Moveable Feast Cafe 2021/12/02 … Open Thread

byline – General Cosplay Killmore (America’s losingest General)

Here we are, Five Guns West, name checked by our heroes Pepe Escobar, Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton and everyone live at the Grey Zone and then on to …

https://fivegunswest.blogspot.com/2021/11/war-pigs-party-down-drunken-nato.html

https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202112/1240404.shtml

S.Korean film to release in Chinese mainland after six years, seen as ‘icebreaker’ by Chinese experts

What was really interesting was the sentence in the end:

South Korean pop culture has cooled down somewhat in China since South Korea deployed the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system in 2016

Months ago I took a glimpse of the ‘Banned in China’ TV Tropes page, and, under the ‘Music’ section:

Starting in late 2016, China banned Korean Pop Music and all forms of Korean entertainment due to South Korea’s missile agreement with the US known as the THAAD system. The ban has been lifted since then.

Certainly anyone can be outraged with the missile agreement by itself.
But if such a ban did exist, and if we assume that there was one, then I would be tempted to ask certain questions:
* Was this ban on Korean media supported by a majority of the Chinese population?
* What was the opinion of the average S. Korean on the missile agreement with the US?
* Which parts of the Korean entertainment (music, film, TV, etc.) industry are owned by the government, and which parts are owned by private businessmen (some of whom could be taxpayers in their own right)?
* Given that this was a joint agreement with the USA, were there similar calls to ban USian entertainment media as well? If not, then what was the difference such that South Korean media got the chop whereas USian media got a pass?

Just some thoughts from The Netherlands

Extra obstacle for Belarusian fertilizers (Alkali) from reaching the western market
http://infobrics.org/post/34674/

Major UK Fertilizer Plants Shuttered Due To Skyrocketing Natural Gas Prices
https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/major-uk-fertilizer-plants-shuttered-due-skyrocketing-natural-gas-prices

Biofuel is made of (not limited to) corn and sunflower

Ecological farming produces a lower kg-yield per hectare (I do prefer to exclude Glyphosate and Antibioctics from my dinnerplate, so I’m not against it)

International transport is becoming more expensive.

So:
-Less km2 for foodstuff production
-Lower yield due to eco farming and less fertilizer
-Higher production cost (fertilizer again)
-Higher cost to import food
-More people

Think I’ll be eating Russian potatoes, cooked at Russian gas, soon

Euthanasia clinic’s in Germany no longer accept ‘clients’ (their term), without double vaccinations. You can’t die unless your life’s been saved ?

On one of the Saker’s articles discussing Lukashenko and a possible Belaruso-Russian union, I raised a question on which currency becomes used in this union. The Saker suggested that Russian rubles would be the “only option”.

I don’t know if any of us saw this coming, but…
https://www.rt.com/russia/541981-moscow-minsk-lukashenko-currency/

Moscow and Minsk could decide to be bound by a single currency in an effort to boost trade and strengthen ties between the two members of the so-called Union State, Belarus’ embattled leader, Alexander Lukashenko, has said.

Speaking about the prospects of economic integration in an interview with RIA Novosti published on Wednesday, Lukashenko said, “There’s the Russian ruble… Everyone wants a single currency.”

According to him, a past agreement with former Russian president Boris Yeltsin said that if the two countries shared a currency, “it wouldn’t be the Belarusian ruble or the Russian ruble, but a different, third currency. But seeing as we have the ruble, and you have the ruble, why make something up and call it [something else] or what-have-you? Yes, it will be the ruble.”

“We’ll have to get to the currency step-by-step,” he added.

Now, granted, this article did say Boris Yeltsin’s opinion on the topic. Now I have yet to hear of what Putin thinks.

“Everything Is Going According To Plan…For Now”

There are multiple methods that the global elite are employing to accomplish their goal of reserving fossil fuel, mitigating catastrophic climate change, and ,most crucially , human depopulation. Besides the never ending deadly boosters, which are diligently discussed by independent writers such as Paul Craig Roberts and Mike Whitney, very few (William Engdahl comes to mind) see the correlation between the the energy shortage , supply chain disruption , runaway inflation, and dearth of low-wage labor with the desired endgame. Michael Snyder continues to report on these findings in his blog, yet,unfortunately, does not “put the pieces of the puzzle together” or “connect the dots” analogous to that of a detective searching for clues in a crime scene investigation.

ENERGY SHORTAGES
“Peak oil” is now an imminent issue as coal, natural gas, and oil are rendered scarce resources. Economics 101 of supply and demand in addition to inflation from irresponsible monetary policies will burden most households this winter. As wages do not rise proportionally to the exceeding cost to heating ones home, looming death rates, from freezing and other related illnesses, are on the horizon. For this will not just be a “Dark Winter” but a cold one as well.

http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/what-will-it-mean-for-the-global-economy-when-the-price-of-oil-soars-to-200-per-barrel/?fbclid=IwAR23HIymC3cAu87s1FkpQ12feadsz58P7cb1mtn3n0HMmlfT1cUX6KzC45c

http://themostimportantnews.com/archives/as-the-global-energy-crisis-explodes-they-are-warning-that-heating-bills-will-be-extremely-painful-this-winter?fbclid=IwAR1FktrPrAJYka6vOom9LaPdeKWVLDFrS8K0Vdhtkz85YWmCrmk80bnef7I

Meanwhile factory hours, as we witness in China, are shortened as electricity is rationed out due to low supply. Consequently, there have been ongoing power shortages as the government attempts to curtail the country’s reliance on coal. The reason, as most of us are aware, is to comply with policies aimed at diminishing the rising pollution. This is going to be detrimental to countries that rely on imports, particularly the US., since essential products are part of global trade.
The reason for the dearth of energy sources is the lack of investment in research and development, maintaining the necessary infrastructure that keeps up with the global demand. Here’s an excerpt from Michael Snyder:
“We are facing an unprecedented global energy crunch.  Demand for energy is continually rising, and the production of energy is not keeping pace.  One of the biggest reasons for this is that large financial institutions have become extremely hesitant to fund any new energy projects that will add more carbon emissions to the environment.  Instead, they want to fund projects that will help us transition to the new “green economy”, but meanwhile we are getting to a point where we will soon see widespread shortages of traditional forms of energy.  So now we all get to suffer.  A lack of oil is pushing the price of gasoline to alarming heights, shortages of natural gas are already causing tremendous disruptions in Asia and Europe, we are being told that we are facing a propane “armageddon” this winter, and supplies of coal have dropped to dangerously low levels around the world.
In other words, we are potentially heading into the most painful global energy crisis in modern history.”
William Engdahl explains:
“The price of energy from all sources conventional is exploding globally. Far from accidental, it is a well-orchestrated plan to collapse the industrial world economy that has already been weakened dramatically by almost two years of ridiculous covid quarantine and related measures. What we are seeing is a price explosion in key oil, coal and now especially, natural gas energy. What makes this different from the energy shocks of the 1970s is that this time, it is developing as the corporate investment world, using the fraudulent ESG green investment model, is dis-investing in future oil, gas and coal while OECD governments embrace horrendously inefficient, unreliable solar and wind that will insure the collapse of industrial society perhaps as early as the next months. Barring a dramatic rethinking, the EU and other industrial economies are willfully committing economic suicide .”
The goal is to phase out CO2 emissions by 2050 as part of the Green Energy Agenda. Finance Capital, companies such as BlackRock, are forcing investment firm conventional sources to highly inefficient and unreliable “renewable” such as wind and solar energy. Keep in mind that the CEO of BlackRock has joined the board of the World Economic Forum, proving that they are in compliance with the Great Reset/Fourth Industrial Revolution. Basically the rebranding of the New World Order. Wall Street is well aware that Green Energy is both a hoax and a scam, yet they will reap huge profits nonetheless on speculating in the commodities futures market.
William Engdahl concludes:
“The Green Energy Agenda of the EU, US and other governments along with the Davos-promoted ESG investing will only guarantee that as we go forward there will be even less gas or coal or nuclear to fall back on when the wind stops, there is a drought in hydroelectric dams or lack of sunshine. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize this is a road to economic destruction. But that’s in fact the goal of the UN 2030 “sustainable” energy or the Davos Great Reset: population reduction on a massive scale. We humans are the frogs being slowly boiled. And now the Powers That Be are really turning the heat up.”

The Green Agenda or How This Energy Crisis is Different from All Others

SUPPLY CHAIN DISRUPTION
The supply chain gridlock is the result of government policies to shut down the economy during the height of the pandemic as in lockdowns on “Main Street”. This created a chain reaction effect where one sector of the economy impacted another and so on. This article discusses the consequences.
“The surging demand was met with limited supply of everything. Ports, warehouses, and trucking companies have been experiencing labor shortages. Lack of containers limited the amount of goods available for export, resulting in overloaded warehouses. Even when containers of goods arrived at the ports, there was a shortage of container chassis for truckers to haul loaded containers. Moreover, the ports that were full of loaded containers, did not have enough space to receive empty containers back. All of that was causing disruptions for arriving ships to unload.”

Why global supply crisis is here to stay — RT Business News

And here’s an enlightening op-Ed from RT

Pandemonium looms for the world as the ‘Everything Shortage’ meets a ‘Dark Winter’ thanks to collapsing global supply chains — RT Op-ed

“A global supply chain crisis is brewing, leading to a full-spectrum shortage of essential items. This is the result of mass centralization, where policies are dictated and synchronized by the aristocrats of the New Normal”

I agree with Dr Maavak that these policies were dictated from higher authority and then passed onto national and local governments to enforce them upon their citizens. The global elite surely predicted the reverberations from closing the real economy for months in addition to perhaps the greatest transfer of wealth. As small and medium sized enterprises went out of business, giant corporations were waiting to pick up their market share. Amazon and Walmart are prime examples. This led to more poverty and subsequently a rise in mortality. As inflation is the direct outcome from scarcity, food prices are not exempt. Healthy diets become less affordable as meals with high nutritional value are out of reach for many low income households. This will eventually lead to health problems such as obesity and diabetes. Again, death rates will climb exponentially. Mental health issues, stemming from despair and depression, such as opioid addiction and suicide will increase dramatically as well. Not to mention that crime rates, particularly in metropolitan areas, will substantially increase as we already see in major cities such as Chicago. All part of the plan to monopolize scarce resources by reducing the growing population. For consumerism must be mitigated as “there isn’t enough stuff to go around for everyone anymore”.

RUNAWAY INFLATION
One of the reasons, as I have just discussed, is the increase cost of energy, specifically the “price at the pump”. Since it cost more to deliver products, that extra cost is inevitably passed to the consumer. What stands out the most is the large increase in the price of groceries. The other reason is that the Federal Reserve has unprecedentedly printed about 7 trillion dollars in literally a few short months since the lockdowns. Consequently the Federal debt is now close to an unfathomable 29 trillion dollars. This reckless monetary policy is beyond irresponsible and most independent economists would concur with such as assessment. To flood the real economy with so much liquidity and not visualize how they would impact the value of the Dollar is truly unimaginable. Now we have reached the point of no return.
Egon von Greyerz explains:
“The central bankers can either squash the chronic inflation by tapering and at the same time create a liquidity squeeze that will totally kill an economy in constant need of stimulus. Or they can continue to print unlimited amounts of worthless fiat money whether it is paper or digital dollars.
If central banks starve the economy of liquidity or flood it, the result will be disastrous. Whether the financial system dies from an implosion or an explosion is really irrelevant. Both will lead to total misery.”
That’s basically the dire predicament we face today. The global elite predicted the dollar would plummet and hence erode the purchasing power of the vast majority of Western Civilization. Once wages cannot keep pace with the exponentially increasing rate of inflation, bankruptcies, homelessness, and crime will be the natural outcome. Poverty will become the norm and dependency on government subsides will reach record levels. For “you will own nothing and be happy” so goes the message from the WEF. By the way, if more deaths come to mind, rest assure, you are not alone. Reminiscent of 20th Century Communism, except with the capability as capacity to monitor ones every move due to the advent of technology. With the ever expanding population size, national and local governments will be overwhelmed to handle such a load. Hence the need to “cull the herd” in order to reach a manageable level.
Some readers are probably shaking their heads as in wondering why would those in position of power would want to destroy the primary pillar of power wielded by the US empire. Since the almighty greenback is the worlds reserve currency, why on God’s green earth would they sacrifice it. Logically, they would want to preserve that status at all costs goes the thought process. This is where only those who comprehend that the system of global Capitalism is transitioning to an entirely new one will see why these counterintuitive policies are implemented throughout the globe. A paradigm shift in interpreting reality if you will. The supranational actors and their Think-tanks understood that the current path of consumption and consumerism with an ever growing population on a finite planet with finite resources is simply unsustainable and that the time to act is now. This technocratic totalitarianism that they pictured has no national borders and thus renders traditional geopolitics totally antiquated and obsolete for all practical matters. This a global system that will eventually replace any countries currency with an ubiquitous digital one. Bank accounts can instantly be frozen as punishment for those pesky non compliant and insubordinate dissidents. China is already ahead of the game with their highly sophisticated mass surveillance, biometric identification and credit scoring systems.

LOW WAGE LABOR SHORTAGE

As I have discussed the energy crisis, accelerating inflation, and the supply chain bottleneck, they are all intertwined and affect one another as well what is currently amiss in the labor market, specifically certain sectors that rely on low-wage workers. A ripple effect indeed. One example that comes to mind is the lack of truck drivers. This is related to the supply chain crisis. There are two reason for this shortage. The first is inflation. Since the cost of living has significantly increased, there is no longer any incentive to work for low wages. The second one is vaccine mandates. Many employees refuse it comply if they believe that their health my be compromised from experimental jabs, especially if they can’t earn a living on certain salaries. The elite will take advantage of this opportunity by promoting the replacement of human labor with machines, a justification to expedite their agenda. An example would be driverless vehicles to replace all those missing truck drivers. With technology advancing at an exponential rate, more and more human labor will be automated with highly sophisticated A.I. and robotics. Consequently, humans will be rendered superfluous. Not only low-wage workers refuse to comply with vaccine mandates. There have numerous reports of airline pilots, air traffic controllers, police officers, firefighters, teachers, and health care professionals such as nurses who were terminated for noncompliance. These are critical personnel that keep our society functioning properly…till now. We are witnessing the beginning of a breakdown. We already see more looting and robberies such as the recent one at Northern California. For it is only a matter of time before there is an escalation of violent crime as well. Exactly what the globalists prefer-keep us living in fear as death rates rise from socio-economic collapse.
Here’s Robert F. Kennedy Jr.:
“As Dr. Fauci’s policies took hold globally, 300 million humans fell into dire poverty, food insecurity, and starvation. “Globally, the impact of lockdowns on health programs, food production, and supply chains plunged millions of people into severe hunger and malnutrition,” said Alex Gutentag in Tablet Magazine. According to the Associated Press, during 2020, 10,000 children died each month due to virus-linked hunger from global lockdowns. In addition, 500,000 children per month experienced wasting and stunting from malnutrition—up 6.7 million from last year’s total of 47 million—which can permanently damage children physically and mentally, transforming individual tragedies into a generational catastrophe. Deferred medical treatments for cancers, kidney failure, and diabetes killed hundreds of thousands of people and created epidemics of cardiovascular disease and undiagnosed cancer. Unemployment shock is expected to cause 890,000 additional deaths over the next 15 years.”

https://fb.watch/9Fj3WSprNI/

Here’s Michael Snyder:
“Sometimes it takes a great tragedy to get us focused on what really matters.  Over the past couple of years, millions upon millions of people have died all over the globe, and millions more will soon die.  Most of us tend to think that we will live to a very advanced age, but the truth is that death has come for many a lot sooner than they expected.  Personally, I have been absolutely shocked by the number of people that have been suddenly dropping dead in recent weeks.  There are those that I knew personally that are now gone permanently.  There are others that did work that I greatly admired that have passed away way too early.  Death is seemingly everywhere, and I expect to see the death toll continue to rise in 2022.”

http://themostimportantnews.com/archives/this-is-what-you-need-to-do-before-you-die?fbclid=IwAR1uoCUOpm-ThBgETpdIUtMt9LBu4s9pMFle3ujMyM3UwYNh9if17qCltlc

To surmise, what this “pandemic” is about is a concerted effort by supranational actors, world organizations, and global conglomerates against the vast majority of humanity for monopolization of resources, control, and depopulation.
There are myriad reasons for these global plan initiatives by the intentional release of the bio-engineered virus. The first is that very powerful A.I., automation, and sophisticated robotics will eventually minimize the need for human labor and consequently will render a vast segment of the global population superfluous and obsolete. Universal basic income, as brainstormed by many, is logistically untenable and, pragmatically speaking, not something the owners of the means of production are dying to offer to those they consider “useless eaters”. The second reason is catastrophic climate change that is only going to magnify in scope as the population size increases exponentially. Now before anyone automatically reacts that it is unverifiable needs to understand that this is the belief of the planners and whether or not we subscribe to it is irrelevant in the given context. The third and final reason is the depletion of fossil fuel on a global level.
Advancement in technology elicits a warm welcome as it makes life easier and reduced tedious and boring Manuel labor. Yet the conundrum is that under capitalism, or more accurately the market economy, it will inadvertently increase the unemployment rate. The number of jobs lost will greatly surpass the new ones that will be created to service the machines. Even the more lucrative positions will be replaced as algorithms will substitute human cognitive capacity. This is already a reality to some degree and will only accelerate in the not so distant future. So what do we do with all these hungry and desperate souls is the rhetorical question. Followed by do we wait for the “last minute” or so we comprise a contingency? I’m sure by now you get the point.
The climate change issue is quite controversial indeed. If the carbon footprint is contributing to an inevitable ecological disaster then what would be a better why to halt human activity than….well you can figure out the rest. This is a segue to the need to conserve fossil fuel as it it being diminished at a faster rate than it is replenished. Ironically, since the system of global capitalism is focused on short-term return on investments it does not take into consideration the amount of fuel required to move goods around the globe in comparison to self sustainably on local and even national levels. Since most the remaining jobs simply require computers
and monitors , working remotely is now part of the “new normal”.
I want to add that I cannot emphasized enough the financial aspect in this multi variable equation, specifically the significant role of central banks. Catherine Austin Fitz eloquently explains it in this must watch interview which will aid the reader to “get the whole picture”.

Catherine Austin Fitts | 2nd Full Interview | Planet Lockdown – Forbidden Knowledge TV

What we are basically facing is a trajectory to an unprecedented economic and political system best described as “Technocracy”. “Techno-tyranny” would probably be a better representation as it unveils any euphemism. What we can and should expect in the foreseeable future is mass electronic surveillance via 5G telecommunication, intrusive contact tracing, security checkpoints, lockdowns, internal passports, biometric IDs , credit scoring, and digital currency. In addition, privatization will spike as governments will bow down to supranational corporations. Finally, national governments will lose all their sovereignty and become fully subservient to these international actors. Hence, they will be eventually unified into a single global entity. By the way, this is already noticeable on a cultural level world wide, as uniformity is projected for optimal consumerism. Don’t forget that small and medium sized business will also fall by the waist side as the corporate juggernaut will vanquish any and all competitors. In other words, a tyrannical Brave New World awaits us. That’s the end game.
The window to act without violence is quickly closing as protests and civil disobedience is proving to be ineffective and thus futile in attempting to change the course we are headed on. As CJ Hopkins emphasizes:
“Now, I want to be absolutely clear. I am not advocating or condoning violence. But it is going to happen. It is happening already. Totalitarianism (even this “pathologized” version of it) is imposed on society and maintained with violence. Fighting totalitarianism inevitably entails violence.
It is not my preferred tactic in the current circumstances, but it is unavoidable now that we have reached this stage, and it is important that those of fighting this fight recognize that violence is a natural response to the violence (and the implicit threat of violence) that is being deployed against us by the New Normal authorities, and the masses they have whipped up into a fanatical frenzy.
It is also important (essential, I would argue) to make the violence of the New Normal visible, i.e., to frame this fight in political terms, and not in the pseudo-medical terms propagated by the official Covid narrative). This isn’t an academic argument over the existence, severity, or the response to a virus. This is a fight to determine the future of our societies.”
As extreme measures are imposed on the unvaccinated with authoritarian house arrest in Austria and draconian quarantine camps in Australia, how much longer before the majority of the Western World will say “enough is enough”?
Will insouciance prevail as Dr Paul Craig Roberts points out in his analysis? Aaron Hawkins (Storm Clouds Gathering) believes that a War is coming- not one of nation state vs another but rather “we the people” vs the global elite. This government authorities will the first line of defense, giving off the appearance as if they are in charge of policy rather than obeying orders from higher up the pyramid. Even, Putin’s Russia, the darling of the alt-media, is not exempt, as this article debunks the myth (Sorry Saker but the “bromance” is over). For they are an integral part of the global order.

Myth vs. reality in COVID Russia – OffGuardian

This war they are waging, make no mistake, is a spiritual one. It’s a wage by an inhuman system that supports the billionaire class(or more accurately, on a profound level, the sociopathic billionaires that preserve it). The essence of what makes us human is at stake as we loss all our autonomy and become “part of the machine”. For we are meant to be free, whether by nature or higher power. Many religious leaders believe that the prophecy from the Book of Revelations is at hand as we await the second coming of the Christ. This time around however it will not be in a corporeal form as it it quite limiting in its capabilities. Nonetheless, I believe that there has to be unity amongst us in order to win this battle.
The fact that we are fragmented is the result of Identity Politics and the Woke movement. The elite have divided us along racial lines using their media outlets and the education system. They have managed to incite and anger both blacks and whites with mistrust and resentment of one another. A current example is BLM. They have been portrayed as peacefully protesting for a noble cause, while the reality of the matter couldn’t be further from the truth. Tucker Carlson had done an exemplary job demystifying this illusion by showing us video footage of vandalism arson, mob violence, and rioting in both, back and white neighborhoods. Also exposed that financial oligarchs, such as George Soros, have been sponsoring this chaos. At the same time, the corporate media intentionally mislead the public with their coverage of the “Stop the Steal” protests at the Oval Office. Instead of accurately reporting the actual grievances, such as the economic effect of the lockdowns on small business owners, they instead bombarded us with inflammatory terms such as “white supremacy” to vilify and discredit the participants. Time is running out for us to get “our act together”. There is still some hope however. I’m referring specificity to the military and the police, the “enforcers and protectors of national and local governments respectively. Many have been discharged and fired for not willing to take the “vaccines”( more accurately gene editing bio-tech operating systems). Here’s why.

Research “Game-changer”: Spike Protein Increases Heart Attacks and Destroys Immune ​System, by Mike Whitney – The Unz Review

If enough disenfranchised personnel feel betrayed by the government they sworn to serve and protect, then that may prove to be a game changer. Also, If the religious prophecy is correct, than so is the phrase, “God only helps those who help themselves.” Another applicable idiom is the obvious “together we stand, divided we fall”. All I can say at this point is….good luck to us all….for we will sure need it.

27:51min to the season finale in Fortnite, they sanboxed us into a square with no fighting.
Just waiting and watching the timer😂Sometimes i wonder why i like this game so much🤦‍♂️
But it is a great way to empty the mind for a few hours, jousting with strangers seeing who win a pointless game.