But Putin has the backing of his Politburo and the Russian peoples. After the many attacks on the Western Front in wars to destroy Russia, the country is legitimately fighting at this time to survive and fend off a U.S./NATO assault via Ukraine. Do some reading, esp Mearsheimer. One does not have to be a Russian lover to fully understand the play here.
Wars of aggression and massive killing has been the hallmark of the U.S. Empire. Unless this ends, our country will fall into disarray and destruction from within, aggregated by overwhelming debt, 36 trillion and counting.
Thanks for the advice. I see megalomaniacs on both sides with more in common than what drives them apart. So many countries wind up piggy in the middle over the fight for resources, so many victims will lose their very ordinary right to live very ordinary lives.
You hit the nail on the head with the 36T debt. Something has to give and it will be soon.
I read today Russia is now rated the No.1 military force on the planet now due to its ongoing war, battle hardened troops and superior military equipment. Thanks USA and NATO, you've been humiliated once again because this is all your doing.
You're concerned about the (lol) debt & Russia is now rated the (lmfao) #1 military force on the planet. Where did you read the latter?? The US is a bloodthirsty empire that is in decline & will resort to fascism domestically as neoliberal capitalism decays into full-blown crisis.
So 36T debt at a trillion per year interest is not a problem? Ok what do you think will be the outcome ? Why wouldn't Russia be the No.1 rated military at this moment in time ? It has hypersonic missiles which are undefendable (the USA has failed to develop, despite many attempts). Even though it has had many failings in its current war with Ukraine (NATO & USA), it has been able to learn, adapt and succeed. It has a 1.5 million strong army (the US lucky to have 800K non battle hardened), with more than enough nukes to destroy the world. Military analysts such as Scott Ritter, Col.Douglas McGregor, Larry Johnson and Col.Lawrence Wilkinson have opined similar at various times.
Certainly not arguing about the USA's decline and implosion.
The debt isn't a problem. Because it really isn't a debt. If you can tell me what the debt is in or of, I'll send you 100 pounds free and even pay shipping.
If it isn’t a debt, why is the interest on it now over 1 trillion dollars a year, payable on demand. When you buy US treasuries the government pays you money on interest due. It is real enough. And why can’t the government function without each year raising the debt limit?
The truth is since the government went off the gold standard and started providing fiat dollars based on the honor system of the government always paying its debt, the check and balances have been negligible, especially in the past 30 years. Instead of sound fiscal policy we were told that there is no problem carrying debt. Hmmm!
The Fed is in a bind. With inflation continuing to raise its ugly head, there is need to keep interest rates higher. But with so many major corporations borrowing unwisely and spending unwisely, higher interest rates are a death knell for many. Also there is significant private debt.
So the Fed/Government keeps on “printing” money, really digital, and the U.S. dollar value keeps falling precipitously. Weimar Germany hyperinflation saw 50 million Mark bills that could buy an apple.
And then we note other countries want to dump the U.S. world reserve dollar currency. For various reasons, including the use of financial sanctions punishing any country that does not abide by Empire rules.
The Soviet Union failed partly because of tremendous overspending. Empires of the past failed because of over extension, excess militarism, inability to provide for their citizens, and hubris.
So Courageous, the debt is “the word” of the U.S. government. Is that definition worth a 100 pounds?
Nope, how can I send you 100 pounds of THAT? . It is an imaginary debt backed by imaginary money backed by the peoples faith taught to them in the government school communist manifesto 10th plank indoctrination centers.
Read this as it might help your understanding of the lies that they pound in our heads.
"The Federal Government, with the cooperation of the Federal Reserve, has the inherent power to create money--almost any amount of it."
~ The National Debt, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, p. 8
ALMOST? Why only ALMOST? What keeps them from creating ALL they want? You? Me? Your dog? A full moon?
The only reason for taxes at the federal level is to make you "believe" they need them and to impart value in
your mind on fake fiat currency.
Federal Reserve Notes are not federal, represent no monetary reserves and no longer conform to the definition of notes. Failing to state who, will pay what, when or to whom - they ceased to be legal tender notes, (offers of money) almost 60 years ago. They are in fact instruments of legalized THEFT.
"...Keynes argues that inflation is a 'method of taxation' which the government uses to 'secure the command over real resources, resources just as real as those obtained by [ordinary] taxation'. 'What is raised by printing notes, ' he writes, is just as much taken from the public as is a beer duty or an income tax.' "
- 1980 Annual Report, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, pg 10
"All the paper money issued today is Federal Reserve notes. The real backing for the nation's money is faith in the strength, soundness and stability of the American economy."
~ The Hats the Federal Reserve Wears, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, pg 4
Faith is what backs our monetary system. YOUR faith. Do you still have faith?
(^YAHOO LIMIT^)
"When plunder has become a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
~ Frederic Bastiat in "The Law"
"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation,
governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."
~ 1980 Annual Report, Federal Reserve
Bank of Richmond, pg 6
Isn't confiscation of the wealth of the citizens a nice way of saying STEALING?
"Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience." ~ John Locke (1690)
If the money you earn has no value and you are forced through fiat paper legislation to take it for your labor, are you not having your property (labor) destroyed and are you not being reduced to nothing but slavery? Is not the state at war with the people?
5th Plank Communist Manifesto: Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
The Federal Reserve System, created by the Federal Reserve Act of Congress in 1913, is indeed such a “national bank” and it politically manipulates interest rates and holds a monopoly on legal counterfeiting in the United States. This is exactly what Marx had in mind and completely fulfills this plank, another major socialist objective. Yet, most Americans naively believe the U.S. of A. is far from a Marxist or socialist nation.
"The writers of the constitution knew exactly what they were doing when they wrote in Article I Section 10 paragraph 1 'No state shall... make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. ' People able to barter with gold and silver coin control government and are free. Loss of the right to trade in gold and silver coin enslaves people to the creators of psychological 'money.'":
well, there has been quite some 'intellectual censorship'. there seem to be people who are indoctrinated in thinking they'll go blind if they read marx and engels.
1 Trillion paid to Billionaires. Wealth transfer is fun. The sad part, 36 Trillion does matter, the dollar as a weapon destroyed thinking more printing is good. The world is ending the dollar.
To late. We are well past the tipping point. I work in science and we are at this moment de-funding Astrophysics. Yes, hundreds of my co-workers have been terminated
But Putin has the backing of his Politburo and the Russian peoples. After the many attacks on the Western Front in wars to destroy Russia, the country is legitimately fighting at this time to survive and fend off a U.S./NATO assault via Ukraine. Do some reading, esp Mearsheimer. One does not have to be a Russian lover to fully understand the play here.
Wars of aggression and massive killing has been the hallmark of the U.S. Empire. Unless this ends, our country will fall into disarray and destruction from within, aggregated by overwhelming debt, 36 trillion and counting.
Thanks for the advice. I see megalomaniacs on both sides with more in common than what drives them apart. So many countries wind up piggy in the middle over the fight for resources, so many victims will lose their very ordinary right to live very ordinary lives.
You hit the nail on the head with the 36T debt. Something has to give and it will be soon.
I read today Russia is now rated the No.1 military force on the planet now due to its ongoing war, battle hardened troops and superior military equipment. Thanks USA and NATO, you've been humiliated once again because this is all your doing.
You're concerned about the (lol) debt & Russia is now rated the (lmfao) #1 military force on the planet. Where did you read the latter?? The US is a bloodthirsty empire that is in decline & will resort to fascism domestically as neoliberal capitalism decays into full-blown crisis.
So 36T debt at a trillion per year interest is not a problem? Ok what do you think will be the outcome ? Why wouldn't Russia be the No.1 rated military at this moment in time ? It has hypersonic missiles which are undefendable (the USA has failed to develop, despite many attempts). Even though it has had many failings in its current war with Ukraine (NATO & USA), it has been able to learn, adapt and succeed. It has a 1.5 million strong army (the US lucky to have 800K non battle hardened), with more than enough nukes to destroy the world. Military analysts such as Scott Ritter, Col.Douglas McGregor, Larry Johnson and Col.Lawrence Wilkinson have opined similar at various times.
Certainly not arguing about the USA's decline and implosion.
As far as I can see US is already imploding from within as is Israel.
IF Trump survives you will become a Zio-Christian nation and that to me is pretty terrifying for many people.
The debt isn't a problem. Because it really isn't a debt. If you can tell me what the debt is in or of, I'll send you 100 pounds free and even pay shipping.
If it isn’t a debt, why is the interest on it now over 1 trillion dollars a year, payable on demand. When you buy US treasuries the government pays you money on interest due. It is real enough. And why can’t the government function without each year raising the debt limit?
The truth is since the government went off the gold standard and started providing fiat dollars based on the honor system of the government always paying its debt, the check and balances have been negligible, especially in the past 30 years. Instead of sound fiscal policy we were told that there is no problem carrying debt. Hmmm!
The Fed is in a bind. With inflation continuing to raise its ugly head, there is need to keep interest rates higher. But with so many major corporations borrowing unwisely and spending unwisely, higher interest rates are a death knell for many. Also there is significant private debt.
So the Fed/Government keeps on “printing” money, really digital, and the U.S. dollar value keeps falling precipitously. Weimar Germany hyperinflation saw 50 million Mark bills that could buy an apple.
And then we note other countries want to dump the U.S. world reserve dollar currency. For various reasons, including the use of financial sanctions punishing any country that does not abide by Empire rules.
The Soviet Union failed partly because of tremendous overspending. Empires of the past failed because of over extension, excess militarism, inability to provide for their citizens, and hubris.
So Courageous, the debt is “the word” of the U.S. government. Is that definition worth a 100 pounds?
Nope, how can I send you 100 pounds of THAT? . It is an imaginary debt backed by imaginary money backed by the peoples faith taught to them in the government school communist manifesto 10th plank indoctrination centers.
Read this as it might help your understanding of the lies that they pound in our heads.
"The Federal Government, with the cooperation of the Federal Reserve, has the inherent power to create money--almost any amount of it."
~ The National Debt, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, p. 8
ALMOST? Why only ALMOST? What keeps them from creating ALL they want? You? Me? Your dog? A full moon?
The only reason for taxes at the federal level is to make you "believe" they need them and to impart value in
your mind on fake fiat currency.
Federal Reserve Notes are not federal, represent no monetary reserves and no longer conform to the definition of notes. Failing to state who, will pay what, when or to whom - they ceased to be legal tender notes, (offers of money) almost 60 years ago. They are in fact instruments of legalized THEFT.
"...Keynes argues that inflation is a 'method of taxation' which the government uses to 'secure the command over real resources, resources just as real as those obtained by [ordinary] taxation'. 'What is raised by printing notes, ' he writes, is just as much taken from the public as is a beer duty or an income tax.' "
- 1980 Annual Report, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, pg 10
"All the paper money issued today is Federal Reserve notes. The real backing for the nation's money is faith in the strength, soundness and stability of the American economy."
~ The Hats the Federal Reserve Wears, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, pg 4
Faith is what backs our monetary system. YOUR faith. Do you still have faith?
(^YAHOO LIMIT^)
"When plunder has become a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it."
~ Frederic Bastiat in "The Law"
"Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation,
governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens."
~ 1980 Annual Report, Federal Reserve
Bank of Richmond, pg 6
Isn't confiscation of the wealth of the citizens a nice way of saying STEALING?
"Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience." ~ John Locke (1690)
If the money you earn has no value and you are forced through fiat paper legislation to take it for your labor, are you not having your property (labor) destroyed and are you not being reduced to nothing but slavery? Is not the state at war with the people?
5th Plank Communist Manifesto: Centralization of credit in the hands of the state, by means of a national bank with state capital and an exclusive monopoly.
The Federal Reserve System, created by the Federal Reserve Act of Congress in 1913, is indeed such a “national bank” and it politically manipulates interest rates and holds a monopoly on legal counterfeiting in the United States. This is exactly what Marx had in mind and completely fulfills this plank, another major socialist objective. Yet, most Americans naively believe the U.S. of A. is far from a Marxist or socialist nation.
"The writers of the constitution knew exactly what they were doing when they wrote in Article I Section 10 paragraph 1 'No state shall... make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts. ' People able to barter with gold and silver coin control government and are free. Loss of the right to trade in gold and silver coin enslaves people to the creators of psychological 'money.'":
-Merrill Jenkins, Sr.,
Money - The Greatest Hoax on Earth
https://www.courageouslion.us/p/blood-running-in-the-streets-mobs
can you tell us more about what's in the communist manifesto?
Funny how Marx and Engels saw the future and we didn't. Greed what is it good for absolutely nothing.........
well, there has been quite some 'intellectual censorship'. there seem to be people who are indoctrinated in thinking they'll go blind if they read marx and engels.
1 Trillion paid to Billionaires. Wealth transfer is fun. The sad part, 36 Trillion does matter, the dollar as a weapon destroyed thinking more printing is good. The world is ending the dollar.
To late. We are well past the tipping point. I work in science and we are at this moment de-funding Astrophysics. Yes, hundreds of my co-workers have been terminated