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To: roguedolphin who wrote (42860)8/12/2023 2:01:52 AM
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Ed Dowd Unfiltered: RFK, the Vaccine’s New Disability Crisis, and the Next Big Threat to America
Stansberry Research 101,343 views Aug 9, 2023



The U.S. dollar has reigned king of global currencies for decades, but other countries have
challenged the dollar’s status this year in hopes of unseating it as the world’s reserve currency.
Today, Daniela sat down with Edward Dowd, founding partner of global macro alternative investing firm Phinance Technologies. Edward argues that foreign adversaries using the threat of a gold-backed currency as leverage to weaken the dollar are bluffing. He says, “The dollar system is so ingrained that money and debt are the same thing. All
these countries have dollar-denominated debt… They’re going to have to devalue their
currencies if they go on a gold standard.”
At the same time, presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy recently unveiled a plan to back the dollar with hard currencies like gold, silver, or bitcoin (BTC). Edward, who serves as co-treasurer to RFK Jr.’s campaign, highlights this potential shift as a foundational element of a new financial system. “Robert’s introducing the conversation into the electorate. The current monetary system, as it stands, is debt based. Might is created through debt. We’ve reached the endpoint so there has to be a new system,” he explains. Edward also contends that the Federal Reserve is using the war on inflation as a guise to keep interest rates elevated and maintain control over the direction of the global economy. “The dollar unfortunately has become a weapon… It’s going to continue to be strong as long as we keep interest rates high. We’re choking off credit from the rest of the world,” he concludes.



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"waiting for the next crisis.." Or planning the next "crisis"



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This Is The Protest Song Of Our Generation





Virginia songwriter Oliver Anthony goes viral with anti-government 'Rich Men North of Richmond'

A songwriter in Virginia released a song this week that quickly went viral for its criticisms of modern American government.

Oliver Anthony, who lives in Farmville, Virginia, dropped "Rich Men North of Richmond" on YouTube to the reception of over 1.5 million views and over 125,000 likes. His previous release on his record label received roughly a tenth of the engagement. The lyrics imply that the titular characters of the song are the politicians in Washington, D.C., which is over 100 miles north of Richmond, Virginia

"These rich men north of Richmond / Lord knows they all just want to have total control / Wanna know what you think / Wanna know what you do / And they don't think you know, but I know that you do," the lyrics read. "Cause your dollar ain't s***, and it's taxed to no end / 'Cause of rich men north of Richmond."

Anthony's personal politics are not made clear in the song. His recording, inspired by Hank Williams, according to his record label, was made in an outdoor setting surrounded by his three dogs. He performed the song while strumming on a guitar with an aluminum resonator cone. Anthony is from Farmville, Virginia, which is part of the state's 5th Congressional District represented by Rep. Bob Good (R-VA) since 2020.

"Oliver wants to give hope to the working class and your average hard working young man who may have lost hope in the grind of trying to get by," record label Radio WV wrote of the songwriter.

"I wish politicians would look out for miners / And not just minors on an island somewhere / Lord, we got folks in the street, ain't got nothing to eat / And the obese milking welfare / Well God, if you're 5 foot 3 and you're 300 pounds / Taxes ought not to pay for your bags of fudge rounds," the song goes. "Young men are putting themselves 6 feet in the ground / 'Cause all this damn country does is keep on kicking them down."

"Rich Men North of Richmond has been uploaded to all major streaming platforms and will show up there in a few days," Anthony wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. "I'm still in a state of shock at the outpouring of love I've seen in the comments, messages and emails. I'm working to respond to everyone as quickly as possible."

The singer did not respond to the Washington Examiner's request for comment.

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< No US Presidential Election in 2024

August 11, 2023

Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer

at 5:55 pm



Eugène Delacroix Liberty Leading the People 1830 (French Revolution of 1830)

In January 2023, US special counsel Jack Smith applied for -and received- a subpoena for Twitter, specifically for all of Donald Trump’s utterances at the site through the years, including the ones he may have never published. Note: the subpoena came long after Trump left Twitter. And no, it wasn’t X then, and therefore it is not now. He wrote it when it was Twitter. Important. Trump left Twitter (was cancelled) on Jan 8 2021, Elon Musk bought it on October 27 2022, and renamed it “X” in late July 2023. Just so we get our horses and dogs in line.

Special counsel Jack Smith received his Twitter/Trump subpoena with the added provision that it had to be entirely secret, not even Twitter or Trump could know. US District Court Judge Beryll Howell gave Smith what he wanted, agreeing that if Trump’s years-old Twitter past was known, he would become a flight risk. But both Smith and Howell knew this was absolute nonsense. Not only is Twitter the last place you turn to when you have nefarious secrets to hide (it’s the opposite!), but the man is running for President, for God’s sake! And because of some 5 year old -or so- tweets he would pack in the family and disappear to an -underground- bungalow on Vanatua, never to be heard from again?

I would put this down as the moment when it became impossible for the US to have a presidential election in 2024. We’ve had some 8 years of this anti-Trump circus now, non-stop, Hillary, Pelosi, Adam Schiff and Robert Mueller, yada yada yada, but I don’t think we’ve reached the point before where the elections might as well be cancelled. We’re there now though. And that is a BIG point. We’ve let it come far too far. We’re in slapstick territory.

Think of it as a boxing match. In the one corner, we have the former champion/president, wearing the slightly widened red trunks. At age 77, he looks somewhat bruised and battered, but he doesn’t look beaten- yet. What’s noticeable though is that his corner is empty, except for Melania cleaning his brow, not even his own party is there to support him. There are some 90 million Americans behind him, but they are at home.

In the other corner, the defending champion, in blue trunks, weighing in at about 25 pounds and falling, looks a little lost. But behind him in his corner he has thousands of operatives: his entire party, plus the CIA and NSA and FBI and DOJ. And all the newspapers and TV channels and social media in the country. And all the judges and prosecutors, the DAs and GAs, it’s a veritable love-in. The guy in the blue trunks could be braindead and he’d still win. And I wish I was a cartoonist, and could capture the entire image in one frame. I can see it in front of my eyes, but I can’t draw it.

Where the boxing analogy goes astray is that in this case the blue side is allowed to harass the red side before, during and after the (preparations for) the fight, and during the fight itself. You can’t a have a free and fair fight, and a level playing field, if some “blue operatives” can put shackles on the ankles and wrists of the red candidate, or even lock him up while he’s preparing for the bell to ring. If the system allows him to be a candidate, it must also allow him to prepare for his candidacy, in the same way that his opponent can. That is not happening.

US special counsel Jack Smith has announced that the US plans to drag Trump before court after court starting January 2 2024. At least 3 major indictments (will be a dozen) , likely many more, and at my last count, 82 charges (it’s impossible to keep up). Smith can then finger pick any of these charges to put Trump in custody, whenever he feels like it. The judges are almost all “blue”, and so are the jury pools: New York and DC. And this is while he’s supposed to be campaigning!

And also: Trump allegedly already spent $40 million on legal expenses. But what if Trump doesn’t have $40 million? We could argue the $40 million should be spent on his campaign. Look at Imran Khan, guys, who was just convicted to a 3-year prison term in Pakistan on US directives. Like Trump, he is the most popular political candidate in his nation, and they got him on selling necklaces when he was PM.

That is Trump’s future too. And hence, the end of American democracy. He doesn’t stand a chance. And if he doesn’t, the system doesn’t, and you don’t. You’re fine as long as you agree with the boot stomping on your neck, and you maybe even enjoy it. But if you don’t, Jack Smith and his ilk – and Obama, Hillary, Adam Schiff, Pelosi, the whole gang, will come with charges and indictments directed at you.

You’re on the verge of the abyss. if you want to take your chances with what you might find down there, fair enough. But always know that you have a choice. And that, if somehow they do manage to stage a presidential election in November 2024 as things stand now, it’ll be fake from A to Z. Grow a pair, people, grow a backbone. You’re going to need them.>

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