hear anywhere else, is that he believes this will potentially lead to problems later in 2022, and maybe a stock market collapse of 20% later in the year. You may wonder how can they say, spend a lot more, then say, but in the end it may lead to a bad outcome. Answer is, start with very liberal political views at Moody, and then get paid a lot to develop a policy model that conforms with the goal of increasing entitlements and jobs. Then get the Secy of Treasury to come with a false theory to further justify it. Now add the squad and Bernie and Warren pushing a far left agenda. Schumer is going far left to try to fend off a run by the bartender from the Bronx for his senate seat, and a president and White House staff that have zero economic understanding, and view everything from the point of view of paying everyone to feel good to get votes.. It is all about retaining power. Combine that with their voting right bills, and now you understand what is going on. It is well proven over decades to be very bad economic theory, and it will end badly. Just look at the slow economic growth in the EU with its excessive entitlement economics and politics, over the past decade vs the US under Trump’s tax and regulation reductions.

You likely forgot about Durham. A lot of readers kept saying I was off base by saying Durham would eventually bring a massive case. Don’t forget Durham. He just filed court documents claiming Hilary paid a tech company to infiltrate Trump and White House computers to make it falsely appear he was involved with Russia. You have to believe this is true or Durham would not have filed these papers. He is still going forward, and the story gets a lot worse the more that comes out. I believe he is not close to finished, and when the whole story is finally put together in public it will be the worst scandal in American history. We have no idea why it is taking them years to assemble all the evidence, but it is likely so complex and top level, that he needs absolute proof to overcome what will be massive press attacks to discredit him, but they seem to have found the keys now. The press is already ignoring the story or claiming there is nothing to the new Durham filing. They are wrong again. People are talking to the grand jury to save themselves. Sussman will take his shot in court, but we have not yet heard what Durham really has, so wait to hear. He is too careful to put on a losing case. It sounds like they have a lot of pressure on Sussman now. Durham will surface with a huge report and a lot of indictments at some point, and destroy Hilary and the Dems, and possibly Perkins Coie, the law firm at the center of the whole dossier fraud. Unfortunately, it will allow Trump to say I told you so, and make him more of a problem. The only question is whether Hilary gets charged with multiple felonies including treason, and if they can charge Mark Elias with felonies and send him to jail. This is going to make Watergate look like kindergarten. Just in time for the midterms. The worst part of this situation is none of the MSM has reported even one word of this, and when a senior Dem was asked about it he tried to claim it is just a unproven story, and probably just another false claim. The press just continues to disgrace itself by ignoring the story. On the flip side, Trump’s accountants disavowed all of the Trump organization financial for 11 years. Their reasons are pretty compelling. It does appear there was a substantial amount of false information provided to the accountants by Trump. It is not simply a question of whether the appraisers did an accurate job, which they almost never do.

The Olympics are disgraced forever now that they allowed the Russian skater to do drugs and then be allowed to compete. This on top of choosing China in light of their genocide and crushing of Hong Kong. The IOC has put the Olympics into the category of corruption and dishonor for.

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A lot of speculation but cannot be ignored. If Biden is the corrupt person Root suggests then the Putin attack on Ukraine could prove very interesting:

Here’s the Shocking Reason Why Putin is Invading Ukraine

By Wayne Allyn Root

There are so many complex reasons for Putin to invade Ukraine. And so many outcomes yet to be determined- sadly, all of them bad for the US.

First, let me tell you a personal story that explains the psychology of Putin. I grew up the only white Jewish kid attending an almost all-black middle school and then a 90% black high school. Needless to say, I was the favorite target of bullies.

I know liberals haven’t a clue about this, but whoever is in the minority in life gets tortured, intimidated, and unfortunately, gets their a—s kicked. Alot. That’s a fact of life.

Therefore, I got tortured, intimidated and beaten up on a daily basis. The bullies at my school stole my lunch, beat me in the bathrooms, and chased me home after school.

Most weak kids never change. I’m one of the lucky ones. A tough gang member took pity on me and taught me how to fight and defend myself. After a summer of brutal hand-to-hand combat training with my newfound tough friend, I vowed to never be intimidated again. I showed up at school ready to defend myself.

The first 3 bullies who picked on me, got a rude awakening. I knocked the first out; knocked out the entire top row of the second bully’s teeth; and slugged the third one so hard, he was out of school for a week with a torn stomach muscle. The weakling (me) defeated the bullies. I was a real-life “Karate Kid.”

No bully ever touched me again. As a matter of fact, many of those tough guys and bullies became my buddies. I gained their respect.

The lesson is “peace through strength.” Only by being tougher than the other guy can you avoid conflict.

That perfectly describes President Donald J. Trump. I can picture Trump telling Putin, “If you attack Ukraine, we will bomb Russia to oblivion. Don’t try me.” And Putin never did. Putin behaved while Trump was president.

But Putin knows Biden is a feeble old man with dementia. Putin knows he can walk all over him. That’s first and foremost what this is all about. Intimidation.

Putin is a bully. He will try to get away with as much as he can, while flexing his muscles and humiliating Biden. Putin wants to show the world that Russia is the world power now. And America is a paper tiger.

Putin wants to show the world he is the big man on campus, with the big stick.

And of course, Putin also wants to rape and pillage the abundant natural resources of Ukraine- especially the oil and gas reserves. Afterall, it’s always about the Benjamins.

But there’s also a shocking bonus to all of this that no one else is talking about.

I believe Putin is sick and tired of hearing Biden and America’s politicians lecture him about “Russia’s corruption.” Putin knows Biden is filthy dirty. Putin knows the Biden Crime Family has taken kickbacks and payoffs all over the world. He knows Joe Biden is “the Big Guy” who expects a piece of every deal. Biden lecturing others about corruption is like the mafia lecturing about extortion.

Putin knows the center of Biden’s corruption was in Ukraine. Biden and his family intimidated, extorted and literally raped Ukraine. A little birdie tells me this is the big bonus for Putin after he invades and conquers Ukraine. He will capture and torture everyone involved in shady deals with Biden in order to unearth the secrets of Biden’s filthy corruption.

Then Putin has two juicy options. Behind door #1: Expose Biden’s massive crime wave in Ukraine, shock the world, make Biden step down, embarrass and demoralize the United States, and paralyze America’s government. This makes Russia the new big bad sheriff in town.

Behind door #2: Putin can blackmail Biden, hold his secrets over his head, in order to get whatever Putin wants. Suddenly Biden is Putin’s bit-ch. The same relationship China already has with Biden. China has the goods on Biden. They clearly own Biden lock, stock and barrel. Now it’s Putin’s turn.

Lastly, one more bad thing that will almost certainly come out of this. Just like my high school days, when bullies sense weakness, they immediately attack. China is watching closely. If Putin takes Ukraine, outplays and humiliates Biden, China will absolutely invade Taiwan.

We are watching history unfold. Tragically, all of it is bad for America. Don’t you wish Trump was back in the White House? Unfortunately, tragically, this is proof that rigged elections produce bad consequences.

Wayne Allyn Root is known as “the Conservative Warrior.” Wayne’s new book, “The Great Patriot Protest & Boycott Book” is a #1 bestseller. . Wayne is host of the nationally- syndicated “Wayne Allyn Root: Raw & Unfiltered” on USA Radio Network, daily from 6 PM to 9 PM EST and the “WAR RAW” podcast.

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If Rabbi Waskow and Kenan are right then that too could prove interesting. Whether America intended to create boomerang issues or not by defending the world,  now the pigeons are coming home to roost.

From the Desk of Rabbi Arthur Waskow

Ukraine & George Kennan: A Voice from the Grave

Why the crisis in Ukraine? Yes, Putin plowed under the growing shoots of Russian democracy to make himself the sole dictator atop an oligarchy of thieves. Yes, he has literally arranged the murder of his political opponents. Yes, he has broken international law in conquering and annexing parts of Ukraine and is now repeating the crime, meanwhile appealing to the most jingoistic, chauvinistic strands of Russians’ psyches to back him  up when his political opposition seemed to be growing .

AND time and time before and again, like his predecessor Boris Yeltsin, even while Putin was mobilizing his troops for war, he offered one crucial negotiating point. NATO should agree not to add Ukraine as a member of a clearly anti-Russian military alliance.

Did the US and NATO pay attention? No. None.

In 1997-1998, when the US Senate ratified adding several East European countries to NATO, George Kennan, author of the successful policy of “containment”  toward the Soviet Union – no leftist he, no isolationist he! --  was saying this:

“Expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the post-Cold War era. Such a decision might be expected to inflame the nationalistic, anti-Western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion; to have an adverse effect on the development of Russian democracy; and to empower Russian foreign policy in directions decidedly not to our liking.“  

And just two days ago (2/21/2022), Thomas L. Friedman, for sure neither a leftist nor an isolationist opinion-columnist for the NY Times, wrote this:

.... On May 2, 1998, immediately after the Senate ratified NATO expansion, I called George Kennan, the architect of America’s successful containment of the Soviet Union. Having joined the State Department in 1926 and served as U.S. ambassador to Moscow in 1952, Kennan was arguably America’s greatest expert on Russia. Though 94 at the time and frail of voice, he was sharp of mind when I asked for his opinion of NATO expansion.

I am going to share Kennan’s whole answer:

“I think it is the beginning of a new cold war. I think the Russians will gradually react quite adversely and it will affect their policies. I think it is a tragic mistake. There was no reason for this whatsoever. No one was threatening anybody else. This expansion would make the founding fathers of this country turn over in their graves.

“We have signed up to protect a whole series of countries, even though we have neither the resources nor the intention to do so in any serious way. [NATO expansion] was simply a lighthearted action by a Senate that has no real interest in foreign affairs. What bothers me is how superficial and ill informed the whole Senate debate was. I was particularly bothered by the references to Russia as a country dying to attack Western Europe.

“Don’t people understand? Our differences in the Cold War were with the Soviet Communist regime. And now we are turning our backs on the very people who mounted the greatest bloodless revolution in history to remove that Soviet regime. And Russia’s democracy is as far advanced, if not farther, as any of these countries we’ve just signed up to defend from Russia. Of course there is going to be a bad reaction from Russia, and then [the NATO expanders] will say that we always told you that is how the Russians are — but this is just wrong.”

Friedman added ---- “It’s EXACTLY what has happened”.

So now – this is Arthur speaking --  where are we? Biden and Europe have so far restricted their response to economic sanctions against Russia. But what happens if Russia cuts off or down the crucial flow of gas on its pipeline to Western Europe? What happens if hundreds or thousands of Ukrainians die from bombing and tens or hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians become panicky refugees to other East European countries? What happens if some Senators start shouting that democracy and humanity demand that the US send troops? What happens if some military genius figures out it will take “tactical” nuclear weapons to stop the Russian army?

I am not saying that all these possibilities will happen. But any President and State Department who could forget or ignore Kennan’s voice from the grave is not likely to think beyond yesterday or tomorrow.

Any President who could not, two months ago, ask himself what the real crises facing democracy and Earth are and use his emergency powers to address them and win popular support by doing that is – well, I won’t finish the sentence. 

It did not have to be this way.

It is said: God cares for children, drunks, and the United States of America. No proof from history of the first two. And the third is wavering in the wind. God’s faithful on Earth need to speak up. Start by checking out ExodusAlliance.org

Shalom, salaam, peace, paz, namaste! ---Arthur

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Joe Biden just told another major lie that both sides totally missed

Joe Biden is back to telling lies about his good old days, but this time the media missed it.

President Biden stated last week in an odd manner that he "grew up in a family where the price at the pump was felt in the kitchen."

But President Biden did not grow up in a family afflicted by fuel price increases, and not simply because he has long exaggerated his upbringing.

Because he was born in 1942, Biden did not have to deal with food shortages caused by high petroleum prices. When Biden was a child, the price of fuel remained constant. And it was inexpensive.

And for any history buffs out there, it's easy to explain why fuel prices remained flat for most of Biden's early life. OPEC didn't come into existence until 1960, so you can't blame that organization for having anything to do with gas prices until the 70s.

The main reason that gas prices weren't touched by volatility for decades is because commodity markets were almost non existent while Biden was growing up.

But the biggest takeaway is that no one in the media picked up on this Biden gaffe. Even the conservative outlets totally missed it. And that's a shame

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Assessing Israel’s vow to prevent a nuclear Iran

The Bennett-Lapid government’s attitude towards the Biden administration casts doubt on its threat to go it alone.

(February 22, 2022 / JNS) Aside from the concrete threat that Iran’s military activities pose to the Jewish state, the Israeli government has two major problems with what is emerging from Vienna as an imminent return of world powers to the nuclear deal with the mullah-led regime in Tehran. CONTINUE

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Netanyahu: New Iran nuclear deal will ‘bring war, and then another war’

BY ALEX TRAIMAN  02/22/2022

(JNS) Former Israeli prime minister and current opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu told a group of American Jewish leaders on Tuesday that the nuclear deal with Iran taking shape in Vienna would lead to war.

“This deal will bring war. This deal that [the Americans and world powers] are coming back to,” he said. “This region will become a nuclear tinderbox. This will bring war, and then another war,” he said. “We are going from a bad deal to a worse deal.” CONTINUE

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