I went to the EU, because deep inside all of my research on Russia, things did not make sense. I was very prepared and organized to expect everything sketchy, and what I found surprised me. Putting boots on the ground, I now have a completely clear and different view.
Let me start by saying everything we have read about the Western sanctions against Russia is false. What sanctions might exist do not have any impact, and Eastern Europe has no intention to anger Putin. When Brussels threatens to kick Hungary out of the EU/NATO, I can almost hear Viktor Orban saying, “Don’t threaten me with a good time.” Hungary doesn’t even use or rely on the €uro for domestic financial transactions; they still retain their own national currency, the Hungarian forint or HUF.
First things first with the Western financial sanctions- specifically the SWIFT exchange. It is true you cannot use VISA, Mastercard or any mainstream Western financial tools to conduct business in Russia; however, the number of workarounds for this issue are numerous. One of those tools is the use of a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin; and within that reality, you find something very ominous about the USA motive.
Crypto users are likely familiar with stories like Binance and the US regulatory control therein. Factually, outside the USA Binance is being used to purchase and trade crypto without issue, but inside the USA it is regulated. That brings me to the MEXC crypto exchange, a Mexican version, again available globally but not allowed in the USA. The same applies to Metamask, used all over Europe but not permitted in the USA. Start to ask yourself, why all these crypto exchanges are available to the rest of the world but not the USA, and you start to suspect the Russian sanctions, just like the Patriot Act, are something else entirely.
Then there’s app wallets. You might be familiar with Apple Pay as a process to handle transactions from your iPhone. Apple Pay is linked to your bank account. Well, the “wallet feature” exists on other apps also, like Telegram; however, you can find the wallet feature, but if you try to use it from a USA cell phone… “This feature is not allowed in your region.” Why are digital wallets available for the rest of the world but blocked by the U.S. government?
This brings me to several crypto conversations in the EU at various cafes with people who have a deep understanding. The commonly accepted bottom line, the Western sanctions, organized by the Biden administration and US Treasury, were not intended to put financial walls around Russia; they were designed to put control walls around the USA. Russia was the useful justification.
Here’s how it really looks from the outside looking at the USA. 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.
Now, does the exploding debt and seeming govt ambivalence take on a new perspective? It should, because that unspoken motive explains everything. This is not accidental folks.
Again, the western sanctions against Russia are not having an impact against Russia; they are having a quiet impact in the USA that no one is permitted to talk about.
♦LOGISTICS – Despite popular opinion to the contrary, it is entirely possible to travel all over Europe without being tracked. If you pick an entry point into the EU (Schengen Area), once inside, you can travel without any national checkpoints or passport checks. It is also entirely possible to fly all over the EU without ever giving a passport number when you book the flight. The trick is to know which airline. You are a name on a passenger manifest, nothing more.
Bottom line, travel around the EU is less controlled, tracked and monitored, than travel inside the USA. Yes, let me emphasize; freedom of travel is greater in the EU than it is in the USA. This was completely unexpected.
♦GROUND REPORT – You might ask how I know the Russian sanctions are ineffective – here’s an example. After doing advanced research, I went to three separate banks as a random and innocuous customer. I put my reason in the kiosk at each bank, got my ticket number and sat down to listen to the conversations. When my ticket number came up on the digital board, I just ignored it and sat for hours listening to conversations. No one ever noticed or questioned me – not once.
At every one of the banks, the majority of the customers, at the “new account” desk, were foreign nationals asking about setting up business accounts to trade with Russia. In every bank the conversations were friendly and helpful, with the bank staff telling the customers exactly how to set up their account to accomplish the transactions. No one was saying no; instead they were explaining how to do it in very helpful detail.
Within Russia, there are now 3rd party brokers with international accounts, an entirely new industry, which creates a layer of transactional capability for the outside company to sell goods into Russia. A Samsung TV travels from South Korea to the destination in the RU with the financial transaction between manufacturer and retailer now passing through the new ‘broker’ intermediary. Essentially, that process is what was happening in the banks for small to medium sized companies.
♦ Back to the crypto and digital wallet angle. In addition to financial/transactional brokers for durable goods into Russia, there is now an entire industry of selling telephone id’s with EU phone numbers to process the transactions that are blocked by the USA sanction regime.
Meaning, a person could buy a phone and register a phone number from within the EU, and then go back to the USA and access all the blocked/restricted financial processes [Binance (non-US), Metamask, MexC, Telegram digital wallet etc]. This would permit them to do untracked financial transactions into and out of Russia from the USA without the USG knowing about them (sanction workaround).
[DISCLAIMER: in the interest of my own legal risk, I did not do this; I’m just explaining.]
I am not smarter than the U.S. intelligence community, so what does this mean?
This means the U.S. government knows exactly why the Russian economy is thriving, the Ruble is stronger against the dollar, and there is nothing -not one thing- visible or different on the ground in Russia that an ordinary Russian citizen would notice. In fact, the Russian economy is doing fine, better than before the Ukraine conflict initiated, albeit with new financial industries created by the sanctions.
If the US government knows this, then why the sanctions?
Asked and answered. The Western sanctions created a financial wall around the USA, not to keep Russia out, but to keep us in. The Western sanction regime, the financial mechanisms they created and authorized, creates the control gate that leads to a U.S. digital currency.
In essence, the Ukraine war response justified a system that creates a digital dollar.
I will have more revelations, but for now just think about this aspect.


First, sincere thanks for this explanation. It’s a first. I haven’t seen that explained ANYWHERE else.
Second, Ok I’ve thought about it.
😳 🤔 😡 🤬
“Democracy” my granny’s fanny.
That certainly makes Burning Bright’s article from yesterday, “The Bridge” all the more compelling..
https://burningbright.substack.com/p/the-bridge
(It focuses on currency, especially crypto currencies……..)
I feel an incredible push for digital currency that scares and worries me.
I feel that I am prepared, mentally for the next phase of Satan’s plan, but as a Christian I want to give the unprepared people as much time as possible to change their ways.
Jesus is very clear that they (the unprepared) have the words of the prophets and a lot of this will fall on their shoulders, but I can’t help myself. I want as many people as possible to reach the goal.
What I think is happening here is that the dollar is already dead; we’re just watching its zombified corpse effect a bizarre animation ritual until the American people realize the ‘stock market’ bears zero resemblance to and is completely decoupled from the actual economy.
If this author has any credibility, then Argentina is in for a rude awakening. As far as I know, they still haven’t tied themselves to the worthless dollar (thanks to utopian statist collectivists, i.e. UniParty), so they have time to choose another currency.
I’m hoping that Milei is smart enough to know this happening but used his platform of dollarization to win hearts and minds to a right wing agenda. I believe, he too, talked a lot about cryptocurrency.
Milei installed by the USA as a counterweight to the BRICification of South America.
Yes, as far as the rest of the world, the dollar being dead is highly probable. It is no longer required to transact for oil or anything else anywhere except in the US.
So often, Sundance asks the question thats SO obvious,…but only AFTER he asks it, lol!
Anybody COULD have gone over there and sat at a bank kiosk for hours, listening…
Gonna sleep on it, but this is a mouthful to digest.
Yeah, I’m sitting here thinking:
“Sundance, how could you even come up with this ?”
… the topic, the explanation, observing how people in foreign countries are paying for things and how they’re purchasing and using their phones, finally tying all that back to ineffectual ‘sanctions’ and establishment of a digital dollar …
what a tale !
I tell ya, in my thinking day I rarely brush up against such rarefied topics
good on ya’, mate
ps – loved the Viktor Orban joke
I didn’t know that Sundance was a linguist. Speaking a foreign language and understanding what is being said in it by others requires a level of skill. That impressed me.
I love it. I am a “people watcher.” My wife hates it.
I always try to pay attention and listen to others in a restaurant (alone), in a hotel lounge, at the train station, and especially at the airport.
What you hear and learn is amazing. And it has solidified, for me, the notion that most Americans are fricking mindless morons. The airport is the easiest to do because people are packed in, and there are thousands.
Ah, thank Jimmy for the Department of, “Education”. NOT!!!
I’ve got one of those (I am not one), so his job is to enhance our situational 3-D awareness while I keep up with things in the 2-D online world for us.
He was a teacher, so it either comes naturally from that, or he started out that way and teaching simply honed the talent for people observation.
What I contribute is passing along what I learn here…
Amazing article, sundance. You’ve outdone yourself.
I had to go look up the difference between “digital” and “crypto” currencies. One controlled by government central banks and one not (yet!) — but they’re trying.
Our Central Bank is the Federal Reserve and it is NOT government. It is a privately owned institution.
The ultimate goal is then a way to disarm us because the armed may tend to object to outright slavery which as Robert Heinlein taught me is the normal state of human existence.
Well now. We have witnessed a multi-decades long assault on the Second Amendment with a continuous stream of blatant attempts by the Left to neutralize is protections, haven’t we?
And more recently we are seeing Republicans “give an inch” in order to placate the Democrats. Even President Trump was talked into the “bump stock ban” probably by his daughter.
But we all know if you give the Left an inch, they will demand a mile, and they will NEVER stop successive demands until the Second Amendment is gone.
We must persist in non-compliance until we die, then, because the alternative is worse than the BIG UGLY.
👍👍👍
Just like neil oliver said.
A set up for the mark of the beast.
Pray that none of us will be put to the test.
These people are legions.
Pray to handle the test well, because it is approaching rapidly.
Like boiling milk, slowly at first and then bam.
I hate to admit but I said quite a few expletives as I was reading this article. Essentially, I will no longer comment on any other site than this one. My husband passed away 6 months ago and I have a fiduciary responsibility to my kids and grandchild…scary stuff coming down the pike.
I kept wondering why Russia’s economy was booming while the USA was not. Now I know.
I am very sorry for your loss.
Thank you! It has been hard. I truly appreciate the support here.
I was reading the comment section on the American Thinker the other day as I always do and one gentleman said that the comment section was just as enlightening as the articles. Fabulous, it was actually an article that started with a Sundance quote. 🙂
“Sundance, that tireless intellectual warrior standing guard over at The Conservative Treehouse, occasionally jeers: “You ‘conservative pundits’ still don’t get it. Trump isn’t our candidate. He’s our murder weapon. And the GOP is our victim.”
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2023/12/donald_trump_man_in_the_arena.html
Greedy Old Possums gotta go!!
The Lord bless & comfort you, dear lady.
I have noticed Sundance quoted in numerous articles both at AmericanThinker and at Gateway pundit.
Regitigers article detailing the WHY of J6 also quoted extensively at both.
And, CTH, TGP and AT mentioned at Intellectual Froglegs, and vice versa.
O.k., heres the point; these are all major outlets in the Rebel alliance of MAGA media that is kicking but on the msm.
In the MSM world, they will not EVER show another networks logo, or mention by name a competitor; its JUST NOT DONE.
And yet with MAGA media, there is a Unity of purpose that no doubt comes from being under attack, …never the less good to see!
Good point, Dutch! We stick together because we believe in conservative values unlike our so-called elected representatives.
I think our cold anger like Sundance has eloquently described is going to
surprise a lot of people including ourselves.
My condolences.
Bless you. The loss of a loved one is such an adjustment. I will keep you and yours in my prayers tonight. One step at a time. God goes with you every step. We will all need Him for courage and strength. There will be Light ahead.🙏🏽
There will obviously be an event or a series of events to set off this final collapse of the US dollar. It seems a process will occur where several things could happen simultaneously or in close succession. Such as; A catastrophic event, crash of the dollar, conversation to digital currency, mandatory personal identifier, and maybe ending with the mark.
I’ve been predicting they’ll keep it all held together with tape and kite string and cellophane until Trump gets inaugurated, then they’ll bring it all down so they can blame HIM
so we’ve got about a year and a quarter, maybe a little longer if they don’t want to be that obvious
be prepared and ready to buy near the bottom or rake in short trades on the way down if you’ve got the stomach and know-how for that
Good point on the timing, the bank failures began with Silicon Valley Bank and Yellen has quietly papered over the failures that followed it. Now, I’m reading that money in circulation is decreasing – lack of use by rest of world would account for this. Powell was forced to pause, things in the real economy are starting to break – layoffs, company bankruptcies, theft, underwater homeowners (who may have bought at higher rates, will move, those with lower rates may stay put unless laid off).
COP 28 UAE is hosting the event right now.
George Soros frits about the nation without a care in the world. He has no resistance from Rs and is bed buddies with the Ds.
He can manipulate any election he so desires. If he wants CBDC he’ll get it. You and I have no say in the matter. We have known about him for years and are greatly feeling his subterfuge, but our resistance is futile.
The only votes that count in any government are dollars, not ballots. That’s your democracy.
IMHO, firstly what a debbie downer!
Secondly you give far to much omniscience to $oro$; he and more broadly our enemies are far from succesful every time ‘at bat’ in fact its a fairly puss poor batting average.
Face reality man…
Who funds the District Attorneys who allow minimal criminal sentences (or no sentences at all) for violent crimes?
Soros.
Who funds the voting fraud?
Soros. … (with help from the likes of Mark Zuckerberg).
I’d say they are batting 1.000.
Nope.
They got them in to bat for a season and the people are starting to throw them out by vote and recalls.
I am confident that God will deal with Soros, one way or the other.
He has done more damage to humanity than most.
until THE PEOPLE GO BROKE<
and that WILL HAPPEN.
see the point here…for every impossible enemy there is a weak link in it’s armor.
spoiler: the corruptors do not know how to keep the people vital and thriving…evil doesn’t do that. it can’t.
so the pain…the inevitable pain of having nothing and no options becomes more important than any money in the world.
this is why the globalists and the elites are starting to abandon the democratic party. they NEED a party that can at least manage the downside. because this isn’t working.
no one believes joe malarkey trying to talk up a crumbling economy. even making war with russia and this new israeli-homas war. none of that can distract THE PEOPLE from the reality at the check out line..at the bank..into the eyes of their children who see the desperation AND ACT ACCORDINGLY.
yes, money is a paradox. just enough and you have options. not enough an there is only one option..to fight back and with resistance that cannot be limited.
THAT is what IS coming. “your time” might be different than these others. But eventually, everyone not completely aligned and funded and protected by the wealth class and the globalists will feel this pain and respond.
stage 4 – transfer of power. This is the current stage of the revolution…right now, the transfer is decidely in the favor of corruptors.
but remember that achilles heel…
they don’t know when to stop…they don’t know when enough greed is enough. they want it all and have stopped thinking about how history repeats every single time .
ready or not, it’s coming…the pain. Be prepared.
God Bless America
So true regitiger, They don’t know when to stop. It’s always a little more. And the more comes crashing down. They act like the people on a hoarder show. They can’t stop.
In addition to not knowing when to stop, they underestimate their enemy and do not see the potential for blowback or imagine the many paths it might take.
Our government hates us.
Except that it is not “our” government. Not one that was installed by the One World Deep State. It is up to We The People to change that.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them …
Nancy Pelosi began a press conference by reading these very words in late Nov. or early/mid December 2019, just prior to, and during congressional impeachment inquiries, votes and depositions.
It was a day I could never forget. I recall it was a Saturday morning (football games and the like), and the meaning of her message was clear to me, i.e., a communist revolution was now in progress.
The sham Trump investigations by DOJ were reason enough to suspect such treachery because these politically motivated charges were brazen beyond what could be plausibly justified.
Yet there Pelosi stood, relying on the words of the United States Declaration of Independence (now that takes insane guts, or just insanity itself!) in order to inform her underground network of leftists that the wheels of the Revolution were beginning to turn.
Note that those words were the actual US justification for the American Revolution. If Pelosi was reading the Nation such momentous, well-known words there is no other meaning possible other than to indicate that another revolution was going to occur in the United States in order to depose the current president Donald Trump.
She certainly could have made her point by other means if she wanted to, but she’s a demented revolutionary, informing the world that Saturday morning that Deep- State Nancy was overthrowing the US government. PERIOD.
And look at what followed. She went to China Town at the end of 2019 to receive assurances from her Chinese spies, no doubt, and then blasted Trump for his wholly justifiable Covid restrictions to foreign entry into the US, followed then by an outright armed rebellion (arson, bricks, blindness-causing laser lights, knives, guns and every other imaginable weapon) against the United States, the White House, the President of the United States, major cities of the US and the world, and brazenly believed that no one was entitled to question the legality of those uprisings and conflagrations or her right to have been its chief conspirator, having already received assurances from small putz, law man Chris Wray, and big putz, law man William Barr.
Somebody please find that video!
Is this it? This is the link with transcript:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/transcript-nancy-pelosi-s-speech-trump-impeachment-n1058351
Nancy Pelosi is desperately wicked, but believes herself to be righteous.
Pride goeth before a fall.
Believe me, dear Sir: there is not in the British empire a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But, by the God that made me, I will cease to exist before I yield to a connection on such terms as the British Parliament propose; and in this, I think I speak the sentiments of America.
— Thomas Jefferson, November 29, 1775
And our government has printed and spent with reckless abandon far beyond ours, or future generations, ability to absorb that debt. When the whole financial house of cards collapses, and soon it will, the powers that be would like to think they have built a digital shelter for themselves.
The best laid plans…and the law of unintended consequences continually plague the marxists. It will take them by surprise. Pray, plan and never give up.
Amen
Silicon Valley Banks’ failure was the harbinger, many more have no doubt gone under since and kept afloat by yellen until the agreed upon date. The CBDC is not ready but could become so at any time. Now, the layoffs have begun, soon, the people will walkaway from homes, cars, etc. (or be forced to relinquish possession).
Ask yourself why? Then wonder why we are becoming Russia in post WWII and Russia is becoming the United States in the Gilded Age.
It will take years for it to be crystallized, but out of Russia comes again the hope of the world. – Edgar Cayce, (June 22, 1944)
https://www.edgarcayce.org/about-us/blog/blog-posts/out-of-russia-will-come-hope/
It always has. We are the means of their salary, and nothing more.
We are not even a thought in their head.
A lot to digest; thank you for all the work you’re doing to help us all make sense of what’s happening.
They can not have an effective i.e. workable CBDC, without resolving the issue of a “fool proof” i.d. and so far that means going biometric.
And a thumbprint means amputated thumb, retinal scan means an eyeball scooped out with a spoon, an implanted chip means they go digging it out with a knife..thieves have done home invasions duct taped people into chairs and tortured them to get their pin #’s, before setting the house on fire to cover the murder.
Nobody is going to want an I.D. that is going to lead down that road, and I don’t see them “selling” CBDC’s without a secure system,…maybe I’m missing something?
You are basically admitting that we are halfway there with the push towards direct deposit.
Look at what Canada did to its convoy protesters and we see glimpses of it here in the U.S. regarding firearm manufacturers and buyers.
https://godirect.gov/gpw/
Graphene oxide. 5G technology. Smart buildings. Mark of the beast is barcoded blood to buy and sell.
Oh, correct, the nano dots emit light and the code is a MAC address.
Exactly why I never have had biometric safes at home. When my children were young they asked me once what I would do if bad guys broke in and threatened to kill me if I would not open the safe. I told them that I would not open it because if I did they would be very well armed bad guys.
👉Thanks Sundance for EVERYTHING you do ✅️👈.
🤔 “What a long strange trip it’s been” 😎😉.
😞So are we “Oceania” ?
I think we are Atlantis.
Babylon.
I definitely think we are Babylon. Sad.
America under siege.
The entire globe is under threat of the Babylonian New World Order.
True. Generations reincarnate. Atlantis was highly technically advanced.
Get it?
Bikini Bottom, complete with idiot starfish (Kamala) and talking sponges (Biden).
Meanwhile, the dead.
On both sides.
For the money brokers.
Heartfelt thanks for doing what you’re doing,Sundance!
Thanks for this!
If i said my true thoughts out loud i’m pretty sure i’d hear a knock at my door.
so i’ll pray instead.
If you pray out loud you will still get a knock at your door.
“Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.”
Daniel 6:10
Go ahead, be a Daniel and dare them to throw you in the lions’ den.
Part that stood out I’ve never seen that way until read. naturally made sense
“Here’s how it really looks from the outside looking at the USA. 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.
Now does the exploding debt and seeming govt ambivalence take on a new perspective? It should, because that unspoken motive explains everything. This is not accidental folks.
Again, the western sanctions against Russia are not having an impact against Russia; they are having a quiet impact in the USA that no one is permitted to talk about.”
All of it, covid, Patriot Act, 9/11, Nov 7 all of it.
What’s most amazing is that this is the first we’re hearing of this. At least as far as I’m concerned. It feels like the tables have turned. Other countries are free and we are kept in the dark and fed manure. Nothing is real anymore. Technology was sold as freedom when in fact it has been used to enslave us.
The EU is more free (greater liberty) than the USA, no question.
The EU is working on that.
Looking at Ireland, I’d have to agree.
Pretty certain USA can use MetaMask, as that’s the platform I use here in GA. Might want to follow up with Sundance to verify the information concerning USA not being allowed to use MetaMask. Or, am I missing something about what was stated?
But their imported wolverines, badgers and rattlesnakes may mean a fair amount of street violence for quite a while.
Don’t kid yourself about other countries being free. The standard of living for every country in Europe is less that the worst US state. The citizens of Europe have already been crushed by their governments into subsistence living. They can be free as long as they are serfs.
Also, many of them have even less freedom of speech than we do.
And less weapons
Tell that to the Swiss.
Maybe,
However until Brexit I held an E.U. passport as having been born in the U.K. ( I now have a U.K passport) travel is easy ( and relatively inexpensive)
We live in British Columbia and and have travelled extensively through the western U.S. and the desert states.
It was likely long before President Trumps coming onto the scene, but since then the U.S. has become in the eyes of many a truly fascist nation.
Your President and country was blatantly cheated out of a President Trump second.
Fraud was rampant, your courts did nothing, your President has been trashed for 7 years..you have hundreds of patriots being harassed, and dozens gaoled for nothing other than protesting an injustice.
The Biden/ Obama/ Clinton’s are crime syndicates. Aided by a corrupt judiciary, CIA and FBI.
U.S. big cities are essentially no go zones.
Our patriotic Canadian truckers and their millions of supporters have been trashed by our propaganda media.
Millions hate our corrupt P.M.and we are too in a precarious position.
We personally know several Europeans that have headed back to their home nations.
They have seen this play before.
Europe is a diverse continent, and has numerous serious issues to contend with.
However I feel much more free in Europe than here in Canada.
Our family is here, and we are here for our grandchildren so we are staying and pushing back.
However if I were forty years younger my feet would be restless.
The U.S. has changed noticeably these last few years, frankly I don’t know how working folks get by.
I pray that President Trump is re-elected and destroys the swamp. He will need a fully engaged population to assist him though.
We Canadians will ride his coattails.
Cheers, and God bless President Trump.
Bless you, Dekester. Thank you for your always relevant comments and your perspective from the Great White North.
Cheers!
This site and its contributors are “ Gold”
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It was a coup.
And they are arrested for silent peaceful prayer.
As soon as the dollar was weaponized it was no longer the world’s reserve currency. That can not be undone. The full effects of this will take time to appear, but they are coming.
Well put.
In progress, the impact is a shrinking number of dollars in circulation – started last month.
Wow. Thank you SD. This explains so much, and puts so many more pieces into place.
Don’t forget the IRS wanting to track every US transaction over $600.
The way things are going that will be a loaf of bread.
Yes. Just received notification today that our electric rates in the Pacific Northwest are going up 17.2% on January 1.
Which power company? We’re in a smaller co-op and have seen no notice of increase. However did see Avista in Eastern Washington was going up substantially
PGE….during the 18 years my hubby and I were in western, rural Minnesota we were served by both electric and telephone co-ops. That was so nice. Part of what that meant was demonstrated about six months after his death in 2014 when I received a check for several hunded dollars, representing his “ownership portion” of the co-op which remained in effect even after we left the area–until his death.
Same thing is happening in Kentucky. First, I read an article that Bloomberg pay for $500 million to get rid of coal plants in the United States.
Ourgovernor was just elected for another term and the first thing he did was saying that he was going to phase out all coal fire plants in Kentucky. He was going to increase solar by 900%.
Which of coarse means that those solar panels will be made exclusively in China. I wish there was a way to check Beshear’s finances.
Good grief!! Where do they think electricity comes from? Hydro dams, sure, but what the heck is this guy thinking!?
Didn’t you mean your governor was just selected?
Were you aware…
“In July, 2017 Hydro One bought the American energy company Avista for $5.3 billion U.S. dollars as part of their plan “to grow our business to become a North American leader”, creating “one of the largest regulated utilities in North America.”
https://gemstatepatriot.com/blog/canada-now-owns-part-idaho/
Hi,
That deal collapsed…thank God.
https://www.powermag.com/after-18-months-of-dramatic-turns-hydro-one-avista-merger-deal-officially-dead/
It’s originally my home, though I’ve been gone for 3 decades plus. Hydropower (Coulee Dam, Bonneville) was always credited with keeping rates low.
I guess there must be a scam somewhere …
How will you drive those electric cars?/sarc
So sorry, Sharon. They just won’t quit.
The green cult has agreed to rehabilitate nuclear power, though the problems of what to do with all the radioactive waste remains unsolved.
But at least they’ve finally acknowledged that wind and solar simply don’t cut the mustard for base load.
This is news to me. When and where did this happen?
My only thought is that the privileged types who run the green cult all think France is “cool,” so that could have given them an excuse…
The point of electric vehicles was to keep you at home.
I’m in Western NC our power co-op just sent out notification of the same – said it was due to several things one of which is the larger power company is shutting down some of their coal powered plants. Climate agenda steadily marching on!
I’ll trade you 6 Soylent Green wafers for a loaf of bread, citizen.
Did you hear? They’re letting us working stiffs waive that $600 for 2023. It was proving to be at a bad time for Biden’s campaign.
Wow just wow. The US government hates crypto because they cannot control it no matter how they try. I can take my “wallet”, my mind, out of the US and still access it with no interference from them and they hate that. Crypto changed the game.
Any crypto advice? I’m a new widow and would sincerely like to know which one you might recommend.
Thank you!
Keep this in mind…
There are two versions of crypto, de-centralized and centralized. Think in terms of AC and DC electricity.
The FTX cretin, Sam Bankman-Fried, who has deep and direct ties to the DNC money machine, was an advocate for centralized (ie trackable and controllable) crypto.
Now ask yourself, how would big government advocates benefit from a massive fraud in the crypto markets? Would a major scandal help them sell the public on crypto regulation? Would it help them to ban the decentralized (non-trackable, non-controllable) crypto platforms?
And who would be the best person to help them engineer a massive crypto scandal, if they wanted to do so in order to justify creating a centralized crypto market? Could that best person possibly be a pro-centralization advocate with deep ties to the establishment’s political money machine?
Does the FTX scandal take on a new dimension now?
I vaguely recall Sundance noting this point when FTX fell apart.
I’ll admit that I know next to nothing about Crypto.
How do you access your funds if you have no energy?
That’s always been my question as well.
In exactly the same way as you access your dollars in the bank when you have no energy…
You don’t.
Makes you wonder about the excuse for ripple being made illegal.
I am going to move to Hungary. Plus they have great spas.
Can I come with???
Sure! I would love to be someplace safer than here.
However, this is my second reaction to this article. My first reaction cannot be written here.
Let us know how that goes. I have an open mind to relocation myself.
Or Poland. Or Czechia. Pretty women. Good food and excellent beer.
Thanks Sundance, for this very enlightening information that surely President Trump and his true MAGA Mules can prevent? Has the train left the station?
Wife just said we are on a train going down the mountain with no brakes.
The crash we be devastating and unavoidable .
Kagan was born in Athens, Greece. His father, historian Donald Kagan, the Sterling Professor of Classics and History Emeritus at Yale University and a specialist in the history of the Peloponnesian War, was of Lithuanian Jewish descent.[9]
Is he at all related to Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan? Most wikipedia bio data involving judges are scant these days for obvious reasons. When I do search information, it feels very uncomfortable to do so, though similar information used to be very available.
Thanks Merrick Garland. All you had to do was assign a little extra security, but then you’d lose your leverage over the court.
A great American, he!
Need to prepare that alternate economy, and conduct transactions locally……
That alternate economy is an important piece. I’m still waiting on the particulars.
Startling and scary. It’s worse than we (at least I) thought.
Sundance, your capacity to make this level of research/analysis and conclusions readable and understandable (to whatever extent for each of us…..) is such a gift.
The implications and their impact, as they lay the groundwork for what is planned, do not surprise me, and they do not frighten me…not because I’m so blasted brave but because I know from experience that I cannot afford to let fear become a decider within…..so that perimeter is guarded.
I’m grateful you were so well-prepared for such a productive trip, including all the spinoff things. May you continue to see God’s daily provision in support, discernment and capacity for resting–thirty minutes at a time, if necessary, just sitting down and stopping for a bit. On purpose.
Love the logic of just sitting in the bank listening. Is English the dominent language used in public interaction?
GREAT QUESTION. Yes, english is required to work at the banks. Why? Because the customers are from everywhere, so they use English as the common language.
And yes, planning for every single contingency, I paid for translators to accompany me… and didn’t need them. lolol.
Love it.
I was wondering same.
We lived in Europe for 6 years a while back, before EU. Yes, most people spoke English. English or French is required for school age children, unlike here, schools teach or did then. So even though we spoke fairly good Italian, German, we got by with English in most places. We felt like we should be able to speak the language where we lived, it was THEIR country not ours so make an effort. The Swiss speak English, French and German, why we can’t teach our children to communicate with others is beyond me. You learn a lot just by having a conversation with your neighbors wherever you live.
Now does the exploding debt and seeming govt ambivalence take on a new perspective? It should, because that unspoken motive explains everything. This is not accidental folks.
I would imagine that very few of the regulars at this site believe that any of this is accidental. I just hope and pray that we can add to that number!
Now, does the exploding debt and seeming govt ambivalence take on a new perspective?
The arsonist starts the fire, knowing they are in charge of the fire department, always advancing the long range plan. It’s sort of national Munchhausen-by-proxy and not all that complicated to understand from the 30,000 foot view, is it?
My brother always ends his e-mails by saying “Always, always, ALWAYS find the government solution that caused the problem.”
I like your brother’s way of thinking!
“The arsonist starts the fire, knowing they are in charge of the fire department…”
Wow, Sharon, that is an amazing, yet terrifying description of our government at every level.
Is it true that you have to give up your passport to the hotel you stay at?
No. Big and widely held fallacy.
Probably spread by our “Russia, Russia, Russia” intel agencies.
I figured that, movies often lie. Thanks for the conformation.
Agee, as insofar as my summer travel to a popular EU destination. One hotel asked for it. I asked if surrendering it was required. I was told “No”.
Is true on Russia. At least it was when I was there in 2015.
I was in Russia in 1997. It was true in Russia in 1997. Each hotel took your passport before you received a room key and kept it until checkout when you returned the key. No phones in rooms. All payphones routed all calls through Moscow and all incoming internationals calls were routed through Moscow. Cell phones didn’t work. Instead of recording everything said by phone like the US does they just listened in.
I lived in Moscow from 1996-1999. We kept our passports locked up in a safe where we lived and only carried a copy in case we were stopped and asked for papers.
Had to surrender our passports when we spent 10 days in the USSR in 1984. That seemed like a no-brainer back then, but I’m surprised hearing they were still doing it after the fall of the Soviet Union.
And we had a phone in our room. I made the mistake (???) of calling my sister back in the states to let her know we were OK. The mistake was not putting any thought into where she lived at that time — on K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base in the UP of Michigan.
When we got home our phone made a lot of background clicking noise for many months. Had to have been the most boring surveillance they ever experienced.
Bureaucratic inertia my friend.
Back in 2009, we were required to give the front desk at each hotel we stayed at in Italy.
Really? We traveled Italy extensively in 1985 and never had to do that. Or Germany, Austria, nowhere. I was expecting it based on Hollywood.
A different time, a very different world.
I went to Italy this summer. I was never asked about my passport.
I made copies to give to them just in case I was asked. It was a waste of paper.
No, and if they ask to keep it- the answer is no, you are required to have it on you, in the event you are stopped or have an interaction with the authorities (for whatever reason).
In Europe, do not take off your shoes at the airport. They usually laugh and say “Americans” with an eye roll.
NOV 05 2023 -Can You Buy the Apple iPhone 15 in Russia in 2023?
… during extreme Sanctions.
( 25 min )
NOV 21 2023 – Russian TYPICAL (German Owned) Supermarket: Globus
…. one of the most popular Hypermarket in Russia
( 47 min )
I follow Russell and find his videos
very informative.
He frequently tours grocery stores.
I believe in Australia that he worked in
that industry.
They still have Coke and Pepsi and just about all the same
products that they had before the Sanctions. What I have
noticed is that all are really clean and well stocked.
I find it really interesting to watch Russell and
a couple of other Podcasters who are in Russia.
I always learn something new!
Alex christoforu traveled to Moscow a few
months ago for a couple of weeks he also
said that other than setting up an account
in Russia that it was no problem with banking
and sanctions.
He didn’t go into as much detail as Sundance
did.
I appreciate Sundances more detailed information.
Thanks Sundance!
Precious metals can still be purchased in this country and they can be an alternative to crypto currencies anywhere in the world. I recently converted silver to Euros in Italy without any problems.
I’m about to buy gold and silver. Do you recommend larger 1 Oz or smaller?
I’m no expert, barely knowledgeable so take this with salt: I recall seeing advice that said be prepared to use small amounts as well as larger. Seems to me in collapsing economy, one needs small quantities/denominations as well as larger.
Smaller would seem a safer bet for bartering. I wouldn’t want to be forced into trading the equivalent of a diamond bracelet to get my weekly groceries.
Exactly, but you might need larger to bribe the .gov officials.
I converted one ounce generic silver Buffalo coins at spot value to euros and a few Silver eagles at spot + 10% at an exchange store in Rome. I never trade eagles at spot.
This article may be of help as it explains when silver and gold bullion purchases and sales are reportable to the govt. and explains what is covered for each of the forms bullion dealers are required to submit:
https://www.jmbullion.com/reportable-bullion-transactions-infographic/
and scroll down to the bottom half of this article and it details the amount of purchase that must be reported; and then make purchases accordingly :
https://libertycoinservice.com/reporting-requirements/
Thank you! I appreciate the information.
You need very small sizes otherwise what are you going to do with a one ounce gold coin when you need a gallon of milk?
Where does one buy substantial amounts of gold/silver that you actually have possession of and can hold in your hand.
For two years I would buy $200/month in one-ounce U.S. Mint Silver Eagles, and occasionally some 0.25 or 1.0 oz. gold PAMP bars from a local coin dealer storefront.
Check around first to make sure wherever you are buying from are competitive with other coin shops.
Plus I paid in cash and they always forgave the sales tax when I did that. ..and it’s anonymous with cash, should the gov ever check transactions in the event of gold/silver confiscation.
Add to those metals some basic simple trade items such as spices can also be bartered; no kidding. Just one container of table salt has doubled in price in the last three months from 87 cents to 1.98. Now imagine trying to feed your family with gold? or silver? Better yet, seeds, spices that will be hard to come by, remember the toilet paper frenzy during the first week of lockdowns? gold won’t fill that need either.
If people see you have gold bars, the little ingots instead of say small pearls or charms of gold, or silver, from pieces of jewelry those ingots mark the bearer of gold as an easy target; but trade them some humble pepper, paprika, chili powder or salt and they will look at you as being in the same fix they are in and not give you or a family member a second glance.
or so it may seem to me.
Hi,
You might convert some of your assets into simple, plain gold wedding bands. A man called Selco, who endured war in the Balkans during the mid 90’s said that was an easy, less conspicuous way to pay for more expensive goods you required. It made you look destitute and therefore a target not worth considering. Much like the movie, The Man Who Fell to Earth with David Bowie as an alien who comes here and in the beginning of the movie, pawns a wedding band for money, leaves, adds his money to a huge bankroll, and then removes a large loop of wedding bands from his pocket, ready for the next redemption. Pawn shops would serve as a place to get said merchandise for you. Should also consider ‘junk silver’, pre 1965 silver coins everyone is familiar with in small denominations. Thought you might like to know.
Yes; the simpler the better.
also good for barter is a box of 9mm
Profound implications.
There’s a dreadful season approaching, and the hour is late. Though, it is not yet too late to seek out the light of the world.
In the meantime, we all can prepare, be observant, and live our best lives in spite of those with the darkest of ambitions.
We need to be the leaders that our communities so dearly need. Duty calls once more.
tech didnt encourage community in real life.
Wonder how they are going to disrupt communication? block websites? ISPs?
based off of what…
Your phone simply won’t operate.
Technology has always been a dual edged blade.
As it always has been since the beginning, how tools are used reflects on the nature of the wielder.
That being said, community predated mass media and consumer electronics. Communities have grown apart by the innumerable choices made by individuals over time. Communities can yet be brought back together by better choices.
As far as disruptions communications go I can only speculate.
I hope I run into treepers when communication channels collapse. Have been daydreaming about stickers or pins or very subtle Ts. Maybe with the logo Sundance set up.
Been thinking about ham radio, but I understand there are licensing requirements.
CB’s, less expence or effort to set up and shorter range,…
I see the shutting down of the I net as being more negative than positive for them.
Just not sure they want 350 million people to lift their heads up, look around and start talking to each other.
And then, have THEM unable to manipulate what the people are thinking, or track what they are saying.
And how can CDDC’s possible work, without an I-net?
Seems to me WE benefit by downing the net, far more than they do.
The concept of disrupting electronic communications and satellites takes on a whole new meaning when your fortunes are stored solely within the Ethernet realm.
A couple of years ago during my own travels, I came upon not one, but several systemic satellite “failures” within US cities.
All communications and computers were disrupted for hours on end. Despite the lame excuses offered by the ENEmedia at the time, I knew these disruptions were anything but random; They were a test of some sort.
Could our gubmint use such disruptions in the future, in their efforts to control and manage our migration to bitcoin and blockchain currencies?
I think it more likely they’d use it to manage us.
Thank you, Sundance. 🙏😇 All I can say is: GOD HELP US.
In my own small personal economy, I’m transacting in cash whenever possible and trying to use & support very local suppliers too. Hate how all of our ‘data’ is going to be used to try to control us down the road.
I have been doing the same.
Eyeopening….. wow.
Thank you Sundance.
We went to Spain over Thanksgiving. The US is saying “watch out don’t travel stay home”. We went anyway. I have been to Europe many times. This was my 4th time to Spain. I saw nothing different from any other time I have been to Europe or Spain. Everyone out and about, tourist shops open, churches open, dining in and outside. This was the Andalusia (Granada) up to Valencia region (we rented a car). Not Madrid or Catalonia (Barcelona).
Why do you think the State Dept has foreign travel warnings?
My belief?… They want to keep us out of places because they do not want the truth to be known. We are birds inside a cage that they create. OUT THERE, is not what they say it is. They just don’t want information like this to surface.
There Are no words to describe to my infuriation. I am booking my trip tomorrow. Thank you!!
Exactly, Sundance! My husband and I traveled the previous Thanksgiving to England- rented a car – drove up through the beautiful Yorkshire dales up to Edinburgh. The US government said the same thing last year – don’t go, problems everywhere. We went anyway, and no problems. The US government is lying to us big time. If you get the opportunity and you want to travel, do it. I see more stupid mask wearing once a week in my local grocery store (southwest suburbs of Chicago) then I saw in England/Scotland and this past Thanksgiving in Spain.
So, maybe the Ukraine war isn’t killing Ukrainians and Russians like we think happened?
What about Gaza and Israel? That’s easier to believe – everyone has video of massive destruction in Gaza.
Thank you, Sundance.
Sundance — thank you so very much for this information. It is priceless. And, I hope this startling information spreads far & wide.
I wish everyone would just ditch their Smart Phones — in order to stave off their own enslavement — only I know that’s not going to happen.
If Russia is so evil, why are they freer than we are? It’s our own U.S. Government that is the evil one.
I have no smart phone. What will I do if phone ap is the only way to make a purchase?
Withing my lifetime the dollar was legal tender for all debts public and private.
Now there are places refusing to accept cash.
I never use phone apps to make purchases. I’ve never used PayPal or any pay services. I use a credit card, a check or cash.
Places that don’t accept cash do not get my business.
Just like the poison death shots, when people comply for convenience, it hurts us all. Boycotts work best if we all band together.
The people running the US Federal government do not care about national debt or deficits, because a collapsed dollar-based economy will allow them to sell a CBDC to the public as a Trojan Horse. Because economic stability and security are important, of course…
In a similar vein Federal, state, and municipal governments are pleased to promote policies triggering the massive crime wave causing a tidal wave of retail theft. Retailers will need a solution. That solution will be a repackage of the”failed” Vaccine Passport system, which was the beta-testing of digital gating and total tracking/control over movement within the US. For both customer and employee safety, of course…
And then we have the long-delayed Real ID law going into effect… now slated for May 2025, nearly a quarter century after the 9/11 attacks. To illustrate how absurd this is, the equivalent would be the 1941 Congress passing a law regulating Japanese aircraft entering US airspace first taking effect in 1965. But we “need” Real ID because state driver licenses are now “useless” because of open border policies and states issuing them to illegals. And air safety is important, of course…
In all these examples, government is breaking the system in order to justify stripping away freedom.
CBDC + Passport System + Real ID = Technocratic Feudalism.
keeler: Good comments. And yes, Real ID became necessary because of all the states that issue drivers licenses to illegal aliens. Of course, before long, Real ID will also become meaningless.
As I understand what the new batch of illegals are being allowed to do, however, they are doing anything they want without Real ID…..a bunch of things we will not be allowed to do without real ID – like get on a plane and fly across the country.
Real ID is already completely useless when considered within its CLAIMED intent. That intent is already only applied to American citizens. It is NOT applied to illegal aliens.
So, I reall SHOULD go down to the border, cross,…turn around and turn myself in to BP, and give them a phoney name and DOB.
Got it
Facial recognition is a feature of smart technology, making plastic a thing of the past. The ID of the future is *us,* not something we carry around in our wallet.
Just like the Patriot Act wasn’t about homeland security and the Russian economic blockade wasn’t about impacting Russia, those ID cards are also a distraction.
Their ‘real ID’ is being mainlined into our bloodstreams. This is the mark of the ‘UN’ beast.
Exactly.
That’s not completely right. You do not have to get RealID. You just have to also have alternative ID, like your passport.
It’s my understanding that Real ID (for domestic flights) will be required in the fall of 2025. Maybe I misunderstood the recent update.
The deadline for “real ID” keeps getting postponed. They don’t really need it, now that they have smart technologies that scan our bodies instead.
You make a lot of great valid points!
Boom! Great comment! Thank you.
Sundance, what are your thoughts on Trump getting America out of the Western Alliance as soon as he’s officially back in office? Joining BRICS? Killing the U.S. Digital Currency? We know that someone in his circle follows CTH, if not he himself, so none of this can be a surprise.
🤔Thanks Tom Richardson for reminding us how important Sundance is for our Constitutional Republic Citizens 👍👌.
👉President Trump’s policies during his first term brought the uniparty demons 😈 to open hostilities against President Trump (and ALL our Constitutional Republic). President Donald J Trump already knows and is one of the big reasons He became President 👈
This confirms my thoughts on the billions sent to Ukraine. It’s not about helping Ukraine, it’s about depleting our military and resources. The Republican leadership is leading the charge!
retireddcscum: With all the plans and people in place, the move is on to make the (formerly) US Military subservient to the shadowy, “one world government.”
Wow eyes opened ! Thank youSundance for all of your hard work to bring us so much education on truths.
I always prefer to use cash.
With the speed of information these days, consider a common scenario. You’re at dinner and you have a few drinks and pay by credit card……your credit card is tied to your home address; your car’s registration is tied to your address; your address is tied to your license plate. Video cameras everywhere record your license plate in real time.
I use cash because they targeted my bank accounts.
Easier and more fun when the clerks have to figure the change.
I consider it my civic duty to help teach them the basic math they never learned in school!
I started using self-checkout about three years ago when I repeatedly encountered clerks who were completely unable to grasp/manage “making change”–to the point where a supervisor had to help them.
Why Were 50 Senators Just Given Satellite Phones as Part of “New Security Measures” by the Sergeant at Arms? (substack.com)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~What “emergen$y” ?
Only 50 Senators? 1/2 of the Senate?
The Democrats.
Sundance so good analysis once again! We here on CTH see what going on but what amount of the (low voters) see the truth? God bless you and keep you safe in your travels & endeavors to bring us real news & facts.
Knowing that why is it so hard to believe that the War in Ukraine is totally and completely fake?
Yes, I suspect so, but the destruction of Gaza is not.
IIRC- from posters on the Treehouse last week or so: according to a Bloomberg report, Putin is on track to net $75 billion (equivalent in rubles) this year while according to the NYT, the US is looking to lose $2 trillion.
Who is winning?
Thank You Sundance for this revelation.
God Bless you for keeping us all informed. I have been on several sites today and in the comment sections the links to your articles were there. Some of them from months ago! Your wisdom is spreading. One guy said you were almost as good as
Rush 😊.
After learning this I will not be commenting on any other sites except for this one. I lost my husband 6 months ago and cannot risk losing what he worked so hard for to leave me, my children, and grandchildren.
I will certainly continue to pray for you and your wonderful team.
Re “One guy said you were almost as good as Rush 😊.”
Sundance is WAY better than Rush ever was. Rush was great at what he did but he was MOSTLY an entertainer. I believe he said so himself. Sundance’s MAIN purpose here is to not just inform us but to PROPERLY inform us with the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, as Joe Friday used to say! Of course, he also gives us much more than that, too.
Not only inform but EDUCATE.
A few weeks ago I listened to an interview Kyle Seraphin conducted with Tara Reade, who was by then fairly settled in her newly and unexpectedly adopted home of Russia. (Ms. Reade is the woman Bob Peters, AKA current occupant of the W H, assaulted (okay, allegedly) many years ago, her story has never changed and she told her mom within a short time of it happening. If you listen to her tell the story, it’s difficult to not believe her.)
Anyway, when she described what it’s like for her to live there, I had the reaction of “I want to check this out!” One of the Alex’ from The Duran, video recorded his time in Moscow and elsewhere, that got my attention. I had heard Russia’s GDP growth was over 5%.
Sundance you validated it all, and so much more, regarding Russia.
Floored that EU is more free to travel in. Maybe I will get on a plane, after all.
And now to digest the implications. And live my best life.
Thank you‼️‼️‼️
PS, the interview is worthwhile, on Rumble and all the podcast platforms.
Sundance, Thank You for taking one for the team and checking out EU.
Sundance said“once inside, you can travel without any national checkpoints or passport checks.” I hoped you smiled a lot, they have cameras everywhere”!!
You left us hanging for the next episode, good job!!!!
Cameras every where…..!
Sounds like the USA.
I hear London is having a problem with their citizens refusing to comply with their cameras.
Seems they keep breaking, getting knocked out of view, cut cables, etc.
Seems the resistance is still alive in Londonistan.
Sundance, where were you fingerprinted?
What explanation was given?
New Jersey. lolol Don’t know, don’t care.
New Jersey as well
possession less than 25 grams controlled dangerous substance
Was it a pocket Bible or a pocket Constitution 😛
I was stopped at a checkpoint for packing a harmonica. They thought it was a gun magazine!
This is very interesting and proves all the evil actions taken are indeed deliberate and further explains Kagan’s WAPO article.
Surely President Trump and his Allies are completely aware of this reality in Europe, as are other world leaders, outside of the USA.
Keeping doing what you do so well Sundance.
🙂
this explains a lot that i just could not figure out THANKS SUNDANCE prayers for you and yours
R.D.
I don’t know how you do the things that you do, but darned thankful that you do them.
Can’t help but wonder, though, if at any time TSA pulled you out for “enhanced screening.”
Yes, now I know I live in the Twilight Zone.
“TO SERVE MAN – IT’S A COOKBOOK!”
I’ve been feeling that way myself for some time now.
That, or in some Bizarro World.
The USA now, is not the place I grew up in.
🙁
God Bless Us All~!