"True patriots would actually like to see their side win, whereas the controlled patriots just want the profits to keep rolling in. You will never see the fake patriots’ lives put on the line. Meanwhile, actual patriots in Russia are being assassinated left and right all under the watchful eye of the FSB."
Oddly, the "international financiers" despise the patriots or nationalists in the US and Russia.
That's why the other day one of those US patriots just got 14 years in prison for partaking in the 1/6 setup. However, the Capitol police officer who shot young ex-Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt in the neck and killed her during the same 1/6 event was protected by the security state.
In any event, I've been watching The Duran for years for an alternative view🫣 regarding Western imperialism. That being said, I started getting suspicious many months ago and posted a few comments in their YouTube comment section. To my dismay, they were all eliminated.
I noticed, how The Duran avoided discussing the Kremlin's duplicity in the Scamdemic/jab bullshit which Whitney Webb has mentioned more than a year ago in articles on her Unlimited Hangout website, and on her podcasts.
"The Duran" are sinophiles this is not meant to be a warmongering remark. They're overly excited about a multipolar paradise which actually strengthens China's technocratic biosecurity surveillance state which international trillion dollar asset management firms are all-in on.
It's all spelled out in the UN initiatives especially Agenda 2030.
China has been a Western social engineering project for over 100 years. A favorite of the Rockefeller's.
And now that AI technology is almost "ready" the power-hungry are eager to deploy a worldwide central bank digital currency as a "key tool" for global governance, as well implementing several "benevolent sounding" UN initiatives which are further designed to eliminate nation-state sovereignty.
And that's why, these international financiers and techno/fascists hate nationalists in Russia and the US.
To put it simply, nationalists are an impediment to their long awaited plans of establishing global governance.
Personally, I find it very difficult to believe that multinational corporations and multi-trillion dollar assest management firms with "trillions invested" in China are genuinely in an acrimonious relationship with the "socialists who have predatory capitalistic characteristics. " And who I might add, love being extremely affluent members of the Chinese Communist Party.
That being said, they're all in cahoots.
This is not to say, that brave foolish young soldiers like in the Ukrainian conflict won't die in some manufactured skirmish designed as a collateral damage media event.
However, the greedy ghouls have no intention of making Russia, or America great again as their pocketbooks are open to Asia.
Long ago, Western financiers decided China was to be a "social engineered sweatshop" and Russia was a looting playground for energy and all its lovely natural resources.
By the way, the US is in the same boat, that's why thousands of migrants on the southern border are running into the US each day looking like they're running into a department store sale on Black Friday.
A "borderless world" is the mission as described in numerous UN initiatives managed under One World Governance, where "unelected unaccountable" billionaire gangsters work hand-in-glove with corrupt UN organizations and stooge appointees to set policy initiatives implemented throughout the planet ultimately creating a dystopian repressive shithole for billions while the techno/fascist billionaire dwell in their multipolar paradise.
Rolo: "...they clearly had my entire bulletpoint write-up in front of them and STILL ignored everything that they didn’t like and then, instead of addressing any of the claims, simply said that Prigozhin was having a mental breakdown and could not be taken seriously going forward."
Reminds me of what Simplicius said about Rolo!! "I heard that Rolo is suffering from a major unhinged mental breakdown of late..."! WTF! I wonder where he heard that??
Rolo: "It is always your own side that needs the harsh rhetoric to shape up, not the enemy."
Could this be, at least partially, a justification (or at least, an explanation) for what's going on? If one sees the war in Ukraine as a battle between nation-states, or alliances of nation-states: then you pick your side, and you battle for your side, and against the other side.
This gets tricky when you are an American, Ukrainian or NATO citizen who is concerned that "your own side" is in the wrong. That is, you see your government going to war against the Russians, which is obviously suicidal and insane, as well as criminally wicked and murderous. The primary obligation, if this is your analysis, is to criticize "your own side" and to work for a change.
Ritter, Lira, the Duran, Simplicius, and even Martyanov are all writing from the perspective of Westerners writing for other Westerners, trying to widen their audience and convince their followers that the NATO powers and Ukraine are acting like evil, stupid nazis and that they're going to get their asses kicked by the Russians. The hope is that Trump or RFK Jr or some other savior will come along to turn things around in the American government, which is obviously the lynchpin.
So it's natural that from that perspective, anyone who portrays that the Russians are also being led by bumbling idiots or worse, is arguing against the narrative, and gets ignored or scoffed at. But when this gets to the level of lying or shamelessly plagiarizing material, it's no longer acceptable as a strategic or psychological quirk. It invites speculation that perhaps these Westerners have gone so far as to get on the payroll for the Russians. In some cases this is openly revealed; i.e. Ritter and the Duran folks have both worked for RT and other Russian outlets in the recent past.
Rolo here is straddling this particular divide. He sees himself as Slavic and his primary nationalist loyalty is to Russia, and yet also he has an American passport, speaks English with a CNN accent, and writes for a Western audience. So, both sides get the harsh rhetoric.
Charlotte is hinting that the most important divide is not Russia and China vs. America and NATO. What's really happening here is that the Globalists, (Ethnic Neocons, Zionists, British Israelites, Anglo-Saxon Royalists, Jesuits, Technocrats, whatever) are tightening their grip on the entire planet, and nationalist patriots everywhere are in a desperate fight for survival.
Not to belabor the point, but global governance has been in the playbook for many decades, probably one of the reasons Rockefeller donated the land for the UN post WWII.
However, to accomplish such a "lofty goal" the technology must not only be available but reliable. In addition, the socioeconomic conditions must be appropriate to gain acceptance for such radical changes. As I said previously, the key components to secure global governance is the central bank digital currency in conjuction with the biosecurity surveillance state. Both must be deployed as one controls your finances and the other your body. All the other tragic horrors we're witnessing is mere window dressing or distractions.
In other words, there's a continous battle going on, unfortunately, it's a war against humanity. The billionaire techno/fascists and international financiers are fearful they'll lose power and wealth in a societal collapse.
I don't yet know if you're right in all your prognostications, your analysis of things but I know this for certain sure: you can write and explain clearly what you are trying to say. And I find that the most important thing. You are a writer. You have the talent. The ability.
And I spend most of my time looking for 'writers' so that I don't have to labour through tons of words to discover what content if any.
So impressed I nearly opened my wallet. Just a bit shy of possibilities of being ripped off. Your payment arrangements have what to back them up as safe, secure, not liable to get us ripped off via card details spread around the dark web or something?
Just want to say, too, that the mention of 'Ritter, Duran and Martyanov' is perhaps a little superfluous or something. I mean they just don't matter. They don't signify.
Yes, they signify as the virtual only 'dissenting' or 'alternative' voice the masses have perhaps.
But the masses don't see them.
And on investigation they say nothing. The Duran all mere opinion piece. Ritter all the same song every time: "Ukraine is collapsing NOW" and Martyanov all "scoff, scoff, scoff".
They don't matter.
Seems to me YOU matter.
You're kinda like michelangelo chipping away at a sculpture and singing out to neighbouring chippers and trying to involve them, get help from them or something....
while they crudely maul rocks.
Seems to me you have the ability to truly speak while the rest gabble.
So speak, I'd say. Craft your creations and let them stand.
And we'll all be much the better for it. You will be putting pillars of strength beneath Russia might be a way of putting it.
p.s. I will not be disseminating your words this time, spreading, sharing your link... for fear of giving aid and comfort to the enemy. This awful information has to be known, accepted, realised and acted upon. So it has to said, sure enough. But I don't want to put it before the swine just right now.
p.s. just read your comment about all payments being handled by substack.
Fine by me. I feel safe with them. I'll get on board for a few bucks. I appreciate what you're doing. :)
I have no such "aid & comfort" reservations- in fact, I might even argue that NOT spreading this as far & wide as possible to antiglobalists IS giving aid & comfort to our potential totalitarian overlords. I will be sharing this on every war update video & blog post I consume today. And I'll be back to pick up a link for tomorrow's article for posting on tomorrow's update content. Thank you very much for this work; early on it was easy to explain away setbacks as part of the normal process of adjustment of planning to match the reality met on the ground, but lately I have started to have that awful sinking feeling that something is off because from a purely military standpoint, there really is just no excuse at this late date for ALL the ongoing failure.
Subscription to this blog is top 5 best things to have happened this year. Rolo single handedly called out the bullshit spouted by former convicts and mediocre lawyers.
Thanks for giving voice to the voiceless Russian people, who deep state presstitutes like Duran despise and think that Greeks know better than Russians.
Russia’s oil and gas budget revenue drops sharply in April
MOSCOW, May 4 (Reuters) – Russia’s federal budget revenues from oil and gas, the lifeblood of its economy, fell 64% in April from the year-earlier period and declined by 5.9% from March, the finance ministry said on Thursday, as a result of higher subsidies to oil refineries.
Budget income from oil and gas sales reached 647.5 billion roubles ($8.3 billion) last month, compared to 688.2 billion in March and 1.798 trillion roubles in April 2022, it said.
April, while the same payments to oil refineries under the “damping mechanism” rose to 107.2 billion roubles from 96.7 billion roubles in March.
At the same time, profit-based tax revenues from oil producers fell last month to 185.4 billion roubles, from 220.6 billion roubles in March.
The Russian finance ministry plans to halve subsidies to oil refiners from July 2023, and is aiming to cut payments from the budget under the damping mechanism by 30 billion roubles.
he West’s attempts to curtail the Kremlin’s ability to finance its war on Ukraine are starting to bear fruit. Russia’s oil and gas revenues are dropping, along with its overall economy, while its budget deficits are growing. The early results of 2023 show that a combination of price caps, import bans and lower market prices is working even as Russia’s energy exports flow.
The EU embargo on refined products of Russian origin, with associated price caps, came into force on February 5, 2023. The measures are aligned with those adopted by the Group of Seven (G7) nations and Australia. They follow sanctions on crude oil, which went into effect on December 5, 2022. Together they ban the sale within the EU of seaborne Russian crude oil and oil products, except for pipeline oil, and a temporary exemption given to Hungary, Bulgaria and Croatia because of their limited alternatives.
Any third party willing to buy such products using enabling services provided by an EU entity – such as insurance and shipping – can only do so if the price they pay for the Russian products is at or below the price cap imposed by the EU. The price cap is set at $60 per barrel for crude oil and $45 per barrel for discounted petroleum products (such as fuel oil and naphtha) and $100 per barrel for premium petroleum products (such as diesel, kerosene and gasoline).
Recently, the market has been doing a better job than the price cap, with Russian crude oil selling below the $60 per barrel cap, at least before the 1.1 million barrels per day production cut that was announced on April 2 by OPEC+ nations, including Saudi Arabia and Russia.
The upshot is that Russia’s revenues from oil and gas exports tumbled by nearly 40 percent in January 2023 ($18.5 billion) compared to January 2022 ($30 billion). The revenue decline will be even steeper in the coming months, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has predicted.
Targeting Russian energy makes sense because it accounts for roughly 18 percent of Russia’s gross domestic product (GDP) and at least a third of its state budget revenues. Yet despite the loss of revenue, the damage to the overall economy remains surprisingly slight, at least according to official numbers, which some question.
Russia’s GDP shrank to an estimated $1.5 trillion, or 2.1 percent, in 2022. The 2023 forecast ranges from no growth (+0.3 percent), according to International Monetary Fund projections, to a 5.6 percent decline, based on the estimate from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. But some critics say that the Russian government’s concealment of official data is masking deeper problems.
My 5D friend said that there is nothing to fear now. Prigs criticisms have become irrelevant, he has the ammo he needs and the russian army is marching into bakhmut alongside him. As the duran stated in their latest vid RUSSIA IS STORMING. The multipolar train is back on track
Seymour Hersh on Russia selling oil and paying gas transit fees to the Ukraine. He said this is the weirdest war he ever heard of. He said that the people in charge are skimming billions of dollars. Is this war just an excuse to steal billions of dollars like hosting the Olympics? Like the Olympics, in war the corrupt can say there is no time to debate or question whether money can be spent, it must handed out now.
Keep hitting them hard, Rolo. You're creating some uncomfortable, obvious truths for the 5D crowd. Two days until Prigozhin's prediction of when an offensive may begin. I wish you were wrong and Russia had a plan and if wishes were fishes...
I thank you for your work. We nationalists have to live in reality and know that some Russian white knight ain't saving us just like the "Virtuous Pagans" of China are the wardens of the testing grounds for Globohomo's paradise.
It is encouraging to hear that Pepe has the ability to change his views. After I quit drinking the Saker koolaid several years ago, I also quit reading Pepe due to his China worship and nauseating promotion of this "multi-polar world" nonsense. The "east-west" conflict is nothing more than two factions of a crime syndicate fighting over control of the family business of exploiting and enslaving the entire planet.
Rolo, at least you got credit from Pepe for your work. That is more than I got. He "borrowed" some of the info and analogies I used in the one and only article I had published. Here is the article I wrote under a pen name as a guest post on the defunct Saker blog during the early days of the scamdemic.
ZeroHedge also re-posted my on-hit-wonder piece but it is now paywalled. Two days later Pepe published an article in which he used at least two of my unique points: info about China using IV vitamin C for covid treatment and a virus war analogy.
Don't get your hopes too high that Pepe will completely wake up. He has drunk too deeply of the multi-polar world koolaid. There are no good guys in this alleged clash of civilizations. There are only technocrats and transhumanists hell-bent on exercising god-like control over all life on the planet.
I'm sad to hear that you got your material shamelessly pilfered. It happens a lot more often than you would think. And the worst part is that no one keeps track or cares about who plays by the rules or not. All that matters is whether or not you push your reader's emotional buttons the right way and give them an emotional tingle or not.
I enjoyed reading your prescient article in burningplatform. I very much related to the cartoon, and appreciated the irony that the article appeared the day before April Fool's Day 2020. I was shaking my head all the while reading down your list. Your cartoon.
You make an observation neglected by many when you chose the words "Derangement Syndrome" in your title: COVID insanity was only part of a political madness that was developed against Trump and then transferred seamlessly to COVID. This rising tidal wave of madness appeared as a growing Tsunami, that raised its head well above prior corrupt background propaganda beginning in about 2016.
Thank you. I am a very slow writer so it took me several weeks to accomplish. As for the "Derangement Syndrome," I most definitely shamelessly co-opted the title from "Trump Derangement Syndrome." There were many comments about the article on the original Saker blog post and the Zero-Hedge re-post, but you are the first to make that connection and comment about it!
Interesting fact: the original post had the following "disclaimer" tacked onto the beginning:
"Note by the Saker: today I am posting an article written by a good and trusted friend of mine. That does *not* mean that I agree with the logic of his argument. For one thing, I am wholly incompetent to even have much of an opinion on this topic. The little I do think about what is taking place disagrees with the conclusions of my friend. But since I don’t want to impose my own limitations on you all, I am posting this in the hope that you will find this point of view of value. But, as for anything else posted on this blog, caveat emptor!
"we are no longer on speaking terms due to my subsequent rejection of his worldview." Wow! Very sorry to hear that. That outcome itself speaks of yet another regrettably destructive type of derangement. It makes me wonder what differences could be so deep as to lead to this, as I've read Saker for quite some time.
I liked your identification of 3 types of science, since the term has been conflated in exactly these ways. If I may, I'd add that science is NOT the supreme way of attaining understanding, as it really is the servant of the most fundamental form of reason, namely critical thinking.
Critical thinking is what we should be relying upon when science is called into question, but it's surprising how few can reach that bedrock when it's necessary. Most are enmired in the overlying mud of rhetorical arguments.
In 2020/21 as I was learning about technocracy and transhumanism, I saw that Russia and China were on the same path as the West in enslaving humanity and trying to change what it means to be human. It became plain to see that the oligarchies and political leaderships of all countries were actively participating in creating the same dystopian "new world order." Like two branches of a crime syndicate, the East and West were simply fighting for control of that system. I realized that the Saker blog was actively promoting a complete illusion - that the "White Hats" (Russia, China, Iran) were fighting the evil Anglo Zionist New World Order project and were going to institute a Multi-Polar system that would save us. Most people don't respond well when you attempt to shatter their deeply held illusions, so we had a falling out. Some people even burn bridges when you try to take the hopium they are addicted to. I ascended to the top (clear - "it is what it is") level of the excellent "reality pill" pyramid that Rolo inserted in his most recent paywalled article (Prigozhin Secures His Bag, But May Still Lose the War) and he stayed mired in the bottom (blue - "things are [going to be] ok") level. I hope I never transcend to the "I don't fuc*@ng care" level, LOL.
I agree wholeheartedly with your excellent observation that science is the servant of critical thinking. It's unfortunate that most folks do not seem to possess that skill. Even folks that have the skill to a certain degree in a certain area, are unable to apply it to other areas due to the powerful effects of the "drug" called hopium.
I would be interested to hear your take on Alexander Dugin. I have read some of his articles and I get the impression that he promotes a 'healthy' form of nationalism. That being proud of and devoted to your race/nation should create a better society without hating others (except Liberals and enemies of your nation). Achieving the full potential of a race for the benefit of all.
Most definitely Russia could have completely conquered the Ukraine in under a month if that was the objective. Russia has been acting like a championship fighter pulling his punches and "carrying" his opponent for a pre-determined number of rounds at the behest of the Mob which controls both fighters. It is very interesting that despite the saber rattling between Russia and the U.S. over the Ukrainian conflict (and this applies as well to the U.S. & China over Taiwan), all of these countries clasp arms and cooperate on the destruction of the planet via climate engineering and weather manipulation. Like Master Serrano said, the Hidden Hand operates both East and West.
"True patriots would actually like to see their side win, whereas the controlled patriots just want the profits to keep rolling in. You will never see the fake patriots’ lives put on the line. Meanwhile, actual patriots in Russia are being assassinated left and right all under the watchful eye of the FSB."
Oddly, the "international financiers" despise the patriots or nationalists in the US and Russia.
That's why the other day one of those US patriots just got 14 years in prison for partaking in the 1/6 setup. However, the Capitol police officer who shot young ex-Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt in the neck and killed her during the same 1/6 event was protected by the security state.
In any event, I've been watching The Duran for years for an alternative view🫣 regarding Western imperialism. That being said, I started getting suspicious many months ago and posted a few comments in their YouTube comment section. To my dismay, they were all eliminated.
I noticed, how The Duran avoided discussing the Kremlin's duplicity in the Scamdemic/jab bullshit which Whitney Webb has mentioned more than a year ago in articles on her Unlimited Hangout website, and on her podcasts.
"The Duran" are sinophiles this is not meant to be a warmongering remark. They're overly excited about a multipolar paradise which actually strengthens China's technocratic biosecurity surveillance state which international trillion dollar asset management firms are all-in on.
It's all spelled out in the UN initiatives especially Agenda 2030.
China has been a Western social engineering project for over 100 years. A favorite of the Rockefeller's.
And now that AI technology is almost "ready" the power-hungry are eager to deploy a worldwide central bank digital currency as a "key tool" for global governance, as well implementing several "benevolent sounding" UN initiatives which are further designed to eliminate nation-state sovereignty.
And that's why, these international financiers and techno/fascists hate nationalists in Russia and the US.
To put it simply, nationalists are an impediment to their long awaited plans of establishing global governance.
Personally, I find it very difficult to believe that multinational corporations and multi-trillion dollar assest management firms with "trillions invested" in China are genuinely in an acrimonious relationship with the "socialists who have predatory capitalistic characteristics. " And who I might add, love being extremely affluent members of the Chinese Communist Party.
That being said, they're all in cahoots.
This is not to say, that brave foolish young soldiers like in the Ukrainian conflict won't die in some manufactured skirmish designed as a collateral damage media event.
However, the greedy ghouls have no intention of making Russia, or America great again as their pocketbooks are open to Asia.
Long ago, Western financiers decided China was to be a "social engineered sweatshop" and Russia was a looting playground for energy and all its lovely natural resources.
By the way, the US is in the same boat, that's why thousands of migrants on the southern border are running into the US each day looking like they're running into a department store sale on Black Friday.
A "borderless world" is the mission as described in numerous UN initiatives managed under One World Governance, where "unelected unaccountable" billionaire gangsters work hand-in-glove with corrupt UN organizations and stooge appointees to set policy initiatives implemented throughout the planet ultimately creating a dystopian repressive shithole for billions while the techno/fascist billionaire dwell in their multipolar paradise.
Get it now!😁
Rolo: "...they clearly had my entire bulletpoint write-up in front of them and STILL ignored everything that they didn’t like and then, instead of addressing any of the claims, simply said that Prigozhin was having a mental breakdown and could not be taken seriously going forward."
Reminds me of what Simplicius said about Rolo!! "I heard that Rolo is suffering from a major unhinged mental breakdown of late..."! WTF! I wonder where he heard that??
Rolo: "It is always your own side that needs the harsh rhetoric to shape up, not the enemy."
Could this be, at least partially, a justification (or at least, an explanation) for what's going on? If one sees the war in Ukraine as a battle between nation-states, or alliances of nation-states: then you pick your side, and you battle for your side, and against the other side.
This gets tricky when you are an American, Ukrainian or NATO citizen who is concerned that "your own side" is in the wrong. That is, you see your government going to war against the Russians, which is obviously suicidal and insane, as well as criminally wicked and murderous. The primary obligation, if this is your analysis, is to criticize "your own side" and to work for a change.
Ritter, Lira, the Duran, Simplicius, and even Martyanov are all writing from the perspective of Westerners writing for other Westerners, trying to widen their audience and convince their followers that the NATO powers and Ukraine are acting like evil, stupid nazis and that they're going to get their asses kicked by the Russians. The hope is that Trump or RFK Jr or some other savior will come along to turn things around in the American government, which is obviously the lynchpin.
So it's natural that from that perspective, anyone who portrays that the Russians are also being led by bumbling idiots or worse, is arguing against the narrative, and gets ignored or scoffed at. But when this gets to the level of lying or shamelessly plagiarizing material, it's no longer acceptable as a strategic or psychological quirk. It invites speculation that perhaps these Westerners have gone so far as to get on the payroll for the Russians. In some cases this is openly revealed; i.e. Ritter and the Duran folks have both worked for RT and other Russian outlets in the recent past.
Rolo here is straddling this particular divide. He sees himself as Slavic and his primary nationalist loyalty is to Russia, and yet also he has an American passport, speaks English with a CNN accent, and writes for a Western audience. So, both sides get the harsh rhetoric.
Charlotte is hinting that the most important divide is not Russia and China vs. America and NATO. What's really happening here is that the Globalists, (Ethnic Neocons, Zionists, British Israelites, Anglo-Saxon Royalists, Jesuits, Technocrats, whatever) are tightening their grip on the entire planet, and nationalist patriots everywhere are in a desperate fight for survival.
It's all very confusing!
Not to belabor the point, but global governance has been in the playbook for many decades, probably one of the reasons Rockefeller donated the land for the UN post WWII.
However, to accomplish such a "lofty goal" the technology must not only be available but reliable. In addition, the socioeconomic conditions must be appropriate to gain acceptance for such radical changes. As I said previously, the key components to secure global governance is the central bank digital currency in conjuction with the biosecurity surveillance state. Both must be deployed as one controls your finances and the other your body. All the other tragic horrors we're witnessing is mere window dressing or distractions.
In other words, there's a continous battle going on, unfortunately, it's a war against humanity. The billionaire techno/fascists and international financiers are fearful they'll lose power and wealth in a societal collapse.
This is brilliant. Thank you.
I don't yet know if you're right in all your prognostications, your analysis of things but I know this for certain sure: you can write and explain clearly what you are trying to say. And I find that the most important thing. You are a writer. You have the talent. The ability.
And I spend most of my time looking for 'writers' so that I don't have to labour through tons of words to discover what content if any.
So impressed I nearly opened my wallet. Just a bit shy of possibilities of being ripped off. Your payment arrangements have what to back them up as safe, secure, not liable to get us ripped off via card details spread around the dark web or something?
Just want to say, too, that the mention of 'Ritter, Duran and Martyanov' is perhaps a little superfluous or something. I mean they just don't matter. They don't signify.
Yes, they signify as the virtual only 'dissenting' or 'alternative' voice the masses have perhaps.
But the masses don't see them.
And on investigation they say nothing. The Duran all mere opinion piece. Ritter all the same song every time: "Ukraine is collapsing NOW" and Martyanov all "scoff, scoff, scoff".
They don't matter.
Seems to me YOU matter.
You're kinda like michelangelo chipping away at a sculpture and singing out to neighbouring chippers and trying to involve them, get help from them or something....
while they crudely maul rocks.
Seems to me you have the ability to truly speak while the rest gabble.
So speak, I'd say. Craft your creations and let them stand.
And we'll all be much the better for it. You will be putting pillars of strength beneath Russia might be a way of putting it.
p.s. I will not be disseminating your words this time, spreading, sharing your link... for fear of giving aid and comfort to the enemy. This awful information has to be known, accepted, realised and acted upon. So it has to said, sure enough. But I don't want to put it before the swine just right now.
p.s. just read your comment about all payments being handled by substack.
Fine by me. I feel safe with them. I'll get on board for a few bucks. I appreciate what you're doing. :)
Idk about payment details. It’s all done through Substack. So yes the NSA will know.
Truth needs no defense! Set it free!
I have no such "aid & comfort" reservations- in fact, I might even argue that NOT spreading this as far & wide as possible to antiglobalists IS giving aid & comfort to our potential totalitarian overlords. I will be sharing this on every war update video & blog post I consume today. And I'll be back to pick up a link for tomorrow's article for posting on tomorrow's update content. Thank you very much for this work; early on it was easy to explain away setbacks as part of the normal process of adjustment of planning to match the reality met on the ground, but lately I have started to have that awful sinking feeling that something is off because from a purely military standpoint, there really is just no excuse at this late date for ALL the ongoing failure.
you keep sharing em, and ill keep writing em.
Subscription to this blog is top 5 best things to have happened this year. Rolo single handedly called out the bullshit spouted by former convicts and mediocre lawyers.
Thanks for giving voice to the voiceless Russian people, who deep state presstitutes like Duran despise and think that Greeks know better than Russians.
This is likely to have an effect:
https://peakoilbarrel.com/small-drop-in-us-february-oil-production/#comment-756723
Ron Patterson
Ignored
05/05/2023 at 1:35 pm
Russia’s oil and gas budget revenue drops sharply in April
MOSCOW, May 4 (Reuters) – Russia’s federal budget revenues from oil and gas, the lifeblood of its economy, fell 64% in April from the year-earlier period and declined by 5.9% from March, the finance ministry said on Thursday, as a result of higher subsidies to oil refineries.
Budget income from oil and gas sales reached 647.5 billion roubles ($8.3 billion) last month, compared to 688.2 billion in March and 1.798 trillion roubles in April 2022, it said.
April, while the same payments to oil refineries under the “damping mechanism” rose to 107.2 billion roubles from 96.7 billion roubles in March.
At the same time, profit-based tax revenues from oil producers fell last month to 185.4 billion roubles, from 220.6 billion roubles in March.
The Russian finance ministry plans to halve subsidies to oil refiners from July 2023, and is aiming to cut payments from the budget under the damping mechanism by 30 billion roubles.
https://peakoilbarrel.com/small-drop-in-us-february-oil-production/#comment-756734
Ron Patterson
05/05/2023 at 6:30 pm
Increasing pressure on Russia’s oil industry
he West’s attempts to curtail the Kremlin’s ability to finance its war on Ukraine are starting to bear fruit. Russia’s oil and gas revenues are dropping, along with its overall economy, while its budget deficits are growing. The early results of 2023 show that a combination of price caps, import bans and lower market prices is working even as Russia’s energy exports flow.
The EU embargo on refined products of Russian origin, with associated price caps, came into force on February 5, 2023. The measures are aligned with those adopted by the Group of Seven (G7) nations and Australia. They follow sanctions on crude oil, which went into effect on December 5, 2022. Together they ban the sale within the EU of seaborne Russian crude oil and oil products, except for pipeline oil, and a temporary exemption given to Hungary, Bulgaria and Croatia because of their limited alternatives.
Any third party willing to buy such products using enabling services provided by an EU entity – such as insurance and shipping – can only do so if the price they pay for the Russian products is at or below the price cap imposed by the EU. The price cap is set at $60 per barrel for crude oil and $45 per barrel for discounted petroleum products (such as fuel oil and naphtha) and $100 per barrel for premium petroleum products (such as diesel, kerosene and gasoline).
Recently, the market has been doing a better job than the price cap, with Russian crude oil selling below the $60 per barrel cap, at least before the 1.1 million barrels per day production cut that was announced on April 2 by OPEC+ nations, including Saudi Arabia and Russia.
The upshot is that Russia’s revenues from oil and gas exports tumbled by nearly 40 percent in January 2023 ($18.5 billion) compared to January 2022 ($30 billion). The revenue decline will be even steeper in the coming months, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has predicted.
Targeting Russian energy makes sense because it accounts for roughly 18 percent of Russia’s gross domestic product (GDP) and at least a third of its state budget revenues. Yet despite the loss of revenue, the damage to the overall economy remains surprisingly slight, at least according to official numbers, which some question.
Russia’s GDP shrank to an estimated $1.5 trillion, or 2.1 percent, in 2022. The 2023 forecast ranges from no growth (+0.3 percent), according to International Monetary Fund projections, to a 5.6 percent decline, based on the estimate from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. But some critics say that the Russian government’s concealment of official data is masking deeper problems.
My 5D friend said that there is nothing to fear now. Prigs criticisms have become irrelevant, he has the ammo he needs and the russian army is marching into bakhmut alongside him. As the duran stated in their latest vid RUSSIA IS STORMING. The multipolar train is back on track
Seymour Hersh on Russia selling oil and paying gas transit fees to the Ukraine. He said this is the weirdest war he ever heard of. He said that the people in charge are skimming billions of dollars. Is this war just an excuse to steal billions of dollars like hosting the Olympics? Like the Olympics, in war the corrupt can say there is no time to debate or question whether money can be spent, it must handed out now.
https://rumble.com/v2k2s5m-seymour-hersh-on-his-bombshell-report-of-zelensky-embezzling-400-million-fr.html
Rolo are you planning to issue part 3 on the questions posed by strelkov?
Keep hitting them hard, Rolo. You're creating some uncomfortable, obvious truths for the 5D crowd. Two days until Prigozhin's prediction of when an offensive may begin. I wish you were wrong and Russia had a plan and if wishes were fishes...
I thank you for your work. We nationalists have to live in reality and know that some Russian white knight ain't saving us just like the "Virtuous Pagans" of China are the wardens of the testing grounds for Globohomo's paradise.
You have been linked a couple times in Soldier of Fortune. https://sofmag.com/butcher-of-mariupol-wagner/
Another great article. Reposted to Twitter.
Powerful post, well done!
It is encouraging to hear that Pepe has the ability to change his views. After I quit drinking the Saker koolaid several years ago, I also quit reading Pepe due to his China worship and nauseating promotion of this "multi-polar world" nonsense. The "east-west" conflict is nothing more than two factions of a crime syndicate fighting over control of the family business of exploiting and enslaving the entire planet.
Rolo, at least you got credit from Pepe for your work. That is more than I got. He "borrowed" some of the info and analogies I used in the one and only article I had published. Here is the article I wrote under a pen name as a guest post on the defunct Saker blog during the early days of the scamdemic.
https://www.theburningplatform.com/2020/03/31/covid-19-derangement-syndrome-a-world-gone-mad/
ZeroHedge also re-posted my on-hit-wonder piece but it is now paywalled. Two days later Pepe published an article in which he used at least two of my unique points: info about China using IV vitamin C for covid treatment and a virus war analogy.
https://strategic-culture.org/news/2020/04/02/ground-control-planet-lockdown-only-test/
Coincidence? Decide for yourself.
Don't get your hopes too high that Pepe will completely wake up. He has drunk too deeply of the multi-polar world koolaid. There are no good guys in this alleged clash of civilizations. There are only technocrats and transhumanists hell-bent on exercising god-like control over all life on the planet.
Percy Carlton
I'm sad to hear that you got your material shamelessly pilfered. It happens a lot more often than you would think. And the worst part is that no one keeps track or cares about who plays by the rules or not. All that matters is whether or not you push your reader's emotional buttons the right way and give them an emotional tingle or not.
It is what it is.
I enjoyed reading your prescient article in burningplatform. I very much related to the cartoon, and appreciated the irony that the article appeared the day before April Fool's Day 2020. I was shaking my head all the while reading down your list. Your cartoon.
You make an observation neglected by many when you chose the words "Derangement Syndrome" in your title: COVID insanity was only part of a political madness that was developed against Trump and then transferred seamlessly to COVID. This rising tidal wave of madness appeared as a growing Tsunami, that raised its head well above prior corrupt background propaganda beginning in about 2016.
Thank you. I am a very slow writer so it took me several weeks to accomplish. As for the "Derangement Syndrome," I most definitely shamelessly co-opted the title from "Trump Derangement Syndrome." There were many comments about the article on the original Saker blog post and the Zero-Hedge re-post, but you are the first to make that connection and comment about it!
Interesting fact: the original post had the following "disclaimer" tacked onto the beginning:
"Note by the Saker: today I am posting an article written by a good and trusted friend of mine. That does *not* mean that I agree with the logic of his argument. For one thing, I am wholly incompetent to even have much of an opinion on this topic. The little I do think about what is taking place disagrees with the conclusions of my friend. But since I don’t want to impose my own limitations on you all, I am posting this in the hope that you will find this point of view of value. But, as for anything else posted on this blog, caveat emptor!
Kind regards
The Saker"
http://thesaker.is/covid-19-derangement-syndrome-a-world-gone-mad/
BTW, we are no longer on speaking terms due to my subsequent rejection of his worldview.
"we are no longer on speaking terms due to my subsequent rejection of his worldview." Wow! Very sorry to hear that. That outcome itself speaks of yet another regrettably destructive type of derangement. It makes me wonder what differences could be so deep as to lead to this, as I've read Saker for quite some time.
I liked your identification of 3 types of science, since the term has been conflated in exactly these ways. If I may, I'd add that science is NOT the supreme way of attaining understanding, as it really is the servant of the most fundamental form of reason, namely critical thinking.
Critical thinking is what we should be relying upon when science is called into question, but it's surprising how few can reach that bedrock when it's necessary. Most are enmired in the overlying mud of rhetorical arguments.
In 2020/21 as I was learning about technocracy and transhumanism, I saw that Russia and China were on the same path as the West in enslaving humanity and trying to change what it means to be human. It became plain to see that the oligarchies and political leaderships of all countries were actively participating in creating the same dystopian "new world order." Like two branches of a crime syndicate, the East and West were simply fighting for control of that system. I realized that the Saker blog was actively promoting a complete illusion - that the "White Hats" (Russia, China, Iran) were fighting the evil Anglo Zionist New World Order project and were going to institute a Multi-Polar system that would save us. Most people don't respond well when you attempt to shatter their deeply held illusions, so we had a falling out. Some people even burn bridges when you try to take the hopium they are addicted to. I ascended to the top (clear - "it is what it is") level of the excellent "reality pill" pyramid that Rolo inserted in his most recent paywalled article (Prigozhin Secures His Bag, But May Still Lose the War) and he stayed mired in the bottom (blue - "things are [going to be] ok") level. I hope I never transcend to the "I don't fuc*@ng care" level, LOL.
I agree wholeheartedly with your excellent observation that science is the servant of critical thinking. It's unfortunate that most folks do not seem to possess that skill. Even folks that have the skill to a certain degree in a certain area, are unable to apply it to other areas due to the powerful effects of the "drug" called hopium.
https://www.corbettreport.com/hopium/
I would be interested to hear your take on Alexander Dugin. I have read some of his articles and I get the impression that he promotes a 'healthy' form of nationalism. That being proud of and devoted to your race/nation should create a better society without hating others (except Liberals and enemies of your nation). Achieving the full potential of a race for the benefit of all.
I have written about Dugin before. But I doubt even Dugin understands what he is writing about.
He is good when it comes to criticizing the West though. Positive vision? Not so much.
I think I do a far better job)
PUTIN warns Ukraine that if they target the NUKE PLANT ‘Zaporozhye NPP"‘, that PUTIN will wipe Kiev off the map;
https://www.rt.com/russia/577666-zaporozhye-nuclear-attack-warning/
About fucking time we say;
Most definitely Russia could have completely conquered the Ukraine in under a month if that was the objective. Russia has been acting like a championship fighter pulling his punches and "carrying" his opponent for a pre-determined number of rounds at the behest of the Mob which controls both fighters. It is very interesting that despite the saber rattling between Russia and the U.S. over the Ukrainian conflict (and this applies as well to the U.S. & China over Taiwan), all of these countries clasp arms and cooperate on the destruction of the planet via climate engineering and weather manipulation. Like Master Serrano said, the Hidden Hand operates both East and West.