Monday [15 till close of play]

Evening all.

18.  Behind this bollox

First off, they failed to keep the deathjab, lockdown, mask thing running, they’ve failed to get us terrified over the climate bollox, they’re doing better on the illegals raping and murdering … they had to find something different.

Plus there is the little matter of NATO letting the cat out of the bag about full scale attack on Russia, which was always the aim, since well before 2014.

Therefore the govt expects incoming and wants us on a war footing.

The interesting smallprint is that when that siren comes, you are expected to acknowledge to govt that you got it, otherwise your phone supposedly ceases working. At least it was planned that way, who knows if they’ll do it.

They are trying to keep us in fear. Decide not to play if you have the strength.

Here it is:

https://twitter.com/karma44921039/status/1637831771029905411?s=20

17.  BRM

https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2023/03/more-shenanigans-and-skullduggery-in.html

There's more at the link.

One might point out that Tsingshan's situation last year is proof of the old adage:  "If you owe the bank a thousand dollars, you have a problem.  If you owe the bank a million dollars, the bank has a problem."  

Tsingshan owed so many banks so many billions of dollars that it could not be pressured too strongly without those banks losing everything they'd advanced - so the company, and its founder, got away with their gamble.  

On the other hand, the LME's actions in not only halting trading, but actually canceling already-executed trades (which worked solely in Tsingshan's favor, and massively to the disadvantage of those who'd made the trades) has resulted in lawsuits against the exchange totalling over half a billion dollars.  They're still wending their way through the courts.

16.  Last Refuge

Stunningly, the Polish Ambassador to France Jan Emeryk Rościszewski said yesterday: “Either Ukraine will defend its independence today, or we will be forced to enter into this conflict,” sending a clear message that NATO will enter the war against Russia if Ukraine loses ground.

Rościszewski essentially said the quiet part out loud, and that public statement immediately caused the NATO allies to recoil.  The EU NATO allies were not recoiling due to the substance of what he said, but rather because he said it publicly.

15.  Future of the Star Wars money series

… according to the Critical Drinker:

Goodbye.