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See it from the global partner perspective: Michael Walsh, the new Head of the Diagnostics Division.
Michael Walsh, who joined the ITER Project on 1 December as Head of the Diagnostics Division, strongly believes in the "one team" approach. "From the global partner perspective it is very important that we succeed as a team," he says. "My role at ITER is not about me, but about getting the job done and I believe that in working together with our ITER Organization team, Domestic Agency partners and external organizations ... one plus one can really be significantly greater than two. We need to leverage our resources and deliver the goods so that ITER can be realized. Keeping the final deliverable in sight at all times is critical for a smooth journey."
Michael was born in County Cork, Ireland and studied engineering at University College Cork. After completing a Master's degree, he won a Euratom fellowship to undertake a PhD at Culham Laboratory in the United Kingdom. He completed this in 1991 and worked extensively in the private industry sector between then and now, always with a strong connection to the field of fusion.
Since 2003 he has worked with ITER in one way or another so he is a familiar face to many people working at ITER.
Michael, who most recently worked on JET and MAST at Culham Laboratory, is excited to be part of the wider team based inside as well as outside in the Domestic Agencies, and he is looking forward to bringing to ITER some of the excellent techniques he learned over the years.
Michael is married and has three children, Caoimhe, Aisling and Eoin. When he first discussed this role with his family, Eoin, the youngest at 9 years old, said that "it was a life opportunity to work at ITER!" "I am not sure he realized though," says Michael, "that it wasn't for just for a couple of weeks."
In his spare time Michael likes to ski, hike and read. He also has a black belt in judo and hopes to join a judo club in the coming months to help improve both his fitness and his French.
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Long wait for Covid-19 test results
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Japan gov't discussing quasi-state of emergency for Tokyo, surrounding areas
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Masud Rana died after suffering from fever and respiratory ailments, symptoms like those of Covid-19 patients.
Three days after his death, it was known that he had no coronavirus infection.
Deputy civil surgeon of Bogura Dr Mostafizur Rahman said Masud died from coronavirus-like symptoms at his village home in Bogura's Shibganj upazila on March 28.
He said they came to know that Masud, who went to his village home from Dhaka a few days earlier, had not been infected with coronavirus on March 30, three days after his death.
The health department collected Masud's sample on March 28 and sent it to the Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR) for coronavirus test.
Mostahidur Rahman, 45, died on March 26 at Khulna Medical College Hospital with coronavirus-liked symptoms.
Dr Shailendranath Biswas, focal point of corona unit at the hospital, said a team from the health department collected his sample on March 26.
The report was delivered on March 27, one day after the patient's death, showing that Mostahidur did not have coronavirus infection, the doctor said.
In many cases, reports of coronavirus tests are found after the death of patients with Covid-19-like symptoms.
Prof Dr Nazrul Islam, former vice-chancellor of the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) and virologist, told The Business Standard, "It takes three hours to complete coronavirus tests after the sample collection. Reports should be sent within 24 hours."
He said people will lose confidence if they have to wait for longer time to get reports. If it takes longer time to get reports, people remain in fear whether the patients are coronavirus infected or not.
"If patients die before the test reports, their burial take place in a manner similar to the coronavirus victims. That is why, the test reports must be sent fast," he added.
The IEDCR claims it sends test reports within 24 hours. Dr ASM Alamgir, principal scientific officer of IEDCR, told The Business Standard, "We send reports within 24 hours after the tests are done. If wrong email address or mobile phone numbers are provided, then it may take longer time."
Many people collected test reports directly from the IEDCR, he added. "We send the report without any delay if any case is tested positive. We arrange their hospitalisation and isolation after finding them out anyhow, if anyone is not found available on phone."
Bangladesh launched the testing for the virus on January 21 and found the first coronavirus case on March 8.
So far, 1,602 suspects have been tested and of them, 51 found positive for Covid-19.
On average, 22.88 tests were carried out per day since January 21.
Until recently, the tests had been carried out by IEDCR only, which has only one lab with eight machines.
This week the government allowed testing at five more labs.
IEDCR did not find coronavirus infection in five people, including a child, who were admitted to the isolation department at Rangpur Medical College Hospital with Covid-19 like symptoms.
Humayun Kabir, in-charge of isolation department, said on Saturday night Ruhul Amin along with four family members were shifted to Ragnpur Medical College Hospital from Thakurgaon Sadar Hospital.
Their samples were collected on Sunday and sent those to the IEDCR for tests.
Kabir said they received the test reports from IEDCR yesterday that showed the suspects did not have coronavirus infection.
Meanwhile, three suspects who had been admitted to the isolation unit of Gopinathpur IST in Joypurhat with fever, cold, cough and sore throat were found that they had not been infected with coronavirus.
District Civil Surgeon Dr Md Selim Miah said they collected the samples on Saturday and sent those to IEDCR yesterday, showing that the three had no Covid-19 infection.
Health experts said with cases still remaining low in Bangladesh, test results should not take much longer time to be delivered.
In badly affected countries doing hundreds of tests daily, a Covid-19 test may take about four hours once a sample reaches labs.
Sometimes it takes two to four days to get the results due to transportation and other issues in some countries.
In US, getting a result can take two to four days due to issues such as transportation and sample collection.
In UK, government's goal is to get test reports delivered in one to two days amid complaints of reports taking even four days to reach the source.
In Germany, new fully automated PCR test can deliver reports in two hours and a half. But patients still have to wait a couple of days for results, as the samples have first to be sent to the lab by doctors.
In Australia, according to the Federal Health Department, it may take a few days to get the test results in hand.
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Beat the Back to School Blues And Bullies with two great books for young children!
September 3, 2013 By DeniseB 9 Comments
Author, former teacher and mom Kate Messner has battled the back-to-school blues from all sides – and won!
Her picture books Sea Monster and the Bossy Fish and Sea Monster's First Day help students, parents and teachers address some of the fears and challenges that come at the end of summer and the beginning of the school year. We received both of these books to review and these really are Must-Haves for younger children starting school! Sea Monster's First Day is a delightful story about starting school and making new friends. Young children will absolutely love this story! My favorite is Sea Monster and the Bossy Fish and is a fun tale about how to deal with a bully. Both books can be found at Chronicle Books.
About Kate Messner
Kate Messner books for kids include the acclaimed Martie McGuire series, Capture the Flag, Hide and Seek and Over and Under the Snow. She's been honored by New York Times Notable, Junior Library Guild, IndieBound, and Bank Street College of Education Best Books selections. The Brilliant Fall of Gianna Z. was the winner of the 2010 E.B. White Read Aloud Award for Older Readers. Kate spent fifteen years teaching middle school and earned National Board Certification in 2006. She's a popular speaker at schools, libraries and professional conferences, and was the only children's book author invited to speak at the TED 2012: Full Spectrum Conference.
We have teamed up with the Author for a Back-to-School Giveaway! You can win both books! You must be a subscriber to enter! Next, leave a comment below with a helpful tip for the first day of school or a tip for how to deal with bullies. Deadline to enter is September 10th, 2012 at midnight. One winner will randomly be selected from all entries.
Self Disclosure: I received books for free to review but any opinions are my own.
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k says
Before starting school we try to get back to a reasonable consistent bedtime.
Elsa O says
We usually take advantage of all the back to school sales, and go to Toys R Us and get the buy the backpack and get the lunch box for free deal.
Jina A says
schedule!
Cindy Lou says
Say something nice and walk away from the bully.
Shayna Wells says
ignore the bully is possible…if not, tell an adult
Debbie moretti says
For the first day of school, put a nice note in their lunch. It makes them feel like you are there with them.
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Congrats to Debbie M!
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Alaskan Seafood: a visit to learn how fisheries are run in the Pacific northeast.
Purse seiners working a run, Sitka.
Whilst in Sitka, we were fortunate to be able to go out and watch some purse seining for salmon just a few minutes from town. I was amazed at just how close to shore the vessels were operating. Like any fishing, salmon fishing is incredibly competitive and fisheries and companies are constantly monitoring conditions and the movements of the fish to try find the busiest salmon runs. It seems difficult to predict when some spots will be working and I was surprised to see just how small an area might be targeted. The fish runs are very specific, so there isn't much room for many boats to target a run, but in many cases the fishers actually work as a team according to unwritten rules which dictate who can fish and when. The first boat to arrive at an active run becomes the 'warden' and sets the rules for that site. Essentially, one boat will put a net across the run to block it and aggregate the fish, whilst other boats will then take it in turns of fishing. Using this strategy, it seems like they catch far more for less effort compared to just fishing by themselves and directly competing with each other. I was told though that when 30 boats arrive at 1 site, some argy-bargy can still take place.
Well managed There are few other places in the world that can boast so many green rated and certified fisheries across so many different species. For example, each year Alaska catches more seafood that is certified sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council (And also the Alaskan RFM) than what the UK catches in total (certified or not) – more than 3 times over! Certainly geography plays a big part in this, and access to some of the largest fish stocks in the world (Like the Alaskan pollock fishery), but management also plays a key part. We were able to meet with representatives from the Alaskan RFM certification programme and Alaskan Department of Fish and Game who are responsible for managing the State's inshore fisheries to find out a little bit more.
It was clear that Alaskan fisheries are tightly controlled with restrictions on vessels, gear and licenses, with fishing limits set according to a Total Allowable Catch (TAC); access to which is granted through a 'rights-based' quota system. There are also hard limits on the amount of certain bycatch species that can be caught. This means that when a predetermined amount of a prohibited species is taken, the fishery is closed, regardless of whether it has reached the TAC of the target species.
As I'd heard earlier in the trip though, these controls are built on good data collection and scientific monitoring programmes and I heard again the expression, 'data is our ally' from Larry Cotter, who is Chair of the Alaskan RFM programme (among other things). Larry also noted though that the data that is collected must be available and it must be utilised in order to be beneficial.
A lucrative product from the salmon fisheries is salmon roe / caviar, but each year the salmon hatcheries – which are private non-profit companies - collect and keep some of the roe for themselves in order to incubate and rear their own salmon, to be released and enter the fishery later on. Once hatched, the juvenile salmon are held for between 6-9months in tanks on land before being conditioned at a very specific site and then released.
Land based tank holding juvenile salmon. Dipac hatchery, Juneau.
Before a hatchery is developed and a site considered, a comprehensive management feasibility assessment is undertaken to establish if – among other things - the local environment should be introduced to greater numbers of salmon. Sometimes sites are actually chosen for conservation and restoration purposes. There is also a requirement to harvest the hatchery fish so as to minimise the chance of them mixing with and increasing the salmon numbers where they weren't intended. This sounds tricky; after all, once the fish are released in the wild, how can one be sure that they will be caught again?
This is where the innate homing skills of the Pacific salmon play an incredible role. Salmon don't just return to their approximate home rivers. In most cases, the majority of them return to the exact river and site where they were released – and in huge numbers. The photo below shows some chum salmon returning to the exact hatchery where they were released just a few years earlier. I wouldn't have believed it unless I'd witnessed it with my own eyes. The fish were literally jumping over each other to get back into the hatchery. There was no need for a boat – the fish simply returned home.
Chum salmon literally jumping over each other to return to their home hatchery. Dipac hatchery Juneau.
The water outside the Dipac hatchery was boiling with salmon on their return home. Juneau.
The enhanced fisheries are of course not natural, and there are some important questions to be considered with regards to potential environmental implications. In particular, could the enhanced fish weaken the genetic strength of the salmon stocks overall? It was pleasing to hear the Alaskan Department of Fish and Game take such questions very seriously and to learn that considerable research has been and is continuing to be undertaken to establish answers to questions like these. While research has indicated that the enhanced fish may not survive as well in the wild, there is no evidence thus far to suggest this has weakened wild populations. Ongoing research will be important to keep informing regulations and improving best practices and to ensure these fisheries stay sustainable for the whole ecosystem in the long-term. Something that's important for all creatures who enjoy Pacific salmon.
Brown bear in a bear sanctuary, Sitka. Bears are one of many native species that rely on the wild salmon populations for food.


The South Gate may have been built just before the Emperor Hadrian's visit in 129/130 AD, and it is therefore likely that it was built in his honor. There are striking similarities with the larger and later erected Hadrian's Arch: Corinthian half columns on high pedestals, the arches of the gate passages sit on Corinthian pilasters, pavilions adjoin to the left and right of the actual gate building. Later it became part of the 3.4 kilometer-long city wall that was constructed at the beginning of the 4th century AD.


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Ро́дни Сне́йдер (; родился 31 марта 1991 года, Утрехт) — нидерландский футболист, выступающий на позиции полузащитника.

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Родни Снейдер прошёл школу футбольного клуба «Аякс». В 2010 году он был переведён из юношеского состава в резервную команду (Jong Ajax). Летом 2011 года нидерландский полузащитник был арендован «Утрехтом». Игрок дебютировал в Эредивизи 27 августа 2011 года в матче с «Родой», когда его команда победила со счетом 3-1. Более того, Родни стал автором одного из голов за «Утрехт». Всего же в сезоне 2011/12 он сыграл 23 матча и забил 3 мяча.

В июле 2012 года Родни заключил двухлетний контракт с клубом «Валвейк». В дебютной игре, состоявшейся 11 августа, Снейдер отметился дублем в ворота ПСВ, а его команда неожиданно одержала победу в 1-м туре чемпионата, выиграв у одного из претендентов на чемпионский титул со счётом 3:2. В конце января 2014 года «Валвейк» расторг контракт со Снейдером. После этого Родни подписал контракт с клубом «Алмере Сити».

В июле 2015 года Родни отправился на просмотр в шотландский «Данди Юнайтед». Он сыграл в товарищеском матче с АЗ, а 26 июля заключил с клубом контракт на два года. В чемпионате Шотландии Снейдер дебютировал 2 августа в матче с «Абердином», выйдя на замену на 72-й минуте. Встреча завершилась поражением его команды со счётом 0:1. 25 августа «Данди Юнайтед» объявил о расторжении контракта с Родни из-за состояния его здоровья.

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Родни является братом полузащитника Уэсли Снейдера и бывшего футболиста Джеффри Снейдера.

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Игроки ФК «Валвейк»
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Michael Hudson Talks with the Saker About the Russian Counter-Sanction of Paying for Its Gas With Roubles
Yves here. Both economists and political commentators have taken keen interest in Putin's announcement that Russia will accept payment by "unfriendly countries" for its gas only in roubles. As we discussed, there are stronger and weaker forms of how Russia can require these payments be made, and Putin called for his banking and finance operatives to work out the details over the next week.
Some countries like Germany and Italy said no, even though there are possible implementation paths that would not be disruptive. We'll see soon how demanding the Russian demands actually are pretty soon.
In the meantime, at a minimum, Russia having been badly burned by the West using its banking system to purloin freeze $300 billion of Russia's foreign exchange reserves, is keen to reduce its exposure to more shenanigans.
Michael Hudson reviews some of the broader implications in a Q&A with the Saker.
Originally published at Vineyard of the Saker
Following Putin's announcement about selling gas for Rubles only to hostile nations, I decided to reach out to Michael Hudson and ask him (my level, primitive) questions. Here is our full email exchange:
Andrei: Russia has declared that she will only sell gas to "hostile countries" for Rubles. Which means that to non-hostile countries she will continue to sell in Dollars/Euros. Can these hostile countries still purchase gas from Russia but via third countries?
Michael Hudson: There seem to be two ways for hostile countries to buy Russian gas. One seems to be to use Russian banks that are not banned from SWIFT. The other way would indeed seem to be to go through what looks to develop as a formal or informal third-country bank or exchange. India and China would seem to be the best positioned for this role. U.S. diplomats will be pressing India to impose its own sanctions on Russia, and there is a strong pro-U.S. constituency there. But even Modi sees the obvious superior benefits of benefiting from India's geopolitical position with Russia and China's Belt and Road Initiative relative to whatever the U.S. has to
Back in the 1960s the West dealt with the Soviet Union using barter deals. Arranging this barter became a big banking business. Barter is the typical "final stage" of the deterioration of a credit economy into a money economy that breaks down. Over the medium term, a new international financial organization needs to be created as an alternative to the dollarized IMF to handle such intra-bloc transactions in today's new multipolarizing world.
Andrei: These hostile nations would pay extra for that service, but they would not have to get Rubles. Is that even possible?
Michael Hudson: Presumably Russia would not absorb the added bank costs of avoiding U.S. sanctions. It would simply add them on to the price, after setting the price at which it hopes to end up with – preferably at the original "old" ruble/euro or ruble/dollar exchange rate, not the post-attack depreciated rate.
Andrei: Question: Do you believe that the EU will agree to pay Roubles or will they take the total loss of 40% of their energy?
Michael Hudson: They will pay – or be voted out of office. If they WERE to cut their energy imports from Russia, the distress-price of gas would soar and there would be drastic shortages disrupting the economy. Energy is productivity and GDP. For Russia, of course, this is an opportunity to make the break now instead of later – and leave NATO to take the blame for the interruption of supply. So if I were Russia, I would not be in a hurry to help solve the foreign-payment problem. The same goes for non-oil raw materials, from neon to palladium to titanium, nickel and aluminum.
Andrei: So far, this applies only to natural gas. Do you believe that Russia will extend this to petroleum, wheat and fertilizers and, if yes, what will the effect from this be for the world economy?
Michael Hudson: All Russian exports are affected by these currency controls, because all bank transfers are sanctioned in the way discussed above. Russia has no use for dollars or euros, because these can be grabbed. It needs to have complete control over whatever monetary assets it receives, now that past norms of international law and financial policy no longer apply.
Andrei: Russia has A LOT of natural resources and a lot of technologies/commodities. If she is successful in her efforts to become paid in Rubles, could it be that the Ruble, which would then be a natural resources/ commodities backed currency, could become a major "refuge" currency.
Michael Hudson: I'm not sure what a "refuge" currency is, but the ruble will become a self-standing currency. If its balance of trade and payment improves, the problem may be to keep it from rising. If that happens, the question will be whether a rising ruble would oblige buyers of Russian exports to pay more in their own currency. A new multilateral financial system is in the process of being structured as we're having this discussion. Will there be speculation? Forward selling? Short squeezes and Soros-type raids? Who will be the participants and under what rules …?
Andrei: How hard a hit would this Russian decision potentially have on the dollar? And MBS negotiating with the PRC for oil sales in Renminbi. Do you think that China and Russia will bring down the Petrodollar and will we see a commodities-backed Ruble and a commodities-backed Yuan replacing the Dollar?
Michael Hudson: The petrodollar will remain between the United States and its allies. But alongside it, there will be the Saudi-yuan and India-yuan arrangements for trade in oil, minerals, industrial products and probably international investment. Trade in these products will be able to occur in a number of currencies, probably on a number of exchanges. It is not clear whether some formal or informal arbitrage may develop between these areas. That is part of what is to be designed. To oversee and regulate the resulting financial and trade arrangements, an alternative to the IMF is needed. The U.S. will not join any organization in which it does not have veto power, so we will see a division of the world into different trading and monetary areas. The result is not so much a conflict as two quite different operating philosophies as the non-U.S. world develops its alternative to financialized neoliberalism.
Andrei: The US has basically stolen Russian gold and foreign currency. The Russians claim that the US has shot itself in the foot and that this will ruin the reputation of the dollar, do you agree with that?
Michael Hudson: Absolutely: Iran after the Shah was overthrown, Afghanistan's foreign reserves earlier this year, Venezuela's gold held in the Bank of England, and now Russia. Even timid Germany has asked that airplanes begin flying its gold held in the New York Fed back to Germany!
Andrei: do you think that Russia will retaliate against the US/UK/EU and nationalize/seize their assets in Russia or even in countries friendly to Russia (China?)?
Michael Hudson: Russia is very careful to do everything according to international law – which, of course, has a wide variety of precedents and excuses, and whose courts tend to be dominated by U.S. judges backing U.S. versions of what is legal under whatever it announces to be the "rules-based order of the day" instead of the "rule of law" along UN lines. To the extent that NATO investors abandon their assets in Russia, these may be sold – perhaps at a distress discount – to buyers who promise to maintain the business. Russia might impose severe fines for abandonment, as when landlords abandon buildings causing local expenditures on cleanup costs. Abandonment causes a "public nuisance."
This would be a cause for immediate confiscation of current taxes, rent payments and salaries or payments for current supplies (including electricity and fuel) are not paid. Think what would happen if the gas bill were not paid and pipes froze and flooded a property. There is an entire world of penalties that could be applied.
International law provides for some recovery of assets wrongly confiscated – as the U.S. confiscations of Russian-owned reserves and personal property would seem to be. At this point Russia really has nothing to lose. It looks like there is not going to be much Russian-European cross investment for quite some time. Russia finally has given up on its hopes to "turn West" after 1991. It was a dream that turned into a nightmare, and President Putin and Lavrov have expressed their disgust with Europe acting in so uncivilized a matter. So for Russia – and increasingly other countries – NATO Europe and North America are the new barbarians at the gate. Russia is turning
That of course is precisely the aim of U.S. policy – to lock Europe into its own dollarized neoliberal order, blocking any mutual prosperity achieved by trade and investment with Russia or, behind it, with China. It looks like today's sanctions are permanent for the next few years. So of course Russia needs to keep formerly NATO-owned enterprises operating. Let the NATO investors recover compensation from what the United States has grabbed. (Hint: the U.S. may simply begin to grab China's or Latin American or near Eastern reserves to pay NATO investors who have lost in Russia. That is the model of using Afghan money to pay victims of Saudi Arabia's 9/11 attack two decades ago.)
Andrei: finally, what question, if any, did I forget to ask and what would you reply to it?
Michael Hudson: Your questions are about specific problems and solutions. But the overall resolution needs to be system-wide, not patchwork. These specific problems cannot really be solved without a far-reaching institutional restructuring of the international financial system, world trade, a world court, and a UN without US veto power. And such an institutional reformation requires an economic doctrine to provide its basic principles. A New International Economic Order will be constructed on non-neoliberal principles – along the lines of what used to be called socialism, when that was what people expected industrial capitalism to be evolving into.
Andrei: thank you so much for your time and expertise!!
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Where the Milk and Honey Ebb March 26, 2022 at 7:42 am
Given that Germany and Italy and others have said no to buying in Rubles, I wonder what the end-game is.
It seems as if our great leaders are going to inflict real pain on us, massunemployment and starvation. Things that we haven't felt for quite some time and what according to Mao has made us weak. They will blame the pain on Russia and of course we will be called upon to go to war with Russia to get our food and jobs back. In Swedish media they call the new gas prices and every price gouging – the "putin gas price" etc.
Pat March 26, 2022 at 8:52 am
The end game is Russia making a whole lot of countries realize what a sham the US is. Right now in the spring, it is easy for Germany to say no. Three months from now the same people saying no will panic as it becomes increasingly obvious that not only is the US fuel more expensive, unlike Russia they will not be able to deliver. And while that may be the big commodity, there will be ever increasing shortages and inflation that is going to undermine any support for these policies. The cute little white girl will no longer move people and politicians are going to know that not having enough heat will do them in.
IMNO It is going to take too long, but Europe will back away from the sanctions and will be belligerent about the NATO expansion because it will cost too much and unlike America, their citizens will not be ignored. Russia is going to win.
NN Cassandra March 26, 2022 at 8:59 am
Frankly, this whole affair is quite bizarre. When West seized Russia USD/EUR assets, introduced sanctions and banned Russia from using USD/EUR and then added carve out to allow themselves to send the now useless USD/EUR to Russia for oil/gas or whatever EU wants… I mean isn't it absolutely obvious that what this amount to is trying to get resources from Russia for free?
So when Western leaders came up with this clever scheme, did they work on the assumption that the sanctions will be leaky (that ruble didn't crash would suggest there are ways for Russia to move the money around and use it)? Did they expect Putin to give them gas free of charge for the next couple of years till they find other suppliers? Or are they bunch of idiots who have absolutely no idea of what they are doing?
Because when I see yet another politician talk about how West is currently financing Putin's war, it really looks like they think they have the upper hand there.
The Rev Kev March 26, 2022 at 9:24 am
That Gonzalo Lira has dropped a very long video called "Why The Western Elites Are Foolish and Amoral" which unfortunately makes a lot of sense. He is basically saying that to advance through the system, you have to be intelligent, work hard but most important of all, you have to comply. Those who rebel or question the system are pushed to the side and will not be allowed to advance. In the end, this gives you people like Psaki or Blinken or Ursula von der Leyen who will refuse to go against the consensus, no matter how bad a decision they have made.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDOa9PW3lnU (1:44:10 mins)
Pate March 26, 2022 at 11:31 am
Yes. Chomsky said something similar about likely the most important aspect of system maintenance: the gatekeepers and agenda-setters who are "stunningly successful" (Thomas E Patterson, Harvard) at controlling the way we think:
"… the press has a job: its job is to keep people from understanding the world, and to keep them indoctrinated … and the point is, if you want to be a "responsible" journalist, you have to understand what's important, and what's important is things that work for the cause – U.S. corporate power, that's the cause. And you will not stay in the press very long unless you've internalized and come to understand these values virtually intuitively – because there's a whole elaborate process of filtering and selection in the institutions to eliminate people who don't understand them and to help advance people who do … And of course, it's also part of the way the propaganda system keeps everyone else from understanding the elementary realities, too."
flora March 26, 2022 at 11:33 am
The "consensus" never seems to think beyond "step 1."
I'm not asking for a Talleyrand or a Bismark or even a George Kennan or Kissinger. Just a little independent foresight and common sense in our "deciders" would do. But these people have never gained judgement, they've only gained approval from the "right people."
David in Santa Cruz March 26, 2022 at 12:43 pm
I think that there is something quite important being said here. The American Ivy's appear to have coddled a generation of entitled elites who believe themselves to be exempt from conflicts of interest and the law of contracts — the U.S. banking and finance sector being a prime example.
Blinken is the son of a founding director of Warburg Pincus who was educated at elite private schools in NYC and Paris (stepdad suffered horribly in the Holocaust) before being earmarked for "great things" as a Harvard undergrad. He worked with Daddy as a Dukakis fundraiser, buying a sinecure as an advisor to Presidents ever since — mainly in service of America abetting the murder of Arabs in Iraq, Libya, Gaza, and Syria on behalf of Zionist irredentism. He appears to have a complete lack understanding of the civil war between Russia and "Ukraine" and seems to be warped by the 20th century conflagration between Nazism and Bolshevism that has very little relevance to the continued existence of NATO — except to the extent that he, and partners Lloyd Austin and John Thain have personally profited through WestExec and Pine Island Capital Partners.
We are badly served by this generation of country-club brown-nosers.
chris March 26, 2022 at 3:19 pm
Absolutely agree with you there. What our elites showcase, more than a practical example of the Peter Principle, is that if you comply you will be rewarded financially. You will also be insulated from the negative consequences of any decisions you supported. Only in very rare circumstances will you ever be ostracized to the point where you cannot recover.
This is the main reason why there is such rage at people like Louis CK, Rogan, Trump, Sanders, Gabbard, Petersen, Mike Rowe, etc. These are people who all engage in wrong thinking and create audiences who question compliance. They are also people who seem to be able to resist cancelation via official channels. That they exist and prosper is something that cannot be tolerated by the overlords of our regime.
Which means I think it's reasonable to expect that as the failure of our Russia related policies becomes clear we will experience a crackdown on social liberty and reality based information the likes of which would make Stalin blush. These elites can only maintain their status if the system is under their control. To the extent that the system is observed to not be under their control, it's only a matter of time until their positions become worse. As such, this is an existential crisis for people like the Bidens, the Clintons, the Bloombergs, the Obamas, the Pelosis, the Heinzs, the Romneys, etc etc. They will fight to the death over it.
I expect to find my country become unrecognizable in short order due to all this.
Vodkatom March 27, 2022 at 6:19 am
I hope you're wrong on crackdown conclusion. But I like the lens you put forth for understanding the establishment rage at "wrong thinkers" like Sanders, et al. This clarifies for me the whole episode in the last election when all the establishment democratic candidates dropped out en mass to support Biden against Sanders. I understood why the "party" was against Sanders, but was disturbed(?) by how all the individual politicians just rolled over so easily and in the exact same way.
rob March 27, 2022 at 7:59 am
Blinken is also a member of the council on foreign relations,
One of the "clubs" of which the establishment, has used to groom "groupthink"..
Left in Wisconsin March 26, 2022 at 1:54 pm
This is also my experience of American policy elites: book-smart, very (very) hardworking, but almost entirely drawn from a narrow slice of the population and, most importantly, always willing and able to rationalize, compromise, compartmentalize, look the other way, and otherwise keep the focus on getting ahead within the system (which basically requires/demands selling out) rather than consider what might be best for the system.
The more naturally this comes to one, the higher their personal ceiling.
Irrational March 26, 2022 at 3:18 pm
Sounds extremely descriptive of my employer
JBird4049 March 26, 2022 at 6:27 pm
>>>In the end, this gives you people like Psaki or Blinken or Ursula von der Leyen who will refuse to go against the consensus, no matter how bad a decision they have made.
Remember the question, if someone else jumps off the cliff, would you do so as well? I guess they would follow the lemmings off the cliff?
ambrit March 28, 2022 at 1:08 am
I see it as more like that these Credentialled Cretins consider themselves as those who organize and facilitate the flood of lemmings "doing the cliff experience."
Something like a neo-liberal therapist; "I observe your pain."
drumlin woodchuckles March 26, 2022 at 7:10 pm
" Those who rebel or question the system are pushed to the side and not be allowed to advance" . . . might be very good recruits into or even co-founders of an emerging Oppositional Defiant BetterCulture. Perhaps they can become the leaner tougher meaner hippies we need
( or need to be ) for today's leaner tougher meaner times of today.
lance ringquist March 26, 2022 at 1:53 pm
under free trade whats mine is mine, whats yours is mine. any country that was foolish enough to believe they were special and not subject to smash and grab, were fools.
nafta billy clinton made this quite clear.
clearly this is fascism,
"bill clinton did this,
NATO bombed Yugoslavia for 78 days following accusations that Milošević was ethnically cleansing Albanians in Kosovo.
The late Milošević was quietly and de facto cleared of all charges by the Hague Tribunal in 2016, but by the time the truth came out, Yugoslavia was long gone, broken into seven, more manageable and exploitable, countries. One of those profiteers, Albright's financial management company, was involved in the privatization of Kosovo's telecommunications company. From Wikipedia, one can learn that she too likely profits well from her war mongering, along with other untouchables"
bill clinton did this to the mexicans,
"There's no other option for us. It's either certain death in our villages where we can't survive, largely due to NAFTA, or maybe dying on the road."
"a bill clinton mouth piece,
In a March 28 New York Times article, Thomas Friedman wrote:
"For globalization to work, America can't be afraid to act like the almighty superpower that it is… The hidden hand of the market will never work without a hidden fist. McDonald's cannot flourish without McDonnell Douglas, the designer of the F-15. And the hidden fist that keeps the world safe for Silicon Valley's technologies is called the United States Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps."
As NATO troops entered Kosovo, the same newspaper announced Kosovo's new currency will be the U.S. dollar or German mark, currencies of the two countries most responsible for Yugoslavia's break-up. And after months of being told that Slobodan Milosevic was the problem, we heard Washington Balkans expert, Daniel Serwer, explain:
"It's not a single person that's at issue, there's a regime in place in Belgrade that is incompatible with the kind of economy that the World Bank… has to insist on…"
" Bill Clinton elaborated:
"If we're going to have a strong economic relationship that includes our ability to sell around the world Europe has got to be the key; that's what this Kosovo thing is all about… It's globalism versus tribalism."
"Tribalism" was the word used by 19th century free trade liberals to describe nationalism. And this war was all about threatening any nation which might have ideas of independence."
"Globalization undermines both democracy and national sovereignty, the only guarantors of human rights. Unfortunately for Messrs. Clinton, Chretien et al, that message was not lost on millions around the world watching NATO bombs pulverize Yugoslavia."
"Globalism is the creation of a set of property rights that, precisely because they span multiple sovereignties, cannot be touched by one government without inviting conflict with another.
Organizing property and production across borders—whether through free trade, protections for foreign investment, currency unions or other devices—does more than limit the power of governments. It also serves, "to dissolve the small, discrete collective of mutual identification—which means a country."
offshore tax havens are a direct result of free trade: the pathology of free trade is being exposed
Today's global rich are increasingly stateless, detaching their money from nation states and conventional representations of ownership to hide and preserve it. A global oligarchy is growing — and it does not bode well for everyone else and the planet.
free trade enables the plundering of the wealth of nations, especially hurting the world's most poor and vulnerable populations. It allows wealthy individuals and corporations to dodge and evade their tax responsibilities, shifting obligations onto those with fewer resources. It empowers criminals, deadbeats, and kleptocrats
in 1983 there were only 15 billionaires in the u.s.a., under nafta billy clintons free trade, billionaires have ballooned into more than 615, and under free trade, this is happening globally
Joe Renter March 26, 2022 at 9:13 pm
Lance-
I would give you a standing ovation on that post. A great summary of how we got to the shi*show we have now.
lance ringquist March 27, 2022 at 11:41 am
I wonder whether another suitable nickname for President Slicky Bill might be " President Jeffrey Epstein's friend" . . . or just simply " Jeffrey Epstein's friend". Just to be used from time to time to remind people that Jeffrey Epstein was a perfect expression of everything Bill Clinton stands for.
Charles 2 March 27, 2022 at 4:55 am
Milošević was not cleared of all charges by The Hague tribunal. The procedure was stopped because of his death.
Après Moi March 27, 2022 at 11:25 am
Not true. He was, in fact cleared, but this emerged in a much later report, long after his death. The media, MSM, did not cover it, for obvious reasons.
https://www.defenddemocracy.press/milosevic-exonerated-nato-war-machine-moves/
lance ringquist March 27, 2022 at 12:05 pm
really NC should do a piece on this so that if any pro nafta/nato types show up, we can just point to the facts.
he was vindicated after he died.
http://www.ronpaulinstitute.org/archives/featured-articles/2016/august/03/milosevic-exonerated-as-the-nato-war-machine-moves-on/
https://milosevic.co/581/neil-clark-milosevic-exonerated-as-the-nato-war-machine-moves-on/
"In addition, as I noted here, the former head of security in the Yugoslav army, General Geza Farkas (an ethnic Hungarian), testified that all Yugoslav soldiers in Kosovo had been handed a document explaining international humanitarian law, and that they were ordered to disobey any orders which violated it. Farkas also said that Milosevic ordered no paramilitary groups should be permitted to operate anywhere in Kosovo.
When Milosevic died, his accusers claimed he had "cheated justice". But in fact, as the ICTY has now confirmed, the injustice was done to Milosevic.
While he had to defend himself against politically-motivated charges at The Hague, the US and its allies launched their brutal, illegal assault on Iraq, a war which has led to the death of up to one million people. Last year a report from Body Count revealed that at least 1.3 million people had lost their lives as a result of the US-led 'war on terror' in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Albanians (USA) are threatening Serbia with war
Those sorts of figures help us get Kosovo into some kind of perspective. Even if we do hold Milosevic and the Yugoslav government responsible for some of the deaths there in 1999, (in a war which the West had clearly desired and provoked) far, far, greater death and destruction has been caused by the countries who were the keenest to see the President of Yugoslavia in the dock. As John Pilger noted in 2008, the bombing of Yugoslavia was the "perfect precursor to the bloodbaths in Afghanistan and Iraq."
Since then we've also had the NATO destruction of Libya, the country which had the highest living standards in the whole of Africa and the backing of violent 'rebels' to try and achieve 'regime change' in Syria.
You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to see a pattern here."
Rod March 27, 2022 at 12:33 pm
great, succinct, comment
i can't say why, but i'm thinking this is not tht good–
"to dissolve the small, discrete collective of mutual identification—which means a country."
Acacia March 26, 2022 at 9:45 am
As Michael Hudson suggests, they will climb down and pay in roubles — or be voted out of office when the cost of living for their constituents goes through the roof. And right now, I'd bet on the latter, unless the "solution" is to print tonnes of money to pay oil companies to keep prices down.
Of course our great leaders will try to blame shift, pin it all on Putin, but at the end of the day they will get hammered at the polls. And after that they will still blame shift, whine about deplorables, Russian stooges, fluoridation in our precious social media fluids, etc.
Where the Milk and Honey Ebb March 26, 2022 at 10:23 am
"be voted out of office"
Who would fill the void? The only person in Germany voicing anything similar to opposition to the war is Sarah Wagenknecht. Everybody else give standing ovation to radical increase of defence budget and procurement of flying dustbins… F-35 I meant, and standing ovations to Zelensky.
Bur not even Wagenknecht talks about what wall-climbing lunacy the current policy is. Even if she would the Die Linke leadership is 100% dedicated to symbol politics. When the presented their presidential candidates they told members and everybody that would listen that their candidate wasn't about winning the presidency bur bringing up the topic of poverty through this voluntering pro. The neoliberal "the are no alternatives" is more or less implemented in Germany. And mind you they have the most to lose.
The neoliberals are technocrats, among other things. They believe in technocratic govt instead of political govt – political govt where politics is about asking what the important govt and public questions are right now (not what they were yesterday) and trying to find solutions. The technocrats work to create fixed (think AI ) solutions to yesterday's questions and lock them in place, imo. New questions, new problems rising from their yesterday solutions, are given the "There is no alternative" dogmatic response. They've built a structure of solutions to a 1980's problem that's no longer fit for service in 2020, but "There is no alternative"… according to them. My 2 cents.
Where the Milk and Honey Ebb March 26, 2022 at 4:51 pm
Only partly true. Neoliberals are rabid ideologues whose aim is to weaken the state's influence on business, ensuring that no wealth is redistributed from owners to employees and that the state is protecting owners from employees and their demands for living wage and social welfare state.
They are technocrats in the sense that they have infected their cancer into the legislative and policy bone marrow. In this respect they have been highly efficient. So efficient that it will take decades to untangle the chaos. In the West we have the same problem as the former Soviet Union states had vs. capitalism. Almost nobody in the ex-Soviet states understood how to work in the capitalism. Nowadays, we have a corresponding brain rot. Nobody in the West is able to build up a privatized railway to make sure the trains arrive and leave on time, as they used to do in Sweden and Germany before the neoliberal deconstruction. Where would you find people that are capable of thinking, acting and implementing functions and systems, such as public transport, as public goods and for the public good?
Btw, in Russia the trains arrive and leave on time every time of the year and everywhere in the country.
We the powerless will have to try to speak truth to eachother and learn truth from eachother, and do our best with the zero-power we have to craft our own solutions to our own problems of today.
Only a minority of Americans would ever want to be identified with such an effort. But a minority could still be millions. Maybe just enough millions to create the Oppositional Defiant CounterCulture needed to force our own solutions into existence for our own problems. Perhaps success in that project could give us enough diffuse networked non-assassinatable power that we could undermine and tear down and destroy the current system-of-systems from below.
Michael Hudson March 26, 2022 at 2:31 pm
Well, as you may have heard, Sarah's husband just quite as head of Die Linke, getting exasperated.
On the other hand, the Christian-Democrat Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung editor interviewed us together over lunch a few years ago in Berlin hoping to popular her and my views. So the change, if it occurs, will probably have to emerge from a palace revolt in a mainline party.
Then there's the right wing …
Things really don't look too good for Germany
How often are you being interviewed in German media or consulted by people with power, influence of agenda-setting over power? I really hope more than I am aware of.
Skip Intro March 26, 2022 at 5:39 pm
The AfD and right would be the natural beneficiaries of electoral revolt, with Die Linke unable to escape DDR taint and the Greens as coopted and loyal to NATO as anyone. I wonder if they mind throwing the Ukrainian neonazis under the bus. Can we expect much solidarity from serious nationalists?
LawnDart March 26, 2022 at 9:00 am
More good news! For our weapons makers (USA #1 in the world for sales), and sort-of good news for gas and oil industry (if you like roller-coasters). The Yankee dollar is starting to look like that "interesting fellow," a polite way of describing a creep, that your gut tells you to avoid.
Considering that the world's a global market, and Russia is blessed with a number of critical resources which they are becoming more selective with whom they share, what are some of the near or shorter-term scenarios that us slobs of Main Street USA might face in the coming months? I don't see any mention of this, almost anywhere (except Snyder, and he's nuts) and I totally get it– seeing how fluid things are, that crystal ball might seem to be a ball-and-chain for a bad call, but I'd still like to see someone offer some informed speculation.
And if the Saker considers himself primative when it comes to these matters, he should get outside and look up– he might catch sight of me swinging from branch to branch in the trees.
dftbs March 26, 2022 at 9:58 am
The West has a lot of money, but no capital. This pile of money which is largely concentrated in a few hands represents a tremendous amount of consumptive power within the current political structures that govern the West. The Russians have made the first of many moves that shrink the pool of consumption products and commodities for all that money. Their move is more "inflationary" than previous events like "supply chain disruptions" because they have determined the risk premium for transacting in Western money is not some haircut, but infinite. We'll probably see more explicit or implicit moves like this from other non-Western nations.
In a sane system this would be remedied by making America great again- increasing domestic productivity, turning that money into capital. We are not a sane place. Western Capitalist spent the better part of last century waging an economic and political war on Western labor, it was so vile we didn't even bury the corpse. In the process they went from industrial capitalists to the Rentier parasites Prof. Hudson so often decries. This class and its system view any marginal empowerment of labor as threatening as a PLA landing in LA. Just remember their reaction to harmless Sen. Sanders.
Instead of sanity we will nuke the corpse of labor the same way we did last time. Jay Powell is about to go full Volcker. They will crush the "economy" and drive people to work for slave wages. This concentrated pool of consumptive power will have one thing left to buy, our sons, our daughters and ourselves. Of course there will be a shiny veneer. People will debase themselves under the illusion of empowerment, you'll have digital pimps like only fans. The opiate of the masses will be a multi-racial superhero movie. Americans won't be crucified on a cross of gold, but in a cruel twist to WJB one of unplayable debt.
Or hopefully as Americans, or some other tag we've yet to discover, we join that new international system modeled along the "lines of what used to be called socialism". I think they still call it that In Beijing.
dftbs
Now that's what I'm talking about. Nothing better than a little spot-on clinical analysis in poetic form. Ps. "don't f the bs"? Mum was a great puzzle solver but I didn't git the gene.
flora March 26, 2022 at 12:01 pm
Instead of sanity we will nuke the corpse of labor the same way we did last time.
The global corps and globalist oligarchs will squeeze the last dime out of the Western middle class using rising commodity prices, imo.
https://www.rt.com/business/552668-miner-bezos-gates-drilling-greenland/
Jerermy Grimm March 26, 2022 at 12:03 pm
This post and Michael Hudson's post at the end of last month: "America Defeats Germany …", which I missed while I was offline for a while, have helped me reach a deeper understanding of the political and economic situations encompassed under and within the rubric of the War in Ukraine. I had thought the u.s. government and political leadership demonstrated remarkable stupidity by their actions. Michael Hudson's posts reminded me that the u.s. government and political leadership was selected not for its brilliance but for its ability to act in the interests of the Elite. This compelled me to re-examine my characterization of the Elite. Though composed of individuals I have long regarded the Elite as consisting of unhuman constructs acting to accomplish unhuman goals — however — I had remained fixed in thinking of Elite goals in human terms. The u.s. Elite have become a Neoliberal Elite, a new type of creatures with an increasingly limited sense of time, dangerously coupled with a growing lack of regard for the welfare of Humankind as evidenced in the wars of the previous century. The u.s. Elite is not stupid and it is not unaware of its best interests. The u.s. Elite measures its best interests using a yardstick of months and quarters extending little longer than a year and weighs risks using an unhuman scale. The u.s. Elite is not troubled by concern for the risks of triggering a nuclear war, because it has little concern for the welfare of Humankind and the risk of nuclear war weighs differently when measured using its unhuman balance scale.
Timothy Dutra, MD, PhD March 26, 2022 at 12:07 pm
Powerful rhetoric, "dftbs". Like a pie full of "truthie" hitting me in the face. "but in a cruel twist to WJB of unplayable debt" is still ringing in my ears. Unplayable and unpayable.. Unlike William Jennings Bryan, Michael Hudson evolves and grows wiser. My only criticism to the wishful conclusion, Mr or Ms "dftbs", in your closing paragraph, is that you may be (unfortunately) too optimistic.
super extra March 26, 2022 at 1:13 pm
Jay Powell is about to go full Volcker. They will crush the "economy" and drive people to work for slave wages.
I'm not sure the Volcker put is replicable in current conditions, but I am going more off a feeling than any concrete understanding of the fundamentals. I think my feelings can mostly be summarized by, once the squeeze starts, it won't just be the power of labor that will drop, but also the imaginary gains of the last few decades as financialization took over everything.
dftbs March 26, 2022 at 1:48 pm
I think you're right in that the present situation is very different from the one Volcker found himself in 40 years ago. At that point there was some blood left in American labor to offer up as a sacrifice. Volcker could use rate shock to destroy wages and that particular avenue of inflationary pressure. Powell only has a corpse of American labor which to drain. Wage pressures aren't contributing to current inflation; but inflation is an ever greater phenomenon.
Powell is a vampire and so he will try to draw blood. I don't have a personal or professional opinion of how high he will take rates, 20% seems impossible under the present debt burden. But Powell has the benefit of sovereign debt monetization, something that was unthinkable in Volcker's day. I agree that this will destroy a large amount of nominal gains from the last decade, these gains are already being eaten up by inflation. The advantage that Powell has is that even in a high rate environment, the Fed now has the tools to increase market liquidity and preserve the value of assets held by those institutions that can access Fed liquidity. You and I can't access Fed liquidity or deposit at IORB or RRP, Chase, Goldman and Blackrock can. Perhaps that is the plan, first they came for labor, now for the petit bourgeoise. They will destroy nominal wealth and leave it even more concentrated.
My contention is that this "wealth" is consumptive not productive, and with the West shutting itself off from the rest of the world, the only thing left for this "wealth" to consume are the people now trapped in the West. Of course we don't know we are prisoners just yet.
The advantage that Powell has is that even in a high rate environment, the Fed now has the tools to increase market liquidity and preserve the value of assets held by those institutions that can access Fed liquidity. You and I can't access Fed liquidity or deposit at IORB or RRP, Chase, Goldman and Blackrock can. Perhaps that is the plan, first they came for labor, now for the petit bourgeoise. They will destroy nominal wealth and leave it even more concentrated.
Yes, I think this is the most likely outcome.
Regarding your final point, mighty depressing next decade in the US with that combining with the only other well-functioning machine in our society, the propaganda hate ray turning on a new scapegoat/distraction. Oh, and successive waves of Covid and Long Covid.
obama prevented another new deal, and bailed out nafta billy clintons disastrous policies and here we are.
http://fsmitha.com/h2/ch16.htm
Brüning attempted to restore economic equilibrium by a balanced
budget, high interest rates and remaining on the gold standard — no
emergency deficit spending. And the economy continued to slide……..
Jessica March 27, 2022 at 12:50 am
Next step: Hindenburg for President.
tindrum March 26, 2022 at 3:52 pm
30 years of outsourcing can not be reversed in 6 months. The US and the EU have major problems if China decides to restrict exports.
Jeremy Grimm March 26, 2022 at 5:14 pm
The u.s. Elite appears to be removing the underpinnings of u.s. hegemony sacrificing its broad long-term interests to realize isolated short-term advantage while the costs and risks to the Populace are largely ignored.
Henry Moon Pie March 26, 2022 at 5:33 pm
I have a possible silver lining for that cloud. If the Russians send their natgas to India and China who use it to eliminate the use of coal, that will help our carbon situation significantly.
On top of that, if the U. S. and EU head into the Mother of All Depressions, that will significantly cut the carbon footprints of the (by far) biggest abusers, the North Americans, and the second-worst, the western Europeans.
With melting poles and the emissions of war, all that may be too little, too late.
I would like to see us give up on making America "great". I would like to see us make America okay. Okay for Americans to live in.
I am an American Okayness Ordinarian. Okay is good enough and good enough is okay.
MAOKA. Make America O K Again.
The material procedural side of that would involve defecting America from all the Free Trade Agreements and America running off the Corporate Globalonial Plantation. The International Free Trade Conspiracy World Order would of course try putting a wannabe-Autakarmerica under a combination of the kind of sanctions and blockade America current puts Cuba under and is extending to Russia.
We would have to expect this and be prepared for it. The entire Free Trade Conspiracy world would go to war against America in order to re-colonize it and force it back onto the Corporate Globalonial Plantation.
Anyone running to Make America Free Again should tell the truth about that to those citizens whose votes he/she seeks. A vote for Autakarmerican Okayness is a vote to accept decades of aggressive war by an evil and hateful Free Trade World against a freedom-seeking middle-power-aspirational America in order to prevent it from repairing itself.
Susan the other March 26, 2022 at 12:12 pm
This is a timely confluence of international finance. Could it be coincidental? They have been working on CBDCs for a year or so now. My impression is that the central bank, our Fed to be precise, is going to eliminate commercial banking for private individuals and deal directly with every citizen. That sounds to me like a complete removal of the foundation for "private banking" using public money. Which also sounds like a good "alternative to financialized neoliberalism." Don't these two go hand in hand? And just the surprising realization that the FBI is actually aggressively prosecuting financial misconduct is mind-boggling. It seems like, for the last almost 30 years, we have been ransacked because our weaknesses were, in fact, our contradictory system. And now we will close it down and begin a new one. I'm sure "commercial banking" will remain viable for business and industry but under clearer guidelines. Why we tried to deny the reality of our situation and force financialized neoliberalism (rapidly inflating austerity?) on ourselves and the world is hard to explain. But denial will make you do the exact opposite of what is rational. Maybe we thought the world would fall apart. But here we are. It finally took the Russians to point out that the emperor has no clothes. Who else? The nexus of all this fog, for me, is that both western central banks and the new Eurasian-bloc countries – both groups – are working on an international currency exchange which is a network of CBDC. Which (currencies) are based on the value of the resources of their respective countries. Back to basics. Money with a digital pedigree will be much easier to control. But it is all so confusing right now we are not sure what to think. I'd think that a digital rouble is just as reliable as a digital dollar.
digi_owl March 27, 2022 at 9:51 am
What is funny is that central banks exist in large part to clean up after the private banks.
After all, their core reason to exist is to lend to private banks as needed when the private banks run out of money. This by being able to conjure money from thin air as needed. And somehow a central bank is more trustworthy with this power than a national government.
All in all the banking industry, and how we are told to think about it, is deeply stuck in a commodity money mentality.
Robin Kash March 26, 2022 at 12:18 pm
I wonder if the fate of the dollar (aka petro dollar) hangs on Saudi alignment and preferment. Saudi-Russia relations have picked up. Poor relations with Turkey on both counts are part of it. The Saudis aren't speaking to Biden.
The pair account for about a quarter of worldwide oil production. Should the Saudis go with Russia-China and their new payment system wouldn't the dollar be toast?
dday March 26, 2022 at 12:20 pm
One of the main architects of the US response is Daleep Singh. This recent article in the New Yorker gives some background on how the sanctions came together.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-inquiry/the-biden-official-who-pierced-putins-sanction-proof-economy
Singh was also featured on the first segment of "60 Minutes" last Sunday.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-economic-sanctions-ukraine-60-minutes-2022-03-20/
We seem to be in unchartered waters in terms of sanctions this comprehensive.
From the New Yorker: "the western sanction on the Russian central bank came together in a matter of hours." They seem to think this was an instance of efficient resolve as opposed to dimwitted impulse. Daleep Singh did the geopolitical equivalent of drinking a gallon of milk, because milk does a body good.
It's even funnier they think they caught the Russians off guard. "The leaks, the rumors that we hear, suggest that the worst-case scenario that Russian policymakers expected was a switching off of swift." The Russians didn't imagine the West would seize the CB reserves and violate sovereign immunity because the repercussions of this would be more harmful to the West than to Russia. Sighn is taking credit for being the guy that destroyed the "full faith and credit". If only Alexander Hamilton was around to invite the guy to Weehawken.
Foy March 26, 2022 at 4:57 pm
Daleep Singh, ex trader, aha so thats who the scapegoat is going to be when they belatedly realise that the USD has lost much of its reserve currency privileges and US Treasury Bonds are no longer a risk free asset in foreigners eyes due to the sanctions, and the Global South are abandoning them with ever greater speed, and the US economy is tanking along with that abandonment, and the US can't get critical materials for its economy anymore and the IMF doesn't have the leverage it once did and the old monetary system is goneski. Good to know.
The Rev Kev March 26, 2022 at 8:58 pm
It's a remarkable story and thanks for bringing it up but I do wonder. In all that planning that he did on how to crush Russia, did Daleep Singh ever take the time to ask himself how Russia could do the same to the west? What his Russian counterpart would be thinking? Or would that require empathy?
RobertC March 27, 2022 at 5:19 pm
I've asserted that Chinese and Russian military and academic analysts used data-intensive Artificial intelligence applications running on high performance computers to develop possible courses of action in response to planned and developing "What-If" situations. An AI economic modelling application may include the Input–output model (and its extension Consistency Analysis). There are likely more sophisticated applications in this and other fields of national security interest.
I'll note there is strong Russian (Soviet), Chinese, UK and Indian presence in economic modelling (eg, Elsevier Economic Modelling journal) and its special issues, eg Elsevier Special Issue.
Mr Singh's publications appear to be limited to policy think tanks and Congressional testimony. They do not seem to incorporate formal methods. A sample is Assessing the Use of Sanctions in Addressing National Security and Foreign Policy Challenges
We began pursuing this objective by first writing down a set of guiding principles that remain instructive today.
Restricting [Russia's 2014 access to] foreign capital proved even more potent than we anticipated.
BTW it's worth reading his May 15, 2019 testimony on its own merit to understand Singh's and Biden's failures today and eight years ago.
Edmund Bellord March 26, 2022 at 1:14 pm
Can someone help me with how to parse the Saker. I find it very difficult to take seriously given all the hyperbolic language and every second word being some variation of Nazi. What strategies to people have to parse the information on offer?
Yves Smith Post author March 26, 2022 at 8:00 pm
Not sure why you are having trouble parsing this. I have yet to have anyone make this complaint.
And as for tone, please tell me how this is more extreme than the fawning praise of Zelensky, or the relentless demonization of Putin?
Don Joe March 27, 2022 at 5:28 am
It certainly isn't more extreme but I doubt fighting fire with fire is a sensible approach in this case.
Even though it is hard to reach any audience these days by keeping the tone down, I'd like to see media sites, especially the ones trying to counter mainstream media, make the effort.
Yves Smith Post author March 27, 2022 at 12:11 pm
1. In Lambert's and my experience of moderating nearly 2 million comments (here and in Lambert's prior life), ton policing is nearly a sign of bad faith (not your remark but the original one)
2. The reason that is evident in this instance is the place to complain is to the Saker, not us. Complaining here is tantamount to trying to discredit him.
Steven March 26, 2022 at 1:43 pm
Foreign Policy as Day Trading
It should come as no surprise that US and Western policymakers approach foreign affairs with the same short-term perspective that governs day-traders. After all, most of them hail from the ranks of Wall Street. My guess is they are intellectually incapable of playing the long game like the leaders of China and Russia. The West is playing – with stunning incompetence – the last card it has left, its "exorbitant privilege" of furnishing the global economy with its money. If possession of Soddy's "Discovery, Natural Energy and Diligence—the Three Ingredients of Wealth" governs the outcome of that long game, my money is on China and Russia.
Polar Socialist March 26, 2022 at 1:57 pm
I gather we can already include India with China and Russia, the way "The West" is trying to win them over by bullying and throwing tantrums.
I'll go along with that. India has a lot of brainpower that can supply the discovery and diligence if given half a chance. Finance capitalism is a one-trick pony. The Chinese and Russians have already demonstrated they are more than capable of playing the game in their spare time.
these countries together can manage developments such as aircraft and semiconductors that are prohibitively expensive for any single country.
LawnDart March 26, 2022 at 5:58 pm
Rise of the xRICs?
Many years ago I read Frederick Soddy's " Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt: the Solution of the Economic Paradox". I still have it buried somewhere deep in my bookpiles. I dimly remember concepts such as discovery, natural energy and diligence ( diligence of intelligent management of groups of peoples' focused effort, among other things) from that book. Is " Discovery, Natural Energy and Diligence–the Three Ingredients of Wealth" a separate paper that he also wrote and published?
Here's a very bare-bones skeletal page about that book.
https://www.fadedpage.com/showbook.php?pid=20140873
He was a scientist. The little blurb I linked to just above notes that Soddy discovered the element Protoactinium. I wonder if that earned him one of his two Nobel Prizes. As a genuine reality-based scientist, he wondered what a genuine reality-based economic theory might look like if a genuine reality-based scientist tried to develop it without any contamination or pollution from economists. Since no one else was developing such a theory, he decided to do it himself.
If his theory and observations are really as reality-based as I want to believe, then I have to wonder whether they could be followed and applied by reality-based individuals and/or groups of individuals at whatever social size and scale could agree among themselves to follow and apply them. If so, then the only thing stopping reality-based people from applying reality-based bio-physiconomics in their own lives and/or social groupings would be active interference from the various Upper Class Occupation Regimes those individuals and/or social groupings are ruled by . . . . and the fantasy-based economics by which the various UCORs propagandize and indoctrinate their rule to their victims and subjects.
There are links on the page to which you supplied the link where you can download the complete last edition of Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt in just about any format you want. " Discovery, Natural Energy and Diligence–the Three Ingredients of Wealth" is in the book, Chapter III, The Basis of National Economics.
eg March 27, 2022 at 11:31 am
I get the impression that the "sanctioners" were operating under the illusion that "money" and "assets" (the paper kind) have any meaning absent underlying real resources. This is when those living in "spreadsheet world" get a rude awakening that their map does NOT represent the territory.
They also seem to have missed the point that cutting off trade in said real resources impacts both sides of said trade.
Not terribly clever, this lot …
The real tragedy in all this is the combination of a US neoconservative/imperialist foreign policy and years of foot-dragging acquiescence from European heads of state in recognizing Russia's legitimate security concerns may have let slip the dogs of war. Any future settlement, if indeed one is even possible given the dangerous rhetoric of President Biden, is bound to be portrayed by political opportunists in the US and elsewhere as selling out or caving in to the threat of force.
The US needs to free its foreign policy establishment from the likes of Victoria Nuland and the neoconservatives/imperialists who continue to embroil this country in conflicts having nothing to do with its long-term interests.
P.S. A marketing suggestion for Dr. Hudson… The US is so brainwashed about socialism being a dirty word, how about something like 'capitalism with benefits' instead?
Or also how about " ordered capitalism under law" also, from time to time? Or also " New Deal capitalism" from time to time?
juliania March 27, 2022 at 11:40 pm
Bravo, all of you, and thank you — even to the tone setters. For some reason, I have been chortling all the way through comments.
Bless you; I guess I needed that.
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Joe Marler in 'different headspace' after reversing England retirement
'Things change, don't they?': England prop Joe Marler says he's in a 'different headspace' after reversing retirement decision for shot at 2019 World Cup as he trains with Eddie Jones' squad
England prop Joe Marler announced his retirement from Test rugby last year
He cited the stress and anxiety of leaving behind his family for Red Rose camps
Marler reversed his decision to retire because he wants to play at the World Cup
He said: 'Things change, don't they? I wanted to come and give it another crack'
England prop Joe Marler has admitted that he is in a 'different headspace' after reversing his retirement to have a shot at the World Cup.
Marler hung up his Test boots last year, when he spoke openly about the stresses and anxiety of leaving behind his family for Red Rose camps.
Now the 29-year-old is challenging to make the final 31-man squad for Japan, admitting that the opportunity to return was too good to turn down.
England prop Joe Marler reversed the decision he made to retire from Test rugby last year
Marler pictured stretching during an England training session at the Lensbury Club this week
Twenty-nine-year-old Marler was in a good mood as he trained with his England team-mates
'Things change, don't they?' said Marler. 'I wanted to come and give it another crack. Why? I missed it.
'I missed it but I needed to have that step away from it all. It was the right decision for me at the time but I'm in a different headspace now… Fully committed to not being one of the seven who miss out on the 31 places.
'This is such a huge opportunity, being part of the World Cup, and I felt ready to give it a crack. Before I didn't feel ready to do that.
'The World Cup squad's announced on the 12th of August and I'll give it 114 per cent.'
Competition at looselead prop is tight, with Marler competing for selection with Mako Vunipola, Ben Moon and Ellis Genge.
Head coach Eddie Jones watched on with his arms folded as his players worked out on Tuesday
Maro Itoje was seen sprinting during the England training session held at the Lensbury Club
Exeter Chiefs star Henry Slade was also among the players put through their paces on Tuesday
Hartley, Robshaw and Care LEFT OUT of England's training squad
Mike Catt agrees to join Ireland as attack coach after the World Cup
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Q: not found error in webmaster when redirection handled through .htaccess I am trying to find answer for this for a long time.
I have created one site and i handle the not found page(404 pages) through .htaccess.
Everything works great but when i submitted to google webmaster for indexing (in fetch as google) it showing an error ( status = not found).
Does anyone know How to tell google to handle these pages (index these pages)
my .htaccess file is
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in my redirect.php file i take the necessary action.
like if URL is www.mysite.com/username then profile of that user is shown
Thank in advance

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which redirected all links to pages that do not exist
if you use:
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the link change in the browser. But with [L] you can show your page without link change.

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Everyone knows that steam helps a lot with ironing. But only a few know why and how. Read the below and get enlightened about this rather hot topic.
What is ironing, anyway? It is the reshaping of textile fabric from wrinkled to smooth. Simple enough on the surface, quite interesting when you look closely: The heat of the iron loosens the connection between the molecule-chains in the fibres. The pressure of the soleplate then reshapes the fabric, and when it cools down, the connections between the molecule-chains rebuild. So what was a stubborn crease is now smooth and will stay that way (until it is worn and washed again…).
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