Category Military Script

Oct 30 2023

$105 Billion Military Aid Bill Breakdown


Armstrong Economics Blog/War Re-Posted Oct 30, 2023 by Martin Armstrong

America added an additional $105 billion in military spending on top of the $886 billion military budget set to be approved by Congress. We are spending far more on securing Israel and Ukraine than our own border. The bill will provide $13.6 billion in funding to secure the US-Mexico border, which is nothing compared to the $61.4 billion set aside for Ukraine and $14.1 billion for Israel.

The package will provide the Pentagon, America’s favorite money launderer, with $7.2 billion to directly fund Israel ($3.5 billion), the Indo-Pacific ($2 billion), and Ukraine ($1.7 billion). The $58 billion in total set for the Pentagon is a number they need to abide by as the Pentagon has never completed an audit and has had trillions go unaccounted for in recent years.

Ukraine has already received $113 billion in aid from the US. The new bill will provide Ukraine with $61.4 billion — $46.3 billion will be used to directly support the military while $15.1 billion will go to non-military efforts such as paying the salaries and pensions of Ukrainian neocons.

Israel’s own military budget for 2023 sits at $23.6 billion. This new package will provide them $13.9 billion in aid or 75% of Israel’s current military budget. America had already set aside $3.8 billion for Israel before the war began.

The budget also indicates America’s plans to go to war with China. The spending package will provide $2 billion in military aid to Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific and an additional $2 billion in developmental aid. All of these figures are the least amount America will spend on foreign aid as Biden seemingly approves a new spending bill each week when he’s not on vacation.

And what about America’s border? Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) will receive $7.8 billion. Trump requested less than this to build his wall and Congress shut down entirely. Politicians on both sides of the aisle said there was no funding available to secure America’s border before the mass invasion in 2023.

Americans are financing the globalists’ war games abroad. Our tax dollars do not go far on our own land. This is yet another spending package based on AMERICA LAST policies.

Jan 30 2023

Military Script – Has it Been Used for Centuries?


Armstrong Economics Blog/Ancient Economies Re-Posted Jan 30, 2023 by Martin Armstrong

Limes denarius (Lim-ace) or coins of the borders, may be another example of coins of necessity issued because of a shortage of silver in the border regions. It has also been suggested that they may also be officially sanctioned issues for use in regions where political unrest made it hazardous to ship large amounts of silver. Others have suggested that they were used to pay barbarians on the fringes of the empire for local work.

The most likely reason for their issue is based upon history repeats because human nature and its decision process will lead to the same conclusion no matter what the century. Therefore, it also remains possible that these were military scripts paid to soldiers on the front lines just as they did during World Wars I and II to pay locals. They would have reduced the need for vast amounts of precious metals on the front line. These bronze issues of denarii could have served troops on the front and been redeemable for good coinage when they returned to the stable regions. Whatever the reason, many of these coins exist. They have been often viewed as possibly “coins of necessity” issued during periods of a lack of silver. Some examples may still bear traces of a very thin silver wash.

A “Limes Denarius” were struck from official dies. Thus, these AE denarii official issues use the same dies as those intended for the silver denarii. However, there are also some that appear to be cast from typical clay forgers’ dies and sometimes may have been cast in molds. There are no written accounts of this practice within the official monetary system. However, if troops are paid with real money and they lose a battle, the opponent will then seize whatever money they had and use it to further fund their operations. If the soldiers only have a military script, then there is no financial benefit to the opponent if they should defeat your troops.