Everybody’s heard that Russia was involved in the crash of a U. S. Navy drone.  They’re telling different stories, but when don’t they?  The Navy says Russia caused the crash by colliding with the drone’s propeller, and Russia says they were minding their own business.  The video we’ve all seen shows that the Russian jet was definitely flying provocatively around the drone.  Whatever turns out to be, it’s another incident in an already troubled relationship.  Aren’t we already in a proxy war with Russia?

This comes after a Chinese balloon, of all things, traversed the United States collecting who knows what?  Apparently it lingered over sensitive sites we knew nothing about.  It’s been reported that Chinese aircraft breach Taiwan’s airspace on a regular basis.  What’s the pretender going to do, irritate his benefactors?  Sure wish the regime weren’t such reliable liars.  We have to be deceived at all costs.

It’s been a harrowing week for the banking industry.  Not only did Silicon Valley Bank go under, Moody’s has downgraded U. S. financial stability with repercussions that are not yet understood.

Some of Silicon Valley Bank’s web pages were broadcast, and they were up to their ears in equity, diversity and inclusion.  Word is that they based their lending on how woke the business plan was, and lost money hand over fist.  Will the whole country give in to these idiotic ideals?  Does the pilot on your flight check enough boxes?

Airlines are reportedly hiring cockpit crew on the basis of woke philosophy.  Various races, creeds and genders need to be included, otherwise, the whole enterprise (airline) is racist.  But then again, we keep hearing of near collisions at airports.  Makes you wonder how bad you need to go somewhere.  Realizing of course that you’ll be handing yourself over to government employees who’ve been hired using the same philosophy.  Not good.

My Dad often publicly said that a financial collapse would lead to a centralized power in Europe.  Notice how these multilateral organizations seem to be making all the rules?  How big is this collapse going to be?  They’re apparently going to bail everybody out.  Well, not EVERYBODY.  Regional banks in flyover country that haven’t been making loans for planet-saving boondoggles will be taken on a case by case basis.  

No matter how imbecilic the proposal, if it was equitable, diverse and inclusive, the bank couldn’t invest enough.  How’s it going to look when Silicon Valley Bank’s bad loans become public knowledge? Maybe that information will never see the light of day.  They better hope not.

Have you noticed how many crises we have?  Crises that didn’t exist a couple of years ago?

Looks like Obama knew what he was talking about when he said, “Never underestimate Joe’s ability to mess things up.”  The list of crises goes on and on.  

It’s like the new philosophy has taken hold.  Nobody’s trying to prove anything anymore, they just issue mandates because they know better than anybody else.  We’re being swept along and they’ll make all the big decisions for us.

If you look at the record of ominous predictions, it’s unbelievable.  The claims they made on global warming didn’t come true.  But that hasn’t stopped the ranting and raving.  We’ve been manipulated on all kinds of subjects, sometimes being led down the wrong path altogether.  While they’ve been ranting about diversity, equity and inclusion, everything that could go wrong, did.  

No need to spell it all out, you’ve got access to all the information.  But it seems that the “experts” have it in for us, every way you can imagine.  We hope that the nation can survive the next couple of years, but it’s going to be painful all the way around. 

Mark

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The hearings are not going well for the little doctor.  His coworkers, some of whom thought the Covid virus was engineered in a lab, were shut out of meetings according to sworn testimony before Congress.  Others who expressed their professional opinions that the virus could not have sprung from nature, got grants and millions in funding.  Soon, they did a 180 degree turn.  The little guy must be apoplectic that this has been aired publicly.  There are probably conference calls where everyone tries to get their stories straight.  Hopefully, it all comes out.

If you haven’t heard the speech Trump gave at the C-PAC gathering, I recommend it.  When you search for it online you’ll get Jimmy Kimmel and the View’s take, and it’ll make you mad. What is it with these search engines that bring up negative results about what you’re looking for?  Anything about Trump, and the mainstream just sneers.  Careful how you search, or you’ll come up with “pack of lies.”  Sure, the guy exaggerates for effect, but then we realize that’s what is going on and find it enjoyable.  Unless you just hate him, his vision of America moving forward is pretty inspiring, and often funny.

Apparently the Silicon Valley Bank has gone under.  A financial guru (who I never watch) advised his viewers to buy stock in the Silicon Valley Bank one month ago.  That was about the time when the principals were bailing out.  Now the bank has gone bust.  How can he keep a career in financial advice going?  With any luck, he can’t.  Will there be a contagion that rips through other financial institutions?  You can’t be on the internet without coming across all kinds of urgent financial warnings.  Today’s Drudge Report features a headline with a hundred dollar bill on fire.  

Checking on the news requires that you brace yourself.  Saudi Arabia is burying the hatchet with Iran, in negotiations brokered by the Chinese.  That would seem to complicate matters.

The news from Ukraine doesn’t look encouraging.  We still don’t have definitive proof as to who blew up the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.  If it was done by the U. S. without Germany’s permission, things might get very complicated.  

I personally don’t believe what most news is telling us.  You see the January 6 footage that has recently been released, and you see that people were reverently sight-seeing in the Capitol.  We see the so-called Q-anon shaman being escorted down hallways by police.  He was facing 20 years, and was intimidated into accepting four, apparently without the benefit of the video we’ve all seen.  It looks as though we’ve got a full court press against everything we hold dear.  They’ve been deceiving everybody they can, and call the rest of us a lot of names.  

A couple of years ago my friend Murray Allatt told me that they were detonating perfectly good power plants in Australia.  Well, the trend has reached the U. S.  The public better not let this happen but that is apparently what’s planned, starting in New Mexico.  It’s green or bust.  We all know that these planet-saving energy sources are iffy at best.  But the green buffoons want to make sure there’s no going back.  This should be interesting!  

We hope that the U. S. can survive the onslaught, but who knows?  There’s going to be hell to pay for the many lies, the outright deception of those who purport to inform us. 

Mark

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The downfall of SVB is being called the largest bank failure since the Great Recession. It has huge repercussions for tech startups and investors in Seattle and beyond that use SVB to store cash and raise venture debt.

Seattle-area founders told GeekWire they’ve used SVB since starting their companies. “They’ve been an instrumental partner with early stage companies for decades,” said Mike McSherry, CEO at Seattle startup Xealth.

Fears of potential illiquid assets spread across the startup world Thursday as the bank’s shares plummeted after the firm said it would book a $1.8 billion loss related to securities sales. Some firms advised founders to look for alternative banking options.

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