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Bill Madden wrote:

Worth reading and thinking about.  Once they control our fiat currency and our spending, there’s no way to change back to a constitutional monetary system without a revolution.

Dave Ramsey repost:

HERE’S WHAT NO CASH ACTUALLY MEANS:

A cashless society means no cash. Zero. It doesn’t mean mostly cashless and you can still use a ‘wee bit of cash here & there’. Cashless means fully digital, fully traceable, fully controlled. I think those who support a cashless society aren’t fully aware of what they are asking for. A cashless society means:

* If you are struggling with your mortgage on a particular month, you can’t do an odd job to get you through.

* Your child can’t go & help the local farmer to earn a bit of summer cash.

* No more cash slipped into the hands of a child as a good luck charm or from their grandparent when going on holidays.

* No more money in birthday cards.

* No more piggy banks for your child to collect pocket money & to learn about the value of earning.

* No more cash for a rainy-day fund or for that something special you have been putting $20 a week away for.

* No more little jobs on the side because your wages barely cover the bills or put food on the table.

* No more charity collections.

* No more selling bits & pieces from your home that you no longer want/need for a bit of cash in return.

* No more cash gifts from relatives or loved ones.

What a cashless society does guarantee:

* Banks have full control of every single penny you own.

* Every transaction you make is recorded.

* All your movements & actions are traceable.

* Access to your money can be blocked at the click of a button when/if banks need ‘clarification’ from you which will take about 3 weeks, a thousand questions answered & five thousand passwords.

* You will have no choice but to declare & be taxed on every dollar in your possession.

* The government WILL decide what you can & cannot purchase.

* If your transactions are deemed in any way questionable, by those who create the questions, your money will be frozen, ‘for your own good’.

Forget about cash being dirty. Stop being so easily led. Cash has been around for a very, very, very long time & it gives you control over how you trade with the world. It gives you independence. I heard a story where a man supposedly contracted Covid because of a $20 bill he had handled. There is the same chance of Covid being on a card as being on cash. If you cannot see how utterly ridiculous this assumption is then there is little hope.

If you are a customer, pay with cash. If you are a shop owner, remove those ridiculous signs that ask people to pay by card. Cash is a legal tender, it is our right to pay with cash. Banks are making it increasingly difficult to lodge cash & that has nothing to do with a virus, nor has this ‘dirty money’ trend.

Please open your eyes. Please stop believing everything you are being told. Almost every single topic in today’s world is tainted with corruption & hidden agendas. Please stop telling me & others like me that we are what’s wrong with the world when you hail the most corrupt members of society as your heroes. Politics & greed is what is wrong with the world; not those who are trying to alert you to the reality in which you are blindly floating along whilst being immobilized by irrational fear. Fear created to keep you doing & believing in exactly what you are complacently doing.

Pay with cash & please say no to a cashless society while you still have the choice.

 

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Bill Madden wrote:

Like most printed and video communication, this discussion of our international oppression contains about five minutes of important information spread over a much longer time period.  My desire for more efficient utilization of the audience’s time is strictly from a marketing perspective.  The longer and/or more complex the communication, the fewer the number of people who will absorb it.  If you communicate to impress the other communicators, the less effective it will be with the people who need the information.

In essence, we ruled the world after WW II and Corporate America prospered.  But, prospering soon leads to exploitation and, like Iran in 1953, we were invited to leave Venezuela when Hugo Chavez became president.  We launched at least one coup against Chavez and, it is alleged, we provided the cancer that killed him.  We have attempted to starve the Venezuelans into revolution and regime change but that is not working so we are planning to invade Venezuela because of “drug trafficking” and/or “socialism”.  We tolerate drug trafficking from other countries like Mexico and socialism from countries without an abundance of natural resources but not from Venezuela.

We are a ship without a rudder.

 

 

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di Francesco Simoncelli

(Versione audio della traduzione disponibile qui: https://open.substack.com/pub/fsimoncelli/p/la-rivoluzione-di-satoshi-e-la-possibilita)

Quando ho contattato l'autrice del libro, La rivoluzione di Satoshi, e abbiamo iniziato una corrispondenza per email, è stato come fare il bagno in una vasca gelata: d'improvviso molte sfaccettature dell'ecosistema Bitcoin hanno preso una diversa forma. Ero interessato alla traduzione del libro proprio perché molte nuove consapevolezze erano esplose in me man mano che proseguivo nella lettura. Inutile dire che la volontà di condividere qualcosa con altri deriva sostanzialmente da ciò: la comprensione e l'inquadramento di un determinato fenomeno sotto un nuovo punto di vista, avvalorato e arricchito di una nuova dimensione di conoscenza. Infatti Bitcoin appare diverso a chiunque lo osservi, potremmo definirlo una moderna parabola dei ciechi e dell'elefante.

Agli economisti sembra una moneta di qualità inferiore, poiché non ha una risposta elastica dal lato dell'offerta. Agli occhi degli enti regolatori si tratta di un tentativo subdolo di riciclare denaro ed evadere le tasse. Per il grande pubblico sembra un'orribile creatura costituita da speculatori finanziari e tecno-chiacchieroni, e per questo motivo la maggior parte delle persone lo ignora.

Con La rivoluzione di Satoshi di Wendy McElroy le cose cambiano radicalmente. “Questo è stato uno dei miei progetti intellettuali più difficili e importanti che abbia completato”, mi ha detto l'autrice. È un libro calmo e serio, accessibile ai principianti curiosi e a coloro che non sono ancora convinti che Bitcoin sia una soluzione rapida a ogni problema sociale. Come direbbe qualcuno, tanto per aggiungere un po' di ironia al fenomeno, Bitcoin è “tutto ciò che non capite del denaro, combinato con tutto ciò che non capite dei computer”. Alcune spiegazioni tecniche sono inevitabili, ma il lettore non è soggetto a una valanga di tecnicismi incomprensibili, né a grida di protesta semplicistiche inserite solo per attirare l'attenzione, vendere una copia in più e non lasciare niente di costruttivo al lettore.

L'autrice lo ritiene apertamente un vantaggio per il mondo e questa confessione “partigiana” non dovrebbe sminuire le sue numerose argomentazioni. L'approccio di prendere in considerazione solo gli incentivi personali e scartare di conseguenza le idee è, nell migliore delle ipotesi, miope e, nella peggiore, stupido: “La critica di una presa di parte a priori è un errore di valutazione. Sostengo Bitcoin perché ci credo dopo anni di studio, pertanto le mie tesi reggono, o cadono, in base ai loro meriti”.

E di meriti ce ne sono in abbondanza. La McElroy non esagera, come molti bitcoiner sono soliti fare, ma contestualizza la sua argomentazione fin da subito: “Nonostante le speranze di molti irriducibili sostenitori del Bitcoin, esso non porrà fine alla guerra, non ripristinerà la famiglia tradizionale, né risanerà il mercato immobiliare. Non migliorerà la nutrizione, non ispirerà un ritorno all'arte rinascimentale, né farà rivivere l'architettura del XIX secolo. Bitcoin non risolve tutto; risolve alcuni problemi e ne distrugge persino altri”.

Ciò che molti credono di Bitcoin è vero: è per i criminali, ma è anche per chi combatte per la libertà, per coloro che sono tagliati fuori dal sistema monetario mondiale, per coloro che sono tenuti finanziariamente ostracizzati dalle leggi o dalle usanze dei loro Paesi, per i dissidenti russi o nigeriani che cercano di ricevere e spendere fondi, per le donne afghane sotto il regime patriarcale, per i rifugiati che cercano di attraversare un confine con i loro beni (finanziari) intatti, per gli occidentali che cercano di sfuggire alle peggiori conseguenze dell'inflazione, per i dispensari di marijuana negli Stati Uniti la cui attività è legale negli stati in cui operano ma illegale a livello federale (e quindi incapaci di utilizzare il sistema bancario che è sotto un pesante controllo centralizzato). In realtà tutti questi usi sono la stessa cosa: molte parti dello stesso elefante. La natura del denaro è quella di poter essere utilizzato tra nemici che altrimenti non potrebbero fidarsi, o costringersi a vicenda, a comportarsi bene (gli amici possono usare credito e favori, invece). È uno strumento al portatore che non richiede identificazione, un conto bancario, o il permesso di un sovrano.

“Bitcoin”, scrive l'autrice in modo efficace e conciso, “è capacità di dire di no”: un modo monetario per sottrarsi, per evitare ostacoli. Non c'è da stupirsi che piaccia anche ai criminali. Questo non è un libro ideologico che sostiene aprioristicamente Bitcoin o riflette sul “crollo” del dollaro; libri del genere esistono già, mentre invece la McElroy di creare qualcosa di più grande: non indaga se le cose che Bitcoin rompe valgano la pena di essere rotte, ma “se dovremmo preferire un mondo con Bitcoin a un mondo senza Bitcoin”. Lo fa con prudenza e scrupolosità, usando lo strumento filosofico del velo dell'ignoranza di John Rawls.

Supponendo che non sappiate chi siate, in quale Paese siate nati e quali siano le vostre competenze, i vostri interessi e le vostre opportunità (ovvero, se cercaste di privare i lettori dei loro privilegi monetari e finanziari), sosterreste ancora l'esistenza di Bitcoin?

Nell'ambito di questo velo, La rivoluzione di Satoshi, cerca di presentare argomentazioni il più possibile ineccepibili a favore di Bitcoin. Un tale esercizio oltre a essere ammirevole è anche prezioso. Non vedere un problema nella censura e nell'oppressione finanziaria equivale a credere che solo le Persone Cattive™ abbiano problemi con le autorità (benevolenti). In realtà “anche i buoni vengono spesso censurati”.

La rivoluzione di Satoshi vi invita a guardare più lontano nel tempo e più in generale in tutto il mondo: “Se poteste immaginare di trovarvi nella posizione di aver bisogno di una forma di denaro resistente alla censura, o di dover insegnare a qualcun altro come usarlo, sarebbe saggio studiare Bitcoin”. Questa è la realtà per circa quattro miliardi di persone che vivono sotto il tacco di governanti autoritari che limitano, catturano, opprimono, o puniscono in altro modo i dissidenti per aver fatto, o detto, cose sbagliate. Bitcoin, come qualsiasi altra rivoluzione nella storia, non dissipa le leggi ingiuste, né fa sparire i governanti malvagi, ma niente può farlo; queste “ingiustizie” vivranno finché vivrà l'essere umano. L'uso di Bitcoin rende la spesa e il trasferimento di denaro molto più difficili da censurare per tali governanti.

Si tratta di un miglioramento evidente, un vantaggio per l'umanità. Bitcoin è denaro della libertà, una via di fuga dal pesante stivale di un tiranno. Dietro il velo, abbiamo alte probabilità di essere una di quelle persone. Questo libro alimenta le aspettative e di conseguenza stimola la creatività. La sola speranza di avere per le mani uno strumento di difesa efficace per qualsiasi situazione tirannica o di censura è di per sé uno strumento che permetterà a una pletora crescente di individui di organizzarsi diversamente. La sola esistenza, concreta, di questa possibilità è quanto basta per proiettare le persone nel futuro e, dapprima, far immaginare loro alternative, poi realizzarle. Ecco perché Bitcoin è speranza.

Gli economisti, tuttavia, ridurrebbero il tutto al seguente quadro di riferimento: ampliare il set decisionale e le opportunità disponibili non fa altro che avvantaggiare gli utenti (indipendenza da alternative irrilevanti). Più opzioni ci sono, meglio è. Date le diverse preferenze e circostanze individuali, la situazione mondiale con Bitcoin rappresenta un miglioramento per alcuni ed è quindi piuttosto banale concludere che per queste persone sia meglio avere accesso a Bitcoin piuttosto che non avercelo.

Un mondo con Bitcoin ha i suoi costi, però: ci sono casi di riciclaggio di denaro, ransomware e mancato pagamento delle tasse se qualcosa come Bitcoin non fosse mai stato inventato (beh, scoperto...). L'autrice ammette che tali fenomeni, nella misura in cui sono resi possibili da Bitcoin, sono negativi, ma che non rappresentano “una seria minaccia al beneficio netto complessivo di Bitcoin per il mondo”. In un certo senso, La rivoluzione di Satoshi, fa anche eco a Money and the Rule of Law di Pete Boettke: “Per quanto riguarda le istituzioni monetarie, Bitcoin porta lo stato di diritto nel mondo del denaro ed è un'alternativa attraente, perché apre alla possibilità di creare un consenso con cui dire ‘No’ soprattutto per i miliardi di persone che soffrono sotto pessimi governanti e con le tecnologie analogiche sono intrappolati in un loop terrificante da cui non ci sarebbe uscita”.

Inoltre la McElroy è piuttosto fiduciosa riguardo alle implicazioni di questa istituzione monetaria: “Bitcoin è un'istituzione monetaria che punta alla prevedibilità e alla disintermediazione sistematiche. Esiste non per perseguire la stabilità dei prezzi, o la piena occupazione, ma per eliminare del tutto la necessità di creatori di denaro centrali, mediatori e gestori”.

Abbiamo bisogno di libri seri su Bitcoin e sull'ecosistema che lo circonda, soprattutto dal punto di vista intellettuale, e La rivoluzione di Satoshi è proprio uno di questi.

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The fall general assembly of the USCCB lumbered into session last week at the Marriott Waterfront in Baltimore, as they do each November. The ponderous livestream of bishops, all doing their best to be flavorless, was, to say the least, somnolent. There were approximately two minutes of interest on day two, when Bishop Strickland stood up to make an intervention. He was widely ignored, after which the porridge of officialdom moved on like a slow-moving river around a midstream boulder. It felt like they all found something of interest on the ceiling.

It is finally becoming apparent, even to the most hopeful, that no amount of begging, pleading, or shaming will cause the bishops to care about the laity and those things that are most important to us. If they’re confused as to what those things are, a good start would be to ask priests what they hear most in Confession. I guarantee it’s not offenses against climate change or synodality.

Our children are lost to virtue at an early age and misled by the hyper-sexualized agenda in their schools. The culture of death and depravity takes more trouble over them than the Church does. Where is the stout teaching of the theology of the body in schools and parishes? Where are the Christian heroes able to credibly witness to purity?

They’re not to be found in the Baltimore Marriott, and wouldn’t you think bishops might be a little ashamed of that?

Young adults are turning away from marriage and family. Contraception, abortion, sterile lifestyles, pornography, and misplaced priorities are seductively proposed to them, guaranteeing that they will never have the joy intended by God through the family. Might that be of some interest to the bishops?

So many people who left the Mass under the Reign of Fear in 2020 never returned. We still have a crisis of catechesis, with adults in the pews who have no idea what their Catholicism teaches. The obsessive persecution of the Traditional Latin Mass has driven some of our most committed and hard-working parishioners out of diocesan parishes. Tens of thousands of our African brothers have been kidnapped, tortured, and executed for the Faith.

Could the bishops be troubled to address any of that?

No, they spend themselves on immigration, climate change, and synodality. They waste their time and our money to address things that have no bearing on the lives of the laity or the health of our beloved Church.

When the bishops coyly use the term “immigrant” without specifying legal or illegal, they’re not talking about legal; otherwise, why obfuscate? According to a Harvard-Harris poll from June of this year, 80 percent of all Americans are in favor of the deportation of illegal aliens who commit crimes. As of this fall, about 1.6 million have self-deported, provided with free airfare, a cash bonus, and a chance to apply for legal reentry. Around another half million have been forcibly deported, many of whom are the worst of violent criminals and gang members. Some do not have U.S. criminal records (and the media and bishops will focus on that), but they have long records in their home countries.

No multiplication of pious words from the bishops can change the civil laws. The bishops pulling on the illegal side of the tug-of-war rope sends the message to young people that they need not follow laws they don’t like. That is no preparation for adulthood, but the bishops don’t have to try to raise children to be responsible citizens.

In a March Gallup poll of 16 key issues of concern to Americans, climate change didn’t make the worry list. Even Bill Gates has distanced himself from the climate melodrama. But the bishops will keep milking it until the udder shrivels up. Laudato Si’, you see.

And synodality? Please. You couldn’t find two people in the whole world who agree on what it is.

I don’t know anyone who thinks the bishops, as a body, are doing a great job. Or even a job. There are a few good ones who could actually be a force for Christ in their dioceses if they didn’t have to flap around like synchronized fan dancers for the bishops’ conference and the pope. Heaven forbid any apostle of Christ the King fail to blindly follow orders.

So the Coffee Circle took a whole lot of money to rent space at the Waterfront Marriott—with, no doubt, a strong security force because the princes are afraid of their subjects—and wasted three days performing on subjects that are of little to no importance to those of us who (used to) throw our tithes into the basket.

Do I sound disrespectful? I’ll reserve my genuine respect for the one man who spoke up for a few of the things that are really troubling the faithful. The conversion of the ancient Church of Jesus Christ to the homosexual gospel concerns us. The deceptive portrayal of the illegal immigration crisis concerns us. The fearful and mechanical obedience of bishops to the episcopal tribe—rather than to Jesus and His Mystical Body—concerns us.

I refer you to Bishop Strickland’s intervention on day two, which was ignored by the Coffee Circle but not by the faithful. Thank you, Bishop Strickland, for knowing and caring about the real world in which we, the laity, live and work and try to raise our families for God. Note the disregard of the other bishops when Strickland exhorts them to take the homosexual revision of the Faith seriously.

Then see the postscript that Bishop Strickland posted Friday morning, beginning “Dear Faithful Catholics.” These are some of the most powerful words our lone shepherd has ever spoken:

“How long will you halt between two masters? If you believe Christ is Lord, then follow Him! If the world is your master, then go to it! But no longer profane His sanctuary while you betray the Cross!”

Bishops, STOP with the games! STOP with the lies. STOP turning a blind eye to the little ones! A massive stockpile of millstones is ready to be distributed among you. One for Pope Leo, a truckload for the Curia in the Vatican, and cargo ships full for the vast majority of today’s successors of the Apostles.

How dare I speak these words, how dare I judge these princes of the Church? No, brothers, HOW DARE YOU inflict harm on the little ones, over and over again??

… and then he gets fiery. Read the whole post here.

The discontent of the laity with their bishops continues, but the self-satisfied prelates either don’t notice or don’t care. This cannot continue indefinitely. If the bishops are determined to lead the Church down a path the laity can’t, in good conscience, follow, what will be the outcome? I pray the Lord defends His sheep.

Jesus, we trust in You. Maranatha!

This article was originally published on Crisis Magazine.

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I’ve long thought that Lincoln’s “Gettysburg Address,” which he delivered on November 19, 1863, may be the most succinct and elegant speech ever written. I invariably think about it whenever I’m at a wedding or some other formal occasion and hear a windbag droning on for over five minutes with no structure, theme, or resolution.

Lincoln’s speech is a 272-word masterpiece that he delivered in less than two minutes. It reminds me of Churchill’s remark (if I remember it correctly): “If you want me to give a five-minute speech, I need a week to prepare. If you want me to give a two-hour speech, I can start right now.”

The occasion was the formal dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery, now known as Gettysburg National Cemetery, on the field where the Battle of Gettysburg was fought four months earlier, between July 1 and July 3, 1863, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. It was considered a Union victory because Union soldiers repelled the Confederate army and sent it packing, thereby ending General Lee’s northern offensive.

The battle was the Civil War’s bloodiest, resulting in more than 50,000 Confederate and Union army casualties. 3,155 Union soldiers were killed; 3,903 Confederate soldiers died. Tens of thousands of others suffered horrible injuries that required limb amputations.

My great, great grandfather, William Reid Wilson, was a surgeon in the Confederate army, and he kept a diary in which he described performing amputations for hours on end after big battles. It was a gruesome and harrowing job, and in one memorable passage he described a field tent filled with horribly wounded and shrieking men as resembling “one of the lower circles of hell depicted in Dante’s Inferno.”

Dedicating the cemetery was as weighty as it gets, and President Lincoln came prepared.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

The opening paragraph emphasizes the idea of birth with the words “brought forth” and “conceived,” with this birth being dedicated to an ideal.

The second paragraph emphasizes that the life that was brought forth is imperiled by civil war and may not survive.

The third paragraph exhorts the living to dedicate themselves to the great task of preserving our government of the people, by the people, for the people so that it shall not perish.

During the last five years, I’ve often thought about Lincoln’s speech and wondered to what our U.S. government is now dedicated.

If President Lincoln and Generals Grant and Lee were transported in time to Washington D.C. today, what would they think about the proceedings of our government?

I dare say they wouldn’t believe their eyes, but would think that what they are seeing is an impossibly vulgar and appalling joke.

Lincoln and Grant would doubtless wonder if what they’d fought for had indeed survived. Lee would feel vindicated for his decision to fight on the side of Secessionists.

With the exception of Thomas Massie and a few other brave souls, our U.S. government now seems entirely dedicated to enriching, aggrandizing, and protecting its rich and corrupt friends.

The Roman lawyer and statesman Cicero is said to have joked that “Rome is made of marble but built on a sewer.” I dare say the U.S. government is a sewer.

This article was originally published on Courageous Discourse.

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If you haven’t read it, go online and check out the late, great Dave McGowan’s expose of international child sex trafficking, “The Pedophocracy.” It’s shocking, and exposes our corrupt elite as being the worst kind of sexual deviants. There has been a tragic but undeniable market for children as sex objects, since at least Victorian England.

When we talk about the enigmatic sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, however, it’s not really pedophilia that’s involved. Attraction to teenagers is clinically referred to as Ephebophilia. But ‘Murricans have never been noted for getting their terms right, so to the world Epstein is a pedophile. To begin to unravel this mystery, we need to look at Jeffrey Epstein himself. We are told that Epstein was born into a blue-collar family. His father was allegedly a groundskeeper. If you’ve ever heard of another Epstein who was a groundskeeper, let me know who that was. Epstein dropped out of college, just like me. Unlike me, and anyone else in the free world without a college degree, he nevertheless was allowed to teach math at an elite New York City private school, run by the father of future Bush crime family loyalist and Trump Attorney General William Barr. From there, he entered the world of finance. High finance. Well, don’t all college dropouts do that? Do we sense some missing connections there?

We are told that this son of perhaps one of the world’s only Jewish groundskeepers, after getting a teaching job which requires a college degree for mere mortals, went on to become a “financial advisor to billionaires.” Well, if you were a billionaire, wouldn’t you be looking to entrust your fortune in the hands of a college dropout? Does this make any sense at all? So the official narrative here, like all official narratives, is completely illogical. I think it far more likely that Epstein began his blackmailing career on behalf of the Mossad, perhaps before he even became a math teacher, hired by his fellow non-Irishman Donald Barr. But how did he get into a position to blackmail famous politicians and celebrities? There are a lot of unscrupulous, struggling Americans that would like to figure out how to get into the blackmailing the famous business. Who provided Epstein with all those underage girls, without whom no blackmailing could have taken place?

It seems obvious that it must have been powerful Israelis who took an interest in their shockingly unsuccessful fellow non-Irishman. First and foremost among these was former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who is known to have visited and slept over at Epstein’s home many times. Talk about an odd couple! Do prime ministers normally consort with the sons of groundskeepers? College dropouts? What did they have in common? Epstein was close to Peter Thiel, of Palantier infamy. Thiel, as yet another non-Irish success story, was a former director of Israeli signals intelligence, whatever that is. As a member in good standing of the Uniparty, Epstein was friends with both Steve Bannon and Noam Chomsky, who called him his “highly valued friend.” Keep in mind, Epstein had already been arrested for sex crimes, and then partnered with Barak to start a security tech business. Leaders of nations are well known for partnering with college dropouts who’ve been charged with sex crimes.

It is against this background with all the inexplicable pieces missing, that we should consider the Epstein story. Once Donald Trump, and his oldest son, were adamant about releasing all of the Epstein information. Then suddenly the wildly off kilter president was dead set against it, pressuring all the RINOs in the Stupid Party to vote against making them public. Attorney General Pam Bondi went from having the files on her desk to proclaiming that the files didn’t exist. Bondi may be traumatized herself. There’s a photo out there, of an alluring, very young blonde, dancing with Donald Trump, who does look like she could have been the underage future attorney general. One rumor has it that Bondi told Trump his name was “all over the files.” Well, if she was perhaps one of the Lolitas involved in the blackmail scheme, wouldn’t she know that already? Do we really have any confidence in a near senior citizen still playing a bimbo, and wide-eyed FBI director Kash Patel? Patel and his aide Dan Bongino both made asses of themselves by declaring that Epstein killed himself.

The Democrats, to a man/woman/they/them, are all in favor of releasing the Epstein information. This is decidedly out of character for today’s “Woke” Democrats, whose every impulse has historically been to conceal information from the public. And now Trump orders his aging blonde attorney general to look into the connections between Bill Clinton and other prominent Democrats. But no Republicans. The Democrats, meanwhile, only care about Trump’s connection to Epstein. Something tells me that Oprah, and celebrities from Woody Allen to Jimmy Kimmel, will never be prosecuted. If, indeed, they are really on the “list.” If there is a list. Can you imagine both Clinton and Trump, striding alongside each other in matching orange jumpsuits? The Giant Orange Man would look especially fetching. Or all those Hollywood figures being grilled on the stand, confronted with the presumed evidence of flying on the Lolita Express, and visiting Lolita Island? That alone could bring down the Deep State.

Of course, before any of you exclaim, “There you go again, Mr. Fancy Pants populist, with your ridiculous faith in the People.” Yeah, I realize they would never let this kind of disclosure be made public. All of the favorite celebrities of the proud eligible voters, caught with their hands in an underage cookie jar. But I can dream, can’t I? They’re making an issue of Epstein for some reason. Will they be able to convince the public that Donald Trump was the only name on Epstein’s list? That he was actually partners with Epstein, just like Ehud Barak? Trump probably knew a lot of rich perverts. Will this then be the end of Trumpenstein? To wind up this political project by having him led, kicking and screaming, from the White House? Maybe they’ll pull down his pants, and let those with TDS become orgasmic at the sight of his micro-penis. After all, it just has to be tiny. South Park wouldn’t lie to us.

We are told that this college dropout, arrested twice for sex crimes, became involved in setting up negotiations between Barak and Vladimir Putin, which included a CIA- style proposal to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. I’m guessing he brought along lots of pretty nymphets to assist him. No son of a Jewish groundskeeper is complete without them. And then, finally we’re asked to believe that Epstein killed himself, while the guards were sleeping and/or surfing the internet. No one accepts this nonsense, outside of high ranking officials in the U.S. government. Now, juicy emails from Epstein are being released. Good timing. In one, it is suggested the Trump got down on his knees and serviced Bill Clinton. Just like Monica Lewinsky. Now, do we really think that the story would have ever been reported otherwise- Clinton and Trump with their roles reversed? Trump just couldn’t have been the top there. Bill Clinton wasn’t about to go to town on that micro-penis.

I don’t believe Trump and Clinton ever had a sexual encounter with each other. Although, there is that bizarre painting of Slick Willie in a dress. Epstein is supposed to have been so fond of it that law enforcement found it hanging in his townhouse. Why are the Epstein victims suddenly being respected by the odious state controlled media? This includes the late Virginia Giuffre, who was almost certainly murdered, and was universally ignored outside of the conspiracy world. Until now. The congressional hearings should be interesting. Assuming they ever happen. Phony partisan politics at its worst. Democrats desperately trying to implicate Trump and Trump only. Republicans desperately trying to implicate anyone other than Trump. I hope someone speaks up for all those young guys sitting in prison for statutory rape. She looked older. Had a fake ID. Doesn’t matter. I don’t think any of them conspired to traffic anyone. Just had sex with their underage girlfriend.

There was the June 29, 1989 Washington Times front page which read: “Homosexual prostitution inquiry ensnares VIPs with Reagan Bush.” Underneath it was announced, “‘Call boys’ took midnight tour of White House.” That all sounds pretty normal, right? After a few unnatural deaths, the story went quickly away. Rep. Barney Frank, who literally ran a gay brothel out of his D.C. home, went on to be reelected many more times. I covered this, and other sordid scandals like it, in my book Hidden History. These diabolical One Percenters like the little boys as much as the little girls. Pizzagate has been “debunked,” right? Actually, no it hasn’t. I don’t care if Alex Jones issued a forced apology. Those Instagram photos were really disturbing. Who duct tapes a four year old girl to a table and takes a picture? Who captions a frightening empty room with metal walls “kill room?” Why did Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta have a painting depicting cannibalism in his office? Why did his brother Tony have drawings of naked kids with red bottoms hanging in his home?

All those Podesta emails, which were leaked by the exiled Julian Assange, with far too many references to “pizza” and “pasta.” What’s the innocent explanation for saying, “I think you left a pizza-related map here?” Or talking about having pizza for “a couple of hours?” Supposedly, “pizza” and “pasta” are codewords in the sexual underground for girls and boys. Barack Obama had an email where he talked a bit too enthusiastically about “hot dogs” as well. We can guess what that’s code for, and Larry Sinclair probably wouldn’t be surprised. This is the darkest part of the corruption that I have investigated. But it’s unfortunately true. Our leaders do seem to choose, when they have the option, children as sexual partners. Now, this may not be entirely for sexual gratification. Apparently, something called adrenochrome is released from children when they are absolutely terrified. This perhaps explains snuff films. And it allegedly has the side effect that produces the very crowded “black eye” club.

This is dangerous territory. The private investigator working with state senator John DeCamp on exposing the Franklin Credit scandal in Nebraska, Gary Caradori, was killed along with his eight year old son in a small plane crash. His papers, including incriminating photos of famous figures in compromising positions, were never found. One of the young boys who was victimized by the abuse would die in a hospital waiting room of unknown causes, with a copy of DeCamp’s book in hand. Now that’s staging. Nancy Schaefer, one of the most vocal critics of the putrid Child Protective Services, which has been linked to child sex trafficking itself, was murdered along with her husband. Cathy O’Brien was an outspoken survivor of child sex trafficking, who once appeared on my podcast. She told a horrifying story of being hunted like animals by elitists including the recently departed, beloved Dick Cheney, in a demented version of “The Most Dangerous Game.”

So how likely, given this kind of hidden history that I’ve barely scratched the surface of, are we to get the truth about what happened to Virginia Giuffre and others on Lolita Island, which allegedly included guests like Bill Gates, Prince Andrew, and so many others who have lifelong “stay out of jail free” cards? I am perplexed that this story has received the mainstream coverage it has. There is no non-conspiratorial way to cover it, is there? We know that Epstein had cameras and surveillance video everyone on the island. This footage was probably part of what was discovered during an FBI search of the safe at his New York estate, which subsequently “disappeared.” Will either Clinton or Trump go down? Bill Gates? Any of those Hollywood figures? Maybe they’ll find a secret cabal of “White Supremacists” who were actually controlling poor college dropout Epstein. No way is Israel’s Mossad going to be reported as paying Epstein to blackmail all these public figures.

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“The Soviet Union and something called communism per se had not been the object of Washington’s global attacks. There had never been an International Communist Conspiracy. The enemy was, and remains, any government or movement, or even individual, that stands in the way of the expansion of the American Empire; by whatever name the US gives to the enemy – communist, rogue state, drug trafficker, terrorist.”

~ William Blum

The real enemy of every American citizen (and all others) is the ruling master class (often referred to as the “Deep State”) and all its political pawns and enforcers in the U.S. government. The planted (selected) head pawn at this time is the evil narcissist Trump, but the next puppet will likely be even worse, if one can imagine that, because that is what history tells us. The U.S. is currently the most brutal empire that has ever existed, if one considers all those hundreds of millions harmed, slaughtered, and murdered in war, through regime change, through military aggression, due to economic interference and tariffs, due to sanctions, due to fully funded proxy wars and genocide, and due to attempted control of most every country on earth.

As far as American citizens are concerned, they are horribly abused at the hands of government in multiple ways, not the least of which is the fact that there are more arbitrary laws, regulations, restrictions, debt, theft, and incarceration for victimless ‘crimes’ than anywhere else on earth. For some time now, this country’s residents have been in a physical and psychological hell. In addition to all this, the intense tyranny these past 6 years has been beyond insane.

Regardless of how bad it gets before this empire implodes and fails, which will likely be sooner rather than later, the blame for the downfall of this heinous empirical experiment will be levied against some claimed ‘enemy’ state, and that will be a lie. It is not China, Russia, North Korea, or Iran that should be feared, it is this State and its government, the same State that most voluntarily accept and worship. This means that fault also rests with all in this country who support this governing monster, and who stand by without resistance to this totalitarian system of evil.

Many will think this assessment harsh, because many will never seek the truth, nor will they take responsibility for their failure to secure their own freedom. You see, as far as I can tell, this is the nature of the humanoid creature called man. While it seems that this could be a learned behavior, based on gullibility, indoctrination, and propaganda, I do not accept that excuse. I consider this to be weakness, cowardice, indifference, or dependency, or whatever other term can be used to describe it, but it is a pathetic flaw and therefore not a legitimate excuse for failure. In the end, it is not the fault of any master willingly allowed to rule, but falls on the shoulders of those voluntarily accepting their own enslavement.

I should mention once again that government actually does not control anything, as the politicians in government are but pawns of the real power. However, government is the most vital connection to the people, and without that middleman position, the real ruling class could not achieve power at all. Therefore, by eliminating government and making impotent the political class, actual progress toward a free society would become possible, albeit that the plebiscites did not demand just another government with different people, which is what has been the case since the beginning.

Over the past 100 years or so, the masses have accepted tax on income, a huge controlling central banking system, WWI, the State-created depression, WWII, Korean War, Vietnam War, complete economic chaos, the Gulf war, the 9/11 inside job hoax and false flag, the War of Terror, torture, the Patriot Act, blanket surveillance, the housing crash and bank bailouts, the fake ‘covid pandemic,’ poisonous injections called ‘vaccines, lockdowns, the American taxpayer funded Zionist Israeli genocide, globalism, and now digital ID and the digital takeover of all. This of course, is a very short list, but apparently “the people” never learn anything from being the cattle herded by their chosen masters into the cages of tyranny to await slaughter.

All empires fail, but with that fall will come much pain and suffering. All of us are now in the position of awaiting a digital prison, where some will be allowed to participate at times, and others not at all. Tracked, traced, and fully programmed, so that all activity, movement, finance, personal information, and life itself will be controlled by the coming technocratic State. This will require that all property and assets be confiscated, tokenized, and used to enrich the rich even more, as the great taking comes to fruition. The control grid once this digitization takes place, will be all consuming and completely inescapable by the lowly masses. That means all of you.

In today’s world, the mass majority, which is a super majority, do not care whatsoever about their own freedom and liberty. They go along to get along, never understanding that they are committing financial and personal suicide. But fear not, as many will be forcibly suicided soon enough, when the depopulation agenda goes into high gear. It has already begun and few understand this paradigm, but with time, it will accelerate greatly, and without apology. Open culling will be deemed necessary by the State; which could then lead to a land similar to that of Soylent Green.

Remember, once you are inside of and consumed by Digital ID and the digitally-controlled State, it will be too late to escape. Any remedy has to occur before that time, but the only viable solution is for a large minority to completely abandon the State. that means ignoring it, mass disobedience, and dissent, especially concerning digitized currency, which will be programmable and financially crippling to all, making total control a reality. At this point, this is without question in my mind. Honestly, I do not see large numbers of people deciding as individuals to abandon this heinous system of rule, and there is very little time left for that to be an option.

Why not destroy this empire now, and in fact, destroy any and every empirical system that ever again rears its gruesome head?

“Why do you accept being treated like an inmate?” “Power cannot survive when its subjects free themselves from fear.”

~ Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt — “Empire”

This article was originally published on GaryDBarnett.com.

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Like a bad Italian opera, the fat lady is singing from a balcony overlooking a city that is ablaze. Zaporhyzhia, Dneipropetrovsk, Donetsk, Kherson, Kharkiv, Sumy… The Russian ground forces are attacking in all of these locations, which represents about 1,000 miles of territory stretching from Sumy in the north to Zaporhyzhia in the south. Russia is inflicting an average of 1,335 casualties a day on the Ukrainian forces, which translates into 456,695 losses in 2025 as of November 17. That is almost 40,000 per month. Add to that an estimated 20,000 to 40,000 desertions each month… That means Ukraine must recruit a minimum of 60,000 new conscripts each month just to maintain its current troop strength. That ain’t happening (see chart above).

The recruitment figures cited by the Atlantic Council and the Institute for the Study of War, which represent partisan pro-Ukrainian sites, reinforce the dire state of the Ukrainian forces. When your very best friends are telling you that you are 50% short, you know things are grim.

Meanwhile, back in Kiev, Zelensky ain’t home. He’s scampering about Europe pleading for more money, but the Europeans are focused intently on the brewing corruption scandals haunting the Z-man. There is not a lot of enthusiasm for sending billions of dollars more to Ukraine as key officials in Zelensky’s government seek sanctuary in Israel (i.e., you don’t get extradited from Israel if you’re Jewish, even if major criminal charges hand over your head).

There are rumors in Moscow that the diplomatic dance with Washington is heating up, but I think that is just wishful thinking on the part of some in Washington. Trump’s failure to deliver on peace, coupled with his bombastic, threatening rhetoric towards Venezuela, Iran and Russia, is losing him support and fracturing his MAGA base.

This article was originally published on Sonar21.

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International Man: Doug, you recently visited Azerbaijan—a country most people have never heard of, let alone could find on a map.

You’ve spent decades exploring some of the world’s least understood regions. What brought you to Azerbaijan, and how does it compare with other obscure countries you’ve visited for potential opportunity?

Doug Casey: I gave up sport traveling years ago. That’s because the world has become quite homogenized. Tons of bucket-listing tourists everywhere, wearing the same clothing, maintained by the same ubiquitous food and hospitality franchises. There’s not much point in pretending to be Richard Burton anymore.

That said, some friends—mostly Germans—who belong to ETIC, the Extreme Travelers International Congress, still enjoy travel camaraderie, and retro-rocking off the beaten path. I don’t know what the future holds for my friends at ETIC, since there are fewer and fewer extreme places in the world. But on the other hand, I expect over the next five or 10 years we’re going to have lots more war zones.

They decided to revisit Azerbaijan and Nagorno-Karabakh, inviting Matt Smith and I along.

ETIC was founded by my friend Kolja Spöri, an ex-Formula One exec. There were ten of us, and everyone had been to over a hundred countries as a bare minimum. To give you a better flavor of the company, one of them had run a marathon on each of the seven continents on seven consecutive days, an unusual world record. No cubicle dwellers here.

The long war between Azerbaijan and Armenia, mostly over a disputed enclave called Nagorno-Karabakh, had been ongoing since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It finally ended about eighteen months ago. The Extreme Travelers are fairly familiar with desolation, and usually it’s hard to beat a recent war zone in that department. But, as I’ll explain, the place was a huge surprise.

We spent a few days in Baku, the capital. Incidentally, the first commercial production of oil in the world was here, not in Pennsylvania, as most Americans think. You’ve probably seen this famous picture of Baku 150 years ago, with several hundred primitive oil wells spraying oil everywhere. No longer. Azerbaijan is still a big producer of petroleum, providing 70% of the national income. But things are now neat, clean, and modern.

After a few days there, we drove hundreds of miles all around Nagorno-Karabakh, which has recently been reclaimed by the Azerbaijanis. About 100,000 Armenians left everything but what they could carry and exited en masse. There are some hard feelings. Not to mention some tens of thousands of war dead. The Azeri army detonated an Armenian anti-tank mine for us in a field they were clearing.

International Man: Azerbaijan sits on a geopolitical fault line at the crossroads of Russia, Iran, and Turkey—and recently played a crucial role for Israel during its 12-day war with Iran.

From your visit, what insights did you gain about where this region is headed and what may lie ahead on this volatile frontier?

Doug Casey: Azerbaijan has ten million people. Like the Iranians, they’re Shia Muslims, but religion doesn’t seem prominent here. No muezzins on loudspeaker, no burqas or hijabs. Oddly—I’d say opportunistically—they’re aligned with Israel, and allowed themselves to be used as a flyover for the recent US–Israeli attack on the Iranians. Strange, in that there are about twenty million Azeris across the border in Iran. Incidentally, Iran’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei, is half Azeri.

Central Asia, like the Near East, is chronically unstable—a crossroads of every religious, ethnic, and linguistic group, with periodic bloody conquests. Old resentments seem to linger forever.

I got an email from a subscriber—an American of Armenian descent—who urged me not to go. He said I’d be propagandized and assured me that the Azeris were very, very bad people. And after getting to know a number of Azerbaijanis, I was assured by several that the Armenians were very, very bad people. That doesn’t augur well for the peace treaty that Trump claims to have brokered in the area. The Azeris are basically Turks, and the well-known holocaust of the Armenians and Greeks by the Turks is well remembered.

The chances of naïve busybody Americans creating peace on the other side of the world are less than zero. They’ll find they’ve just made more enemies while bankrupting themselves. They never learn. Fuhgedaboudit.

International Man: The US recently brokered a peace deal between historical enemies Armenia and Azerbaijan. As part of the deal, Armenia will lease the so-called ‘Trump Corridor’ (officially the Zangezur Corridor)—effectively inserting the US into the strategic space between Iran and Russia.

How do you interpret this move in the broader geopolitical chessboard?

Doug Casey: Further proof that, after hydrogen, stupidity is the most common thing in the universe. Wherever the US inserts itself anywhere in the world, it inevitably makes things worse—picking sides, shipping weapons and money around, enabling more warfare. Trump may have put a Band-Aid on the unpleasantness between Armenia and Azerbaijan, but rest assured it’s at great cost in dollars and threats from the US government.

This got me thinking more about Trump. He thinks he’s America’s answer to Louis XIV, who said “L’etat c’est moi” (I am the State). But I’ll lay odds he won’t finish his term; he’ll turn out to be Louis XVI.

International Man: You noted how pervasive the propaganda in Azerbaijan was—yet how familiar it felt compared to what we experience in the West.

What did you mean by that?

Doug Casey: It’s a huge mistake to believe almost anything that you hear or read in the media. A lot of the news is pure propaganda. It’s devoid of any critical thinking or historical background. Media types create “factoids”—an idiotic CNN-created neologism that most people think means something like “a fun little fact”. It doesn’t. A “factoid” relates to a “fact” the way an “android” does to a human, or an “asteroid” does to a star—deceptively similar, but quite different. The subtle manipulation of words is the best way to lie to intelligent people. Sorry for the tangent… but I mostly listen to the news not to find out what’s supposedly happening, but to see what other people are supposed to be thinking.

International Man: Given what you witnessed firsthand in Azerbaijan, what do you see as the broader investment implications?

Doug Casey: Since the 15 Soviet republics broke up in 1991, Azerbaijan has been run by the Aliyev family, first the father, now the son. Hereditary dynasties normally augur badly. But, then again, they may be better than so-called democracies, which are the current fashion.

The Aliyev government rates very low in the assessment by places like Freedom House and the Heritage Institute for things like personal freedom and economic opportunity. It’s not Switzerland or Cayman, but it’s stable, prosperous, and improving. I think it’s an underrated place.

Amazingly, Baku has Ferrari, Bugatti, and Lamborghini dealerships. It also has some of the heaviest traffic jams you’re likely to see this side of Bangkok. It seems like none of the cars are more than five years old, and they’re all in good condition. So the money is being widely distributed, and I saw no signs of unrest or unhappiness. The place is hard to tell from Denver, except that it’s safer.

And while the US sinks into bankruptcy, degeneracy, and corruption, Azerbaijan is providing a counter-example. At least when it comes to public works, like roads. We drove hundreds of miles, all around the country, at high speed.

The US spends $250 billion per year repairing its roads. It takes forever, and we mainly get crews standing around forever just to fix potholes. It seems like a giant grift. Matt Smith’s description is quite accurate:

“By far, the most impressive thing I saw during our visit was the level of construction occurring in the country… the scale of which is almost beyond imagination. … occasionally I could glimpse below in the valley a brand-new highway system which included dozens of tunnels. Now this is probably the most difficult terrain possible to do major construction.

“And yet what I glimpsed from above was shocking in scale. … along the roads that we traveled, there were endless streams of heavy equipment, hard at work, reshaping the landscape to expand the highway system we were on. There were cement factories everywhere built bespoke to support this ambitious effort.

“The scale was so massive, so inorganic, and so out of place, we had a hard time making sense of it. To do something like this in America would be utterly impossible. It would cost trillions of dollars. The thinking required, too big, the manpower, unavailable, the will, long gone. … seeing this scale of construction, the costs I imagined seemed utterly impossible. And so, at my earliest opportunity, I did some research. What I found was shocking.

Azerbaijan has built 4,000 kilometers of highway, 45 tunnels, including the second longest in the world, 447 bridges, 16 viaducts. Much of this over very, very difficult terrain. The project is mostly complete. And the total project time was less than five years. All this they’re doing for approximately $5 billion.

To put that in perspective, on March 26, 2024, the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore was damaged when a container ship collided into it. As of today, the bridge stands unusable. No repair work has yet started. The estimated cost for reconstruction of that bridge is between $1.7 billion and $1.9 billion. And when will it be done? It hasn’t even started yet. The current target completion date is October 2028.

So, in four and a half years, and for about $2 billion, we get an old and important bridge replaced in one of America’s cities. And in Azerbaijan, for $5 billion, they get 447 bridges, 4,000 kilometers of highways, dozens of tunnels including the second longest tunnel in the world. All in less than five years.”

On the long trip back to Buenos Aires (3 hours Baku to Istanbul, and 13.5 more to BA via Sao Paulo), we stopped off in Istanbul for a couple of days. It’s one of the world’s great cities, and one of my favorites. I think you’ll like the video podcast Matt and I did from there (link).

Reprinted with permission from International Man.

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No no everything’s fine. It’s perfectly normal for people to have 80 hour work weeks while billionaires transform into trillionaires and tech plutocrats feed all our drinking water to AI servers as the planet dies. This is the only system that could possibly work.

No no it’s great. If you can’t afford a house it’s because you’re lazy and entitled. Stop eating fancy fruits and vegetables and sleep in your cubicle. One time I saw a homeless person with a phone. Sell your phone and use the money buy a house, you idiot.

What do you mean you want taxes to go toward infrastructure and basic social safety nets? That money is for the arms industry, and for Israel. If you want a high-speed rail system, build it yourself.

If you’re sad about being poor, ask your parents to loan you a few million dollars so you can invest it and become wealthy. There’s a veritable smorgasbord of exciting new opportunities on the horizon.

There’s still time to get in on the ground floor of the upcoming sexbot industry, for example, or the militarized police robot industry.

Create a line of children’s toys with functions you can activate through a small monthly fee with flexible tiered payment options.

See if you can design a highly addictive social media platform that feeds people’s information directly to CIA headquarters.

Invent an AI system that automatically freezes people’s digital money if they try to start a union.

Make a new gig economy app that helps poor people sell and deliver their organs to rich people.

Or what about a boat that sinks if you let your Remain Buoyant subscription lapse?

They say there are giant continents of plastic forming in the Pacific Ocean. You could rent out apartments on those.

Cult leaders are generally good at extracting wealth from their followers. You could probably make a chatbot that does that.

Elon Musk is working on those Neuralink implants to connect human brains to computers. You could set up a company that beams advertisements directly into people’s heads.

Speaking of advertisements, how has nobody thought of drones with megaphones blaring commercials at pedestrians yet? That’s a multibillion-dollar industry right there. They should fill the air in every major city on earth.

Capitalism is the best it’s ever been, is my point. There has never been a more exciting time to be an industrious young mind with a dream in your heart and a roll of nickels in your pocket.

So quit your whining, commie.

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President Trump’s alliance with Israel is giving us Rabbi Yehuda Kaploun as  Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism.  The Special Envoy’s job is to suppress free speech if it involves criticism of any Israeli policy, including the ongoing genocide of Palestine and its remaining people.  Probably it will be considered anti-semitism to criticize the Trump regime for enabling with money, weapons, and diplomatic protection the genocide.

A Special Envoy is said to be needed because of rising anti-semitism in America provoked by the Israeli genocide of Palestine.  The genocide caused Charlie Kirk to break from Israel, and it is this break that likely resulted in Kirk’s assassination.

Rabbi Kaploun dressed it all up as a defense of free speech.  He says he is going to combat growing anti-semitism not by cancelling the First Amendment but by teaching history, by which he means history concocted by Zionists.  It is this “history” such as the holocaust and God’s gift of Palestine to Jews that it will be an offense to challenge.

As we experience Israel’s growing power over America, a question arises:  Is the Camp of the Saints so bad after all?  Would Americans prefer to be dominated by Israel or by Muslim refugees from America’s 21st century wars for Israel against Muslims.  Allegedly, Muslims are terrorists, but we have seen the Zionist terrorism in Gaza and the West Bank and in the Israeli assassinations of Iranians and Lebanese.  Zionist hatred of even the gentiles who are Israel’s protectors is a suspected cause of attacks on Christianity and of the use of pornography to destroy sexual morality. 

The Special Envoy problem now before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, owned by Israel, is unrecognized by Republicans but is causing heartburn for Democrats.  The Democrats’ constituency includes the Muslim immigrant-invaders, some of whom now serve in Congress, as federal judges, and as mayors and city council members.  America’s transition to a Tower of Babel has gone so far that Israel’s ability to control what the Japanese call a “mongrel population” is questionable.  People of Color are a rival privileged ethnicity to Jews, and they are more numerous.  The likely consequence of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism will be more and worsening conflict between Democrats and Republicans.  It will be the Republican Jewish constituency against the Democrats People of Color constituency. 

The creation of a special envoy to protect Jewish ethnicity from criticism should raise the question why among all ethnicities it is Israelis that the US government elects to give special legal privileges that prevent anything to which Israel objects from being said?  This legal privilege contradicts the Constitution’s requirement of equal protection under law.  Why are Trump and the Senate Foreign Policy Committee violating the US Constitution for Israel?

Here is the Jerusalem Post’s take on the matter.

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The situation in Ukraine is becoming even more complicate.

The war on the frontline is going bad for Ukraine as is the war on infrastructure deep behind the contact line.

A corruption scandal is used to neuter President Zelenski. New power structures are set to evolve to further the execution of the war. President Trump is attempting to impose another peace effort while Europe finds that it lacks the money to finance Ukraine and the war.

There are at least seven cities which are falling or are destined to fall within the next few month.

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Kupyansk is largely under Russian control. During the last days Russian forces took some 25% of Siversk. Pokrovsk is to 95% in Russian hands. Fighting in its encircled sister city Mirnograd is slowly coming to an end. The road between Pokrovske and Guliaipole has been taken. The later city is thus cut off from its main supply line and will soon be encircled.

The Ukrainian command had thrown in all its reserves to prevent the taking of Prokovsk and Kupiyansk. It was to no avail.

All regular Ukrainian brigades lack infantry. The constant Russian drone attacks have also taken a large toll on the logistic elements of those units.

General Syrski, the Ukrainian commander in chief, had set his bet on newly developed assault units to allow for offensive action while neglecting the general brigades which have to hold the lines. The weakened lines broke down when the Russian infiltrate them. Assault units were sent in and wasted on counterattacks that were supposed to stop further Russian breakthroughs but failed to have significant effects.

Defense fortifications and buildings can no longer protect the soldiers. Each day Russia is using 200 or more glide bombs to demolish them. Drones and artillery strikes follow. Russian infantry sneaks in to mop up remaining resistance.

It is a fairly slow process but it works for the Russians and is causing them a minimum of casualties.

The war on infrastructure far behind the line of contact is also preceding at a high pace. Ukraine had rejected the ceasefire on infrastructure previously agreed to by President Trump and President Putin. It has continued attacks on Russian oil refineries and other energy facilities with drones and missiles. They have so far done too little damage to slow down the Russian economy.

Russia has responded to those strikes by launching thousands of drones and missile against Ukrainian electricity and heating facilities causing up to 18 hours of blackout per day even in large Ukrainian cities. Another Russian target are railway depots where locomotives are maintained. Hundreds of them have been destroyed in such strikes.

The lack of electricity and mass transport have all but stopped large scale production of industrial goods. The economy suffers. Tax income decreases.

The corruption scandal around Timor Mindich which is involving friends and cabinet members of President Zelinski government is widening. Each day the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) is leaking more details of the case though any real proof of the actual corruption is still missing.

NABU and the whole anti-corruption vertical is a direct control element of the U.S. embassy in Kiev. In a speech held three days before the war in Ukraine started President Putin of Russia described it as such:

There is no independent judiciary in Ukraine. The Kiev authorities, at the West’s demand, delegated the priority right to select members of the supreme judicial bodies, the Council of Justice and the High Qualifications Commission of Judges, to international organisations.

In addition, the United States directly controls the National Agency on Corruption Prevention, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau, the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office and the High Anti-Corruption Court. All this is done under the noble pretext of invigorating efforts against corruption. All right, but where are the results? Corruption is flourishing like never before.

The FBI has a liaison officer within NABU and is directly involved in the current corruption investigation.

As for results of corruption investigation there are none. After eleven years of existence the anti corruption vertical has not managed to put even one person into jail:

The NABU and SAPO have never given a prison sentence to any influential figure it has accused of corruption. The NABU’s 2019 corruption investigation into incumbent president Petro Poroshenko resulted in just as many shocking revelations as the ongoing Myndich-gate, and just as many prison sentences – NONE.

The corruption scandal is just an instrument to put pressure on Zelenski. He has rejected to mobilize people under the age of 25 and allowed people under the age of 22 to leave the country. The war hawks in the U.S. and Europe want him to draft the young men and to use them as cannon fodder in their zeal to weaken Russia.

Zelenski is being politically neutered. The opposition in the Rada wants a place at the trough. It is demanding the resignation Andrei Yermak, Zelenski’s chief of office, and the whole Yermak controlled government under Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko. A national unity government which includes the opposition is supposed to replace them. Parts of Zelenski’s Servant of the People party have defected and are now supporting the opposition’s demands.

Instead of being the center of political action President Zelenski might soon find himself being in a mere ceremonial position.

Even bigger movements are in the making. The U.S. is drafting a new plan to end(?) the war in Ukraine. (The Russian side says it has no knowledge of any such plans.) Today Trump’s envoy Steven Witkoff was supposed to meet Yermak and Zelenski in Istanbul to discuss the new plans but the meeting has been postponed.

Senior Pentagon officials have arrived in Kiev to discuss the military side of the issue:

Army Secretary Dan Driscoll and chief of staff Gen. Randy George became the highest-level Trump Pentagon officials to visit Ukraine when they arrived on an unannounced trip this week, as the U.S. moves to find a way to speed the end of the war.

Meanwhile Europe is finding out that it can not afford (archived) to pay for the war in Ukraine:

Underlying Kyiv’s coming cash crunch is a fundamental disconnect between Europe’s undoubtedly sincere desire to support Ukraine and the reality that the UK, France and Germany are facing serious fiscal crises of their own. Promises to support Ukraine are of a piece with European NATO members’ pledges to commit 5 percent of their GDP to defense spending by the end of the decade – both declarations are, for the most part, unfunded.
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The story so far of Europe’s engagement with Ukraine has been one of big pledges followed by considerably smaller deeds – and that was before Trump took away Uncle Sam’s billions. Unfortunately for Kyiv, there’s little to suggest that Europe has the means or the will to actually provide Ukraine as much as it needs, for as long as it needs.

Zelenski, and those who support to continue the war, have lost touch with reality. The Ukrainian army lacks morale, weapons and soldiers. The front is getting breached in several places. The countries vital infrastructure is getting destroyed. There is political upheaval and no money to continue the war.

The only sane way out of the chaos is to call Moscow and to agree on its conditions.

This article was originally published on Moon of Alabama.

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I had my last conversation with my MAGA supporting cousin in November of 2020. Until that point, he had led me to believe he cared for my immigrant family enough that he wouldn’t cast a vote for a lying, treasonous xenophobe who had turned a call for violence into a campaign slogan.

But my cousin had been drinking and he let the truth slip out.

His final, slurred admission made me lose interest in anything he had to say. However, until that point, I’d been trying to understand his perspective.

Perhaps I was making it more complicated than it needed to be. His perspective was this: GUNS!

That’s it. There’s no nuance. There’s no complexity. There’s no hidden meaning. My MAGA supporting cousin wanted guns.

“I won’t live beneath the rule of a tyrant!” he declared.

“Okay,” I said. “But right now, your dear leader is claiming he’s not going to step down even though he lost. Without any evidence, he’s spreading lies about election irregularities that threaten to shake our country apart at the seams. He’s behaving like a dictator. If you refuse to live beneath the rule of a tyrant, will you march on Washington if your dear leader unlawfully attempts to retain power?”

“Er… the government listens in on these phone calls you know. So, I’m not going to say anything.”

“That’s what I thought.”

My MAGA supporting cousin’s personal mythology was that if he was in the possession of guns, he would be able to magically save himself from “tyrants.” He considers himself a “law and order patriot” but also firmly believes the government represents the greatest single threat to his freedom.

For some reason, he completely fails to recognize the danger of a billionaire who longs to become a tyrant, not just in practice but also in name. Why do conservatives have this blind spot? Why can’t they recognize that billionaires are tyrants already?

My cousin’s heart pills

My cousin thinks he’s free, but he can’t live without his heart pills. He’s always complaining about how expensive his heart pills are. Pills are more expensive in the United States than anywhere else in the world.

Why are life-saving pharmaceuticals expensive in the USA? It’s because the physical suffering of American citizens is secondary to appeasing the billionaires’ insatiable hunger for profit.

You may have a gun, but how free are you if your heart doesn’t work?

Billionaires control the price of everything. If working class people start to get ahead, billionaires have enough power to crash the economy. Inflation doesn’t bother them. They can just wait it out. They can hold on to assets until the economy recovers. It’s only working class people who feel the burden.

The whole idea that it’s possible to “get ahead” in the USA is an illusion. Billionaires dangle that carrot to keep us docile as we work ourselves to death while they reap all the rewards. Wake up! We’ve got the yoke of the tyrants on our backs. The government is supposed to protect us from “all enemies foreign and domestic.”

Why does the government refuse to protect us from the tyranny of billionaires?

The government is based on following the will of the people. We go through the charade of having elections, but in the end it doesn’t matter who we elect. Every representative from the state to the federal level follows the will of the billionaires, not the will of the people.

The result is that everything in the United States is unfairly tipped to favor obscenely wealthy sociopaths. These individuals who accrue massive fortunes are able to push through the laws that they want, manipulate markets, deny your access to health care… the list goes on and on.

We live under the rule of tyrants now

The government is supposed to protect us from tyrants, but conservatives have duped their followers into thinking the government is the only threat to freedom we face. Freedom has MANY enemies. That should be obvious.

Why can’t the American public see that individual citizens who are more powerful than the government are also a threat to our freedom?

We’ve all been disenfranchised by the fact that billionaires own every candidate that runs for office.

The truth is government isn’t a threat. Government is a tool. In the right hands, the tool can be wielded for good. In the wrong hands, the tool can be wielded for evil. It’s ironic because that’s what conservatives say about guns.

Right now, the tool of government is being wielded to establish a class of billionaires who think the “rule of law” shouldn’t apply to them. Just a few years ago, we witnessed a billionaire make an attempt to overthrow the government.

That’s a pretty blatant attack on your freedom.

Anyone who is paying attention should have seen this coming in 2016. The government isn’t our enemy, the billionaires are. Electing a billionaire to the highest office in our country was like making Freddy Krueger chief of staff at a nursery.

It should tell you something when the most tyrannical people in our society crack a smile at you and say, “You can keep your guns.” It’s because tyrants know guns in the hands of citizens do not represent a threat to their power.

The billionaire mentality

Billionaires have a gaping hole in their psyche that can never be filled. Our corrupt president has placed himself squarely in the spotlight, so he serves as an appropriate example. All you have to do is look at his life with unfiltered eyes and it’s obvious how detestable and miserable it is.

The way he chases attention is pathetic. What other word could you use? His behavior lacks any sign of dignity or self-respect. People only tolerate his company because they want something from him.

You don’t have to be a billionaire to see this unfortunate side of human nature. I’ve been in the presence of people who liked to flash money around. Every time they did so, a certain class of individual came crawling out of the underworld to shower them with intoxicating praise.

When people get in the habit of flashing money, every interaction in their life becomes transactional. They begin to delude themselves into believing that this is the only form of relationship that can exist. They think, “It all comes down to money in the end, there are no sincere emotions.”

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I may be in the minority, as my stances are in many matters, in the Tucker Carlson brouhaha, but it was only a matter of time before the Israeli lobby and the neocons would find a villain to help people forget 68,000 dead and counting in Gaza, most of them innocent women, children, and old people. They did the same thing to Pat Buchanan when he dared to say that the Israeli lobby and the U.S. government were not one and the same. Buchanan was and is as anti-Semitic as I am, and I am not. But anyone who dares to do or say anything that the neocons can use to besmirch those they don’t agree with is fodder for them.

They now have a new boogeyman, but I for one don’t buy it. Their glee reminds me of Watergate. President Nixon had just won 49 states, and the Washington elite were in a daze. Then some fools broke into a place they were not supposed to break into, and goodbye, Nixon. Tucker Carlson is not Nixon, but he had someone who is a nonperson on his podcast, so now “they” demand a goodbye to Carlson. The fact that other respected and famous journalists have interviewed bad guys doesn’t count. Murrow, Rather, and countless others have done it with impunity. Mike Wallace once claimed in a nationally televised roundtable discussion during Vietnam that if he were present and able to warn the leader of an American military unit walking into a VC trap, he would remain a journalist and simply report it, not warn his fellow Americans. I went bananas and wrote in one of my columns that Wallace should be drawn and quartered, plus some other personal insults. It was his turn to go bananas, and he confronted me at a party given by Bill Buckley. I told him to shove it.

“Canceling Tucker would be par for the course by those who see anti-Semitism in the slightest criticism of Israel.”

The plan is simple: Link any criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism and presto. The plan has been around for a long time, but with Netanyahu going ape down there, it is imperative that it works in the U.S., which provides the money and the arms. The horrendous killings in Gaza are now a thing of the past. The anti-Semitic guest of Tucker Carlson is the headline. What made me laugh out loud was Bret Stephens writing in the Times. Desperate to make his point and to preempt social media, he writes that “You can be sure that someone will respond to this column by pointing out that my Kishinev-born grandfather changed his name from Erlich to Stephens…” In other words, this clown Stephens is provoking some fool on social media to attack him because of him being Jewish with a Christian name. I don’t and never have used social media—too low-life for me—but preempting anti-Semitic jibes by unknowns is a new one.

Canceling Tucker would be par for the course by those who see anti-Semitism in the slightest criticism of Israel. The American Conservative magazine was created in order to stop Uncle Sam from needlessly going to war in search of nuclear weapons held by Saddam Hussein. Thousands upon thousands of dead later on, we now know that the neocons and the Israeli lobby knew all along that there were no weapons of mass destruction in the Iraqi arsenal, yet they now dare to scream anti-Semitism when a journalist brings some clown to his podcast. Isn’t it a bit like the boy who cried wolf once too often, or am I an anti-Semite for even daring to write this?

The Iraq War and the overthrow of Ghaddafi have not brought peace to the area and have brought millions of unwelcome migrants to Europe. The N.Y. Times columnists are shrieking that the United States is led by “a lawless and depraved” person. They’re screaming about Tucker Carlson and raging anti-Semitism in the media. I wake up in the morning, train hard, and then while reading the papers wonder what country I’m in. Is it Hitler’s Germany, Stalin’s Soviet Union, or Mao’s China? Everyday churchgoing Christians who voted Republican are described as white supremacists and anti-Semites. A man called Jeffrey Toobin, caught on film masturbating at The New Yorker magazine, appears in the Times declaring that “We’re in a worse place than we were under Nixon.” Some lefties might agree with him, but I advise them not to shake his hand.

Yes, dear Takimag readers, the left in America hate this country and will spread any rumor to detract from the fact that Uncle Sam is numero uno right now, but he better not say anything about Israel taking over the Left Bank because it will prove once and for all what a horrible anti-Semite the good uncle is.

This article was originally published on Taki’s Magazine.

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He’s Zelensky’s powerbroker so his downfall could undo the already shaky alliance between the armed forces, the oligarchs, the secret police, and parliament that keeps Zelensky in power, thus pressuring him into peace, especially if his warmongering grey cardinal is no longer pushing him to keep fighting.

It was earlier assessed here that Ukraine’s $100 million energy graft scandal might only result in a cabinet reshuffle at most, the sentiment of which RT chief Margarita Simonyan shared when writing on X “But we all know it won’t” in response to The Spectator predicting that it might bring Zelensky down. The events of the past week warrant a re-evaluation after members of the ruling party demanded the resignation of his powerful Chief of Staff Andrey Yermak on the grounds that he knew about this racket.

This coincided with Axios’ report that the US and Russia have been secretly working on a framework agreement for ending the Ukrainian Conflict, which Politico then reported could be agreed to “by the end of this month — and possibly ‘as soon as this week.’” The latter’s source also allegedly told them that “We don’t really care about the Europeans. It’s about Ukraine accepting”, which they said it might very well do since the plan will essentially “be presented to Zelensky as a fait accompli.”

Politico’s reporter elaborated that “They feel that Ukraine is in the position right now, given the corruption scandals that have been plaguing Zelenskyy, given where the battle lines are at this moment, that Ukraine is in a position where … they feel they can get them to accept this deal.” Accordingly, it can be reassessed that this corruption scandal championed by the US-backed “National Anti-Corruption Bureau” might facilitate an end an end to the conflict, especially if Yermak goes down as a result.

He’s considered to be Zelensky’s powerbroker so his downfall could undo the already shaky alliance between the armed forces, the oligarchs, the secret police, and parliament that keeps Zelensky in power. Zelensky’s imprisoned former ally Igor Kolomoysky claimed that Timur Mindich, Zelensky’s longtime business partner at the center of this scandal who fled the country to avoid imminent arrest after being tipped off, is “a classic fall guy.” This suggests that Yermak might be the one who managed everything.

Extrapolating upon this hypothesis, that would explain why the EU is downplaying this corruption scandal, spinning it as supposed proof that Ukraine’s state institutions are working properly, and actively trying to counter the spread of facts in relation to it. Yermak is Zelensky’s grey cardinal and suspected of being the reason why the Ukrainian leader continually rejects peace. If he goes down as a result of this scandal, then peace might finally be possible. He could also take down his European partners too.

After all, some of their officials might have been profiting from this graft scandal or others that he’s possibly involved in, while their intelligence services must have known about the scale of this corruption. If Yermak vindictively spills the beans, provided of course that Zelensky turns on him under pressure from the ruling party (which might be supported by the US as part of a campaign to get him to agree to whatever peace deal that they soon present), then it could lead to political scandals all across Europe.

With this latest insight in mind, it can therefore be assessed that Ukraine’s corruption scandal might pressure Zelensky into a peace deal, but only if the aforesaid sequence of events unfolds. The speed with which everything has thus far unfolded, especially with respect to his ruling party turning against Yermak and the latest reports about the US and Russia secretly working on a framework agreement for ending the conflict, makes this a credible scenario. Everything will certainly be clearer by the end of the month.

This article was originally published on Andrew Korybko’s Newsletter.

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Thanks, John Smith.

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Ci sono due forze concorrenti oggi sul panorama economico: disinflazionistiche (es. IA che spazza via lavori da colletti bianchi inutili, tagli alla spesa pubblica, ecc.) e inflazionistiche (es. metalli preziosi per espandere la base di capitale disponibile). Ma, in questo contesto, non bisogna dimenticarsi dei venti di recessione che spireranno, soprattutto dall'Europa. Qual è la mossa anticiclica che metterà in campo l'amministrazione Trump? Ricordate, lo scopo dei NY Boys è quello di costringere alle trattative e alla sottomissione le altre parti in gioco, soprattutto quelle che fanno riferimento alla cricca di Davos. Prosciugare di liquidità i vari strati di gestione che sono sotto il controllo di quest'ultima è il modo più efficiente per farle spendere i PROPRI di capitali e quindi arrivare al risultato desiderato. La cricca di Davos, tramite gli stimoli Buld Back Better e la ZIRP degli anni passati, ne ha accumulata tanta di liquidità (soprattutto tramite il mercato degli eurodollari). Blackrock, uno degli strati inferiori al di sotto di essa, ha fatto faville nel mercato residenziale americano annientando così la capacità della classe media di emergere. Ha praticamente giocato al rialzo insieme a Blackstone per far aumentare artificialmente il prezzo delle case e gli unici che potevano permettersi uno stipendio decente con cui accendere un mutuo erano proprio i colletti bianchi (soprattutto quelli nella macchina burocratica). Immaginate ora gran parte di questi che vengono licenziati, i mutui non pagati e un crollo dei prezzi delle case, che all'occhio profano potrebbe sembrare una tragedia, mentre invece sono un'opportunità affinché la classe produttiva d'America possa permettersi di nuovo una casa a prezzi accessibili e accendere un mutuo trentennale (puntellato dall'IPO di Fannie/Freddie). E nel frattempo player come Blackrock/Blasckstone ne escono con un haircut, come minimo del 60%, e la necessità di coprire i loro bilanci con... (rullo di tamburi)... asset tangibili: oro, argento e Bitcoin. Questo è il modo in cui si batte la cricca di Davos al suo stesso gioco.

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di Lau Vegys

(Versione audio della traduzione disponibile qui: https://open.substack.com/pub/fsimoncelli/p/confermato-laccordo-di-mar-a-lago)

[Nota: questo pezzo è stato scritto prima che Trump licenziasse il governatore della FED, Lisa Cook, rafforzando ulteriormente i suoi nominati nel consiglio di amministrazione.]

La nomina di Stephen Miran alla Federal Reserve non è solo l'ennesima mossa che ricade nell'alveo “il personale rispecchia la linea di politica” (slogan degli anni di Reagan): è l'inserimento dell'architetto della riorganizzazione targata Trump all'interno dell'istituzione stessa che contribuirà a realizzare la riforma economica più ambiziosa degli Stati Uniti da generazioni.

Senza entrare troppo nei dettagli, Miran, la mente dietro quello che è stato soprannominato “Accordo di Mar-a-Lago” ha delineato un piano completo per trasformare lo status di riserva del dollaro da un semplice peso a una merce di scambio, in modo da trasformare l'enorme debito americano da un imbarazzo a una leva finanziaria e riorientare l'intera struttura economica globale a favore di Washington.

E naturalmente ciò che rende tutto questo particolarmente rilevante in questo momento, in particolare per chiunque abbia un'esposizione all'oro, è la tempistica.

Il metallo giallo ha seguito una marcia inarrestabile verso l'alto per tutto il 2025, raggiungendo diversi massimi storici e superando i $4000 l'oncia. Ora, con la nomina di Miran alla FED, stiamo capendo esattamente perché gli investitori più attenti hanno accumulato silenziosamente il metallo giallo per tutto l'anno.

Ma chiunque pensi che la nomina di Miran serva semplicemente a dare a Trump l'ennesimo voto accomodante a favore dei tagli dei tassi perde di vista il quadro più ampio. L'oro non sta salendo solo a causa dei previsti tagli dei tassi; sta salendo perché gli investitori informati hanno riconosciuto ciò che la strategia di Trump avrebbe alla fine richiesto: l'indebolimento sistematico del dominio del dollaro e una potenziale rivalutazione dell'oro.

Il risultato è che la nomina di Miran è solo l'ultima conferma che questo piano sta passando dalla teoria alla pratica. E una volta capito cosa questo implica sia per il dollaro che per l'oro, è più facile capire perché $4000 per l'oro potrebbero essere solo l'inizio.

La posizione di Miran alla FED cambia le carte in tavola

Non vorrei sembrare un disco rotto, ma non mi stancherò mai di ripeterlo.

Non si tratta solo di assicurarsi un altro voto accomodante per i tagli dei tassi – Trump avrebbe potuto scegliere qualsiasi yes-man per questo. Si tratta di insediare l'architetto del reset monetario americano direttamente all'interno della Federal Reserve.

La FED non stabilisce dazi, non negozia accordi commerciali, né firma patti di difesa, ma controlla la leva più importante della strategia di Trump: il costo e il flusso del denaro.

Dal suo incarico di governatore della FED, Miran avrà diritto di voto permanente nel Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), il che gli consentirà di esercitare un'influenza diretta sui tassi di interesse, sulla massa monetaria e, soprattutto, sulle operazioni di bilancio della FED. Ma, cosa ancora più importante, sarà in grado di coordinare la politica monetaria con la strategia da lui ideata.

Riflettiamo su cosa questo significhi in termini pratici e dal punto di vista di Trump. La strategia prevede una svalutazione coordinata del dollaro, ma ciò richiede la partecipazione della FED. Non è possibile orchestrare un aggiustamento monetario in stile Accordi del Plaza (ne parleremo più avanti) se la banca centrale si oppone a ogni passo. Con Miran alla FED, Trump si ritrova con qualcuno che comprende sia la teoria macroeconomica alla base della svalutazione del dollaro, sia i meccanismi pratici di come attuarla attraverso la politica monetaria.

Nota: il dollaro si è già indebolito di oltre il 10% negli ultimi sei mesi. Per mettere le cose in prospettiva, l'ultima volta che il dollaro è sceso così tanto all'inizio dell'anno è stato nel 1973, subito dopo che gli Stati Uniti avevano finalizzato la loro separazione dall'oro e l'avvento della moneta fiat.

La nomina di Miran segnala anche qualcosa di ancora più significativo: la presa di controllo istituzionale della politica monetaria. Alla scadenza del mandato di Jerome Powell, a maggio 2026, i presidenti della FED vengono solitamente scelti tra i governatori in carica. Insediando Miran, Trump ha posizionato il suo architetto monetario strategico a capo dell'intero sistema della Federal Reserve.

In breve, Trump sta facendo in modo che la FED stessa diventi lo strumento principale per attuare la sua riorganizzazione. E c'è una ragione ben precisa per questo fatto.

La strategia di Trump ha bisogno della FED dalla sua parte 

Ho menzionato prima gli Accordi del Plaza perché è il precedente storico più vicino a quello che chiamiamo Accordo di Mar-a-Lago.

Probabilmente ne avrete sentito parlare.

Il 22 settembre 1985 i ministri delle finanze delle maggiori economie mondiali si riunirono al Plaza Hotel di New York per coordinare una svalutazione del dollaro, innaturalmente forte.

Al di fuori degli Stati Uniti nessuno voleva un dollaro più debole: avrebbe reso le esportazioni più costose per gli acquirenti americani, ma, proprio come oggi, Washington esercitò pressioni con dazi, sovrapprezzi sulle importazioni, quote e accuse di “commercio sleale”.

E indovinate un po'? Funzionò. La Germania Ovest e il Giappone, le potenze economiche dell'epoca, cedettero.

Ma ecco cosa fece funzionare gli Accordi del Plaza: la Federal Reserve era pienamente a bordo. L'allora Presidente della FED, Paul Volcker, si coordinò a stretto contatto con il Segretario al Tesoro, James Baker, per garantire che la politica monetaria sostenesse la strategia di svalutazione del dollaro. Tagliò i tassi di interesse da circa il 12% al 6% tra la fine del 1984 e la fine del 1986, creando le condizioni per la discesa del dollaro. Senza quella cooperazione gli Accordi del Plaza sarebbero probabilmente rimasti solo l'ennesimo pezzo di carta.

Ecco perché la nomina di Miran è cruciale. Trump ha imparato dal copione di Reagan: per attuare una svalutazione monetaria coordinata, è meglio assicurarsi che la banca centrale remi nella stessa direzione. Insediando il suo uomo all'interno della FED, Trump garantisce che la politica monetaria si allinei alla sua strategia economica più ampia, anziché indebolirla.

E che fine fece l'oro in seguito agli Accordi del Plaza?

Salì vertiginosamente. Date un'occhiata al grafico qui sotto.

Dopo gli Accordi del Plaza del 1985, il prezzo dell'oro balzò da circa $320 l'oncia a oltre $370 tra settembre 1985 e marzo 1986... in soli sei mesi.

Considerando i prezzi odierni, sarebbe come vedere l'oro balzare a circa $5.000 l'oncia.

Ma ecco il punto: se la riorganizzazione di Trump si svolgerà nel modo in cui credo, non sarà solo una ripetizione degli Accordi del Plaza, ma sarà più verticale.

Nell'attuale economia globalizzata e sovraindebitata, gli effetti a catena potrebbero essere enormi. Non mi sorprenderebbe vedere l'oro salire a $6.000 o $8.000 l'oncia, mentre i mercati si affrettano ad adattarsi.

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November 22, 2025, is the sixty-second anniversary of the brutal assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy in Dallas, Texas and the subsequent regime change/cover-up of his murder. After six decades the final confrontation, repercussions, reconciliation, and resolution of this tragic event and its impact must be undertaken.

President Trump did fulfill his solemn promise to issue the appropriate executive order in compliance with the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, and direct all government agencies/entities to make public and unredacted all complete files and records pertaining to the assassination of John Kennedy as directed by this Act. This information shall be transmitted to the National Archives for full public disclosure to be included in the Archives’ Collection and made available for public inspection and copying.

There is an ever-growing scholarly consensus among presidential historians, distinguished political analysts, and JFK assassination researchers that on November 22, 1963, an insidious coup d’état by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and the highest echelons of the National Security State was accomplished with the brutal murder of President John F. Kennedy.

The official full 889-page report by the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, about the assassination of President John Kennedy on November 22, 1963, established the cover-up of this coup. Their landmark final report was presented to President Lyndon Johnson on September 24, 1964, and made public on September 27.

What happened on that fateful Friday in Dallas sixty-two years ago led to perhaps the single most important series of events affecting the subsequent history of our nation. It lies at the inner most depth, the dark clotted heart, of what observers now describe as the deep state.

Here are additional authoritative evidentiary resources to assist readers in examining this seminal event —

• JFK Revisited Through the Looking Glass

Thirty years after his landmark film JFK, filmmaker Oliver Stone takes viewers on a journey though recently declassified evidence in the assassination of President Kennedy — the most consequential American murder mystery of the twentieth century. Joined by Whoopi Goldberg and Donald Sutherland, as well as a distinguished team of forensics, medical and ballistics experts, historians, and witnesses, Stone presents compelling evidence that in the Kennedy case ‘conspiracy theory’ is now ‘conspiracy fact.’

• Rush To Judgment — Documentary and Book

This is the full length uncut version of Rush to Judgment by Mark Lane. Lane, one of the early critics of the preconceived conclusions of the Warren Commission, went to Dallas to do his own investigation and interview witnesses that were ignored by the Commission and others who expanded on their knowledge of the JFK assassination. Particularly crucial were the authoritative statements of eyewitnesses S. M. Holland, Lee E. Bowers, and Mrs. Acquila Clemons, What is portrayed in this short critique offers a different picture from the one presented by the US government to the world. This film is a brief for the defense of Lee Harvey Oswald. Mark Lane’s pioneering best-selling book, Rush to Judgment, challenged the Warren Commission Report relating to Lee Harvey Oswald as the sole assassin of President John Kennedy.

Andrew Gavin Marshall has written an exceptional online summary article, “The National Security State and the Assassination of JFK” which builds upon the path-breaking research of author James W. Douglass in his widely-acclaimed book, JFK and the Unspeakable:Why He Died and Why It Matters  These are the first analytical studies serious scholars should examine in depth, followed by the entire five volume series of Douglas P. Horne’s Inside the Assassination Records Review Board: The U.S. Government’s Final Attempt to Reconcile the Conflicting Medical Evidence in the Assassination of JFK.

Horne is the former Chief Analyst for Military Records for the Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB), established by the JFK Records Act of 1992, which was tasked with defining, locating, and ensuring the declassification (to the maximum extent possible under the JFK Act) of all Federal Records considered “reasonably related” to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Horne details the numerous anomalies and interrupted chain of custody and destruction of key evidence regarding the president’s body, in the autopsy report(s), the autopsy photo collection (particularly the JFK brain photographs), the deliberate alteration and forgery of the extant Zapruder film, and the supposed “magic bullet” found at Parkland Hospital in Dallas.

Watch Douglas P. Horne’s definitive five part video documentary series which summarizes his exceptional research, Altered History: Exposing Deceit and Deception in the JFK, Assassination Medical Evidence. Horne has also written the concise authoritative summary volume, JFK’s War with the National Security Establishment: Why Kennedy Was Assassinated.

• Altered History: Exposing Deceit and Deception in the JFK Assassination Medical Evidence Part 1 – Douglas P. Horne Documentary
• Altered History: Exposing Deceit and Deception in the JFK Assassination Medical Evidence Part 2 – Douglas P. Horne Documentary
• Altered History: Exposing Deceit and Deception in the JFK Assassination Medical Evidence, Part 3 – Douglas P. Horne Documentary
• Altered History: Exposing Deceit and Deception in the JFK Assassination Medical Evidence, Part 4 – Douglas P. Horne Documentary
• Altered History: Exposing Deceit and Deception in the JFK Assassination Medical Evidence, Part 5 – Douglas P. Horne Documentary
• Final Report of the Assassinations Records Review Board
• National Archives’ Files of Douglas P. Horne
• Photographic Evidence of Bullet Hole in JFK Limousine Windshield ‘Hiding in Plain Sight’ — Douglas P. Horne article
• The AF1 Tapes and Subsequent Events at Andrews AFB on November 22, 1963  — Douglas P. Horne article
• The Two NPIC Zapruder Film Events: Signposts Pointing to the Film’s Alteration — Douglas P. Horne article
• The Zapruder Film Mystery — Documentary

While serving as chief analyst of military records at the Assassination Records Review Board in 1997, Douglas P. Horne discovered that the Zapruder Film was examined by the CIA’s National Photographic Interpretation Center two days after the assassination of President Kennedy. In this film, Horne interviews legendary NPIC photo interpreter Dino Brugioni, who speaks for the first time about another NPIC examination of the film the day after the assassination. Brugioni didn’t know about the second examination and believes the Zapruder Film in the archives today is not the film he saw the day after the assassination. Drawing on Volume 4 of his book “Inside the ARRB”, Horne introduces the subject and presents his conclusions.

• Libertarian Class Analysis: An Historical Survey
• Who Rules America: Power Elite Analysis, the Deep State, and American History
• JFK (Special Edition Director’s Cut) — Oliver Stone feature film
• JFK: The Book of the Film  – Book by Oliver Stone
• JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power — Book by John M. Newman
• Oswald and the CIA: The Documented Truth About the Unknown Relationship Between the U.S. Government and the Alleged Killer of JFK — Book by John M. Newman
• Where Angels Lightly Tread: The Assassination of President Kennedy, Volume 1— Book by John M. Newman;
• Countdown to Darkness: The Assassination of President Kennedy, Volume 2 — Book by John M. Newman;
•  Into the Storm: The Assassination of President Kennedy Volume 3 — Book by John M. Newman
• Uncovering Popov’s Mole: The Assassination of President Kennedy Volume IV. — Book by John M. Newman
• Dallas ’63: The First Deep State Revolt Against the White House  — Book by Peter Dale Scott
• The Plot to Kill President Kennedy in Chicago: And the Other Traces of Conspiracy Leading to the Assassination of JFK – A Visual Investigation. – Book by Vince Palamara
• The JFK Assassination Chokeholds: That Prove There Was a Conspiracy — by James DiEugenio, Matt Crumpton, Paul Bleau, Andrew Iler, Mark Adamcyzk
• The JFK Assassination — Book by James DiEugenio (Author), Oliver Stone (Foreword)
• JFK: Absolute Proof, The Killing of a President, Vol. III by Robert J. Groden
• General Walker and the Murder of President Kennedy: The Extensive New Evidence of a Radical-Right Conspiracy — by Jeffrey H. Caufield M.D.
•  Dallas ’63: A Brilliant Synthesis Regarding the November 22, 1963 Coup d’état — Charles Burris review article
• Deep Politics and the Death of JFK — Book by Peter Dale Scott
• The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government — Book by David Talbot
• The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War –– Book by Stephen Kinzer
• Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy? — Book by Mark Lane
• Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK — Book by Mark Lane
• Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control — Book by Stephen Kinzer
• The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton — Book by Jefferson Morley
• Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA — Book by Jefferson Morley
• Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy — Book by Jim Marrs
• Coup in Dallas: The Decisive Investigation into Who Killed JFK — Book by H. P. Albarelli Jr. (Author), Dick Russell (Foreword)
• LBJ: The Mastermind of the JFK Assassination — Book by Phillip H. Nelson
• LBJ: From Mastermind to “The Colossus”: From Mastermind to The Colossus? — Book by Phillip H. Nelson
• The JFK Assassination — Jacob G. Hornberger 30 episode video presentation
• The JFK Autopsy 2 — Jacob G. Hornberger video presentation
• An Encounter with Evil: The Abraham Zapruder Story — Book by Jacob G. Hornberger
• Regime Change: The JFK Assassination — Book by Jacob G. Hornberger
• The Kennedy Autopsy –Book by Jacob G. Hornberger
• The Kennedy Autopsy 2: LBJ’s Role In the Assassination — Book by Jacob G. Hornberger
• The Ongoing Kennedy Casket Mystery  — Jacob G. Hornberger article
• The “Legend” of Lee Harvey Oswald  — Charles Burris article
• JFK and the Deferentials — Jacob G. Hornberger article
• The Bay of Pigs and JFK’s Assassination — Charles Burris article
• The Mainstream Media’s Deference to Authority in the JFK Assassination — Jacob G. Hornberger article
• De Gaulle: The Deep State Murdered JFK — Charles Burris article
• No Military Coups for America? What About November 1963? — Jacob G. Hornberger article
• General Curtis LeMay and His War Against the Kennedys  — Charles Burris article
• The Deep State and the November 22, 1963 Coup d’état — Charles Burris article
• Regime Change: The JFK Assassination — Jacob G. Hornberger article
• JFK’s Embrace of Third World Nationalists  — Charles Burris article
• Limit CIA Role to Intelligence — Harry S Truman, December 22, 1963 article
• The JFK Assassination Marked the End of the American Republic —  Interview with Martin Broeckers, author of JFK: Coup d’Etat in America
• LBJ Versus the Kennedys: Means, Motive and Opportunity Leading To November 22, 1963  — Charles Burris article
• The National-Security State’s Assassination of John F. Kennedy — Jacob G. Hornberger article
• Dallas Mayor During JFK Assassination Was CIA Asset — WHOWHATWHY STAFF
• Neocon Lies About JFK  — Charles Burris article
• JFK, McGeorge Bundy, and the Continuity of Government — Michael Swanson article
• The Killing of President Kennedy  — Charles Burris article
• The Fates of American Presidents Who Challenged the Deep State (1963-1980)  — Peter Dale Scott article
• “The Peace Speech” — JFK Commencement Address at American University, June 10, 1963
• President Dwight Eisenhower’s Farewell Address
• The National Security State and JFK Conference — Eleven Expert Speakers:

Jeffrey Sachs – “JFK’s Quest for Peace;”

Stephen Kinzer – “Regime Change: Roots of the Imperial Temptation;”

Michael Glennon – “Double Government and the ‘Best Truth’ about the Assassination;”

Douglas Horne —  “The National Security Establishment’s Obsession with Invading Cuba;”

Michael Swanson – “What Is The Purpose of the National Security State?”

Peter Janney – “JFK & Mary Meyer: Relationship as Redemption;”

Ron Paul – “Enemies: Foreign and Domestic;”

Jefferson Morley – “Angleton, Cuba, and Assassination;”

James DiEugenio – “Vietnam Declassified: Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon;”

Oliver Stone with James DiEugenio – “If JFK Were Alive Today;” and

Jacob G. Hornberger – “The National Security State: The Biggest Mistake in U.S. History”

• The National-Security State and the Kennedy Assassination –Fourteen Expert Presentations

The national-security establishment’s assassination of President John F. Kennedy was one of the pivotal events in our lifetime, and it continues to have an adverse impact on American life today. This conference was held in March and April of 2021 and was oriented toward people who are not well-versed in the assassination and who wish to gain a deeper understanding of it.

The conference presents an easy-to-understand introduction to what happened and why. Consider it a primer on the Kennedy assassination. Attendees learned about President Kennedy’s foreign policy and how it was so different from that of both his predecessors and successors — and why the Pentagon and the CIA considered it to be such a grave threat to national security. Attendees also learned about the fraudulent nature of the autopsy that the national-security establishment performed on the president’s body on the evening of the assassination and how it leads to an understanding of the assassination itself.

The conference consists of an astounding 31 hours of online presentations by various speakers, Viewers will have a good grasp of what happened on that fateful day in November 1963 and why it is so critically important today.

• An excellent source of information on the JFK Assassination, the CIA, and much more is America’s Untold Stories-With Eric Hunley and Mark Groubert
• The “smoking gun” in the cover-up of the assassination is found in CIA Dispatch #1035-960 . This was the crucial covert directive to the CIA’s Operation Mockingbird elite media assets to vigorously denounce critics of the Warren Commission Report as “conspiracy theorists.” This is when that particular derogatory term of denunciation and disinformation widely entered the national conversation in an attempt to marginalize, cut off and stifle informed debate on the president’s murder because the path of evidence would lead directly to those elements behind the sinister cover-up. These facts are discussed in detail in Lance deHaven-Smith’s authoritative Conspiracy Theory in America (Austin, TX: University of Texas Press). Dr. Smith is a widely published scholar in peer-reviewed academic journals and is Professor in the Reubin O’ D. Askew School of Public Administration and Policy at Florida State University in Tallahassee.

• Who’s Who In The JFK Assassination: An A to Z Encyclopedia — Book by Michael Benson.

This is an excellent and invaluable resource. Comprehensive, accessible and unprecedented, Who’s Who in the JFK Assassination presents vital information on each of more than 1,400 individuals related in any noteworthy way to the murders of President John F. Kennedy, Dallas Police Officer J. D. Tippit and alleged assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on November 22 and 24, 1963. Based on years of research, a wealth of sources and a long study of the Warren Commission’s twenty-six volumes, this encyclopedic book includes: A-to-Z entries on virtually all the suspects, victims, witnesses, law enforcement officials and investigators.

Quick identification of each person followed by biographical facts, testimony, evidence and more. Detailed listings of sources. Explorations of the puzzling theories and countless sides of the case. Extensive cross-referencing of entries, allowing readers to follow their own investigations and construct their own conclusions. This all-new who’s who will prove an essential companion to the many best-selling books, documentaries and feature films about the JFK assassination.

Bound to be referred to again and again, it is the complete resource for anyone who wants to know more about– or wants to keep better track of– the key players involved in one of the most infamous chapters in American history.

• The Yankee and Cowboy War — Book by Carl Oglesby.

This is the first of several high-level political analyses motivated by a need to better understand the politics that led to both the JFK assassination and the Nixon Watergate Affair. It deploys as the primary theoretical model, C. Wright Mills “Theory of the Power Elite” and the framework in Carroll Quigleys book Tragedy and Hope. With these tools, Carl Oglesby posits an interesting thesis: that JFK’s assassination, instead of being a random act by a lone nut was in fact a carefully planned and professional executed ongoing coup d’ état a la Americaine, a not so silent coup by the same forces responsible for the murders of JFK, RFK, MLK, Malcolm X and possibly the demise and eventual destruction of the billionaire Howard Hughes.

What all of these events had in common was that they were links in a chain designed to replace one set of power elite (members of the old moneyed “peace promoting” Northeastern Yankee Establishment) with another (the Nuevo Riche and newly arrived, “progress through war” Western Cowboys). Thus, it is argued that the events connecting Dallas, Memphis, Watergate and the demise of the Hughes empire, are but threads in a common fabric, growing and evolving directly out of the systematic corruption of American politics and out of contemporary political realities.

The late Murray N. Rothbard was particularly enamored with this pioneering book, remarking:

Carl Oglesby’s new book is not only exciting and thoroughly researched, it presents the only analytic framework — originated by himself — which makes sense of the violent events of the last decade and a half our recent political history, and puts them all into a coherent framework: the Yankee vs. Cowboy analysis.

The important question looms: why is it that Oglesby has been alone in coming up with this framework? I think the answer is that the methodologies of other writers and researchers have led them astray: the free-market economists who are critical of government actions never bother to ask who benefited from those actions and who were likely to be responsible for them; the Marxists are anxious to indict an abstract, mythical and unified ‘capitalist class’ for all evils of government, and believe that detailed research into concrete divisions and conflicts among power elites detract from such an indictment; those sociologists who have engaged in concrete power elite analysis have only examined structures (who owns corporation X, who belongs to what social club?) rather than the dynamics of concrete historical events; the one writer who has treated Yankees and Cowboys has been so blinded by particular hostility to the Cowboys that he virtually includes everyone living in the Sunbelt as part of a vast Cowboy conspiracy; and the various doughty investigators and reporters of Dallas or Watergate have struck to surface events because they lacked the overall coherent framework.

Carl Oglesby has surmounted all of these defects, and has therefore been able to make a giant breakthrough in explaining our recent history.

• Oswald in New Orleans: Case of Conspiracy With the CIA — Book by Harold Weisberg
• Harvey and Lee — Book by John Armstrong.
• Mary’s Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision For World Peace — Book by Peter Janney

The death of Mary Meyer left many Americans with questions. Who really killed her? Why did CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton rush to find and confiscate her diary? Had she discovered the plan to assassinate her lover, President Kennedy, with the trail of information ending at the steps of the CIA? Was it only coincidence that she was killed less than three weeks after the release of the Warren Commission Report?

Fans of The Murder of Mary Russell, JFK: A Vision for America, and other JFK books will love Mary’s Mosaic. Building and relying on years of interviews and painstaking research, author Peter Janney follows the key events and influences in Mary Pinchot Meyer’s life—her first meeting with Jack Kennedy; her support of her secret lover, President Kennedy, as he worked towards the pursuit of world peace and away from the Cold War; and her exploration of psychedelic drugs. Fifty years after the assassinations of President Kennedy and Mary Meyer, this book helps readers understand why both took place.

Author Peter Janney fought for two years to obtain documents from the National Personnel Records Center and the US Army to complete this third edition. It includes a final chapter about the mystery man who could be the missing piece to learn the truth behind Meyer’s murder.

• She Knew Too Much About JFK’s Murder — Jacob G. Hornberger article.

Focuses upon the intimate relationship between JFK and Mary Pinchot Meyer and their brutal murders.

• Medical Experts and the Kennedy Assassination — Dr. Gary Aguilar C-SPAN presentation
• Pursuing Truth on the Kennedy Assassinations — Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD
• Dr. Cyril Wecht on JFK’S Murder: A “Coup D’état in America.”

The late Dr. Cyril Wecht, for two decades the elected coroner of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania (including Pittsburgh), was a nationally acclaimed forensic pathologist, and held both a medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh (1956), and a law degree from the University of Maryland (1962). Forensic pathologists specialize in medically determining how and why someone died.

In criminal murder cases this function is absolutely vital in helping to determine the guilt or innocence of a suspect — in no case more so than in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Dr. Wecht, a very early critic of the Warren Commission, testified at the HSCA. At the annual JFK Lancer assassination research conference in Dallas, held in November, Dr. Wecht summarized the medical evidence against the lone-gunman hypothesis. At the center of Dr. Wecht’s examination is what has become known as the “single-bullet theory” — or the “magic bullet,” as it is known to its detractors: the theory that one bullet can account for the multiple wounds (besides the headshot) of both JFK and Governor Connally.

According to Dr. Wecht, the conclusions of the Warren Commission rest entirely on the single-bullet theory. If that theory fails, then there had to be more than one gunman. This, in turn, leads to questions about the history of the United States since 1963 that many people would rather not pursue. With both passion and meticulous attention to detail, Wecht dissects the Warren Commission’s conclusions.

Moving beyond the medical evidence, he then utters words unexpected from any former American elected official, and particularly powerful coming from a person with his credentials: “What we witnessed…my friends, in plain, plain English — was [a] coup d’état in America. The overthrow of the government. That’s what this case was all about.”

• The Men Who Killed Kennedy: The Coup d’etat — Documentary
• The Men Who Killed Kennedy: The Forces of Darkness — Documentary
• The Men Who Killed Kennedy: The Cover-Up — Documentary
• The Men Who Killed Kennedy: The Patsy  — Documentary
• The Men Who Killed Kennedy: The Witnesses — Documentary
• The Men Who Killed Kennedy: The Truth Shall Set You Free — Documentary
• The Men Who Killed Kennedy: The Guilty Men — Documentary
• The Men Who Killed Kennedy: The Smoking Guns — Documentary
• John Judge on the JFK Assassination

Watch this classic eight minute YouTube clip of JFK Assassination researcher John Judge from the “JFK: Cinema as History” conference (January 1992) which appeared on C-SPAN. It reveals more about “the why” of the November 22, 1963 assassination of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and the coup d’état following his murder than almost anything you have probably heard.

After quoting Thomas Jefferson on the importance of a free press to a republic, John Judge makes a disparaging reference to The Washington Post and The New York Times. He then pauses for a few seconds and is shown glaring at another panel member. This person (not shown in the clip) was Walter Pincus of The Washington Post, who had viciously attacked Oliver Stone’s movie JFK. The older man who is briefly shown in one momentary scene is the late Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty who served as chief of special operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff where he was in charge of the global system designed to provide military support for covert activities of the Central Intelligence Agency. In Oliver Stone’s highly acclaimed film, JFK, the mysterious character ‘X’ portrayed by Donald Sutherland was in fact Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty, who assisted director Stone in the production and scripting of this historical epic.

Prouty had relayed the shocking information detailed in the movie to the actual New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison (played by Kevin Cosner) in a series of communiques. Fletcher Prouty was the author of two excellent books, The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World. and JFK: The CIA, Vietnam, and the Plot to Assassinate John F. Kennedy.

JFK: A President Betrayed
Narrated by Academy Award winner Morgan Freeman, “JFK: A President Betrayed” uncovers shocking evidence that reveals how President John F. Kennedy, early in his term as president in 1961, felt entrapment, that he had been misled by his military and intelligence advisors regarding the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. Because of this betrayal he was determined to constantly be on guard regarding subsequent strategic advice issued to him.

After his confrontational June 1961 Vienna Summit meeting with Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, later that year in September Kennedy under took a bold initiative and introduced at the Sixteenth General Assembly of the United Nations a Program for General and Complete Disarmament in a Peaceful World.

Conversely the national security establishment (particularly the Pentagon’s Joint Chiefs of Staff and CIA) believed, not in disarmament but in a nuclear first strike policy against the Soviet Union, and that JFK was naive and lacked determination and resolve in his opposition to this apocalyptic doomsday scenario. On March 13, 1962 the JCS submitted Operation Northwoods as a pretext for a Cuban Invasion.

This war between JFK and the military intensified following the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. Pentagon leaders such as Air Force chief of Staff General Curtis LeMay believed the peaceful resolution of the Crisis was not Kennedy’s finest hour but had been appeasement of the Soviets and the worst disaster in American history.

JFK proceeded to embark on secret back channel peace efforts with Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro and was determined to get out of Vietnam despite intense opposition inside his own government.

“The Peace Speech” — JFK Commencement Address at American University, June 10, 1963.

To the deep state, this was treason.

It all came to an end on November 22, 1963, when an insidious coup d’état by Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson and the highest echelons of the National Security State was accomplished with the brutal murder of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas, Texas.

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When Vice President J.D. Vance spoke at a Turning Point USA event at the University of Mississippi two weeks ago, a young man in a red MAGA hat had a question for him: “I’m a Christian, man, and I’m just confused why there’s this notion that we might owe Israel something, or that they’re our greatest ally.”

He continued, “Or that we have to support this multi-billion dollar foreign aid package to Israel to cover this, to quote Charlie Kirk, ‘ethnic cleansing’ in Gaza.” (In his very last interview before his ​assassination in September, Kirk said to the Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro, “Ben, some people would want to accuse Israel of wanting to ethnically cleanse.”)

Vance sidestepped the young man’s question and instead promoted the administration’s Gaza peace plan and assured the audience that Israel was not “manipulating or controlling” the president.

The independent journalist Glenn Greenwald found Vance’s non-answer lacking and shared the clip, writing, “It’s pretty much 100% certain now that if a political or media figure goes to speak to young conservatives (including at Turning Point), they’re going to be questioned on why they give billions to Israel and so much more.”

“JD Vance needs a better answer,” Greenwald warned.

Greenwald’s certainty about what young conservatives might do manifested itself again last week, when Eric and Lara Trump appeared at a Turning Point USA event at the University of Alabama and were asked a similar question about Israel.

A young man said, “I’d like to ask about your father’s relationship with Israel. He’s taken over $230 million from pro-Israel groups… During the summer against Iran, even though he advised against it, Israel still attacked Iran, and the U.S. still bombed on behalf of Israel.”

“Israel has not been a great ally to the U.S. all the way since 1960 when they bombed the USS Liberty,” he noted.

That line got a big cheer from the student audience. The USS Liberty event actually happened in 1967, but apparently it was something many in the audience, most of whom were probably born in the 21st century, were aware of.

The young man continued, “Israel is a nation where Christians are constantly under attacks in both Gaza and the West Bank. We talk about ‘America First’ and defending Christians but how can we do this if we align ourselves with a nation that does not do that itself?”

More applause. Eric Trump replied by defending his father’s policies and insisting that “Iran wanted to destroy our way of life.” Lara Trump noted that, thanks to the president, a peace process was underway, and that received applause.

The young man had a follow-up. “It’s just sad to see because I’ve never seen the American president get treated the way he does by the Israeli government.”

These kinds of questions will probably be asked again and again by young people in conservative settings, as Greenwald observed. A September 29 POLITICO headline read “An Entire Generation Is Turning on Israel,” noting that according to a Pew Research poll released in April, “More than half of American adults — 53 percent — now have an unfavorable opinion of Israel and only 32 percent have confidence in Netanyahu… Democrats are more likely than Republicans to express unfavorable opinions of Israel, 69 percent versus 37 percent, but Republicans’ negative views are steadily ticking upward.”

“That’s particularly true of younger Republicans,” POLITICO observed. “In the last three years, the share of Republicans under 50 years old who have negative views of Israel jumped from 35 percent to 50 percent.”

The Pew poll is no outlier. An August 2025 University of Maryland Critical Issues survey found that only 24 percent of Republican voters 18–34 sympathize more with Israelis than Palestinians. For Republicans 35 and older, that number jumps to 52 percent.

That’s a 28-point difference. Quite the age gap.

Trump has suffered a massive drop in approval with young Americans across the board. An Economist/YouGov poll taken in mid-October revealed that the president had gone from a plus-8 net approval rating in February to a minus-55 net approval rating in October.
 That’s a 63-point swing, downward.

The survey of voters under 30 showed 39 percent approved of Trump and 58 percent disapproved. The pollster noted, “This is the lowest net approval Trump has received in any Economist / YouGov Poll in Trump’s second term, and lower than all but one poll in his first term.”

Turning Point USA has another major event in December featuring speakers Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump Jr., Steve Bannon, Ben Shapiro, among others. If there are question and answer sessions with the young attendees—a practice the organization is known for and which is very much in the spirit of its ​​late founder Charlie Kirk—expect Israel to come up.

Expect it to be negative.

This article was originally published on The American Conservative.

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