TRUSSONOMICS, PART II

4 October 2022Anyway to return to this Trussonomics dash for growth Gambit. (See previous post.)It is very surprising indeed that no one bothered to alert those two to the last time this trick was played The last time, The Barber Boom of 1972/3, the idea was that by dropping taxes, the money released into the pockets of business and people would create a demand, which would create a following investment boom and supply to match.But...

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PIPELINE SABOTAGE

2 October 2022 further note 5 October see at end We  can eliminate most states as responsible for the pipeline sabotage, but what evidence is there against America?https://youtu.be/3tPAmjhMKHUThe Europeans especially the Germans are truly donkeys for not seeing how America has destroyed their economies their interests and their future.While it's pretty obvious that Russia has no interest in blowing up its own pipelines it is interesting...

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THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS

25 September 2022There's an expression that says the road to hell is paved with good intentions:Abandoning fossil fuels to halt climate change was one, but the coal mines are being reopened, the EU is shutting its nuclear power stations and there'll be fracking in the UK within six months.The West thought it could collapse the Russian economy with sanctions within weeks, in fact Russia's revenues and the rouble have soared.We've given up cheap energy, grain, fertiliser and metals to buy Russian oil off the Saudis and Indians and dirty gas at five...

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THE MANAGEMENT OF DISSENT

23 September 2022 I don't know about you, but I find that everywhere, current affairs gets a more and more insistent pro-western gov.ts swing.What used to be my preferred channels are dishing up gov.t slops, whereas I used to find them interesting. Even the data is just wrong!We are being pushed into an opposition anti-Western camp, where I become cynical, but this is not at all where I want to be. I have big interests in proper order...

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WHY DID AMERICA START THIS WAR?

19 September 2022...as told through the war in Ukraine. Or better still, as told by Putin himself.https://youtu.be/rm5icaLbUMAPROBLEMSIt looks to me as if the real problem is the end of the American Order, as precisely described by Ray Dalio. The goal is to assure continued American hegemony - this is pretty obvious, it is about security and survival, nothing more important.Another reading is that the suffering the Jews endured during...

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A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ROMAN CHURCH

20 September 2022Go back to Diocletian's decision to divide the empire into the Western and Eastern wings in around 286,  two domains—the Western Roman Latin-speaking empire and the Eastern Greek-speaking empire. Constantine founded Constantinople on the existing city of Byzantium in 330. This Wrst-East split was made permanent on the death of Emperor Theodosius in 379. This split separates what we call the Rome of Antiquity from Medieval Rome and the sacking of Byzantium by the Ottoman Turks marks the end of the so-called Middle Ages.Or back...

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PROBLEMS OF THE UK ECONOMY

14 September 2022KNOWLEDGETo understand what's going on in the economy at the moment you need a basic understanding of economics ...which I don't have!INDICATORSWhat's needed is to understand the relation between GDP growth, productivity, employment and wages, inflation, interest rates and the supply of money and credit.With this knowledge you can build wonderful models of the economy and pretty little gearings linking the chains of cause and effect.Without this knowledge, we are left swimming in a pool at night.GOALSWe can say that what we want...

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WHAT COULD BE PUTIN'S OBJECTIVES?

14 September 2022 Putin's primary concern is the security of his country and that means not letting NATO into Ukraine, which is the weakest link in that long and costly-to-defend Western frontier of Russia's with Central Europe.Security should include Transnistria for sure, and also to be safe Moldova and Romania - the latter being impossible without starting a third world war.Sentimentally, Russia should be looking to recover Novorosia,...

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FRENCH NUCLEAR POWER

13 September 2022 Golfech Nuclear Power Plant on the Garonne river, providing the water for its cooling plant, 90 kms upstream from Toulouse and 30 kms downstream from Agen*."France is heavily dependent on nuclear power for its electricity needs, while Germany is planning to shut down its last three reactors this year and until recently relied strongly on imports of Russian gas." The history of nuclear power in France is full...

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CHANANG

11 September 2022 These banana leaf boxes of offerings are scattered everywhere and fresh every day.There are temples big and family size, thousands, and the people light ajoss stick or two every morning and say a prayer.It's estimated these rituals take up 40% of their income and their time, which is extraordina...

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FAMILYNESS

This is what I just sent to my kiddies:"Incidently, very pleased that you are setting goals, making a budget for things - like renovating the apartment, like the move to the new job - and making and monitoring a work plan to achieve what you want, within your resources.I do think that over time you will start generating quiet considerable amounts of money and the thing there is to know how to invest so as to a) preserve what you make and to b) create further wealth.So you are independent, standing on your own feet, and successful. You are happy...

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