From Useful Idiots To Useless Idiots

As Russia rails against “paper dollars and euros” and extolls the strength of commodities, can the West slash rates or do endless QE to bail out the tiny elite who own most financial assets, and in doing so prove Moscow right in the eyes of the rest of the world?

By Michael Every of Rabobank: As bullets fly, if you are someone who only responds to bullet points, try these two:

1. We may be on the verge of a replay of 2008 – but we can’t use the same central bank policy responses without creating massive inflation, global Arab Springs, and global chaos.

2. It took a special kind of thinking to get us into this mess, and an equally special kind of thinking is not helping extract us from it.

Before explaining in more detail, first a hat-tip for today’s title to an @andreapitzer tweet: “Noticing the rise of a new category of pundit: the useless idiot.” Her joke refers to the Leninist phrase “Useful idiot”, the definition of which is: “a political insult that describes a person who, through manipulation or not, is useful to a political cause that is not their own despite not fully realizing their role. This makes them “an idiot,” an unwitting and useful pawn of a propagandist.” If you didn’t know that the odds of you being one are exponentially higher than if you did.

Bad Luck + She Admitted It "We Own The Science"

Anything Goes

The Bank Of England Rings The Mother Of All Bells

"The Bank of England was the first major central bank to blink in this global game of chicken..."

Via Schiff: Last week, the Bank of England suddenly pivoted.

It gave up its inflation fight to rescue its pension funds and bond market. What exactly happened? And what does it tell us about the Federal Reserve’s inflation fight? Peter Schiff explained it all on his podcast.

There is an old expression — “No one rings a bell” — meaning there’s no warning when there is a major top or bottom in the markets. But Peter said there often is a bell but nobody hears it. Last week, Peter said we got the “mother of all bells.”

It was literally Big Ben that rang because the bell was in England... The Bank of England was the first major central bank to blink in this global game of chicken.”

Last week, the Bank of England pivoted and returned to quantitative easing.

People Used Anything To Attack Me

Novara Media: Jeremy Corbyn talks to Aaron Bastani about the mainstream media, the antisemitism crisis, Alistair Campbell and King Charles III.

Soldiers Speak Out Against America's Jewish Neo-Con-Artist Guided Wars

Chris Hedges: We are not a good and virtuous nation. God does not bless us above other nations. Victory is not assured. War is not noble and uplifting. The clash between the reality of combat and the Disneyfied version of combat consumed by the public, one that propels many young men and women into war, creates not only dissonance and moral injury, but an existential crisis, an existential crisis combat veterans, at least those who are self-reflective, must cope with for the rest of their lives.

Putin Issues DIRE Warning To The WEF Globalists And It's Game Time

Redacted: The destruction of the Nord Stream Pipeline reads like a Whodunit novel only real lives are at stake. Affordable energy from energy will not be an option for Germany this winter due to this. Russia and Germany want answers and many signs point to U.S. sabotage. This is eco terrorism. What is happening!?

The Chris Hedges Report: Pink Floyd's Roger Waters On Ukraine, Palestine, Music & More

TRNN: Roger Waters, the British rock legend and co-founder of Pink Floyd, is in the midst of his “This Is Not A Drill” tour. He joins Chris Hedges to discuss his music, life, and how his politics have guided him through it all.

Oh SHIT, Something BIG Is Happening In Germany, The WEF Is Scared

Redacted: Germany's future looks bleak due to war-based sanctions and an energy crisis. Germans continue to protest but will it do any good? We ask academic researcher Ralph Schoelhammer what we can expect from Germany and what he calls "incompetent politicians."

Vanessa Beeley's Statement In Donetsk During Referendum + French Journalist Survived Jews' Assassination Attempt

Vanessa Beeley: I am speaking slowly out of consideration for the interpreter.

Anti-Feminist Professor Janice Fiamengo: Feminism, Anti-Feminism & Common Sense

The Origins Podcast: Janice, a retired Professor of English at the University of Ottawa, calls herself an anti-feminist, which may sound shrill or reactionary, but it is worth listening to her discussions to learn why she so labels herself. Most recently she has been working on a comprehensive history of Feminism and provides compelling arguments, based on data, that much of conventional wisdom regarding such things as universal suffrage and the plight of women currently misrepresents what actually transpired.

The End Of Western Civilization

Doug Casey tells us that we are already destroyed with nothing left to be lost

International Man: The decline of Western Civilization is on a lot of people’s minds.

Let’s talk about this trend.

Doug Casey: Western Civilization has its origins in ancient Greece. It’s unique among the world’s civilizations in putting the individual—as opposed to the collective—in a central position. It enshrined logic and rational thought—as opposed to mysticism and superstition—as the way to deal with the world. It’s because of this that we have science, technology, great literature and art, capitalism, personal freedom, the concept of progress, and much, much more. In fact, almost everything worth having in the material world is due to Western Civilization.

Ayn Rand once said “East minus West equals zero.” I think she went a bit too far, as a rhetorical device, but she was essentially right. When you look at what the world’s other civilizations have brought to the party, at least over the last 2,500 years, it’s trivial.

I lived in the Orient for years. There are many things I love about it—martial arts, yoga, and the cuisine among them. But all the progress they’ve made is due to adopting the fruits of the West.

Zakharova: Who Blew Up The Nord Stream Gas Pipeline?!

RN: Cui bono - Who benefits from this? This is beneficial primarily to the United States. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, at a regular briefing, spoke about who could be involved in the explosions on the Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines.

Theses: We should pay attention to the fact that in July of this year, in the same place, near the island of Bornholm, this is Denmark, NATO exercises were conducted using deep-sea equipment. From the point of view of the logic of Western politicians, this is a very interesting possibility. In general, this region is stuffed with NATO military infrastructure. There is an absolute beneficiary of this situation, of course - this is Washington, the United States.