President Trump will speak at the Bitcoin 2024 conference in Nashville, Tennessee.
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I never expected to travel the world of a dollar-based central bank digital currency implementation. Two years ago, I was surprised by the construct of the Western sanctions against Russia; however, my curiosity was driven more by the outcome of the intended economic isolation, and not necessarily about the granular construct of the sanctions themselves.
What surprised me initially, was the conversation that never took place in the financial sector. For the first time in history the U.S Dollar was being used as a weapon, not only against Russia, but against any Western corporation who did not comply with the demands of the U.S government. I began highlighting the issue MARCH 5, 2022.
March 27, 2022 – within the interview [05:44 prompted], Senator Warner outlines the western approach toward Russia using cryptocurrency as a method to evade sanctions. Notably, Warner outlines that U.S. intelligence/U.S. Govt has control over U.S-based crypto exchanges and they are working with ‘partners’ in the financial sector to mitigate the use of crypto exchanges by non-U.S. actors. WATCH:
All your banking are belong to us.
Previously I shared, the sanctions against Russia were unlike any set of sanctions that came before. The financial sanctions against Iran, Cuba, North Korea and Venezuela all stood as examples of prior economic sanction constructs, but the financial sanctions against Russia were different. The SWIFT exchange was shut down, Western trade into Russia was halted, and private Western corporations were forced to divest themselves of assets held within Russia.
Under the guise of “economically isolating Russia”, the sanction regime was driven by the U.S. Treasury, U.S. State Dept., and fully supported by Western allies in Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. Each of the aforementioned nations followed the exact same path.
Given the history of the prior decade, where Russia enlarged its footprint of influence, the sanction regime just did not make sense. It was obvious that non-Western nations would continue trading with Russia, and most of those same non-Western nations were trading with the USA. My simple question was, “won’t alternate countries just step in to fill the void of trade eliminated by the sanctions?”
If, for example, India is still buying widgets from the Western zone, wouldn’t an enterprising Indian company just start buying extra widgets from the USA, Canada or Europe and then begin brokering a portion of those products into Russia? It seemed like common sense, and indeed that type of exchange is exactly what happened.
On the ground, in Russia, there are now Western stores missing, but the Western products are still available under different Russian flagship names. Starbucks closed, and now as you can see from above, it’s Stars Coffee. Same coffee, tables, chairs, cups, and even employees, just a different name. Starbucks, and every other Western company was forced to divest, sell assets at fire sale prices, and exit the market.
All the following companies did the same.
Despite all the parent companies leaving, their retail products are still available through a system of brokered buying and distribution. Third-party companies simply stepped in to fill the void. You can still buy the newest Samsung TVs and Apple iPhones in Russia, but now they come with a slightly higher price, as the broker adds their markup.
On the financial side, the inability to work in dollars or Euros was initially a problem, but workarounds were fast to surface {SEE HERE}.
What I soon realized, in my research, was that essentially nothing changed for the ordinary people within Russia, other than some “branded items” were no longer available. Factually, most Russian people didn’t care, and a large percentage are oblivious to the sanction issue. The sentiment of nationalism or national pride actually increased; they rallied around their leadership.
Two years later, the economy is doing well, Russia is selling energy to nations who have a need, trade is taking place in non-dollar denominations, and the impact is, well, really not much.
However, once you realize the sanctions never had any material impact, then the question is why it was so important to weaponize the dollar-based trade currency? Surely other nations would now look at their dollar dependency as a potential risk because they too could become a target if the USG made that arbitrary decision.
That’s exactly what happened, and is a big part of the non-Western zone drive to join the antifragile BRICS+ trade alliance.
So, with all these downsides, why did the U.S. do these specific sanctions this way?
When I dug deep into this issue, I realized the financial walls were not created to keep Russia out of the financial system; the walls were erected in the Western zone to keep the dollar-based system locked-in.
ME: …”The same way the Patriot Act was not designed to stop terrorism but rather to create a domestic surveillance system. So too were the “Russian Sanctions” not designed to sanction Russia, but rather to create the financial control system that will lead to a USA digital currency. The Western sanctions created a financial wall around the USA (dollar-based west), not to keep Russia out, but to keep us in. The Western sanction regime, the financial mechanisms they created and authorized, created the control gate that leads to a U.S. digital currency.” (more)
LARRY FINK in 2022 – NEW YORK, March 24 (Reuters) – BlackRock Inc’s (BLK.N) chief executive, Larry Fink, said on Thursday that the Russia-Ukraine war could end up accelerating digital currencies as a tool to settle international transactions, as the conflict upends the globalization drive of the last three decades.
In a letter to the shareholders of the world’s largest asset manager, Fink said the war will push countries to reassess currency dependencies, and that BlackRock was studying digital currencies and stablecoins due to increased client interest.
“A global digital payment system, thoughtfully designed, can enhance the settlement of international transactions while reducing the risk of money laundering and corruption”, he said.
[…] In the letter on Thursday, the chairman and CEO of the $10 trillion asset manager said the Russia-Ukraine crisis had put an end to the globalization forces at work over the past 30 years.
[…] “While companies’ and consumers’ balance sheets are strong today, giving them more of a cushion to weather these difficulties, a large-scale reorientation of supply chains will inherently be inflationary,” said Fink.
He said central banks were dealing with a dilemma they had not faced in decades, having to choose between living with high inflation or slowing economic activity to contain price pressures. (read more)
(Reuters) – Global bank messaging network SWIFT is planning a new platform in the next one to two years to connect the wave of central bank digital currencies now in development to the existing finance system, it has told Reuters.
The move, which would be one of the most significant yet for the nascent CBDC ecosystem given SWIFT’s key role in global banking, is likely to be fine-tuned to when the first major ones are launched.
Around 90% of the world’s central banks are now exploring digital versions of their currencies. Most don’t want to be left behind by bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but are grappling with technological complexities.
SWIFT’s head of innovation, Nick Kerigan, said its latest trial, which took 6 months and involved a 38-member group of central banks, commercial banks and settlement platforms, had been one of the largest global collaborations on CBDCs and “tokenised” assets to date.
“We are looking at a roadmap to productize (launch as a product) in the next 12-24 months,” Kerigan said in an interview. “It’s moving out of experimental stage towards something that is becoming a reality.”
Although the timeframe could still shift if major economy CBDC launches get delayed, getting out the blocks for when they do would be a major boost for maintaining SWIFT’s incumbent dominance in the bank-to-bank plumbing network.
[…] A raft of heavyweight commercial banks including HSBC, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Societe Generale, Standard Chartered and the CLS FX settlement platform all took part too, as did at least two banks from China.
The idea is that once the interlink solution is scaled-up, banks would have one main global connection point able to handle digital asset payments, rather than thousands if they were to set up an individual one with every counterparty. (read more)
ALSO In 2022 – [White House] – President Biden often summarizes his vision for America in one word: Possibilities. A “digital dollar” may seem far-fetched, but modern technology could make it a real possibility.
A United States central bank digital currency (CBDC) would be a digital form of the U.S. dollar. While the U.S. has not yet decided whether it will pursue a CBDC, the U.S. has been closely examining the implications of, and options for, issuing a CBDC. If the U.S. pursued a CBDC, there could be many possible benefits, such as facilitating efficient and low-cost transactions, fostering greater access to the financial system, boosting economic growth, and supporting the continued centrality of the U.S. within the international financial system. However, a U.S. CBDC could also introduce a variety of risks, as it might affect everything ranging from the stability of the financial system to the protection of sensitive data.
Notably, these benefits and risks might vary significantly based on how the CBDC system is designed and deployed. That is why Executive Order 14067, Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets, placed the highest urgency on research and development efforts into the potential design and deployment options of a U.S. CBDC. The Executive Order directed the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), in consultation with other Federal departments and agencies, to submit to the President a technical evaluation for a potential U.S. CBDC system.
Today, OSTP is publishing its report, Technical Evaluation for a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency System, which lays out policy objectives for a potential U.S. CBDC system and analyzes key technical design choices for a U.S. CBDC system. The report also estimates the technical feasibility of building a CBDC minimum viable product and describes how a U.S. CBDC system might affect Federal operations. The report makes recommendations on how to prepare the Federal Government for a U.S. CBDC system. Importantly, the report does not make any assessments or recommendations about whether the U.S. should pursue a CBDC, nor does it make any decisions regarding particular design choices for a potential U.S. CBDC system. (read more)
A digital dollar creates a unique id attached to that digital dollar. Ultimately, the central bank that issues the digital dollar controls what the digital id can do (that’s you), and what those digital dollars can be used for (what you can do).
Digital dollars can be blocked from gun purchases, and digital ids can be used to stop unapproved users from purchasing guns – or a gas guzzling suv, or a house that’s too big, or the non-compliant fridge, or whatever.
Sellers of goods (or information) can have their ids banned from receiving digital dollars, just as VISA and MasterCard blocked sellers of guns from accessing their electronic transaction system. With digital dollars, “demonetization”, an alarmingly familiar modern term, can become a function of a financial regulation system. “Debanking” another alarmingly familiar term, also becomes much easier.
Ultimately, a dollar-based US-Central Bank Digital Currency, ie a “digital dollar,” is about control.
Every transaction has a unique digital fingerprint, and every digital dollar can be traced by the IRS to the digital id associated with it.
There is a BIG difference between electronic funds (current), and a digital dollar (future).
I believe President Trump is fully aligned with the concept of “financial freedom”…
There is a lot at stake in 2024!
I am so looking forward to hearing Pres. Trump’s remarks at the Nashville conference. I suspect he’ll drop a couple of truth bombs that send the control freaks into a massive meltdown.
Like Bitcoin backing the U.S. dollar?
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The only way the US gov can control crypto, like BTC, is if they were the ones WHO CREATED IT IN THE FIRST PLACE WITH A BACK DOOR. The entire story about some old benevolent, altruistic Japanese man creating blockchain BTC for the benefit of mankind, and then disappearing sounds like horseshit to me. It has spook central written all over it. There is evidence of NSA involvement in such a project since 1986. Just like Facebook came out of nowhere and became a billion dollar company overnight. Can you think of a better way to spy on everyone and gather personal data? My wife called that when it first came out.
Yes, it’s a spook operation, the “name” of the “benevolent Japanese autist” translates as “No Man, Nowhere”.
The mythical inventor of BitCoin used the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.
サトシ (“Satoshi” written in Katakana) or 覚 (“Satoshi” written in Kanji) Means “wisdom” or “sense.”
ナカモト (“Nakamoto” in Katakana) or 中本 (“Nakamoto” in Kanji) is. From Japanese 中 (naka) meaning “middle” and 本 (moto) meaning “base, root, origin”.
So the name translates into “intelligence from the central place”
(at least according to some internet discussions 😉
So long as it’s not a fiat currency, let’s go.
The REAL high priests of our latest iteration of the Euro Globalists death cult, ie the NWO, have known from PDJTs first days in the WH what he was up to. He trolled them mercilessly via his choice of oval office porraits, books he made sure everyone knew he was reading and his early trip to President Andrew Jackson’s mausoleum.
Klaus Schwab and Soros said PDJT posed the #1 threat to their NWO schemes (to be replaced, post 2021, by Putin and now Xi).
Obviously they did NOT decide PDJT posed a greater existential threat to their schemes than anyone else on the planet because of his mean tweets, impulsivity,susceptibility to flattery or stupidity.
As an aside, I continue to enjoy watching leaders of the Anti Globalist Sovereign Alliance, recruited by PDJT, handling this NECESSARY exposure/demolition phase while the puppet the NWO is in the WH so he gets the blowback and PDJT can return to build, back, better.
He even trollishly referred to HIS plans as Agenda 47. 😂😂😂
You should watch J. Powell discuss this with the one of the congressmen today. I don’t remember where in the talks it was but the discussion was on stablecoin and information.
Amazon already blocks purchases that California doesn’t like. I couldn’t buy a high flow shower head. Amazon said delivery was not available in your area.
Social scores are already being collected, ready for the big day when they can flip the switch.
BTW, states can allow precious metal ‘banks’. Send your gold in and make purchases against it’s value.
On a vacation trip to Idaho we stopped at a Home Depot and bought several shower heads so my wife could rinse the shampoo out of her hair now!
It’s fairly easy to drill out the plastic water restricters in shower heads and faucets. We’ve drilled out all of them in our house
Good old Yankee ingenuity can beat these idiots any day of the week!
Same here. Most will pry out without needing to drill them. The only one I’ve never found is for my dishwasher so I still have to wash by hand before putting them in the dishwasher. Plus I have to use liquid soap because the powdered kind doesn’t totally rinse off.
Just need a friend elsewhere to get it for you. The idiocy with washing machines really upset me. I had a lovely old machine that filled with water, it broke. I purchased a new one, but they are water saving garbage. I got myself a Lehman washtub with wringer instead. I love using it.
I just do a regular wash and then turn the machine on again for another rinse cycle. When we first bought the machine, we were all itchy and we finally figured out it was the clothes because they weren’t being rinsed properly so we were itching from the soap . We called a repairman and he said it’s the way the new machines are designed. So I just do an extra rinse so it doesn’t end up saving any water. We probably use more than if it just rinsed it properly with the way they used to be designed. Stupid
My new washer doesn’t fill with enough water to immerse the clothing. How on earth can clothes be washed if they are not immersed?
I keep a gallon container in my laundry room and fill it with water for every wash. I dump another 3 gallons of water from my sink into the washer so now my clothes are actually immersed and come out clean.
MORE than one way to skin a cat!
More Yankee ingenuity!
We say our new one is a clothes ‘massager’. It doesn’t clean it just jostles gently…<good grief!>
Retired Magistrate here: I have a 14 year old Whirlpool washer that does a really good job. Found a repairman to fix all of our older appliances. Our repairman stated that Whirlpool doesn’t make washers for residential use anymore; just commercial ones, like the one I have. Does an excellent job; not fancy just washes and rinses the clothes and spins so they are almost dry when I take them out. He can still get parts so I intend to keep this one.
He can also get parts for our old Kenmore dryer, Kenmore refrigerator and GE refrigerator. Again, not fancy; they just do what they were meant to do, dry clothes, wash clothes, keep things cold/frozen. I don’t need appliances that talk to me, tell me the time or have so many settings I can’t figure out which ones to use.
I still have some of my Kenmore appliances….I replaced the washer and dryer and regret it.
Samsung is no prize…they say parts are very expensive and not always available.
@Aggiegirl, there is this thing in Tech called “Right To Repair.” UN-Surprisingly alot of Politicians are against Individuals having the GAUL to repair their own belongings instead of buying brand new and vastly poorly made Devices.
Quick Explanation of Right to Repair by Luis Rossman – IT Tech
Soon washing clothes with our own machines will require a “Subscription” service from xyz to turn the machine on, to allow the water meter to release water, whether from county/city, or our own well.
No worries, plastic clothes…………….merely shake them off, zero washing ! And, ta-da, plastic particulates get into your skin, producing expensive new health issues.
Cheers !
Umm…. it’s closer than you can imagine… especially since some Washing Machines have Wifi!
As for Plastics Particulates getting on your skin… many new Front Loading Washers use so little water that people generally repeat Cycles to get the clothes clean. And the latest trend in Laundry is to us “Cold Wash” to save the Environment… so not only are you not cleaning clothes, you’re going broke over it.
Time to resurrect Sir Alec Guinness, “The Man In The White Suit”.
The same people who tell us we don’t want things going into landfills are forcing us to throw away repairable things into landfills. More Orwellian double-speak from our Orwellian overlords.
Over 90% of refrigerstor repairs are ice maker or water in door. We own a unit with neither. That policy applies to all our appliance. Simple, no frills.
Excellent reply!
“Old fashion” appliances should be available for any person who is old enough to collect Social Security.
or spy on you…. new appliances can spy on you!
I was shocked when Jovan Hutton-Pulitzer demonstrated to the State of GA during the hearings on whether their electronic voting machines were connected to the internet or not, that he could HACK into them using the a/c thermostat!
We have an old GE refrigerator ($75. used) that still does its job. My wife has just ordered a new one (why?), but I plan to find a spot somewhere to plug in the GE. (why not?)
I bought a Speed Queen washer, their “retro” model a few years ago. It is simple but effective and has a “deep fill” option button that fills the washer. You can also open the lid when it is washing to add to it when you forget to put something in.
Same here after the 25 year old Kennmore had relay problems. We bought an American made Speed Queen too. It works great, and is made in the USA
Love my Speed Queen.
Same. Replaced those lousy machines with Speed Queen. At least they were/are worth the price. Machine fills with water and I select a second rinse.
The majority of “water saving” shower heads and faucets have a washer in them that has a small hole in it, just remove that washer. It then becomes a normal unit.
Speed Queen washers are still available, and beautiful inefficient bulletproof beasts they are, too. They’re priced about the same as those computers that wash clothes from LG and Samsung.
Just so…I was looking to buy a Smith and Wesson expandable baton from a company in Utah. Came to an end when I gave them the address in LA. I had it sent to my brother in Arizona, who sent it on to me.
What do off-brand incandescent old-school light bulbs go for on ebay now, like $6-12/bulb? I kick myself for not hoarding them knowing they were going to disappear off the shelves. I had hope that Trump would win in 2020 and block the ban. No such luck. Would be a nice little retirement fund set up with enough storage space for them. Note to self for the next banned common item we take for granted.
I have a garage full of tungsten lightbulbs thanks to the odious George W. Bush.
Sounds like an idea for an EO when he gets back in office.
flea markets &estate sales are the place to buy incandescents.
look for rough service light bulbs … they are still allowed …
Bettie,
try buying straight from the product makers. I had same issuse with Amazon then I went to the shower head companies website and they were happy to ship to my Cali address
I just heard that friends of friends had to drive to Nevada from California in order to purchase a gas powered lawn mower. It’s just so dumb what California is doing.
California has been an idiotocracy for decades.
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That’s one of the oldest currency and transaction systems in all of history.
Amazon also does not allow halogen floodlights in California.
My efforts to purchase a brand of spray varnish online were thwarted by the same warning; this product cannot be sent to CA.
Funny I don’t remember having been asked as a citizen about such prohibitions. But in a captured CA republic all decisions are farmed out to the “elected” elite so I am relieved of acting an opinion.
Exactly Bettie. We are blocked buying many things now. It is messier for the government to control us now. CBDC will make control much easier. The government won’t need to go through any middlemen, it will have total control at their fingertips.
Just as people will be prevented from buying certain items, All of the banks will be corralled also. Sorry Mr Fink you cannot buy anymore stock of the Widget Company and you cannot purchase any Russian Bonds. Oh and that loan you were going to make can’t be funded either. What will those banksters do?
Why use Amazon, then? Their “interests” are not yours, it seems to me.
Then Burgum will be the VP pick…Guaranteed…
I heard Energy. JD Vance…
Imo President Trump is too Realpolitik savvy to remove a strong new pro Trump piece from the political game board by picking JD. Especially when that sacrifice is totally unnecessary.
If he picked JD to be his VP he’d lose a newly elected Senate ally whose replacement would be chosen by anti Trump RINO Guv De Wine and who would only serve until a permanent replacement was chosen in a 2026 special election.
Where do you get that? I hope not; Burgum is a Climate Delusionist. He would be a horrible choice for VP.
Man! No Burgum please. I like JD or Carson for VP or even Vivek(although I would prefer him at DHS).
Needs someone whose loyalty will not be questioned.
Pray that doesn’t happen. If you think Pence was sneakily awful, this guy will be worse. It would be trouble all over again for PTrump. There are so many better choices. He also has no real name recognition with voters. That could hurt the campaign too.
“Guaranteed”.
This guess is so correct readers can, as the olf saying goes, take it to the bank?
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My current guess is its definitely NOT going to be Murdoch/ Fake News FOX hyped Burgum but instead, Dr Ben Carson.
However, thankfully by mid 2016, I embraced Corey Lewandowski’s mantra, ” let Trump be Trump”.
Consequently, Ill be comfy with whoever President Trump decides is the winner of HIS Trump VP Apprentice Competition. After all, he’s far smarter, experienced, has vastly better Intel and a better grasp of what he needs in order to succeed than anyone else on earth.
Plus he’s betting EVERYTHING on this decision, including his LIFE and the lives of everyone he loves which means each one of us.
I keep saying it, his choice MUST be an “Insurance policy VP” insuring his enemies will not attempt to remove him from office, by any means.
At his last rally, he did a 2 minute riff, on how the smartest thing Joe did, was picking Karmela as his VP, because she is an Insurance policy against removal from office.
And I maintain there is only ONE that truly fits that particular bill, and all respect it’s not BC.
We’ll know, in another week or two.
He SAID he would like to announce at the Convention, but may have to announce early.
Technically, the RNC DOES have “veto authority” over his VP pick,…but will they really excercise it, if he just announces his choice, will they publically refuse him?
Kari Lake does fit the bill. I also think Mike Flynn fits the bill as well.
Ben Carson would be an excellent pick for VP, but like you, Dutch, with all respect for Dr. Carson, he’s not an insurance policy VP.
Tudor Dixon!
Keep saying it Dutchman!
General Michael Flynn for VP. Who better for insurance? He can run the military tribunals at GITMO. The enemy within is deeply afraid of him.
Vance and Lake (if elected) are needed in the Senate to allow President Trump recess appointments.
Dr. Carson is perfect for restoring the FDA and NIH.
Flynn is deep state
Hope not
Burgums been in bed with B.Gates since he sold his software business to him 25 yrs ago.
Maybe for energy sect
Maybe, but No No Rubio! IC /deep state all the way.
Bergum seems acceptable, he does seem to have good sense, and is plain spoken.
Vamce should stay in Senate.
Scott unlikely, played with the Sea Island folks for a ggod long time.
Dr Carson would be my pick, but I wonder why he now has a partial left facial weakness…
Kari Lake will hopefully be inthe Senate and very valuable there.
Youngkin is a light-weight opportunist, in my opinion.
Tulsi Gabbard remains attractive, and is great on defense, border and international relations. Faitly center to leftish on social issues but haven’t heard much about that later. It’s a chance on choosing her for VP, but to me an exciting one. I think it could electrify a fair number of independents. Fairly certain she is against government controlled digital currency since she is a big anti-control person. She was also burned badly by the DNC, and knows how they work.
Rubio would be like choosing Pence.
I feel better after spending my two cents.
This is my main fear. So I need to take steps to minimize the impact on me directly. Starting with off the grid sustainment, or at least multiplicity of essentials…..If enough “me’s” out there do the same perhaps we circumvent the tyranny?
Atlas must shrug!
That we must be prepared for everything to collapse, if President TRUMP is thwarted or worse, is undoubtedly obvious to all members here.
The collapse could be swift, or slow motion, over decades: Rome was not built in a day, and it took roughly 150 years for the collapse to have its way with most of Western Europe and North Africa.
The pockets which survived became the foundation for Medieval society: fragmented, decentralized, violent at times, where insularity meant survival.
Imagine 2200 in America, where people travel no more than 10 miles from where they were born. and with most of our technology gone, because the chaos of earlier decades disrupted the transfer of knowledge to later generations.
An unpleasant future!
“Rome was not built in a day, and it took roughly 150 years for the collapse to have its way with most of Western Europe and North Africa.”
The Rome ruling class was essentially destroyed long before Roman Empire collapsed. (1) Their empire kept going because the provincials who took over its administration had a real interest in its perpetuation. The Roman Peace was a real thing. Sure, the creation of the empire was a bloody thing, but once it was established it was better to be on the inside than the outside.
America is dead, and America-in-Name-Only (AINO) is something loathed by most of humanity, including most Heritage Americans. How many people living inside AINO are willing to sacrifice themselves in a war to see it stumble on for a few more decades? The bad people who killed America want to grift. They don’t want to die in a war so that someone else can grift longer.
(1) “Race Mixture in the Roman Empire”, American Historical Review , July, 1916.
You might enjoy this.
https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/history/ancient-economies/roman-republics-debt-crisis-led-to-its-collapse/
Remember who Atlas actually was. Who, and where, is John Galt?
Buy as much of what you reckon you will need for you & your families’ needs/use; for as far out in time as you can afford.
What ever you use now and do not think you can do without… buy as much for future use & store away.
The prices will not go down for many commodities it seems, in the near & into the distant future, & you should not be hurt if you spend what you can without causing issues with your currant usage of commodities.
It sounds kind of “doomsayer” type stuff, but consider…
You want to brush your teeth, so buy some of your favorite toothpaste & toothbrushes NOW, for a couple years worth ahead of time, & you won’t have any issue when the prices go up on such items.
Use the same thinking for other items… Shampoo, Soaps, basically “toiletries” ( < even TP, although I hate to use that due to the ridiculous things happening in the China -Virus times…)
Food wise… Oils for cooking have risen in prices way above what used to be the price. If you use Olive oil, Veggie oil , whatever, be assured that the price for those commodities is NOT going to go Down.
Get some early/soon, as you will be “ahead of the game” by doing so.
I could go on about how to get ahead of things, but use your own head & what you find to be the most important things you & your family might NEED in the next year or so.
Side note. _ If you are concerned about where to keep such items before you use them, consider some easily found places to store items.
Here are a couple…|
Under your bed. If ya don’t have a pedestal type/water bed type bed & there is space under the bed, why not use that space for storing some canned goods or other items that you may need in the future. Water in the bottles, canned goods, toiletries, etc. Use your head/Think. 😉
In your closet(s). While you have clothes hanging from a rod in your closet, unless you have a LOT of footwear, there is space to stack items in the bottom of the closet(s). Use your head/Think to find/make space. 😉
Cabinet spaces in your bathroom or kitchen. Maybe downsize, or re-organize what ya USE & what ya DON”T USE, and use the extra space from downsizing/re-organizing to find room to store those things you find you might NEED in the future.
OK, one more thing.. ( I am getting tired of typing…)
Do Not forget to make some room for “emergency use Items”.
Flashlights/ batteries for the flashlights,/candles, a GOOD First Aid Kit, Maybe a GOOD book or two about how to USE the F.Aid kit & other emergency needs that may come up.
So on & so forth.
Not enough space here to go into much more than I did, you can go look back into the CTH “archives” & find more if ya choose to do so.
Or, other sources on the “Net”..
You should “Get” the idea. Boy Scout Motto is , “Be Prepared”.
Think that way & you will be ahead of the game & most folks who don’t think about such things…
G’Luck~! & GOD Bless~!!
Having owned my own company for 44 years I’ve doing that all along the past 15 years. When you don’t receive a weekly or monthly pay check you pan ahead. I would get a 1/4 deposit and had to complete and install my finished windows. One example of insane increase.
In the past a pad of water color paper cost me about $32. Now that same paper same company costs $95. Sure glad I planned ahead. Besides if I found a tool or supply that was exceptionally useful I bought extra as most often they were no longer available. Tomorrow is 1 year ago I had to close my business and move. This no longer a government for the people.
I shrugged last year, too. I saw a storm on the horizon and decided to close shop and move out of insane Oregon.
Old Boy Scout manuals are also good to have on hand.
Whole Earth Cataloge
Cautionary notes for new preppers:
Pay with cash and shop at several stores, especially stores you rarely frequent. You don’t want the checker who knows your name to ask why you’re buying 12 cans of stewed tomatoes:) Even if he’s kidding, you’ll be remembered. Be the Gray Man when making purchases. If your neighbors can see you hauling groceries from the car to inside your home, then plan out those car-to-house trips.
With regard to prepping, paranoia is your friend.
If you have an older, well maintained auto that you plan on keeping “till you die”, stock up on filters, brake shoes/pads, and either the parts to rebuild starters and alternators, or spares.
Another area where the prices,are only going to go up, and where availability can become a real problem.
Never stop prepping!!
If they really ARE out to get you, you are not paranoid.
The problem is most of those things are perishable.
So are we. 😉
I am not talking about getting “off the grid”, so to speak, but more along the lines of “Getting by/ Making do” as best one can.
It is the mindset of preparing for what one “can” prepare for, while one is able to do so.
Hopefully not being necessary, but having the peace of mind that one can “get by7/make do” with what one set aside for tough times.
Better to have & not need, than to need & not have.”.
GOD Bless~!
You don’t own that which you can’t protect. It’s all well and good to store these things for the future, but soon as things become scarce, your neighbors will begin looking at those around them who are fat, clean, and doing well.
Can you really turn them away when they come begging? No matter how you answer that, eventually they will take what you have by force.
Did I need to mention all of the things one should consider in order to get “ahead of the game” in preparation for tough times, here at the CTH?
I don’t think so.
Besides, with a bit of research , one can find discussions about such things here at the CTH, as well as around the internet & even at the local library.
BTW, I did not think that my earlier reply to Jimmyd would have sidetracked the discussion of the article here about DJT going to the Bitcoin Conference 2024, or I would have refrained from mentioning this stuff at all. I was just trying to suggest some things to help the Jimmyd out.
(JimmyD comment link >> https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/07/10/based-orange-president-trump-will-speak-at-bitcoin-2024-conference/comment-page-1/#comment-10901027)
Regardless, G’Luck in your pursuits!
GOD Bless~!
Start a garden! Even if you only have room for one tomatoe plant. Learn how to grow from seeds and save seeds to use the next year.
I found exceptional LED grow light for all those seed starting needs. Also great light for any hydroponic/Kratky growers out there.
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AAUUUGGGGHHHH! what control freaks, I feel like Charlie Brown.
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
Control freak. Now you say control freak who…
Noticing Israel is not among the yellow countries on the map.
Why is that?
My son is buying Ethereum and I’m not very comfortable with it. I don’t know what it is or why it would go up when there are dozens other crypto monies out there and more each week.
Is this something that I should try to dissuade him from buying????
Like the others it’s extremely volatile…it has experienced a 95% correction and an 80% correction in the last decade. Can your son ride out losing 95% of his investment? On the other hand, he should have been PERSUADING you to buy in 2015.
The short answer is NO! He can’t afford to lose his money. Thank you!
You only lose if you sell.
Buy and hold.
If we lose the Presidency from whatever means, we will lose when they begin taxing your unrealized gains.
There are 117 DAYS left to help re elect PDJT (plus an R House & Senate he can carrot or stick).
After that these last chances will be GONE FOREVER.
Consequently, please pray plus be a 100% election victory focused DOER, at least for the next 117 days, so God can answer your prayers by working WITH you and THROUGH you.
While I understand the desire to urge everyone to “leave it all on the field” this is a conflict that has taken decades to develop, and will take decades to resolve, and it is NEVER “too late” to overthrow tyranny.
Recall it took 70 years to overthrow the Soviets, but it happened.
I highly recommend watching this, very informative on what Bitcoin is and how it’s different than other cryptocurrencies. Michael Saylor is very informed and dives deep into Bitcoin, crypto research.
He’s the founder and majority shareholder of Microstrategies – a publicly traded company that uses Bitcoin as its reserve treasury. In this interview he discusses the thought process that lead to the bold move.
So, Ethereum is not in the same league as Bitcoin? Does that make it more risky, you think?
You should do your own research. And am a nobody, so I am not telling anyone financial advice. So please do not listen to me or take what I say as gospel.
In my opinion, BTC ETH and SOL are pretty much on the same footing. I am only adding SOL and BTC to my portfolio. All crypto could go to zero tomorrow, so just understand what you are getting into. However SOL is in the 140s now and may end up at 1000/coin in a few years or earlier. But it may not, it may go to zero in that time period. Risky as heck for sure. Again, understand what you are getting into.
Basically, it’s roulette at this point. I appreciate all of your help. I will talk to my son and see if he can escape without losing his shirt at this point.
As you know, they never tell before the disaster. You only hear about it afterwards!
Also no expert. Do your own research but, as Saylor explains in the interview way better than I can, Bitcoin is digital property (Saylor explains the what makes Bitcoin property and not a “cryptocurrency”) and other “cryptocurrencies are not property. For example, no one has the ability to create more Bitcoin and the creator(s) gave Bitcoin to the world and disappeared (the original block of Bitcoin presumed to be the creator has been untouched).
Saylor uses an example of a famous person creating a “coin” (something like ethereum). Let’s say the Saylor Coin. 1 million coin is made available and promised to be no more. Well, time goes on and Saylor decides to make 1 million more. That dilutes the value in half. That cannot be done with Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is best as a reserve asset, digital gold. Bitcoin is good at moving large sums of money only in a single transaction securely with relative low cost. It’s not “fast” (it may take some time for the transaction to settle). Think of Bitcoin as Layer 1, the bedrock. Other coins like ethereum are layer 2, layer 3, etc where they excel at quick, low cost transactions for small amounts like buying a coffee.
There is so much I learned from listening to a few of Michael Saylor interviews: Lex Fridman is a great one and the YouTube series with Robert Breedlove where Saylor talks about the history of man from the beginning or time to the future discussing the evolution of money (Saylor studied history and aeronautical engineering at MIT).
I learned in the Iced Coffee Hour interview that Saylor stepped down as CEO of MicroStrategies to become the chairman and solely focus on how to best allocate their reserve treasury assets. As heading a public ally traded company he comes at his decisions from and ethical perspective. He says he doesn’t want you to buy Bitcoin because he said, he wants you to learn and understand. He sincerely worries about ensuring the security of his 5,000 employees.
Might as well play the commodities option markets: You might hit a home run on coffee or cocoa, and you might strike out. At least there are deccades’ worth of trade histories to consider, unlike with most crypto.
Ethereum is the backbone of the Web 3.0, your son is likely making you rich beyond dreams.
What bitcoin will do to the dollar, ethereum will do to the entire internet.
ETH is more of a platform, rather than a mere cryptocurrency.
This is what I mean by the stupidity of our ruling class, the dollar’s not going to make much of a weapon when it’s debased like this !!
The value of a dollar right now is what exactly?
The federal reserve (central private bank) keeps printing them with no limit and NO value backing them other than cause we say so and the US gov says so.
MMT in all its glory, right there on display.
they’re not stupid
they’re weaponizing the dollar against you
Just go on thinking they’re smart and I’ll talk to you in 30 years.
Just what have these people ever done to be considered smart ?
They’re vulgarly corrupt and selfish because they’ve never had to answer for anything.
That always = Stupidity.
If they try to force us to use their anemic digital $, that’ll be all the more reason to use bitcoin – just don’t use their bullshit.
The problem is you are taxed on it when you spend it.
If they’re able to force you that means we failed to re elect President Trump (plus an R House & Senate) so the options will be compliance or, quite literally, martyrdom.
“,…(plus an R House and Senate,…).
Whether a Senator or Congressman has a(D) or an (R) after their name, they are your enemy.
ONLY if/when they are MAGA will they represent US.
Yes, PDJT MAY be able to finesse things with Congress, somewhat but the notion he will have a compliant Senate or House, working to help him MAGA, just because they have an R majority, is not simply naive, it flies in the face of reality.
WAKE UP!!!
<whap> Thank you, sir. May I have another?
While this is true, PDJT is able to twist the arms of a RINO slightly better than his enemies, the Communists who will not work with him on any issue. A slight chance is still better than no chance at all.
doesnt matter if they have you in a cage… and they are correcting your behaviour via avaible credits to play in that cage.
it will be very sweet at first to attract all the traitors creating a buffer zone between them and the ones that may fight.
In the interview I linked in the post above, Michael Saylor talks about currencies and their de-valuing (inflation). The dollar, even though true inflation is 7 to 9% annual, is still the best in the world. People want to buy dollar assets to protect their money from losing its value. We have big problems, but most other currencies are far worse.
He discusses CPI as an arbitrary basket of goods that means nothing. Say the basket had concerts in entertainment and the people creating the basket said people go to 2 concerts a year, well tickets go from $100 to $500. There was inflation right?…NO!!! People can know watch concerts for free on Netflix so they adjust the basket of goods and voila, no inflation.
No tax on tips would be very important without cash
Same sign for “Stars Coffee,” that is so funny – that’s definitely Russian sense of humor! Ha Ha Ha.
A fink defined is a “snitch.” Never trust a fink. Get the pitchforks.
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Orange Dementia Man!
Meet the NEW Joe Biden! 😂
That would make a pretty funny skit.
JFK made it clear that he wanted to replace Federal Reserve Notes with United States Notes.
We all know what happened next.
One reason he was assassinated, the other was that he wanted to pull the advisors out of Vietnam. The MIC just couldn’t tolerate that.
He had stated firmly among some closed conference group that he knew how corrupt the See Eye Ay was and that he intended to dismantle them completely. Among the sources I’ve read that + the federal reserve issues have generally been considered the triggering policies for his premature demise…..
And thus, they still hold 100 JFK assassination documents hostage via “national security” designations. National security? Everyone involved is dead unless those docs expose the government’s involvement.
“….unless those docs expose the government’s involvement.”
Neither B. Goldwater, the Republican nominee, nor JFK the Democrat incumbent were willing to go along with the plan for escalating the War in Viet Nam, so the I/C, working together with the RNC, DNC, and MSM did a political assassination of Goldwater, and the I/C took out JFK.
Then realize Lybia, Russia and just a few others dont have a Rothchild central bank
… see the progression of eliminstion
Well as the dollar continues to unravel it’s just not going to work very well, and it will turn into another big failure.
We just can’t have idiots leading the United States anymore, that’s what it boils down to.
This fake pretending dollar system, yea
its takes nothing if you get Americans in Power to balance the book correclty and move on…
the hard part is getting an American. the dollar devalue problem isnt hard, its more pretending.
Someone doesnt like it so what, make new friends, build new trust.
Per the current Las Vegas news (which is notoriously left wing)…….
Trump has a 60.8 percent chance (-155) to win the presidential election at electionbettingodds.com. President Joe Biden has a 14.7 percent chance (+580), and Vice President Kamala Harris has a 14.1 percent chance (+609).
Makes me think that if the left wingers are admitting this to their own audience, they must have something else up their sleeve besides just election manipulation.
Heads up!
” Heads up! ” You are off topic.
Do I have to remind everyone that it’s your patriotic duty not to hold government digital currency.
And who would want to, it’s oxymoronic.
Those who are sincerely willing to suffer a horrific martyrs death rather than complying are historically a rare breed. However, their deaths have often inspired others to become martyrs too.
Personally, I still hope to avoid having to make that choice. Consequently, for these LAST CHANCE 117 DAYS I’m trying to be 100% focused on doing what President Trump is asking each one of us to do;things he can’t to for us:
Gather voters so he has a 2 Big 2 Rig voter turn out landslide.
Help secure the vote so the Riggers schemes fail.
A few of many sources for those seeking inspiration and/or guidance:
https://donaldjtrump.com
https://TrumpForce47.com
https://Swa.pTheVote.com
My apologies, I got ‘triggered’ by the Orange reference. Biden is now a Orange Weekend At Bernie’s cadaver
No, most Americans have no idea what’s that steak in this November election. And if they knew they’d vote for sleepy Joe anyways because they would think it was a good thing.
“what’s that steak”?
Hmm…..I never thought of Joe as an entree, more of a vegetable.
I can translate that for you: “No, most Americans have no idea what’s at stake in this November election.”
Being able to afford steak is an issue “What’s that steak” cost/
Fortunately they do NOT need to understand what’s at stake.
All that’s needed is for those who DO “understand what’s at stake” to make sure those who don’t know VOTE for President Trump and the Republican candidates for the DC House & Senate.
This last chance vote is gone forever in 118 more DAYS.
I usually eat my vegetables, not elect them.
Scott Adams
It’s either a Delmonico or New York Strip!
I enjoy reading posts made by doomers who pretend their posts are facts rather than Dark Hearted guesses.
What is the single most powerful tool that the federal government has at its disposal to enslave us?
Withholding.
Imagine a world in which every single taxpayer in Florida and Texas, to give but two examples, took home not just their net but their gross income.
Federal government gets taken over by Communists? What does Paxton do? He tells the good citizens of Texas to pay nothing in taxes to the federal government.
Nothing.
We are enslaved only because we choose to be enslaved. Freedom is scary.
We are slaves because it is easier to be a slave than to deal with the responsibilities, real and moral, of freedom.
When freed there were many slaves who would not leave their former masters.
Withholdings are a red herring.
The revenue the Feds collect via income tax is a pittance compared to what is continually spent and borrowed, never mind the debts that are rolled over yearly by debasing the currency further still.
On the other hand inflation is the stealth tax. An unavoidable one if you use federal reserve notes for financial transactions.
Income tax is only small part of the entire tax code used as a carrot and or stick to manipulate behavior to say nothing of who really controls the issuance of currency.
It is the same old story. If you owe the bank a million dollars and can’t pay, you are in trouble. If you owe the bank a billion dollars and can’t pay, the the bank is in trouble. If you stand alone, the federal government will crush you. If you and every other taxpayer in Texas stand up and defy them, the feds are impotent. Their power over us derives from our submission to slavery.
“What is the single most powerful tool that the federal government has at its disposal to enslave us?
Withholding.”
Respectfully disagree. Property Taxes are the most powerful tool. You always rent from the government, even after you pay for your property fully. Every state has them.
The federal government does not collect property taxes. One enemy at a time, please.
If the Fed gets to tax unrealized gains on owned assets, that would definitely invade the property tax realm, both on real and personal property. I mention it because it has been a prior topic here on CTH.
Right now, though, yep, our county collects property taxes. As a test, I didn’t pay for three years in CA. No Sheriff at the door, no process servers, though I did see a county employee post a sign on the fence a quarter mile away. I guess they knew who I was and didn’t come to the house. I watched them through my rifle scope.
Still, the property sold, surprisingly for more than asking and appraisal, and the back taxes and interest (I didn’t pay the loan either) combined with the costs of sale left me with a pittance, literally not much more than my monthly SS check, to pay in tax on the capital gain of nearly 40 years of ownership. My lawyer earned his fee on that one 👍
I post not to brag but to provide real world examples from someone who’s been anti-Communist and anti-Communist government for decades. Communists have controlled our government for decades. This is nothing new or remarkable.
What have other citizens done to fight the power of Communism? I’ve pledged my life and fortune, as it were, to the cause. I’ll leave God to decide the sacred honor part. I’m humbled before Him.
To me, the biggest downside to CBDCs is that someone could hit a few keystrokes and my money would disappear (You know if I did something terrible like have a wrong thought or idea).
Yeah that’s all, I know what you mean, what’s the big deal.
Also, these people seem to continually come out with new crypto. The supply is unlimited.
Meanwhile, Apple Computer continues to buy back $100 Billion in shares every year. In 2016 Apple had 23 billion shares outstanding and by the end of 2024 the number will be reduced to 15 billion. Share buybacks are a Capitalist dream come true creating incredible demand for the stock while simultaneously reducing the number of shares available for purchase! Even Apple is a gamble but at least you have some ofds on your side!
That’s why, long term, BTC is the alpha cryptocurrency.
All others are similar to the various startups that came to life at the advent of the internet.
I traded internet stocks in the late nineties and most of the names have been bought by bigger companies or just disappeared.
ETH and SOL are platforms upon which digital business can be performed. Similar to routers and fiber optic cables, or software like CDMA for phones.
I’m stacking BTC for long term. I’m trading ETH and SOL and some others for potential short term gains.
Mark of the Beast.
Indeed, it is all about control:
Revelation 13:17
And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
Luciferase bioluminescent blood marker. It’s right there in the mRNA “gene editing” injections.
I’ve been paying attention at the weather and real estate in Sochi… not too bad really.
Warm right now. Was just there.
🙋♀️ Sundance ! 😊💘🌻
Then you can reco a RE agent there😇
Renting an apartment is very affordable, even now. When I was there, it was common for families to go to their dachas in the summer and they’d rent out their apartment in town for some extra cash.
I’d recommend living there for awhile, at least a few months at a time, before considering such a major life change, presuming one hasn’t done that already. IME, there is no nirvana. Every place on earth has its pluses and minuses.
I found I liked city living in Ukraine and Russia even though my life had been rural in the U.S. Why? The people. YMMV. At the time, some 30 years ago now, life was pretty rough there but the people showed a quiet resolve I came to embrace and admire.
Sochi is kinda a coastal resort town so not really my cuppa but different strokes. Brave the travel inconveniences and give it a try 👍
Is it possible for the digital dollar to just be mandatory for multinational corporations? Optional for the general public.
The more the public adopts it, the greater it’s value and so will behoove these internationalists to start lobbying congress to actually do what the American people want?
What is the value to the US for trade to be negociated in dollars?
Why can’t a country or company negociate a price based on whatever medium they mutually choose?
I get the digital dollar/any crypto idea, that part is about control of the asset and the owner of it.
But what is the financial advantage to a dollar based petro-dollar? or any particular reserve currency?
I guess I missed the introductory lessons here, but I would really like to know those answers. It just seems like a starting point.
reality, and nothing else.
the military was the backing the petro dollar.
its might got diminished with spy ballons and worse much earlier.
now the dollar is getting mocked by BRICS (more letters to come)
Wondering how a BRICs currency basket ETF might perform?
An international settlement currency for the big boys and Club players, a domestic currency for the residents behind the e-Wall.
China had an external and internal currency, the renminbi and yuan.
One used outside their borders, one used inside.
China is well on their way to the Mark, that is, “cashless”.
During the Trump years some Chinese cities had snack machines where one simply stood in front of the vending machine; a facial scan blipped, and out came the snack or drink you socially qualified for.
Please note, especially, the “socially qualified for”.
Your social credits determined your bank credits available.
They do this with license plates, speed tickets, and car insurance too.
p.s. Chinese and Western influence money is pushing “cashless society” heavily in Australia, as well. Oz seems to be the testing ground for the Beast system, as we saw with the Wellcome quarantine camps.
Addendum: what’s coming is the NATs, the ‘tokenization of assets’- that is, all of YOUR assets, citizen- and of US federal lands used as collateral. The carbon-credit derivatives and asset-tokenization are the shiny new financial Reset being worked out by the Finks.
Please refer to Whitney Webb interviews by bitcoin traders on youtube.
p.s.s.- Sundance, our deepest bow; you are the finest resource on the global web for illuminating the American Beast system.
Our government is building an iron curtain. It’s critical for dictatorships like ours to eliminate social and trade relations between average people from “enemy” countries. Maintain ignorance and fake narratives, along with dehumanizing the “enemy”.
Looking at the list of “companies” that exited Russia, I see on the list: PornHub.
Wonder who or what took that place.
However, I understand that Christian Mission Agencies can still operate kind of openly in Russia.
Interesting.
Biden Camp…
President Biden has more stamina than George Clooney, a Biden official responded.
https://x.com/kenvogel/status/1811154220281909324
Here let me fix that Tweet!
President Biden has more stamina in CORRUPTION than George Clooney, a Biden official responded.
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If for no other reason than President Trump’s stand on currency I will be voting for 47.
My modest advice, which I follow myself, is to use cash right now while it is still possible. Do not withdraw more that $9,000 at a time and the Treasury will not know. I use cash mostly and people love me for this reason. I want to be loved.
Today I wrote No Tax on Tips on a restaurant large tip for the first time. In Los Angeles, mind you.
When I left CA I had 30 bucks in my wallet. I still have it.
I tend to barter for stuff now and, as a test, have lived off my survival supplies for nearly a year now. Last time I was at a grocery store was last August.
I think your idea has traction and, TBH, it was a common practice in my family since my parents and aunts/uncles survived the Depression.
In fact, one uncle who was close to my mom, her older brother, apparently had over 100 grand stashed in his box springs under his mattress when he died. That was in the late 80’s. I knew him as the old guy who dove in dumpsters to find good junk to fix and sell. Who knew?
BTW, I had practiced what you preach when in CA and, while I was gone to where I live now during the 2022 election season, thieves broke into my CA place and stole a bunch of stuff. What did they miss? The couple grand I had stashed in plain plastic containers in the freezer. They even drank some fruit juice from the refer and took a dump in the toilet. The Sheriff missed it too when they left their love note on the refer.
Happy stashing!
I believe President Trump’s main goal when deciding to run for President was the wrestle control of the corrupt banking system.
As someone who has been a builder and developer his entire career, he knows the system well. He knows and respects those who build and produce something, those who produce something for their hard-earned pay.
The bankers do no such thing. They do not produce. They do not build. They do not create. They simply skim off of those who do. They are parasitic. They wield far too much power for what little value they add to the economic process.
If ever there was a group for which building a better mousetrap was ripe for, it’s the bankers. He’s been building a better mousetrap in other industries his entire career. I believe the bankers/banking system as we’ve known it is next up.
Everything else is downstream from banking. We’ll see what happens.
We can choose to keep building and eschewing the financial system as much as possible. That’s the choice I’m making, and have for quite awhile now, at least a decade. I always was a builder, way back to the 60’s, but made my living owning a business in heavy industry servicing it and agriculture. Building and inventing was quite invigorating.
I did dabble in finance, volunteering at our local credit union to be a loan decision-maker but found the politics to be quite distasteful so quit after a decade or so of service. That was during the go-go 90’s.
I’ve long been a fan of PDJT, way back to reading the Art of the Deal when it came out. My impression of him has only improved over the decades. A true asset to the Republic 👍
‘ ”The same way the Patriot Act was not designed to stop terrorism but rather to create a domestic surveillance system. So too were the “Russian Sanctions” not designed to sanction Russia, but rather to create the financial control system that will lead to a USA digital currency. The Western sanctions created a financial wall around the USA (dollar-based west), not to keep Russia out, but to keep us in. The Western sanction regime, the financial mechanisms they created and authorized, created the control gate that leads to a U.S. digital currency.” ‘
Could it be that all of this is part of a much larger, longer-term geopolitical machination?
Insights suggested by some to expand the view:
What triggered the Patriotic Act?
https://www.ae911truth.org/
What led to the current Russian Sanctions?
https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Why-the-Ukraine-Crisis-Is.pdf
But even these expanded apertures are just part of the larger view.
The below distillation starts with the recent biden debate, but it also includes a few milestones of the post-WWII US trajectory from the 1970s through the fall of the Soviet Union, to recent events, with the loss of US industrial power along the way, and the hegemon morphing into the current neo-fascist oligarchy seeking to maintain the elites’ power by pushing major war with Russia/China as a means to that end:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/we-were-deceived-gaslit-years-all-name-democracy-then-poof-it-collapsed-overnight
But even this larger ZH view doesn’t include key tectonics, such as the splitting of the world currencies and economies into BRICS+ vs. non-BRICS+ and the move toward CBDC as control mechanisms, regarded by this CTH article.
And combined, all of these still miss the even larger view:
A coming end state that appears to be:
Totalitarian US vassal state under “multi-polar global governance”, with the elites still in the catbird seat.
The global splitting underway (yellow vs. gray) appears to be part of these tectonics leading to this end state.
At least, these are views suggested by some.
What then of the coming Trump address including bitcoin, in the larger context including CBDC and financial/economic global splitting? Hard to say, nothing is as it seems now with the larger tectonics in play.
We’re inching closer and closer to the great tribulation. This type of control was prophecied thousands of years ago in the Bible.
I am old school, I guess, and never trusted anything monetary that I cannot hold in my hand. Regardless of the ‘security’ of bitcoin, it you are denied access to the internet, you are denied access to your bitcoin, no?? I’ve always felt there was a part of bitcoin that was actually done to get people used to digital currency, so as to usher CBDC in more easily.
This is the sticking point. When the electric grid is down, how is bitcoin a store of value? If the grid is down, your gold and silver, food, home, sewing machine, etc. and the talents God gave you are all still there. Money is supposed to be a store of value.
I wrote to one of the Bitcoin gurus early on, that the billionaires funding this thing should invest in small fourth-generation nuclear reactors that would function as a backup so that there would be a reasonable expectation that the main parts of the grid would never go down. That system would be a store of value backing Bitcoin.
Astonishingly, they didn’t take my advice. Bitcoin is parasitic on the grid. Patrick Byrne says that blockchain technology has magically solved the third-party requirement for transactions. I don’t think so. I think Bitcoin is parasitic on the grid, and it’s being used as a gateway to CBDC.
What we have to remember is that CBDC can’t exist as a way to control us without biometric digital ID. Without that, there is no way to link your money so completely to you. We have to refuse facial recognition. You can and should refuse it at the airport.
I cite facial recognition because that is the very way it’s being done in China today. It’s their proven technology.
I highly recommend the book Pirate Money by Kevin Freeman, about transactional gold and silver, administered by state bullion repositories. The constitution permits states to use gold and silver as money, but not coin or print currency.
Power is fungible now that we aren’t dependent on the electrical grid and, presuming there are two trusted trading partners, I believe what is known as hard wallets can be utilized to effect bitcoin type transactions outside of the internet. Perhaps the cryptocurrency people can clarify that.
IMO if the world devolves to the point that basic currency and commerce is a fight, we’ll be back to living local and what works locally can vary wildly from place to place. IMO, do what works for you. So far, living simple and bartering works for me. It might not for others.
Forex, I started the truck yesterday. It started. It had been sitting there for three months, since I went to town to get some very much needed glasses (my one recent surrender to ‘the system’); before that, it had sat since last August. I walk or ride my bicycle and enjoy the sights, sounds and smells of the forest.
If we lose and these chains get put on us then we are no different than a galley slave. “Row and live. We live to serve this ship.” – line from Ben Hur.
The Globalists and their “New World Order”, whether they be Biden Admin, China, WEF, WHO, NATO, or whomever are EVIL and they must be stopped and their world concept destroyed at all costs.
They will not rest until they’ve destroyed everything on planet earth.
The funny thing is this: CBDC would make the grift and graft of the Biden Crime family even more easy to trace!
Can you imagine being able to track the location of all the billions of dollars sent to Ukraine, and where they ended up?
Oh sure, they could use software to hide the transactions, but as most programmers know, the more lines of code imbedded, the easier it is to discern where it came from!
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot!
Putin-Modi summit’s key outcomes
Oil, nuclear power, and sustainable trade:
Following bilateral talks, Moscow and New Delhi have outlined plans to further boost economic ties and expedite projects that could reshape the Eurasian geopolitical landscape
Cheaper crude oil from Russia has also facilitated India’s value-added petroleum product exports, contributing to a 54.78% increase in exports of petroleum products during April-January FY23. Countries such as Brazil, Israel, the Netherlands, and South Africa have witnessed substantial growth in consumption of Indian exports, with petroleum products playing a crucial role. In their joint statement, the two countries said they had “agreed to explore new long term contracts.”
One only needs to view the map a bit differently as well as utilizing the Bible in its full assembly Enoch especially to see the full picture. WW2 was designed to shrink the world and lock down the peoples movement. Brighton Colorado looks like Fairbanks Alaska as does Castle Rock Colorado. Everette Washington looks just like any Ohio town all by construct of Corporations they own all the businesses in every town. Admiral Byrd when asked about Antarctica claimed there is land the size of America waiting to be developed. Mike Wallace interview before 60 minutes was ever thought of. The Rockerfellers have shut down American resources to most Americans thru the gubbermint. Bill Gates will depopulate as he can. These people are sick. Revelation 13 describes the mark of the Beast controlling buying and selling digital currency is the mechanism. BTW the Great Euphrates is drying up. How does a river flow up hill? Over a bulge.
From the Larry Fink quote:
[…] “While companies’ and consumers’ balance sheets are strong today, giving them more of a cushion to weather these difficulties, a large-scale reorientation of supply chains will inherently be inflationary,” said Fink.
He said central banks were dealing with a dilemma they had not faced in decades, having to choose between living with high inflation or slowing economic activity to contain price pressures.
Can someone explain how and why the conditions given would be necessarily inflationary? I’m definitely not an economics major and Fink’s statement seems vague or lacking in detail to me.
Thanks.
You pose a good question and, TBH, the emerging commerce/currency milieu is starting to remind me of the old ‘company store’ where one was paid in company money that could only be spent at the company store on items and services that the company deemed appropriate for one’s consumption. The money was accepted nowhere else.
Ironic since it appears global corporations are running the show now. Can they collaborate to manipulate ‘competition’ and prices and inflation and access to capital. It appears they can and are. What do you think?
Wow, more decisions I do not have to make! Life is really getting easier! Now the gov’mnt will tell me how to live! Can it get any easier? I can see my life expectancy is collapsing right in front of me! The killer will be when I have to turn in my guns! A few well placed rounds before I exit! Just can’t wait to arrange some peoples’ meeting with their creator to explain it all! I just knew why I learned how to be an expert marksman! Be the best I can be!
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Trump previously stated “no digital dollar” didn’t he? I assume whatever crypto tech he supports is whatever Ramaswamy recommends.
We need a currency that isn’t debt based and forces government to work within its means.
The basis of our political monetary system is presently debt (and I have no reason to believe anything they create next wouldn’t be) it seems obvious that “investing” politicians will find ways to skim a bit off for themselves as they go.
In a different place, some idiot claimed Trump was in bed with big pharma and was praising Bill and Hillary. The praising bit was a peace offering at the beginning of his first term. Didn’t help but get real. As for Trump being in bed with any big money would have been the end of his political career because all they would need to do is expose it. That didn’t happen. But also, it’s well known politicians become MILLIONAIRES soon after taking office. Trump was already a BILLIONAIRE. So to become a millionaire would be a step down and attempting to offer him millions of dollars would be seen as a waste of time.
This is how dumb people continue to be.
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Start reading the terms & conditions from your banks & credit unions- you’d be very surprised to see what they “prohibit” you from using your money for.
Recently Idaho Central Credit Union was just called out on what theirs say… and put out there by a concerned ‘member’.
ICCU – Section 13-“prohibited uses” where users would agree not to request send or receive money for several things. You know the standard things that are illegal but also it now included firearms, ammunition & other weapons or materials that promote intolerance, violence or hate. They also prohibit travelers checks, money orders & cryptocurrencies and that you can’t send money out of the United States.
It also says users can’t use their money for court ordered payments, alimony or child support fines.
On 6/26 the bank says they updated their ebranch agreement to include “standard industry verbiage”… blah blah blah and apologized -stating, sorry for the confusion and users can still use their money as nothing has changed… they will be clarifying their agreement to prevent confusion.
After more pushback the bank came back with a changed terms & conditions to- no sending or receiving money for illegal purposes but they reserve the right to monitor, block or cancel any payments made for those reasons and to terminate your account.
It still includes as prohibited, the court ordered amounts, alimony or child support fines.
After more feedback – the bank says users can still make those payments but “FOR OFFICIAL PAYMENTS pursuant to court orders or taxes, we RECOMMEND MEMBERS UTILIZE A GOVERNMENTS AGENCY-APPROVED PAYMENTS METHODS to ensure payments are processed correctly by their systems.”
WTF?????
Since credit unions are member-owned, the members can vote out management who instituted those ‘policies’ presuming they run contrary to what members want. It’s called a proxy fight. Any of us in the credit union world, myself since 1970, know about that stuff. I saw both sides, as a member and as ‘elected’.
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Prohibited “Materials that promote intolerance and hate” … so no donations to the DNC are allowed.
So we, as a country, are going to change into a new currency that’s going to be backed by whatever value we choose to pull out of our a**? Seems to me that we tried this experiment twice – the first time after the Revolutionary War and the second time, the Confederate States tried it during their war fro nfependence. Both times lead to an Econonic Depression, where those holding fiat currency having no value.
Well, at least the roller coaster ride into oblivion will be quick…but I suspect we’ll die