Catching Up, AI & Power, and Trump Will Never Be Elected

Going Solo

I haven’t written in quite a while, been busy getting my own company up and running, after I discovered a serious issue that effects the data center industry (which I’ve been part of for the past 25 years or so).  The issue puts every company in every business sector at risk, and so I was morally obliged to leave the company I’ve worked at for the past six years, to raise both awareness in the industry and also deliver a solution.

As soon as I left, I announced that I was starting my own company on LinkedIn, and would (and have) been providing a bunch of information for big data center owners and colo clients, warning them of what I’d found.  The initial response was that head-hunters immediately starting banging on my door, asking me to build the next generation of data centers, focused on AI…?  So while I’ve decided that I’m done as a W-2 employee for some big conglomeration, I did look at the technical requirements to build AI data centers, and I was stunned…  frankly, while enterprise IT organizations and their data centers are notorious energy hogs, AI turns them into elephants.  Basically, they consume 5-10x more power and water for the footprint.

Who GAF?

When combined with the latest power reports indicating  the Biden administration (and his Deep State handlers) are forcing power production companies across North America to retire their facilities early, to be replaced with “renewable” power production.  In other words, they’re getting rid of what kept the electric grid reliable, and replacing it with…  shit. 

And .gov is still pushing EVs.

The WSJ article “SOS For the US Electric Grid” was just touching the surface. 

Now, the push for AI is causing ripple-effects that I honestly hadn’t considered; chiefly among them is that they require specialized data centers which consume between 5-10x MORE power than enterprise data centers, which are already energy hogs.

A recent Reliability Analysis Update from PJM, dated 12/5/23, makes the power issue perfectly clear:

• PJM has had unprecedented data center load growth (~7,500 MW) currently forecast by 2027- 28 in Dominion (Northern Virginia) and APS (Doubs)
• 11,100 MW deactivation announced
• ~ 5,300 MW of retirements occurred after the 2022 RTEP case was created

What this means is that power production has dropped by 16.4 gigawatts (gW) at the same time data center companies are demanding and additional 7.5gW.  The gap is therefore ~24gW.  And this is only in the Northeastern US, which PJM runs.

As a comparison, New York City consumes ~5.5gW.

Starting to get the picture?

It gets worse.  The North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) said in its annual Long-Term Reliability Assessment that gap between power production and demand will expand to 83gW on current trajectory, resulting in rolling blackouts across the Midwest, especially during high-demand times like the high heat of summer, or the dead of winter. 

So yeah, been busy with other shit.  Ironically, as conditions with power (and water) get worse, the demand for my services will increase.

But overall, looking at the macro picture, it’s like a rolling shit-show across the planet, the ultimate result of collectivist policies writ globally.

Other Observations

As I observed nearly two years ago, the Ukrainian “aid” was all a money-laundering scheme; basically the parasites in .gov are looting the treasury, stealing whatever isn’t nailed down.  And I mentioned this when the total money “given” to Ukraine totalled “only” $40B.  It’s now somewhere around $120B.  At the time I posted the essay, not many people knew about it being a scam; now everybody knows.

So much money to secure the border…  of Ukraine.  NOTHING to secure our border.

They don’t even bother to hide it anymore. 

The scam is simple, “give” Ukraine all your old, obsolete weapons systems, mark them down in the accounting books at full price, and then go to Congress and say we spent “X” amount of money to aid the Ukrainians by giving them weapons.  The powder in the cartridges may be no good to push the bullet out of the barrel of the gun, but hey, Mr. Congressman, we need to replace that now!  And so the congresscritters, weapons companies and the middlemen get fabulously wealthy, the shitty old weapons get sold on the black market, and the American taxpayers get royally screwed, sans lube. 

Nothing ever changes.

In other news, my observations (of April 6 2022) that WW3 is still coming, a war between the Western countries (consumers) and the rest of the world (producers) are now generally recognized by everyone not enthralled by MSM outlets.  The points are summarized by the following:

1. The Western elitist banksters have maintained utter control of their respective financial currencies; this debt-slavery system is the basis of their power.  It has been, for all intents and purposes, their private playground.  This power has been used to buy anyone they want, in government, the military, the media, anyone they want.
2. The Western banking system is based on debt issuance.  It is dying rapidly.  The entire fiat-money system, a Ponzi scheme of epic proportions, is now so heavily overloaded with bad debt that it is collapsing under its own weight.  Countries who don’t use that funny-money as their sovereign currency but have been forced to utilize dollars/euros/yen for international trade, are busily switching to alternative currencies from countries that produce something besides fiat money.  In other words, the demand for the Western currencies is rapidly declining.
3. The much-touted “Great Reset” is a plan to depopulate the world (1^st and 2^nd world through vaccinations, the 3^rd through starvation), and reset the financial system back to zero, so that everyone begins in the new system with zero debt…  and zero property or possessions.  The “Great Reset” will usher in the new trackable and controllable fiat-money currency, where they decide what and when you can buy approved products.  And if you speak out against whatever bullshit the bankster-owned government is selling (which will be tallied via a Chinese-style social credit system) your money could be reduced, confiscated or flagged for your arrest the next time you go shopping with their new digital currency.  You’ll toe their line, or you’ll starve.
4. The “Great Reset,” where everyone will adopt this bitter pill of slavery, will only be accepted if people are desperate for government intervention due to starvation, lack of energy (heat for your home, gas for your car) or disease.  And it will only be accepted if there’s no alternative currency which people can utilize to maintain some level of purchasing power without “Big Brother” watching over your shoulder, and deciding what you can- or cannot- purchase.  The Russian ruble is exactly such an alternative.
5. The BRICS countries- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa- have resisted globalist efforts to become part of the Western banking system, and are now challenging that system, with currencies backed by commodities instead of the worthless promise of more fiat money.  Thus, the represent a viable alternative to the “Great Reset” agenda, one which dooms the efforts to re-start the fiat money system from zero- with the same elitist banksters at the helm.
6. The BRICS countries therefore represent an escape from the fiat-money system, and therefore are mortal enemies of the banksters, which have built their empire over the past 208 years.  They must therefore be destroyed by the West, using whatever means necessary, at whatever cost is required in lives (but who cares about us debt-slaves, anyway?). 
7. The BRICS countries- most openly represented by Russia at this point in time- are not about to join the system, and now realize that it is- literally- a fight to the death for them, as well.
8. Therefore, neither side will back down, the escalation will continue, up to and including nuclear weapons. 

And now, here we are.

Trump and The Deep State- He’ll NEVER Be Elected, Despite The Polls

A new aspect that has recently come up is that RINO Congresscritters are “retiring” or “resigning” from the jobs, in such a way that there is insufficient time for special elections before the November 2024 election.  This will remove the Republican majority, and hand the Congressional gavel over to Democrat collectivist shitbag Hakeem Jeffries, with a Democrat majority.  This offers them two options to stop Trump from being elected for a 3^rd time, listed in order of preference (for them): 

1. They will then enact a new law banning Trump from being on the ballot, which is allowed via the recent SCOTUS ruling regarding Colorado’s attempt to ban Trump, or
2. They will refuse to certify the election results on January 6, 2025, because they don’t like the results.  Ironically, this is exactly the justification for the “sedition” charge against Trump, from January 6, 2021.

Note I said “in order of preference.”  The first is vastly more preferable, because they can make the claim that because Trump has been removed from the ballot, any claim that he actually should have won will be moot, because there will be no results to use as evidence.  It’ll also have the façade of legitimacy, because SCOTUS left this door open, for the democrats to exploit.

The second is far less preferable, because a massive sweep in the popular vote, with undeniable results, only to be denied by Congress playing their shitty games, will further enrage the public.  The second option will absolutely result in state secessions, and accelerate the collapse of the “United States of America,” as there will no longer be any veneer of unity. 

This leads to another point.  The estimated 12 million illegal aliens (highlighted, because that’s exactly what they are, not this horse-shit about “undocumented immigrants,”) are almost all military-aged men from countries that do not like us.  That should be obvious to even the most obtuse collectivist (ahem) democrat. 

WHY would .gov bring them in?

They’re to be the check against all the 2^nd-Amendment folks.  Put another way, the effectiveness of 2A, and the possession of ~500 million guns by North of 100 million Americans, will be diluted, if not stopped, by the ~10 million illegals also operating under the radar in civilian society.  When teamed with Antifa/BLM/ADL groups and their organizational frameworks, this is the only feasible way for a government hell-bent on keeping power, to stop those deplorable Americans who love their country, God and guns. 

Let me restate it in as blunt of terms as I can:

The illegals are an irregular army, to fight against Americans.

They’re here to sow chaos, kill anyone who fights back, and do all the lovely things that invading armies have traditionally done through the ages: burn, loot, rape and kill everyone they find.

The only thing they lack is the “go” order.

And that will come this summer, leading up to the election in November.

Remember option #2 above, where the Congress will refuse to certify the results?  If led by the Democrats (which I think is a forgone conclusion at this point) they can easily say- if the Antifa/Burn-Loot-Murder/Illegal-Alien-Army does their job sufficiently well- “we can’t certify Trump because of the civil unrest that may result…  it’s for your SAFETY, you see…”  They’ll have (in their view) the moral high-ground, by solving the ongoing civil unrest, by getting rid of that hated Orange Man Bad. 

For idiot leftists, this is the perfect solution, both emotionally satisfying and tactically sound means of shitting on all those nasty deplorables.  Beautiful!  How can it get any better than THAT???

So yes, the first option for the Democrats will be to use a Congressional law to ban Trump from being on the ballot come November, for whatever excuse will be the most plausible.

Any way you slice it, the collectivists will use lawfare for one more big push, to ban Trump, and after analyzing this for the last few weeks, I don’t see any way to stop them through legal means.  Their actions will push us into uncharted territory, which would take months to years to sort out in a court of law (if there was any court left that wasn’t dirtier than dirt). 

The ONLY thing that will stop this, is when American patriots finally say “ENOUGH of this shit,” pick up arms, and start exercising the 2^nd Amendment for its original purpose. 

And that is precisely why the illegal alien army that has been imported, is here to stop patriots from interfering with the final takedown of our Constitutional Republic, which has been on life-support for decades.

We WILL end up in CW2 within the next 12 months, and it will just get a lot worse from there. 

I hope there are enough patriots left, to overcome the government and their new army.

I hope patriots don’t wait until it’s too late, to save our country.

When the dems move to either block Trump from the ballot, or refuse to certify his electoral college votes…  either way, that’s when you’ll know.

Catching Up, AI & Power and Trump Will Never Be Elected

Going Solo

I haven’t written in quite a while, mainly because I didn’t have anything to contribute. As the old saying goes, “stand up to be seen, speak up to be heard… shut up to be appreciated.”

Instead, I’ve been busy getting my own company up and running, after I discovered a serious issue that effects the data center industry (which I’ve been part of for the past 25 years or so).  The issue puts every company in every business sector at risk, and so I was morally obliged to leave the company I’ve worked at for the past six years, to raise both awareness in the industry and also deliver a solution.

As soon as I left, the initial response was that head-hunters immediately starting banging down my door, asking me to build the next generation of data centers, focused on AI…?  So while I’ve decided that I’m done as a W-2 employee for some big conglomeration, I did look at the technical requirements to build AI data centers, and I was stunned…  Looking at what GPU-based AI systems need to run, my response was something along the lines of “you guys are fxxking insane, this ain’t gonna’ go like you think…”

Frankly, while enterprise IT organizations and their data centers are notorious energy hogs, AI turns them into elephants.  Basically, they consume 5-10x more power and water than enterprise IT data centers, which are already energy hogs.

Who GAF?

The latest power reports indicating the Biden administration (and his Deep State handlers) are forcing power production companies across North America to retire their facilities early, to be replaced with “renewable” power production.  In other words, they’re getting rid of what kept the electric grid reliable, and replacing it with…  shit. 

And .gov is still pushing EVs.

The WSJ article “SOS For the US Electric Grid” was just touching the surface. 

Now, the push for AI is causing ripple-effects due to their operational demands.

A recent Reliability Analysis Update from PJM, dated 12/5/23, makes the power issue perfectly clear:

• PJM has had unprecedented data center load growth (~7,500 MW) currently forecast by 2027- 28 in Dominion (Northern Virginia) and APS (Doubs)
• 11,100 MW deactivation announced
• ~ 5,300 MW of retirements occurred after the 2022 RTEP case was created

What this means is that power production has dropped by 16.4 gigawatts (gW) at the same time data center companies are demanding and additional 7.5gW.  The gap is therefore ~24gW.  And this is only in the Northeastern US, which PJM runs.

As a comparison, New York City consumes ~5.5gW.

Starting to get the picture?

It gets worse.  The North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) said in its annual Long-Term Reliability Assessment that gap between power production and demand will expand to 83gW on current trajectory, resulting in rolling blackouts across the Midwest, especially during high-demand times like the high heat of summer, or the dead of winter. 

Ironically, as conditions with power (and water) get worse, the demand for my services will increase.

But overall, looking at the macro picture, it’s like a rolling shit-show across the planet, the ultimate result of collectivist policies writ globally.

Initial Observations

As I observed nearly two years ago, the Ukrainian “aid” was all a money-laundering scheme; basically the parasites in .gov are looting the treasury, stealing whatever isn’t nailed down.  And I mentioned this when the total money “given” to Ukraine totalled “only” $40B.  It’s now somewhere around $120B.  At the time I posted the essay, not many people knew about it being a scam; now everybody knows.

So much money to secure the border…  of Ukraine, but NOTHING to secure our border.

The scam is simple, “give” Ukraine all your old, obsolete weapons systems, mark them down in the accounting books at full price, and then go to Congress and say we spent “X” amount of money to aid the Ukrainians by giving them weapons.  The powder in the cartridges may be no good to push the bullet out of the barrel of the gun, buy hey, Mr. Congressman, we need to replace that now!  And so the congresscritters, weapons companies and the middlemen get fabulously wealthy, the shitty old weapons get sold on the black market, and the American taxpayers get royally screwed, sans lube. 

And of course, Ukraine is has been totally curb-stomped by Russia. The war will be over whenever Russia decides, and not before. And it won’t be mental midgets and evil bitches like Tony Blinky and Victoria Nuland (bloated war-pig) setting the terms.

Other Observations

Have you noticed that the government doesn’t even bother to their corruption anymore?  Why SHOULD they? They control the justice system, from the local beat-cop all the way up to the SCOTUS, so ‘who ya’ gonna’ call?’

The recent Baltimore bridge collapse, whatever the cause, is still instructive. Colostomy-bag Joe gets on TV, says “the goverment will pay to fix it.” You think he’s doing that out of the kindness of his heart? Course not, it’s because he’ll get his cut of the $2B spent to get it repaired. Cost of doing business, dontcha’ know…?

Nothing ever changes.

In other news, my observations (of April 6 2022) that WW3 is still coming, a war between the Western countries (consumers) and the rest of the world (producers) are now generally recognized by everyone not enthralled by MSM outlets.  The points are summarized by the following:

1. The Western elitist banksters have maintained utter control of their respective financial currencies; this debt-slavery system is the basis of their power.  It has been, for all intents and purposes, their private playground.  This power has been used to buy anyone they want, in government, the military, the media, anyone they want.
2. The Western banking system is based on debt issuance.  It is dying rapidly.  The entire fiat-money system, a Ponzi scheme of epic proportions, is now so heavily overloaded with bad debt that it is collapsing under its own weight.  Countries who don’t use that funny-money as their sovereign currency but have been forced to utilize dollars/euros/yen for international trade, are busily switching to alternative currencies from countries that produce something besides fiat money.  In other words, the demand for the Western currencies is rapidly declining.
3. The much-touted “Great Reset” is a plan to depopulate the world (1^st and 2^nd world through vaccinations, the 3^rd through starvation), and reset the financial system back to zero, so that everyone begins in the new system with zero debt…  and zero property or possessions.  The “Great Reset” will usher in the new trackable and controllable fiat-money currency, where they decide what and when you can buy approved products.  And if you speak out against whatever bullshit the bankster-owned government is selling (which will be tallied via a Chinese-style social credit system) your money could be reduced, confiscated or flagged for your arrest the next time you go shopping with their new digital currency.  You’ll toe their line, or you’ll starve.
4. The “Great Reset,” where everyone will adopt this bitter pill of slavery, will only be accepted if people are desperate for government intervention due to starvation, lack of energy (heat for your home, gas for your car) or disease.  And it will only be accepted if there’s no alternative currency which people can utilize to maintain some level of purchasing power without “Big Brother” watching over your shoulder, and deciding what you can- or cannot- purchase.  The Russian ruble is exactly such an alternative.
5. The BRICS countries- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa- have resisted globalist efforts to become part of the Western banking system, and are now challenging that system, with currencies backed by commodities instead of the worthless promise of more fiat money.  Thus, the represent a viable alternative to the “Great Reset” agenda, one which dooms the efforts to re-start the fiat money system from zero- with the same elitist banksters at the helm.
6. The BRICS countries therefore represent an escape from the fiat-money system, and therefore are mortal enemies of the banksters, which have built their empire over the past 208 years.  They must therefore be destroyed by the West, using whatever means necessary, at whatever cost is required in lives (but who cares about us debt-slaves, anyway?). 
7. The BRICS countries- most openly represented by Russia at this point in time- are not about to join the system, and now realize that it is- literally- a fight to the death for them, as well.
8. Therefore, neither side will back down, the escalation will continue, up to and including nuclear weapons. 

And now, here we are.

Trump and The Deep State- He’ll NEVER Be Elected, Despite The Polls

A new aspect that has recently come up is that RINO Congresscritters are “retiring” or “resigning” from the jobs, in such a way that there is insufficient time for special elections before the November 2024 election. 

This will remove the Republican majority, and hand the Congressional gavel over to Democrat collectivist shitbag Hakeem Jeffries, with a Democrat majority.  This offers them two options to stop Trump from being re-elected for a 3^rd time, listed in order of preference (for them): 

1. They will then enact a new law banning Trump from being on the ballot, which is allowed via the recent SCOTUS ruling regarding Colorado’s attempt to ban Trump, or
2. They will refuse to certify the election results on January 6, 2025, because they don’t like the results.  Ironically, this is exactly the justification for the “sedition” charge against Trump, from January 6, 2021.

Note I said “in order of preference.” 

The first is vastly more preferable, because they can make the claim that because Trump has been removed from the ballot, any claim that he actually should have won will be moot, because there will be no results to use as evidence.  It’ll also have the façade of legitimacy, because SCOTUS left this door open (in the Colorado case to ban Trump), for the democrats to exploit. And as I will discuss below, the “social unrest” due to BLM/Antifa/Illegals will be growing, so the Democrats will use the domestic violence as an excuse to ban Trump and “save democracy.”

The second is far less preferable, because a massive sweep in the popular vote, with undeniable results, only to be denied by Congress playing their shitty games, will further enrage the public.  The second option will absolutely result in state secessions and accelerate the collapse of the “United States of America,” as there will no longer be any veneer of unity. 

This leads to another point.  The estimated 12 million illegal aliens (highlighted, because that’s exactly what they are, not this horse-shit about “undocumented immigrants,”) are almost all military-aged men from countries that do not like us.  That should be obvious to even the most obtuse collectivist (ahem) democrat. 

WHY would .gov bring them in?

They’re to be the check against all the 2^nd-Amendment folks.  Put another way, the effectiveness of 2A, and the possession of ~500 million guns by North of 100 million Americans, will be diluted, if not stopped, by the ~10 million illegals also operating under the radar in civilian society.  When teamed with Antifa/BLM/ADL groups and their organizational frameworks, this is the only feasible way for a government hell-bent on keeping power, to stop those deplorable Americans who love their country, God and guns. 

Let me restate it in as blunt of terms as I can: the illegals are an irregular army here to fight against AMERICANS, on behalf of the corrupt US government.

They’re here to sow chaos, kill anyone who fights back, and do all the lovely things that invading armies have traditionally done through the ages: burn, loot, rape and kill everyone they find.

The only thing they lack is the “go” order.

That will come this summer, leading up to the election in November.

Remember option #2 above, where the Congress will refuse to certify the results?  If led by the Democrats (which I think is a forgone conclusion at this point) they can easily say- if the Antifa/Burn-Loot-Murder/Illegal-Alien-Army does their job sufficiently well- “we can’t certify Trump because of the civil unrest that may result…  it’s for your SAFETY, you see…”  They’ll have (in their view) the moral high-ground, by solving the ongoing civil unrest, by getting rid of that hated Orange Man Bad. 

For idiot leftists, this is the perfect solution, both emotionally satisfying and tactically sound means of shitting on all those nasty deplorables.  Beautiful!  How can it get any better than THAT???

So yes, the first option for the Democrats will be to use a Congressional law to ban Trump from being on the ballot come November, for whatever excuse will be the most plausible.

Any way you slice it, the collectivists will use lawfare for one more big push, to ban Trump, and after analyzing this for the last few weeks, I don’t see any way to stop them through legal means.  Their actions will push us into uncharted territory, which would take months to years to sort out in a court of law (if there was any court left that wasn’t dirtier than dirt). 

The ONLY thing that will stop this, is when American patriots finally say “ENOUGH of this shit,” pick up arms, and start exercising the 2^nd Amendment for its original purpose. 

And that is precisely why the illegal alien army that has been imported, is here to stop patriots from interfering with the final takedown of our Constitutional Republic, which has been on life-support for decades.

We WILL end up in CW2 within the next 12 months, and it will just get a lot worse from there. 

I hope there are enough patriots left, to overcome the government and their new army.

I hope patriots don’t wait until it’s too late, to save our country.

When the dems move to either block Trump from the ballot, or refuse to certify his electoral college votes…  either way, that’s when you’ll know.

SIGNAL- And Why .GOV Hates It

A Security Briefing

Part of working for a large company is that you sometimes get protesters- environmentalists, Antifa, BLM and their ilk.  And the large company I work for takes security seriously, and monitors for upcoming protests, and makes corresponding changes in access to facilities, monitors perimeter security of the campus, works with local law enforcement, and even hires former .gov employees to manage those security efforts.  By these circumstances, I happened to attend a security briefing last month, regarding upcoming protests, given by a retired FBI manager, who apparently managed a couple of different offices on the East Coast. 

The lecture was pretty standard stuff, all considered, but there came a part of the presentation when he was discussing the security efforts for monitoring said groups.  First bullet-point was that they used the app known as “Signal.”  He went further to explain that they had no way to crack it, no matter what they tried, so they didn’t even bother to.  Second point was that the work-around was to get infiltrators into said organizations, who (unlike the FBI agents who instigated the Governor Whitmer kidnapping “plot”) would pretend to be loyal supporters, always supporting the cause, mouthing the platitudes but otherwise not doing anything to arouse suspicion that the insiders were actually moles.  They would do what was necessary to become part of all key leaderships comms channels on Signal, so the FBI could have a direct pipeline to all communications and planning efforts.

At one point he was flat-out laughing, saying that they had more agents inside the leadership comms channels than actual members of the respective groups, and they didn’t have a clue. 

This presentation, and other discussions, started me down the rabbit-hole, to learn more about the actual .gov surveillance efforts of groups that might pose a threat the .gov agenda.  It also made me question why Signal was considered “unbreakable” to the FBI (or more accurately, the NSA), and whether this was in fact true.

And finally, it made me realize that everyone needs to understand this subject, so as to have secure, PRIVATE communications, and why it matters.

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING…

To begin with, everything you do using the internet or cell phones, is recorded and stored at NSA data centers, like the Utah one below:

Now, you may say, “what do I care, I’m not doing anything illegal!”  The problem is that Joe Biden (spit!) has designated that anyone who doesn’t toe the line- especially on subjects such as the Afghanistan withdrawal, the Russia/Ukraine conflict, COVID or stolen elections- is a domestic terrorist, and is subject to prosecution.  That means if they pick you out of the crowd of people discussing these subjects – for any reason or no reason at all- you have no rights.  NONE.  In summary, anyone who the government targets can expect no better treatment than the detainees of Gitmo.  This is why the J6 defendants are horribly treated, and railroaded in sham trials; they have no rights.

According to the ACLU,

The NSA intercepts and copies private communications in bulk while they are in transit, and then searches their contents using tens of thousands of keywords associated with NSA targets. These targets, chosen by intelligence analysts, are never approved by any court, and the limitations that do exist are weak and riddled with exceptions.

This is done as part of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA.  The operational program is called “Prism,” and was revealed by Edward Snowden in 2013.

Subsequent analyses revealed that the program really was aimed at foreigners on foreign soil, but that some Americans did get swept up in the gigantic data-suck. This occurred mainly as an unavoidable consequence of internet technology, though it was sometimes the result of bureaucratic overstepping, not so much by the NSA, but rather by the FBI.

This is possible because computer memory is cheap; a 20 Terabyte computer hard drive can be had for $360 currently at Amazon.  The US government has taken advantage of the cheap memory, and built multiple NSA spy data centers in Hawaii, Colorado, Texas, Georgia, and Maryland, all interconnected by dedicated fiberoptic lines in a single, secure data cloud.  The data-storage capabilities of these facilities are staggering, as this article details of the Utah facility:

This data-storage facility for the US intelligence community is designed to store data estimated at over a zettabyte, though its actual capacity is classified. Its purpose is to support the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative. A zettabyte (ZB) is 1,000 exabytes (EB). Each EB is equal to 1,000 petabytes (PB). A PB is equal to 1,000 terabytes (TB). The average personal computer today has a capacity of 1 TB with a ZB of data representing 100 million personal computers’ data capacity.

Additionally, the total amount of data created, captured, copied, and consumed globally is forecasted to increase rapidly, from 64 ZB in 2020 to more than 180 ZB by 2025—a far cry from the 2 ZB created in 2010.

How Are Large Amounts of Data Managed?

The huge amount of data can only be searched by the powerful, water-cooled HPE/Cray supercomputers at the data center. All these systems require 65 megawatts of electricity, costing about $40 million per year. The facility is estimated to use 1.7 million gallons of water per day for cooling both the supercomputers and the servers that store the data on solid-state drives. Solid-state drives have no moving parts and use a fraction of the power and water for cooling that spinning-disk hard drives require.

The high-availability, fault-tolerant system has no single point of failure. Data is striped across virtual disk arrays and mirrored for instant failover.

In the article, is a key aspect of about the NSA spy data centers: 

“Redundant ping, power, and pipe guarantee availability of the information to or from any device, with 256-bit advanced encryption standard (AES) on the fly and at rest, with permission, providing protection for all data. It would take hundreds of years for the mighty Cray system to break a single instance of 256 AES encryption.” [emphasis added]

HOW many years, you might ask?

This is why .GOV uses AES-256 bit encryption for their own completely secure communications.

NSA Data Collection and Storage Limitations

The data collected by the NSA (and used by the FBI for domestic surveillance) is stored for up to one year.  Despite the 1-year limitation, the amount of data hoovered-up is simply too massive for humans to meaningfully analyze, to make actionable intelligence of; this is the domain for AI-driven systems to interconnect individual data points to turn into a comprehensible picture.  But even AI systems have their limits, due to required compute power and bandwidth, and so they are focused on to targets (individuals) who somehow gain the attention of the Federal government, for whatever reason. 

Once a target is designated, all data gathered on that person for the past year is assembled, and analyzed.  Then everyone you have communicated with, in any way, is designated a target, and all of their data is gathered and analyzed.  And everyone they communicated with, in any way, is designated a target, and the same thing happens.  This is the “Two-Hop Rule,”  as the ACLU again describes:

 If, for example, a surveillance target has talked to 200 different people in the last 18 months (a low estimate based on our informal sampling), also if each of who 200 people has including called or being called via 200 different people, when a two-hop request would dry skyward records relations to 40,000 people. And it only gets worse if ready of the numbers in the first hop belongs to a high-volume caller—like a pizza shop, an advertise company, or a hospital.

It is painfully obvious point that the US government is at war with any Americans who don’t obey.  It is equally obvious that the US government relies almost exclusively on electronic intelligence, or ELINT.  The store all data for future use; as soon as they notice you for committing a crime, or perhaps because you speak out to vocally against the current agenda, they pull that data, and prosecute you for a crime, whether you committed one or not. 

The ONLY way to stop the government from scooping up you and everyone you know, is to use encrypted communications.   

There is only one option:  Signal.  Signal messages are encrypted with the Signal Protocol (formerly known as the TextSecure Protocol). The protocol combines the Double Ratchet Algorithm, prekeys, and an Extended Triple Diffie–Hellman (X3DH) handshake.   It uses Curve25519, AES-256, and HMAC-SHA256 as primitives. 

In this article, “Is Signal safe? We asked security experts about the messaging app and your data,” several points out that “the most important privacy tool on Signal is end-to-end encryption….  which ensures that no one (not even Signal) can intercept and read your messages…   Signal’s encryption, in particular, is powered by the app’s own open source Signal Protocol and adds an additional layer of security to almost every communication you hold over the app, from one-on-one messages and group chats to voice calls, video calls and even stickers…   ”

This would be the AES-256 encryption that our most powerful computers could not break for hundreds of years, for a single Signal message.  Essentially, if you use Signal as your only means of communication, within 12-18 months, the government no longer has any means of recording your comms, and the old data is too stale to be of any use.  For this reason alone, it is foolish to use any other communications platform, whether for voice, text or email. 

Further from the same article,

“Out of the three apps, Signal has the best reputation for security and privacy using published encryption that has been thoroughly scrutinised and without any incentive to capture your personal information”, said Searchlight Security CTO and co-founder, Dr. Gareth Owenson.

“WhatsApp is safe in that it uses the same secure encryption as Signal but is owned by Facebook – a company which has historically monetised personal information (principally for advertising). WhatsApp has recently come under criticism for attempting to expand the amount of data shared with Facebook”.

Telegram has a more trustworthy reputation than WhatsApp and offers more features than Signal, but this has earned the app some unsavoury users.

“Telegram has a reputation as a secure messaging app but this is largely due to the feature set it offers rather than the strong encryption”, explained Dr. Owenson.

“Research by Royal Holloway recently found vulnerabilities in the cryptography used by Telegram. Telegram is also popular amount darkweb criminals and other malicious actors due to its perceived security”.

RECAP

To summarize the revelations from the retired FBI agent and my subsequent month of research, here are my take-aways regarding Signal:

1. Due to its end-to-end 256-bit dynamic encryption, Signal is unbreakable with current technology, for texts and voice or video calls.  There’s no way around this for .gov actors.  Obviously .GOV actors do not advertise this fact…
2. The Signal servers and organization themselves cannot break the encryption of any messages any more than .gov can.
3. .Gov demands of Signal for user data will only tell the last time a particular user logged in, nothing more, because the system is purposefully built that way.
4. All electronic transmissions- including Signal- will be captured by the NSA spy data centers.  However, with insufficient technology for many years- possibly decades – away from being able to crack even one Signal message, all they’ll have is recordings of gibberish; unintelligible and impossible to unlock.
5. The only avenue for .gov actors to read communications within Signal is by infiltration into your circle, whatever that may be.
6. Therefore, ONLY allow people on to the private channels that you would trust with your life.  Vetting is absolutely essential.  Public channels, not such a big deal.  (This was a key reason why the “Oath Keepers” people were hammered by .gov, they were crawling with .gov snitches.)
7. To date, this is the only viable secure messaging system that I’m aware of, without any shady ownership or technical details (like WhatsApp being owned by that paragon of virtue, Mark Zuckerfuck).
8. Signal can be used for teleconferencing, sending or sharing of documents, and everything you would get from a Zoom or MS Teams platform, with the exception of online presentations.  It represents a secure alternative to email platforms which may be subpoenaed by .gov agents if they go on a fishing expedition.
9. Final point, set your messages inside of Signal to “disappear” after a short period of time, after which they’re permanently deleted.  (Failure to have this basic security measure is the other key reason why the “Oath Keepers” people were hammered by .gov.)

I apologize to readers, for restating the same points, almost to the point of being pedantic. But taking back your privacy is the first step, and the biggest step, to fighting back against a corrupt government.

The threat that Big Brother has, able to read your emails, chats and listen to your phone calls, creates what courts call a “chilling” effect; groups can’t plan responses to tyrannical government actions without the fear that a “Fed” is listening to everything you do.  That’s whole point, to keep us scared from saying what we think, organizing any kind of meaningful response, keep us scared and suspicious of our neighbors. Indeed, entire Western empire relies almost exclusively on their surveillance capabilities across the electronic spectrum. 

Isn’t it time you took that away from them?!? 

We need to have the ability to say what we really think, without .gov punishing us for saying what we think.

Download Signal, and take the first step…  to taking back your privacy.

[In the interests of full disclosure, I have no affiliation with Signal, in any manner.]

Operation Sand Man and Ramifications…

The financial news coming out as I write this, 3/30/23, is getting more and more alarming. I posted only two weeks ago, that we don’t have much time left, before the financial house of cards that the American economy is, comes tumbling down. In other words, the collapse is imminent.

I can now say with certainty that the collapse is in progress, now. The Western central banks have all pooled their resources to stop cash outflows from different banks around the Western world, to plug holes that appear, and keep the banks solvent. But it’s too much; the dam has too many cracks, too many holes, and there aren’t enough fingers available to stop the leaks.

Think about it this way; FTX collapsed, with some $30 billion and cryptocurrencies vaporized. That in turn pulled in Signature Bank, Silvergate and Silicon Valley banks, in classic bank runs. It would appear that regulators are set to limit withdrawals from banks, to prevent future bank runs. In other words, your money is safe in the bank… until you want to withdraw it.

The shock waves from SVB pushed Credit Suisse, the 2nd largest bank in Switzerland, over the edge, after suffering from numerous scandals in recent years, including a spying scandal, the collapse of two investment funds in which the bank was heavily involved, and a rotating group of executives. The dominos have clearly started to fall, and there are roughly 200 other banks read to collapse, in the same way that SVB did. It is abundantly clear that the American financial system is teetering on the edge of the abyss; the only thing that has kept it from already doing so is the US Treasury promising to stabilize the system via bail-outs. But the FDIC is already tapped-out from the SVB debacle; additional funds will have to be created from thin air, newly created money via the digital printing press.

This translates into continued inflation, as there are roughly $17 trillion in US bank deposits. M2 money supply is roughly $21 trillion, so the money supply (and prices for everything) would roughly double, if the US government were to bail out everyone.

For countries and people outside the USA who use the dollar for international transactions, this means that their 2%/month inflation rate would now almost double, in a very short time. You can’t effectively save money, wealth, future purchasing power, in a currency that is intentionally being devalued by the issuing government; it’s a complete loser. So producer countries have long had the desire to switch to an alternative currency, which is more stable, issued by a country not run by insane egomaniacs like we now have in the USA.

Enter Operation Sand Man, a rumor propagated for over a year by Steve Quayle. The first video I can find of him describing this is 9/21/21, here. I have not been able to find any other sources for this story, much less documentation. But that should be no surprise, Steve Quayle has LOTS of hidden sources. I have no secret-squirrel sources to give me inside information, I’m just another guy having to rely on publicly available sources, and extrapolate from there using my understanding of economics, experience and common sense. In a nutshell, he says:

“Information that came to me…is that, [on October 15th?] at the 11:38AM mark on Wall Street, there will be a declaration by the Fed, itself, declaring Force Majeur. And that simply means, because of a situation beyond control, in this case, there’s too much debt and nothing to pay it back, that the American dollar becomes worthless.

“And what Janet Yellen has done, in my opinion is telegraph to the entire world that the United States dollar is coming to an end and as further proof of that, there’s an operation called ‘Sandman’, based on the Petrodollar, Saudi Arabia and the oil-exporting countries are going to basically refuse to take the US dollar.

“Most people don’t know but up until…a couple of years ago, all of the oil that was bought and sold was in US dollars. Well, that day’s coming to and end, because there’s an agreement of 130 nations to abandon the US dollar concurrently and simultaneously when the go signal is given…

“That means the money in your account denominated in dollars goes away. It means your credit cards no longer work. It means all the benefits, whether it’s EBT, whether it’s Social Security, whether it’s all these things – and look, I’m not trying to scare anybody – but this is the plan they have, to starve out America. This is the equivalent, in my opinion of Stalin’s Holodomor, where 5 million Ukrainians were starved to death. So, that’s what’s at stake.”

Obviously his prediction did not come true. But predictions for exact timing of events are a dangerous thing; suppose you predict a criminal act, and your prediction pushes authorities to take appropriate action, and the criminal act is prevented. Does the fact that the act was prevented and lives saved, make you wrong? No. This is the double-edged sword of this sort of thing. Do we sometimes predict things that turn out NOT to be, at all? Sure. But again, that doesn’t mean that the plan isn’t still in play, or still sitting on the shelf, ready to deploy at some point in the future.

To be honest, I’d forgotten about it, Operation Sand Man.

Uh-Oh…

And then a buddy, Luke, sent me this clip, key point from 58 seconds to 1:18… :

President William Ruto: For the people who work numbers, I am giving you free advice, those who are holding dollars, you might soon go into losses. Do what you must do because this market is going to be different in a couple of weeks.

Another blogger posted a summary which, to be honest, sums it up as well as I could, so I’m posting his comments in their entirety:

This stunning announcement gives credibility to a RUMOR that has been circulating for over a year, that 142 countries around the world have secretly agreed to what they call “Operation Sandman.”

According to the RUMOR, Operation Sandman will “put the US Dollar to sleep” by having all 142 countries repudiate the currency on the same day, and refuse to continue accepting it for payment in Trade.

Countries around the world began planning this when they witnessed the then-Democrat-Controlled US Congress, go on a spending spree of several TRILLION Dollars in Omnibus Bills. Those countries realized there is nothing backing the value of US Dollars and they saw that the US Congress has no plans at all to reign-in spending.

One country’s Finance Ministry recently told the US, “We are no longer willing to accept ones and zeros in a bank computer as actual payment for real goods.”

The countries agreed that holding US currency was becoming foolish because it was becoming worthless on its face, thanks to all the rampant over-spending by the US Government.

Now, it appears those countries may actually take action “within a couple weeks.”

If countries around the world repudiate the Dollar as payment for goods in trade, then they would halt providing manufactured goods or raw materials unless paid in some currency OTHER THAN DOLLARS.

Since the U.S. barely does any manufacturing at all anymore, thanks to the business nitwits who thought it was a good idea to convert the US economy to a “service economy” then products we buy in stores will simply run out and we will be unable to re-stock because no one will want our money.

Among the business nitwits are also those who pushed for “Free Trade” claiming it would improve sales of American-made goods overseas if America agreed to halt Tariffs on all imported items. The government bought-into the idea, not realizing – or not caring – that these very businessmen weren’t at all interested in selling more American goods overseas. What they were interested in was shipping American JOBS overseas, taking advantage of cheap labor, then shipping those exact same products back to the USA to sell at the same high prices . . . . while pocketing the profit from the new, foreign, cheap labor without having to pay Tariiffs.

The Businessmen, their corporate Boards of Directors, and Commerce Organizations who touted “Free Trade” were the ones who moved American jobs overseas and now, the country barely manufactures anything, anymore.

So here we are, years later, and thanks to those businessmen, and the federal politicians who foolishly believed their lies about “Free Trade,” we have almost no manufacturing. Countries around the world seem to be actually planning to stop accepting the US dollar as payment, so we won’t be able to buy anything because it’s all made overseas now!
on the manufacturing side the sames happened here…

The speech by President Ruto was given on March 22, 2023.

He stated a “couple of weeks,” 14 days, takes us to April 5.

The observed Easter weekend starts at the end of the next day, April 6.

This came out four days later:

Probably nothing 🤷🏻‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/SWmSBwTTta

— Hum₿le Warrior 🇺🇸⚔️🌏 (@HumbleBitcoiner) March 27, 2023

And then the ultimate DNC butt-sniffer, Fareed Zakaria, gave this take:

If the US dollar's global supremacy erodes, America will face a reckoning like none before.

A surprising segment on CNN.

🔊

pic.twitter.com/1r8msosckh

— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) March 27, 2023

Suddenly it doesn’t seem like a “conspiracy theory” anymore, does it? Indeed, for the last several days in my corporate office building, where MSNBC is constantly blaring their disgusting feed in the lobby, every time I walked by, they were discussing what would happen if the US dollar “dominance” were to end.

One thing I’ve picked up on, is that MSM will deny, deny, deny, until it is decided to admit the truth, usually well after it has become obvious to anyone with a functioning brain. The fact that MSM is now openly admitting what’s coming, tells me that we’re close to the end of the road for the dollar.

The writing is on the wall, that de-dollarization is a real thing, and countries are moving fast. Yesterday, Brazil just announced a $200 billion trade deal with China while bypassing the dollar. Saudi Arabia is taking the hint from China to also join BRICS, and just signed two deals for oil refineries. And all the economic sanctions against Russia to prevent them from selling oil, have simply compelled them to find new customers, and their exports are back up to previous levels.

The American empire is dead. All the power-plays that have kept the dollar as the worlds’ reserve currency have collapsed. The world is pivoting away from the dollar at a very rapid speed.

Coming back to Operation Sand Man…

The current conflict between Ukraine and Russia leaves some serious issues on the table, to be addressed.

First of all, the insane levels of support for Ukraine are both a gravy train for the corrupt politicians and weapons manufacturers, and an emptying of the US treasury. Basically everyone’s on the take, in some fashion or other.

But there’s another problem; how to end the war, before Russia is sitting at the border of Poland and Romania? If the US economy collapses, there will be no political will, no stomach for any politician sending so much as a dime to a country that nobody reals give a crap about, anyway. The support for Ukraine will evaporate, and the conflict will quickly- VERY quickly- be over.

Punchline:

I think there is a strong possibility, say 50-75% chance, that Operation Sand Man will go live on Thursday, April 6, 2023, late at night (early the next morning for most other countries), +/- 12 hours. I came up with this date based on the fact that the USA will be going into a national holiday weekend, and be shut down for 3 days for Easter observance. As a sneak-attack, it would prevent the US government from formulating a rapid response to the situation, for at least four calendar days, by which time it would be a “done deal.”

It would also follow that many globalist elites- who’ve been pushing for the “Great Reset,” to collapse the American (and European) economies in a catastrophic manner, would actively choose one of the most holy days of the year to make it happen: Easter. They have overtly expressed their disdain for Christians, and this would be the ultimate slap in the face, to the “bible-thumpers” with their “God and their guns.” They have a weird, twisted sense of humor; this would amuse them greatly, just due to the timing alone.

So the punchline is, I’m guessing that Easter weekend will be THE time for them to pull the plug on the dollar. Everything I’m seeing fits.

I hope I’m wrong… I truly do. We’ll see soon.

RAMIFICATIONS

Forgive me for quoting myself from an earlier post, but it’s the same information, so here we go:

“When that happens- and it will- the price of imported goods will go through the roof almost overnight, as every country will attempt to get rid of their dollars while they still can, and use some other currency for international trade.  

The dollar will be dumped as the worlds’ reserve currency, in a cascade as other countries holding dollars run for the exits.  When this happens, the price of products that are imported will go up by 4-5 times, almost overnight (my best guess).   This is the logical result of the Cloward-Piven strategy writ large. 

The price of oil- when no longer priced in dollars- will have ripple effects that will cause suffering on a scale never before seen in America.  Consider the trucking industry, in a very real way, feeds the country.  The food you eat, the clothes you wear, the furniture in your house…  even the building materials for the house itself, were all delivered by truck.  As the price of fuel skyrockets, trucking companies will attempt to pass on the costs to their customers (stores like Wal-Mart, for example), who will in turn pass it on to the consumer.  Will the consumers pay so much more?

Consider that while those desperate people who live on the dole might still get their checks (or “deposits” on their EBT cards), it will no longer be able to buy anything, because the prices of everything have gone up 500% almost overnight.  What will happen in the inner cities, when people realize they can’t put food on the table, much less put gas in their cars?  Gerald Celente summarized it best: “when people lose everything, and they have nothing left to lose, they lose it.”  And they will.”   

Notice, I said above, that the non-productive welfare citizens might get their payments, but there’s historical precedence which indicates this might not be the case.  A very close friend told me about her experiences in Russia, during the collapse of the Soviet Union.

“One night, we went to bed, and everything was fine.  You had, say, 2000 rubles in the bank- enough to buy a car.  We woke up in the morning, all the banks were frozen, no transactions allowed.  This stays for about two months, while they devalued the currency.  When they finally opened and allowed us to get our money out, 2000 rubles was enough to buy a T-shirt.”

I believe that is EXACTLY what will happen to us. It’s not question of if, only when.  And I don’t think it’s going to be long, at all…  In the Soviet Union, they didn’t announce it (of course, the high-up politicians knew)’ it was a sneak attack.  Even the crooks- who we now call “oligarchs”- didn’t know. 

In effect, the initial devaluation made the cost for everything go up by 100x.  Try to imagine buying a loaf of bread for $500; how long before you run out of money to feed your family?

Later, the government switched to a new ruble to replace the old one, again devalued.  Every family was allowed to convert, say, $10,000 worth of currency.  Any excess of the limit they set, which couldn’t be converted, automatically became worthless after a certain date.  I remember seeing photos of pallets of cash dumped in the woods, rubles that couldn’t be converted…  My Russian friend predicts that the USA will do the same here, to prevent the trillions of cash dollars used to bribe people all over the world from returning to the USA and exacerbating the hyperinflationary collapse we’re already in.

It’s also important to keep in mind, there are laws now on the books where the banks can- and will- confiscate your money, during a financial crisis, to keep themselves afloat.  Legally, when you put your money into a checking or savings account, it’s not your money anymore; you’re an “unsecured creditor.”  And if they want to, they’ll take your money, and the FDIC will not cover the loss, because your money wasn’t stolen, as it wasn’t your money anyway.  See how that works?

And do you see why Biden signed an executive order to facilitate digital currencies?  If your money is digital, it can be confiscated or they can at least stop you from transacting any more (cryptos).

It’s actually quite simple; anything you don’t have in your physical possession, you don’t own.  If it isn’t physical cash in your hand (or under your mattress, or whatever) you don’t own it, and it can be stolen from you in the blink of an eye (think of everyone who donated to the Canadian truckers). 

How to maintain your wealth, or whatever purchasing power you have saved up?  Buy gold or silver, as much as you can, as FAST as you can.  If that’s not available to you, store up extra food for trade/barter, later, as everyone needs to eat.  Buy chickens, build a coop out of an old shed or any scrap building materials you can get your hands on (but make sure you can protect them from thieves of the four (or two)-legged variety.  Buy a few 100# bags of chicken feed from your local farm supply or co-op.  Eggs will be worth a LOT. Anything physical is better than the paper notes which will soon be worth nothing.

FOOD

Due to the Russia-Ukraine conflict which NATO incited (and exacerbates to this day), Russia was kicked out of the SWIFT financial transaction system by all of America’s poodle countries.  As a result, there will be no potash shipped out to most of the world- a necessary ingredient for high crop yields around the world.  Food shortages, famines and starving to death are now a foregone conclusion, as the prices of food go up beyond what literally hundreds of millions will be able to pay. 

Russia has been stockpiling food, and last week Putin announced to his people on Russian TV that the country had five years of food stockpiled, so they need nothing from the USA- or frankly, anyone else.  China has stockpiled 18 months of wheat to feed their people, but their agents are busily moving around America buying any stored wheat they can get their hands on- by the trainload, at whatever price they have to pay- and sending it on cargo ships back to China.

The results here will be food prices going steadily up in the USA for the foreseeable future.  I’m seeing 15-20% increases in the grocery stores, on a month-to-month basis, right now, and those increases will get much steeper.  With no potash and already exorbitant prices for natural gas- both absolutely required to produce fertilizer for high crop yields- we’re going into a period of not just “food shortages,” like Brandon said, we’re going to be facing our own version of the Holodomor famine of 1933.  Think of this starving woman with her son…

Or this family starving in their own yard:

Food prices will eventually go exponential, and finally won’t be available at any price, since fuel won’t be available for trucks, there simply won’t be any food available and even if there was, nobody wants to make a delivery to a place where there as likely to get shot as paid with the worthless money.  The blue cities- hives of humanity more parasitical than productive- will face escalations of violence, famine, starvation and eventually cannibalism, as a result.

Keep in mind, this is going global.  The only countries that’ll make it through reasonably “ok” will be Russia and- maybe- China.  But I’m not holding my breath about the latter.  The 2^nd and 3^rd-world countries will be the leading edge of the misery, as their populations live closest to poverty, and any significant price swings of food automatically mean they starve to death.  But it will still hit here, HARD, and if you aren’t ready, there’s a good chance you’ll be relying on Brandon to save you…  and then you’ll become a statistic.

My advice is to get as much food as you can get your hands on immediately.  Understand, it really doesn’t matter how much food you have in your pantry, it ain’t enough.  Make sure to get things that you and your kin will really eat, not stuff that will technically keep you alive, but your kids will refuse to consume because it doesn’t taste perfect.  If you can get a YEAR of food stored away, you’ll be ahead of 95% of the crowd, who doesn’t have more than a weeks’ worth of food in their whole house.  If you’re on city water, find a way to store it (plenty of videos on this sort of thing out there).  If you have an electric well, find a way to power it if the utilities go off, or get a hand-pump if possible. 

VIOLENCE

After the food completely runs out, the city parasites will start foraging out into the countryside, basically as far as the remaining gas in their cars will carry them.  And with deteriorating mental capacity brought about by hunger, they’ll have lost their inhibitions about killing you for a can of Dinty Moore beef stew. 

Police will too busy with attempting to “maintain order” of millions of hungry people, to worry about minor annoyances like rapists and murderers; they’ll roam freely among the weak and the desperate, predators amongst prey.

Which leads into our next subject…

WEAPONS

If you have no weapons at this point, it’s almost too late for you.  Find weapons in common calibers.  This means .38 Special for revolver, 9mm for semi-auto pistol, 5.56mm AR-15 rifle, .30-30 lever gun or a .30-06  bolt gun if you can find it.  Stick with common calibers, get as much ammunition as you can.  Even a good hunting rifle is better than nothing.  Be familiar with it, know how to use it, understand gun safety protocols so you don’t accidentally shoot a loved one. 

Another aspect that people don’t think about, is edged weapons.  Amazon has some amazing deals on Wakizashi-type swords (like miniature samurai swords) made of 9260 spring steel, which can be wielded one-handed by an adult or two-handed by kids, if needed.  They can be made razor sharp, don’t require ammo, and are quiet.  Finally, they don’t require background checks.  Check out K-bar knives, as well.  A good knife is useful not only as a weapon, but a tool.  Get one, get used to carrying it all the time.

COMMUNITY

I’ll keep this short and sweet:  The old cliché remains true; no man is an island.  You’re NOT going to stand watch over your home 24×7 forever, you’ll need help and a community to work with, for mutual defense.  The Civil Defense Manual by Jack Lawson will help you get started on this aspect, and you need to move with a purpose, right now.  (And no, I don’t make any money mentioning the manual.) Move quickly, because if you don’t, there’s a very real possibility that you won’t survive this.

CONCLUSION

An old Japanese proverb applies: “preparation does not guarantee success, but the lack of preparation guarantees failure.”

I will tell you straight up, the global famine is coming, there’s no way to stop it.  It WILL happen, I am 100% certain of this.  Do you remember when COVID hit, everyone finally realized they needed to hit the local CostCo or Walmart or whatever, and stock up on food and toilet paper?  People punching each other out for a bottle of hand-sanitizer or a 4-roll package of butt-wipe?  Or even better, the buyer behavior of people trying to get ‘deals’ on Black Friday, right after Thanksgiving?  Riots, shootings, the whole shebang of crazy behavior…?  Multiply that by 100, for everyone wanting to get FOOD.  I figure the crowds will start to figure it out by mid-May…  earlier if we’re unlucky, later if we are lucky…  but the mob-mentality of people trying to buy food before the shit hits the fan, will cause the shit to hit the fan…  Food riots, all of it.

I also will state with absolute certainty, that the dollar collapse in imminent.  …  IF the dollar collapse happens more or less at the same time people are scrambling to stock up on food, it will get to a level of ugliness that people haven’t seen since at least WW2.  And not just Americans, but everyone in the Western world- having lived a life of relative prosperity- are in for a brutal awakening to reality.

Do whatever you can to prepare, while you still have time.  Food, water, storing your purchasing power, and weapons to defend your loved ones.  Remember, your mental fortitude will be the biggest determinant on whether you make it or not.  MENTALLY prepare yourself.

Godspeed to us all.

Is There Anything Worth Fighting FOR???

I typically write about economic conditions that are coming; it’s my passion for the past 30 years, though I didn’t know it would be so, when I started on my path to higher education.  No doubt you’re expecting another “doom-and-gloom” post, but not today. There are some questions that have come up from various readers about gold and silver, post-SHTF trading, other points that readers have submitted over the last few months, which I will address shortly.

Today is different.  Today, I’m just going to say things that I believe need to be said, because I’ve kept my silence long enough.  No more.

I “identify” as…

First thing, is people who think they can “identify” as the opposite gender or sex.

If you were born with your genitals external to your physical body, your sex is male; if you were born with your genitals embedded inside your body, your sex is female.  This difference, while obvious, can also be verified down to the chromosomal level of XX and XY for females and males, respectively.  

For those of you who are too obtuse to grasp the obvious, let me present a lovely picture that explains reality:

If you survive through puberty, you become a woman or a man.  It is- literally- in your DNA.    These are immutable facts, infinitely repeatable, and you can’t change them any more than you can change the orbit of the moon by your sheer willpower.  How you “feel” about the gender your were born as, is as relevant as a fart in the wind.

If you somehow believe that by cross-dressing, taking hormone blockers and chopping off your pecker or cutting out your uterus you can become the opposite sex, you’re not changing your gender or sex, you’re simply mutilating your own body, because you’re mentally defective.  The good news is that this sort of surgery is typically permanent; you won’t be contributing your defective genes to humanity, and your defects will naturally disappear from society, in time.  Understand though, if you do participate in the charade of changing your sex, there will always be unscrupulous doctors, activists and other parasites that will happily separate you from your money, and use you in other ways… but nobody, NOBODY, is going to for one second believe that you are something you are not, can NEVER be. You aren’t fooling anyone except your own delusional self.

I find it extremely ironic, that people who can’t accept what they really are, expect us…  no, demand that we accept their delusions of thinking they are, what in fact that are not, and never could be.  The cognitive dissonance that comes from such fantasyland thinking, is both amazing and pathetic.

Feminism destroyed the power of women

Next, those that think feminism empowered women, do not, and have never understood the power that women really have.  Men are designed to compete, to fight, to toil in physical labor…  and to kill or die trying.  Their societal contribution has always been to fight and protect the family, and by extension the local community, and ultimately the country, but with the underpinning foundation of motivation at the familial level.  Ironic, that men have the burden and expectation of this, while never understanding the meaning and glue that holds the family together (unless they live long enough to attain wisdom). 

That glue comes from women; they take a sperm and turn it into a child.  They take a house, and turn it a home.  Everything a man gives a woman, she’ll maximize.  And the old joke holds true, if you give your wife a bunch of shit, she’ll turn it into a shit-storm, and buddy, you’re gonna’ need an umbrella! 

Where a man is built to compete, a woman is built to cultivate and grow.  And so while a man could go out into the world and compete, and absolutely kick ass, when he comes home, if his wife says with a slight smile “honey, will you take out the trash,” the man will deflate a little, grunt “ok,” and it gets done.  A woman who knows her powers, and how to use them subtly, can get a man to do anything she wants.  Because women have the ability to control men at a level that men simply can’t understand.  It’s just the way it is.  So when women try to be men, they’re trying to compete in a game that they don’t really understand, and will never really be considered “one of the guys,” because, let’s get real, they’re not.  They’re actually better, than trying to compete in the arena of grubby physical and sometimes abusive actions that men do.  So feminism has done more to destroy the true power of women, than anything any man could have ever come up with.

We need to face the fact that males and females are, in fact, different.  The differences are not only physical, but behavioral.  You try to stimy the development of children, they’ll be unaware of what role they would naturally play in society.  Boys who aren’t allowed to be aggressive, fight, take chances, face danger or any of the other things that young boys need to do, grow up to be confused, depressed, unsure of where they are or how to get out of their rut of perceived uselessness.  This leads to our young men now going online, getting addicted to porn, all while being unable to start or keep a relationship.  We call them “incels,” a denigrating acronym for involuntarily celibate.  Their aggressive tendencies stay kept under wraps, with occasional outbursts of homicidal rage, because they’ve had no outlet to learn what it is, how to control it, how to harness it for positive results.

Young girls, instead of learning about what it means to raise a family, are taught via the I-pad, YouTube and TikTok, that they can have it all, kids and a (rather stupid) husband, the kids can be raised by day-care while she conquers the corporate world, and drives that Mercedes S550.  Of course her kids- at the daycare- will not be allowed to learn their true nature, and become the next batch of aimless, hapless adults addicted to porn and resentful of the opposite sex.

And people wonder why the reproductive rate is falling?  Really?  We’re on a collision-course with demographics, and the causes are abundantly clear.

If you were born a male, find a good woman, and raise a family.  

I couldn’t find a good one at the beginning; my ex was a classic narcissist, and not being familiar with psychology, I was slow on the uptake, didn’t realize she was mentally incapable of putting the needs of children above her own desires; once the ramifications were clear to me, I pulled the plug on the whole thing, walked away and started over.  At the time, I was finishing my undergrad work, and recognized the same narcissism was endemic with nearly all the women I saw at the Universities. 

In statistical process controls (SPC), a branch of statistics associated with the acceptance or rejection of a batch of “widgets” in a production setting, when 100% of your sample fails (the sample mathematically reflects the overall population of say, 10,000 widgets), you reject the entire population.  And this was the conclusion I came to; I didn’t have time to keep sampling the population in the hopes that I would find a “keeper,” it wasn’t realistic.  So I chose a different population, where the probability of getting stuck with a “reject” was lower…

I’d spent a good amount of time in Eastern Europe (ten years prior), and remembered meeting a lot of lovely young ladies, who were beautiful, feminine, intelligent and highly educated.  Even better, they lacked the inflated egos of the purple-haired, hog-nose-ringed bloated harpies that are so common today, and were mentally tough. 

Would you rather spend your life with an entitled pig who is a woman (a question of gender) but has no idea what a lady is (a question of class)?

Or would you spend your life with an attractive woman who was taught how to be a lady, and is both educated and mentally strong?  Hmmm….  Oh, and BTW, the Russian girl is actually the average for that country, not exceptional.

I found a nice lady 18 years ago, and we’re still married.  Best move I ever made in my life, and I’m not ashamed to say so… 

And then, when you have kids…

Teach your sons how to work, what it means to be a good man and a good father, how to be responsible.  Teach them the family always comes first, honor your elders, their mother and father.  Teach them a good work ethic, and how to do chores.  Teach them to keep their word; always fulfill promises made, no matter the cost.  Teach them also that it’s ok to fight; that sometimes you win, and sometimes you’ll lose, come home with a black eye or a fat lip.  Teach them that a life where you take no chances, is not a life worth living.  And teach them that you always take responsibility for your actions- good or bad- and not lie or hide from the truth. Teach your sons how to be GENTLEMEN.

Teach your daughters what they really mean, that they make families- and society- possible.  That they are the future, and deserve to be honored and cherished.  Teach them that the most important thing they can possibly do in a society, is raise good, responsible children of their own.  Teach them that their abilities to magnify whatever they’re given, is the most valuable gift they have…  and then teach them how to do that. Teach your daughters how to be LADIES.

If we don’t recognize what we’re really fighting for- a future for our families- then ALL our talk about taking the country back, all of our desires to rid ourselves of the parasites in .gov (throughout the country) are irrelevant.

WHAT do you stand for? What will you FIGHT for?

And what would you do, to those who threaten your family, your children?

And WHEN will you get off your ass and DO it?

Not Much Time Left…

So the question was posed to me last night:

Now that we finally have a major situation unfolding, and the dominoes are officially falling. I trust your analysis of timelines. My main question is time. I’m not holding you to anything. I believe your all about Truth, and extremely well grounded in reality. Time my friend. How much time do we have left. And are you envisioning a rapid or a prolonged deterioration from here.

The short answer is, “nobody knows.”  I understand you’d prefer a more solid answer than that, but the problem is that nobody has any real idea..  Frankly, I’m surprised we’ve made it this far.  This shouldn’t be a surprise, as I’ve previously posted my opinions, basically saying “any day now…”

Events are moving so rapidly, now, with the failure of three banks in the past week, and the desperation moves by the Federal Reserve to keep the house of cards from collapsing, are now obvious. Cracks have been seen in the dam for quite a while; now the spider-webbing is accelerating, water is starting to escape.

I’m still of the opinion that the banks will do a “banking holiday” on a Friday, preferably before a 3-day weekend, as that’ll prevent people from having anyone to actively protest for at least 3 days, while the politicians figure out what their “story” will be…  and get their own pay-offs.  The next 3-day weekend for the USA will be April 7-9, 2023.  

But if things are falling apart at a much faster rate, it’ll obviously be earlier.  I don’t believe it will be a slow grind, happening over years…  but over a period of weeks to a few months, before the crash-and-burn is over, and we’re left fighting to survive.   While the conditions and overall events will be largely the same as what has happened throughout history with all fiat currencies, the speed at which things are occurring are much faster; another byproduct of technology, information-sharing and alternatives to government-controlled MSM.

Understand, though, the Federal Reserve probably won’t be direct trigger of the economic collapse.  They have established the conditions, so that it will happen, and cannot be avoided.  Michael Yon made a great point, using forests as an example: if you want a forest fire, you just let undergrowth be uncleared, fail to manage it, and then have a nice hot summer, and the conditions become such that a forest fire WILL start, whether due to careless campers lighting a campfire or a lightening strike from a summer storm.  Once the conditions are set, it WILL happen, regardless of what the actual spark is.

I summarized in “Crash Positions,” the results I expect to see as the financial collapse gets into high gear. Instead of me rehashing it, I would ask that you please read it in its entirety.

The conditions are ripe for dollar collapse, due to a loss of confidence in the USA:

1. The EU is fracturing, as Germany will be forced to face the fact that they’ve been sacrificed like a Bishop on a chessboard, in the Ukraine conflict.  They will be forced- sooner or later- to leave the EU and NATO, and go to Russia, hat in hand, to beg for gas.  They will do this, or they will die.  It really is that simple.
2. Once Russia pulverizes Ukraine- due to really get rolling at any time now- NATO will no longer be viable, and the European coalition will fail.  The individual leaders will be forced to face that the USA is no longer the “good guy” but very much the “baddie,” and that they’ve been used and abused.  Public opinion regarding the USA will swing negative, the dollar losing standing along with it.
3. The Afghan withdrawal debacle has eroded trust from Saudi Arabia, who is now accepting other currencies than the US dollar for oil…  This is no surprise.  What WILL be a surprise will be when Saudi Arabia (the progenitor of “Operation Sand Man”) repudiates the dollar.  This is especially likely now that China has brokered a peace deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran.
4. Given the war-footing that China is on, to retake Taiwan, prior to the start of operations, they will cease all shipments of goods to the USA, weakening the USA with supply-chain disruptions, before “festivities” start over Taiwan.  They may- at the same time- repudiate the dollar, which would (again) erode confidence in it as the worlds’ reserve currency.  
5. Since all of the BRICS+ nations have been trading their US dollars for physical gold, there will come a time when pretty much all of the dollars held by the other countries will have been converted to gold (at prices artificially suppressed by the US government), at which point the international repudiation of the dollar will commence., and then it’ll be “game over.”

One economist I was watching stated the dollar will be done when people no longer have faith in it.  They may come as a results of bank-runs and financial collapse, it may come via war, as China and Russia go kinetic against the USA and all the other countries stuck in the Western financial Ponzi scheme, or it may be something which we haven’t even considered.

The full impacts of this economic collapse will be brutal, especially so on the Western countries who’ve lived under the thrall of the fiat-banking systems for the past 200 years.  The price to be paid, in my opinion, will end Western civilization as we know it. 

Those people who specialized in liberal-arts degrees, enjoy arguing the merits of “democratic socialism” versus “national socialism,” are “woke,” believe a man can- through sheer willpower- transform into a woman, or vice versa…  Those people who “identify” as whatever ridiculous demographic of the day, or have an entitlement mindset and believe in “white privilege,” all of the people who take their kids to LGBTQXYZ++<> “pride” events, are doomed to become worm-food, prematurely. 

Life is going to be tough, and people who are demonstrably weak-willed sheep will be slaughtered pretty much out of hand.  They lack the mental fortitude to stand up for anything, and will be unable to save themselves, much less civilization.

Something to keep in mind, is that the Western countries- members of the EU, NATO, Japan and the UK- all use fiat-money systems, yet they produce nothing of consequence.  All told they make up a population of ~1 billion people; the other 7 billion people are represented by the BRICS+ countries.  So it’s simply a matter of time, before this happens.  Something we always assume, is that China will absolutely INSIST on being the new worlds’ reserve currency…  but that isn’t actually needed.  They just need to make sure the dollar isn’t it, and that would be enough.  Nobody will switch to the Euro or the GBP or the Yen, because they’re all worthless, too.  

Some unambiguous signals that the Shit has truly Hit The Fan, are:

• The FDIC has no more funds to insure banks accounts, and the Federal Goverment is unable to recapitalize the FDIC (for whatever reason)
• The first “too big to fail” bank does fail, and the government cannot stop it with whatever tools they have available (this includes international banks such as Credit Suisse)
• China halts all exports to the USA.
• China, India or Saudi Arabia repudiate the use of the dollar for international trade.
• Germany leaves the EU and/or NATO.
• The US mint stops all sales of gold to private buyers.
• The US government declares “martial law” in the USA.
• The US government activates the National Emergencies executive orders where they take over everything, and the citizens are now slaves.

Keep watch…  and keep preparing.

WW3, Clown-World Edition

Up until now, I’ve refrained from commenting on the war in Ukraine, but I’m forced to do so now.

I previously quoted the line from Matrix Reloaded:

Morpheus: Everything begins with choice.

Merovingian: No. Wrong. Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without. …  ‘Why’ is what separates us from them, you from me. ‘Why’ is the only real social power, without it you are powerless.

The WHY of Things

If  you don’t understand the “why” of things, you will never be able to fully understand what’s happening; your conclusions will be merely reflections of your own biases.

It comes down to a few simple points, which I’ve explained several times over, but will repeat here.

1. The Western elitist banksters have maintained utter control of their respective financial currencies; this debt-slavery system is the basis of their power.  It has been, for all intents and purposes, their private playground.  This power has been used to buy anyone they want, in government, the military, the media, anyone they want.
2. The Western banking system is based on debt issuance.  It is dying rapidly.  The entire fiat-money system, a Ponzi scheme of epic proportions, is now so heavily overloaded with bad debt that it is collapsing under its own weight.  Countries who don’t use that funny-money as their sovereign currency but have been forced to utilize dollars/euros/yen for international trade, are busily switching to alternative currencies from countries that produce something besides fiat money.  In other words, the demand for the Western currencies is rapidly declining.
3. The much-touted “Great Reset” is a plan to depopulate the world (1^st and 2^nd world through vaccinations, the 3^rd through starvation), and reset the financial system back to zero, so that everyone begins in the new system with zero debt…  and zero property or possessions.  The “Great Reset” will usher in the new trackable and controllable fiat-money currency, where they decide what and when you can buy approved products.  And if you speak out against whatever bullshit the bankster-owned government is selling (which will be tallied via a Chinese-style social credit system) your money could be reduced, confiscated or flagged for your arrest the next time you go shopping with their new digital currency.  You’ll toe their line, or you’ll starve.
4. The “Great Reset,” where everyone will adopt this bitter pill of slavery, will only be accepted if people are desperate for government intervention due to starvation, lack of energy (heat for your home, gas for your car) or disease.  And it will only be accepted if there’s no alternative currency which people can utilize to maintain some level of purchasing power without “Big Brother” watching over your shoulder, and deciding what you can- or cannot- purchase.  The Russian ruble is exactly such an alternative.
5. The BRICS countries- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa- have resisted globalist efforts to become part of the Western banking system, and are now challenging that system, with currencies backed by commodities instead of the worthless promise of more fiat money.  Thus, the represent a viable alternative to the “Great Reset” agenda, one which dooms the efforts to re-start the fiat money system from zero- with the same elitist banksters at the helm.
6. The BRICS countries therefore represent an escape from the fiat-money system, and therefore are mortal enemies of the banksters, which have built their empire over the past 208 years.  They must therefore be destroyed by the West, using whatever means necessary, at whatever cost is required in lives (but who cares about us debt-slaves, anyway?). 
7. The BRICS countries- most openly represented by Russia at this point in time- are not about to join the system, and now realize that it is- literally- a fight to the death for them, as well.
8. Therefore, neither side will back down, the escalation will continue, up to and including nuclear weapons. 

I posted these conclusions at the beginning of April, 2022, and they stand on their own, today.

Recent Historical Example

Any challenge to the Western financial system, has been dealt with in the most brutal fashion possible.  Indeed, the cold-bloodedness of the Deep State, and what it does to it ‘friends,’ when they challenge the hegemony of the dollar, are exemplified by Muammar Gaddafi.  In 2009, Gaddafi suggested his relatively wealthy country of Libya should create a new gold-backed currency, the Gold Dinar.  As confirmed by one of the 3,000 Hillary Clinton emails released, “Qaddafi’s government holds 143 tons of gold, and a similar amount in silver … This gold was accumulated prior to the current rebellion and was intended to be used to establish a pan-African currency based on the Libyan golden Dinar. This plan was designed to provide the Francophone African Countries with an alternative to the French franc (CFA).”

In other words, the French franc (another fiat-currency, prior to the Euro) was being challenged.  The major producers of Africa were joining together, to use their own regional currency, led by the Gaddafi-inspired gold-backed dinar.  It would have been a direct challenge to the fiat-money system, giving the region more power over their internal affairs, outside the control of the fiat-money banksters.  Fast-forward two years, and Gaddafi is overthrown, and Hillary says this:

[Nobody mentions the hundreds of thousands dead, as a result of the CIA-sponsored overthrowing of Gaddafi.  Nobody cares, because they only care about power.  The elitists regard us as no more than ants, to be stepped on whenever they feel the desire.  That is, when they regard us at all.  Typically, they don’t.]

Learn Your Lesson

The lesson was clear: do what we say, or we’ll fucking kill you.  Putin learned this lesson from the Western leaders, and it was very clear that sooner or later, the banksters would come after the (now) BRICS countries. 

It’s mathematics; a Ponzi scheme works only as long as the pool of people paying in (us debt-slaves) grows, and the debt-load can continue to be inflated away.  Eventually, they’d have to force Russia, China, India and the rest into the system, or, like every other Ponzi scheme, it would collapse under its own weight. 

Just two years later, and the CIA was busily working in Ukraine, to overthrow the duly elected government (that was friendly to Russia) and install a government that was more “reasonable.”  That is, bribed and controlled.  Hence, the Maidan “Color” Revolution or November, 2013.  And then the announcements that Ukraine will join NATO, which means Russia could have potentially had nuclear weapons sitting on their doorstep.

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the Soviet Union staged medium-range, nuclear capable missiles in Cuba, a mere 90 miles away from the coast of Florida, the USA and USSR almost went to war, until the missiles were withdrawn (with a later, corresponding withdrawal of similar missiles from Turkey).  In other words, this has happened before, in October, 1962. 

And Now

In early to mid-February, 2022, there were several public pronouncements by Western diplomats- and the cackling whore, Kamala Harris- that Ukraine would be admitted to NATO.  This meant it was no longer just a possibility of nukes now being placed on their border, but a certainty. 

Russia has- for a decade- been saying this is red line they will NOT allow, and will compel them to invade Ukraine.  They invaded Ukraine on 2/24/22.

What We’ve Got Here, Is a Failure to Communicate

One of the underlying problems when people from different countries talk to each other, is that while we can translate words, phrases and euphemisms, there are inherent differences in how we communicate- things like courtesy and respect are things beyond the translation of mere words.  For example, when you meet someone from Japan, the exchange of business cards is very formal.  The person giving the card holds it with the top corners in both hands between the thumb and index fingers, and extends both arms out, while bowing slightly.  The recipient is expected to take it both hands, while bowing, and make a show of reading it, and (even better) asking some detail about the title, or company, or even how the giver of the card would prefer to be addressed.  While it may sound trivial to Westerners, it is very big deal with the Japanese culture.

Continuing to use the Japanese culture as a reference, conversations which result in direct confrontation are considered extremely rude, and contemptible.  It is better to speak in oblique terms, to communicate an idea without being so boorish as to say the idea.  The receiver of the communication can therefore ‘read between the lines,’ and reach conclusions without having been insulted or embarrassed by a direct confrontation, and therefore can modify behavior/actions according to what is needed, to promote harmony within the group/organization/whatever. 

Again, these are cultural issues one needs to understand, to truly understand the other person, or opponent.

Russians have their own sets of cultural idiosyncrasies, though they are more subtle, less regimented, than the Japanese.  For starters, from my experiences, they are far more direct.  They say what they mean, they mean what they say.  They have little use, traditionally, for flowery words and euphemisms, when direct, blunt speech removes all doubt of meaning. 

This is evidenced repeatedly by the speeches of Vladimir Putin, Foreign Minister Lavrov and Medvedev.  They speak very bluntly, directly, with no efforts made for subtlety.  Indeed, this is expected for Russian leaders, to speak so plainly.  It conveys strength, confidence, leadership.

Contrast this with the Western leaders, mainstream media, the banksters (represented by Herr Klaus Schwab, WEFer stooge), and so on.  They never speak plainly, everything is innuendo, open to interpretation, almost a foreign language despite sounding exactly like English.  EVERY word means something else.  So they view the speeches of Putin and his leadership team through the lens of their perspective, where everything is opposite what it seems.

*As a side note, I could address the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines, and explain why it’s complete idiocy to think that Russia would blow up their own assets, removing their only piece of leverage against Europe, but why bother?  Others have already done a good job of demonstrating why the American Deep State government did it, so I’ll leave it at that.  Put simply, if you think Russia shot themselves in the foot to make Biden look bad, then you’re an idiot; Biden needs NO HELP to look like the fool he really is.  Ok, moving on…

False Conclusions

Thus the latest speech by Putin, regarding the so-called “annexation” of the four Eastern regions of Ukraine, are believed to mean exactly the opposite of what they are.  Where he says they will never back down, the Western elitists interpret it to mean “he’s desperate,” and losing the war in Ukraine.

Let me repeat this:  the Western “thought-leaders” took his speech to be a sign of desperation.

I would submit our Western leaders are thoughtless, if not downright stupid.

Let me explain… 

The stated objectives for Russia in Ukraine, were

1. the demilitarization of Ukraine.  In other words, to destroy their warfighting capability,
2. The de-Nazification of Ukraine- to eliminate the neo-Nazi military battalions (still) operating there, the same units which have been bombing and terrorizing the “breakaway” regions for the past eight years, and
3. To make sure Ukraine does not join NATO, and instead remains neutral.  Nuclear weapons on their door-step in a no-go, in their viewpoint.

To date, Russia has succeeded handsomely in their efforts.  The armed forces of Ukraine (AFU) have been systematically destroyed, by a simple tactic:  move quickly around terrain, without bothering to hold it.  When AFU attempts to attack, retreat, enfold AFU into a “cauldron,” and methodically pound them until there’s basically nothing left, and then send in mop-up teams.  Where AFU takes over abandoned hospitals, schools, apartments, they’re targeted as much as possible without overly endangering locals.  Alternatively, use siege tactics, to starve them out. 

It’s a numbers game; Russia maneuvers to their advantage, fading back when attacked in strength, allowing the AFU to take over strategically unimportant land which can’t be adequately defended.  Result?  The AFU, whenever they “win” a battle, are overextended, with limited supplies, and an inability to defend the land.  Cut them off, maneuver for encirclement, and completely destroy everything in the created “cauldron.”   Rinse and repeat.  As of 9/21/22, Russia admitted they have lost 5,937 KIA.  In comparison, Ukraine had lost- to that date- 61,207 KIA and an additional 49,368 wounded.  (Western media reports such as those from CNN are simply not believable.) 

This places the kill ratio of Ukrainians to Russians at 10:1, which would tend to match the tactics Russia has been using since the beginning.  At this point, the Russian supply lines are short, they can cycle in fresh troops and have essentially an unlimited amount of weapons at their disposal.  In comparison, some >50% of the original AFU is either dead or wounded, and are no longer able to fight.

While Zelensky and his butt-buddy Nazis in Kiev are bragging about their “victory” taking over thousands of square miles of farmland, it’s not strategically significant, cannot be defended, and has cost them thousands of dead soldiers, which can’t be quickly replaced.  That “win” was yet another pyrrhic victory; good for propaganda, not so good in reality.

Going back to the goals of Russia in their “special military operation,” they also held referenda to ask the residents if they wanted to be part of Russia.  Kiev, NATO and American diplomats all loudly protested that these were completely phony elections, utterly blind to own their hypocrisy on this very subject.  Unsurprisingly, the results of people being bombed, shelled, shot, kidnapped, raped and terrorized in other ways, decided they didn’t want to be part of a government- or country- that would sponsor such terrorism.  I’m shocked- SHOCKED, I tell you!- that they voted to become part of Russia.  Of course, anybody with half a brain, who actually knows WTF has been going on over there for the past eight years, would have known this was the only outcome that could come…

So, notwithstanding the blatant hypocrisy of fraudulently elected governments complaining about fraudulent elections, the regions are now part of Russia.  And believe you me, when I say they are not “desperate,” they’re not scared, they’re not worried.

What’s REALLY Happening Now?  Next Moves

They’re ramping up for the next round of escalations- 1.2 million men (as of last reports) mobilized by January 2023.  They’ve got plenty of troops available to completely wipe out Ukraine, right now.  They’re getting ready to take on NATO, and the USA.  That is what the mobilization is all about.

You notice that up until now, the Russians held back their Class-A weaponry?  Top-end tanks (until recently), planes, missiles, bombs, ELINT, ECM, hypersonic weapons, etc…?  If all they cared about was bitch-slapping Ukraine, they’d already be done.  These top-end weapons have been intentionally held back, because Putin and his team knew that once they started down this path, there would be no off-ramps, because the globalist banksters don’t accept competition from anybody. 

Putin learned that lesson from Gaddafi’s death.  And he knew that there would be no backing down, no surrender from the banksters which run the Western world.

He’s gearing up for NATO and the USA.  And, given his early mobilization, their war-economy footing already, and rigid discipline with which they’ve fought to this point, there is no other logical conclusion.  In contrast, the American military is fat, woke, undertrained, and running out of ammo.  And we haven’t even started WW3, yet. 

So much for Putin being “desperate.” 

Our country is run by fools or suicidal psychopaths.

https://giphy.com/embed/yvBAuESRTsETqNFlEl

via GIPHY

You’ve got ONE WEEK

SITREP 9/25/22

The Ukrainian regions of Kherson, Donetsk, Lughansk and Zaporozhye are primarily made up of Russian-speaking people.

Donetsk and Lughansk voted for independence in 2014, and asked for assistance from Russia in 2014, to resist attacks by “Azov” battalions (neo-Nazi military brigades) that have been on-going for the past eight years.

Russia- until February 24, 2022- rejected those calls for assistance. The Ukrainian Parliament adopted legislation in 2017 reinstating NATO membership as the country’s objective.

In 2019, Ukraine stated its will to join the West in its constitution. “Ukraine will join the E.U., Ukraine will join NATO!” declared Andriy Parubiy, Ukraine’s speaker of the house. Russian President Vladimir Putin had demanded that NATO not expand to Ukraine or any former Soviet states over, expressing concern over the extension of a military and political alliance founded to counter the former Soviet Union- not unlike the Cuban Missile Crisis.

On 2/22/22, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg stated “We stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian people and its government. Allies are united in their full support for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognised borders. We will continue to provide Ukraine with strong political support and Allies are providing equipment to help Ukraine defend itself, as well as sustained financial support.”

In effect, this was a pledge to support Ukraine as a NATO member despite lacking membership.

On 2/24/22 Russia began the “special military operation” to destroy the war-fighting capabilities of Ukraine, which had been armed and trained by NATO advisers since 2014.

Currently, referendums to become part of Russian territory are on-going for Donetsk, Lughansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions of Ukraine (Russian-speaking regions of Eastern Ukraine). All but the last have unofficially voted to join, Zaporozhye is still in doubt.

Ramifications: Russian leaders have indicated that attacks on Russian territory to be an act of war, with “all of the means available” to respond to such attacks. Ukraine, NATO and the UN have openly rejected the referendums as “illegitmate” (confirmed).

Public sources confirm Russia now drafting 300,000 troops, as of 9/21/22. My source says that the goal is 300,000 per month, through the end of the year, with a total of 1 million new recruits (unconfirmed).

Also states ~260,000 have left Russia since March 2022, not wanting to fight (confirmed).

(9/22/22) “The entire Western military machine stands against Russian Armed Forces and DPR and LPR militias,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, speaking at the UN Security Council ministerial meeting on Ukraine Thursday. “We have no illusions that Russian Armed Forces and DPR and LPR militias face not only the neo-Nazi forces of the Kiev regime, but the entire military machine of the collective West,” he said.

During a national address, Putin stated he “wasn’t bluffing” and would use “all of the means available to us” if Russian territory was threatened.

The US will retaliate forcefully should Russia use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, told CBS on Sunday (9/25/22). “Any use of nuclear weapons will be met with catastrophic consequences for Russia,” Sullivan said on the network’s Face the Nation program, explaining that the Biden administration had told Moscow both privately at “very high levels” and publicly that “the United States and our allies will respond decisively if Russia uses nuclear weapons.”

Source indicates all companies with Russian military contracts are being directed to deliver product as directed, and as scheduled by Russian government, or face 5 years in prison. (unconfirmed).

Russia started referendums for “breakaway” regions to join Russia on 9/23/22. Source indicates Kherson, Donetsk and Lughansk “breakaway” regions have successfully voted to join Russia as of 9/25/22. At this time only 48% of Zaporozhye votes already cast, result not yet known. Anticipated vote for Russia incorporation will be successful.

Tuesday/Wednesday timeframe, Russian Duma to vote on acceptance or rejection of four regional referendums (anticipated acceptance). If Russian Duma accepts, then regions become part of Russian territory (according to Russian government). Any attacks on regions after acceptance would be considered an attach on Russia itself, an act of war.

President Putin scheduled to give speech Friday. Anticipated ultimatum to Ukraine, possibly declaration of war against Ukraine.

SUMMARY OF DATA:The Ukrainian regions of Kherson, Donetsk, Lughansk and Zaporozhye are primarily made up of Russian-speaking people. Donetsk and Lughansk voted for independence in 2014, and asked for assistance from Russia in 2014, to resist attacks by “Azov” battalions (neo-Nazi military brigades) over the past eight years. The “special military operation” to destroy the warfighting capability of Ukraine Armed Forces units has been largely successful, with roughly 10 Ukrainian soldiers killed for every Russian KIA. Ukrainian man-power is sufficiently depleted that its remaining forces (~20-25%) are bolstered by NATO soldiers, mercs and contractors. Russia has sufficient military power to finish off Ukraine, between existing Class-A weapons and existing military troops.

Russia, however, is mobilizing on a large scale, presumably for a much wider conflict with NATO/EU/USA forces, at a scale not seen since WW2. Anecdotal evidence confirms source data, that massive military drafts are underway.

Rhetoric from both American and Russian sides indicate no inclination to back down from escalation, up to and including nuclear warfare. [It should be noted that while Russia is no longer communicating with Western leaders (such as refusing telephone calls from Macron of France), they are being absolutely meticulous in establishing their legal framework for the events to come. As I mentioned to my Russian source, “it’s like they’re speaking to future historians, to fully explain what is happening.” My source was quite surprised by my assessment, but 100% agreed, said “it’s the only explanation that makes sense.”]

While the USA has nuclear ICBMs, Russia appears to have new, state-of-art weapons which can defeat all Western anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defenses.

Once the four regions of Eastern Ukraine are officially part of Russian territory, any attacks by Ukrainian forces are likely to escalate the scale of weapons used, to include thermobaric, tactical and possibly strategic nuclear weapons. The USA has indicated that the use of “WMDs” (however that is defined) in Ukraine will be met “forcefully,” though perhaps not with nuclear weapons.

Expected timeline:

By 9/27/22, all referendums for Kherson, Donetsk, Lughansk and Zaporozhye will be completed.

By late night 9/29/22, Russian Duma will accept or reject referendums, making the regions Russian territory.

By late night 9/30/22, President Vladimir Putin will address nation, with either an ultimatum or an outright declaration of war against Ukraine.

After that, any attacks by NATO/EU/USA forces on the newly admitted regions will be considered an act of war on Russia, with corresponding reactions. Given recent history by Ukrainian forces, it is reasonable to assume Ukranian forces will continue to attack/shell the mentioned regions, opening the region to a declared war. This will move the situation from a “special military operation” to a full-on war, with corresponding strategies, weapons deployment, etc.

This also means that the participation by forces outside of either Ukraine or Russia would be a party to the war, and the countries they represent will be pulled into the conflict, whether by a direct declaration of war by Russia or the participating countries.

It is reasonable to assume that World War 3 will “officially” commence within the next seven days, at current trajectory.

Q3 2022 NOTES- CONNECTING THE DOTS

As I sit here on this Labor Day, I thought it was time to connect the dots, as we enter into the final phase of 2022…  so, bear with me, as I go through various elements, and then tie them all together at the end…

#PedoHitler Speech

The “blood-red” speech by #PedoHitler last Thursday, really threw me for a loop.  I didn’t watch the speech, but saw some video clips and photos of how it was presented, and I was thinking, “what the HELL?”  This triggered some memories, and I thought, “where have I seen this before?”  Oh, yeah, now I know:

I started to read the transcript (as I’d rather stick my head in a lit oven, rather than watch that pathetic literal meat-puppet Biden), and got 1/3 of the way through that, before I’d had enough.  I take it as an open declaration of war against anybody who doesn’t buy into the collectivist agenda.  By declaring “MAGA Republicans,” Donald Trump and his supports as a direct threat to the country, he has also made the case to legally deploy all government assets- the FBI, the DOJ, DHS, everybody else, against anyone who disagrees with him.  In effect, we’ve all be declared “domestic terrorists,” and thus the Constitutional guarantees and legal protections all citizens enjoy, no longer apply to us.  So you can be black-bagged, disappeared, be taken to Guantanamo Bay, tried in secret courts, imprisoned and/or executed, all without that pesky irritation of “due process” getting in the way…

There have been many commentaries in the last week, discussing whether it was meant to stir up “ultra-MAGA” people (it was), whether it really shocked people who’d been sitting on the fence as to the legitimacy or this administration and where it’s going (it did).  A final question is whether it was a strategic mistake born of desperation by the democrats/progressives- who’ve now unmasked themselves as clearly fascist (yes, it was a BIG mistake).  This last point, where the collectivists are desperate, is undeniable; all polls indicate that if the elections are held in November, the collectivists will be wiped out in a landslide, suddenly opening the door to investigations about the 2020 election, voting policies in general, the wide-open border letting in 2+ million illegals (almost all of them males of military age), etc., etc.  Of course, the predicate is that the Republican party will be more active than the do-nothing, corrupt GOPe RINOs now in DC., replaced by America-first Republicans.

My point:

The latest domestic outrages of the last few weeks- from the Mar-A-Lago raid to the Biden “blood red” speech- have worked as very effective distractions from other events happening around the world, which will have ugly ramifications, globally.

Other Domestic Issues

Things are proceeding along, pretty much as we discussed back in March of this year, both in the essay “Crash Positions,” and a week later in “Bankster Wars, They Will Finally Lose.”   People are attempting to adapt to rapid inflation of food prices by eschewing Yuppie® stores such as Whole Foods, Sprouts and Trader Joe’s, for Dollar-stores.  They’re trying to make it through, silently, shifting their shopping patterns to look for cheaper alternatives, wherever they can be found.  Imagine the quality of products at the local Dollar store, when shopping for food for your kids. 

So we haven’t gotten food riots.  Yet. 

But the food shortages and resulting price increases, are still in the beginning stages.  Crime is continuing to increase, threats to the populace from the government, such as the hiring of 87,000 armed IRS agents (who clearly can’t find their assholes with both hands and a set of written instructions) don’t bode well for the future- especially after the #pedohitler speech last week.  Wonder who they’re gonna’ sic’ those agents on, hmmmm?

WATER

The USA is suffering the worst drought in 1200 years, with over 60% of the of the West, Southwest and central plains as D3 (severe) drought or higher: 

With no water, crops yields will be down an average of 38%, with 50% losses in California.   Farmers are plowing under their crops, and their cattle and other livestock are being dramatically culled, leading to a short-term suppression of beef prices, until of course, all the livestock have been slaughtered, and then meat will go stratospheric in price (from what it is now). 

2/3 of Europe is suffering from a protracted drought, the worst in at least 500 years. 

No water means, like the USA, dramatic losses of food crops. 

[This is added on to the obvious insanity of the “World Economic Forum” (WEF) telling the Netherlands (#2 food exporter in Europe) to shut their farmers down due to excessive nitrogen given off by farms being a threat to the environment…  when 80% of the air we breathe isn’t oxygen, but nitrogen… ALL of this spells doom for European citizens, as their WEF-controlled “representatives” take actions that will results in millions of Europeans starving.] 

In short, the predictions I made in “Crash Positions” essay will come true, but be far worse than my projections.  I failed to account for the governments of the affected countries doing everything possible to exacerbate the situation. 

Napoleon and Robert Heinlein have both used the expression, “Don’t ascribe to malice what can be plainly explained by incompetence.”  And one could indeed make the case- in unique, individual examples- where it might appear to be incompetence.  But I ask you, when the government makes the worst possible decision, on every problem that comes up, at what point does it become obvious that it’s not incompetence, but malicious intent?

Going back to the drought situation, China is in the same boat, but with even worse ramifications:

As with Europe, the lack of water means reduced crops.  But for China- the factory of the world for the last 40 years- the ground, the air and the water supplies are already grossly polluted, so their reserves to keep their 1.5 billion people alive, were already strained.  Throw in the fact that 80% of their electricity comes hydroelectric power- such as the Three Gorges dam- and you have the recipe for disaster. 

FINANCIAL WAR

On April 6 I’d posted the essay “All Wars Are Bankster Wars- And This One Will Be, Too. They Will Finally Lose.”  In it, I’d posited that the producer countries, which sweat, bleed and toil to make things, are turning away from the consumer countries, which includes pretty much every country in the Western financial system.  Every country in the EU and NATO is in the same boat, bankrupt beyond any hope of saving.  World War III is currently a financial war that pits the fiat-money banking system, against those countries who reject the financial servitude, and want a currency based on hard commodities. 

 Apparently I came to the same conclusion that Zoltan Pozsar did, a week earlier.  [Until the last month or two, I’d never heard of him, but whatever.]  It turns out he’s the “Global Head of Short-Term Interest Rate Strategy at Credit Suisse,” while I’m just a guy who studies on his own, and comes to his own conclusions, without the benefit of a massive bank to gather the data for me…  So I guess I’m in good company.  He said,

“We are witnessing the birth of Bretton Woods III – a new world (monetary) order centered around commodity-based currencies in the East that will likely weaken the Eurodollar system and also contribute to inflationary forces in the West.”

Compared to my observation,

The fiat money system- birthed by Nathan Rothschild in February of 1814 and grown over the past 208 years- is being swept away by countries who are rejecting virtual money and demanding real money- gold or commodity-backed currencies. REAL men, who have lived their lives in the real world, doing hard work, sweating, building blisters and later callouses on their hands, people who’ve learned that actions trump words… have decided that enough is enough. They’ve decided that the value they’ve created through hard work, intelligence and grit, are not for sale for virtual money created by people who create nothing else.

We both concluded that virtual money will no longer be an acceptable medium of exchange for physical goods.

And now, we have direct confirmation of that fact, from Vladimir Putin himself:

The money quote, “… [T]he economy of imaginary wealth is being inevitably replaced by the economy of real valuables and hard assets.”

THIS is the reason for the war in Ukraine.  It’s not that we give two shits about Ukraine (we don’t, not really), but the propaganda to whip people into a frenzy is because the banksters are desperate; it’s do or die, for them.  THIS is why the German Foreign Minister flatly stated that “I will put Ukraine first “no matter what my German voters think” or how hard their life gets.”  It’s why Boris Johnson scuttled any peace-talks, preferring to fight Russia to the last Ukrainian. 

They’re all bought-and-paid-for WEF cronies, acting at the behest of the banksters…  All the politicians and military brass are bought and paid for, by the fiat-money banksters based in Europe.  Basel, Davos, whatever, there all the same crew, and they pull the same strings.  [Anyone who can’t be bought, gets voted out via rigged elections, Viktor Orban being the only exception.  The challenges to the corrupt elite are locked out via the same rigged elections, or compromised, or accused of some sin (whether real or made up doesn’t matter), so that they have no chance at a fair election. 

[Ironically enough, Vladimir Putin was also part of their “young global leaders” program, and openly repudiated it, starting in 2016- which is why they very much want him to die an untimely death.]

When Ukraine is finally finished off- despite the absurd amounts of weapons, ammunition, ELINT, comms, drones and satellite intelligence- NATO will be forced to get involved.  There may be an excuse they use, or there may be none; it doesn’t matter, this is a fight to the death.  Which means the nuclear weapons are not only on the table, but in my estimation, it is highly probable that they’ll be deployed at some point.  The bought-off politicians control the generals, who in turn control the levers of military power, and the deployment of nuclear weapons…  You see how this goes… 

Further De-Legitimization of the American Government

Remember when Joe Biden bragged about have “the most extensive and inclusive voter fraud organization in history”…? One idiosyncrasy of dementia patients is that sometimes they just blurt out the truth; the filters just don’t work. Here, see for yourself:

Of course, the “fact-checking” groups all said it was taken “out of context,” yet you see the exact context… 

Next, on 8/27/22, Biden promised never to let an election be stolen ‘AGAIN’ — so which election was stolen?

WATCH: Biden says if Democrats control Congress after the midterms, "We'll ban assault weapons!" pic.twitter.com/ITbYNaXSvR

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) August 26, 2022

Next, that odious little shitbag Mark Zuckerberg admitted to Joe Rogan that they censored the news on the Hunter Biden “laptop from Hell,” where there was ample evidence of both him and Joe Biden taking bribes from Chinese companies, sex-tapes with hookers, pedophilia, drug use, etc.  And even worse, that the censorship for both Facebook and Twitter was at the direction of the FBI, who knew the information was legit, but falsely claimed it was “Russian disinformation” to help drag Joe Biden across the finish line on election day.

Now add in the “blood red” speech, and it’s clear that the American government has lost any shred of legitimacy.  When that is lost, the only option they have left, is naked force.

Bringing It All Together

We typically think of competitive events as two-sided affairs; the Axis and Allied powers, the North vs. the South, “my” football team vs. “the other” football team.  But that’s not the situation, at this point.  Instead, we have at least three opposing factions- China, Western bankers and BRICS. 

CHINA

China is one faction, obviously.  Their strategy as detailed by General Chi Haotian is here; afterward, the good General retired and went on the direct construction of the Wuhan Institute of Virology- yes, that bioweapons lab of COVID fame…  It’s a long read, so I’ll give you the quick thumbnail sketch: 

They fully expect this century- and longer- to be a new Chinese dynasty, through military and economic might, as well as demographics.  But there is an underlying issue.  They recognize that their land, water and air are hopelessly polluted, and for them to survive- especially without a revolution tearing down the leadership- they have to acquire and move to new territory.  In their view, the only places acceptable for them to expand to, are Australia and North America.  And since they have no value for anyone not Chinese, they are quite comfortable using genetically engineered biological weapons, to make this happen.

This is why they were happy to cozy up to Anthony Fauci; learn the skills needed to generate bioweapons to wipe out all non-Asian people.  If they could find a way to target all people lacking a certain gene (say, people not from China itself) I’m sure we’d have that coming at us. 

China has bought all significant outlets of information, sports, medicine and government, to facilitate this overarching plan.  Ever wonder why Australia was targeted so heavily for the clot-shots?  It’s because their bought-off government was told to do so, with the knowledge that there’d eventually be a new population for Australia, once the Aussies died like so many flies.  Same for Canada, both with regard to clot-shots, and agriculture.  When you look at these two countries, and consider what the end-goal is for them (Chinese occupation) it suddenly becomes obvious.

The other part of the conquest of North America, is of course, the USA.  But things aren’t going as rosy (from their special point of view) as Canada and Australia.  The USA must be weakened internally, preferably via something dramatic, like a full-on Civil War 2.  This, as opposed to merely “civil unrest,” a bunch of (p)Antifa and BLM thugs rioting, and then getting dispatched by American patriots.  No, this must be bigger, uglier.  If the government takes on a totalitarian bent, cheats and steals the elections, uses the iron fist without the niceties of a velvet glove, then the government loses legitimacy, and the armed patriots will respond in a predictable fashion.*

Their plans of a new Chinese empire, however, are in serious trouble; their economy is imploding due to the real-estate bubble popping.  The losses are estimated to be $55-60 trillion.  In comparison, that’s three years of American GDP, just *poof,* gone up in smoke.  It represents the savings of hundreds of millions of Chinese families being utterly wiped out.  How do you think the people will react, when they find out everything they’ve worked for, and saved, has been stolen?  If the CCP doesn’t restore their savings- which will not happen, how much legitimacy will the government have, after being made to look like the support the crooks and criminals who stole their hard-earned savings?  Can you say “revolution?”  You can be sure the CCP leadership is watching this, very carefully.

Another problem with the Chinese economy is that their industrial base is powered by 80% hydroelectric power.  With the drought, the power’s gone, and now the factories are being shuttered, people being sent home.  I would imagine some of them are going to try and liquidate their real-estate holdings, to have operating cash…  with predictable results.  And with no power, how will people keep from freezing to death?  Hmmmm…..

China will continue forward with the military ambitions; what good is a weapon you don’t use?  So they’ll attempt to distract their people with a military conflict, and say that sacrifices (or financial losses) are good for the future of China, and so on.  It’s unclear whether the people are stupid enough to believe that…  and if not, what they’ll do and when.

But China’s ambitions are being slowly crushed under massive financial mismanagement and drought.  What they do next (beyond attacking Taiwan) is anybody’s guess.

Western Banksters

This is second faction, which includes the paradoxical philosophies of depopulation with the “Great Reset” of the existing fractional-reserve fiat-money Ponzi scheme, which has run its course, and is now imploding at ever-increasing speed, as there are no more suckers to force into the Ponzi-scheme (BRICs countries), and debt-loads so vast that the system cannot even support its own weight.

The depopulation efforts have resulted in roughly half of the worlds’ population taking the “clot-shots;” those people are now on borrowed time.  From the data I’m seeing, they’ll all be dead within 10 years.  At the same time, their efforts to shutter entire sectors such as food and energy, will collapse Europe, with devastating results, (as will Australia and North America). 

Their efforts to “sanction” Russia have spectacularly backfired, and they’ll literally run out of gas, just as winter really begins to hit.  The millions of people throughout Europe who will freeze to death will contribute to the depopulation efforts, and the survivors will stupidly blame Russia, instead of the actual culprits of these crimes, such as Macron, Boris Johnson and Justin Trudeau, as well as the mainstream media talking-heads, who lied to them for so long.  Ignorance, as the survivors will bitterly learn, can be lethal.

Going back to the western banksters, their financial sanctions on Russia will utterly fail, and their Ponzi scheme will collapse.  Remember this quote:

So many commentators miss the point of what is wealth, versus what is power.  Leonardo DeCaprio, that bloated hollyweird actor with the yachts and constantly trolling for barely-legal girls, is wealthy.  He has lots of money.  So be it. 

But that’s not power.  Power is when you control the system by which everyone else is struggling to gain wealth, and therefore power within their own domain.  If you control the entire financial system in the domain, if you own it, then you have power, even over the supposedly wealthy people.  And that’s what the banksters have, is the power over all the different currencies.  But what happens when the rest of the world rejects your fiat-money, and instead backs their currencies with real, tangible commodities…?  Or as Putin just stated, “… [T]he economy of imaginary wealth is being inevitably replaced by the economy of real valuables and hard assets.”

The Western banksters- the Davos crowd, the WEF, the Basel “Bank of International Settlements” (the bank for all the international banks), which controls the whole thing, leading up to the Rothschild family, are going to lose this war.  They don’t have the military assets at their disposal (via bought-off world leaders) to stop Russia. 

Nathaniel Rothschild predicted in an email to members of the British government back in March, if Russia is not stopped in Ukraine, “our global order is dead on its feet.”   He’s right. 

Russia and BRICS Countries

This is the third faction, and they are most definitely in the drivers’ seat- the only question is whether China will be able to be included, due their economic implosion.  Russia, China, India and Pakistan are now conducting international trade in their own currencies, leaving dollars out of the equation.  Saudi Arabia is selling 40% of their oil in Chinese Yuan, further eroding the dollar.  Over 100 countries have either signed on or are in the process of signing on to the BRICs economic system, with dollars- as well as Euros and the British pound-sterling- being repudiated.

Like Santa Claus, Russia’s “making a list, checking it twice,” to find out who will be allowed into the new financial club, or stuck outside, trying to sneak a peek in through a window.  The list of countries not allowed in, includes every country who aided Ukraine, in the current conflict.   It works out to some 1 billion people live in the Western financial system, with the other 7 billion people scratching to get crumbs.  The situation will now reverse; the new financial system offers them the financial freedom to do as they wish, without outside interference from the high-and-mighty US government (and the other Western poodles).  The 1 billion people will be left out in the cold, wondering what the Hell happened, and wondering why their standard of living is so rapidly sinking.

HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELF

In my “Crash Positions” essay, I’d made specific suggestions as to food, weapons, sources of water, and so on. 

But if you have money saved up, a 401k you’re able to cash out, whatever, then I strongly recommend you convert those financial assets into physical possession of precious metals, immediately.  (Caveat for legal purposes: I’m not a certified financial planner- though I’m trained as such- and I’m not YOUR financial planner, so don’t come back trying to sue me for financial advice. YMMV.) 

WHY do I say that you should buy and physically hold precious metals?  Check THIS WEBSITE, which I’ll screen-grab below:

Zooming in to the lower right side, we have these important elements:

To properly measure the price of a commodity (aside from betting on future expectations, which is a subject beyond the scope of this essay), you divide the amount of currency in circulation, by the amount of that commodity available.  Looking at the two red boxes, and using M2 money supply by the amount of gold, we end up with a free-market price of $9,133 per ounce of physical gold, and correspondingly, $1,233 per ounce of physical silver.   The purple boxes represent the paper claims of ounces, versus how many physical ounces are in existence.  This, like fractional-reserve banking, is where a bank (or gold vault) has, say, 1 million ounces of gold on-hand.  They sell and resell “ownership” of the ounces (yet kindly offer to keep storing those “owned” ounces in the same vault, so that they can be resold to other suckers).  The paper ounces are also an indication of futures contracts that have been bought and sold, with the transaction participants never demanding delivery of the actual metals; they’re just gambling on the future price of the metals, and taking cash to settle after the fact.  What this means is that there are nearly 390 paper ounces of silver floating around out there, for every physical ounce of silver in existence, and 114 paper ounces for every physical ounce of gold.

The precious-metals markets have been massively manipulated down by the US government for decades, to mask the inflation that has been occurring, and to make the dollar appear far stronger than it actually is.  If you doubt this, then my question to you is this:  “in a free market, if the price for everything else is going up due to inflation, why aren’t the prices of silver and gold?”  The answer is brutally simple: “price manipulation.”  It’s not important to go into the how’s or why’s.  It is what it is. 

The spot (paper) prices of silver and gold can be found HERE, and are now $18.15 for silver, and $1,711 for gold.  Buying physical, expect to pay a premium of 30-40% for silver (~$26+ per ounce) for silver, and ~6% premium for gold ounces ($1812 per ounce) for gold.  IF you can find people selling silver and gold…

An interesting side note, the biggest metals exchanges around the world are being rapidly cleaned out by people taking physical delivery of the metals instead of paper holdings, to the tune of millions of ounces since the start of summer.  People “in the know” are cashing out while they can. 

YOU can do the same, putting your cash into an asset that is THE gold-standard (pun intended) for money and wealth preservation.  Even if you only have a few hundred bucks, or a few thousand, if it’s in silver, it cannot be inflated away to nothingness, like the scheiss-dollar can and will be.  Buy and hold, knowing that when the dollar collapses, and it will, your PMs will retain their value…  which is at least $1,211 of purchasing power at today’s prices for silver, and at least $9,133 of purchasing power for an ounce of gold.

This is something to seriously consider only after you’ve got your food/weapons/water/shelter preps taken care of.

CONCLUSION:

It doesn’t really matter what the MSM talking-heads say, at this point; everyone with the ability to think, knows they’re lying.  The propaganda efforts are failing; the totalitarianism of the Deep State is now fully in view, thanks in no small part to the “blood red” speech of last Thursday.

The financial collapse is ongoing, and the results I’d predicted HERE are still coming.  The financial collapse is inevitable.  It cannot be stopped.

For those of us in the Western world, what we have is actually quite simple: completely illegitimate governments are driving all of the Western countries over a cliff, at the behest of the World Economic Forum and the Davos/Basel banksters. 

Prepare as best you can. 

*   The ~100 MILLION + armed American people possess 400+ million guns (versus 2.85 million federal government employees, and 1.2 million active duty military and .78 million military reserves).  So, all-in, 4.8 million federal employees, and at best, 20% of them actual trigger-pullers, or just under 1 million.  So 100 million armed American citizens against 1 million…  Any armed conflict between the government and the people, is a foregone conclusion…  exactly as the framers envisioned.  THIS is why Joe Biden makes idle threats, but doesn’t have the balls to start the kinetic phase.

Slow-Mo SHTF, and “What Is the Endgame?”

Over the past couple of months, I’ve written some posts stating that we are facing an imminent SHTF scenario.

We’re no longer facing it, we’re in it.

Food Shortages

To begin with, the population of the world relies on wheat to survive- made into breads, noodles, cereals, biscuits and crackers, pancakes and pizza- and 30% of that comes from Russia and Ukraine. With the wheat supplies reduced, the price naturally increases. The countries with the poorest populations- where food is their biggest expense for survival- are hit the hardest when the prices of food go beyond what they can pay.

The entire continent of Africa, and much of the Middle East, is already experiencing food shortages. They were hoping that India would be able to mitigate the shortfalls, but that’s not happening, now. After suffering a loss of ~30% of their crops in a heat-wave, India has banned the export of any wheat out of their country, to hopefully keep their people from starving, and to feed their livestock of 40 billion pigs, cows buffalo, sheep, goats, and poultry. And farmers in America are flatly stating the American food supply is in a state of crisis right now, citing higher prices on seeds, fertilizer, and fuel, and supply chain issues

Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank Of England, the central bank of the entire UK, says we’re facing an “apocalyptic” food shortage. The New York Post just said “Food shortages could be ‘just as deadly’ as global pandemic” and famous British farmer Jeremy Clarkson recently predicted the food shortages will resort in people turning to cannibalism… Never too late for the propaganda arm of the Deep State to add their little “spin” to the narrative, CNBC announced that “Russia is weaponizing food supplies to ‘blackmail the world’, despite the fact that Russia has flatly stated they- andUkraine- have plenty of wheat that they’d be happy to export, if the sanctions are removed (so ships can transit with wheat cargo) and payments are made in gold or rubles. Within a day, the Deep State spun the story to say that this is blackmail!!!

The insanity of Western governments- those, at least, who are dependent on the globalist fiat-money banking system, anyway- boils down to the ridiculous notion that by starving ourselves, we’ll teach Russia a lesson on who you shouldn’t cross…

In other words, there are some consistent themes in all Western governments’ actions, most obvious that the governments are actively exacerbating the situation.

Economic Collapse

Kim Dotcom summarized our national bankruptcy, basically repeating the same things I’ve been saying for the last ten years… that we’re finished, and it’s time to assume “crash positions.” The $40 Billion “package” that we’re allegedly sending to Ukraine to support the Azov Nazi government, is tacit acknowledgement that our country is about to enter the final death-spiral; our “representatives are merely looting the last vestiges of wealth from the national treasury, using “legislation” to steal whatever isn’t nailed down. It really is that simple.

More people are talking about it, now, though. Between the doubling of fuel and food prices in the first six months of the year- and it will double again before the end of the year, because the actual money supply is 5x larger than it was in 2020– expect prices to go up at least 5 times higher from where they were in 2020. [Of course, after downplaying the obvious effects that printing 5x more money into existence, that any teenager in a high-school Econ class could understand, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen says she was wrong about the risks of inflation.] What does this mean for you, in practical terms? Well, in April, 2020, gas was $1.95/gallon for regular unleaded. It is now double the 2020 price, at $5/gallon. Expect it to hit an average of at least $9.75/gallon, plus whatever premium due to political risks… so easily $10/gallon.

Truck drivers are naturally seeing the disaster unfold up-close and personal, spending $1000 per day to fill up their trucks, to ship goods when the shipping rates are collapsing. The net result is that trucking companies from small to large, are imploding, going bankrupt. The more expensive shipping costs are being transferred to consumers, at the grocery stores, the big-box stores like Target, Wal-Mart and Best-Buy, who had ramped up inventory to sell to people as they came out of the lock-downs. But the increased costs of everything needed to live, mean that people are spending more on food, rent (now averaging $2000/month), and fuel to get back and forth to work, with less “discretionary” spending money for things like new I-pads, big-screen TVs, new(er) cars, etc. So the demand for all non-essential goods has essentially collapsed. Combined with the big-box stores and Amazon having a glut of 5x more inventory (those ships from China eventually did unload all their cheap crap), the big-box stores are slashing prices “to get rid of the patio furniture, kitchen appliances, Smart TVs and athletic/leisure fashions that America craved when confined to their homes.” So NOW is the time to buy a new washing machine/dryer setup, if you can, because when the inventory is gone, there won’t be any more…

In the housing market, the rate of mortgage applications has also gone over a cliff, to the lowest level in 22 years. In other words, the housing market bubble- where the most “equity” exists in the USA- has just popped. Imagine a 2008 mortgage crisis redux, but this time where inflation for stuff needed for survival is 5x what it was… this, by itself, would be a financial disaster.

You can’t help but see it, unless you’re ultra-wealthy… or live under a rock… Somewhere around 70% of people view inflation is the TOP problem facing the country today. People are also noticing that the government is directly responsible for all of it. I’ve gotten feedback from people who are completely oblivious to politics and economics, who tell me their tribe, circle of friends, whatever… everyone is pissed off that our entire country is being torpedoed to support “a shitty little country in Eastern Europe that nobody cares about” (the words of one person I talked to). They don’t know that Ukraine and all of their people are merely pawns in a much bigger war between two economic systems, one based on fiat money, the other based on currencies directly backed by commodities.

This Is a World War To Determine What Economic System Will Be Used For Global Commerce

Please allow me to repost a quick snapshot that I wrote two months ago (from the essay directly linked above)… In short:

The entire Western economic system is built on fiat money– money not linked to any commodity, such as gold or silver, or anything else. A gold-backed currency is one where you can go to a bank at any time, and either buy or sell gold for the stated value of the currency. This limited how much money a country could circulate; put simply, if they had $100 million of money floating around in the economy and only $10 million of gold in their vaults, a wealthy guy could swoop in and clean out the treasury, wiping out the gold supply, crashing the dollar, and making a huge profit in actual purchasing power. So the Federal Reserve had printed so much money that by 1971 it was mathematically impossible to cover the volume of debts (your Federal Reserve Notes) with all the gold in the world… at the “stated” value. So rather than reprice gold at what its real value is, they decided to cut the dollar link to gold, hence the “Bretton Woods 2” agreement, where the dollar was allowed to “float.” Of course, “float” really meant it allowed the Federal Reserve to print to the moon.

And with the advent of modern technology, the dollar is now created with mere keystrokes on a computer, and presto! MONEY! Yay! Now the money has nothing to back it, nothing real. People are forced to accept fiat money because there’s nowhere they can go to get away from the Central Bankers around the world…

To be blunt, the entire Western financial system now lives under the following philosophy:

EVERY country in the Western financial system is 100% controlled, because the fiat-money banksters control their money.

But there’s a problem…

The fiat money system- birthed by Nathan Rothschild in February of 1814 and grown over the past 208 years- is being swept away by countries who are rejecting virtual money and demanding real money- gold or commodity-backed currencies. REAL men, who have lived their lives in the real world, doing hard work, sweating, building blisters and later callouses on their hands, people who’ve learned that actions trump words… have decided that enough is enough. They’ve decided that the value they’ve created through hard work, intelligence and grit, are not for sale for virtual money created by people who create nothing else. …

And now…? Russia, China, India and Saudi Arabia are pulling back the curtain for all to see the pathetic little men behind it… the globalists. And you see that it’s all a charade. Russia, China and India are moving to deal in real commodities backed by real assets, and demonstrating that the virtual money- like our virtual lives- has absolutely no value.

The result will be the repudiation of the dollar- after the Euro, but not by much- and the fiat-money banking system, entirely. This possibility exists, and the probability is impossible for any honest analyst to say with certainty… but I would guess it’s better than a 50% that this comes to fruition…

After I posted that, Jack Lawson challenged me with a simple question: how do we know this isn’t all some Kabuki theater, where Russia and/or China are playing along with the globalists, to institute their CBDCs/digital money scams, and usher in global governance?

Ironically enough, that answer was provided a week before I posted the “Bankster Wars” article.

Or, as another blogger put it, “Putler is destroying the Global World Order, based on usury and debt, which has allowed my family to become the richest family in the world.”

Now, this was quite difficult to find… and not published in many places, just a handful of people. But there were hundreds of “fact-checkers” to say it didn’t happen, it’s all a conspiracy theory, etc., etc., etc. Which made me recall the line in Hamlet, “”The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”

Are there other items to cross-reference, which would indicate the validity of my argument? Yes, actually, there are… (which fact-checkers all angrily announced simply weren’t true). Vladimir Putin in 2016 banned anyone in the Rothschild or their cartel from entering Russia, and in 2018 declared independence from the Rothschild Banking System.

“Ok,” you say… “what does that mean? Where does this END?”

I again revert to “The Matrix” movies:

You are a slave, born into a prison. But unlike the fancy, glitzy electronic program of the movie, our prison is far more mundane; financial servitude. You are forced to chase after fiat-money (which the banksters constantly inflate, to tax your efforts even more), just to survive. And the banksters constantly devaluate the currencies, with the effect of an ever-growing parasite on your body, until you spend more efforts feeding the parasite, than yourself. Eventually the parasite is so fat, so swollen with your energy, your blood, that you start to die… and that is where every country in the Western financial system is, and every citizen of that country (who has not joined with the parasites to save themselves, at the expense of everyone else). The fiat-money system, the ultimate Ponzi scheme, has now reached the point where there are no more suckers to extract money from, and the suckers (us slaves) have nothing more to be extracted… except for our credit cards, of course.

So where is all this going? As Kim Dotcom asked, “Without a controlled demolition the world will collapse for all, including the elites. The world has changed so much and nothing seems to make sense anymore, the blatant corruption is out in the open, the obvious propaganda media, the erosion of our rights. What’s the end game?”

I have been asking myself that same question for months… and then I saw a video snippet from “The Motherlode.” It was like the light-bulb suddenly blinked on, for me… everything now makes sense, as to the “WHY” of fiat-money banksters, and what they’re really after. Watch:

You Will Own Nothing. #inflation #SupplyChain #China #WEF pic.twitter.com/aFiFH4Rc52

— Sikh For Truth (@SikhForTruth) May 19, 2022

Here’s the extended video, which is also worth your time… Full disclosure: I don’t always agree with David Icke, he has some… controversial ideas, which I find a bit “out there…” but on this, he nails it, IMHO.

There are not one, but two problems, with these plans by the globalist fiat-money banksters:

1. The countries not already enthralled by the fiat-money banking system (led by Russia) are not about to be enslaved into the usurious, criminally corrupt globalist system.
2. If and when people understand that the global economic collapse is not the fault of FJB and his band of merry-men- the handlers who pull the meat-puppet’s strings- but instead due to the overt planning of globalist scumbags like Herr Klaus Schwab (“You will have nothing, you will own nothing, and you will like it,” the number of globalist heads hanging at the ends of ropes on street-lamps will be… impressive.

Unpacking Point #1:

Let me explain. The primary threat to the bankster plans is not gun-owners in the USA, nor populists throughout the world… it’s countries that have commodity-backed currencies, which will conclusively expose the fraudulent nature of the fiat-money systems.

You see, the entire European Union, and all of NATO, can threaten and bluster Russia and China with “consequences,” yet all those same countries are utterly, totally bankrupt- just as the USA is. And yet, most of those EU and NATO countries depend heavily on commodities from Ukraine and Russia- wheat, fuel, fertilizer, etc. Germany is already suffering tremendously, as 2/3 of their industrial output relies on natural gas. The other 1/3 is for home heating, and when it starts to get cold outside, say, right around the mid-term elections, people will suddenly realize the error of their governments’ ways… right around the time people start wondering if they’re literally going to freeze to death, this winter. Oh, the business leaders can complain and scream for relief, but when the news starts talking about people freezing to death because their government wanted to ‘teach Russia a lesson’ by sacrificing their own people…? The EU and NATO sanctions will collapse like the walls of Jericho. BANK on it.

Russia- and to a lesser degree China- are in the drivers’ seat. THEY will set the rules, THEY will cause the fiat-money system to implode rather spectacularly, leaving the globalists and their entire fiat-money system destroyed. If the guys with the commodities won’t accept the fiat-money for real commodities you need to survive, you either break down and play their game… or you die. Nathan Rothschild made that abundantly clear in his declaration, “our current path… means that our global order is dead on its feet.“

Unpacking Point #2:

If and when people understand that the global economic collapse is not the fault of FJB and his band of merry-men- the handlers who pull the meat-puppet’s strings- but instead due to the overt planning of globalist scumbags like Herr Klaus Schwab, it’s game over for them.

The globalists have enslaved the West into financial servitude, pure and simple.

YOU are a slave to the system.

You’re simply on a hamster-wheel, having to run faster and faster, to stay even. You run faster as your government taxes your salary or wages more, the property taxes, the sales taxes, the fuel taxes, and the ultimate tax, that has been hidden until now, inflation.

The parasite has grown large and was quite healthy, but now the host is dying, and the parasite is getting desperate to suck more out of the host. Like this:

The government parasites work hand-in-hand with the fiat-money banksters. It’s why every country beholden to them acts the same way, whether it comes to the COVID scamdemic response, Ukraine and the idiotic sanctions, etc., they all answer to Nathan Rothschild and his ilk- who direct Herr Schwab, the Davos crowd, Bilderberg cronies, the Bank of International Settlements, the United Nations, the World Bank, and all the rest of them… EVERYONE in these organization are bought-and-paid-for puppets. Period.

They all answer to the fiat-banksters. They’re all told what to do, when, how, and how to “manage the optics,” for an equally bought-and-paid-for media empire.

People are waking up at an alarming pace, and seeing that what they’re being told has nothing to do with reality. As they wake up, they’ll understand that they’ve been living as financial slaves, and that FJB is an installed puppet, to be the fall-guy for when the system collapses. He wasn’t installed because he’s a smart guy, or credible, or for any positive value… but because he is utterly corrupt, controlled and ultimately the sacrificial offering to the public, so they won’t come for the people really responsible.

It won’t work.

The public- globally- recognizes that Biden can’t control his own bowel movements, much less ‘control the country.’ It’s common knowledge to anyone who isn’t a dyed-in-the-wool sheep, that something much bigger, much uglier, is actually running the show.

So when Herr Schwab and his ilk complete the economic collapse of the Western financial system (Russia will be just fine, no doubt), they will offer their salvation to you, “we’re going to forgive all the debt that you’ve got, but in return we want all your assets; we want your home, we want everything.”

This is the truth behind the Klaus Schwab line, “you will own nothing, and you’ll be happy.”

What they will offer is a new system of financial slavery to replace the old one, which has run its course.

Instead of having ownership of some items, some property, while having to service the now-impossible debt loads, you’ll have no property, no ownership of anything, and have to pay- rent, to be precise- everything you need, to survive. You will never own a house, only pay rent until you die. You’ll never own a car, a gun (or any other item not “acceptable” to them), you lose your money and be effectively made homeless and penniless if you say or write something they don’t like (social-credit system), you’ll use public transportation because you won’t own a car… and so on.

WE MUST REJECT THEIR “SALVATION.”

We have to survive until a new economic system- currencies backed by commodities instead of nothing- becomes the norm, and the economic slavery system is crushed.

How ironic is it, that we may have to wait for Russia to crush the corrupt fiat-money system, to free us from our chains? Who would’ve guessed that they hold the key to real freedom for America, and for the rest of the world?

Godspeed to us all.

Other Notes:

I continue with preps, as usual. Writing has been problematic, due to having a dislocated and broken finger. It’s looked like a stuffed-sausage for several weeks, and is healing verrrrry slowly… This has led to several unexpected observations.

First, you should practice with your weapons using your off-hand, in case you suffer an injury. Nothing sucks like having to reteach yourself how to shoot with an injured hand or- even worse- having to shoot with your weak hand because your dominant hand is simply unusable for the past six weeks.

Next, I’ve had the chance to do some distance shooting recently. Two AR-308 rifles of identical accuracy at the 100-yard range, but the barrels were 18″ and 20,” with correspondingly slower muzzle velocity on the shorter barrel. Shooting 168-grain Federal GMM ammo through both, the bullet from the shorter barrel went sub-sonic around 700 yards, and by 750 was too unstable to reliably hit the target, even with no windage noted. The 20″ example, was able to hit the 8×10 steel plate reliably at the same 750 yards. Takeaway: it doesn’t matter what the textbooks (or ballistics calculators) say, you need to practice with every weapon you expect to rely on for your survival, and then document the results, so you can have a reliable DOPE card for your rifle. It MATTERS.

Finally, I’m not a “gear reviewer” guy, and I have no monetary affiliations with anybody, anywhere. So referring to a previous post of saying YOU NEED to get firearms… If you haven’t purchased firearms to defend yourself and your loved ones, I have discovered the Smith and Wesson M&P M2.0 Shield “EZ” in 9mm.

It popped up on my rader after I took a family member to the range, and… well, it didn’t go so well. The shooter didn’t have the upper-body strength to effectively rack a semi-auto pistol.

This weapon is meant for women shooters who struggle with racking and otherwise operating a pistol, older folks who may have dexterity issues (ahem- like me, recently, with a busted digit). Retail price is ~$450 for a basic package; Amazon offers a sweet deal of a trigger-guard laser/holster package for $105, so you can have a really awesome package for <$600. They’ve been out for several years, and there are many reviews of them. Such as this one:

[Ironically, the ONLY complaints I’ve seen from the “tactical dudes” is that it’s’ not tactical looking, and isn’t stiff to rack, which all “tactical dudes” would expect. So it’s not super cool and “tactical” in appearance, and it doesn’t fit the stereotype that “tactical dudes” mentally associate with “serious” gear. Yet… when tested for accuracy, reliability, trigger-pull, felt recoil, etc… they said it was awesome.]

It solves the strength issues that smaller or older shooters have, and is ideal for new shooters of 9mm and larger pistols. But— and this is an important “but”— it doesn’t sacrifice anything in terms of accuracy, capability for home defense, or in a concealed-carry role. It’s only downside is that the 9mm magazines (2 included) hold 8 rounds each. Such is the price you pay, for a single-stack weapon that small hands can easily manipulate and control. IF you’re struggling about what to buy, I’d suggest looking at the M&P Shield EZ weapons in 9mm, they’re a pleasant surprise, and ammunition is again available (for now)…