10 April 2023Looking at the facts, three things emerge. One is that America has started a large number of wars, especially noticeable post USSR when America was actually at its safest! You know, Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq...plenty more...now UkraineAnd its come off worst in all of them. It takes on little guys, still it loses.A second thing is, look at the polls from home, the domestic audience doesn't want all this loss of blood and treasure. It wants American leadership, of course, but not this constant flexing of the military.And thirdly, outside...
Monday, 10 April 2023
ARE RUSSIAN AND UKRAINIAN PEOPLE OF COMMON STOCK? WHY IS RUSSIA EASTERN ORTHODOX?
10 April 2023Are Russian and Ukrainian people of common stock as Putin alleges?Why is Russia Eastern Orthodox?I found the answers in an airport book - here is what it says.
THE SLAVS AND MAGYARSThe Slavs were a broad group of peoples (whose history and origin are largely undocumented) who spoke a variety of Slavic languages of Indo-European descent.Also known as the Antes or Venethi (among numerous other names), they migrated westward...
"WE ARE LIVING IN YOUR FUTURE"
10 April 2023
Artist's vision for St Persburg Doing a catch-up on the effects of Western companies quitting Russia.IKEA quit Russia six months ago and the existing Russian management simply took over the business and have renamed it, but this time prices are lower and the profits stay in Russia. Sweden's loss, they are ideology-bound.Similarly,...
Sunday, 9 April 2023
MACRON VISITS BEIJING
9 April 2023Alexander Mercouris, international affairs analyst, again comments on Macron's visit to Beijing:
Macron's visit to China is covered by Mercourishttps://youtu.be/sOrX1uYrXDE Offset 32'https://youtu.be/BJTv9ktHCcA Offset 45'26"Ref video 2 and backgrounds trip to Beijing.Macron brought interesting gifts: a French photographer’s pictures of mid-20th-century China,a blue Sèvres porcelain vase decorated...
THE FUTURE OF RUSSO-SINO RELATIONS
9 April 2023
This video, below, goes into Russo-Sino realities - not so much that Russia is the junior in the relationship as we are told but more of Russia's weaknesses with regard to the much smaller geographically, but much bigger in wealth and population, China:https://youtu.be/Iibs7buN...
Friday, 7 April 2023
EUROPEAN LEADERS VISIT THE COURT OF XI JINPING
7 April 2023
Q: That sounds like Macron. What will the Chinese make of Macron?A: A bit bumptious, but basically OK.Macron brought interesting gifts: -a French photographer’s pictures of mid-20th-century China,-a blue Sèvres porcelain vase decorated with golden fish.So this recalls the early trade - before the "century of humiliation" - in decorative arts, though it may also remind us of where the West's knowledge...
Saturday, 1 April 2023
UKRAINE WAR 101
1 April 1023To understand this war, it is necessary to get behind the propaganda.The guy from St Petersburg that I recently met in the plane does not like having the tanks and nukes of the North American Terrorist Organisation (NATO) pushed further East since the end of the cold war, certainly since 2014, till now they are planted on Moscow's front lawn and pointing at the Kremlin.He, like Putin, does not trust America. Would you, if the facts in these three vids, below, are to be believed.1. A visibly irritated Geoffrey Sachs rehearses the facts...
Friday, 24 March 2023
IN THE BEGINNING THERE WAS WAR
24 March 2023day!https://www.livingintheair.org/2022/11/eckhart-tolle.html?m=1There's a book that has just come out which I haven't read and it's entitled " in the beginning there was War"How true is that! I've been looking at some videos on YouTube about history and all it is is the history of war and Conflict forever, it's been going on since the beginning of time, we've never really had peace ... Pax Romana maybe.But where does that quote come from? it comes from the New Testament. it's either Genesis or John or both saying that "in the beginning...
Thursday, 23 March 2023
DIRECT LINE INSURANCE
23 March 2023
Price: 143.90Obvious to most that financial stocks are in trouble becuse their quality balance sheets are getting a clawing from angry interest rate tigers. It is a bit facile to say liabilities don't match assets, yet it is true that long-dated guilts may have to be sold at below par to meet demands from depositors. Would you call this a liquidity issue? Or is it LDI? - Liability-Driven Investment strategy misfired?I pity...
Monday, 20 March 2023
THE MANUFACTURE OF CONSENT
20 March 2023You might ask why the media sensors the truth about the war in Ukraine and you might ask how the truth is censored. This article mainly explores the second question. As to the Why the truth is censored, we live in an information age and this is a war by information, or by defamation. If you consider all the sacrifices the public has made in order for the West to win this war, then it is necessary to keep them on board, at the expense of the truth, because otherwise the West's political system will begin to lose support and legigimacy,...
Wednesday, 15 March 2023
SV BANK - V.2
15 March 2023SIilicon Valley Bank bought long-dated US treasuries with its customers deposits. This is recommended practise, it should a safe,no-risk investment, no one would expect the US government to default. It bought when interest rates were at historic lows. But the Fed has increased interest rates since then, in order to combat inflation, and the price of these bonds has fallen, taking SVB with it.1. The trouble is the banks' customers were tech startups with big loans and small revenues.Then rising loan int charges and many of these still-low-revenue...
