This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Alt-Market.com.
The reason why con games are often so
effective is because victims of a con tend to believe themselves “far
too smart” to ever fall for such schemes. A con game uses people's
intelligence (or assumption of intelligence) against them. Even after
they find out they have been lied to and tricked, these same people
sometimes never report the crime; their egos simply won't allow them to
admit they were played, and the conman escapes without fear of
punishment.
Another powerful element of a con game is that it almost always
offers people something they desperately want. An effective grifter or
conman will identify the target's weak point; the thing they desire more
than anything else, and then uses the false promise of that thing to
get the mark to trade a treasure that is legitimately valuable. The
conman finds something the victim wants so badly the person would be
willing to ignore all facts and logic just for the chance of obtaining
it. The victim does half the conman's work for him.
I mention the concept of con games because this is the best way of describing what 4th Generation Warfare is. Many people wrongly assume that 4th Gen warfare is merely the use of false flag attacks or propaganda. That's not quite accurate. The goal of an enemy using 4th
Gen warfare is to take a target group or population and then con them
into DESTROYING THEMSELVES so that the enemy doesn't have to go through
the messy and perhaps very dangerous process of fighting that population
directly.
The tactic is not just about “divide and conquer”; that's only one small part of 4th
Gen. It's not only about causing internal strife or civil wars. It's
also about tricking a group into tarnishing their own public image,
tricking them into taking hypocritical actions, tricking them into
abandoning their defining principles, and tricking them into following
leadership that is owned and controlled so he/she can lead them to ruin.
As a reference point, I recommend studying a military paper called 'From Psyop To MindWar'
written by General Paul Vallely and Lt. Colonel Michael Aquino (a self
professed satanist). This will help people to understand the devious
depths that the elites will sink to in order to influence a population
into self destruction or self enslavement.
Hilariously, Aquino's attempt to mitigate the public reaction to
MindWar once it was exposed was to argue essentially that mind control
of a population and the corruption of how they gather information was a
much better strategy than open warfare and subjugation because then no
one would be killed and the public would be blissfully ignorant of their
loss of freedom. Yes, the satanists are so benevolent and soft hearted
that way...
The global elites, a group of people with extensive influence in
politics, the banking sector and the corporate underbelly, are hellbent
on creating a single world economic system, a single world currency and a
one world government. The most important goal of the globalist agenda
is that they not only want a one world system (a “new world order”), but
they want the population to eventually ACCEPT that system as
necessary. The globalists' ideal scenario is tricking the majority of
people into asking for total centralization; they prefer not to enter
into open warfare with the public if they can avoid it, probably because
they know they would lose.
They use 4th Gen warfare on a regular basis to pursue
these goals and target almost every group of people in one way or
another. That said, they surely realize that there are some groups that
are never going to go along with global centralization and that those
groups will inevitably resist. Aquino's delusional fantasy of a
bloodless coup against the population ignores history - rebellion by
groups of aware individuals is assured. These are the groups that the
globalists will try to eliminate, first by undermining their public
image and making them into monsters in the eyes of the rest of the
world, then through combat if necessary.
Liberty minded conservatives (as opposed to statists that call
themselves Republicans) and sovereignty activists represent the largest
single threat on Earth to the globalist agenda. In the US, they have
the resources and enough social influence to mount a resistance, and
using proper asymmetric tactics, they could even remove globalists from
power once and for all. And while conservatives might be viewed as the
hardest target for a 4th Gen con game, in some ways they are unfortunately very easy to attack.
I witnessed this first hand after 9/11, when many conservatives, fed a
well crafted but fabricated CIA narrative of Taliban and Iraqi
collusion with Al-Qaeda, immediately flocked to support elitist
president George W. Bush. They abandoned their principles of small
government and limited foreign intervention and joined the fervor and
madness of a war fever, and the consequences have not subsided in well
over 18 years. They were expertly conned, and did not realize their
mistake for about a decade. By then it was too late.
This time around, I see a massive effort on multiple levels to cripple conservatives with 4th
Gen warfare. The objective is clear: Get conservatives to attach
themselves to the economic crisis that is currently developing and allow
them to destroy themselves in the process. Let's take a look at the
most prominent lies conservatives are being fed today and why these lies
are dangerous...
Lie #1: Donald Trump Is On Our Side And Is Fighting The Globalists
The most important key to the globalist 4th Gen attack on
conservatives is that they believe beyond all evidence or logic that
Donald Trump is on their side and is fighting for them. Before the 2016
election I was uncertain if Trump was controlled opposition, but I knew
that he would be allowed into office
based on the dynamic he provided for the globalists. The Everything
Bubble was starting to falter, and the globalists intended to crash it,
but they needed a scapegoat to take the fall and that scapegoat would
have to be conservative, or he had to at least pretend to be
conservative. What I wasn't sure of at the time was if Trump was a
willing puppet of the elites, or an unwitting target. After three years
of Trump's administration I'm now certain he is a puppet.
I've outlined and evidenced this conclusion in numerous articles including 'Trump Is A Pied Piper For The New World Order Agenda'.
Trump's longstanding relationship with the Rothschilds through banking
agents like Wilber Ross cannot be ignored. Needless to say, Trump never
followed through on his campaign promise to “drain the swamp”, and has
saturated his cabinet with CFR members and banking elites.
He has also recently introduced the threat of Red Flag Gun laws, which represent backdoor confiscation and pre-crime denial of 2nd
Amendment rights, much like a "no fly list" for gun purchases. This
means you could have a gun purchase denied by the ATF for reasons you
will never be allowed to know, and will never be allowed to appeal. I
have also heard through the grapevine that once the US Senate returns
from summer recess on Monday, September 9th that they plan to
fast track such laws, and that Senate Republicans are rolling over and
supporting the effort. We shall see...
Not only does this tell me that Trump is NOT a constitutional
president on the side of conservatives, it also tells me that Trump is
likely not slated to be president after 2020. Trump's job is to play
the role of the bumbling villain, to give Democrats and leftists
something to rage about, to make the Federal Reserve and the banking
elites look like the “good guys”, and to lure conservatives into denying
reality on the economic crisis until it is too late.
Lie #2: The Recession Is Media Propaganda And The Economy Is In Good Shape
There is a very aggressive psy-op which I have seen being implemented
all over the alternative media and in liberty movement forums lately.
Consider this – The mainstream media denied the economy was in dire
straights for years, and ignored declining fundamentals and all evidence
that there was no recovery. Liberty groups have been warning the
public about the disaster that was boiling under the surface while the
media called us “conspiracy theorists”. Now, suddenly, the media agrees
with us; at least in that a recession and economic crisis is imminent.
But because the media is pushing the narrative that "it's all Trump's
fault", many conservatives are stupidly falling for the reverse
psychology con game and refusing to admit that a crash is happening.
Let's be clear, just because the mainstream media says a recession is coming does not mean it's not true.
The evidence is overwhelming, from the yield curve inversion which is 100% historically accurate in predicting recession, to falling new home sales and home building contracts, to faltering auto sales which car companies are trying to combat by raising prices, to crumbling manufacturing PMI, to declines in freight and shipping as well as thousands upon thousands of retail store closures,
etc. There is no sector of the US economy that is not trending
negative over the past year. The only indicators that show strength are
rigged indicators, including GDP, unemployment, and the stock market.
These are the same indicators that fooled the public into thinking all
was well right before the crash of 2008.
Bottom line: The economy is in swift decline. Most indicators show
this. It is undeniable. Anyone who says otherwise is either willfully
ignorant or has an agenda of their own.
I believe there is a well organized and directed propaganda push in
the past few months designed to trick conservatives into denying that a
recession is happening. Trump has incessantly attached himself and his
administration to the market bubble, making him an obvious scapegoat
when it all comes crashing down. But, the globalists also need his
conservative supporters to take the blame as well. The more
conservatives deny the reality of the crash, the more culpable and the
more crazy they appear as the crash progresses.
Lie #3: Trump Is Secretly Battling The Bankers And Bringing Down Their System From Within
I see it all the time – the lie that Trump is a secret agent for the
liberty movement and that he's going to take down the banking control
grid and the Federal Reserve. Not only this, but once he takes it all
down, a new and beautiful sound money Utopia will be instituted. To
anyone with any sense of reality, this all sounds insane, but I would
say from my observations that around 25% of the liberty movement
actually believes it.
First, to believe this requires people to ignore certain facts. For
example, the Trump cult often argues that because he has publicly
attacked the Fed, this means he is exposing them to taking the blame for
the crash they have created. So, to reiterate, there are people within
the movement who claim the recession threat is fake, while there are
others who claim that the crash is happening and it's a good thing.
Both of these groups are wrong.
If Trump was trying to expose the Fed as the perpetrator of the
crash, then why would he consistently take credit for the market bubble,
as well as the fraudulent GDP and unemployment numbers? These are the
SAME STATS Trump argued were fake during his election campaign.
Instead of setting the Fed up for a fall, he has only set himself up
for a fall. And remember, more than half the US and most of the world
sits on the left end of the political spectrum. Many of them are ardent
socialists. The only people that will be blaming the Federal Reserve
and central banks after the crash will be a minority of conservatives.
And, if we continue to defend Trump, a controlled puppet who is intent
on embracing the bubble, then who will listen to us in the end?
I am also seeing a shift in Trump's behavior lately which borders on
unstable. I think this is merely an act; part of his role in the
globalist screenplay as an increasingly unpredictable and dangerous
political opportunist. I'll set aside his "chosen one" comment to the
press as being sarcasm, but what about his proclamation “ordering” US
corporations out of China, which would require the declaration of a
state of emergency or a declaration of war, and his recent claims of
reopened trade talks with China of which there is no evidence so far to
support.
This might seem bizarre, but I'm reminded that Trump has a history in
theatrics. It is my belief that Trump is acting more and more erratic
on purpose, and this only serves the globalist agenda, not the liberty
movement.
Lie #4: China Is The Enemy We Should Be Focused On
Set aside the fact that both America's elites and China's elites are
globalists in rhetoric and policy and work toward the same goal of a one
world monetary system and one world government. The trade war is not
at all what it seems. Many conservatives have been so bamboozled by
trade war hype and “patriotic” fervor that it's as if they have
forgotten all about the primary threat: The global elites.
The trade war has achieved absolutely nothing in terms of forwarding
US interests or America's economy. Even the main argument for the trade
war, shrinking the trade deficit, has failed as the deficit continues to expand.
The only thing the trade war has achieved is a perfect distraction for
the public as central banks like the Fed maintain tight liquidity
conditions in an effort to deliberately deflate the Everything Bubble.
If Trump was trying to bring down the banking syndicate and expose the
Fed, then he should not have pursued a trade war at this time.
I would note once again that EVERY TIME the Fed makes a policy
announcement that goes against what the investment world wants and
causes a market downturn, Trump makes a trade war announcement which
take all attention away from the central bank. Lately, Trump barely
waits an hour before taking these actions. How exactly does this hurt
the central bankers and the globalists?
The answer is that it doesn't.
Whether or not trade conditions with China are unfair is irrelevant.
The conflict is taking all attention away from central banks and
international banks and the economic crisis they have been fostering for
over ten years. If Trump was actually anti-globalist then he would
have targeted globalist institutions first, and set aside the China
issue for later. As it stands, even if Trump ended the trade war
tomorrow it doesn't matter. He would still be blamed for triggering a
crash in fundamentals.
And, for those that argue that Trump's trade war moves are meant to
force the Fed to start issuing more QE and save stocks, I can only point
out that the Fed has no intention of doing this and they made that
clear in July and at Jackson Hole. And, if it were actually the case
that Trump is trying to “force the Fed into a corner”, then the strategy
is a poor one. All the Fed has to do is sit and wait, allowing markets
to tank until Trump is out of office after the 2020 elections. The
same goes for China and the trade war.
There is no incentive for them to capitulate to Trump for the next
year. But this is all an academic discussion because Trump is not
working against the globalists, he's working for them.
Lie #5: An Inflationary Or Stagflationary Crash Would Be Good For The Public
This is perhaps the most absurd disinformation argument I've been
seeing lately, and I think it is meant to appeal to Trump supporters who
are realizing that a crash is indeed taking place and that Trump is
playing a part in the downturn. In order to reconcile this reality with
their desperate need to believe that Trump is a hero on a white horse
coming to save them, they buy into the idea that Trump is actually
crashing everything on purpose to undermine the banking elites.
They argue that by bringing down the dollar, or the Fed, Trump is
setting the stage for a new US monetary system. They also argue that an
inflationary crash would "erase all debts" and the slate will be "wiped
clean" in some kind of jubilee. Unfortunately, this is not going to
happen.
First, in every single inflationary or stagflationary crash in
history, the public suffered a decade or more of poverty, starvation,
sometimes civil war, and sometimes the break-up of their nation. There
is no joy to be found in an economic collapse.
Second, debt jubilees are rare. What is more likely to happen is
that debts will be adjusted to match monetary inflation. This is what
happened during the hyperinflationary crisis in Weimar, Germany, and it
has happened during many other inflationary crash events. Also, debts
are generally not erased. Instead, the debts are reinstated once a new
monetary system is established.
Third, the Fed is NOT the core of globalist power. The Fed is
nothing more than a branch of the franchise. Jerome Powell manages the
most popular McDonalds outlet in the chain, but he's certainly not the
CEO. He takes his orders from people above him, just as Trump does.
The real base of power for the globalists is in their international
institutions, like the IMF, the BIS, the UN and World Bank. It is also
in their think tanks and working groups, like Bilderberg, or the World Government Summit
which is held annually in the United Arab Emirates and is comprised of
corporate and political leaders from around the globe devising
strategies to build a one world government. But hey, there's no
organized conspiracy for world government, right? The elites just
openly talk about it at summits on world government...
Fourth, the crash is far more beneficial to the globalists than
people seem to realize. They WANT to bring down the old system, and
with it the concept of borders, nations, and decentralized economies.
They openly plan to install a new global monetary system,
a cashless society and eventually global government. In order to do
this, they need a catastrophe large enough to cause the public to accept
their new world order. They aren't afraid of a crash, they have been
engineering one.
The most vital pieces in this puzzle are the liberty movement and
sovereignty champions. If we remain skeptical of the Trojan Horses
(like Trump) that are handed to us, and critical when the president and
other supposed leaders take actions which are irrational or
unconstitutional, then we can more easily argue that we had nothing to
do with disasters like the financial implosion that follow. We can
maintain momentum for the liberty movement and gather more people to our
side instead of losing people due to a tarnished image. No one man
encompasses the fight for freedom. No one man owns that. It belongs to
us all.
There will be people who will argue that this is all "conjecture and
theory", but they would have to ignore the mountain of evidence to the
contrary. They will say that the media hates Trump and so do the
globalists, but they won't be able to come up with a rational
explanation as to why Trump is so insistent on surrounding himself with
those same globalists and elites, or why his actions constantly provide
cover for the crisis the elites have set in motion. The people who push
the narrative that Trump is a secret agent fighting a Game of Thrones
war against the globalists are only hurting themselves and other
sovereignty proponents. The more cognitive dissonance they spread in
the name of defending Trump, the more unhinged they will seem when the
fantasy falls apart. This is exactly what the elites want.
This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Alt-Market.com.
You can bet that whenever you find people
analyzing the root of a problem you will also find other people trying
to derail those efforts with dishonest arguments. For reasons that we
can guess at but are rarely able to confirm, there are some folks out
there that get rather agitated at constructive discussion among their
fellow humans. One of the most common tactics for hijacking the
discussion of a problem is to suggest that it is “all pointless” unless
those same people can offer a grand solution to the problem. This is
Alinsky-style disruption 101.
The reality is that most problems can only be solved once at least a
portion of the public is made aware of them. Action can only take place
AFTER understanding is achieved, otherwise we find ourselves swinging
wildly at shadows.
With that said, many in the liberty movement have offered numerous
solutions to the threat of the globalists. The trouble is that the most
practical solutions are the hardest ones. This is why so many
activists get caught up in non-solutions and frauds; they desperately
want to hear that there is a shortcut to victory. They desperately want
to hear that there is a way to get rid of the globalists without
sacrifice, or without them having to fight back directly. They want to
hear that someone is going to fight this war for them, or that the
globalist vampires can simply be de-fanged by an intangible
technological marvel. They are looking for a genie in a bottle; a
magical cure. It's not going to be that easy.
And so, the real solutions get buried by the hype trains - We're
supposed to put all our hopes in a president that had his fortune and
his image saved by the very banking elites he claims to stand against.
We're supposed to believe he is supposedly going to round them up and
arrest them (any day now) in a fantastical Game of Thrones maneuver?
Despite the fact that this would be rather difficult when half his
cabinet is loaded with the same banking ghouls.
Or, we're supposed to bet our future on the virtual world with cryptocurrency systems; some of which are built upon an NSA created hash and perfectly match an NSA white paper written in 1996
on digital currencies. We're supposed to believe that the banking
cabal is actually threatened by these blockchain based products despite
the fact that their value is derived only from branding and not from any
qualities that make them especially unique from each other, as well as
how much capital the same banking cabal is willing to invest in them and the infrastructure that perpetuates them?
We're supposed to believe that these currencies are anonymous even
thought they are consistently proven not to be. We are supposed to
believe they are a decentralizing force even though they are completely
reliant on a centrally dominated internet. We are supposed to believe
that central banking system will be made obsolete by them even though
the globalists are avidly promoting cryptocurrency and blockchain tech as the next step in globalization.
It's interesting that the solutions to globalism most widely promoted end up being highly beneficial to the globalist agenda.
No, these are not solutions. These are distractions designed to keep
people busy feeling like they are accomplishing something when they are
accomplishing nothing. The people spreading concrete information on
the dangers of globalism are accomplishing far more than those sitting
around buying bitcoin or passing around Q-cult nonsense.
So what are the real solutions? Realize first that there is no
solution that is going to satisfy everyone. For every solution offered
here, there will be a hundred excuses given by people who claim it won't
work, or is not worth trying. But at least each idea expressed here is
one that the globalists are not avidly backing financially from behind
the curtain, unlike the “solutions” mentioned above. So, to answer the
people that claim the liberty movement has no fix for the threat of
globalism, let's examine a few, shall we...
True Decentralization
I've been talking about this since I began writing for the movement
in 2006 in my Neithercorp days, and it's probably the most valid (and
uncomfortable) answer to the globalist problem. Decentralization
requires a shift towards less reliance on the existing system and more
reliance on one's self and one's local community. This means people
have to become producers of their own necessities, and they have to
construct new economies out of LOCAL producers and buyers. This could
even extend to decentralizing monetarily to commodity backed community
currencies or barter.
People would have to start growing food for themselves, and providing
a useful service which would allow them to trade for the things they
need. Beyond this, a commodity backed currency on a state or national
level could provide the “universal exchange” mechanism needed to allow
for wider trade of goods.
Is this a step backwards into tribal times? Yes, and that's not
necessarily a bad thing. I'm not talking about abandoning technology
and advancement, I'm talking about abandoning the systems of
centralization that are clearly destructive and are enslaving us. Look
at it this way - If each individual is a producer then it's harder to
take away their livelihood. If each community has its own trade
networks outside of corporate chains, then they will be unaffected when
those corporate chains go bust or disappear. If each community has
trade mechanisms beyond the dollar that they can hold IN THEIR HANDS,
then they will be unaffected if the dollar collapses. By building local
economies with redundancies in place, they become immune to national or
global economic calamity.
This kind of strategy takes time and struggle, and frankly I've
learned that very few people are going to attempt it until they are
facing disaster anyway. However, it is the first and most important
step to defeating the globalists.
Randomization Of Government
While I am a proponent of decentralization, I recognize that human
beings are social creatures and that community as well as law will
probably always be a part of our existence. The best and most
meaningful laws are those that are universal and inherently understood.
Meaning, they are archetypal and inborn. The majority of people
understand that stealing, cheating, killing, etc. are wrong and given
the chance to commit such crimes they will refuse. If this were not
true, humanity would have annihilated itself centuries ago. We only
endure because we have a moral compass, perhaps gifted to us by some
greater natural force.
The problem is, not all people have this moral compass. Around 1% to
5% of human beings are born with either latent or full blown
narcissistic sociopathy, also known as narcopathy. They lack the vital
psychological components of empathy needed to prevent the extreme abuse
of their fellow man. They are a different species; a predatory subset, a
hidden parasitic element that feeds off of and destroys normal humans.
The globalists are a perfect example of the reality of this threat.
They are a group that has been shown to artificially and deliberately
generate economic crisis, geopolitical strife, war, poverty, and
genocide. They have used these horrors to enrich themselves by
siphoning tangible wealth and property from the populace during times of
fear and panic. They have also been exposed on occasion as sexual
deviants and pedophiles with an occult secrecy surrounding these
activities. They have revealed a complete lack of concern for the
damage they do, and even revel in it as if they are playing a game.
They are psychopathic children that see the world as their toy. Not
only this, but they are highly organized.
Laws and the governance of those laws are necessary in order to deal
with the people that cannot abide by the non-aggression principle and
seek to exploit and destroy others. Of course, as soon as we put
systems of governance in place to manage the law, the predatory class
invades them in order to more effectively exploit and destroy. Career
fields that guarantee authority and protection from scrutiny are going
to automatically attract the worst elements of humanity.
The concept of elections and government by the people is not entirely
inadequate, but it is obviously not enough to prevent evil people from
gaining power and influence. Beyond this, government tends to seek
infinite growth, and the pursuit of such power opens the door to the
corruption of otherwise well meaning souls.
The only solution I can come up with is a simple one – A lottery.
Government should function as a randomly generated structure in which
the people involved are not celebrities but servants to the law, and the
law must exist only to protect the rights and freedoms of the
inhabitants of that society. This is basically how jury selection
works, so why shouldn't government work the same way?
What if we had a two year term limit for every government position?
What if these people were chosen every two years at random through an
open source lottery? No more career politicians, no more lobbyists, no
more elitist cabal controlling policy decisions because buying people
ahead of time would be impossible. The chances of one person being
picked for the same job over and over again would be slim. The chances
of them abusing their power would be reduced because they wouldn't have
the time.
Also, consider the implications for society as a whole; wouldn't this
lottery encourage people to become MORE aware and more educated on
political conditions, economics, the law, etc? Who would want to be
picked for a position in governance and find themselves uneducated and
bumbling?
That said, there are two criticisms for this type of system – One, it
is not voluntary. And two, what if we fill government randomly with
incompetent people and the cause a disaster?
To answer, one, jury duty is not necessarily voluntary either, but
there are extenuating circumstances for not participating. Should
people be able to opt-out of the lottery? Yes, but they should all be
given the opportunity. Also, incentives (such as a fair salary) could
be offered that would encourage people to participate.
Two, honestly, I would take a constantly rotating government of
people, some of whom might be incompetent, over a longstanding oligarchy
of entrenched psychopaths any day.
Remove Evil Influences By Force
The great weakness of the modern world is that people today have been
conditioned to believe that good and evil are relative concepts. They
think evil is all a matter of “perception” and that the things one
person sees as wrong could be seen as positive by someone else,
therefore moral judgments become pointless. This culture of moral
relativism is no accident. It has been encouraged in popular media and
in new age philosophy for the past several decades in order to separate
people from the idea of inherent conscience.
If you want to understand what evil is, you have to first have an
awareness of natural law and the voice of conscience. Religions have
their own guidelines for what constitutes evil, and some of these are
valuable, but as religions become centralized and bureaucratic they can
be twisted to serve evil purposes. Ultimately, wise people know evil
when they see it because they listen to their inner warnings.
Evil seeks to violate every tenet of natural law. It seeks to turn
every function of human stability on its head in mockery. It seeks to
undermine love, hope, family, safety, and especially freedom. Evil
seeks to corrupt or destroy everything in its path. It seeks to gain
not through industry and invention but through theft. It seeks to take
what it should not have; not only this, but it takes a certain
detestable joy in subjugating or torturing the innocent.
To explain evil, and more specifically the evil of globalists and
elitism, in the most simple but meaningful terms possible, here is my
favorite clip from the movie The Adventures Of Mark Twain, called "The
Mysterious Stranger":
In terms of a scientific method for rooting out evil, the character
traits of narcopaths can be identified through testing and observation,
but there is no tried and true standard for finding a narcopath in early
life. Those in the psychiatric community that claim they can be
identified through brain activity scans are mostly charlatans with their
own agendas. Some governments would also like you to believe that
through neuroimaging they will one day be able to identify future
criminals and “dangerous people". This is pre-crime science fiction
fantasy, and it's dangerous.
The fact of the matter is, psychopathy and narcopathy are difficult
to discover in a person without extensive questioning, background
checking or until they have actually committed terrible acts. It should
be a core standard of any society to ensure that these people never
enter into positions of power and influence. And, if they do, they must
be removed, by force if necessary.
A common argument made by people trying to debunk the fight against
globalists is that we can remove those in power today, but tomorrow they
will just be replaced with another group of evil people. This is a
rather nihilistic viewpoint, but it has some merit. It is true that if
steps are not taken by humanity to identify the sources of evil, and to
decentralize the systems that evil people hide in, then yes, they would
come right back stronger than ever no matter what we do. But, if we
accept that evil is a reality, that it is psychologically quantifiable
and can be recognized through observation of certain character traits,
and if we remove the centralization that evil enjoys, then no one can
argue that the world will not be better off.
First, though, the current organized evil must be dealt with. The
globalists must be removed. And beyond all the more passive tactics for
dealing with the catastrophes that they create, this will likely
require conflict. It will require war, and make no mistake, a war is
being waged right now whether we want it or not. We have two choices –
fight back, or become slaves. All other “solutions” are a stop gap, or
worse, a placebo.
This article was written by Brandon Smith and originally published at Birch Gold Group
There is immense confusion surrounding July’s Federal Reserve meeting
and the rather insane aftermath that has been spurred on in the trade
war. The Fed’s latest rate decision of a mere .25 bps cut was seen as
“disappointing”, this was then followed by Jerome Powell’s public
statements making it clear that this was only a mid-year “adjustment”,
and that it was not the beginning of a rate cutting cycle and certainly
not the beginning of renewed QE. This shocked the investment world,
which was expecting far more accommodation from the Fed after 7 months
of built up expectations that the central bank was about to unleash the
stimulus punch bowl again.
The question that very few people are asking, though, is why didn’t
they? What is stopping them? Everyone from daytraders to the president
wants them to do it, yet they continue to keep liquidity conditions
tight. In fact, they even dumped another $36 billion in assets from
their balance sheet in July. Why?
Keep in mind that the latest Fed decision does two things: First, it
is an indirect admission that the U.S. is entering recession territory.
Second, it is also an admission that the Fed doesn’t plan to do
anything about it, at least, not until it’s too late. In other words,
all those people who thought the central bank was about to kick the can
on the current crash in economic fundamentals were mistaken. As I have
been predicting for many months,
the Fed has no intention of trying to delay the effects of negative
conditions any longer. The crash is now a reality that the mainstream
will have to accept.
In order to understand why the Fed is withholding liquidity at this
time instead of opening the floodgates, it is important to understand
central banker motives. First and foremost, the assumption that the Fed
is always concerned with keeping the financial system afloat is
incorrect. The Fed has allowed the U.S. system to crash multiple times
in its 106 year history. In truth, the Fed has created bubble after
massive bubble through stimulus and low interest rates, and then
crashed these bubbles using liquidity tightening policies.
The latest example of this is the most egregious – The Everything
Bubble conjured in the past decade is the largest and most destructive
bubble ever devised. To find anything similar, we have to go all the way
back to the onset of the Great Depression.
In 1922-1923, the Fed instituted what was then called the Open Market Investment Committee
(later replaced by the Federal Open Market Committee); what some people
today might call a “Plunge Protection Team”. The public rationale for
this development was to help the Fed enact “monetary policy” which
would allow them to stabilize the economy and markets after the
recession/depression of 1920-1921. Using the OMIC, the Fed directly
influenced the economy, stock markets and credit conditions by
artificially lowering interest rates and purchasing government
securities and other assets throughout the 1920s.
At first this kind of monetary interventionism in the economy seemed
to be working spectacularly. From 1924 onward, the Dow Jones climbed
relentlessly higher and recessionary conditions, at least on the
surface, seemed to disappear. There were even assertions by economists
of the day that recessions and depressions were a “thing of the past”,
as were stock market crashes. Sound familiar…?
At the time, short term, long term and overnight lending rates
remained relatively low in comparison to the high rates exhibited during
the 1920 depression. The Fed stimulated through open market purchases
all the way up to 1928. It was then that a sudden and significant shift
occurred. The Fed began to deliberately tighten conditions in order to
deflate the bubble they created. The Fed hiked interest rates and sold
off assets from their balance sheet.
The Fed’s own historic accounts
are muddy on this event, yet they do admit that the goal of the central
bank was to restrict liquidity in order to disrupt credit conditions
that were allowing speculation to thrive. To this day Fed officials act
as though they are unaware that their efforts to stimulate actually
created financial bubbles. And to this day, they still act as though
they are unaware that tightening policy into economic weakness has a
tendency to cause those bubbles to implode.
I say “into economic weakness” based on some of the most important
underlying indicators of the day. For example, farm mortgage
foreclosures increased dramatically in the mid-to-late 1920’s; farming
being a huge part of the U.S. economy at that time. Also, outstanding
mortgage debt grew by eight times from 1920 to 1929,
and consumer debt skyrocketed. The “Roaring 20s” were very prosperous
for around the top 5% of Americans, while 70% remained in financial
hardship. Again, does this sound familiar?
I find it hard to believe that the Fed is oblivious to the consequences of these actions. Former Fed chairman Ben Bernanke openly admitted
that the Fed caused the Great Depression through interest rate
manipulation and asset purchases in an address in honor of Milton
Friedman in 2002.
So, if they are aware that the actions they took in the 1920s
triggered the Great Depression, why are they following nearly the exact
same pattern today?
Currently, most major fundamental indicators are showing sharp
declines in the U.S. economy. There is no getting around this. The Fed
has ignored all of these warnings for the past two years and tightened
policy despite them. Whether or not someone agrees with the Fed’s
actions is not really relevant; the point remains that the Fed has done
all this before, and the result has always been the same – A historic
crash.
The rate hikes and asset selling by the Fed in 1928 and early 1929
led directly to the “Black Monday” equities crash. Keep in mind the
pattern here: The Fed stimulated through monetary intervention just
after the recession/depression of 1920-1921. Around 8-9 years later the
Fed tightens liquidity as the fundamentals are already faltering. A
year to two years after that stocks finally realize what is happening
and they crash.
Today, the Fed has stimulated a historic bubble in the decade after
the recession of 2008/2009. This has mostly translated to a vast stock
market bubble but very little improvement anywhere else in the economy
(unless you actually believe the fraudulent numbers coming from the
Bureau of Labor Statistics or the Fed’s GDP calculations). As economic
fundamentals including housing sales, auto sales, manufacturing PMI etc.
began to decline more aggressively, the Fed started to tighten
liquidity. They also raised interest rates as corporate and consumer
debt was hitting all-time highs, just as they did in the late 1920’s.
In the aftermath of the Great Depression banking conglomerates were
able to buy up considerable hard assets for pennies on the dollar while
at the same time consolidating political power. I suggest that the Fed
and most central banks deliberately create financial bubbles and then
deliberately pop them through tightening in order to engineer economic
crashes. This allows them to absorb hard assets cheaply while also
increasing their social influence. It is no coincidence that after every
major financial crisis the top 1% increase their wealth by a wide
margin while everyone else grows poorer.
That said, if we have established a pattern of behavior for the Federal Reserve, as well as a motive, then what happens next?
The Fed will continue to withhold stimulus measures until it is far
too late to defuse crash conditions or to kick the can down the road.
Jerome Powell told us this is exactly what they would do after July’s
meeting. There are some analysts who refuse to believe that this will
happen and that the Fed will be “forced” to introduce QE in the near
term. This will only happen when the current crash in fundamentals hits
its peak, and probably not until there is a sizable crash in stock
markets (at least 20% if not more). The Fed will not be “forced” by
market conditions to intervene early. They WANT a crash. This is the
only explanation for the Fed’s decision and statements in July.
In the meantime, the trade war conveniently kicked into high gear
only one day after the Fed broke the hearts of investors looking for an
easy profit. The Fed’s minor “rate adjustment” and promise of no QE is
all but forgotten as Donald Trump initiated new tariffs on China
starting in September.
China retaliated with a freeze on U.S.
agricultural purchases, the U.S. labeled China a “currency manipulator”
for the first time in 25 years, and China is now devaluing the Yuan
(though not quite as much yet as many had feared they would).
As expected, the trade war circus has only escalated and there will
be no end to it before the next U.S. election. It has also provided
perfect cover for the actions of the Fed, and the current economic
downturn is being consistently attributed to trade tension rather than
the central bank’s policies.
Essentially what the Fed has done is create an economic time bomb, a
sensitive explosive that could be set off by the slightest tremor. Any
new geopolitical shock event could trigger this bomb. A No Deal Brexit,
a shooting war in Iran, etc. The public will look to these events as
the “cause” of the economic crisis, when it was actually the central
bank that made it all possible.
Another interesting development has been the spike in gold and silver. As I predicted in my article ‘Gold Will Rise Even If The Fed Doesn’t Cut Interest Rates’
published in early July, the Fed has denied investors near zero
interest rates and new QE in the near term, and precious metals jumped
in price anyway. The dollar even bounced initially in response.
Normally this would have caused a dive in metals but the dollar is not
the only driver of gold. Market turmoil also causes price rallies in
hedge commodities, and we have plenty of that now.
After the crash of 1929, the fed lowered rates substantially, but I
would point out that this was no guarantee of stability. In fact, the
Fed raised interest rates yet again only a few years later in 1932,
which was a death blow to the economy. I would again assert that there
are no guarantees that the Fed will not raise interest rates even in the
midst of a dramatic downturn. They have done it before and they can do
it again.
I would also point out that expectations of the Fed folding to White
House pressure are misplaced. Powell has stated that he has no concerns
of Trump attempting to fire him and would stay in his position regardless.
Also, any attempt by Trump to enforce currency devaluation through a
declaration of national emergency could simply be denied by the Fed.
This kind of battle between the central bank and the president would
lead to a collapse in faith in the U.S. ability to pay off government
debt as well as the eventual loss of the dollar’s world reserve status,
but that is a subject that must be examined in depth in a future
article.
This past week's events have sent the
economic world into a tailspin. Mainstream analysts were so sure of
themselves heading into the July Federal Reserve meeting - The Fed was
going to cut rates by a respectable margin, or they were going to cut
incrementally and promise the markets through thinly veiled language
that QE4 was well on the way. This was supposed to be a certainty.
They did not get what they were hoping for, but I don't think many people understand why the Fed did what they did.
I have long held that the Fed has no intention of kicking the can on
the economic crash that is currently underway, and that the Fed's
tightening cycle was a way to restrict liquidity into economic weakness
in order to trigger the collapse of the “Everything Bubble”. I
predicted over the past two years that the Fed would keep liquidity
conditions tight until right before or right after an accelerated crash
in fundamentals and markets. The crash in fundamentals has already
begun in 2018 and 2019. A return to incremental crash conditions in
stock markets has also now likely started.
While I believed the central bank would hold rates steady in July,
Jerome Powell's public statements after the Fed announcement of a minor
.25 bps rate cut were even worse for market investors to hear and only
support my original position. Powell's assertion that the cut was
merely a mid-year “adjustment” and not the beginning of an easing cycle
horrified the investment world. Powell was telling markets quite
bluntly that the punch bowl was not coming back anytime soon. On top of
this, St. Louis Fed president James Bullard refused to commit to any further interest rate adjustments this
year, citing a "wait and see" approach, which could take many months.
Once again, Fed officials are making it clear that expectations for a
stimulus bonanza are naive.
The consensus seems to be that the Fed has offered “too little too
late”, and I would say that this is a completely deliberate action.
Frankly, there was nothing holding the Fed back from a cut of .50 bps
and lavishing the financial media with images of QE heaven. Trump says
he wants it, the daytrading world is begging for it, and central bankers
rarely shy away from more money printing. Unless, of course, the
banking elites WANT a crash to happen in the near term, that is.
The Fed has basically admitted to America that yes, we are entering
recession territory and that the recovery they have been promoting for
the past several years is a fraud. At the same time, they told
investors that they aren't going to do jack about it.
The Fed followed its rate adjustment “disappointment” with a large
dump of assets from its balance sheet – around $36 billion total in
July. With no certainty of new stimulus in the near term, and no
certainty of further rate cuts this year, stocks were pummeled, and this
is a downtrend that is probably going to continue for the rest of the
year (with pauses and dead cat bounces mixed in). Of course, the
banking elites have a plan and they intend populists to help them,
wittingly or unwittingly.
Cue Donald Trump: Like clockwork the Trump Administration jumped
into the fray the VERY NEXT DAY to distract the media and everyone else
from the Fed's actions by initiating even more surprise tariffs on
China. China has now responded with a complete freeze on imports of US
agricultural products. In return the US Treasury labled China a
currency manipulator. China is now threatening to devalue the Yuan,
which will shake global equities and forex markets to the core. Keep in
mind that all of this has happend in less than a week.
Suddenly, the blame for the latest stock plunge is being attributed
to Trump rather than the Fed. How convenient for the central bankers...
Four thoughts on the latest developments:
Trump Bringing Down Stocks On Purpose To Beat The Fed Into Submission? This Is Crazytown Talk...
First, I have noticed a narrative going around that Trump has
expanded the trade war in a game of chicken with the Fed. His
intention? To drive stock markets down in order to force the Fed to cut
rates and launch new QE measures. I'm sorry, but this theory makes
little sense.
Everyone used to say that Trump was putting pressure on the Chinese
in order to reduce the trade deficit and create more fair conditions for
US goods overseas, as well as to stop technology theft. But since the
trade deficit has only expanded
since the trade war began, now they are saying that Trump is using the
trade war as leverage against the Fed? Well, which one is it? If the
Fed were to accommodate Trump with QE4, would he then end the trade war
without accomplishing his stated goals? If the answer is "no", then why
would the Fed accommodate him at all?
Trump has fused the success of his administration to the success of
the stock market. He has been so insistent on taking credit for every
stock market rally that now there is no separating the two. I have been warning about this
for well over a year; Trump has made himself the perfect scapegoat for a
collapse of the Everything Bubble should the globalists and their
international banking partners decide to start one.
If the battle between Trump and the Fed was actually legitimate
rather than staged, then why would Trump want a crash in stock markets?
Going into an election year, a crash in stocks would hurt him far more
than it would hurt the central bank. The Fed would only need to wait a
year for Trump to be buried in the 2020 election after the economic
calamity is wrapped around his neck. The same goes for the Chinese.
They would only have to wait a year as well for Trump to be unseated.
The only incentive for Trump to cause a market panic is if he is
intentionally creating a diversion for the central bankers. Trump's
cabinet, flush with banking elites and CFR members, is proof enough that
this is a distinct possibility, except for the people who make the
insane argument that Trump is "keeping his enemies close".
Those that do not accept the reality the Trump is a pied piper are
desperately trying to conjure some kind of logical rational for Trump's
actions as well as the Fed's actions. They won't find anything logical
until they recognize that the Fed is deliberately triggering a crash and
that Trump and conservatives (or populists) are meant to take the fall
for it.
The Fed And The Elites Are Against The Trade War?
Second, Jerome Powell has insinuated in his recent statements that
the ONLY reason the Fed was considering the bare bones rate cut in July
was because of Trump's trade war and the instability it might cause.
Here we see the globalist narrative of the “evil populists” being built
into the minds of the public. The assertion? That the crash in
fundamentals is due to the trade war and the trade war alone. And, the
trade war is a product of nationalism and populism, thus, all populists
are culpable for the crash. The central banks that created the massive
financial bubble? They get a pass.
Beyond this, there are also some rather ridiculous mainstream reports
of members of Trump's cabinet, including Mnuchin and Ross, advising him
against the latest tariffs on China. Really? The same banking elites
and CFR members that were all for the trade war
six months ago are now against it? Again, this only makes sense if you
look at it from the perspective that Trump and conservatives are
supposed to take the blame for the crash while the bankers escape any
scrutiny. They “tried to warn Trump" after all, but he wouldn't listen.
He “went rogue”. This is absurd theater designed for gullible people.
Trump doesn't do anything without the approval of the elites in his
cabinet. There is no internal battle. Everything Trump does is for the
benefit of the role he is playing within the globalist script.
Trump Is Secretly Trying To Bring Down The US Economy To Defeat The Globalists In A Game Of 666D Chess?
This theory stems from a subset of people within the liberty movement
that would give anything to believe that a hero on a white horse is
coming to fight their battles against the globalists for them; but it's
simply not reality. Also, again, it makes no sense.
If Trump had detached his administration completely from the economic
bubble from the very beginning and said “Hey, I don't take credit for
the stock market boom because it's a fraud created by the Fed”, only
then would the above theory have any potential. If Trump said to the
Fed and to the American people, “I will try to MAGA whether the Fed
raises rates or cuts rates, and when the economy inevitably crashes the
American people should blame the central bank”, then perhaps we might
consider him a heroic statesman. This is not the case.
Also, only people who do not understand how the globalist cabal
functions believe that the Fed and other US based structures are at the
top of the pyramid of control. The globalists are GLOBAL, the Fed is
nothing more than a franchise and the dollar nothing more than a
sacrificial mechanism that can be replaced. They have done it in the
past and they can do it again. In fact, that is a plan they openly admit to.
As it stands, there will be unimaginable consequences for a crash
within the US financial system, and many people will aim their hatred at
Trump and conservatives for these developments. But by that time I
expect that Trump will be long gone. Far from being a moment of
triumph, it will be a moment that the global elites hope will bury
sovereignty ideals for generations.
Bringing down the US economy will do nothing to stop the globalist plan for “new world order” centralization and a single cashless global currency system. The truth is, the collapse of the US economy is a necessary part of the economic reset that the globalists desire.
It's Not Over Yet – The Next Stage Is A No Deal Brexit
As I predicted in March of this year,
a No Deal Brexit event is the most likely outcome as it most serves the
interests of globalists in pinning a crash in the US and parts of
Europe on populists and sovereignty activists. With the exit of Theresa
May and the rise of Boris Johnson, a 'no deal' panic is all but
assured.
The EU banking system is on the verge of a Lehman moment. Deutsche
Bank is in shambles. Italy's banks are ticking time bombs. Many EU
nations have national debts well above their annual GDP. It is only a
matter of time before a crisis in the European Union occurs. Any person
that is educated on the weaknesses of economic interdependency would
tell you that this crash is the fault of no-borders globalists. But,
with populists rising to a moderate extent in the UK, Germany, France,
etc., the globalists don't have to take the blame for the failure of
their supranational experiment.
Actually, they can use the crash to their advantage by blaming
nationalism, then using the ensuing public fear as a springboard to
launch a GLOBAL supranational union, first economically, and then in the
form of a single world government. Why else would the ECB be taking on
Christine Lagarde, the most vocal proponent of the global economic
reset, as chairman at this time? This is about engineered chaos. This
is about a Hegelian problem-reaction-solution dynamic.
As already mentioned, the Fed has just admitted in an indirect way
that there is no economic recovery, and that there will be no QE until
it is too late to even stall a crisis for a short amount of time. Trump
has just admitted that the trade war is not going to end in his first
term as president and that it will only get much worse from here on.
All that is left is for a No-Deal Brexit to send shockwaves throughout
Europe, and maybe another shooting war (Venezuela or Iran?).
Understanding the deeper objectives of the globalists can help us to
prevent them from succeeding. At the very least, it helps us to avoid
being duped into helping them. At any rate, the rest of this year is
surely going to lead to what they call “interesting times”.
It has been a tumultuous weekend for the country, which suffered two consecutive mass shootings over the last 48 hours in both El Paso and Dayton.
And while the media was eager to quickly expose the El Paso shooter as a right-wing extremist with the implication that he is merely following Trump's belligerent rhetoric, only few details had emerged about the Dayton, Ohio shooter although we certainly understand why the mainstream media may not have rushed to make these alleged details public - because according to Heavy.com, the Dayton shooter was an Elizabeth Warren (and Bernie Sanders) supporter who advocated for socialism, communism and supported Antifa.
The shooter, Connor Betts, was 24 and from Bellbrook, Ohio. His alleged social media biography started to emerge late on Sunday night, with his Twitter page stating that he described himself as:
“he/him / anime fan / metalhead / leftist / i’m going to hell and i’m not coming back.”
On his alleged Twitter account, he promoted Antifa and the Democratic Socialists of America:
