Trump Reportedly 'Stunned' By Georgia Victory Of Defiant Secretary Of State Raffensperger
:-).
Kinda makes me happy :-).
Psalm 146:3-4
Do not put your trust in princes,
in human beings, who cannot save.
When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;
on that very day their plans come to nothing.
why I stopped by one day a while back and took a picture,
I knew it would be gone sooner or later.
Confederate statue removed from base in Owensboro
Confederate Monument in Owensboro, Ky.
“Fear. Deep rotting fear. They were infected by it. Did you see? Fear is a sickness. It will crawl into the soul of anyone who engages it. It has tainted your peace already. I did not raise you to see you live with fear. Strike it from your heart. Do not bring it into our village.”
Flint Sky
"Fear. Deep rotting fear. They were infected by it."
Seems like it growing more and more everyday here lately...you can feel it in the air practically.
Joel 2:1-2
Blow the trumpet in Zion;
sound the alarm on my holy hill.
Let all who live in the land tremble,
for the day of the Lord is coming.
It is close at hand—
a day of darkness and gloom,
a day of clouds and blackness.
Like dawn spreading across the mountains
a large and mighty army comes,
such as never was in ancient times
nor ever will be in ages to come.
“You fear me? So you should. All you who are vile. Would you like to know how you will die? The sacred time is near. Beware the blackness of day. Beware the man who brings the jaguar. Behold him reborn from mud and earth. For the one he takes you to will cancel the sky, and scratch out the earth. Scratch you out. And end your world. He’s with us now. Day will be like night. And the man jaguar will lead you to your end.” - Oracle Girl
Pretty much sent chills down my spine...
"All you who are vile. Would you like to know how you will die? The sacred time is near."
"the one he takes you to will cancel the sky"
Joel 2:11
The Lord thunders
at the head of his army;
his forces are beyond number,
and mighty is the army that obeys his command.
The day of the Lord is great;
it is dreadful.
Who can endure it?
Joel 2:31
The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
Isaiah 32:6
"For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Revelation 6:14
The sky receded like a scroll being rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.
Isaiah 34:4
All the stars of heaven will be dissolved. The skies will be rolled up like a scroll, and all their stars will fall like withered leaves from the vine, like foliage from the fig tree
2 Peter 3:10
"But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare."
Joel 2:31
The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.
(How many times ya gotta see it before you start to understand there's something to it? Seriously? How many times does it take? Know what? Doesn't matter, mans heart is so hardened to his God that it could happen everyday and still people wouldn't think anything about it.)
"Day will be like night"
“I do not know, but the earth bleeds. We are near.”
- Curl Nose
Yes it does and yes we are.
"These are the days of our great lament. The land thirsts. A great plague infests our crops. The scourge of sickness afflicts at whim. They say this strife has made us weak. That we have become empty. They say that we rot.
Great people of the banner of the sun... I say... we are strong. We are a people of destiny. Destined to be the masters of time. Destined to be nearest to the gods.
High Priest
1 Thessalonians 5:3
"For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
Kinda sounds just like what's going on today right now with us, telling us we are strong when our jugular is being stood on. And throw in the days of our great lament, a scourge of sickness, strife etc and yet the powers that be, the ruling class/elites keep saying were strong...
In the second part I hear the echos of White Christian Nationalism in this country...This wasn't supposed to happen, it wasn't supposed to be like this, we are a country of destiny! This can not be Gods plan for us! etc...
Well...
What if it was/is?
You gonna go tell God he got it wrong cause it doesn't match up with your expectations? Have fun with that...
"And a Man sat alone, drenched deep in sadness. And all the animals drew near to him and said, "We do not like to see you so sad. Ask us for whatever you wish and you shall have it." The Man said, "I want to have good sight." The vulture replied, "You shall have mine." The Man said, "I want to be strong." The jaguar said, "You shall be strong like me." Then the Man said, "I long to know the secrets of the earth." The serpent replied, "I will show them to you." And so it went with all the animals. And when the Man had all the gifts that they could give, he left. Then the owl said to the other animals, "Now the Man knows much, he'll be able to do many things. Suddenly I am afraid." The deer said, "The Man has all that he needs. Now his sadness will stop." But the owl replied, "No. I saw a hole in the Man, deep like a hunger he will never fill. It is what makes him sad and what makes him want. He will go on taking and taking, until one day the World will say, 'I am no more and I have nothing left to give.'"
Old Story Teller
Of course it was the serpent that showed the man the secrets of the earth :-).
Heard in church a million times, there's only one thing gonna fill that hunger in you and no material thing is ever gonna do it. Might wanna fill that hole with God/Christ it's the only thing that's ever gonna quench your thirst. And of course the wise one is the owl :-).
"He will go on taking and taking, until one day the World will say, 'I am no more and I have nothing left to give.'"
People get ready
There's a train a-coming
You don't need no baggage
You just get on board
All you need is faith
To hear the diesels humming
Don't need no ticket
You just thank the Lord
So people get ready
For the train to Jordan
Picking up passengers coast to coast
Faith is the key
Open the doors and board them
There's hope for all
Among the loved the most
There ain't no room for the hopeless sinner
Who would hurt all mankind just
To save his own
Have pity on those
Whose chances grow thinner
Cause there's no hiding place
Against the Kingdom's Throne
So people get ready
There's a train a-comin'
You don't need no baggage
You just get on board!
All you need is faith
To hear the diesels humming
Don't need no ticket
You just thank the Lord
..
and fall turn the wheel 'cause all life is
Is really just a circle..."
honey :-).
I love you my Queen.
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"Hello, how are you doing today?
Hope I find you feeling healthy
I'm so glad our paths crossed this time today
On our way into the night..."
DMB :-). Go figure :-).
I love you baby.
CBO Forecasts an Economic Nightmare for All Americans
Been trying to tell ya...
"Months behind schedule and as many Americans look forward to the holiday weekend, the Congressional Budget Office released its new federal budgetary and economic projections.
The new CBO numbers portend of a future of bloated government, crushing federal debts, and mounting burdens forced onto American families.
The dramatic differences between this update and the CBO’s last report 10 months ago highlight the economic issues that have visited every American household. For example, the CBO is expecting the economy this year to be $4,700 smaller per household."
(Discerning minds wanna know, why was it months behind schedule? "expecting the economy this year to be $4,700 smaller per household., thats just the start. )
"That gap widens to more than $13,300 in lost personal purchasing power per household through 2031."
(Thats assuming everything stays the same and no other crisis happen, so the reality is very much likely to be worse.)
"Worse, the CBO is now expecting price levels will be another 5.5% higher through 2031 than their estimate just 10 months ago."
(Why was the report delayed?)
"With spikes in interest rates now promised by the Federal Reserve, the CBO is expecting 10-year federal interest costs to increase 49% to $8.1 trillion—equivalent to more than $63,000 per household through 2032.
Perhaps more hauntingly, in 2029 the federal government will spend more on servicing debt than on national defense. By 2032, the federal government will annually spend about $200 billion more on interest than on national defense.
Federal net interest costs then will alone be larger than the economies of all but about 20 countries today."
(We can not raise interest rates like we need to be able to to help tame inflation (interest rates alone are not gonna cure scarcity issues) without defaulting on the interest payment on the debt.)
The author of the article is Richard Stern a senior policy analyst for budget policy at The Heritage Foundation. I have never been a big fan of this organization although I do like reading some of their material. I think the bias in the article is pretty unmistakable, yet there is truth that people need to know as well.
Everybody's acting like we got all the time in the world to fix everything.
Opps.
America’s Ukraine policy is on a collision course with reality
"If we accept the mainstream media narrative about Russia’s war in Ukraine, we are witnessing the emergence of the Biden administration’s greatest triumph to date. Under this roseate (Rosy) scenario, the Ukrainians are doing wonderfully well in their fight against Russia; the Russian troops are failing badly almost everywhere; NATO is enjoying a renaissance of unity not seen since the Cold War; and President Biden is being lauded globally for bold leadership and for proving once again that the United States is the world’s indispensable nation.
( "If we accept the mainstream media narrative about Russia’s war in Ukraine..."Never did, not for one second, You can go ask Mickey Richardson at St John UMC in Owensboro what I told her when this first was getting started.)
"In stark contrast to these upbeat perspectives about the war, however, a far less pleasant reality is forcing its way to the forefront of American consciousness: The U.S. economy is reeling through a historic crisis in the direction of an almost certain recession, with inflation far outpacing wage gains; income inequality soaring, as elites continue to prosper and the working class is crushed by the cost of living; frightening levels of violent crime plague large cities; and unprecedented numbers of illegal migrants are surging across America’s southern border."
"The disconnect between these two realities has become evident as new complications arise in Ukraine and America’s domestic disorders worsen."
(Here is what we really need to understand, The war in Ukraine was intended to worsen our domestic disorders.)
"The Times notes Russia’s naval dominance of the Black Sea and near-total control of Ukraine’s coastline, a fact that gives Russia enormous leverage in any future negotiations."
(I got news for ya, There's not gonna be any negotiations.)
"Also, it is slowly dawning on the world that this war threatens to create a global food crisis, since Russia and Ukraine together produce approximately one-third of the world’s wheat exports."
(Think Moscow didn't know that in the lead up to the invasion? Really?)
Revelation 6:6
Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, “Two pounds of wheat for a day’s wages, and six pounds of barley for a day’s wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!”
(Famine is coming basically, poverty wages that will not feed you or your family etc, but the inequality between haves and have nots will only continue to worsen.)
"If we accept the mainstream media narrative about Russia’s war in Ukraine, we are witnessing the emergence of the Biden administration’s greatest triumph to date. Under this roseate scenario, the Ukrainians are doing wonderfully well in their fight against Russia; the Russian troops are failing badly almost everywhere; NATO is enjoying a renaissance of unity not seen since the Cold War; and President Biden is being lauded globally for bold leadership and for proving once again that the United States is the world’s indispensable nation."
Thats not policy, that's pure propaganda.
Saw right through it from the get go.
How's it possible you might ask?
Excerpt from Matthew Henry commentary on
Even on my servants, both men and women,
I will pour out my Spirit in those days.
"The effect of this blessing: They shall prophesy; they shall receive new discoveries of divine things, and that not for their own use only, but for the benefit of the church. They shall interpret scripture, and speak of things secret, distant, and future, which by the utmost sagacities of reason, and their natural powers, they could not have any insight into nor foresight of."
Whats your better, more organized, more logical, more coherent, more enlightened reasoning to be able to see through such nonsense? (Mushroom theory, keep them in the dark and feed them you know what) I'd love to hear about it. I really would.
I love you baby.
Been a busy few days.
Pretty well caught up now :-).
Time go chill and then go do wat I do.
TTYS
Juan Williams: The Supreme Court is on the brink of disaster
It's been a discredited institution since Bush vs Gore. It's just another political institution at this point.
"Whatever the court decides, this is now a purely political fight.
The law books have gone out the window.
The power play underway is damaging to public confidence that America is a nation of laws, not the whims of whatever group currently holds power."
"The leaks might be intended to stir a public backlash to keep Roe.
They might be intended to pressure individual justices to retain a majority vote to end Roe.
Either way, it reveals that politics are overwhelming legal reasoning and the independence of the court."
(Spot on Juan)
"Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) success in thwarting Garland resulted in three Trump nominees rising to the court. Overall, six of the nine current justices are Republican nominees.
This is a remarkable show of political power over a supposedly independent branch of the government.
(Again spot on. This was the original intent of the constitution we hear so much of from a certain political constituency?)
"The Republican indifference to majority rule in undoing Roe threatens to tear this already fractured country apart. The only comparable ruling would be the pro-slavery Dred Scott decision, which precipitated the Civil War."
(It will be like throwing gasoline on a fire when it goes down. Who cares if their side got what they wanted if there's no country left?)
U.S. Treasury official heads to India to discuss Russian oil purchases
Russia jumps to fourth position as oil supplier to India, tanker data shows
Chinese efforts to replenish reserves with Russian oil would not violate U.S. sanctions -White House
"India, the world's No. 3 oil importer, boosted Russian oil imports in April to about 277,000 barrels per day, up from 66,000 bpd in March as refiners buy the discounted crude shunned by many Western countries and companies."
"China's efforts to replenish its strategic reserves with Russian oil would not contravene U.S. sanctions, White House officials aboard Air Force One said on Thursday.
China is in talks with Russia to buy additional supplies of oil in order to add to its strategic crude inventories, according to a Bloomberg News report on Thursday.
Were reducing strategic inventory...remember?. I remember somebody saying a while back that it was a mistake at this juncture.
"The world is gonna need their oil and minerals more than it cares about Ukraine."
I remember somebody saying that a while back as well, we are only at the tip of the iceberg on this thing.
Next Domino after Sir lanka?
Pakistan seeks to renegotiate IMF loan as food prices surge
"Pakistan’s foreign minister said he hoped the country could renegotiate a deal with the IMF in response to the surge in global food and fuel prices, as mounting political unrest piled pressure on Shehbaz Sharif’s new government.
Officials are in talks with the IMF to resume lending under a $6bn loan programme agreed in 2019 but in limbo since a dispute with the previous government over energy subsidies. Pakistan is struggling with a shortage of foreign reserves that has prompted some analysts to warn that the country is at risk of defaulting on its foreign debts."
“This is a pre-Afghanistan situation deal, this is a pre-Ukraine deal, this is a pre-pandemic deal and pre-current global economic trends,” he told the Financial Times at Davos. “In light of that, it would be important for the government of Pakistan at some point to renegotiate with the IMF.”
Zardari said that the situation in Pakistan, which depends on imports of energy and staples such as wheat, had deteriorated to the point where people were going hungry. “This is already happening,” he said. “This is a daily concern.”
Zardari said he hoped the government would review and scale back the subsidy, which might be a precondition for the resumption of IMF assistance.
(It will lead to political unrest and violence here just as it's going to elsewhere.)
With food prices climbing, the U.N. is warning of crippling global shortages
"Fears of a global food crisis are growing due to the shock of the war in Ukraine, climate change and rising inflation."
"The U.N. estimates that in the past year, global food prices have risen by almost one third, fertilizer by more than half and oil prices by almost two thirds.'
"According to U.N. figures, the number of severely food-insecure people has doubled in the past two years, from 135 million pre-pandemic to 276 million today. Now, more than half a million people are experiencing famine conditions, according to the U.N., an increase of more than 500% since 2016.'
"In India, a devastating heatwave has upset the nation's wheat harvest, driving up prices around the world for the staple commodity. Earlier this month, as temperatures in the capital of Delhi hovered near 120 degrees Fahrenheit, the government announced a ban on wheat exports. The announcement helped push wheat prices to record levels.
(Six weeks before the ban on exports they said they could make up the shortage in wheat from the Ukraine, or a lot of it anyway, then the heatwave hit. How many idiosyncrasies (peculiarities, oddities) do you need to have to see who is really in charge here?
Lets review:
Taiwan drought = semiconductor shortage
Container ship stuck in Suez = Supply line crisis
Texas ice storm? = Petrol supply line disruption, refinery capacity lost.
India says it will replace Ukraine wheat? = Heat wave dries up crop.
Do you ever get the feeling its not just a bunch of strange occurrences?
Could it be any more obvious?
Revelation 6:5–6
When He broke the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, "Come." I looked, and behold, a black horse; and he who sat on it had a pair of scales in his hand. And I heard something like a voice in the center of the four living creatures saying, "A quart of wheat for a denarius, and three quarts of barley for a denarius; but do not damage the oil and the wine.")
four or five more to post but they are gonna wait till after I finish working on my notes for my presentations.
Every bit of everything I have posted organized etc came over the course of 45 minutes two nights ago.
I had read the articles and had screenshots but the actual starting to write things down and get organized happened in that time frame.
I filled up 12 post it notes in a matter of 45 minutes or so. Lil here, lil there, not all at once it's just way to much, so it flows in chunks if that makes any sense.
12 post it notes evolved yesterday into what will be 10 -12 pages by the time I am done today.
5 pages tends to run about 50 - 60 minutes so were probably looking at six presentations to do over the next few days.
People wanna believe its just me doing my thing and there's not a higher power involved?
Go right ahead. I know better.
I do what I am told.
Take it or leave it, I don't really care.
I love you honey :-).
when the FED said they expected supply chains to "clear themselves up by late spring? And I said they offered absolutely no proof of why they would expect that to happen?
This was written by the CEO of Freightwaves Craig Fuller, he might know a thing or two about some things...
Craig Fuller is the founder and CEO of FreightWaves, the leading provider of global supply chain market intelligence and news. FreightWaves SONAR is the world's leading freight forecasting platform, and the only one with a complete, reliable view of everything moving in the global freight economy.
Supply chains are never returning to ‘normal’
"The conventional wisdom at this time is that most of the world has moved on from the pandemic (except for China); therefore, supply chains will return to “normal.” Unfortunately, this is not the case. The world has permanently changed and supply chains are going to face continuing challenges for decades to come. Among those challenges are:
Supply chains will remain under constant threat of disruption for the next decade
Supply chains operate best when the world is peaceful and stable
(Somebody in Moscow knew that)
A smoothly running supply chain requires “buffer stock,” which is challenging with declining population demographics
There is a conflict between environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals and supply chains optimized for cost and speed. If we prioritize ESG, we will need to contend with supply chain risks
Supply chain technology will become the big venture capital category winner as companies continue to make investments in technologies that can help them mitigate their supply chain challenges
In a world faced with the prospect of tightening supplies, higher energy costs, heightened geopolitical risk, and strained transportation networks, advanced supply chain technologies will become mission-critical for many more companies."
The arbitrage between the developed and developing countries has been massive. The cost of producing goods in countries with cheap labor, lax environmental and labor regulations, and little regard for sustainable natural resources has enabled the world to enjoy unprecedented prosperity and peace.
(Key word here: Has)
Because the goods produced in these parts of the world were so cheap, it made sense that they would be produced in excess. This buffer stock kept inflation in check and provided supply chains with ample supplies that could fend off short-term fluctuations and disruptions. Think about how the cost of televisions and computing hardware has fallen over the past few decades, and how auto prices haven’t risen as significantly as the many improvements in product features and quality were made.
This all happened at a time when the United States was the only superpower and the only expectation that the U.S. had of other nations is that trade should be unobstructed.
Cheap labor is becoming scarcer, particularly in Asia. This is largely due to aging populations – the average age continues to increase and there are fewer people to work in these manufacturing jobs."
(That last sentence is something you are not going to hear many people talking about anytime soon)
"Companies have instituted ESG requirements that require disclosures and monitoring of how and where products have been sourced. This pressure means that goods that are produced in factories that don’t match Western standards for environmental controls and human rights may not be available to Western consumers. The factories that do produce goods that match Western standards will often be more expensive and therefore there will be less buffer stock in the system."
'As the United States has become more insular and has pulled back from being the world’s policeman, and China has started to flex its muscles and create a global competitor to the United States, the world has become far more unstable and less peaceful. This global friction is unlikely to go away. China desires to take Taiwan as its own, risking sending the world into a geopolitical crisis that is more dangerous than at any point since World War II."
(I would argue anytime in the worlds history, not just since WWII mostly because things are more interconnected to each other across the globe they they have ever been before. Did you really think it was all gonna go on forever?)
"Buffer stocks of products are far less likely in the future, as the cost of producing those items continues to rise. Cheap labor, offered by large populations of young people, is largely a thing of the past. This will make it more expensive for companies to produce buffer stock and far less likely that supply chains will enjoy the ability to absorb short-term shocks that are inherent to complex global networks."
You gonna try and tell me the people at the FED don't know all this already?
Mushroom Theory:
It means to be kept in a state of ignorance and told nonsense.
Think about it for a second.
I love you honey :-).
Been talking about this and what it is going to coalesce (come together to form one mass or whole) into for a while now...
Nvidia Al research takes science fiction one step closer to reality
"Another (study) delves into new techniques to help build large-scale virtual worlds with instant neural graphics primitives. Stepping closer to technologies only seen in science fiction, there is also research on holography that could one day pave the way for new display technology that will enable immersive telepresence.
(Yeah no thanks, gonna have to pass)
"Luebke said that the researchers who worked on the reinforcement learning model paper actually view themselves as more in the robotics field than graphics.
(Been trying to tell ya whats coming for a while now...)
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, individuals and organizations around the world suddenly become a lot more familiar with video conferencing technologies like Zoom. There has also been a growing use of virtual reality headset usage, connecting to the emerging concept of the metaverse. The metaverse and telepresence could well one day become significantly more immersive.
(Dont we have enough trouble telling what's real from fake or truth from lies already?)
here in the near future:
A ‘ghostly mirror world’ could be causing our universe to behave in ways we don’t understand
A ‘ghostly mirror world’ could be causing our universe to behave in ways we don’t understand
Ghostly Unseen “Mirror World” Might Be Cause of Cosmic Controversy With Hubble Constant
Office of the President: Ukraine itself will unblock the Black Sea if it receives MLRS systems
Peter Schiff: The Recession Is Already Here and It Won’t Be Mild
World Sees First Global Energy Shock: World Energy Council
Lake Mead: What happens if the water levels drop too low?
Governments should subsidise food and energy, says IMF boss
Four key climate change indicators break records in 2021
We Shouldn’t Try to Make Conscious Software—Until We Should
The U.S. Is Entering a Severe Energy Crisis
Oil Prices Under Pressure As China Considers Russian Crude
The Energy/Food Crisis Is Far Worse than Most Americans Realize
America's Electric Grid Has A $2 Trillion Problem
Skipping meals and shrinking portions — Brits are being warned of ‘apocalyptic’ food price rises
The Looming Debt Crisis About to Make Everything Worse
and about six more to go and I think I'll almost be caught up :-)
favorite stock pot to clean :-).
40 Gallons.
40!
You kidding me?
It's what we make the queso dip in.
It hasn't ever been scorched on the bottom, its just heated up enough to melt the cheese.
It's not difficult to get clean, the residue comes off pretty easy...it's just...40 gallons makes it hard to reach :-).
I have to go over it three or four times inside and out to make sure I got it spick and span.
:-).
I try and keep an eye out for it and be caught up b4 I tackle this monster.
so sad and so evil...
Unfortunately it's not going to stop no matter what we do.
As economic conditions deteriorate, this will get worse, not better, count on it.
Why are we the only industrialized country in the world with this problem?
This country has always been prone to violence, and the culture of guns/violence we have had since our founding has led us to where we are today.
I'm just so saddened and desensitized to it all for so a long time now its sickening..
It's pure evil at work. Period.
ahead of schedule.
He didn't even have to wait till winter and shut off the gas and oil. Said this was gonna happen yesterday. It's time stamped.
This broke afterwards. Posted my post at 10:05 CST (11:05 EST) The story published 2:22 CST.
How is it possible?
I know my answer. Whats yours?
"He can't win" they said...My ass...He's been winning all along.
Thats it for the west, it's over. That was the corner that needed to be turned.
I used to think Greed and racism destroyed this country.
Now I think it destroyed Western Institutions and the West itself.
Told you when it all started the world was gonna want Russias mineral wealth (oil and gas included) more than it was gonna care about what was going on in Ukraine.
They are already forcing instability in poor countries and many are gonna default on their loans and not be about to deal with the International Monetary Fund and World bank, They simply wont pay up and will cause international financial calamity. Then Russia and China will be like, "See, their way doesnt work, we got a better plan."
Yup...
Happening right in front of your eyes if you got eyes that see...
Europe accepts Putin’s demands on gas payments to avoid more shut-offs
"European energy companies appear to have bent to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s demand that they purchase natural gas using an elaborate new payment system, a concession that avoids more gas shut-offs and also gives Putin a public relations victory while continuing to fund his war effort in Ukraine.
"Putin’s insistence on rubles may be more about forcing European countries to scramble at his behest than about shoring up his country’s currency, some economists and energy experts suspect."
(Completely agree, "Im the guy now, you listen to me, we've been tired of being treated like backwards European hicks for centuries now, no more." Something like that.)
"Russia had already used strict capital controls and a massive interest rate hike to stabilize the ruble. With Europe now signaling that it will use the payment system as bills come due this week, the currency is strengthening all the more."
(Not everybody thinks things have to be woe in a matter of days like we do, some have a lil bit more of a long game going on)
"Alexander Novak, Russia’s deputy prime minister, said last week that “about half” of Gazprom’s 54 foreign clients have opened ruble accounts. An account of Novak’s comments from the Tass news agency did not say how many of those 54 were from countries considered adversarial."
(Why were they ever doing business with them in the first place? How could they not know this day was coming?)
"Roberto Perotti, an economist at Bocconi University in Milan, said there appears to be only “political value” in forcing European companies to open a ruble account, with Putin proving that he can set the terms with E.U. nations. Russia, he said, could have ended up with an identical bottom line by accepting the euros and converting them on the exchange market. But such a transaction would have gotten scant public attention."
(Exactly...)
Funny how Eurpoe waited until after the Ukrainian Aid bill was signed isnt it?
I reiterate:
"Thats it for the west, it's over. That was the corner that needed to be turned."
my response to The Beatles "Don't let me down" :-).
When you complain and criticize
I feel I'm nothing in your eyes
It makes me feel like giving up
Because my best just ain't good enough
Girl, I want to provide for you
And do all the things that you want me to, but
Oh! Oh no, don't bring me down
I'm beggin' you darlin'
Oh! Oh no, don't bring me down
Sacrifices, I will make
I'm ready to give as well as take
One thing I need is your respect
One thing I can't take is your neglect
More than anything, I need your love
Then troubles are easy to rise above
Oh! Oh no, don't bring me down
Oh, no no no no no
Oh! Oh no, don't bring me down
