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.
totally agree
“Tell me if you see value in this video.”
I see a people proud of their nation, proud of their heritage, and proud of their society
And God ⛪️
And I didn’t miss the shot of the Hammer and Cycle. A nation that has faced it’s past and does not flinch from truth and history.
I see people that would be comfortable with the rest of us “Deplorables” at a Trump rally and inauguration!
And, having read Putin’s speech, am confident Putin and Trump are like minded, i.e., hate the unipolar, Uni-Party WEF ideologies/tyrants.
The video and transcript complement each other extraordinarily well. I can see why Presidents Trump AND Putin are being targeted with one smear after another. It’s their “type” that globalists, facists, neocons and other losers fear exposure to the world’s populations, and the consequences which follow.
The Enemies of the United States are woven into the rotten fabric of DC.
I see beauty!
The shade thrown at Friedman is a bit weird.
Neither he nor the Framers likely expected national suicide to become official government policy.
That shoe would fit Thomas Friedman more comfortably, IMO.
This Globalist when he says “The Rich Countries” that is Orwellian Doublespeak for the “West” aka “The Yellow Countries” in your map.
There is power in We The People, Colkitto.
Nice to see you! Hope you guys had a Merry Christmas & HNY!
Always so good to see you, too, dear friend!!! My, what a lovely little fellow you have introduced. Must fetch him a stocking with biscuits. What a good boy!
Happy New Year and blessings to you and yours.
Maurice Strong was a dog walker for Pierre Trudeau and the Desmairais.
There’s more to contemplate. What exactly are the unskilled imports going to labor at? Chip making? nope, Wendy’s drive thru? nope, truck driving? nope. What?
And how sustainable is the welfare handouts to them?
Seems more like a balloon getting over inflated to an explosion of violence. But maybe there will only need to be one imports vs people violence event to make the imports targets.
Stu,
A big BIG Pharma company here in Central IN hiring warehouse workers $17 – $25 / hour (or so the advertisement says). But, when you go there and go through their interviewing – they are ONLY hiring at the lowest $17 / hour rate regardless of experience.
The manager for the department is a foreign-born and barely, and I mean BARELY speaks English. That $17 / hour wage doesn’t support an American household in the neighborhood of this company, where the high rise apartments going up by the thousands with a minimum starting rent of a 1 BR / 1 BA being $1500 / month, plus utilities – or the burgers at the local Culver’s where they are paying high schoolers a minimum of $16 / hour (think 15 minute city) – how will the $17 / hour workers sustain such high costs of living? (At least at the Culver’s you can get a free meal while working your shift.)
We can guess, can’t we, how they are going to fill those high demand positions?
I asked a manager at this big Pharma company if they are also helping to facilitate arranged marriages, too, or are their workers living in cars in their parking lot? She didn’t find it as funny as I did and she calls it a “great company” to work for.
So they are just a storing and shipping house for their pharmaceuticals made in China or India?
Distribution centers the size of Boeing production hangars going up EVERYWHERE… completely destroying the farmland here… and Eli Lilly sinking BILLIONS into a big industrial R&D center on the I-65 corridor heading up to Chicago. I would say at least FORTY of them just in my neighborhood in just two very short years – all during a raw material / economic crisis. Things that make you go, hmmmmm.
Once the asphalt is laid, there’s no going back to farmland.
Nope, and that is a shame. We need farmland and clean water
They recently put up apartments near me, ruining my most reliable Eastern Meadowlark location. When this monstrosity is fully occupied by more than likely Mass Formation Psychosis Afflicted Liberals, the road at the intersection which is already bad is going to become a nightmare. They did similar projects where I used to live to change reliable Republican towns into Democrats with this same type of housing. They have where I live targeted as Democrats from other states have been spotted here, as its an early Primary state that used to be solid Republican. Progress=Progressive=Communists=Globalism
I am in blue area, small town in Norcal. There is a two lane road in and out of town, which cannot really bear the traffic well during rush hour. We locals know the side roads. to avoid the back up.
They have ripped out an apple orchard and old farmhouse and are building 80 units of low income housing on this road, in the middle of town. It will be impassable.when the apartments are occupied and adding to the traffic.
The “city planners” say the peoject is from the Feds. Part of Obama’s plan to destroy the suburbs?
Yes ma’am and sorry to hear. I think Dr Ben Carson was doing a great job in fending that off.
I love seeing farms,woods,fields, etc
Joe Biden’s disastrous plans for America’s suburbs
https://nypost.com/2020/07/21/joe-bidens-disastrous-plans-for-americas-suburbs/
Sounds like my former small town in CA next to Concord. Was a fantastic place to live for many years (2008 to 20022). Finally left CA 18 months ago. Sorry to hear the low income project will finally be built, that will destroy the very essence of my former favorite place to live in CA.
Another aspect of high density housing, and large cities.
Its easier to fall for the “overpopulation bomb, repackaged as Climate Change Bullshyte Con” when you live in such an area.
Stepping out on my porch, and being able to see for 20-40 miles or more, and yet see few signs of habitation, makes me laugh at such notions.
I am not disagreeing with you my friend, but I always point out, the Overpopulation bomb is another perfect argument against immigration, which I have said many times here, is the Green Bolsheviks Achilles Heel.
Yep, lindak. Sadly. And usually quietly at first… then all of a sudden… so the locals can’t protest.
Very Machiavellien
Hmmm
“Very quietly at first,…then all of a sudden so,..they can’t protest.”
How mass, crowd sourced pitchfork colonoscopies and lamposts ornamentations happen for $500, Alex.
Local politics is very important in this particular arena. Get and stay involved in your local township zoning committee. Fortunately where I live, the local zoning committee has been committed to staving off these attempts at mass, low income rental housing. That hasn’t stopped developers from trying incessantly to get agricultural land in the area rezoned to residential and commercial for this purpose. Many of the surrounding communities have succumbed to them and their demise as nice communities will soon be evident but most have no idea.
They have filled Colorado with high density apartments, everywhere.
Now we are full of low wage/no wage pot heads, and our infrastructure looks just like the New York subway
shitholesystem.Durango, Colorado has to let the vagrants crap in the alley because the ACLU sued when they were removing them. My wife worked in a main street tourist trap. Every single day, the one who drew the short straw got to empty the bucket they put back there at night. That way they could at least flush it, instead of washing it down the drain and to the river.
We need more east coast/west coast academics and lawyers running our state. Because it has been working so well.
I figured out the environmental movement was a lie while in my first semester of Graduate school for Environmental Management. This was when I used my Wildlife Biology assigned text books in a oral presentation to the class, to show that immigration was the driver for human population growth in almost every Western nation, and that the assigned class books, said multiple times that human population growth was the #1 factor for environmental degradation, increased pollution, increased green house gases, loss of wildlife habitat, and thus most importantly for the Wildlife Bio class, the decline of Wildlife.
Imagine my popularity after this exposure of the fake environmental organizations for not really protecting the environment by not speaking out/being against immigration?
I became a pariah for speaking the truth and for speaking out for the Wildlife we were supposed to care about.
If I ever seem a bit jaded to you I am, because of the many experiences I have had, not just with this, but also by running as a third party candidate, and being a Buchananite, etc etc
We haven’t had clean water in most of this country in over a century.
When they pave over paradise using hard surfaces, the porous, groundwater recharging surfaces also disappear. Civic-minded town boards SHOULD address the issue of impermeable building surfaces, as well as conduct traffic studies to avoid congestion and gridlock.
However, town boards have been complacent, if not outright complicit, in destroying our residential zoning laws. High-density ‘workforce’ housing developments are a YUGE part of the great reset.
Granted Judith.
A SCal friend was speaking of moving to Vegas. I was immediately grossed out seeing all the floaties in what looked like toilet water coming from the sink.
Eli Lilly is siphoning the water and do you think they’ll return it to the environment clean?
Yes… with all kinds of other interesting and similar companies surrounding. Many from chy-na
PAST TIME for BIG PHARMA to Be TRIMMED BACK
INDY, Grand Rapids
THEY Have Proven that BIG PHARMA IS NOT OUR FRIEND; It’s LIFESTYLE and Genetics
( NEITHER with their ” help ” ! )
oh, OHIO Gov DeWine – YOU, and iLK, ie. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital –
YOU SHOWED > IT’s ABOUT THE GREEN
https://www.westernjournal.com/gop-gov-vetoed-trans-bills-received-40k-childrens-hospitals-supporting-sex-change-procedures/
Lord have mercy, Quinn.
Don’t stand next to him in a thunderstorm.
Trump was right to pull his support from DeWine. His days are now numbered.
Because the other part will come from essentially UBI. I think it may already be here, just not visible to us.
Or just export the unskilled imports.
Domestic food processing, and distribution (picking and sorting and shipping in MASSIVE, pee-in-a-bottle-because-you-d0n’t-get-breaks, warehouse/distribution centers) of manufactured goods produced OUTSIDE the USA.
What America once was is gone. Get used to it. Our decision now is: what will we make going forward. Make America Great Again is NOT trying to recreate the peak of our manufacturing past. That’s gone. What will the new America be? NO ONE knows because we haven’t made it yet. Just turn us loose and staand back.
How about MAGA = political reform?
I wrote a piece that I emailed to Sundance for approval to post because of its length. No word yet.
But it speaks to this very thing and the fact Trump only has 4 years.
Gotta hand it to liberals and RINOs and their ability to wield a sledgehammer.
I hope he prints it JWoo. I’m sure its a first class article worthy of the New American or Chronicles magazines.
A service driven economy of serfs for the elite to vacation in.
Ever wonder why locals in Aspen have to become instructors if they want to ski? No regular person can really afford it now.
But my crypto-baby boss that I fly in on a Legacy 600? No problem.
In Miami, none of the burger joints speak English, so, they’d fit right in.
Fantastic reality punch in the face
MAGA stops this insanity and allows us to move forward and prosper
OK but let me be Devils Advocate here – what if MAGA is NOT successful this November? Let’s be real. We can keep our chins up, have faith, have positive attitudes but what IF Dems hold on? The question I really want answered is “what can I do NOW to prepare for that possibility”??
Then the Dems “own” the fall SALCPA. I believe that Trump will win and frankly the Dims want him to win, so they can throw this mess they created on top of his shoulders to take over the blame.
You see… when Trump is successful… EVERY American wins… including the organized criminals.
The rub will be how Trump will go about the wrestling of power from the organized crime syndicate never to rear its ugly head again.
It’s going to take an Army, a civilian one, to help him do it.
The Dims have no good ponies in the race – and that is all by design.
The formation of new and reliable militias would be a nice thing to see being done. Financed by the state and perhaps extra funding from private sources, maned with volunteers with strong ties to god and country.
They would be fabulous.
But for now, every state has made civilian militias illegal. They say that their National Guard is the militia, which we all know is a load of crap.
Here in the socialist land of Minnesota it is illegal to discuss forming a group of like minded people who would join together to protect our land. Just talking about it is enough to send you to the big house.
Meet at the tavern, as long as you don’t bring your smart tracker and the place isn’t bugged.
Raven,
I am familiar with the “legal” description you mention about “militias”, per – https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/190.06 .
I am not familiar with your saying,
clipped > “Here in the socialist land of Minnesota it is illegal to discuss forming a group of like minded people who would join together to protect our land. Just talking about it is enough to send you to the big house. ”
Would you mind referencing to me the/a source for your statement I quoted above , italicized and partially Bolded. In particular the Bolded part.
Save me a bit of searching around, please.
I know of more than a few, other than myself, who would like to know more about this particular bit if you can share the details, or finding out more regarding the legal aspects & such as mentioned.
Kind of like, “Asking for a friend.”, ya know.
I am aware of the implications of the term, “conspiracy”, etc., if that was where you were going with your statement IF there was some illegality involved.
I am wanting to know where to find the specific statute/law preventing folks from discussing how to prevent “trespassing” on their lands, or working together in cooperation to protect their property/livestock, from theft/predation, etc., that you would be referencing with your quoted statement from your comment I am referencing.
Thanks for your assistance, should you find the time to help out.
GOD Bless~!
JB,
I know I should always keep the “Wow!, you’ve got to be kidding me!!!” stuff in a file, and maybe I do have the document saved — somewhere.
For now here’s this, which is bad enough. The key thing to me within this law, especially when discussing something as close to the heart as protecting your property — trespassing — is to see their definition of “civil disorder.”
“Their” civil disorder, when it comes onto our property, cannot be countered with “our” militia.
https://www.revisor.mn.gov/statutes/cite/609.669
609.669 CIVIL DISORDER.Subdivision 1.Prohibited acts.(a) A person is guilty of a gross misdemeanor who:
(1) teaches or demonstrates to any other person how to use or make any firearm, or explosive or incendiary device capable of causing injury or death, knowing or having reason to know that it will be unlawfully employed for use in, or in furtherance of, a civil disorder; or
(2) assembles with one or more persons for the purpose of training with, practicing with, or being instructed in the use of any firearm, or explosive or incendiary device capable of causing injury or death, with the intent that it be unlawfully employed for use in, or in furtherance of, a civil disorder.
(b) This section does not apply to law enforcement officers engaged in the lawful performance of the officer’s official duties.
Subd. 2.Definitions.For purposes of this section, the following terms have the meanings given them:
(1) “civil disorder” means any public disturbance involving acts of violence by assemblages of three or more persons, which causes an immediate danger of or results in damage or injury to the property or person of any other individual;
(2) “firearm” means any weapon which is designed to or may readily be converted to expel any projectile by the action of an explosive; or the frame or receiver of any such weapon;
(3) “explosive or incendiary device” has the meaning given in section 609.668, subdivision 1; and
(4) “law enforcement officer” means any officer or employee of the United States, the state, or any political subdivision of the state, and specifically includes members of the National Guard and members of the armed forces of the United States.
Thanks Much ~! for the more “in-depth” reply~!
🙂
It appears that necessity in these times makes it prudent to limit replies in regards to this type of info.
I will make sure to pass on what you have shared with some of the folks I know.
That would be about all I can share at this time.
😉
Thanks again for your efforts to inform~!
🙂
GOD Bless~!
The Militia movement of the 90’s was crushed by the OKC false flag.
Do not meet, unless it is very small and NOBODY messes up and brings their tracker.
Instead, act independently and throw sand in the gears. Many, many ways to do that.
There was one town that stood down BLM and made them move on. They all showed up ready to rumble.
They love owning the fail. Feature not bug.
They love owning the fail and handing it off to someone else to remedy, so they can continue the grift.
They’re nothing if not good at feeding their evil pipeline.
And no, Melnic, I’m not dreaming at all… I’m wide awake and incredibly perceptive.
You certainly are.
“Then the Dems “own” the fall SALCPA” and “The Dims have no good ponies in the race – and that is all by design.”
This is exactly where I’m coming from – the Dems don’t give a $#it so does not matter to them. So…they “own” it – still does not help us prepare. I’m a prepper – prepare for worst but hope for best.
The cheap labour flooding into Canada is hard not to notice. Almost every new employee at my former company was from India. Incidentally my former company was Chinese owned with a very ambitious plan.
What I found interesting was a conversation among the Indian workers describing how many they knew did not anticipate the Canada they arrived to and were returning to India.
Sundance is hitting the nail on the head. When you don’t pretend, it all makes sense.
DD
ABSOLUTELY Dan Dale.
These migrants expect the “American Dream” – not trading one form of slavery in their former country for another form of slavery here.
When they realize the bait and switch – I believe… firmly… those illegal immigrants will turn on their new masters and will fight for a restoration of the Republic.
Let the weapon they intended to use against us be turned on them instead.
I feel it in my bones.
I believe your conclusion is correct.
Same here in New Zealand…we are building thousands of cheap state accommodation and filling with Indians…who work as uber drivers, pizza joints or selling mobile phones.
Yes, Kiwis have Jacinda to thank for the damage done to an absolutely beautiful country. She’s a great little WEFer.
Jacinda did her Eva Peron role and voila, gone like a petard in the wind.
Hah, good one!
Sounds like the USA from 20 years ago. I’m sure your country will be fast tracked now that the beta tests are complete.
God be with you and your country
Many of the South African & Rhodesian expats there and in Australia, have been talking about going back since they see the same cultural marxist-globalist revolution that destroyed their countries happening again
You’re dreaming. Even slave wages here beat anything they get in India.
It depends.
Those who get Indian slave wages cannot get to the Western countries. People who come are either some sort of professionals or kids of well-off parents (there are exceptions, obviously). Even getting much higher income in a Western country they might not get a level of comfort they expect coming here.
Here in Australia, even on our much higher than the average income salaries we live paycheck to paycheck (granted, we have a lot of kids).
My wife’s Polish friend says that a lot of Polish people are leaving Australia for Poland, because of the way prices are rising on everything, especially housing, and of the brainwashing of kids with woke BS at schools.
I’m not sure who, apart from people already owning properties, can afford to buy a house in Australia anymore. In our suburb (which is the last one before regional area starts), a four bedroom house costs a minimum of $800K AUD. A median income is $77K.
Stupid, immature people focus on the $ income, without understanding its relative to the cost of living.
Its like those who focus on M.P.G. instead of cost per month (for transportation) which is the only metric that matters.
That was once part of our education system – critical thinking skills.
Jwoo. How ironic that it is the immigrant population that is more attentive to the economic pulse than natural born Canadians.
I believe that here in Canada we are seeing God give them (natural born Canadians) over to a reprobate mind. The urban soccer moms who voted Trudeau because he was so sexy are now unable to put decent food on the table.
Many are furious at Trudeau. I learned today that a very liberal man we know in our circle of friends will not vote Liberal next election. That should be encouraging.
I just watch however at the church become increasingly progressive. There is no cure for a nation when those entrusted with the maintenance of truth and moral decency are themselves degenerate.
We don’t have a Trump. We have a Pierre Poilievre, who is in my opinion, the other wing of the uniparty. He is being positioned to reap the wrath of Liberal policies, but he will subtly advance the globalist agenda more quietly.
The reprobate mind does not have critical thinking abilities. It can’t see that we are trading one globalist for another. It is most disheartening. CTH is the only place where such truths are proclaimed. Those who frequent these pages are well versed in the antics of the uniparty. Most conservative Canadians don’t have an inkling of how treacherous the Conservative party really is.
DD
Sorry to hear that DD. I hold you in the utmost respect for doing what I did, running for office. Something more of us that can should do. One of my old friends got a town council seat, which is a good starting point. Protect your town, than move up to protecting your county,state,nation.
“Quotest.” I like it!
Dan Dale, what about Maxine Bernier? He seems decidedly ‘Canada First’.
Well, DD, we have to start somewhere. Take back ground little by little and pray that Canada has a reawakening. You would have thought the trucker convoy would have woke people up, but there are those who “go along to get along” thinking unity to appease the louder group a better thing.
It’s not better.
Revelation tells us that church is the Nicolaitans and when Jesus comes back, He’ll have a double edged sword to take out both the satanic and nicolaitans of the church who made deals with the devil.
We just know what side we are on… and thus in our David and Goliath moment… must trust God for the outcome…yet we should also have the moxy of David. David may have been a small, inconsequential by public standards, shepherd boy… but he had great courage and invoked God to win the battle.
He knocked Goliath out with a stone and then took off his head.
“I just watch however at (sic)the church become increasingly progressive. There is no cure for a nation when those entrusted with the maintenance of truth and moral decency are themselves degenerate.”
Bravo; excellent point. Francis is now openly allowing blessings for sodomite cohabitation, for example.
Does a thief fight for what he wanted to steal?
D.D. Same here in British Columbia.
I have been friendly with several Sikhs for decades all of them are entrepreneurial and hard working.
They and the Chinese I speak with do NOT pretend.
Many are maintaining or developing contacts in “ The Grey Zone”
However out here We have Europeans moving out.
It is impossible for an average working individual to get ahead her in Greater Vancouver or any desirable area of the Province.
The wealthy those with inherited wealth and welfare drones in subsidized housing ( slums) are all that are comfortable.
A Dumpty basement suite around here is approximately $2,000 per month. A detached dumpy house ( waiting to be developed in a few years ) will be around $3,500.
What’s going on is surreal.
We here at TCTH because of Sundance and the “ crew” are “ switched on”
Those less advantaged are slowly but surely being hit with reality.
Cheers!
My daughter lives in Austin, Texas and downsized from her 2 bed 2 bath apartment because prices jumped to over $2100, before utilities and her garage.
Now she’s in a 1 bed 1 bath for $1800. Insanity, like illegals, knows no borders.
The Federal Reserve PRINTED more than $5 Trillion to cover up the Political Insanity/Mistake of the Covid response. That is the source of you inflation. Also the death of hundreds of thousands of small businesses closed down by Politicians so that Big Business could monopolized even more.
Couldn’t agree more, kam. We live in a rural area with very small to largish small towns around. The number of small businesses lost since 2020 is heartbreaking.
They’re the backbone of our area, as there’s little industry, and they are the real America. Big business is just a term for bullies, greedy ones at that.
Yes, and Austin I understand is a leftist lunatic asylum much like ours here.
Cheers!
It is indeed, sadly, as I am a born and bred Texan. Cheers and G-d bless!
Trudeau and the other Socialist ilk want higher Density. So Calcutta and Hong Kong is where they want you to be. They certainly aren’t going to live with the Untouchables.
I have a work colleague lives out near Langley-have a combined income of $350k with his wife and two kids-granted a decent mortgage but he cant believe that they are not living a little more comfortably than they are on that money. He and his partner are not wasteful or extravagant, they are putting everything into paying the mortgage down, it’s the cost of living, childcare, fuel, healthcare etc is mind boggling. Not much different here in Australia either.
It is absolutely true that first, second and third generation East Indians are not happy with the huge number of Indians arriving now.
Too many, too fast.
The video reminded me of Ronald Reagan’s ‘Morning in America’ approach;
the transcript of President Putin’s speech lays the problem in stark terms – he quotes Franklin D. Roosevelt, “When peace has been broken anywhere, the peace of all countries everywhere is in danger.”
and that is where I stopped reading his speech because he obviously is not the leader that he thinks he is, having invaded Ukraine instead of finding another solution.
Many US, Canadian and European based businesses that had projects in Russia when FJB and his cronies decided to sanction Russia were forced to leave, some able to sell their business at a huge loss others not even able to do that so are not on that image of logos.
Currently am personally in favor of the US doing a nice isolationism stint, kick the invaders out and focus on our own Country’s needs, fix the mess we let it get into.
This is not your “MO” stop and think of what you just said,
“and that is where I stopped reading his speech because he obviously is not the leader that he thinks he is, having invaded Ukraine instead of finding another solution.”
He really wasn’t invading Ukraine but was trying to stop our invasion of Russia.
and keep nuclear weapons 0ff Russia borders.
I am masterful at talking myself out of a fight with beligerants, have done it MANY times.
However, a key part of that, is KNOWING with certainty when its not going to work, a fight IS inevitable and being prepared to end it on your terms. i.e. fight and win.
I agree, rethink your positions, and read the rest.
What video? The Russian National Anthem video at the end of Sundance’s article?
it looks its implying if we stop the bullshit and open our business to all markets and make America investable and great – our minimum $60 at the grocery store when you went in to just grab milk and some stuff will end.
??? You got that from a video with a chorus and orchestra singing/playing the Russian national Anthem behind a collage of video shots of Russian scenery ?
mixed with the article.
i mean the places look great right? not run down. no shitty. the infrastructure looked great.
even with propaganda if anything we were doing for 8 years to Russia mattered, there would some impact visually right?
and if making yellow countries isnt hurting russia, and we are hurting, then it appears just stopping the bullshit we are doing would help us.
Truth be told, a good drone-equipped videographer combined with a good editor could probably make Detroit or Baltimore look great from certain angles or 1,000 feet up.
So no, I usually don’t draw any conclusions about on-the-ground economic conditions from a well-done PR video that uses mostly aerial shots combined with shots of historic artwork and little girls prancing in ballerina outfits.
I realize I am coming off as a contrarian here, but I was inferring from the last several lines of SD’s article that there was a substantive video with information, and finding instead a music video, I thought it was a misdirected link.
I interpreted the video as an attitude of “Russia first” by and for the Russians.
That attitude is a parallel to MAGA.
Quite frankly, each nation’s citizens should feel pride and love for nation.
To me, the point of this posting is a reminder of the commonallity of all peoples with their nations and that this is normal, natural. Anything else is abnormal.
The love for nation and culture – how valuable is it to you, me , us???
I was wondering the same. So where are the solutions? What must we do to restore pride in our country and make the dollar great again? Of course I could just keep quiet and go away like I usually do but then I won’t get my question answered……
There has been much discussion of things that we can do individually and as families to prepare for the tough days ahead, as well as to continually improve and sharpen our awareness of the continuous stream of lies, distortions, and gaslighting coming at us from almost all media and most of the DC politicians and chattering class.
It’s way too much to describe in a comment or even in one article. No specific solutions work for everyone – we are all in socially, physically, geographically and economically unique situations.
My husband and I made it possible for our child’s family to live on one income so they can homeschool our grandchildren. They recite the pledge of alligence every morning
That’s an awesome generous gift you’ve given to your child and grandchildren. That required planning and sacrifice, I’m sure. Your child has been given two gifts actually. The gift of support, and more important, the gift of example.
What a great gift to your child and grandchildren? I am delighted my DIL is home schooling.
My son makes enough that she does not have to work, I helped him when he was in college. Glad I did that then, could not do it now at that scale.
I do books and note paper and art supplies and sewing supplies to help things along. I also made a container for easy sprouts for them (still under the tree), but I think she likes microgreens better than bean sprouts – either way – its an easy way to do it and have the children learn by doing and making healthy food for themselves.
They are revering God and teaching their children to do so. THAT is the missing link. Regardless, the video, as you say, easily make something look good with aerial or distant shots, but it shows Russian culture with its grand architecture and statues and all the arts. Ballet began in Russia, it is part of their culture. My folk dance had a Russian dance group from Georgia visit one year. I watched as men danced around the room on their tip toes, but I was mesmerized by their hands – above their heads, weaving intricate patterns ever so delicately and gracefully. Very clearly the root of ballet is Russian.
Nice perspective, Lolly. Appreciate that.
Happy New Year to you and yours…
The Russian National Anthem video at the end of Sundance’s article reminded me of Reagan’s ‘Morning in America’ commercials. It was lovely to watch, and lovely to see people celebrate their nation and am happy that the Russian people are finally out from under the hammer and sickle of communism.
Just disappointed that their leader thought invading Ukraine was going to solve anything even while he himself said doing so makes all nations unsafe when he quoted FDR.
There is a fine line that can become hard to distinguish when it comes to propaganda, whether from the USA aimed a the USSR during the cold war or from Russia aimed at the USA in this day and age.
Bessie, I would urge you to re-examine the exact timeline of events surrounding Putins actions re. Ukraine in 2022, a timeline that goes back well before 2014.
I did so last year and came to the conclusion that Putin’s moves in Feb. 2022 were clearly DEFENSIVE, not OFFENSIVE. Obama’s State Dept. / CIA clearly instigated a color revolution in Ukraine in 2014 and have continued to deliberately provoke the Russian Federation via its unspoken support of the Azov Nazi battalion’s shelling and harassment of the mostly Russian-speaking inhabitants of the Donbas region in eastern Ukraine.
Also adding to the provocation is the U.S. continued encouragement to bring Ukraine under the NATO arms blanket which our govt. knows deliberately defies Putin’s request to leave NATO arms out of states that border Russia.
Also causing Putin angst are the 18+ bioweapons labs that the CIA has been somewhat covertly operating in Ukraine.
I encourage you and everyone who has not seen these to watch Oliver Stone’s two deeply researched successive documentary videos about the Ukraine situation in the 21st century that he published in 2016 and in 2019.
Ukraine on Fire (2016, 1 hr 36 mins): https://watchdocumentaries.com/ukraine-on-fire/
Revealing Ukraine (2019, 1 hr 29 mins) https://rumble.com/vwy6pm-revealing-ukraine.html
I understand that; and can understand the justification, and need, for the special military operation. That said, the action taken is exactly what the swamp needed to have happen – they needed to start a world war to stay in power, and that is what is unfolding now.
and Putin is a dictator, and the deep state/swamp/neo-con/military industrial complex – whatever one wants to call it, is using that invasion of Ukraine to feed the war machine to the point that we are in the pre-hot war period, where nations are aligning for the great conflict.
Putin should have been smarter than that; but, it is what it is.
Oliver Stone’s documentary is a must watch; a lot of truth in there. But we are beyond those days now, aren’t we? Slowly at first, then all at once is upon us. Best to not romanticize either side in the situation, all this does by aligning with the propaganda is to distract from what we need to see to fix our situation here, and is not a smart diversion, creates a wistful mourning of what appears to be lost but only may be hiding under the covers.
The abused need to stop fantasizing that something out there is better and is going to come riding in and save the day. Our fight, and our solution, is not coming from Russia or comparing ourselves to them.
and the book “The Putin Interviews” by Oliver Stone published in 2017…
Exactly.
For me, after reading the transcript, I have even more respect and admiration for President Putin, he seems well versed in the many delicate and intricate ways the international community works and operates and answered the questions given to him directly and clearly.
As far as Ukraine, if you don’t believe their reasons for the military action (SECRET BIOLABS, ethnic cleansing of Russian speaking Ukrainian people in eastern Ukraine, NATO encroachment) then on what bases do you think he justified said military operations?
Touché
I do understand their reasons as they were the result of continued NATO bullying, led by the USA, about making Ukraine a member of NATO, and the killing of Ukrainians that were of Russian heritage by the Ukrainian nazi acolytes;
that doesn’t change the adage “Your actions speak so loud I can’t hear a word you’re saying” which is my reaction to the nice words of Mr. Putin’s speech from over 16 years ago. A lot has happened in the past 16 years.
President Trump is right – Complicated business.
Here’s Putin’s most recent speech where he says that it’s not right that Ukraine is bombing cities in Russia where civilians are while in the next moment declaring that of course Russia will continue to bomb Ukrainian cities where Ukrainian civilians are – quite a different speech from 16 years ago.
It’s war, the first casualty is truth. and, it was started by Russia. that’s true too.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/putin-vows-russia-will-never-back-down-year-end-speech-amid-muted-new-year
I will agree with you that a lot has happened in 16 years, diplomacy is very complicated business and the first casualty of war is the truth. However the direct targeting of city centers and civilians and the use of munitions on military targets are two totally different things but let me make one small point. Putin was a soldier first and then a statesman, he has evolved and grown over the years as one should and not in small steps but strides. When he couldn’t effect change through diplomacy he had no choice to fall back to force and a hammer sees all problems as a nail.
I wouldn’t worry about WW3 starting because of Ukraine, that will be winding down soon since all the $$$ has slowed to a trickle and Russia is handing Ukraine thier àsses from fortified positions with superior arms and better trained soldiers while calling up and training reservists for a push in the spring, Zelinski will be forced to surrender or flee with his I’ll gotten assets.
The situation with Israel and Hammas on the other hand is a very unpredictable conflict that could quite easily become the spark that lights the fire of a global conflict. My biggest fear being a false flag nuclear strike to kick off the whole thing.
There was eight years of “another solution”.
NATO wanted a proxy war to weaken Russia the Ukro-Nazis wanted a cultish mass-suicide and the Ukr/NATO oligarchy together wanted an easy steal .
Things just haven’t worked out as expected for them.
Guess it’s just sad, actually simply disappointed, Putin took the bait and now the world is closer to a world-wide war.
he VVP could not watch daily killing russians speaking ppl in the eastern ukr(14,000 of them since 2014) and ukr. to be member of NATO ..Bessie2003.
Indeed …
Russia – China Are on a Roll
PEPE ESCOBAR • DECEMBER 26, 2023
https://www.unz.com/pescobar/russia-china-are-on-a-roll/
But, but many years if appeasement worked out SO WELL for Israel….?
“Currently am personally in favor of the US doing a nice isolationism stint, kick the invaders out and focus on our own Country’s needs, fix the mess we let it get into.”
That would be the advice of the Founding Fathers, likely all of them.
Dig a trench around DC and push it into the Ocean. Then and only then will there be a chance. DC acts like it is the City of Rome, in charge of all the 50 states.
And Biden’s eating ice cream instead of fiddling
God, children, tradition, history, patriotism, human relationships, pride in one’s country. That’s what I see in the video.
All the things we used to value in America, and that have largely been lost.
But we can find them again. We just start today, each individual one of us.
Same thing I saw as well. Plus happiness. One thing you know about the Russian people, they will fight to the death to defend the Motherland.
Hopefully without another 9-11.
DEC 31 2023 – Travelling with Russell
I Went to a Russian (Chinese) Commodity Fair (During Sanctions)
Held in Moscow every year this Chinese Commodity Fair highlights the strong connection between Russia and China along with showing some of the many companies that are ready to import goods to Russia.
( 24 min 45 )
I’m just not sure it Trump if elected (not enough stealing or “immigrant voting” can send them all home without a civil war. And then what?
If you can’t send them all home – convert them to patriots.
I’ve been mentoring 2 girls for 3 years, 9 and 14. Their parents are illegal, but the girls are Ours. They are learning evil white lady things: baking, cooking American style, and the fine art of crocheting and knitting. A good dose of Conservatism is rubbing off.
The girls are a good contagion for their friends and relatives. Not all of them are Anchors. The family status does not make me happy, but let’s make lemonade.
Very nice… I salute you ma’am keep up the good work. 🖖🏻
I applaud your approach. They do not see themselves as invaders, and the assumption that they will act so even after they have realized they have been duped into coming here is erroneous. Make them our allies and we will have disarmed their masters. I know it sounds crazy, but it is worth pondering. And from a humanitarian and Christian perspective, it is the right thing to do anyway.
Having lived 5 miles north of the Rio Grande my entire life all I can say is, GOOD LUCK WITH THAT.
You are living in a fantasy world.
Go down to an AZ truck stop when the busses unload and tell me these are not invaders. They think they have more rights here than you do. And they actually do. Can you board a commercial US airline WITHOUT identification? They can and do.
My guess is you have not been directly affected and are completely clueless.
I have lived in this disaster my entire life. The politicians I voted for have been promising me for 50 years to close the border.
The High Road today is nothing more than a head on top of a pike.
You sound nice. We will not solve this with nice. 20 years ago maybe.
You have no idea of the anger of blue collar America being lowballed and replaced with a foreign workforce. But eventually you will.
I get it. I do.
The children are innocent of the sins of the parents.
The parents are thieves, stealing that which was collected from the citizens for other citizens in distress.
stealing jobs which belong to citizens and immigrants who come through the front door, honoring our laws.
The Christian thing to do is TO STAND UP FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS, not to coddle the SIN.
tigsmom,
The children are bystanders to their parents sins, or even could be trafficked here.
I think developing in them a love of our nation, values, and traditions is commendable.
Blessings
If that were possible we’d have done it already. Instead we are 20 years away from becoming an appendage of Mexico.
Idk… isn’t Mexico joining BRICS?
I don’t want to become North Mexico or South Canada… just want restoration to law, order, and love of country
2024 Presidential Calendar:
https://www.270towin.com/2024-presidential-election-calendar/
‘industrial civilization’ means US. Aka “Yellow countries” Cheers & HNY
I refer and ponder the yellow grey map quite a bit. In the effort to be pragmatic and prepared it’s a decent idea to be proficient in Spanish.
Southern part of South America is very Caucasian & European. Look up their demographics. Most people do not know this. I had friends from Argentina who had Spain/Poland background. I also had a Cuban friend who had Irish in his background with brown hair and green eyes. He hated communism as he said that puppet Castro seized their ranch. This fits in with Castro doing a Build Back Better marxist program of seizing the property,businesses of the “Wealthy & White Cubans”.
One of the premier players on the Argentinian soccer World Cup winning squads grandfather was a Scot that had emigrated to Argentina.
His name is Alexi Mac allister.
He now plays for Liverpool in in the English Premier League of Soccer.
( They are top of the league)
Cheers!
Ty Dek! One of Napoleon’s best Marshal’s was the son of a Scots Jacobite, Marshal MacDonald.
cheers sir!
IONA ABBEY & CLAN DONALD
https://www.ionaabbeyandclandonald.com/1-abbey-kingslords-endow-finance–superintend-build.html
Nice!
DEC 31 2024 – Travelling with Russell
Russian TYPICAL Supermarket Tour (On New Years Eve)
Are people shopping in Russian Supermarkets?
Are people spending money?
Agree, it’s Trump or bust. He’s the one who did it before and will do it again.
Here’s an idea for Trump:
Put the illegals to work deporting other illegals. Very cost effective. All NGO’s must be 100% illegals, no more whitey scoring big salaries off government programs.
It’s the free stuff! They hate this place they are siphoning off our wealth to destroy us all.
Or an even swap, two liberals for one hardworking Hispanic?
I can hear the Nazi comparisons now…
I like it but, I think they need to be building the wall. With the size of that workforce we can get it done on time and way under budget.
When we are done on the southern border, move them to the frozen north and build that wall. Leave a one way opening, pointed north/south, so they can leave when it is done. Any terrorists we discover can just….disappear.
Put the over 50% of them that seem to be allergic to work, in the kitchen cooking crappy food for that extra little bit of encouragement to get finished. Guaranteed they will form their own brothel and speakeasy so we don’t have to worry about that.
Or, since the American
RoyalsPolitical class has just fallen in love with endless war, let’s take a clue from…………..France.Hear me out.
Stand up an American Foreign Legion. Illegals who serve honorably for 10 years can get US citizenship. Send all the current perfumed princesses in the DC, five sided funny farm, to serve as their leadership. Anywhere but here.
The problem is to get one IA worker, you have to import three, since two-thirds of them are welfare. This is about the surest road to insolvency I’ve seen. “We lose 11 cents per item we manufacture, but we make it up in volume.”
right on the money, LW
We have a new division in our country, those who pay a double or triple fare, and those who ride forever free.
I used to say “we pay one underclass to sit around and blow blunts all day while importing a 2nd underclass to do the work the first underclass won’t do or is not compelled to do”
How quaint, given present developments
We are now importing a third underclass who likewise be on the dole, be on the free schooling and free school lunch programs, free rent, free walking-around money , etc etc etc
We’re now down to about 1 productive person supporting 3 non-productive leeches
Our national productivity is about 25% of what it should be
The national dollar-printing presses are going to over-revving the next couple years until it all blows a gasket and we get the Global default
“I used to say “we pay one underclass to sit around and blow blunts all day while importing a 2nd underclass to do the work the first underclass won’t do or is not compelled to do”
Agree, how quaint. Now they don’t have to just sit around. They only have to take a walk around my neighborhood and take a few deep breaths.
Productivity and completing tasks has become a real strug
I understand, SD.
I wish I did.
De-dollarization is not happening. In fact, 2024 will see a dramatic dollar shortage.
There is too much demand for dollars and not enough dollars to satisfy this demand.
Yes, almost every member of this administration is either a nincompoop or a neocon warmonger.
So we all justifiably despise them.
But this doesn’t make the demand for dollars go away.
Lol. Did you read the article with its citations?
If what Richard W. says is true we would be experiencing deflation. LMAO
Yeah, it does. No one wants to use the dollar anymore and so it devalues.
Pretty easy concept.
Too much supply, decreasing demand.
Or supply simply outpacing demand. Demand is up nominally.
They are printing more on paper and digitally. There is no shortage. There are too many dollars and they are becoming worthless.
What’s creating the demand for dollars?
On a micro economic level that may be accurate.
On a Macro level the Canadian and U.S. dollars are in for a rough ride.
Our local currency exchange stores here in our Canadian town have signs up saying due to demand Pesos ( Mexican) and U.S. $S are no longer available.
Cheers!
There are several factors that cause demand for dollars:
First: The United States is the #1 or #2 trading partner with nearly every economy. Yes, Argentina trades with Brazil, and France with Germany, but the United States is a large trading partner with each country. That trade with the United States is denominated in dollars. That demand is not going away.
The Eurodollar market is enormous, essentially unmeasured and unregulated. For example, an Egyptian construction company wants to borrow a lot of money to equip itself to build that new Cairo. It gets a loan from a Danish bank, say, $100 million. The Danish bank issues the loan denominated in dollars by creating a bank account, ‘Egyptian Construction Co.’ and making an entry in its books for that $100 million. The Egyptian company wants the loan in dollars to buy the equipment, and the Danish bank doesn’t want the loan denominated in a currency that could fluctuate wildly. That loan, and the interest on that loan, has to be repaid in dollars, = demand for dollars.
The Eurodollar market dwarfs everything else on the planet. It is probably over $25T, but it is unregulated so not accurately measured.
Who makes loans in dollars? For instance, China is the third-largest lender in Eurodollars.
I didn’t see any reference by anyone to the Eurodollar market here. It is not only the elephant in the room, it is a herd of elephants in the room.
Those two factors create demand for dollars, and will cause a dollar shortage in 2024.
I think you are going to have to explain your position.
Countries that are party to BRICS are starting to use other currencies than U.S. dollars to settle transaction for commodities. So there is a de-dollarization movement, but the dollar is still the reserve currency for the foreseeable future. Your position is that there is a dollar shortage. Domestically or globally? Or are we interchanging the term dollar for credit?
To Treepers I’d give this a listen:
Richard, your comment: = “In fact, 2024 will see a dramatic dollar shortage. There is too much demand for dollars and not enough dollars to satisfy this demand.” ~Richard’s comment.
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This article at TheConservativeTreehouse: =
“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.”
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By Golly, it’s 2024 already. … God Willing, we shall see what happens to the ‘Demand’ for the dollar this year. … Our political ‘Elites’ want to deindustrialize the USA, and many other ‘Yellow Countries’ on the map. +There’s a large political movement to make America and Americans poorer.
I plan to vote for Trump. = Make America Great Again.
At 2:15 in the video, one sees a section from War and Peace, the 4-movie version made in the 1960’s by Serge Bondarchuk.
Bondarchuk had the good luck that Stalin was gone and Leo Tolstoy was no longer seen as some sort of enemy of the state, but as a valuable part of the Russian heritage.
His film version of War and Peace is an amazing accomplishment: here is the Waltz sequence with the original music by the great composer Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov.
The swirling camera-work is perfect with the swirling music of Ovchinnikov.
Thank you for the link. It has been some time since we watched the film. I would also recommend another film, The Leopard. We watched the english version. It also has a waltz scene that is beautiful, and it portrays the end of an era – much like what we are seeing currently.
Russia and China are in very different phases of their cycles than the deterioration phase we are in. These cycles are coded into the algorithm in which we live. Every living thing goes through a cycle like this, including also companies and countries. It is really not much different than cycles in the commodity markets, where it is coded in that, in the bear market, seeds are sown for the bull, and in the bull, seeds are sown for the bear. I think of it as not just change, but forced change.
That was beautifully romantic!
I’m just slightly sad the downfall of Western Civilization is being documented on a medium that won’t survive. Bits stored on digital platforms will waft away like the smoke that marked where cities once stood.
Start hand writing journals of what is taking place. Write key events daily, whether you can put a lot of detail down or not, write what is actually taking place.
Print and paste some of the information you see online and know to be true into that journal.
We should all start doing that.
One day a single journal may prove to the questioning world that not every American wanted to turn our country upside down.
This is not only a practical suggestion, it’s also very cathartic.
My spouse died from a 2 year battle with cancer 6 months before the plandemic hit in 2020.
In order to deal with his death, and knowing we both were big Pres Trump supporters since we attended one of his first rallies in 2015 in Portsmouth,Va, I started a journal with my husband’s name at the top of the page ‘reporting’ what was happening to our country as well as our children.
It is amazing to read the entries since Biden took over.
Cool. I bet the things you wrote were interesting, and even more so now that uncle joe is running into all the walls.
I am sorry you lost your husband, Flova. I read he died before the insanity of the wuflu hit and thought in some ways that must have been a blessing. Imagining not being able to be with a loved one when they are sick or dying — due to a fake, forced lock-down — would cause me to go postal.
But going through all the insanity without your best reporter, one who could help you process the whirlwind, has to be difficult at best.
Would love to read your journal, and I hope one day your children and grandchildren keep it as the treasure it is.
Take, develop, or print and keep actual photos of the who what and where that are important to you. The digital cloud is an illusion. It can be gone in a puff of smoke.
Absolutely, Barb.
I still have photographs printed and keep them in a box. When/if the power goes out it will go out everywhere, including in the smart trackers (AKA current day photograph albums on smart phones) and no one will be able to see loved ones pictures again.
His speech laid out the exact consequences you spoke of, with regard to the cleaving that is taking place now.
It should no longer be a surprise that Vlad has emerged as one of the few stable global leaders. The US with all of its criminal corruption and activities world wide has done nothing but assist him in achieving that status. Putin is anything but stupid and has done just enough to allow America to destroy itself
When BRICS announces an agreed upon gold backed currency, there will be no good reason to remain using $$ that have lost significant value.
Thank you Sundance. I see tremendous value in the video and I understand. As in the past you are capable of drilling down and making the most complex seem obvious. It involves taking your eyes away from books and theories and destructive ideologies and simply observing the world around you.
There was a saying from the Vietnam era that “it was necessary to destroy the village in order to save it.” In this case the “village” they are attempting to destroy is the United States of America. These people must have never read or understood the story of Humpty Dumpty.
I see PRIDE and HONOR in one’s nation.
I understand what you are saying with the exception of your solution. I don’t at all see how we as individuals can Keep America First while those in power are determined to do all kinds of evil to ensure we are last. If there was an action plan written between the lines, I need clarification.
As usual, I’ve read the entire post, watched the video and read the transcript. Even read comments and agree with most.
I see the long term value, IF and once We regain control of our institutions.
But, if there is a short term solution to mitigate the devaluing of our currency, it’s escaping me.
I’m not an economic savant friend. I do think we need to crush the Globalists “Green” Flintstone’s energy scam & the Globull Warming mass formation hypnosis that goes with it. Immigration invasion directly contradicts their fake laws & propaganda. If that MFP can be destroyed, perhaps that could lead to the tear down of the Council On Foreign Relations Media Matrix.
as soon as you make America great in world value – the dollar will gain value.
as of now we are just creating a strong “enemy” currency, and a slave de-value’d currency here
I get it. I’m trying to figure out what to do in the interim to offset the devaluing of capital.
I’ve reread the article and I keep seeing or think I see, buy foreign currencies that will increase to the dollar and convert later, but I really don’t want to do that.
if we reopen busines with the world and end this yellow country stuff, WOULD it hurt foreign currencies?
if not, you might be right.
and if PDJT doesnt win, people might not be able to use any currency but one here…
That’s my point.
If you figure out how to buy certain currencies in this country, please do share that information.
As it stands, I still cannot send funds to family friends in Syria impacted by the earthquake last year. Turkey got millions from Americans. Syrian Christians received nothing due to sanctions and bans. Any money sent that was tracked by the US gov would have resulted in jail time.
I am really sorry what was done to secular Syria, long the protector of Christians & other minorities.
I use the excellent Barnabas Fund website for information, real information. My prayers for all the good people of Syria and your family.
Buy physical precious metals silver and gold (that YOU physically store and hold that) will have lasting value in either Gray or Yellow areas.
Watch the video:
I saw Church, wars, great infrastructure, great terrain, Boats dominating the ice, lighthouses, more Church, Saints…
Beautiful video. Very classy.
My America, the one i grew up, and grew old in, used to be that way too.
But now the Uniparty /Democrat/Republican/Deep-State swampy TURD people have now run our government into the dirt.
And the hateful media corporations aligned with that turd government works daily to destroy any class that remains.
Sad.
I see your point and know you are right. That said, we have not had a US Dollar since 1963. Let the US Treasury print constitutional money and get the ww1 parasite off our back, and tariff, and the monkey will descend from our backs.
So… we either destroy Communism/Marxism/Globalism/WEF/UN, etc., like Russia did, and become great again, or we suffer our fate.
I dunno… should I move to Russia? Sigh…
“Drill, baby, drill!”
Trump for Tyrant-in-Chief – I am totally cool with him extending that well past his first day promise.
the fastest way ‘out’ is sometimes through
After reading the post and comments and and respecting all the work and effort that SD put into this, I ask how do I take this info and make financial decisions for I and my family? I start out praying and asking GOD to steer me towards right decisions.
Sadly ,none of us have a crystal ball. I remember listening to Goolsbe years ago ,pre 2020 when he was on fox alot. Even with his U of chicago advanced education, he rarely could appreciate the success of DJT economic success. He would try to downplay it’s success,just because of politics. Sad ,that politics control his thought process
DJT’s thought process is based on what is best for the USA as a whole and that is what makes him so unique and popular to all on here and all over thecountry.
I have a good friend who had a high position in government for 30 plus years in finance and budgets. He’s mentioned the arrogance of doj lawyers ,especially when it came to plans on saving $ on projects and cost analysts. No company can continue to operate with larger deficits each year before they are forced to go bankrupt. Why does our government think they will be different?
Pray and help others
I watched it.
I see value in it…
Why do I feel the tears coming…
Because I watched…
I see tremendous value in it…
And understand, as I have done for a long, long time, what has been done to this once great America.
Great no more…
And that is why I am weeping…
Please don’t cry, we have not lost or given up yet, there is much to do and prepare for. We are just beginning to find our strength in the MAGA movement and the true Patriots of this country will never ever give up.
GIVE ME LIBERTY OR GIVE ME DEATH!
I love you, DG, because you have such a big heart…and a love of country, my friend. You have touched mine.
It is difficult for me to see not only what has been done to this nation in terms of destroying its beauty but also to see what has been done to our people, our friends, our families. And I include you in that, dear sir.
And I see because I, like you and so many here are paying attention. So many do not.
A new year will see more awakenings. I keep my hope and faith that we collectively have had enough and will dig in in earnest to turn our ship of state around, with God’s help. We will need it.
Bless you eternally. Bet 🙏🏻💕
Sundance, you are spot on! Succinct and great article!
If Biden succeeds in stealing Russia’s $300B reserves all bets are off. Countries will be looking for ways to get their money out of the West.
Soon the brainless dolts who run Wall Street and corporate America will no longer be able to play the arbitrage between America and the third world. This is the only thing keeping these embezzling morons afloat. It will get ugly, And it will be beautiful.
Arbitrage: the most important word nobody knows.
I don’t think it will be beautiful, but it will be ugly, for everyone. Perhaps beauty will ultimately survive.
Has Megalomania ever worked out!!
It worked in the first term.
To make a Dollars worth something they need to be based on something of value like Gold.
I keep picturing Trump winning the election, and all these illegals joining together to riot all over the USA making the Saint George Floyd “peaceful protests” look actually very small. They talked openly about violence if they didn’t get the results they wanted in 2020. It’s very scary, and most of my family thinks I’m crazy for thinking this is going to happen. Everyone needs to pray for a peaceful New Year in 2024!
I hear Kyle Rittenhouse could use a better paying job…
That is the scenario they want. Has anyone ever heard a plan of what they are going to do with these “illegal” immigrant invaders? No plan, means their plan is what you surmised. Your not alone, many of us here have come to the same conclusion
Milton would have gotten it loud and clear
Yeah, bashing him was a little weird.
Bernardine is smiling because she knows that almost 3 out of every 4 illegals will go on the welfare rolls, collapsing municipal, county, and state budgets, and driving these authorities to beg for federal funding, in the manner of the mayor of NYC as we speak. This is the Cloward-Piven strategy, and it does not depend on external pressure to accomplish its goal. Nor is the US the only target of this strategy. It is destroying the EU, and is a serious issue in places you would not dream of, such as Pakistan and Thailand.
We are being conquered and just watching it. Our so called team are all cowards and grifters. The GOP. This big stock market rally tells a lot. A collapse of many things is coming soon. They will all have many children to get enough money to live but where will they stay. Here in CA average rents are like 1500.00. They will have to steal or get reparations. Time is up. The election is almost irrelivent at this point. Grim but true.
What is it going to look like…hahahah Millions of migrants frantically having children to avoid deportation. The pregnancys will be paid for in CA with the new medicaid expansion Greezy just enacted, So if ten million just walked in there will be 20 million nextyear at the same time. Just as Cloward and Piven stated the welfare system and health care systems will crash. This many migrants will change everything you have known including the 24 election. Why do you think they are here. To vote and replace you. This is the big story so better pay more attention as crime and poverty skyrocket….
One only has to look at what happened in Germany last night to see what is coming to your doorstep.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/01/germany-has-fallen-mobs-military-age-muslim-migrants/
NO ” ANCHOR BABIES ” – EVEN the ” DACA ” MUST GO
IF they stay MUST REGISTER AS An RESIDENT ALIEN qrw
Who is going to do that and with what army? Ours went woke, the judiciary is a disaster, and our own congress will impeach any president who tries, if the CIA doesn’t Kennedy him first.
I thought that the anchor baby amendment was initiated following the civil war with its intent to assure citizenship to former slaves.
I think we need an executive order clarifying this. Alternatively, congress needs to pass a law clarifying.
Allowing people to enter this country illegally or on vacation just to have a child become a citizen is utter nonsense.
2024 would be a good year to get this accomplished.
American Thinker addresses this in an article reviewing David Rogers Webb book THE GREAT TAKING. (article is top left by Janet Levy) No, I do not understand but am really scared.
I too did not fully grasp all the financial dealings but I do understand the bottom line.
STRONG NATIONALIST LOVE OF COUNTRY, CLEAN NEAT HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS, NO ORANGE PURPLE HAIR OR TATOES LOOKS LIKE AMERICA BEFORE THE 60’S AND MORAL DEGRADATION OF THE YOUTH AND INEVITABLY MOST OF SOCIETY. WHEN I COUNTRY TURNS FROM GOD YO SEE WHAT’S HAPPENING IN AMERICA.
Currency’s value is created by the underlying production/innovation of a country’s culture. The US differs from all other countries in producing much higher value i.e., advances of standard of living. You see this in the SP500 performance vs EFA(Advanced Intl Mkts) and EEM(Emerging Markets of which China is now 30%). The SP500 has delivered ~10% annually since 2010 vs EFA 2.7% and EEM’s 0.9%. The differences between performances and currency values are directly tied to the levels of free speech and protections of individual property rights.
To think that Russia, China, Venezuela, Brazil and Turkey trading among themselves is going to supplant the US Dollar while these countries continue to destroy domestic free speech and pirate individual wealth/innovation bolster their leaderships is nonsense. Their currencies will continue to deteriorate as they have in the past. They will be forced to return to the US Dollar for stability in global tradeThe US has its issues which we need to correct. We have the US Constitution to limit government. Let’s use it the way it was designed.
john: I agree with you. The real threat to the USD is destruction of America’s constitutional republic and the nation’s productive capacity from within. By “within,” I mean Washington, DC, Wall Street’s globalist money centers (Blackrock, etc.) and America’s globalist corporate sellouts.
Focusing on the BRICS distracts Americans from the enemies within, especially in Washington, DC.
Hunt for Red October
Change the name of the nation, and the name of the currency, and the solution you propose is already demonstrating its validity and vigor – in Russia.
The bird high in a dome seen at 1:20 is spectacular.
When we were in the U.S.S.R. in 1984 we visited Saint Basil’s Cathedral, which had been turned into a Soviet propaganda trinket shop. At that time the beautiful white dove had been removed from the dome and was displayed resting on the floor below the dome. The bird was huge.
Looking up into the empty dome I imagined what it would look like if the bird were hanging there. It was hard to picture that bird ever being re-installed; in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Truly a glorious thing to see that dove high in a golden dome.
Truly glorious and a sign of how much the country has changed in 40 years.
At the same time, the United States of America has been following in Czarist Russia’s footsteps, running head-long into socialism.
At least that is what Bill and Bernardine are hoping for.
PDJT vs Joe Biden as seem through money.
I would like to point out what happens to a country that is run properly when sanctioned by the rest of the word. A subject my family can speak with authority on as we are Rhodesian and Rhodesia was hit by hard sanctions for 15 years after we declared UDI. When Americans came over to enlist in our army the exchange rate was 2 American dollars for 1 Rhodesian dollar.
It was difficult to get new cars and petrol was rationed due to the sanctions but my parents got by extremely comfortably just after marrying in 1976 on a combined income of 300 Rhodesian dollars per month as computer operators. They bought new solid oak, neo-gothic furniture and furnished their entire house with brand new stuff (curtains, carpets, everything) when they married on that salary.
When they emigrated to South Africa after the communist take over of Rhodesia they were only permitted to leave with one suitcase each and 1000 Rhodesian dollars. That 1000 Rhodesian dollars was exchanged for something between 1300-1500 Rand (I forget how much but that is the lowest range just to be fair).
The point I am trying to make is that in some ways sanctions are better for a country’s economy as it keeps the money inside the country and if you have what other people want people will trade with you anyway. Russia will be better off for these sanctions of run properly.
As always and once again THANK YOU SUNDANCE i Get it . my love of country and patriotism has never wavered it is my trust in those who are running our country that i have lost all faith in. remove them and the beautiful country we all love is still there so i do what i can and i prepare and i PRAY blesings to you Add rem and all treepers
R.D.
Tell you what I understand. The dollar is being abandoned albeit slowly by the rest of the world for three main reasons.
1) The FedGov is spending massively more than it is taking in and has run up a national debt at a greater percentage of GDP than at any point since the end of WWII. This debt will never, ever be paid back. So the entities that formerly bought US Treasuries are ceasing to buy it, since they know that it will eventually be worthless. This is forcing the Fed to print USD to buy the debt, accelerating the collapse in the value of the USD.
2) The incompetent amateurs running the US FedGov are in the process of stealing $300 billion of Russian government assets, which puts holders of USD deposits on notice that they could be next, if they displease the incompetent amateurs.
3) And at the core the incompetent amateurs are trying to impose an atheist-woke-sodomitical-green hegemony on the rest of the world. And they aren’t going to accept it.
America’s Ruling Class hates America. That’s the main problem. The solution is to split the country into the woke part and the normal part. And let the Ruling Class take the woke part and drive it into the ground and leave the rest of us alone.
My friend wanted to separate years ago from the nutty Liberals. So much of what he said long ago has come to fruition.