Putin on Sanctions & the BRICS Boogeyman

“I do not advise governments to use sanctions for leverage due to the economic implications that may take time to materialize. In April 2020, I wrote, “Once you impose sanctions, you create a cold war. Look at Russia. Nixon opened China to divide and conquer. Are we really that stupid to close China and encourage them to join Russia in a cold war that will further destroy the world economy and most likely lead to real war?” The US and EU attempted to remove Russia from the global economy through sanctions and prohibiting them from the SWIFT network. Putin further explained in his interview with Tucker Carlson why this was a “grave mistake” for the future of the USD.

Using the dollar for political struggles dealt a blow to the USD that has not yet been felt. First, freezing the assets of Russians sent a signal to the whole world that the USD may not be the safest place to park your money if you happen to be in an “unfriendly” nation. Even our own allies have begun downsizing their dollar reserves.

The SWIFT system was never meant to be used as a political instrument. The West began looking into ways to remove Russia from this payment system back in 2014, and when they finally did, Russia began processing its payments elsewhere. Putin also correctly stated in the interview that China, not Russia, is the larger threat to the West in terms of size, population, manufacturing, and, most importantly, the growing power of the yuan.

The BRICS alliance is stronger than ever before as nations are collaborating without the need for the dollar. This does NOT mean that they are planning to replace the dollar, a myth that Putin termed the “BRICS boogeyman” as the Western media portrays the organization as a major threat to global security. However, this does mean that the yuan will grow in strength, as we have seen with the slow death of the petrodollar. The BRICS partnership means that members are no longer dependent on Western energy, and eventually, no one will be dependent on Western trade or debt. Only a fool would buy their enemy’s debt and expect to receive anything in return. Again, this will happen on target cyclically as nothing remains forever. The dollar overpowered sterling, and the yuan is next in line.

There are boogeyman fables that cooperation with China will lead to the destruction of the West, yet that is happening as a result of our leaders abandoning all domestic policies for globalization. Every nation in the EU and North America has made decisions that directly hurt its own economy but are beneficial to the coming globalization that they wish to bring forth, as stated every year at Davos.

“You can’t choose your neighbors like you can’t choose relatives,” Putin stated in regards to China, “We have a centuries-long history of coexistence.” He correctly stated that China always looks for compromise. They are an independent nation that has not fallen to the globalist agenda and there are not neocons within the ranks looking to bring China into perpetual warfare. The media is afraid of the “no limits” alliance between Russia and China, but look at how China has remained relatively neutral since the war in Ukraine began when they could have easily aided their neighbor. Furthermore, Europe is now closer economically to China than Russia is, as Europe is desperate for solutions to its economic issues and sees China as an opportunity.

Putin stated numerous times that US analysts are the ones discussing these problems, and he is simply repeating what he has read. I have not personally advised Putin, but I do believe his people read our work as he was attempting to explain cycles. “It is like the rise of the sun. You cannot prevent the sun from rising. You must adapt to it,” he said as one analogy. Cycles, indeed, are the operating system behind absolutely everything. Civilization does not change; war and periods of economic decline are inevitable. We can merely observe and learn from the trends to adapt accordingly.”

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/world-trade/putin-on-sanctions-the-brics-boogeyman/?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=RSS

H B Bear
Feb 14, 2024 12:32 PM

Cane Toad’s position is somewhat mitigated, but her liability won’t be fully extinguished.

How does that help her on the question of costs (the issue for today)? Either Ch 10 is liable to pay or it is not. Apportionment might come into play for damages in the main action.

Yes. Separate questions.
There is little doubt in my mind, after watching this morning’s televisual feast, that Ten will be picking up the tab for the Toad’s legals.
As to the main game, Lee has given a hint.
Legal advice or not, he still thinks a cadet journo would have known better.
Ms Crysanthou has to again emphasize that Lisa is clueless when it comes to such legal matters.
That’s gotta hurt.

Irish doctor who highlights 5.3 million adverse reactions to covid injections is labelled as “far-right” and “anti-vaccination”

Farmers protests are spreading across the world; people are waking up to the fact that the war on farming is not a coincidence

Benny Johnson
@bennyjohnson

BREAKING: The House has Voted to IMPEACH DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas

Alamak

Two of the best commenters – both female- walked out of here because of abuse and tick cheating.

This place is beginning to resemble the furniture store with our very own Faultys and Chilli’s.

It’s possibly not as bad because of the sheer numbers here peddling conspiracies. linking to Marty, and the vile abuse from the site’s very own Chilli, the Mallee Bull Dyke.

Compare and come back.

Dr. John Campbell with Major Tom Haviland

White clots common

Bunyons will essentially have her legal costs covered by Ch10 and may even escape Brucie’s claws.

Gilas, my feeling is that Wilko will not escape fully.
If I was to take a guess, I would say any damages will be shared something like 90:10 between Ten and the Toad.
If she gets her legals paid by Ten and cops, say, a $50k damages bill, she could count that as a financial win.

From Go-Auto EDITION 1205 – FEB 14, 2024:
“The Albanese Labor government via Minister Chris Bowen seeks to
….introduce..a corporate average CO2 per kilometre level for each OEM via the New Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES).

Under the regulations each OEM takes its measure of the CO2 emissions
per kilometre of each model variant it sells. The sales of each model variant
are then multiplied by the CO2 figure of that variant. The combined CO2 emission level from each of the model variants sold by the OEM is calculated and is then
divided by its total sales to arrive at that OEM’s corporate average CO2
figure. There are two targets to meet; one for passenger cars and one for
SUVs and utes (which is higher).

Each gram over the target will attract a penalty of $100 multiplied by
the total number of vehicles sold by that OEM (in each category).
Each gram under the target (Tesla and BYD for example) will generate
a CO2 credit. That OEM can accumulate credits and then sell those
credits to OEMs that are struggling to meet their targets.

….
TESLA and BYD are the most obvious winners under the New
Vehicle Efficiency Standard (NVES) with healthy sales and zero ‘tailpipe’
CO2 emissions. They will, as CO2 credit engines, bask in the demand from other car
makers seeking credits to buy. They will, in effect, have the power of
life and death over some OEMs depending on which brands these
credit engines choose to deal with. Securing early agreements with
them, like now, might be critical….”

Bowen, straight out of the WEF and NZ Green fanatics playbook. What a douchebag. Petrol cars to subsidise cheap Chinese electrics. Whose side are Labor on?

Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney flags path for truth telling in school curriculum

By rhiannon down
Reporter
Updated 11:08AM February 14, 2024, First published at 10:33AM February 14, 2024
406 Comments

Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney says she was in active discussions with cabinet to develop a model for a truth telling process, flagging that it could be included in the school curriculum though she remained “very open” on the framework.

Ms Burney also sought to clarify Anthony Albanese’s commitment to pursue a Makarrata commission, saying Labor would take time to get the process that signifies a coming together after a struggle and truth telling “right”, while the work of treaty making continues at a state level.

Mr Burney said she was engaged in “discussions with the cabinet” about a model for truth telling, but would not reveal details on the government’s next steps following last year’s failure of the voice referendum.

“That’s absolutely why I’m talking to people,” she told ABC Radio National.

“There isn’t a particular model that I’ve got in mind, I am very open and the government is very open to what it might look like.”

Ms Burney said the referendum result had been “devastating” but other government initiatives could improve the lives of Indigenous people, when asked how she would bring people back to the table to address these issues.

“There is enormous hurt and in many cases dismay at the outcome of the referendum, there is no two ways about that,” she said.

“But there is also the important point that the referendum is over and done with.

“We accept the outcome, whether we like it or not, we accept the outcome, and we respect the outcome that the Australian people delivered.”

Ms Burney spruiked the Albanese government’s track record of improving the lives of Indigenous Australians, including an announcement on Tuesday that a commissioner for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children would be established along with a scheme to create 3000 jobs in remote communities.

The Prime Minister handed down a landmark Closing the Gap report this week which revealed the nation was only on track to reach four out of 19 goals, while four were going backwards.

“But that doesn’t mean it was the shot in the locker, there are many things,” she said.

“For example, the junior ranger programs, the jobs we announced yesterday, for example the Children’s Commissioner that we announced yesterday, for example Wi Fi into remote communities, things like clean water for the first time in many communities, those things will continue.

“Including the wonderful initiatives that we’re undertaking in health, including rheumatic heart disease, those things will continue.

“The referendum was devastating, but I can tell you this; as I’ve moved around the country, the resilience of Aboriginal people is inspirational.”

She also said the reason the nation was falling so far behind its Closing the Gaps targets was because “people like (Peter) Dutton use Aboriginal affairs as a political football” and focus on “short term change”.

Ms Burney also ruled out the Opposition Leader’s push for an audit of how money was spent on how funding for Indigenous Australians was spent.

Stories my Nanna told me….

A gentle understatement there, I fear.

I am given to understatement.

I realise that makes me an odd one out here.

😀

Speaking of narcissists, as we were this morning, I see the president of Mongolia has publicly labelled Putin one. Not a professional diagnosis, but one based on his experiences with the man.

He also posted a map of Mongolia’s historic Russian conquests, adding “But don’t worry, we are a peaceful nation.”

Chuckle.

She also said the reason the nation was falling so far behind its Closing the Gaps targets was because “people like (Peter) Dutton use Aboriginal affairs as a political football”

She said, while trying to kick a political goal.

Not happy with ObummerCare?

https://www.kxan.com/news/local/austin/at-least-10-injured-after-vehicle-crashes-into-north-austin-er/

Always good to revisit. Tony Heller knocked Potholer out of the park. I haven’t checked, but I am sure Potty has kept his mouth shut since. What was good was Tony leap frogging Potty and sticking the boot into the IPCC clowns promoting this crap. Potty quoted them as gospel, Heller, ripped the IPCC authors.

Stick cow fart stories up your bum.

5 years ago.

—-

Tony Heller:

In this video, I take on Potholer’s unsupportable claims about methane, and explain why the United Nations is trying to demonize this harmless trace gas.

The Methane Big Lie

Gilas at 2:37.

Agree.
Against all right thinking peoples’ expectations, in the last 48 hours she has basically won a small lottery.

Quite so.
To be clear, I am trying to be objective here, so when I say Wilko looks like having a win on costs, this doesn’t mean I don’t still regard her as a total p.o.s.
Prima facie, she got legal advice and followed it assiduously.
What I think really happened was that the Ten lawyer was star struck and/or leaned on.
Whatever job you are in, you will be lucky if you don’t get asked at least once in your working life to sign off something dodgy “for the greater good”.
I am sure there was lots of …
“It will be great for ratings”;
“The CEO is right behind this”;
“This is really important to Lisa”
No doubt just a little bit of “Do your part to get Bruce” thrown in for good measure.
(Note that these entreaties will never, ever be in writing.
The key tactic to deploy at this stage is to simply point out that the final decision to air a program or make a speech rests with those who have that executive delegation. Your opinion isn’t going to stop them doing what is “really important”, it just highlights a risk, which no doubt they are prepared to take … aren’t they?
This is the first step to teasing out the real reason they want a clean opinion. It is all to do with covering their own arse. Which, if things go pear shaped, means you will be under the bus.
Something Tasha Smithies is now finding out.

JC
Feb 14, 2024 3:26 PM
Alamak

Yeah, that’s an opinion, but also a good one. But more so, who were they harming? And everything is relative. They leave and the bull dyke and Woddenhead remain. That’s a great swap, right

What’s even worse, is that you remain. You Wooden Top.

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Dot
Feb 14, 2024 3:51 PM

If Drumgold did say what is alleged, that wasn’t advice that the speech wouldn’t be in contempt. Quite the contrary. By saying “As DPP, I won’t pursue the matter” he implies that he thinks it probably is in contempt, but he will give her a free pass on it”.

Doesn’t that mean he lied at the Soronoff Inquiry though?

Almost certainly.
I am looking at it from the perspective of the defamation trial.

Channel 10 going to have to run a lot of burger adverts to cover that little debacle.

Morsie
Feb 14, 2024 4:00 PM

Ten were screwed as soon as their inhouse expert lawyer fessed up.

I don’t think the external lawyer helped either.
Continuing to pretend to represent both parties long after it was obvious there was a yuuuge conflict.

Wolves only attack weak and wounded bears. In that sense you are correct. Mr. Polonium a narcissist? Psychopathy makes more sense.
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He’s a psychopath. Carlson was lucky he went soft on the questions otherwise he wouldn’t have left the room alive.

Woddenhead

Marty lifted that from a piece written in NRO published a few days ago.

I learn something new every day, hopefully. German obtained the plans of Market Garden

The major reasons for the failure of “Market Garden” were the failure of the air plan, and the decision of the Americans at Nijmegen to ignore their orders, and not give priority to capturing the bridge there…they then successfully blamed XXX Corps for “stopping to drink tea” on the way up…

Gilas

Against all right thinking peoples’ expectations, in the last 48 hours she has basically won a small lottery.

Wilkinson is a Ch 10 employee. Unless she had gone seriously off the reservation she should be in pretty good shape. Whatever happens Wilkinson must know she is unlikely to work on TV again. Advantage Ch 9 and Karl Stefanovic. She will have more time to work on their Australia Day bbq.

Exactly, release the taped interview so everyone can see it.

If President Biden believes that his mental faculties were unfairly maligned by special counsel Robert Hur, there’s an easy way to clear up the record: He could call on the Justice Department to release the transcript of his five-hour interview. House Republicans are already seeking it, along with any recordings, and Mr. Biden’s acquiescence might speed things along.

WSJ

I suspect they are stuck with that. Not without precedent in the TV business. Put it down to experience.

Not necessarily, if Brucey wins the defamation case. I’m sure there is a “recklessness” clause in the contract. Even with advice about the Logies speech, she isn’t out of the woods.

Today’s Paper
Wednesday, 14 February 2024
Courts & Justice
Cleo Smith abductor Terrence Kelly appeals ‘manifestly excessive’ jail sentence
Tim Clarke

The jail time handed to Terence Kelly for stealing little Cleo Smith from her parents — prompting one of the most miraculous human recoveries in Australian history — should be reduced because the judge who jailed him made a series of serious errors.

That is the argument placed before WA’s highest court on Wednesday, by one of Australia’s most fearsome lawyers.

Kelly was jailed for more than 13 years for abducting the then four-year-old from her family’s tent at a Carnarvon campsite then keeping her captive for 18 days.

But barrister Julie Condon argued that sentence was “manifestly excessive” because she claimed that the abduction of the little girl was not in the worst category of similar cases.

“On any view, this was not offending that was in the worst category of offending,” Ms Condon argued.

“It was spontaneous and opportunistic … and wasn’t the subject of planning or well thought out intention. There was no surveillance in advance. There was no violence.

“He made 12 references to (intending to) stealing money not a child. Replete with expressions of remorse, and multiple references to the guilt that he felt almost immediately after he engaged in the child stealing.”

Justice Buss commented that “it started out that way”.

“It then continued for 18 days,” he said.

During an earlier sentencing hearing, it was revealed for the first time that Kelly was high on meth when he snatched Cleo in October 2021.

It was that use of the drug that District Court Chief Judge Julie Wager found — coupled with his complex personality issues, mental impairments and neuropsychological conditions — played a “significant role” in why he snatched Cleo.

And it is that conclusion which Ms Condon said went fiercely against Kelly’s interest — but was not open for her to make based on expert evidence given before the District Court sentencing hearing.

Ms Condon — who last week was representing drug lord Tony Mokbel in a court in Victoria — argued for more than an hour that Judge Wager was wrong in concluding that meth use was a “tipping point” in Kelly’s actions in snatching Cleo.

Three of WA’s most experienced judges — Justices Michael Buss, Robert Mazza and Stephen Hall — will decide the appeal.

And they all quizzed Ms Condon at length about why Kelly’s meth use should not be taken as a major factor in what one of them described as Kelly’s “completely bizarre and very disturbing behaviour”.

“(It was) crying out for some sort of inquiry (by the judge) … sentencing judges do not sit mute,” Justice Mazza said.

“It is obvious this is a factor … it is blindingly obvious”.

Ms Condon said in written submissions to the court that Judge Wager had become “fixated” on Kelly’s drug use as a major factor, along with his complex mental health issues, and severely deprived childhood.

She withdrew that remark when Justice Mazza said the phrase was “unhelpful”.

In Kelly’s second main appeal point, his lawyers claim that Judge Wager “failed to give appropriate weight to the applicant’s childhood disadvantage and trauma.”

So-called ‘Bugmy Principles’ — set out in the High Court more than 10 years ago — mean that “background factors” including Aboriginality and social disadvantage must be given “full weight in the determination of the appropriate sentence in every case”

The most bizarre thing out of today’s proceedings was when Lee threw the Ten lawyer a lifeline, asking what her state of mind was when she gave that advice on the Loggies speech.
Of course, viewers now know the correct answer is, “No idea, yer ‘Onner. I guess I am just a low IQ moron who had a brain fade.”
Instead she launched into this convoluted story about how Cane Toad was sooo committed to Britnah that, if she hadn’t come out in support during the Loggies speech, it would look like she had abandoned Britnah.
Which would be bad because … wait for it … it would damage the trial.
Uh huh.
(Damage the stitch-up is what she really meant).
Stupid bint.
That is the whole idea of sub judice. Saying, “of course I can’t comment further at this point out of respect for the justice system” is perfectly normal and proper and no sane person will draw any conclusion from it.

Sure, I get that. However, even if 10 gave her the Okay, does that 100% absolve her if she’s found to have hurt Brucey? Surely she would carry a proportion of responsibility.

Oh OK.
Yes, I do think she will cop a bit of that.
The Jurdge has already said that, notwithstanding the legal advice, even a cadet journalist should know that the speech was prejudicial. I think he is hinting that Toad knew this and leaned on the lawyer.
I thought you were talking about Ten firing Wilko.

I once had a similar case happen to me with respect to lawyering.

I once interviewed a trader who had been fired from Alamak’s old haunt, Mother Merrill. “Merrill heads” were generally pretty useless from experience, and I didn’t hire him because he wasn’t much chop. He had been let go by Merrill Lynch for abusing the boss at the Christmas party. I was thoughtlessly commiserating with him, suggesting that it was a terrible thing that had happened to him, but it was just interview bullshit. He took legal action against Merrill for unfair dismissal, and my commiseration comments in the interview were used by this dick as evidence against ML. The firm I worked for insisted they choose the lawyer for the deposition to accompany me. There was really no conflict, so it didn’t pose a problem.

Lesson learned, keep your opinions and small talk to yourself.

Whatever happens Wilkinson must know she is unlikely to work on TV again. Advantage Ch 9 and Karl Stefanovic. She will have more time to work on their Australia Day bbq.

She will be reduced to having a Saturday sausage turnout at Bunnings.

Ch 10 aren’t the only ones with problems. AG Dreyfus wont be sleeping well I suspect.

I suppose the Grampians fire is being fought by people who aren’t normally allowed to climb in the Grampians?

Bern

From memory, the old prune’s underlings contacted Brucey on a Friday afternoon to counter the accusations for a program to be aired on Monday evening. Was that passed through legal, as it doesn’t sound kosher. I suspect that not everything she did went through the legal department in her resolve to get Brucey. But true, if she followed the letter of advice then she may well get away with it and 10 ends up holding the bag.

There may be incompetence shown by the legal department, but there could also be a problem with a star vs in-house lawyers and the pressure that involves.

Marxism was defeated in WWII?

Why does everybody forget Spain? It lasted there until Franco’s death in 75.

Winston Smith
Feb 14, 2024 5:54 PM

…and where’s the reference?
Any reference requires a link to the original data.
Not that you’d fake a posting.
No, of course not.

Open forum

Jan 26, 2023 7:31 PM

Let me know if you require the actual url.