The End of the Empire

[Wiz]

The End of the Empire

The American empire is coming to an end. The U.S. economy is being drained by wars in the Middle East and vast military expansion around the globe. It is burdened by growing deficits, along with the devastating effects of deindustrialization and global trade agreements. Our democracy has been captured and destroyed by corporations that steadily demand more tax cuts, more deregulation and impunity from prosecution for massive acts of financial fraud, all the while looting trillions from the U.S. treasury in the form of bailouts. The nation has lost the power and respect needed to induce allies in Europe, Latin America, Asia and Africa to do its bidding. Add to this the mounting destruction caused by climate change and you have a recipe for an emerging dystopia. Overseeing this descent at the highest levels of the federal and state governments is a motley collection of imbeciles, con artists, thieves, opportunists and warmongering generals. And to be clear, I am speaking about Democrats, too.

The empire will limp along, steadily losing influence until the dollar is dropped as the world’s reserve currency, plunging the United States into a crippling depression and instantly forcing a massive contraction of its military machine.

Read the full article here: https://www.globalresearch.ca/the-end-of-empire/5611808?utm_campaign=magnet&utm_source=article_page&utm_medium=related_articles

[AvHdB]

BUMP

Contrarian posted a link to a news site that I have not visited before, most of the articles were nothing more than editorials but this one caught my eye in that there is in my opinion a valid argument made. For a long time Wiz and others have been preaching the end is nigh for the American empire. I sort of doubt this, but change in inevitable. While some may be uncomfortable with the viewpoint it does make one think.

https://www.nationofchange.org/2021/04/20/the-unraveling-of-the-american-empire/

[Wiz]

Somebody wake up to the facts and truth
of what I was posting, here, for years!
 

Well done... now take a look on the right and choose the best front to check your eyes!

Here is a list to remember.......before opening your mouth again!

America’s defeat in Afghanistan is one in a string of catastrophic military blunders that herald the death of the American empire.

The trajectory of military fiascos mirrors the sad finales of the Chinese, Ottoman, Hapsburg, Russian, French, British, Dutch, Portuguese and Soviet empires.

Imperial ineptitude is matched by domestic ineptitude and this article you discovered......say it all!

Overthrowing other people’s governments: The Master List By William Blum https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list

Instances of the United States overthrowing, or attempting to overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World War. (* indicates successful ouster of a government)

China 1949 to early 1960s
Albania 1949-53
East Germany 1950s
Iran 1953 *
Guatemala 1954 *
Costa Rica mid-1950s
Syria 1956-7
Egypt 1957
Indonesia 1957-8
British Guiana 1953-64 *
Iraq 1963 *
North Vietnam 1945-73
Cambodia 1955-70 *
Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
Ecuador 1960-63 *
Congo 1960 *
France 1965
Brazil 1962-64 *
Dominican Republic 1963 *
Cuba 1959 to present
Bolivia 1964 *
Indonesia 1965 *
Ghana 1966 *
Chile 1964-73 *
Greece 1967 *
Costa Rica 1970-71
Bolivia 1971 *
Australia 1973-75 *
Angola 1975, 1980s
Zaire 1975
Portugal 1974-76 *
Jamaica 1976-80 *
Seychelles 1979-81
Chad 1981-82 *
Grenada 1983 *
South Yemen 1982-84
Suriname 1982-84
Fiji 1987 *
Libya 1980s
Nicaragua 1981-90 *
Panama 1989 *
Bulgaria 1990 *
Albania 1991 *
Iraq 1991
Afghanistan 1980s *
Somalia 1993
Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
Ecuador 2000 *
Afghanistan 2001 *
Venezuela 2002 *
Iraq 2003 *
Haiti 2004 *
Somalia 2007 to present
Honduras 2009 *
Libya 2011 *
Syria 2012
Ukraine 2014 *

Q: Why will there never be a coup d’état in Washington?
A: Because there’s no American embassy there.


 

[Wiz]

IT APPEARS tHE END OF THE
AMERICAN EMPIRE IS NIGH!!!

Don’t listen to me but to one of  their TOP TV  Presenters…..……

   

[Texan77]

Yea the Russian empire.

[AvHdB]

Yea the Russian empire.

Interesting viewpoint well worth pondering. The demographics are a mater of common record.

Can Russia triumph I sort of doubt it. Will V. Putin be able to accept this reality, NO. Sadly it is not in his DNA.Thus this senseless war will continue.

[Wiz]

Yea the Russian empire.

Frankly I was expecting you to be the first one to reply, on my post,  but I have never thought for a minute that you are such an idiot to beleive all the crap we are told in the Video... by the expert....errr paid up propaganda crap.

Are the people in the USA so low mentality, like you?
If that is the case than I can only feel sorry for your ignorance.

Are you aware that Russia is self sufficient and has very little external debt?

Do you know that Russia has an excellent National health System, which is free…….I am sure you don’t because you have never been there.

Did you hear the latest bad news?

What the failures of Signature, SVB and Silvergate mean for the crypto sector?


https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/biden-defend-us-banking-system-after-svb-signature-collapse-2023-03-13/

[AvHdB]

While personally I am not a big fan of info. Video’s such as the T. Carlson you posted he does raise valid concerns. Is the economic landscape in the United States going to collapse because of SVB implosion, No compared to BoA or Wells Fargo this was a niche or boutique bank.

But T. Carlson loves drama.

[BC]

But T. Carlson loves drama.[/size][/font]

Indeed. He is a showman, an actor that gets paid to sensationalize current events and generate revenue.

Don't confuse news with a news show.  Tucker Carlson is not news.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/private-fox-news-text-messages-emails-released-dominion-suit-rcna72693

The only real news I can find nowadays is the 8pm ARD news in Germany.  I watch it regularly.

I wish Walter Cronkite was still on the air.  His 15 minutes were worth far more than the 24 hours news media we have today.

[Danchik]

Yea the Russian empire.

Will you dupes stop posting videos from this guy already as someone credible. This guy has been predicting Russia's (and China's) demise since 2003.

He predicted Russia's economy would collapse any week now because it lacks the STEM base to build its economy.

That was 10 months ago after the start of this operation and brutal sanctions.

He just repackages what he reads in The Economist, Bloomberg Energy, etc. or some googled translated negative shit talk about Russia he sees on some Ukrainian/Russian site (that of course he agrees with, or wants to agree with) and pretends like they are his original thoughts.

It’s all a con (confidence) game. If you sound confident, the sheep will follow. If you didn’t guess from the Ukraine flag necktie on his Twitter profile pic this clown also REALLY has it in for Russia.

He was convinced, Russia and Putin were going down the tubes back in 2003… then 2004… then 2005… 2006… 2013, 2014… you get the picture.

This guy has made a living repackaging other State Dept/CIA BS as his "own". Not “full-on” plagiarism to satisfy the dupes, but the guy is simply a fraud. And some of you eat it up like any other info that supports your bias.

Here's vintage Zeihan narrative being debunked. To say this guy skews the facts would be a understatement.

[BC]

Will you dupes stop posting videos from this guy already as someone credible. This guy has been predicting Russia's (and China's) demise since 2003.

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He just repackages what he reads in The Economist, Bloomberg Energy, etc. or some googled translated negative shit talk about Russia he sees on some Ukrainian/Russian site (that of course he agrees with, or wants to agree with) and pretends like they are his original thoughts.

It’s all a con (confidence) game. If you sound confident, the sheep will follow. If you didn’t guess from the Ukraine flag necktie on his Twitter profile pic this clown also REALLY has it in for Russia.

Danchik, the problem with most of these videos, regardless of source is that they express opinions, and not necessarily facts.

I just wish more folks around here would express their own opinion based on established facts instead of just regurgitating whatever floats around the web that they like to hear, watch or read.  There is a difference between using news sources and other material googled on the web to establish facts in discussions, but quite another to use opinion and conjecture as substantiation in discussions.  The opinionated opinion (which much of what is posted around here consists of) is worthless.

[Bodine]

Will you dupes stop posting videos from this guy already as someone credible. This guy has been predicting Russia's (and China's) demise since 2003.

......

He just repackages what he reads in The Economist, Bloomberg Energy, etc. or some googled translated negative shit talk about Russia he sees on some Ukrainian/Russian site (that of course he agrees with, or wants to agree with) and pretends like they are his original thoughts.

It’s all a con (confidence) game. If you sound confident, the sheep will follow. If you didn’t guess from the Ukraine flag necktie on his Twitter profile pic this clown also REALLY has it in for Russia.

Danchik, the problem with most of these videos, regardless of source is that they express opinions, and not necessarily facts.

I just wish more folks around here would express their own opinion based on established facts instead of just regurgitating whatever floats around the web that they like to hear, watch or read.  There is a difference between using news sources and other material googled on the web to establish facts in discussions, but quite another to use opinion and conjecture as substantiation in discussions.  The opinionated opinion (which much of what is posted around here consists of) is worthless.

Wow! That’s thick.

[Texan77]

Yea the Russian empire.

Will you dupes stop posting videos from this guy already as someone credible. This guy has been predicting Russia's (and China's) demise since 2003.

He predicted Russia's economy would collapse any week now because it lacks the STEM base to build its economy.

That was 10 months ago after the start of this operation and brutal sanctions.

He just repackages what he reads in The Economist, Bloomberg Energy, etc. or some googled translated negative shit talk about Russia he sees on some Ukrainian/Russian site (that of course he agrees with, or wants to agree with) and pretends like they are his original thoughts.

It’s all a con (confidence) game. If you sound confident, the sheep will follow. If you didn’t guess from the Ukraine flag necktie on his Twitter profile pic this clown also REALLY has it in for Russia.

He was convinced, Russia and Putin were going down the tubes back in 2003… then 2004… then 2005… 2006… 2013, 2014… you get the picture.

This guy has made a living repackaging other State Dept/CIA BS as his "own". Not “full-on” plagiarism to satisfy the dupes, but the guy is simply a fraud. And some of you eat it up like any other info that supports your bias.

Here's vintage Zeihan narrative being debunked. To say this guy skews the facts would be a understatement.

It is not as bad as the stuff Wiz post that you do not seem to want to complain about when it is pro-Russian.

[Texan77]

Will you dupes stop posting videos from this guy already as someone credible. This guy has been predicting Russia's (and China's) demise since 2003.

......

He just repackages what he reads in The Economist, Bloomberg Energy, etc. or some googled translated negative shit talk about Russia he sees on some Ukrainian/Russian site (that of course he agrees with, or wants to agree with) and pretends like they are his original thoughts.

It’s all a con (confidence) game. If you sound confident, the sheep will follow. If you didn’t guess from the Ukraine flag necktie on his Twitter profile pic this clown also REALLY has it in for Russia.

Danchik, the problem with most of these videos, regardless of source is that they express opinions, and not necessarily facts.

I just wish more folks around here would express their own opinion based on established facts instead of just regurgitating whatever floats around the web that they like to hear, watch or read.  There is a difference between using news sources and other material googled on the web to establish facts in discussions, but quite another to use opinion and conjecture as substantiation in discussions.  The opinionated opinion (which much of what is posted around here consists of) is worthless.

When you are predicting something many years in advance because of a demographic problem it is hard to have proof. Ziahan predicted about this time Russia would invade Ukraine if they could not control it by some other means. His predictions are based on demographics which take a long time to come about.  There is nothing here that Russia will fall apart tomorrow but rather as time goes forward Russia will have an increasing older population. There are holes in Russian demographics where they do not have many men of fighting age. Russia is entering one of these holes which was made in WW2 and being made worse by this war.  The new birth rate in Russia is below that of the 1990's making the hole in Russia demographics in the next generation worse.  Meanwhile the number of old people in the country will grow needing retirement benefits. The war will add to that by causing Russia to have a lot of people on disability. What he is saying is over the next five years Russia will have a shortage of military age men, so they needed to do this war now if they are going to do it.  Titles seem to exaggerate what is happening so the video is watch more to generate more views which means more revenues to the poster.

In China there is a housing bust. Part not as many young people coming into the housing market as more housing was built. A shortage of people under 35. This will grow worse over the next ten years as there will be a shortage of people under 45. There is one couple trying to raise a child and support four parents in retirement. Not a growth arrangement.

Ziahan will point out much of the developed world has this problem to some extent and it is not just a Russia and China problem, but those countries have a more of this problem than some other countries. The USA has less of this problem but the price we are paying is we will no longer be a white country and our cultural will be much different in the future.

Ziahan is saying the world will fragment as populations start to contract there will be a tendance to not want to import as much. There is going to be a period where world economics will have less until another system is put into place. He does not pretend to know what that system will be and expects there will several failures before we come up with something that works.

I really doubt that Danchik understands anything about Ziahan's work just wants to discredit it because he does not paint a rosy future for Russia in the long-term. 

[BC]

What he is saying is over the next five years Russia will have a shortage of military age men, so they needed to do this war now if they are going to do it.  Titles seem to exaggerate what is happening so the video is watch more to generate more views which means more revenues to the poster.

Although Ziahan is expressing an opinion, it does seem to be founded on facts.  The effects of demographics are certainly a factor that would be considered when planning in the longer term.

This population pyramid sums it up quite well. 

[BC]

The graphic is interesting.  The dark-shaded areas show the excess population gender.  Under the age of 40 there are more men than women, and over 40 there are more women than men.  I reckon some excesses of males will disappear.  Maybe already has.

[cufflinks]

BUMP

Contrarian posted a link to a news site that I have not visited before, most of the articles were nothing more than editorials but this one caught my eye in that there is in my opinion a valid argument made. For a long time Wiz and others have been preaching the end is nigh for the American empire. I sort of doubt this, but change in inevitable. While some may be uncomfortable with the viewpoint it does make one think.

https://www.nationofchange.org/2021/04/20/the-unraveling-of-the-american-empire/

[Contrarian]

Good article Cuffy, I like this one even more, since it specifies how so many wish to forget the moral and financial debacle of Iraq, in relation to the West's condemnation of Russia.

https://www.nationofchange.org/2023/03/10/the-american-war-from-hell-20-years-later/

[Wiz]

Usual diversion comments by the usual culprits. and also posting articles to hide and avoid facing the forthcoming truth and disaster for The Hegemonic USA.

Here is another article to entertain and educate the specialist CIA trolls and see what will have to say after reading this article:

I bet they will never accept the truth about their fake financial system and they will continue posting crap uninteresting stories and lies while they continue destroying smaller countries unable to resist to the ugly killers, NAZI invaders.

The Looming Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Tsunami.
“Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction”

Posted By Ellen Brown at Global Research, March 13, 2023

On Friday, March 10, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) collapsed and was taken over by federal regulators. SVB was the 16th largest bank in the country and its bankruptcy was the second largest in U.S. history, following Washington Mutual in 2008. Despite its size, SVB was not a “systemically important financial institution” (SIFI) as defined in the Dodd-Frank Act, which requires insolvent SIFIs to “bail in” the money of their creditors to recapitalize themselves.

Technically, the cutoff for SIFIs is $250 billion  in assets. However, the reason they are called “systemically important” is not their asset size but the fact that their failure could bring down the whole financial system. That designation comes chiefly from their exposure to derivatives, the global casino that is so highly interconnected that it is a “house of cards.” Pull out one card and the whole house collapses. SVB held $27.7 billion in derivatives, no small sum, but it is only 0.05% of the $55,387 billion ($55.387 trillion) held by JPMorgan, the largest U.S. derivatives bank.

SVB could be the canary in the coal mine foreshadowing the fate of other over-extended banks, but its collapse is not the sort of “systemic risk” predicted to trigger “contagion.” As reported by CNN

“Despite initial panic on Wall Street, analysts said SVB’s collapse is unlikely to set off the kind of domino effect that gripped the banking industry during the financial crisis.

‘The system is as well-​capitalized and liquid as it has ever been,’ Moody’s chief economist Mark Zandi said. ‘The banks that are now in trouble are much too small to be a meaningful threat to the broader system.’

No later than Monday morning, all insured depositors will have full access to their insured deposits, according to the FDIC. It will pay uninsured depositors an ‘advance dividend within the next week.’”

A fuller report on the collapse of SVB will have to wait on developments that occur over the weekend and soon thereafter.

This column, meanwhile, focuses on derivatives and is a followup to my Feb. 23  column on the “bail in” provisions of the 2010 Dodd Frank Act, which eliminated taxpayer bailouts by requiring insolvent SIFIs to recapitalize themselves with the funds of their creditors. “Creditors” are defined to include depositors, but deposits under $250,000 are protected by FDIC insurance. However, the FDIC fund is sufficient to cover only about 2% of the $9.6 trillion in U.S. insured deposits. A nationwide crisis triggering bank runs across the country, as happened in the early 1930s, would wipe out the fund. Today, some financial pundits are predicting a crisis of that magnitude in the quadrillion dollar-plus derivatives market, due to rapidly rising interest rates. This column looks at how likely that is and what can be done either to prevent it or dodge out of the way.

More on the article at Global Research....

“Financial Weapons of Mass Destruction”



 

[Lon]

Usual diversion comments by the usual culprits. and also posting articles to hide and avoid facing the forthcoming truth and disaster for The Hegemonic USA.

Here is another article to entertain and educate the specialist CIA trolls and see what will have to say after reading this article:

I bet they will never accept the truth about their fake financial system and they will continue posting crap uninteresting stories and lies while they continue destroying smaller countries unable to resist to the ugly killers, NAZI invaders.

  but Weezer, my Blood Hands brother, we would be more forthcoming to the truth and disaster that you predict if you were not such an active and profiteering participant in the Hegemony.
  it is beginning to sound as if you are trying to manipulate the investing in the hegemony with all your doom and gloom.  if you would just tell the rest of us what your plan is to profit, I am very sure that all the rest of us (the Blood Hands clan) would jump on your band wagon and help you (and us) to profit.

[Wiz]

Usual diversion comments by the usual culprits. and also posting articles to hide and avoid facing the forthcoming truth and disaster for The Hegemonic USA.

Here is another article to entertain and educate the specialist CIA trolls and see what will have to say after reading this article:

I bet they will never accept the truth about their fake financial system and they will continue posting crap uninteresting stories and lies while they continue destroying smaller countries unable to resist to the ugly killers, NAZI invaders.

  but Weezer, my Blood Hands brother, we would be more forthcoming to the truth and disaster that you predict if you were not such an active and profiteering participant in the Hegemony.
  it is beginning to sound as if you are trying to manipulate the investing in the hegemony with all your doom and gloom.  if you would just tell the rest of us what your plan is to profit, I am very sure that all the rest of us (the Blood Hands clan) would jump on your band wagon and help you (and us) to profit.

Bla Bla... bla  and lots of rubbish........

[Wiz]

Credit Suisse And Equity Markets
Teeter On The Brink

The bank run snowball continues to roll down the mountain,
gaining in size and speed as the days go by.

By Quoth the Raven - Mar 15  ∙  Preview

I was planning on publishing a different piece on something else this morning, but given the news over the last half hour I figured I would pen a quick note about the impending Credit Suisse mess

For those that haven’t read, the distressed bank’s biggest shareholder, Saudi National Bank, which is 37% owned by the kingdom's sovereign wealth fund, has publicly ruled out further investment for the bank.

It’s the last message you want to send during a time where markets are already jittery following several bank runs and resultant bank shutdowns.

Credit Suisse’s CEO was out defending the bank and its capital ratios today, but that doesn’t mean much in an investing environment where the smallest spark of bad news can immediately burst into a state-wide, California style wildfire. After the panic, it can almost become and afterthought that does more harm than good, or simply a headstone on the grave of the entity before it is even pronounced dead.

“I would ask everyone to stay calm and to support us just like we supported you during the challenging times,” Silicon Valley Bank’s CEO said just days before the bank was taken over by the FDIC.

“Signature Bank, a New York-based, full-service commercial bank, announced today updated financial figures as of March 8, 2023 and reiterated its strong, well-diversified financial position and limited digital-asset related deposit balances in the wake of industry developments,” Signature Bank wrote in a PR just 3 days before it was also taken over by regulators.

And now, today: "We have strong capital ratios, a strong balance sheet," said Credit Suisse Chairman Axel Lehmann.

Credit Suisse takes out US$54bn loan from Swiss central bank

Credit Suisse taps Swiss central bank for £45bn lifeline

www.telegraph.co.uk › business › 16/03/2023 › credit-suisse-borrow-54bn...

Looks things are going grate....

God bless AMERICA

[cufflinks]

Credit Suisse And Equity Markets
Teeter On The Brink

The bank run snowball continues to roll down the mountain,
gaining in size and speed as the days go by.

By Quoth the Raven - Mar 15  ∙  Preview

I was planning on publishing a different piece on something else this morning, but given the news over the last half hour I figured I would pen a quick note about the impending Credit Suisse mess

For those that haven’t read, the distressed bank’s biggest shareholder, Saudi National Bank, which is 37% owned by the kingdom's sovereign wealth fund, has publicly ruled out further investment for the bank.

It’s the last message you want to send during a time where markets are already jittery following several bank runs and resultant bank shutdowns.

Credit Suisse’s CEO was out defending the bank and its capital ratios today, but that doesn’t mean much in an investing environment where the smallest spark of bad news can immediately burst into a state-wide, California style wildfire. After the panic, it can almost become and afterthought that does more harm than good, or simply a headstone on the grave of the entity before it is even pronounced dead.

“I would ask everyone to stay calm and to support us just like we supported you during the challenging times,” Silicon Valley Bank’s CEO said just days before the bank was taken over by the FDIC.

“Signature Bank, a New York-based, full-service commercial bank, announced today updated financial figures as of March 8, 2023 and reiterated its strong, well-diversified financial position and limited digital-asset related deposit balances in the wake of industry developments,” Signature Bank wrote in a PR just 3 days before it was also taken over by regulators.

And now, today: "We have strong capital ratios, a strong balance sheet," said Credit Suisse Chairman Axel Lehmann.

Credit Suisse takes out US$54bn loan from Swiss central bank

Credit Suisse taps Swiss central bank for £45bn lifeline

www.telegraph.co.uk › business › 16/03/2023 › credit-suisse-borrow-54bn...

Looks things are going grate....

God bless AMERICA

LOL Boston and Massachusetts last week finally caught up to our British Bettors (Betters you say?)  NO BETTORS, Punters, Players.

Staid old Banned in Boston has legalized Sports Betting in the State similar to how shops that make books (Bookmakers) were all over Warrington, Lymm, Mancuenia, Liverpool and every little hamlet and thatched roof village in the UK.  6 Major Samrtphone Apps providers including local Draft Kings, Fanduel(Largest Betting App), Ceasars of Vegas, MGM of Vegas with a Casino in Springfield MA and Wynn with a new Casino off Route 95 5 minutes north of Boston.

Already Massachusetts is the 4th or 5th biggest Sports Betting State - remarkable considering its total Population is only +/-7Million souls statewide compared to betting behemoth states like California, New York, Florida and of course Nevada.

Whereas the Live Free or Die State of New Hampshire gave draft kings app an exclusive deal partnered wit the New Hampshire State Lottery - any one who's GPS says they are physically in New Hampshire can down load the NH Lottery Betting App powered by Draft Kings and and Bet of just about any sports anywhere Draft Kings is allowed (By States Laws).

Boston is referred to as the City of Champions due to so many Teams having won Championships over the last 20 years including Baseball Red Sox, US Football Patriots, Hockey Bruins and Basketball Celtics and Soccer Revolution for honorable mention... No Cricket or Pro Croquet though.

Before the days of the internet the only place you could book a bet was through the local pubs locally connected wiseguy bookies (Jews, Irish and Italian Mafia betting syndicates.  And who were the Bank of Boston Mafia's cash bets laundered through?)  - none other than CSB yes Credit Suisse Bank so that the local State and Feds Organized Crimes agencies could not freeze their US bank's accounts.

Yes Credit Suisse Bank is a preferred money laundry for North/Central/South American Mafia clans and worse CCP Supplied and Financed Fentanyl/Meth/Coke/Heroin Drugs Cartels and Narco-Terrorists.

Of course UBS and HSBC right next to them as well.

Interesting how Switzerland floats their economy on a sea of illicit overseas illegal activities CASH, same as Italy.

[AvHdB]

As Cuffy says upthread with lots of words Credit Suisse has internal problems and external ones with it’s image.

[Contrarian]

As Cuffy says upthread with lots of words Credit Suisse has internal problems and external ones with it’s image.