In this outline I am going to expand on the details previously discussed {HERE}. You won’t find this in any financial media discussion, and there’s only a handful of people I know in the west who really understand the ramifications. Fortunately, one of them is running for President.
First some non-pretending context. If you are a Friedman-ite, finance major from any traditional academic institute – including Wharton, and/or a person who uses data models to frame analysis about economics and finance, without the capacity to put all of your traditional reference points in the trash heap of irrelevance, then just move along. We ain’t got time for that.
Consider Austan Goolsbee and Bill Ayers having dinner talking about what would happen if they successfully de-dollarized the globe. Austan comes at it from one perspective, Bill from another. Bernardine Dohrn smiles, because neither of the Chicago dinner guests has any idea what would really happen in this ideological landscape; no one really does.
I first sounded the alarm on this on March 2, 2022, almost two years ago {SEE HERE}.
In the ideological DoS/CIA/WEF/Western banking frenzy to punish the horrible Russia, I took a different approach. I overlaid the human factor with the geopolitical reality of financial control mechanisms. I predicted a cleaving outcome, because I carry no assumptions. That’s the context.
Additionally, I’m not coming at this situational analysis having relied on charts, graphs, trade analysis, Western finance systems or actuarial constructs of monetary manipulation by central bankers. Nope. I sat quietly inside small to medium-sized regional banks in Western Europe and listened to the reality of what businesspeople are doing, actually doing, in their operation of their enterprise as it relates to finance and Russia. {Go Deep}
This is where the razor’s edge outcome of the cleaving, the “yellow zone” -vs- “grey zone” construct, meets reality.
What we will witness this year will be one of the biggest stories of 2024 that will impact every American. However, few people will understand the information that will slowly trickle toward us, because too few people analyze information without historic assumptions.
When the “West” (yellow zone) triggered the sanction regime against Russia, almost no one took a big picture overlay and asked, “What about those nations who do not align with the Western intent; what will they do?”
Russia is not an enemy of the world; in fact, they have good relationships with China, Iran, India, multiple Middle East nations including Syria, Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and several Eastern European as well as African countries.
When the USA was walking away from the Arab Spring crisis Obama created, it was Russia who stepped in to help stop radicalization; just ask President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Even NATO ally Turkey has an ongoing diplomatic and strategic friendship with Russia; that’s why Turkish Airlines operates as the best transportation company for travel into and out of Russia.
In fact, when the proverbial West triggered the sanctions against Russia, approximately one-third of the global GDP was not in alignment. A trade system that represents roughly 40% of all global production and trade (grey) can sustain a targeted enemy, while the 60% (yellow) allows complacency, hubris and delusions of grandeur to create an echo-chamber.
In essence, the “West” targeted Russia, but Russia had friends.
Those friendships expanded when the international fence-sitters saw how extreme and hateful the USA was going to be. How long before they, country xxxx might upset a USA administration? Who wants to be blackmailed by a similar targeted financial control system that the USA/EU and West triggered.
You might not think this Western sanction ‘shock value’ was a factor of importance, but two years later evidence suggests it was a much bigger deal than anyone was willing to admit.
De-dollarization is underway; failing to admit or accept this reality is akin to retaining a great pretense. The outcomes are only just now beginning to surface, and when we are trapped inside the Western zone, we cannot see, quantify or fully appreciate it.
India is trading with Russia in national currencies, not dollars. Iran and Russia are trading in national currencies, not dollars. China is trading with Russia in national currencies, not dollars. This process is expanding not shrinking, and it has huge outcomes.
If trades between nations are not contingent upon dollars, then less dollars need to be purchased. Less U.S. treasuries are purchased to back up the trade. Less dollar demand means lower dollar value. This process is only just beginning, and we cannot see it. The only way to see it is to step out of the yellow zone and look at the costs of goods and services in the grey zone.
Dollars are still in demand for anyone who wants access to the USA or EU market, so this de-dollarization process is limited in scale right now. But again, it’s expanding – meaning the demand for dollars is less.
Inside the Yellow Zone we cannot see the shift, but we can see the signs of a less demanded dollar in the prices of goods and services in the yellow zone. Inflation runs high in the Western zone as this devalued dollar begins to become more of an issue.
When we talk about “inflation” it is critical to keep in mind we are not ONLY talking about the price of goods. Yes, goods are one component to increased costs of living; however, financial service products like insurance costs (health, life, auto, homeowners etc.) are part of the equation where we see the inflationary impact of de-dollarization running amok. The financial services are closely related to the overall finance sector (think banking), so those skyrocketing costs hit first and become the precursor.
Next in the inflationary scale of impact comes the energy costs, which – as a direct and consequential outcome – transfer into the increased costs of goods, via packaging, processing, manufacturing, transportation, warehousing, etc. The overall business costs for insurance and financial services then aggregate with the energy cost impact and amplify the issue.
You can argue whether the current cost drivers or inflationary reality was a feature (intent) or a flaw (short-sighted outcome) of the western sanction regime, in combination with the intentional Build Back Better energy shift.
Austan Goolsbee might say it’s an accidental outcome, while a more radical communist like Bill Ayers says it was intended.
Personally, I think it was absolutely an intended feature, created to pave the way for a digital Western currency; that’s what it looked like in March 2022, and that’s what it still looks like today.
Regardless of intent, the reality is here…. barely visible right now, but here, and the de-dollarization is growing.
That opaque visibility is what I am talking about becoming much clearer in 2024. Eventually, people will start to ask questions about why the cost of products inside the yellow zone is so far out of sync with identical products and services inside the grey zone. {GO DEEP} The only way to see it, is to travel to both.
Now bring back the traditional Goolsbee economist thinking. If domestic prices continue rising (de-dollarization outcome), then domestic wage rates will need to rise in order for people inside the yellow zone to cope. Unfortunately, as Austan would lament, this dynamic becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy for even higher prices….
True… But why is Bernardine smiling?
“Maybe,” she says from the kitchen, as Austan squints and tilts his head with curiosity.
Bill smiles and replies, “I think she says ‘maybe’, because the surest way to avoid that dynamic is to import mass volumes of cheap low-skilled migrants as an offset.”
Austan looks even more curious as Bernardine says, “Yup, if ‘Western govt’ wants to align favorably with WEF corporate needs, then let the government give the corporations the means to avoid higher wages by allowing mass migration.”
Austan sits with jaw agape as Bill finishes the discussion and drops the mic. “If, for the sake of argument, that was indeed the plan, then specifically due to the nature of the USA dollar being the most severely impacted, it would be the borders of the USA that would need the highest rise in migrant crossings.”
Huh.
Go figure!
A.R ROBERTS …”I come here to the treehouse to get my morning dose of doom and gloom, lol. Everything I hear from SD and other alt-media people paints a very bleak picture. It’s like watching an 18-wheeler going down a steep grade with no brakes and no way to stop it. What you’re talking about SD is our imminent death at the hands of these insane inbred billionaire genocidal whackos. There seems to be no political solution to our situation. They will either terrorize us if we resist their death by a thousand cuts or drag us off to a Gulag or an extermination camp.
Tell me, please, what options do we have left? They have us boxed in and control an absolute police state. How about giving us some hope, some solutions?
I feel alone. Almost every “conservative” around me has their heads in the sand with bread and circuses. They think the stock market is doing great. They think everything is going back to normal. The libs in my family think anything is better than Trump in office. They are oblivious. They think I’m being a Chicken Little. It’s pretty damn depressing. Why should I stick my neck out to fight for any of these morons? It would almost be satisfying to watch them suffer from their ignorance if it wasn’t so tragic for the rest of us.”…
Instead of writing another article, I will show you the solution. At least what the solution should look like, albeit in a USA version. Let’s call it America First.
Economic nationalism. Make America Great Again, economically.
Stop the de-dollarization by Making Dollars Great Again!
Make dollars valuable.
Make the USA more valuable.
Tell me if you see value in this video.
Tell me if you understand.
Always MAGA…but time is short..
Understand. Put this video side by side with the White House Christmas video and you get the big picture. MAGA!!!!
The Putin 2007 speech (above) lays out clearly that expansion of NATO on Russia’s borders represents “a serious provocation”
Biden knew this from his years on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Perhaps he wasn’t able to get a payout from Russia, but in November 2021 President Biden hit the reset button, supporting Ukraine’s bid to join NATO, first as an “Enhanced Opportunities Partner” and later as a full member.
It’s all contained in the “U.S.-Ukraine Charter on Strategic Partnership” signed Nov. 10, 2021.
That triggered the invasion of Ukraine as a defensive move in early 2022 which the Bidenistas slow-walk to this day..
Per the thrust of SD’s analysis, it does seem the coordinated objective is to make living so expensive, everyone but a few must cut back on consumption to the level of a third-world country. Petroleum and natural gas restrictions were the first ripple through the Western economies. Abundant fake money made the shortages even worse. The migrant hordes point to the third-world future.
Shortages are the cause of inflationed higher prices. When materials, services and labor are abundant, prices drop in the squeeze of competition. Biden and his brain trust (e.g. Jared Bernstein, Brian Deese, etc.) gave us the opposite. Since they have only a year to go, there will be no let up.
Biden’s occupational regime’s solution to their ruinous spending and inflation is to import tens of millions of welfare freeloaders, criminals, and cheap labor for his donor class. These people may have put together the greatest vote cheating network in history, as they like to boast, and beating up parents who don’t want their kids exposed to pornography but they are clueless when it comes to anything else.
Wow, and I thought no one read any of my posts, lol. SD, I’m flattered but how do we make dollars great again when we have a bunch of arrogant thuggish imbeciles in DC controlling the demolition of the US? I totally agree with MAGAnomics, that’s how our country used to work and it worked pretty good. I remember when I could support myself working a service job. I remember when almost everything was made here. Consumer goods were expensive but high quality. Rent, utilities, food and gas were cheap and affordable. Meat was cheap before these idiots put corn in our gas tanks instead of the feed lots.
People ask “We have to do something. What are you doing?” Well, let me tell you. We moved from the house my wife and I designed and I built in the cold Northwest rain with my own hands over 20 years ago to a red state. It was our dream house. Why? Living in Oregon was like living in hell for us. It was becoming intolerable for obvious reasons to treepers here. It was hell for us to leave a place with deep roots, but we’re here. It was heartbreaking but my wife and I made the decision. After wiping away the tears I want to break something. Yes, I’m bitter. I hate these people. If the DC cabal’s goal was to make people hate them, it worked. We unplugged from the media. We boycott everything possible and do almost all our shopping with local family businesses and employee owned stores like Winco and Bimart instead of woke Kroger and Costco. We are going to get involved in local politics and vote MAGA now in Idaho where hopefully our votes are counted honestly. Most “conservatives” I know are still watching cable and football, forgetting how they spit on our flag and our country, and don’t think twice about where or who they shop with. I don’t know what more my wife and I can do as individuals. If there is anything else we can do, SD, we are all ears. What more can I do to make dollars and America great again? It’s emotional for me to even write this post. It was heartbreaking to leave our home. It’s even more heartbreaking the see my country turned into a garbage heap by a bunch of parasites in DC who could give two shits about any of us or the country.
Welcome to the New Confederacy.
I don’t see a way out.
Be ungovernable. Live your best life. Prepare.
Build alternative commerce like we built alternative media.
Our numbers are growing, more and more Americans of all flavors and stripes are waking up.
We will all know when the trumpet sounds, we will not wonder if the time is at hand, we will know.
Thank you. Our entire life has been turned upside down.
I’m so sorry. Here you know you are not alone.
Welcome to the club of treepers, who have been quoted by Sundance.
Try to “let go and let God” recognise your limits, and think back on your home with fondness that you were able to build it , rather than bitterness at having “lost” it, by the changes that occurred in Oregon.
You and your wife are doing what you can, and thats all you can do.
Trust in the Lord. Everything you are doing is spot on.
Thank you. We’re doing our best but it’s hard to “live your best life” when your life has been completely uprooted. When you move you don’t just leave your home, you leave your friends and your former life behind. It is getting better now that we are settling into our new home. We love the people and the culture here. It’s much like Northwest Nevada where I grew up as a kid. I want to do my best to see that my new home doesn’t become like the place I left. As SD said regarding the Marxist whackos, “They need to be thrown in a pit and covered with hot lava so they can never crawl out.” Metaphorically speaking, of course.
In the gloom and doom words of Kansas, “nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky.” The theology is wrong, but that is the general idea. We are Pilgrims passing through. Your family — that’s real (but Jesus promised that even they can turn on you). Living your best life means acting ethically and not clinging to things. What do you want to talk with Jesus about when you are sitting across the white table, talking through your life? That is what to focus on. You can’t count on anything else.
You won’t be able to sit across table and talk w/Jesus unless you have been “born again”. Jn 3:3
It’s all gonna’ be fine! Not as most would prefer [man’s wishes] but exactly as it should be [GOD‘s plan].
We live at the greatest time ever. Understanding, brings peace of mind.
We get to see everything GOD prophesied come to fruition, even His return.
GOD said:
Mar. 13:23 “…I have foretold…all things.”
2 Tim. 3:16 “All Scripture is…for instruction…”
Luke 8:17 “...nothing is secret…neither anything hid...”
Amo. 3:7 “Surely…God will do nothing, but He revealeth…”
Isa 46:10 “Declaring the end from the beginning…”
JESUS said:
Luk. 12:51 “Suppose…I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you nay…”
Dan. 8:19 “…I will make thee know what shall be in…the end…”
8:25 “...he shall cause craft to prosper..”.
11:21 “...he shall come in peaceably...”
Rev. 12:9 “...the great dragon…old serpent, called…Devil…Satan…deceiveth the whole world…
13:8 “...all…upon the earth shall worship him…”
“LEARN” this, it is now:
Mar. 13:28 “…learn a parable of the fig tree [generation]…”
13:30 “...this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.”
Rev. 7:3 “…Hurt not…till we have sealed…in their foreheads.”
7:4 “…the number…sealed…an hundred and forty four thousand…”
YOU, not them:
1 Pet. 2:9 “...ye are a chosen generation…called…out of darkness…”
Rom. 11:7 “…and the rest were blinded.”
11:8 “...as it is written, God hath given…spirit of slumber…unto this day.”
Mat. 24:23 “...if any…shall say…’Lo, here is Christ,’ or ‘there;’ believe it not.”
Rev. 6:17 “…the great day of His wrath is come...”
Jer. 39:16 “...I will bring My words…for evil…not for good…before thee.”
AFTER Satan is here:
Mat. 24:29 “Immediately after the tribulation...”
24:30 “…then shall appear…the Son of man…”
Luk. 21:27 “…then shall they see the Son of man coming…”
Isa. 40:5 “...all flesh shall see it together…the LORD hath spoken it.”
UNDERSTAND, it will be well with all who do:
Eze. 13:20 “…I am against…ye hunt…souls to make them fly…”
Eph. 6:13 “…take…the whole armour of God…to stand.”
8 billion+ souls can’t understand.
https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/
In The Millennium everyone will understand.
Mat. 11:15 “He that has ears to hear, let him hear.”
Thank you for the kind words.
As a hedge, I have 30% of my 401K in gold and silver. The hard stuff that is in a vault.
When Trump gets back into office, I am not sure how quickly or slowly he can right the US dollar but will most likely feel some sort of impact over this next year with the current administration.
Additionally, if chaos ensues across this country and there isn’t a MAGA presidency, at least I will have something to cash out of my 401K when the USD plummets. Maybe move to another country? On this same thought, I am 3-6 years from ‘retirement’ and knowing that the SS will be broke after 2027, I will be relying solely on my savings to keep afloat. Because of that, maybe leaving for another country in this scenario may be a good option.
I’m on the same page.
Keep your eyes open and your ears tuned in when this crew is in town:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jul/12/what-happens-at-sun-valley-the-secret-gathering-of-unelected-billionaire-kings
Respectfully, as “diversify, rather than all eggs in one basket” might I suggest non prescious metals of Brass, lead and steel, even copper clad, rather than or as part of a diversified portfolio?
The price of guns and ammo, like gold/silver remains constant, its the price or value of the $, in relation to Guns/ammo that changes.So, as a hedge against inflation, as well as an alternative currency, ammo and guns are sound places to put some of your wealth.
If you and I are dickering with a “black marketer” over buying a can of spam and a twinkie, and you are offering him gold/silver, and I am offering him 12 guage shotgun shells, I suspect I will not go hungry.
*Impractical to counterfeit
*indefinite shelf life
*comes in different denominations and easily divisible quantities.
*Lots in circulation
*Holds its value in any economic calamity from depression to hyper-inflation
I’m staying to fight in Oregon. Rural Oregon is red. Portland residents will think they are in hell if the train goes off the track. Best wishes in Idaho, let your neighbors know what can happen in their state if they give an inch to the left.
Good for you. I wish you luck. Where we lived in Washington County the bums, the filth, the crime, the drugs, and the blue haired gender bender crazies, the head-in-the-sand dem voters were just too much and the county was planning on building a pod community in our town for the bums! Oh, and Metro added another 1% on our property taxes for the bums. Adding insult to injury, the county was planning to also add another 1% for the bums, and charged us a, get this, a 1% real estate sale transaction “fee” when we sold our house! They passed it without voter approval for a tax by calling it a fee! That was the final straw. Thank God we left that dysfunctional insane asylum. So, we took our marbles and went to play somewhere else. The property taxes are less than half for us now and no bums! We almost moved to Baker City but my wife said we would still be lorded over by that whacko Karen governor in Salem. So, we kept driving east.
I live in liberal Washington and am 6 years from retirement. I am planning to relocate to Idaho a year prior to retirement. I would highly recommend you tell everyone you meet to watch a YouTube video by Eric Johnson called Seattle is Dying. It is what Americas future is if they do not elect MAGA representatives for every elected position.
I found it on Rumble which I prefer. https://rumble.com/v3rabxp-seattle-is-dying.html
“Most “conservatives” I know are still watching cable and football, forgetting how they spit on our flag and our country . . .”
It’s unfortunate, but it seems the only way most are going to wake up is when (not if) everything collapses. And collapse it will. In 2024, we’ll see events & deeds we never thought would happen here.
I agree. I think things are going to get bad. My wife and I both had a bad feeling about the future and didn’t want to be stuck behind the communist Iron Curtain. Another reason we moved. I don’t like seeing bad things happening to good people but I think we are due for some pain and I think it could be a good thing in the long run.
Looks a lot like we HAVE GOT TO get PDJT into the White House this time around. The idea of free people will be destroyed if we don’t. That is all we need to know. I like this perspective because it has the the greatest ring of THE TRUTH in my mind. The truth will have to prevail and that is where we plead our case with our God, the God of Truth. Time to get on our knees and ask for His plan for us! Excuse me while I go to the high bluff above the lake near my home, where I feel He is always listening to me.
What saved Russia? What allowed it to rise like a phoenix from the ashes of oppression and hopeless barren destruction? “…their unapologetic support for Christ and family values.”
Steadfast.
> What saved Russia?
Christian Nationalism.
Nationalism means no more pretending that we have a nation when we don’t. Nationalism means no more pretending that people are plug-and-play, that you can replace one person with another without loss or degradation. It means no more pretending that culture doesn’t matter, that IQ doesn’t matter, that heritage and genetics don’t matter.
It means finally being a nation, united by a common heritage, tongue, culture, faith, and shared ancestors.
It means finally recognizing that a Mexican, a Japanese, an Indian, or anyone else are not and never can be Americans. Just as the Founders intended, just as the Founders enshrined in the Constitution (for us and for our posterity), just as was enshrined in the 1790 Naturalization Act.
It means finally waking up to what the word nation means, (natio from natus, past participle of nasci, meaning “to be born.” It means finally discovering that the old dictionary defintions of “nation” from the late 1800s and early 1900s were correct all along.
> an aggregation of persons of the same ethnic family, often speaking the same language or cognate languages.
Yeah. It sucks. It means most of the BS you’ve been taught your entire life was wrong. You were deliberately lied to, in order to take from you your heritage that was fought for, conquered, sacrificed for, paid for in blood and sweat and tears, built by your ancestors.
It’s that, or get nothing and have everything your ancestors bequeathed you pass away and come to naught and go quietly into that good night never to return, to perish from the face of this good earth.
And then to simultaneously return to hard-nosed, old-school, Traditional (with a capital T) Christianity.
You are 1000% correct. Importing millions of unemployable indigents with the lowest IQs and put them on gov assistance for all their needs will not keep the lights on.
Sure, thats what saved RUSSIA.
But, WHAT cause the collapse of the SOVIET UNION?
Well, BEFORE the Soviet Military was forced to withdraw from Afganustan in defeat,…
And BEFORE the collapse of the Berlin Wall …
Before Lech Walensa and Solidarity with the Velvet Revolution…
There was the Singing revolution of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, where virtually the entire populace of these 3 Baltic Countries stopped whatever they were doing, stepped out into the streets, joined arms and began marching towards their capitals, singing the forbidden songs and daring the Soviet vichie Governments to shoot them.
No government, regardless how dictatorial can function AS a Government, without the passive if not active consent of the governed.
Withdraw that consent, with UNITY and WILL, and the Government MUST wirhdraw. and the Soviets DID.
Secession . The digital dollar is inevitable and when that implements in the near future slavery is the outcome.
States now establishing gold/currency exchanges will survive. Get educated, be aware of what secession really involves. The federal govt is a criminal enterprise that now must cut into basic productivity to survive. Pushback is fine, but goes only so far. You cannot reform a virus, the mafia, or Washington D.C.
What is your state doing to wean itself from the pariah?
I am relatively new here compared to most I think, just been following for the last few years. There are many commenters downthread wondering what they can do, personally, to improve the future chances for themselves and their families. I’d like to share what we are doing here at home. I learned to make bread and other baked goods. We are trying out different means of food preservation, like dehydration and fermentation. My list of skills to learn in 2024 is making hard cheeses and curing meats for long term storage. These are things that we will be able to make if there are shortages, and also we can barter them later to avoid the control digital currency imposes. Learn a new skill; sewing, crocheting, welding – something that people will want and need in case of a crash. Buying or making weapons before some type of registration is forced on us is also key; taking self defense and home defense classes is also important. There are many things that you can do to make the hard times that are coming – and you will also feel better about yourself in learning or sharpening these new skills. Prepare, prepare, prepare!
An excellent plan. Video games will not save anyone.
Actually, as we focus on NECCESITIES, supplied thru self sufficiency, do not ignore ENTERTAINMENT.
Musicians and even story telling have been percieved as valuable, and itinerant musicians/story tellers have earned a meal by performing.
Seriously, make a list of neccesities; Food, clothing, shelter, energy to heat/cool shelter, transportation, defence, medical care, and yes entertainment and then move steadily closer to self-sufficiency and dependence on LOCAL, and away from grid/cord dependence, a little at a time.
I have been moving in this direction for 25+ years and while I ain’t there yet, I’m a lot closer than I wuz.
I never saw Russia as the enemy. China and muslims, yes. But not Russia.
We have to admit that what Putin has done to rebuild his country from the devastation of Leninism/Stalinism is remarkable!
Why has the Euro strengthened against the dollar while Germany is de-industrializing?
Perhaps the Euro hasn’t “strengthened” so much as the $ has ‘weakened’ or perhaps because many businesses in europe are finding ways AROUND the sanctions, as Sundance has said.
Seems a battle between globalist/”western” bankers (Rothschilds etc) and the powers able to resist (controlling Russia/Putin; BRICS etc). Nuland was at the Kiev front in 2014 to instigate the color revolution at the behest of CIA/State planners, prepping for conflict with RUS. The globalists are in overdrive to destroy western nationalism/sovereignty, which poses a risk against their power grab. Obama is a puppet to a higher master, with Biden’s regime the minions enacting incendiary policy. We’re similar to AR Roberts, w/ most of our family cognizant of Fox’ betrayal, and the NFL is a dead league. MAGA yes, but our state is using AMERICA FIRST.
Is that ever true.
The solutions to America’s problems would crush the economy and the society as a whole. 2024 will be the start of the period this nation must pay the piper! It is inevitable and nothing can change that. When the trumpets sound, it will only signal worse times for those left behind. Then, Jesus will fix everything in the end. Come Jesus, Come!!
We exist in “Spalag America” [Spa + Gulag] which I define as a continent-sized concentration camp where voluntary inmates are encouraged to indulge in mindless pleasures, materialism and banality while their freedoms are continually eroded while being masked by fear, propaganda and demagoguery.
We are almost to the tipping point. I’m a hold out for hope. Open up our energy sectors, put people back to real work manufacturing again and kill the medical cabal. (Fear origin)
I live in the mindless bubble of materialism and mindless pleasures, but there are an abundance of sure footed American Patriots who love this country. The ones who don’t stand in lines to get into the luxury boutiques like we see here in Naples. Keep chipping away at the followers who remain unaware… guide them to the one who will bring us back to economic prosperity. TRUTH… it will serve us all well.
Trump all the way #MAGA
Happy New Year to all you super being Troopers. Truth is your way of life. I thank each of you for your comments. I have learned so much from all of you. May God Bless and guide each of you through the coming year.
Great commentary. As long as there is bread and circuses the sheeple will think everything is ok… until they find themselves cold, starving, eating bugs, or dragged to a death camp. Did I say death camp? I meant happy camp, lol.
That could be the US. Turn back to God. Repent our sins. Take pride in our country. America First leaders. Abolish the Dept. Of Education. Etc., etc.
It’s going to take more then Jesus and holy water to turn this Titanic around.
Make sense of this for me please…..if cheap labor is ushered in for the corporations, and the result is a diminishing middle class and poorer poor, than in the face of inflation……who will be their customers? What comes to mind is ….Housing …..can’t build houses …..cause no one can afford them…..These people are pure idiots. Just like they are destroying our country the by product is the destruction of their corporations.
Maybe they plan on offshoring most of their sales to up and coming nations but with their eye on keeping formerly 3rd world worker bees near working class level of income and with minimal education? These people will earn just enough income to purchase their products without being able to afford a home, vehicle, and nice vacations. They will get their Soviet/Cuban style housing, walk to work, and get a voucher for food which frees them up to purchase consumer goods. I’m not certain that “luxury” items such a Starbucks, fast food, many restaurants, air travel, extensive clothing choices, and dental care will be part of the plan but I am sure that there will be enough ants available to service the elites.
I am sure that they do not want to make the same mistakes they did in the USA and Europe by building a thriving middle class. Yeah, that will not happen.
> who will be their customers?
Not you. They don’t care about you, and they never have.
I’ve been keeping my pulse on this subject myself. Few years ago I started researching USCorp, Fed birth, IMF, London Banking district, Central Banks, moving from gold to dollar petroleum standard…. Rabbit 🐇 Hole central. It is always about controlling us & what better way than through financial/money resources & agriculture food systems. Ultimately, I believe we will go back to equal footing with other countries like Russia/BRICS countries currently are implementing; as far as money is concerned with “gold/natural resources/metals backed financial systems. Crypto currencies that meet ISO 20022 & BASEL regulations will be used. There will be “good” crypto currencies which will be created that private 100% encrypted secure. Then there’s the avoid them at all cost “bad” Central Bank/Government CBCs that will not be secure and controlled. I have faith when President Trump is back he’ll not only implement MAGA policies but will marry those nationalistic financial programs into the new QFS global financial systems. President Trump worked well with both Putin & Xi…it’ll be done overnight & leaving 99% of the average citizen shocked & dumbfounded when it all goes into operation. Until then stay prepared with cash on hand, cupboards full/garden planted.
DJT is gonna need more than one term to undue the damage that’s been done by these arrogant out of control imbeciles. Not sure if there are any leaders left with a scintilla of honor or integrity post Trump admin…if he is allowed to even get to the WH.
Two and a half years ago I saw inspired to start learning Russian. I had no connection to Russia and no family that knew the language. All I had was a curiosity for this historic “Enemy” and a love for history. After about six months of studying, I found an extraordinary app. Hello Talk would connect you to a native speaker of the language you were learning, who was also learning your language.
These Russians are some of the nicest people I have ever met. Don’t get me wrong, they are a little standoffish and cold at first, but once they consider you a friend, they make that fact clear.
I suggest you watch the Russian film “Brother” made in 1997 on a $10,000 budget, it’s a Russian Classic. Then re-watch the video SD posted. How far Russia has come in such a short period, after the collapse of the USSR, is nothing short of a miracle. They are proud and patriotic.
Look at who’s calling them the enemy now. We are much more similar than we are different.
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Makes one wonder why European countries that border or were occupied by Russia were so eager to join NATO. First thing that comes to mind is that Putin sees a “Russian truth” that escapes all the neighbors. Understand Russia is a rich, beautiful country with a proud Christian nationalist tradition. Understand that the corporations and banks of the west are circumventing the ill advised sanctions. The ethnic Russian population is declining in numbers precluding the ability to dominate their neighbors. Squandering lives in Ukraine and triggering waves of draft avoiders is exacerbating the issue of the 90s birth crash. Never forget Vladimir was raised in the KGB. He is not the Russian version of President Trump.
That is a culture. They’re not having children, so they’re doomed, but it is a beautiful video.
Secession is the only way forward. Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma would be the greatest energy triad in the world. They could assume the debts of all social security recipients in their states through the use of the new currency and the economies of those states would boom.
I’m all for starting the secession party. Who’s with me?
All I hear are crickets…..
I’ve said the same for going on 20 years.
“But next year, boy, we’ll get ’em then! You wait and see!”.
We live among non-humans; I am convinced.
My wife works as a retail store manager. She can’t keep employees–they quit within 6-12 months if they don’t get their pay increased to $20/hr. So she has to take up the slack and work extra hours…but she is paid on a salary so she doesn’t get any extra pay.
How long do illegals get a monthly income from Uncle Sam (i.e., you and me) once they cross the border? Or is it a one-time payment?
> Or is it a one-time payment?
It is monthly.
> My wife works as a retail store manager. She can’t keep employees–they quit within 6-12 months if they don’t get their pay increased to $20/hr.
Yes. It isn’t worth it to work for less. Less means they can’t afford to eat and rent a place. $20/hr today is literally what unskilled, untrained, part-time manual labor went for in 1972 based upon inflation and confirmed by precious metals. Based on that inflation, equivalent retail jobs should be paying ~$35+/hr. Office jobs should all be much, much higher.
The economy and your wages have been destroyed by immigration, “free trade,” and globalism, while at the same time property prices have been driven up through the roof also by immigration and asset inflation to keep one generation asleep and content.
The illegals get $2,500 per month indefinitely.
So,…$20/hr.x 40hrs/week x 4 weeks =$3200 month is the minimum “they” need to live on.
I know of a COUPLE, living very “high on the hog” who’s monthly household income is $3000/ month.
Mind you, over many years they have been transitioning, cutting the cord, moving off the grid, etc.
No credit, minimal insurance, avoiding the massive surcharges for the illusions of Security, Prosperity and Convenience.
They get cash (which is based on their household size), food assistance (also based on household size), full medical, and $800 in housing assistance. This will continue until their youngest child turns 18 or graduates from high school.
Mr. Putin: This universal, indivisible character of security is expressed as the basic principle that “security for one is security for all”. As Franklin D. Roosevelt said during the first few days that the Second World War was breaking out: “When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries everywhere is in danger.”
Too bad we don’t have a president/leader who believes in this principle. Thank God Mr. Putin has kept a cool head and contained the Ukraine conflict from spreading. This is why I say the leadership in the West has gone full blown bananas. The last thing any sane person wants is a nuclear world war. Mr. Putin warned NATO for 15 years to back the fk off from Ukraine and their borders to no avail, yet this occupational regime repeats ad nauseum that Putin is the aggressor! Americans need to wake up!
Avoid higher wagers allow mass migration. Yep. Example of one developer trying to get in on the action near Houston, Tx:
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/12/20/colony-ridge-texas-federal-lawsuit-predatory-lending/
The markets are a JOKE. All these “highs” lately make no sense if you look at whats actually going on. Perhaps its just manipulation to help the current regime in the election.. Regardless, Im looking for a total off ramp. This whole thing is gonna crash hard IMHO…
The “magic” of America is the individual entrepreneurship that thrives when taxes and regulations are not oppressive.
Trump knows that and tried to release it from the government bondage.
We need him to finish the job?
If you had told me that I would ever EVER be envious of Russia…
Big wow. Love of country and BEAUTY. All things bright and beautiful…
Reading CTH is never a waste of my time and most days, I am astounded.
https://rumble.com/v3z09fm-crypto-doesnt-make-for-trusted-money-bis-chief-says.html
https://rumble.com/v442256-central-bank-digital-currencies-can-be-programmed-and-used-against-you-laya.html
Devalue the dollar and decree CBDC as the only negotiable currency backed by the US Treasury, …, by something. In a world where there’s no preeminent, recognized reserve currency, the currency(ies) backed by gold will survive and the rest will be running to keep pace. China, Russia, India and the Saudis have been acquiring gold hand over fist. In ten years would you have a currency backed by gold or one in which the US Treasury can track your every move. Holders of digital currency can be tracked and sanctioned soooooo much easier than in today’s dollar reserve currency world. Holding gold individually, of course, will become illegal in the US and any of the other gray countries.
Go back and see when Govt. first started talking about CBDC’S,…its been at least 7+ years, maybe much longer?
And yet we haven’t actually seen one, yet. WHY?
Because its one of those “seems like a good idea, but impossible to implement or actually make it work” ideas.
And the things is, the CONTROL it would POTENTIALLY afford to Governments, is SO attractive that TPTB just refuse to face the reality that they will NEVER convince the citisenry to accept it.
Si yes, they will try the old “manufactured crises” to use FEAR to force people to accept CBDC’s,…and it won’t work.
SD wrote and article a while back about prices for foods. One was a flip or reversal in organics vs non.
Bought 4 green organic peppers today at store .89 each
Two yellow non organic 1.99 each
A couple of points, regarding Sundance article.
The U.S. has been using its economic club to bully other nations for many years.
Hence, when these other nations saw what the U.S. was trying to do to Russia,, they were sympathetic to Russia, in part because they were cheering on somebody finally standing up to the bully.
And if you made a map of the world where countries (like the U.S., Canada, etc.) where many medications are “Drs Rx only” were colored yellow, and countries without such a requirement were colored gray, it would look like the map included with this article.
The situation Sundance describes, with prices being MUCH higher in yellow countries than gray, has always been the case, for “Rx only meds”.
The costs are 1/10 as much at least, for rhe same medication.
Does Big Pharma own WEF, or vice versa?