markjgsmith

2024/08/30 #

• Lots and lots of harrassment yesterday. I’m too exhausted to write it all up so here are my notes:

  • Red tsunami - small bit of red tape on curb this morning, followed by big red bus with small red car parked behind it on way to internet place, followed by motorbike gang stalkers shouting No!
  • Porche with side panels with text "catchup"
  • Dodgy internet connection today, podcasts keep failing
  • Another female influencer doing a seemingly never ending masturbatory photo shoot right up in my face, right next to the graffiti penis
  • Another female repeatedly audibly flicking her bra trap directly on front of me, both over and under her T-shirt, in a pink text "piece of cake number 24" T-shirt
  • Bra strap girl had turned into another influencer photoshooter
  • Both girls were doing that thing where they want to look at you but do not want you to look at them, and then are annoyed that you didn’t look at them
  • Empty red topped milk cartons being thrown out of windows
  • Girls in miniskirts hiding your charging device plug with their bags, but are then upset that you place your device behind their bag where they are not able to see it

  Along with all the female pervert shit noted above, there were threats to completely cut off washing water, and threats by police and the security guard mafia of framing me for some kind of theft that I had absolutely nothing to do with. Also in the middle of the night some weird pedo pervert shit where I was woken up to find on the other side of the road a western man with long heavy metal style hair standing next to motorbike taxi, talking to him. Some evil laughter, then metal bloke says extremely loudly 'I’m just trying to give you a hard time', emphasis on hard, the bloke motortaxi then grabs the metal bloke in a hug around his torso, but because he’s sitting on the bike he’s much lower and it ends up looking very much like a kid hugging a much taller adult. That’s very unusual. It felt very manufactured.

  Anyway, what with all the harrassment and weird goings on, I didn’t get any testing done on the reusable workflows feature. I think I found the bug that caused the daily build to not get run yesterday. It appears the repository_dispatch on directive in the workflow yml got deleted while fixing the reusable workflow secret limit bug. I’ll get that merged back in this morning.

  Looks like it’s another starvation day, will need to start conserving power again, and that’s been cut off. At least the newsletter is done, though it’s a bit piecemeal because I’ve had to prepare it in stages again, but I was able to add 5 blog posts and something like 9 podcasts, so overall it’s still got quite a lot in there, and they are all pretty awesome shows.

  Another day. #

• One thing that just doesn’t square for me in the current politics is the left - right paradigm. I listen to a lot of podcasts, many of them are Bitcoin shows, and there are a lot of republicans. But I also listen to quite a lot of democrats. Now obviously there’s a lot of differences in how they view the world.

  Here’s the thing that just doesn’t add up for me. I listen to Rory Stewart on the Rest is Politics podcast, and he claims to be conservative, and was in the UK government for many years and travels all around the world doing foreign policy and what not, so you’ve got to think he knows a thing or two about politics. Well he claims that the UK Conservatives, which are a so called right wing party, he says they are basically the equivalent of the US Democrats. That just makes no sense.

  It puts the Republicans way way out on the right of the spectrum, much further to the right than even the UK Reform party. In the UK, right of Reform is always portraid as a hop skip and a jump away from fascism. However just based on what I hear day in day out on all these podcasts, the difference between these parties just isn’t that extreme.

  It just occurred to me how detached from reality somehow all this is in one way or another. It just doesn’t square with what I hear.

  The only thing the UK conservatives, at least the ones I’ve been listening to, and the Democrats really seem to have in common is their hate for Donald Trump, which leads me to believe all the politics is just smoke and mirrors to hide the real thing that’s going on, which is some form of class / rich poor warfare. And it must run extremely deep if you’d be willing to do a complete flip of the orientation of an entire political party, just to express that sentiment.

  I’m not sure if I’m explaining this well. Something doesn’t add up. The pieces somehow don’t fit together to form the overall picture. The reality distortion is too big to make sense. #

• Yet another crazy synchronicity. I wrote the previous note about how the left - right political spectrum mid way through listenning to the latest Rogan podcast with ex-CIA bloke Mike Baker. I paused it to write the note. Well about 15-20 minutes later and that’s exactly what they are talking about, the 'topsy turvy' left right politics that’s all upside down and makes no sense. This sort of thing happens way too often. That doesn’t add up either imho.

  Btw, Mike Baker sounds a lot more like a comedian than an ex-CIA bloke. #

• The starvation cycle is in full swing with associated weird harrassment. World pretending not to be on the warpath while being very much on the warpath, If past experience is any guidance, the pervert maybe pedo westerner bloke will make an appearance sometime soon to stir things up. #

• cat << EOF > Britain’s Ukraine aid situation

  Really interesting discussion on the Goats, Guns and Gold podcast, a discussion with Alex Rainer about how so much of finance leads back to London. Particularly interesting if you are from the UK.

  Yeah I know the name of the podcast is a little bit off putting to those from the left. But put that aside for a second there’s actually a lot of interesting analysis, mostly I would say factual as opposed to political propaganda. Now there is a right wing slant for sure, but just ignore it if that’s not your thing, just get in there for the data, the facts.

  Broadly speaking it’s about the aid that the UK is being forced into giving to the Ukraine to fund their war efforts.

  Some facts:

  • They have given $10 billion in military aim, and $6.5 billion in financial aid. That’s what’s in official documents on the government website.
  • Britain also guarantied multiple tranches of World Bank loans to Ukraine. So even though the money was supposedly given by the World Bank, they are on the hook for that too.
  • Who knows how many Ukraine bonds were forced onto UK pension funds.
  • On 22 September 2022 Liz Truss appointed Kwasi Kwarteng as Chancellor of the Exchequer. He presents mini budget and markets go bazirk, Guilts and pound sell off sharply.
  • The pension funds get hit with margin calls, because the pension funds, it turns out, were leveraged. They had leveraged exposure to the Guilts. A margin call is when the loan issuer demands you increase your collateral because conditions have become much riskier.
  • To meet margin calls they all started selling off their Guilts, so as to have the cash to make the margin calls. On 27th of September there were no more buyers of long dated Guilts to sell to. The pension funds were trying to sell the Guilts, but nobody wanted them.
  • The Bank of England had to step in and buy $40 billion of bonds in order to avoid the price falling off of a cliff. They stepped in at last minute and narrowly avoided complete collapse.
  • Each citizen is on the hook for about $2000, but since only 1/4 are working in the private sector, realistically it’s $10000 for each privately working person.
  • Btw 45% of people work or are supported by the government, ie have them as a major client.

  So that’s the backdrop. I’ll follow that up with an extended quote from Alex Krainer [40:40].

  If the Bank of England looses any money on these assets that it holds...So they buy British government bonds, and the British government bonds collapse and the Bank of England loses money on those bonds, well his majesty’s treasury has to reimburse the Bank of England for those loses. They have to make the bank whole. Which means that the British tax payer has to reimburse the bank...

  This is like piracy, high street banditry on an industrial scale. So the Bank of England and the owners of the Bank of England, hold the collective British population to ransom, for a system that was foisted on them, which is fraudulent, which is immiserating them systematically, and which they themselves have to pay. It’s like if the slave owner makes a loss on the business that he uses the slaves to run, then the slaves have to reimburse him. That’s ultimately what this is.

  Some followup notes:

  • On 22 July Ukrainians announce the deal with bond holders, the one where the holders get a 37% haircut.
  • The government are now expanding what they accept for collateral, maybe even Ukraine bonds.
  • But with reverse repo they will get 100 cents on the dollar, no losses, so the whole system will pay for those losses. They will rob the whole population of the UK.
  • Likely the Guilt market will go to zero eventually, that’s how the system is designed, collapse is a mathematical certainty, it’s happenned at least twice before.
  • And remember Gordon Brown sold all gold reserves at the bottom of the market a few years back.
  • With all this in mind, it brings new perspective on why maybe we’ve seen an massive increase in CCTV everywhere in the UK, and why generally people are being hemmed in. They are going to have to work harder to pay off the debts, and maybe they are pre-emptively getting ready for the unrest that will occur.

  So that‘s some of the interesting facts but there’s more in the episode. I think it’s valuable to listen to no matter which side of the political ailse you are on. At the end of the day it’s just maths. It might be somewhat innacurate, putting this sort of thing together is difficult, but I think it’s at least directionally correct.

  The british people are being turned into slaves, and this is no good! It is no bueno!

  In a sense the US is in a similar situation but they have much stronger possibilities for growth and are not as reliant on foreign energy sources, i.e. Russia.

  I suspect this is but a tip of a bigger ice berg too.

  No slaves!

  EOF

Today’s links:

• Who needs GitHub Copilot when you can roll your own AI code assistant at home - Seems like a good idea to get familiar with how to run these open source models locally, especially for code assistants. www.theregister.com #

• New Post: Britain’s Ukraine aid situation markjgsmith.com #