Escobar: Bilderberg Does China, Realizes "The Chessboard Sucks"

  Although pepe Escobar is quite biased, his analysis is relevant: We are entering extremely turbulent and dangerous waters. China is an economic giant but still extremely fragile. Russia is a nuclear power but far more crucially a natural resources power of the world thanks to its landmass. The US is declining but remains with the dollar, the guardian of the current Western dominated equilibrium. This means trouble and a high risk to fall into a Thucydites Trap.

Thucydides Trap - Wikipedia

Authored by Pepe Escobar,

When Davos and Bilderberg messenger boys look at The Grand Chessboard, they realize that their era of perpetual free lunch is over.

Discreetly, as under the radar as a looming virus, the 68th Bilderberg meeting  is currently underway in Washington, D.C. Nothing to see here. No conspiracy theories about a “secret cabal”, please. This is just a docile, “diverse group of political leaders and experts” having a chat, a laugh, and a bubbly.

Still, one cannot but notice that the choice of venue speaks more volumes than the entire – burned to the ground – Library of Alexandria. In the year heralding the explosion of a much-awaited NATO vs. Russia proxy war, discussing its myriad ramifications does suit the capital of the Empire of Lies, much more than Davos a few weeks ago, where one Henry Kissinger sent them into a frenzy by advancing the necessity of a toxic compromise named “diplomacy”.

The list of Bilderberg 2022 participants is a joy to peruse. Here are just some of the stalwarts:

• James Baker, Consigliere extraordinaire, now a mere Director of the Office of Net Assessment at the Pentagon.

• José Manuel Barroso, former head of the European Commission, later the recipient of a golden parachute in the form of Chairman of Goldman Sachs International.

• Albert Bourla, the Pfizer Big Guy.

• William Burns, CIA director.

• Kurt Campbell, the guy who invented the Obama/Hillary “pivot to Asia”, now White House Coordinator for Indo-Pacific.

• Mark Carney, former Bank of England, one of the designers of the Great Reset, now Vice Chair of Brookfield Asset Management.

• Henry Kissinger, The Establishment’s Voice (or a war criminal: take your pick).

• Charles Michel, President of the European Council.

• Minton Beddoes, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, which will duly relay all major Bilderberg directives in the magazine’s upcoming cover stories.

• David Petraeus, certified loser of endless surges and Chairman of KKR Global Institute.

• Mark Rutte, hawkish Prime Minister of the Netherlands.

• Jens Stoltenberg, NATO top parrot, sorry, secretary-general.

• Jake Sullivan, Director of the National Security Council.

The ideological and geopolitical affiliations of these members of the “diverse group” need no further elaboration. It gets positively sexier when we see what they will be discussing.

Among other issues we find “NATO challenges”; “Indo-Pacific realignment”; “continuity of government and economy” (Conspirationists: continuity in case of nuclear war?); “disruption of global financial system” (already on); “post-pandemic health” (Conspirationists: how to engineer the next pandemic?); “trade and deglobalization”; and of course, the choice wagyu beef steaks: Russia and China.

As Bilderberg follows Chatham House Rules, mere mortals won’t have a clue of what they actually “proposed” or approved, and none of the participants will be allowed to talk about it with anyone else. One of my top New York sources, with direct access to most of the Masters of the Universe, loves to quip that Davos and Bilderberg are just for the messenger boys: the guys who really run the show don’t even bother to show up, ensconced in their uber-private meetings in uber-private clubs, where the real decisions are made.

Still, anyone following in some detail the rotten state of the “rules-based international order” will have a pretty good idea about the 2022 Bilderberg chatter.

What the Chinese say

Secretary of State Little Blinken – Sullivan’s sidekick in the ongoing Crash Test Dummy administration’s Dumb and Dumber remake – has recently claimed that China “supports” Russia on Ukraine instead of remaining neutral.

What really matters here is that Little Blinken is implying that Beijing wants to destabilize Asia-Pacific – which is a notorious absurdity. Yet that’s the master narrative that must pave the way for the US to muscle up its “Indo-Pacific” concoction. And that’s the briefing Sullivan and Kurt Campbell will be delivering to the “diverse group”.

Davos – with its new self-billed mantra, “The Great Narrative” – completely excluded Russia. Bilderberg is mostly about containment of China – which after all is the number one existential threat to the Empire of Lies and its satrapies.

Rather than wait for Bilderberg morsels dispensed by The Economist, it’s much more productive to check out what a cross-section of fact-based Chinese intelligentsia thinks about the new “collective West” racket.

Let’s start with Justin Lin Yifu, former Chief Economist of the World Bank and now Dean of the Institute of New Structural Economics at Peking University, and Sheng Songcheng, former head of the Financial Survey and Statistic Dept. a the Bank of China.

They advance that if China achieves “dynamic zero infection” on Covid-19 by the end of May (that actually happened: see the end of the Shanghai lockdown), China’s economy may grow by 5.5% in 2022.

They dismiss the imperial attempt to establish an “Asian version of NATO”: “As long as China continues to grow at a higher rate and to open up, European and ASEAN countries would not participate in the US’s decoupling trap so as to ensure their economic growth and job creation.”

Three academics from the Shanghai Institute of International Studies and Fudan University touch on the same point: the American-announced “Indo-Pacific Economic Framework”, supposed to be the economic pillar of the Indo-Pacific strategy, is nothing but a cumbersome attempt to “weaken the internal cohesion and regional autonomy of ASEAN.”

Liu Zongyi stresses that China’s position at the heart of the vastly inter-connected Asian supply chains “has been consolidated”, especially now with the onset of the largest trade deal on the planet, the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP).

Chen Wengling, Chief Economist of a think tank under the key National Development and Reform Commission, notes  the “comprehensive ideological and technological war against China” launched by the Americans.

But he’s keen to stress how they are “not ready for a hot war as the US and Chinese economies are so closely linked.” The crucial vector is that “the US has not yet made substantial progress in strengthening its supply chain focusing on four key fields including semiconductors.”

Chen worries about “China’s energy security”; “China’s silence” on US sanctions on Russia, which “may result in US retaliation”; and crucially, how “China’s plan of building the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) with Ukraine and EU countries will be affected.” What will happen in practice is BRI will be privileging economic corridors across Iran and West Asia, as well as the Maritime Silk Road, instead of the Trans-Siberian corridor across Russia.

It’s up to Yu Yongding, from the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and a former member of the Monetary Policy Committee of the Central Bank, to go for the jugular, noting how” the global financial system and the US dollar have been weaponized into geopolitical tools. The nefarious behavior of the US in freezing foreign exchange reserves has not only seriously damaged the international credibility of the US but has also shaken the credit foundation of the dominant international financial system in the West.”

He expresses the consensus among Chinese intel, that “if there is a geopolitical conflict between the US and China, then China’s overseas assets will be seriously threatened, especially its huge reserves. Therefore, the composition of China’s external financial assets and liabilities urgently needs to be adjusted and the portion of US dollar denominated assets in its reserves portfolio should be reduced.”

This chessboard sucks

A serious debate is raging across virtually all sectors of Chinese society on the American weaponization of the world financial casino. The conclusions are inevitable: get rid of US Treasuries, fast, by any means necessary; more imports of commodities and strategic materials (thus the importance of the Russia-China strategic partnership); and firmly secure overseas assets, especially those foreign currency reserves.

Meanwhile Bilderberg’s “diverse group”, on the other side of the pond, is discussing, among other things, what will really happen in case they force the IMF racket to blow up (a key plan to implement The Great Reset, or “Great Narrative”).

They are starting to literally freak out with the slowly but surely emergence of an alternative, resource-based monetary/financial system: exactly what the Eurasia Economic Union (EAEU) is currently discussing and designing, with Chinese input.

Imagine a counter-Bilderberg system where a basket of Global South actors, resource-rich but economically poor, are able to issue their own currencies backed by commodities, and finally get rid of their status of IMF hostages. They are all paying close attention to the Russia gas-for-rubles experiment.

And in China’s particular case, what will always matter is loads of productive capital underpinning a massive, extremely deep industrial and civil infrastructure.

No wonder Davos and Bilderberg messenger boys, when they look at The Grand Chessboard, are filled with dread: their era of perpetual free lunch is over. What would delight cynics, skeptics, neoplatonists and Taoists galore is that it was Davos-Bilderberg Men (and Women) who actually boxed themselves into zugzwang.

All dressed up – with nowhere to go. Even JP Morgan’s Jamie Dimon – who didn’t even bother to go to Bilderberg – is scared, saying an economic “hurricane” is coming. And overturning the chessboard is no remedy: at best that may invite a ceremonious tuxedo visit by Mr. Sarmat and Mr. Zircon carrying some hypersonic bubbly.

 

Earth’s Most Dangerous Website - The story of Wikileaks (Video)

  The story of Wikileaks. Almost an old story now in our time of Covid and Ukraine but so, so relevant when what's left of our freedom hangs in the balance.

 

Clustering with knowledge instead of data (Marketing)

 In this post I would like to show how over time knowledge can supplement and replace data in data marketing.

This understanding, to my opinion is revolutionary because it goes against the current trend of accumulation of “data” which is prevalent in most companies. In fact, the more knowledge you have, the less data you need as I will demonstrate below.

Our first segmentation product in Japan was called Chomonicx and was launched in 2004. It was based on an earlier US model, Prizm from Claritas to be specific and segmented, as can be seen below, the Japanese population into 32 clusters at the Chome level. (A Chome being equivalent to a large block in the US. There are about 210,000 Chome in Japan.)

 

This product was quite successful as there was a need at the time for such segmentation. It has since been updated every 5 years and still exist today as Chomonicx 4.0

Our next product should have been at the Banchi level (A Chome being built around a few Banchi) but whereas a lot of data was available at the Chome level in Japan including of course the National Census, there was no data at the Banchi level and consequently nobody was using Banchi for marketing.

In-between Internet marketing exploded with the help of Google and Facebook and became the dominant channel for the new Multimedia marketing strategy for most large companies.  

Internet Marketing is of course at the individual level and consequently presents two challenges:   

The first one is privacy and the need to de-identify or anonymize data.

The second is getting access to the data. The breakthrough came in 2016 when we got access to the Zenrin building data from which we could build population proxy data at the household level. The result was point data as seen on the map below.

 

This revolution more than evolution was based on more data quantitatively, everything about every building but less data overall for a result 100 times more specific since the data although still an index could now be combined one to one with client data. The colors show the Chome cluster system (Chomonicx) and the points show the new data. There is simply no comparison as far as accuracy is concerned.

But amazingly, while doing this work,  we realized that almost all the information at the point level could be deduced from the address alone! This is where knowledge completely replaces data as you can actually build complex knowledge-based system with far less data provided you know how to do it.

We will describe the methodology in a future post but because of the structure of the address system in Japan, and more generally in many Asian countries, based on blocks, not on streets, seen as a gap between the blocks, it is actually easy to build a hierarchy clustering system constructed on the address which contains all the data needed and implies a natural segmentation easy to implement.

 

Monkeypox simulation excercise held in March 2021

  Is it just one side of me as a statistician or there is just more than a strange coincidence between these accurate and prophetic exercises and what happens soon after? Remember a similar exercise about Covid in the fall of 2019? The military "exercises" which completely immobilized jet fighters during 9/11?  

 Yes, sure people at Davos have more information that what we read on the Internet, but how much more? This reminds me of archeology professor  Shinichi Fujimura who consistently was "finding" extraordinary objects which later were proven to have been planted voluntarily...

 Monkeypox simulation exercise held in March 2021

An exercise simulating a global monkeypox outbreak was organized, in March 2021, by the Nuclear Threat Initiative and the Munich Security Conference. As the annual meeting in Munich could not be held due to the Coronavirus pandemic, video discussions took place in February.

Monkeypox only appeared in Europe and North America in May 2022.

The Nuclear Threat Initiative had organized other comparable exercises in 2020 and 2019. They were coordinated in conjunction with the World Health Organization and the World Bank. No information has filtered regarding the 2022 session (photo).

These exercises are separate from those organized in the context of the Davos Forum by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

40,000 Factories At Risk Of Closing In Pakistan's Commercial Capital Amid Fuel Crisis

 This blog is not about "news" and I usually avoid the stir of the day as there are many other places where you can find it... unless it is significant.

 And this is the case with this news from Pakistan as it preludes what we will see almost everywhere in developing countries this Summer. Food and energy are our most fundamental needs and as soon as they are lacking you can expect trouble to follow suit, within weeks in fact. The bankruptcy of Sri Lanka last month was a footnote. The country is small and some limited help from India, Russia and China will keep the ball rolling for now. But this won't work for countries like Pakistan and later Egypt. They need cheap food and energy... and fast!

40,000 Factories At Risk Of Closing In Pakistan's Commercial Capital Amid Fuel Crisis - Zero Hedge

Pakistan faces potential economic collapse as inflation jumps and widespread civil unrest could be nearing. The latest sign the South Asian country is spiraling into the abyss is rising electricity costs that threaten to close tens of thousands of businesses.

Bloomberg reports that as many as 40,000 factories in Karachi, the country's commercial capital, are being slapped with high power costs that make operating near impossible. 

Rising power costs are so severe that nine business groups in Karachi told the government that an immediate plan needs to be formulated to lower power costs or face economic disaster. 

Any shuttering of factories and mass layoffs could trigger social unrest in the commercial capital, home to more than 16 million people.

Discontent among businesses and households is already soaring with an official inflation rate of over 13.37% (double the official CPI to get a more accurate picture of true price inflation), the 2nd fastest-rising rate in Asia. 

On top of high power costs, Karachi's power utility -- K-Electric Ltd. -- warned customers of widespread power cuts for the first time in over a decade if power generation continues to struggle because of high fuel costs and supply shortages. 

"These current conditions are severely hindering KE's ability to procure fuel, causing a permanent curtailment of power generation" that translates to as much as 10 hours of planned blackouts for some parts of the city, said Sadia Dada, a spokesperson for K-Electric. 

Pakistan is also a nuclear power -- political elites may stoke a conflict with neighboring India to distract public anger from domestic financial pain. 

China Elected To World Health Organisation Executive Board With No Objections

 How could it be otherwise?

 And these are the people who will manage the next pandemic...

Authored by Steve Watson via Summit News,

China has been elected to the World Health Organisation’s Executive Board with zero objections from any democratic countries, despite its voluminous attempts to cover up the Coronavirus outbreak and its subsequent brutal lockdowns.

Hillel Neuer of the watchdog group UN Watch noted “this is the regime that crushed” warnings from whistleblowers in late 2019 and early 2020.

He also noted that “not a single democracy spoke out to object.”

Spectator columnist Ross Clark commented that the WHO is “stuffed with small countries, many with lousy human rights records, which will not dare to challenge China or which will not have the political clout to do so.”

Lets remember that the head of the World Health Organization’s origin investigation into COVID-19 has admitted that China basically ordered his team on what to write in their report and allowed them to mention the lab leak theory, but only on the condition that they didn’t recommend following it up.

In addition, China has refused to cooperate with the renewed WHO probe, declaring that any attempt to look into the lab leak theory goes “against science” and claiming, contrary to U.S. intelligence and the WHO’s own conclusions, that workers in the lab were hospitalised with COVID in the autumn of 2020.

China’s government run Academy of Sciences also shortlisted the Wuhan bio-lab for its ‘Outstanding Science Achievement’ prize for work with coronaviruses.

Talk about rubbing it in.

Jamie Metzl, a leading advisor for the World Health Organisation itself has stated that China engaged in a “massive cover up” of the coronavirus pandemic.

Metzl also pointed out that the World Health Organisation “doesn’t have the mandate to have its own surveillance capabilities,” and was therefore easily batted away by China in the early days of the outbreak when it requested to send responders.

The WHO, which facilitated China’s draconian response to COVID by insisting the western world impose similar lockdowns, is also now urging that gay pride events go ahead despite the clear risk of them being monkeypox super-spreader events, given that the virus is transmitted through close physical contact.

Awarding China a seat on the WHO Executive Board is like if North Korea was put in charge of the UN Conference on Disarmament…oh wait, they really did that too.

"The Deep State Is In A 'Do-Or-Die' Moment" - Alex Newman Warns Globalists 'Need To Terrify Everyone'

 There is a deep misunderstanding about what the Deep State really is. Technology has changed things drastically. It is now an amorphous blob of common interest. Those people beyond money who lust for power. When you're young, often, you'll get invited and "introduced". If you can keep your opinions for yourself and are pliable, or better think mostly like everybody else in the room, you will slowly be pushed higher...

 You can have dissenting opinions which mostly are resolved in, smokeless nowadays, back rooms, more often with a smile and  pat on the back than hints and menaces. But you can't have "doubts" or question the system. Too many interests are intertwined in its fabric...

 When a society crumbles, it is not the highways and train lines that stop working. It is the consensus and the ideas upon which that society is built which start losing their appeal. We built temples twice as high and still the gods won't listen. We double down, always, on what didn't work in the first place and somehow it still doesn't work. 

 Amazingly, if you look at history, what is going on right now, as described below is not the exception but the rule. Our ancestors, everywhere, followed the same route and left superb ruins behind for us to contemplate the future!

Via Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog.com,

Author of the popular book “Deep State” and award-winning journalist Alex Newman says Deep State globalists are afraid the world is waking up to the tyranny they are trying to impose on every country on earth including America.

Things are not going as smoothly into their so-called reset as they had envisioned. 

Newman explains, “The Deep State is in a ‘do or die’ moment right now..."

"They, the elites or predator class, recognize that they are now locked into this.  If they try to retreat, there is no retreat.  People are waking up at such a rapid rate that they are in a moment where they are going to have to go for broke and try to impose the whole agenda and damn the torpedoes and full speed ahead or they are going to be in big trouble.  They are going to be prosecuted.  Right this moment, there are conversations in state attorney generals’ offices all across the country, and this is a problem.  People are demanding prosecution..

Right now, the elites, or predator class, realize if they don’t move forward very quickly, they are going to lose everything.  They could possibly end up facing true accountability.  I think we are in a very dangerous situation now.  When people get into a position like that, they don’t have a whole lot of options.  Either they cancel the election or they cheat like crazy or they just collapse everything.  The way things are going right now with inflation out of control, the food crisis and famine just around the corner, of course, that they engineered, and the monkey pox and bird flu, they have all there crises lined up...

You realize they have a lot of options still to play.  I suspect there will be some very interesting developments between now and the mid-term elections.  If we had honest elections, they would be totally creamed.  They would be toast, and they know that.”

Newman thinks the next move by the Deep State may be a combination of crises that could include the collapse of the buying power of the U.S. dollar and a food crisis that is already a lock in the not-so-distant future.  Newman warns,

“What’s going on in Russia and Ukraine, we cannot count out.  There is a very real prospect of that expanding...

Desperate people do desperate things.  This is just like with an animal that has been backed into a corner.  When you get an animal in that situation, they are really left with few options other than attack and do something dangerous, and I think that is where we are at.  They recognize that they need crises to advance their agenda.  They need to terrify the population...

...and it has to be done in a way that their finger prints are not on this, and instead of people turning on each other, they will start looking for them.”

Newman says,

“The country can be turned around and it needs to be turned around, but it’s going to take work . . . and maybe intervention by the Good Lord.” 

Newman closes by saying, “There is no silver bullet.”

There is much more in the 49 min. video interview.

Join Greg Hunter of USAWatchdog.com as he goes One-on-One with hard hitting journalist Alex Newman, founder of LibertySentinel.org and author of the recent book “Deep State.”

Delete TikTok Before It's Too Late... (Must watch Video!)

 How dangerous is the Chinese government?

Maybe far more than you thought. 

The privacy of every Chinese citizen is already history. But is yours in their line of sight? Have a look and make up your mind. The clock is ticking: Tic toc, or should we say Tik Tok?

 Disclaimer: I have spent my life literally, gathering information to use it for advertising purpose. And sure, some people believe that even that is already too much. I do not think so. Analyzing data to "understand", target and influence people is to my opinion fair game. You still have the option to say "no" and move to something else. But here, we have something very, I would disturbingly different. There is no escape clause. ALL your data is collected ALL the time. Combined with your health, financial and social data. With outside cameras, microphones with instant access ALL the time! The reaction speed of the system in China is said to be less than "one minute"! It's 1984 with literally nothing left in the dark. 100% total control.

Here's the Whole Covid Vaccine Scam!

 Not a conspiracy, just about money, a lot of money...

by Wayne Allyn Root
The Gateway Pundit

We are in the middle of the biggest scam and "get-rich-quick" Ponzi scheme in world history. Some might call it mass murder on a grand scale. Open your eyes- see the remarkable number of famous actors, politicians and athletes who are dropping dead, or suffering heart attacks, strokes, blood clots, as well as dramatic increases in cancer. Is it coincidence?

In only the past week we saw famous acting icon Ray Liotta die at age 67...famous rocker Andy "Fletch" Fletcher of the band "Depeche Mode" die at age 60, and Alan White the drummer for the rock band "Yes" die at age 72. Famous Americans are dropping like flies. Is it all coincidence? Is it all about "old age." Or is something terrible happening that needs to be investigated? Why are so many famous people dying?

Could it be because lots of average people are dying too? Life insurance executives are reporting non-Covid deaths are up a staggering 40% across the USA- the largest increase ever seen. Ask any funeral home director- business is booming like never before.

Something is very very wrong. Yet no one is reporting it. No one is investigating. We're not even allowed to ask questions for fear of being slandered, ostracized, or banned from social media.

This scam I'm talking about is not Covid-19. Covid is real- it's a flu pandemic. This isn't the first flu pandemic. It won't be the last. As a matter of fact, many Americans are sick again with Covid.

The strange this is, every single person I know who is experiencing Covid again is triple vaxxed. How's that work? If I told you everyone I met with Polio had gotten three Polio shots, would you consider the polio vaccine a success? Or a miserable failure?

This world-class scam is easy to see...

It's the the response by government, President Biden, Democrat politicians, Dr. Fauci, the CDC, and the media regarding the Covid vaccines. Something is very wrong. Something has gone very bad. We are off the rails.

And not only does no one want to talk about it, or discuss it, or debate it...

Not only is the media and social media involved in the biggest blackout, whitewash and cover-up in history...

Our government, medical experts and the media- all the powers that be- are all still pushing this dangerous and deadly jab, despite the evidence of massive injuries and deaths. Does this make sense? Can anyone explain this?

Here is a real-life healthcare story that I think goes a long way to explaining it all...

One of my close friends thought he was having a heart attack. He asked me to drive him to the hospital. Of course, I dropped everything and rushed him to the ER at Summerlin Hospital in Las Vegas.

He was kept at the hospital for 22 hours. He was given a battery of tests. He passed them all with flying colors. The doctors could find nothing wrong. Thank God- there was no heart attack. He was given a clean bill of health. It must have been a "panic attack." Because he is in perfect health.

About two weeks later the bill came. 22 hours in the hospital. Not even one full day. Nothing wrong- so, no treatments of any kind were given.
The bill was $115,000. He was in shock. The bill could have given him a real heart attack. This is insanity. The healthcare system is a scam. Thanks Obamacare. What a great job Obama did to "fix" healthcare. Now 22 hours in a hospital costs $115,000. The frauds in the media won't dare talk about that story.

This also explains everything about the past two years of this Covid pandemic. This is why the reaction to Covid by media, Democrat politicians and medical "experts" has been so hysterical, panicked and exaggerated. It's all about the money.

Here's a simple explanation of the world's biggest "get-rich- quick" Ponzi scheme...

First, Biden, Dr. Fauci, the CDC, FDA, Democrat politicians and the media scare people to death- for a flu with mostly mild to moderate symptoms, with a 99.9% recovery rate. They whip Americans into a frenzy. This turns Americans into paranoid hypochondriacs and hospital junkies.

"If it bleeds, it leads." The more death on the front page, or at the top of the news, the more papers they sell, the higher the ratings for the TV news. And of course, the more billions of dollars spent by Big Pharma on drug and vaccine ads as a "thank you" to the media. This frightens and panics more Americans into taking the vaccine. And the more hysteria, panic and fear, the more Americans rush to the hospital ER.

It's one big vicious cycle that makes everyone at the top filthy rich.

Think of that $115,000 bill for 22 hours in the hospital. That's for a person that wasn't sick. What if you actually have the flu? Once at the ER, they'll admit you for a day, or two, or three, out of caution (and fear of a lawsuit) and you'll go home with a $250,000 bill.

What if you actually get seriously ill? That's a trip to the ICU. Whether you live, or die, either way someone gets a $5,000,000 bill.

Multiply these bills times millions of hysterical, scared-to-death Americans who rush to the hospital ER at the first sign of a cold, cough, fever, or a sneeze. Most of them are poor and on Obamacare, or Medicaid. And it's all paid by OPM- other people's money. The government pays, and pays, and pays some more.

With your taxpayer money.

Everyone involved gets rich quick: The hospitals, doctors, Big Pharma, ventilator makers, mask makers, Covid antigen test makers, vaccine manufacturers, the media that books billions of dollars in Big Pharma ads, and maybe most of all, the politicians.

Think how much money the hysteria, panic and fear porn, combined with vaccine mandates, have made each Democrat politician that owns stock in publicly-traded hospital, healthcare, drug and vaccine companies?

And this is all separate from the obscene bonuses paid by government to hospitals for each patient that tests positive for Covid; dies with Covid; or gets put on those deadly ventilators. The sicker you are, the more money everyone makes. Keep in mind, they only get paid gigantic bonuses if you're sick, or dead.

I haven't even mentioned all the Americans experiencing heart attacks, strokes, blood clots and advanced cancer directly from the Covid vaccine itself. See the VAERS list. Literally hundreds of thousands of Americans have gotten sick, crippled, permanently disabled or died as a direct result of the Covid vaccine. That's not my opinion, it's all spelled out in the VAERS report (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System).

So, there's another multi-billion-dollar income stream. And this terrible world class scam is made possible by a conspiracy of government and media slandering and banning the only cheap, highly-effective, miracle drugs and vitamins that work for pennies on the dollar- like Ivermectin, HCQ (hydroxychloroquine), zinc, quercetin, and Vitamins C and D3.

Incidentally, I have on my desktop literally hundreds of studies worldwide that prove the effectiveness of these therapeutics, if taken within the first few days of Covid. They work like a miracle, according to study after study. These same therapeutics literally wiped out Covid almost overnight in the slums of India.

But you've never heard about any of these studies, right? That's because none of them have ever been featured in the mainstream media. We have experienced a total media blackout of the drugs and vitamins that actually work against Covid- and the happen to be inexpensive too.

This same media claims over one million Americans died from Covid- yet they've blacked out, whitewashed and covered up the only therapeutics that work effectively. And to top it off, at the exact same time, they refuse to cover all the deaths and injuries from the product they're pushing- the vaccine- that clearly doesn't work.

Bernie Madoff is rolling over in his grave.

But here is the all-important Part II of my story.

Now that we know this whole thing was over-blown and exaggerated to scare you to death...now that we know the vaccines don't work as advertised (not even close)...now that we know the vaccines are actually dangerous and deadly...now that we know the lockdowns, mask mandates, school closures, business closures, and vaccine mandates accomplished literally nothing...and actually led to more illness, death, depression, addiction, suicide and destruction of our economy...

Why can't anyone responsible for doing all this to us, just admit they were wrong?

Let me tell you another story that explains it all. Years ago, a trusted friend and employee of mine (let's call him "Phil") stole $1,000 cash from my office. I knew in every bone in my body it was him. He was the only one near my office during the lunch break. He always went out to lunch, but not on the one day the money went missing. He was in a desperate situation and needed the money.

Most telling of all, as Shakespeare would say, "He doth protest too much." That was the real tip-off. He was over-the-top hysterical at the mere thought of me asking him about the crime. He was crying, screaming, begging, banging the table, pacing back and forth like a madman. He swore over and over again he didn't do it, he swore on his mother's grave. He feigned disbelief that his friend (me) could ever accuse him of such a thing. His reaction was so over-the-top, I knew he did it. Nobody innocent would react like that.

I never trusted him again. I never treated him as a friend again. A few weeks later he left the company. We never spoke again.

Fast forward twenty-five years. Out of the blue, he called me a few years ago to confess. He said, "Remember that missing $1,000 from 25 years ago? You were right. I stole it. I was so desperate. But once I lied to you, and swore I didn't do it, and acted so offended and outraged at the mere idea of you accusing me, I was in so deep, there was no going back. My lie
was just too big. I had to stick to my story. I'm sorry. I've carried this burden for 25 years. I just needed to find you and call you and confess. I'm so sorry."
That explains this entire Covid response.

They're all in too deep. The lie is just too big. The results too catastrophic. They've acted too hysterical and over-the-top. There's no going back.

It started out about greed. Everyone involved wanted to get rich quick. They saw Covid and the vaccine as a way to get filthy rich, unimaginably rich. Rich enough for the next ten generations of their families. "FU money" as they say. And they could pay for it all with OPM- "other people's money." They'd get government to pay the whole bill.

Many conservative media personalities throw around the term "depopulation scheme" to explain what's happening with the vaccines. They use the term "mass murder." As if everyone involved wanted to kill off half the world's population. And I do believe there were a few people at the very top of this scam, this pyramid scheme, who are pure evil.

But most of the people involved are not "mass murderers." Doctors don't wake up in the morning and dream of killing all their patients. ICU nurses don't arrive at work looking forward to mass murder. As much as I despise the fake news media, even I don't think they're all in on mass murder.

This evil disaster was all about one thing: pure, unadulterated, greed. The almighty dollar. More money to go around than anyone had ever seen in their lifetimes. Everyone's eyes got as big as saucers.

And then they drank the Kool-Aid.

They wanted to believe in the vaccines (and the masks, and the lockdowns, and the small business closures). They wanted to believe they could "do good," while getting filthy rich. They wanted to believe the vaccines worked. They wanted to believe they were saving lives. They wanted to believe they were heroes. They wanted desperately to believe anyone who called the vaccine dangerous or deadly was spreading "misinformation" and had to be stopped. They convinced themselves they had to censor, ban, terminate anyone who disagreed, or dissented from "the company storyline."

And like my friend who stole the $1,000, once they went far down this road, and sold their souls, there was no going back. They were in too deep. To admit it was all a lie, a deception, a fraud, a "get-rich-quick" scheme, a Bernie Madoff Ponzi- scheme, means they are guilty of massive crimes against humanity. To even admit they made a mistake, or they were
wrong, or they were duped, or they were greedy, and now they regret it, is to admit they misled the world, and they are complicit in millions of deaths and injuries across the globe.

It's not like they can wake up one day and just say "Oops, I made a mistake. I was wrong. This was just the flu. All the lockdowns, masks, vaccines, vaccine mandates, vaccine passports, business closures, school closures, hundred-thousand-dollar and million-dollar medical bills, were all for nothing. I'm sorry. Can we have a do-over?"

Ask my friend Phil. That's not easy to do, or say. Not when the issue is $1,000 theft, let alone when the issue is millions of deaths and injuries worldwide, trillions of dollars in business
losses and medical expenses, millions of jobs and careers destroyed, millions of businesses closed, dreams shattered, and a society in shambles.

So instead of apologizing, the media, Democrat politicians and "medical experts" are either doubling down (claiming they were right all along and saved lives), or erasing history and moving on. They hope you forget the past two years. They hope you remember them as heroes, fighting for your health, while in reality they damaged or destroyed your health and/or your career (or both).

And never forget the damage they did to your children's lives.

But hey, be thankful. At least you're one of the lucky ones who is still alive.

Ukraine: A New Narrative As Europe Unravels?

 This author believes we'll get a crisis in Europe in June. I personally believes it will come a little later. But June, July or August does not matter. Europe is heading for a very hard Summer. Old, sick and bankrupt is simply not a great position to start a war, even one by proxy. Someone should have told the Europeans 3 months ago. Now, they will learn the hard way, while believing their own propaganda that everything is going fine.

Authored by Bill Blain via MonringPorridge.com,

“When Italy tells you it is irrevocably committed to the relationship, it’s time to hire divorce lawyers..”

May markets are finishing on a dead-cat bounce – things could get more unstable through June. The outcomes in Ukraine are looking less favourable, and Europe will struggle with sanctions. The weakest link is unsurprisingly Italy. A bigger crisis in terms of famine will shortly become apparent in North Africa.  

There is a famous song that suggests “things can only better”. What if they don’t?

Europe failed to agree new sanctions on Russia over the weekend. Talks will continue this week, but Hungary is stalling about quitting Russian oil. Sanctions are one of the aspects of its’ non-statehood the EU needs unanimity upon.

The US is closed today. Stocks bounced back last week, but it had the whiff of a deceased feline. I suspect May 2022 will still go down as the month the Market Bubble popped. It’s easy to blame Central Banks for not acting earlier to hike rates to combat inflation. Hah. Their attempts to paint inflation as transitory now look laughable – but the reality is there is little central banks could have done earlier to combat galloping inflation pressures and inflationary shocks from sweeping across the economy.

All they can do now is go with the flow and try to moderate the effects of the inflation tsunami: higher raw material and commodity prices, higher transport costs, higher energy costs, higher producer prices and, coming soon, rising social unrest and strikes as pay demands heat up. Worse is yet to come. Next month the UK will be effectively closed as the rail workers strike. Germany and France are both heading towards industrial relations crisis as the unions demand large wage hikes which could further crush their already lethargic economies.

Policy is in disarray. In Germany, the government has given into demands for a massive hike in minimum wages. In the UK, Rishi Sunak is belatedly learning that popular chancellors garner popularity from giving away money. Trying to take it back… less so. He looks like he’s been bounced into the Windfall tax and consumer energy handouts – with the Labour Party looking likely to get much of the credit.

Inflation, recession and negative growth are all on the cards. In such a situation its hardly surprising the temptation to try to lessen the economic damage being done across Europe by soaring energy prices on the back of Russian sanctions is rising. The edifice of a solid and united Europe standing firm behind the plucky Ukrainians is only a couple of microns deep. There is a very real chance it will crack in the coming weeks.

June could be the month it happens and becomes apparent, potentially making a bad situation dramatically worse.

The news out of Ukraine is not good.

Russia has a history of starting wars badly. The parallel everyone cites is the Winter War against Finland in 1940. They lost thousands of men unprepared for winter or the Finns, were forced to retreat before effectively starting again and forcing Helsinki to concede. There is no doubt the Russians have taken a pasting in Ukraine as a result of flawed intelligence, the corruption of the FSB (where the team charged with a $2 bln hearts and minds campaign simply trousered the money themselves), and a lack of logistics planning.

Umpteen generals later, and they are learning the hard way. They are now focused. The recent advances in the Donbas are still plodding, costly, slow and utterly destructive, but they are being described as solid by the military commentators who know these things.

The Ukrainians are exhausted after 3 months of intense conflict. Trying to keep the economy going, and harvest crops is a significant call on manpower. They are desperately short of basic war stocks. Much of the aid promised by the west has been delivered, but troops then need to be trained to use it when they are needed on the front lines. And, many weapons promised to Kyiv have simply not arrived or are so old and worn out as to be unusable. Ukraine needs more modern weapons now to simply to hold the line – but the West remains frightened of escalation.

The pendulum is swinging to Moscow. After their initial surprise, befuddlement and lack of a war-plan, the Russians now see a way to win.

If they can keep Ukrainian defending forces pinned in place on the Donbas lines, then there is the possibility of encircling them to win a massive propaganda victory. The alternative is for Ukraine is to retreat – giving up the ground they’ve held at such high cost since 2014 – which again would be a massive propaganda coup for Moscow.

The Russians don’t care whether Ukraine retreats or suffers a battlefield defeat. It’s all about the optics and the narrative. If they can score a propaganda win, it will reinforce calls from Europe’s weak links for an immediate ceasefire and negotiated peace.

Italy is the weak link. But, also watch Greece and Hungary.

Since Putin jailed the FSB’s leadership for their light-fingered approach to Ukraine, their successors have been spending Russian’s black propaganda money more carefully, targeting Italian politicians and looking for delivery on the “special relationship” they’ve been paying for decades. Berlusconi has failed to directly criticise his good old buddy Putin, and even said in Naples: “Europe should try to persuade Ukraine to accept Putin’s demands”, before backtracking the statement. Matteo Salvini’s League has condemned the Russian invasion, but Salvini himself has not named Putin in any of his bland statements.

Italian media has proved unwilling to challenge or counter many of the outrageous statements peddled by Moscow about their “special military operation” – appearing to give Putin’s mouthpiece Sergeio Lavrov as much credence as statements out of Kyiv. It reflects the ownership of the media, its closeness to political interests and the fact much of the Italian establishment finds itself kompromated.

Italy’s Confindustria business group is forcasting a 2% hit to Italian GDP in the back of slowing gas imports from Russia. 40% of Italy’s gas comes from Russia. Attempts to negotiate new supply and sources will take years to deliver. How easy it would be to turn the gas taps on.

The US and UK will be watching carefully – explaining the rising number of stories in Italy about US spies active against Italian interests. If Italy cracks, then what’s to stop the German’s following them, taking to opportunity to relight its industrial pre-eminence with Russian Gas?

Whatever the stories and the narrative being spread about Putin being ill, or of regime change in Moscow, it all hear-say, and unlikely according to the spooks. That leaves the possibility of a less than committed Europe and the Russian narrative to the rest of the World (which is largely unbothered about Russia’s invasion of a European neighbour) that it’s fighting a defensive action against the bellicose Anglo-Saxons being strengthened.

However, although the current ructions in Europe are all about Energy, that is likely to be overwhelmed in June as the North African food crisis becomes very real. Without Russian and Ukraine food exports, famine is pretty much nailed on, triggering political upheaval, and critically for Europe (Greece, Hungary and Italy) a renewed refugee crisis.

In short, June is looking… troubling.