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Quebec Credit Assessment Agents Act and the Consumer Credit Lock


Updated: November 2022

Background


As a result of the Credit Assessment Agents Act (the "Act"), starting February 1, 2023, consumers in Quebec will have the right to place, suspend, or revoke a credit lock on their Equifax consumer credit report. When a credit lock is active on an Equifax credit report, the report and derivative or related products will not be delivered to lenders and other businesses, in an effort to help prevent new or additional credit obligations from being established in the consumer's name.

Starting February 1, 2023, when a consumer has placed a lock on their Equifax credit report and the request for information is related to new or additional credit obligations, Equifax will return a new designator code with a value of "7" ("Credit Lock") on the response along with the message "Report Unavailable - Consumer Has Locked Their Credit File".

To ensure our customers and partners are ready to consume the lock code "7" on their member reports, test cases for client testing in our UAT environment are available on the Equifax Developer Portal. The production environment will be available in advance of the credit lock "go-live" date of February 1, 2023. Note: testing is not required by clients who access reports via the Equifax Member Portal online.



Impact

Under the Act, when a consumer places a lock on their credit file, Equifax is prohibited from delivering the credit file or any products derived from the credit file (e.g. scores, attributes etc.) to the requestor who plans on using the data, for example, for the following uses:

1. Entering into a credit contract;
2. Increasing credit;
3. Extending credit;
4. Entering into a long-term contract for a lease of good (e.g. a car loan); or
5. Entering into a contract involving sequential performance for a service provided at a distance (e.g. a payment plan for a cell phone or a product whereby a service is provided upfront and the payment is made at a later date)

Frequently Asked Questions

What does this mean for Equifax customers?

What will the lock message look like?

What steps are required of Equifax customers in response to this change?

Who can place a lock on a consumer credit file?

Are there any rules or requirements for consumers to qualify to place a lock on their file?

How will consumers be able to place locks on their Equifax credit file?

Will credit lock capabilities be offered to all consumers living in any province of Canada on February 1, 2023?

Will there be a charge to consumers to lock or unlock their credit file?

If a consumer places a lock on their file while living in Quebec and subsequently moves outside of the province, what happens to the lock?

What happens if a non-Quebec resident tries to restrict access to their file?

What if a consumer has addresses inside and outside of Quebec?

How quickly can Equifax suspend or remove a credit lock at the consumer's request?

What's the difference between suspending and removing a credit lock?

How will you exempt Member Numbers?

Will I need a new Member Number?

Can I flag an exempt request?

What steps will be taken to grant lender access to a locked file during the loan process?

What actions should be taken to have the consumer unlock their file if a lock message has been returned to a lender during a credit adjudication process?

When can the customer reprocess the transaction?

Under what conditions will the lock message be bypassed and regular processing occur?

How will Equifax determine whether a request for a credit file falls under exempt or non-exempt use cases for the Act?

When a file is exempt from the Act, can we still get an indication that the file is locked?

When will this new hit designator code "7" be available for user acceptance testing for both STS and Web channels?

Is the Deposit Alert product impacted by the Act?

Will there be any impact to our data submission/reporting?

Is there any impact to the credit score when a file is locked?

Will inquiries posted during the time the file was locked still be visible?

What about the Exemption for AML/KYC Identity uses of credit profiles? Is this allowed?

Will Credit Agencies share consumer information or restrictions?

Use Cases and Exemptions

Updated: September 2022

Non-Exempt Use Case:

1. Equifax will return hit/no hit designator code "7" credit lock message on the response back to the customer
2. No credit file information in whole or in part, including no derived products such as scores, Deposit Alert, SafeScan, SafeScan ID, Decision Power) are returned

Exempt Use Case:

1. Equifax will return the credit file as well as all products and services as per usual subscriptions
2. By default, For ALL exempt ONLINE use cases where the CAAA does not apply and there is an active lock in force on the consumer's file, Equifax will automatically return the locked file indicator "7" in the header section along with the following message in the Consumer Declaration section of the report:
   
   ****WARNING**** THE CONSUMER HAS LOCKED THEIR CREDIT FILE AND THE DATA CANNOT BE USED FOR CREDIT ADJUDICATION UNTIL THE CONSUMER REMOVES OR SUSPENDS THE LOCK

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Blog/Central Banks

Posted Feb 8, 2023 by Martin Armstrong

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COMMENT: Marty, Powell spoke onstage here at the Economic Club of Washington. As always, nobody seems to know central banks like you. Powell point-blank said that the Fed may have to continue to raise rates more than what the marketplace has already priced in if the jobs market stays unexpectedly strong. I know you hate our town, but perhaps you should consider speaking here at the club.

Thank you for the global education. You are indeed a legend in your own time as they call you.
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REPLY: Thanks for the invite. Not sure I want to fly to the real Tinseltown. We have to come to the cold hard fact that there are no alternatives to the Keynesian theory. It’s not just the Fed. When I do interviews, I tend to be controversial because everyone, including the Gold bugs and countless analysts, all rely on the very same set of theories.
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The premise remains to increase the supply of money and it MUST be inflationary. The Fed raises rates to reduce consumption and lower rates to stimulate consumption. It’s a very nice theory, but when actually tested, it utterly fails. Lower rates will NEVER cause people to invest UNTIL they believe that there is an opportunity to invest.
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The peak in interest rates took place in 1899 at virtually 200%. Yet, 1929 was the real bubble top and it peaked with 20% interest rates in call money on the NYSE. In theory, the biggest boom should have been met with the highest interest rate. In truth, the “real interest rate” as I have defined it is when the interest rates exceed expectations. If you think the stock market will double, you will pay 25% interest.
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As you can see, while interest rates hit nearly 200% in 1899, the share market did NOT crash percentage-wise anything as it did following 1929. Look, there is a lot more to this than meets the eye. Everything must be addressed on a global scale for it all depends also on the direction of capital flows. There is just a lot more to this than simply the money supply and interest rates.



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The 5 Steps to becoming a trader

Step One: Unconscious Incompetence.

This is the first step you take when starting to look into trading. you know that its a good way of making money because you've heard so many things about it and heard of so many millionaires. Unfortunately, just like when you first desire to drive a car you think it will be easy - after all, how hard can it be? Price either moves up or down - what's the big secret to that then - lets get cracking!

Unfortunately, just as when you first take your place in front of a steering wheel you find very quickly that you haven't got the first clue about what you're trying to do. You take lots of trades and lots of risks. When you enter a trade it turns against you so you reverse and it turns again .. and again, and again.


You may have initial success, and that's even worse - cos it tells your brain that this really is simple and you start to risk more money.


You try to turn around your losses by doubling up every time you trade. Sometimes you'll get away with it but more often than not you will come away scathed and bruised You are totally oblivious to your incompetence at trading.

This step can last for a week or two of trading but the market is usually swift and you move onto the next stage.

Step Two - Conscious Incompetence

Step two is where you realize that there is more work involved in trading and that you might actually have to work a few things out. You consciously realise that you are an incompetent trader - you don't have the skills or the insight to turn a regular profit.

You now set about buying systems and e-books galore, read websites based everywhere from USA to the Ukraine. and begin your search for the holy grail. During this time you will be a system nomad - you will flick from method to method day by day and week by week never sticking with one long enough to actually see if it does work. Every time you come upon a new indicator you'll be ecstatic that this is the one that will make all the difference.

You will test out automated systems on Meta-trader, you'll play with moving averages, Fibonacci lines, support & resistance, Pivots, Fractals, Divergence, DMI, ADX, and a hundred other things all in the vein hope that your 'magic system' starts today. You'll be a top and bottom picker, trying to find the exact point of reversal with your indicators and you'll find yourself chasing losing trades and even adding to them because you are so sure you are right.

You'll go into the live chat room and see other traders making pips and you want to know why it's not you - you'll ask a million questions, some of which are so dumb that looking back you feel a bit silly. You'll then reach the point where you think all the ones who are calling pips after pips are liars - they cant be making that amount because you've studied and you don't make that, you know as much as they do and they must be lying. But they're in there day after day and their account just grows whilst yours falls.

You will be like a teenager - the traders that make money will freely give you advice but you're stubborn and think that you know best - you take no notice and over trade your account even though everyone says you are mad to - but you know better. You'll consider following the calls that others make but even then it wont work so you try paying for signals from someone else - they don't work for you either.


You might even approach a 'guru' like Rob Booker or someone on a chat board who promises to make you into a trader(usually for a fee of course). Whether the guru is good or not you wont win because there is no replacement for screen time and you still think you know best.


This step can last ages and ages - in fact in reality talking with other traders as well as personal experience confirms that it can easily last well over a year and more nearer 3 years. This is also the step when you are most likely to give up through sheer frustration.

Around 60% of new traders die out in the first 3 months - they give up and this is good - think about it - if trading was easy we would all be millionaires. another 20% keep going for a year and then in desperation take risks guaranteed to blow their account which of course it does.


What may surprise you is that of the remaining 20% all of them will last around 3 years - and they will think they are safe in the water - but even at 3 years only a further 5-10% will continue and go on to actually make money consistently.


By the way - they are real figures, not just some ive picked out of my head - so when you get to 3 years in the game dont think its plain sailing from there.


Iv had many people argue with me about these timescales - funny enough none of them have been trading for more that 3 years - if you think you know better then ask on a board for someone who's been trading 5 years and ask them how long it takes to become fully 100% proficient. Sure i guess there will be exceptions to the rule - but i haven't met any yet.


Eventually you do begin to come out of this phase. You've probably committed more time and money than you ever thought you would, lost 2 or 3 loaded accounts and all but given up maybe 3 or 4 times but now its in your blood

One day - im a split second moment you will enter stage 3.

Step 3 - The Eureka Moment

Towards the end of stage two you begin to realize that it's not the system that is making the difference. You realize that its actually possible to make money with a simple moving average and nothing else IF you can get your head and money management right You start to read books on the psychology of trading and identify with the characters portrayed in those books and finally comes the eureka moment.

The eureka moment causes a new connection to be made in your brain. You suddenly realize that neither you, nor anyone else can accurately predict what the market will do in the next ten seconds, never mind the next 20 mins.


Because of this revelation you stop taking any notice of what anyone thinks - what this news item will do, and what that event will do to the markets. You become an individual with your own method of trading


You start to work just one system that you mould to your own way of trading, you're starting to get happy and you define your risk threshold.

You start to take every trade that your 'edge' shows has a good probability of winning with. When the trade turns bad you don't get angry or even because you know in your head that as you couldn't possibly predict it it isn't your fault - as soon as you realize that the trade is bad you close it . The next trade or the one after it or the one after that will have higher odds of success because you know your system works.


You stop looking at trading results from a trade-to-trade perspective and start to look at weekly figures knowing that one bad trade does not a poor system make.


You have realized in an instant that the trading game is about one thing - consistency of your 'edge' and your discipline to take all the trades no matter what as you know the probabilities stack in your favor.

You learn about proper money management and leverage - risk of account etc etc - and this time it actually soaks in and you think back to those who advised the same thing a year ago with a smile. You weren't ready then, but you are now. The eureka moment came the moment that you truly accepted that you cannot predict the market.

Step 4 - Conscious Competence

You are making trades whenever your system tells you to. You take losses just as easily as you take wins You now let your winners run to their conclusion fully accepting the risk and knowing that your system makes more money than it looses and when you're on a loser you close it swiftly with little pain to your account

You are now at a point where you break even most of the time - day in day out, you will have weeks where you make 100 pips and weeks where you lose 100 pips - generally you are breaking even and not losing money. You are now conscious of the fact that you are making calls that are generally good and you are getting respect from other traders as you chat the day away. You still have to work at it and think about your trades but as this continues you begin to make more money than you lose consistently.

You'll start the day on a 20 pip win, take a 35 pip loss and have no feelings that you've given those pips back because you know that it will come back again. You will now begin to make consistent pips week in and week out 25 pips one week, 50 the next and so on.

This lasts about 6 months

Step Five - Unconscious Competence

Now we’re cooking - just like driving a car, every day you get in your seat and trade - you do everything now on an unconscious level. You are running on autopilot. You start to pick the really big trades and getting 200 pips in a day doesn't make you any more excited that getting 1 pips.


You see the newbies in the forum shouting 'go dollar go' as if they are urging on a horse to win in the grand national and you see yourself - but many years ago now.

This is trading utopia - you have mastered your emotions and you are now a trader with a rapidly growing account.

You're a star in the trading chat room and people listen to what you say. You recognize yourself in their questions from about two years ago. You pass on your advice but you know most of it is futile because they're teenagers - some of them will get to where you are - some will do it fast and others will be slower - literally dozens and dozens will never get past stage two, but a few will.

Trading is no longer exciting - in fact it's probably boring you to bits - like everything in life when you get good at it or do it for your job - it gets boring - you're doing your job and that's that.


Finally you grow out of the chat rooms and find a few choice people who you converse with about the markets without being influenced at all.


All the time you are honing your methods to extract the maximum profit from the market without increasing risk. Your method of trading doesn't change - it just gets better - you now have what women call 'intuition'

You can now say with your head held high "I'm a currency trader" but to be honest you don't even bother telling anyone - it's a job like any other.


I hope you've enjoyed reading this journey into a traders mind and that hopefully youve identified with some points in here.


Remember that only 5% will actually make it - but the reason for that isn't ability, its staying power and the ability to change your perceptions and paradigms as new information comes available.


The losers are those who wanted to 'get rich quick' but approached the market and within 6 months put on a pair of blinkers so they couldn't see the obvious - a kind of "this is the way i see it and that's that" scenario - refusing to assimilate new information that changes that perception.


I'm happy to tell you that the reason i started trading was because of the 'get rich quick' mindset. Just that now i see it as 'get rich slow'

If you're thinking about giving up i have one piece of advice for you ....

Ask yourself the question "how many years would you go to college if you knew for a fact that there was a million dollars a year job at the end of it?

Take care and good trading to you all.

I left of the name of the author of this piece by mistake. If anyone knows the name of the true author, please let me know and I'll add it here. Thanks and sorry for the confusion.

Bruce Warren is not the author. I just found it on a thread on Forex Factory...

Good evening Benny,
Great post, a bit discouraging but I'm still hopeful.

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Blog/Tyranny

Posted Feb 9, 2023 by Martin Armstrong

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Of course, the Gold bugs always misinterpret a rally in gold. The buying coming from China is in preparation for war – not bullish gold for the sake of gold. I have warned that if war was coming, then you will see China start to sell off US Treasuries. You certainly do not fund your adversary’s war against yourself.
China was buying aggressively during January, but they have backed off slightly. January was simply the standard 3-month reaction. The strong gold buying from China corresponded to China’s accelerated selling of U.S. Treasuries.

China is not buying gold because they think it will rally. It is perfectly fine if the price declines and just consolidates. They know war is coming and they can no longer maintain their reserves in dollars, euros, or yen no less than anyone else in the West – it all must go! Gold offers a non-political affiliation – neutrality. This is not buying gold as if it were an investment. We have completely different motives going on. Our own model warns that by 2032, there will be no United States acting as the reserve currency. The Biden Administration has done everything perfectly to destroy the world economy and the sad part about it, these morons do not even understand what they have done.

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Tony, a reader, sent in a question. Message: “Mr. Armstrong what do you make of attorney general Merrick Garland’s recent approval to seize all of Russia’s assets that had been frozen in the United States to be given to the Ukraine?” Garland is violating every principle of international law. Denying Due Process of Law which comes from the Bible. When Cain killed Abel, God summoned him and gave him an opportunity to be heard, despite the fact he knew what he did. That is Due Process of Law – the right to be heard. What Garland is doing is outright unconstitutional and it is Treason to the foundation of every principle upon which this nation was founded.

The right to be heard resides in both the Sixth Amendment as well as the Fourteenth Amendment. A right to hearing entails that an individual maintains and be afforded the legal right to be heard in the venue of a court of law with adequate due process attached. Garland has shown he is violating the Civil Rights Act and is unworthy of holding any office whatsoever. If he were not in charge of the Department of Justice, he would be criminally prosecuted under 18 U.S.C. § 241.
18 U.S.C. § 241
Section 241 makes it unlawful for two or more persons to agree to injure, threaten, or intimidate a person in the United States in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured by the Constitution or laws of the United States or because of his or her having exercised such a right.
You cannot take anyone’s assets without Due Process of Law – PERIOD!
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The confiscation of Russian assets is a clear violation of international law. They are including money confiscated from individuals as well. The destruction of NordStream was an act of economic warfare. These are acts that demonstrate what I have been saying – this is a war to DESTROY Russia. That is why Zelensky has instructed no peace negotiations. This has been planned for the fake Minsk Agreement. The West wanted to conquer Russia and they are prepared to see every Ukrainian die to weaken Russia so they will then send in Poland with tanks to conquer Moscow.
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We are the aggressor. This is a Climate Change War and the end goal is a New World Order with one government. The current monetary system is collapsing. I believe Schwab’s Great Reset is our 2032. He knows our model. He realizes it is all collapsing. He is out to push it in his direction when the tree of liberty falls.

The current administration of the United States is out of control. It is destroying everything that we have worked for generations since World War II and it now even supports the Nazis we once fought against.


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Alexander Vindman And The Road To World War III
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by Tyler Durden

Thursday, Feb 09, 2023 - 02:00 AM

Authored by Francis P. Sempa via RealClear Wire,

Retired U.S. Army LTC Alexander Vindman, who gained fame for helping Democrats impeach President Donald Trump for a phone call Trump had with Ukrainian officials in July 2019, is urging the Biden administration and its Western allies to swiftly and dramatically increase military aid and supplies to Ukraine to help the Ukrainian armed forces credibly threaten to take back Crimea, which Russian forces seized in 2014. He lays out a Ukrainian military campaign--armed and funded by the United States and its NATO allies--that he claims will cause Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate a Russian withdrawal from Crimea and reduce the risk of a wider war. Vindman is reminiscent of those European statesmen and generals before and during World War I who thought that mobilizing for war would somehow prevent it and, if not, would result in a swift victory.
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Writing on the Foreign Affairs website, Vindman notes that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a video appeal at the meeting of the World Economic Forum, saying: “Crimea is our land, our territory,” and requesting Western nations to “give us your weapons” so that Ukraine can retake “what is ours.” In his article, Vindman urges Washington and NATO to “give Ukraine the weapons and assistance it needs to win quickly and decisively in all occupied territories north of Crimea--and to credibly threaten to take the peninsula militarily.” Vindman suggests that a credible threat to militarily retake Crimea will be sufficient to bring Putin to the negotiating table and end the war on terms favorable to Ukraine.


Vindman has been one of the most vociferous war hawks when it comes to U.S. involvement in the Russia-Ukraine War. Politico reports that Vindman is organizing a group of experienced American military contractors “who would travel to Ukraine and embed themselves with small units near the front lines” and provide Ukrainian forces with “military logistics support.” Back in the summer of 2022, Vindman traveled to Ukraine to help the country wage successful war against Russia. He called the Ukraine war “the most important geopolitical event of the last 20 years & maybe the next 20 years.”

And Vindman has not shied away from partisan politics in his “geopolitical” analysis. He has blamed former President Trump, Trump’s Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the Republican Party, and Fox News for “emboldening Russia to invade Ukraine,” even though Russia’s invasions of Ukraine occurred during the Obama and Biden administrations. “There is blood on the Republican Party’s hands,” Vindman said. “They were partially responsible for what is happening in Ukraine.”

Vindman claims that if the U.S. and NATO continue to provide military assistance to Ukraine incrementally instead of giving Ukraine everything it needs now, the risk of widening the war and embroiling NATO in the conflict will increase. But, he claims, with swift and decisive Western military support, including hundreds of tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, advanced fighter aircraft, long and short-range missiles, and thousands of rocket systems, Ukraine can credibly threaten to retake Crimea, which he claims will force Putin to negotiate, withdraw from Crimea, and will supposedly reduce the risks of a wider war.

Vindman even lays out a tactical strategy that includes tying down Russian forces in the Luhansk, Kherson, and northern Donetsk regions, severing Russia’s land route to Ukraine by pushing through to the Sea of Azov, and interfering with Russia’s military resupply route by destroying the Kerch Strait Bridge that connects Russia to the Crimea. This would be followed by “weeks of strikes” on Russian armed forces, including air bases, naval installations, transportation nodes, and command and control centers. Then Ukraine would launch “land and amphibious attacks to gain a foothold in Crimea,” and move on to seize Russia’s naval installation at Sevastopol, the capital of Simferopol, Feodosiya, and Kerch. Unless, that is, the Clausewitzian “friction” of war intervenes, as it usually does.

There are a lot of assumptions underlying Vindman’s plan. One is his claim that “Western officials are less worried about Russian nuclear saber rattling than they once were.” He does not identify who those officials are or why they are allegedly less worried about nuclear escalation. Another assumption is that a dramatic increase in Western military supplies--giving Ukraine everything it needs to defeat Russia--is less dangerous than what he calls “incremental escalation.” And Vindman assures us that “Putin has no interest in a fight with NATO.” Presumably, that includes a NATO that supplies Ukraine with everything it needs to defeat Russia.

Perhaps Vindman’s most questionable assumption--which is not mentioned in the Foreign Affairs article, but that he voiced after his trip to Ukraine in the summer of 2022--is that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is “the most important geopolitical event of the last 20 years.” Others would argue that China’s rise--economically and militarily--and its expanded influence throughout Eurasia and beyond is a more important geopolitical event, especially when it is coupled with the growing strategic partnership between China and Russia. In the past, American statesmen recognized the importance of maintaining the geopolitical pluralism of Eurasia. It is why we sided with Stalin against Hitler. It is why we sided with Mao against the Soviet regime. But all the Vindman approach does is to push Russia even closer to China. And as tensions increase in the western Pacific over Taiwan, Vindman’s counsel may get us into a two-front war that nobody should want.

Francis P. Sempa is the author of Geopolitics: From the Cold War to the 21stCentury, America’s Global Role: Essays and Reviews on National Security, Geopolitics and War, and Somewhere in France, Somewhere in Germany: A Combat Soldier’s Journey through the Second World War. He has written lengthy introductions to two of Mahan’s books, and has written on historical and foreign policy topics for The Diplomat, the University Bookman, Joint Force Quarterly, the Asian Review of Books, the New York Journal of Books, the Claremont Review of Books, American Diplomacy, the Washington Times, The American Spectator, and other publications. He is an attorney, an adjunct professor of political science at Wilkes University, and a former contributing editor to American Diplomacy.

February 8, 2023

Russia Prepares Bomb Shelters As Americans “Face Choice Between Normal Or Crazy”

By: Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers

An illuminating new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today first noting President Putin marked Russian Science Day this morning by presenting prizes in science and innovation and holding a Council for Science and Education meeting, says joining the annual event celebration were articles appearing like “Lasers, Spaceflight, Surgery, Nuclear Power And The Secrets Of Mayan Civilization: How Russian Scientists Changed The World”—and are articles critical to notice because the socialist Western colonial powers keep suppressing the fact that Russia provides to all peoples of the world an absolutely free of cost higher education to enhance their science skills, that begins when they fill out the application for acceptance.

Among those most benefiting from no cost higher education in Russian world-class universities, this report notes, are former socialist Western colonial controlled nations in Africa like Mali, that last year forced out their French colonialist overlords that spent billions-of-dollars fomenting war and chaos instead of offering anything to actually improve the lives of its peoples—during his historic visit to Mali yesterday, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov pledged Russian support to protect them against socialist Western colonial funded terrorists , and stated: “We are going to provide our assistance to them to overcome these difficulties…This concerns Guinea, Burkina Faso and Chad and the Sahel region generally and even the coastal states on the Gulf of Guinea”—and in response to European Union High Representative Josep Borrell dismissing African countries as easy to manipulate, Foreign Minister Lavrov observed: “So speaks a man who can’t hide the racist essence of his worldview...Not so long ago he openly spoke about Europe being a garden surrounded by a jungle that threatens it, so the garden needs to be careful with the jungle...That says it all about who actually relates to the needs and interests of African countries, and how”.

As it pertains to racist colonial actions of the socialist Biden Regime, this report continues, Security Council Secretary Nikolay Patrushev today warned: “There is no doubt that the Americans will continue their geopolitical experiments in other regions of the world, primarily in Europe and in the Asia-Pacific region, but also in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America”—a warning joined by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) threatening to expel American Ambassador Lynne Tracy, and stating: “American diplomats were warned against attempts to carry out subversive work, recruiting "agents of influence" with the aim of sowing discord and discord in Russian society, and inciting anti-state speeches”—all of which comes at the same time Russia is preparing its vast numbers of nuclear bomb shelters, and sees it reported: “The command for a large-scale inspection and to put things right was given by the Emergency Situations Ministry, the Defense Ministry and other civilian ministries”.

While Russia prepares its nuclear bomb shelters, this report details, Russian Permanent United Nations Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia warned the world yesterday: “The West is only prolonging the bloodshed in Ukraine by supplying Kiev with weapons and waging a proxy war against Moscow”—a warning followed this morning by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky making a surprise visit to the United Kingdom to beg for more weapons and ammunition—and is a surprise visit to beg for more weapons that follows Sky News reporting on Monday: “The UK does not have enough money to fulfill its military commitments after digging deep into its stockpiles to fund and equip the Ukrainian war effort...Britain’s self-defense is in jeopardy because the government is giving away critical military assets to Kiev, including tanks and artillery, sources warned, explaining that “it is no good having a small number of high-end, exquisite platforms when you have not got capacity around it”...Insiders at the Ministry of Defence confirmed the military would “already run out of ammunition within a few days if called upon to fight” and warned that putting together a “modern war fighting division of some 25,000 to 30,000 troops” would take “up to ten years””.

Earlier today, this report notes, the Ministry of Defense (MoD) reported that Russian military forces killed over 200 Ukrainian soldiers during the past 24 hours and revealed: “In all, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 382 Ukrainian combat aircraft, 206 helicopters, 3,036 unmanned aerial vehicles, 403 surface-to-air missile systems, 7,771 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 1,010 multiple rocket launchers, 4,020 field artillery guns and mortars and 8,282 special military motor vehicles since the beginning of the special military operation”—a beyond staggering toll now joined by Ukraine soldiers posting videos of them refusing orders to fight, and one of them while retreating saying: “We’re coming out hell...Dead bodies are everywhere...Everything is on fire”—in a just released assessment, former top Pentagon advisor and decorated American combat tactical legend retired US Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor, Ph.D. warns: “Ukraine is about to be annihilated”—and in an assessment of President Zelensky, exiled top Ukrainian opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk exclaimed: “The country was plunged into a fire for the inflated ego of this man...Today, the West flatters him at every opportunity...What luck!...A ruler who would destroy his country for a photo op, boost his ratings on the blood and suffering of his citizens...Zelensky slaughtered law and stability for the sake of applause and posturing”.

Along with President Zelensky, this report notes, also slaughtering law and stability for the sake of applause and posturing is Supreme Socialist Leader Joe Biden, who was heckled and jeered during his State of the Union address last night—during his lie-filled speech, Socialist Leader Biden described the Russian “Special De-Nazification Operation” to liberate Ukraine as “a test for the ages, a test for America, a test for the world” without explaining what he meant, then he declared: “Make no mistake: as we made clear last week, if China’s threatens our sovereignty, we will act to protect our country”—and was a declaration proving that the real goal of the Americans needlessly sacrificing hundreds-of-thousands of Ukrainians has everything to do with their planned war against China, and as further confirmed by top Republican Party neocon warmonger US Senator Tom Cotton, who yesterday proclaimed: “A Ukrainian victory and a durable peace will secure our European flank as we confront China”.

Immediately following the nearly one and half hour State of the Union speech given by Socialist Leader Biden, this report concludes, it only took President Donald Trump a little over two minutes to expose all of its provable lies—in the hours immediately prior to Socialist Leader Biden giving his lie-filled speech, the socialist Democrat Party controlled Virginia Board of Education ousted Suparna Dutta, who immigrated to the United States from India, because she defended the American Constitution and said public schools should present socialism as incompatible with democracy—are events that followed senior American statesman Henry Kissinger warning this week: “The United States is suffering domestic division and international disorder about arguments about who we are and what we stand for...This situation means that Washington finds it difficult to muster the domestic cohesion necessary to face the challenges ahead of us”—and in her nationwide televised rebuttal to Socialist Leader Biden’s lie-filled State of Union speech, Republican Party leader Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders most factually observed: “The dividing line in America is no longer between left or right...The choice is between normal or crazy”. [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.]

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Western Tank Fantasy Collides With Putin’s AI Robot “War Toys”

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“Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind. It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict. Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world.”

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952). President of the Russian Federation, cited quote from 2017 speech.

Special Report from Sister Ciara

My Dearest Friends:
Early this morning, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky stopped being a possible interlocutor for Russian President Vladimir Putin long ago, stating: “We know what promises Zelensky made during his presidential campaign, and it is not difficult to remember them or refresh the memory of those voters who elected him in Ukraine: he never solved the Donbass problem, he reneged on the Minsk Agreements, moreover, it turned out that he never planned to implement them, as he had been preparing for war...This is why, let’s put it this way, he himself has long ceased to be a potential interlocutor for discussions”, shortly after which it was reported: “Ukraine was subjected to a huge wave of Russian airstrikes on Thursday morning, with explosions at energy facilities reported from various parts of the country, including the capital, Kiev”.

The events of today follow President Joe Biden delivering yesterday what’s called a “brutal gaffe” when he announced he was sending tanks to Ukraine “to help counter Ukraine’s brutal aggression”, after Germany announced it was sending tanks to Ukraine, it saw German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock declaring “we are fighting a war against Russia”, then European Union Parliament member Manfred Weber proclaimed: “The European Union should move its economy to a wartime footing amid the Ukraine conflict”.

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The Guardian newspaper in London this morning published the article “Sending Tanks To Ukraine Makes One thing Clear: This Is Now A Western War Against Russia”, which I found interesting because, in 2015, the Guardian published the fact based article “Welcome To Ukraine, The Most Corrupt Nation In Europe”—in America today it sees articles like “Your Tax Dollars At Work: Ukrainian Officials Blew $100 Billion In Uniparty Dollars on Sports Cars, Mansions, Luxury Vacations, etc.”—and still left unanswered are the troubling questions raised in the March-2022 article “Western Liberal Media Used To Hate Ukraine and Zelensky. So, What Changed?”.

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You should know that Germany says the tanks it’s sending to the most corrupt country in Europe won’t arrive in Ukraine until the end of March—the Pentagon announced that the MI Abrams tanks it’s sending to the most corrupt country in Europe may not arrive in Ukraine until late this year or even early next year—with only one defense company in the United States able to refurbish MI Abrams tanks, whose highly-classified secret armor plating must be removed before it goes anywhere near Russia, the US Army said it estimated it would take 64 months, or just over 5 years, to get other contractors up to speed to do this—are MI Abrams tanks notorious for their inability to gain traction on icy and snowy ground like exists in Ukraine—during the American war in Iraq these MI Abrams tanks kept exploding when hit with old Soviet-era weapons—and all of which is exactly why the United States Marines got rid of all their MI Abrams tanks in 2020.

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Every morning the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (MoD) gives a briefing on the “Special De-Nazification Operation” to liberate Ukraine, like they did today and revealed: “In all, the Russian Armed Forces have destroyed 379 Ukrainian warplanes, 204 helicopters, 2,956 unmanned aerial vehicles, 402 surface-to-air missile systems, 7,634 tanks and other armored combat vehicles, 990 multiple rocket launchers, 3,921 field artillery guns and mortars and 8,180 special military motor vehicles since the start of the special military operation”.


Most astounding to notice about these MoD briefings is that no one in the Western media ever reports on the staggering number of tanks Ukraine keeps losing, whose numbers lost today stands at 7,634, and it is a complete fantasy for anyone to believe a handful of Western tanks can ever make up for this loss.


The reason the Western media doesn’t report on the staggering tanks losses of Ukraine is because they’d then have to explain what’s actually destroying them, which is a rather small Russian military unmanned artificial intelligence weapon called the Marker Robot that seeks out and destroys tanks on the battlefield, and every defense expert knows will quickly obliterate the German and American tanks being sent to Ukraine.


During a speech in 2017, it saw President Putin stating: “Artificial intelligence is the future, not only for Russia, but for all humankind. It comes with colossal opportunities, but also threats that are difficult to predict…Whoever becomes the leader in this sphere will become the ruler of the world”—in 2021, the American independent, nonprofit research and analysis organization Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) published their document “Artificial Intelligence and Autonomy in Russia”—a document read by defense reporters at the American magazine Newsweek, who published their warning article “Russia Is Building An Army Of Robot Weapons, And China's AI Tech Is Helping”—and was a document read by the defense reporters at the Sun newspaper in London, who published their warning article “VLAD THE INVADER Putin’s ‘War Toys’ Ready To Unleash Hell On Ukraine From Robot Tanks To Stealth Drones & ‘Flying Kalashnikovs’”.

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Why it’s critical for you to know about Russia’s massive array of artificial intelligence weapons is because Konstantin Gavrilov, the head of the Russian delegation to the Vienna Negotiations on Military Security and Arms Control, just warned the world: “We know that Leopard 2 tanks, as well as Bradley and Marder armored fighting vehicles, can use depleted uranium shells, which can contaminate terrain, just like it happened in Yugoslavia and Iraq...If Kiev were to be supplied with such munitions for the use in western heavy military hardware, we would regard it as the use of ‘dirty nuclear bombs’ against Russia, with all the consequences that entails”—and for those of you who don’t know what these “consequences” will be, I strongly suggest that you read the Congressional Research Service (CRS) document published on 21 April 2022 for the United States Congress entitled “Russia’s Nuclear Weapons: Doctrine, Forces, and Modernization”.


In times of war like we live in today, truth is always the first casualty, as best exampled by all Russian news outlets cut off in both America and the European Union—when the conservative One America News television network started telling the truth they were quickly canceled last year, and because the conservative American news outlet Newsmax has been telling the truth they are now under threat of extinction—which leads me to wonder when, or even if the American people will throw off the yoke of tyranny keeping them from knowing the truth.


As always, though, my Dear Sisters have kept the truth flowing to you from both behind and on the front lines of this war, but who desperately need your aid if their mission of truth is to continue, and whom you can aid by going below and giving what you can today before we’re extinguished, too. And in fact, is actually aid you’re giving to yourself so you can know the truth, and in knowing the truth stay free.


For those of you knowing these true things, I urgently plead for you support in our desperate hour of need, and is why I’ve always strongly reminded my Dearest Friends, if you prefer being lied to and deceived then, by all means, turn away from us, but, for those of you still wanting the truth, never forget that in aiding us, or others like us, our Dear Lord gave you this solemn promise: “Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.”

With God,

Sister Ciara

Dublin, Ireland

26 January 2023


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Feb 9 (Reuters) - European shares touched a fresh nine-month high on Thursday as Germany's Siemens AG and UK's AstraZeneca boosted earnings euphoria, and helped offset concerns over hawkish Federal Reserve speakers stressing the need for more interest rate hikes.

The pan-European STOXX 600 (.STOXX) was up 0.8% at 0820 GMT, extending gains for the third straight session.

Industrials (.SXNP) was the top sector index performer, bolstered by 6.3% gains in Siemens (SIEGn.DE) on better-than-expected earnings and higher full-year sales guidance.
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Electric component maker Legrand (LEGD.PA) jumped 7.5% on 2022 revenue and operating profit beat.


A near 2% gain in AstraZeneca (AZN.L) on better-than-expected fourth-quarter profit and a 3.5% rise in Bayer (BAYGn.DE), after replacing its CEO early, boosted the healthcare sector (.SXDP).

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Volvo Cars (VOLCARb.ST) fell 2.5%, as the Swedish carmaker sees 2023 likely to be another challenging year after reporting a fall in quarterly profit.

Federal Reserve officials on Wednesday hinted that more rate rises were on the table to further cool inflation, although none suggested that January's hot jobs report could trigger a more aggressive monetary policy stance.

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The Bank of Canada must be focused on bringing down inflation, not artificially sustaining our over dependence on the housing market.

Canada’s economy is dangerously overdependent on the housing market.

This over dependency has been caused by many factors, including local restrictions on expanding the housing stock, high-tax anti-growth federal policies that disincentivize job creation and investment, rapid population increases, and large scale money-printing.

An economy with stagnant productivity was flooded with money, and that money unsurprisingly went towards fixed assets like housing.
Now, with high levels of inflation and absurdly overpriced housing, an entire generation is being locked out of the Canadian dream.

Unfortunately, for those hoping for a quick resolution to this issue, the Governor of the Bank of Canada – Tiff Macklem – seems intent on perpetuating it.
Consider this, per BNN Bloomberg:
“Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem conceded that rate hikes have hit the country’s homeowners hard, saying the impact of higher borrowing costs on consumers is a major reason why he chose to hit pause before the U.S. Federal Reserve.

In an interview with Bloomberg News, Macklem said the central bank needs time to gauge how households and businesses are adapting to higher rates before it makes any further moves.

Canadians “are more indebted today than they’ve ever been,” Macklem said after a speech Tuesday in Quebec City. Although some households were able to build up cash reserves during the pandemic, “extra savings are probably not going to last as long as the higher debt.”

The governor’s comments underscore the uncertainty faced by policymakers as the economy — and Canada’s richly-valued housing market — are tested by the highest interest rates in 15 years.”

Here’s the problem:
Dealing with overindebted homeowners is not Macklem’s job.

His job – and the job of the Bank of Canada – is to deal with rampant inflation and bring it down.
Inflation in Canada currently stands at 6.3%, far above the 2% target.

It’s not Macklem’s job to end the fight against inflation because he’s worried about the debt levels of Canadians.
That’s a job for the Parliament, who should respond to the situation and craft legislation that unleashes Canada’s productive potential, a point well-made by Aaron Wudrick:
“Wait, what? That sounds like something a politician might want to worry about, but it’s not what the Governor of the Bank of Canada should be worrying about. The Bank’s job is to be laser-focused on inflation, and inflation alone.”

By making the fight against inflation secondary to something that isn’t supposed to be Macklem’s focus, he risks incentivizing further increases in debt and a further reliance on the housing market for ‘growth’ in Canada, which would represent doubling-down on the same untenable approach that has put our situation into such a bad situation to begin with.

Covering for failed Liberal policies
Another problem here is that Macklem is again making a very political decision in a role that is supposed to be apolitical.

The federal government could easily provide relief to over-indebted homeowners by scrapping the carbon tax, cutting income taxes/sales taxes, and repealing policies that hold back the energy sector.

Lower overall tax rates, lower energy costs, and a billions in new energy sector investments (which could have happened if Trudeau didn’t snub Japan and Germany when they asked for more LNG), would provide some relief to those who face serious debt problems.

By choosing not to do that – the Liberals & NDP just voted against a Conservative motion that would have ended the carbon tax – the government is making a deliberate choice to increase the financial pressure on indebted Canadians.

It’s not Macklem’s job to cover up for the consequences of those federal actions.

It’s not his job to prop up indebted consumers who are struggling because of misguided Liberal policies.

Macklem’s job is to bring down inflation.

Yet again, just as we saw with Macklem’s inability to forecast the surge in inflation (at a time when Pierre Poilievre was warning about what was about to happen), Macklem demonstrates that he still doesn’t understand his job.

Spencer Fernando

Canada’s economy is dangerously overdependent on the housing market.

This over dependency has been caused by many factors, including local restrictions on expanding the housing stock, high-tax anti-growth federal policies that disincentivize job creation and investment, rapid population increases, and large scale money-printing.

An economy with stagnant productivity was flooded with money, and that money unsurprisingly went towards fixed assets like housing.
Now, with high levels of inflation and absurdly overpriced housing, an entire generation is being locked out of the Canadian dream.

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‘I’m nervous now’ – Tremors felt in Israel for 4th time in 2 days, buildings shake
February 8, 2023
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“I felt the bed shake…It sounds dramatic, but after seeing the photos of the destruction in Turkey and Syria, I’m nervous now,” said a resident of Israel’s Northern Central District.

By Adina Katz, World Israel News

For the fourth time in three days, an earthquake was felt Wednesday evening throughout Israel, especially in the north.

On Monday morning at approximately 3:30, Israelis in the north and center of the country felt a light impact following the massive earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Nine hours later, when the second, lighter quake hit the two countries again, some Israelis reported feeling the tremor.

On Tuesday evening, a minor earthquake of 3.5 magnitude was reported in the Jerusalem area.

Tremors were felt again Wednesday evening, just before 9 p.m. According to the European-Mediterranean Seismological Center, the epicenter was near the Syrian-Lebanon border, with a magnitude of 4.3 and a depth of 30 km. The data of the Geological Survey of Israel indicates that the magnitude of the earthquake was 4.1.

Hebrew-language Ynet interviewed Sara Cohen, a resident of the northern coastal city of Nahariya, who said, “I was sitting on the sofa in the living room, and in an instant the sofa started to move. The bed also moved. It was fast and not too strong. I immediately understood that it was an earthquake, this time on the northern border.”

Turkey-Syria earthquake search intensifies as death toll passes 5,000
Naor Lavi, a resident of Kiryat Ata, told Ynet that “at around 9:00 p.m., I felt the third earthquake that caught me during my birthday today. It was very scary. The last few days are disturbing and scary. Israel is unfortunately not ready for a stronger earthquake.”

Shelly Levi, a resident of Netanya – situated on the coast between Haifa and Tel Aviv – told World Israel News:
“At about 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, I felt the bed shake. I didn’t initially think it was an earthquake for a few reasons. Earthquakes aren’t common in Israel, so that possibility simply didn’t come to my mind. Storm Barbara was happening at the same time as the quake, and with the winds that reached 100 kilometers per hour in some cities in Israel, I mistakenly thought the feeling of the building swaying was related to those gusts. I then turned on the light and saw my ceiling lamp swinging, and finally understood that it was an earthquake.

“About nine hours later, at 12:30 p.m., I felt my apartment building swaying again, and the door to my bedroom was swinging open and closed. There was a sensation almost like being on a boat, and I felt intense motion sickness for several hours afterwards. It really threw me off balance.

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“It sounds dramatic,” Levi continued, “but after seeing the photos of the destruction in Turkey and Syria, I’m nervous now. Luckily, I live in a building that was built about 10 years ago, but I can imagine that many older buildings – especially those in the Tel Aviv area that aren’t well-maintained – wouldn’t be able to survive.

“It also feels like the earthquakes are getting closer and closer, traveling south from the Turkey/Syria area, and the fact that there have been three in just a few day span worries me,” she said.
Indeed, experts in Israel have warned that the country is not prepared. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the National Security Council to assess the situation.

The death toll in Turkey and Syria following the massive earthquake on Monday morning, followed by two weaker ones, has risen to 11,000. Israel is providing medical and humanitarian aid to both countries.

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Those who mentioned #5 genuinely consider themselves Guru? )) Really they exist?
I am #5, 8 years trading now. Not a guru and not a teacher. Why? Because it's something that can't really be taught. Why? Well those steps (learning curve) are pretty accurate and you must go through them because although someone can teach you the method you still will not be able to do it because no one can teach you to manage your emotions and if you can't manage your emotions you can't manage your trade properly and likely will still lose. For what it's worth forget EA's, all the bullshit indicators, all the 1000's of different methods. Keep it simple, look for supply/demand areas NOT tops and bottoms. Learn to manage your risk. First question when considering a position 'what is my risk'? I blew I don't know how many accounts along the way, you will too. Look at it as the cost of learning and stick at it. The biggest irony of all? Once you know, you know. It's very simple (not to be confused with easy) and because you know, you don't jump from thread to thread looking for the next great idea.

 

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One interesting idea, shared by professional traders, is to set goals and measure results not in profit, but in progress. This mean that you are going not to earn specified sum of money, but to get necessary skills and habits.
Even if your recent trades were wrong, you get experience and information to analyze and make conclusions. Is something like making mistakes your way to success, but deeper and wider.

Actually, you don`t need to earn a lot of money now. You just need to trade better, than yesterday.

VVIX Jump Shows Traders Expecting Bigger Swings

The 11% rally in the S&P 500 from its December lows is keeping the VIX depressed under the closely watched 20 level, creating a divergence with the VVIX or the “VIX of the VIX”. The VVIX recorded its largest single-day jump since September on Wednesday — a sign that market participants expect the VIX to be more volatile in the future. That assessment may have merit, with the S&P 500 approaching a “downside-gap” area between 4,203-4,218 that was created in August, leading to a 14% slump before the market bottomed out in October…

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