U.S. — Law enforcement officials with the Federal Bureau of Investigation were overjoyed this morning to discover the nation’s most dangerous domestic extremists had helpfully labeled themselves with a strange black “X” on their foreheads.
“Wow. This makes our job so much easier,” said FBI Domestic Extremism Investigator Chet O’Grady. “This morning our field offices across the country reported they had observed hundreds of people arriving at various suspected extremist locations, where some strange guy wearing robes marked them with ashes on their foreheads. Now we have thousands more suspects to monitor this year. Jackpot!”
The bizarrely marked potential insurgents will be monitored for terrorist activity, such as attending school board meetings and praying outside abortion clinics. “These sickos are capable of anything,” said O’Grady. “America can rest assured that we will be watching them very closely.”
At publishing time, the FBI had nabbed several suspected terrorists at a local church basement fish fry.
It takes a village idiot to live in an information Potempkin village.
In this peculiar epoch being a “conspiracy theorist” is no longer a part-time hobby for self-amusement and pub fare chatter. Ditching the hobby for full-time post-doc level conspiracy theorizing is a matter of life and death. It will keep one skeptical, observant, healthy, wise, and with less likelihood of any sudden misfortunes befalling them. It will keep their instincts sharp and the batteries inside their bullshit detectors at full strength.
Above all, do not lie to yourself. A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others.
― Fyodor Dostoevsky
Becoming a conspiracy theorist is not for everybody, though today it should be a primary pursuit for billions of Good Citizens who value their lives. It can be a stressor, and cause hardship that eventually progresses to seeing things that others cannot see, which may or may not be there. Like the kid who sees dead people in the movie The Sixth Sense, but without a dead man believing him there would have been no movie and he would have been all alone.
The stress comes from sharing this newfound vision, or this secret with others. People need a Bruce Willis to guide them in the process of seeing things and expressing what they see. Still, in a world where all the trusted guides have been captured by a controlled, laughable, alternative media hawking vitamin formulas, wellness scams, phony dream teams, and magic pillows, there are few options available. Certainly, no dead sherpas will materialize to help make the journey.
In this peculiar epoch being a “conspiracy theorist” is no longer a part-time hobby for self-amusement and pub fare chatter. Ditching the hobby for full-time post-doc level conspiracy theorizing is a matter of life and death. It will keep one skeptical, observant, healthy, wise, and with less likelihood of any sudden misfortunes befalling them. It will keep their instincts sharp and the batteries inside their bullshit detectors at full strength.
There’s a joke in a comment section somewhere beneath a video of an undertaker describing the autopsies he’s conducted for the past three years of unfortunate victims of vascular calamari caused by the things everyone knows are causing them, that goes like this: I used to be a conspiracy theorist. But now my pronouns are told/you/so.
As the economic crisis gets ever closer, they understand that the day will soon come when a banking emergency is declared and the banks will shut their doors for an as-yet-unknown period of time (presumably until a solution is found). What will the new rules be? No one knows. Will the banks and storage facilities be obligated to deliver in full if the doors open once again? No one knows.
Therefore, in the final stretch of this race to the bottom, they want to be holding as much of your money and metals as they can.
Whether you own gold or not it is wise to know who and what you are up against.
In this publication, we warn regularly of the risk involved in storing wealth in banks. They’ve made the removal of your deposits increasingly difficult in addition to colluding with governments to allow them to legally freeze or confiscate your money. To add insult to injury, they’re creating reporting requirements with regard to the contents of safe deposit boxes and restricting what can be stored in them – again, at risk of confiscation.
More and more, banks are becoming one of the more risky places to store wealth in any form. Not surprising, then, that many people are returning to those facilities that treat wealth storage the way the first banks did millennia ago – vault facilities that store your wealth for a fee but engage in no other banking activities.
But, in suggesting to our readers that such facilities are a better bet, I’ve also repeatedly warned readers that many such facilities don’t store actual, physical gold. They instead provide a contract to you that states that they will deliver an agreed-upon amount of gold upon demand. The trouble with this idea is that it becomes tempting for such facilities to sign such a contract with you and collect the purchase price but never actually purchase and store any gold. It’s been estimated that the total worldwide value of such contracts equals 150 times the amount of gold in existence in the world.
Uh-oh.
This is why it’s imperative that you purchase only physical, allocated gold.
And another caution: I’ve repeatedly stated that, although many of the most secure facilities in the world are located in North America and Europe, these jurisdictions are on the cusp of economic crisis, a fact that suggests that, if and when the crisis arrives, the rule book will be thrown out the window. Governments and facilities alike may prove untrustworthy and, at some point, you may drop by the facility to withdraw your gold and be told, “Sorry, we’re unable to provide delivery.” There could be a multitude of reasons given, hoops to jump through, and endless red tape to deal with. And still, in the end, you may never be able to take delivery.
It’s for these reasons that we advise that, although nothing in life is guaranteed, you should always protect your wealth by choosing the least risky option.
This means that you should follow two simple rules – Rule #1: Select the jurisdiction with the best laws and reputation. Rule #2: Make sure there’s a reputable storage facility in that jurisdiction that has a Class III vault and a contract that meets your needs.
But am I being overly cautious when I so frequently offer this advice? Unfortunately, no. I’ve predicted that, in the future, as we get closer to a monetary crisis, banks and storage facilities that are located in countries that are likely to be heavily affected will work ever harder to avoid releasing either money on deposit (in the case of banks) and precious metals (in the case of storage facilities).
NATO Confirmed that Ukraine “War Started in 2014”. Who Started the War? (February 11, 2023)
I focussed on the implications of a controversial statement by NATO’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed (speaking on behalf of NATO) that the “war didn’t start in 2022”.
Jens Stoltenberg unequivocally confirmed that “the war started in 2014″.
What this statement unequivocally confirms is that US-NATO was already at war in 2014. It also tacitly acknowledges that Russia did not “initiate the war” on Ukraine in February 2022.
Jens Stoltenberg’s bold statement (which has barely been the object of media coverage) has opened up a Pandora’s Box, or best described “A Can of Worms” on behalf of the Atlantic Alliance.
What Stoltenberg’s statement bears out is that the beginning of the Ukraine war coincided with a U.S. sponsored Coup d’état, confirmed by Victoria’s Nuland‘s “F**k the EU telephone conversation with U.S. Ambassador Pyatt in February 2014.
According to this analysis, FinCEN warned financial institutions of “extremism” indicators that include “transportation charges, such as bus tickets, rental cars, or plane tickets, for travel to areas with no apparent purpose,” or “the purchase of books (including religious texts) and subscriptions to other media containing extremist views.”
The highlighted portion shows how algorithmic analysis works in financial surveillance. First compile a list of naughty behaviors, in the form of MCC codes for guns, sporting goods, and pawn shops.
The U.S. Treasury might be the state’s next major surveillance player.
A few weeks ago, Ohio congressman and Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan’s office released a letter to Noah Bishoff, the former director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, an arm of the Treasury Department. Jordan’s team was asking Bishoff for answers about why FinCEN had “distributed slides, prepared by a financial institution,” detailing how other private companies might use MCC transaction codes to “detect customers whose transactions may reflect ‘potential active shooters.’” The slide suggested the “financial company” was sorting for terms like “Trump” and “MAGA,” and watching for purchases of small arms and sporting goods, or purchases in places like pawn shops or Cabela’s, to identify financial threats.
Jordan’s letter to Bishoff went on:
According to this analysis, FinCEN warned financial institutions of “extremism” indicators that include “transportation charges, such as bus tickets, rental cars, or plane tickets, for travel to areas with no apparent purpose,” or “the purchase of books (including religious texts) and subscriptions to other media containing extremist views.”
During the Twitter Files, we searched for snapshots of the company’s denylist algorithms, i.e. whatever rules the platform was using to deamplify or remove users. We knew they had them, because they were alluded to often in documents (a report on the denylist is_Russian, which included Jill Stein and Julian Assange, was one example). However, we never found anything like the snapshot Jordan’s team just published:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Republicans managed to once again foil the plans of Republicans to accomplish anything whatsoever in Congress.
Though the Republican party still holds a narrow majority in the House of Representatives, it has struggled to make progress on several aspects of its agenda due to the interference and obstacles placed in its way by the Republican party.
“We really stopped us in our tracks this time,” said Speaker of the House Mike Johnson. “We have plans to accomplish some big things to help the American people and fix some of the glaring problems facing our nation, but we keep facing strong opposition from us at every turn. If we can’t find a way to overcome us, we’ll continue to keep us from getting things done. We’ve become a real problem for us.”
The GOP’s latest embarrassing setbacks included failing to impeach Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas despite the ongoing migrant crisis at the southern border and a lopsided failure to pass Speaker Johnson’s Israel aid package. Republican lawmakers placed the blame squarely on the shoulders of Republican lawmakers. “It’s those darn Republicans blocking everything we do,” said Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz. “The Republicans would get a lot more accomplished if it weren’t for the Republicans.”
At publishing time, Republicans were making a renewed effort to emphasize the importance of voters electing Republicans to help the Republican party deal with the opposition of the Republican party.
