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  • #192010
    Topcat
    Participant

    I love Venn diagrams, they explain so much of the mysteries of life!

    #192011
    Topcat
    Participant

    • Trump Admin Is About to Make a HUGE Move Against the Deep State

    MAGA base Americans are gonna be happy when they see where this is all heading.

    To divert attention away from Epstein, the Zionist Frankenstein

    #192012
    Topcat
    Participant

    Talk about diverting the public’s rodent like ADD attention span

    A hundred years of same old same old

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    #192013
    Dr. D
    Participant

    “• Read the Base, Trump: Voters Want Epstein Accountability (Salgado)

    Because this will crash everything, he needs US to do it so it’s OUR fault. …I don’t mind. But YOU will.

    ““..I really would like to be known as the man that saved our country.”
    • President Trump Reveals What He Really Wants His Legacy To Be (NYP)

    That’s why in “The Fourth Turning” it’s a GREY Champion. Not a Black or White one. Morally ambiguous, like Lincoln and FDR, doing nearly as much evil as good. Why? The system itself is so evil at that point, it’s the furthest it can push. Look around.

    “• Trump To Wield ‘Sledgehammer’ Against Russia – Lindsey Graham (RT)

    I have no idea. And Alexander is constant on the “Bone Crushing Sanctions”. Dude: those are WORDS. They don’t exist. They are words said by a politician, so they are a lie. They were said by Lindsay Graham, so we can be certain they are a wicked, bold-faced, anti-American lie. There are no Sanctions. Stop living in this fantasyland. I mean, we have to report people said it, but get a grip. It’s like saying we’re colonizing Mars. Uhhh, not today we ain’t! Go ahead and get back to me when it has any relation to “Reality” and isn’t the ravings of a deranged lunatic.

    “Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has threatened new strikes deep inside Russia,”

    With what? Carrier pigeons?

    Oh but you see, we’ve just been holding out this whoooooooole time! We actually had 1,000-mile ICBMs but we were really nice and not using them against Putin out of the goodness of our hearts! Again, these are WORDS. They won the s—t out of the war on words.

    “Hellfire missiles, noting that by the end of 2023, the US had produced more than 170,000”

    I’m on board. So…we take cash or gold. Oh wait: you don’t have either? And you want us to give them to you for FREE? Hahaha, no. That would be us entering the war, wouldn’t it? What would be WWIII, Jack.

    “Trump Terrified By BRICS Strategic Threat (Pepe Escobar)

    “We Make S—t Up!” I have perfect knowledge of Trump’s internal, emotional state. He only acts on FEEEEEELINGS. His fee-fees. What is it with Liberals only caring about people’s feelings and very with reality, be it math, money, or the number of shells in the warehouse? Are they ignorant or just retarded?

    What is this headline? “I get off on MY emotions and Fee-Fees, IMAGINING he has the bad Fee-fees because I made fun of him. I stay up all night basking in the warm fuzzies of thinking Trump B Sad!” Jesus H. Christos. And all for an ineffible, unprovable, internal state.

    Hey Pepe: THEY’RE ALL PSYCHOPATHS. They don’t have Internal Feelings. They’re like lizards. Get a grip, you’ve reported on “Governments” before.

    “Bannon to give the whole tawdry game away: if you ditch the prosecution of Bolsonaro, we ditch the 50% tariffs.”

    Yeah? What makes you think Trump DGAF about either? What he did was split Brazil’s voters who now say the Tariff fallout is LULA’S fault. Lula could have just done right by Bolsonaro and none of this would have happened. And that Trump would happily shoot Bolsonaro in the eye AND put on 50% tariffs if they worked smoother, but THIS splitting the electorate works smoother. Jesus, haven’t any of you guys ever left the house?

    ““Trump has effectively unionized every exporter in the world against American importers.”

    Which kills Globalism and Globalists. Remember Trump’s 2016 inauguration speech? “Time of Globalists is over, done, bye”? Yet this is a big accident Trump is too dumb to see happening.

    He then continues “This is actually HELPING BRIICS”. No s—t Sherlock. YOU are the only one who proposed Trump is even AGAINST BRIICS. As far as I can see by actions, he’s helping Russia, Iran, Saudi, etc… America, as a sovereign nation, needs to be FOR the same thing the BRIICS are for: a far, ethnic, multipolar world. Where we compete like sports teams and don’t Empire each other. All of this is FOR that, didn’t you notice?

    Nope, because everyone else is dumb but Pepe.

    Man, thank God we have people like this or Trump would have to be clever and hide it. As it is, he goes out, says it on national TV, and everyone thinks he’s failing and doing the opposite for some reason.

    “Those who were disciplined received penalties far too weak to match the severity of the failures.”

    Uh-huh. And Trump is using the REAL facts of the case as blackmail all over, say with Pompeo and Haley, and their many, many, many, rich, established GOP backers who ordered it.
    And this story? Hey, anybody know anything about this Crooks guy? Whose parents got the best DNC lawyers on the planet for free? And when their house was searched owned no silverware? (?!?) Whose son, a health aide, only worked with Homeland agents at the gun range? Nope. Yet to hear anything on any of that.

    ““You can tell the president is pissed every time he looks at the BRICS de-dollarization effort.”

    Well yeah, that probably IS true. We can have the BRIICS so long as for now we keep the US$. We’re rotating out of all that, but it remains our core power-base. Aaaaaaaand BRIICS have said they have no interest in replacing that. So. We’re on the same page! Reporters just report the opposite every day because they’re illiterate retards who don’t know what “Words” mean. …Now it could be BRIICS found out it’s actually too hard and too big to replace it and would if they could. No matter: same result. They ain’t, and they ain’t trying.

    “The irony is that Trump and Western imperial arrogance are the cause of the dollar’s demise.”

    You mean when like OBAMA cut off the SWIFT? Trump made him do it. Like when BIDEN grabbed the assets? Yeah, Trump made him do it.

    Aaaaand, again, THE DOLLAR IS NOT DEMISING. It’s holding real firm. We are CHANGING it. It’s only falling against Gold? Hahahaha! Yeah, because we’re going to be in a US$ system that acts like it’s backed by gold, they already said. All that “Petrodollar” printing stuff the Globalists put in, in 1971-1995? Yeah, we’re just as slowly and methodically reversing each of those steps, one by one, starting with tariffs.

    There is no US$ demise. And this is not to my advantage, as I invested back when that it would, when the country was run by moron-traitors and not like Jamie Dimon saving his Wall Street bacon, but oh well, sell sell sell.

    “..practically exhausted itself” due to Russia’s “maximalist” demands..”
    • Istanbul Talks Format ‘Exhausted Itself’ – Kiev (RT)
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    This suits everyone perfectly. There is only surrender now. I don’t understand Alexander, talking about “Istanbul II” etc. NO. You do NOT get to run the war another year or two, then Russia tables the same surrender plan as before. That’s ridiculous and if Russia did that (pretty sure not) they should be shot for treason. WHY EVER would UK NOT continue infinity wars if, at any point, the terms of surrender are the same? Same in 1939 as 1945? NOPE. That’s not what “War” means, that’s not what “Losing a war” means.

    “ceasefire,” Kislitsa said. The second was to “create the conditions” for a meeting between Putin and Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky,”

    And right in this sentence. ALL of that is against Russia. It’s like they haven’t talked to Russia at all, “What Russia?” Russia said years back “No Ceasefire, not now, not ever.” They also say daily ZE IS NOT THEIR LEADER. There is no reason or purpose to talk to him, a waste of time. Etc.

    “Ironically, it’s the sanctions that have made foreign currencies impractical for Russia.
    • Russian Companies Losing Interest In Foreign Currency – Central Bank (RT)

    Yes, Trump is making Russia and BRIICS STRONGER. Pepe. He’s the reason they were ready for sanctions in 2022, because Trump could be blamed for it in 2020, and Russia could convert. Now, 10 years later, they’re still saying “But the West is dum, has no idea the results of ten years of continuous actions!” Uh-huh. I hit the button, get punched in the face by the cartoon boxing glove, then just keep hitting the same button for ten more years. That’s your argument?



    “Bill Gates—the billionaire philanthropist turned global vaccine czar—is now facing fresh legal scrutiny as three new plaintiffs seek to join a Dutch lawsuit accusing him”

    But Gates is the world’s most famous doctor!

    “When I am weaker than you I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles” – Louis Veuillot
    Checking this quote, which is attributed to Dune.

    #192014
    those darned kids
    Participant

    so..

    molest little girls, nada.

    bother donald trump, HUGE MOVE.

    america is definitely great now.

    #192015
    those darned kids
    Participant

    grey champion?

    ¡nope!

    orange chump!

    #192016
    Dora
    Participant

    Texas floods, camp Mystic, and FEMA.
    https://apnews.com/article/texas-flood-camp-mystic-map-records-investigation-e12bee8d5f88301363861ca12c19b929
    FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show
    Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing waters swept away children and counselors, a review by The Associated Press found.

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency included the prestigious girls’ summer camp in a “Special Flood Hazard Area” in its National Flood Insurance map for Kerr County in 2011, which means it was required to have flood insurance and faced tighter regulation on any future construction projects.

    Located in a low-lying area along the Guadalupe River in a region known as flash flood alley, Camp Mystic lost at least 27 campers and counselors and longtime owner Dick Eastland when historic floodwaters tore through its property before dawn on July 4.

    But Syracuse University associate professor Sarah Pralle, who has extensively studied FEMA’s flood map determinations, said it was “particularly disturbing” that a camp in charge of the safety of so many young people would receive exemptions from basic flood regulation.

    FEMA exempted buildings at old and new sites

    In response to an appeal, FEMA in 2013 amended the county’s flood map to remove 15 of the camp’s buildings from the hazard area. Records show that those buildings were part of the 99-year-old Camp Mystic Guadalupe, which was devastated by last week’s flood.

    After further appeals, FEMA removed 15 more Camp Mystic structures in 2019 and 2020 from the designation. Those buildings were located on nearby Camp Mystic Cypress Lake, a sister site that opened to campers in 2020 as part of a major expansion and suffered less damage in the flood.

    Campers have said the cabins at Cypress Lake withstood significant damage, but those nicknamed “the flats” at the Guadalupe River camp were inundated.

    #192017
    those darned kids
    Participant

    orange champignon!

    #192018
    poppie
    Participant

    Todays articles add domino effect to close of business. Its the same traitors doing a lot of bad business. Pick a thing with a chance to succeed. Conspiracy. that will thin the ranks and help the next offensive, which may already be organizing. It almost looks like Trump has taken combat math lessons from Putin. What order do you put the dominos? Conspiracy. Vaccine murder. Racketeering. Child murder. Financial fraud.
    That would assume that anything at all is being done and its not just for show. Close of business. I will wait.

    #192019
    Topcat
    Participant

    FAFO

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    #192020
    Dora
    Participant

    From Meryl Nass.
    https://merylnass.substack.com/p/new-high-quality-movie-out-on-the
    New, high quality movie out on the COVID vaccine trials, the injuries they caused, the coverup. FREE, and you may download and share it too!
    Watch the clip, then the 70 minute movie on Steve Kirsch’s X channel

    #192021
    those darned kids
    Participant

    I have perfect knowledge of Trump’s internal, emotional state. He only acts on FEEEEEELINGS. His fee-fees. Morally ambiguous, like Lincoln and FDR, doing nearly as much evil as good. Why? The system itself is so evil at that point, it’s the furthest it can push.

    #192022
    zerosum
    Participant

    child exploitation by elites
    a potential game-changer
    statute of limitations
    accountability
    several overt acts of the conspiracy
    the Jeffrey Epstein files, so we could see how many people still in power were clients
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    Pretending of not being at war with Russia
    Berlin will provide Ukraine its first batch of long-range missiles financed by Germany in the coming weeks.

    Russia has said that it views the use of foreign-supplied missiles as direct participation by Western states in the conflict and claimed that Ukrainian troops cannot operate sophisticated weapons systems on their own.
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    https://infobrics.org/
    BRICS 2025 in Rio
    130-plus point Rio declaration

    The BRICS offer a vision of nations trading freely in an ethos of partnership and cooperation.
    A vital mechanism is to settle trade with the currencies of the partner nations.
    The imposed reliance on the US dollar is a fetter on development that only benefits Washington.
    Trump’s fears about BRICS are shared by the US establishment and its vassals among the European elites.
    If the dollar were to be replaced, then a key pillar of US hegemony would collapse.
    The dollar-affiliated euro currency would also crash.
    ———–

    #192023
    kultsommer
    Participant

    BREAKING: Nuremberg 2 Has Begun — And the Globalists Are TERRIFIED

    Another perpetrator of genocide has already been “cleared” of any wrong doing.

    #192024
    Dora
    Participant

    Epstein
    edit: image didn’t post. Meme with a pic of Hillary on one side and a wrapped body on a gurney on the other side with the caption “I don’t care who you are. Nobody has 56 friends who committed suicide.”

    #192025
    Topcat
    Participant

    To everything (Turn, Turn, Turn)
    There is a season (Turn, Turn, Turn)
    And a time to every purpose, under Heaven

    The Orange Champion

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    Which leads to behavior like this:

    #192026
    Topcat
    Participant

    One, two, three

    I am he as you are he, as you are me and we are all together

    See how they run like pigs from a gun, see how they fly
    I’m crying

    Sitting on a cornflake, waiting for the van to come
    Corporation tee-shirt, stupid bloody Tuesday
    Man, you been a naughty boy, you let your face grow long

    You Have the Power!

    #192027
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://sonar21.com/latest/

    https://sonar21.com/the-epstein-client-list-why-is-trump-breaking-his-promise-to-publish/
    The Epstein Client List — Why is Trump Breaking His Promise to Publish?
    9 July 2025 by Larry C. Johnson 247 Comments

    Although Donald Trump and Pam Bondi insist that there is no Epstein Client List… there is a list and it is reproduced above with the permission of its author, Ryan Dawson.
    Ryan compiled the list the old-fashioned way… he combed through court transcripts and charging documents.
    He only put names on the list if the victims of Epstein’s pedophilia enterprise identified or named a particular individual.
    As you peruse the list you will notice that there are some very wealthy, powerful individuals named.
    Not one of them has brought a libel or slander legal action against Ryan.
    If he was posting false material, he would have been a certain target of lawsuits.
    ————

    #192028
    poppie
    Participant

    zerosum. best tae post of the year.

    #192029

    Off topic:
    For those interested, the north rim of the Grand Canyon is closed (“Dragon Bravo” fire). The trails my mate preferred for his many visits there are closed, and the beautiful lodge has been destroyed.
    My first thought was that north rim hikers and lodge residents might ask questions about all the activity going on over the south rim…where the uranium mines are.
    Oh, yeah- throw in terrified vacationers because…chlorine gas!!!!? (NBC news). [1:47]

    Sometimes the Miles Mathis approach makes sense (he hasn’t covered this yet).

    #192030
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    One mank’s….(Pam Bondi’s)

      Administration of Justice

    ….is another guy’s….

      Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations violation

    Add to that
    1. the clear RICO implications of the SS knowing the INTEL on The Butler Assassination Protocol 10 days prior
    And
    2. The promotion of ie. financial and monetary gain of the Secret Service Principals involved demonstrates an ongoing effort to defraud Ds American People, unremitting.

    Do you wonder what other of the 35 Crimes under RICO Statute Pam Bondi and The Boyz violated?

    Wire Fraud is in there easily.
    Here, check the list yourself

    .https://anthonyricciolaw.com/criminal-law/35-crimes-of-the-rico-act/

    Btw, Kirk “Robin Hood” Moore Em Dee should give up his license and go to hell and jail. Betcha one of the Mormon Leaderships, perhaps Sir Mitt Romney, paid for that outcome. Prove me wrong plz

    #192031
    John Day
    Participant

    Offer of more public drama…
    Lawsuit Incoming: AOC Directly Calls Trump A “Rapist”
    “Wow who would have thought that electing a rapist would have complicated the release of the Epstein Files?” https://www.zerohedge.com/political/lawsuit-incoming-aoc-directly-calls-trump-rapist

    #192032
    Topcat
    Participant

    The USSA is a trivial “country” lost in trivial pursuits.

    It’s capital burns, it’s Emperor fiddles

    #192033
    Topcat
    Participant

    The USSA

    It’s No Country for an Old Man

    #192034
    tboc
    Participant

    Mr. Trump is determined to maintain The United States unipolar position.
    Not a single instrument used to attain that postion will be dismantled.
    Start with Calley and move forward to Bustamante, the script is the script.
    There is no horror that has not been committed and no linit to the horror that wiil be committed.
    Support for MAGA is support for global hegemony.

    The current wave of self righteous denial, finger pointing and purposeful ignorance has worn thin.
    Face it when it comes to YOUR standard of living you will act as a blood thirsty savage in lock step with your class in pursuit of The National Interest.
    For a brief moment at least, To Thine Own Self Be True.

    #192035
    Topcat
    Participant

    Council to Trumptard

    #192036
    tboc
    Participant

    try to remember Walt Kelly’s observation
    “We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us”

    #192037
    Topcat
    Participant

    Lawsuit Incoming: AOC Directly Calls Trump A “Rapist”

    #192038
    Topcat
    Participant

    75% of MSM TV revenues come from Big Pharma drug pimpin’.

    Me talking to my ‘PC’

    “I want this, the people look base.”

    #192039
    Topcat
    Participant

    The Case for More AI

    #192040
    Topcat
    Participant

    Trumptard might as well have said this in so many words

    #192041
    Topcat
    Participant

    Media Whores

    Their 3rd Stage Syphilis is eating their brains

    #192042
    Topcat
    Participant

    #192043

    All your friends are in on it.
    You saw them at the party.
    And now you see the guest list won’t be shared.
    Resting easy? Not one bit!
    You’d have to be a smarty
    To buck the boss- as if you even dared!

    It feels like the US has entered a stage of gang warfare.
    Everyone’s invited to the meeting in the garage this Valentine’s day! OR
    Perhaps metaphorical Scarlet Carsons are being given to each appropriate individual?

    #192045
    Dr D Rich
    Participant

    A HCR blog comment

    Brad EvansApril 5, 2017 at 8:45:00 PM EDT

    Physicians working in a corporation, when they are in a bad situation, have options (Hirschman’s Exit, Voice and Loyalty). First, they could just put with the situation and get on with their work (Loyalty). Second, they could agitate to try to improve things. This runs the risk of the physician being labeled a complainer or, worse yet, disruptive. The risk is that you could end up being reported to the National Practitioners’ Data Base, which might irreparably damage your career. So, this is a dangerous option in many circumstances.

    The 3rd option is to leave. Go somewhere else and practice. Compared to a physician who has built up a practice, a corporate physician may not have the ties to the community, and therefore has more freedom to leave.

    The economic hope in this situation is that corporations who create unnecessary strife for physicians, who are trying to take care of patients, would end up having to pay a premium for that privilege. Right now, as far as I know, there is no good way for an incoming physician to be aware of the problems that an individual hospital or health care system have caused prior physicians.

    #192049
    John Day
    Participant

    @Dr.D: “Grey Champion refers to being an old man, an old warrior-type, not morally ambiguous.

    #192050
    citizenx
    Participant

    Jeffrey Epstein Speaking Footage

    In a 2002 interview with New York Magazine, Trump described Epstein as a “terrific guy” and noted that he was “a lot of fun to be with,” even suggesting that Epstein shared his interest in “beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side”.

    Epstein- Lived in the VIRGIN Islands, plane called Lolita express, vacation homes in-
    New Mexico
    New York
    Palm Beach
    Paris

    Total slime bag, what a NY jew accent with elite attitude. trumps buddy he’s protecting.

    #192051
    citizenx
    Participant

    Sounds promising, but let’s see it in action.

    Here’s actions retard-
    – Israel weapons and money, unconditional support
    – Ukraine weapons and money
    – Syria sucking terrorists dicks (911?)
    – Iran bombing and threatening for his zionist masters
    – Epstein never happened (terrific guy)
    – Snowden or Assange pardons?

    still waiting for more promises to be broken and unfulfilled?

    Pepe still has his anti-Trump hat on.

    better than sucking trumps dick at this point, sound promising?

    PRESIDENT TRUMP IS BY FAR TOO GOOD FOR ANY DEMOCRAT.

    And you post this in favorable light for trump?
    Too fucking retarded to realize both parties are a disaster? Boomer

    TAE losing all credibility, integrity, trust daily. Drink more kool aid sucker.
    Reality is not biased.

    #192052
    citizenx
    Participant

    Blind, blind, blind, blind, blind

    It was light by five
    Torn all apart, all in the name of democracy
    He’s hurt, he’s dying
    Claimed he was a terrorist, claimed to avert a catastrophe
    Someone should’ve told him that the buck stops here
    No one ever said that he was involved with thieves

    And they’re blind, blind
    Blind, blind, blind, blind, blind

    Willingly blind…. No compassion, no merit, undeserved.
    Inflicting pain and suffering on others from a position of power, be it political or propaganda gatekeepers, is disgusting, Failed life.

    #192053
    John Day
    Participant

    Lie Becomes Truth https://drjohnsblog.substack.com/p/lie-becomes-truth

    Michael Hudson, Why America No Longer Makes Its Own Future:
    I think that Trump’s bill — the (Republican) Big Beautiful (Budget Deficit) Bill — along with Trump’s tariff policy will have the effect of ending dollar hegemony and will lead to a falling exchange rate of the dollar because Trump has said he wants the dollar’s exchange rate to go down, imagining that this is going to make America’s industrial exports less expensive.
    The problem is it doesn’t have many industrial exports anymore. They’re all made abroad…
    ..So the effect is going to end — the dollar’s free lunch — this exorbitant privilege of being able to run huge military and trade deficits, without having to see its exchange rate decline and prices rise. Now you’re having a flight out of the dollar. The dollar’s exchange rate has gone down 10%. That’s the largest decline since Franklin Roosevelt devalued the dollar in 1933. They’re running for the exit. So we’re seeing the end of an era. This bill is that important.
    And it’s been an era that enabled the United States to finance both its balance-of-payments deficit and its budget deficit by printing IOUs — Treasury bonds — that supposedly would never have to be repaid. Because when the United States spends money abroad, mainly for military purposes, these dollars end up in the hands of foreign central banks. And what are they going to do? In the past, until right now, for the last 54 years, they had only one choice: to recycle them into safe U.S. Treasury bonds, or federal agency bonds that have yielded a little bit more.
    But for the first time now, they’re running for the exits…
    ..They claim that giving more money to the wealthiest 1% is going to increase investment and employment.
    But that’s not what billionaires do with their wealth. They buy more stocks and bonds and interest-bearing loans. They make money financially, not by building new factories and employing more people… It’s made the 1% richer, and it’s ended the whole era of easy growth for the United States…
    ..The Greeks, and the Romans, and most of antiquity before that, realized that there was such a thing as wealth addiction, as money love. And the fact is that wealth is addictive, and they keep wanting more and more…
    ..Already in the 17th century (the mid-1600s), there was an argument, just like today. And the British economists said: Well, wait a minute. Rich people don’t buy goods and services, except for luxury Italian imports and luxuries, and luxury real estate. All this money gets recycled into more and more loans.
    And from the vantage point of foreign investors and money managers, the most serious threat to the dollar’s exchange rate is Trump’s pressure on the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates…
    ..If the highest returns are likely to be made abroad, it’ll weaken the dollar. That’s going to raise prices and higher import costs, plus the tariffs…
    ..We’re seeing what the classical economists realized: When you let the income be made not by production, not by industrial capital, businesses, or labor’s living standards, but solely in a financial way, that is purely manipulative, and turns out to be anti-labor and also anti-business…
    ..And you can be sure that a lot of the tax cuts that are being given are going to be spent on buying up yet more real estate, concentrating the absentee-landlord-owned real estate at the expense of homeowners. So they’re ending the membership in the middle class…
    ..So the effect of the giveaway to the financial sector is going to accelerate America’s de-industrialization. And that’s the dynamic of today’s finance capitalism…
    ..The British had to deal with the problem that there was land rent that was taken by their landlord class. There isn’t a landlord class; they got rid of it. But the BRICS countries have something much like a landlord class, and that’s the foreign investors in their subsoil wealth; foreign investors in their oil, their mining, their forests… The BRICS have to deal with a foreign capitalist class. That’s what makes financial imperialism so different and independent from colonialism… When the foreign investors take all of their natural wealth rents for themselves — instead of leaving it as the tax base for their own countries — it means that the government doesn’t have enough money to build the infrastructure necessary to make a balanced economy like the industrial capitalists…
    ..The BRICS countries are trying to — for the first time — achieve the sovereignty that they have not been able to achieve by running into debt, by not being able to tax foreign investment in their natural resources, by not being able to tax monopoly rents from the public utilities that they’ve had to sell off.
    All of this had to break down at a point. And Trump has catalyzed all of this breakdown because, by imposing tariffs on these countries, they can’t pay their foreign debts anymore…
    ..So now they think: Well, why don’t we do what made industrial capitalism work so well in its take-off? Why don’t we impose rent taxes on foreign investors in our national resources? Why don’t we nationalize the monopolies by passing antitrust legislation? And why don’t we just realize that the debts that we’ve run up have been run up as a result of financial colonialism, not our sovereign decisions, but their odious debts…
    ..Well, the question then is: Can this return to civilization that we’re talking about be done without a military confrontation? Is America actually going to war with China? …
    ..When China emerged as a country in 1949, they didn’t have a financial class. So, of course, the government had to create the money. But that took a revolution. Will it take a revolution, a defensive revolution, for the BRICS, and this higher civilization, to emerge? …
    ..It’s the people who have made wealth without working, who know that they are the parasites, who are willing to fight so hard, and so violently, to preserve their claims on wealth that consist of the ability to impoverish the rest of the population below them. https://michael-hudson.com/2025/07/why-america-no-longer-makes-its-own-future/

    Dollar weakens as global reserve currency, while de-dollarization efforts accelerate
    US dollar index posts steepest first-half decline since 1973 amid trade fragmentation and geopolitical tensions
    The BRICS bloc — Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa — has accelerated efforts to settle transactions without using the dollar. Trump said Tuesday that the bloc is trying to destroy the US currency and vowed to stop it.
    A survey by the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum found that 80% of central banks are concerned over the political developments in the US, while a net 16% of survey participants plan to increase their euro holdings over the next 12–24 months, and 32% of central banks aim to increase their gold reserves over the same period.
    Trump’s failure to deliver on his promise to cut public spending and his fiscal and foreign policies are some of the main reasons why investors are leaving the US market. https://www.aa.com.tr/en/economy/dollar-weakens-as-global-reserve-currency-while-de-dollarization-efforts-accelerate/3628233

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