Nordic Countries Lead Cashless Revolution


Posted originally on May 19, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

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Nordic nations have been leading the cashless society revolution. Masked as a manner of efficiency, digital transactions are not demanded by governments globally as they seek to rake in all money off the grid for taxation purposes.

Sweden is nearly a cashless society, with less than 2% of transactions occurring in physical currency as of 2020. Some estimates believe cash transactions have risen to 10% as of 2025, but it is becoming less commonplace. Swish transfer, launched in 2012, is a mobile payment system that enables users to transfer money in real-time. Accounts are linked to bank accounts, and transactions are authorized by Mobile BankID. As of February 2025, Swish had over 9 million users with 8.9 million private accounts and 318,000 business accounts. Only 10.5 million people currently live in Sweden.

The governor of Risbank declared in 2017 that “half of Swedish traders believe they will stop accepting cash by 2025” and Swish would be used for “Transaction that used to be mostly cash based.” In 2010, around 40% of transactions occurred in cash compared to 2-10% today.

Norway is also close to becoming cashless. Similar to Swish, Norway uses a program called Vipps that is owned by DNB Bank. Around 90% of Norwegian bank customers are using this program. Vipps began accepting crypto last year as well.

The National Bank of Denmark reported that cash was used in only 11% of transactions in 2024. Finland has seen a drastic drop in cash transactions, accounting for under 20% of payments.

Customers across Nordic nations report having a high level of trust in their banking institutions and government. Polls and reports vary, but the aforementioned nations typically have a higher level of confidence in their national government compared to other OECD nations. The 2024 OECD poll found 48% of Norwegians had high or moderately high trust in their national government, exceeding the OECD average of 39%. Yet, that figure has declined 16% since 2021. Around 77% of Finns reported having a high level of trust in their government, and 43% of Swedes felt similarly.

Using a credit card or mobile pay option has become the new normal everywhere. Cash transactions are becoming increasingly rare. Cash is still legal tender, and governments have not banished physical currencies—yet. It will be easier for governments to mandate CBDC as the majority of citizens have already gone digital.

Answering a Familiar Question with a Current Example


Posted originally on CTH on May 18, 2025 | Sundance 

I often hear or receive this question in various iterations.  When discussing the research outlines of current events, especially when we cite the historic background of what took place leading to those events – and how it created the outcome we now witness, we often get this question – or a version therein:

…”Have you tried to meet with DNI or DOJ or NSC people to attempt to ”unsilo” their thinking and understanding of all that transpired so they can connect all the dots. You have said that different people you’ve spoken to know pieces and parts, but the silos prevent anyone from knowing the whole. Can you not be the link? I love that we know but we can’t affect change. We/I only become more frustrated as our new leaders bumble along talking and focusing on seemingly trivial things compared to the Treason that has been on display since 2008.”….

My friends, part of the reason the corrupt DC system is so transparently predictable, is precisely because everyone engaged in the events has a vested interest to retain the corruption.  When you peel down the onion, when you get through the smoke to the fire, when you go deep into the rabbit hole and finally reach the dead end, you discover the root of everything that permeates everything is money. It is not ideology – it’s money.

From my myriads of travels and interactions with the system operators, I can boil down the answer to a few key points:

♦First, to the point of those we count on to stop the corruption, these are not smart people.  You project infinitely more intelligence upon them than they actually possess.  The high-information voter and researcher has much more knowledge than they do.  We fail and become frustrated when we mistakenly believe they carry an awareness that is factually not present.  You know more than your representative, and you know the context of that information at a much, much higher level than they do.  They ARE NOT smarter than you; where “they” applies to every-single-one of the names you might reference.  You are smarter than them.

♦Secondcorruption is a business; whether in the initiation of it, or in the maintenance of it. Quoting myself in discussion of the situation: “My honest and respectfully intended question to you would be: What is it that makes our representatives always want to “talk about the information” rather than act upon the information, when the information is there for the taking?

Perhaps, by training, by habit, or by unintended consequence our representative form of government, our American system of politics, has developed to live for the process itself as an end result. Is it logical to believe that removing corrupt activity is a discussion; the conversation is the point; the smoke is the fire?

The business of Washington DC has evolved into reveling in the process and, as a consequence, it completely ignores the end point, misses the bottom line, doesn’t actually SEE the subject matter and never actually applies action to what might be discovered. In fact, I’m led to believe that sometimes those within system avoid the corruption deliberately, because if they get their heads around it and nail it home, they won’t have anything to talk about anymore–nothing to fundraise from anymore-because they will have exhausted their stash.

Washington DC has gotten into the habit of milking every example of corruption for “so many talking points,” “so many interviews,” “so many column inches,” and “so many angles” that problem-solving does not appeal to them at all. They oddly appear to favor the endless process.

So, when there’s an approach like what they encounter with me, with our significant research, and our reluctance for self-involvement or financial benefit, well, I just don’t fit in–because I don’t give a flying flip about “the process.” And therefore, I do not fit into the rationale of the box or their predicted PERT chart.  And I say this having been a target of their stupid investigative nonsense.

♦Third, and this is the one that hurts; as long as the money is flowing – they really don’t care about the consequences outside the bubble of corruption that surrounds them.  This is where the “pretending not to know” aspect becomes a matter of importance to retain position.

They built the silos as a self-preservation system, where what they are preserving is their access to money.  The examples of corruption that flow like an endless stream around the silos, the feeder material for the DC swamp is simply an outcome of their own creation.

Perhaps it is better to give you an example FROM TODAY as to how this applies to what we review.  All three points noted above will be visible in this example.

♦ READ CAREFULLY– Back in December of 2017 and January of 2018, there was a battle within Washington DC -in the headlines- around the issue of the “Nunes Memo.”  Devin Nunes wrote a five-page outline of the corruption evident within the Carter Page FISA application used to conduct political surveillance on Donald Trump.  The DC Silo System operators within the DNI (Dan Coats), FBI (Chris Wray, Andrew McCabe), and DOJ (Rod Rosenstein, Robert Mueller) did not want the Nunes Memo released, so they said it contained “classified” material.

Remember, this was President Donald Trump’s DNI, DOJ and FBI telling the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Devin Nunes, that they would not permit the public release of the Nunes Memo; despite the material inside the memo largely exonerating the President and providing material, factual and irrefutable evidence of the corrupt and weaponized use of the FISA application itself by the DOJ, FBI and CIA.

At the same time as this “Nunes Memo” issue was being argued, Special Counsel Robert Mueller was attacking the office of the presidency with fraudulently narrated material from the surveillance the fraudulent FISA warrant authorized.  Read that again if needed. SLOWLY.

The Silos (DNI, DOJ, FBI, CIA), while working for the President, were operating to isolate and target the President.

Now, in the background of this Nunes Memo fight, the FISA-702 bill was also up for reauthorization.  The DNI, DOJ, FBI and CIA wanted the FISA-702 reauthorization that permits them to conduct surveillance on Americans without a warrant.  The DC Intelligence Silos wanted 702 reauthorized.  HPSCI Chairman Devin Nunes, who ultimately controlled the reauthorization, wanted his memo declassified.  Nunes lead strategist was Kash Patel, the senior staffer within the HPSCI.

Kash Patel and Devin Nunes entered negotiations with Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats to declassify the Nunes Memo, in exchange for reauthorizing FISA-702.   They negotiated a position where a “redacted version” of the Nunes memo would be released, in exchange for 702 reauthorization.    That’s what they did.  FISA-702 was reauthorized and the Nunes Memo was released [albeit with redactions].

The DOJ, FBI, CIA and SSCI kept attacking President Trump and the Special Counsel operation continued for another year.

[Six months after the FISA-702 reauthorization, with the term of the search warrant exhausted – and the content no longer useful, the FISA Application used against Carter Page was released publicly by the Robert Mueller special counsel.]

Hopefully you can see from the outline above how the Silo system operated during these events.  The key takeaway is how Patel and Nunes worked within a corrupt and weaponized system and played by the rules of the corrupt and weaponized DC Silo operation.  There was ZERO reform, either to the DOJ, FBI, CIA (silos) or the FISA-702 surveillance process.  The corrupt system just moved along as it does.

This is why you cannot reform this system by using the participants within it that accept and continue playing by corrupt rules.

Kash Patel and Devin Nunes could have played a strategy where they confronted the DNI, CIA, DOJ and FBI by saying publicly Dan Coats was holding the declassification of the Nunes Memo hostage.  They did not.

Kash Patel and Devin Nunes could have gone to President Trump and told him the issues, and requested President Trump declassify the memo without any redactions.  They did not.

There were alternatives to playing within the rules of the Silo system.  But they didn’t. They accepted the Silo process and in doing so perpetuated the process that targeted President Trump.

Now, we fast forward to today.  What does that factual outline of HPSCI Kash Patel tell you about the predictive nature of FBI Director Kash Patel?

I often hear or receive this question in various iterations.  When discussing the research outlines of current events, especially when we cite the historic background of what took place leading to those events – and how it created the outcome we now witness, we often get this question – or a version therein:

…”Have you tried to meet with DNI or DOJ or NSC people to attempt to ”unsilo” their thinking and understanding of all that transpired so they can connect all the dots. You have said that different people you’ve spoken to know pieces and parts, but the silos prevent anyone from knowing the whole. Can you not be the link? I love that we know but we can’t affect change. We/I only become more frustrated as our new leaders bumble along talking and focusing on seemingly trivial things compared to the Treason that has been on display since 2008.”….

My friends, part of the reason the corrupt DC system is so transparently predictable, is precisely because everyone engaged in the events has a vested interest to retain the corruption.  When you peel down the onion, when you get through the smoke to the fire, when you go deep into the rabbit hole and finally reach the dead end, you discover the root of everything that permeates everything is money. It is not ideology – it’s money.

From my myriads of travels and interactions with the system operators, I can boil down the answer to a few key points:

♦First, to the point of those we count on to stop the corruption, these are not smart people.  You project infinitely more intelligence upon them than they actually possess.  The high-information voter and researcher has much more knowledge than they do.  We fail and become frustrated when we mistakenly believe they carry an awareness that is factually not present.  You know more than your representative, and you know the context of that information at a much, much higher level than they do.  They ARE NOT smarter than you; where “they” applies to every-single-one of the names you might reference.  You are smarter than them.

♦Secondcorruption is a business; whether in the initiation of it, or in the maintenance of it. Quoting myself in discussion of the situation: “My honest and respectfully intended question to you would be: What is it that makes our representatives always want to “talk about the information” rather than act upon the information, when the information is there for the taking?

Perhaps, by training, by habit, or by unintended consequence our representative form of government, our American system of politics, has developed to live for the process itself as an end result. Is it logical to believe that removing corrupt activity is a discussion; the conversation is the point; the smoke is the fire?

The business of Washington DC has evolved into reveling in the process and, as a consequence, it completely ignores the end point, misses the bottom line, doesn’t actually SEE the subject matter and never actually applies action to what might be discovered. In fact, I’m led to believe that sometimes those within system avoid the corruption deliberately, because if they get their heads around it and nail it home, they won’t have anything to talk about anymore–nothing to fundraise from anymore-because they will have exhausted their stash.

Washington DC has gotten into the habit of milking every example of corruption for “so many talking points,” “so many interviews,” “so many column inches,” and “so many angles” that problem-solving does not appeal to them at all. They oddly appear to favor the endless process.

So, when there’s an approach like what they encounter with me, with our significant research, and our reluctance for self-involvement or financial benefit, well, I just don’t fit in–because I don’t give a flying flip about “the process.” And therefore, I do not fit into the rationale of the box or their predicted PERT chart.  And I say this having been a target of their stupid investigative nonsense.

♦Third, and this is the one that hurts; as long as the money is flowing – they really don’t care about the consequences outside the bubble of corruption that surrounds them.  This is where the “pretending not to know” aspect becomes a matter of importance to retain position.

They built the silos as a self-preservation system, where what they are preserving is their access to money.  The examples of corruption that flow like an endless stream around the silos, the feeder material for the DC swamp is simply an outcome of their own creation.

Perhaps it is better to give you an example FROM TODAY as to how this applies to what we review.  All three points noted above will be visible in this example.

♦ READ CAREFULLY– Back in December of 2017 and January of 2018, there was a battle within Washington DC -in the headlines- around the issue of the “Nunes Memo.”  Devin Nunes wrote a five-page outline of the corruption evident within the Carter Page FISA application used to conduct political surveillance on Donald Trump.  The DC Silo System operators within the DNI (Dan Coats), FBI (Chris Wray, Andrew McCabe), and DOJ (Rod Rosenstein, Robert Mueller) did not want the Nunes Memo released, so they said it contained “classified” material.

Remember, this was President Donald Trump’s DNI, DOJ and FBI telling the Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Devin Nunes, that they would not permit the public release of the Nunes Memo; despite the material inside the memo largely exonerating the President and providing material, factual and irrefutable evidence of the corrupt and weaponized use of the FISA application itself by the DOJ, FBI and CIA.

At the same time as this “Nunes Memo” issue was being argued, Special Counsel Robert Mueller was attacking the office of the presidency with fraudulently narrated material from the surveillance the fraudulent FISA warrant authorized.  Read that again if needed. SLOWLY.

The Silos (DNI, DOJ, FBI, CIA), while working for the President, were operating to isolate and target the President.

Now, in the background of this Nunes Memo fight, the FISA-702 bill was also up for reauthorization.  The DNI, DOJ, FBI and CIA wanted the FISA-702 reauthorization that permits them to conduct surveillance on Americans without a warrant.  The DC Intelligence Silos wanted 702 reauthorized.  HPSCI Chairman Devin Nunes, who ultimately controlled the reauthorization, wanted his memo declassified.  Nunes lead strategist was Kash Patel, the senior staffer within the HPSCI.

Kash Patel and Devin Nunes entered negotiations with Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats to declassify the Nunes Memo, in exchange for reauthorizing FISA-702.   They negotiated a position where a “redacted version” of the Nunes memo would be released, in exchange for 702 reauthorization.    That’s what they did.  FISA-702 was reauthorized and the Nunes Memo was released [albeit with redactions].

The DOJ, FBI, CIA and SSCI kept attacking President Trump and the Special Counsel operation continued for another year.

[Six months after the FISA-702 reauthorization, with the term of the search warrant exhausted – and the content no longer useful, the FISA Application used against Carter Page was released publicly by the Robert Mueller special counsel.]

Hopefully you can see from the outline above how the Silo system operated during these events.  The key takeaway is how Patel and Nunes worked within a corrupt and weaponized system and played by the rules of the corrupt and weaponized DC Silo operation.  There was ZERO reform, either to the DOJ, FBI, CIA (silos) or the FISA-702 surveillance process.  The corrupt system just moved along as it does.

This is why you cannot reform this system by using the participants within it that accept and continue playing by corrupt rules.

Kash Patel and Devin Nunes could have played a strategy where they confronted the DNI, CIA, DOJ and FBI by saying publicly Dan Coats was holding the declassification of the Nunes Memo hostage.  They did not.

Kash Patel and Devin Nunes could have gone to President Trump and told him the issues, and requested President Trump declassify the memo without any redactions.  They did not.

There were alternatives to playing within the rules of the Silo system.  But they didn’t. They accepted the Silo process and in doing so perpetuated the process that targeted President Trump.

Now, we fast forward to today.  What does that factual outline of HPSCI Kash Patel tell you about the predictive nature of FBI Director Kash Patel?

I expect nothing from FBI leadership that plays by the rules of a corrupt and weaponized system.

Do, or do not.  There is no try.

When you see that justice is measured, not by due process, but by compulsion – when you see that in order to invoke your sixth amendment right to due process, you need to obtain permission from men who rebuke the constitution – when you see that justice is determined by those who leverage, not in law, but in politics – when you see that men get power over individual liberty by graft and by scheme, and your representatives don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you – when you see corruption holding influence and individual liberty so easily dispatched and nullified – you may well know that your freedom too is soon to perish.

I will never relent, because I do not consent.

Love to all,

~ Sundance

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European War is Inevitable


Posted originally on May 18, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

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QUESTION: Well, here we are at the 15th, right on schedule. Your model turns up, and it looks like no deal. Would you care to comment?

Uri

2022 Intl War Index

ANSWER: Putin said their purpose would be “to remove the root causes of the conflict and move towards creating a long-term, durable peace in a historical perspective”. Zelenskyy said he was prepared to attend, but only if Putin also showed up, because “everything in Russia depends” on the Russian leader as if that is not the case in Ukraine. Trump also was not attending.

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Zelensky is a Neo-Nazi and he takes orders from the EU and NATO. He wants every Russian dead. What would he do if Russia left the Donbas? He has outlawed them from speaking Russian, denied them any right to vote, outlawed Orthodox Christianity, and outlawed them from even celebrating Christmas. The Ukrainian people have a choice. Either to die for the Neocons, or rise up and overthrow Zelensky. Contacts in Romania realize the EU is trying to orchestrate them into war with Russia. The strategy here is to send the Eastern Europeans in to kill as many Russians as possible, and then Macron can invade Russia like Napoleon.

Our model peaked intraday in the last quarter of 2024, with the third quarter of 2024 as the highest quarterly closing. The correction was to be into the first Quarter, and then the second quarter was a Directional Change. We will now head into the third quarter of 2025, which should reflect the failure of any peace deal because any ceasefire is only to regroup and rearm Ukraine. There is no resolution to this, and the EU will NEVER allow Ukraine to have peace.

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There was a peace deal. Putin withdrew his tanks around Kiev, and Boris Johnson flew to Ukraine and instructed Zelensky not to sign any peace deal. More than one million Ukrainians are now dead. My sources in the US military confirm that all the claims that Russia has lost 1 million are fake news. This is all to push for war. Europe does NOT want peace. They are broke, and without war, the people will be storming their parliaments with pitchforks to hang these politicians on the street, for everything they were promised will vanish in a sovereign default. They NEED a distraction, and that is war with Russia, the same as Carney ran against Trump in Canada and avoided all domestic economic damage carried out by the Liberal Party.

It is NOT a question of IF but only WHEN

That’s our Computer – not my personal opinion.

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Posted originally on Rumble By Bannon’s War Room on: May 15, 2025, at 12:00 am EST

States May Fund Migrants – Grey Area Questioned


Posted originally on May 14, 2025 by Martin Armstrong 

Illegal Immigration

President Trump’s Executive Order 14218 (February 2025) prohibits undocumented migrants from receiving federal funds. However, individual states are not prohibited from funding migrants, and several blue states are continuing to use state funds for such purposes. There is a grey area here as these states are incentivizing illegal settlement, but at the moment, the law seeks to ensure that only federal funds are not distributed to illegal settlers.

California may be in the midst of an energy and debt crisis, but Governor Gavin Newsom continues to fight Washington on behalf of migrants. California’s Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI) provides cash payments to migrants who are ineligible for Social Security. Is this program using federal aid? The Department of Homeland Security has subpoenaed the past four years of records to determine if migrants resisting in Los Angeles have been receiving cash payments at the expense of our federal budget.

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said that the subpoena for Los Angeles is merely the beginning of their ongoing search. “The Trump Administration is working together to identify abuse and exploitation of public benefits and make sure those in this country illegally are not receiving federal benefits or other financial incentives to stay illegally.” She continued, “If you are an illegal immigrant, you should leave now. The gravy train is over.”

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A memo from the White House last month revealed that the American taxpayers have been paying $182 billion annually to cover all expenses for 20 million migrants, based on research from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The study found that the $182 billion included $66.4 billion in federal assistance, with state and local expenses reaching $115.6 billion.

People residing in blue states may not realize that their tax dollars are still being used to support people who illegally entered the nation, cannot apply for work, and are living a taxpayer-subsidized life.

In March 2025, Newsom requested a $3.44 billion loan from the general fund, the maximum loan amount permitted under California law, to pay for social programs. An additional $2.8 billion in state funding has already been committed to cover June costs. He is spending funds faster than they can be collected. Newsom has proposed numerous tax hikes, but they could never amount to his perpetual spending.

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Instead of focusing his attention and resources on Americans who have paid into the system their entire lives, Newsom has ulterior motives. He approved of spending $10 billion on health care costs alone for migrants.

Every agency involved in California’s finances has warned Newsom that his spending will destroy the state. Spending over the past five years has skyrocketed by 63% to $200 billion. I reported that the Legislative Analyst Office (LAO) found that California is facing “double-digit operating deficits in the years to come” as a result of reckless government spending.

California’s debt will rise when the federal government removes any funding misdirected toward non-citizens. There is a grey area here where states are openly encouraging illegal settlement through incentives from their taxpaying, legal residents. The Department of Homeland Security may still deport these migrants, but as we have seen in recent weeks, blue states will not relent.

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