Actual conversation:

 

"We got this thing under Biden called inflation..."

"It's what happens when you print 6 trillion dollars in 2 years. You've devalued the currency. It's not so much that things are going up in price (they are) as it is the purchasing power of your currency is going down. We thought we could do it for ever because we got away with it during the financial crisis...Opps."

CRICKETS...

Subject quickly changed.

Dont bring that simpleton, red/blue/dem/republican/divide and conquer/business as usual nonsense around me. I will destroy your illusions in an instant I promise you. This is nothing at all like "Business as usual.

See:

2 Corinthians 10:4-5

The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

if there is any further clarification needed.

If you dont want your illusions shot down?

Dont bring them around me.

Inflation is a global phenomenon because most if not all the Central banks created $ out of thin air and they created to much and now were gonna deal with the consequences. Period.

"We got this thing under Biden called inflation..."

Simpleton, divide and conquer, business as usual nonsense.

I would guard against it if I was you.

And yes the other side of the political spectrum has "talking points" that are just as easily shot down. Dont bring them around me either or you'll get the same result.

He's

 

What Russian annexation means for Ukraine's regions

telling the UN:

"You are no longer relevant to us."

"UN Secretary General António Guterres has condemned the annexations as a dangerous escalation: "Any decision to proceed... would have no legal value and deserves to be condemned. It cannot be reconciled with the international legal framework; it stands against everything the international community is meant to stand for; it flouts the purposes and principles of the United Nations."

No kidding?

Really?

Anybody ever think that was the intent behind the annexations? 

It's 10 football fields across.

There is your response to all who were saying:

"He's just bluffing again."

Funny thing about bluffing 9 or 10 times and then doing what you said you were gonna do on the 11th.

Now?

The bluffs wont be seen as bluffs, but as warnings.

"But NATO will..."

NATO might wanna come up with a contingency to fight a war against Russia without it's headquarters. 

It's all but certain at this point.

Godspeed everybody.

I love you honey :-).

They laughed...

 

Posted 

JUNE 14, 2018

Build

I dont think they are laughing any more honey :-).

I love you baby.

I'd rather fail spectacularly

than live a life of mediocrity.

Truth.

Some

 

in the "Orbit" so to speak, should seek to understand:

Deuteronomy 8:17-20

You may say to yourself, “My power and the strength of my hands have produced this wealth for me.” But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.

If you ever forget the Lord your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed. Like the nations the Lord destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the Lord your God.

Proverbs 16:18

Pride goeth before destruction,

and an haughty spirit before a fall.

Proverbs 16:9

A man’s heart plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps

Laugh

 

some more...

"Feels..."

 

"I wish I was like you...easily amused."

"You can put out a candle, 

but you cant put out a fire

Once the flames begin to catch

The wind will blow it higher...

And the eyes of the world are

Watching now

Watching now..."

"I dont come to bow

I come to conquer."

Theodore Roosevelt ~

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; 

who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

Af@*&ingmen!

"This is my chance, 

this is my life

And my opening hour

This is my choice, 

this is my voice

There may be no tomorrow

This is my plea, 

this is my need

This is my time for standing free

This is my step, 

this is my depth

In a world demanding of me

But it's okay..."

"Nail in my hand

From my creator

You gave me life

Now show me how to live

Nail in my hand

From my creator

You gave me life

Now show me how to live"

Revelation 3:12

The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it...

Were gonna train up a spiritual army honey :-).

Joel 2 1:12

An Army of Locusts

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.

Before them fire devours,

    behind them a flame blazes.

Before them the land is like the garden of Eden,

    behind them, a desert waste—

    nothing escapes them.

They have the appearance of horses;

    they gallop along like cavalry.

With a noise like that of chariots

    they leap over the mountaintops,

like a crackling fire consuming stubble,

    like a mighty army drawn up for battle.

At the sight of them, nations are in anguish;

    every face turns pale.

They charge like warriors;

    they scale walls like soldiers.

They all march in line,

    not swerving from their course.

They do not jostle each other;

    each marches straight ahead.

They plunge through defenses

    without breaking ranks.

They rush upon the city;

    they run along the wall.

They climb into the houses;

    like thieves they enter through the windows.

Before them the earth shakes,

    the heavens tremble,

the sun and moon are darkened,

    and the stars no longer shine.

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?

Grand Rising Massive

 

My Sunshine :-).

I love you baby.

Said

 

as much this morning when doing my "presentations" about the Spiritual Gift of the "Word of knowledge" before I ever saw the article.

Sweden reports fourth Nord Stream pipeline leak

"Germany’s security agencies believe the damage has made the offshore pipelines “unusable forever”, Tagesspiegel newspaper reported government officials as saying."

(How is that possible except by the spiritual gift of the "word of Knowledge?" is what I would be asking myself if I was you.)

And in other news:

The U.S. and Europe are running out of weapons to send to Ukraine

"NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg held a special meeting of the alliance’s arms directors to discuss ways to refill member nations’ weapons stockpiles."

(Good luck,,,)

"In the U.S. weapons industry, the normal production level for artillery rounds for the 155 millimeter howitzer — a long-range heavy artillery weapon currently used on the battlefields of Ukraine — is about 30,000 rounds per year in peacetime.

The Ukrainian soldiers fighting invading Russian forces go through that amount in roughly two weeks."

"That’s according to Dave Des Roches, an associate professor and senior military fellow at the U.S. National Defense University. And he’s worried."

"“I’m greatly concerned. Unless we have new production, which takes months to ramp up, we’re not going to have the ability to supply the Ukrainians,” Des Roches told CNBC."

"Europe is running low, too. “The military stocks of most [European NATO] member states have been, I wouldn’t say exhausted, but depleted in a high proportion, because we have been providing a lot of capacity to the Ukrainians,”"

(We are not going to have time to "ramp up" our adversaries will simply not allow it to happen. They know the pickle were in and they will exploit it to their full advantage.)

"NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg held a special meeting of the alliance’s arms directors on Tuesday to discuss ways to refill member nations’ weapons stockpiles."

"Military analysts point to a root issue: Western nations have been producing arms at much smaller volumes during peacetime, with governments opting to slim down very expensive manufacturing and only producing weapons as needed. Some of the weapons that are running low are no longer being produced, and highly skilled labor and experience are required for their production — things that have been in short supply across the U.S. manufacturing sector for years."

(That guy in Russia that everybody is/was laughing at? Yeah, think he doesn't know this?)

"And the Biden administration has said it will support its ally Ukraine for “as long as it takes” to defeat Russia. 

That means a whole lot more weapons. 

"The U.S. has essentially run out of the 155 mm howitzers to give to Ukraine; to send any more, it would have to dip into its own stocks reserved for U.S. military units that use them for training and readiness. But that’s a no-go for the Pentagon, military analysts say, meaning the supplies reserved for U.S. operations are highly unlikely to be affected."

"We need to put our defense industrial base on a wartime footing. And I don’t see any indication that we have.

Dave Des Roches

SENIOR MILITARY FELLOW, U.S. NATIONAL DEFENSE UNIVERSITY"

(When you get to this point? It's already to late.)

“There are a number of systems where I think the Department of Defense has reached the levels where it’s not willing to provide more of that particular system to Ukraine,” said Mark Cancian, a former U.S. Marine Corps colonel and a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.  

That’s because “the United States needs to maintain stockpiles to support war plans,” Cancian said. “For some munitions, the driving war plan would be a conflict with China over Taiwan or in the South China Sea; for others, particularly ground systems, the driving war plan would be North Korea or Europe.”

The Javelin, produced by Raytheon and Lockheed Martin, has gained an iconic role in Ukraine — the shoulder-fired, precision-guided anti-tank missile has been indispensable in combating Russian tanks. But production in the U.S. is low at a rate of around 800 per year, and Washington has now sent some 8,500 to Ukraine, according to the CSIS — more than a decades’ worth of production."

(Like I said, it WAS a special military operation just like they said it was and it's bled us dry.)

"Other weapons Ukraine relies on that are now classified as “limited” in the U.S. inventory include HIMARS launchers, Javelin missiles, Stinger missiles, the M777 Howitzer and 155 mm ammunition."

(As in we can not afford to give them any more.)

"President Joe Biden visited a Javelin plant in Alabama in May, saying he would “make sure the United States and our allies can replenish our own stocks of weapons to replace what we’ve sent to Ukraine.” But, he added, “this fight is not going to be cheap.” 

(That was a big part of the calculus there big guy.)

The Pentagon has ordered hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of new Javelins, but ramping up takes time — the numerous suppliers that provide the chemicals and computer chips for each missile can’t all be sufficiently sped up. And hiring, vetting and training people to build the technology also takes time. It could take between one and four years for the U.S. to boost overall weapons production significantly, Cancian said.

(And we are over here like, it's all okay, we got the time, we got this, when nothing could be farther from the truth.)

(If that doesn't just sum it up right there. Forget about everything else, invest in defense stocks, you can make $ off of this.)

"A Lockheed Martin spokesman, when contacted for comment, referenced an April interview during which the company’s CEO, Jim Taiclet, told CNBC: “We’ve got to get our supply chain ramped up, we’ve got to have some capacity, which we’re already investing to do. And then the deliveries happen, say, six, 12, 18 months down the road.”

(Everybody that thinks we got that long raise your hands.)

“There is sufficient time to resolve that problem before it becomes critical in terms of stepping up manufacture,” Watling said, (Jack Watling, an expert on land warfare at the Royal United Services Institute in London)  noting that Kyiv can source certain ammunition from countries that don’t immediately need theirs, or whose stocks are about to expire.

“So we can continue to supply Ukraine,” Watling said, “but there is a point where especially with certain critical natures, the Ukrainians will need to be cautious about their rate of expenditure and where they prioritize those munitions, because there isn’t an infinite supply.”

"There is sufficient time to resolve that problem..."

(No there isn't.)

Lets review shall we?

One side is giving the finger to the UN by starting to stage phony "referendums" on the day of the security council meeting, staging a military build up in Belarus that we are not being told anything about, has technology deployed in Kaliningrad that NATO not only doesn't have but has no defense for, has parts of its navy in the Mediterranean, and Black seas as well as the Sea of Azoz, some equipped with cruise missiles, has issued a partial call up of reservist with military experience, and just made two gas pipelines to Europe "unusable forever." (That was a big one BTW, the Russians are saying "never again" will our affordable oil and gas go to the EU. There will be more than enough demand in Asia, the Middle East, and Africa to make up for the loss of demand.)

Now lets look at the other side:

Their surplus of arms is now gone. They are spending $ they can not afford to and the SPR is at its lowest level in 35 years.

Oh and the embargo against Russian oil starts in December and meanwhile China is eyeing Taiwan and...

I think you get the point.

Godspeed everybody.

Journey well my friends.

I love you baby.

Good Afternoon My Sunshine...

 

I love you baby :-).

I

 

have been saying this all along as well and it's all on here:

Drawing down the SPR was a mistake from the start as it put political considerations ahead of the security of the country at this perilous time of international geopolitics. (Russia in Ukraine, China in Taiwan)

That was one reason it was a mistake and it's the most important one.

The second reason it was a mistake is this:

Any time you artificially lower the price of something? Whether it be releasing oil from the SPR? Or artificially lowering interest rates for way to long, in either event, there comes a day of reckoning that will be worse than f you hadn't artificially lowered things to start with.

Guess what? 

That day of reckoning is about here.

• OPEC+ has fallen behind more than 3.5 million bpd on its output goals.
• The DoE has no immediate plans to start refilling the SPR.
• The risk of a supply shock grows as China's economy re-opens while Russian oil is being forced off the market.
• Oil demand has remained resilient in the face of a multitude of challenges.

"When the chief executive of Aramco said earlier this week that years of underinvestment had damaged the balance between supply and demand in the oil market, it should have been a wake-up call to those in decision-making positions. Instead, the secretary-general of the UN bashed the oil industry once again for “feasting” on record-high profits and urged governments to make them pay for this.

(I'm not trying to defend oil companies record high profits but you just cant rubber band back and forth between having oil be in negative price ranges (Yes, it actually was during COVID, they were paying people to take it off their hands for a while.) and $120 a barrel oil. Not in an industry with an aging workforce (in the US anyway) and a lot of them just quit or retired during COVID. Mid 50's and ready to go another round with oils boom and bust cycle? Lots of people just said no thx. 

 "you just cant rubber band back and forth between having oil be in negative price ranges...and $120 a barrel oil.

Thats part of the reason you know COVIS is doing exactly what your creator wanted it to do. There is one big ripple effect right there. Some others would be: interest rates/inflation/ an end to Fiat currency system.)

"OPEC’s production shortfall last month reached 3.58 million bpd—a figure equal to some 3.5 percent of global demand—and the United States continued to sell oil from its strategic petroleum reserve."

"These seemingly unrelated news reports do have something very important in common. Both clearly suggest a supply shortfall on a global level is imminent. Throw in the news that Russia’s oil exports could fall by some 2.4 million bpd after the EU embargo enters into effect in December, and an oil shortage becomes more or less unavoidable."

(Could the handwriting on the wall be any more clear?)

"Now, prices are somewhat tempered, but the embargo is still about two months away. Once this kicks in, prices are bound to jump because alternative supply is limited. And the U.S. will need to start refilling its SPR at some point because it is getting depleted."

(I reiterate, you simply can not keep drawing it down forever. At some point in time (soon I would hope but we wont) we will need to replenish it.)

"The Wall Street Journal sounded the alarm on that problem this week. Author Jinjoo Lee cited the Energy Information Administration as saying the inventory level at the SPR had declined by another 7 million barrels in the week to September 16, meaning the total was 427 million barrels. And this number was the lowest SPR inventory level since 1984. It is also the first time there is less oil in the SPR than in commercial storage, Lee noted."

"Perhaps worse is the fact that the administration has no plans to start replenishing the SPR anytime soon. In a report from earlier this month, the Department of Energy denied a report by Bloomberg that it was waiting for oil prices to dip below $80 per barrel to start refilling the SPR.)

(Oh its not "perhaps worse" it is worse. It's just bad decision after bad decision all politically motivated by the party in charge to try and stay so, Just keep spending, nothing to see here, no need to worry, peace and prosperity and "growth" (economic) forever seems to be our leaders only concerns.)

"This suggests the DoE has no immediate plans to start filling up the SPR, and this is a cause for worry because oil supply shocks tend not to be obvious until they become painfully so. And a supply shock is definitely coming to Europe if the U.S. is not there to help."

"Meanwhile, as the EU begins discussions of a price cap on Russian oil, in addition to the embargo, U.S. senators are pushing for increased sanction pressure on the buyers of Russian crude to make sure the other price cap, the one agreed to by the G7, works. If either of these latest efforts ends with a decision to take action, there should be little doubt that Russia will respond just as it said it would respond: no oil sales for price cappers. And this means even less oil to go around."

(I said that too, that the Russians will just turn off the spigot and that they are willing to endure hardships in order to accomplish their goals that we in the West are just not willing to accept. Opps. Sins of sister Sodom again? Arrogance. Were about to pay for it Im afraid, yup.)

"The evidence is right there under all our noses: Europe. For all its efforts to convert to the lowest emitter in the world—which it did for a while—Europe thrived not on cheap solar and wind but on cheap gas and abundant oil. Now that these are gone, European economies are beginning to fall apart."

(Take a guess who is next? It's really not hard to figure I promise...)

Theres

 

your three sites with Hypersonics pointed at them right there.

Staged referendums yield expected result as Russia readies annexations

"But Putin has signaled that upon annexation, he would consider any attack on Russian forces in those territories an attack on Russia itself, potentially justifying a ferocious response. Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday reiterated recent threats that Russia could use a nuclear weapon."

“I have to remind you again — for those deaf who hear only themselves. Russia has the right to use nuclear weapons if necessary,” Medvedev wrote on his Telegram channel, adding a taunt that NATO countries would not intervene even if Russia used a nuclear weapon against Ukraine."

“The security of Washington, London, and Brussels is much more important for the North Atlantic alliance than the fate of a dying Ukraine, which no one needs,” wrote Medvedev, who is now deputy head of Russia’s security council. “Overseas and European demagogues are not going to perish in a nuclear apocalypse,” he added. “Therefore, they will swallow the use of any weapon in the current conflict.”

The thing is?

We know they mean it and that is exactly what their response would be.

Thats why we have been rehearsing for Hypersonic attacks.

Lots

 

Putin’s final goal in Ukraine has demonstrably shifted, as has his escalation calculus

"Seth Cropsey is founder and president of Yorktown Institute. He served as a naval officer and as deputy undersecretary of the Navy, and he is the author of “Mayday: The Decline of American Naval Supremacy” (2013) and “Seablindness: How Political Neglect Is Choking American Seapower and What to Do About It” (2017).

 to consider.

First off this:

"Putin’s goal is now a stalled conflict, not a frozen one."

(Wrong, his goal has always been a stalled conflict. The longer it goes on the more it benefits him and Russia. Who's been saying that all along? Not "the experts", Thats for sure.)

"Two weeks ago, the Ukrainian military, with only a limited force — around a division’s worth of soldiers (10,000-15,000)— employed tanks, armored vehicles, artillery, and anti-aircraft systems to push deeply into Russian-held territory."

(Meanwhile Russias 1500 piece air force just sits? Even when they would be facing old anti aircraft systems of Ukraine? Does this make any sense to you really other than its a trap? A false sense of security to Ukraine and the west?)

"This does not indicate Putin seeks an “off-ramp.” In the long-term, Russia’s goals likely remain unchanged. Putin likely hopes to stall the conflict, prevent a Ukrainian counterstroke, and — in time — let the context shift, awaiting a collapse in Western cohesion or perhaps even a Chinese attack on Taiwan. In the short-term, however, Russia will look to hold its gains.

("This does not indicate Putin seeks an “off-ramp.” In the long-term, Russia’s goals likely remain unchanged. Putin likely hopes to stall the conflict, prevent a Ukrainian counterstroke, and — in time — let the context shift, awaiting a collapse in Western cohesion or perhaps even a Chinese attack on Taiwan. Now somebody is starting to see exactly whats up.)

(And it's exactly what I've been saying from the start, cause you know, I goy my own think tank and such :-).

"In other words, Putin is playing for time."

(The longer it goes on the more it benefits Russia. Been saying that for a long time too, that's why, in the eyes of Putin, it is a "Special Military Operation", using volunteers, Chechens, the Wagner group, Eastern Ukraine pro-Russian militias, etc.)

"Hence the nuclear threats the Kremlin makes today must be taken seriously."

(Amen to that. How long do you think countries are going to keep "tactical" nuclear weapons on the shelf for? Sooner or later one is going to get used.)

"Third, the U.S. must accelerate its transfer of air defenses to Ukraine. Russia must be denied the ability to degrade Ukrainian critical infrastructure as an escalatory outlet. Only air defenses can even the balance in this respect, ranging from Norwegian Advanced Surface-to-Air Systems (NASAMS) to perhaps spare PATRIOT batteries and remaining Soviet-era air-defense equipment.

(Again, the question becomes: Why? With such overwhelming air superiority? Why would Putin let less than a divisions worth of soldiers make such gains? He's not worried about it because he knows doesn't have to be.)

"It is not that nuclear threats are a bluff, or that Russia is a paper tiger. The U.S. must do the hard work of ensuring escalation dominance and managing a nuclear crisis."

(Agreed, God help us all.)

Good

 

Afternoon my sunshine :-).

I love you baby.

Hope you are doing well.

TTYS