The Failure Of Central Banking: Zombies

A zombie is an aberration, something that should not exist in the real world. Yet in modern economies, such creatures do exist...

Authored by Tuomas Malinen: Zombies were introduced to the economic jargon by Ricardo Caballero, Takeo Hoshi, and Anil Kashyap in their article, “Zombie lending and depressed restructuring in Japan” in 2008, where they named the unprofitable and indebted yet still operating firms in Japan as “zombie companies.” They found that, after the financial crash of the early 1990s, large Japanese banks kept money flowing to otherwise insolvent borrowers, aka zombies. The reason for this was that these large banks themselves were in dire straits.

The financial crisis of the early 1990s had its roots in the deregulation of the financial sector in the early 1980s, and the extensive efforts of the Bank of Japan to limit the appreciation of the Yen with low-interest rates. These actions led to massive stock and real estate bubbles. At its peak, the value of Japanese equities was twice the market value of U.S. equities. It was also said that the market value of land under the Imperial Palace in Tokyo was greater than the market value of all real estate in California.

Many Japanese banks and corporations had invested heavily into the stock and real estate markets, and when the bubble imploded in 1990/1991, they suffered crippling losses hurling them into insolvency. The government allowed and, in some cases even encouraged, banks to extend loans to ailing businesses and allowed banks to downplay their loan losses and overstate their capital. While these measures saved the financial sector, the banking sector was not restructured.

How Can We Ever Trust Them Again?

Russell Brand: Does critiquing the pharmaceutical industry and the medicines we all take make you a conspiracy theorist? In this video we look at a recent peer-reviewed article taken from British Medical Journal to look more closely at the industry of “evidence based medicine”.

Biden May Go Full Trudeau On Russian U.S. Citizens

"The world as we know it is royally fucked!"

Terrence Popp: The EU destroyed Trudeau for his actions and now Biden may sign a bill to seize personal assets from Russians in the US because reasons. And shame on the Texas cuckservative who wrote this bill.

"Donbass: 8 Years Of War" - 2016 Documentary By French Journalist Anne Laure Bonnel + 2022 CNEWS Interview

We Were Sold This War Back To Front!

Tom: Whatever your views on the current war, I think it's important to understand that it didn't start out of nothing in February 2022, it really had started in 2014.

Like so much of the most important information we need to know that has been banned, or restricted by YouTube, so has this video! "Ukraine has been bombing Ukrainians for 8 years now!" With munitions we supplied!

NATOstan Preparing To Attack Russia's Ally China

Vast swathes of NATOstan have been corralled into behaving like a Russophobic lynch mob. No dissent is tolerated... - Pepe Escobar.

Authored by Victoria Kelly-Clark: The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) has announced that it will begin engaging in the Asia-Pacific region both practically and politically in light of Beijing’s growing influence and coercion and its unwillingness to condemn Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Speaking following the meetings of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs on April 7, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said the global implications of the Ukrainian conflict had propelled the organisation to step up its engagement with Asia-Pacific partners for the first time.

“We have seen that China is unwilling to condemn Russia’s aggression. And Beijing has joined Moscow in questioning the right of nations to choose their own path,” Stoltenberg said.

“This is a serious challenge to us all. And it makes it even more important that we stand together to protect our values.”

The French Presidential Election - Globalism v Populism

"Macron has massively miscalculated by thinking voters care that much about foreign policy. They don't when it comes to the ballot box really give a damn about 'the current thing', they care about runaway inflation, energy prices and the cost of living. Le Pen has pledged to slash energy prices.”

Microplastics Found In The Lung Tissue Of Living Humans For The First Time: Study

Researchers have discovered microplastics deep in the lungs of living humans for the first time.

Authored by Katabella Roberts: Scientists at Hull York Medical School in England published their findings in the journal Science of the Total Environment, the first such study to show microplastics in the lung tissue of live people.

Microplastics are extremely small plastic particles composed of mixtures of polymers and functional additives that measure less than five millimeters in size and are generally unintentionally released into the environment because of the disposal and breakdown of larger consumer products or industrial waste.

Researchers in the study collected lung tissue from living patients undergoing surgical procedures at Castle Hill Hospital and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust before filtering it to see what was present.

They observed 39 microplastics in 11 of the 13 lung tissue samples tested, a figure that is significantly higher than any previous laboratory tests.

Researchers identified 12 types of microplastics in total, which are commonly found in bottles, packaging, clothing, and rope, along with other manufacturing processes.

Male Victims Of Domestic Abuse: Action, Please

'The ethos throughout VAWG is to believe women complainants. In short, by allowing a prejudiced axis to control the process, what we get is “believe women, disbelieve men”. This is not hypothetical; surveys of male victims confirm that they experience a very high level of disbelief. Knowing they will not be believed, men often do not even seek help.'

By MRA-UK: In this post I make two requests: (i) that you to write to your MP regarding the creation of a Government “Violence Against Men and Boys” strategy, and, (ii) if you are a man aged 50 or over and a victim of domestic abuse that you respond to a survey. Skip forward to the advice on those actions if you wish.

Women Outraged Over Having Baby Boy - Thanks Feminism

Brittany Sellner

Russian Central Bank Chief Doing 100 Times Greater Damage To Russia Than All Sanctions And Ukrainian Forces Together

Why did Putin appoint a financial terrorist to run Russia’s Central Bank?

By Mike Whitney: Did he know he was putting Russia’s future in the hands of someone whose interests align more closely with power-mad globalists than with the Russian people? Does he understand the role the Central Bank chief played in facilitating Washington’s theft of Russia’s foreign reserves? Does he understand the role the Central Bank chief played in allowing Russia’s currency to be ripped to shreds by vicious hedge fund speculators acting on Washington’s behalf? Does he understand that doubling interest rates overnight to 20% will wipe out business investment, increase unemployment and push the economy headlong into a protracted slump? Does he like the idea that Russia’s national bank is now lending money at the same inflated rate as a Mafia loan shark? Would Putin borrow money at 20%? Would anyone?

And if no one borrows money, then there’s no credit expansion. And if there is no credit expansion, there’s no economic growth. And if there’s no growth, the economy goes into a downward-death spiral that curtails personal consumption, weakens business investment, boosts the jobless rate, shrinks the social safety-net, lowers living standards, intensifies social discontent, and threatens the political stability of the country. These are the knock-on effects of bad monetary policy. And, these are the outcomes that Russia can expect if Putin sticks with the current Central Bank chief.

James Corbett Explains 5th-Generation Warfare

Join Vermont Independent publisher Dr. Rob Williams and guest co-host Brandon Zollino for a conversation with researcher and journalist James Corbett about his new article, “Your Guide to 5th-Generation Warfare,”

Your Guide To Fifth-Generation Warfare

'War is over . . . if we want it.'

By James Corbett: We're in the middle of a world-changing war right now.

Oh, I don't mean the war in Ukraine, the one that all the media are asking you to focus your attention on. Yes, that conflict continues to escalate. and every day there are new stories about provocations and threats that could lead to a nuclear exchange . . . but that's not the war I'm referring to.

And I don't mean the war in Yemen or the other military conflicts that the media are ignoring entirely. Yes, these wars are every bit as bloody, gruesome and devastating as the Russian invasion of Ukraine (if not more so), and they also risk an escalation into a broader geopolitical and geoeconomic crisis . . . but they're not the wars I'm referring to, either.

No, the war I'm talking about is an even broader war. A war that is taking place everywhere on the globe, even as I write, and that involves virtually everyone on the planet, young and old, male and female, military and civilian. It is the war of every government against its own population and every international institution against free humanity.