Tucker’s Not Wrong, But It’s Way Worse


Posted originally on the CTH on December 5, 2023 | Sundance

Tucker Carlson discussing the collective DC system (both parties) to fund the Ukraine proxy war against Russia.  For the sake of brevity, Tucker is not wrong – but the motive is way worse and far more nefariously connected to our domestic situation than he can outline. {Direct Rumble Link}

I can speak authoritatively about this because I have firsthand knowledge.  Additionally, in response to a prior comment, I shared my opinion the State Dept travel advisories over the past two years are not -generally speaking- about U.S. travel security; those advisories are to keep us as caged birds without information. WATCH:

I will be sharing more about my direct experience, but gathering information is not as complicated as most would think. You just have to use common sense, set up solid plans and contacts while being prudent about how you organize your research effort. Suffice to say, on this subject, almost everything we think we understand about the geopolitical issues shared through the prism of western media is purposefully wrong.

Tucker previously said he would never go there because it was entirely too dangerous. Perhaps I thought so too, but if no one ever goes then how do we know.

You see, it is entirely possible to build up fear in your mind.  Fear of something, simply because we have been trained to be fearful.

Thankfully, Tucker was wrong, it wasn’t dangerous at all.

Nothing is what it seems.

Socialism – Where Starving People Break into Zoos to Eat the Animals


Posted originally on Dec 5, 2023 By Martin Armstrong

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There is a rumor going around that people under socialism faced such severe food shortages that they were forced to break into zoos and eat the animals. Unfortunately, this is a fact. Reports were circulating in Venezuela of people consuming zoo animals around 2016 and 2017. The animals that remained in these zoos starved to death or ate one another. The people were in such dire conditions that they were forced to consume dogs, cats, decaying meat, and anything else they could find.

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Hugo Chávez is celebrated as this social justice warrior for eliminating capitalism in the 2000s. Socialism does not work because the system eventually runs out of other people’s money, as Margaret Thatcher once proclaimed. We only need to look at recent history to see the severe consequences of switching to this system. Venezuela first reported that they had a “nutritional emergency” in February 2016.  President Nicolás Maduro also declared an “economic emergency” in January of the same year, providing him the power to rule by decree. Inflation was running at 141.5%, according to Venezuelan authorities, but the IMF believed the figure reached 270% in 2015 and had the potential to reach 500% by the end of 2016.

Similar to how central banks and Treasury Secretaries downplay inflation today, the talking heads denied anything was wrong. The socialists claimed that acknowledging the food shortages could lead to American intervention, and Maduro consistently blamed US sanctions for his nation’s failure. As reported by a Spanish newspaper, this is how the average person waiting for their food rations: “Five hours in line to buy a chicken; kicks, pushes, and blows of all kinds to be one of the fortunate ones to enter the supermarket and get away with a bag of flour or rice, basic goods that Venezuela does not have available to everyone, unfortunately.”

Maduro told the people to grow their own food and gloated that he too was producing his own eggs and produce. The government owned the grocers and the food production companies, and stepped in numerous times to shut down any intervention by the private sector. Politicians take no responsibility for the suffering endured under their policies, and this is precisely what a portion of the West is fighting to implement today.

Separatist Movement Growing Also in Australia


Posted originally on Dec 4, 2023 By Martin Armstrong 

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COMMENT:  I would love a report on Australia/NZ as well. Australia has a separatist movement – WA is sick of paying the most GST taxes to prop up other States, and actively talks of separating. NT & SA would align, this is historical too. Probably Vic & Tas amalgamate. And people would say this would not happen, but NSW & Qld come together (NSW used to incorporate the whole of Qld) and they have Rugby in common, not Aussie Rules. Interesting, maybe all current Commonwealth countries and the USA split. Regards from down under!

NC

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REPLY: As you know, I have even lived in Sydney for a stint. I went up to Kakadu and hired a guide who was like Crocodile Dundee. We lived off the land, swam with freshwater crocs, and caught Baramundy from the South Allegator River while fighting off crocs who were looking to eat us for dinner. I have been to every nook and cranny in Australia when Ozies have never gone; just as few Americans visit the Liberty Bell if they live within 10 miles of it.

So, I am very well aware of the stark differences in attitudes and culture between the South, North, and the West. The same is true between North & South in the USA, Germany, Italy, Britain, and Ireland, just to mention a few. In places like Spain and Canada, it tends to be East vs. West. The entire Ukrainian war is all about the Minsk Agreement that was supposed to allow the people of the Donbas to vote on their separation from the Ukrainians who outright hate Russian-speaking Ukrainians. That too, is a separatist movement.

This separatist movement is rising exponentially. It is indeed the turmoil we have, for it will be 86 years (10 x 8.6) from the formation of the IMF, World Bank, and this globalist agenda by 2032.

A Walk into the Matrix


The focus on Russia being the aggressor does not make sense when history and facts are looked at.  The following analysis cuts through the propaganda and gets to the core of the thing.

Let me start by saying everything we have read about the Western sanctions against Russia is false.  What sanctions might exist do not have any impact, and Eastern Europe has no intention to anger Putin.  When Brussels threatens to kick Hungary out of the EU/NATO, I can almost hear Viktor Orban saying, “Don’t threaten me with a good time.”  Hungary doesn’t even use or rely on the €uro for domestic financial transactions; they still retain their own national currency, the Hungarian forint or HUF.

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.

Crypto users are likely familiar with stories like Binance and the US regulatory control therein.  Factually, outside the USA Binance is being used to purchase and trade crypto without issue, but inside the USA it is regulated.  That brings me to the MEXC crypto exchange, a Mexican version, again available globally but not allowed in the USA.  The same applies to Metamask, used all over Europe but not permitted in the USA.  Start to ask yourself, why all these crypto exchanges are available to the rest of the world but not the USA, and you start to suspect the Russian sanctions, just like the Patriot Act, are something else entirely.

Then there’s app wallets.  You might be familiar with Apple Pay as a process to handle transactions from your iPhone.  Apple Pay is linked to your bank account.  Well, the “wallet feature” exists on other apps also, like Telegram; however, you can find the wallet feature, but if you try to use it from a USA cell phone… “This feature is not allowed in your region.”  Why are digital wallets available for the rest of the world but blocked by the U.S. government?

This brings me to several crypto conversations in the EU at various cafes with people who have a deep understanding.  The commonly accepted bottom line, the Western sanctions, organized by the Biden administration and US Treasury, were not intended to put financial walls around Russia; they were designed to put control walls around the USA.  Russia was the useful justification.

Here’s how it really looks from the outside looking at the USA.  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.

Now, does the exploding debt and seeming govt ambivalence take on a new perspective?  It should, because that unspoken motive explains everything.  This is not accidental folks.

Again, the western sanctions against Russia are not having an impact against Russia; they are having a quiet impact in the USA that no one is permitted to talk about.

♦LOGISTICS – Despite popular opinion to the contrary, it is entirely possible to travel all over Europe without being tracked.  If you pick an entry point into the EU (Schengen Area), once inside, you can travel without any national checkpoints or passport checks.  It is also entirely possible to fly all over the EU without ever giving a passport number when you book the flight.  The trick is to know which airline.  You are a name on a passenger manifest, nothing more.

Bottom line, travel around the EU is less controlled, tracked and monitored, than travel inside the USA.  Yes, let me emphasize; freedom of travel is greater in the EU than it is in the USA.  This was completely unexpected.

♦GROUND REPORT – You might ask how I know the Russian sanctions are ineffective – here’s an example.  After doing advanced research, I went to three separate banks as a random and innocuous customer.  I put my reason in the kiosk at each bank, got my ticket number and sat down to listen to the conversations. When my ticket number came up on the digital board, I just ignored it and sat for hours listening to conversations.  No one ever noticed or questioned me – not once.

At every one of the banks, the majority of the customers, at the “new account” desk, were foreign nationals asking about setting up business accounts to trade with Russia. In every bank the conversations were friendly and helpful, with the bank staff telling the customers exactly how to set up their account to accomplish the transactions.  No one was saying no; instead they were explaining how to do it in very helpful detail.

Within Russia, there are now 3rd party brokers with international accounts, an entirely new industry, which creates a layer of transactional capability for the outside company to sell goods into Russia.  A Samsung TV travels from South Korea to the destination in the RU with the financial transaction between manufacturer and retailer now passing through the new ‘broker’ intermediary. Essentially, that process is what was happening in the banks for small to medium sized companies.

♦ Back to the crypto and digital wallet angle.  In addition to financial/transactional brokers for durable goods into Russia, there is now an entire industry of selling telephone id’s with EU phone numbers to process the transactions that are blocked by the USA sanction regime.

Meaning, a person could buy a phone and register a phone number from within the EU, and then go back to the USA and access all the blocked/restricted financial processes [Binance (non-US), Metamask, MexC, Telegram digital wallet etc].  This would permit them to do untracked financial transactions into and out of Russia from the USA without the USG knowing about them (sanction workaround).

[DISCLAIMER: in the interest of my own legal risk, I did not do this; I’m just explaining.]

I am not smarter than the U.S. intelligence community, so what does this mean?

This means the U.S. government knows exactly why the Russian economy is thriving, the Ruble is stronger against the dollar, and there is nothing -not one thing- visible or different on the ground in Russia that an ordinary Russian citizen would notice.  In fact, the Russian economy is doing fine, better than before the Ukraine conflict initiated, albeit with new financial industries created by the sanctions.

If the US government knows this, then why the sanctions?

Asked and answered.  The Western sanctions created a financial wall around the USA, not to keep Russia out, but to keep us in.  The Western sanction regime, the financial mechanisms they created and authorized, creates the control gate that leads to a U.S. digital currency.

In essence, the Ukraine war response justified a system that creates a digital dollar.

I will have more revelations, but for now just think about this aspect.

Digital IDs Ramping Up in Australia


Posted originally on Dec 4, 2023 By Martin Armstrong 

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Australian federal Finance Minister, Senator Katy Gallagher, has introduced legislation for a national digital ID. The new program aims to create a single platform that unites a person’s identification documents and connects it with government services such as myGov, Centrelink, and the Australian Tax Office. The government claims that the digital ID will have strong privacy provisions built in; however, the information is accessible to both the public and private sectors.

The Ministerial Digital ID Expert Panel has stated the program will cost $1.5 billion annually. The digital ID will contain sensitive documents such as a person’s birth certificate, driver’s license, and passport.  The current AGDIS program will  be phased out as this national ID is all-encompassing. As of October, over 10.5 million Australians have already enrolled in the program.

Liberal Senator Alex Antic has emassed nearly 95,000 signatures on his online petition to scrap the “digital identity power grab.” The petition states:“The Labor government wants to take your most sensitive personal data. They want to cram it into a central government-run database – the perfect target for a hacker. They want to generate a ‘digital identity’ with this data. Then they will force you to use this ‘digital identity’ to transact online or access online services. The worst part? This is the first step in a Chinese-style social credit system. If you don’t toe the line, your ‘digital identity’ could be cancelled, meaning you’d be cut off from the world of online services that people now rely on. This is a fundamental threat to your freedom and our democracy. You and I need to send a strong message now that Australians will not take this lying down.”

The Australian government created the program with “input from various stakeholders,” a nod to who will own your data. After passing the legislation, the government plans to incorporate state and territory-issued IDs to the framework. Then, the government will link the system with the private sector. Banks and other agencies will have access to your financial information through the digital ID.

Australia’s government has failed to protect user data numerous times. Webber Insurance found 44 data breaches in the first six months of this year alone. Last year, the data of over 12 million Australians containing sensitive information such as medical records was leaked from the Tax Office. There were reports of hackers selling MyGov accounts for a mere $1 USD.

This policy is a gross infringement on human rights and privacy. The government does not need to track us like cattle. Worse, why are they selling personal data to the private sector and how will that data be kept securely? The Australian government showed just how tyrannical it has become after the COVID lockdowns and is ushering in this new reality of government surveillance. The goal is to build a GLOBAL database where we will all be accessible through the click of a mouse.

Dimon: Working Class Should Support Neocons


Posted originally on Dec 4, 2023 By Martin Armstrong 

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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon believes Americans should be upset about their economic status, and does not understand why there is not more outrage. The billionaire in charge of the nation’s largest bank believes that electing Donald Trump in 2024 would be the worst financial decision for the working class. Why? Well, Trump has made it clear that he would aim to end the wars in Ukraine and Palestine.

“You’re all wealthy and have money and stuff like that, but their average wages are $15 to $20 [an hour]. They’re the ones who lost their jobs in COVID,” he said at the New York Times DealBook Summit. “They’re dying five or six years younger than the rest of us. They’re the ones who don’t have medical insurance. They’re the ones where their schools don’t work. They’re the ones dealing with crime. What the hell have we done as a nation?” Dimon believes the “bottom third” should be “pissed off” at the system. All statements seem fair, but his proposed solution only benefits those at the top.

The Davos regular declared that everyone, even the most liberal of Democrats, should support Nikki Haley in her presidential bid. Now that Mike Pence is out of the race, Nikki Haley remains the top Neocon in the GOP. We already know about the Ukraine Reconstruction Bank backed by BlackRock and JPMorgan Chase. Haley promised to bring the country into World War III by encouraging war with China, Russia, and “finishing” Palestine.

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When the interviewer asked Dimon if he believed in an “anyone but Trump” voting policy, he personally said he wouldn’t say it aloud in case Trump is elected president. He does not believe that Trump’s supporters are smart enough to cast a vote. “I think what they’re [Trump supporters] looking at is saying the economy [was] pretty good. Even the Black community had the lowest unemployment rate ever in his last year. He wasn’t wrong about China. He wasn’t wrong about NATO. He wasn’t wrong about the misuse of the military.” So now it seems like a good idea for other NATO nations to raise their contributions. Concerns over China only promote fearmongering to push us into yet another war.

Speaking of China, Dimon said JPMorgan Chase would readily leave China if ordered to do so by the US government. Remember that this man is an elite who participates in top-level discussions behind the curtain. He is already preparing for a war with Taiwan. He then went on to claim that India, Japan, and the Philippines, all of China’s neighbors, are also “remilitarizing” in preparation.

The people should certainly be pissed off about inflation, but WAR is by large the most significant contributor to rising inflation. The Build Back Better crowd wants to spark civil unrest among those at the bottom while feigning concern. The bottom third that he mentioned would be better off throwing their wallets into the nearest trash can than casting a vote for a Neocon intent on supporting the people who want to control them.

Servant of the People Leader Said NATO Forced Ukraine to Reject Russian Peace Treaty


Posted originally on Dec 4, 2023 By Martin Armstrong 

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Davyd Arakhamiia, leader of the Servant of the People, released a damning piece of information that has been swept under the rug as it proves Moscow attempted to end this war long ago. This key information is important to keep in mind as the Neocons have infiltrated all upcoming elections. Davyd was present during the peace talks with Belarus, Russia, and Turkey in 2022, shortly after the war began. Putin allegedly came to the meeting with a drafted peace agreement that would end the war if Ukraine granted Russia neutrality.

The Permanent Neutrality of Ukraine and Security Guarantees contained 18 articles with “everything is spelled out, from military equipment to personnel of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.” Avoiding future NATO membership was part of the agreement, but Russia was willing to surrender and end the war then and there. Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson acting on behalf of NATO allegedly made a surprise visit to Kiev during this time and persuaded Ukrainian officials not to accept the peace treaty.

Hundreds of thousands of lives could have been saved if not for the Neocons. The West orchestrated this entire war from the beginning in an attempt to weaken Russia by any means necessary. Those who claim Putin is a warmonger hellbent on reclaiming the USSR is not listening to the facts. The New York Times estimated that over half a million soldiers had been hurt or killed during the battle back in August. True death figures are never released during times of war. Zelensky does not realize that the Neocons in charge know he will lose. The motives for this type of death and destruction are beyond comprehension.

Pentagon Admits Mid-East Terrorists Located Within Houthi-controlled Yemen Targeting U.S. Navy Fleet


Posted originally on the CTH on December 3, 2023 | Sundance 

Finally, almost two months later, CTH suspicions are confirmed {GO DEEP}.   You might remember when the USS Carney intercepted 15 drones and cruise missiles in the Red Sea in October, we said something was sketchy about the Western media reporting on it.  The political narrative (not from the Pentagon) was that the missiles were heading to Israel, but that didn’t pass the proverbial sniff test {GO DEEP ##2}.

Given the nature of the political climate at the time, and accepting the limited range of Yemeni cruise missiles, CTH surmised the actual target of the October 19th attack was the U.S. naval fleet, not Israel.   However, people poo-pooed our analysis and said, unlikely.  Well, today the Pentagon admits the U.S. naval fleet is being targeted.

This is a very big deal, because the reality of the U.S. being targeted changes the political calculation and risk metric.  The Biden administration would not want American citizens to think about our own military being involved in an expanded Israel-Hamas war directly, but that’s exactly what is happening.  THAT my friends was the motive for being obtuse in the first wave of attacks in October.

The AP is correct when they say, “the attack potentially marks a major escalation in a series of maritime attacks in the Mideast linked to the Israel-Hamas war.”  ‘Potentially’? Nonsense. It is a major escalation.  The other big revelation is that WE were the likely target two months ago.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Three commercial ships in the Red Sea were struck by ballistic missiles fired from Houthi-controlled Yemen on Sunday and a U.S. warship shot down three drones in self-defense during the hourslong assault, the U.S. military said. Responsibility for the attack was claimed by the Houthi rebels, who are backed by Iran.

The attacks marked an escalation in a series of maritime attacks in the Mideast linked to the Israel-Hamas war, as multiple vessels found themselves in the crosshairs of a single Houthi assault for the first time in the conflict.

In a statement, U.S. Central Command said the attacks “represent a direct threat to international commerce and maritime security. They have jeopardized the lives of international crews representing multiple countries around the world.” It said the three commercial ships and their crews are connected to 14 countries.

About 30 minutes later, the Unity Explorer was hit by a missile, and while responding to the distress call the Carney shot down another incoming drone. Central Command said the Unity Explorer reported minor damage from the missile.

Two other commercial ships, the Panamanian-flagged bulk carriers Number 9 and Sophie II, were both struck by missiles. The Number 9 reported some damage but no casualties, and the Sophie II reported no significant damage.

While sailing to assist the Sophie II, the Carney shot down another drone heading in its direction. The drones did no damage. (read more)

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Our guys are the target!  /SD

Prayers for protection over our Navy.

The Gates of Hell


Posted originally on Dec 3, 2023 By Martin Armstrong 

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The joke going around is Bill Gates, Klaus Schwab, and Joe Biden all died together in a private plane crash. They show up before Satan at the Gates of Hell. Gates says he was helping society and is clearly in the wrong place. Kalus says yes – me too! Biden seems confused and does not know where he is. Satan shows Biden to a small cell steaming hot with no air conditions. Gates and Klaus are escorted to an air-conditioned mansion and told they must share it. They asked why we had to live together. Satan replies: We are unsure who will send more people here, you Gates or Schwab. You did a great job killing 20% of the vaccinated Bill, and you, Klaus, stole everyone’s assets, creating massive civil wars when we have the total death count that will decide who keeps this mansion. You both beat the death counts of Hitler, Lenin, and even Genghis Khan. That was very impressive. Well done!