Bad financial news: Credit Suisse teetering. Stay tuned.
Good financial news: Headline at the WSJ, today: “SVB Collapse Threatens Funding Source for Climate Startups”
Dated Ida March in high school. She was sharp.
Yes Kate, it is the Ides after all. I heard on Mon that Credit Suisse was having problems, but yesterday it seems every financial “expert” said Nothing to see here, move along. Stock Market said yeah, the Feds would bailout everyone no matter how much it costs. Maybe a flock of Roosters is coming home to roost, and while they do your car will be covered in you know what.
Climate Startups are scams. Remember Solendra
Famous (apocryphal) historical quotes:
“Oh for gods’ sakes, Calpurnia, yer SUCH a worrier…”
A fascinating take i forgot where?
Caesar knew he would be ambushed but he want the blame to fall on the conspirators who represented the optimates
The gracchi had no powerbase one might argue marius carried their faction over sulla as the optimates
Hail Caesar! A concerned father got dressed up as J.C. to protest a teacher’s gender-fluid wokery at a New Hampshire school board meeting last week:
“I am Caesar. Julius Caesar of Rome, the emperor. I am also a female,” Michael Guglielmo said. “Does anybody here believe that? That I am Julius Caesar? Anybody believe that? No, of course not. It’s ridiculous.” Guglielmo called for the suspension of both Concord School District Superintendent Kathleen Murphy and Christa McAuliffe Elementary School Principal Kristen Gallo for “facilitating gender confusion” by allowing an art teacher who identifies with the LGBTQ community to continue teaching in the elementary school.
A comedy sketch from the late 1950s in which a then-popular Canadian duo, Wayne and Shuster, mix Shakespeare with Mickey Spillane in “Rinse the Blood Off My Toga”:
One of the best lines, given today’s political context, occurs close to the beginning, when Flavius Maximus, the Roman private eye, asks Brutus (who hired him), “Who are those shifty characters standing over there?” “They’re the senators.” “Well, that explains it!”
Great play, great movie. Thanks for posting the clip Neo: inspired me to watch it again.
I saw on tcm recently the commentary was that the director didnt think that brando could pull off such a polished classical performance
Also a funny thing on the way to the forum which was reasonably faithful to the source material (plautus)
The constitution is dead. Our masters are firmly in control.
Looks like several republicans are stating that Ukraine is not vital to US interests.
Well here is my uniformed , ignorant take:
True, it’s not vital to US interests – Russian troops will not be stepping foot in the USA or it’s territories – but IMHO if Russia successfully partitions Ukraine it is a slam dunk that the Baltic nations and maybe even Finland are next in line to be invaded (and this will not be the first time either).
Supposedly they are NATO members, which will deter Putin from invading, but what matters is what Putin believes NATO will do, not what NATO says they will do.
If he believes (correctly or incorrectly) NATO will not do much in response, it will give him the green light to go ahead. Look how tough it was to have tanks sent to Ukraine.
These little nations are acting (by joining NATO and engaging in military exercises with NATO forces ) as if Russia means business and they would not be doing this if they believed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a ‘defensive” action (as many believe, that Russia was “forced” to invade Ukraine; eerily similar to the bullshit that “Castro was forced into the arms of the Soviets”).
And now Poland is arming up very quickly; they intend to have the largest military in all of Europe.
And why is Poland doing this?
Surely it’s not because they believe the Russia / Ukraine mess is a one-off.
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is analogous to Hitler’s invasion of Poland. It was only after Hitler had engaged in several actions in violation of the Versailles Treaty (re-arming, occupying the Ruhr), plus annexing Austria, plus annexing the Sudetenland – and he saw no real effort on the part of European nations to stop him – that he moved on Poland (with the connivance and approval of Stalin) and believing that France and the UK would do nothing.
Well, he guessed wrong about the UK and France, but it was too damn late. They could have stopped him earlier in the 1930s and likely prevented WWII.
Ukraine is Putin’s testing ground to ascertain the response he will arouse from NATO as a result of his military adventures. If he believes – rightly or wrongly – he can act relatively unimpeded by NATO, he will.
The USA and Europe have to decide if they are willing to accept a new Union of Vladimir Putin Republics, a UVPRS.
I guess one can always make the case, yea, why not; it’s not a problem for the USA or France or the UK or Germany (which has always had a soft spot for Russia) or any other Western European nation.
It will just be a reprise of the cold war.
Followup questions: Is climate change a form of mental illness? If so, should its adherents be institutionalized, heavily medicated, and given the lowest possible social credit scores? Just kidding, of course, but in reverse it’s the sort of thinking compassionate narcissists on the left take very seriously.
“The Ides of March” with their hit, “Vehicle.” Video includes some bitchin’ footage of the Mercury astronauts, for some reason.
Several of the Ides attended my High School* and they employed the “Chicago Sound” typical of that era and area; hard rock with a prominent horn section. The group, “Chicago” are probably the most famous exemplars of the sound, but they did not create it, nor was it named for them. The Chicago Sound predates the formation of the band, “Chicago.”
*My High School English teacher (Mrs. Pescek?) claimed the bandmembers got the idea for their name when she was teaching Shakespeare’s, “Julius Caesar” in her class. I have no reason to doubt this. She was old enough to have taught them and she was still teaching the play when I was her student.
For those of us born unknowing such things by heart as the link above thereby…
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Julius Caesar (billed on-screen as William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar) is a 1953 American film adaptation of the Shakespearean play, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by John Houseman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It stars Marlon Brando as Mark Antony, James Mason as Brutus, John Gielgud as Cassius, Louis Calhern as Caesar, Edmond O’Brien as Casca, Greer Garson as Calpurnia, and Deborah Kerr as Portia.
@JohnTyler-
Your take is not ignorant or uninformed. It’s just not carried far enough.
The only way Russia can hurt us is with nukes, and they know better than to try that.
In Europe, they will take what they can. Russia was once the dominant part of the USSR, and Putin, and a lot of his countrymen, want to re-establish that (MUGA?). Europe as a whole has been ridin’ our tail for 70 years. In the 50s and 60s, they were weak economically and we carried them. They took advantage of us and used money that they should have spent on defense to build social welfare systems that they use to make us feel inferior. PDJT warned them explicitly that the free ride was over but they (mostly) ignored him- Poland as you note is the exception.
It’s time for them to cowboy up and draw some lines. If they want to draw a line at the eastern border of Ukraine, or the western border, let them have at it. Band together with the Baltic states, FInland, or however they choose. Cut down on their welfare states a bit, spend some money on defense, instill some patriotism in the young people, achieve Peace Through Superior Firepower (it’s the only proven way).
Not my circus, not my monkeypox. The money we are spending in Ukraine is 100% borrowed, and my grandchildren will be repaying it. Enough already.
Then there was an evening in November 1864, when three brothers named Booth acted in a one-night production of Julius Caesar in New York’s Winter Garden: Edwin played Brutus, Junius played Cassius, and John Wilkes played Marc Antony. The third brother was the least talented as an actor: according to one historian, John Wilkes Booth “was never taught Shakespeare and seemed to get by on good looks and bluster: reviews of the time mock his comical mispronunciations, and he made up for his lack of training with spectacle, like screaming his monologues and improvising physical violence.”
Only five months later, “John Wilkes reenacted Julius Caesar in a very different style: by leaping onto the Ford’s Theatre stage in costume and assassinating Abraham Lincoln. A diary entry of Booth’s after the assassination, discovered in a small red notebook on his person when he was shot, reveals the play’s place in his psyche: ‘After being hunted like a dog last night . . . I am here in despair. And why? For doing what Brutus was honored for.'”
Bad financial news: Credit Suisse teetering. Stay tuned.
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There’s been anxiety about Credit Suisse for some months. About 15% of their total assets are found in their American subsidiary. Its global assets are similar to the American assets of Truist, the successor to Sun Trust. Ball’s in the court of the Swiss central bank, I think.
The notion that problems in Europe caused or rooted in imperial ambitions will remain problems for Europe alone is a fancy that should have died in the last century. History teaches hard unpleasant lessons.
There’s another piece of good financial news. The Fed won’t be bailing out Credit Suisse, since it’s not an American bank.
The Fed won’t be bailing out Credit Suisse, since it’s not an American bank.
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A junior participant in a consortia to extend liquidity, I expect. Credit Suisse operates in I-don’t-know-how-many-different-countries.
The Ides of March (March 15, 44AD) the day when Julius Caesar should have worked from home.
As far as I can tell, the top investor in Credit Suisse did not ‘bail’. They just said they would not provide further infusions of capital. Their stated reason was that there were compliance costs incorporated into increasing their stake in the bank past 10% and these they did not wish to assume. No clue what’s true here.
“”Too Big To Fail” Credit Suisse Domino Effect Far More Potent Than SVB”
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The ratio of Credit Suisse assets to global product right now are similar to those of Bear Stearns or Sun Trust in 2008.
Actually, the real shocker is not that Credite Suisse is “too big to fail” (which is shocking enough); it’s that it’s a SWISS bank.
Opening graf:
“Forget SVB, Credit Suisse is the real thing – a SIFI that could bring it all down….”
The rest of the country thinks California is full of wierdos (it is) but the creepiest things in schools generally seem to happen somewhere else.
“An Oregon high school has parents livid after it was discovered that a health teacher assigned homework asking students to write sexual fantasy stories and mark the initials of a man or woman next to the sexual activities they would perform.
First reported by local television news station KEZI in the city of Eugene, a parent exposed the assignment via a screenshot on Facebook, which asked students at Churchill High School to “write a short story of a paragraph or two […about] a sexual fantasy that will have NO penetration of any kind or oral sex (no way of passing an STI).”
According to The Oregonian, Kirk Miller, health teacher and football coach, gave the assignment to students taking Churchill’s Health 2 – Human Sexuality course, which directs the class to show that minors could “receive loving affection without having sex” while choosing three items for the story.
Such items could include “romantic music, candles, massage oil, feather, feather boa, flavored syrup, etc.”
Hundreds of comments flooded the post within an hour of the screenshot being made public on social media.
“This is so inappropriate,” one post read. “Does he still have a job?”
Another parent expressed outrage over the idea of an adult male teacher asking their daughter to share sexual fantasies with him.
“I would be livid and be going to the police,” the comment said. “No teacher has any business asking this of a child.”
Katherine Rogers, whose 16-year-old daughter attends the high school but was not in the class, told The Oregonian that Miller previously gave the students another assignment that encouraged bisexuality, called “With Whom Would You Do It?”
The classwork required students to initial males and females that the student “would do each activity with,” which were sexual in nature, such as kissing and oral sex.
“You may use the same person for multiple activities,” the assignment added.
Rogers said students in the class felt “mortified, awkward, and creeped out” by the assignments.
Out of feeling uncomfortable with the assignment, Rogers said some students used “Kung Fu Panda” characters in their response to avoid being too personal.
“So while we are teaching our daughter to abstain from sex, her high school health teacher is asking her to pick out sexual partners and swing both ways,” one mother told The Epoch Times.
Churchill High School Principal Missy Cole said in an email sent to parents last week that school officials and Eugene school district officials were reviewing its high school health curriculum, which is called Our Whole Lives, developed by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ.
“At this time, the assignment has been removed from the class syllabus and will not be a part of students’ grades,” Cole wrote, according to The Epoch Times. “The Our Whole Lives curriculum is utilized by many districts across the state and is endorsed by the Oregon Department of Education.”
Peter Rudy, a spokesperson for the Oregon Department of Education, told The Oregonian last week that the state’s list of recommended instructional material for high school health courses does not include the curriculum in question.
Rudy told the outlet that Oregon school districts could choose curriculums not listed with the state-recommended materials and do not have to notify the Oregon Department of Education. State officials, he said, are not required to track what curriculum districts choose.
The Epoch Times reported that Oregon schools have lost 34,000 students and rank 41st in the nation for education, with one of the worst graduation rates in America.
Mackensey Pulliam of Oregon Moms Union told The Epoch Times in an email that such learning material does not belong in schools.
“The Oregon education system is failing our kids with less than 45 percent reading at grade level and less than 32 percent able to do math at grade level,” Pulliam said. “We need to be focusing on academics and catching our kids up on years of pandemic-related learning loss. The purpose of our schools is to set students up for success as they enter the workforce or higher education, not to teach them about sexual fantasies.”
“Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is analogous to Hitler’s invasion of Poland.”
No, it isn’t. One invasion is not analogous to another. Putin is not analogous to Hitler. There is easily as much different about the two invasions and two men as there is similar and probably more.
And for the morons here, that does not mean Putin is a good person or his invasion of Ukraine is justified.
“History teaches hard unpleasant lessons.”
Yes, and the people trusting in and supporting Joe Biden when it comes to Ukraine have failed to learn any of them.
Mike
Mike Bunge, you’re not going to convince too many people here by calling other commenters “morons.”
its been a fractious conflict along both ends of the dnieper for 400 years, into which sweden turkey poland and germany have been involved, at various points in the timeline,
Bunge continues unashamed and unabated and can’t figure out that the Russo-Ukranian war isn’t about Brandon.
“Jane, you ignorant slut!”
Jane Curtin was a comedian, Bunge, just an angry clown.
Bunge seems to assume that Brandon can be trusted; a whole lot of straw in that man of yours Bunge.
And of course Miguel doesn’t mention the “bear” in that room/region, 400 years ….
The Ides of March (March 15, 44AD) the day when Julius Caesar should have worked from home.
Wrong era. Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC; Claudius was emperor of Rome in AD 44.
MBunge:
I’ve given you several warnings. Now your comments are in moderation.
Cut the gratuitous insults and you’ll be out of moderation. Keep going and you’ll be banned.
I’m sure that many who follow Tucker have been wondering when and if he would “go there“. Ironically, the Dominion lawsuit may have inadvertently – by Murdock establishing separation between ownership and show hosts – given him an opening to do so.
Which would be yet another ironic layer beyond what the persecution of J6 protesters itself reveals about the Biden admin.
Bunge:
Here is a clue, I strongly suspect that no one trusts Brandon, not the Ukrainians, nor the Western and Eastern Europeans, nor the Scandinavians or Balts, not your Russians, nor his Chinese. No one.
That “none who trust Brandon” would probably include everyone who reads and respects neo.
But your judgement or opinion seems contrary.
Sad.
but a is giving b 100 billion dollars, where it goes we don’t know, and they don’t care to know, we empty our strategic reserve and we don”t refill it, turn the banks into a prog casino on benzedrine, turn our schools into another funhouse exercise,
the people who should be doing hard time, seem unaccountable, and the average people get the boot, six ways from sunday, you tell me where this ends in any salutary way,
You have confidence in any policy maker in the federal govt
San Francisco, California’s government wants to pay [reparations], to the descendants of US, African-American people and/or Black people, people who are descendant ofenslaved people, for past wrongs done to those enslaved people.
While this idea may be a kind-hearted way to try to pay the descendants of these people, for any: freedom, land, or other items, that these people had lost, the idea of [governments paying people] reparations, is 100% impractical.
To take the idea of, [we must pay descendants for past harms…from over 100 years ago, or for land lost, by people, in the US nation], to its logical extreme- if we pay [some amount] of African-American people, for lands lost in the past], then the US Government must pay reparations for land…or give back ALL the land, that was lost by the US: Northern indigenous people…like the Inuits, and the Polynesian people…like the Polynesian people from Hawaii, and the 48 states’ indigenous people…such as the people of the Cherokee nation, and other people.
If the US government gave “reparations” to all of those indigenous people, then 1) they’d have to give back all of the land of the US to these people, or 2) the govt. would instead have to [pay back with money] these indigenous people for the [entire] land that is the United States.
This sounds like an unworkable plan.
I guess that if the US govt. gives back all of the entire US land back- to the US’ indigenous people, I guess that all of the non-indigenous people, would have to move out of The USA.
[By the way, that would include all of the Caucasian people, in the USA].
To pay for past losses, under this “reparations” plan, is totally impractical, and it, in my view- should be abandoned by all: town/city, State, + Federal government(s), of the USA.
If the US people want to economically help out…or help in another way, any ethic people for any wrongs done by The US government in the past- then another way, or ways, will have to be created for this help to be done.
Tucker: This is where GOP 2024 hopefuls stand on Ukraine
This might be a real test for Governor DeSantis. Can he reconcile his position on Ukraine with corporate interests that see war as an economic growth model?
War is not a good long-term economic strategy.
“Can he reconcile his position on Ukraine with corporate interests that see war as an economic growth model?”
How original, Tucker discovers the military industrial complex and the war profiteers (merchants of death).
But then firearms manufacturers are merchants of death too, to the progressives. Cognitive dissonance much, or was Russia provoked or forced into the Special Military Operation?
Everything old is new again.
What would Saint Yanukovitch do?
@ PA Cat > “PA+Cat on March 15, 2023 at 11:04 am said:
A comedy sketch from the late 1950s in which a then-popular Canadian duo, Wayne and Shuster, mix Shakespeare with Mickey Spillane in “Rinse the Blood Off My Toga”:”
That was hilarious!
If it hadn’t been filmed so early, I would have said the “private Roman eye” was channeling Columbo more than Spillane (but there may be some similarities between them that I don’t recognize).
@MBunge
No, it isn’t. One invasion is not analogous to another. Putin is not analogous to Hitler. There is easily as much different about the two invasions and two men as there is similar and probably more.
Please look up what the fuck “analogous” means, Mike, before you try getting back to us. To be an analogue of something does not mean something is the exact same thing. It does however mean they are fulfilling much the same role. And indeed, the similarities are striking, especially in my opinion in regards to Hitler and the Anschluss.
And for the morons here, that does not mean Putin is a good person or his invasion of Ukraine is justified.
Why are you addressing yourself, Mike?
Because this kind of posturing is nothing if not moronic.
I’ve caught you lying and strawmanning several times on this subject and it is tedious beyond words.
Yes, and the people trusting in and supporting Joe Biden when it comes to Ukraine have failed to learn any of them.
This is gratuitously stupid and dishonest on a grandiose scale.
Firstly: I sure as hell do not trust Biden. Not on this subject or any others, beyond maybe very basic things like “Putin is a dictator” and “IS is Bad” because I am not so deluded as to believe that truth becomes falsehood just because a political enemy says it is.
I also only support his policies on Ukraine in part and very conditionally, and I have always made it clear I view him and his puppet masters to be a greater threat to American liberty than Putin and his Ukrainian misadventure.
But of course that doesn’t let you paint me as a stupid fool who is slavishly following Brandon, and so you have to lie and twist.
Secondly: I’ve had to repeatedly rub your nose in your historical illiteracy and ignorance on many things, in particularly the stupid Cuban Missile Crisis analogies. So you have zero credibility on preaching about others not learning the lessons of history. Especially since you routinely dismiss and mock those who draw conclusions from history different from your own as engaging in emotionalism while being one of the most emotionally immature people in the room.
Thirdly: Your crass idiocy and rudeness undermines you. It has not only got you in hot water with our host Ah-again but it is also ineffective. As Kate pointed out, calling other blog posters morons is rarely going to be effective. ESPECIALLY WHEN IT IS ALMOST ALL YOU HAVE TO OFFER, as is the case in this post where you offer nothing but crude assertions.
You insist that Putin is not analogous to Hitler in this case – which can be a decent argument – but you do it after insisting many things that are not analogous are.
And as I mentioned before, your vetting of evidence and sources sucks. As I had to show when I took you to the woodshed over it a few times.
Fourthly: your rank dishonesty undermines you. Who the hell here believes you honestly think Putin is a bad guy and this invasion unjustified when you have spent hours waxing poetic trying to justify or at least “understand” it using false equivalences to a Soviet takeover of Mexico, or the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Who here believes you actually want intelligent discussion when you respond to intelligent discussion or efforts at it rudely, crudely, and in intelligently?
Who here believes you are motivated primarily by evidence or reason when you twist yourself into a pretzel to do things like condemn om for using an amateur analyst rather than the MSM even though you admit and we all know the MSM is corrupt and incompetent on the whole?
And then that you get outraged and “salty” for people looking at your obvious attempt to undermine “YouTube guy” as a valuable source of analysis as an attempt to undermine “YouTube Guy” without actually addressing his points?
You are simply not trustworthy, “Mike.” Not frankly are you competent.
“I can bear this no longer. Do as you wish and kill me now, Senate.
You too, Brutus. Get your knife in here.”
So weve seen how every part of this country is being corrupted how they allowed hundreds of thousands to die because of denial of treatment they let a 100 cities they have stolen billions through esg what do you think a war with russia will give them the license to do?
I would maintain that it is the THREAT of war with Russia that is helping “Biden” to wreak destruction throughout the US.**
That is, the THREAT helps “him” to distract and conceal whatever must be concealed
It is just one of many distractions—inflation, southern border, covid, supply chains, urban crime, CRT, RACISM, etc.—that assist in the Democratic Party’s zeitgeist of covering up its SHEER sheer criminality, its policies of destruction and its ambition of achieving, and exerting, TOTAL CONTROL over EVERY ASPECT of the life the citizenry; but it is an important one.
(Note that some sort of digital currency is in the pipeline and will be coming up, no doubt in response to some—auspicious(!) for them—total financial breakdown or other.)
OMMV…
I don’t watch Tucker Carlson; however, I have seen the headlines about DeSantis’s stated position on Ukraine. Byron York quotes what DeSantis actually wrote in the link below. I find the DeSantis comments reasonable and sensible. Judge for yourselves.
with corporate interests that see war as an economic growth model?
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They don’t exist outside your imagination.
Black rock is all on this war and it was myriad influences so yes the business is war
“By stating that peace should be the objective, DeSantis is indicating that, as president, he would pressure Ukraine and Russia to hold negotiations. By earlier characterizing the war as a “territorial dispute,” the reader can also assume that in those negotiations, a President DeSantis would want Ukraine to make some territorial concessions.”— Byron York, Washington Examiner
I hope that is Governor DeSantis’s position.
Here’s a curious item:
“First Republic Bank Execs Dumped Millions In Shares Ahead Of Collapse”— https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/first-republic-bank-shares-crash-exploring-strategic-options
Opening graf:
“As chatter continues to build of some bailout for First Republic Bank this week, after the company’s share price has collapsed, The Wall Street Journal reports that top execs at the bank sold millions of dollars of company stock in the last two months… but did not report the sales to SEC….”
“…However, executive (sic) have been selling for months, as unlike insider sales at most companies, those at First Republic aren’t required to be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Instead, the trades were reported to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation….”
“…As of Wednesday, First Republic is the only company listed on the S&P 500 index that doesn’t file its insider trades with the SEC….”
So apparently they didn’t HAVE TO report it to the SEC, but only to the FDIC
Huh?
Nonetheless the citizenry may have to bail/not bail (same thing, it seems) them out…and “POTUS” insists that everything will be OK.
(Well, for SOME people…)
As it was with tr and the russo japanese war
You forgot the Spanish American war Miguel, Panic Whores and Yellow Journalism are not a new thing. Blackrock is evil, rolling over for tyrants (Vlad) isn’t good.
@PA+Cat
Old thread I know, but…
‘After being hunted like a dog last night . . . I am here in despair. And why? For doing what Brutus was honored for.’”
Says a hell of a thing about Booth. Because Brutus WASN’T honored for killing Caesar at the time. Indeed he had to flee out of Italy entirely due to being hounded by Caesar’s loyalists. He did manage to scrape together an army, but ultimately met his end with his army at Philippi in Greece and wisely decided to off himself rather than risk being captured alive and suffering God Only Knows What. Though considering how the victors made many of the prisoners from the defeated army stone some of their comrades to death and how Brutus was both one of the leaders and an assassin of his patron Caesar, I can’t imagine it would have been nice.
one wonders what would have happened if caesar had lived, would the conflict still have ended up with him against anthony, and octavian still the winner,
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Bad financial news: Credit Suisse teetering. Stay tuned.
Good financial news: Headline at the WSJ, today: “SVB Collapse Threatens Funding Source for Climate Startups”
Dated Ida March in high school. She was sharp.
Yes Kate, it is the Ides after all. I heard on Mon that Credit Suisse was having problems, but yesterday it seems every financial “expert” said Nothing to see here, move along. Stock Market said yeah, the Feds would bailout everyone no matter how much it costs. Maybe a flock of Roosters is coming home to roost, and while they do your car will be covered in you know what.
Climate Startups are scams. Remember Solendra
Famous (apocryphal) historical quotes:
“Oh for gods’ sakes, Calpurnia, yer SUCH a worrier…”
A fascinating take i forgot where?
Caesar knew he would be ambushed but he want the blame to fall on the conspirators who represented the optimates
The gracchi had no powerbase one might argue marius carried their faction over sulla as the optimates
Hail Caesar! A concerned father got dressed up as J.C. to protest a teacher’s gender-fluid wokery at a New Hampshire school board meeting last week:
“I am Caesar. Julius Caesar of Rome, the emperor. I am also a female,” Michael Guglielmo said. “Does anybody here believe that? That I am Julius Caesar? Anybody believe that? No, of course not. It’s ridiculous.” Guglielmo called for the suspension of both Concord School District Superintendent Kathleen Murphy and Christa McAuliffe Elementary School Principal Kristen Gallo for “facilitating gender confusion” by allowing an art teacher who identifies with the LGBTQ community to continue teaching in the elementary school.
Photo of the costumed dad at the link:
https://nypost.com/2023/03/10/dad-dresses-as-julius-caesar-at-school-board-meeting-to-protest-teachers-gender-fluid-attire/
A comedy sketch from the late 1950s in which a then-popular Canadian duo, Wayne and Shuster, mix Shakespeare with Mickey Spillane in “Rinse the Blood Off My Toga”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR_5h8CzRcI&ab_channel=kiwimush
One of the best lines, given today’s political context, occurs close to the beginning, when Flavius Maximus, the Roman private eye, asks Brutus (who hired him), “Who are those shifty characters standing over there?” “They’re the senators.” “Well, that explains it!”
Great play, great movie. Thanks for posting the clip Neo: inspired me to watch it again.
I saw on tcm recently the commentary was that the director didnt think that brando could pull off such a polished classical performance
Also a funny thing on the way to the forum which was reasonably faithful to the source material (plautus)
Big Brother’s gestapo is nastier than you think. The judiciary is a willing participant. https://amgreatness.com/2023/03/13/a-spill-of-fbi-secrets/
The constitution is dead. Our masters are firmly in control.
Looks like several republicans are stating that Ukraine is not vital to US interests.
Well here is my uniformed , ignorant take:
True, it’s not vital to US interests – Russian troops will not be stepping foot in the USA or it’s territories – but IMHO if Russia successfully partitions Ukraine it is a slam dunk that the Baltic nations and maybe even Finland are next in line to be invaded (and this will not be the first time either).
Supposedly they are NATO members, which will deter Putin from invading, but what matters is what Putin believes NATO will do, not what NATO says they will do.
If he believes (correctly or incorrectly) NATO will not do much in response, it will give him the green light to go ahead. Look how tough it was to have tanks sent to Ukraine.
These little nations are acting (by joining NATO and engaging in military exercises with NATO forces ) as if Russia means business and they would not be doing this if they believed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was a ‘defensive” action (as many believe, that Russia was “forced” to invade Ukraine; eerily similar to the bullshit that “Castro was forced into the arms of the Soviets”).
And now Poland is arming up very quickly; they intend to have the largest military in all of Europe.
And why is Poland doing this?
Surely it’s not because they believe the Russia / Ukraine mess is a one-off.
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is analogous to Hitler’s invasion of Poland. It was only after Hitler had engaged in several actions in violation of the Versailles Treaty (re-arming, occupying the Ruhr), plus annexing Austria, plus annexing the Sudetenland – and he saw no real effort on the part of European nations to stop him – that he moved on Poland (with the connivance and approval of Stalin) and believing that France and the UK would do nothing.
Well, he guessed wrong about the UK and France, but it was too damn late. They could have stopped him earlier in the 1930s and likely prevented WWII.
Ukraine is Putin’s testing ground to ascertain the response he will arouse from NATO as a result of his military adventures. If he believes – rightly or wrongly – he can act relatively unimpeded by NATO, he will.
The USA and Europe have to decide if they are willing to accept a new Union of Vladimir Putin Republics, a UVPRS.
I guess one can always make the case, yea, why not; it’s not a problem for the USA or France or the UK or Germany (which has always had a soft spot for Russia) or any other Western European nation.
It will just be a reprise of the cold war.
Rasmussen Poll question:
Is Climate Change a False Religion?
Strongly agree: 43%
Somewhat agree: 17%
The ayes have it.
Followup questions: Is climate change a form of mental illness? If so, should its adherents be institutionalized, heavily medicated, and given the lowest possible social credit scores? Just kidding, of course, but in reverse it’s the sort of thinking compassionate narcissists on the left take very seriously.
Sure
https://rudy.substack.com/p/credit-suisse-is-fine
Even more absurdity
https://www.laughingwolf.net/2023/03/15/svb-and-other-thoughts/
John Tyler, right on.
And a happy Ides to everyone…
All hail Sleazer!
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/robert-spencer/2023/03/14/biden-says-opposing-the-mutilation-of-children-is-close-to-sinful-n1678275
https://nypost.com/2022/11/14/uncle-sam-is-playing-the-same-game-as-broke-disgraced-crypto-king/
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/joe-biden-hunter-biden-probe/2023/03/15/id/1112258/
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/catherinesalgado/2023/03/14/comer-bidens-were-paid-massive-amounts-from-chinese-company-post-2016-n1678281
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/joe-biden-hunter-biden-probe/2023/03/15/id/1112258/
https://thefederalist.com/2023/03/14/silicon-valley-bank-pledged-nearly-74-million-to-black-lives-matter-causes/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-bidens-19-trillion-monday-svb-bailout-deposit-guarantee-fdic-fed-student-loan-too-big-to-fail-7e2de130
+ Bonus:
Et tu, Boot, eh?
https://www.foxnews.com/media/washington-posts-max-boot-gushes-over-smart-biden-singling-out-maga-republicans
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/12/19/biden-truman-post-ukraine-war/
Max boot is the stelter of geopolitics
I’m sure someone here must have posted this before, but nevertheless,
https://youtu.be/wKhOtZ3F3_k
And the official theme song for today’s Holiday: https://youtu.be/fiLaNEFyCiM
“The Ides of March” with their hit, “Vehicle.” Video includes some bitchin’ footage of the Mercury astronauts, for some reason.
Several of the Ides attended my High School* and they employed the “Chicago Sound” typical of that era and area; hard rock with a prominent horn section. The group, “Chicago” are probably the most famous exemplars of the sound, but they did not create it, nor was it named for them. The Chicago Sound predates the formation of the band, “Chicago.”
*My High School English teacher (Mrs. Pescek?) claimed the bandmembers got the idea for their name when she was teaching Shakespeare’s, “Julius Caesar” in her class. I have no reason to doubt this. She was old enough to have taught them and she was still teaching the play when I was her student.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/senate/garcetti-confirmation-ambassador-post-senate-vote
For those of us born unknowing such things by heart as the link above thereby…
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Julius Caesar (billed on-screen as William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar) is a 1953 American film adaptation of the Shakespearean play, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz and produced by John Houseman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It stars Marlon Brando as Mark Antony, James Mason as Brutus, John Gielgud as Cassius, Louis Calhern as Caesar, Edmond O’Brien as Casca, Greer Garson as Calpurnia, and Deborah Kerr as Portia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare%27s_Julius_Caesar
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I was pretty sure that was Brando.
@JohnTyler-
Your take is not ignorant or uninformed. It’s just not carried far enough.
The only way Russia can hurt us is with nukes, and they know better than to try that.
In Europe, they will take what they can. Russia was once the dominant part of the USSR, and Putin, and a lot of his countrymen, want to re-establish that (MUGA?). Europe as a whole has been ridin’ our tail for 70 years. In the 50s and 60s, they were weak economically and we carried them. They took advantage of us and used money that they should have spent on defense to build social welfare systems that they use to make us feel inferior. PDJT warned them explicitly that the free ride was over but they (mostly) ignored him- Poland as you note is the exception.
It’s time for them to cowboy up and draw some lines. If they want to draw a line at the eastern border of Ukraine, or the western border, let them have at it. Band together with the Baltic states, FInland, or however they choose. Cut down on their welfare states a bit, spend some money on defense, instill some patriotism in the young people, achieve Peace Through Superior Firepower (it’s the only proven way).
Not my circus, not my monkeypox. The money we are spending in Ukraine is 100% borrowed, and my grandchildren will be repaying it. Enough already.
Then there was an evening in November 1864, when three brothers named Booth acted in a one-night production of Julius Caesar in New York’s Winter Garden: Edwin played Brutus, Junius played Cassius, and John Wilkes played Marc Antony. The third brother was the least talented as an actor: according to one historian, John Wilkes Booth “was never taught Shakespeare and seemed to get by on good looks and bluster: reviews of the time mock his comical mispronunciations, and he made up for his lack of training with spectacle, like screaming his monologues and improvising physical violence.”
Only five months later, “John Wilkes reenacted Julius Caesar in a very different style: by leaping onto the Ford’s Theatre stage in costume and assassinating Abraham Lincoln. A diary entry of Booth’s after the assassination, discovered in a small red notebook on his person when he was shot, reveals the play’s place in his psyche: ‘After being hunted like a dog last night . . . I am here in despair. And why? For doing what Brutus was honored for.'”
The full article, along with a photo of the three brothers dressed for their 1864 performance, can be read here:
https://lithub.com/on-that-time-john-wilkes-booth-and-his-brothers-starred-in-julius-caesar/
Bad financial news: Credit Suisse teetering. Stay tuned.
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There’s been anxiety about Credit Suisse for some months. About 15% of their total assets are found in their American subsidiary. Its global assets are similar to the American assets of Truist, the successor to Sun Trust. Ball’s in the court of the Swiss central bank, I think.
The notion that problems in Europe caused or rooted in imperial ambitions will remain problems for Europe alone is a fancy that should have died in the last century. History teaches hard unpleasant lessons.
There’s another piece of good financial news. The Fed won’t be bailing out Credit Suisse, since it’s not an American bank.
The Fed won’t be bailing out Credit Suisse, since it’s not an American bank.
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A junior participant in a consortia to extend liquidity, I expect. Credit Suisse operates in I-don’t-know-how-many-different-countries.
The Ides of March (March 15, 44AD) the day when Julius Caesar should have worked from home.
‘ Swiss National Bank Issues Statement: “Will Provide Liquidity If Necessary” ‘—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/credit-suisse-sparks-global-de-risking-after-top-investor-bails
Kinda like the “if necessary” part…
P.S. Still, “Biden” might just feel that WTH, a resistance fighter’s gotta do what a resistance fighter’s gotta do…(besides, what’s a few more tens of billions of bucks…?).
“”Too Big To Fail” Credit Suisse Domino Effect Far More Potent Than SVB”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/too-big-fail-credit-suisse-domino-effect-far-more-potent-svb
3/14/23
Tucker Carlson:
January 6th, I think, is probably second only to the 2020 election as the biggest scam in my lifetime. And you know it is because they become completely hysterical when confronted with any facts that deviate from their lies…
See also StopHate.com
As far as I can tell, the top investor in Credit Suisse did not ‘bail’. They just said they would not provide further infusions of capital. Their stated reason was that there were compliance costs incorporated into increasing their stake in the bank past 10% and these they did not wish to assume. No clue what’s true here.
“”Too Big To Fail” Credit Suisse Domino Effect Far More Potent Than SVB”
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The ratio of Credit Suisse assets to global product right now are similar to those of Bear Stearns or Sun Trust in 2008.
Related:
‘ “Panic, Meltdowns, People Crying…” ‘—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/panic-meltdowns-people-crying
If it bleeds, it leads?
Actually, the real shocker is not that Credite Suisse is “too big to fail” (which is shocking enough); it’s that it’s a SWISS bank.
Opening graf:
“Forget SVB, Credit Suisse is the real thing – a SIFI that could bring it all down….”
Note: SIFI— https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemically_important_financial_institution
The rest of the country thinks California is full of wierdos (it is) but the creepiest things in schools generally seem to happen somewhere else.
“An Oregon high school has parents livid after it was discovered that a health teacher assigned homework asking students to write sexual fantasy stories and mark the initials of a man or woman next to the sexual activities they would perform.
First reported by local television news station KEZI in the city of Eugene, a parent exposed the assignment via a screenshot on Facebook, which asked students at Churchill High School to “write a short story of a paragraph or two […about] a sexual fantasy that will have NO penetration of any kind or oral sex (no way of passing an STI).”
According to The Oregonian, Kirk Miller, health teacher and football coach, gave the assignment to students taking Churchill’s Health 2 – Human Sexuality course, which directs the class to show that minors could “receive loving affection without having sex” while choosing three items for the story.
Such items could include “romantic music, candles, massage oil, feather, feather boa, flavored syrup, etc.”
Hundreds of comments flooded the post within an hour of the screenshot being made public on social media.
“This is so inappropriate,” one post read. “Does he still have a job?”
Another parent expressed outrage over the idea of an adult male teacher asking their daughter to share sexual fantasies with him.
“I would be livid and be going to the police,” the comment said. “No teacher has any business asking this of a child.”
Katherine Rogers, whose 16-year-old daughter attends the high school but was not in the class, told The Oregonian that Miller previously gave the students another assignment that encouraged bisexuality, called “With Whom Would You Do It?”
The classwork required students to initial males and females that the student “would do each activity with,” which were sexual in nature, such as kissing and oral sex.
“You may use the same person for multiple activities,” the assignment added.
Rogers said students in the class felt “mortified, awkward, and creeped out” by the assignments.
Out of feeling uncomfortable with the assignment, Rogers said some students used “Kung Fu Panda” characters in their response to avoid being too personal.
“So while we are teaching our daughter to abstain from sex, her high school health teacher is asking her to pick out sexual partners and swing both ways,” one mother told The Epoch Times.
Churchill High School Principal Missy Cole said in an email sent to parents last week that school officials and Eugene school district officials were reviewing its high school health curriculum, which is called Our Whole Lives, developed by the Unitarian Universalist Association and the United Church of Christ.
“At this time, the assignment has been removed from the class syllabus and will not be a part of students’ grades,” Cole wrote, according to The Epoch Times. “The Our Whole Lives curriculum is utilized by many districts across the state and is endorsed by the Oregon Department of Education.”
Peter Rudy, a spokesperson for the Oregon Department of Education, told The Oregonian last week that the state’s list of recommended instructional material for high school health courses does not include the curriculum in question.
Rudy told the outlet that Oregon school districts could choose curriculums not listed with the state-recommended materials and do not have to notify the Oregon Department of Education. State officials, he said, are not required to track what curriculum districts choose.
The Epoch Times reported that Oregon schools have lost 34,000 students and rank 41st in the nation for education, with one of the worst graduation rates in America.
Mackensey Pulliam of Oregon Moms Union told The Epoch Times in an email that such learning material does not belong in schools.
“The Oregon education system is failing our kids with less than 45 percent reading at grade level and less than 32 percent able to do math at grade level,” Pulliam said. “We need to be focusing on academics and catching our kids up on years of pandemic-related learning loss. The purpose of our schools is to set students up for success as they enter the workforce or higher education, not to teach them about sexual fantasies.”
“Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is analogous to Hitler’s invasion of Poland.”
No, it isn’t. One invasion is not analogous to another. Putin is not analogous to Hitler. There is easily as much different about the two invasions and two men as there is similar and probably more.
And for the morons here, that does not mean Putin is a good person or his invasion of Ukraine is justified.
“History teaches hard unpleasant lessons.”
Yes, and the people trusting in and supporting Joe Biden when it comes to Ukraine have failed to learn any of them.
Mike
Mike Bunge, you’re not going to convince too many people here by calling other commenters “morons.”
its been a fractious conflict along both ends of the dnieper for 400 years, into which sweden turkey poland and germany have been involved, at various points in the timeline,
Bunge continues unashamed and unabated and can’t figure out that the Russo-Ukranian war isn’t about Brandon.
“Jane, you ignorant slut!”
Jane Curtin was a comedian, Bunge, just an angry clown.
Bunge seems to assume that Brandon can be trusted; a whole lot of straw in that man of yours Bunge.
And of course Miguel doesn’t mention the “bear” in that room/region, 400 years ….
The Ides of March (March 15, 44AD) the day when Julius Caesar should have worked from home.
Wrong era. Julius Caesar was assassinated in 44 BC; Claudius was emperor of Rome in AD 44.
MBunge:
I’ve given you several warnings. Now your comments are in moderation.
Cut the gratuitous insults and you’ll be out of moderation. Keep going and you’ll be banned.
I’m sure that many who follow Tucker have been wondering when and if he would “go there“. Ironically, the Dominion lawsuit may have inadvertently – by Murdock establishing separation between ownership and show hosts – given him an opening to do so.
Which would be yet another ironic layer beyond what the persecution of J6 protesters itself reveals about the Biden admin.
Bunge:
Here is a clue, I strongly suspect that no one trusts Brandon, not the Ukrainians, nor the Western and Eastern Europeans, nor the Scandinavians or Balts, not your Russians, nor his Chinese. No one.
That “none who trust Brandon” would probably include everyone who reads and respects neo.
But your judgement or opinion seems contrary.
Sad.
but a is giving b 100 billion dollars, where it goes we don’t know, and they don’t care to know, we empty our strategic reserve and we don”t refill it, turn the banks into a prog casino on benzedrine, turn our schools into another funhouse exercise,
the people who should be doing hard time, seem unaccountable, and the average people get the boot, six ways from sunday, you tell me where this ends in any salutary way,
You have confidence in any policy maker in the federal govt
San Francisco, California’s government wants to pay [reparations], to the descendants of US, African-American people and/or Black people, people who are descendant ofenslaved people, for past wrongs done to those enslaved people.
While this idea may be a kind-hearted way to try to pay the descendants of these people, for any: freedom, land, or other items, that these people had lost, the idea of [governments paying people] reparations, is 100% impractical.
To take the idea of, [we must pay descendants for past harms…from over 100 years ago, or for land lost, by people, in the US nation], to its logical extreme- if we pay [some amount] of African-American people, for lands lost in the past], then the US Government must pay reparations for land…or give back ALL the land, that was lost by the US: Northern indigenous people…like the Inuits, and the Polynesian people…like the Polynesian people from Hawaii, and the 48 states’ indigenous people…such as the people of the Cherokee nation, and other people.
If the US government gave “reparations” to all of those indigenous people, then 1) they’d have to give back all of the land of the US to these people, or 2) the govt. would instead have to [pay back with money] these indigenous people for the [entire] land that is the United States.
This sounds like an unworkable plan.
I guess that if the US govt. gives back all of the entire US land back- to the US’ indigenous people, I guess that all of the non-indigenous people, would have to move out of The USA.
[By the way, that would include all of the Caucasian people, in the USA].
To pay for past losses, under this “reparations” plan, is totally impractical, and it, in my view- should be abandoned by all: town/city, State, + Federal government(s), of the USA.
If the US people want to economically help out…or help in another way, any ethic people for any wrongs done by The US government in the past- then another way, or ways, will have to be created for this help to be done.
Tucker: This is where GOP 2024 hopefuls stand on Ukraine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYWaTPwHTsU
This might be a real test for Governor DeSantis. Can he reconcile his position on Ukraine with corporate interests that see war as an economic growth model?
War is not a good long-term economic strategy.
“Can he reconcile his position on Ukraine with corporate interests that see war as an economic growth model?”
How original, Tucker discovers the military industrial complex and the war profiteers (merchants of death).
But then firearms manufacturers are merchants of death too, to the progressives. Cognitive dissonance much, or was Russia provoked or forced into the Special Military Operation?
Everything old is new again.
What would Saint Yanukovitch do?
@ PA Cat > “PA+Cat on March 15, 2023 at 11:04 am said:
A comedy sketch from the late 1950s in which a then-popular Canadian duo, Wayne and Shuster, mix Shakespeare with Mickey Spillane in “Rinse the Blood Off My Toga”:”
That was hilarious!
If it hadn’t been filmed so early, I would have said the “private Roman eye” was channeling Columbo more than Spillane (but there may be some similarities between them that I don’t recognize).
@MBunge
Please look up what the fuck “analogous” means, Mike, before you try getting back to us. To be an analogue of something does not mean something is the exact same thing. It does however mean they are fulfilling much the same role. And indeed, the similarities are striking, especially in my opinion in regards to Hitler and the Anschluss.
Why are you addressing yourself, Mike?
Because this kind of posturing is nothing if not moronic.
I’ve caught you lying and strawmanning several times on this subject and it is tedious beyond words.
This is gratuitously stupid and dishonest on a grandiose scale.
Firstly: I sure as hell do not trust Biden. Not on this subject or any others, beyond maybe very basic things like “Putin is a dictator” and “IS is Bad” because I am not so deluded as to believe that truth becomes falsehood just because a political enemy says it is.
I also only support his policies on Ukraine in part and very conditionally, and I have always made it clear I view him and his puppet masters to be a greater threat to American liberty than Putin and his Ukrainian misadventure.
But of course that doesn’t let you paint me as a stupid fool who is slavishly following Brandon, and so you have to lie and twist.
Secondly: I’ve had to repeatedly rub your nose in your historical illiteracy and ignorance on many things, in particularly the stupid Cuban Missile Crisis analogies. So you have zero credibility on preaching about others not learning the lessons of history. Especially since you routinely dismiss and mock those who draw conclusions from history different from your own as engaging in emotionalism while being one of the most emotionally immature people in the room.
Thirdly: Your crass idiocy and rudeness undermines you. It has not only got you in hot water with our host Ah-again but it is also ineffective. As Kate pointed out, calling other blog posters morons is rarely going to be effective. ESPECIALLY WHEN IT IS ALMOST ALL YOU HAVE TO OFFER, as is the case in this post where you offer nothing but crude assertions.
You insist that Putin is not analogous to Hitler in this case – which can be a decent argument – but you do it after insisting many things that are not analogous are.
And as I mentioned before, your vetting of evidence and sources sucks. As I had to show when I took you to the woodshed over it a few times.
Fourthly: your rank dishonesty undermines you. Who the hell here believes you honestly think Putin is a bad guy and this invasion unjustified when you have spent hours waxing poetic trying to justify or at least “understand” it using false equivalences to a Soviet takeover of Mexico, or the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Who here believes you actually want intelligent discussion when you respond to intelligent discussion or efforts at it rudely, crudely, and in intelligently?
Who here believes you are motivated primarily by evidence or reason when you twist yourself into a pretzel to do things like condemn om for using an amateur analyst rather than the MSM even though you admit and we all know the MSM is corrupt and incompetent on the whole?
And then that you get outraged and “salty” for people looking at your obvious attempt to undermine “YouTube guy” as a valuable source of analysis as an attempt to undermine “YouTube Guy” without actually addressing his points?
You are simply not trustworthy, “Mike.” Not frankly are you competent.
Air Force goes on diversity, equity, inclusion hiring spree: Top job pays up to $183,500
“The rot spreads rapidly, Caesar.”
“I can bear this no longer. Do as you wish and kill me now, Senate.
You too, Brutus. Get your knife in here.”
So weve seen how every part of this country is being corrupted how they allowed hundreds of thousands to die because of denial of treatment they let a 100 cities they have stolen billions through esg what do you think a war with russia will give them the license to do?
I would maintain that it is the THREAT of war with Russia that is helping “Biden” to wreak destruction throughout the US.**
That is, the THREAT helps “him” to distract and conceal whatever must be concealed
It is just one of many distractions—inflation, southern border, covid, supply chains, urban crime, CRT, RACISM, etc.—that assist in the Democratic Party’s zeitgeist of covering up its SHEER sheer criminality, its policies of destruction and its ambition of achieving, and exerting, TOTAL CONTROL over EVERY ASPECT of the life the citizenry; but it is an important one.
(Note that some sort of digital currency is in the pipeline and will be coming up, no doubt in response to some—auspicious(!) for them—total financial breakdown or other.)
OMMV…
** Also helps “him” WRT concealing “his” Middle East aims…i.e., regional “peace”(!) and “justice”(!)…
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Did I say “auspicious”?
“Altman: Biden Is Effectively Nationalizing The Deposit Base Of The Entire U.S. Financial System”—
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/03/15/former_treasury_official_bailout_is_in_the_eye_of_the_beholder_but_biden_is_effectively_nationalizing_the_banks.html
H/T Powerline blog.
I don’t watch Tucker Carlson; however, I have seen the headlines about DeSantis’s stated position on Ukraine. Byron York quotes what DeSantis actually wrote in the link below. I find the DeSantis comments reasonable and sensible. Judge for yourselves.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/ron-desantis-in-the-mainstream-on-ukraine
Miguel:
Indeed, truly the sky is falling today.
They are destroying every part of this country
with corporate interests that see war as an economic growth model?
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They don’t exist outside your imagination.
Black rock is all on this war and it was myriad influences so yes the business is war
“By stating that peace should be the objective, DeSantis is indicating that, as president, he would pressure Ukraine and Russia to hold negotiations. By earlier characterizing the war as a “territorial dispute,” the reader can also assume that in those negotiations, a President DeSantis would want Ukraine to make some territorial concessions.”— Byron York, Washington Examiner
I hope that is Governor DeSantis’s position.
Here’s a curious item:
“First Republic Bank Execs Dumped Millions In Shares Ahead Of Collapse”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/first-republic-bank-shares-crash-exploring-strategic-options
Opening graf:
“As chatter continues to build of some bailout for First Republic Bank this week, after the company’s share price has collapsed, The Wall Street Journal reports that top execs at the bank sold millions of dollars of company stock in the last two months… but did not report the sales to SEC….”
“…However, executive (sic) have been selling for months, as unlike insider sales at most companies, those at First Republic aren’t required to be reported to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Instead, the trades were reported to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation….”
“…As of Wednesday, First Republic is the only company listed on the S&P 500 index that doesn’t file its insider trades with the SEC….”
So apparently they didn’t HAVE TO report it to the SEC, but only to the FDIC
Huh?
Nonetheless the citizenry may have to bail/not bail (same thing, it seems) them out…and “POTUS” insists that everything will be OK.
(Well, for SOME people…)
As it was with tr and the russo japanese war
You forgot the Spanish American war Miguel, Panic Whores and Yellow Journalism are not a new thing. Blackrock is evil, rolling over for tyrants (Vlad) isn’t good.
@PA+Cat
Old thread I know, but…
Says a hell of a thing about Booth. Because Brutus WASN’T honored for killing Caesar at the time. Indeed he had to flee out of Italy entirely due to being hounded by Caesar’s loyalists. He did manage to scrape together an army, but ultimately met his end with his army at Philippi in Greece and wisely decided to off himself rather than risk being captured alive and suffering God Only Knows What. Though considering how the victors made many of the prisoners from the defeated army stone some of their comrades to death and how Brutus was both one of the leaders and an assassin of his patron Caesar, I can’t imagine it would have been nice.
one wonders what would have happened if caesar had lived, would the conflict still have ended up with him against anthony, and octavian still the winner,