Almost two years to the day I published Part 4 of what I called ‘The Age of Entitlement’. A series of detailed pieces that outlined and predicted the pain we are now seeing writ large. I lamented how people across the developed world had succumbed to selfishness and shirked their responsibility to future generations when they demanded lockdowns and to compensated economically such that they were no worse off and safe from the virus. How our leaders buckled and were anything but leaders Or perhaps they were just not for your best outcome but theirs. More on that in part 4. Voters and their elected leaders all simple, selfish, self-interested actors.
You may read that and think it doesn’t apply to you. It most certainly does. Collectively we demanded and welcomed the catastrophic lockdown policy. A policy that demanded no more than an hour of thought to conclude it was stupid, unwise and outright dangerous to the extent it doesn’t just threaten the very structure and fabric of our societies, it will result in their collapse. That is my prediction. It can unfold in a variety of ways but imminently it will make itself known. We won’t get that far though. As a new system will ‘save us’. That’s when it will dawn on the masses that perhaps they’ve been led to that point and offered only one way out or chaos.
All too often as a people we failed to defend the only things that mattered – Rights, freedoms. All sold for a bit of personal short-term advantage. Our collective fate secured all the while.
The scope of this is vast. And I’ve spent many an hour thinking about how I can do the following.
- My red pill
- Intro to Global Systems
- Predict what lies imminently ahead
- How they have done it
- How you really were played and tricked to become the foot soldiers of the very power removing your rights
- What can we do then?
Even as I write this line, I know I’ve lost a decent number of readers who have scoffed, declared me a loon or implausible to such an extent it no longer warrants their time.
Well, I’m a straight A student, taught myself my degree (I managed 1 hr. a week of lectures) and I’ve kept my head down in corporate life but held my own. That I’m reasonably bright is hopefully established. Hear me out is all I ask. My track record speaks for itself. My series of blogs on covid – driven to by the sheer madness and suffering that we were choosing to create downstream – now materializing. Heck I was warning about govt debt and stagflation, fiscal dominance and the rest in 2020. I published a covid strategy well before the Great Barrington declaration that fundamentally proposed the same approach.
I’ve read more than I care to admit. 3 years of intensive study. Not consumption of media ‘news’.
How did I wake up?
My red pill moment that changed my life for better or worse was Venezuela 2018/19. On sabbatical I decided to spend my waking hours trying to learn and understand why Venezuela was broke. 90% hungry. Afterall, this nation has the most proven oil reserves in the world. Saudi makes it work. Why can’t they?
What followed was learning a reality totally at odds with that reported in the news. There we were told US sanctions were to blame. Even Corbyn was out there on C4 news unchallenged spouting this nonsense. If the leader of the opposition could think something and the media does not call it out as plainly wrong was my moment. How could this be? This can’t be incompetence. As it couldn’t be so structured. Rarely does incompetence go uncorrected. The media and the politicians both drinking from the same mad juice. That requires order. Design.
Venezuela was pillaged by Russia principally but also China and the west. Russia went hard and sold arms to the country in the good years. All signed very aggressive terms of repayment (they had to borrow to buy the arms even though they had the money in the oil boom). When the oil revenues fell back with price and the cost of the Chavez social programs now had to be paid there was no money to repay the weapons loans. First, they started cutting those social programs. Russia didn’t waive the debt payments. Far from it. And then once the treasury was bled dry, they moved into the state oil company. Now shares of oilfields were given as payment under the apparent normal joint ventures between Rosneft and the PDVSA (the state oil company). Rosneft has the 51% stake in the highly valuable US joint venture CITGO as collateral if debts aren’t paid.
The nation collapsed. People froze to death as they sought sanctuary in Columbia. They had to cross the Andes. They froze starving and helpless, and we weren’t even told the truth.
A selection of extracts below from the accounts of the PDVSA I was able to source online on an old website. The info was taken down 3 days after I shared this work with a prominent Russia related journalist. The state oil company website was taken down and now even the HQ is in Moscow. But America.
Nor was I alone. Others saw it before me.
Cutting the Venezuelan debt knot – DW – 02/13/2019
A country stripped of meat.
Western Banks taking fat fees from illegal bond dealings.
The ‘Savage Years’: Credit Suisse and Venezuela’s Toxic Bond Market – OCCRP
Even now bonds and who owns them are big business. Goldman made a big bet that paid off. Would you believe it.
Goldman and BlackRock among winners as Venezuelan bonds surge | Financial Times (ft.com)
Turn over any stone and find shocking stuff. Everyone was in on this. East, West, Russia, China, US and all seemed to have carved out their own niches. These weren’t operations occurring in coincidence and unknowingly alongside each other. This was collusion between supposedly adversarial nations. And the only people not in the loop were the ordinary people at home and abroad.
Loan sharks. Extracting every $ they could.
Remember. This was the news you got.
The Strange Case of Venezuela’s National Debt | Venezuelanalysis.com
She is a celebrated reporter, and she knows nothing. So, little it can’t be an accident. A wilful commitment to ignore the facts and share an alternative truth.
This is just a summary. Evidence abounds that Venezuela has been robbed blind by nation states and western corporates and they blamed Trump sanctions. Consider that Goldman had directly lent to Maduro and sustained him in office. Their oil bonds directly facilitating funding for the regime and securing their premium returns before citizens who starved.
It shook me. How could it not. What else had they got wrong? What else have they hidden in plain sight?
Red Pilled
From then on, I’ve been armed to think critically. My powers switched on after slowly – and unknowingly – been dulled down. I used to read papers daily, Newsnight, QT and the rest. I was more than ‘plugged in’ to the system. Now I don’t use it. I only watch the news now to see what hand is been played today. Covid was a remarkable time to see just how far you can take this model in terms of information conveyed, or lack of it, and a response engineered across the vast majority. I digress.
You realise that all we seem to know about anything is two layers deep. Who or what and then why. Issue and Blame. We all know nothing and what we do know has been conveniently made bitesize every time.
Take issues of today. Energy Prices / Putin invasion, Tax rises, spending cuts / Liz Truss, any downbeat economic issue / Brexit
Let’s take each in turn.
It was the EU who embargoed Russian gas. Putin was happy to sell. European leaders chose a policy to harm themselves and cost you dearly for no benefit. Russian energy sales have adjusted. No mortal blow struck. They’ve borrowed hundreds of billions to offset their price rises.
Longer term the European energy market was shifted to a medium-term supply crisis state when Nord Stream 2 was blown up. Huge capacity taken off the table permanently. Exposing Europe to a prolonged crisis. They need to replace Russian gas that now can’t be pumped regardless of a deal or not. Who did this? It wasn’t Russia. They control the flow already. So, who destroyed the pipeline?
You don’t know. The media didn’t probe. The cover ups not reported. We get daily intelligence reports for Ukraine don’t forget. But we can’t answer this.
Liz Truss was setup. One way or another she was there to do what she did. She ran on a campaign with clear economic philosophy. Remember Rishi telling her it would all go south if she did try any of it. A clip used over and over again as he ascended. So why didn’t bond markets spike when she won? In anticipation of her new plans. Even at face value the story is absurd. You’re told that a crisis in bond pricing has occurred over £30bn of tax cuts. Reducing an already historic tax high, not cutting to a new low tax base. The energy support scheme that everyone loved wasn’t at all to be blamed. An uncapped multi-year commitment exposing govt debt to unknown potential cost and certainly £100bn as a minimum. Money to do nothing. Just pay the bill. Tax cuts stimulate economic activity. We’d just borrowed £400bn no issues at all for covid too. Evidence all around you that this isn’t all making sense. But they told you it was Truss. Rishi ready. A new age of austerity established. £80bn net tax swing to Hunt’s budget. How does that help growth and our ability to service debt? It makes it harder. The bonds didn’t spike.
The story here was pensions. After a decade of low interest debt, the long-term gilt market is facing rising interest rates. Pension funds hold gilts to meet future obligations to pensioners. They sell the gilts to raise cash to meet the need of claimants. If the rate rises the price drops. So, a panic sale began. If funds can’t sell at a price that covers the claimants need then they are insolvent. It wasn’t the mini budget. It was the pension sector’s inability to deal with it after a decade of rock bottom rates.
The media didn’t just arrive at this narrative by chance. The Bank Of England did the marketing and materials. Quick as a flash the governor was everywhere saying mini-budget to blame. Journalists have their story. No need to question THE AUTHORITY voice. Simple as that. Not true, removed a PM and convinced a nation that there was no more magic money now. The man who as chancellor did wreck the economy was now PM. And his Chancellor is a man who praised Chinese style lockdowns for covid. Great for the economy.
Brexit is by some way the most deliberate and nefarious campaign to spread lies and clear for which side. The OBR shared their analysis that Brexit would harm us more than covid in the long-term. James O’Brien reciting the headline and asking into his microphone what more can I do to show you I’m not wrong. James doesn’t read the report. No one does. The headline is all they need. The OBR missed inflation forecasts for 2022. A core metric and they can’t forecast it. But here we are using their forecasting skills over 30 years without any doubt. All these models do is produce the outcome desired and do so by controlling for variables and parameters in brazen ways they should tell you. For example, the principal economic impact report on Brexit failed to account for any future growth in global trade. The market Brexit was pivoting to. The vast middle classes of China, India and the rest that will be vastly larger than the EU single market, were not included. That we would sell more to these markets, tailored through UK only trade deals was missed off. The cards were rigged.
Even basic economics is denied. Shortages of foreign workers is the constant news story. This is risking some supply crisis that never seems to happen and Brexit it blamed. Yes, free movement was lost by leaving. Domestic labour cannot freely be supplanted by foreign workers. Workers who are young, share accommodation and good for them. But their wage expectations are less that someone trying to provide for a family and pay the mortgage. Workers shipped over suppress the wages of domestic workers. Fact. If businesses were faced with no prospect of foreign workers then to ensure they were staffed to levels desired they’d have to compete via wages to attract enough. Higher wages for working people. Dressed up as a wonder of human decency and progress, the free movement of people was how France, Germany and the UK could boom in the 90s /00s. Cheap and plentiful labour flowed in to countries. Big business won. The German state could finance its pensions crisis. You see France and Germany had demographic timebombs set to blow up. There weren’t enough young to fund the old.
Germany’s demographics: Young people wanted | Financial Times (ft.com)
Germany takes in vast asylum seekers each year out of self-interest not some moral decency.
Starting to see the reality? That you aren’t informed at all. That an alternative truth is crafted instead of just using the truth.
Even if not coordinated by a higher power, you can see laid bare the problems inherent in the system of news gathering today and the lack of oversight. A think tank publishes a report. It delivers the stats for a political campaign to sway voters. Soundbites shared. Biased journalists and any other profession make decisions never seen to help their side. A system open to abuse and guaranteed to not deliver the one thing it is meant to. The truth. We’ve seen how Twitter staff suppressed certain views. So there was less debate. The issue appears settled purely because most aren’t aware of the other side even existing.
We need to ask questions. Check the details. If someone can’t explain the detail then ignore them. Assumptions should be clear in modelling. Nuance is always there. No summary can ignore it. Yet the media do.
The system cannot be trusted. So you must take ownership. Clearly, that can’t be done for every story. But for the ones you care about maybe check out the facts, make sure the logic works.
The gender pay gap is a hot topic in recent times. Total rubbish. Sorry. Set aside your emotions.
Clearly everyone been paid the same wage for the same job is important. But the assertion of the Gender pay gap is that women are unjustly paid less for the same job a man does. No other reason. Just because they are women.
At the same time though that claim has to sit alongside other logics and truths in society we know. Profit seeking is about as fundamental as you can get to one of those truths. Greed. Profit at all costs. Greedy bosses. You get my point. Profit comes first in our society.
So how can it be that all these businesses have chosen to employ more men and pay them more than women who can do the same job for less?
Remember the assertion is firms are cheating women out of pay they give men who do the same. Why wouldn’t the company sack the men and hire women then?
There is clearly more going on here than just sex. Not hard to show this flaw. Yet the measure is widely used and discussed.
This knowledge of nothing has one final harm to society too. It has destroyed debate and discussion. When subjects are known in bitesize form there is no grey for your truth. No debate to be had. No more understanding necessary. The polarisation of society isn’t led by politics, but by culture. Ours is knowledge of nothing. This environment has allowed powerful forces to use the bitesize consumption and no debate to launder their truths into society to their own ends and against yours. Or certainly to manipulate your behaviour to modify it in their interest.
Time and again a shooting of a black person in the 18 month election window is used for political gain. A fever whipped up, a republican party that always will be law and order strong so linked to blame however tenuous and a demographic dominated by one issue alone and who now will largely vote as one. Guess which party has most to gain here. Democrats. Hundreds of thousands have died via opiates. Why not protest movement whipped up? Why no endless media coverage?
Abortion the same. Democrats never codified it as far more useful to use the line that Roe vs Wade was at risk from the other side. Clinton didn’t. Obama didn’t. But you’re told the supreme court – picked by Trump – has done something outrageous. The court simply said we aren’t elected and so over to you lot. The legislators. Set your laws. Democracy. When the court empowered states to choose their own abortion laws this was reported as an outrage. Why didn’t Democrats codify it folks? That’s the fraud. They traded it for political gain. Codifying would turn away voters they needed to win elections. But blame the court or Trump.
Or start to ask questions and think.
They said the vaccines stopped transmission. The vaccine producers say no test was ever done.
Did a work experience kid add a bullet on a press release and the entire global health and media industries just took it as read? As this specific benefit was used to push the vaccine on low covid risk groups who otherwise saw no benefit? Do it for others clinched it. A duty to others.
It was made up. By someone. A medical treatment offered with benefits made up. Fraud.
Where did the claim originate should be a matter of urgent inquiry. No one even talks about it. The media don’t. So you don’t. The biggest news passing you by.
Think more.
Global systems will call on that thinking power.