REALPOLITIK: ‘War Is A Racket’, Time To Get Real About Ukraine – By James Rickards

Source – dailyreckoning.com “…Putin instead believed that the “special military operation” would tell Kyiv and Washington that Russia was serious about enforcing its red lines in Ukraine, that it was willing to use force. But he thought his show of force would bring them to the negotiating table. He badly miscalculated…It won’t make the same…

HIGH CRIMES: ‘COVID-19’, A Global Financial Operation – By Michael Bryant

Source – off-guardian.org “…Put simply, Covid-19 was not a widespread medical emergency, it was a money laundering scheme, a massive psychological operation and a smoke screen for a complete overhaul and restructuring of the current social and economic world order. Covid-19, the disease, is nothing more than a disease of ATTRIBUTION. Covid-19, the media event,…

CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: ‘Insiders & Rentiers’, How Easy Is It To Become Middle Class? – By Charles Hugh Smith

Source – oftwominds.com “…Broadly speaking, virtually anyone who rigorously adopted thrift, prudence, negotiation, and hard work in the fifty years from 1946 to 1995 could (once they married and gained a two-income household) eventually afford a family and a stake in the system–a house and/or small business, a pension, etc. Once financialization and globalization rose…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: ‘Debt Bomb’, On The Cusp Of A Global Liquidity Crisis – By Jim Rickards

Source – dailyreckoning.com. “…Is there a financial calamity worse than a severe recession in early 2023? Unfortunately, the answer is “yes” and it’s coming quickly…the Fed money supply is itself leveraged on a small sliver of only $60 billion of capital. So, the Fed’s balance sheet is leveraged 100-to-1, and the derivatives market is leveraged…

CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: FDIC Bankers Discuss ‘Bail-Ins’ To Deal With Approaching Market Collapse

Source – stuartbramhall.wordpress.com “..The FDIC’s Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee (SRAC) held a meeting in November to discuss how the next market crash would occur and what steps would need to be taken to ensure not everybody tries pulling their money out of the financial system at the same time…although institutions will soon be able to…

BRAVE NEW WORLD: ‘Automated Landlord’, Robot Landlords Are Buying Up Houses – By Nick Keppler

Source – vice.com “…Soon, new securities-backed companies were buying vast quantities of small homes (many of them foreclosures) with plans to rent them out. Some of these companies have ballooned into behemoths. Invitation Homes, the largest, has more than 80,000 houses in 16 metro areas. American Homes 4 Rent, founded by self-storage magnate B. Wayne…

CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: ‘The Financial Samson Option’, What You Need To Do Before Governments Use It – By Nick Giambruno

Source – internationalman.com “…When the next crisis comes—and I think it could be imminent—the US government will have no choice but to implement its financial Samson Option. In other words, as the US government goes bankrupt, they will drag everyone down with them as they make a desperate wealth grab. There will be enormous implications…

CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: ‘Banksters Paradise’, Monopoly Board Game Updated For Our Times

Source – stuartbramhall.wordpress.com “…The game copies real life…To achieve the goal of Realism we have included an Economic Draft card….It says, “You are impoverished and desperate so you join the military of a NATO country. The Banker has declared war in your behalf against country X. Country X is full of Evil People who do…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: ‘Pentagon Capitalism’, The Democrats Are Now The War Party – By Chris Hedges

Source – scheerpost.com “…The Democratic Party has become the party of permanent war, fueling massive military spending which is hollowing out the country from the inside and flirting with nuclear war…“The truth of the matter is that we’re in a heavily militarized society driven by greed, lust for profit, and wars are being created just…

DAS KAPITAL: Dr. Paul Mazzola – The Next Big Crypto Collapse Is Not A Question Of “If” But “When”

Source – asiatimes.com “…Cryptocurrency markets are primed for contagion…Crypto owners are spooked, waiting for the next exchange to drop. This month it looked as if that might be the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange, Binance, after customers withdrew US$1.9 billion of assets in 24 hours…The lesson from FTX is that if you don’t have self-custody of your…

HIGH CRIMES: Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Companies Bilked A Potential 10.3 Million User Accounts….250 Times More Than Madoff

Source – wallstreetonparade.com “…Even if you cut the 10.3 million user accounts by as much as two-thirds, 3.4 million accounts is still 85 times the number of Madoff victims. If you throw into the mix that Madoff acquired his victims over more than four decades and Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX has been in operation for less…

SCORCHED EARTH: ‘Cobalt Kids’, US-China Struggle For DR Congo Resources Intensifies – By Conor Gallagher

Source – nakedcapitalism.com “…The DRC is sometimes called the “the Saudi Arabia of the electric vehicle age” because it produces roughly 70 percent of the world’s cobalt, which is a key component in the production of lithium-ion batteries that power phones, computers, and electric vehicles. Electric vehicle sales are predicted to grow from 6.5 million in 2021 to…

DAS KAPITAL: ‘Financial Repression’, Why The Next Decade Will Not Be Like The Previous 40 Years – By Charles Hugh Smith

Source – oftwominds.com “…Napier explains why inflation will be maintained in a range of 4% to 6% for years to come: inflation is the only way to reduce the debt burden which has reached $300 trillion globally, and about 250% of GDP of many nations… Furthermore, inflation will be driven by two forces: scarcities of…

BIG PHARMA: Mercola – Big Pharma’s Takeover Of Modern Medicine Created A ‘Pandemic Of Misinformed Doctors’

Source – mercola.com “…If there were ever any doubt that regulatory agencies are captured by industry, consider that significant portions of regulatory agencies’ budgets come from the pharmaceutical industry that these agencies are supposed to regulate. For instance: Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration — 96% of budget derived from industry, Europe’s EMA — 89%, U.K.’s MHRA…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: ‘Flash Boys’, The U.S. Stock Market Structure Is An Institutionalized Wealth Transfer System

Source – wallstreetonparade.com “…The New York Stock Exchange was at one time the most respected stock exchange in the world. It’s now become a pay-to-play venue for hedge funds, high frequency traders and Wall Street mega banks…Steve Kroft asking Lewis what the headline is for his new book. Lewis responds: “The United States stock market,…

AMERIKA: ‘Criminalizing Poverty’, Teaching Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago in Prison – By Chris Hedges

Source – scheerpost.com “…What Solzhenitsyn underwent during his eight years as a prisoner in the labor camps was familiar to my students, most of whom are people of color, poor, often lacking competent legal representation and almost always coerced into signing confessions or accepting plea deals that include crimes, or versions of crimes they were…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: How The Corporate Takeover Of American Politics Began – By Robert Reich

Source – robertreich.org “…Corporate money supports platoons of lawyers, often outgunning any state or federal attorneys who dare to stand in their way. Lobbying has become a $3.7 billion dollar industry…Lobbyists and their allies in Congress, and eventually the Reagan administration, worked to defang agencies like the FTC — and to staff them with officials…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: ‘Faucian Economics’, The Slow Strangulation Of The World Economy – By Jeffrey Tucker

Source – dailyreckoning.com ‘…I’ve never been one for conspiracy theory but one would have to be stupid not to see that there is something of a plan here. They are attacking cities, enterprise, economic growth, and even procreation too. How? In every conceivable way…Surviving this period in history will require cleverness and courageous action…It’s bad…

HIGH CRIMES: ‘Project Prophesy’, It’s A Conspiracy! – By James Rickards

Source – dailyreckoning.com “…Some conspiracies are real. It’s naïve to believe otherwise…What’s left is a house of cards that is now tumbling down. Luna and Three Arrows failed before FTX. BlockFi and others have failed since. Genesis may be the next in line. This slow-motion sequential collapse is far from over. It’s just a matter…

THEATRE OF THE ABSURD: JPMorgan Chase, The Largest Federally-Insured Bank In The U.S. With Five Felony Counts, Says 10 Percent Of Its New Hires Last Year Had Criminal Histories

Source – wallstreetonparade.com ‘…If you’re Jamie Dimon, Chairman and CEO of the largest bank in the U.S. with 5,023 bank branches across the country taking in cash each day that represents the life savings of moms and pops and pension funds, announcing that 10 percent of last year’s new hires had criminal backgrounds is not…

DEAD MEN DON’T TALK: ‘Pattern Deaths’,… Now It’s Crypto-Bankers – By Joseph P Farrell Ph.D

Source – gizadeathstar.com “…I’ll toss it out there, crazy as it is, and crazy as it sounds: When the scandal broke, it struck me, and still strikes me, as a complete disaster for the whole globalooney cashless society narrative, almost as if someone who knew that the FTX venture was one vast fraud and money-laundering…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: ‘Rothbardian Thought’, Globally Controlled Trade – By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.

Source – lewrockwell.com “…Coerced restraints on trade-such as protectionism-cripple, hobble, and destroy trade, the source of life and prosperity. Protectionism is simply a plea that consumers, as well as general prosperity, be hurt so as to confer permanent special privilege upon groups of inefficient producers, at the expense of competent firms and of consumers. But it…

OILIGARCHY: How Blackrock Investment Fund Triggered The Global Energy Crisis – By F. William Engdahl

Source – globalresearch.ca “…The January 2020 Fink letter was a declaration of war by big finance against the conventional energy industry…Another BlackRock officer told a recent energy conference, “where BlackRock goes, others will follow.” In just two years, by 2022 an estimated $1 trillion has exited investment in oil and gas exploration and development globally.…

HIGH CRIMES: Sam Bankman-Fried & The Missing Billions For Pandemic Planning – By Jeffrey A. Tucker

Source – brownstone.org “…Crucially, Bankman-Fried paid off all the right people along the way. He paid nonprofits, media companies, and politicians, and made all the right noises about the need to regulate the industry more than is currently the case. As a result, his media darling status persists even now, as the New York Times…

HIGH CRIMES: ‘Boy Genius’, Sam Bankman-Fried & The Rigged Wall Street System That “Valued” His Company At $32 Billion

Source – wallstreetonparade.com “…Just 14 years ago the United States experienced the greatest financial collapse since the Great Depression of the 1930s because of fast-talking hucksters on Wall Street pushing unregulated derivatives backed, in many cases, by little more than air. Millions of innocent Americans lost their jobs, their homes and their life savings in…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: Once Upon A Time The US Taxed The Rich – By Sam Pizzigati

Source – commondreams.org “…But taxes,” he emphasizes, “have been a principal engine of worsening economic inequality simply because the wealthy, thanks to their success in Congress, now have more money—to buy stocks, invest in real estate, build megayachts, blast off into space, and make campaign contributions to politicians so the cycle isn’t interrupted” Once Upon…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: ‘Greed Is Good’, This Is Of Course Insane – By Charles Hugh Smith

Source – oftwominds.com “…Humanity is in the grip of the secular cult of central banking. The cult’s seers and prophets periodically emerge with arcane signs and readings, offering divinations to guide the followers…The cult creates credit and “money” out of thin air and distributes it to the few extremely wealthy to further expand their wealth. These…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: ‘Duel Criminality’, Are You Easy Prey? – By Jeff Thomas

Source – internationalman.com ‘…For many years, I’ve been predicting the coming of a crisis of epic proportions…This is not the stuff of crystal balls, nor is it mere guesswork. The fundamentals for economic crisis have remained essentially the same for thousands of years, and if we’re diligent enough to study history and analyse the present,…

CONTROLLED DEMOLITION: ‘It Started…’, Who Stole My Pension? – By Robert Kiyosaki

Source – youtube.com “….This time has finally come. Robert Kiyosaki elaborates on the spooky times we’re currently experiencing. “Now, the U.S. goes down – the world goes down…” He says that the average person will get wiped out and shares his simple way of protecting life savings in this crisis” Robert Kiyosaki Predicts MAYHEM Next…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: How Money From Gates & FTX Bought Scientific Silence – By Jeffrey Tucker

Source – theepochtimes.com “…We are more and more discovering the heightened role that the crypto exchange FTX played in funneling money to major public health outposts and academics at Johns Hopkins and Stanford University, as well as its family connections to the Columbia University department of public health. And before that funding spigot opened up, there was…