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Indrek Sarapuu's avatar

Great post!

I especially liked the timeline synopsis.

I had read all of this, but putting the dates on it, kinda clarifies...

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pyrrhus's avatar

Yes, it seems that the City of London bankers and British Government went all-in on the Ukraine, and need a world war as an excuse to welsh on their debts...Martin Armstrong says that most of Western Europe is in the same shape...But Trump doesn't go to war, and certainly not WWIII, so they're dead....unless our Federal Reserve bails them out again, as it did in 2009...

This rare earths hubbub is sheer nonsense...They've already been "sold" to the UK, and may be pledged to the bankers, but in any event the Russians will end up the land....

As to Trump, he likes to throw out hundreds of ideas, often contradictory, and see what happens...You can't take them very seriously...

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Tomas Hull's avatar

You can’t because bankers control the economy, pensions and other things we would not survive without and they know it…

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John Day MD's avatar

There is going to be a banking crisis. What then? What has been done in other banking crises? Can the world do much better by getting rid of fractional reserve private banking?

Ellen Brown has long advocated a public banking model like the Bank of North Dakota.

https://ellenbrown.com/

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Tomas Hull's avatar

Ellen Brown, while helpful, she is mainstream.. She is either clueless or pretends to be… Either way, the reset (unlike proposed by WEF) is necessary but the oligarchs think they can prolonged it indefinitely…

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John Day MD's avatar

Ellen Brown is careful and conservative in her public statements.

However, she has been able to expose the skeleton and nervous system of global finance. See these 2 articles:

https://ellenbrown.com/2023/10/03/the-great-taking-how-they-plan-to-own-it-all/

https://ellenbrown.com/2024/02/16/defusing-the-derivatives-time-bomb-some-proposed-solutions/

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Tomas Hull's avatar

It has been a banking crisis for as long as I can remember…’

The only solution to this is a reset but not how WEF advocated…

WEF driven by oligarchs know they themselves are not safe but they can’t help themselves…

They are more greedy than they are cautious…

Can anyone change their minds? Can you? Can Trump or Putin?

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John Day MD's avatar

History will pull the rug out from under them, I think...

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Tomas Hull's avatar

I’ve invested some money in RRSP> Once I left the bank it fell by 1%…

Whose fault is it?

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Saint Jimmy's avatar

Panic at the disco. :-) It's.... heartwarming.

John Day - Independent for Congress. I'll start the rumor. Which district do you want?

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John Day MD's avatar

Thanks Jimmy. I'm not cut out for politics, but I'm a good vegetable gardener, and I seem to be caught up in watching history unfold these days.

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Saint Jimmy's avatar

Oh sure, sure.... Just a simple gardener. I've heard that one before.

I know you're not cut out for politics. Neither am I but for different reasons. Several people I knew long ago thought I was. However, I was always better suited to "simple bureaucrat" than politician. I am also watching history unfold and I'm happy not to be part of it. I guess our role is now simply to observe and comment.

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John Day MD's avatar

I pray, too, and meditate for paths to peace.

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Saint Jimmy's avatar

Amen

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Franz Kafka's avatar

A Herculean task. Well done!

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John Day MD's avatar

Still lovin' your avatar-name, giant cockroach man!

;-)

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Franz Kafka's avatar

I am working on a story in which a cockroach turns into a man.

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John Day MD's avatar

Oh, NO!

;-o

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Franz Kafka's avatar

Too implausible!? I aim to please.

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