Disasters and the opportunities they present

[SOL]

Here we will look (and everyone is welcome to contribute) and disaster type situations that could prove to be opportunities in disguise.

Turkey is one such place. Interest rates are still high despite Erdogan forcing central bankers to lower them. Life is cheap for foreigners, they have excellent medical facilities, food is great and the weather is fantastic if you are on the Mediterranean side. One can get a 1 year extended visa or short term residency permit very easily. You can also get citizenship if you invest roughly 250K in the country


This story makes Argentina look like an interesting place to live in and possibly start looking at real estate

Argentina Set to Raise Key Rate to 42.5% Thursday, Official Says

Argentina’s central bank raised its benchmark interest rate by 250 basis points to 42.5% on Thursday, further tightening monetary policy to align with goals set out in the government’s talks with the International Monetary Fund

The increase marks its second rate hike this year, according to a central bank statement. IMF staff have called for interest rates in Argentina to exceed annual inflation running at 51% as part of a pending program to reschedule the government’s $40 billion of outstanding debt with the IMF.

While the borrowing costs still remain below inflation, Thursday’s rate increase will take the effective annual rate to 51.9% from 48.3%, according to an official who asked not to be named since the figure wasn’t part of the formal statement. Policy makers at the central bank consider that the effective annual rate, which accounts for compounded interest, is the one that needs to exceed inflation to comply with the IMF’s goals.

Talks between the government and the IMF picked up momentum. After reaching a tentative agreement on key issues in late January, the Fund’s Executive Board met Wednesday with staff officials to discuss the state of talks with Argentina. The government aims to reach a staff-level IMF agreement before March.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/argentin ... 16796.html

[SOL]

It's with sadness that we make this statement. It is game over (from a long term trend perspective) for the Western World. Putin pulled a move straight out of Machevelli's play book. In recognizing the disputed terrorites of Donbass etc, he has reduced the odds of a war by 90% and has given NATO and the US the bird. Our view of all politicians remains the same. 90% are corrupt humans that are below slugs, but with the recent move Putin has virtually guaranteed that Ukraine will never be allowed into NATO and possibly never into the EU. It also marks the top for NATO and the EU.

If you look at it, Western Nations are on Par with the CCP and other dictator ruled nations in the ways they handled and continue to handle the COVID vaccine issue. Everyone should be allowed to decide if they want to put something in their bodies whether it is good or bad. However, with COVID the western world has embraced the Gestapo regime motto. Do what we tell you or you are going to get hammered. Soon the CCP and Russia, etc will use this info to show that at least they are consistent while the West talks about freedom but does everything to control the individual's Freedom. It is no longer about the efficacy of the COVID vaccine but about freedom of choice and in that sense the West has failed tremendously. This will provide the CCP, Russia, Turkey, etc with the fodder to state that they are not so bad after all. China is for now is supporting Russia covertly but very soon this will change to overt support and then both will mount massive assaults at the Fabric of what the West stands for.

We suspect that China and Russia are now working aggressively on an alternative system to SWIFT and it's not if but a matter of time before they come up with a viable option. Time to read the fall and decline of the Roman empire

[hooligan]

yikes.

[MarkD]

After your comment on Argentina, one time global leader, I checked to determine entry requirements. Please correct me if I am wrong, but a vaccine protocol for visitors still appears to be in place.

I am also noting that PFE and MRNA are getting hammered due to the suspicion raised by Wall Street that the vax trials may not have been conducted and reported accurately. This is a death blow if true. Covid is fading quickly.

Now what? Ukraine war is a non issue.

[Budge]

I am also noting that PFE and MRNA are getting hammered due to the suspicion raised by Wall Street that the vax trials may not have been conducted and reported accurately. This is a death blow if true. Covid is fading quickly.

Now what? Ukraine war is a non issue.

PFE and MRNA: Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of thugs. Time for them to pivot to the next pandemic. I thought smallpox but they may go for HIV.

Re: Ukraine. It is an issue. Wheels within wheels. Biden has been begging Putin to invade so he can yell "shiny object" and try to distract those still in the cave from the almighty mess the ventriloquist's dummy has caused (and the future inflation mess to hit the US hoi polloi). And it gives another black mark against DJT because we all know if he hadn't been so soft on Putin this would never have happened. (sarc off)

It gives Olaf (I'm not a snowman, I'm just snowing the German public) Scholz, the reason to cancel Nord Stream 2 and really screw over/collapse Germany so he can BBB. To help in that is the appointment of Jennifer Morgan (ex- head of Greenpeace, handler of St Greta and best bud of Al (the Slug) Gore) as Deputy Foreign Minister. (Well at least she meets the test of being "foreign".)

And Ukraine has ties into the upper reaches of Canada's government via Chrystia Freeland and her maternal roots in Ukraine. While visiting from Harvard she was an agitated for Ukrainian independence and was closely watched by the Soviets.

" there is no love lost between Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and the current leader of Russia, himself a former KGB officer, Vladimir Putin. And she still cannot fly into Moscow – since 2014, Chrystia Freeland has once again been the target of Kremlin sanctions, barred from entering the country."

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/a ... espect-of/

I'm not sure the Globe and Mail points out that her grandfather was a Ukrainian Nazi during the war before fleeing to Alberta:

https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Michael_Chomiak

or that this explains her animus towards Russia and her penchant for tyrannical powers:

https://coat.ncf.ca/research/Chomiak-Fr ... C-F_20.htm

I'm just glad all those Canadian silos hold wheat (they do, er, don't they?).

[Yodean]

And Ukraine has ties into the upper reaches of Canada's government via Chrystia Freeland and her maternal roots in Ukraine. While visiting from Harvard she was an agitated for Ukrainian independence and was closely watched by the Soviets.

Yeh, Canada's a lost cause. Freeland, Trudeau, and a host of others in the House of Commons also have strong ties to WEF, Schwab.

[SOL]

After your comment on Argentina, one time global leader, I checked to determine entry requirements. Please correct me if I am wrong, but a vaccine protocol for visitors still appears to be in place.

I am also noting that PFE and MRNA are getting hammered due to the suspicion raised by Wall Street that the vax trials may not have been conducted and reported accurately. This is a death blow if true. Covid is fading quickly.

Now what? Ukraine war is a non issue.

Yes sadly it appears that they do require a covid vaccine certificate, but on that note, many have found ingenious ways of getting one outside the US.

[SOL]

And Ukraine has ties into the upper reaches of Canada's government via Chrystia Freeland and her maternal roots in Ukraine. While visiting from Harvard she was an agitated for Ukrainian independence and was closely watched by the Soviets.

Yeh, Canada's a lost cause. Freeland, Trudeau, and a host of others in the House of Commons also have strong ties to WEF, Schwab.

If you remove all the noise and just look at the trend and cycles. Nothing moves in one direction forever. So all the news that follows is only going to confirm what the trend is clearly stating. The cycle of freedom is over in the West. If observed from a higher angle all the events are happening to support the cycles. All cycles, end and then start again.

[Budge]

And Ukraine has ties into the upper reaches of Canada's government via Chrystia Freeland and her maternal roots in Ukraine. While visiting from Harvard she was an agitated for Ukrainian independence and was closely watched by the Soviets.

Yeh, Canada's a lost cause. Freeland, Trudeau, and a host of others in the House of Commons also have strong ties to WEF, Schwab.

If you remove all the noise and just look at the trend and cycles. Nothing moves in one direction forever. So all the news that follows is only going to confirm what the trend is clearly stating. The cycle of freedom is over in the West. If observed from a higher angle all the events are happening to support the cycles. All cycles, end and then start again.

Appears reality slapped Turdwater and Unfreeland upside the head. Cancelled emergency and unfroze bank account. Destroying confidence in one's banking system doesn't play well.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/bl ... -accounts/

[Budge]

On the subject of bonehead moves (with thanks to Brandon):
1- What country produces 2/3rd of world's ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3)? Russia.
2- What is NH4NO3 used for? Making fertilizer.
3- Who stopped exports of NH4NO3? Vlad
4- What needs big dollops of fertilizer? Wheat and corn
5- What has gone up 12.8% and 5.2% in the last week in futures markets? See #4.

Legumes need less but soy +4.95%, soy oil +5.2%, soy meal +4%.

Laugh it can't get any worse, so he did, and it did.

[phillCC]

It's with sadness that we make this statement. It is game over (from a long term trend perspective) for the Western World. Putin pulled a move straight out of Machevelli's play book. In recognizing the disputed terrorites of Donbass etc, he has reduced the odds of a war by 90% and has given NATO and the US the bird. Our view of all politicians remains the same. 90% are corrupt humans that are below slugs, but with the recent move Putin has virtually guaranteed that Ukraine will never be allowed into NATO and possibly never into the EU. It also marks the top for NATO and the EU.

Yesterday Putin gave a quite amazing (and short) press conference. Not only did he declare that Russia recognizes the LDNR Republics in their own, legal, borders (i.e. the full Donetsk and Lugansk regions), he also listed the four steps needed to be taken by the Ukraine to avoid a direct, unilateral, Russian action:

The Ukraine must recognize Crimea and Sevastopol as Russian territory
The Ukraine must officially renounce joining NATO
The Ukraine must negotiate a settlement with the LDNR Republics
The Ukraine must be demilitarized and declared neutral

This is clearly an ultimatum, but this time, to the authorities in Kiev.

Now a few simple comments:

Since Russia has recognized the LDNR in their original, administrative, regional borders, this means that all the Ukie forces between the current Line of Contact (LOC) and the borders between the original borders of the LDNR and the rest of the Ukraine are now de facto and de jure a foreign occupying force on the territory of a Russian ally which Russia promised to protect.

Just ponder the implications of that for a while, let it sink in: until yesterday, the Ukronazi forces were on their own territory, at least legally speaking. Now they are abroad and unwelcome.

Quite logically, several DNR and LNR officials have now demanded that Kiev withdraw these forces completely from the LDNR territory. As a small carrot, LDNR officials have said that if the Ukies retreat voluntarily there will be no further action taken. Conversely, that means that if the Ukies stay, the LDNR will do what is needed to make them leave.

That is an LDNR ultimatum to Kiev.

In plain English this means this:

Putin has demanded that the Ukronazi forces immediately stop their attacks
The LDNR has demanded that the Ukronazi forces immediately withdraw from all the territories the LDNR claims, and Russia recognizes, as belonging to the LDNR

Some LDNR official have offered this: stop the shelling, move at least your heavy force away from the LOC as you are supposed to under the ceasefire agreements and we won’t move our forces in. In other words, if the Ukies move out, the LDNR forces will stay out, but the territory vacated by the Ukies will become legally LDNR’s.

Since there is exactly zero chance that the Nazis in Kiev will accept, what does that tell you about the next move by the LDNR and, possibly, Russia?

The above is an excerpt from:-
http://thesaker.is/the-situation-is-abo ... next-days/

[George1010]

Yesterday Putin gave a quite amazing (and short) press conference. Not only did he declare that Russia recognizes the LDNR Republics in their own, legal, borders (i.e. the full Donetsk and Lugansk regions), he also listed the four steps needed to be taken by the Ukraine to avoid a direct, unilateral, Russian action:

The Ukraine must recognize Crimea and Sevastopol as Russian territory
The Ukraine must officially renounce joining NATO
The Ukraine must negotiate a settlement with the LDNR Republics
The Ukraine must be demilitarized and declared neutral

This is clearly an ultimatum, but this time, to the authorities in Kiev.

Now a few simple comments:

Since Russia has recognized the LDNR in their original, administrative, regional borders, this means that all the Ukie forces between the current Line of Contact (LOC) and the borders between the original borders of the LDNR and the rest of the Ukraine are now de facto and de jure a foreign occupying force on the territory of a Russian ally which Russia promised to protect.

Just ponder the implications of that for a while, let it sink in: until yesterday, the Ukronazi forces were on their own territory, at least legally speaking. Now they are abroad and unwelcome.

Quite logically, several DNR and LNR officials have now demanded that Kiev withdraw these forces completely from the LDNR territory. As a small carrot, LDNR officials have said that if the Ukies retreat voluntarily there will be no further action taken. Conversely, that means that if the Ukies stay, the LDNR will do what is needed to make them leave.

That is an LDNR ultimatum to Kiev.

In plain English this means this:

Putin has demanded that the Ukronazi forces immediately stop their attacks
The LDNR has demanded that the Ukronazi forces immediately withdraw from all the territories the LDNR claims, and Russia recognizes, as belonging to the LDNR

Some LDNR official have offered this: stop the shelling, move at least your heavy force away from the LOC as you are supposed to under the ceasefire agreements and we won’t move our forces in. In other words, if the Ukies move out, the LDNR forces will stay out, but the territory vacated by the Ukies will become legally LDNR’s.

Since there is exactly zero chance that the Nazis in Kiev will accept, what does that tell you about the next move by the LDNR and, possibly, Russia?

The above is an excerpt from:-
http://thesaker.is/the-situation-is-abo ... next-days/

I take it you are not a fan of the current Ukrainian Government . On a more serious note. I think a bottom is not too far in the making as the markets have almost price in a full-scale war. When I look at all the articles talking about supply interruptions, stagflation, etc all because of Ukraine and Russia it makes me shake my head in wonder. Were the matter not so serious, (I use the word "serious" because many innocent will probably lose their lives and or livelihood), I would be laughing. At most, if there is a war it will be even shorter-lived than the one in Georgia. Hopefully, there is no war but I can't envision all the doomsday scenarios the media is busy creating. Many of Ukraine's Military sites have already been bombed and there are rumors that people are fleeing Kiev. Ukraine is the only one that will suffer massively and as the US left Georgia to pick up the mess after it was attacked by Russia, the same will happen here. This could have all been avoided but an excuse is needed to keep the printing press rolling even if it means killing many innocent people. What a tragedy

Russia fired missiles at more than half a dozen Ukrainian cities, including the capital, Kyiv, targeting air defense facilities and military infrastructure just before dawn Thursday and landed soldiers on the country’s south coast. The action unfolded shortly after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on television what he described as a “special military operation,” but what Ukrainian leaders say is a full-scale invasion of their country, the second biggest in Europe.

In an angry address broadcast just before 6 a.m. Moscow time, Russia’s president said he could no longer tolerate what he called the threats from Ukraine. He ended his speech warning outside powers not to interfere. He said his goal was the “demilitarization and de-Nazification of Ukraine.” He added: “We will bring to court those who have committed many crimes, responsible for the bloodshed of civilians, including Russian citizens,” he said.

Putin warned that if Ukrainian soldiers don’t lay down their weapons, they would be responsible for bloodshed.

Shortly after he spoke, intense rocket fire could be heard in the eastern city of Kharkiv and then sporadic rumbling explosions could be heard coming from the outskirts of Kyiv, from the direction of the capital’s main Boryspil international airport and its second airport at Zhuliany.

https://www.voanews.com/a/russia-launch ... 56841.html

[Yodean]

This won't last long. A disputed buffer zone will be created. Vlad's not losing in his backyard.
Likely some sort of selling climax today and perhaps next week, then sideways consolidation.

More importantly, IS SOL PALHA OKAY? Let's not forget he's in Ukraine, I think!!! His plans to go to Turkey may have been nixed.

Shilajit and methylene blue ain't gonna protect you from shrapnel and bombs.

[SOL]

This won't last long. A disputed buffer zone will be created. Vlad's not losing in his backyard.
Likely some sort of selling climax today and perhaps next week, then sideways consolidation.

More importantly, IS SOL PALHA OKAY? Let's not forget he's in Ukraine, I think!!! His plans to go to Turkey may have been nixed.

Shilajit and methylene blue ain't gonna protect you from shrapnel and bombs.

That is true nothing can prevent you from bombs etc. but I am in a safe zone, right now. I would not sit around in a bomb zone. I have played enough games years before going into the ms13 areas in central America and gang zones in the Philippines, etc as to why I did i wanted to prove to the people with me that you can go anywhere if you use MP correctly but i am not that crazy anymore lol

[Budge]

This won't last long. A disputed buffer zone will be created. Vlad's not losing in his backyard.
Likely some sort of selling climax today and perhaps next week, then sideways consolidation.

More importantly, IS SOL PALHA OKAY? Let's not forget he's in Ukraine, I think!!! His plans to go to Turkey may have been nixed.

Shilajit and methylene blue ain't gonna protect you from shrapnel and bombs.

That is not true nothing can prevent you from bombs etc. but I am in a safe zone, right now. I would not sit around in a bomb zone. I have played enough games years before going into the ms13 areas in central America and gang zones in the Philippines, etc as to why I did i wanted to prove to the people with me that you can go anywhere if you use MP correctly but i am not that crazy anymore lol

Glad to hear you're safe and I say that for more than just purely mercenary reasons. However, I do hope you have instituted succession planning and key man insurance?