Prince Kropotkin: Russia’s Answer to Charles Darwin – No Place Without Spirit

“Who are the fittest: those who are continually at war with each other, or those who support one another?”

Prince Pyotr Kropotkin, 1902

https://nulluslocussinegenio.com/2015/11/10/prince-kropotkin-russias-answer-to-charles-darwin/

What do you think of this fellow? A long-time Club of Rome member, which predicted chaos & breakdown in the 2040s, no matter what they did to the assumptions.
As he talks about “getting earth’s population back down to a billion”, “hoping it could be done in a peaceful way, a way that’s equal”, that he meant him, at all? Thought not.
Cheers
Mike

Ps: there are hours of this kind of stuff. I’ve watched quite a bit of it, because there are certain kinds of modelling which are designed to produce certain outcomes. I think this is one such. In other words, I don’t think they had any idea of what would really happen in the 2040s, but they wanted to implant the idea of overpopulation, then purport to show mathematically why it would fail. Over the same time interval, the same kind of thing has been done with “global warming”, also not supported by the data, but by “97% of scientists”. Methods of repression v similar to those used in the covid19 deception.
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/club-of-rome-member-dennis-meadows-believes-the-world-population-should-be-1-to-2-billion_Xhx85si7byCVtxa.html

A few indications of living in a fascist state according to Eco. Any of this sound familiar?

-Disagreement is treason

-Fear of difference

-A frustrated middle class frightened by the pressure of lower social groups

-To be born in the same country is the only privilege of the masses. Enemies are the only thing that unifies the nation.

-Humiliation by the richness or power of the enemy. Due to an oscillating rhetorical register, enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascisms are condemned to lose all their wars as they are incapable of an objective analysis of the strengths of their enemies.

-Life as permanent warfare; pacifists are collaborators with the enemy

-Popular elitism: every citizen belongs to the best people in the world. Everyone on the hierarchical ladder despises those below, as in a military organization.

https://nulluslocussinegenio.com/2016/02/22/memories-of-not-meeting-umberto-eco/

While the unelected psychopathic banker sends arms and money to Ukraine, Italian children in Milan (and beyond) beg for a piece of bread. In Italy ten million compatriots live in poverty, corrupt media don't talk about it. Mario Draghi devastated the nation without using bombs.

Via RadioGenova

Sunday evening film linked to the post above.

"Umberto D (1952) | Vittorio De Sica | Eng Sub" on YouTube
https://youtu.be/swMghSNC4V8

I’ve seen this before. Previously “conspiracy theorist stuff”. You decide.
Mike

https://rumble.com/vxv5c7-the-elites-goal-for-100-micro-chipped-and-enslaved-world-population.html

Interesting piece, challenging the notion that China’s about to drive off as #1, economically.
Mike

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/meanwhile-china-all-hell-breaking-loose

"All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts"

As You Like It, William Shakespeare

Putin's war" is "choking the flow of exports"?

NOT all the damn sanctions everyone was screaming for two weeks ago?

What did the geniuses in the #SanctionRussiaNow hashtag think they were achieving if not "choking the flow of exports"?

It's what they all wanted - but they will obediently blame "Goldstein" when their weekly grocery shop triples in price

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky bans 11 opposition parties

"Despite the crackdown on political opposition, the Ukrainian leader did not ban any parties with links to neo-Nazis, including the ethnonationalist Svoboda and neo-fascist group Right Sector."

https://www.rebelnews.com/ukrainian_president_volodymyr_zelensky_bans_11_opposition_parties

I think most of us had heard that there was a severe liquidity crisis in the major banks in the U.S. in October 2019? We’ve never been told the cause of it, nor who the distressed/illiquid banks were. What we certainly weren’t told was HOW MUCH the Federal Reserve provided in cheap loans. Turns out it was three huge banks, the TBTF type, the ones which, run well, should never be considered in doubt by counterparties.
Worse, the amounts were eyewateringly huge, the sorts of sums greater than the GDP of several G20 nations. And no, we’re still not told wtf was going on.
It even looks like the banks, the Fed or (my guess), the three letter agencies, have leaned in the journalists not to disclose anything or even write the story up.
Pandemic 2.0, anyone?
Best wishes
Mike

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There’s a News Blackout on the Fed’s Naming of the Banks that Got Its Emergency Repo Loans; Some Journalists Appear to Be Under Gag Orders

By Pam Martens and Russ Martens: January 3, 2022 ~

Four days ago, the Federal Reserve released the names of the banks that had received $4.5 trillion in cumulative loans in the last quarter of 2019 under its emergency repo loan operations for a liquidity crisis that has yet to be credibly explained. Among the largest borrowers were JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, three of the Wall Street banks that were at the center of the subprime and derivatives crisis in 2008 that brought down the U.S. economy. That’s blockbuster news. But as of 7 a.m. this morning, not one major business media outlet has reported the details of the Fed’s big reveal.
On September 17, 2019, the Fed began making trillions of dollars a month in emergency repo loans to 24 trading houses on Wall Street. The Fed released on a daily basis the dollar amounts it was loaning, but withheld the names of the specific banks and how much they had borrowed. This made it impossible for the public to see which Wall Street firms were experiencing the most severe credit crisis.
It was the first time the Fed had intervened in the repo market since the 2008 financial crash – the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. The COVID-19 crisis remained months away. The first reported case of COVID-19 in the U.S. was not reported by the CDC until January 20, 2020 and the World Health Organization did not declare a pandemic until March 11, 2020.
The dollar amounts of the Fed’s repo loans grew to staggering levels. On October 24, 2019, we reported the following:
“The New York Fed will now be lavishing up to $120 billion a day in cheap overnight loans to Wall Street securities trading firms, a daily increase of $45 billion from its previously announced $75 billion a day. In addition, it is increasing its 14-day term loans to Wall Street, a program which also came out of the blue in September, to $45 billion. Those term loans since September have been occurring twice a week, meaning another $90 billion a week will be offered, bringing the total weekly offering to an astounding $690 billion. It should be noted that if the same Wall Street firms are getting these loans continuously rolled over, they are effectively permanent loans. (That’s exactly what happened during the 2007-2010 Wall Street collapse: some teetering Wall Street casinos received, individually, $2 trillion in cumulative loans that were rolled over for two and one-half years – without the authorization or even awareness of Congress or the American people. One bank, Citigroup, received over $2.5 trillion in Fed loans, much of them at an interest rate below 1 percent, at a time when it was insolvent and couldn’t have obtained loans in the open market at even high double-digit interest rates.)”

Winkler’s column was an egregious coverup of the “reckless speculation” that continued on steroids on Wall Street. The megabanks were trading their own stock in their own dark pools – which continues to this day. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency would report that as of March 31, 2016, just four banks held 91 percent of $192.9 trillion in notional derivatives held by all banks and savings associations in the U.S. Those four banks were JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup’s Citibank (which blew itself up with derivatives in 2008), Goldman Sachs Bank USA, and Bank of America – the same banks that were taking giant sums from the Fed’s emergency repo loan facility in 2019.
Also in 2016, Michael Bloomberg showed very poor judgement in co-authoring an OpEd with Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, a man who should have been the target of investigative reporting by Bloomberg journalists for an unprecedented crime spree at his bank.
In 2015 Politico’s Luke O’Brien deeply reported the details of a Bloomberg News article that was critical on China and appeared to have been spiked to preserve business sales of the Bloomberg terminal in that country.
And then there are those strange associations with felony counts or fines at Wall Street banks and those expensive Bloomberg terminals. The chat rooms that facilitated the rigging of the Libor interest rate benchmark and the criminal charges that came out of the rigging of foreign exchange trading were tied to chat rooms on the Bloomberg terminals. According to the late Bloomberg reporter, Mark Pittman, the Bloomberg terminal also had the capability of allowing hedge funds to find the worst subprime dreck in the market, making it possible for hedge funds like John Paulson’s to short the market while getting banks like Goldman Sachs to sell the other side of the deal to its unwitting investors.
On November 20, 2019, Brian Chappatta, who still works for Bloomberg News, wrote this about the Fed’s emergency repo loans under the headline “Fed Throws the Kitchen Sink at Short Rates and Still Struggles”:
“Consider all the steps the Fed has taken since Sept. 16 just for [Fed Chair] Powell to get to the point where he thinks funding markets are under control:
“Sept. 17: The New York Fed conducts its first overnight system repurchase agreement in a decade, taking in $53.2 billion of securities.
“Sept. 25: The New York Fed increases the size of its overnight system repurchase agreement operations to a $100 billion maximum, from $75 billion previously, and also raises the limit on its 14-day term repo operation to $60 billion from $30 billion.
“Oct. 11: The Fed announces it will purchase $60 billion of Treasury bills a month and will keep doing so ‘at least into the second quarter of next year.’
“Oct. 23: The New York Fed boosts the size of its overnight repo offerings to at least $120 billion, a size it is set to maintain through at least Dec. 12.
“Nov. 14: The New York Fed says it will conduct two repo operations, each with terms of 42 days, on Nov. 25 and Dec. 2. With maximum sizes of at least $25 billion and $15 billion, these would carry past the end of the year. Taken together, it’s readily apparent that Fed officials are throwing the kitchen sink at the short-term funding markets and hoping they’ll settle down….”
Numerous other Bloomberg News reporters wrote about the Fed’s emergency repo operations in 2019 and early 2020, including Liz McCormick, Adam Tempkin, and Alex Harris. And yet, today, not one of them has revealed to the American people that the very same megabanks that were drinking at the Fed’s trough in 2008 were back again at the trough in 2019.
One of the most inquisitive reporters in September 2019 when it came to what had led to the Fed’s hasty interventions in the repo market was Francine McKenna, who at that time reported for the Dow Jones affiliate, MarketWatch. Less than two months later, according to her LinkedIn profile, McKenna no longer worked for MarketWatch. She had gone independent, publishing The Dig, a newsletter at Substack.

 On November 3, 2019, McKenna reported as follows at The Dig on the ongoing repo crisis:
“One of the opinion writers at Market Watch wrote late last week that the Fed is in ‘stealth’ intervention mode after the Fed injected $99.9 billion in temporary liquidity into the financial system and $7.5 billion in permanent reserves as part of a program to buy $60 billion a month in Treasury bills.
“But market demand for overnight repo operations far exceeded even the $75 billion the Fed allocated. So, on Wednesday, the Fed added $45 billion in addition to the $75 billion repo facility for a daily total of $120 billion.
“There’s nothing stealth about continuing to pump billions into the repurchase market long after it said it would be needed.
“The Fed originally said it planned to conduct daily repo operations until October 10. That intervention has now gone on beyond the end of the month of October with no end in sight.
“Something is cooking but no one who knows what is telling the rest of us who is suddenly chronically illiquid.”
Obviously, the banks that were borrowing the largest sums on a perpetual basis from the Fed were the “chronically illiquid.” JPMorgan Chase and Citigroup’s Citibank are among the largest deposit-taking, federally-insured banks in the U.S. Americans have an urgent need to know why they needed to borrow from the Fed on an emergency basis in the fall of 2019.
We’ve never before seen a total news blackout of a financial news story of this magnitude in our 35 years of monitoring Wall Street and the Fed. (We have, however, documented a pattern of corporate media censoring news about the crimes of Wall Street’s megabanks.)
Theories abound as to why this current story is off limits to the media. One theory goes like this: the Fed has made headlines around the world in recent months over its own trading scandal – the worst in its history. Granular details of just how deep this Fed trading scandal goes have also been withheld from the public as well as members of Congress. If the media were now to focus on yet another scandal at the Fed – such as it bailing out the banks in 2019 because of their own hubris once again – there might be legislation introduced in Congress to strip the Fed of its supervisory role over the megabanks and a restoration of the Glass-Steagall Act to separate the federally-insured commercial banks from the trading casinos on Wall Street.
Why might such an outcome be a problem for media outlets in New York City? Three of the serially charged banks (JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Citigroup) are actually owners of the New York Fed – the regional Fed bank that played the major role in doling out the bailout money in 2008, and again in 2019. The New York Fed and its unlimited ability to electronically print money, are a boon to the New York City economy, which is a boon to advertising revenue at the big New York City-based media outlets.

Sitting to the right of Zelensky is Igor Kolomoisky.

He is the oligarch who reportedly funded Zelensky's rise to President, as well as funding the Dnipr Battalion involved in the military campaign against the people of Donbass.
This is what the US State Department had to say about him.

"Public Designation of Oligarch and Former Ukrainian Public Official Ihor Kolomoyskyy Due to Involvement in Significant Corruption"

PRESS STATEMENT
ANTONY J. BLINKEN, SECRETARY OF STATE
MARCH 5, 2021

https://www.state.gov/public-designation-of-oligarch-and-former-ukrainian-public-official-ihor-kolomoyskyy-due-to-involvement-in-significant-corruption/

The Times shilling for the arms traders, the merchants of death:

"At an airfield just over the border from Ukraine, cavernous military cargo planes arrive, on average, around every 90 minutes throughout the day and night. They are loaded with Javelin anti-tank missiles, rocket launchers, drones, guns and ammunition.

From the undisclosed airfield, used by RAF and US planes alike, the supplies are loaded on to trucks before travelling over the border into Ukraine. The risk of attack is high, and drivers are thought to be paid about $1,500 a day."

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/planeloads-of-western-weapons-for-ukrainearrive-in-echo-of-berlin-airlift-fc9wqbh6t

The People's Convoy Passes Out Copies of RFK Jr.'s 'The Real Anthony Fauci' as They Pass By the National Mall

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