Voltairine

Central bank fiats are systemically giant ponzies, they need to grow exponentially (inflate) or collapse. Global demand for petrodollars has been collapsing, so you get domestic consumer price inflation as a symptom of the systemic collapse of the financial ponzi system.

On the other hand, if you have tons of debt – like the financial class does – then inflation is nice.

Russia has plenty of primary materials, and industry is getting stronger – not least because of sanctions. Russia is now selling more oil than ever at best price ever – thanks to sanctions.

Western financial ponzi bubbles are bursting, as inflation shows.

does not mean “losing money”. It means there’s too much money in the system, so people lose purchasing power.

Sorrry for the nitpick. And thanks for a good read! 🙂

How he deals with his Asperger (to which I can relate), more libertarian than authoritarian, and trying to do something concrete for soft landing into post fossil energy world.

Why you ask?

has no hope of comprehending time. Sure, time is not a dimension. Time is not any kind of abstract, mathematical object. Empirical time is when thinking occurs, ceases and begins. Our best philosopher of time, Bergson, who had a famous debate with Einstein, explain that empirical, experiental time – duration – is neither unity nor…[Read more]

There has not been state called “Somalia” for a long time…

Have you seen the movies?

served in a Garlic Restaurant, was a Once in a Lifetime experience. 🙂

Here’s Kalinka by Leningrad Cowboys and Red Army Choire, performing at Senate Plaza in Helsinki. Yes I was there, like everybody else 🙂

7th element by Vitas:

Dimash is from Kazakstan, but here’s his version of a Vitas song Opera 2:

Internet by Little Big:

did not they tie minimum wage to consumer inflation index? You know, it’s not about this or that fixed number fetish, but the IRL purchasing power.

Well, because…

There are some cooking books and plenty of recipes that have survived. A common suggestion to replace garum is fish sauce.

are / used to be Ukrainians, until the US and nazi coup. Now Russian speaking Ukrainians are being dehumanized and demonized as “orcs” and what not by the Banderista nationalists who have the de facto  control of the de jure illegimate Kiev regime.

Here’s the direct link to livemap:
https://liveuamap.com/

The commentary and spin is purely pro-west, unlike the previous round between Kiev regime and Donbass peoples republics which Kiev lost badly, all the markings are from Kiev and Western sources,  but the map updates still do offer some genuine information.

When getting stabbed in the Senate, Julius Ceasar did not say “Et tu, Brute!”, in his native Latin. He said in Greek “kai sy hyie!” (even You, my son!”)

AFAIK Biden and his son don’t speak other languages besides American…

and Peak Hydrocarbons and Peak everything… our way of life is not sustainable, especially in the Evil Empire of USA, which plunders others like nobody else. You know the fundamentals, fossile energy is not renewable in terms of our life span.

It’s enough when there’s no more empires, no more war and pillaging, and our ways of lives are…[Read more]

I’m Finnish.

The main issue is the humongous barrage of Western pro-Nato, anti-Russia propaganda… and that Finns have remained more trustfull of MSM than e.g. Americans (excluding Dem voters and people getting their news through Microsoft filter).