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


To: carranza2 who wrote (192461)10/6/2022 4:23:12 PM
From: Maurice Winn2 Recommendations

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More Global Warming wanted = New Zealand freezes due to Global Warming not being enough yet. Record lows for October. A cold snap swept over New Zealand in recent days. Auckland was 5C with southerly winds on Friday morning, while Hamilton was at -2C and Rotorua -3C.

Meanwhile, government here is forcing poor people to buy rich eco-dilettantes Teslas and also provide them cheap or free electricity to avoid road taxes [over half the petrol price and heavy diesel road user charges]. The electricity is generated at Huntly power station from coal imported from Indonesia.

When Taupo erupts, all the hydroelectric power and the Huntly coal station will be destroyed so the electric cars won't work.

It's bloody freezing in Auckland right now. And it's almost summer!

Poor people pay NZ$8000 if their vehicle is petrol/diesel powered. Rich people get an NZ$8000 subsidy to buy their Tesla [or other electric car max price $80,000]. Poor people can't afford $80,000 so they have to make do with $40,000 cars and expensive petrol. 10 years of petrol = much less than the difference so petrol it is.

Hooray for rich stupid people. Down with working poor people who need another kick in the teeth. Strangely, the poor people keep voting for more of the same. More welfare, more crime, more bureaucracy, being bossed, more Maori shoved down their throats, a Maori master race, more communist sickness systems, more communist schools teaching rubbish, more pot holes in roads, more obstructions built in roads to slow vehicles to a crawl, more big salaries for government bludgers, more wokery ... etc etc ... see a Google list of New Zealand government departments. Crazy huge.

Of course the poor are really just voting for free stuff, but they are like a poor fish that takes the bait and is hooked. They don't want all the other stuff, but they can't get the free stuff without suffering the rest. And they can't calculate so they think the RICH are paying for the rest. The rich and poor together are being bled white. Or brown in the case of the Master Race who mistakenly think they are on a winner, enslaving the rest, which is how their culture worked [or didn't work as was the case].

Meanwhile, as Russia's military fails, will Putin and the bosses go nuclear? Or accept being conquered after 200 years of resistance?

I think they'll go with 10 or 20 atomic bombs to show how serious the situation is. If USA doesn't negotiate the sensible proposal I gave BEFORE the war and continued after, which Elon has now copied after his silly challenge to fight Putin for Ukraine, then full MAD looks likely. With about 10,000 atomic bombs that could go off and about 5,000 that assuredly will, that's going to completely finish USA, UK, Germany and not so much Russia to vast geographic spread.

Americans are full of hubris after decades of shoot 'em up from the sky of sandal wearers and Saddam's reluctant soldiers. It will be interesting to see how they like 10,20 and even 50 megatons at a time going off over LA, Washington, San Diego, Pearl Harbour, New York, San Francisco and heck, 1000 mirvs will reduce USA to small towns with no visible means of support and Preppers in the hinterlands.

The escalation process should be interesting. Hopefully it goes slowly enough so that everyone gets to watch their demise arriving, as seen on tv and via Cyberspace until the lights go out, which won't take long.

Your idyllic Italian tourist fun might turn bad quite quickly = not Prepper territory, being dependent on vast global systems for sustenance.

It's possible Russia will simply surrender and become a China colony as I have predicted since before the beginning, during sanctions, but I doubt it.

The dum Euroserfs think they are clever beating Russia, which is really on their side. But they are going to have Genghis Khan's descendants arrive at the Hungarian border again. Eurostan should have made Russia a friend, and then NATO could have had its eastern border at the Great Wall of China instead of at Helsinki, Berlin, Poland, Balkans.

Anyway, here we go. As I predicted, the Russians went for the April Glaspie trap = tempt them into Ukraine, then mangulate them with the fancy latest clever weaponry, sky spy, all whizbang systems and gadgets. So it came to pass.

The only question is whether Russia will go full 1812 Overture or collapse into nothing, leaving a vast open space for China to simply drive into with a spare 20 million young men with not a lot to do. Best to give them something serious to do.

I expect a 10 or 20 nuclear escalation to start with and not just in Ukraine. Maybe then a pause. England has to get a big warning too. And the Fourth Reich Barbarossa II gangsters [Ursula, Annalena, Mette, Sanna, Klaus, Scholz etc...]

Mqurice



To: carranza2 who wrote (192461)10/9/2022 8:45:52 PM
From: TobagoJack1 Recommendation

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Re <<Makes me feel optimistic, an unnatural state for me.
My intermittent fasting and other self-imposed limits are gone with the wind. Lots of work to do upon return.
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Plenty of time to diet when we get much older

Re optimistic, I too am optimistic, so let me impart some extra optimism to you.

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We are facing a Sovereign Debt Crisis and the mismanagement of the ECB in moving interest rates to negative in 2014 is now coming back to haunt Europe. All our models have been projecting this Waterfall Event in sovereign debt. Even the risk models on Germany’s government debt market used by hedgers exploded last week to levels that are even higher than recorded risk level of the 2008 financial crisis.



This coming week looks to be highly volatile. Margin calls last week forced the liquidation of derivatives positions held by most banks, insurance companies, and pension funds. Those who have been totally blindsided by the rise in interest rates following the standard fundamental analysis that is just opinion. The derivatives that have been used to protect their portfolios against falling interest rates have come back to bite them really hard. There are serious losses now in Europe as the fundamental hedges have blown up in the face.

We simply have a crop of the worst possible leaders in charge of western economies. The financial markets led by the fundamentalists never saw this coming whereby the spread between German Bunds and interest rate swaps exceeded the record highs of 2008.



The euro derivatives market has virtually collapsed following the waterfall in the British gilt market. The Bank of England jumped in to buy up 50 billion pounds of bonds trying to save the market. We have a Panic Cycle in Britain this week and the fiscal mismanagement of government in the West is beyond belief,



This proxy war against Russia is breaking the banks of the West. The US dumped in $150 billion for weapons support and then an additional $50 billion every month just to keep Ukraine afloat. They may think that they can conquer Russia, but in the process, they are undermining the entire Western economy between shortages, sanctions, and reckless spending handing Ukraine insane amounts of money without any accountability.

So be mindful of this coming week. We have been in a serious Waterfall event that is no joke.