While the next 7 weeks will be relatively calm and our biggest stressor is having to listen to the lies flung back and forth, the same can't be said post election and certainly not in January where the proverbial SHTF.
Tsar Aleksandr II after stationing his fleet of wooden ships in New York Harbor and San Francisco Bay, putting them a telegraph message away from the White House and at Lincoln's call, had earned much respect among Abolitionists. Under Tsar Aleksandr, Russia's peasants were set free, no longer property of the land owner.
Lincoln was busy doing likewise but it took a war to do it. So Lincoln's main use of that fleet of Russian ships was to keep them in port, feed their crews well, and leave Napoleon III a stern reminder of political reality. Yes, he could enter the war on Jeff Davis' side. But France depended for wheat on Ukraine, Canada and the US. Either his army would go hungry or he would stay out of the Civil War.
After recovering from his wounds (Actor John Wilkes Booth was part of a sizable conspiracy who sought to overthrow the US. Booth killed Lincoln in his final performance in a theatre. Other members wounded Secretary of State Seward), Secretary Seward awarded Russia with a $50 million shopping spree for surplus armament built for the US or captured from the Confederates, including 6 warships of the design of USS Monitor. Aleksandr II reciprocated by giving us Alaska. We pulled tremendous amounts of gold out of the frozen ground and much of it went into the US Treasury. As the country with the biggest gold reserves, as World War II ground down, a group of diplomats met at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire to rough in the details of today's International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and United Nations. The US dollar became the world's reserve currency, backed by gold. Other currencies traded at a fixed exchange rate.
The instability that is driving so many once-democratic nations over the edge into authoritarianism, is that the US Dollar is no longer trusted, but no alternative exists to replace it. At $140 trillion of unfunded obligations (of which $30 trillion is called "debt" by the Congress), no other nation on Earth is capable of bailing the US out. We're trapped in the debt hole we dug, and so is everyone else.
The deep dirty secret is that most countries cannot survive a collapse of the US Dollar, but the US itself cannot survive this unprecedented money-printing.
Push came to shove 11 months ago. 0Primary dealers in US Treasury bonds could not sell them as fast as the Treasury needed cash, according to Thatcher Government and later Reagan Administration advisor John Browne. It was this warning that calamity was near, that finally convinced the Biden-Harris Administration they could not use fear and propaganda to halt the rise of cryptocurrencies. Competition makes it impossible to trick people into accepting a raw deal. People switch suppliers.
That is the real significance of the immense pressure to suppress free speech. Deadbeat governments that cannot pay their bills, want to block anyone from even questioning if their own government can keep its promises.
The instability is global.
The truth will set us free of bondage to false promises, but first it makes people damnably angry to learn we've been cheated.
Really
The people in Brazil are in quite a state of affairs, searching for freedom of speech.
Okay
While the next 7 weeks will be relatively calm and our biggest stressor is having to listen to the lies flung back and forth, the same can't be said post election and certainly not in January where the proverbial SHTF.
The next 7 weeks are bound to be unpredictable and unprecedented. Prepare for power grid disruption, have water and cash on hand.
Tsar Aleksandr II after stationing his fleet of wooden ships in New York Harbor and San Francisco Bay, putting them a telegraph message away from the White House and at Lincoln's call, had earned much respect among Abolitionists. Under Tsar Aleksandr, Russia's peasants were set free, no longer property of the land owner.
Lincoln was busy doing likewise but it took a war to do it. So Lincoln's main use of that fleet of Russian ships was to keep them in port, feed their crews well, and leave Napoleon III a stern reminder of political reality. Yes, he could enter the war on Jeff Davis' side. But France depended for wheat on Ukraine, Canada and the US. Either his army would go hungry or he would stay out of the Civil War.
After recovering from his wounds (Actor John Wilkes Booth was part of a sizable conspiracy who sought to overthrow the US. Booth killed Lincoln in his final performance in a theatre. Other members wounded Secretary of State Seward), Secretary Seward awarded Russia with a $50 million shopping spree for surplus armament built for the US or captured from the Confederates, including 6 warships of the design of USS Monitor. Aleksandr II reciprocated by giving us Alaska. We pulled tremendous amounts of gold out of the frozen ground and much of it went into the US Treasury. As the country with the biggest gold reserves, as World War II ground down, a group of diplomats met at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire to rough in the details of today's International Monetary Fund, World Bank, and United Nations. The US dollar became the world's reserve currency, backed by gold. Other currencies traded at a fixed exchange rate.
The instability that is driving so many once-democratic nations over the edge into authoritarianism, is that the US Dollar is no longer trusted, but no alternative exists to replace it. At $140 trillion of unfunded obligations (of which $30 trillion is called "debt" by the Congress), no other nation on Earth is capable of bailing the US out. We're trapped in the debt hole we dug, and so is everyone else.
The deep dirty secret is that most countries cannot survive a collapse of the US Dollar, but the US itself cannot survive this unprecedented money-printing.
Push came to shove 11 months ago. 0Primary dealers in US Treasury bonds could not sell them as fast as the Treasury needed cash, according to Thatcher Government and later Reagan Administration advisor John Browne. It was this warning that calamity was near, that finally convinced the Biden-Harris Administration they could not use fear and propaganda to halt the rise of cryptocurrencies. Competition makes it impossible to trick people into accepting a raw deal. People switch suppliers.
That is the real significance of the immense pressure to suppress free speech. Deadbeat governments that cannot pay their bills, want to block anyone from even questioning if their own government can keep its promises.
The instability is global.
The truth will set us free of bondage to false promises, but first it makes people damnably angry to learn we've been cheated.
I hope that there's a good resolution for Brazil, a beautiful country with very beautiful people.
The freedom of speech/Twitter issue is the last straw for the populace.
But they can't compare to your beauty
AwE! Thank you.
You're welcome always God bless you and your family
Thank you Margaret. Appears from the video the Brazilian citizens had a quorum, and then some!
Yes! How embarrassing for the “leadership”!
And this might make people wake up https://x.com/disclosetv/status/1834662938579189875