🌍 What connects Israel’s strike on Qatar, Trump’s economic plan, the push for race & religious wars, and the City of London? @sjkokinda, @NakedHedgie & @TFL1728 expose what the empire fears most: humanity waking up.
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— Crypto Rich (@CryptoRichYT) September 13, 2025

22:55. What's important is what I've been saying for a couple of weeks now that, certainly since Beijing, and people have been asking me why is Trump putting secondary sanctions on India, and why is he driving the Indians into the arms of the Russians and the Chinese?  I'm like because he's not trying to drive them into the BRICs, he's trying to drive them away from the Brits.  The goal is not BRICs. What matters now because Brazil has been taken over; they ended up putting Bolsonaro in jail.  The thing doesn't matter.  What matters is the ARC, America, Russia, China.  That arc around the Pacific Ocean that Alex and I first talked about.  They're reframing the entire world last year, and India is a little subscript "i" because India, sorry, isn't a world power.  They larp [pretend] as a world power because they have a lot of population and have deep ties to the British. Everybody is trying to meme the Indians into, no offense to anybody, but into positions of power and use it.  Look at the higher H-1B visa situation in the United States, and look at what's happening with the invasion of Canada.  3.7 million people into Canada this year.  This is a planned operation, and I've been watching the British schmooze India into a position of power now, trying to build them up into an equivalent of Russia China and the United States for years now.  I don't buy a minute of it . . . at all.  And Modi for his part is a similar figure to Erdogan in Turkey, meaning he's an Indian nationalist like Erdogan is it Turkish nationalist and they have their grand dreams of expansion and Neo colonialism they got the Neo Ottoman and turkey they got the Indian equivalent in Mumbai

JAMES HARTLINE: This is another piece of evidence revealing why Rand Paul has betrayed the Republican Party and hooked up with Senate Democrats to fight President Trump's tariffs.

It's like I always say, follow the money. Rand Paul's campaign and super PAC donors show how he is bought and paid for by his donors, and his rhetoric and talking points are a charade masking his ignorance on important issues, particularly on foreign policy. Rand Paul's super PAC… pic.twitter.com/zjtBVa9toP

— Saint James Hartline (@JamesHartline) September 8, 2025

Thank you to Tom Luongo. 

TOM LUONGO: this time you're going to work for the United States that's not interested in being the global hegemon because that's a British game. That's a Dutch game. That's a Belgian/Luxembourg game.

What's happening outside of TV land?

Whoever controls the system creates reality.

35 Year Money Expert EXPOSES The Financial Event That Sends ALL Assets Higher @brandon_gentile @TFL1728
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— mpetrus (@mpetrus19) August 30, 2025

9:06  All corners were seeing it from the Usual Suspects over at Davos, and the City of London, who are screaming bloody murder that Trump is fixing all of these open wounds and Gordian Knots geopolitically they have around the world. He is rebalancing trade.  He's defending the United States, and they're all like, "You can't do! That that's unfair!  You're the big bully!" and then, you know, like, "Yeah, and . . . ?  That's nice." Like, I'm just channeling Donald Trump at this point, "Yeah, and . . . ?  F*** you.  You stole from us you literally stole elections bought or used our tax money to buy our politicians to prosecute your monetary policy and your fiscal policy and your foreign policy to prop up your failing anti-democratic systems over in Europe, your Colonial adventurism that you are continuing to do France in Sahel region of Africa, Britain in the Middle East, or this one or that one, and on top of everything else, you were you f****** children."  And you were running drugs and you were invading and you were paying people to invade our border to come in and use quislings that you had hired in our government to then pay for these people to the tunes of billions of dollars a year, more than what we were paying the people who built this country, who are currently on Social Security like that it was going on. That's over.  None of this globalist nonsense: IMF is not taking over the global monetary system; the SDR is not coming; the BRICS are never going to issue their own freaking currency.  None of that is coming.  What's coming is the tokenization of assets backed by local treasuries treasury stable coins of some form or another either the United States is going to have their own, or Russia is going to have theirs, China is going to have theirs. Everybody is going to have theirs, and most of the trade is going to be denominated, the receipts are all going to be paid in dollars and we're going to wrap treasuries in Stablecoins and we're going to transmit all that along public blockchains and the central banks are all going to be destroyed, or they're going to have to get with the program, and that includes our Federal Reserve.  So that's what's happening.  Like all of that old shit is so 2015, and it is still out there in the zeitgeist muddying up the conversation space.  And worse than that, it's actually wrong for the United States to defend itself after having been hollowed out for the last 80 years of everybody literally pulling a piece off the corpse.  Like we're not dead.  You just thought we were dead because we were playing dead.  I don't know because you are anesthetized us?  Do I have to extend the metaphor?  Then I got news for you, then our livers kicked in and the anesthesia wore off and we're like, "What the f*** did this . . . how the fuck did this happen? Yeah, no."  How about no.  We are not going to war with Russia, we're not doing this.  We're not going to war for Israel in Iran.  We're not doing any of this stuff, and you all work for us again.  But this time you're going to work for the United States that's not interested in being the global hegemon because that's a British game.  That's a Dutch game.  That's a Belgian/Luxembourg game.  

The above is an excerpt of this interview.

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— Steve Cage (@SteveCageauthor) August 30, 2025

But it seems that they're going to start official hearings on freedom of speech and censorship in the UK.  This is going to be, I think, an important story because the censorship, the repression, in the UK is off the charts.  --Alex Krainer

In a period of 130 years, during which the British were in control of India, India endured 33 major famines, and then since the British left India, not a single one since 1947.   --Alex Krainer

Because what's happening now is the weaponization of populations, the weaponization of new migrants as a way of assaulting and destroying British culture, English culture, indigenous culture.  --Crypto Rich

The whole thing is a complete and other s*** show, and it drives me up a wall.  It's insane.  This is what we're talking about when Susan [Kokinda] invokes the British system.  This is what she's talking about.  --Tom Luongo

What you described at the beginning in terms of the increasing austerity in terms of the British population itself, this is the nature of a parasitical system of a parasitical imperial system. When it loses its ability to loot elsewhere, then it's going to have to turn more and more and more towards its own population in order to extract what it needs to continue to feed the financial Empire.  --Susan Kokinda

8:18.  People want hysterical and I thought how strange is that why is this why are they Brits so hysterical about this when you know they always consistently pretend that they're the junior partners and that they follow along and that they follow along and all these stupid misadventures that the Americans drag them into.  And so you would expect that when the Americans announce that they're going to withdraw from Afghanistan that the Brits would be relieved, like "enough of that disaster." No they were insane.  They started giving all these speeches in Parliament insulting the United States.  Dominic Raab, who was the foreign minister, he was "Oh, the Americans, you know, we had to drag them into World War I kicking and screaming and they turned up way late for World War II, and now they're cutting and running in Afghanistan."  

With Tom Luongo (@TFL1728) about why Trump humiliated Europe with the trade deal and how it's re-rewriting the new world order with Russia and China in Yelta 2.0 moment  https://t.co/puXX3IVWK0

— Alexej Jordanov (@alexejjordanov) August 3, 2025

China, the United States, and Russia are going to be not friends but not enemies either.  They're going to remake the world.  There's going to be a kind of Yalta 2. The goal is to end the friction and the toll booth system of wealth extraction, for lack of a better term, "sand in the gears," of the global financial system where everything has to go through London and Europe.  Europe has to be brought low.  They have to put all of their unearned wealth on the table to rebuild Europe when the ECB attempts to do this big rug pull of stealing their savings through the SIU or whatever they have planned and starve the European people. I've been calling for the dissolution of the EU for years, but I think I finally see a series of events here.  This is the way the world has to be viewed it has to be viewed in terms of the great game.

AMY NIXON: I keep seeing people say an empty Las Vegas is a harbinger of a US recession. No, an empty Las Vegas is a harbinger of Las Vegas and casinos being a dying Boomer phenomenon. Flashy, loud, tacky, crowded, and inauthentic—younger generations don’t want it

I keep seeing people say an empty Las Vegas is a harbinger of a US recession

No, an empty Las Vegas is a harbinger of Las Vegas and casinos being a dying Boomer phenomenon

Flashy, loud, tacky, crowded, and inauthentic—younger generations don’t want it https://t.co/aWkSKINNWn

— Amy Nixon (@texasrunnerDFW) August 1, 2025

and notice how Trump is not doing anything about this.  I made the point the other day and I will make it again.  Trump controls Israeli politics now.

I'm disappointed in Iran.  They turned out to be bluffing the entire time.  Maybe I'm going to be wrong about that, but as of right now the facts on the ground state pretty clearly that Iran was a paper tiger.  --Tom Luongo

7:40.  And my position is very clear now. Iran never gained a nuclear weapon because they never wanted to gain a nuclear weapon but not for the reasons that Alex and everybody else have been talking about, the fatwa, no, it has nothing to do with that at all.  It's clear that these guys are in bed with freaking GCHQ on both sides. It's the search for the nuclear weapon.  It's the striving for it that is the casus belli, not the actual nuclear weapon.  If they wanted to make a nuclear weapon, they would have done so 20 years ago.  Hell, f*cking North Korean made one.  And if the Russians wanted them to have a nuclear weapon, they would have had one.  If the Chinese wanted them to have a nuclear weapon, they would have had one.  My logic here is not wrong.  My logic here just comes to a different conclusion than your logic, and we're going to find out who's logic is correct, and there's no amount of brow beating me into submission on this.  Because at the end of the day, I understand the strategy of bitches like Christine Lagarde and Andrew Bailey and all the rest of them, and Tony Blair and Benjamin Netanyahu.  The goal is chaos.  Of course, they want regime change in Iran.  Of course, it's playing out like a certain freaking script, and notice how Trump is not doing anything about this.  I made the point the other day and I will make it again.  Trump controls Israeli politics now. The British are trying to resurrect, you know, Reza Pahlavi.  It's not working.  The Russians are going after the NGOs in all of the -stans.  They are arresting people.  Aliyev in Azerbaijan is trying to prop up his failing regime.  He's been caught with his hands in the cookie jar, helping Israel attack Iran from the north, and betray Russia at the same time.  He knows he's in trouble.  

After all of the drama on the slack server for the last couple of days, again I think it's funny that everybody thought I would be upset about this, "Don't tell Tom."  I don't give a s***.  I hope you all found your soulmates being juiceburgs together it's Grand I always want people to find there in the world and if you're not part of mine it's great I don't want you to be in that in this club.  

11:27.  This is my position because I'm trying to end this nightmare.  We have been blackmailed by these evil freaking people for 85 years, 80 years, since the end of World War II, the Cold War, Cold War Redux, the Lost 90s in Russia, all of it.  It's all Downstream of this when you stop to really do the math about how much money is spent trying to deal with minimizing the threat and of nuclear weapon proliferation, and the amount of money that's spent on defense and espionage and cloak-and-dagger stuff, all of it, the Congressional hearings, and the lost wages, all of it, the SG&A costs, [Selling, General, & Administrative Costs] and every corporation in the world.  It's trillions upon trillions upon trillions of dollars every year.  And who does that serve?  Level up and see through the b*******.  The way to end all this is to start cleaving Gordian knots.  Your move, or you get a B2 up your ass.  Your move, or we fly in some F-22s.  Your move.  If you want to know why I have anger in my voice, I'm disappointed in Iran.  They turned out to be bluffing the entire time.  Maybe I'm going to be wrong about that, but as of right now the facts on the ground state pretty clearly that Iran was a paper tiger.  That's what we have and I've been pretty clear, I don't like Israel.  I'm trying not to use the word "hate" because I don't want hate to be the operative means by which I do analysis because that's a bad way to do analysis . . .  because you know that whole anger-fear-aggression path that leads to the dark side, like it's real, folks.  Hate makes you powerful, like yeah.  I'm just not playing that game.  So I want Israel to pay for their crimes, all of them, including the ones where they got us involved and s*** that poured moral stain all over me because I wound up paying for it.  I'm angry about that.  I really wanted to Iran to really knock their freaking teeth in.  Really did. A little angry about that.  A little sad, sad that I was actually sucked into that b******* for a few years.  That being said, they hit them hard enough and hit us hard enough because of the perilous state that our actual military supply lines are in and our ammunition supply lines are in, which has a nugget of truth to it, which is not . . . not untrue that we can't sustain that war for that long.  But we can sustain it longer, long enough to get rid of the assholes who were "fighting the good fight of the resistance." I love Star Wars but it's a bad metaphor for this.  We're not the Empire, they're not the Rebellion or the resistance.  That's not the way this works. Okay so let all that go and let's move forward and say you know what I don't want to be blackmailed by evil f****** shitbags anymore you guys want to fight amongst yourselves for resources you want to text us for military's and all that great great you developed weapons now where you only have to fight each other we're back to where the wars are fought by the King's armies.  And only the king's armies need to be targeted, and the civilians can be left alone.  You know, gentlemanly warfare.  Lob ballistic missiles and drones at each other's ammo dumps and weapons development sites and research departments and Skunk Works and all the rest of it and their barracks.  You sign up for the military, your life is forfeit.  My dad was NYPD.  I never once was under any illusions about the fact that my dad had to put himself In harm's way in order to protect and serve.  And I found it offensive the older I got here in the United States, as time went on, we sat here protecting cops.  F*** protecting cops. Cops are forfeit in service of protecting and serving civilians.  If you've read this month's newsletter I think you understand my perspective on this if you haven't read this month's newsletter maybe consider spending an extra $7 a month on it, or $8 bucks, whatever it is. 

17:50.  I've just come into a different state of mind about all of these things watching this play itself out brought a lot of clarity I'm tired of watching the Vorlons in the Shadows manipulate us into fighting their f****** wars for them.  I want a new way even for people like us.

TOM LUONGO: What do all of these regions have in common? Unbelievable natural resource wealth. Europe has no collateral. I learned that from Alex Krainer.

"That model has made perfect sense to explaining how everybody is acting.

Europe's only path forward is to plunder Canada. THAT'S WHY THEY HATE ALBERTA.

That's why Ottawa hates Alberta. That's why Mark Carney is Prime Minister and that's what has to end."

What an awesome clip… pic.twitter.com/WoynY42QTq

— Bonnie Meikle (@BonnieMeikle1) June 2, 2025

It's very obvious at this point, I think, that Trump is, that Trump, Putin, and to a lesser extent, I believe Xi, but I'm not quite, I'm still a little on the fence about this, they understand who the real enemy is, and the real enemy is Continental Europe, and it's the old banking interests of Old Colonial Europe that need to be destroyed, and that would include the City of London, not Britain, the City of London, the square mile.  That's very important.  That includes the Vatican, I hate to say it.  And the goal is, if you look at everything that's happening, just look at all the little hot spots around the world and the way that things are shaping up, they are trying to bottle up the old Pirates of colonial Europe so that they have no places to plunder.  So they've lost Russia.  They're losing the Middle East. Trump said very nice things about Erdogan about Turkey taking Syria, which blocks Israel from going to war with Iran.  The French have lost the Sahel region of Africa.  That's all gone.  The United States?  Nope, we are changing the way we do business.  We're not going to allow Janet Yellen to spend us into debtors prison, and everything else. The United States is secured.  What do all of these regions have in common?  Unbelievable natural resource wealth. Europe has no collateral.  I learned that from Alex Krainer.  And since then, that model has made perfect sense to explaining how everybody is acting.  Europe's only path forward is to plunder Canada.  That's why they hate Alberta, [known for its oil reserves.] That's why Ottawa hates Alberta.  That's why Mark Carney is prime minister, and that's what has to end. When I read the geopolitical game board, folks, and I'm playing Donald Trump's faction, that's how I'm taking out all of y'all.

This was highly illuminating! https://t.co/xY8lJaPpVL

— Alex (Sasha) Krainer (@NakedHedgie) May 31, 2025

EM Burlingame

PREVIEW

Continental Europeans control the Bank of England.  They have since its creation.

It's always about the theft of the commons, and how do you financialize them use those as collateral.  It's a backdoor way of going around the Brexit Referendum.

It's Continental wealth and power using it ownership of parliamentarians in the Parliament. 

For all intents and purposes the city of London has been the headquarters for the Dutch East Indian company for 360 years.  

What was the Marshall Plan?  Who paid for that?  Oh, and by the way, 7% of that had to be immediately paid to MI6 and the CIA.  That's actually in the Marshall Plan documentation.  Our history about our people and time at all has been spied this occupying force, then retold and retold and retold, so that we don't really know our own history, our own story, our own reality.  

They believe that they have the absolute right to enslave everybody to serve them do you think that we actually defeated the slave mind no we just force them to be more sophisticated more clever.

The English are a bloody brilliant people.  We are a wonderful people we are a civilization.  Let's just remember that.  Let's get back to that.  If we can get back to that, it's a couple simple principles.  You just sum them up very nicely.

TRANSCRIPT

Rich opens with a reference to a podcast EM did with Luongo, Episode #216: EM Burlingame and How to Kill the Financial Kill Chain of Europe, May 1, 2025. 

TOM LUONGO: since Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, 1781, we have never really had financial independence in the United States, and if you don't have financial independence you don't really have political independence either.

Tom Luongo and Caitlin Long explore the significant financial shifts in the US monetary system, including the transition from LIBOR to SOFR, the role of stablecoins, and the potential decoupling of the US financial system from European control. https://t.co/7aB98UUPrQ

— St. Michael, the Archangel (@aveng_angel) May 19, 2025

Find the full transcript here. 

My transcript below starts where Tom says, "Oh, wow."

2:45. Donald Trump is a tempting the first real decoupling of the American financial system, broaden that as wide as you want, from the old Colonial European system if you look over the history of the United States has it pertains to money since our conception, since Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown, 1781, we have never really had financial independence in the United States, and if you don't have financial independence you don't really have political independence either.  How do you feel about the American Revolution?  Since the American Revolution was declared and we are still fighting the vestiges of that system over the course of the past few years, the advent of SOFR, secured overnight financing rate, and the true end of LIBOR [ London Inter-Bank Offered Rate] on March 31st because LIBOR ended on September 30th the 6th month synthetic Library contract that were floating around out there they didn't mature until March 31st.

4:10. LONG.  Can I pause you there and explain the difference between SOFR and LIBOR, and why that means the US is taking power back from London?

4:19.  Sure because the Libor rate is an unsecured rate, decided upon by 18 City of London Banks, only one of which represents American interests in many people's parlance.  And JP Morgan does not represent America's interest at all.  It's only that JP Morgan's London office, their subsidiary, that sat on the board of LIBOR. The secured overnight financing rate . . . LIBOR was a way to price offshore dollars without ever really having to post collateral because you could just pass LIBOR contracts, rehypothecate the maximum themselves, and we had this massive growth the shadow banking system and the euro dollar market over the last 60 or 70 year. . . 

5:03.  Okay let me pause you there.  For people who are just starting to listen to this for the first time and underscore that meant that London Banks set the most important interest rate in US dollar markets . . .

5:15.  . . . and which then would be the most important markets in the world.  So now that we have that established in the LIBOR system was codified in 1984 when LIBOR was unofficially established as the US dollar rate around the world, interestingly enough we had the G5 get together 1985 to create the Plaza Accord so now read currency markets.  That system was really in play all the way up until the global financial crisis of 2008 and that's when the system started to break, really broke, and then, since then years after that around 2011 when the central banks all got together and created swap lines amongst all the major G7 Banks, the Bank of Japan, the Bank of England the Fed, the ECB, they all got together and coordinated monetary policy, and that's actually what broke the last gold bull market.  If you remember it was at that moment in time . That gold peaked and then there was the announcement the coordination of Central Bank policy we were dealing with the potential Greg's it at the time Germany leaving the euro at the time that stabilized markets by the time we got into October November of that year and then that system

Short history of Europe trying to conquer Russia . . . But Russia is somehow the threat to Europe!

Short history of Europe trying to conquer Russia:

🔹~800 years ago: Sweden attacked Russia
🔹~400 years ago, it was Poland-Lithuania
🔹~300 years ago, Sweden again, with UK
🔹~200 years ago, France (Napoleon) tried it
🔹~175 years ago, France + UK (Crimean War)
🔹~100 years ago,… pic.twitter.com/TyHOk6BDH5

— S.L. Kanthan (@Kanthan2030) March 2, 2025

Short history of Europe trying to conquer Russia: ~800 years ago, Sweden attacked Russia ~400 years ago, it was Poland-Lithuania ~300 years ago, Sweden again, with UK ~200 years ago, France (Napoleon) tried it ~175 years ago, France + UK (Crimean War) ~100 years ago, Russian revolution & WW1 ~80 years ago, Hitler backed by globalists Now, NATO waging proxy war thru Ukraine  

But Russia is somehow the threat to Europe! 

TOM LUONGO: They're going to carve the world back up and what Europe is not happy about, because they know what's coming, is that Russia is going to wind up being the guarantor over Europe

So spoke with @TFL1728 on Friday. And let me say, mind-blown (again) and extremely entertaining. Thanks, brother. All who watch, you are getting a treat. My favorite clip and full interview below: https://t.co/jbhpziW946 pic.twitter.com/zUSM8BjUYp

— Andy Millette (@theandymillette) February 22, 2025

It'll start with Eastern Europe but by the time they're done with the sovereign . . . with us engendering a sovereign debt crisis in Europe, stripping them of their gold, stripping the Bank of England of all its leverage, stripping the city of London of its Forex business and its Insurance business, which is what is coming you can see it and you know exactly what I'm getting at.  They are not kidding. 

2:02.  Taking a wrecking ball to Europe and Davos.

2:10.  The wrecking ball that I had in my head after the election, coming into the election, and then after the election, I have a couple of patrons who are close to the transition team, specifically the Office of Management Budget, 1970, with the plan was going to be, my commentary came from that, and that's all turned out to be true. 

4:00.  The era of consensus politics is over, and that now we've moved back into the world of power politics. 

RICHARD POE: It was never FEMA's purpose to provide disaster relief. That was just a cover. FEMA's true purpose is Continuity of Government (COG).

2/2
I exposed FEMA's hidden role in militarizing local police forces, in a 1986 cover story in the EAST VILLAGE EYE.  https://t.co/MqrAVay2jv

— Richard Poe 🇺🇸 (@RealRichardPoe) January 24, 2025

VERNON: Biden pardoning Hunter now & not waiting until January? He knows he might not make it until then.

from Vernon, 

"An interesting weekend..." Add to the developments in Syria, Biden pardoning Hunter now & not waiting until January. He knows he might not make it until then. All eyes on London, they have something planned this month as you & Alex suggested.

Something planned this month?  Is he referring to a possible false-flag terror attack?  

Luongo says that [Biden] made a deal with Trump to not escalate the war and so, stopped the steal.  So if the deal a kind of advanced pardon of Joe to preempt any effort to imprison him or worse, then that kind of handcuffs the boys running Biden's only 4 years as president, boys who really want war in Ukraine to cover up their massive crimes there.

There's a reason why "we can't lose in Ukraine"

And it's because Joe made a deal with Trump to not escalate the war and stopped the steal.

Now, the False Flag of "Biden authorized ATACMS" has us on a very predictable path towards the 25th amendment and a coup by Harris… https://t.co/BlMficawOL

— Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch) (@TFL1728) December 2, 2024

TOM LUONGO: Under Biden, we had a bunch of Ukrainian Nazis. We don't have that [now]. We may have a lot of people who are Israeli first, or owned by AIPAC, or whatever you want to call them, they are not ideologically related to this conflict with blood

11:00.  Under Biden, we had a bunch of Ukrainian Nazis.  We had Anthony Blinkin, Nuland, and all the other people.  We don't have that.  We may have a lot of people who are Israeli first, or owned by AIPAC, or whatever you want to call them, they are not ideologically related to this conflict with blood.  And that's a massive upgrade.  That means that ultimately these people are going to be transactional about this stuff, whereas Nuland and Blinkin and the others were not transactional about it.  This was personal to them.  Yeah, they were put in those positions to execute on that personal animus, and that's reality and as clear as day with Blinkin and it's clear as day with Nuland and Kagan and Bill Crystal, and all the rest of them.  Those people are not in power here.  What we have are a bunch of people who are . . . two things.  I'm trying to take the other side of the Pearl collection on this

from Tom Luongo's Market Report for August 7, 2024.  

Tom's remarks about Mark Walz, Kamala Harris' new VP pick, were extremely interesting. 

33:36. And as Alexander Mercouris pointed out ages ago, he said "But then that effect of this has been to hold everything in this band and hold everything and Innovation behind the curve technology then the lack of competitive then the lack of competitiveness of German industry is exposed badly, especially with the rise of China.  So now Germany is ultimately the target.  Now you can kill the ECB, and you can kill the EU.  If you were a bunch of predatory Fed and New York and Tokyo bankers and you like more open Capital markets than the Europeans do, well then you're going to not argue; you're not going to be down there.  That's why they hate Trump who put Powell in place and they replaced Libor with Sofr.  This is the story I've been telling for 3 years.

from Luongo's Gold, Goats, and Guns:

What is SOFR? The Secured Overnight Funding Rate. It is the U.S. domestic replacement for LIBOR. SOFR is market-driven and arrived at through actual transactions in the U.S. money markets with the daily quote arrived at by real data from real US banks.

LIBOR, on the other hand, is a rate set by 17 foreign banks and 1 U.S. bank (JP Morgan Chase’s London Division). It’s still not market-driven but arrived at by consensus. Regardless of that, it represents the activity within London’s and Europe’s banking system, not the U.S.’s.

Ad therein lies the rub.

For all intents and purposes for decades, LIBOR was the mechanism by which the City of London and Europe controlled the flow of dollars into and out of their banking system. No wonder the Fed had no real control.

Broadly speaking, when the Fed raises rates and it causes a drain on the eurodollar system, it puts upward pressure on LIBOR. If Europe’s banks are more exposed to a rise in the cost of dollars then LIBOR should blow out faster than the Fed raises rates.

In past cycles, before SOFR, all US debt was indexed to LIBOR. So, it didn’t matter if the Fed raised rates domestically, our mortgages, lease rates, and credit lines blew out with LIBOR even if there was no underlying stress in these domestic markets.

With the gold medal win, he is without question, the GOAT of tennis.

With the gold medal win, he is without question, the GOAT of tennis.
🙌 https://t.co/aJUo33fRtm

— Santiago Capital (@SantiagoAuFund) August 5, 2024

Novak Djokovic.  

 

VBL's GHOST: Oil is needed every month every day every minute. You can push gold and silver out on the timeline. Can’t do that with oil.

That’s right. Oil is needed every month every day every minute. You can push gold and silver out on the timeline. Can’t do that with oil.

— VBL’s Ghost (@Sorenthek) July 10, 2024

The Signers of the Declaration of Independence were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more.

Thank you to Tom Luongo.

Here’s in video form pic.twitter.com/PfS9E1J40i

— unlikenine (@unlikenine) July 4, 2024

“Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died.

Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned.

Two lost their sons in the Revolutionary Army, and another had two sons captured.

Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War.

They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

What kind of men were they?

Twenty-four were lawyers and jurists.

Eleven were merchants, nine were farmers and large plantation owners, men of means, well educated. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.

Carter Braxton of Virginia, a wealthy planter and trader, saw his ships swept from the seas by the British Navy. He sold his home and properties to pay his debts and died in rags.

Thomas McKean was so hounded by the British that he was forced to move his family almost constantly. He served in the Congress without pay, and his family was kept in hiding. His possessions were taken from him, and poverty was his reward.

Vandals or soldiers or both, looted the properties of Ellery, Clymer, Hall, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton.

At the battle of Yorktown, Thomas Nelson Jr., noted that the British General Cornwallis had taken over the Nelson home for his headquarters. The owner quietly urged General George Washington to open fire. The home was destroyed, and Nelson died bankrupt.

Francis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed. The enemy jailed his wife, and she died within a few months.

John Hart was driven from his wife’s bedside as she was dying. Their 13 children fled for their lives. His fields and his gristmill were laid to waste. For more than a year he lived in forests and caves, returning home to find his wife dead and his children vanished. A few weeks later, he died from exhaustion and a broken heart. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.

Such were the stories and sacrifices of the American Revolution. These were not wild-eyed, rabble-rousing ruffians. They were soft-spoken men of means and education. They had security, but they valued liberty more. Standing tall, straight, and unwavering, they pledged: ‘For the support of this declaration, with firm reliance on the protection of the divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.’” ~Michael W. Smith

GREG REESE: Chevron deference: It's how OSHA was able to decide that everyone who worked for a large company had to get the jab or be fired. No law gave them that authority. They just made it up.

Greg Reese on the Chevron Deference, 

It's how OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, was able to decide that everyone who worked for a large company had to get the jab or be fired.  No law gave them that authority.  They just made it up.  

It's how the ATF, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, was able to decide a piece of plastic was a machine gun.  

It's how the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service, the NRCS, is able to decide that a small puddle is a protected wetland.  --Greg Reese

Recent Key Decisions of Supreme Court pic.twitter.com/8VRdMObfL5

— Greg Reese (@gregreese) July 2, 2024

1:40. A family fishing company, Loper Bright Enterprises, was being driven out of business because they couldn't afford the $700 per day they were being charged by the NMFS, the National Marine Fisheries Service to monitor their company.  The thing is federal law doesn't authorize the NMFS to charge businesses for this.  They just decided to start doing it in 2013.  Why did they think they could get away with just charging people without any legal authorization?  Because in 1984 in the Chevron decision, the Supreme Court decided that regulatory agencies were the experts in their field, and the courts should defer to their interpretation of the law.  So for the past 40 years, federal agencies have been able to interpret laws to mean whatever they want, and the courts had to just go with it.  It was called "Chevron deference," and it put bureaucrats in charge of the country.  

It's how OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, was able to decide that everyone who worked for a large company had to get the jab or be fired.  No law gave them that authority.  They just made it up.  

It's how the ATF, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, was able to decide a piece of plastic was a machine gun.  

It's how the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service, the NRCS, is able to decide that a small puddle is a protected wetland.  

It's how out-of-control agencies have been able to create rules out of thin air and force you to comply, and the courts had to simply defer to them because they were the experts.  

Imagine if your local police could just arrest you for any reason, and no judge or jury was allowed to determine if you'd actually committed a crime or not, just off to jail you go.  That's what "Chevron deference" was.  It was not only blatantly unconstitutional, it caused immeasurable harm to everyone.  Thankfully, it's now gone.  We haven't even begun to feel the effects of this decision in the courts.  It will be used for years to come to roll back federal agencies, and we'll all be better off for it.  And that's why politicians and corporate media are freaking out about it.

Spike Cohen,

In an era of bad news, the US Supreme Court has brought us some good tools that we the people can wield to work on restoring America.  Happy Independence Day.  

Reporting for Infowars this is Greg Reese. 

As a follow-up, please read this by James T. Moodey @ Lew Rockwell.  Looks like there was momentum building for this at least since last year, January 2023.  Check out Judge Napolitano's essay, titled, "A Government by Experts," January 12, 2023.

Tom Luongo has got his claws on this as well at least since March 23, 2024, 

This is yet another example of the desperate need for the Supreme Court to take up the Chevron Deference and strike it down. The agencies should not be making law. That’s Congress’ job.

And I don’t care if Congress is allergic to doing its job, new emission regulations should not be in the hands of unelected bureaucrats run by chiefs who are chosen by the current political party.