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Point of No Return | Jack Mullen
EconomicsThe financial quotes above are not just interesting bits of history but rather capsulized knowledge regarding the danger of central banking. Allowing men to control the credit of a nation and, by the use of the American military, control worldwide banking and financial systems is reckless endangerment and psychologically irrational.
As history has shown, central bankers are firstly men and then criminals, represented by a large population of psychopaths pursuing humanity’s damaging agendas.
Bankers’ agendas are parallel and inconsistent with normal human activity. However, it is regular human activity that has been harnessed, by bankers, to fund their parallel civilization and its agendas.
It has been widely known for millennia that giving bankers free and total control of the production and distribution of currency will always result in the wealth and resources of the common man being transferred to the banking system.
We are now at the Point of No Return, where central banking agendas are about destroying the middle class in Western civilization while creating a high technology-controlled feudal system. Many people, myself included, have spent years warning others about the dangers of central banking.
Central Banks Funding World War: Dollar Value First Casualty | Jack Mullen
Articles & Chapters, EconomicsOne can say without exaggeration that inflation is an indispensable means of militarism. Without it, the repercussions of war on welfare become obvious much more quickly and penetratingly; war weariness would set in much earlier. –Ludwig Von Mises –
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Through the Gaslight Darkly: Sifting For Truth In Financial Markets | Jack Mullen
Economy, financial collapseThose who create and issue the money and credit direct the policies of government and hold in their hands the destiny of the people.- Reginald McKenna President of the Midlands Bank of England
Inventing money borrowed into existence steals wealth in two primary ways. First, through interest payments on money borrowed. Since no money actually exists but is only printed or created as needed, the interest payments are payments for use of something non-existent.
The second reason is a corollary to the first: outright counterfeiting. Counterfeiting is borrowing and spending excess money, causing money supply growth beyond what is necessary for healthy market credit and stabilized prices. Counterfeiting results in increasing interest payments (stealing wealth through interest payments) and decreasing purchasing power of each existing dollar in the system (as more dollars are available for the same number of goods). Eventually counterfeiting will lead to gradual price increases affecting some groups far more than others. – (1913-2013) ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF DARKNESS: BITCOIN BREAKS THE BANK
The word gaslight refers to a type of psychological abuse in which a person manipulates another person into questioning their reality and sanity.
The term originates from the 1938 play Gas Light, in which a man attempts to convince his wife she is going mad by making subtle changes to the gas lights in their home.
The play was later adapted into a movie in 1944, popularizing the phrase and making it part of the public consciousness. In the decades since, the term has been adopted to describe any psychological manipulation that causes a person to doubt their own reality or sanity.
Gaslighting is a standard procedure for a journalist writing for the mainstream media. In the case of the financial and economic news, we are told inflation is slowly falling. With rarely heard terms like disinflation, it is said that markets already assume the inflation battle is as good as won unless disavowed by hard evidence.
Disinflation is the term used to describe a temporary slowing of the pace of price inflation and to describe instances when the inflation rate has reduced marginally over the short term.
In the real world of shopping, we are still confronted with rising food prices (which are not included in the cost of living projections) and high-interest rates scheduled to increase again in February.
Fed policymakers call for further rate hikes to beat inflation.
Disinflation is a sneaky expression that describes short-term decreases in inflation often seen during an inflationary period while not noting that inflation is expected to return after prices stabilize – after a period of price deflation in interest rate sensitive products.
The disinflation elation was based only on the consumer price index decreasing by 0.1% in December month-over-month. November's CPI increased by 0.1%. Therefore, the net price change over the two months is zero, which is hardly a reason for elation!
More importantly: Core inflation, which excludes the volatile food and energy categories, rose by 0.3%, adding to November's 0.2% increase (which does not include food prices). IBID
CPI numbers include temporary lower fuel prices and falling prices of used automobiles and oil. Oil prices, however, are on the rise again, and auto prices are falling from the stratosphere of bubble prices caused by inflation. Those prices are now unsustainable as interest rates rise and accessibility to nearly-free money has dried up.
Helping inflation numbers improve (temporarily) is the drop in retail sales, which slows the velocity of money and, in the short term, lowers inflation. The decrease in sales also results in retailers lowering prices to offset the loss of sales – again marginally lowering inflation.
Not only are retail sales falling, but manufacturing output recorded its most significant drop in nearly two years in December; simultaneously, monthly producer prices also tumbled, other data showed on Wednesday.
U.S. retail sales drop more than expected in December,
The primary problem is those writing about inflation never address is this: inflation can only be stopped if spending and dollar creation is slowed significantly. That is not happening.
So, explaining to the public that we are in a period of disinflation without filling in the details about why inflation is temporarily – falling due to market adjustments that pressure market sales down due to increasing interest rates is gaslighting.
We are told we are conspiracy theorists if we talk about the plan to destroy the dollar and bring a new digital currency. Basically the media is asking you not to question the truth you experience each time you go shopping.
When the market adjustments are worked through, and the industry affected most by rising interest rates reduces output to a point where supply and demand are closer to equilibrium, prices will continue to increase again due to inflation.
Terminal Currency
The terminal problem with the current economic system is the debt-based currency.
Interest payment obligations also come into existence when the currency is created from nothing of value and added to the existing money supply. The interest payment on new money requires some portion of the current money supply to be diverted to paying the interest.
As a result of rising interest costs to be paid out of the existing money supply, more currency must be added to the system to provide the liquidity necessary to make interest payments and service the everyday requirements of the currency.
In other words, when existing debt reaches a critical point, the need to create new debt to maintain liquidity begins to consume larger and larger proportions of the existing money supply; the infusion of liquidity (debt) must increase exponentially.
Artificial Intelligence Answers My Questions
I asked one of the popular Artificial Intelligence applications (chatGPT) the following question: At what point does a debt-based currency fail due to over-creation of debt? The answer is consistent with the arguments above.
AI: Generally speaking, a debt-based currency can fail due to over-creation of debt when it is unable to support the amount of debt in circulation, and when the issuing country is unable to meet its debt obligations. Additionally, when the value of the currency is no longer able to be maintained, it could be considered to have failed.
My follow-up question asked: At what point does a debt-based currency require exponentially growing liquidity to prevent a collapse?
AI: A debt-based currency requires exponentially growing liquidity to prevent a collapse when the total amount of debt exceeds the total amount of money available to service it. This situation is known as a liquidity trap and occurs when the rate of debt growth outpaces the rate of money creation, leaving insufficient liquidity for debtors to make payments.
We live during the end-of-life of a debt-based (theft) currency – the dollar. The point is when it is impossible to issue further debt to provide liquidity.
Liquidity Crisis
One sign indicating a pending liquidity crisis is the print of treasury yields across all terms, i.e., one month to 30 years. When the curve starts out rising and then falls after a certain number of years (in this case, two years), the market is signaling a possible liquidity crisis is in play.
Treasury yield curve inversion signals a liquidity crisis when short-term bond yield is higher than long-term bonds. This indicates that investors are less willing to take risks and seek short-term safety. This can lead to a contraction in the money supply, resulting in a liquidity crisis.
The Treasury yield curve shows inversion with the turn down starting with 1-year bond rates. This indicates the market is seeking safety in the short-term and doubts long-term returns.
Weapons Of Mass Destruction
Most people have heard derivatives described as financial weapons of mass destruction. The term derivative means that the value of one thing is derived from another.
In the case of the U.S. financial systems, it is estimated that financial assets deriving value from the dollar are valued at $ 1 quadrillion. The federal reserve's official money supply is just $6 trillion resulting in a leveraging of 167 times.
One fed dollar has created the value of another $167.
According to the fed balance sheet, money available for bailouts and crisis requirements is only $60 billion in total capital. Therefore, the feds balance sheet is leveraged 100 to 1, and the derivatives are leveraged (100 * 167) or 16,700 to 1. – Strategic Intelligence January 2023 report.
The results of a financial liquidity crisis can be severe. It can cause a sharp drop in stock prices, a credit squeeze, increased borrowing costs, decreased consumer and business spending, and decreased economic activity. If left unchecked, a liquidity crisis can lead to a full-fledged recession or even depression. Additionally, it can cause banks to fail and lead to a collapse in the financial system.
A simple liquidity crisis can result in enormous financial damage as payments stall and demand for currency peaks. Mountains of currency must be pushed into the system to support derivative transactions everywhere. Suddenly without warning, a massive selloff can occur to raise liquidity snowballing into the mass destruction of the financial system.
But as we can see, the fed's firepower is inadequate to stop a liquidity lock-up: once it starts, it will be impossible to stop.
The World For Nothing
The U.S. Dollar has no intrinsic value; stacks of dollars will have no value and buy nothing at the end of dollar life. Central bankers have always known that dollars have no value of their own, so they can create them for nearly no cost and exchange them for valuables.
Decades of central banking have resulted in the upside-down, inverted reality we live through today. Over the past 100 years, bankers consolidated their power and purchased, with dollars, the implements of empire and empowered all manner of degenerates, misfits, and the highly compromised given “official” status as so-called leaders and authorities.
World governments are now compromised and fully controlled by central banking cartels and their controllers above.
The next step will be consolidating all the nations under one currency system, the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).
We are witnessing the last stage in the draining of dollar purchasing power. When the dollar is no longer required to purchase oil (petrol-dollar), its purchasing power will plummet; the writing is on the wall.
Saudi Arabia Is Open To Discuss Non-Dollar Oil Trade Settlements
Saudi Arabia, the world's largest crude oil exporter, is open to discussing oil trade settlements in currencies other than the U.S. dollar, Saudi Minister of Finance, Mohammed Al-Jadaan, told Bloomberg TV in an interview in Davos on Tuesday.
Make your move now to protect your assets and become unbanked.
Market Summary
U.S. Manufacturing Crisis: Fastest Economic Deterioration Ever Recorded, Analyst Says
The U.S. manufacturing activity has plunged to a record low, indicating that the country has entered into a deeper recession. “This recession is the quickest deterioration in economic activity ever recorded,” an economist explained. This data is accompanied by collapsing global demand, ongoing supply chain disruptions, and high levels of uncertainty.
Out of Money Again! Gaslights Ahead
U.S. government likely to reach debt ceiling Thursday
The U.S. is $31.4 trillion in debt, and it looks more and more likely our country will hit the debt ceiling today with the Biden administration and House Republicans refusing to budge.
Housing Market
The U.S. housing market has only just begun belching out inflation of housing prices. Housing is one of the areas most affected by bubble prices as easy money pushed prices up over the last decade. The end result will be a buyer's market as long as buyers hang on to their dollar purchasing power and keep that buying powder dry until the price collapse has stabilized.
Tooze on How Low the U.S. Housing Market Could Go in 2023
Between 2013 and 2022, U.S. house prices in real terms have risen by more than 60 percent, and a very large amount of that surge, about 40 percent, has come between the first quarter of 2020 and the second quarter of 2022. And I think that's the way in which we get a handle on what the worst-case scenario might be. If one imagines most of the pandemic hype unraveling, you could be looking at a price shock of 20 percent. That would be a really very severe hit to this huge pile of assets. We're talking trillions of dollars in value here.
Automobile Markets
Used car prices caught the wind of the mother of all bubbles, especially after the business shutdowns of 2020 caused by an irrational pandemic response. These prices are now falling, and a buyer’s market in used cars is coming to those that wait.
The steep plunge in used car prices – what it means, and what's ahead
Since the start of the pandemic and the resulting disruptions to new car supply chains first sent prices soaring, used car prices posted their largest annual increase on record – up 45% in the 12 months ending in June 2021, according to the Consumer Price Index – before swinging to a 12-month drop of 8.8% in the most recent reading for December.
Silver and Gold Market
A Commodity SUPER-SPIKE Is Coming. Are You Ready for It?
Today commodities, in general, are in massive INVERSE bubbles; therefore, when risk-on eventually becomes risk-off, and it will, the price of commodities will SUPER-SPIKE.
Silver demand reached an all-time high in 2022, according to the Silver Institute.
Demand for silver was expected to have reached a new high of 1.21 billion ounces in 2022, up 16 percent from the year before, driven by increases in industrial use, jewelry and silverware offtake, and physical investment.
Mining stocks are beginning to come alive and giant companies like BHP are reporting record high earnings and stock prices. Junior mining stocks are at the launch pad and judiciously choosing the right company might be your key to banker independence over the next few years.
Demand for Silver will continue to increase this year.
Silver Spot Price: $23.77 | 1 oz. Silver Eagle Price $37.07 | Premium 55.95%↓
Gold Spot Price: $1924.80 | 1 oz. Gold Eagle Price $2,090.45 | 8.60% ↓
$50 face value junk silver $1154.50 | 35.8% over spot price for 71.5% silver quarters↓
10 Yield: 3.37% ↓
Crude Oil Price: $79.14 ↑
* note arrows show price increase or decrease over the last article.
Final Thoughts:
The media is controlled by the same people running the central banking cartels. The rest of us must understand the plan to destroy the dollar and remove the dollar's world currency status while significantly changing the role of the United States in the world hierarchy of powerful states has been decided.
We can now only work from the point of view that this will happen, and after it does, we can be ready to stand against the bankers and demand an end to central banking and debt-based currencies.
The rulers of the world (over 1000 private jets full of them) are meeting now and working on the next stage of world takedown.
Using phony pretenses of sustainability, inclusiveness, and carbon neutrality (weaponized pseudoscience), and more, these people who believe they have some right to make decisions for you and me are working very hard to roll out the new digital gulag in the form of the CBDC which is under test right now in several areas of the United States.
Take the remaining time to transfer out of the dying dollar and into purchasing power-preserving assets such as silver coins, bars, and bags of pre-1965 quarters, dimes, and half dollars. Also, use your dollars to buy product assets. See my suggestions below.
Get educated on how to use alternative payment means and prepare to stand for humanity when the time comes to say No More Central Banks.
Here are a few things of immediate importance.
Move out of cities.
Get out of debt. Stop spending more money than you physically have.
Convert dollars that will be held hostage in the banking system to silver (and gold).
Keep Enough cash on hand for a month of typical requirements.
Keep stocking up on food.
Purchase productive assets (farms, farmland, tractors, specialized machinery).
Make preparations for gasoline and diesel fuel shortages coming this winter and spring.
Obtain necessary components of cooking – cooking oils, flour, sugar, seasonings, etc.
Learn new skills. Fishing, hunting, food storage, gardening.
Purchase a water purification system and identify places to find flowing water for use when the power systems become unreliable.
Invest in solar & wind equipment for power generation.
Consider communications a priority and invest in radio equipment (shortwave receivers, shortwave radios (get your license), GMRS radios.
Please note that the so-called “Junk Silver” is a fantastic way to own fractional silver and carry and use silver in a familiar, safe manner. Please see my new article, What is Junk Silver and Why You Should Buy Some. In this article, I explain how to price and buy “junk silver” and why it is a good idea to get some – oh, and get it soon.
** Ideas and suggestions in this article are my own opinions and are not intended to be financial advice.
Jack Mullen
Expect Bank Bailouts and Bail-Ins
Articles & Chapters
The powers of financial capitalism had a far-reaching aim, nothing less than to create a world system of financial control in private hands able to dominate the political system of each country and the economy of the world as a whole. This system was to be controlled in a feudalist fashion by the central banks of the world acting in concert, by secret agreements arrived at in frequent meetings and conferences. – Carroll Quigley
A bank's primary source of income is the endless flow of interest payments made on loans. Many loans are made with money instantly created out of nothing at all while charging interest to the borrower for decades in the case of home loans.
Rising interest rates, raging inflation, and deflation in real estate and automobiles are the worst-case scenarios for banking profits. Banks profit even more with long-term mortgage rate increases, but inflation and rising interest rates are destroying demand for loans. This is not an unexpected trend but the result of a deliberately engineered plan to wipe out the middle class.
Mortgage demand plunges 13.2% to end 2022, as interest rates head higher again.
Meanwhile, real estate property values fall, and mark-to-market accounting exposes bank insolvencies caused by asset depreciation as market values drop significantly lower than collateral values on bank books.
These issues have created another banking crisis, worse than 2008, and the mainstream media, collectively controlled by the same people running the central banks around the world, are saying nothing about this problem.
Recently a meeting of the FDIC's Systemic Resolution Advisory Committee (SRAC) was recorded and leaked, revealing a conversation regarding the solvency of the FDIC in the event of a sudden loss of confidence in the banking system.
A video was recorded during the SRAC meeting, discussing how the next market crash would occur and what steps would need to be taken to ensure only some people try pulling their money out of the financial system simultaneously.
Important comments from the video
[…] it's important that people understand they can be bailed in. But you don't want a huge run on the institution. But they have – I mean, they're going to be – that's, and it could be an early warning signal to the FDIC and the primary regulators when these things happen, and there may be some other prices. This is similar what Jay was saying in the market, that you can tell whether people understand how the who's going to be protected, who isn't going to be protected. [emphasis added]
[…] It's – I think you've got to think of the unintended consequences of taking a public that has more full faith and confidence in the banking system that maybe people in this room do that. We want them to have full faith and confidence in the banking system. [emphasis added]
[…] I completely agree with that. I almost think you'd scare the public. If you put this out, like, why are they telling me this? Should I be concerned about my bank? […] But I would be careful about the unintended consequences of starting to blast too much of this out in the general public. [emphasis added]
From the sentences above, you can see that central bankers are not worried about the collapse of the banking system and its effect on people. Bankers are concerned about the people realizing they are insolvent and the FDIC's deposit insurance account is nearly empty.
The bankers would rather be silent as they work the plan; close down the banks for a banking holiday to prevent bank runs while they loot deposit accounts and call it a bail-in.
It will all be done legally and with impunity.
Market Summary
We are told the inflation rate is below the rate measured last month. These comments and the accuracy of the inflation measure are part of the deception to keep the public calm as key prices continue to rise (dollar purchasing power falling) and the Fed continues to raise interest rates.
Inflation is rampant and will continue to rise because the dollar debt-based-currency scam has reached its end-of-life behavior.
Congress and the government continue to pour money into the economy around the clock. Watching the 10-year yield rise and fall week over week indicates massive bond purchasing in the background.
Congress just approved another $1.7 Trillion spending bill that provides enormous amounts of wasted money to be used further to restrict the rights and activities of the people while protecting the controllers from legal attempts to expose corruption – such as election fraud.
Here's what's in the $1.7 trillion federal spending law:
The legislation includes $772.5 billion for nondefense discretionary programs and $858 billion in defense funding. That represents an increase in spending in both areas for fiscal year 2023.
The bill contains billions of dollars that represent binge spending gone wild. A few examples of this Caligula-style spending are listed below.
[…]The bill allots $750,000 for fire alarm modernization at the metropolitan opera. There's $3 million for an LGBTQ museum in New York, more than $3.6 million for a Michelle Obama Trail, and authorization for the creation of a Ukrainian Independence Park.
The bill sets aside $200 million for the Gender Equity and Equality Action Fund and $7.5 million for studying “the domestic radicalization phenomenon.”
The word salmon appears in the bill 48 times, Rep. Dan Bishop (R–N.C.) noted, and $65 million is allotted for Pacific coastal salmon recovery. There's also an additional $5 million for studying the impacts of culverts, roads, and bridges on salmon populations, and $65.7 million for international fisheries commissions.
But it's essential to understand that continuously pushing money into the financial system is paramount in keeping the bond and banking system liquid.
Cost of Living Rising As Dollar Purchasing Power Falls
Study shows surge in credit card debt as consumers battle rising costs of living, goods
Credit card and household debt are rising in proportion to inflation. Total household debt is now $16.5 Trillion or $165K per household.
That average household debt has pushed the national total to $16.5 trillion, a 7.65 percent increase from a year before. […]
Study crafters also found that the credit card balances carried from month to month have gone up over the past year, now totaling roughly $460 billion. […]
The average U.S. household owed about $222,000 in mortgages, $17,000 in credit card debt as well as $29,000 in auto loans last year. IBID
A Presidential Executive Order has been written to raise federal salaries for 2023. Here are the actual pay raises federal employees will see in 2023, depending on their location
Social Security Cost of Living Increases goes into effect this year.
In 2023, Social Security Will Enjoy Its Largest Raise in 41 Years. Is It Enough?
While most Americans will not get a cost of living adjustment increase in their salaries, we can count on the government using borrowed money to raise the wages of government employees.
Regardless, wage increases are inflationary, and for federal employees: more than the social security increase is needed to keep up with the present (at this moment) cost of living increases.
Related notes:
Freight & Shipping Demand is falling, leading to layoffs of transportation and shipping workers.
Automobile prices are still holding too high and will fall significantly in 2023.
Car Sales on Car Gurus are now averaging 60 days and rising.
Automobile floor plans are causing dealership problems as automobile prices begin to fall.
Wells Fargo to shrink mortgage business, exit correspondent lending…(getting out while they still can)
Massive layoffs continue in the USA
Silver and Gold Market
A Commodity SUPER-SPIKE Is Coming. Are You Ready for It?
Today commodities, in general, are in massive INVERSE bubbles; therefore, when risk-on eventually becomes risk-off, and it will, the price of commodities will SUPER-SPIKE.
Silver demand reached an all-time high in 2022, according to the Silver Institute.
Demand for silver was expected to have reached a new high of 1.21 billion ounces in 2022, up 16 percent from the year before, driven by increases in industrial use, jewelry and silverware off-take, and physical investment.
Demand for Silver will continue to increase this year.
Silver Spot Price: $24.30 | 1 oz. Silver Eagle Price $37.59 | Premium 54.52%↓
Gold Spot Price: $1919.25 | 1 oz. Gold Eagle Price $2089.15 | 8.85% ↓
$50 face value junk silver $1,171.00 | 34.80% over spot price for 71.5% silver quarters↓
10 Yield: 3.45% ↓
Crude Oil Price: $79.46 ↑
Final thoughts:
The Federal Reserve is one of the most corrupt institutions the world has ever seen. There is not a man within the sound of my voice who does not know that this nation is run by the international bankers –Louis T.McFadden
Banks have created the problems they are facing today. It was the same in 2008, but instead of banks being punished and closed, their actions and debt mismanagement is rewarded by our bank-controlled governments. The taxpayer will be left to hold the bag for the trillions of dollars soon to be injected into the financial system as bailouts for banks.
In addition to coming bailouts, bankers have already created contract laws that classify most depositors as unsecured creditors. Your money can be taken and used to keep their bank solvent.
The financial systems of Western civilizations are being deliberately destroyed. The time frame for destruction is related to the time schedule of Agenda 21, which envisions the United States as just a part of a One World Government and is referred to as the North American Alliance – the former United States and Canada.
To oppose the destruction of the world as we know it and to resist the CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) based financial system, you must prepare now. The Agenda 21 schedule plans for the USA to be part of the North American Alliance by 2030. Further information on Agenda 21 here
To prepare, you must educate yourself as to what is happening. When you understand, you will immediately know why central banking is necessary for the complete dominance of society. No other means exists of destroying all nations simultaneously. A means that is powerful and predictable, an engineered currency purchasing power collapse.
Please see my previous articles for more information on how and why this is happening.
People are free to live as a means to their own ends only if they are willing to stand against the cult that claims ownership and control of all people and property on earth.
We are all born with the right to self-defense and to survive.
We are facing a very complex crisis, and it is time for those who can understand to teach others while using the constitution as the moral and legal authority to root out usurpers and restore our way of life.
Here are a few things of immediate importance
Move out of cities
Get out of debt.
Open up multiple bank accounts (and credit unions) to avoid bail-ins and bank closures due to bank losses. You will have other options if one of your banks fails.
Convert dollars that will be held hostage in the banking system to silver (and gold).
Keep Enough cash on hand for a month of typical requirements.
Keep stocking up on food.
Purchase productive assets (farms, farmland, tractors, specialized machinery).
Make preparations for gasoline and diesel fuel shortages coming this winter and spring.
Obtain necessary components of cooking – cooking oils, flour, sugar, seasonings, etc.
Learn new skills. Fishing, hunting, food storage, gardening.
Purchase a water purification system and identify places to find flowing water for use when the power systems become unreliable
Invest in solar & wind equipment for power generation
Consider communications a priority and invest in radio equipment (shortwave receivers, shortwave radios (get your license), GMRS radios.
Please note that the so-called “Junk Silver” is a fantastic way to own fractional silver and carry and use silver in a familiar, safe manner. Please see my new article, What is Junk Silver and Why You Should Buy Some. In this article, I explain how to price and buy “junk silver” and why it is a good idea to get some – oh, and get it soon.
** Ideas and suggestions in this article are my own opinions and are not intended to be financial advice.
Jack Mullen
Do Our Politicians Care More About the Ukraine than America?
GovernmentJoseph Mercola, M.D., Twitter Files Reveal FBI Involvement
Topics (All Other)STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- Twitter documents released by Elon Musk reveal the lawlessness of our intelligence agencies and the psychological warfare against the American public is far worse than expected
- Between October 2019 and February 2021 alone, FBI paid Twitter 3.4 million to censor certain views and stories on its behalf, including the damning Hunter Biden laptop story, which likely would have sunk Joe Biden’s bid for the presidency had it received the attention it deserved
- The FBI, Twitter and Facebook even ran a tabletop exercise about “hacked” information relating to Hunter Biden one month before the real story broke. During that exercise, they practiced the narrative that weeks later became “official truth”
- A large number of current and/or former FBI agents work at and with Twitter to keep the online narrative in check. More than 100 supposedly “former” intelligence agents also work in Facebook’s content moderation department
- While hunting down and banning covert propaganda accounts tied to foreign governments, Twitter worked with the U.S. Department of Defense to promote and protect American propaganda accounts, and aided U.S. intelligence agencies in their efforts to influence foreign governments using fake news, computerized deep fake videos and bots
If you’re still under the naively mistaken belief that there is no Deep State, the Twitter file dumps1 from Elon Musk detailing how Twitter, before his acquisition of the company, was coerced into doing the FBI’s bidding, with actual FBI agents on its staff to control the online narrative, ought to set the record straight.
In fact, the lawlessness of our intelligence agencies and the psychological warfare against the American public is far worse than most people ever expected.
FBI paid Twitter huge sums of money — your tax dollars, might I add — to censor certain views and stories, such as the damning Hunter Biden laptop story, which likely would have sunk Joe Biden’s bid for the presidency had it received the attention it legitimately deserved.
The FBI even ran a tabletop exercise about “hacked” information relating to Hunter Biden ONE MONTH before the real story broke. During that exercise, they practiced the narrative (i.e., lies) that weeks later became “official truth.”
There is a Deep State running the show, and they’re doing whatever they damn well please, without regard for the law or the U.S. Constitution. They’re acting completely outside the rules of our Constitutional Republic and the laws of the land, and they’ve weaponized the very agencies that are supposed to protect us and act in the public’s best interest and turned them against us.
The Twitter files saga is expanding by the day, so I won’t be able to cover every last detail here. Books will be needed to cover this scandal in depth. In the meantime, I suggest you review the references cited and keep your eyes peeled for later updates.
FBI Used Twitter to Track and Spy on Americans
In the video above, investigative journalist Glenn Greenwald reviews how Washington has expanded the war state and the Democrat’s censorship regime. About 39 minutes in, he begins reviewing evidence showing the FBI was not only censoring social media content, but the agency was also, on a regular basis, asking Twitter to reveal the location of specific Twitter users — for what purpose, no one knows. As noted by independent journalist Matt Taibbi in a December 17, 2022, Twitter post:
“What ‘law enforcement’ objective is served by asking for Billy Baldwin’s location information? Why is the FBI/DHS [Department of Homeland Security] in the business of analyzing and flagging social media content at all? When were these programs created and who approved them?”
These are all good questions. Historically, the FBI’s job has been to monitor and address criminal activity, not “misinformation.” Somewhere along the way, and it’s unclear exactly when the mandate changed and by whom, the DHS/FBI (the FBI supports the DHS by investigating threats) and other agencies tasked themselves with illegally suppressing free speech and shaping public narratives through public-private partnerships with Big Tech.
The Biden administration’s Orwellian “Ministry of Truth,” revealed in the summer of 2022, was one of the first indicators we had that something was horribly amiss. And even though that agency was quickly disbanded after public outcry (and no small amount of mockery), the policing of mis- and disinformation was simply shifted elsewhere within the federal government.
Moreover, as reviewed by Greenwald, internal DHS memos, emails and documents show the DHS has worked on expanding its influence over tech platforms for YEARS. So, government censorship is not something that “just happened” in response to the COVID crisis.
Nor is the censorship limited to COVID or public health information in general. We now have evidence showing the FBI has actively interfered in multiple elections, for example — activity that Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) accurately warns is “the biggest threat to our constitutional democracy today.”2
FBI Invented ‘Foreign Interference’ Narrative
Not surprisingly, the FBI invented the narrative that foreign nations were interfering in U.S. elections, which is precisely what they were doing. As reported by Taibbi and attorney Jeff Childers,3 the FBI asked Twitter to investigate “malicious actors” spreading election disinformation on Twitter. Twitter looked into the matter and reported there was no evidence of foreign interference.
The FBI was none too pleased with that answer and made it clear that Twitter better find some. As “evidence” that Twitter’s investigation was flawed, the FBI cited mainstream media articles and think-tank reports that claimed foreign interference was indeed taking place.4
In response, Twitter’s former censorship head Yoel Roth did an about-face and informed the team that “official state propaganda is DEFINITELY A THING ON TWITTER.”
How Media Have Been Weaponized to Provide False Evidence
The FBI’s tactic appears to be a variation of what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi calls the “wrap-up smear,” where they leak a lie to the media, and then they use that media report as “evidence” that the lie is true, and it just goes in circles from there.
Here, the FBI used reports — which were based on leaked information from anonymous intelligence agents5 — to pressure Twitter into making something up to further support the fiction the FBI itself invented and leaked to the sources they cited.
As noted by Childers, this variant on the political wrap-up smear is also being used by U.S. health agencies:6
“It’s a nifty trick … The NIH or CDC needs evidence to support some guidance they want to issue, like masking. So they fund some studies intended to show masks work. The pay-for-play scientists publish cartoonish, anti-scientific clown studies ‘proving’ cotton masks can somehow magically filter nanoscale virus particles.
Then the NIH and CDC cite those same studies — the same ones they procured — to ‘recommend’ unconstitutional mask mandates, or even outright order mandates, like for air travel and on cruise ships. Ditto vaccines … It’s a closed loop.”
Twitter-FBI Exercise: Managing the Hunter Biden Laptop Story
We now also have evidence showing it was the FBI that quenched the Hunter Biden laptop story. They, in collaboration with Twitter, Facebook and the Aspen Institute, even held a tabletop exercise in October 2020 to practice the shaping of the media’s coverage of a potential “hack and dump” operation involving Hunter Biden material.7,8 National security reporters from The New York Times and The Washington Post were also in attendance.9 As reported by the New York Post:10
“The exercise by the ‘Aspen Digital Hack-and-Dump Working Group’ involved an 11-day scenario in October 2020 that began with the imaginary release of falsified records related to Hunter Biden’s controversial employment by the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which paid him as much as $1 million a year to serve on its board when his father was vice president.
‘The goal was to shape how the media covered it — and how social media carried it,’ Shellenberger wrote. But the drill was put into practical use weeks later, when The Post broke the news about Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop — which was either ignored or downplayed by most mainstream news outlets and suppressed by both Twitter and Facebook.”
In the video below, independent journalist Matt Taibbi speaks with Russell Brand about the Twitter files and the kinds of censorship tactics Twitter secretly engaged in on the government’s behalf.
However, it turns out the FBI didn’t just attempt to sideline the Hunter Biden story a month in advance. No. They’ve been shielding it and working with social media to shield it for them, since 2018. As reported by Childers:11
“In December 2020, Twitter’s former censorship head Yoel Roth explained in a sworn statement that for almost two years leading up to the leak, the FBI told him, over and over, to expect a Russian leak about Hunter Biden in October 2020:
‘During these weekly meetings [since 2018], the federal law enforcement agencies communicated that they expected ‘hack-and-leak operations’ by state actors might occur in the period shortly before the 2020 presidential election, likely in October.
I was told in these meetings that … those hacking attacks would likely be disseminated over social media platforms, including Twitter … [and] that there were rumors that a hack-and-leak operation would involve Hunter Biden.’ Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, made comments on a podcast suggesting he’d had similar conversations with the FBI.”
FBI Agents Assigned to Twitter Censorship Duty
As reported by attorney Jeff Childers,12 FBI field agent Elvis Chan was one of the agents assigned to work with Twitter. He was recently deposed in the Missouri v. Biden case about his role in Twitter’s censoring of Americans. Below is just one of Chan’s emails to Twitter in which he directs them to ban specific accounts for imagined “crimes.”
As noted by Childers:13
“Note that Chan only provided a list of accounts. He didn’t bother to say WHICH terms of service were violated. He didn’t say anybody broke the law. He didn’t even say WHICH tweets were problematic.”
Still, within 48 hours, Twitter had obliged, and the accounts listed by Chan had either been suspended or banned. Below is Twitter censorship employee Patrick Conlon’s reply to Chan. As you can see, a long list of other FBI employees were also carbon copied.
Another FBI “plant” is Jim Baker.14 Before becoming Twitter’s head lawyer, he spent three decades with the FBI, most recently as its Deputy General Counsel. He too used his authority at Twitter to censor the Hunter Biden story. While his comment (see email below) may seem innocuous enough — just a polite suggestion — it’s clear, with facts in hand, that Baker was trying to influence the situation.
Intelligence Agencies Have Weaponized Social Media
For the record, Facebook also employs no less than 115 “former” employees of the FBI, CIA, NSA and other intelligence agencies.15 Most of them now work in Facebook’s content moderation department, which seems like a massive career slide, if you ask me, but what do I know? As noted by Childers:16
“The inescapable conclusion of what we’re seeing from the Twitter Files is that our country’s intelligence agencies, by and through the FBI, now control all the large social media outlets … and are using them to manipulate American public opinion and change the outcome of domestic elections. But for whom?”
My answer would be they’re doing it on behalf of the Deep State, the same unelected globalists that so doggedly push for a Great Reset and Fourth Industrial Revolution (i.e., eugenics rebranded as transhumanism). Childers continues:17
“If Elon Musk hadn’t spent $44 BILLION DOLLARS to buy Twitter, nobody would have ever believed the extent to which the intelligence community has absorbed private social media platforms in this country and turned them against the people. It’s literally unbelievable.
Exposure will probably be fatal. The Constitution does not provide for any internal security service in the United States. The agencies are WAY off the reservation, well into criminal territory, no matter how clever their lawyers are …
Of course, we still have the teensy-weensy little problem of ‘who’ will charge and arrest these people, since they’re in control of the entire federal law enforcement apparatus. Don’t worry, there ARE answers. But let’s wait a little bit and see how things play out.”
FBI Paid Twitter Millions
As mentioned, the FBI was also using taxpayer dollars to pay Twitter for their censorship services — $3,415,323 to be exact, between October 2019 and February 2021 alone.18
FBI and other intelligence agencies were also trying to gain even greater and more direct influence over Twitter. In a January 2020 email, Carlos Monje wrote to Roth, warning that a “sustained effort by the IC [intelligence community] to push us to share more information and change our API policies.” Apparently, the FBI wanted direct access into Twitter’s database.19
Lies and More Damn Lies
Investigative journalist Lee Fang with The Intercept20 has also provided us with some real bombshells. While Twitter has publicly insisted that it was cracking down on ALL covert government propaganda accounts, that was only partially true.
In reality, Twitter worked with the U.S. Department of Defense to promote and protect American propaganda accounts, and aided U.S. intelligence agencies in their efforts to influence foreign governments using fake news, computerized deepfake videos and bots.21 They only hunted down the foreign government-affiliated propaganda accounts. As reported by Fang:22
“Behind the scenes, Twitter gave approval and special protection to the U.S. military’s online psychological ops. Despite knowledge that Pentagon propaganda accounts used overt identities, Twitter did not suspend many for around two years or more. Some remain active …
In 2017 a U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) official sent Twitter a list of 52 Arab language accounts ‘we use to amplify certain messages.’ The official asked for priority service for six accounts, verification for one and ‘whitelist’ abilities for the others.”
Whitelisted accounts have a “validated” status similar to that of the blue check mark, which ensures they are promoted in searches. These accounts also don’t get shadow-banned or limited by other means. In closing, I think Childers makes an excellent and accurate observation:23
“Combine all this Twitter censorship, influence peddling, and pure propaganda with the vast budget for pushing vaccines by buying scientists and influencers during the pandemic, and we can begin to see the outlines of a vast private market for censorship and fake news created by the deep state, which then became its biggest customer.”
As for the FBI, it released a single-sentence “rebuttal” on December 21, 2022 — on Twitter — to the mountain of scandalous evidence presented against it.24
Experienced Pathologist Explains Blood Clots, Nano Tech and Parasites in COVID Vaccines
UncategorizedDr. Ryan Cole, a pathologist with 26 years of experience, explains that the blood clots that have been found by morticians, and also in living patients, are congealed protein made from an amyloid-like material. Dr. Cole said the microscopic rod and circuit-like structures others have identified as graphene oxide are actually cholesterol crystals, stacked-layered cholesterol, salt flakes and sugar crystals. He identified the the structures identified by others as parasites as being a leaf that came from environmental contamination.
