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.
The downstream investment decision if you believe SDs analysis is to own non Yellow Zone assets and/or short the dollar. There are many such foreign asset ETFs out there but you need to research that the assets are not “dollar hedged” and/or they hold local currency assets (for debt funds).
The best asset to hold is physical gold in your possession. Gold is going to be the trade settlement currency used by the non yellow zone trading bloc. It is about global trade settlement, trade deficits will not be settled in dollars aka treasury notes. This process is well underway and the Russians fired the first shot when they stated they will accept gold for their oil. ALL the inflation the US has exported since 1971 will come back and wreck the US dollar. The dollar is the most over valued currency on the planet and that is ending as we speak.
Honest question not intending to sound snarky.
How do you transact in gold…or am I going to be paying $1200 for a loaf of bread?
It’s called a scale
The scale at your home that the wandering hordes will confiscate along with your food (and gold) once the system breaks down?
At solari.com they have designed what you need to make small transactions using gold or silver. You’ll have to do a search for it, as that site is chock full of aids for normal people to understand what’s going on.
I think silver will also be a good store of value and would be easier to trade for less expensive things.
So will copper. Try creating tech without it!
Don’t know the situation over there but here one can pick up “copper” coins with a magnet. Seems the old coins real value outlived what one could buy with them.
Bingo!
day to day is done with silver and perhaps copper. gold is not for walking around money, gold is to store wealth especially in uncertain times such as these. not perfect but we all need just a little more…
Look at the way India and South Americans use fiat. They show us several important things as the Dollar declines. 1st, the Dollar is no longer a store of long term wealth; use something else like precious metal, real-estate, farmland, etc. 2nd, use Ag for smaller purchases and Au for larger purchases. 3rd, learn to think in terms of partial payment i.e. 1/3 paper currency; 1/3 hard goods of one kind or another and 1/3 Precious Metals. 4th, learn to barter price for small purchases i.e. “for this silver quarter I should have 3 dozen good eggs, not 30.” 5th, return to the teachings of frugality from the Great Depression and WWII: “Use it up; Wear it out; Make it do, Or do without!”
You may pay $1200 for a loaf of bread BUT that will be with paper currency Dollars. The Au & Ag price of bread will be much cheaper and who knows, bread machines that were a fad 20 years ago may once again return to counter tops as a VERY cheap alternative. You may also learn home recipes for bread products like biscuits: 2 cups flour, 1 cup milk (any kind: sour, butter, fresh, 1%, 2% whole, etc.) 1 teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon leavening (baking powder for fresh milk and baking soda for sour & buttermilk) and 2 generous vegetable spoons mayonnaise kneaded together to desired density and baked in muffin tins, dropped on baking sheets or rolled out the traditional way. The primary take away is to anticipate the needed future changes and NOT be afraid of them but prepared for them.
I want to know the same thing. Old time stock broker here, only gold you should have is jewelry, that can be pawned. Gold bullion is not used at the grocery store, elec company etc. Neither is silver bullion and where do you store it? Its damn heavy. The option we gave our customers was gold/silver mining stock or certificates. You could and can get gold/silver eagles as well. Still not sure how to pay for everyday items with any of that. I agree it is a good hedge against inflation but at this point not a good currency for daily expenses.
Am going to assume that a person could take some of their silver or gold coins to one of those places that buy/sell gold and sell some coins there thus converting to local currencies as a short term solution; but yes,
bullion, i.e. bars, are best stored at a place like Johnson Matthey or SD Bullion because there is an entire industry that has rules for verification and certification of each bar, which has to be re-certified at specific intervals to ensure they haven’t been tampered with or even stolen and real ones replaced with copycat ones.
We once had someone come into our office all excited with some gold bars that had been donated to their church, we brought our metallurgist in who tested them and they were a lovely mix of brass and some other materials used to make fake bars. So there are strict industry standards for bullion, gold and silver, and all the other metals. and counterfeit bars are a wide business too.
Jewelry, such as charm bracelets with small gold and silver charms might be a nice start; not too different than how jewelry in India is used.
Do you remember when Saddam and Qaddafi wanted gold for oil? How times have changed, and how their countries were changed by the MIC because of it. Kudos to Russia for (Biden) their time…
BNG, all-country / international equity index ETFs? how abt high-yield bond ETFs? grateful for feedback
If the Biden Regime keeps robbing the Treasury and ultimately the taxpayers via Trillion dollar money printing and giveaways to illegals/ etc… the dollar won’t be worth a grain of salt. Because the American people won’t stand for the continued abuse and theft of our labor/monetary medium.
You’ve got a lot more faith in the intelligence and abilities of the American people than I do. Faith, you must be a religious man.
I have faith in God, not so much in the intelligence of the American people. We are a house divided now, thanks to the morons in DC.
Sadly the American people have no choice but watch as their dollars become worthless. It has been happening since 1913. But not just in the US but also in all western countries tied to the western banking system controlled by Wall Street and the Square Mile in London.
The only mistake SD made was the short sentence saying “foreigners will stop buying US Treasury bonds”. This statement is incorrect. I don’t blame SD for making this mistake because the media is constantly repeating this lie. I once believed it too!
No foreigners are needed to buy the US Treasury bonds. The bonds are bought within a closed domestic loop. The Fed simply lends the money to market maker banks needed to buy all US Treasury bonds not bought by outsiders.
However, I think you can figure out what the outcome of doing this is.
Right on the money Wes!
Wrong. China, Japan, etc., are holding hundreds of billions in US bonds earning .25% interest, which are quickly becoming worthless. Remember SVB and why they crashed?
All spending begins in the House.
They will stand for it until the dollar collapses and their children are going hungry. I’ve come to the conclusion people will have to feel real pain to wake from their TV induced propaganda stupor.
When you consider that in Russia, abt 80% of its citizens are still believers in Orthodoxy, a particular form of Christianity, it seems clear why their nation is stronger than ever. Luciferians who control our bancs, commodities, bioweapons and natural resources are hellbent on obliterating anything that stands for God, family and country. It is written
This article seems to be a not so subtle hint to those who possess the financial means to get the hell out of the yellow zone this year… I’ll continue to stand in faith, thank you very much
Che la luce sia benvenuta!
Remain in the yellow zone, but take as much control of your life as possible. Quit relying on any systems about to fail, and that includes the grocery store.
off the grid and many other issues of ‘control’ are virtually impossible for many, hence rumor has it has the right atttitude.
Divine intervention is going to be the only means out of this. That does not preclude divine inspiration helping to be leaders for our opposing advancement.
No, divine inspiration and intervention by us. That’s how Washington defeated the Hessians at Trenton.
They also have a substantial Muslim population. No one mentions that often.
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Good quote. But the part that doesn’t make sense is the fact that the dominance of the dollar is what allows us to “get away with” steep deficits. But cheap labor isn’t cheap because they’re a fiscal net drain. If the dollar is being destroyed, and cheap labor is being imported to drive prices down, isn’t this going to cause the budget to implode? There’s only so much spending we can do to keep the economy moving, especially if internationally people become less and less willing to buy US treasury bonds and trade in dollars…
I think exploding our economy is the general idea. The people in charge of it have plenty of money; the rest of us no longer matter.
Yep.
The Globalist elites want to return us to serfdom.
No, they want most of us exterminated. That is neither an exaggeration nor hearsay. They have expressed it openly but also by the various actions that have enabled criminals to literally murder us, infect us, attack us and rob us.
Exactly. Why try to rule us when they can just kill us?
Exactly. Dr. Evil (Klaus Schwab) says as much in his The Great Reset manifesto. You can actually buy it on Amazon, lol. I’m not kidding! The globalists are so brazen they say these things in broad daylight now.
These insurance hikes are an eye opener. I have skills and tools for most repairs, but the majority don’t like to get their hands dirty.
Worth watching!!
He mentions Uninsured Motorist insurance coverage while talking about how ridiculous auto insurance has become. He decided to drop UM coverage while my opinion is to keep it.
I see more and more people choosing to “risk it” and go without insurance until they get caught. That may only be a week or two but that will be the time that they or one of their teenagers slams into you. I do not see all of these illegals males who have entered the country caring about auto insurance. They will probably put a temporary paper tag (NV style) on their window and drive around for months without real license plates and proper insurance.
About 20 years ago in Washington state a 22 year old American citizen was driving home from work about 11pm. She worked at a casino as a blackjack dealer. She was hit by a drunk illegal. Neither one had medical insurance. He did not have auto insurance. She did. He was given Alien emergency medical assistance in the form of Medicaid. She was given nothing. She was forced into bankruptcy. That is when I woke up to how much our Government hates us.
God Bless and Protect Donald J Trump!
Why do you think traitorous scumbags like Buffet, Gates, etc., are buying up massive farmland in the US? They are divesting from dollars. You should, too.
wtf are low skilled migrants fit to do besides use a shovel, far more sinister than that
Biden clearly stated in one of his garbled speeches that Americans needed to get used to lower pay.
says the billionaire…….or whatever the H he is.
Guess his pay (for the crappy job he pretends to do) will be cut by 75%?
I have wondered the same fragemall.
How many low skilled jobs are being planned for the USA?
So many of these illegal aliens are illiterate and many are criminals.
They are not going to easily accept being slaves for the global elites.
They do not come here to work cheap, they come for the freebies.
And if they do not get them what will happen?
I can make a pretty good guess, I hope I am wrong.
What happens when the welfare runs out for these low skilled migrants? They don’t seem to be working. They seem to be applying for gifts everywhere. Hotel rooms, medical care, food stamps, whatever else Joe wants to give them. Voting rights. When the dollar is gone out of their pockets, they will turn on us.
I think that is the plan.
Probably right Christina. I think the plan includes getting their votes as many as possible in key areas.
AI for the rest.
The cheap labor being imported is providing no labor. They are applying for cash, food, medical and housing assistance at a record level and receiving it. Washington state is piloting welfare for all for the Federal government. Watch the bills being passed by your local treas9nous politicians.
Yeah, that’s what I think is what cheap labor does. On the supply side, they push down wages. On the demand side, they’re additional mouths to feed, which generates demand as long as the government can pay for them.
But that’s the kicker. If the dollar is collapsing, prices are rising, and the only solution they can come up with is “more cheap labor”, then they’re only going to implode the dollar even further because they have to print more money to pay for the artificial stimulus.
I get that the elites pull the strings to their own benefit, but a true and material collapse of the government’s ability to pay for anything will just make people starve in the streets until they’re angry enough to seize what they want, and then society will collapse after that, rich and poor.
The rich are building bunkers and have private jet to taken to one of their many other homes.
Little Lindsey and company will work out a “deal” with the dems ; in exchange for a closed (ish) border, they’ll pass a “right to work” for the irregular immigrants (illegals). Uniparty wins.
It seems like this is intentional to ruin our country, and thus be able to control it, and us, more easily.
Correction: It’s gov subsidized cheap labor for their corporate donors. So, instead of innovation and efficiency the gov encourages the pre-Civil War slave plantation model. And they expect to rule the rest of the world with this mentality? This is what has been going on for decades. Everything gets papered over or subsidized for the corporate donor class. The rest of us plebs suffer the consequences.
The central theme of the video…..Putin pointing his country back to their Russian Orthodox roots. As someone who saw, from the inside from his time in the KGB, the results of a godless USSR. No children. No marriages. Soulless ugly, bland architecture, no beauty.
I’ve read probably 10 or 11 Putin speeches. From what I could gather from those speeches was Putin was yearning to do business with the West. He thought that was the best and fastest way to improve and modernize his nation’s economy, for everyone, not just the oligarchs. He comes across as someone who truly loves his country and people.
Which brings us to another fallacy constantly regurgitated to us, that he wants to reconstitute the old USSR. No, what he wants is to reconstitute Mother Russia, and when he watched ethnic Russians in traditionally Russian territory being shelled and treated like third class citizens, he acted with his SMO. 14,000 Russian speaking people died from 2014 to 2022 from Ukrainian shelling. Putin has said one if the lessons learned from the USSR is that trying to integrate a people or nation that has a different culture and language is a fool’s errand.
Typical Russian Grocery Store:
You can also find videos of Moscow and St Petersburg at night, walking the streets. No homeless, clean streets.
The Orthodox Christian Church has not been infiltrated to any near extent most “Western” Christian Churches have. Once you lose that Christian pillar……………………………..
If only he had become our president instead of Bush….
God bless Pat Buchanan. He told the truth. The money changers did not want to hear it
He was Alinsky’d before anyone even knew what that meant.
NEVER.
Buckley and Sowell have taken him apart. He does not take correction well.
BEing able to think straight does not make someone with an ego an automatic leader.
True Colkitto.
Putin is not in love with the idea of returning Mother Russia to world power.
He is a stone cold commie and always will be, he loves no one and has no interest in making Russia powerful except for what it can do for him.
He uses the Russian Church to control and manipulate.
As soon as it is no longer useful to him, and others like him, he and they will crack down on religion.
Pat Bucanan is long gone. He’s been replaced by the racist la raza nazi invading illegal alien border criminals. Good luck you you all.
Kipling wrote this for good reason
https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_stranger.htm
Kipling: The stranger within my gates;
He may be true or kind
but he does not talk my talk—
I cannot feel his mind.
I see the face and the eyes
and the mouth
But not the soul behind.
Agree with the other parts of the poem or not, there is much to contemplate there. It seems very out of favor or not politically correct to think this way now. So many people take offense at any hint of fealty toward one’s culture, race or country. But the truth has no agenda as they say. What resonates resonates.
Ron Paul is a smart man and should have. Even listened to.
His son, while smart, is not on the same
Level
I hope President Trump has a sit down with him
Yea, when I was about 9 years old, my Granny would slip me a quarter and 2 pennies. I would ride my bicycle to a neighbor hood restaurant and get a hamburger, fries, and a coke. 25 cents plus 2 cents tax
I’m 66 now. Went to a 5 Guys burger joint a couple weeks ago, 3 hambugers, 1 fry, 1 coke. A little over $40.00.
Yes, thinking in the general is uniquely important when your society has fallen into political corruption:
To put it simply, SD is predicting significant inflation for 2024, and I agree wholeheartedly – should be severely impacting the economy right about election time – with continued job losses – Stagflation.
I believe inflation is a feature as well, until they lose control (which they have).
Oregon’s electric utility company has raised its rates by 18% starting today. This rate increase will ripple thru the economy in an inflationary way.
Now that the Christmas shopping season is over and spring break will be here in a blink of an eye, so will higher gas prices. Another inflationary ripple.
I think the “board” needs to test out the 25kV service lines….
Won’t that spell disaster for any Democrat hoping to be elected or reelected?
Not for the stupid.
don’t you think the fatcat strategy is play musical chairs – get out just before the music stops and stash the profit. where to stash is the question?
Biden regime is set on impoverishing the American people because they believe we will be subservient to them. The American people must not allow these criminals to impoverish and weaken us as a Nation.
I believe the migrants are being brought into the country by the millions for the purpose of registering them to vote for demorats and demorats only. Look at how angry the demonrat constituents are in big blue cities; the party doesn’t care because they KNOW they cannot lose in 2024. But there probably is multiple reasons they are being used.
When I see the 10s of Millions of illegals deliberately pumped into our country and states allowing illegals to become police officers and Senators pushing for illegals to fill the military all I can think of is Tiananmen Square 1989.
Even the local CCP military thugs were unwilling to violently put down the protesters because they had a local connection to the people. The CCP had to transport in thousands of CCP soldiers from FAR away provinces who had NO connection to the people in Tiananmen to stomp out the uprising.
True WinstonS.
When the French peasants of Paris stormed the Bastille where the weapons for the Kings Guards was stored, the Kings own guards handed out the weapons to the peasants and went to storm the castle with them.
It was interesting to read Vladimir Putin’s speech in its entirety. I am always impressed with his clear and insightful explanations, his wisdom and intelligence. And yet, even as he condemns western policies, he couches his words in diplomatic language.
I think that one reason he is so hated by the western elites is because they know he understands what they are up to and condemns it because he sees that it is hurtful to the ordinary people of the world. He sees that it is hurtful to the US also, to our people.
He is also hated because he took over as president a country hanging by a thread over an abyss of economic and social collapse and turned it around, defeated the western-supported terrorists who were seeking to dismember Russia, and called out the belligerent intents of NATO. Russia in 1999 had a debt to GDP ratio of 114%; in 2023 that debt to GDP ratio was 14%. He did that by encouraging the development of manufacturing, industry, and small businesses, encouraging investment in Russia, encouraging the development and sale of resources necessary to the west and retaining control over those commodities as a basis of the Russian economy. He has encouraged a strong meritocracy, family values, and cultural cohesion that support the technological and industrial development of Russia.
This is the same path forward that America First intends and can implement.
Yes, quite a role reversal, isn’t it.
I believe he played the long game and pretended. Dr Beter said that the Western mind does not understand the Russian Orthodox Christian mindset. His theory was there were 3 world power groupings. The Russian Orthodox Christian, The Rockefellers, & the Bolsheviks. When the Russian Orthodox Christians took their nation back from the Bolsheviks, many of them went to America, and then the Bolsheviks swallowed up the Rockefellers. The Bolsheviks have a special grudge enmity for the Russian Orthodox Christians which we see displayed currently, and against the Serbs in the Balkans, in more recent times.
“He has encouraged a strong meritocracy, family values, and cultural cohesion that support the technological and industrial development of Russia.” ———- There is much to admire about his approach, but I don’t trust Putin in the least. There is a fine line between a grass-roots spiritual revival encouraged by leadership — versus leadership that drapes their message in religiosity for carnal purposes. One can hope both zones have true grass roots revival and leadership is forced to join the parade.
Unfortunately, I did not understand a single word of the Russians National Anthem.
I wish I could have understood it.
The video & scenery were moving to say the least, & in earlier times, I felt the same way when the US National Anthem was played & scenes of the US were shown.
If not shown, then the scenes would come from memories of my own travels & of scenes I had looked at in encyclopedias & other sources.
I do not think that the Russian peoples, or even any other nations peoples, are any different than US citizens, at least older US citizens, in having the pride that comes with hearing the music & words of their & our national anthem and the recalling of how & why the national anthem of their /our country was composed & the history that went along with the choice of any particular anthem to represent the People of any particular country.
Nationalism is the bane of the Globalists, but t represents the heart & souls of those who wish to keep their Identity as citizens of their own nations/countries & while willing to accept that there are many nations/countries…
THEIR nation is more important to them than the others simply because not only it is likely the land of their birth, but the land of their history & families history.
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Rant/ramble to follow. Skip if you are not interested in someones opinion/viewpoint about why I think there is a BIG Loss happening in the world today. Notably in the US, since that is where I live, but surely world wide.
In earlier times when I was younger, if the television was on, I went to bed sometimes at night hearing the National Anthem played before the TV screen went to a “pattern” signalling that the station was done with its “programming” for the day & a new day would come as the sun arose at dawn and once again, the anthem would play & then once again, it would start all over for the new day.
The Lords Prayer in some cases & the Pledge of Allegiance would be said at the start of most congregations of people. Be it a school, at a local meeting of some sort like the PTA, or the VFW/American Legion, etc..
Folks who were natural citizens would participate & it was expected that those who were naturalized citizens & even new immigrants would join in.
In the past… Even when there are those , who like mine, came to another nation/country, leaving behind their former homeland, they still cherished the traditions of their former homeland, and certainly tried to keep some of the traditions that they remember from their former nation, but, in the past, while they left their former country, they also were willing to accept that they were now a part of their New Country, a new Homeland, and as newcomers, tried to assimilate into the new culture, even though keeping some of the traditions from the Old homeland/country. ( Think, St. Patricks Day, Cinco De Mayo, etc.).
At the same time, they also adopted & respected the New countries holidays and when possible, tried to join in with the customs & traditions as best they could, trying to be a part of their new home.
I think, sadly… Very Sadly, now those days seem to be done.
We do not see much of that today it seems, or perhaps maybe it is just “me” that does not see the interest of those who come from another place looking to find a better home in a New place, be willing to accept that they need to adapt to the New & while keeping some of the old, accept the new as why they left where they did in the first place.
Unfortunately, I see more & more, those who wish to bring their old customs & traditions to Take Over the new like an invading force.
This would have been unacceptable to those who came into new nations/countries had the situation been reversed & they were having Their countries having newcomers moving in, not adopting the ways, customs & traditions of the new land, but yet they don’t want to accept that THEY are the newcomers & should be willing to be a part of the new nation/country they have chosen as their new homeland.
There is a difference between a legal immigration & an illegal immigration.
There is also a difference in , whether legal or illegal immigration, to try to assimilate & adopt the new nations/countries customs and traditions, or to just come & NOT RESPECT & try to adopt the New, but try to make the NEW accept the Old from the newcomers.
That last part has a descriptive word…
THAT word, is , INVASION.
Sundances’ article above, lets folks know that changes are rapidly approaching & almost here, if not here already.
Those of us who wish this country, at least in my case, the United States of America, to survive, we are going to have to take back what we had before, or we will lose it.
I don’t know how to do it, but I am willing to try my best to make it happen.
I am pretty sure there are others who feel the same way I do.
I hope & Pray that we can return to a better USA than we are dealing with currently.
GOD BLESS US ALL~!
MAGA
Words here!
Thank You Kindly~!
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GOD Bless~!
I, too, remember those years when the anthem, pledge, and the Lord’s prayer were woven into our day-to-day lives. Thank you for a beautifully written, heartfelt and poignant post. I share your sense of loss.
Yes, indeed.
Former immigrants were given welfare benefits and required to attend English classes to continue to get those benefits.
Now, the local welfare offices offer all letters in nine different languages and provide a translator for phone calls. Learning your new Countries language helped the new immigrant assimilate. They do not want them to assimilate. They want us to change. This is how a Country is destroyed. Learning English also helped them get jobs, the immigrants for the past 20 years are not looking for jobs. They want hand outs.
Nice Rant and I agree – if you aren’t an Intellectual Froglegs watcher, you sure should be – Joe Dan is speaking your language.
“Nationalism is the bane of the Globalists,” YES. Exactly. They make patriotism a crime. And here we have an example of Russia embodying all those traditional ideals that we used to have here. And they are thriving! And we are left with…stgflation. Such a crazy upsidedown dynamic.
Dictator.
Soft or not that is what Putin is and how Russia is ruled.
I get the economics and I wish that Russia may eventually evolve into something resembling a Constitutional Republic but that is not the current status. The Bolshoi is nice, been there and seen the ballet but it doesn;t sway the facts.
fair enough. Would you characterize USA 2024 as a Constitutional Republic?
Corrupted Constitutional Republic citizened by a brains full of mush populace.
Hahahahahahahahaahhahah………………………………
US polls done in Russia show that there is about 80% support of Vladimir Putin as a leader. It shows that the large majority are happy to very happy with their life and feel positive toward the future.
There are controversies in the country over abortion, over immigrant workers, but the proponents of each side are able to express their views. There is freedom of religion for Christians, minority religious groups, and Muslims in the country.
So, tell me, what makes Russia a dictatorship? Say, as opposed to the US where we are ruled by economic elites who are mostly interested in how much money they can make and corporatism that controls the money flow to politicians? Where Christians are targeted by law enforcement, where pro-life leaders are imprisoned, where we were locked down for a year with mandates for unproven vaccines, where crime and homelessness are rampant in our cities, where we are being forced to pay for unreliable green energy that impoverishes the working and middle classes?
We are in a police state, a soft one for now.
We are not represented, and our votes do not matter.
When they try to get you to say, “Just make it stop, you can do whatever with the government.”
Is when they win. This is what the globalists want for the citizens in this country to give up their individual liberty for security.
Our problem is here (not Russia) and we must deal with the facts of our situation not theirs. Do not compare apples with oranges and try with emotional appeal to convince me that the two are the same.
When the Constitution stopped Obama from more radical actions some of the people (liberals) just said let Obama be King and get things done.
Tell me that you can see the danger.
L drove thru downtown Louisville today – what an absolute shxthole – we used to have nice things like Russia does
Indeed, what a sentence!!!🎯
What exactly does the Bolshoi theatre have to do with anything? If you haven’t noticed our country is going to hell and handbag under Feminism and Leftist Communist/socialist Rule. Our country is literally collapsing around us… at a record clip. Atleast in Russia a white man can get a good woman. American women in general are on the Leftist Nut Train…. so their value as far as being a productive wife and mother is literally not there.
The video was of the Bolshoi junior choir singing Russian anthem that’s what. Very nice video but has jack to do with us other than the economic wall put up to keep us in.
Here here.
going to hell and handbag under Feminism….
Really?
The transgender mockery of females is in full swing.
Concern for the changes in the female reproductive system due to covid+shot as advanced by Naomi Wolf is non-existent by those who could effect solutions.
Women have not fought hard against the anti-abortion laws enacted by the States.
How powerful was feminism? If it still had a hold, would these examples exist??
I keep trying to make my feminist liberal co-workers understand, Men are now literally replacing woman on their watch.
“And let’s say things as they are – one hand distributes charitable help and the other hand not only preserves economic backwardness but also reaps the profits thereof.”
I’d say this statement is an accurate depiction of the US government today. Amazing that President Putin’s speech was so many years ago!
It appears NATO and the US government have always been the aggressors and the liars.
That was SUCH an interesting point! I’m amazed by his candor. If only we got that kind of straightbtalk from our politicians! Only Pres Trump and they are still punishing him for it.
“Make America Great Again” is still being looked at as an acronym on a red hat – not a national security imperative.
“Ike Was Right.”
The USA is looking aghast as billions of people around the world are now making perfectly rational decisions. And, if you were now faced with what these people now face, you would do no different. 🤷♂️
The USA is going to have to kick out somewhat less than one thousand people who, in retrospect, never should have been allowed to be anywhere near positions of power. And then, she is going to have to roll up her sleeves and go back to the gym.
You are never going to “rule the world” based on what you imagine that you used to be. But, I daresay that many nations would love to say to us: “Welcome back, my old friend! Is the clown-show finally over? Where the f&ck have you been all this time? Was there something in the water?”
There is a life-lesson in the Parable of the Prodigal Son. That a person (or, a nation) can be so utterly self-destructive that it drives itself as far down as it possibly can go … before “it dawns on him just who and what he always was.”
It is not less than 1,000 people, it might be less than 10,000 people, but it also might be more than 100,000 people.
At least.
Pride. And an actual ‘improvement’ in the citizens living conditions … far better than the current city situation in the USA.
He has rebuilt the soul of the people.
Biden regime is purposefully trying to impoverish the nation. Because he knows the majority support Trump (even more now as Democrats are tired of the BS Bidenomics lies)
It is true, as I saw this from day one as he, in his hateful fit, executive ordered out everything good and beneficial that President Trump had orchestrated. Biden is an evil man, possessed by an evil force. Watch his eyes as he hunkers down in those pathetic gotcha whispers. Sick and Puke. Never………… in the history of any Nation has this occurred to my knowledge, since the Roman Emperor Caligula. We are in deep shit folks. He and his cohorts know, as does everybody except the “stupid”, that he did not receive the most “legal” votes in 2020. A miracle is necessary for our salvation, and prayer by millions is called for, now. Praise GOD.
I totally agree with the description of the enemy as “these insane inbred billionaire genocidal whackos.” That exactly what they are. Their stupidity, greed, and arrogance, is destroying our way of life in the Western world . Why are they so delusional? I wonder if God has given them over to their delusions for a reason that we do not see at the moment.
Perhaps to force the apathetic and the wilfully blind to wake up, and realize there really is a battle between good and evil going on and it’s getting worse, and they had better choose quickly.
I think
the video was excellent and beautifully made. It moved me emotionally as I thought of what the world could be like without narcissistic idiots fomenting hatred and destruction. I feel no hostility to the Russia or her people, or from them. Russia looks like place of clean shining cities amazingly beautiful architecture and a place of culture and class, elegant churches and proudly-displayed crosses.
Why don’t these costumed supercilious loons in the W.E.F. etc. get a life and stop playing parts in some horrific fantasy-world game. Why don’t they get infected by their own man-made viruses?
I can’t see Russia attacking Israel and yet yet in the book of Revelation that is supposed to happen, as they join with the ‘Kings of the East’ and assorted unhinged anti-Israel psychopaths. But something big happens and the massive invasion backfires. It seems the invaders start to fight amongst each other, with the Lord’s help of course. I wonder if perhaps Russia decides to stop the attack on Israel, knowing she is on the wrong side and turns against the murderous hordes. I do hope so.
Someone please advise Vladimir there are differing points of view in the Western world. Think Trump.
Found in the bin… 🙁
I can’t see Russia attacking Israel and yet yet in the book of Revelation that is supposed to happen, as they join with the ‘Kings of the East’ and assorted unhinged anti-Israel psychopaths. But something big happens and the massive invasion backfires. It seems the invaders start to fight amongst each other, with the Lord’s help of course. I wonder if perhaps Russia decides to stop the attack on Israel, knowing she is on the wrong side and turns against the murderous hordes. I do hope so.
I am having trouble with this part, too, JB. blessed be he who reads this book.
It kind of makes me sick to know how broken and in chaos America is right now. We are so far from a moral, successful, but more importantly, a happy people right now. We are uncomfortable, angry, frustrated and most of us don’t even realize it or why it is there. This is a video of prosperity and patriotism. It is not America.
If Trump does not win and if we do not maintain at least one branch of Congress, we will wallow in the mess we have allowed to happen for a long time into the future. Looking still for bright spots, but it’s harder to find them these days. How very sad it all is. The control of the enemies is immense and they will do everything in their power to keep it and increase it.
The worst thing about it all is that so many people refuse to believe it’s happening. They just brush it off no matter how loud the alarm bells are ringing. God is the savior. I pray he wants to save America and help us turn it into an even better place than ever before, that He sees those of us who believe in Him and want to do what is in his honor, to be grateful for what He has provided for us. Russia still has religion in great measure. That itself is unbelievable to say since all religion was smothered during the communist reign. Christian Orthodoxy still survives and the moral structure helps hold the country together.
We need to do better and we need to fight for our children and grandchildren to have what we have almost now lost.
Some of the economics part from the article seems to complicated for me to fully understand. My life seems to be smoother when I follow KISS ( keep it simple stupid). My economics mentor simply explained it to me as MMT.Modern monetary theory ,which seems like what the USA congress has chosen or forced to follow. Where it is fine to keep in printing $ and that deficet spending is fine ,since there is no goal to ever pay it back? Makes no sense to me and can’t imagine how it could work for any individual.
If I have explained it wrong ,feel free to point out.
Pray and help others
The entire world traded with USDollars – from oil to widgets world wide the dollar was an enforced currency of empire. The other countries bought tresuries as in tribute to our ecomomic and military might. We went to war in the gulf to prevent the selling of oil in other currencies. We mandated dollars and all complied until the uncoupling that started with selling oil in gold or with regional currencies. The US sanctions against Russia flopped and further decoupled the world economy from US dollars. It is a downward spiral now – no stopping it.
I think you’ve got it right. But I think it only works this way if the monies are seen to have value. So as the money is seen to lose value, the confidence in it dissipates as well. Then the population becomes splenetic.
As a child growing up, I remember that at every church service, we never failed to pray for the conversion and freedom of Russia. That was back in the 40’s and 50’s.
As great and perceptive as you are Sundance, you are not the only one. Others have voiced similar thoughts, in particular Steve Bannon and some of his cohorts from the Trump administration.
Those dollars come home and make the current levels of inflation look small.
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https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2024/01/01/economics-finance-and-our-life-as-it-starts-to-unfold-in-2024/comment-page-1/#comment-10458699
Its the video plus the host traveling to that arena that gives it credibility
I love history, and even the ugly parts with warts that shows how wrong a position we as a people or nation too, I want the truth even when it hurts.
Most of my family, thankfully, all God fearing, and though most are all very conservative, they’re too busy and don’t follow the ‘facts’ as I and my wife do. Honestly, some “can’t handle the truth”. I’ve turned one onto Sundance, and he too is now a paid subscriber.
A. R. Roberts, there is hope, and you’re not alone in seeing a bleak picture, but we do have hope, and we do not fight for the the morons you mention. We fight for ourselves, our nation, for what is right, and we fight for liberty, a noble cause.
Sundance’ articles give me the facts that I want, often time in far more depth, and with more insight than I ever imagined, but I completely agree with his solutions outlined above. I firmly believe that for those solutions to come to pass, those of us who are believers must repent for the Godless state we’ve allowed our country to fall to. Now, I too bristle at such comments from others quoting 2 Chronicles 7:14 because I have not sat idly by. I’ve been actively involved. However, as the prophets of old prayed for God’s repentance for a nation gone adrift, they prayed acknowledging a corporate guilt.
I don’t need to go down the litany of ways we’ve divorced ourselves from God, and Him from our nation. You all know them as well as I.
In the natural, we cannot fix what we’ve broken, only with God’s forgiveness and mercy can we right this ship. I am praying for that forgiveness in whatever part I played, and for the nation that my forebears fought for with hope and anticipation of His favor and grace.
the video has value. show it here and maybe all the university’s will empty of their hamas loving students moving to the russian federation. don’t warn them they face the same fate as victor hermann did..
I just watched a youtube where they discussed insurance (home, auto, pet, boat, commercial, etc) going up 50% on the low side to 8000% on the high side.
The big insurance companies are not even writing new policies in 8 states.
Putin is giving his own people (no,not talking about his intel and what they do to other intel) what they want, and they seem very happy with him, from what I hear from the average Russian. He makes them feel proud; the country is full of monuments and pro-soldier sentiment; he celebrates the church of his people, who do the same.
Nationalism is not a dirty word there. I wish it were not here. It is to many Americans, too — because they believe this media is honest — but that’s because they are as out-of-touch as the elites. I wish we had a leader as pro-American as Putin is pro-Russian. If they don’t have PDT drawn-and-quartered by then, and somehow he manages to get back in office (not “to win,” which is a given), we will have, but the evil surrounding him has reached such a high that it is hard to believe that people who will go to these lengths will not “win,” (meaning “come out ahead”) as they did in 2020 and 2022.
As a former Cold War warrior, I’m shocked to find, in my old age, that what I saw as victory when the Berlin Wall came down was really the signal of our demise. (Of course, it ain’t over yet, but I’m sure you get my drift.)
Putin’s speech from 2007 is fascinating, if I was not told who it was and removed the mentions of European countries I would have thought this could be Trump speaking. The global threats had been addressed with civility and sincerity. The accusations against the US had been very accurate, just as Trump has pointed them out.
Ultimately the goal seemed to be that all countries grow and prosper into the future and still be an independent sovereign countries.
Compare that speech to where we are now. The US has started wars in many regions of the world and continue to instigate more and larger wars. Putin has appeared to be a very rational leader, and we seem to be an extremist country that wishes to kill millions of innocent civilians around the globe so that we may pilfer their resources. (Lead by greed)
If you did not read the Putin speech take the time, it is lengthy, but very thought provoking.
I see lots of beautiful white Christian people in the video.
I agree that de-dollarization is clearly happening and that we are headed for digital currency. My understanding is that this is being done because the whole debt-based financial house of cards is about to implode and this is what they’ve come up with to remain in control.
However, the plan has some serious flaws, particularly since they aren’t able to implement it globally. First, if nobody in the US can afford to buy anything, then how do the people who own the corporations plan on staying rich? I see in the top picture all of the companies that left Russia. Presumably they’re going to leave the “grey zone” or be kicked out. Seems to me that they’re going to lose enormous amounts of potential customers and income. Second, if wages are low and all the people are poor, why would illegal immigrants still come to America? You don’t see people sneaking into Venezuela. Third, how do these people think their children and grandchildren will fare in this new American shithole? Finally, the reason we haven’t seen a violent uprising or revolution is because people are still too comfortable. Its not worth risking imprisonment or death if I still have a family, a job and a house to live in. When people have nothing left to lose, they start thinking maybe its time to just start shooting the bastards.
If wages are low and all the people are poor, why would illegal immigrants still come to America?
Because our government is paying them thousands of dollars. Because they can freeload without repercussions. Because they can walk into a high end store and steal merchandise, again without repercussions.
I’m in my 70’s and brushing up my resume so that I can go back to work to pay for all their freebies.
Am I resentful? You betcha!
It may start February 24th.
https://rumble.com/v446adl-biden-scorched-earth-policy.-prepares-to-steal-300b-russian-assets.html
It starts with each of us. Setting aside the governmental aspects, which is often discussed…what other things might one do?
Many have lamented things aren’t as they once were and rightly so, wishing to a return for an American society based more closely on the ideals our nation was founded on. To reach that goal, it must start with each of us.
Institute those aspects of what you wish there to be in your own life and those of your community. Pray together with your family at meals and before going to bed. Fly a flag at home, if you have children involve them and say the pledge of allegiance when you raise it up. When you go out to eat, have everyone hold hands and bow your heads in prayer.
If you don’t go to church, start again. If your church has been corrupted like many have, either fix it or find a new one – but just like your country, try to fix your original first. Organize neighborhood events and use them to influence others – gently. Start a men’s or women’s group to discuss what is going on and ways to work together to improve things.
Become the change you wish and lead others towards the goal you seek. Remember, it can’t be done instantly – it takes time and effort. Just don’t give up. It’s going to take far more than simply fixing the government to bring back the nation that once was and it starts within.
“Escaping” from a totalitarian society:
Parallel Societies:
Always, always, always – pray for guidance, for others, and for our nation.
Saudi and the UAE joined BRIC the 1/1/24
SD made one small bo-bo.
Foreigners are not needed to buy US Treasury Bonds!
I once believed this media lie too.
It would be nice if foreigners did, so they can also be screwed too.
The US self finances all US Treasury Bonds not bought by outsiders.
I will leave it up to you to figure out the wisdom of doing this.
Putin was MRGA (make russia great again) before Trump came along. The speech is pretty amazing in its transparency. He just sounds like a common sense populist leader who wants the best for his people. He also seems to understand the gravity of the usa and russia being the two major superpowers. He even articulates what Trump said about Iran and North Korean. Show them that world cooperation can benefit their whole country! Why fight when you can prosper? He seems frustrated at all the roadblocks russians face, despite playing by the rules. Makes sense. And now, their MRGA policies are putting them ahead of us, thanks to Biden. If we had stayed america first, everyone would have been better off. The USA is doing what they accused Putin of in 2007-warmongering, arming terrorists, fomenting unrest. Incredible.
Certainly, I see value in the video. It portrays a very proud people in Russia. I would like to see a comparable video of the USA. When we have 80%+ counties voting red and 60%+ counties being Second Amendment Preservation Act counties the US does have a bright future. Add to this the willingness of the citizenry to self govern at local, county and state levels one finds strong future potential. Now, we no longer have Irving Berlin to write “God Bless America” but we can still use it and “American Soldier” too. Some of the Evangelicals have done a fantastic work making movies. Possibly one of them would produce such a video…?
That video and the music! Wow!
“19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: 20But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: 21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Book of Mathew – Chap. 6, verses 19-21 (King James Version)
The above are the words of Jesus from The Sermon on the Mount.
Given the comparative lack of any ready funds, those commenting here are actually quite an exclusive bunch, as most people are not going to be able to invest in gold or buy any number of things.
Ironically, if some of these commenters clearly ready to prep to the hilt are to be believed, there is general disinterest in these countless Americans who are not going to be survivors.
I don’t believe that that is Sundance’s viewpoint. He cares about more than just the top 1% surviving
I’ve mentioned this before, but no one ever responds. If $s abroad are becoming deeply devalued, the quickest, best, most effective way to offset that would be to end fractional reserve lending and require banks to house every dollar they supposedly hold on deposit. Somehow I expect that may be in the cards, b/c where I live (Miss river valley) there are new banks and credit unions going up right and left and they ain’t small. Wouldn’t be surprised if they add a wheelbarrow lane to the drive-up.
Ah, “It’s A Wonderful Life.”
This isn’t going to be a quick fix…the Cabal bastards (Feds and their minions) have over a 100-year head start on whacking us off at our knees.
Does Fort Knox really have the gold?
The companies pushing to buy gold now, will they put it in your hand so you can bite on it, or will they tell you, “Yeah, see, I sent you a piece of paper that says you own this much gold”?
Are we trading one Ponzi scheme for another?
”Tune in next week for more escapades of the Lone Fed Ranger and Tonto Pocahontas, his sidekick.”
A clear look at the current situation requires a cleansing of thick layers of propaganda and foolish belief that “someone will rescue us”, “there is a 3-D chess plan, we must trust it!”, or worse “we will overwhelm the enemy at the ballot box!”.
Chyeeeah right.
But…but…prayer! But…but…God’s got this! As we sit on our hams and smile with forced patience growing to terror.
Jesus was the ultimate intervention, there was a clear plan in broad outlines and some exquisite detail, but that was corrupted (and in a conceited, reckless way) so here we are, trapped with no easy escape. No manner of re-arrangement of deck chairs will save the Titanic and it is too late to discuss how and when we were warned of the danger. Action is required. There was a reflexive, understandable reaction to comments yesterday about organized resistance and the need for realistic assessment, casting aside prejudice, and working to protect ourselves. Well, the truth is painful and the financial actions discussed above are the painful future.
Young A.R. Roberts put it clearly with his observations, particularly the understanding that LEO/Judiciary are no friends of liberty and freedom. “Just doin’ my job” they intone as you are slammed into solitary confinement. Say it ain’t so, but tell that to the J6 victims of tyranny. By the way, where is PDJT on that matter?
Our financial health is tied to the behavior of our enemies. On a local level we’d better make close connections with like-minded neighbors; lone wolf actions are romantic but suicidal. Source food, find a way of collecting and purifying water, think hard about how you will protect yourself when the trucks stop running and the power goes out. The federal actions are out of our hands, but a crowd-sourced movement to turn attention toward national survival might be effective.
And of course all that preparation is under the covers as much as possible. A normal life should be pursued, but with a weather-eye toward the storm.
And the speech from Putin in 2007 is very instructive, notably this portion:
Incidentally, Russia – we – are constantly being taught about democracy. But for some reason those who teach us do not want to learn themselves.
I consider that the unipolar model is not only unacceptable but also impossible in today’s world. And this is not only because if there was individual leadership in today’s – and precisely in today’s – world, then the military, political and economic resources would not suffice. What is even more important is that the model itself is flawed because at its basis there is and can be no moral foundations for modern civilisation.
The unipolar model mentioned is what we should be fighting against. Putin’s words do not reflect a tyrant’s position, but are converse those of the WHO, WEF, et al.
Your first four paragraphs are fear-mongering.
Your fifth paragraph, while also fear-mongering, takes a large swipe at our LEO’s, who are protecting our communities the best they can. I believe President Trump did a song with J-6ers and the proceeds went for their defense. How quick would the Cabal charge President Trump with aiding and abetting “Insurrectionists” ?
Sixth paragraph: A lure?
The rest of your paragraphs you seem to have re-entered Sanityville.
While I always appreciate editorials and comments, yours seems written from a pre-positioned alignment from which a modification is not likely.
A quick search of LEO encounters reveals a mix, large fractions of which where LEO are neither conversant with the Constitution and its amendments, nor are interested in following law but instead are practicing “policy enforcement”, i.e. not the law, and are bent on acting-out their personality deficiencies. Of course there are exceptions, and of course many are simply serving the public good. But: do not pretend local authorities as a whole are on your side when politicians replace law with self-appointed fiat. Those are the same body of people responsible for jailing Doctors who resisted the inoculation orders, who arrested parents for speaking out against child pornography taught in elementary school, for praying silently at abortion clinics, for legally carrying a firearm in legally allowable conditions, for demanding ID when no such demand is required, and for using police dogs as unwritten search warrants. do you think on-line purchases, and those made in person with debit/credit cards are not being carefully tracked and cataloged? do you honestly believe the alphabet agencies have you best interests at heart, or are supportive and protective of the US Constitution? For example.
The judicial system is broken as well, with far too many specimens to count.
Fear-mongering and accuracy are not equal. If accuracy is creating anxiety, that matter should be addressed by each anxious person in their own way.
The treatment of the J6 prisoners has been an insult to anything related to our Constitutional Republic. PDJT has had numerous rallies, news and social media appearances, and little if any support for the confined has been voiced. Those people are his base supporters and…crickets.
I did not write to propel conflict, and I am sincerely sorry you did not take from my short note the subjects I intended.
Yes, I see the value of the video. I see a country where its population and leaders are proud of what they have become. Perhaps the lesson is that, in 1991, when everything in Russia had collapsed, they were fortunate enough to eventually find leaders that loved Russia, had foresight and intelligence, and worked for decades to make Russia what it is today. Perhaps that’s the message….that this is possible to do in the US, with the right leaders and right mindset of the population. Regardless of what you think of Putin, he is instrumental in the building of the ‘new’ Russia. Perhaps we have the same hope for Donald Trump, although sadly, it’s unlikely he will be around for 20+ years as a leader. Russians, for the most part, have a fierce love for their country. Sadly, we currently have a political system infused with people who hate the US, hate the majority of the population, etc. Perhaps the lesson from Russia is, that like them, we need to hit rock bottom, in order to rebuild a nation that we can once again be proud of.
The singing and video were beautiful. I always forget about the stunning work people can do with drones! It is a little painful that someone you were always taught was an evil dictator isn’t as evil as our current evil dictator. I have no idea of how to get our country back but President Trump does. Thanks to you SD, I know that we are a dark place. But we still have Jesus. He will “neither leave us nor forsake us.”
I don’t understand what you meant but I sure enjoyed the break from the gov’t/criminals in DC.
We are already seeing the financial aspects of the devalued dollar. My homeowners and auto insurance has skyrocketed. Also, even if inflation rates stop increasing or remain stable, prices of goods and services will stay at this new rate.
Same. Instead of an annual adjustment Pencil is now adjusting every six months. Our homeowners and auto insurance has doubled in the last year. Health insurance monthly premium has also doubled, $438 for a family to $910 for a family.
This beautiful hymn of grateful praise and adoration of the Russian people would not be sung here today. Gone are the days of Kate Smith’s rendition of “God Bless America.” Most of our neighborhoods are stuffed with egocentric residents preoccupied with their silly electronics and petty priorities that have zero understanding of what is coming. I’m not sure if we will ever have an Athens, Tennessee, moment. But if we want to save America and ourselves we must turn around the following in the order given:
If you have a collapsing dollar, no borders, and children pre-occupied with sexual navel gazing you reap the whirlwind.
cross posted at https://freedomaustralia.freeforums.net/thread/4559/economics-finance-life-starts-unfold
Either Americans follow the lead of the Jews throughout history (as recorded multiple times in their Bible) . . . or the United States, the dominion of Esau, is done.
Repent. Rectify. Beg for forgiveness. Promise God Almighty a real change of ways. Bring God Almighty into all aspects and institutions of American life.
I bet Russia is better off without those listed as having left or partially left Russia.
Jury nullification!!! Everyone who reads CT needs to familiarize him/herself with natural law and the true role of juries. If we take back the courtrooms we can finally restore justice which is how the marxists have taken power. Listen to the Quash by Legalman for a real education on our system.
The US media on Russian economic sanctions is very much the same as the media on the war in Ukraine. If you don’t visit the treehouse, warroom, or frog legs, you will not understand why Ukraine is so worthless to the US people and so valuable to the post WWII NWO.
BRICs versus NWO. Under Biden we are on the wrong team. Under Trump we are free agents and can play NWO off of the BRICs and get the best deal for our country. A strong dollar is essential and benefits our country, but not multi national corporations based in our country. Decouple from China. Bilateral trade. Monroe Doctrine. Raise the drawbridge and widen the moat. American (Western hemisphere, not Western Europe) people first.
Well put.
So, what if you have several hundreds or thousands of dollars stashed in small bills in case the banks crash? What do we do with it to protect against the de-dollarization?
Personally, I would pay cash for a piece of land. I would not have that much cash, because if the economy/dollar crashes that cash is only good for starting fires.
I wonder who is currently short the dollar? Soros?
After watching the video I’m ready to move to Russia. Pride of nation and it’s long, tumultuous history (all). I guess if we had to put one for the USA now we’d have to use Taylor Swift with the BLM riots in the background.
I remember when Trump opined if it would be so bad for Russia to be our friend. A beautiful video of a modern day Russia to be sure. Russia has many untapped natural resources, just as we have in our part of North America. However, Russia does not have the party of fools and RINOs that we have in the USofA who want to destroy this country of ours. In my humble opinion that if we do not stop the CHEAT in the coming election then we are doomed and all of money in paper, or gold, or oil, or whatever will not matter. We will be a third world nation very soon due to the horrible corruption within our government federal, and state, when combined with the influx of unskilled and low education hordes invading our border. I fear for the future of my grandchildren.
The value of the Video; I see Putin’s vision of “Nationalism.” His speech was in 2007. A lot has changed since then. Presently, he has different pressures from all arena’s… The present day economics you speak of, Sundance are a reality but what external forces are lurking out there in the ethereal for him and Xi that we do not know of yet…