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Greta Thunberg

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There’s a hysterical, aggressive child out there with extreme media presence, and since she seems to be everywhere, I’m going to tell you what she is.

In ancient Greece, she would be a Maenad, raving about the greatness of Dionysus, telling everyone how they owe so much to him and how they need to worship him more and sacrifice to him more. Since a Maenad spewed out commonly accepted dogma, people awkwardly gave her lip service, fed her and sent her on her way.

In medieval Europe, she would be a “penitenziagite” religious fanatic, raving about how Jesus was crucified for all our sins and how we crucify him again every single day by committing new sins after we have been saved through his blood, and how we should repent, because the day of judgment is near, and we will all burn in hell for all eternity unless we do.

In Nazi Germany, she would be a member of the Hitlerjugend, praising the Führer, telling everybody what a great person he is, and how unworthy they are of such a blessing of destiny, and how much harder they must work and how they need to sacrifice more for the Homeland, to create the bright future for the Aryan race promised by the great Führer.

In communist Yugoslavia, she would be a young pioneer of Tito, telling everybody he’s the greatest son of our nations and nationalities, and that they are straying from the path he had shown to us, the path of brotherhood and unity, and that we need to apply ourselves hard to implement our socialist self-governing system in every aspect of our lives.

In an Islamic country, she would be Osama bin Laden, reciting Qur’an and telling everybody how to be a better Muslim and implement the teachings of Muhammad literally and without deviations, thus obeying the will of Allah and making the world as He intended.

In every single instance, she would be awkwardly praised or even publicly elevated as an example, because she embodies the collective guilt and pathology of the absurd beliefs everybody gives lip service to in public, while disregarding them on the actual real-life level, because they are nonsense. But you can’t publicly state they are nonsense, or counter-productive, because they are the public dogma, and since Socrates the punishment for going against public dogma has been nasty. So when some pompous, aggressive, ugly little shit starts yelling public dogma and asking for more compliance and submission, everybody wants to crush her underfoot like a cockroach that she is, but since she’s the manifestation and embodiment of the public dogma, followed by the priests who explain how she’s ideologically correct, you do what is right and proper for one to do in such circumstances when in a totalitarian state: you clap enthusiastically to show your political and ideological correctness, and prop her up for everybody to follow as a bright example, which of course feeds her ego with self-righteousness of her glorious path. However, when the ideology changes, as it invariably does, she’s something everybody is ashamed of, as she embodies their cowardice, compliance and obedience to complete bullshit.

What really makes me laugh is imagining a Maenad doing her self-righteous thing outside of the natural environment – a Greek Maenad inside North Korea, or a Nazi Maenad inside communist Yugoslavia, or Greta Thunberg the CO2 Maenad in Christian medieval Europe. Without the shield of dogma, such a little shit would be treated exactly as she deserves to be treated.

Rumors

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A birdie told me that Deutsche Bank took hold of 9M oz (around 280 metric tons) of silver in the last month or so.

My interpretation: they know what’s about to happen to the price of silver and they are trying to save themselves from the mess they are in due to their rotting fake paper assets. Basically, this gives additional weight to the hypothesis stating that gold is going up, and silver will rise until it reaches the material scarcity equilibrium with gold, around 1:9 ratio or something similar.

I’ve been buying silver like crazy for the past month. There are too many indicators for me to ignore them. Also, DB is in problems that are too acute for them to get into this as a matter of long-term strategy. They must expect something to happen quickly.

 

Why economy?

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Why am I so preoccupied with economy lately, I’m sure some or all of you might ask. I thought about this, and this is what I came up with.

The way people imagine economy working is you have something of value to offer, other people have something of value to offer, you all trade goods and services and the one providing the most valuable goods and services in greatest quantities ends up with most money.

That’s not how it works. Sure, it works that way on the lowest tiers of economy, but as I went into it deeper I discovered other principles in action.

The way economy actually works is that people with swords tell you what is money, after they more-less grabbed the entirety of that resource for themselves. Then people with money tell you what has value, and what goods and services will make you rich, what will make you poor, and what will get you killed.

The foundation of the US Dollar isn’t gold, or oil, not even the mortgages. It’s the US military. You will use Dollar as money, or an aircraft carrier battle group will visit your country and introduce democracy. When you accept using USD in international trade, all your goods and services are valued against a resource controlled by the people with guns, who control the quantity of the resource in supply (basically can print as much of it as they want), and you have to trade for this resource pretending it actually has the value it trades for on the market, because aircraft carriers and democracy. The situation in the late stages of the Roman Empire was similar. Silver Denarius was debased so badly it was basically bronze with trace amounts of silver. The problem was, their military refused to be paid in that shit, so they had two currencies, one for paying the military and one for common usage, until the fall of Rome finally put everyone out of their misery. How Rome forced everybody to use shit currency instead of simply switching to something that actually has value? People with swords.

Pure, naked force defines what is money, and what you can get it for, on the fundamental levels of the economy. If people with swords tell you copper is money, that it’s the most valuable thing and the only thing you can trade for or you and your family will be killed, and that it’s ten times more valuable than gold, you will sell your gold for one tenth of its weight in copper and you’ll say “thank you, kind Sir”. They would tell you shit is money, but then you could produce it, so that wouldn’t work. They actually found something less valuable than shit to use as money, and that’s how we got the US Dollar.

Basically, money is defined through brute force, its acceptance is enforced under threat of murder, and you are a slave.

That’s what economy is, and that’s why I’m completely preoccupied with it. It is telling me the most fundamental things about this world, about its fundamental laws, and intents of its creator. It might literally be one of the most important things for one to learn, as important as the nature of God. Because if something is designed to forever keep you apart from God, and you are enslaved by it, you tell me what’s the most important thing there is.

Tariffs

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How can you tell which country has the stronger economy?

Economy of scale 101: if you produce for a bigger market, you produce in greater quantities. This reduces production overheads per item, allowing you to have lower manufacturing costs per product. Also, it allows you to keep a lower profit margin per item while still earning more on the overall volume. This makes your product cheaper to the consumer, who will therefore prefer it, all else being the same.

Countries with bigger internal markets tend to have manufacturers who are producing for those bigger markets, and therefore have the lowest prices. When such big countries export to the smaller countries who don’t have such economies of scale, they can keep the prices so low, it completely suppresses the manufacturing in the smaller countries, because they cannot hope to be competitive with the technologically superior and cheaper results of strong competition on a big marketplace; it’s like introducing more highly evolved animals to some island that was geographically separated and shielded from the competition that produced better living things. In order to survive, a small country introduces tariffs to make the imported products more expensive and level the playing ground. The bigger country then complains internationally that free trade is great, freedom is wonderful, there should be no borders that separate people, and all other bullshit that is meant to increase pressure on weaker countries to remove tariffs and allow the invader’s products to dominate their markets and destroy their manufacturing industry. Once everyone’s manufacturing is destroyed, the prices will of course be raised.

I’ve been repeating for years that American whining about free borders and free trade has only one purpose, to pressure weaker countries into allowing America to flood their markets with American products, counting on the fact that nobody can retaliate and flood American markets with cheaper products because nobody can match American economy of scale, because they manufacture for a very competitive market of 300 M people. They didn’t really count on China because they saw it as basically their own offshore factory, with labor and location outsourced in an extension of American manufacturing sector’s effort to keep the prices down. What happened is of course that China learned how to make their own products even cheaper than the China-manufactured American products, while keeping the quality the same, or actually stepping it up, because where there’s manufacturing, there’s also experimentation and research that ends up evolving better technology.

That’s why Huawei is a problem for America. It is now actually a manufacturer of superior 5G technology that America cannot match. The roles have turned and now America is a technologically weaker country whose marketplace is to be conquered by a stronger country’s superior products. Also, a technologically superior country that controls the infrastructure can use said infrastructure for its own nefarious purposes if it so desires. America is used to being in that position, but as soon as it smelled the coffee and understood that China is going to replace it in this position, it started raising hell about unjust this and that and switching from a globalized free market paradigm to a “we must protect our small and weak country from stronger countries flooding our market with their products”. It’s really funny to watch.

It also explains why China is now rooting for free trade, no borders and broader international cooperation and other nonsense. It calculated that it has the technological upper hand and nobody can successfully compete with it on its own market, while it can out-compete anyone else. It’s like the osmotic pressure: you can have a porous membrane that allows two-way flow of liquid, but the liquid will always flow in the direction of lower pressure.

Trump’s statements that China is going to pay those tariffs and not the US citizens is of course a blatant lie. Of course the US citizens are going to pay those tariffs, that’s how tariffs are supposed to work. China is not going to reduce their prices for that amount, that’s impossible. The irony is, China will now benefit from all the open borders and free trade infrastructure that the Americans pushed for when they thought they will forever remain the dominant manufacturing and technological power, and they can’t just say it was all horseshit intended to collapse our borders, destroy our manufacturing sectors and make us American colonies. No, it will be “yellow man bad”.

 

Method to the madness

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When I wrote in that previous article about how America uses AI and supercomputer simulations of socio-economic systems, something clicked: “wow, that actually explains why their geopolitical moves look so idiotic”.

Let me explain.

America makes chaos in the Middle East, destroying Libya and Syria. America switches focus to North Korea, stirs up the conflict almost to the point of war, then starts peace negotiations, but then freezes them because it doesn’t actually want peace there. It stirs up a civil war in Ukraine, creates a chaotic state and freezes it, not allowing it to be solved. It creates chaos in Venezuela by introducing sanctions that make sure the situation can’t be improved, and then tries to introduce their asset Guaido as the new “president”, making sure the government of the very incompetent communist Maduro is de facto cemented in place because patriotism. They pressure Europe to start importing economic migrants who are sure to create chaos and disruptions and possibly throw Europe into civil war. They stir up conflict with China over whatever – Taiwan, some islands in South China Sea, economy, trade. They wage systemic psychological warfare against Russia, to the point where their politicians are cornered into either recommending total war with Russia or be labelled Russian assets.

It all looks crazy, as if they are going around the globe and intentionally stirring up conflicts, not allowing conflicts to be resolved peacefully, and rotating them in circle, shifting attention from one to another with no apparent goal other than increasing the intensity and amount of the global anxiety level.

And then it clicked: it looks like something you would have in a simulation: a scalar labelled “anxiety level”. A simulation tells you that you need to increase the global anxiety level and keep it within a range, and then your operatives get orders to stir up shit all over the world, including pulling Trump’s strings to go do something (or his daughter is going to have an unfortunate accident). What’s going on doesn’t make any sense otherwise because it all looks as if CIA is being run by idiots, but if it’s actually being advised by a simulated system with specific goals in mind, and if the simulation tells them that they need certain parameters within certain ranges in order to get desired effects, and the system monitors the social network for feedback on the emotional states of both the general population and specific groups, this chaotic madness is exactly what it would look like, only there’s method to the madness.

The more I think of it, the more it looks like Alex Jones actually had the right idea about what’s going on, only he’s too unhinged to explain it properly so it sounded crazy. It all looks like someone hired very intelligent futurologists to plot a pathway from the present day to some very distant future where mankind either sheds the flesh and is pure AI, or exists as hybrid biotech merged with computers, and colonizes planets orbiting the nearby stars. The simulation was probably trained by feeding it the information about the past, and when it became capable of reliably “predicting” the present, they started trusting it with predicting the future, and I would guess this has been going on for a while and they train the AI with feedback from the reality, which revises the projection of the future. I would expect the simulation to inform them about divergencies – for instance, if you want to get your kind of future, you need to change certain things in the real world to steer things in a different direction, and then human agents get instructions on what to aim for, and then we get to see politics that looks insane, but it’s only insane if you think it’s done by humans who do things based on emotions, for instance if you think that Trump is tweeting his nonsense based on his emotions and thoughts, and not because he’s instructed to do something by his handlers in Langley, who are instructed what to do by the deep strategy team.

So, basically, it’s the futurologists directing the machines that treat humans like predictable entities, basically a herd of cattle that will respond positive to green pastures and negative to cattle prod, and can be steered easily in certain directions, and the only opposition to this are the human geo-strategic teams, primarily in Russia, who are so far incredibly disciplined in diffusing this chaos and are instructing other countries and promoting restraint.