Once Again, A Touching Trawl Along The Ocean Bottom Of Life
I think I once described that Nick Cage film about him trying to drink himself to death with this line. It has a certain resonance, because the Bad Guys in that film were Ruffians, and - guess who the Bad Guys in today's Intro are?
NO! Not the Sanjak Of Novi Pazar Judge Department. Ruffians! I'm not sure if the Sanjak had enough of a population to sustain a Judge Department. Mega-City One does have 800 million inhabitants, after all. Art!
What am I yarking on about again? Well, the combined economic and data assault by "Inside Russia" and "Prune60" on how bad the Ruffian economy is as of now, the former on Youtube and the latter on Twitter (suck it and see, Elong Tusk!). I have also annotated "Joe Blogs" on YT for a more general overview.
Please bear in mind that all the data and information quoted comes from official Ruffian sources; there is no home-made BS present, as Big Konstantin from IR likes to say.
We have already covered 'Inflation', so let us now turn to 'GDP' which is the acronym for 'Gross Domestic Product' and no jokes about Ruffia being gross in the first place, please. Art!
Charlie Chipmunk Cheeks looking a bit peaky
Putinpot likes to boast about the GDP of Ruffia, which is now calculated as increasing to 4.6% in the week ending 26th August 2024. There are a couple of problems with this, apart from it making it sound as if Ruffia's economy is booming as did The Populous Dictatorship's in the Noughties.
ONE: The Deputy of the Ruffian Central Bank, Zabotkin - whom we have met before - predicted Ruffian growth in 2025 would be 0.5 - 1.5%. Why such a disparity with Bunker Grandad's figures? Because this is the RCB's 'Base' projection, and there are other projections with far worse figures. Bloaty Gas Tout has chosen to use the most wildly optimistic figures available, when reality looks far, far worse. Art!
Senile incontinent criminal fatso fantasises he won. Yeah right.
Why is this an issue? O I'm do glad you asked! Because there are hard limits to the Ruffians' ability to cope. For one thing, about one and a quarter-million Ruffians left their nation at the beginning of the SMO, followed by others SUCH AS BIG K, who will never return. These people were educated, experienced, qualified and transferrable and they won't return to the Sinister Union 2.0, meaning a net loss to Ruffia. Ooopsie. Art!
How to strangle cats the Elvira Nabuillina way!
As Elvira above has announced, there is NO increase in physical output possible, Ruffia has reached a hard limit on this total. Nor do they have access to the technologies that would alternatively allow them to increase productivity, because all such technology is Western and thus sanctioned. This daring openness and willingness to buck the trend, expose the problems and kick Putinpot in the <redacted> is illuminating and worrying, because if these RCB people are happy to risk flying out of a window, how bad are things, really?
It is also entirely possible that the '4.6%' total as posted by the Fun-Sized Foot Fiddler is completely bogus, and he just made it up to make Ruffia (and himself) look good.
TWO: Budget Expenses. These figures and totals are from 'TASS', not Big K's imagination, and they are published in 'TASS' because the Ruffian government wants them published there. Thus official. Art!
'Informatsionoe Agenstvo Rosiii"
According to figures published in TASS, the 8 months we are so far into 2024, as compared to the figures for the first 8 months of 2023, have resulted in a budget increase of 23%. This budgetary information is available - because official government mouthpiece - but not discussed, because that would earn you a five-year sentence in the gulags for whatever the courts vicariously decided you were on about. This, children, is what we call a 'Deficit', where a country spends more than it earns, and which will result in an individual declaring bankruptcy. For a whole nation?
We are only at 3 of 11 items. Bear with us.
I Say!
As you may know, Conrad has a general interest in how the armies of Perfidious Albion performed in the First and Second Unpleasantness. Preference on the Western Front post-1916 and North Africa before New Year's Eve 1942. "AfricanStalingrad" on Twitter makes me look like an idling piker, because not only does he have a Sekrit Layr of his own, which is absolutely stacked to bursting with books and files and maps, but he goes out to Tunisia annually to walk the battlefields. Some of these, because the locals have absolutely 0% interest in battles fought by foreigners on their land 80 years ago, are utterly untouched. Art!
This is the perspective from the other chap's point of view - these are Teuton troops a-marching in Tunisia (you can tell by the road signs), forage caps on rather then helmets, moving past a pylon with signage. AT asked if anyone knew what that "A.K.P." meant, and Hay Pesto! along came answer - "Armee Kraftfahr Park" - "Army Motor Park". Which would make sense as they are now on foot having dropped off their trucks.
Our Journey With Mister Right-On
Or Bernie Wrightson. Actually I can't think of an environment less 'Right on' than his, because who wants to deal with zombies, vampires and gigantic tapeworms on a daily basis? Not Conrad, for one.
Okay, let us now bring on the next image. Art!
Thank you for explaining about the physical process, Berni, but can you explain how what ought to be a big pile of dirt has suddenly grown arms, a head and a murderous complexion? There's a lot of teeth being bared there.
A Pox Upon You, Clickbaiter!
I realise Conrad should not castigate those who use the very same techniques I do, but what the heck, I cannot resist. Art!
Surely, in order to work, these clickbait items ought to use a person I have some recognition of?
Conrad has no idea who this is, and thanks to the whole item being clickbait, is not interested in finding out, either. "Surprising facts"? - she is in fact 187 years old. "Unexpected truths" - she is in fact a he who weighs in at 239 kilos and cannot leave their bed due to gigantic size issues. Am I warm?
How To Annoy 1 Billion People
Across the globe, that is. Not merely in South Canada, where there - you may be ahead of me here - is an election taking place in November, featuring The Amazingly Normal Harris and Donold Judas Trump, who cannot tie his own shoelaces because that would necessitate bending down. Art!
Ohhhhhh boy. Taylor is quite the musical phenomenon, with an immense reach across Planet Earth, and certainly a lot more fans than the Farting Fraudulent Felon, whom has just imperilled 53% of all South Canadians and 16% who claim to be utter devotees in a manner akin to the MAGA cult.
Conrad cannot claim to be a fan and has never heard any of his music.
Finally -
We begin our new work schedule today, where the start time is 15 minutes earlier, and the end time is commensurately - not a word you ever expected to hear today - 15 minutes earlier.
We shall see how it goes.
Loug loug! - which is the Estonian for 'Chin chin!'
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