Biden Needs $24 Billion More for Ukraine


From Armstrong Economics Aug 14, 2023

The blank checks are never-ending. I speak of the economic impact Biden has had on our country daily. This war in Ukraine has simply been the largest money grab in recent history rivaling COVID. Biden is asking for another $24 billion in aid to Ukraine. At this point, it is nearly comical because most of us realize that Ukraine is going to ask for aid indefinitely, and our politicians willfully comply because that’s in their best interests as well. They’re going to keep the war and money wheel going. Everyone but the people are enjoying the spoils of needless war. No details on where the money will be spent and why our politicians are prioritizing foreign aid over domestic.

Weeks ago, the Pentagon reported that they lost $600 billion in aid to Ukraine over an accounting error. Every supposed check and balance is letting that slide because Biden and the Neocons have become unstoppable. House Republicans say they will not vote for more aid, but there are Neocons who WANT WAR on both sides.

Absolutely no one with a sane mind is voting to send their money to fight “Russian aggression.” Times are not what they used to be and we do not have a common enemy. We have never had a common enemy. US politicians are ignoring the $31.4 trillion in debt that they cannot pay off. Postponing the debt ceiling debate was one of the main reasons US debt was downgraded.

Not everyone living in Ukraine is in squalor. There is a reason all top officials casually travel there like the airport is JFK. This entire scheme of Ukraine is going to cause an uprising.

Here Come the AI Regulators – the United Nations


Armsreong Economics Blog/AI Computers RE-Posted Jul 27, 2023 by Martin Armstrong

Most people are unaware that the agency that was created to regulate the international telegraph has seized authority over the technology of AI when they lack any understanding of the subject. This is the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and its global regulations are trying to now tackle AI. This is part of the United Nations agency regulating what seems to be expanding from communication technologies to computer programming. This is like a taxi driver assuming he can fly a Boeing 747. They have expanded their jurisdiction from telegraph to televisions, satellites, cellphones, and internet connections. Now they want to regulate AI.

I fail to understand how a non-programmer can even understand this sort of technology. As a programmer, even looking at my own code, I have to get in the right mindset to review it. It is not easy, and you have to insert notes throughout your codes because to develop AI, YOU OFTEN HAVE TO CREATE NEW WAYS EVEN TO DO CODE. I fail to see how anyone who is not a programmer could understand coding. Someone trying to review my code would have a steep learning curve. Coding is also an art form.

Russia and China have been at the forefront of a competing vision for the internet, in which countries have greater control over what their citizens can see online. China is far more advanced in censorship apparatus. Both Russia and China have now come out and warned against this latest move by the United Nation’s ITU and said that they “believe that any attempts to limit their sovereign right to regulate national segments of the internet and ensure their security are unacceptable.”

The ITU hosted its sixth annual AI for Good Global Summit. This brought together policymakers, experts, industry executives, and robots for a two-day discussion of ways in which AI could help and harm humanity. Proposed solutions from the summit included a global registry for AI applications and a global AI observatory. I am opposed to that for the next step will demand a copy of your source code for regulators to review. Sorry, but Socrates will then be turned off.

I was given the contract to manage the platinum holding of Aristotle Onassis. It took months to get approved to be able to trade at huge levels. The first phone call I made to a bank, they already knew the positions I had. Someone in the Commodity Futures Trading Commission leaked that info to select bankers. So much for government ethics.

Fingerprint Cards AB – One BIG Step Closer to Digital IDs


Armstrong Economics Blog/WEF Re-Posted Jun 25, 2023 by Martin Armstrong

The World Economic Forum (WEF) quietly partnered with Fingerprint Cards AB, the world’s leading biometrics company. The WEF has been discussing combining biometric data with financial services since at least 2016. Fingerprint Cards AB, based in Sweden, specializes in digital security and aims to make humans “the key to everything.” The company has installed programs on nearly every device, from smartphones to smart homes, and relies on personal data to access accounts. This new partnership with the World Economic Forum is intended to push forward the digital ID system in the quest for total control.

The United Nations (UN) also partnered with the WEF to implement digital IDs. As their video explains, they will track you “from the day you join to the day you part.” The UN wants humanity to store all their data on their digital IDs and, as with all invasive technology, markets the program as a solution for simplicity. The World Economic Forum has long said that the push for the Great Reset would require the people to surrender their privacy. The technology from Fingerprint Card AB was the missing link.

This company will use biometric data such as fingerprints, iris scans, DNA, and even inserted chip devices to link all of humanity to one centralized banking system. Going a step further, the goal of a one-world government would provide one centralized group with the power to access this data. Socrates indicates this plot will fail, but the road to failure will be long and destructive. Everyone will be linked to this global database, and it will be impossible to participate in society without joining. The WEF wants digital IDs to link to personal bank accounts for ultimate control. Gone are the days when the superior army ruled. Whoever controls the data will control everything and everyone.

UN’s Plan to Rule the World – The Summit for the Future & End of Individualism


Armstrong Economics Blog/WEF Re-Posted Jun 23, 2023 by Martin Armstrong

Klaus Schwab is a control freak in how he runs the World Economic Forum. Make a single mistake and you are in trouble. Schwab seeks perfection and he is taking those ideas and seeking to indoctrinate the entire world. He has his young global leaders infiltrating governments around the world as we saw in New Zealand and Trudeau who has been a one-man invasion to utterly destroy Canada once and for all and seeks to terminate its energy production.

But behind all these efforts and slogans that you will own nothing and be happy which has sent Blackrock off into buying private homes with the objective to own everything and fulfill Schwab’s agenda ensuring the average person will own nothing, Schwab’s agenda is far more sinister than most realize. He is perhaps the worst Marxist in history for he is strategically assaulting our way of life knowing that pushing the WOKE equality agenda has a specific goal of dividing society into groups to fight among ourselves while he and his authoritarian lords are scheming against everything that makes worth living and to terminate our independence and even our human rights.

Schwab’s plan is now being fully adopted by the United Nations. They have embraced the system developed by the World Economic Forum (WEF), which is outlined in three new policy briefs from the UN titled, “A Global Digital Compact, Reforms to the International Financial Architecture, and The Future of Outer Space Governance.

The sinister goal is to advance the United Nations as the new world government. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’s “vision for the future” is ultimate control and the daring scheme to monitor everyone just as Schwab does inside his WEF. This is Officially titled “Our Common Agenda,” where Guterres’ “vision” is to be given the green light in September 2024 during an event dubbed, “The Summit for the Future.” The UN describes this goal to control the entire world as “an open, free, secure and human-centered digital future.”

From the very beginning, the United Nations has seen itself as eventually becoming the one-world government power. They rejected the idea of freedom and viewed that they needed to control society for “unrestricted individualism is equally erroneous” so we are to be treated worse than a student in high school who must ask permission to go the bathroom.

The United Nations/WEF wants now to not just create a Digital ID for every person on the planet, but eliminating all paper currency means that every person on the planet must also have a bank account.  Schwab and the United Nations now want all Digital IDs linked with the bank or mobile money accounts. They argue that this will improve the delivery of social protection coverage and serve to better reach eligible beneficiaries. At the same time, it will track every individual on the planet. Do we donate to their opposition and have our accounts frozen like Trudeau did to anyone who donated to the Truckers?

They claim that Digital technologies will eliminate crime. How do you pay a prostitute or buy illegal drugs? But how do you pay the 16-year-old girl who just babysat your kids when you and your wife went to a show? So the homeless who are mentally ill will probably be imprisoned if they do not have a bank account – for their own safety of course. In the town I grew up in, we had what you called a bag lady. She pushed her shopping cart around and slept in doorways. When people found out she had a son who was a doctor in the next town, they were outraged. When she died, there was over $200,000 in cash in that shopping cart. Still, she preferred the homeless life.

Both Schwab and now UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres both speak in lock-step about basically regulating the global digital future and they see themselves as those on top who do the regulating of the scum people beneath them. We are no longer human beings, but we are seen as a plague of rodents, and the herd needs to be thinned out.

Of course, Schwab and his WEF along with the United Nations are all UNELECTED organizations seeking to rule the world using phrases such as “international cooperation” and Schwab’s favorite “stakeholders” who will come to surrender all our rights to them all so they can advance principles, objectives, and actions that they see as their globalist agenda to rule the world.

This digital future as envisaged by Schwab and the United Nations is going to be quite the opposite of open, free, or human-centric, however. You cannot have “unrestricted individualism is equally erroneous” and it must be one policy fits all. Is this not what Kiev is trying to impose on the Dondas outlawing their language and freedom of religion? This authoritarian UN “vision” for a future global financial system, is supposed to be harmonized the entire world with Schwab’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The problem is that communism collapsed because all advancement of society comes from the ground up – not from centralized authoritarian control.

This became self-evident in the 1959 famous kitchen debate between Nixon and Khrushchev. The entire advancement of everything came from human innovation and curiosity. Those are qualities that are not possible by the government. Nevertheless, all the lessons that Marxism failed are overlooked because these people seek absolute control over our lives. The world is to be ruled by something they call “the apex body” they intend to establish. Both Rome revolted in 509BC and overthrew such a body as did Athens in 508BC.

After Athens revolted and established Democracy in 508BC overthrowing what the UN and Schwab want to recreate – the Thirty Tyrants. Athens eventually collapsed in 404BC – two 51.6-year ECM cycles later. Nothing lasts forever. The Thirty Tyrants were the dream of Sparta. Athens was conquered by the ancient Communist State – Sparta, which never issued coins keeping with their rejection of private property just as Schwab is proposing and Blackrock is carrying out – you will own nothing and be happy.

Sparta rejected individualism just as the UN and Schwab’s WEF and they never issued coinage using these spit iron rods. This is the same agenda that Schwab and his WEF, the United Nations, and all Schwab’s young global leaders are pushing for – the elimination of all paper money and moving to digital where they can control every aspect of our entire lives.

The key actors here would be the UN chief, as well as the Group of 20 (Tyrants), the Economic and Social Council, and “heads of international financial institutions” which will establish complete and ultimate control over everything. This is the bottom line “vision” of the United Nations and their “Global Digital Compact.”

What they are conspiring behind our backs and mainstream media will NOT explain, is their sinister and evil objective to have people, devices, and entities, all tied up in a connected network that could apparently be centrally administered by them and subordinated to this unelected group of self-anointed bureaucrats.

Where is Joe McCarthy when we really need him? Schwab and the United States are actively seeking to subordinate the United States and are actually planning this future scheme and do not give a second thought to any negative impact, for they care nothing about individual rights, only their desire to control civil society on a global scale.

These ideas that always support their authoritarian world rest on the fallacy that a one-world government will end the war. That is nonsense. Just look at Rome and you will see many civil wars and revolutions within a one-world government. Here is the form President of France stating openly that the entire idea of creating the European Union was to create a one-European government to end future wars.

As I have explained, Schwab is strategic. He is forming key alliances always to further his personal view of a new world order under the theories of Karl Marx.  Schwab’s WEF has just partnered with a leading biometrics company to advance its own agenda to digitize humanity. Swedish biometrics company Fingerprint Cards has taken a big step into the WEF’s New Champions Community, an assembly of mid-sized enterprises.

Schwab wants to track absolutely every person on the planet and this is behind his promotion of biometric forms of digital ID and claims the technology would serve as a new great steward of humanity to eliminate inequality. We are to allow someone so sinister to be able to hack our minds to create “social inclusion?” Schwab’s Dr. Yuval Noah Harari, who when the history books are written on this endeavor, will perhaps go down alongside Hitler’s Dr. Josef Mengele (1911-1979) where Hitler sought to also create the perfect race.

This Dr. Yuval Noah Harari admits that the tyrants of history lacked the technology to hack humans but it now exists. Charles Burgeat, Senior Vice President of Strategy at Fingerprint Cards, actually said:

“As a proud member of the WEF New Champions Community program, we want to be recognized as a purpose-driven company that contributes positively to the changes needed to operate in the new digitalized world. By joining this Community, we look forward to brainstorming and exchanging ideas with peers, and bring our expertise of the biometrics industry.”

Fingerprint Cards have been losing money and it hopes by adopting the WEF agenda to hack individuals, it will become profitable. The idea is you cannot use a phone or access any bank account without your fingerprint.

Schwab does not believe in Adam Smith’s Invisible Hand. He does not understand why Marxism collapsed because it rejected not just religion, but also humanity. The individual was to be eradicated and children were taught that the biological parents were not real – the state was their true parent.

Individualism is evil. We are to be zombies that are nothing more than biological robots. Even the movie ‘The Matrix’ created a fictional world in which people still made choices. Schwab does not believe that we can be trusted to make our own decisions. To those who have been conditioned to just hate Donald Trump, look at this next clip from the London Financial Times. This explains that it was in 2016 when Trump was elected that they all came to the conclusion that we could no longer be trusted to vote. Democracy suddenly became Populism and it had to be eradicated. You now see this agenda of Schwab’s WEF and the United Nations and what they are really seeking to eliminate – your independence.

The United Nations Wants to Normalize Pedophilia


Armstrong Economics Blog/Ethics Re-Posted May 23, 2023 by Martin Armstrong

The most disturbing aspect of our “new norm” is this push to indoctrinate impressionable children to accept the woke agenda. I did not want to write about this subject because it makes my blood boil. But you need to know. This is starting at the United Nations, the global agency that is working toward creating a doomed one-world government. Reports began circulating from the UN in March about legalizing pedophilia.

“Sexual conduct involving persons below the domestically prescribed minimum age of consent to sex may be consensual in fact, if not in law,” the Geneva-based International Commission of Jurists wrote on March 8, 2022. The United Nations believes minors can consent to sex with adults and wants others to accept this as fact. WE NEED TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN! They even want to rebrand pedophiles as “MAPS” or “minor attracted persons” and label them as a protected class. I think they should be called the scum of the Earth.

Normalizing pedophilia is happening on an international level. This is part of the Great Reset. They are slowly implementing the idea that adults have the right to sexually assault children as they demonize all morals and values that once existed. There is no room for God in the Build Back Better agenda with branches that spread far. There is no room for parents either as children are molded by the leftist schools they attend as mom and dad work their lives away to get by with the new norm for the cost of living. The woke agenda is working to normalize this concept by introducing children to drag queens during school hours and telling them that they can choose their gender before they even know their ABCs.

Popular retailer Target, working to maintain that CEI score, put out a ton of LGBTQ+ attire in the children’s section. Target is now selling “chest binders” and “packing underwear” for CHILDREN. They sell shirts that say “trans rights are human rights” in toddler sizes. Toddlers can’t even use the restroom alone, but they can be an advocate for transexuals? Children cannot drive to the store and purchase the clothing themselves. Their brainwashed attention-seeking parents are indoctrinating them to accept a warped reality not supported by biology. As DeSantis said in a recent speech, pronouns were not an issue “until about two weeks ago” when teachers began demanding that kindergarteners choose their pronouns.


The video above discusses the books that parents want to be banned from school. “BOOK BANS? BUT HITLER!” the liberals scream. No. I think even Hitler would be disgusted by this demonic ideology. These books depict graphic pornography and are inappropriate for children. Even the man who made the video said the terms were something he did not need to know as an adult. He and others in the gay community are appalled that people want to bring children into the LGBTQ+ ever-growing arena. LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE.

We the people outnumber the ruling elite. They have to pit us against one another and divide us based on gender, sexual orientation, politics, and wealth so that we do not seek out those truly oppressing the people. “Gender-affirming care” includes childhood castration and sterilization. They say it is a conspiracy, but the writing is on the wall. THEY ARE COMING FOR YOUR CHILDREN; we must protect them at all costs.

The Contagion of War


Armstrong Economics Blog/Civil Unrest Re-Posted Apr 23, 2023 by Martin Armstrong

QUESTION: You have suggested that we will end up at war with China, Russia, North Korea, and even Iran simultaneously. How does Socrates conclude such an event that perhaps never happened in the past?

ER

ANSWER: Your assumption that such a thing has never happened is not correct. Periods of war of this nature unfold like a contagion of the flu. The English Civil War (1642-1652) which ended with the beheading of the King in 1649 was instigated using religion as the rallying cry.

In France, there was also an uprising that dramatically interrupted monarchy in 1648 by the uprising of a series of challenges to the absolutism of the King that came to be known collectively as the Fronde.  The Fronde (1648-1653) plunged France into civil disorder.  The king was even driven from his capital as several provinces revolted. This was a revolution demanding a right to participate in government. When the Fronde ended, the king was restored to absolute royal authority.

Of course, the Fronde may not have changed the French system of government, but it set the stage for the final French Revolution. Nevertheless, the American Revolution then spread with that spirit to overthrow monarchy becoming the France Revolution in 1789.

Throughout history, if we correlate the civil uprisings and forget about the claimed cause, we will see an amazing correlation. Throughout Europe, there was the communist revolution that spread to all the countries in 1848. When you allow the computer to correlate the world, what pops up is that the same Communist Revolution spread to Spanish Latin America, with Revolutions that appeared in New Granada that led to the fall of the government there.

Looking closer, you will see in Brazil there was the Praieira Revolt between 1848-1852. You also see the Mexican-American War, which was also in part inspired by the Battle of the Alamo (February 23 – March 6, 1836).

If we look closely, we will see that 1848 was a”world revolution” for revolutions broke out almost simultaneously in fifty countries from Europe down to Brazil. This era created resentments that lingered beyond domestic revolution and international war just as the reparation payments demanded by the French following WWI led to the rise of Hitler and WWII. The Revolutions of 1848 set the stage for the period that continued into 1880, marking a bloody century with 177 different conflicts.

Even the American Civil War ended slavery and became a contagion that spread to Russia and inspired the 1861 termination of serfdom in Russia.

Socrates has correlated everything. I am sad to report that we are looking at a global uprising. This time, it will be our pretend democracies that are no different than authoritarian monarchies that meet their demise post-2032.

Who’s “They”?


Posted originally on the CTH on April 7, 2023 | Sundance 

A follow up to a series of events that is soon to get very deep in this site…

The second most asked question when talking about national political corruption is the question, “who’s they?”   We often hear the opaque term “they”, but no one seems to give accurate context to it, so I will.

However, before getting to that point, allow me to begin with the end in mind.

If you want to know the most important thing you can do to save Our Republic, then first – get right with God.  Get right with the purpose of the mission, before you even think about packing a bag to begin the effort.  You ain’t got to be perfect, far from it, scruffy and messy works well; but you have got to be dead-plumb raw in admitting and accepting your fallible disposition. In many ways this is what “living your best life” is all about.  As eloquently shared:

…”There is nothing more powerful in the universe than being connected and aligned with power of infinite truth, infinite strength, infinite well-being, infinite love, infinite joy, and all the other positive emotional feelings and desires that we humans desire.”

If you want to harness that power for your own life and purpose, get right.

Now, having read the responses to the previous question, it’s obvious we have a lot of new friends here.  As I dive into sharing the details of our current national political construct, a baseline about party politics is needed.

If you think “Republicans” are the solution, then you don’t understand the construct of the ‘Big Club.’

Political parties were created to present you with: (1) a controlled outlet for your focus (pro-tip the Big Club “they” control it); and (2) the illusion of choice.

Now there are some differences between the two political parties – between the two wings of the same DC vulture.

• The DNC wants power. The RNC wants money.
• The DNC uses money to get power. The RNC use power to get money.
• The ideology of the DNC drives their donor activity. The ideology of the donors drives the RNC ideology.

This is the essential difference in their business models.  This is also how the system works when you think about ‘money’ and raw ‘ideological power’.

Let me give you an example in current culture, around “wokeism“.

The social and cultural ideology of the left-wing is clear; they are pushing ideology.  However, when you look at the right-wing corporate response, notice the focus is on money.  The left is pushing a cultural revolution; the right is seeking to gain money in (a) corporate alignment, or (b) velvet-gloved combat against it.

The leftist ideology advances. Notice there is no ideological pushback against the cultural revolution from Congress.  Why?… Money

Democrats know if they want to advance ideology, simply find a mechanism to pay Republicans.  Easy peasy.

♦ Ukraine.  IDEOLOGY: The agenda of the left-wing (Dems) is clear; they are pushing for an expanded totalitarian globalist agenda.  MONEY: The right-wing response to the Ukraine ideology, is money.  Congress funds the industrial military machine, the military contractors.  The contractors repay politicians.

The globalist ideology advances.  Notice, there is no ideological pushback against the White House and U.S. State Dept foreign policy from Congress.

Why?… money.

If you are an institution (or individual) and your enterprise needs power to advance your interests (think Big Tech), you align with Democrats.   If you are an institution (or individual) and your enterprise needs money to advance your interests (think Wall St), you align with Republicans.

The left-wing wants power to advance ideology. The right-wing wants money.  That’s why the Republicans never stop any of the Democrats’ ideological gains.

♦ Elections. IDEOLOGY: The ballot-harvesting agenda of the left-wing (DNC/dems) is clear; they have thousands of networked groups funded by donor activity (Zuckerbucks etc.), organized in every community to assemble ballots.  MONEY: The right-wing response is to see the opportunity for fundraising…. Meanwhile, a massive network known as True The Vote, Catherine Englebrecht, with an army of skilled voter integrity grassroots operations, easily retooled to a ballot collection network, sits untapped.

This is the nature of the system that distracts us.  Two wings of the same vulture. This is the inherent nature of U.S. politics in the big picture, and I can get as granular and specific as anyone might need – including the propositions for why club candidates are selected within the ‘illusion of choice’ game.

Back to the question: “Who’s they?

♦ Consider the scale.  Donald Trump is falsely prosecuted for a non-existent crime and tens of thousands of Americans send money to his campaign to show support.  According to media outlets, Trump raised over $10 million in a few days from the average MAGA American.   There are also claims that Ron DeSantis raised $30 million in the last few months from billionaires, hedge funds, Wall Street and multinational corporations during his not-a-campaign book tour.

Sounds good right?  Well….

For scale, former Dianne Feinstein staffer Dan Jones, left the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in order to work as the liaison between private interests, contractors and government officials in the stop-Trump campaign. Within a week, Dan Jones created the Penn Quarter Group and raised $50 million to spend on the effort….

…. “They” gave it to him.

There are various “theys” within the system.   One set of ‘theys” are the multinationals and billionaire donors who control the levers of power behind the Potemkin village we call Washington DC.   George Carlin called them ‘the big club.’

The other set of “theys”, that few people talk about, are the operatives who work as the guards for the system.   This is where the United States intelligence community, various opaque government agencies, and federal intelligence contractors come into play.   I have met the participants.

The guards are paid to run domestic surveillance operations that are then funneled into the U.S. Justice System for official targeting operations conducted by the DOJ and FBI.  These are tradecraft agents within quasi government agencies, most federal contract agencies, that target politicians and influential people with the specific intent on gaining leverage, blackmail, information etc, for use by those who retain and protect the system.

You could call these the “seven ways to Sunday crowd”, as defined by Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.   Or you could call these people the “FBI contractors” who have access to the NSA database as part of their operational mission to conduct surveillance and create the files that ultimately end up with the “seven ways to Sunday crowd.”

It matters not what you call them, these men and women conduct targeting operations against U.S. citizens and U.S. businesses.  They also create the files that are used by political operatives like Dan Jones.  That’s why $50,000,000.00 was/is needed for the Trump operation.

All of the puppets, players and politicians within the Potemkin village are under this network of surveillance, and at any time they can be targeted by a host of tradecraft operations to ensnare them.

If you start digging into the actual corruption, schemes or a specific granular episode that highlights risk to the DC operation, you end up like former CBS news investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson, with “TSCI” material in a hidden file within your computer for the FBI to randomly find.

Former DAG Rod Rosenstein and FBI official Shawn Henry ran that specific operation against Attkisson.  Shawn Henry went on to work for Crowdstrike in their “proactive and incident response services” division.  That’s the intel security company that investigated the DNC “hack” and told the FBI it was Russians who did it…. at least that’s the claim from the FBI who never investigated the “hack”, a claim later denied by Crowdstrike.   See how that works?

Yesterday you might have read that 40 intelligence and law enforcement “confidential human sources” were in the J6 Proud Boy’s operation at the DC capitol.  That’s another example of the “theys” that function as contractors to the system within the larger intelligence apparatus.  It all falls under the Director of National Intelligence and Dept of Homeland Security (DHS).

Another example of the “theys” in the system are the FBI and various “Intelligence Community” officials and contractors you see exposed in the Twitter files.  Essentially, embeds in the Big Tech social media system.  It sure makes datamining operations easier when the federally contracted ‘miners’ are inside the communication platforms, able to review all the private discussions and report that information back to the DHS central command.  Things making sense now?

I have met these people.  I know exactly who they are.

This is the reality of our situation.   So, when you respond to my initial question about, “What do you want me to do?…. use this context.

And believe me, I’ll do it.  I’m right with what matters!

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Finland Officially Joins NATO Creating the Largest NATO Land Border Directly Attached to Russia


Posted originally on the CTH on April 4, 2023 | Sundance 

CONTEXT:  There is no currently visible outcome where the Build Back Better collective western global alliance energy policy can succeed without escalating to a direct NATO war against Russia.

The economic outcomes of the BBB agenda are currently being felt via western, energy driven, supply side inflation.  The monetary countermeasures to that inflationary damage, raising central bank interest rates, creates instability in finance and subsequent banking collapse.

Simultaneous to the ‘western’ central bank intervention, the BRICS alliance members are withdrawing from dollar dependency as a trade mechanism.  When all those unneeded dollars return home, the dollar value collapses – and all western economies attached to the dollar as a trade currency collapse along with it.

The Western bankers need a war to generate the industrial economic activity that uses the returning dollars.  Unless and until the dollar is digitized, there is no currently visible outcome where the Build Back Better agenda is not dependent on an expanded war with Russia.

(Via Axios) – Finland became the 31st member of NATO on Tuesday — a once-unthinkable step that significantly changes the security landscape in Europe.

Why it matters: Finland’s membership more than doubles NATO’s borders with Russia and formally ends Helsinki’s decades of official nonalignment. It’s also a blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin who, in launching the Russian invasion of Ukraine, vowed to block the alliance’s eastward expansion. It’s the alliance’s ninth enlargement since its founding in 1949.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg sent a message to Moscow while officially welcoming Finland into the alliance: “President Putin wanted to slam NATO’s door shut. Today we showed the world that he failed, that aggression and intimidation do not work. Instead of less NATO, he has achieved the opposite: more NATO. And our door remains firmly open.”

Finland President Sauli Niinistö said it was a “great day for Finland” but also an important day for the security and the stability of the alliance.

[…] Putin’s spokesperson Dmitry Peskov earlier Tuesday called Finland’s NATO accession an “encroachment on Russia’s security” that would require Russia to take unspecified countermeasures.

Putin had previously said that Russia had no “territorial differences” with Finland or Sweden, so it was “up to them” whether they joined — but Russia would respond to any deployments of NATO military units or infrastructure to their territories.

The Russian embassy in Sweden issued an even more pointed warning last week, saying on Facebook that any “new members of the enemy block will become a legitimate target” of “Russia’s retaliatory measures,” including those of military nature. (read more)

The End of the Petrodollar?


Armstrong Economics Blog/World Trade Re-Posted Apr 4, 2023 by Martin Armstrong

Another oil deal has been initiated without the use of the dollar. The India Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) announced that their latest trade deal with Malaysia would be settled in Indian rupees. “This initiative by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) is aimed at facilitating the growth of global trade and to support the interests of the global trading community in Indian Rupees (INR),” the formal statement noted.

Indian has benefitted from the West’s distraction from the Ukraine war. The RBI is allowing 18 counties to open Vostro accounts and has been attracting new deals in trade and manufacturing. New Delhi and Moscow have strengthened their relationship as India is not imposing sanctions.  The Indian Commerce Ministry said its five-year plan is to “encourage” the use of the rupee on an international scale, while also planning to expand exports $2 trillion by 2030. Trading in rupees will also allow India to save on conversion spreads and limit the country’s dependence on the volatile dollar.

The BRICs treaty (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) remains strong and oil giants Saudi Arabia and Iran would like to join the partnership. The Saudis stated at the beginning of the year that they were open to settling trade in currencies other than the USD. “There are no issues with discussing how we settle our trade arrangements, whether it is in the US dollar, whether it is the euro, whether it is the Saudi riyal,” Al-Jadaan said during Davos. As we have seen in recent months, Saudi Arabia is aligning itself with China over the US.

The Vietnam war and other government missteps made it impossible for the US to maintain the fixed price of gold established under Bretton Woods. The USD relative to gold fell as the supply of dollars grew, pushing Nixon to abandon the Bretton Woods system entirely. US government debt was rapidly rising as confidence in the dollar plummeted. America needed an enticing way to sell its debt, and that was when Nixon convinced Saudi Arabia, the largest crude exporter, to purchase Treasurys in dollars in exchange for military aid. Hence the “petrodollar” was born. The creation of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) only further enhanced the dollar’s dominance in energy purchases.

Here we are yet again amid another war and a high budget deficit. The Saudis no longer need protection from America, and siding with Western interests would be a deterrent to its international deals with countries in the BRICs alliance and some in the OPEC+. Despite the green agenda, the world cannot operate without oil. The major oil exporters are now aligning and cutting out the US as their middleman.