Saturday, February 26, 2022
LOL, Obama had to drop pallets of cash on Iran because of SWIFT: "U.S. and international sanctions isolated Iran from the international finance system"
Obama 2016 swan song:
$1.7-billion payment to Iran was all in cash due to effectiveness of sanctions, White House says
Germany will find a way to pay for heat, too. Keep a sharp eye out for flights from Frankfurt to Moscow, loaded with pallets of cash to get around SWIFT.
The West late Saturday finally does the right thing against Russia on the third day of its Ukraine invasion
WASHINGTON —The United States, European allies and Canada agreed Saturday to remove key Russian banks from the interbank messaging system, SWIFT, an extraordinary step that will sever the country from much of the global financial system.
“This will ensure that these banks are disconnected from the international financial system and harm their ability to operate globally,” the global powers wrote in a joint statement announcing the significant retaliatory measure.
Moscow’s exclusion from SWIFT, which stands for the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, means Russian banks cannot communicate securely with banks beyond its borders. Iran was removed from SWIFT in 2014 following developments to Tehran’s nuclear program.
SWIFT is an independent enterprise based in Belgium that serves as an internal messaging system between more than 11,000 banks and financial institutions in over 200 countries and territories.
Trump's tone-deafness on Putin on the 22nd is no different than his dismissive COVID-19 response in early 2020, which he never understood frightened away America's older voters
Europe is finally uniting against Putin on the third day of the Ukraine invasion, passing restrictions and sending arms and support, and Trump is calling Putin's machinations to invade Ukraine "smart", "genius", "very savvy", and "pretty savvy".
He's clueless. Putin has clearly over-reached and is leading Russia into permanent pariah status on the world stage.
I went in yesterday and there was a television screen, and I said, “This is genius.” Putin declares a big portion of the Ukraine — of Ukraine. Putin declares it as independent. Oh, that’s wonderful.
So, Putin is now saying, “It’s independent,” a large section of Ukraine. I said, “How smart is that?” And he’s gonna go in and be a peacekeeper. That’s strongest peace force… We could use that on our southern border. That’s the strongest peace force I’ve ever seen. There were more army tanks than I’ve ever seen. They’re gonna keep peace all right. No, but think of it. Here’s a guy who’s very savvy… I know him very well. Very, very well.
By the way, this never would have happened with us. Had I been in office, not even thinkable. This would never have happened. But here’s a guy that says, you know, “I’m gonna declare a big portion of Ukraine independent,” he used the word “independent,” “and we’re gonna go out and we’re gonna go in and we’re gonna help keep peace.” You gotta say that’s pretty savvy. And you know what the response was from Biden? There was no response. They didn’t have one for that. No, it’s very sad. Very sad.
More.
Republicans will pay a heavy price for backing this lunatic again.
The increasingly crabbed little view of America First conservatism is that there couldn't possibly be a crisis in another country which we should be involved in
As if the two things can't possibly both be true, that our borders should be under control and Russian aggression in Europe must be opposed.
Germany is still hedging on banning Russia from the SWIFT system at this hour after worldwide outcry at EU intransigence two days ago
And as usual Biden is a follower, not a leader, still mulling over what he should do.
Austria, Hungary, France, Italy, Cyprus all have now signaled readiness to accept the draconian measure in order to cut off Russia's access to payment flows.
Germany could easily find itself without heat very shortly if it relents.
Meanwhile Ukrainians are bravely fighting off the Russians alone.
Friday, February 25, 2022
Germany remains the cause of and the solution to all of Europe's problems: Flip the switch to "On" and Germany's need for Russian gas ends
... in 2010, when Germany was generating more than 20 percent of its electricity from nuclear power plants, Chancellor Angela Merkel extended the phaseout schedule to the mid-2030s. As other politicians had promised in the past, the extension was framed as a “bridge” to help the nation generate cost-effective power until renewables could take over.
But just a few months later, the Fukushima disaster struck. Germany’s anti-nuclear movement had already been enraged by the phaseout delay; the disaster only fueled their opposition. Germany swiftly closed most of its nuclear reactors and reestablished 2022 as the deadline for the phaseout — called the atomausstieg.
More.
The green ideology in Germany must go, just as Merkel has.
The stock market loves war because it implies continued Federal Reserve Bank easy money
We live in a perverse world of global libertarianism.
Russia threatens neutral Finland
Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Friday that any attempt by
Finland to join NATO would have “military and political repercussions.” ...
On Thursday, Finish Prime Minister Sanna Marin said the Russian invasion would shift the long running debate in Finland around NATO membership.
More.
Thursday, February 24, 2022
And just like that we have a Russian invasion of Ukraine from every direction
Vladimir Putin obviously cares less about the money he can make off oil exports than he does about reincorporating Ukraine into Russia.
Wednesday, February 23, 2022
LOL, Adolf Trudeau revokes invocation of Canada's Emergencies Act as Senate of Canada debate reveals he didn't have the votes from fellow liberals
Freedom!
The wonder was this lasted 9 days, but hey, Canadians move more slowly because it's cold up there.
As of February 15 Omicron dominates every US state
https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-variant-tracker-where-different-strains-are-spreading-ffd71934-1596-43e6-923d-32c4698e2f8b.html
Massachusetts now reports 2,346 total cumulative breakthrough deaths, 2,240 of which have occurred since the end of July 2021, 44.5% of all COVID-19 deaths since that time
Massachusetts total COVID deaths on 7/30/21: 18,082
Massachusetts total COVID deaths on 2/19/22: 23,109
Difference: 5,027 total COVID deaths since last July
Breakthrough deaths on 2/19/22: 2,346
Breakthrough deaths by 7/30/21: 106
Difference: 2,240 breakthrough deaths since last July (44.559% of all the COVID deaths over the period)
Nice vaccine you got there.
The liars with statistics try to dilute the significance of this failure by inflating the denominator by using either total deaths or total vaccinations from time immemorial. What counts is the durability of the vaccines over time, and it is crystal clear that breakthrough deaths are not a small percentage of the COVID deaths which have occurred since Delta took over last summer.
The vaccines are not durable by any traditional definition of a vaccine, which is why CDC removed the traditional definition at the end of July when Provincetown proved the mRNA vaccines don't stop the spread and don't prevent disease.
CDC is guilty of scandalous lies.
Vaccines reduce serious outcomes, they say
US COVID-19 deaths by 1/20/21: 406,216
Number dosed in the US by 1/20/21: 18.9 million
US COVID-19 deaths 1/20/21-1/20/22: 454,100
Number dosed in the US by 1/20/22: 249 million
51,437 US COVID-19 deaths in the first 22 days of February: Already the 7th worst month of the pandemic
2,338 deaths per day, the equivalent of 65,465 by the end of the month.
We shall see.
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