The Weekly Watch
Popping the Almost Everything Bubble
All the interlocking pieces are in collapse...the economy, the petrodollar, our social fabric, and the biosphere, just to mention a few of the systems in free fall. This week we'll look at some of the warning signs and analysis of our collective situation.
How the West brought economic disaster on itself
Freddie Sayers speaks to financial analyst Louis Gave about the West's self-made economic crisis. https://unherd.com/thepost/how-the-west-brought-economic-disaster-on-its...
The Fed has driven much of this economic disaster...
It’s Ludicrous the Fed is Fighting Inflation, When They Created the Monster
His comments about China are pure projection, but his insights on the Great Reset are accurate to my mind.
The Federal Reserve Needs to Destroy U.S. Dollar to Usher in Cashless System part 2 here
The 'Great Reset' IS The Death of the Global Dollar Standard 12 min
Nice 9 min summary
The U.S. dollar surged to the highest level in two decades against other major global currencies. And some of our recent guests have urged a shift is coming. Will the U.S. dollar remain the world’s reserve currency?
India's bank made an announcement this week that damages the petrodollar too.
India opened a new page in the history of making Indian rupees an international currency and excluding the dominance of petro dollar.
U.S. financial hegemony backfires as countries opt for de-dollarization
2.5 min with Michael Hudson.
Eurozone MELTDOWN To Destabilize The Whole System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phd_W0rqyNM&t=68s (52 min)
"This is a potential banking meltdown," says former bank director Alasdair MacLeod, head of research at Gold Money. There is a new emerging debt crisis in the Eurozone. The Euro is dropping to parity with the U.S. Dollar, and things are about to get much worse. The problem is not just going to impact Europe, though Eurozone banks are extremely leveraged. For American banks, "it's very hard to avoid that systemic risk entirely." He explains how to protect against a potential crisis in the banking system and global currencies.
We saw Sri Lanka's economic and social collapse in the last few weeks.
Sri Lanka: Debt Trap Diplomacy & Putin Price Hikes? Or Something Else?
Sri Lanka’s dire economic and political conflict is being blamed by the Western media on Chinese “debt trap diplomacy” and “Putin Price Hikes,” however buried within the same Western media sources, is the truth. Sources at the link. Guess who holds most of their debt? Blackrock and western banks.
The U.S. is Prolonging Ukraine Crisis to Isolate Europe w/Richard Wolff
War is a tool to control other peoples and countries.
Janet Yellen in Japan. Here's What They're Not Telling Us... (9 min) Her real reason for being there may have everything to do with preventing a full scale financial crisis here in the US!
NATO Undermines World Peace, Helps Advance U.S. World-domination Ambitions
3 min transcript here
President Biden managed to simultaneously threaten three countries in one day, but the most important moves were against China.
They're pushing us towards World War 3 with these moves
China issues DIRE warning as U.S. sends warships into South China Sea
President Biden is on an international tour and seems hellbent on showing strength. But is this strength provoking foreign powers? Biden says that he would attack Iran as a last resort over the nuclear deal. The U.S. sent ships into territory that China says is "illegal." And Russia? Biden says that the U.S. is in this war for "as long as it takes."
And we can't ignore all the social unrest around the globe... (24 min)
This is an up shod of economic collapse and constant war.
NEW TRUCKERS PROTEST?? This Is Impossible To Ignore
This week I spoke to activist Vandana Shiva about the Dutch farmers and how the mainstream media have framed their protests over new ecological regulations.
more with Vanda Shiva and our food systems.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCKtwqtdctM (12 min)
Much of the social conflict is structural. Vijay had some nice interviews this week.
Vijay Prashad: History Is A Series Of Experiments whole clip at link 3 min excerpt below.
Sadly our media is so corrupt and complicit and most people are propagandized.
Max and Aaron try to explain to MSM sources at a meeting this week.
At the Collision tech conference in Toronto on 6/21/22, before a hostile audience filled with members of the corporate press, The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate explain how the mainstream media is the most prolific source of disinformation on the planet, working closely with the national security state to cultivate public support for war while deflecting scrutiny from the oligarchy that controls it.
When reporters do reveal uncomfortable truths they are persecuted. Think of Julian's torture, but punishing good reporters is common around the world.
Germany criminalizes journalist for exposing Ukrainian war crimes (40 min)
Independent Donetsk-based journalist Alina Lipp of Germany speaks to Max Blumenthal about being prosecuted by the German state for violating new speech codes through her reporting in the breakaway Donetsk Republic. As the only German reporter on the ground in Donetsk, Lipp has exposed Ukrainian forces shelling civilians, attacking a maternity ward, mining harbors, and bombing a granary filled with corn for export. She faces three years in prison if she returns to her home country.
So here we are in a collapsing system where truth is illegal, war is a celebrated tool of control, and the economies are based on a worthless currency. No wonder people are coming unglued. Well here's hoping you are all doing well and keeping it together as we experience this free falling collapse. I look forward to your thoughts and insights below.
Comments
morning update from iearlgrey and media silence on protests
covering the Biden trip to the ME and the situation in Ukraine.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs9_70rju_A]
links below the clip.
RW Australian Murdock media leaks a bit of truth...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lG660H1JjWU]
There is a "deafening" media silence on protests around the world protesting against the elites, according to Webster University Assistant Professor Ralph Schoellhammer.
"They are significant protests – we're talking about 30,000 people in The Netherlands," Prof Schoellhammer said.
Prof Schoellhammer said the media and political campaign across the west against "disinformation" is part of a broader attempt to "undermine" organised protests against the agenda of the elites.
"That the best way to prevent the pushback from large numbers of people is if they don't know that anything is going on," he said.
"Think about the situation of the truckers in Canada when they pulled their bank accounts ... so this is undermining the possibility of those people to organise.
"It's what interest groups, what these players do – they see there is something coming that could be a threat to their power so they try to do something to undermine it."
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Howdy all,
Hope everyone is doing well! Hi LO! Hope all is well bamy! Wish we got half the rain you do.
Great roundup of the meltdown. We have a bunch of actual mad Bond villains fighting over who is going to run the world. All accusing a guy who is not, Putin, of being such. Of course the moronic mongers are grabbing for all the spoils they can on the way to angling to be the great decider. Or at least on the board of great deciders. The power attracts the crazed and deranged, the psycho- and sociopath, the Hillarys and Obamas, the Trumps, Shrubs, and so on. We are drowning evil, greed, and incompetence, starved and deprived of altruistic, much less intelligent, leadership. In a complete all-systems meltdown caused by idiots running things. When their shat finally hits the fan they will insist their pile of money means they are best qualified to be Captain of the ship and direct course.
Can you imagine if they had been running a nuclear program? It would all be over already.
I watched that Russel Brand the other day, he, and Vandana Shiva, are great.
But at least we have our own msdncfbia propagandist here in case any of us haven't already had enough of that (re: other recent new thread).
Hope all have a great day!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
I like Ray McGovern's line
It is not the MIC, it's the MICIMAC - military, industrial, congressional, intelligence, media, academia complex (pronounced mickey mack)
And you are so right about the power hungry being the ones who become leaders. One reason we're fucked as Russell's part 2 piece says.
We still have a wood thrush singing. I thought? once they mated they stopped signing, so we've been curious if our resident thrush is still looking for mate. Just they have not been singing so late in the season in past years.
We've had a little relief from our dry spell and wishing you the same.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Perhaps, like humans, they rejoice when the fledglings
move out and begin finding their own food!
Seriously, we have observed mating pairs of bluebirds laying in the nest box after the first batch of chicks fledge. Whether it is the same pair that produced the first group, or a different pair that had not found suitable housing until that nest box became available, I can not say with certainty.
“ …and when we destroy nature, we diminish our capacity to sense the divine,and understand who God is, and what our own potential is and duties are as human beings.- RFK jr. 8/26/2024
Personally, I just call it Morgoth
Military,
industrial,
Congressional,
intelligence,
media,
academia,
petroleum,
agricultural,
ecclesiastical,
athletic,
financial,
security,
telecom,
pharmaceutical...
...let's just name it what it is: Historical Earth's Ultimate Evil.
In the Land of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is declared mentally ill for describing colors.
Yes Virginia, there is a Global Banking Conspiracy!
Ad infinitum
It is indeed a long list.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
bird song
Hi LO! With most songbirds they breed two or three times per breeding season/cycle. As long as conditions are good (generally measured by food supply). They will continue singing as long as they have a territory to defend/mark. It is how they mark territory to others, by singing. When they quit singing, they are done nesting for the year/season. That is why there is a 'dawn chorus' every morning
during breeding season, to let all the neighbors know 'this is my patch'. Our dawn chorus is way way dialed back here already, lots has given up for the year here.
But a fair number are now on their third round if they are going again. For us here the two broods most got out (fledged) that we saw were of only one or two young per brood. When not in critical drought conditions and plenty of food it will be three or four young fledged per round. But many here are still trying again. When you go way far north most birds only get two rounds off at best. It is a short quick bug season up there.
Enjoy that Wood Thrush song!
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
both - Albert Einstein
We love the trush song...
and turn off the AC first thing in the AM to open the doors and listen. Been peasant high 60's low 70's at that time. We've still got the pileateds calling and this year lots of cockoo's (the rain crow).
Thanks for the info!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Thanks for the Sri Lanka info
Lots of moving pieces in the world game of conquest. The on going shift of public opinion around the world from US government here to help to US government here for self interests that may cause harm is picking up speed. I hope it does not reach the point all US citizens are viewed with the same attitude.
Still yourself, deep water can absorb many disturbances with minimal reaction.
--When the opening appears release yourself.
It's interesting times for sure...
Hope all is well in your world. This time of year we can't get caught up, but I'm convinced being active is good.
Heard an interesting conversation about Spermidine and Resveratrol, a polyphenol, stimulating autophagy and clearing up spike proteins and such. Dr Marik has turned on to fasting and has healed his diabetes - toward the end of the clip.
Thanks for the visit!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning Lookout. I haven't viewed any of the vids
yet but I thought I'd thank you for digging them out and putting them up there. It's still cool enough to fire up the stove and work in the yard, so I'm off to do same. I have finished repairing the last 4 things that broke, so I want to get going and get ahead before something else does. (The joys of ownership)
be well and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
Always something to tend...
day in and day out. Fixing things can bring. a sense of accomplishment.
Good luck with the chores!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Oh goody
The pentagon is giving Ukraine permission to blow up the Kersch bridge and there is more and more talk about threatening to do it. Russia has already put its nuclear forces on standby alert, but that hasn’t changed Biden’s mind on trying to end this conflict peacefully. Any attempt to take it down will meet over powering military force from Russia. Putin has warned them about it. All scenarios have already been plotted.
Shitlibs are saying that they are still anti war, BUT they want Biden to send troops into Ukraine and create a no fly zone and think that this would end the conflict there in a matter of weeks. Anyone who suggests that this could have been avoided is met by derision and called pro Putin loving puppets. For me there are no BUTS for being anti war. Most of us here know how easily this shit show could have been avoided. For one thing Obama and his neocon goons could have not done their brutal coup in Ukraine and let Ukraine and Russia work out the details of Ukraine’s debt problems.
Instead Biden’s willing to destroy the world economy and possibly the world itself. And for what? So America can have the biggest dick on the playground?
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
I think that was first from a retired warmonger...
doing his best to stir up and accelerate war and killing. There would be big time retribution if they dare to try blowing up the bridge to Crimea.
It is the collapse of American empire, and I bet they know it.
Thanks for the link!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Dmitry Medvedev issues a warning!
https://www.rt.com/russia/559142-medvedev-crimea-strike-ukraine-judgemen...
They will make 'em pay...
If they bomb their pretty incredible bridge.
The bridge surpasses the Vasco de Gama bridge in Portugal as the longest in Europe.
https://www.rferl.org/a/aerial-images-show-extent-of-kerch-strait-bridge...
Here's the piece I mentioned to SD above.
https://detv.us/2022/07/16/former-nato-commander-encourages-attack-on-cr...
Nice to "see" you today!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
The only weapon the Ukranians can use
to damage the bridge are the HIMARS. It's only a matter of time when Russia destroys all of them.
My understanding is they captured or bought one
HIMAR system that is. So with reverse engineering plan on more ineffectiveness.
To me the biggest bummer is the way the west is prolonging the war to inflict max damage on Russia and sacrificing Ukraine (and the collective west) to do so. BUT we're helping Ukraine? Yeah right.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Wow!
That is spectacular. Thanks for the photos.
I'm certain you've seen the charts of the "decision centers" Russia released a few weeks ago.
They were not ambivalent.
Might be what Medvedev meant by severe consequences.
Are we stupid/desperate enough to test him? Maybe.
NYCVG
Good morning, one and y'all!
We are in a heat wave, and although my part of east Texas is not officially in drought, that may happen. No rain in the 10 day forecast, the lowest forecast temperature is 98 deg. for 1 day. August should be a disaster.
I hope to listen to some, if not all, of your videos.
I want to mention something Richard Wolff said in some recent video. I think I watched it 3 or 4 days ago. As he rightfully ripped capitalism, he then ranted about how wrong the idea of individual home ownership was stupid. Instead, we should forget that stupid idea and move into multi-family dwellings. Our desires should be to dwell in condos and apartments. As much as I admire and respect the Professor, that offended me to my core. It smacked of "you will own nothing, and you will be happy".
I hope protests around the world put TPTB on notice that we, the people, outnumber them.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Our home is our great joy...
Obviously Rick is an urbanite with that perspective on housing.
We're heating up again next week but just to mid 90's. However increased chances for rain, so here's hoping.
TPTB are working overtime to make sure people are not aware of all the ongoing protest. No MSM coverage.
Y'all have a good day. Stay cool!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Why is this not bigger news?
If the Dems did it I bet it would be bigger news.
Dims do it too...
Bernie in 2016 and 2020 for example. Or how about preventing people like Tulsi on the debate stage. Around here the trick used to be half pints of whiskey to essentially buy votes. Elections are rigged no doubt about it...by both parties.
Thanks for the revealing clip of election malfeasance.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Very true
The Dems do it to, but you hear about it when the Dems do it.
You do?
Where were the stories about Bernie being cheated?
Or the Debbie W. Schultz blatant cheating and a judge ruling the dimwits are their own organization and can run primaries according to their own desires?
Where was the big story? Everything we're allowed to know is highly regulated.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Somehow “the walls” are never “closing in” if you’re a Democrat
or even an especially corrupt official of the corrupt-by-design Federal Reserve banking system.
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2021/09/robert-kaplan-was-trading-like-a-...
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2022/05/scandalized-dallas-fed-keeps-it-a...
Hats off
to Aaron and Max at that Collision tech conference in Toronto. They don't take any B.S. and they rightfully shame the MSM representatives for their treatment of Assange.
Thanks for posting that Lookout, I would have missed it.
Thanks for the WW as well. It's ironic and fascinating (in a nauseating sort of way) how U.S. policies are causing a depreciation of the dollar and an end to the use of the Petro dollar. Financial independence may be on the rise in other countries. Not good for us, but good for them.
I was proud of them too.
Using accurate information to pin down the lying complicit media. I have lots of respect for Matt and Aaron. Glad you enjoyed it!
I think TPTB are purposely crashing the USD to institute digital currency which they can freeze if you don't obey. The Canadian truckers experience prove that's their aim, IMO. The German reporter Max interviewed at the end also had her money confiscated by the German gov't. So it is already here, but they want more control...to see where you spend ever dollar.
Always nice to "see" you!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Screenplay Idea About a Screenwriter at Work
Proposed Title: "The Asteroid Virus"
Genre: Hollywood Satire
Setting: Los Angeles
Time: 1976
Our protagonist is based loosely on filmmaker John Boorman in the 1970s. Shortly after making some money from writing and directing a Dystopian Movie -- like Zardoz, Soylent Green or The Omega Man -- our hero hits on another far-out creative premise. This is from his pitch letter to the Money People:
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As it turns out our hero can't sell this story. My new movie tracks his humorously obsessed effort to convince The Suits that the story is not too utterly ridiculous for audiences to buy. No, no, no our hero keeps telling studio characters on golf courses, in strip clubs, on fishing boats -- this story will work!
Directing challenge is to show what our hero's weird tale would look like as a backdrop to his frantic salesmanship for his brain child.
All rights reserved.
Fire With Fire
Silly is sometimes illuminating.
I cried when I wrote this song. Sue me if I play too long.
The ending is genius...
as is the whole movie really.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkpOSzcy0Vk]
May be China and that conflict that spells extinction as an alternate story. Thanks for the script!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
The MIC hopes to take care of the $$$ being sent to Ukraine.
As suggested up thread, the micky mack
Did you catch this one?
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3pnFR7DeZA]
and like the hokey pokey, "that's what it's all about"
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
HUNTER BIDEN SONG - Cocaine in the Ukraine
Jimmy had a good take too...
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0nPFjAZ1i0]
Perhaps he and elensky partook when he was grifting at Barisma? Oh yeah, that was a no show gig...how nice...for a million a year.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I think that Hunter is quite similar to his dad.
https://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/washington-whispers/2014/08/01/biden-s...
I ain't no fan of byedone
...but can't criticize him for skinny dipping. Now I can object to money laundering, warmongering, and dementia. Whatta mess.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
John Q Adams used to skinny-dip in the Potomac
It is said that one enterprising female reporter got an exclusive interview by sitting on his clothes and refusing to give them back until he agreed to talk to her.
So skinny-dipping by itself, big nothingburger. It's all the other rude and obnoxious details surrounding it.
There is no justice. There can be no peace.
JFK and LBJ
also. BFD as you indicate. There are probably some librarian positions open for any SS sensitives who find all that "offensive".
Actually, re Johnson, there were numerous instances in the literature of him either being nekkid or exposed in the vitals area, on purpose, when he was in the presence of what used to be called "mixed company". I think he enjoyed seeing the mostly shock reaction.
And then there was that one informal WH presser in 1965, in the Oval or upstairs in the living quarters, where he took questions from a smaller group of "mixed" journalists.
One foreign reporter (German iirc) asked him Why are you going into VN? Johnson, standing before the small group of m/f reporters, responded by unzipping his fly, pulling out and grabbing his thang as he exclaimed "THIS is why!"
Oh dear me ...
a president swimming in the buff. Never been done before I'm sure. We must protect our very sensitive snowflake secret service agents who might be offended. If they are too upset, they might do unfortunate things like forget how to safeguard important SS documents.
Thanks Ron Kessler, always reliable, for standing up for our stressed and traumatized SS heroes.
It’s not that he’s swimming in the buff
I doubt anyone would have a problem with that. But he was doing it in front of women secret service agents. That’s what people thought was inappropriate. This story is years old. Unless it’s something that he’s done recently.
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
If you are known to be on drugs, an alcoholic, or
are showing impairment from opiate pain drugs, you can be disbarred in Texas, unless you can prove to the Bar you are rehabilitated. A DWI will draw a suspension that lasts for years.
Hunter still has a law license?
So damn unfair.
It is good to be rich and powerful.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
The fact he's not in jail
speaks to the nature of our injustice system.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Well what do you know
The government has a stockpile of a FDA appraisal drug that can easily treat monkeypox. But instead of making it easy for people to get it is going to start giving people a vaccine that has been authorized under emergency control. Lots of doctors wrote about how dangerous it was to use the vaccine because of the risk of starting a smallpox epidemic in people whose immune systems are shot to hell from the ineffective mRNA shots.
Raise your hand if you are surprised by this news.
Was Humpty Dumpty pushed?
I mentioned upthread...
an interesting conversation about Spermidine and Resveratrol.
Natural products from grapefruit and pistachios and red wine. No wonder they don't tell us.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Here we go again.
That drug will soon be the New Horse Paste.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I am watching some of the videos LO provided.
The Mate/Blumenthal video revealed the hostility towrds them. The moderator kept quizzing them, trying to get them to admit what they do is express their opinions, not report facts. They pushed back well, and faced the hostility very bravely.
Their assertion that the end of Assange in prison ends journalism is true.
If Wendy Davis were around, she would back me up.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
I'll back you up too!
The guys done good. What makes me appreciative is facing the lion's den to try to inform the captured media in hopes they will awake and become aware. More power to them!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I'll sign out with this one
one of my favorites to sing.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2Kn3j7o2yY]
Kate Wolf's song Across the Great Divide, as it sounds on the album Close to You
The comments under the clip are good too.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
The Dutch farmers have a unique way of protesting. LOL
I wish them all the best...
Who knew the green movement would become fascist...taking away land for a GND, sounds like a f'ed up deal.
Thanks for the clever Dutch signs.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”