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1. OpenAI Whistleblower’s Family Does Not Believe He Killed Himself

Derrick Broze speaks to Poornima Rao, the mother of Suchir Balaji, the OpenAI whistleblower who was found dead on November 26, 2024. Suchir went public with his concerns about OpenAI and AI in general in October and was set to be a key witness in the New York Times lawsuit against Microsoft and OpenAI.

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2. Creative Solutions to the North American Water Crisis: The Case of NAWAPA Revived

Currently, the USA faces a variety of existential crises – from deadly fires across Los Angeles (amplified by empty reservoirs leaving firemen with empty fire hydrants), to food shortages, and other drought conditions. One proposed solution to these issues is NAWAPA.

Some of these disasters can be considered the effect of natural forces, but many of these are man-made- meaning they were caused by human neglect or perhaps in some cases, nefarious intentions, and would thus be solved by human agency.

In this essay, I think we can say that it is a bit of both.

Water systems have been strained over the years as the tradition of water management, power generation and agro-industrial progress which built our society have been consciously undermined by several generations of increasingly degenerate Malthusian technocrats. The lack of basic maintenance, let alone constructing new hydroelectric dams over the past 40 years has resulted in a dangerous structural rot among vital infrastructure and an increased annihilation of fragile water systems so necessary for farmers, industry and residential use… especially on the west coast of the USA.

In Lake Mean, Nevada and Arizona, and Lake Powell in Utah, we've seen strategically important reservoirs fall to their lowest levels in history, where they are now facing 'dead pool' status—meaning water will soon no longer be able to flow downstream.

Aquifers have been drained down over the decades as well, resulting in a calamitous situation for citizens and food production.

Making matters worse, U.S. farming income has continued to collapse over the past 8 years, with Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute forecasting an additional 6% collapse in 2025.

Where an intelligent society fit to survive would think of ways to increase fresh water access to the continent, sadly the leadership which has been shaping policy for the trans-Atlantic west has instead been committed to accelerating the destruction to farmers, and the lives of citizens through a number of techniques. Forced triaging of water use is one path we've seen. Another has been the blaming of small and medium industrial farmers as the cause of 'climate problems,' resulting in putting pressure on shutting down food production following the Agenda 2030 scheme.

Where Could the Needed Water Come From?

Underground aquifers, which take thousands of years to replenish have historically been a source of water for drought-stricken regions, but as we see with the case of the gigantic Ogallala aquifer providing the High Plains basin, which has dropped by 19 feet in only 17 years, such sources are not going to be there forever.

Reservoirs built up during the "age of water projects" from the 1930s-1960s, such as the Shasta Lake reservoir, Lake Oroville reservoir or Folsom Lake reservoir have found themselves on the verge of total depletion, and the dams themselves which were built 50-90 years ago that not only provided hydroelectric power, but flood controls, and water management systems are decaying requiring billions of dollars in repairs.

Two Zero-sum Solutions

Unfortunately, solutions to these bleak problems are desperately lacking, and neither of the two most popular solutions offer much in the way of long-term practicable remedies, as they are both equally trapped in a world of "zero sum" thinking.

The first of these two zero sum approaches posits that we can act on the problem by diverting water from one place to another in piecemeal fashion. But in such drought-stricken regions, there is very little abundance to begin with, and moving water from one place where the resource is scarce to another place where it is scarcer simply creates more tension, and simply kicks the crisis can down the road for a few more months or years.

The other more cynical view states that "it was a mistake to believe that we could have used science and technology to populate the west coast of the USA to begin with over the past 120 years". The adherents of this view look upon the great dams built under Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, which made the Imperial Valley possible as an abomination of nature.

These folks (who include such figures as the former Governor of California Gerry Brown Jr) conclude that humanity should learn from this crisis by adapting to the deserts that nature has created and simply depopulate places like California whose population exceeds that of the whole of Canada by over 7 million souls.

This thinking has resulted in the systematic destruction of hydro-electric dams across North America in order to 'liberate the rivers' and 'restore the deserts' to their supposedly 'natural' dead status.

In California alone, half a billion dollars was spent by Gov. Newsom in 2023-2024 to destroy four strategically important dams to save nature from humans. In 2021, the Democratic party allocated the largest budget for demolishing hydroelectric dams (56 in total), and this logic has also resulted in hundreds of dams demolished across Europe to save nature from civilization.

What unites both of these approaches is the adherence to zero sum thinking.

This is the belief which assumes that both ecosystems and human economies are 1) closed systems, 2) maintained by finite energy whereby 3) any new energy expended in one part of the system requires that the equivalent amount of energy be removed from another part of the system in question.

Before returning to non-zero-sum solutions that are available for the current American water crisis, let us take a moment to look at another part of the world not limited by this sort of closed system thinking.

The Case of China's Move South Water North Project

As I outlined in my recent essay 'BRICS+ VS. the WEF: The Clash of Two Green Paradigms', China has embarked upon a massive nation-wide program that bears directly upon the matter of North America water crisis is a megaproject called the "Move South Water North Project".

Begun in 2001, the $64 billion water diversion project is the largest such program ever divised in human history.

In order to bring much needed water from the flood prone, low-population density headwaters of the Yangtze River of the south to the highly populated industrial zones of drought-prone North, engineers have embarked on a project that aims to bring 44.8 billion cubic meters (1.5 trillion cubic feet) of water per year from the south to the North and Yellow River basin.

Divided into three routes, the first to begin construction was the Eastern Route upgrade of the Grand Canal, bringing 12.6 billion cubic meters/year of water from the Yangze via massive tunnels to avoid evaporation across 760 miles to Tianjin. This journey will take the water through 23 pumping stations, and provide 45.4 mW of power along the way. This route was completed in 2013.

Finally, the third Western Route will only be completed in 2050, and will bring water from the Yangtze and tributaries to the Yellow River, passing through the Tibetan Plateaus.

While detractors of these projects focus only on the 330 000 people who were displaced due to these projects, it is undeniable that the flood controls, increased irrigation, and water availability for urban and industrial activity will save countless lives over the coming centuries.

Returning to North America

So what would this sort of non-zero sum thinking allow us to do in the abysmal case of North America?

If we remove from our minds adherence to the assumption that North American water systems must be defined regionally as closed systems, and that planning can only occur using "bottom up" thinking, new vistas open up to us.

By starting with an open system view which sees ecosystems and economies as being "more than the sum of their parts" and allowing our minds to problem solve from a top down perspective, then that enlarged context and perspective changes both the parameters of the problem and the available pathways to solve it.

Taking a look at the North American continent as a whole, we find many similarities to the problem faced by the Chinese.

North America's water cycle features an immense amount of rain water and unused water runoff in the north, where there are few people and little industrial activity while there is very little water in the south, where we find high population and agro-industrial activity.

Over 2,200 million acre feet/year rains down upon the land in Alaska and the Northeastern continent of Yukon, and in BC, 1,300 million acre feet/year of that rain runs off directly into the Arctic and north Pacific salt water, never to be used in any biospheric process. Compare this immense runoff with the 110 million acre feet/year continental average.

This number is 40 times more runoff than what is experienced in North Mexico or the Southwest USA.

In the 1960s, continental water management and non-zero-sum thinking were much less taboo than they have become in recent years. Under the short-lived leadership of President John F. Kennedy, a new era of large scale water projects was unveiled that reflected this paradigm. Kennedy immediately reversed Eisenhower's "No New Builds" agenda and immediately supported bills to accelerate Federal funding for water/hydro/irrigation projects across the nation.

During an August 17, 1962 dedication ceremony to the Trans Mountain tunnel system connecting Atlantic and Pacific watersheds, Kennedy exemplified this optimistic outlook:

"This is an investment in the future of this country, an investment that will repay large dividends. It is an investment in the growth of the West, in the new cities and industries which this project helps make possible. And I hope that in the 1960s we will commit ourselves to this same kind of mutual effort, and not regard those projects which aid our cities as inimical to Colorado or those projects which help our farmers as taking it away from our cities. Because that concept of the moving ahead of a great country on a great errand is what I think can give this country its leadership in the future as it has in the past."

Kennedy's death derailed many of the projects which he and his close collaborators like Senator Frank Moss and Robert Kennedy were pushing during this period, as a Malthusian anti-development paradigm became infused into national policy making.

One particular project which arose at this time was called the North American Water and Power Alliance (NAWAPA), sponsored by the Parsons company and endorsed by leading politicians from both sides of the aisle including, Robert Kennedy.

Unbeknownst to many people today, this project became federal legislation by 1965 and won over many leading Canadian, and American engineers and statesmen, who conducted a battle for several years, which ultimately saw the project drift off into obscurity under the fog of the Vietnam war as outlined in the 2012 film NAWAPA 1964.

In Canada, water management projects built up under the leadership of B.C. Premier W.A.C. Bennett set the stage for the NAWAPA project itself, which I outlined in a 2012 historical study, "W.A.C. Bennett: Canada's Spiritual Father to NAWAPA".

Under the 1964 feasibility studies conducted by the Parsons engineers and displayed in a 15 minute 1964 promotional video, this continental water project would involved the construction of 95 dams, 8 lifts, 39 major tunnels, and 4,515 miles (7,266 km) of canals in order to collect and move between 10-20% of the fresh water runoff from Northern Alaska and Canada down into the Southwestern USA and North Mexico [see image above for the total water basins contributary to the NAWAPA concept in Canada, Alaska and Northwest USA].

Under this design and amplified by studies conducted over the ensuing 50 years, a second circuit would take 19 million acre feet of water/year from the Peace River dam in North BC through the Canadian prairies and into Lake Superior, both cleaning out and replenishing the depleted polluted lakes.

The video above features a modern revamping of the NAWAPA program created by EIR in 2010

Part of this second Canadian circuit would serve as a barge canal, and provide over 35 GW of hydroelectric power for Canada's use as the nation begins to recover from 45+ years of globalized outsourcing of its manufacturing/industrial base while opening up inroads into the under-developed mid Canada development zone (sometimes known as the Canadian shield,) connecting additional lines of rail, roads and new cities together, opening up new corridors of resource development and building connections from Hudson Bay and James Bay into the Great Lakes.

Floods which periodically wreck havoc on Alberta and the prairies would also be regulated with new flood control systems.

During the collection phase on the Susitna, Copper, Yukon and Taku Rivers, water would be pumped up 300 feet into a reservoir 2,400 feet above sea level in the Stikine reservoir. From here, 70 million acre feet per year would be pumped into the Rocky Mountain Trench, which forms a naturally occurring reservoir 500 miles long, and would hold a total capacity of 650 million acre feet, of which 100 million acre feet could be released per year as needed into the parched south.

Before making it to the parched south, coming out of the Rocky Mountain trench, the water would be lifted high above sea level via the Sawtooth lifts in Idaho and Oregon, and transiting via canals and tunnels (to avoid evaporation) through Utah, Nevada, California, Arizona, Texas and North Mexico.

Along the way, farmlands would double from 21 million acres to 44.3 million acres, aquifers like the Ogallala would replenish, desertification would reverse, as dry lifeless zones would become rich ecosystems ripe for forestation, agriculture and more.

Describing his philosophy of water development and the role of science and technology as acting harmoniously with the forces of nature, John F Kennedy remarked:

"There are two points on conservation that have come home to me in the last 2 days. One is the necessity for us to protect what we already have, what nature gave to us, and use it well, not to waste water or land, to set aside land and water, recreation, wilderness, and all the rest now so that it will be available to those who come in the future. That is the traditional concept of conservation, and it still has a major part in the national life of the United States.

But the other part of conservation is the newer part, and that is to use science and technology to achieve significant breakthroughs as we are doing today, and in that way to conserve the resources which 10 or 20 or 30 years ago may have been wholly unknown."

As the unipolar system continues to rupture under its obsolete logic of zero-sum thinking, we who wish to have a future for our children must face some existential choices regarding the type of system we would like to see brought online.

Of course, one option is the anti-human 'Great Reset' agenda pushed by Davos creatures like George Soros, Bill Gates, Mark Carney, Mike Bloomberg, King Charles III and Lord Malloch-Brown et al, while the other option involves reviving a forgotten paradigm more worthy of human civilization and natural law.

It is with this reality in mind that I hope that the lessons from America's better years and China's current activation of this non-zero sum paradigm may serve as a guiding inspiration for what is possible if we are committed to a positive future for the coming centuries.

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3. Freedom is WINNING | Charlie Robinson | The Unjected Show

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4. Trump Administration To Deliver More Weapons To Taiwan

In what will be seen by China as an escalation of war, the United States will deliver more weapons to Taiwan under the incoming Trump administration. National Security Advisor Mike Waltz has confirmed that the president-elect intends to give the island, currently at odds with China over its sovereignty, all the defense systems it has paid for. This move highlights the frequent U.S. arms sales to Taiwan.

China's leaders have repeatedly condemned United States arms sales to Taipei as "destabilizing and provocative." In response to the weapons agreements, China has conducted frequent naval and aerial drills around the island as a way of showing force against U.S. arms sales to Taiwan.

Speaking at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington on Tuesday, Waltz, a Florida Congressman, stated: "We have over a $20 billion backlog of things that they paid for and that we need to work hard to free up and have them get what they paid for as a deterrent measure. The backlog is mainly due to the extensive nature of U.S. arms sales."

This report comes as just last week, Taipei's Ministry of National Defense announced its plans to deploy new U.S.-supplied missile defense systems by the end of the year. The ministry said it will install Norwegian-made Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS) in strategically significant locations in the north of the island, according to a report by RT. 

China Initiates Huge Military Drills Around Taiwan In Warning To Island's President

China's ruling class considers Taiwan part of its territory under its "One China" principle and insists on eventual reunification. That would mean that Beijing will make Taiwan submit to its rule by using military force if necessary. It has repeatedly opposed any foreign interference on this issue, including U.S. arms sales to Taiwan, viewing them as a violation of its sovereignty and a threat to regional stability.

Earlier this month, China imposed sanctions on seven U.S. defense companies and slapped a dual-use export ban on U.S. corporations including Boeing, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. The move came after outgoing US President Joe Biden authorized an additional $571 million in arms and supplies for the self-governing island in December. -RT

The U.S. is inserting itself into several conflicts making it a proxy to the war raging around the globe.

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5. RIP DEI?

It wasn't that long ago that America's strongest and most important export was American culture and the global dissemination of the American Dream. From movies to music, from blue jeans to drive-in movies, and from fast food to fashion, there wasn't a single country in the world or a single cohort of teenagers and young adults that didn't want what America was offering. 

Unfortunately, throughout the progression of the Vietnam War, American culture started to cannibalize itself. The anti-war, hippie, and protesting counterculture took the reins. American cultural institutions and artists pivoted away from patriotism and moved toward anti-Establishment and anti-Western positions for a variety of reasons, both ideological and financial. 

Protest became the foundational position of a generation of artists, musicians, and thinkers. As a result, America's most powerful civil export was completely defenestrated. The left took ownership of American culture and rebellion. And since then, the American left has adopted an increasingly aggressive and metastasizing woke ideology. The result has been the near complete ideological capture of most of American civil society. 

Undeniably, there has been a near ideological capture of public education, public health administration (as evidenced by the Covid years), the legacy media, and the judiciary to name a few spheres of DEI influence. Woke ideology has arguably been the most noxious and dangerous export that America has ever sent out into the world and it didn't seem like there was an end in sight. 

But then, remarkably, in November 2024, America rolled out a blockbuster, the likes of which have never been seen before. It was the greatest comeback story in American history: The Return of President Trump. And in an instant, faster than a speeding bullet, faster than you could sing a chorus of YMCA, led by President Trump, American politics and corporate America began a slow and steady retreat from DEI policies. 

These toxic notions have not only poisoned civic life in America and throughout the Western world but have also resulted in public policy decisions that have resulted in catastrophic loss of life and property. The apex of this policy disaster can clearly be seen within the raging blaze of fire in Los Angeles and in all the DEI policies that led to a Dante's inferno in America. Los Angeles, where the Mayor was in Ghana when disaster hit. Where there was no water in the hydrants, the infrastructure was crumbling, and where diversity was the policy priority for the LAFD and where $1 million of civil service salary buys precisely three woke hires named Kirsten, including one Kirsten who says it's your fault if you end up in a fire, and where the Governor of California prioritized fish over humans.

Over the past several decades large swaths of corporate North America were bullied by a loud and vocal woke minority into adopting some of the most aggressive and ridiculous DEI and ESG policies on earth. Some corporate converts set their compasses to DEI like a north star and flopped spectacularly. Many, like Bud Light, are still licking their wounds from their predictable and avoidable "Go woke, go broke" fiasco while other companies like Jaguar remained impenetrably thick-skinned and were rightly ridiculed and mocked for brand murder, dare we call it brandicide?

But now, the vibe shift is impossible to miss or ignore. In recent weeks, we have seen President Trump set his sights on DEI in the military and American corporations like Apple and Volvo starting to sing from the new hymn sheet, along with retail giants like Costco. 

And incredibly, this was just the tip of the anti-woke iceberg. In early January, following an earlier, fall visit by Mark Zuckerberg to Mar-a-Lago, Facebook announced that it would be discontinuing its third-party "fact-checkers" (i.e. "censorship") program and cutting its DEI hiring initiatives. And now, they are dropping like flies! McDonald's and Amazon are the latest to axe their DEI programs. 

Unfortunately, the astonishing and heartbreaking scenes in Los Angeles are a direct result of abject mismanagement of the city and state and exacerbated by unqualified hires and anti-human, anti-common sense policies that should never, ever have been permitted to escape the faculty lounges, let alone leap into civic life. The woke petri dish has already created colossal havoc in every element of civil society in America and in much of the rest of the Western world. Deep reflection and immediate change are needed. 

If the deep blue voters of California recognize the folly of their choices and the destruction-driven bent of their elected leaders, if they demand answers and repudiate their woke ways, perhaps there is hope. For the good of the country, and indeed the entire Western world, America's most poisonous export must be put to pasture once and for all. 

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6. Trump Administration To Lobby Ukraine To Lower Age Of Conscription To 18 Years Old

On the heels of Donald Trump's inauguration as the 47th President Of The United States, emerging news regarding a rapidly advancing ceasefire between Israel and Hamas offers an auspicious omen of his new administration's forthcoming foreign policy. During his presidential campaign, Trump was replete with political ammunition to attack his opponent's administration with. The mass geopolitical instability caused by the onset of multiple theaters of war that unfolded under Biden's watch became one of the core talking points of his rhetoric. While his ability to bring a resolution to the war in Gaza was one campaign promise Trump made to distinguish himself as a candidate who had the respect of world leaders that Biden had lost, the war in Ukraine took centerstage of his future foreign policy commitments. Before Trump had even received the Republican nomination, he assured his supporters that he would negotiate an end to the war between Russia in Ukraine in just 24 hours. However, the change of tone from Trump's camp about the conflict in Ukraine just one week ahead of his inauguration comes in stark juxtaposition to the promises he made on the campaign trail.

According to Trump's incoming National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, Trump's new administration will lobby for Ukraine to lower its minimum age of conscription from 25 to just 18 years old. In the lame-duck period of the Biden Administration, its State Department urged Ukraine to take the same measure in an effort to post more troops to the front lines of the war. This came just months after Ukraine lowered the minimum age for conscription from 27 to 25 years old. Despite doing so, making more bodies available for Zelenskyy's meat grinder was not enough to turn the tide of the rapidly deteriorating Ukrainian war effort. The futility of that effort led to the Biden administration seeking to lower the age even further drastically to just 18, a request so extreme that it was even rebuked by the Zelenskyy regime.

Trump campaigned on ending the war in Ukraine, but his new National Security Adviser Mike Waltz is claiming they plan to force Kiev to lower its conscription age to 18, in order to "generate hundreds of thousands of new soldiers."

That sounds like a plan for more endless war… pic.twitter.com/GtBY0dNW3Y

— Rachel Blevins (@RachBlevins) January 13, 2025

The decision of Zelenskyy to reject the Biden administration's proposal to lower Ukraine's age of conscription was likely influenced by the crossroads the Ukrainian President found himself at with a transition of power in the United States underway. An incoming administration that took an entirely different political posture on the conflict required Zelenskyy to think with a more long-term oriented strategy than just acquiescing to the US' demands as a proxy against Russia in order to continue to receive limitless military aid in order to curry the favor of President Trump. Yet before Trump could even be sworn in as the nation's 47th president, Zelenskyy's efforts to align himself with that new administration have already proven to be a poor political calculation as it seems he'll be treated as a puppet of the interests driving the war with Russia all the same.

In an interview with ABC News, Waltz spoke about the lack of manpower Ukraine has on the front lines necessitating the need for the deployment of more troops despite the absence of available manpower:

"The other thing we're going to need to see is really stabilizing things on the battlefield, and one of the things we'll be asking of the Ukrainians is, they have real manpower issues. Their draft age right now is 26 [sic] years old, not 18. I don't think a lot of people realize that they could generate hundreds of thousands of new soldiers. So when we hear about morale problems, when we hear about issues on the front line, look, if the Ukrainians have asked the entire world to be all in for democracy, we need them to be all in for democracy."

Waltz's remarks echo the empty rhetoric of Antony Blinken's State Department as he framed the war in Ukraine as an existential fight for the future of democracy as if he was writing Democratic talking points to attack Trump for Biden's re-election campaign. Although Waltz spoke to the measure being integral to stabilizing the Ukrainian front in the interest of furthering the country's position to negotiate an end to the war, his tone continues the trend of increased bellicosity coming from the second Trump administration.

Trump team joins Biden, tells Ukraine to force adult teens onto the frontlines

Waltz says Ukraine — with 43,000 troops killed — needs to "be all in for democracy"

"Their draft age right now is 26 years old, not 18 … They could generate hundreds of thousands of new soldiers" https://t.co/SEo0lqy9bf pic.twitter.com/pfzSC5paYF

— Just Foreign Policy (@justfp) January 13, 2025

Trump has drawn criticism for those hawkish calls following the announcement of several of his key cabinet positions and advisors. The likes of the nominees for Secretary Of State and US Ambassador To The United Nations in Marco Rubio and Elise Stefanik respectively brought the high that followed Trump's re-election crashing down to Earth as even his most ardent supporters rued those nominations as a sign of neoconservative infiltration of his new administration. Waltz' appointment as National Security Adviser was one of the first decisions that spawned that sense of pessimism.

The effort to lower Ukraine's age of conscription forecasts a continuation of the bloodshed in Eastern Europe that the political establishment Trump railed against has supported in the years between his two terms. Despite constantly lamenting that the Biden administration's handling of the war in Ukraine was putting the world on the precipice of nuclear war, Trump's foreign policy appears to be following in his predecessor's misguided footsteps. The departure from his promise to put an immediate end to the conflict follows a similar betrayal of a core campaign promise from another high profile nominee to Trump's cabinet in Tulsi Gabbard.

President-elect Donald Trump has posted a demand that Russian President Vladimir Putin agree to an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine, citing the fall of Syria's Assad as a warning.

Will tough talk yield the desired results in the nearly three-year war?

Also today, the US is… pic.twitter.com/9jGdPcxxAf

— Ron Paul (@RonPaul) December 10, 2024

Gabbard, the presumptive Director Of National Intelligence committed an equally stunning betrayal of trust when she stated she would continue to enforce Section 702 of FISA, a law she previously stated that she was diametrically opposed to. While optimists unwilling to accept the major flip-flop and political analysts alike rationalized that Gabbard had changed her position on FISA to secure the necessary votes needed to be confirmed as the next DNI, Waltz's position of National Security Advisory doesn't require the same Senate approval.

This means that Waltz's lobbying of Ukraine to lower its age of conscription is not a mere matter of political pragmatism. Instead, it is a much more foreboding example of how the concerns Trump's supporters have about the direction his second administration is going in following the appointments of politicians aligned with the neocon axis of power have been validated. Those decisions foreshadow that Trump has not corrected the one self-admitted mistake he made during his first term in office by hiring the wrong people to positions of enormous power. If that was the undoing of his first administration, the failure to learn from those mistakes casts serious doubt on how much of what Trump has promised to do to Make America Great Again during his second presidency will actually be achieved.

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7. US Government To Release Half Its Bitcoin Intended for Trump’s Strategic Reserve

Earlier this morning, the U.S. government announced via a court document that stolen bitcoin from the Bitfinex hack in 2016 should be returned to the exchange in-kind. This bitcoin, as seen publicly on the blockchain via Arkham Intelligence, totals 94,643 BTC currently worth $9.4 billion at the time of writing.

Just five days before pro-Bitcoin Donald Trump is sworn into office for a second term, the U.S. government seems to be on the verge of sending a large chunk of U.S. held bitcoin back to Bitfinex. Last summer, at The Bitcoin 2024 Conference in Nashville, Donald Trump pledged to create a national strategic bitcoin stockpile using the bitcoin already held by the government obtained from hacks, seizures, etc. According to Arkham Intelligence data, the U.S. currently holds 198,109 bitcoin worth over $20.1 billion. If these coins from the Bitfinex hack are to be sent back to Bitfinex — that would cut Trump's promised strategic reserve by 47.77% down to 103,466 BTC.

https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1817307986848813302

It makes me bullish that if the government is going to be acquiring mass amounts of bitcoin in the near future and over the long term, then I would want them to start from as close to 0 as possible, because that would require them to market buy more and push the price higher. The bitcoin should be returned in-kind, the court document stated, ensuring the Bitfinex hack victims receive their due bitcoins, meaning those coins will not need to be sold for dollars, relieving any downward pressure on bitcoin's price from that would be sale. Plus bitcoin getting returned to its rightful owner sounds like the right thing to do, and I'm sure Bitfinex will be thrilled to get their coins back.

However, if the U.S. government is going to be mass buying bitcoin for a strategic reserve, then Wyoming Senator Cynthia Lummis' proposed legislation for that would need to be signed into law. As it stands from just Trump's promise, he would just initially keep the seized bitcoin held on the government balance sheet as the strategic reserve, with the potential of acquiring more BTC by other methods, but made no hard promise on that. Senator Lummis' proposed bill would see the United States buy 200,000 bitcoin per year, for 5 years, until it has accumulated a total of 1,000,000 bitcoin.

https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1859618962092216660

However this all plays out, the strategic bitcoin reserve will be bullish for the country and for Bitcoin in general. Obviously, Senator Lummis' bill would be the far more bullish of the potential outcomes, because it would market buy back all the bitcoin it plans to give back to Bitfinex, and then 905,357 BTC more. That amount of sheer buying demand would most likely send the price of bitcoin skyrocketing, especially as other governments around the world start buying as well to keep up with our government's purchases.

Even if Lummis' bill does not come to fruition, and we only get the reserve that Trump promised, I believe that is still enough to make other governments FOMO into creating their own reserve as well.

There is only about 450 new bitcoin getting mined every day, and with institutional bitcoin purchases already outpacing the new supply of BTC mined this year, things could get really crazy, really fast. Buckle up.

https://twitter.com/BitcoinMagazine/status/1878854477488570386

This article is a Take. Opinions expressed are entirely the author's and do not necessarily reflect those of BTC Inc or Bitcoin Magazine.

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8. The DEMOCRAT DIE-OFF is coming thanks to mass COVID-19 vaccination

• Mike Adams warns of a significant population decline in urban, Democratic-leaning areas due to high COVID-19 vaccination rates, potentially reshaping the U.S. electoral map by reducing Democratic voter turnout.
• The die-off, concentrated in blue cities and states, could lead to a realignment of political power, exacerbated by migration trends from blue to red states and losses in heavily vaccinated sectors like education due to COVID-19 vaccination.
• Adams speculates that record illegal immigration may aim to replace deceased Democratic voters, but the scale of the die-off may outpace new arrivals, leaving Democrats at a disadvantage due to high COVID-19 vaccination rates.
• Adams predicts that survivors of the "vaccine holocaust" will be more skeptical of government and corporate interests, potentially leading to a rise in average IQ and a unique opportunity to reshape American politics with fewer, but more impactful, voters due to the consequences of COVID-19 vaccination.

In chapter two of "Ghost World: 2022-2032," author Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, warns of a mass die-off linked to the distribution of deadly Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines – injections that were disproportionately given to urban, Democratic strongholds. This mass depopulation could reshape the electoral map of the United States in the coming decade.

This trend, Adams argues, could lead to a significant decline in Democratic voter turnout, particularly in blue cities and states, while raising questions about the future of American governance and the role of corporate and pharmaceutical interests in shaping public policy. (Related: Mike Adams and Alex Jones discuss the globalists' MASS DEPOPULATION efforts.)

Adams suggests that the die-off is concentrated in areas with high vaccination rates, which tend to overlap with Democratic-leaning populations. He posits that this demographic shift could create a gap in voter turnout for Democrats, potentially altering the outcomes of key elections.

To counterbalance this, Adams speculates that record levels of illegal immigration may be part of a deliberate strategy to replace deceased Democratic voters. However, he contends that the scale of the die-off due to COVID-19 vaccination will likely outpace the number of new arrivals, leaving Democrats at a disadvantage.

The implications of these trends extend beyond voter demographics. Adams highlights the potential for fraudulent voting practices, particularly in cities like Chicago, where he warns that deceased individuals continue to cast ballots.

Die-off will lead to massive demographic shifts over the next decade

Adams' analysis also touches on the broader societal and economic consequences of these demographic shifts. He notes that heavily vaccinated sectors, such as education, are experiencing significant losses, with teachers and school administrators – who overwhelmingly lean left – being particularly affected. This, coupled with a migration trend of people leaving blue states like California and New York for red states like Texas and Florida, could lead to a dramatic realignment of political power and congressional representation over the next decade.

However, Adams cautions against viewing these changes as a straightforward victory for the Republican Party. He argues that both major political parties are deeply entangled with corporate interests, including Big Pharma and central banks, and are unlikely to prioritize the needs of the American people.

"Both Democrats and Republicans are merely actors in a grand theatrical production," he writes, suggesting that meaningful change is unlikely under either party's leadership.

Adams' analysis raises provocative questions about the future of American society and governance. He predicts that the survivors of what he calls a "vaccine holocaust" will be disproportionately anti-establishment, skeptical of government authority and critical of corporate and pharmaceutical interests. This, he argues, could lead to a rise in average IQ among the surviving population, as those who are more gullible or obedient are more likely to succumb to vaccine-related health complications.

As the nation grapples with ongoing challenges – from economic instability to political polarization – the coming demographic and political shifts offer a stark reminder of the interconnectedness of public health, governance and societal change influenced by COVID-19 vaccination.

In this emerging "ghost world," Adams concludes, the voices of survivors will carry unprecedented weight. With fewer people alive and eligible to vote, each ballot cast will have a greater impact, offering a unique opportunity to reshape American politics and policies.

Watch this episode of the "Health Ranger Report" as Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, warns of the coming of self-replicating mRNA vaccine technology, which could speed up depopulation efforts related to COVID-19 vaccination.

This video is from the Health Ranger Report channel on Brighteon.com.

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9. Next week start the days of thunder

The key battle that's shaping up in the U.S. is the battle between two systems of governance: it could shape up as a civil war 2.0. Interestingly, this conflict evokes memories of the movie Days of Thunder, where intense rivalries push characters to their limits.

Last night I had the privilege of being included in a Zoom call with Steve Bannon, former investment banker and media executive, host of the "War Room" show and chief political strategist during the first seven months of Donald Trump's first term in office. Much of what Bannon presented wasn't surprising, but what seemed significant was that he confirmed that Trump and his team will go on the offensive from day one in office. "The days of thunder begin on Monday," he said, and the world will not be the same again. Bannon wasn't talking about Trump going on the offensive against the Chinese, Iranians or the Russians. Trump and his team are preparing to take on the "they."

"They," in Bannon's words, are the people who control the world's most powerful empire and, elections or no elections, democracy or no democracy, they will not voluntarily relinquish their privileges and the control over their empire: there will be a fight. In a few recent podcasts, I discussed what this likely implies, simply on the basis of what the nature of this power struggle entails.

Namely, taking on the imperial cabal is a fight to the death. "They," are vicious, unscrupulous and extremely vindictive. If Trump and his team falter in this struggle, the cabal will not content themselves with merely defeating Trump politically. I believe they would not relent until they entirely destroyed him, his fortune, his collaborators and his family.

The price of defying the Empire

When the United States declared independence from the British Empire, the signatories of the Declaration of Independence were not just a bunch of belligerent rebels with nothing to lose. In many ways, they were similar to the people flanking Donald Trump today. They were all educated men of means and privileged members of society.

Of the 56 signatories, twenty four were lawyers and jurists; eleven were wealthy merchants; nine were farmers and large plantation owners. In signing the Declaration of Independence they provoked the wrath of the empire, knowing for sure that if they were captured their penalty would be death. Five of them were in fact captured by the British as traitors and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons and another two had their sons captured and imprisoned.

Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships in the revolutionary war. Carter Braxton, a wealthy planter and trader saw all his ships sunk by the British Navy. To pay his debts he was forced to sell his home and his properties. He died a poor man. To avoid capture, Thomas McKeam had to move his family around the country almost constantly. He served in Congress without pay and his family was kept in hiding. Ultimately, his possessions were taken from him and he too, died in poverty. The home and properties of Francis Lewis were destroyed and his wife was jailed. She died within a few months.

The properties of Ellery, Clymer, Hall, Walton, Gwinnett, Heyward, Ruttledge, and Middleton were vandalized and destroyed by British troops or their proxy terror squads. British General Cornwallis took over Thomas Nelson's home for his headquarters. It was destroyed during the battle of Yorktown and Nelson died bankrupt. John Hart had to flee his homestead after his fields and gristmill were destroyed. For over a year he hid, living in forests and caves. When he returned home, his wife was dead and their 13 children all vanished. The grief and distress killed him within a few weeks. Norris and Livingston suffered similar fates.

When the imperial cabal decided to break up the United States, which precipitated the Civil War, they were confronted by President Abraham Lincoln. In 1863, Russian Czar Alexander II came to Lincoln's aid by dispatching his Baltic fleet to New York and his Pacific fleet to San Francisco. The move blocked the Empire's intervention on the side of the Confederation, which was planned by the British with the support of France and the Vatican. The U.S. – Russian alliance ultimately prevailed and the United States was preserved.

But to exact their revenge, the cabal dispatched assassins. Abraham Lincoln was killed in 1865, shortly after the end of the Civil War, and Alexander II was assassinated in St. Petersburg in 1881. In 1917 the whole family of the Czar Nicholas II was killed by the Bolsheviks on the orders of the New York banker Jacob Schiff. Arguably, the low life expectancy among the Kennedy family men is also likely due to their propensity to irritate the imperial cabal.

I do believe that Donald Trump and at least some of the people around him are probably well aware of all this and understand the stakes in the struggle they took on. During our call last night Steve Bannon confirmed that this is indeed the case. The nature of this conflict dictates that "they" can't be left standing and whoever comes into the White House after four years of Trump will be tasked with continuing the struggle until the imperial cabal is entirely uprooted and disenfranchised.

The clash is global and it's between two systems of governance

Just like in the Middle East, Ukraine and elsewhere, what we'll witness is another front in the struggle between two systems of governance. In that sense, the geopolitical conflicts around the world will likely be subordinated to the civil war shaping up in the United States, which could prove the central battle in the whole conflict. That civil war might not resemble the civil wars of the past with large armies fighting one another in fields and insurrections in cities. Instead, we'll likely see chaos, sabotage, assassinations and terrorism in the U.S. – but also in Europe and the U.K.

One of the participants in yesterday's call was also Christine Anderson, member of the German AfD party and the European Parliament. She reported that the authorities in Germany, as in France, UK and other European nations, are "berserk," and that the Trump election has pushed them over the edge of overt authoritarianism which they no longer even bother to conceal.

As a result, there's open talk about cancelling the upcoming 23 February elections in Germany, and more aggressive censorship of social media. Elon Musk's recent interview of AfD leader Alice Weidel only added to the hysteria and now German authorities want to prosecute Musk as they construed his interview of Weidel as an illegal campaign donation.

Participants from the UK reported perhaps the most distressing news, agreeing that the situation in the nation is simply awful, that they do not even recognize their country. One doctor said that he sees that people are increasingly giving up and many are "losing the will to live." One concrete piece of news, which was confirmed to be true, is that for some months now, elected politicians no longer appoint judges in Britain. I did not understand who does appoint them as our call ran overtime before I had the chance to ask, but I'm sure it's probably some really nice people.

Another distressing development in the UK is the upcoming Climate and Nature Bill which, if passed, will legally enshrine Britain's commitment to net zero policies, which could prove devastating to its economy including the energy market, farming and industrial output. I elaborated what net zero entails for the British economy in this article.

In all, it seems that the days of thunder begin next week. These are the times to be brave. Maybe Trump and the people around him just want a bigger slice of the pie and there's nothing more to it than that. But perhaps the struggle is bigger than that. Steve Bannon recently spent four months in prison – not a country club, as he said, but a real prison. Trump had two, perhaps more attempts at his life. The struggle is very real.

However, Trump's adversaries are in a panic, according to Bannon. Most of them really didn't think Trump would win the elections last November. Bannon said that Trump is a "blunt force instrument," and that the cabal sustained a "blunt force trauma." Hundreds, perhaps thousands of their minions, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, are jockeying to obtain pardons from the Biden team, even on a pre-emptive basis. Well, we'll find out – it won't be boring.

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10. #508: Ghosts In The Machine

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