Having lots of this will help sitting out inflation …

 

I had a peek at this morning’s headlines in the papers, thanks to this compilation. What a surprise: the Broadsheets are still on their war-porn spree but the Red Tops have apparently had enough. They’re on about ‘MP killer planned to kill Gove’, and ‘Kate in khaki’ while the DM’s headline demands to ‘raise the state pension’. Even for the covid-trained MSM four weeks is a long time in politics.

Some ‘Ukraine News’ are still on the menu, the latest being that Biden and ‘our’ PM have warned that Russia was preparing a ‘false flag chemical attack’. The Guardian which seems to be the main war porn provider has the details, quoting what Biden said:

“Russia’s false accusation that Ukraine has biological and chemical weapons is a “clear sign” that a desperate Vladimir Putin is considering using them himself, Joe Biden has said.The US president said Putin’s “back is against the wall and now he’s talking about new false flags he’s setting up including, asserting that we in America have biological as well as chemical weapons in Europe – simply not true. I guarantee you,” Biden said at an event on Monday.” (link)

This is the answer Biden or rather his handlers gave to the warnings by the Russian Defence Ministry on the weekend, and after the reports of a huge spill of ammonia near a town in Ukraine yesterday? Personally, I’m unable to follow this reasoning: if someone warns that one side in this conflict is preparing to do something, this must be a clear sign that they themselves are going to do it? Really? There’s more from Biden:

“They [the Russians] are also suggesting that Ukraine has biological and chemical weapons in Ukraine. That’s a clear sign he’s [Putin] considering using both of those. He’s already used chemical weapons in the past, and we should be careful of what’s about to come.” Putin “knows there’ll be severe consequences because of the united Nato front,” he said, without specifying what actions the alliance would take.” (link)

Ah – those ‘biological weapons’! That’s aimed at trying to play down the existence of those biolabs in Ukraine. Let me ask this naive question: if those biolabs were innocent, hygiene and public health labs – why shred and destroy any possible paper trail? Wouldn’t those papers have been the best proof that nothing bad was going on? 

Biden will visit Warsaw this weekend, for some NATO get-together, so he’s apparently preparing the ground for some sort of getting NATO’s ‘retaliation’ in first. I hope his handlers, especially those from the Pentagon, will make clear that apparently Russia has military capacities which might make such intervention a bit perilous.

For example, Paul Joseph Watson published a scathing video last night, on those western volunteer ‘fighters’, flocking to ‘help Ukraine’ (link), pointing out that the social-media obsessed, selfie-addicted western volunteers, sending their photos back home, allowed Russian intelligence to pinpoint their location and send in the missiles. We remember what happened next …

But that’s enough war ‘stories’. With Sunak having to provide a budget, with various MPs demanding he reduce the tax on petrol, with the DM now demanding he raise the state pension, it seems the Westminster swamp dwellers are becoming vaguely aware of inflation, a.k.a. called ‘rise in cost of living’. Fear not – our clever government has joined what can only be labelled ‘state-sanctioned robbery’ of assets even vaguely connected to Russia so “we” will have some money, correct? The Guardian has a breathless report about those assets, ready to be taken away (link).

The strange thing is that nobody in the western MSM talks about Ukrainian ‘oligarchs’ who’ve’ not only financed Mr Z’s rise to his current job but who have certainly assets in the west. Some are more clever than others – or more lucky. The wife of a former Ukrainian MP was unlucky. She was caught yesterday, trying to smuggle $28 million and €1.3 million into Hungary. In cash. You won’t find this in our MSM but two Indian papers have the story – here and here.

May we wonder, amongst ourselves, where this money came from? Perhaps we may even ask why this money wasn’t donated to Mr Z’s ‘war effort’, or perhaps given to organisations trying to help Ukrainian refugees? Why did she go to Hungary and not Poland which is so much easier to travel to? Ah well – perhaps our brilliant MSM reporters, analysts and providers of war propaganda and war porn haven’t yet had ‘guidance’ on how to ‘frame this narrative’.

It’s good to know that Ukrainian oligarchs can apparently transfer the money they robbed and are robbing from the unfortunate Ukrainians and keep it without any western eyebrows raised, whereas anything even remotely smelling of ‘connected to Putin’ can be taken away by western states. I wonder if those Ukrainian moneybags are feeling secure. After all, when even Switzerland is willing to hand over financial data of Russians, will these Ukrainian kleptocrats be safe should a grand reckoning occur once the war is over?

Speaking of moneybags, we’re back in ‘let them eat cake (or brioche …)’ country. Having seen this headline in Paul Joseph Watson’s ‘Summit News’: Billionaire-Owned Bloomberg Says Americans Should Eat Lentils & Let Their Pets Die to Cope With Inflation” (link) I went to check out that Bloomberg article. Here’s the link.

Crikey – not only do we learn that people earning more than $300,000 p.a. won’t feel inflation as much as those on incomes around $50,000 p.a., there are also useful hints for “Teh Poor” on how best to cope, from ‘budgeting properly’ because that is ’empowering’, to using public transport (in the USA? Yeah right!) to stop eating meat but ‘explore’ veggie food, for example lentils because they’re cheaper than meat and yes, to ‘re-think costly pet medical needs’. 

Inflation was on the rise since last autumn, as were energy prices. The various western governments have not only done nothing to alleviate inflation, they are now using this war to let inflation rip because they can blame it all on Putin. Moreover, there’s a clear drift recognisable: those who ‘have’, i.e. the upper middle classes, will be able to sit out inflation and price rises while the vast majority of us, on the famous ‘median’ income or even lower than that, are given helpful advice about how to ‘save’. So far, I’ve not found anything about ‘re-purposing’ what is called ‘pre-loved’ items, especially clothes formerly known as ‘second-hand’. I’m sure that’ll come next.

You’ve been warned by “Teh Rich”: eat lentils instead of meat and have your pet put to sleep. Just another small sacrifice ”because: Putin!” …