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Post by spatial on Feb 6, 2024 16:54:01 GMT 10
I grew up with the cold war looming over us. The end is nigh etc. I started prepping of sorts when I was 16 through terror really. I think it's normal for governments to create situations and to create an atmosphere of everything's going to heck to keep us from noticing the bull-crap they pull. The drama with the housing is insane, all caused by gov. bringing in more migrants faster than the builders could build the houses. It's great for them. Climate catastrophy, wars, covid etc, all the same thing, create chaos to frighten people into submission. This is narcissistic behavior 101, which is most likely who they all are. So do I think that WW3 is almost here, nah. It might be, though the boy has shouted wolf too much for myself at this point and there's nothing I can do about it if it were to kick off. I am prepped enough for a while for most things, so done what I can and now I'm just going to go on with life not really giving a shit about what the latest scare tactic is, real or made up. In the end, living my life as well as I can means a lot more. At least then my insurance [preps] covers a life well lived. It is not a cold war, but a hot hot war, causing many deaths, global food and ammunition shortages, strained global trade and relationships. Every country including Aus increasing military spending. During the cold war Russia was way behind the west in technology, and food production and wealth. Had to import most of their food. China and Russia now food secure, US on verge of bankruptcy, very strained internal politics, it all points to expansion of war. There is almost weekly expansion in countries getting involved. |
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Post by malewithatail on Feb 6, 2024 17:34:39 GMT 10
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Post by spinifex on Feb 6, 2024 20:07:34 GMT 10
I grew up with the cold war looming over us. The end is nigh etc. I started prepping of sorts when I was 16 through terror really. I think it's normal for governments to create situations and to create an atmosphere of everything's going to heck to keep us from noticing the bull-crap they pull. The drama with the housing is insane, all caused by gov. bringing in more migrants faster than the builders could build the houses. It's great for them. Climate catastrophy, wars, covid etc, all the same thing, create chaos to frighten people into submission. This is narcissistic behavior 101, which is most likely who they all are. So do I think that WW3 is almost here, nah. It might be, though the boy has shouted wolf too much for myself at this point and there's nothing I can do about it if it were to kick off. I am prepped enough for a while for most things, so done what I can and now I'm just going to go on with life not really giving a shit about what the latest scare tactic is, real or made up. In the end, living my life as well as I can means a lot more. At least then my insurance [preps] covers a life well lived. It is not a cold war, but a hot hot war, causing many deaths, global food and ammunition shortages, strained global trade and relationships. Every country including Aus increasing military spending. During the cold war Russia was way behind the west in technology, and food production and wealth. Had to import most of their food. China and Russia now food secure, US on verge of bankruptcy, very strained internal politics, it all points to expansion of war. There is almost weekly expansion in countries getting involved. My only concern with Russia/Ukraine was effect of loss of Russian petroluem to world trade. Turns out they have found viable ways around Western embargoes that have kept global fuel supplies and prices pretty stable.
I reckon Russia had fairly decent military tech in the cold war. Some excellent radar and missile tech. Their tech was cheaper and thus more prolific. Which is what won them ww2.
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Post by spatial on Feb 6, 2024 21:27:38 GMT 10
My only concern with Russia/Ukraine was effect of loss of Russian petroluem to world trade. Turns out they have found viable ways around Western embargoes that have kept global fuel supplies and prices pretty stable.
I reckon Russia had fairly decent military tech in the cold war. Some excellent radar and missile tech. Their tech was cheaper and thus more prolific. Which is what won them ww2.
Ukrain was a major world sunflower oil and massive exporter of wheat and grain Druring WW2 Russia had nothing not even a combat rifle, It was US arms supplies and ammo that eventually had the Germans retreating. After WW2 the Russians realising they needed there own arms, had a gov sponsored competition for a combat rifle, yip the AK was born, The designer an unknown guy working by himself was given agov pension with extra $50 a month. farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2023/02/the-russia-ukraine-war-and-changes-in-ukraine-corn-and-wheat-supply-impacts-on-global-agricultural-markets.html#:~:text=In%20the%20three%20marketing%20years,fifth%20largest%20wheat%20exporting%20country. Lost Ukrainian agricultural production due to the war is of global significance because Ukraine is a major exporter of grains and oilseeds – especially corn and wheat as discussed in this article but also barley, sunflower and sun oil, and other commodities. (See: farmdoc daily, February 28, 2022) Figures 1 and 2 show how Ukraine’s share of world corn and wheat exports grew between 2000 and 2020 as international trade expanded. In this time, expanding Ukrainian exports captured an increasing share of world trade. In the three marketing years prior to the war (2018/19, 2019/20, and 2020/21), Ukraine’s exports made up 15% of world corn trade and 10% of world wheat trade. In this period, Ukraine was the world’s fourth largest corn exporting country and the fifth largest wheat exporting country. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK-47#:~:text=It%20was%20presented%20for%20official,states%20of%20the%20Warsaw%20Pact. Concept Mikhail Kalashnikov began his career as a weapon designer in 1941 while recuperating from a shoulder wound that he received during the Battle of Bryansk.[5][19] Kalashnikov himself stated..."I was in the hospital, and a soldier in the bed beside me asked: 'Why do our soldiers have only one rifle for two or three of our men when the Germans have automatics?' So I designed one. I was a soldier, and I created a machine gun for a soldier. It was called an Avtomat Kalashnikova, the automatic weapon of Kalashnikov—AK—and it carried the year of its first manufacture, 1947."[20] |
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Post by spinifex on Feb 7, 2024 8:20:56 GMT 10
My only concern with Russia/Ukraine was effect of loss of Russian petroluem to world trade. Turns out they have found viable ways around Western embargoes that have kept global fuel supplies and prices pretty stable.
I reckon Russia had fairly decent military tech in the cold war. Some excellent radar and missile tech. Their tech was cheaper and thus more prolific. Which is what won them ww2.
Ukrain was a major world sunflower oil and massive exporter of wheat and grain Druring WW2 Russia had nothing not even a combat rifle, It was US arms supplies and ammo that eventually had the Germans retreating. After WW2 the Russians realising they needed there own arms, had a gov sponsored competition for a combat rifle, yip the AK was born, The designer an unknown guy working by himself was given agov pension with extra $50 a month. farmdocdaily.illinois.edu/2023/02/the-russia-ukraine-war-and-changes-in-ukraine-corn-and-wheat-supply-impacts-on-global-agricultural-markets.html#:~:text=In%20the%20three%20marketing%20years,fifth%20largest%20wheat%20exporting%20country. Lost Ukrainian agricultural production due to the war is of global significance because Ukraine is a major exporter of grains and oilseeds – especially corn and wheat as discussed in this article but also barley, sunflower and sun oil, and other commodities. (See: farmdoc daily, February 28, 2022) Figures 1 and 2 show how Ukraine’s share of world corn and wheat exports grew between 2000 and 2020 as international trade expanded. In this time, expanding Ukrainian exports captured an increasing share of world trade. In the three marketing years prior to the war (2018/19, 2019/20, and 2020/21), Ukraine’s exports made up 15% of world corn trade and 10% of world wheat trade. In this period, Ukraine was the world’s fourth largest corn exporting country and the fifth largest wheat exporting country. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AK-47#:~:text=It%20was%20presented%20for%20official,states%20of%20the%20Warsaw%20Pact. Concept Mikhail Kalashnikov began his career as a weapon designer in 1941 while recuperating from a shoulder wound that he received during the Battle of Bryansk.[5][19] Kalashnikov himself stated..."I was in the hospital, and a soldier in the bed beside me asked: 'Why do our soldiers have only one rifle for two or three of our men when the Germans have automatics?' So I designed one. I was a soldier, and I created a machine gun for a soldier. It was called an Avtomat Kalashnikova, the automatic weapon of Kalashnikov—AK—and it carried the year of its first manufacture, 1947."[20] Yes. USSR was short on arms during 41-42. That changed dramatically from 43. And by 44 every second front line soldier was armed with a 72 round submachine gun, t34-85's were swarming all over the place, every battle was being opened with a heavy rain of artillery and rocket barrage and Yak fighter-bombers were shredding anything that moved during daylight. However ... whilst their weaponry was effective and prolific ... they were still very reliant on US food supplies until well after the war.
As for current Ukraine war impacts ... I can still buy sunflower oil and bread as cheaply as before that war started.
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Post by malewithatail on Feb 7, 2024 9:00:58 GMT 10
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Post by spatial on Feb 7, 2024 12:07:36 GMT 10
It is late stage collapse, the NY fed numbers indicate debt delinquencies 8.5% credit card and 7.7% for auto loans. It is a lot worse than 2008 and more banks going under. $17.5T private debt and $34T gov debt in the USA, it is insurmountable no way out but currency collapse to deflate the debt. From the article" According to the New York Fed, total household debt in the United States increased by 212 billion dollars during the fourth quarter of 2023. It is now sitting at a grand total of 17.5 trillion dollars.
Credit card delinquencies surged more than 50% in 2023www.newyorkfed.org/newsevents/news/research/2024/20240206Delinquency transition rates increased for all debt types, except for student loans. Annualized, approximately 8.5% of credit card balances and 7.7% of auto loans transitioned into delinquency. |
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Post by malewithatail on Feb 7, 2024 13:32:04 GMT 10
ANZ closed its local branch last year in town. First of many perhaps ??
Constant change is here to stay.
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Post by bug on Feb 7, 2024 18:24:38 GMT 10
ANZ closed its local branch last year in town. First of many perhaps ?? Constant change is here to stay. Been happening for years. Banks want to get rid of as many branches as possible. Usually there's a local bank and people switch to that instead. |
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Post by norseman on Feb 8, 2024 5:18:44 GMT 10
ANZ closed its local branch last year in town. First of many perhaps ?? Constant change is here to stay. Banks are getting ready for "Smart Cities" and so are the Feds:- Problem Statement
The rapidly changing nature of the future operating environment will increasingly involve operations in smart, interconnected cities. More than 50% of humanity resides in cities, and by 2030 there will be more than 60 cities with populations between 5-10 million. Many are located within global resource hot spots in an increasingly multi-polar world order that challenges hegemonic legacies. These dense urbanities are becoming ever more complex; socially, physically, and technically. This presents new challenges and opportunities for SOF operations across the full breadth of potential mission sets, in an interconnected environment where access and manoeuvre will be challenging. The confluence of domains and environments amplifies these challenges. Virtual and physical theatre entry, combat operations, sustainment, and partnering will all require novel approaches. From biometrics to autonomy, to remote sensing, future smart cities will present SOF with some of the toughest challenges. To tackle these problems SOF will need to: • Develop a vision for the future challenges posed by operating in smart cities. • Identify, understand, and combat smart city risks and vulnerabilities. • Develop plans and policies to enable operational advantage in smart cities and exploit dual-use capabilities. • Develop capabilities to understand and characterize adversarial actions in smart cities.
• Develop new concepts of operation with partners and allies to operate in a range of heavily constrained smart cities scenarios.
• Identify, recruit, and train for the skillsets required to operate in future smart cities. What you will do at IF15: • Create a vision for what might be the characteristics of the 2035 operational environment from a smart city perspective.
• Discuss what might be the predominant technology challenges within the future operational environment. • Conceptualise how these technologies might be applied towards SOF smart cities challenges. To describe what might be, participants will: • Not limit themselves to mere extensions of today’s environment, technologies, and processes. • Describe innovative concepts for the future operational environment in a science-fiction-like manner, developing new concepts that might exploit and defeat the infrastructure of the future.
• Identify the investments SOF needs to make now in order to succeed in this challenging future operational environment. PS TO THE SPOOKS MONITORING THE FORUM, GET YA HAND OFF IT BOYS! THIS DOCUMENT IS PUBLISHED ON THE WEB FOR ALL TO SEE! |
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Post by spatial on Feb 8, 2024 6:26:42 GMT 10
ANZ closed its local branch last year in town. First of many perhaps ?? Constant change is here to stay. Banks are getting ready for "Smart Cities" and so are the Feds:- Problem Statement
The rapidly changing nature of the future operating environment will increasingly involve operations in smart, interconnected cities. More than 50% of humanity resides in cities, and by 2030 there will be more than 60 cities with populations between 5-10 million. Many are located within global resource hot spots in an increasingly multi-polar world order that challenges hegemonic legacies. These dense urbanities are becoming ever more complex; socially, physically, and technically................................. It is all fine and dandy, till they run out of money and drugs, and illegal immigrants take over. All the big cities esp. Democratic run in the US are now hell holes druggies and sex workers, crime - people leaving, shops all boarded up. In some cites Walmart the worlds larges retailer is closing all their stores. There is not enough money for their grand designs. Most of the big cites will be looking like northern Ukraine after the riots that are coming. Walmart Announces Closure of Four Chicago Stores corporate.walmart.com/news/2023/04/11/walmart-announces-closure-of-four-chicago-stores |
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Post by malewithatail on Feb 8, 2024 7:13:51 GMT 10
Oh and they took their ready teller out as well, so we changed banks to a local one.
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Post by Joey on Feb 8, 2024 8:35:57 GMT 10
ANZ closed its local branch last year in town. First of many perhaps ?? Constant change is here to stay. Banks are getting ready for "Smart Cities" and so are the Feds:- Problem Statement
The rapidly changing nature of the future operating environment will increasingly involve operations in smart, interconnected cities. More than 50% of humanity resides in cities, and by 2030 there will be more than 60 cities with populations between 5-10 million. Many are located within global resource hot spots in an increasingly multi-polar world order that challenges hegemonic legacies. These dense urbanities are becoming ever more complex; socially, physically, and technically. This presents new challenges and opportunities for SOF operations across the full breadth of potential mission sets, in an interconnected environment where access and manoeuvre will be challenging. The confluence of domains and environments amplifies these challenges. Virtual and physical theatre entry, combat operations, sustainment, and partnering will all require novel approaches. From biometrics to autonomy, to remote sensing, future smart cities will present SOF with some of the toughest challenges. To tackle these problems SOF will need to: • Develop a vision for the future challenges posed by operating in smart cities. • Identify, understand, and combat smart city risks and vulnerabilities. • Develop plans and policies to enable operational advantage in smart cities and exploit dual-use capabilities. • Develop capabilities to understand and characterize adversarial actions in smart cities.
• Develop new concepts of operation with partners and allies to operate in a range of heavily constrained smart cities scenarios.
• Identify, recruit, and train for the skillsets required to operate in future smart cities. What you will do at IF15: • Create a vision for what might be the characteristics of the 2035 operational environment from a smart city perspective.
• Discuss what might be the predominant technology challenges within the future operational environment. • Conceptualise how these technologies might be applied towards SOF smart cities challenges. To describe what might be, participants will: • Not limit themselves to mere extensions of today’s environment, technologies, and processes. • Describe innovative concepts for the future operational environment in a science-fiction-like manner, developing new concepts that might exploit and defeat the infrastructure of the future.
• Identify the investments SOF needs to make now in order to succeed in this challenging future operational environment. PS TO THE SPOOKS MONITORING THE FORUM, GET YA HAND OFF IT BOYS! THIS DOCUMENT IS PUBLISHED ON THE WEB FOR ALL TO SEE! The globalists plan for these "smart cities" would create a problem for clandestine operations. There would be cameras on every corner, biometric scanners every block, etc making it very hard to do low profile incursions |
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Post by Stealth on Feb 8, 2024 10:28:05 GMT 10
MSM news cycle is kinda making it feel like the calm before the storm. Last week it was all conscription, prepare for war type stories and now? Not a peep.
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Post by norseman on Feb 8, 2024 11:02:46 GMT 10
Russell Brand kicks the ball right out the fuggen park with this one! It's exactly everything I've been saying:- We may not like the message but at the very least please allow us to fuggen hear it!
Tucker Putin Interview - This Changes EVERYTHING
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Post by frostbite on Feb 8, 2024 14:04:07 GMT 10
Does Russell Brand ever stop to take a breathe?
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Post by Stealth on Feb 8, 2024 14:53:17 GMT 10
At least he's stopped with the presentation style he had a few years back. Waving hands, screaming, shouting, talking so fast you can barely understand him. As I said back then to someone that brought him up. If he's SO dedicated to distracting you with loud noises, waving hands and impossible speech patterns it's a distraction from what he's saying. Why would he want to distract you from what he's saying unless he doesn't want you to actually think about what he's saying.
I find Brand's characterisation of Carlson as a 'Journalist' to be disingenuous at best. But Brand always draws the longest bow he can find, and then klieglights his own logic errors by trying to cover it up with a dodgy distraction comment. Like "You could argue that Ukraine has a right to join NATO but that leads to what good even IS NATO?". The really pathetic attempt at deflection makes me think he knew that was the wrong thing to say to get his argument across. He also knows that the first part of that sentence is a strong statement, so he has to make it less strong by getting you to instantly think about something else. So that you don't think to yourself "Yes, well they do have the right...". He just wants to get as much out as he possibly can to stoke outrage.
This wasn't supposed to be a critique of Brand specifically. I can't stand Tucker Carlson either hahahaha. He's a commentator who writes opinion pieces, not a journalist. I also think he has no idea what he's walking into, but the Dunning-Kruger effect is strong in that one and some people you literally can't save from their own ego lmao.
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Post by frostbite on Feb 8, 2024 15:06:19 GMT 10
I suppose America would be fine with Mexico joining the Warsaw Pact, or even Cuba. Oh, hang on…..
The yanks are some of the dumbest people on the planet.
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Post by bug on Feb 8, 2024 20:07:15 GMT 10
Banks are getting ready for "Smart Cities" and so are the Feds:- Problem Statement
The rapidly changing nature of the future operating environment will increasingly involve operations in smart, interconnected cities. More than 50% of humanity resides in cities, and by 2030 there will be more than 60 cities with populations between 5-10 million. Many are located within global resource hot spots in an increasingly multi-polar world order that challenges hegemonic legacies. These dense urbanities are becoming ever more complex; socially, physically, and technically................................. It is all fine and dandy, till they run out of money and drugs, and illegal immigrants take over. All the big cities esp. Democratic run in the US are now hell holes druggies and sex workers, crime - people leaving, shops all boarded up. In some cites Walmart the worlds larges retailer is closing all their stores. There is not enough money for their grand designs. Most of the big cites will be looking like northern Ukraine after the riots that are coming. Walmart Announces Closure of Four Chicago Stores corporate.walmart.com/news/2023/04/11/walmart-announces-closure-of-four-chicago-storesEver notice how many sci-fi movies there are that have a super rich clique living in their ivory towers, with the cities gigantic slums? That is literally what these people want. |
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