Sasha boils the situation down with this comment: "That is the main point of the Genius Act - cramming more US Treasuries into the private sector because nobody wants to buy toilet paper on the international markets and Trump needs to fund his regime somehow." [End quote] True...
Seems all these "genius" types are loath to address the historical "issue" of disappeared currency.
The Bank(s) for International Settlement (and "other") essentially bankrupted the worlds economic systems in 1930. US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt completed the task in 1933. The BIS opened its doors in Basel, Switzerland in May 1930. I won't bore readers with links...
Coined money (that carried self-value in your pocket) was replaced with toilet paper notes of Trust, which are now being replaced with electromagnetic bubbles and delusions of genius. The plebs buy plastic Chinese rubbish from company stores such as Amazon and Malwart, causing further erosion of local manufacturing and business. Who's to blame?
All these dislocations are Department of Commerce inventions of free trade (piracy) and multiple agreement between Maritime Nations to continue looting the planet and it's civilian populations.
Your comment sparked my response to the themes raised - not to your person. I appreciate why you and many others are disgusted by lies given power over life.
That stamped (Fiat authorised) coinage could once be melted and sold as commodity was deeply exploited. The belief that value is in the object as a self-possessed status reflects the subjection of law to symbolic frameworks of control.
Agreement is the basis for aligning in or under Law, but by contracting to systems and structures that substitute lawful consent with structures of utility or convenience we expand our reach to lose our centre - and become used by what we thought to lovelessly use.
Uncovering lawful or true foundation is not appealing to the mind in grievance unless it takes a true account of the cost of war in place of the wish it can be won. War is the means by which a true foundation is hidden or rendered irrelevant to the overriding dictates of the moment in hand (so tooled).
Greenbacks were money, were not promises and functioned as a direct governmental responsibility not via private central banks.
After banking reset its control - the populism of the time was artfully factioned and diverted.
Moral righteousness was boosted by Calvinism as a focus on selective personal sins to the exclusion of systemic corruptions. We are generally blind to context framing the way we see and perceive, and so are only thinking to exercise freedom within its bounds and to its ends.
Awakening responsibility for what we truly own also divest or releases back to sender -what has no true belonging. Blaming substitutes for integrally shared virtue by wanting the sin to be attacked or cast out on the Other as a personal outsource of debit to a relative credit. Isnt guilting the basis of an economy of narratives dictating permission to live, move and have our being? And the underbelly of a restructure of 'money' on the debt model set in new variants of original sin?
BTW I see sin as the conviction of irrevocable errors - hence world changing (and God -killing - for love is thus rendered weak, treacherous and hateful, but as a masking over exactly that!
What can an overwhelming intensity of self-hate 'create' in a mind at war with itself. Save us from our illusions as we release them from others?
I'm not saying justify or condone loveless or criminal behaviours, but living from a peace that can be covered over but never truly lost as it is in our created being and not in the grasp of possession and control.
This 'not knowing' is fluid and receptive enough to be shown truth as willingness and readiness can accept - rather than persist in telling reality what it should be.
Hello Binra. Your perspective is not lost on me. My belief is that man's sense of proportion has been grossly inflated since the first blush of civil organization. The personal and individual become lost in artificial assemblies and constructs. In terms of manifestation, the assembly fails to consider the malleable nature of Time and matter. We "order" our realities from time, circumstance, and domain, then fail to recognize what we've ordered from the menu. We viciously point at our waiters and waitresses as if they arrived at the wrong table. In my opinion; organization" has become a viable pathology...
“Man joined the eternal abyss, when food became a commodity” - Paul Vonharnish - January 2, 2020
Erm... Phil. There are over 420 nuclear power plants powering the grid, and these facilities rely on *consistent load* as their primary regulation device. Nuclear power plants are inherently unstable. I don't think 400+ Fukushima melt downs would make for a good day...
I guess you've never lived through a severe power outage of days or weeks. Credit cards don't work; only cash. Power plants may be up and running, but transmission lines can be easily torn out. By the way, which would you want to own, crypto or cash, in a war zone?
It would be so much easier to simply have a new credit card company that undercuts Mastercard and Visa. It's all digital, so there's no real reason that the rates have to be 2 - 3% or take days to settle.
There seems to be a flaw in the conjecture that it would cause more demand for T-bills. The US credit rating was reduced, so T-bills don't meet the criteria of "high-quality liquid assets". Building a whole system on debt is not that great of an idea, either. It sure seems like a promise to pay a yield simply digs the hole deeper.
The problem has been evident for decades: gov't overspending and the Fed printing too much money resulting in the debasement of the dollar. During the Trump and Biden Administrations (2017-2024) the overspending resulted in the value of the dollar (e.g., you incomes, investments etc.) dropping by at least 20%. That means the value of you money -- what you can buy for a dollar dropped by 20%. In the first half of 2025 the value dropped another 10%. This is an old story going back to "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" where gov't overspending and the resulting debasement of the currency led to the end of the Empire. So in the last 9 years we have lost 30% of our money.
The other problem is the polarization of wealth from the working class to the multi-billionaires. During the Plandemic nearly 4 trillion was sucked up by the very wealthy from what is left of the Middle Class (e.g., Caste). And Trumps "Big Beutiful Bill" just gave the wealthy another 4 Trillion. I agree with Fitt's (Solari) that Stable Coin, the Meralago Accord, Crypto currencies will result in the biggest "Pump and Dump" in US history and it will be the Middle Class and the Poor who will foot the Bill.
Add to that the Whitehouse attempting to end the Epstein investigation. Oh he killed himself and there is no list. No one believes this and it could be Trump's undoing. If we can't trust Trump on Epstein how can we trust him on anything.
Meanwhile FB is escalating the censorship of Anti-Globalists. Perhaps it is time we rise up against the uber rich? Just a thought.
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Freedom of speech was not common before the American Revolution and the establishment of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. Had it not been for Thomas Paine -- and his essay "Common Sense" -- we may have never declared our independence from Great Britain. A free marketplace of ideas is essential to making wise choices as both an individual and as a nation. And it was the suppression of free speech which led to the Covid mRNA shot that killed 17 million world wide. Those of us that tried to warn our fellow citizens were censored and suppressed by our government and Tech Platforms like Facebook and Youtube. We must fight to insure that never happens again.
Facebook continues to censor Anti-Globalist Speech during Trump Administration
Facebooks new censorship tactics a major setback to the growing Anti-Globalist movement
"The problem has been evident for decades: gov't overspending and the Fed printing too much money resulting in the debasement of the dollar."-- are you sure or just prey of libertarian "safe-and-effective" ideology.
See Richard Warner, Michael Hudson, Alex Krainer, Bill Still, Ellen Brown. In short, it has nothing to do with government spending but borrowing through a private bank (fed) and usury now marketed as "interest."
Hello Yang-chu Higgins. Correct. Usury banking is the crux of the issue, and your mentioned contributors are right on the money (so to speak). Bill Still has been on it for decades. Prior to the Federal Reserve there were other trade and banking interests such as the Bank of England (established July 27, 1694) and of course, the Rothschild banking dynasty. Most readers fail to comprehend the historical linkages to the Federal Reserve system.
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I find The Lost Science Of Money ~ The Mythology Of Money : The Story Of Power by Stephen A. Zarlenga documents and reveals a wealth of historical context to both the history of money - but at the same time a lens by which to recognise the history of power struggle. Which of course runs the development of narrative framing controls regarding 'money' or economics and 'history'. Its simple to find a scanned copy to check out.
Jan Irving (Logos Media) interviewed him several years ago before his passing. Dennis Kucinich actually advocated for some of his reforms when he was still in Congress. It's my impression that Richard Wagner's work (clearly Ellen Brown) proceeds upon many of Zarlenga's premises.
Public-Private Partnership is discussed extensively by Allison McDowell, a UPenn maybe blue-blood, who's located in the belly of the beast, Philadelphia. She stumbled upon the topic when examining the local school landscape maybe around 2017. Her blog posts tend to root out some interesting issues and tend to be better than her maundering videos, though when she's interviewed the gist is conveyed under an hour.
I'm sure many who took the safe-and-effectives didn't believe "the science" was ideological either. I make the reference because most discourses on the economy and debt in particular boil down to statements you express above. . . or variants. All of this type of thinking on the matter reflects poor understanding on the origins of money and banking in the current system, processes purposely obscured in order to maintain a sense of "science" in economics. I was there too, turning gold-bug in the late 90s, but then enjoying benefit of a major on-line education starting in about '06. The science reference is apt here because it is not only with the plague where it is inappropriate to raise questions. Thence, my asking "are you sure?"-- cheers.
I've been writing for about 36 years now as an Anti-Globalist. I haven't had a vaccine in over 60 years and was one of the first to question the efficacy of the mRNA "gene editing" injection (not a vaccine as advertized). I do have a pretty good understanding of economics, especially the concept of supply and demand. The debasement of a currency always benefits the government as they rob their constituents and pay back debt with cheaper dollars. We always get screwed by this invisible for of taxation.
Here is my Put People First Agenda. Let me know your thoughts if you get a chance.
The Put People First Agenda (PPFA)
In my version of the Garden of Eden one should always be encouraged to eat from the tree of knowledge but should never meddle with the tree of life as that is above the pay grade of ANY human: past, present or future. Think of the sorcerers apprentice and all the unanticipated problems his meddling created. Those of us that understand the complexity of the global ecosystem tend to abide by the precautionary principle. The globalists have the audacity to think they can meddle with the Tree of Life with no consequence. They they seem to abide by the "Let's just do shit and see what happens" principle. I can't seem to find an antonym for the Precautionary Principle.
Our globalist corporations have obviously ignored this warning as GMO farming began/expanded in the early 1990's. Using CRISPR and other cutting edge technologies they have meddled with the tree of life: terminator seeds, plants that produce insecticides (which we eat), spraying plants with Glyphosate etc. Already it is clear these technologies are causing harm to human health. Then we have fluoride in the water supply, endocrine disruptors, PFAS chemicals etc., in or food and water. None of this makes sense and represents a willful refusal to consider what our collective knowledge (e.g., the tree of knowledge) should be telling us about the harm these substances unleash on the human population. But is goes on unabated because global corporations can profit in the short run.
Then came the Plandemic and the mRNA vaccines the did not prevent infection/transmission but did cause considerable harm and death. Worse yet there is growing evidence that these mRNA injections may actually be modifying our DNA and the consequences are just beginning to be understood. Of course this has all been ignored by globalist corporate media. And over the past year I have read numerous papers about self assembly nanobots within the vaccines and much more. I've yet to write about this subject as, at first, I was a skeptic. But perhaps it is time to cover the subject because there is plenty of evidence/papers etc. which suggest the globalists want to use mRNA concoctions in conjunction with 5G EMF radiation to control our moods and literally allow the government to get inside our heads. And thanks to the author for detailing the programs that are already underway.
It is now obvious that the WEF, UN, WHO etc. want full control of humanity. They aren't even shy about their plans: a Great Reset where you will own nothing (and really won't be happy at all). And it is all spelled out in Agenda21, Agenda2030, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's). They have very complex plans to exert control of every human on planet Earth. Their goal is a fully controlled global population -- which will relegate every human to the status of a slave on a globalist plantation.
WE THE PEOPLE, of planet Earth, need to immediately unite behind our own complex agenda in order to stop this globalist coup. To that end I've put together what I call the "Put People First" agenda, which has developed over the past 5 years. I'm encouraging everyone to endorse this agenda and cite your support at City Council, School Board meetings as well as during protests. As Benjamin Franklin once said at the signing of the Declaration of Independence: "We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." Here is the PPF agenda as it currently exists:
* No Lockdowns EVER again
* No forced masking ANYWHERE
* No forced vaccinations under ANY circumstance whether that be from injection, food or chemtrails
* Absolutely no vaccine passports or digital currency
* Reinstate all of those that lost jobs for refusing to get the mRNA injection, including all of our Healthcare workers
* Universal non-coercive choice: Wearing a mask or getting a mRNA injection will be up to each individual and there will be ABSOLUTELY no penalty for not complying in or out of the workplace.
* No more censorship of ANYONE whether that be on social media, corporate media or at the workplace. No one should ever be censored or punished for exercising their First Amendment Right to Free Speech.
* Impeach Biden/Harris and reinstate Trump as our president.
* Stop the LGBTQ and CRT indoctrination in our schools and corporations
* Stop the Climate Agenda and make Energy Independence Priority Number One.
* Send every Illegal Alien, that Biden has brought in through Open Borders, back home.
* Stop the illegal mass immigration invasion worldwide
* Legalize the personal cultivation of Cannabis, Psilocybin.
* Legalize the right to take Ivermectin, Hydroxychloriquine and other anti-viral herbs and drugs
* Legalize the right to choose when it comes to vaccines, abortion, drugs etc.
* Eliminate Genetically modified vaccines, plants, animals (fish, cattle etc.) and the use of Glyphosate.
* Eliminate the use of Geoengineering: Chemtrails, HAARP etc.* Eliminate the fluoridation of our water supply.
* Stop allowing Blackrock, and other financial institutions from buying up residential properties which will make it impossible for future families to own a home and build up equity.
* Demand your government defund and exit the UN, WHO and WEF
Stopping the Globalist agenda by supporting the Put People First Agenda (PPFA)
Most of the measures advocated for here I'm sympathetic toward. I'm not one much given to electoral politics, though your suggestion seems to contradict a previous statement. Similarly, I regard the axiom of "supply and demand" more legend than reality, though not entirely fallacious, which is why monopoly is the most favoured species of capitalism, i.e., if you control the supply, you can demand what you want. Such a case is being played out in UK presently after privatizing the public water utility.
I once commented before Congress when taking public comments on gmos, that was 98 or 99.
Rather than stable coins, we should be investigating Reggie Middleton's patents for DeFi. This is the technology that can change the way we think of and use money for the better. https://x.com/reggiemiddleton
As far as I can tell, all crypto is valueless speculation. Per article shared by Latypova, why would these instruments be seeking to peg their existence to something else if they had any value? It doesn't make sense. It's a psy-op fostered by London/Langley intel and banks to inure the populace to digital, i.e., programmable, currency. Nothing else. All the different options amount to nothing other than the choice between Fruit Loops, Fruity Pebbles, or Trix-- colourful sugar bombs that are not just of questionable nutritious value but actually anti-nutrition.
I think stable coins is a dumb idea Stable coins are an attempt to make fiat relevant in the face of the roll out of a better method of digital value transfer, not run through a central third party authority that has no allegiance to any government. If you had read The Secrets of the Federal Reserve by Eustace Mullins, you would know that the psy-op IS the dollar. Pure fiat backed by nothing but a military designed to enforce its use. And we are duped into paying the defense tab via taxation. So we have been duped. Some of us brainwashed so much that we don’t even recognize a better a better technology when it comes along.
Veritaseum is a token that enables value transfer sans a central authority. This differs from CBDCs where Central Banks still retain control. The SEC is so fearful that Veritaseum will catch on that they went as far as to commit fraud upon the court to suppress it and its inventor, Reggie Middleton. Here is the latest in the case. https://substack.com/home/post/p-168096813
Stimulating response. I fundamentally regard libertarianism as a fantasy. Libertarian fantasy undergirds this response. To wit: currency is the basis of a nation-states economy. Currency is created by the nation state. Taxes do not create currency. Nation states do not function on taxes, rather taxes buttress demand for the nation state's currency.
"Fiat" is a problematic notion. All valuations are in some way or another set by the state internally and between states externally. Nothing possesses universal value, which is why many make a living through arbitrage.
Digital currencies are purchased through so-called fiat currencies. What is so superior about them? Yes, central banks are problematic, but they are private and engage in usury for which there is no way to pay. This is why usury is anathema (in the religious sense) and did not gain full acceptance till the renaissance when the Church lost it grip and capitalism with its foundational legs of colonialism, militarism, and speculation assumed unprecedented power.
It seems possibly that you're advocating that digital currency functions as a better store of value than fiat, which seems overly optimistic and reflecting a buy-in on the digital marketing rhetoric. Sure, the dollar is a psy-op inasmuch as language is a psy-op, that is a cultural convention that affords some manner of mutual understanding. Digital currencies, aside from being the shiny things that animate those inspired by greed, are integral to a programmable block-chain architecture. It is the ultimate form of slavery. Greed is the carrot that gets people to block and chain themselves to this system, an invisible hand that requires little government effort and makes people think that their actions are purely volitional. This epitomizes the typical short-sightedness of avarice. Hence, digital currencies are a psy-op that advances the centrally controlled future (more than it is now) through a purported innovation that increases liberty (insofar as money grants such a thing) before they roll out the controls based on fauxcination status, steps taken during the day, jay-walking violations, carbon footprint, and whatever else the technocratic algorithms deign necessary for "public health," "social tranquility," and gawd never let us forget the hallowed "efficiency."
I like that you address usury at the core of all that then follows as systemic corruption.
For all the corruptions of the Catholic Church (proto corporation?) it's scholastic discernment & intellectual expression of moral integrity held against usury.
Lutherian reform opened to Puritanical Calvinism as a basis for not just the relocation of a Dutch based usury to London, and the restructuring of England to a maritime dominance - until pivoting West with the fruits of degrading Eurasia by war.
But moral outrage does so easily run blind to systemic moral corruptions that it can be groomed or triggered to serve and protect under a false sense of self excepting or mitigating credits.
System capture is not just 'them' but our willingness to support what 'they' represent by reacting in the frame of a manipulated 'offer to contract'.
Maybe this is too abstract to follow but 'financial instruments' run presentations, offers, assertions or claims -of false witness, or manipulative intent by which to gain consent by reaction to contracts that run beneath a masked awareness to redistribute psychic-emotional energy or debt-conflict.
Aside from interest, fiat currency is plagued greatly by the explosion of speculation and asset inflation-- things never mentioned anymore by the libertarian faithful-- a phenomenon starting with the abolition of Glass-Stegal in '99 by our fearless leader Bill Clinton.
One of the factor precipitating the foundation of BRICS was actually the financialization of the economy, where phantasms like derivatives and vampiric private equity increasingly assumed a disproportionate share of the GDP, which along with balance of trade, provides a seemingly sound basis for currency valuation. This is called "the labour value of money." Finance, financial servicing, insurance, real estate do not constitute real value without a serious manufacturing foundation.
The presupposition ostensibly is that fiat is fiat if not back by precious metals, but digital currencies despite not being backed by state or precious metals somehow are not fiat because of a centrally controlled (but nodal) digital ledger that devours tons of electricity and doesn't require trust. Never mind if you lose your passkey. What am I missing here?
Of course, the systems of finance globally are corrupt. That's a no-brainer. Eustace lays that out clearly enough, at least on some level, but these are systemic, i.e., deep state affairs that surely are not obviated through the ball-and-chain. . . no wait, block-chain. I'm sure the slip of tongue was purely coincidental.
Interesting post and comments. I follow Katherine Austin Fitts at Solari and the recommendation is to use cash. Also the dollar needs to be backed again by gold. Not sure what to think yet or if this is just blowing another bubble kind of like the mRNA gene therapy scam that was needed to bail Pharma out to the tune of billions.
Why can’t we go back to using some common sense and pay with cash or check. It’s amazing to see how many folks will stand in line and pay for their Starbucks coffee with a credit card. It’s created a buy now see if we can pay for it later mentality which might be why we need things like the Genius Act. Maybe cash and check would not be so good for the big retailer chains as they would see a drop in revenues if folks paid for only what they could afford. It’s all about maintaining record profits each year while ignoring the fundamentals of a sound economy.
There's a difference between currency and money. Fiat currency allows governments to print promissory notes with no backing out of thin air ad nauseam. They don't need any backing other than the tax payer to pay the debt of issuing fiat. Any digital currency that has fiat backing is a shell game/ponzi scheme. Gold remains true money, the only asset that pegs the world at par, done so for thousands of years. Gold holds it's value, can be presented in smaller/larger pieces, is fungible, and can never be denied as value by any private/public entity. Money is an exchange between producers and consumers. Gold and or silver has done so historically. Currency is a promissory note produced by private banks/governments. All historical currencies have eventually become worthless. The American dollar is going there quickly.
Greenbacks were actual government created money - not a promise to any other backing than the rule of law. While it may be noted they were used in extremis to fund the logistics for the civil war (and got rid of to resume 'banking as normal').
Fiat is law or legal instrument. Two or more can join in creating their own agreements, by which to facilitate or generate currencies or frameworks for exchange - that then operate surrogate power - power given to a trust - that CAN be broken, or become corrupt - and will be if active oversight relaxes to instead turn a blind eye to their own responsibility because its suits them, so as to trust to tram rails or systems that are assumed to have oversight, checks and balances and can thus be more readily masked and packaged AS IF that was so.
Currency (of ideas as well as) of exchange or investment in goods services of scams is its acceptance as value-represented. Metals are purity+quantity measures. Ideas are weighted as a hierarchy of official and public acceptance (fit for use or purpose).
The true history of gold and silver money is the underlying corruption of the Temple -not least by a leveraged difference in the gold-silver ratio between East and West (for perhaps over a millenia).
"(Atahualpa] wondered, after seeing that the Spaniards possessed glass, which he considered far more desirable than gold, why they had come so far and behaved so ill, for comparatively useless materials like gold and silver.”
The vast influx of gold and silver from the plunder of the Americas to Europe - ruined Spain and yet invigorated England toward the industrial revolution.
One of the patterns to look for is scarcity as the frame of value. Another is monopoly control over the creation, distribution and control of the established dependency.
I want to see the elephant in the room problem solved. The Fed prints monopoly money. We need replace the Fed Reserve note with a US treasury note that is stable. Pegging the stable coins to a fiat currency has some advantages for business but does nothing to solve the Central Banking problem. We need to remove the private company called the Federal Reserve. A "real" audit has never happened, would certainly uncover fraud and abuse.
Fiat is 'law' but usurped law - ie money creation and control outsourced to a faceless private sector, frames usurp of surrogate power (representative governance as a sovereign state - in the sense of money creation as a function of law) by private agenda set by greed and control.
The rise of Money Power as a transnational insider-elitism exploits the pivot of insider advantage - ie-the differential east-west gold-silver ratio that ran for over a millennia to develop the legalising usurp of functional exchange and communication by corruption of thought rising from conflict, control, lack and greed as a usurping mindset of collectivised sacrifice to its idol.
But as with Sauron's Ring of Technos - it cannot by definition be shared - it is segregative as structures of hierachical dominance - not service.
Who thinks to use it is used and made hollow thereby.
The interplay of qualitative appreciation and quantitative structure or systems of thought is the Spirit and the letter of the law. By giving what is due to God, to structures of continuity and predictive control, we sacrifice to idol dreams that must unfold to nightmare as the fears that were thought to be 'scaped thereby rise through the arena of the nested defence in 'solutions' that buy time (do time!) against the recognition and extension of the timeless.
I think Jesus statement on paying taxes is a call for discernment in the unfolding of the moment at hand, such that we don't make a god of temporal things or powers but engage in whatever we do from a quality of felt awareness.
Perhaps we watch the 'elitists' turn from their captured mindshare to war upon each other to tighten the knot to its tipping point - for if the game is no longer worth the candle the basis for giving it our light is gone.
The need for redemption to truth is the uncovering of an appreciation for true meaning in place of derivative substitutions set in symbolic projections of fear-driven controls, and lack-driven greed.
Seek ye first the Kingdom... means that what is First establishes all that must then follow. This can be seen as our devotions. Has not a faith in predictive and pre-emptive control made a world in its own image? But is what fear makes real to any but the minds joining in the wish it be so - for they think to gain by another's sacrifice - or to mitigate or limit their own pain of loss thereby.
Law of One in all is in truth - not in structure. Structure must be open to the revisions of love - else love of structure demands sacrifice of truth in 'righteous' judgement of an ideologically dispossessed and dissociating mind-set.
Its easy to 'see' and hate our sins in the Othered, when we are not in our peace.
The use of judgement as a guilting or gaslighting manipulation overrides a native discernment within the living situation by our willingness to call on it as our guide and protector.
A qualitative recognition & expression of life comes first - else
“Everything is BACKWARDS; everything is upside down! Doctors destroy health, Lawyers destroy justice, Universities destroy knowledge, Governments destroy freedom, Major media destroys information, And religions destroy spirituality".
Cryptos are nothing more than investment vehicles. They are not money. Provided there is electricity, they are the stepping stones to digital prison. And for sure, the DC swamp is at this point desperate to keep the debt game going and they will do everything they can right up until the final financial implosion.
"In the current system, whenever a customer pays with a credit or debit card, the merchant pays interchange fees (also known as “swipe” fees) to banks and card networks (Visa, Mastercard, etc.). These fees typically range around 2%–3% of every transaction – a significant expense, especially for high-volume retailers. For giants like Walmart or Amazon, those fees add up to billions of dollars per year skimmed off their revenue."
Oh, boo hoo. One quick look at Yahoo Finance discloses that the largest "holders" of Walmart, Amazon, Visa and Mastercard reveal that Vanguard, Blackrock, and State Street are listed as the top three holders (exception, Mastercard's top holder is Mastercard Foundation Asset Management Corp. Hmmm. Who are the primary owners?).
So the "skimming" of the fees are just shifting the dollars within the mega-financial asset owners own wallet. It's a BIG wallet.
"Capitalism" is not the basis of our economy. We live under global "Malignant Monopolism."
All this smells like cbdc end game
https://telestai.substack.com/p/the-nano-network-riddle-is-solved
Heh, heh... A guy can smell the rotten fish in Denmark from miles away...
They're going to ban cash and force us into CBDCs, I will not comply.
Sasha boils the situation down with this comment: "That is the main point of the Genius Act - cramming more US Treasuries into the private sector because nobody wants to buy toilet paper on the international markets and Trump needs to fund his regime somehow." [End quote] True...
Seems all these "genius" types are loath to address the historical "issue" of disappeared currency.
The Bank(s) for International Settlement (and "other") essentially bankrupted the worlds economic systems in 1930. US president Franklin Delano Roosevelt completed the task in 1933. The BIS opened its doors in Basel, Switzerland in May 1930. I won't bore readers with links...
Coined money (that carried self-value in your pocket) was replaced with toilet paper notes of Trust, which are now being replaced with electromagnetic bubbles and delusions of genius. The plebs buy plastic Chinese rubbish from company stores such as Amazon and Malwart, causing further erosion of local manufacturing and business. Who's to blame?
All these dislocations are Department of Commerce inventions of free trade (piracy) and multiple agreement between Maritime Nations to continue looting the planet and it's civilian populations.
Your comment sparked my response to the themes raised - not to your person. I appreciate why you and many others are disgusted by lies given power over life.
That stamped (Fiat authorised) coinage could once be melted and sold as commodity was deeply exploited. The belief that value is in the object as a self-possessed status reflects the subjection of law to symbolic frameworks of control.
Agreement is the basis for aligning in or under Law, but by contracting to systems and structures that substitute lawful consent with structures of utility or convenience we expand our reach to lose our centre - and become used by what we thought to lovelessly use.
Uncovering lawful or true foundation is not appealing to the mind in grievance unless it takes a true account of the cost of war in place of the wish it can be won. War is the means by which a true foundation is hidden or rendered irrelevant to the overriding dictates of the moment in hand (so tooled).
Greenbacks were money, were not promises and functioned as a direct governmental responsibility not via private central banks.
After banking reset its control - the populism of the time was artfully factioned and diverted.
Moral righteousness was boosted by Calvinism as a focus on selective personal sins to the exclusion of systemic corruptions. We are generally blind to context framing the way we see and perceive, and so are only thinking to exercise freedom within its bounds and to its ends.
Awakening responsibility for what we truly own also divest or releases back to sender -what has no true belonging. Blaming substitutes for integrally shared virtue by wanting the sin to be attacked or cast out on the Other as a personal outsource of debit to a relative credit. Isnt guilting the basis of an economy of narratives dictating permission to live, move and have our being? And the underbelly of a restructure of 'money' on the debt model set in new variants of original sin?
BTW I see sin as the conviction of irrevocable errors - hence world changing (and God -killing - for love is thus rendered weak, treacherous and hateful, but as a masking over exactly that!
What can an overwhelming intensity of self-hate 'create' in a mind at war with itself. Save us from our illusions as we release them from others?
I'm not saying justify or condone loveless or criminal behaviours, but living from a peace that can be covered over but never truly lost as it is in our created being and not in the grasp of possession and control.
This 'not knowing' is fluid and receptive enough to be shown truth as willingness and readiness can accept - rather than persist in telling reality what it should be.
Hello Binra. Your perspective is not lost on me. My belief is that man's sense of proportion has been grossly inflated since the first blush of civil organization. The personal and individual become lost in artificial assemblies and constructs. In terms of manifestation, the assembly fails to consider the malleable nature of Time and matter. We "order" our realities from time, circumstance, and domain, then fail to recognize what we've ordered from the menu. We viciously point at our waiters and waitresses as if they arrived at the wrong table. In my opinion; organization" has become a viable pathology...
“Man joined the eternal abyss, when food became a commodity” - Paul Vonharnish - January 2, 2020
As usual if it is something the Government is pushing on us it must be bad for us. This is universal.
Ugh! Get me off this boat!
Anything that depends on a power grid is not stable.
We can't stress this one enough!
An EMP solves a lot of digital tyrannies...
Erm... Phil. There are over 420 nuclear power plants powering the grid, and these facilities rely on *consistent load* as their primary regulation device. Nuclear power plants are inherently unstable. I don't think 400+ Fukushima melt downs would make for a good day...
I guess you've never lived through a severe power outage of days or weeks. Credit cards don't work; only cash. Power plants may be up and running, but transmission lines can be easily torn out. By the way, which would you want to own, crypto or cash, in a war zone?
It would be so much easier to simply have a new credit card company that undercuts Mastercard and Visa. It's all digital, so there's no real reason that the rates have to be 2 - 3% or take days to settle.
There seems to be a flaw in the conjecture that it would cause more demand for T-bills. The US credit rating was reduced, so T-bills don't meet the criteria of "high-quality liquid assets". Building a whole system on debt is not that great of an idea, either. It sure seems like a promise to pay a yield simply digs the hole deeper.
Have you seen the explanation of The Great Taking ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk3AVceraTI ), which is mentioned by Michael Yeadon in his Final Warning video? (Sasha posted that here: https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/mike-yeadon-oracle-films-interview )
If they are going to take it all anyway, they simply need to crash it.
The problem has been evident for decades: gov't overspending and the Fed printing too much money resulting in the debasement of the dollar. During the Trump and Biden Administrations (2017-2024) the overspending resulted in the value of the dollar (e.g., you incomes, investments etc.) dropping by at least 20%. That means the value of you money -- what you can buy for a dollar dropped by 20%. In the first half of 2025 the value dropped another 10%. This is an old story going back to "The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire" where gov't overspending and the resulting debasement of the currency led to the end of the Empire. So in the last 9 years we have lost 30% of our money.
The other problem is the polarization of wealth from the working class to the multi-billionaires. During the Plandemic nearly 4 trillion was sucked up by the very wealthy from what is left of the Middle Class (e.g., Caste). And Trumps "Big Beutiful Bill" just gave the wealthy another 4 Trillion. I agree with Fitt's (Solari) that Stable Coin, the Meralago Accord, Crypto currencies will result in the biggest "Pump and Dump" in US history and it will be the Middle Class and the Poor who will foot the Bill.
Add to that the Whitehouse attempting to end the Epstein investigation. Oh he killed himself and there is no list. No one believes this and it could be Trump's undoing. If we can't trust Trump on Epstein how can we trust him on anything.
Meanwhile FB is escalating the censorship of Anti-Globalists. Perhaps it is time we rise up against the uber rich? Just a thought.
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Freedom of speech was not common before the American Revolution and the establishment of the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. Had it not been for Thomas Paine -- and his essay "Common Sense" -- we may have never declared our independence from Great Britain. A free marketplace of ideas is essential to making wise choices as both an individual and as a nation. And it was the suppression of free speech which led to the Covid mRNA shot that killed 17 million world wide. Those of us that tried to warn our fellow citizens were censored and suppressed by our government and Tech Platforms like Facebook and Youtube. We must fight to insure that never happens again.
Facebook continues to censor Anti-Globalist Speech during Trump Administration
Facebooks new censorship tactics a major setback to the growing Anti-Globalist movement
https://brucecain.substack.com/p/facebook-continues-to-censor-anti
"The problem has been evident for decades: gov't overspending and the Fed printing too much money resulting in the debasement of the dollar."-- are you sure or just prey of libertarian "safe-and-effective" ideology.
See Richard Warner, Michael Hudson, Alex Krainer, Bill Still, Ellen Brown. In short, it has nothing to do with government spending but borrowing through a private bank (fed) and usury now marketed as "interest."
Hello Yang-chu Higgins. Correct. Usury banking is the crux of the issue, and your mentioned contributors are right on the money (so to speak). Bill Still has been on it for decades. Prior to the Federal Reserve there were other trade and banking interests such as the Bank of England (established July 27, 1694) and of course, the Rothschild banking dynasty. Most readers fail to comprehend the historical linkages to the Federal Reserve system.
For those who seem unaware of how global "systems" are structured, refer to the organizational chart as included in this article. >>> What Is the Global Public-Private Partnership >>> IAIN DAVIS OCTOBER 6, 2021 >>> https://iaindavis.com/what-is-the-global-public-private-partnership/
I find The Lost Science Of Money ~ The Mythology Of Money : The Story Of Power by Stephen A. Zarlenga documents and reveals a wealth of historical context to both the history of money - but at the same time a lens by which to recognise the history of power struggle. Which of course runs the development of narrative framing controls regarding 'money' or economics and 'history'. Its simple to find a scanned copy to check out.
Jan Irving (Logos Media) interviewed him several years ago before his passing. Dennis Kucinich actually advocated for some of his reforms when he was still in Congress. It's my impression that Richard Wagner's work (clearly Ellen Brown) proceeds upon many of Zarlenga's premises.
Public-Private Partnership is discussed extensively by Allison McDowell, a UPenn maybe blue-blood, who's located in the belly of the beast, Philadelphia. She stumbled upon the topic when examining the local school landscape maybe around 2017. Her blog posts tend to root out some interesting issues and tend to be better than her maundering videos, though when she's interviewed the gist is conveyed under an hour.
https://wrenchinthegears.com/elements/about/
I've never been partisan so ideologies basically don't effect me. But thanks for asking. LOL
I'm sure many who took the safe-and-effectives didn't believe "the science" was ideological either. I make the reference because most discourses on the economy and debt in particular boil down to statements you express above. . . or variants. All of this type of thinking on the matter reflects poor understanding on the origins of money and banking in the current system, processes purposely obscured in order to maintain a sense of "science" in economics. I was there too, turning gold-bug in the late 90s, but then enjoying benefit of a major on-line education starting in about '06. The science reference is apt here because it is not only with the plague where it is inappropriate to raise questions. Thence, my asking "are you sure?"-- cheers.
I've been writing for about 36 years now as an Anti-Globalist. I haven't had a vaccine in over 60 years and was one of the first to question the efficacy of the mRNA "gene editing" injection (not a vaccine as advertized). I do have a pretty good understanding of economics, especially the concept of supply and demand. The debasement of a currency always benefits the government as they rob their constituents and pay back debt with cheaper dollars. We always get screwed by this invisible for of taxation.
Here is my Put People First Agenda. Let me know your thoughts if you get a chance.
The Put People First Agenda (PPFA)
In my version of the Garden of Eden one should always be encouraged to eat from the tree of knowledge but should never meddle with the tree of life as that is above the pay grade of ANY human: past, present or future. Think of the sorcerers apprentice and all the unanticipated problems his meddling created. Those of us that understand the complexity of the global ecosystem tend to abide by the precautionary principle. The globalists have the audacity to think they can meddle with the Tree of Life with no consequence. They they seem to abide by the "Let's just do shit and see what happens" principle. I can't seem to find an antonym for the Precautionary Principle.
Our globalist corporations have obviously ignored this warning as GMO farming began/expanded in the early 1990's. Using CRISPR and other cutting edge technologies they have meddled with the tree of life: terminator seeds, plants that produce insecticides (which we eat), spraying plants with Glyphosate etc. Already it is clear these technologies are causing harm to human health. Then we have fluoride in the water supply, endocrine disruptors, PFAS chemicals etc., in or food and water. None of this makes sense and represents a willful refusal to consider what our collective knowledge (e.g., the tree of knowledge) should be telling us about the harm these substances unleash on the human population. But is goes on unabated because global corporations can profit in the short run.
Then came the Plandemic and the mRNA vaccines the did not prevent infection/transmission but did cause considerable harm and death. Worse yet there is growing evidence that these mRNA injections may actually be modifying our DNA and the consequences are just beginning to be understood. Of course this has all been ignored by globalist corporate media. And over the past year I have read numerous papers about self assembly nanobots within the vaccines and much more. I've yet to write about this subject as, at first, I was a skeptic. But perhaps it is time to cover the subject because there is plenty of evidence/papers etc. which suggest the globalists want to use mRNA concoctions in conjunction with 5G EMF radiation to control our moods and literally allow the government to get inside our heads. And thanks to the author for detailing the programs that are already underway.
It is now obvious that the WEF, UN, WHO etc. want full control of humanity. They aren't even shy about their plans: a Great Reset where you will own nothing (and really won't be happy at all). And it is all spelled out in Agenda21, Agenda2030, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's). They have very complex plans to exert control of every human on planet Earth. Their goal is a fully controlled global population -- which will relegate every human to the status of a slave on a globalist plantation.
WE THE PEOPLE, of planet Earth, need to immediately unite behind our own complex agenda in order to stop this globalist coup. To that end I've put together what I call the "Put People First" agenda, which has developed over the past 5 years. I'm encouraging everyone to endorse this agenda and cite your support at City Council, School Board meetings as well as during protests. As Benjamin Franklin once said at the signing of the Declaration of Independence: "We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." Here is the PPF agenda as it currently exists:
* No Lockdowns EVER again
* No forced masking ANYWHERE
* No forced vaccinations under ANY circumstance whether that be from injection, food or chemtrails
* Absolutely no vaccine passports or digital currency
* Reinstate all of those that lost jobs for refusing to get the mRNA injection, including all of our Healthcare workers
* Universal non-coercive choice: Wearing a mask or getting a mRNA injection will be up to each individual and there will be ABSOLUTELY no penalty for not complying in or out of the workplace.
* No more censorship of ANYONE whether that be on social media, corporate media or at the workplace. No one should ever be censored or punished for exercising their First Amendment Right to Free Speech.
* Impeach Biden/Harris and reinstate Trump as our president.
* Stop the LGBTQ and CRT indoctrination in our schools and corporations
* Stop the Climate Agenda and make Energy Independence Priority Number One.
* Send every Illegal Alien, that Biden has brought in through Open Borders, back home.
* Stop the illegal mass immigration invasion worldwide
* Legalize the personal cultivation of Cannabis, Psilocybin.
* Legalize the right to take Ivermectin, Hydroxychloriquine and other anti-viral herbs and drugs
* Legalize the right to choose when it comes to vaccines, abortion, drugs etc.
* Eliminate Genetically modified vaccines, plants, animals (fish, cattle etc.) and the use of Glyphosate.
* Eliminate the use of Geoengineering: Chemtrails, HAARP etc.* Eliminate the fluoridation of our water supply.
* Stop allowing Blackrock, and other financial institutions from buying up residential properties which will make it impossible for future families to own a home and build up equity.
* Demand your government defund and exit the UN, WHO and WEF
Stopping the Globalist agenda by supporting the Put People First Agenda (PPFA)
https://www.petition2congress.com/ctas/immediately-implement-put-people-first-agenda-ppfa
https://brucecain.substack.com/
Comment on this essay::
https://anamihalceamdphd.substack.com/p/techno-warfare-2035-united-states/comments
FYI the first: 'petition 2' gave me a code 403 "forbidden".
Try again and let me know. I was able to bring up the link.
Thanks for the feedback.
Most of the measures advocated for here I'm sympathetic toward. I'm not one much given to electoral politics, though your suggestion seems to contradict a previous statement. Similarly, I regard the axiom of "supply and demand" more legend than reality, though not entirely fallacious, which is why monopoly is the most favoured species of capitalism, i.e., if you control the supply, you can demand what you want. Such a case is being played out in UK presently after privatizing the public water utility.
I once commented before Congress when taking public comments on gmos, that was 98 or 99.
Well put as well as honourably given.
Rather than stable coins, we should be investigating Reggie Middleton's patents for DeFi. This is the technology that can change the way we think of and use money for the better. https://x.com/reggiemiddleton
As far as I can tell, all crypto is valueless speculation. Per article shared by Latypova, why would these instruments be seeking to peg their existence to something else if they had any value? It doesn't make sense. It's a psy-op fostered by London/Langley intel and banks to inure the populace to digital, i.e., programmable, currency. Nothing else. All the different options amount to nothing other than the choice between Fruit Loops, Fruity Pebbles, or Trix-- colourful sugar bombs that are not just of questionable nutritious value but actually anti-nutrition.
I think stable coins is a dumb idea Stable coins are an attempt to make fiat relevant in the face of the roll out of a better method of digital value transfer, not run through a central third party authority that has no allegiance to any government. If you had read The Secrets of the Federal Reserve by Eustace Mullins, you would know that the psy-op IS the dollar. Pure fiat backed by nothing but a military designed to enforce its use. And we are duped into paying the defense tab via taxation. So we have been duped. Some of us brainwashed so much that we don’t even recognize a better a better technology when it comes along.
Veritaseum is a token that enables value transfer sans a central authority. This differs from CBDCs where Central Banks still retain control. The SEC is so fearful that Veritaseum will catch on that they went as far as to commit fraud upon the court to suppress it and its inventor, Reggie Middleton. Here is the latest in the case. https://substack.com/home/post/p-168096813
Stimulating response. I fundamentally regard libertarianism as a fantasy. Libertarian fantasy undergirds this response. To wit: currency is the basis of a nation-states economy. Currency is created by the nation state. Taxes do not create currency. Nation states do not function on taxes, rather taxes buttress demand for the nation state's currency.
"Fiat" is a problematic notion. All valuations are in some way or another set by the state internally and between states externally. Nothing possesses universal value, which is why many make a living through arbitrage.
Digital currencies are purchased through so-called fiat currencies. What is so superior about them? Yes, central banks are problematic, but they are private and engage in usury for which there is no way to pay. This is why usury is anathema (in the religious sense) and did not gain full acceptance till the renaissance when the Church lost it grip and capitalism with its foundational legs of colonialism, militarism, and speculation assumed unprecedented power.
It seems possibly that you're advocating that digital currency functions as a better store of value than fiat, which seems overly optimistic and reflecting a buy-in on the digital marketing rhetoric. Sure, the dollar is a psy-op inasmuch as language is a psy-op, that is a cultural convention that affords some manner of mutual understanding. Digital currencies, aside from being the shiny things that animate those inspired by greed, are integral to a programmable block-chain architecture. It is the ultimate form of slavery. Greed is the carrot that gets people to block and chain themselves to this system, an invisible hand that requires little government effort and makes people think that their actions are purely volitional. This epitomizes the typical short-sightedness of avarice. Hence, digital currencies are a psy-op that advances the centrally controlled future (more than it is now) through a purported innovation that increases liberty (insofar as money grants such a thing) before they roll out the controls based on fauxcination status, steps taken during the day, jay-walking violations, carbon footprint, and whatever else the technocratic algorithms deign necessary for "public health," "social tranquility," and gawd never let us forget the hallowed "efficiency."
I like that you address usury at the core of all that then follows as systemic corruption.
For all the corruptions of the Catholic Church (proto corporation?) it's scholastic discernment & intellectual expression of moral integrity held against usury.
Lutherian reform opened to Puritanical Calvinism as a basis for not just the relocation of a Dutch based usury to London, and the restructuring of England to a maritime dominance - until pivoting West with the fruits of degrading Eurasia by war.
But moral outrage does so easily run blind to systemic moral corruptions that it can be groomed or triggered to serve and protect under a false sense of self excepting or mitigating credits.
System capture is not just 'them' but our willingness to support what 'they' represent by reacting in the frame of a manipulated 'offer to contract'.
Maybe this is too abstract to follow but 'financial instruments' run presentations, offers, assertions or claims -of false witness, or manipulative intent by which to gain consent by reaction to contracts that run beneath a masked awareness to redistribute psychic-emotional energy or debt-conflict.
Aside from interest, fiat currency is plagued greatly by the explosion of speculation and asset inflation-- things never mentioned anymore by the libertarian faithful-- a phenomenon starting with the abolition of Glass-Stegal in '99 by our fearless leader Bill Clinton.
One of the factor precipitating the foundation of BRICS was actually the financialization of the economy, where phantasms like derivatives and vampiric private equity increasingly assumed a disproportionate share of the GDP, which along with balance of trade, provides a seemingly sound basis for currency valuation. This is called "the labour value of money." Finance, financial servicing, insurance, real estate do not constitute real value without a serious manufacturing foundation.
The presupposition ostensibly is that fiat is fiat if not back by precious metals, but digital currencies despite not being backed by state or precious metals somehow are not fiat because of a centrally controlled (but nodal) digital ledger that devours tons of electricity and doesn't require trust. Never mind if you lose your passkey. What am I missing here?
Of course, the systems of finance globally are corrupt. That's a no-brainer. Eustace lays that out clearly enough, at least on some level, but these are systemic, i.e., deep state affairs that surely are not obviated through the ball-and-chain. . . no wait, block-chain. I'm sure the slip of tongue was purely coincidental.
Interesting post and comments. I follow Katherine Austin Fitts at Solari and the recommendation is to use cash. Also the dollar needs to be backed again by gold. Not sure what to think yet or if this is just blowing another bubble kind of like the mRNA gene therapy scam that was needed to bail Pharma out to the tune of billions.
Why can’t we go back to using some common sense and pay with cash or check. It’s amazing to see how many folks will stand in line and pay for their Starbucks coffee with a credit card. It’s created a buy now see if we can pay for it later mentality which might be why we need things like the Genius Act. Maybe cash and check would not be so good for the big retailer chains as they would see a drop in revenues if folks paid for only what they could afford. It’s all about maintaining record profits each year while ignoring the fundamentals of a sound economy.
How much gold is needed to do as you propose? What will this gold be purchased with?
Exactly. The value of all gold ever mined is about $16 trillion, while total financial assets stand at $454 trillion. Quite a divergence:).
There's a difference between currency and money. Fiat currency allows governments to print promissory notes with no backing out of thin air ad nauseam. They don't need any backing other than the tax payer to pay the debt of issuing fiat. Any digital currency that has fiat backing is a shell game/ponzi scheme. Gold remains true money, the only asset that pegs the world at par, done so for thousands of years. Gold holds it's value, can be presented in smaller/larger pieces, is fungible, and can never be denied as value by any private/public entity. Money is an exchange between producers and consumers. Gold and or silver has done so historically. Currency is a promissory note produced by private banks/governments. All historical currencies have eventually become worthless. The American dollar is going there quickly.
Greenbacks were actual government created money - not a promise to any other backing than the rule of law. While it may be noted they were used in extremis to fund the logistics for the civil war (and got rid of to resume 'banking as normal').
Fiat is law or legal instrument. Two or more can join in creating their own agreements, by which to facilitate or generate currencies or frameworks for exchange - that then operate surrogate power - power given to a trust - that CAN be broken, or become corrupt - and will be if active oversight relaxes to instead turn a blind eye to their own responsibility because its suits them, so as to trust to tram rails or systems that are assumed to have oversight, checks and balances and can thus be more readily masked and packaged AS IF that was so.
Currency (of ideas as well as) of exchange or investment in goods services of scams is its acceptance as value-represented. Metals are purity+quantity measures. Ideas are weighted as a hierarchy of official and public acceptance (fit for use or purpose).
The true history of gold and silver money is the underlying corruption of the Temple -not least by a leveraged difference in the gold-silver ratio between East and West (for perhaps over a millenia).
"(Atahualpa] wondered, after seeing that the Spaniards possessed glass, which he considered far more desirable than gold, why they had come so far and behaved so ill, for comparatively useless materials like gold and silver.”
The vast influx of gold and silver from the plunder of the Americas to Europe - ruined Spain and yet invigorated England toward the industrial revolution.
One of the patterns to look for is scarcity as the frame of value. Another is monopoly control over the creation, distribution and control of the established dependency.
Are you sure? See Bill Still's Money Masters on YT.
Mark of the beast incoming.
Great overview of stablecoins.
I want to see the elephant in the room problem solved. The Fed prints monopoly money. We need replace the Fed Reserve note with a US treasury note that is stable. Pegging the stable coins to a fiat currency has some advantages for business but does nothing to solve the Central Banking problem. We need to remove the private company called the Federal Reserve. A "real" audit has never happened, would certainly uncover fraud and abuse.
The patents already exist for a solution. Now it is up to us to decide instead of letting TPTB decide for us. https://x.com/reggiemiddleton
Fiat is 'law' but usurped law - ie money creation and control outsourced to a faceless private sector, frames usurp of surrogate power (representative governance as a sovereign state - in the sense of money creation as a function of law) by private agenda set by greed and control.
The rise of Money Power as a transnational insider-elitism exploits the pivot of insider advantage - ie-the differential east-west gold-silver ratio that ran for over a millennia to develop the legalising usurp of functional exchange and communication by corruption of thought rising from conflict, control, lack and greed as a usurping mindset of collectivised sacrifice to its idol.
But as with Sauron's Ring of Technos - it cannot by definition be shared - it is segregative as structures of hierachical dominance - not service.
Who thinks to use it is used and made hollow thereby.
The interplay of qualitative appreciation and quantitative structure or systems of thought is the Spirit and the letter of the law. By giving what is due to God, to structures of continuity and predictive control, we sacrifice to idol dreams that must unfold to nightmare as the fears that were thought to be 'scaped thereby rise through the arena of the nested defence in 'solutions' that buy time (do time!) against the recognition and extension of the timeless.
I think Jesus statement on paying taxes is a call for discernment in the unfolding of the moment at hand, such that we don't make a god of temporal things or powers but engage in whatever we do from a quality of felt awareness.
Perhaps we watch the 'elitists' turn from their captured mindshare to war upon each other to tighten the knot to its tipping point - for if the game is no longer worth the candle the basis for giving it our light is gone.
The need for redemption to truth is the uncovering of an appreciation for true meaning in place of derivative substitutions set in symbolic projections of fear-driven controls, and lack-driven greed.
Seek ye first the Kingdom... means that what is First establishes all that must then follow. This can be seen as our devotions. Has not a faith in predictive and pre-emptive control made a world in its own image? But is what fear makes real to any but the minds joining in the wish it be so - for they think to gain by another's sacrifice - or to mitigate or limit their own pain of loss thereby.
Law of One in all is in truth - not in structure. Structure must be open to the revisions of love - else love of structure demands sacrifice of truth in 'righteous' judgement of an ideologically dispossessed and dissociating mind-set.
Its easy to 'see' and hate our sins in the Othered, when we are not in our peace.
The use of judgement as a guilting or gaslighting manipulation overrides a native discernment within the living situation by our willingness to call on it as our guide and protector.
A qualitative recognition & expression of life comes first - else
“Everything is BACKWARDS; everything is upside down! Doctors destroy health, Lawyers destroy justice, Universities destroy knowledge, Governments destroy freedom, Major media destroys information, And religions destroy spirituality".
~ Michael Ellner
Wow.
Cryptos are nothing more than investment vehicles. They are not money. Provided there is electricity, they are the stepping stones to digital prison. And for sure, the DC swamp is at this point desperate to keep the debt game going and they will do everything they can right up until the final financial implosion.
Basically. I would say "speculative instruments".
"In the current system, whenever a customer pays with a credit or debit card, the merchant pays interchange fees (also known as “swipe” fees) to banks and card networks (Visa, Mastercard, etc.). These fees typically range around 2%–3% of every transaction – a significant expense, especially for high-volume retailers. For giants like Walmart or Amazon, those fees add up to billions of dollars per year skimmed off their revenue."
Oh, boo hoo. One quick look at Yahoo Finance discloses that the largest "holders" of Walmart, Amazon, Visa and Mastercard reveal that Vanguard, Blackrock, and State Street are listed as the top three holders (exception, Mastercard's top holder is Mastercard Foundation Asset Management Corp. Hmmm. Who are the primary owners?).
So the "skimming" of the fees are just shifting the dollars within the mega-financial asset owners own wallet. It's a BIG wallet.
"Capitalism" is not the basis of our economy. We live under global "Malignant Monopolism."
Yang-chu, in today's world I'm never sure. I read, observe and conclude on my opinion. I'll give the video a view. Much appreciated.
Yeah. Yesterday('s world) all our problems seemed so far away.