Posted originally on Mar 28, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed on March 26, 2024, at 01:28 EDT after being struck by a cargo ship owned by Brawner Builders Inc. The ship named the Dali was operated by Synergy Marine Group. This black swan event was extremely strange, catastrophic for the US supply chain, and certainly a black swan event. For the purpose of this post, I will refrain from speculation and stick to the facts at hands to explain how crucial this bridge was to the US.
Official reports say that what happened was simply an unfortunate accident. “We’re going to send all the federal resources they need as we respond to this emergency. I mean all the federal resources — we’re going to rebuild that port together,” Biden said after promising to use federal aid to rebuild the bridge, a feat that will take years to achieve. “Everything so far indicates that this was a terrible accident,” he added. “At this time, we have no other indication, no other reason to believe there’s any intentional act here.”
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency stated that there was a “power issue” that caused the crew to lose control of the ship. There was a loss of propulsion from the motor, several tests failed, and the pilots notified the Maryland Department of Transportation and the Maryland Transit Authority. There was an attempt to deploy anchors but it was far too late, especially for a ship of that size and weight.
James Mercante, the president of the New York Board of Pilot Commissioners, said that the Dali became “a dead ship just being carried by the current or its own momentum.”US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg did not say what caused the power outage and does not have a timeframe for when the bridge will be rebuilt. “The impact of this incident is going to be felt throughout the region and really throughout our supply chains,” Buttigieg said. Baltimore is currently under a state of emergency, and Mayor Brandon Scott believes it will last for “the foreseeable future.”
Others believe this was a deliberate attack of US infrastructure based on various factors that do not seem to add up. Could it have been an inside job or a foreign agent? The truth will come to light, as it always does.
Let me begin by explaining how crucial the Francis Scott Key Bridge was to America’s supply chain. Around 52.3 million tons of international cargo estimated to be worth $80.8 billion passed through the port in 2023. Around 4,900 trucks, carrying around $28 billion in goods, must be rerouted due to the bridge collapse. It is the second busiest strategic roadway in the US for hazardous materials. These hazardous materials include diesel fuels. Did you know that diesel fuel is not permitted to be transported via tunnel? Fuel prices will rise, fertilizer prices will rise. The bridge was built to handle hazardous materials like propane, nitrogen, highly-flammable materials, large cargo materials, and more.
The timing could not have been worse for American agriculture.
Baltimore is the largest entry point for all large agricultural and construction equipment, and this will have a ripple effect across US agriculture in general. It has been noted that this collapse occurred during the peak of planting season for Midwest region as the ground has begun to thaw. Our entire food supply is at risk.
The bridge helped to link major cities from Baltimore like Philadelphia, Washington, and New York. Over 15,000 people are employed directly through the port, and 139,000 have indirect jobs in connections. All of this amounts to $3.3 billion in personal income, as noted by Axios.
Analysts are saying this will cripple Baltimore, but it will send ripple effects throughout the entire US economy.
The angle the cargo ship took is extremely confusing. Engineers are perplexed by the situation. How did it manage to take out one of the two major anchor points? The video makes it look as if the ship deliberately steered into an anchor point. The cargo ship never made it into the approach land in the channel. Where was the harbor pilot? There was no horn blast or warning tug. There was no tug boat, but they say that it was not needed once the ship entered the channel. There happened to be a full moon that enabled maximum tidal shift. My eyes may deceive me, but the video footage makes it look like the captain steered directly into the support beam at the last minute.
Half a mile of the bridge simply collapsed. It looks more like a strategic demolition based on how the bridge crumbled. Now, here in Tampa Bay, a cardo ship hit the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over 40 years ago. A portion of the bridge came down but it did not simply fall into the waters in the same manner. This is reminiscent of the 9/11 collapse, but of course, people did not have smart phones back then. This event happened in the middle of the night when few people were around to witness it. Some say this passage is hard to navigate but cargo ships managed just fine for nearly half a century up until this week.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Richard Worley said, “There is absolutely no indication that there’s any terrorism, or that this was done on purpose.” The US government insists this was simply a tragic unpreventable accident. Official reports say there were no signs of explosives and no foreign terrorist agency is claiming responsibility for the event.
The same ship collapsed a bridge in Belgium back in 2016, and I do not think this was an act of foreign terrorism.
This event divided the US along the Mason-Dixon line, bringing us back to the pre-Civil War era. Did US intel have a role in this “accident” that happened at the worst possible time? Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum stated that an attack on infrastructure – a cyber pandemic — would cause the COVID-19 crisis to look like a “small disturbance” in comparison. Carefully watch the video below and note how they explain these events to us long before they take place.
Posted originally on Mar 27, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
Russia has come out and bluntly stated that “The United States, Britain and Ukraine are behind the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall, the chief of Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov has told the media.” As I have said, NOBODY who thinks even objectively ever thought for one half-a-second that this had anything to do with ISIS or any Islamic Terrorist attack. First of all, it would be the first time such an act took place, and the terrorists tried to run. They typically die in such events, for they believe all their sins will be forgiven, and they get the 72 virgins.
Unfortunately, this was not very sophisticated to really try to cover up the source being Ukraine. They wanted Russia to know who was really behind this to provoke an attack on any NATO country so they could claim Russia was the aggressor. They need Russia to formally attack first to rally the stupid to die on the battlefield in Ukraine for God & Country, which is really for the NEOCONS since we don’t really have a president in charge of anything.
Putin supports Iran, so it makes no sense whatsoever that there would be a terrorist attack against Russia. The source is at least Ukraine, and since the USA claimed it warned Russia, it only implicates the NECONS, and quite frankly, I have been warning that they were attempting to create war BEFORE the election while they still have their hand-puppet, Biden. That week was the strongest target for a turning point, and everything appeared to unfold precisely according to time. The truth will also surface when history books are written, like the Weapons of Mass Destruction that never existed.
The two periods the computer was projecting for war were May and July/August. With Putin’s inauguration on May 7th, this attack was timed for the same old attempt to force the Russian people to rise up against Putin and instigate regime change. This is not going to happen. May is the most important target for the entire year. Look at the volatility in June.
I wish the computer was wrong. This is NOT my personal opinion. I have tried my best to warn the world that this does NOT look good. As I have said, I have been trying to defeat the computer because that is what I would prefer personally for my own family. But my personal objectives are irrelevant. My job is to report what the computer says, and our clients can interpret the arrays themselves.
I have been warning for years that gold does NOT respond to the BS of inflation and fiat currency nonsense. Gold responds to geopolitical events because it is NEUTRAL, and the government spends money ten times faster during the war. Gold is still in the process of making a channel move, and we are heading into April, and this can get tricky. If gold gets through the $2300 level on a closing basis, then we could test the $2500 level in April, all on the back of geopolitical uncertainty. Back in 1980, gold virtually doubled in the last six weeks because Russia invaded Afghanistan.
We need the computer right now because personal opinions are just guessing.
Posted originally on the CTH on March 27, 2024 | Sundance
The NTSB gives an update on the Francis Scott Key bridge collapse in Baltimore, Maryland, following the impact of a Singaporean-flagged cargo ship, the Dali.
According to the update, 56 containers of hazardous materials were on board, including corrosive flammable cells, lithium ion batteries, and other hazardous materials. Some of the HAZMAT containers were compromised and some fell into the water. The briefing also gives a preliminary outline as an outcome of an initial review of the voyage data recorder (VDR) for six hours 00:00 to 06:00 on the morning of the impact. The timeline discussion occurs at 11:00 of the video below. WATCH:
(Via Fox News) -[…] Homendy said the investigation would be a “massive undertaking” that is expected two take one to two years. She added that the NTSB will not hesitate to issue urgent safety recommendations during that time frame. A preliminary report is expected in only two to four weeks.
Part of the investigation will be determining what caused the ship to lose power before hitting the bridge. The source of that outage remained unknown as of Wednesday, Homendy said.
Homendy said tugboats were called to help the vessel leave the port and get to the main channel. The vessel does not have any tugboats at this time. Homendy confirmed that vessel did not have any tugboats helping it navigate through the waters before it hit the bridge. The VDR showed that the pilot called for tugboats just before 1:30 a.m. after the vessel hit the bridge.
The NTSB has confirmed that there were 21 crewmembers on board the vessel at the time of the accident plus two pilots. (LINK)
We know that the Klaus Schwab’s World Economic Forum is trying to take over the world. with their Great Reset and Build Back Better program. We also know that Klaus’s Young Global leaders are impeded in high places in every major country and probably some of the US Neocons are with him. So what does this have to do with the Francis Scott Key bridge being destroyed by being hit my a cargo ship that just happens to be out of the channel and having a “power” failure and hitting one of the two main support column taking down the entire span over the Chesapeake Bay.
(Via MSM) – […] The Singapore-flagged 948 ft. Dali vessel crashed into a column supporting the Francis Scott Key Bridge at around 1:30 a.m. local time in Baltimore, causing part of the bridge to collapse and catch fire before sinking.
The port of Baltimore is a key port in the US and it is now shut down until all the debris in the bay can be removed. Shutting this port down is a major blow to the US economy and also to the EU which gets coal and LNG to make up for what that they can no longer get from Russia. We also know the the US was involved in taking out Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipe lines into Germany. And that was blamed on Russia even though it made no sense.
Why do I think this is a False Flag event? Well we know the US Neocons what war with Russia so what if they used CIA resources to hack into the ships systems and steer in into the bridge support. Then claim it was the Russians that did it. This would be a direct attack on the US and would mean Biden could declare War on Russia. This would be a perfect False Flag event!
Look at the bow of the container ship there is no damage to it how is that possible?
This is my personal opinion based on education and knowledge of the operations of the IC community.
Posted originally on Mar 27, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
Prime Minister Donald Tusk initially promised to double the annual tax-free income allowance to 60,000 zloty (€13,929), but now “there is no room” in the budget. Why? All of the money is going to Ukraine.
Poland increased its defense budget to 3% of GDP in 2022, followed by a raise to 4% in 2023. Poland provides NATO with more funding as a percentage of GDP than any other European nation.
It will not be possible to double the tax-free income allowance to 60,000 zloty – which Donald Tusk had promised to do this year – until 2026 at the earliest, says the finance minister.
— Notes from Poland 🇵🇱 (@notesfrompoland) March 25, 2024
The reason that Poland is unable to say when or how they will decrease taxes is WAR. Finance Minister Andrzej Domański is promising the people that the government will fulfill its promises by 2026. “In my opinion, at the moment, there is no room for the tax-free amount to increase to PLN 60,000 next year,” he told Polsat News. “We are in a near-war situation. We have rapidly increasing defence spending …The scale of incoming defence spending is really high,” the prime minister said, highlighting how much the Polish government is currently spending on Ukraine.
Polish exports to Ukraine rose 25% in 2017. In 2022, Ukraine exported $6.7 billion in goods to Poland, primarily in agricultural products, while Poland provided Ukraine with $9.07 billion in mainly energy and ammunition. The war in Ukraine has only strengthened trade between the neighboring coutries.
Russia has no intention of invading Poland, despite the government’s fearmongering. Instead, the people are being forced to fund an endless war on behalf of their government. The fact that the government cannot determine when funds will be free for use shows that they are planning for a prolonged battle on Ukrainian soil.
Posted originally on Mar 26, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
The Western Press continues to report only the propaganda from the NEOCON mouthpiece, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW), which Victoria Nuland’s sister-in-law runs. I have warned that they were trying to start war BEFORE the election, and the two main targets in time were May and July. Be very careful of any media that uses the ISW as its source. It was Victoria Nuland’s husband, Robert Kagan, who wrote the Washington Post piece calling Trump a dictator because his wife has been in every administration EXCEPT Trump’s.
Victoria Nuland is really of Ukrainian Jewish descent. Her family changed their name to try to hide their Jewish ethnic background. She really would be Nudelman, not Nuland. She is actually the daughter of Yale bioethics and medicine professor Sherwin B. Nuland, who changed his surname from Nudelman to Nuland. She has retained her family name Nuland to perhaps further hide her Jewish connection by being married to Robert Kagan. Victoria speaks Russian, French, and some Chinese. Hiding her Jewish background is critical. Her father was raised by parents who were Orthodox Jewish immigrants from Ukraine. Hence, her grandparents were Jewish Meyer Nudelman (1889-1958) and Vitsche Lutsky (1893-1941). This explains why Nuland has been a public proponent for Ukraine to wage war against Russia.
Her husband, Robert Kagan, authored the “real Iraq Study Group” report of the American Enterprise Institute. This was the Neocon view of regime change. Kagan was said to have convinced President George W. Bush, to order the “surge” plan for changing the course of the Iraq War. It was Kagan who co-founded the neoconservative think tank in 1997 which was known as the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) with fellow Neocon William Kristol, who has a track record of usually being wrong. This has been the legacy of the Neocons in general.
Ron Paul plainly wrote: “Victoria Nuland exemplifies the neocons who have led US foreign policy from one disaster to another for the past 30 years while evading accountability. “ It is indeed time that we examine their Neocons who constantly usurp American foreign policy and will drive us straight into World War III. This may indeed be a family feud with Russia given both the Jewish and Ukrainian backgrounds.
Her Husband and Kristol used PNAC, from 1998 onward, to further the Neocon wars and their quest for Regime Change. Kagan was an early and strong advocate of military action in Syria, Iran, and Afghanistan as well as to “remove Mr. Hussein and his regime from power”. Kristol and Kagan teamed up and wrote an opinion piece in the New York Times where they put forth what is now known as fake news: They actually wrote:
“It is clear that Mr. Hussein wants his weapons of mass destruction more than he wants oil revenue or relief for hungry Iraqi children.”
They put forth their idea that the United States had the right to engage in regime change in other countries. They also wrote in the New York Times:
“And Iraq’s Arab neighbors are more likely to support a military effort to remove him than an ineffectual bombing raid that leaves a dangerous man in power.”
What I know from sources was that there was an intelligence report dated September 21st, 2001, that stated bluntly that there was NO evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the 9/11 attacks. Later, in the 2004 9/11 Commission report, they too concluded that there was NO “collaborative relationship” between Iraq and al-Qaeda.
The objective here is once again to bring about a REGIME CHANGE this time in Russia. I was in the middle of all of that back in 1999 when they wanted me to invest $10 billion into Hermitage Capital. I refused. I am very concerned about MAY for the computer has targeted that month as a monumental turning point with a Directional Change and rising volatility after that. These people are DESPERATE to keep their hand-puppet Joe Biden in office, for they can do whatever they want. The proposition is to create war BEFORE the election, banking on the prospect that no incumbent president has ever lost during a war. Of course, LBJ refused to run after he realized he had been lied to to get involved in Vietnam.
Nobody believes this attack in Moscow was Islamic Terrorists. They die in such events that they go to heaven, and all sins are forgiven in a holy war. These four guys fled back to Ukraine. Anyone can pick up a phone and take credit for something. If this were a terror attack, you would expect it to have been in the USA since Putin supports Iran. It just does not make any sense, and as Churchill warned, during the war, TRUTH is so precious she has a bodyguard of lies to protect her and keep her neatly hidden. Like the Weapons of Mass Destruction that never existed, the truth will surface in the history books.
Those in the UK are familiar with the challenges that accompany failed housing regulations, high demand, and low supply. A recent study by Resolution Foundation shows that those in the UK pay far more for housing than any nation in the OECD. Finland technically pays more, but not when factoring in the total amount the average Brit spends on housing costs. To put it in perspective, housing in the UK is nearly 50% more than the cost of others goods and services, the study found.
We warned about variable rate mortgages at the 2019 World Economic Conference in Rome. Mortgage rates have remained elevated since that period in the wake of the COVID economic tragedy. The UK has a higher rate of inflation than the general Euro Area at 3.4% in February vs 2.6%. The Bank of England is continuing to aim for that 2% target, similar to the Federal Reserve, but misaligned monetary and fiscal policies make it challenging.
Around 40% of housing was built in the early 1900s, the oldest inventory in the EU. Homes are significantly smaller, making apartments in New York City look lavish. Yet, co-housing arrangements are on the rise as people struggle to find a space to live. One in six young adults between 18 and 34 (2.6 million people) live in poor-quality housing, according to a report by the same think-tank. Overall, one in 10 people across the UK (6.5 million) live in subpar housing conditions. Homelessness is on the rise, especially among the youth. Youth homelessness in London has risen 20%, and Centrepoint Databank statistics reported an 8% rise (112,000 people) in young people seeking homelessness prevention measures.
Housing will be a key topic of discussion for the next election. Both sides want to implement plans to assist first-time buyers, but no one has made any meaningful progress to streamline the homebuying process or curtail the countless issues. One of the main issues is the migrant crisis – where will they house an additional 1.2 million new people when citizens cannot find housing? Simply put, the UK is full.
Posted originally on Mar 26, 2024 By Martin Armstrong
Most first-world nations are experiencing a crisis in housing affordability as there is simply not enough supply to meet the demand. Major corporations swept up the majority of homes when mortgage rates were artificially low. Those who own are less likely to less as they could downsize and still have a larger mortgage bill due to current rates. The Biden Administration has proposed a number of solutions, but none of them will solve the housing crisis.
Biden wants to punish landlords for “rent gouging” as part of his re-election strategy. “My administration is cracking down on big corporations who break antitrust laws by price fixing to keep the rents up,” Biden said in Las Vegas. “Landlords should be competing to give folks the best deal, not conspiring to charge them more.” The majority of landlords renting out homes would fall in the middle-class category. The elites are not using individual apartments or homes for their passive income. There are instances of price gouging, but landlords have no choice but to raise rent in the face of rising taxes and insurance premiums. Landlords are not providing housing as a public service. This is yet another method to punish the middle class that will result in a decrease in inventory when it is no longer lucrative for landlords to rent to those who cannot afford to buy.
As for purchasing, private investors accounted for 44% of all single-family home purchases in 2023 after three consecutive years of major corporations expanding their real estate portfolios. BlackRock is the largest landlord in America with a portfolio of over $120 in residential real estate. The goal is to own as much land as possible so that the people can become perpetual renters. BlackRock also is part of the World Economic Forum promises “sustainability” and “ESG integration,” and is a member of GRESB (formerly the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark). GRESB is the global standard for providing and acquiring real estate and infrastructure in a sustainable way.
Biden plans to address the demand issue by building 2 million new homes to the tune of $20 billion. Well, we just experienced an influx of nearly 8 million new arrivals and his administration refuses to close the border. The plans for these housing are loose but the key is “affordability,” meaning these homes will go toward those already receiving government assistance. “My plan will also establish an innovative program to help communities build and renovate housing or convert housing from empty office spaces into housing, empty hotels into housing,” Biden said. He is looking at expanding the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit and providing low-income citizens and non-citizens with taxpayer funding to purchase homes. Again, this is an attack on the middle class and an action that will raise inflation.
You must realize that Biden, the US government, the EU, and countless others have openly said they are committed to the Great Reset presented by the World Economic Forum. YOU WILL OWN NOTHING! That is the plan here and precisely why the Biden Administration is taking action to hurt the middle class, and they have diluted the people into thinking they are above or below “middle class” standing. In every communist form of government, the middle class vanishes and you have the “haves” and the “have nots.” The WEF has presented their plans various times for 15-minute cities. There will be no solution to the housing crisis as there will be no solution to the migrant crisis because both are needed to push forward the Great Reset.
Posted originally on the CTH on March 25, 2024 | Sundance
If you followed my research on banking and the reality of the Russian sanction regime, this report from Reuters today takes on an entirely new dimension.
ME: …”The same way the Patriot Act was not designed to stop terrorism but rather to create a domestic surveillance system. So too were the “Russian Sanctions” not designed to sanction Russia, but rather to create the financial control system that will lead to a USA digital currency. The Western sanctions created a financial wall around the USA (dollar-based west), not to keep Russia out, but to keep us in. The Western sanction regime, the financial mechanisms they created and authorized, created the control gate that leads to a U.S. digital currency.” (more)
REUTERS TODAY: …”The firm [SWIFT] has gone from being virtually unknown outside banking circles to a household name since 2022 when it cut most of Russia’s banks off from its network as part of the West’s sanctions for the invasion of Ukraine. (more)
[The map shows the global financial cleaving, an outcome of sanctions against Russia]
I first started to deep dive research into these CBDC datapoints when the Russian sanctions were triggered.
You see, nothing about the sanctions really made sense from the way they were structured. Never before, not with Iran, North Korea, Venezuela or Cuba was the dollar weaponized against any entity who did not conform to the sanctions. Additionally, the intensity of the drive to make the sanctions the tip of the Western spear was just too pointed; something about it didn’t make sense. That’s what took me to dig deep into the sanction impact and realize nothing said about these financial sanctions made sense when compared against their actual outcome. {Go Deep}.
So, let’s start with the latest development:
(Reuters) – Global bank messaging network SWIFT is planning a new platform in the next one to two years to connect the wave of central bank digital currencies now in development to the existing finance system, it has told Reuters.
The move, which would be one of the most significant yet for the nascent CBDC ecosystem given SWIFT’s key role in global banking, is likely to be fine-tuned to when the first major ones are launched.
Around 90% of the world’s central banks are now exploring digital versions of their currencies. Most don’t want to be left behind by bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but are grappling with technological complexities.
SWIFT’s head of innovation, Nick Kerigan, said its latest trial, which took 6 months and involved a 38-member group of central banks, commercial banks and settlement platforms, had been one of the largest global collaborations on CBDCs and “tokenised” assets to date.
“We are looking at a roadmap to productize (launch as a product) in the next 12-24 months,” Kerigan said in an interview. “It’s moving out of experimental stage towards something that is becoming a reality.”
Although the timeframe could still shift if major economy CBDC launches get delayed, getting out the blocks for when they do would be a major boost for maintaining SWIFT’s incumbent dominance in the bank-to-bank plumbing network.
[…] A raft of heavyweight commercial banks including HSBC, Citibank, Deutsche Bank, Societe Generale, Standard Chartered and the CLS FX settlement platform all took part too, as did at least two banks from China.
The idea is that once the interlink solution is scaled-up, banks would have one main global connection point able to handle digital asset payments, rather than thousands if they were to set up an individual one with every counterparty. (read more)
The sanction regime against Russia was always intended to generate this outcome. This is the feature of the sanctions, not a flaw.
This dollar based CBDC was the intended destination of the people who constructed the Russian sanction plan (ex. BlackRock/WEF types). The Western politicians then were recruited and given instructions to support. Their cover story was “Build Back Better,” ie climate change, which was the predicate to the Russian sanctions.
I know at first blush a lot of this CBDC discussion seems esoteric, difficult to understand, and there are a lot of other issues happening simultaneously in the background. However, if you contemplate the biggest threat on this overarching power arc of Western government, you arrive to understand how serious this seemingly opaque issue really is.
2022 – NEW YORK, March 24 (Reuters) – BlackRock Inc’s (BLK.N) chief executive, Larry Fink, said on Thursday that the Russia-Ukraine war could end up accelerating digital currencies as a tool to settle international transactions, as the conflict upends the globalization drive of the last three decades.
In a letter to the shareholders of the world’s largest asset manager, Fink said the war will push countries to reassess currency dependencies, and that BlackRock was studying digital currencies and stablecoins due to increased client interest.
“A global digital payment system, thoughtfully designed, can enhance the settlement of international transactions while reducing the risk of money laundering and corruption”, he said.
[…] In the letter on Thursday, the chairman and CEO of the $10 trillion asset manager said the Russia-Ukraine crisis had put an end to the globalization forces at work over the past 30 years.
[…] “While companies’ and consumers’ balance sheets are strong today, giving them more of a cushion to weather these difficulties, a large-scale reorientation of supply chains will inherently be inflationary,” said Fink.
He said central banks were dealing with a dilemma they had not faced in decades, having to choose between living with high inflation or slowing economic activity to contain price pressures. (read more)
When the White House first started openly saying the Biden administration was reviewing how to implement CBDC’s, yes THAT Announcement ACTUALLY HAPPENED, September 2022, things from a research perspective really started to get serious. “While the U.S. has not yet decided whether it will pursue a CBDC, the U.S. has been closely examining the implications of, and options for, issuing a CBDC.” Whenever the U.S. govt says they’re “undecided,” pay close attention.
First things first with the Western financial sanctions- specifically the SWIFT exchange. It is true you cannot use VISA, Mastercard or any mainstream Western financial tools to conduct business in Russia; however, the number of workarounds for this issue are numerous. One of those tools is the use of a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin; and within that reality, you find something very ominous about the USA motive against crypto.
“I’ve always been deeply opposed to crypto, bitcoin, etc.,” Dimon said in response to a question from Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. “The only true use case for it is criminals, drug traffickers … money laundering, tax avoidance because it is somewhat anonymous, not fully, and because you can move money instantaneously. “If I was the government, I would close it down.” (read more)
Dimon was/is positioning JPMorgan to be one of the facilitating beneficiaries of the financial control system evident within any CBDC process.
The US Treasury has set the financial system on an almost irreversible path to a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency. As direct consequence, crypto currency alternatives are a threat to the establishment of that Western objective. This reality also pulls in the explanation around why the USA is so all-in for the banker-driven World War Reddit – the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
Conflict with Russia created the opportunity for the USA to create a sanctions regime that doesn’t truly sanction Russia; instead it controls the world of USA dollar-based finance. At the end of that control mechanism is a digital dollar, a Central Bank Digital Currency…. and by extension full control over U.S. citizen activity. The Marxist holy grail.
Take those reference points as an overlay, and now consider this little discussed 2022 announcement from the Biden administration:
[White House] – President Biden often summarizes his vision for America in one word: Possibilities. A “digital dollar” may seem far-fetched, but modern technology could make it a real possibility.
A United States central bank digital currency (CBDC) would be a digital form of the U.S. dollar. While the U.S. has not yet decided whether it will pursue a CBDC, the U.S. has been closely examining the implications of, and options for, issuing a CBDC. If the U.S. pursued a CBDC, there could be many possible benefits, such as facilitating efficient and low-cost transactions, fostering greater access to the financial system, boosting economic growth, and supporting the continued centrality of the U.S. within the international financial system. However, a U.S. CBDC could also introduce a variety of risks, as it might affect everything ranging from the stability of the financial system to the protection of sensitive data.
Notably, these benefits and risks might vary significantly based on how the CBDC system is designed and deployed. That is why Executive Order 14067, Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets, placed the highest urgency on research and development efforts into the potential design and deployment options of a U.S. CBDC. The Executive Order directed the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), in consultation with other Federal departments and agencies, to submit to the President a technical evaluation for a potential U.S. CBDC system.
Today, OSTP is publishing its report, Technical Evaluation for a U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency System, which lays out policy objectives for a potential U.S. CBDC system and analyzes key technical design choices for a U.S. CBDC system. The report also estimates the technical feasibility of building a CBDC minimum viable product and describes how a U.S. CBDC system might affect Federal operations. The report makes recommendations on how to prepare the Federal Government for a U.S. CBDC system. Importantly, the report does not make any assessments or recommendations about whether the U.S. should pursue a CBDC, nor does it make any decisions regarding particular design choices for a potential U.S. CBDC system. (read more)
When you read that full announcement, you realize they have already built the system.
If the system is built, and they are now making policy recommendations for implementation, the question becomes, ‘What’s the goal’?
We do not have to look far for the explanation.
Prior to the White House announcement, the World Government Summit 2022 took place on March 29 and 30 in Dubai, hosting more than 4,000 individuals from 190 countries including senior government officials, heads of international organizations, and global “experts.” The invited participants presented ideas and worldviews from within their various fields of specialty.
One presentation was from Dr. Pippa Malmgren, an American economist who served as special adviser on Economic Policy to President George W. Bush.
Her father, Harald Malmgren, served as a senior aide to US Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, and Gerald Ford. In this segment, Mrs. Malmgren says the quiet part out loud. Yes, they are no longer hiding the construct; indeed, as you will hear, they are saying quite openly what the future will look like. WATCH (2 minutes):
Transcript – Dr. Malmgren: “What underpins a world order is always the financial system. I was very privileged. My father was an adviser to Nixon when they came off the gold standard in 71. And so, I was brought up with a kind of inside view of how very important the financial structure is to absolutely everything else.
And what we’re seeing in the world today, I think, is we are on the brink of a dramatic change where we are about to, and I’ll say this boldly, we’re about to abandon the traditional system of money and accounting and introduce a new one. And the new one. The new accounting is what we call blockchain.
It means digital, it means having a almost perfect record of every single transaction that happens in the economy, which will give us far greater clarity over what’s going on. It also raises huge dangers in terms of the balance of power between states and citizens.
In my opinion, we’re going to need a digital constitution of human rights if we’re going to have digital money. But also this new money will be sovereign in nature. Most people think that digital money is crypto, and private. But what I see our superpowers introducing digital currency, the Chinese were the first the US is on the brink, I think of moving in the same direction the Europeans have committed to that as well.
And the question is, will that new system of digital money and digital accounting accommodate the competing needs of the citizens of all these locations, so that every human being has a chance to have a better life? Because that’s the only measure of whether a world order really serves!”
The entry into a digital currency, needs a digital identity.
The end goal of a digital currency is why Western political leaders have not been worried about following the COVID-19 spending demands from the World Economic Forum. {Go Deep}
When the global trade currency does not need to be pegged, it is completely fiat. This is the current problem with global trade and transactions taking place in U.S. dollars, which arbitrarily lifts the standard of life for Americans while providing no similar benefit to other nations. That view became the underlying motive for Osama Bin Laden to target the World Trade Center, Twin Towers. That view was/is also the perspective carried by Barack Obama, that lay behind his “fundamental change” statement.
A digital currency allows ultimate control, on a global basis, by a one world government, or Western system of collective governments, that can assign value. No other mechanism will have as much control over the life of a person than a digital currency that will create a system of transactional credits and debits, perhaps also influenced by your social credit score.
Can it be stopped? I struggle with that question. I look in the mirror, think about the reality of how many people think this is an absurd conspiracy theory, and respond with…. How many people even know about the thing you are asking them to oppose?
How many people would believe the Western sanctions against Russia were really the USG building a cage to keep us in? Information, we need to start there. That’s my answer.
During remarks in New Hampshire, President Trump announced he would never allow the creation of a central bank digital currency. WATCH:
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Of course, it should be noted….. as if the entire global system didn’t already oppose Donald Trump, this position against CBDC’s just puts an exclamation point on how the multinational financial systems will hate/oppose him even more.
This 2024 election is critical for a variety of reasons. However, high atop that list is this issue of how a dollar based CBDC is a threat to every liberty we cherish.
We will win this battle and eventually this war, or I’ll die fighting it.
They are trying to move fast, because people are catching on now.
We are on the right side of every issue; we cherish liberty and individual freedom. Our opposition is built upon a foundation of fraud and lies. The politicians are corrupt, and their arguments collapse when put in the sunlight; but they are not the root of the problem – they are vessels. That’s why the multinationals like BlackRock need the rules and referees (politicians) slanted in their favor. That’s why they need censorship, deplatforming, and beyond everything else…. they must control information.
…The key battle right now is an information war.
Tell your family, friends, neighbors. At first, they may think you are crazy, don’t quit. Share the information. Use the internal citations to help you bolster your arguments. Don’t quit planting seeds of information, and then update with additional information as it surfaces. Keep driving the awakening.
It would be nice to think that all we have to do is get out and vote to rid ourselves of these warmongers. But they control the elections, and they are in their glory. I do not see how we can avoid this war. They are doing everything in their power to prevent RFK from being on the ballot and to destroy Donald Trump, all so they retain their power with their hand puppet, Joe Biden. Before Biden was Vice President, I was at some dinner many years ago and I was not impressed with him back then. In fact, the rumor was that he would not pay his bills and stiffed many local businessmen. So much so that he applied to be a member at the Willmington Country Clud and was rejected because he stiffed so many local people; now they want Biden in office for they can do as they please, and he will never defend the people or our nation. Between the climate change nuts who are happy to reduce the world population to save the planet from the CO2 we breathe out by just existing and the NEOCONs who just hate Russians, Chinese, or anybody else that crosses their path, we are headed into what our computer has been forecast all along for 2032.
Any mainstream press that starts off calling the Russian election a “sham” or that the Russian invasion to protect the Donbas was “unprovoked” is cheering the end of our world as we know it. They are disgusting journalists who, as the old saying goes, if they were on fire, nobody should dare urinate on them until they are dead. They are the promoters of World War III and will have so much blood on their hands that it will be impossible to ever wash it off like Punius Pilot.
Once upon a time, we were told that nuclear weapons were a deterrent against World War III. Now, they no longer serve that purpose and instead seem to be weapons of first choice. Even Putin himself has come out warning: is this where you really want to go? People are stepping up in Russia, calling for Russia to give Ukrainians 24 hours to get out of town and then just nuke Ukraine as the ONLY way to stop World War III and demonstrate to the world what will happen if we continue down this path.
Putin has been seeking peace, but the US refuses to allow any peace negotiations to take place. When there was a deal, the NEOCONs sent in Boris Johnson to instruct Zelensky there would be no peace deals – this was about destroying Russia.
The NEOCON Robert S. McNamara, before he died, came out and admitted they were wrong about Vietnam. They had convinced themselves that Russia was behind that one as well. He admitted it was just a civil war. Yet, nearly 60,000 American soldiers died in that war. Today, nearly 500,000 Ukrainian soldiers are dead for this war the NEOCONs created to get Russia.
During World War I, the civilian casualty ratio was about 59%. During World War II, it was 60% to 67%. This is why the Climate Change people are BEHIND THE CURTAIN cheering nuclear war. They see it as the next way to “thin the herd,” for they see that the Earth repairs itself quickly. We are the problem.
Viktor Orban of Hungary is the ONLY sound leader in Europe. He has come out and said bluntly, which is why NATO and Brussels hate him:
“It’s a strange feeling when you come from Hungary to Brussels. Hungary looks like a completely normal country. We have a calm and rational mindset, and if you come to Brussels and talk to politicians, you will be surprised. There is a military mood, military language, and military logic. The leaders talk as if they are waging their own war against Russia. And now they are saying that soldiers should be stationed in Ukraine.
It is not clear exactly what they mean, where they should be stationed, with what weapons and for what purposes. But they have already begun to prepare for the fact that in this situation it will be quite natural if Western European countries deploy military posts on the territory of Ukraine, which shocks Hungarians.
Therefore, I felt as if I had entered another galaxy, and we must be careful not to fall into the psychosis of these twenty or so state leaders. [How far are Western leaders willing to go in terms of supporting Ukraine? The most disturbing thing about this whole story is that two or three months ago it was unthinkable, now, two or three months later, it becomes an ordinary event.”
That’s what I said – the worse, the better. Ukraine attacked the Belgorod region. Where is Ukraine’s energy sector now? Russia has always needed a good kick in the ass for it to act. So, let NATO troops enter Ukraine. The war will end much faster then. And the West will get a lesson for memory that it is bad to fight with Russia.
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