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  1. “Consumer debt rose at the fastest pace in 20 years in February…The Federal Reserve consumer debt figures include credit card debt, student loans and auto loans, but do not factor in mortgage debt. When you include mortgages, US consumers are buried under more than $15 trillion in debt.”
    https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/prices-rise-americans-turning-their-credit-cards

    This may sound crazy, but it gives me a bit of calm because I’m speculating that it lessens the chances of a near term cyber attack on the financial system by the cabal. if I were “them”, I’d let rampant inflation keep squeezing people into more debt to create more desperation before attempting to spring a financial reset. So in this respect, time may be working for their scheme, but it also works for us in more important ways.

    Every moment is an opportunity, in different ways, to become more resilient. Most especially of all, within.

    `Peter

  2. Interesting take from the saker community. The war is not about Ukraine!! So Lavrov slams Borell for saying that this is only settled on the battlefield, and you say ‘more arms’. Go stand with Borell.

    Ritter, in another article/video, here makes an analysis that thinks that the objectives of Russia end when the NAzis are gone and Zelenski concedes, also thinking this is all about the battle. He is right in the little detail, wrong on the big picture.

    Look folks, Russia entered Ukraine OSTENSIBLY to clear the Nazis and to defend the Donbass, because that is a legally defensible premise.

    But Lavrov speaks the actual objective loud and clear: “to put an end to the reckless expansion and reckless course towards complete domination by the United States and, under them, the remainder of Western countries on the world stage.” No battle in history has been to do with this or that district. Likewise, this special operation has little to do with Ukraine.

    So stop talking about the war, blow by blow, and start thinking about how the hell a bunfight in Ukraine can end America’s global dominance. How?

    This is a perfected asymmetric battle which Russia is waging specifically against the financial architecture of western banking and corporate hegemony. Don’t see that? Perhaps look at the war in its totality. If the US is waging financial and corporate total war on Russia, understand that is the battle.

    Why? Because western finance – the G6 – is on the cusp of implementing a perfected financial tyranny on the world, like the petrodollar on steroids.

    We all know Central Bank Digital Currencies CBDC’s are coming, in the next 2-5 years. A single central bank-coordinated currency uniting all the G6 reserve currencies.

    This is not a monetary addition but a major default and reset of western finance, transferring money creation and control from private banks to Central Banks. This is a default, like the default in 1972 when the US robbed the world of dollar convertibility to gold by which and through its military the US and partners, as referenced by Lavrov, have managed to plunder the world. In this default, the fiat currencies of the west are replaced in every account, every pay cheque, every valuation by programmable, totally transparent government digital currencies. We all know this has the potential for specific person-by-person restrictions as per the social credit system in China, and that it ends privacy.

    This also applies to nation states. This coming event is what Russia is stopping in advance. This is what Lavrov is referring to.

    When all sovereign foreign reserves of dollars, sterling, Euro, Yen, AUS and CAN are converted 1:1 for digital dollars it implies total surveilance and control of all nations plugged into western dominated finance. The theft of Russia’s dollar and Euro reserves, the freezing of its business, the savage personal, specific and national sanctions that we have all seen also in Venezuela, Syria, Libya will become total, easy, immediate and entirely unavoidable when converted by dictat to a western CBDC. If any country does not sign a contract with a huge lobbying US corporation, or political dissents, of does not implement LGBT agenda, or ESG’s, or does not provide access to resources on favourable terms, or trades with an unapproved partner, a global digital CBDC literally, without guns or effort, can be used to bring any nation to its knees at the flick of a switch.

    Russia’s business in Ukraine has been to trigger a financial battle against the abusive system of weaponised western finance as it has been constructed and run since the last default in the 1970’s. That is what Lavrov is saying. The US military is irrelevant – just an enforcer of this system.

    So Russia’s primary objective in Ukraine has been to rid itself of western contracts without breaking the law by deliberately attracting western sanctions. It worked like a charm. We in the west have withdrawn and broken our contracts. Objective 1 has been achieved, so that objective two can be implemented.

    Objective two is to enforce bilateral trade between nations in local currencies or direct exchange or for gold via an alternative to Swift as a matter of urgency so that, when the dollar / digital dollar currency reserve bait and switch is pulled off vassal nations will have an alternative bi-lateral local currency trade system in place and can shrug off the losses. Russia is in a unique position to do this because it has vast amounts of materials that literally every nation is dependent on.

    This second objective is unfolding fast and it is dawning on people in power over here that they have played directly into a masterful check mate. We have orchestrated, in our responses to Russia’s minor incursion, our own end of our own financial imperialism. It is absolutely horrifying in the corridors of western power. It marks, as Larry Fink said, the end of globalism. Russia is forcing the start of multipolarity.

    Russia and Lavrov have made this clear from the outset. Sod the grubby little Nazis in Ukraine. This is about the real deal in the upper echelons of western power being stopped when they are on the brink or realising total and enduring vassalage of the world via a default to a new surveillance/sanctioning currency.

    Russia is going to take as long as needs be in Ukraine until bilateral trade is rock solid, until domestic strife in the west puts violent pressure on the incumbent banking cronies, until the corporations of the west are begging for a whole basket of raw materials and food.

    That is what Lavrov is talking about.

    1. Russia copying China and USA in everything. forced vaccination, tracking , social media censorship….

      1. I am finding vaccination but not forced vaccination in Russia. Send links if you have them.

      1. Thanks for the link, Rich! Looks to me like it’s a little more than “just” one of the “smart cities”…

    2. Glazyev’s work is one of the most thoughtful ones. Pity that most of it is in Russian.

      1. Would love to find whatever English translations are available. Have not been able to find.

  6. We’ve read in the past that the climate change agenda includes less air travel for average folks. It’s interesting to note that some covid relief funds to the airlines required that buses be used for some travel routes:

    “France has become the first country in Europe to ban domestic flights under two hours within the country. This new rule, coming into effect in April 2022, will affect any routes under two and a half hours that have another form of transportation connecting them. … The ban is an attempt to reduce the country’s carbon emissions as a part of France’s larger plan to go carbon neutral. … This ban was voted on in 2021 after the French government bailed out its domestic carrier Air France after it reported losses due to Covid-19. Wrapped up with the bailout was a condition that Air France become more environmentally conscious. …”

    “…Austrian Airlines was bailed out in 2020 also due to losses from the COVID pandemic. The stipulation in their bailout is that the airline had to eliminate domestic flights where alternative train journeys under three hours were available…”

    “The German government has been playing around with the idea of banning short-haul flights for quite a few years. But they have received a lot of resistance from labor unions and airlines. Instead of an outright ban, at the moment the German government has doubled the tax on all short-haul airline tickets. This is a way to discourage what they view as unnecessary air travel and push more people onto trains. …”

    “It looks as if Spain might soon follow France’s bold move. …”

    “Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries are also taxing flights more aggressively. Different from the other countries mentioned Sweden is taking the approach of “Flight Shaming”. They even have a word for it…Flygskam. …”

    “Greenpeace is calling for a ban on all domestic flights and transportation from Vienna to Prague, Budapest, and Munich because of how connected all of these destinations are by high-speed trains. …”

    “American Airlines is amongst the latest airlines in the US to add new routes to its roster, only this time, they are set to be operated by bus, not by airplane. Whilst the move is bound to be unpopular with travelers, the motivation behind it stems from Covid-19 related complications and the global economic situation. …”

    https://www.traveloffpath.com/many-flights-under-2-hours-now-banned-in-france-which-eu-countries-are-next/

    https://www.traveloffpath.com/american-airlines-adds-two-new-routes-but-will-be-operated-by-bus/

    2. For amusement, I agree, but to get a serious understanding of who Klaus Schwab is, I always found that all you have to do is get it straight from the horse’s mouth, no editing. Like this:

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFl_V9tEYm0

      One of the things that David Rockefeller was recorded for eternity as saying is that he was grateful to the newspapers such as the New York Times, because without them they would not be able to mold minds and get their agenda for a world government as far as they have gotten it…okay? David actually said this and it was recorded.

      Anyway, what you learn straight from Klaus in the above video is that the World Economic Forum was started in 1971 and you get to hear straight from Klaus’ mouth the use of the phrase, “global agenda”.

      1. Thanks for the link, Luis.
        I read that Klaus Schwab was knighted by Queen Elizabeth. I was able to confirm this from several sources, but I have not yet been able to find out when he was knighted, wihch I think is a significant point. I also still have to investigae if the knighhood he received is one recommended by the politicians or one of the Queen’s own personal choice.

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