Category: Politics

REPORT: “90% of nations planning Central Bank Digital Currency “

Guest Post by Kit Knightly

A new report from the Bank of International Settlements estimates that up to 90% of national central banks are at least in the planning stages for launching a central bank digital currency (CBDC):

Nine out of 10 central banks are exploring central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), and more than half are now developing them or running concrete experiments. In particular, work on retail CBDCs has moved to more advanced stages

This echoes a March report from the IMF, which claimed over one hundred nations are at least in the planning stages of releasing their own CBDC.

You can read the entire IMF report here, or a summary published by Bloomberg here.

It seems programs of government-issued digital money have been gaining momentum all around the world since at least 2020, and apparently, now they exist in over half the countries on the planet.

The newest of these – Brazil and Namibia – announced their plans only last month.

As with all globalist agendas, the push for CBDCs is always part of “the current thing”.

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Our World of Lies

Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts

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If the inflation narrative we are being fed is true, the sanctions policy of the US government makes no sense as the worst sufferers are the American and European populations who are paying for the supply restrictions in higher prices and interest rates.

As Russia is an exporter of energy and minerals, higher prices result in more export earnings.  It is Americans and Europeans hit with the high prices who are experiencing the sanctions.

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The Road to Zero – Leading to Food Crisis – Censorship Goes Global – Weasel Words – Letter from Great Britain [05-07-22]

MY BOOK, “The Financial Jigsaw”, is published at my academic network.  Scroll for full view:   https://www.researchgate.net/publication/358117070_THE_FINANCIAL_JIGSAW_-_PART_1_-_4th_Edition_2020    Email for a free PDF at: [email protected]

A QUOTE, to remind us all what it’s really all about: ” Shortly before his death, Christophe de Margerie, the late head of French Oil Giant Total, said: “Anything can be bought, including men, it’s just a question of price”.  And he should know.

STOP PRESS: Local elections. It’s tricky to draw hard and fast conclusions but one way to see the mood is sort of anti-Tory – but not quite pro-Labour. Johnson-under-renewed-pressure-after-local-election-losses

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK:  What did Liz Truss expect of Russia’s reaction to her insane and outlandish claims of ‘weakening this nuclear state“?  “A recent Russian state TV program has stirred outrage and made headlines across the United Kingdom after a television presenter featured a simulated demonstration of how the Russian navy’s nuclear submarines would take out the UK with ease.

            The segment aired late last week on public broadcaster “Channel One” and featured the chairman of the nationalist Rodina political party, Aleksey Zhuravlyov, who declared that “one Sarmat missile and the British Isles will be no more.”  This is in Russian but the visuals make it clear:”   https://twitter.com/i/status/1521069215691812864

“Putin has broken a post-Cuba taboo on threatening to go nuclear. Without most people being aware of it, the world is entering its most dangerous period since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.”  https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-tv-warns-britain-can-be-drowned-radioactive-tsunami-single-nuclear-sub-strike

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Back to the Sedition Act of 1798

Via The Brownstone Institute

For years we were told that social media is privately owned so its curation cannot be called censorship; it’s just management. Then we found out that they were working hand-in-glove with government, so the problem became murkier.

Now the next step is in place: the federal government has created Disinformation Governance Board operating out of the mega-bureaucracy Department of Homeland Security and headed by an ideological fanatic who loves lockdowns and loathes free speech.

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Industrial Food Production Is Failing Us, Regenerative Farming Is the Solution

Via The Defender

A new report by the Natural Resources Defense Council, based on interviews with more than 100 farmers and ranchers from 47 states, details how regenerative agriculture can make the food system more resilient and also protect biodiversity.

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By Arohi Sharma, Lara Bryant and Ellen Lee

Our food and farming system is facing a reckoning — a global pandemic that upended supply chains and unearthed the horrific consequences of a consolidated meatpacking industry, climate change threatening food production across the country, fertilizer shortages, rising prices at the grocery store and a sector that accounts for 10% of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

Our current agricultural system is failing us. It’s high time we build toward a stronger, healthier, more equitable and more resilient one.

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Multi-Billionaire’s Project Would Sacrifice Last Great Open Space in Los Angeles

Guest Post By Maria Kay Fotopoulos

Will the ‘Philosopher King’ Work for Wildlife or Double-Down on Vanity?

“All the news that’s fit to print” is the long-running tagline of The New York Times. If one were being polite, one would say The NY Times defines “fit” extremely broadly. More directly, the Times has a rich history of playing fast and loose with journalistic standards. From more of a PR-client relationship with the CIA, as independent journalist Glenn Greenwald wrote in a 2012 Guardian commentary, to other infractions he noted, including giving “veto power” over quotes for publication to former President Obama’s people.

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Nationwide Baby Formula Shortage Hits “Shocking” Levels, Sparking Panic Among Parents

Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,

A nationwide shortage in baby formula is worsening, according to a new analysis, as parents have expressed alarm over the worrying trend.

At retail locations across the United States, about 40 percent of the top-selling infant formula products were not in stock for the week ending April 24, said Datasembly. The company said that it tracked baby formula stock at more than 11,000 stores nationwide.

“This is a shocking number that you don’t see for other categories,” Ben Reich, CEO of Datasembly, told CBS News.

“We’ve been tracking it over time and it’s going up dramatically. We see this category is being affected by economic conditions more dramatically than others,” Reich added.

Previously, drugstore chains like Walgreens and CVS have announced they would limit how many baby formula products each shopper can purchase at a given time.

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Don’t Divert Your Attention to Roe v. Wade

Guest Post by Martin Armstrong

A coming Supreme Court ruling to overturn Roe v. Wade was secretly “leaked.” Uncoincidentally, the news came right before the 2022 US midterm elections. Everyone is understandably up in arms after Biden formed a Disinformation Governance Board to become the ultimate authority for what we may believe is true. Most Americans want Biden out of office, with only 37% saying he should run for re-election.

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Goldman Sachs Says Its Dark Pools Are Under Investigation – Along with About Everything Else the Firm Does

Via Wall Street On Parade

We’ve been reading SEC filings for more than 35 years. We have to sadly say that the 10-Q that Goldman Sachs filed with the SEC on May 2, for the quarter ending March 31, 2022, shocks even our well-documented assessment of Wall Street as a crime syndicate. Goldman Sachs has listed pretty much everything the firm does as a target of an ongoing investigation, notwithstanding that the company and a subsidiary were criminally charged by the U.S. Department of Justice in the looting and bribery scandal known as 1MDB in October 2020, admitted to the charges, and had to pay over $2.9 billion. The good news is that Goldman Sachs’ Dark Pools are one of the areas it lists as being under a probe.

Dark Pools (also benignly called Alternative Trading Systems or ATS) are effectively unregulated stock exchanges being run by the same megabanks on Wall Street that blew up the U.S. financial system in 2008 and received the largest taxpayer bailout in U.S. history. The radical right in the U.S. Congress apparently believes that unbridled greed and outrageously reckless conduct that craters America’s economy deserves to be rewarded with less regulatory oversight, thus Dark Pools have not been shut down.

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The Greatest Of All American Philosophers… The Incomparable George Carlin

Via The Blue State Conservative

Over the centuries, America has been blessed with more than its fair share of comedians. The exceptional ones often made their name harpooning politicians and politics in general. It’s fair to say some of the best of those skewers were more expert in irony, cynicism, and sarcasm than knee-slapping, pie-in-the-face comedy. Quoting Saul Alinsky, “Ridicule is man’s most potent weapon.” especially when aimed at all things political. Nowhere is there a better, bigger target-rich environment.

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Nostradamus Was A Novice… George Orwell Has Been Much More Accurate

Via The Blue State Conservative

Speak, teach and write the truth as often as one wishes, on any matter as uncivilly or politely as one wishes, and tell Joe Biden, the tyrant-in-chief, and his mealy-mouthed, pusillanimous Homeland Security Secretary, Alejandro Mayorkas, and Nina Jankowicz — the self-described “Mary Poppins of Disinformation”–  to take a four-inch-wide by twelve-inch long wooden dowel, imagine it is their newly created Misinformation and Disinformation Governance Board, and ram it right square in their collective asses.

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2000 Mules Documentary Provides Compelling Evidence That 2020 Election Was Stolen

Via American Greatness

Movie Viewing: 2000 Mules Tickets, Sat, May 7, 2022 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite

After the 2020 election, government officials and their allies in the media repeated the mantra that the election was the “most secure in American history,” Dinesh D’Souza pointed out before the premiere of his new documentary film 2000 Mules at Mar-a-Lago, Wednesday night.

But how would they know that? D’Souza wondered. Even if they couldn’t prove the election was rigged, “it still doesn’t follow that it was the most secure election in history,” he said. “The only way you could prove that would be if you were to compare the amount of fraud in 2020 with 2016, with 2012, with 2008, with 2004, and show that there has been less fraud now than in any of those elections.”

D’Souza’s question is a good one.

Did election officials study the security of every election prior to 2020 to make the determination that the 2020 election was “the most secure ever”? Or were they just spinning another false narrative that benefits one side of the aisle?

The movie 2000 Mules handily answers that question.

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