Dear friends,
I am sorry to say that I am sick yet again, this time with some Florida food poisoning. In fact, I am writing this in bed on my tablet. I have a few requests to submit to you:
1) Sobcors: please stop using the sobcor email list as a discussion list. Please ONLY use it to contact your REGION’S sobcors to get in touch and/or coordinate work.
2) Please, at least while I am sick and cannot moderate comments effectively, stop discussing the topics of Hitler and Jews. First, I am bored to tears with this topic and, second, it appears to always draw racist and simply stupid comments.
3) Again, at least while I am sick – can we please stick to the topic of the events in the Ukraine?!
2) Please, at least while I am sick and cannot moderate comments effectively, stop discussing the topics of Hitler and Jews. First, I am bored to tears with this topic and, second, it appears to always draw racist and simply stupid comments.
3) Again, at least while I am sick – can we please stick to the topic of the events in the Ukraine?!
And just for the record: I have no objection to discussing Jens and/or Hitler, but not all day, every day, on every post and no matter what the original topic is. Let us please stop this obsessive-compulsive focusing on only these two (admittedly important and interesting) topics.
Sorry for being sick again, I hope to feel better by tomorrow, kind regards,
The Saker
Mulga Mumblebrain said…14 May, 2014 02:32
“Nora, singing a foul ditty in a Cathedral was one of the least vulgar and repulsive of the Pussy Riot harridans’ provocations. Nasty little girls.”
But didn’t they look “career minded” in their matching Psaki-Powers neocon yuppy arse bandit “dressed for success” garb in that photo with Israel’s American congress critters? That, and their McDonalds culinary tastes, show Israel’s grrrls are the ultimate expression of the “niftyness” of the “rebellious” zio-“leftism” arteest wing of zionazi-nazistan marketing. Pussy Riot used to be 5 grrrls, now they are down to two. Rather symbolic, that, of how things are going for their paymasters. ;)
“Nora on 13 May, 2014 20:01 said…
Do you understand what this T-bill business means? Tribute? Insurance against… whatever? The Fed prints money all all these countries are obliged to pay for worthless paper, or at least nothing they dare present for payment?”
“Serendipity on 13 May, 2014 20:30 said…
Of course, I may be completely mistaken, in which case I welcome correction by someone who understands this better than I do.”
Hi Nora and Serendipity,
You Serendipity has got it mostly right. The biggest buyers of T-Bills (Treasury Bonds) are individuals in USA, pensioners and those saving for their children’s college education. Add to that Banks, Corporation and Financial Institutions. Foreign Government hold these T-Bills too, but mostly through institutions.
Basically, USA now has a Budget Deficit of 11 Trillion USD. To finance this deficit, “short-term” T-Bills as a financial debt are regulatory sold with a maximum maturity of 1 years. “Short-term” means, a year or less.
T-Bills are supposed to be very secured as they are backed by US Government, thus they carry a very low interest rate. Let us say, one buys a T-Bill for $100 and it will mature in a year, with $100. With a coupon of $4, which is the interest on the T-Bill for the whole year. If that person sells the T-Bill during exactly 1/2 the year, then she/he should get $100 and $2 for the interest in a perfect world. This is oversimplification.
The biggest holders of T-Bills is now considered China, due to massive Trade Deficit. We all buy all those Chinese Goods, we used to buy Japanese Goods.
With all these T-Bills maturing in a year’s time with a Budget Deficit of 11 Trillion USD, $104 Billion is a drop in a bucket.
Best regards,
Mohamed.
“Florida food poisoning”
Haven’t heard that term before. Were you eating oysters on the half shell? Sounds like a Vibrio vulcanis infection if so. Hint, vulcanis derives from erupting volcanoes, as a metaphor for the resulting explosive diarrhea. If you have it you know what it means.
Hope you get well. I can emphasize as one who is hyper-sensitive to bacterial food poisoning.
<$100 b US debt>
Sold to China no doubt. They have no reason to inform US.
Stomach pains? Nothing better than my friend’s remedy, which I never tire to recommend to everybody: A large dose of vodka on an EMPTY stomach! Make it Stolichnaya (if it is not banned). Smirnoff would do the trick all the same.
Get well soon,
Cheers
The Achilles heel of the opponent is in its self absorption.
Part of this self absorption is believing that others have the same “mind set” or priorities as it – hence the sanctions.
Silence gives added opportunity for the opponent to re-inforce its self-absorption and postulate probabilities there on – its a well known technique in interrogation.
Dubya was correct others hate America’s freedom – their freedom to impose their will on others.
However on multi-levels this freedom is being challenged in a non-linear way, and this will continue.
May you get well soon! :-) Ragnar, a-w-i-p.com
Mulga I have only in recent weeks discovered You, and the Saker
a marvellous confluence for which I am seriously grateful.
I am a woman of certain age in Australia and despair of ALL our politicians.
Is it possible to connect with you with a view to discussing how we might make a difference in Australia, beyond commenting on others’ blogs, or do you think that is enough.
I have long despaired of how we educate our young-over several decades I have seen a tragic decline, which when I was young, was still pretty average.
I will check back.
Wishing you well Saker. As others have said, it is an ‘energy/immune’ issue.
Every time.
Peace and Thanks.
I really think you need a food taster!!!
Abel – South Africa
Hi Saker
Florida food poisoning? hum… CIA polonium, Hugo Chavez strain?
Anyway, stay away from junk food and stick to organic as much as you can.
Wishing you a quick recovery.
Nora, Debanjan, Я, Crone, Brian, Serendipity (et all)…
Regarding the FED & Treasuries, Paul Craig Roberts seems to have “cracked” the mystery (or part of it). Thanks to Anonimous (13 May, 22:12) for the link… (here another version : http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-us-dollars-fragile-reserve-currency-status-the-great-deceiver-the-federal-reserve/5382184)
As the West declares null and void (Nulland void?) the Dombas (and Crimea) referendum(s), I take the opportunity to remind its leaders that the right of self-determination was adopted in 1960 in the U.N Resolution (1514), which stated that “all peoples have the right to self-determination; by virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.”
Reesolution reiterated by the U.N.GA Resolution 2625 in October 1970 which staes ;
“By virtue of the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, all peoples have the right freely to determine, without external interference, their political status and to pursue their economic, social and cultural development”
“The establishment of a sovereign and independent state, the free association or integration with an independent state, or the emergence into any other political status freely determined by a people constitutes modes of implementing the right of self-determination.”
Moreover, many countries (including the US, Russia, Ukraine) signed on January 3, 2006, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights,” which guarantees, in Part I, Article 1, that “All people have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.”
Finally, the right of a people to self-determination was further underscored by The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People (UNDRIP) of June, 2006, in which it defines self-determination as the “right to freely determine their own political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development” (Article 3). Article 4 goes further, specifying the right to self-determination as “the right to autonomy or self-government in matters relating to their internal and local affairs.”
Last but not least, also, legal arguments must take note of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision regarding the secession of Kosovo, which stated, in ruling in favor of Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia, that “general international law contains no applicable prohibition of declarations of independence.”
(more on this : ww.globalresearch.ca/globalization-self-determination-and-the-end-of-state-sovereignty/5382162)
Although I cherish the points above set in the universal marble, I still think those referendums held before the May 25 elections were a mistake. Given the large electoral turnout in Crimea and Dombas, as well as the boos by the authentic Euro-Maidan in the aftermath of the February’s coup (if my memory doesn’t fail me), not to mention IMF bitter pills, I wonder if the Kiev junta could (can) win the coming elections. Maybe it is why President Putin wanted the Dombas referendum postponed and Ukraine’s general elections held as planed?
Of course I am a bit naive on this, knowing the U.S track record in interfering in other countries politics if not outrightly rigging elections… Is there a genuine opposition candidate standing amidst the banderists murderous campaign and intimidations?
PS: The challenge is a pain… pretty discouraging…
According to Kyivpost, quoting Novosti Donbass, the rebels not only blew up an APC and munitions truck yesterday and killed 7 Ukrainian paratroopers and caused additional casualties, they also captured the chief of the Ukrainian Eastern Territorial Command, Colonel Yuriy Lebed in a separate operation.
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/defense-ministry-armed-separatist-rebels-ambush-ukrainian-troops-in-kramatorsk-killing-six-347651.html
This is being repeated in several others sources as well.
http://inforesist.org/donetsk-terrorists-captured-a-senior-colonel-negotiations-are-underway/?lang=en
http://www.discussionworldforum.com/forum/showthread.php?s=deb5ac98a3eea95d1738f82ced2e44e8&t=5044&goto=nextnewest
Dear Saker,
feel better! wish you prompt recovery!
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Are you being poisoned? Seriously.
Kyivpost article on Kolomoisky’s private death squad “Donbass Batllaion”
http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/volunteer-donbass-battalion-takes-up-arms-to-defend-ukraine-defeat-separatists-347764.html
They are getting pretty brazen admitting in the press that the government and private citizens are funding and organizing illegal armed groups.
This Kolomoisky fellow is seeming more and more to be a really nasty piece of work.
Dear Saker
Bon rétablissement et à très bientôt.
From France
Dear Saker
Bon rétablissement et à bientôt.
From France
@Andrew
I’m going to save that. Very informative. Thank you.
Mindfriedo
Saker, I congratulate you: Very informative site, very intelligent and knowledgeable participants. As a Russian-American with some Ukr background at this historical moment I can’t function as usual and need this sort of friendly circle to try to understand where we are moving. In this posting I offer to your attention my nagging feeling that the American imperial machine has now acquired momentum and nobody inside it can stir it to say nothing of stopping. This semi-blind, soulless Leviathan operated by midgets has to move on leaving chaos and destruction behind. Not only masses of ordinary people in Europe and the US, but the most influential members of the political, media and academia elite (Kennan), Nobel Laureates (Stiglitz), even members of a narrow circle of decision-makers (Burns, Gates and perhaps Obama himself) all seem powerless to stop this Robocop. All they can do is to observe and cry out loud. Where is this Machine heading and what could possibly stop it?