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Strategies & Market Trends : 2026 TeoTwawKi ... 2032 Darkest Interregnum -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: marcher who wrote (191839)	9/15/2022 11:04:43 AM
From: Pogeu Mahone	1 Recommendation Recommended By fred woodall Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217650

Perhaps Tomorrow! Blunt Warnings from Russia Foreign Minister and Federation Council: Nuclear War Coming WORLD HAL TURNER 13 SEPTEMBER 2022 HITS: 53858 Ukraine's sponsors have been given TWO tough ultimatums; One from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, the other from Russian Council Member Dmitry Medvedev . . . "The one-time success at the front [Last week] is only beautifully shown in the press. The death toll along the entire line of clashes has exceeded ten thousand {Ukrainians], the wounded fill all hospitals, there is a shortage of ambulances. The [Russian] Allied forces put the Nazis in one fight by the hundreds. And then the political situation deteriorated. There were rumors in Ukraine that it was Russia who "retreated" to make a camouflage maneuver before something grandiose. While the "patriots" were waiting for a respite, Russia hit the power facilities. Earlier, Commander-in-Chief Zaluzhny reported to Zelensky about the formation of a large naval group of the Russian Navy in the Black Sea, including amphibious assault ships. The West fears that the failure of the grain scam is to blame. First, Putin pointed out at the WEF that Russia and poor countries were deceived in the grain deal. Then Erdogan admitted it. The UN Secretary General also had to admit this, although an attempt was made to wriggle out. In the USA, they said that everything was fine, but soon their experts still recognized the lack of proper effect from the increase in grain on the market. Ukraine and more of its sponsors, apparently, have been given a tough ultimatum: either grain goes to Africa, and Russia opens an international food market, or the Russian Navy again blocks Ukrainian ports, but this time with the landing of [Russian] troops with the destruction of the entire port infrastructure. In parallel, the entire Ukrainian infrastructure will "lie down". How this will approximately happen has already been shown. It could be said that it was a hint about the consequences if Russia's interests were ignored." -- Sergey Lavrov While Foreign Minister Lavrov focused on the Grain Scam, where out of 87 Cargo vessels filled with Ukrainian grain, only TWO vessels went to "needy" countries -- the rest went to Europe - below is a much more blunt warning from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. As you will read, Medvedev is openly warning NATO that if they continue pouring weapons into Ukraine to kill Russians, then the borders of NATO countries will "disappear" and the Russian Army will commence operations! Here is Medvedev's statement: The Kiev camarilla gave birth to the project of "security guarantees", which in fact are a prologue to the Third World War. Of course, no one will give any "guarantees" to the Ukrainian Nazis. After all, this is almost the same as applying Article 5 of the North Atlantic Pact (Washington Treaty) to Ukraine. For NATO, it's the same, only side view. That's why it's scary. Our sworn friends – Western bosses of various calibres, to whom this hysterical appeal is addressed – must finally understand one simple thing. It directly concerns the hybrid war between NATO and Russia. If these idiots continue the unrestrained pumping of the Kiev regime with the most dangerous types of weapons, then sooner or later the military campaign will move to another level. Visible borders and potential predictability of the actions of the parties to the conflict will disappear from it. It will follow its own military scenario, involving new participants in it. It has always been so. (Emphasis added by HTRS) And then Western countries will not be able to sit in their clean houses and apartments, laughing at how they are carefully weakening Russia with someone else's hands. Everything will catch fire around them. Their people will grab grief in full. They will literally have the earth burning and concrete melting. We'll get a lot of it, too. It will be very, very bad for everyone. After all, it is said: "From these three plagues, from fire, smoke and brimstone coming out of their mouths, a third part of the people died" (Rev 9:18). But while the narrow-minded politicians and their dim-witted think tanks, thoughtfully twirling a glass of wine in their hands, talk about how they can deal with us without entering into a direct war. Dull idiots with a classical education. -- Dmitry Medvedev HAL TURNER ANALYSIS AND EDITORIAL OPINION Medvedev makes no secret of his NUCLEAR threat. When he wrote "Everything will catch fire around them" and "They will literally have the earth burning and concrete melting." he is clearly and unambiguously referring to exactly what takes place upon a NUCLEAR explosion. We in the West are being warned, yet again, that the actions WE are undertaking, will result in US getting hit by Russian nuclear weapons! How much more forthright can the Russians be? They are telling us what will happen. They have warned us over, and over, and over again, since their Special Military Operations began in February, yet our Public Servants in government seem to laugh it all off as some sort of "posturing." In my assessment, it is not posturing - at all. It seems to me the public servants of government here in the USA and over in Europe aren't going to believe they are causing us all the possibility of nuclear annihilation, until an actual nuclear bomb flies through their window and blows their asses to Kingdom Come! By continuing to supply ever more lethal weaponry to Ukraine, the public servants in government both here in the USA and over in Europe are going to get a lot of us killed. They should stop what they're doing and let Ukraine fall.

To: marcher who wrote (191839)	9/20/2022 7:46:35 PM
From: TobagoJack	2 Recommendations Recommended By fred woodall marcher Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217650

Re <<cooperation>> ... nets win-win-win-win-and-win outcomes China, given connectivities, logistics capabilities-and-capacities, practicalities, neutralities, money-system-depth-and-broadness and flexibilities, and rule-of-contracts ... helps in many ways to all comers (i) China gets to buy Russia pipeline natural gas, at discount to spot, but still a step-up from earlier pricing, 50/50 in Ruble/Yuan, allowing a win-win (ii) China continues to buy from Australia, Qatar and Malaysia on LT contracts at deep-discount to current spot settled in USD, to keep the flow going, benefiting their respective economies at earlier planned rates, wins all around (iii) China supports EU / Nato war efforts by helping to keep the water warm and lights on, and perhaps enough even to keep EU factories going, settled in Euro, a win-win-win (iv) China helps USA to modulate carbon energy inflation, a win-win (v) China helps Japan and Korea, unclear clearing currency, to keep competing with USA and EU, wins all around (vi) China helps Thailand afloat on natural gas, perhaps settled in Yuan/Baht (?) Am wondering whether Biden shall release more USA energy for China dibs? Also wondering when China might export carbon energy, food, and palladium to USA? Am also-also wondering which of the above might join the USA on sanctions against China? Guessing few to none, ensuring planetary peace, a big win. scmp.com China’s Russian gas imports jump in first 8 months, while LNG exports hit record levels amid supply diversions - China’s natural gas imports from Russia via pipeline almost tripled in the first eight months to US$2.39 billion - China exported US$448 million worth of LNG to Europe, Japan, South Korea and Thailand over the same period China’s imports of Russian gas surged in the first eight months of the year, while its LNG exports hit record levels amid reports Chinese energy companies have stepped up diversions to take advantage of high international spot prices. Russia and Qatar were the only major suppliers to increase liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports to China in the first eight months of the year, customs data showed. The volume from Russia, which has jumped from China’s sixth largest gas supplier to the fourth in the past year, rose by 28.5 per cent year on year. The volume from No 2 supplier Qatar increased by 66.7 per cent over the same period. Chinese customs data showed the value of natural gas coming from Russia via pipeline almost tripled in the first eight months to US$2.39 billion. The August value increased by 26.5 per cent compared with the previous month. China also exported a record US$164 million worth of LNG to Europe – including Spain, France and Malta – and another US$284 million worth to Japan, South Korea and Thailand in the first eight months of 2022. In contrast, Chinese exports were worth US$7 million last year. China’s gas exports this year have been shipped primarily from Shanghai, Hainan and Guangdong, home to large LNG terminals that receive cargo from Malaysia and Australia under long-term contracts, and are also suited to re-exports. The two countries are among the top three LNG suppliers to China in 2022. Chinese energy companies have been reselling excess LNG to the international market to take advantage of the price difference between long-term contracts and elevated spot price following the Ukraine war. Domestic demand for natural gas in China has also slumped as the economy has slowed and the government’s zero-Covid policy has disrupted production. Dongguan Jovo, a privately-owned LNG terminal in southern Guangdong province, resold LNG cargo to Italy in the first quarter, according to the Shanghai Petroleum and Natural Gas Exchange, citing the company’s communications with investors. Chinese state-owned energy firms such as Sinopec have also been offloading excess LNG back into the international market this year, Bloomberg has reported. The average LNG export price from June to August was almost two times that of the import price over the same period, according to South China Morning Post Calculations based on customs data. While reselling contracted energy to the spot market is normal in commodities markets, it has not always been the case for China, which surpassed Japan to become the world’s largest importer of LNG last year, said Michal Meidan, director of the China Energy Programme at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies. Chinese imports have historically been driven by domestic demand, she said. The trend pointed to weak gas demand in China and a shift to more of a “trading mentality” in the gas market, which has traditionally been employed by Chinese oil traders, Meidan said. “The question I think for a lot of buyers and sellers is, is this a short-term issue? Because a lot of companies have been carrying up their gas portfolios or their gas supplies and thinking of China as a very big demand market. But if that’s structurally changing, then that obviously opens a lot of questions,” she said. China imports more than half of the natural gas it consumes, with around two-thirds in the form of LNG. It imported 71.05 million tonnes of natural gas from January to August, marking a 10.2 per cent year-on-year decline, according to the National Bureau of Statistics. With Beijing’s zero-Covid policy expected to continue weighing on economic activity, China’s demand for LNG imports is forecast to decline by around 20 per cent in 2022 compared to last year, Jeffrey Moore, LNG analyst at S&P Global Commodity Insights, said in July. Chinese buyers have essentially stopped buying LNG on the spot market this year as a result of weak demand and soaring prices, Moore said. But they signed a record 22.7 million tonnes of long-term contracts last year, up 516 per cent year on year, with some starting delivery in 2022, according to an April note from S&P Global, citing state-owned oil and gas company China National Petroleum Corporation’s Economics & Technology Research Institute. Some of the LNG being resold by Chinese customs may not even be reflected in customs data. Meidan said some cargoes could be directly reoriented from the source, rather than being unloaded and re-exported from the mainland. “Some of [the long-term contacts], the payment is on arrival, and some are at the source, which would impact their ability to redirect cargoes directly from the origin, or having to take them into China and then resell them,” she said. Limited storage capacity at LNG terminals along China’s coast would also restrict the amount of re-exports, she added. While China stopped releasing data on pipeline gas imports in January, pipeline gas imports are estimated to be about 30.41 million tonnes in the first eight months of the year, up 10.6 per cent year on year, according to the Post’s calculations. China’s LNG imports – which are by ship – were 40.64 million tonnes. Experts said the increase in pipeline imports came mainly from a surge in supply from Russia. In the first half of the year, Russian gas exports to China via pipeline grew 63.4 per cent from the same period a year earlier, said Russian gas giant Gazprom. Earlier this month, Russia announced its gas supply to China will be settled half in yuan and half in roubles.