TRUE THE VOTE
#186
The video “2000 Mules” documents what happened in the 2020 presidential election and exposes the election fraud in five states that tipped the election to Biden. 2000 Mules exposes the fraud in two ways, geotracking, and videos. The act of geotracking monitors cell phone movements. Dinesh D’Souza, in his 2000 Mule documentary, shows how Catherine Engelbrecht, Gregg Phillips, and Debbie D’Souzathe tracked the cell phone movements of paid criminals while they delivered illegal ballots to drop boxes. Because states installed surveillance cameras at drop box sites, there are official videos of ballot stuffing. The film answers the most critical question: who won the 220 elections? The film documents the biggest heist in American history. Another group that exposes voter fraud is True the Vote. True the Vote is an organization that reveals how a cabal of conspirators who intend to deceive American voters and gain control over America’s elections. There are also books on the subject. An excellent book is Our Broken Elections: How the Left Changed the Way You Vote by John Fund and Hans von Spakovsky. We will lose our freedom forever if we never get past the fear of challenging those who deceive and oppress us.
In blog post 182, Executive Order 14019, I expose the game plan of a cabal of conspirators who plan to subvert the next election. The agenda varies depending on the objective. The conspirators always use the Hegelian Dialectic Control Method by concocting a problem and then offering a solution to the problem. But the solution furthers their agenda. For example, the cabal plans to destroy democracy and western economies. So the conspirators bate Russia to invade Ukraine so that countries would agree to sanction Russia. The sanctions will deprive the west of raw materials and be equivalent to countries committing economic suicide. Nine-eleven, global warming, Covid-19, and Ukraine are manufactured events. They are examples of this evil force instigating a problematic event, watching for society’s reaction, and formulating a solution (problem, response, resolution).
The cabal can gain control over our elections by convincing people that a change must occur to have fair elections. Executive Order 14019 states, “Free and fair elections that reflect the will of the American people must be protected and defended. But many Americans, especially people of color, confront significant obstacles to exercising that fundamental right. These obstacles include difficulties with voter registration, lack of election information, and barriers to access at polling places ….” The proposed problem is the lack of accessibility to voting places. The solution to the proposed problem will make it easier for people to vote. But the solution will make it easier for the cabal to rig the election in their favor. This Executive Order attempts to federalize election laws to benefit the Left and keep the Democratic Party in power. The Order directs more than 400 federal agencies to develop plans to “expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process.” True the Vote is active in ensuring free and fair elections. Election integrity requires constant engagement. True the Vote is here to help you and guide you to do that: constantly engage. Every step in the elections process offers you an opportunity to have your voice heard, and we want to show you how. Not just inside the voting booth but well beyond.
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WHAT CAUSES INFLATION?
#185
I would like to thank Dick for being a loyal blog reader and passing on to me the article Rapid Money Supply Growth Does Not Cause Inflation at https://evonomics.com/moneysupply/
Inflation is a pervasive rise in the average price level. People expect low inflation rates, but high rates can destroy economies, especially when erratic and unanticipated. Indeed, a rapid money supply growth may not always cause inflation because an increase in the money supply is only one of four factors that can cause inflation. Economists use the formula P = MV/Q, where P is the price level, M is the money supply, and V is velocity, which is how quickly a dollar changes hands. For example, during boom times, a dollar will circulate among people rapidly, but in depression, velocity diminishes. Q is the number of goods and services. Everything else being equal, if the quantity of what money can buy increases, prices will decline, and prices will increase when the amount of goods and services decreases. A fourth factor is the value of a currency on the world market. If the dollar’s value rises relative to other world currencies, the price of foreign products declines for Americans and vice versa.
The war in Ukraine and the sanctions imposed on Russia have caused the supply of Russian products, gas, oil, fertilizer, etcetera to decline on the world market. As Russian exports fall while demand holds steady, this scarcity is already causing the value of Russian products to increase. The lack of Russian products on the world market increases the value of the Russian ruble, causing foreign prices to decline for Russians. The opposite is happening in the western world. The sanctions drive gas and oil supply to decrease and the cost to increase, at least for Europeans. This coming winter, most Europeans will not be able to heat their homes, operate their factories, or drive their cars. Because of the sanctions imposed on Russian products, America and Europe will experience high food prices and critical food shortages. Russians will have a surplus of energy, low prices, and an abundance of food. America’s sanctions against Russia will destroy the western world’s economies, including the US while benefiting Russia over the long run, especially as Russia finds new customers in the east.
We are about to experience a repeat of the 1970s when America had stagflation. The economy was stagnating while the price level increased. Inflation was caused by an increase in the money supply more than the economy produced goods and services. If we were on some gold standard, authorities could not increase the money supply unless gold reserves increased. But because nothing backs up a fiat currency, monetary authorities can raise the money supply at will. In the 1970s, when the countries of OPEC increased the oil price, the general price level increased because oil is a necessity with few substitutes. The same thing is happening today because of the sanctions against Russian gas and oil. In the 1970s, if the monetary authorities held tight to the money supply, the price level would have declined in short order. But to combat the growing unemployment problem, the Federal Reserve significantly increased the money supply. The prime interest rate was 21 percent in the early 1970s, while inflation averaged ten percent per annum. According to JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, we should brace for an economic hurricane soon with storm clouds forming on the economic horizon.
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WHAT IS THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT?
#184
Bill Gates and others like him are technocrats; they are not so much interested in education as they are interested in the power of technology. They see technology to influence people’s opinions about such things as fairness and the environment they want to shape the world by their beliefs. The purpose of present-day education is to replace cognitive thinking with sociology and ideology under social justice. When the Gates Foundation hired lobbyists in Washington, the lobbyists convinced politicians to overreach into the area of public education. Events have moved us from a knowledge-based mastery achievement system to a system that demands uniformity—the system teaches students to fear descent from the mainstream narrative and be intolerant of opposing viewpoints. Moreover, because Christianity is opposed to the expansion of state power over people’s lives and supports the concept of the individual, which is the smallest minority, rather than the collective, it is a prime target of the modern-day progressive movement. The idea that the government would mandate schools to teach things like transsexuality and homosexual marriage would have been inconceivable years ago. Now not only is it accepted but it is encouraged. The Every Student Succeeds Act weaves sex education into every subject; even math uses story problems dealing with sexual topics! The classics are mostly gone in the humanities to be replaced by social issues with a liberal bias.
Rachel Carson Middle School in Herndon, Virginia, is full of winners. The school won a governor’s award for teaching excellence from 2007 to 2011, and the national forum for middle-school improvement cited Rachel Carson as a school to watch. However, the federal government considers Rachel Carson a failure because it does not fit its definition of success as an improvement in test scores of different groups. Rachel Carson has high average scores but fails because it has achievement gaps when it breaks out test results by such categories as race, gender, and income. Corinthian College was a college with more than 100 campuses. Private colleges, like Corinthian, specialize in training students for blue-collar jobs, jobs like driving big commercial trucks, nursing, cloud computing, web development, database programming, software development, and network security, offering degrees in healthcare, business, criminal justice, transportation technology, construction trades, and information technology. Corinthian College was a for-profit college and one of the largest for-profit post-secondary education companies in North America. Because the college failed to meet government mandates promptly, the Department of Education put it out of business.
Another casualty for the same reasons was the ITT Technical Institute. ITT was a technical institute that operated for a profit with 130 campuses in 38 states and was operational for 50 years. On September 26, 2016, ITT Tech abruptly shut down, leaving 35,000 students without a degree and 8,000 employees without a job. The reasons for the closure are the same as with Corinthian College, financial sanctions by the U.S. Department of Education. The Department of Education claimed that ITT was charging tens of thousands of dollars in tuition but failing to provide valuable education to its students. A third casualty occurred in June 2016 when the Department of Education forced the Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools (ACICS) shutdown. ACICS accredited 245 colleges that enrolled 800,000 students. The Department of Education officially stripped the ACICS of its authority, handing down the final blow in a long controversy over the council’s ability to be an effective watchdog for students and billions of taxpayer dollars. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines progressive as “making use of or interested in new ideas, findings, or opportunities while placing emphasis on the individual child and encouraging self-expression.” The progressive movement intends to replace God, history, Judeo-Christian values, and individual thought with a collective mindset.
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THE AZOV BATTALION
#183
The Azov Battalion is a neo-Nazi anti-Semitic military unit established in Ukraine in 2014 following the Maidan Revolution. The Maidan Revolution occurred when the Western powers dethroned pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in a coup. The people of Ukraine elected Viktor Yanukovych as president in 2010. He served as president until the western powers removed him from office in 2014 when he fled to Russia to avoid assassination. The Euromaidan protests opposed the Western Powers in an attempt to keep Ukraine independent and democratic. Since the western powers installed Volodymyr Zelenskyy as president of Ukraine, Zelenskyy has banned all opposing political parties. Now for the first time since 1945, an anti-Semitic party controls key levers of state power in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. The regime change prompted the outbreak of an ongoing civil war in the east of Ukraine, between Russian-backed separatists and the US-backed Ukrainian army, that has claimed the lives of tens of thousands and displaced millions. Zelenskyy has refused to honor the Minsk agreements of 2014 and 2015. The purpose of the Minsk agreement was to end the conflict between Ukraine and the pro-Russian eastern republics of Ukraine, Donetsk, and Luhansk.
The Azov Battalion has been the mainstay of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The Battalion is openly anti-Semitic and espouses the views held by Stepan Bandera, a Ukrainian Nazi collaborator responsible for ethnic cleansing in Germany during the second world war. The war in Ukraine has attracted mercenaries from many parts of the world eager to join the Azov Battalion in its fight against Russia. Consequently, Azov has recruited American extremists to join the war against Russia. A shooter killed ten people in a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York. The shooter, Payton Gendron, shared the same philosophy as the Azov Battalion. On the first page of his lengthy 180-page manifesto, he featured the black sun symbol on the Azov official insignia. Another mass shooter, Brenton Tarrant, also displayed this insignia who posted his 74-page manifesto before killing 51 people in Christchurch, New Zealand. These two occurrences have become a rallying cry for neo-Nazis worldwide.
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, a key ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has warned that Western countries supplying weapons to Ukraine could lead to a nuclear war. In a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General Antonio, he warned that international efforts to bolster Ukraine’s security could lead to the conflict expanding into another world war, according to Belarusian state media outlet Belta. Lukashenko urged countries to unite and prevent the regional contest in Europe from escalating into a full-scale world war. Given the gravity of the situation in Ukraine, it is a mystery that so many people who oppose the policies of President Biden support him when it comes to the war in Ukraine. It is also a mystery why evangelical Christians support war and support an anti-Semitic neo-Natzi group in Ukraine. With so many countries and groups supporting Biden’s sanctions against Russia, the world is on the brink of total economic collapse and mass starvation. The conflict in Ukraine is the beginning of World War 3. Could we be witnessing the most extreme case of the Hegelian Dialectic, where the world’s response to a perceived threat will lead to destruction?
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EXECUTIVE ORDER 14019
#182
Executive Order 14019 “Promoting Access to Voting” of March 7, 2021, “Section 1. Purpose. The right to vote is the foundation of American democracy. Free and fair elections that reflect the will of the American people must be protected and defended. But many Americans, especially people of color, confront significant obstacles to exercising that fundamental right. These obstacles include difficulties with voter registration, lack of election information, and barriers to access at polling places …” Why is the White House forcing agencies that have nothing to do with elections to become intimately involved with voting? This Executive Order attempts to federalize election laws to benefit the Left and keep the Democratic Party in power. The Order directs more than 400 federal agencies to develop plans to “expand citizens’ opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process.” Agencies must direct voters to state and federal registration websites, distribute registration and vote-by-mail applications, assist people in completing them, and allow third-party organizations to register voters on agency premises. For instance, the Department of Education is preparing a “tool kit of resources and strategies” to be shared with 67 million students.
Dēmos is a liberal think tank based in the United States. Its mission is to “power the movement for a just, inclusive, multiracial democracy.” Executive Order 14019 parrots a Dēmos plan to influence national elections. According to the Dēmos website, “the assault on our democracy over the last four years has been severe, complete with intentional and structural disenfranchisement aimed at Black and brown communities … In this piece, Dēmos lays out a series of executive actions the new administration can take in partnership with federal agencies to help ensure the integrity of our elections and strengthen opportunities for civic participation for all Americans, particularly for Black and brown Americans.” Under the Dēmos plan, the heads of every federal agency must submit a plan outlining their strategy to engage in voter registration and mobilization efforts to the director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, Susan Rice. Federal agencies must submit to Rice “a strategic plan outlining the ways identified under this review that the agency can promote voter registration and voter participation.” The purpose of this plan is obvious. Suppose Congress fails to pass an election bill to override the sensible election integrity laws passed in more than 18 states. In that case, the president will do so through executive order. In other words, federal election laws will supersede state law.
Executive Order 14019 mandates that all federal agencies use their resources to register potential voters, encourage voting by mail over in-person voting, and use third-party organizations to assist voters. The Constitution places primary responsibility for creating election laws squarely upon the shoulders of the state legislatures with limited congressional oversight. But here we have the president influencing election laws to undermine state law through executive order. If the Left cannot win in a fair and just election, it will try to rig the game in its favor, just as it did in the election of November of 2020. The majority of states have passed laws that limit voting by mail and require voters to submit identification before voting. Fearing that these state laws could help Republicans, congressional Democrats are pushing a sweeping legislative effort that would drastically overhaul voter registration processes and place more authority in the hands of the federal government. But the Supreme Court has ruled that state law should come before federal law.
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DEJA VOUS
#181
Have we been here before? In blog post 136, I introduce the book Overthrow by Stephen Kinzer, in which he writes about the fourteen governments the United States has overthrown to set up submissive puppet regimes allied to the goals of American imperialists. American imperialists overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine in February of 2014 in what is known as the Maidan Revolution. Ukrainians see this period as the Revolution of Dignity during the Euromaidan protests. The Euromaidan protests opposed the Western Powers who ousted the pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych. In an article titled “With a $40 billion plan, the US is setting itself up for an expensive failure in Ukraine“, Scott Ridder explains how the US policies in Ukraine led to its economic demise and the economic destruction of Europe. Scott Ridder Jr. is a former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer who served with the United Nations implementing arms control treaties and as a United Nations weapons inspector from 1991 to 1998. He is also the author of the book Scorpion King, about America’s suicidal embrace of nuclear weapons and the failed efforts to curb this threat to humanity.
Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi convinced the House to pass a $40 billion appropriations bill for Ukraine in just one day with 368 votes for and only 57 Republicans against. The bill then went to the Senate, where it was approved and subsequently signed into law by President Joe Biden, despite the objection of Senator Rand Paul. According to the CATO Institute, “Congress has created a stunningly misleading image of Ukraine by stating it is a bulwark of freedom and democracy.” The Cato report claims that “Ukraine has long been one of the more corrupt countries in the international system. In its annual report published in January 2022, Transparency International ranked Ukraine 123rd of the 180 countries it examined, with a score of 32 on a one-to-100-point scale.” According to SIGAR (Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction), “US officials often empowered powerbrokers who preyed on the population or diverted US assistance away from its intended recipients to enrich and empower themselves and their allies.”
According to Ritter, “When looking at the rush to provide Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars of US aid and assistance, one cannot help but be struck by a sense of déjà vu that Washington is repeating the same mistakes that helped produce the Afghanistan debacle.” In my post 179, I quote Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) “The money supposedly destined for Ukrainians ends up in the pockets of non-profits and NGOs that are often run by people close to the politicians in Washington.” She claims that the money given to Ukraine is like a revolving door, some of it stays in Ukraine, but some of it comes back to favored people, such as our representatives in Congress. According to Ridder, “much of this money will be deployed to pay the salaries and pensions of ultra-right Ukrainian politicians and soldiers who espouse neo-Nazi ideology.” The neo-Nazi Azov Battalion populates Ukraine’s military. Ukraine is becoming a rallying point for neo-Nazis and mercenaries from all over the world. The US Congress, in June 2015, passed legislation that banned the training of Azov members by the US military, as well as any transfer of US weapons to Azov control. Together with the US Congress, the Biden administration has shunned the rule of law by ignoring the restrictions imposed in 2018.
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DO BIRDS SWIM? DO FISH FLY?
#180
In April of 2022, the United Nations published its latest warning about global warming. The UN states on its web page, “A new flagship UN report on climate change out Monday indicating that harmful carbon emissions from 2010-2019 have never been higher in human history, is proof that the world is on a “fast track” to disaster, António Guterres has warned, with scientists arguing that it’s ‘now or never to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. Unless action is taken soon, some major cities will be underwater, Mr. Guterres said in a video message, which also forecasts “unprecedented heatwaves, terrifying storms, widespread water shortages, and the extinction of a million plants and animals.” Are these the same people who invite teenager Greta Thunberg but do not invite climate professionals to their meetings?! Is the threat of global warming a part of the Hegelian Dialectic Control Method? The 19th-century German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel explained how an evil force could enslave humanity by entrapping us into a frenzied thought process leading to our destruction. This evil force instigates a problematic event, watches for society’s reaction, and formulates a solution (problem, response, resolution).
Now meet Dr. Patrick Michaels, the Center for the Study of Sciences director and a senior fellow in environmental studies at the Cato Institute. His Ph.D. thesis was on climate change, and he is a past president of the American Association of State Climatologists and chairman of the American Meteorological Society. He was a research professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia for 30 years, an author and reviewer of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. Dr. Michaels claims that government computer models make dramatic systematic errors. The United Nations uses thirty-two families of computer models to predict too much global warming. Now meet Ian Rutherford Pilmer, an Australian geologist, professor emeritus of earth sciences at the University of Melbourne, and an active writer of scientific papers and six books. When not busy with his position as the director of the Center for the Study of Science at the Cato Institute, he talks about the hoax of global warming and the games politicians play to formulate policy. He emphasizes that the earth’s temperature has always been in flux, and he explains how the belief in climate change has become a new kind of morality, a religion. A movie on the subject is The Great Global Warming Swindle, 2007. The documentary reveals that everything environmentalists have told us about global warming is untrue, and this falsehood is a threat to humanity.
Dr. Mototaka Nakamura has a Doctorate of Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He has spent his career in abnormal weather and climate change at MIT, Georgia Institute of Technology, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, and Duke University. In his book, The Global Warming Hypothesis is an Unproven Hypothesis. He explains why generally accepted information about global warming is untrustworthy. Meanwhile, the news does not report on Dr. Art Robinson winning the Voice of Reason Award at the 9th International Conference on Climate Change. He received 31,000 signatures by the world’s leading scientists, 9,000 of them with PhDs, on a document denying global warming as a problem. Dr. Robinson believes that the political left has hijacked the subject, and the news has ignored real scientists. Extreme environmentalists have three strings to their bow. (1) They think that everyone agrees with them. (2) It is unnecessary to discuss the science because they are on the right side of the debate. (3) and that everyone who opposes them has a commercial self-interest. Dr. Judith Curry is a professor and former Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She delivered a speech to the US Senate Commerce Committee debunking global warming while claiming environmental scientists have become groupthink victims.
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WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND
#179
The following information is from an interview with US Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene
The financial support America provides to Ukraine looks very much like money laundering schemes, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has claimed in an interview with Lisa Boothe. “The money supposedly destined for Ukrainians ends up in the pockets of non-profits and NGOs that are often run by people close to the politicians in Washington.” She claims that the money given to Ukraine is like a revolving door, some of it stays in Ukraine, but some of it comes back to favored people, such as our representatives in Congress. A non-profit organization is a business that has been granted tax-exempt status by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) because it furthers a social cause and provides a public benefit. According to Investopedia, a non-governmental organization (NGO) is a non-profit group that functions independently of any government. NGOs, sometimes called civil societies, are organized on community, national and international levels to serve a social or political goal such as humanitarian causes or the environment.
According to The Ron Paul Institute of September 2021, “between one-third and one-half of that total defense spending was pocketed by defense firms, which provided logistics and reconstruction, private security services, and weapons – along the way, these contractors habitually engaged in ‘questionable or corrupt business practices,’ including fraud, abuse, price-gouging, and profiteering.” In recent years, the government has awarded Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics, Raytheon, and Northrop Grumman a quarter to a third of all Pentagon contracts. It’s undoubtedly no coincidence that four of the past five US Defense Secretaries previously worked at one of these five companies. According to STATISTA, in 2021, the total lobbying spending in the United States amounted to 3.73 billion US dollars, up from 3.53 billion US dollars spent on lobbying Congress in 2020.
According to The American Conservative, “nearly half the Pentagon budget goes to contractors. The money goes directly to private corporations and much of it is then wasted on useless overhead, fat executive salaries, and startling (yet commonplace) cost overruns on weapons systems and other military hardware.” According to Representative Greene, “They want to give $40 billion to Ukraine and you have these $40 billion on top of the money that has already been given. That brings it to $53 billion. That is over two-thirds of the State Department’s entire budget for the year.” She believes that Congress is involved with money laundering because politicians have a stake in companies that supply the proxy war in Ukraine and the money comes back into the pockets of friends and families. Our tax dollars are just like one big slush fund for criminal operations and it needs to end. Greene is also concerned about the American farmer, who, according to her, is on the verge of going out of business. Washington’s sanctions against Russia have caused many farmers to bankrupt. Russia is the world’s largest exporter of fertilizer and farmers are huge purchasers of gas and oil. Senator Rand Paul has claimed that “the latest package would bring total US aid to Ukraine to $60 billion since the conflict began in February, nearly as much as Russia earmarks annually for its entire defense budget.” The 40 billion dollar aid package for Ukraine passed in the House by 368 to 57.
THE CHICKENS ARE COMING HOME
#178
Economists define inflation as a pervasive and general rise in the average price level. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) measures the increase in prices of a particular basket of goods and services as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Over time, the BLS deletes no longer popular goods, such as typewriters, and adds new items, such as smartphones. The government does not include Food and energy prices in the CPI. So for a better indicator of inflation, you can go to Shadow Government Statistics – Analysis Behind and Beyond Government Economic Reporting. According to Shadow Stats, “The CPI chart on the home page reflects our estimate of inflation for today as if it were calculated the same way it was in 1990. The CPI on the Alternate-Data Series tab here reflects the CPI as if it were calculated using the methodologies in place in 1980.” Whatever the inflation rate per year, you can use the Rule of 72 to understand how long it will take prices to double. For example, if the inflation in any particular year is ten percent, 72 divided by 10 equals about seven, so it will take approximately seven years for prices to double.
An increase in the price of oil, fertilizer, and other raw materials can cause an increase in the prices of goods directly related to the rise in costs, but this is not inflation. If people do not have more money to spend, they will pay higher prices for necessities, but they will spend less money on nonessentials. There is only one reason for a rise in the average price level. Consumers must have more money to spend on all goods and services. Inflation can only occur when the Federal Reserve increases the money supply. The federal government borrows money by selling bonds to the Federal Reserve, and the Fed credits the federal government’s account by pushing a few keys on its computer. Economists call this practice monetizing the debt or quantitative easing (QE). Naturally, when the Fed increases the money supply more than the economy increases goods and services, we should experience an inflation problem. However, despite this flood of newly created money, inflation was kept low.
Quantitative easing did not cause inflation because much of this new money flowed to other countries instead of circulating in America. Because the U.S. dollar is still the world’s standard currency, there is a demand for it internationally. Second, when banks do not lend this money to the public, the funds will not cause inflation. Because the Federal Reserve pays interest on money that banks deposit at the Fed, banks have an incentive to park money at the Fed rather than lending it to people. The Fed’s interest is only about .05 percent, but banks still earn substantial interest because they deposit trillions annually. Third, a sluggish economy can impede borrowing, causing a slow down in the velocity of money. Velocity measures the speed at which a dollar changes hands from person to person. A decrease in velocity can inhibit inflation despite increasing the quantity of money in circulation. But now the chickens are coming home to roost. The Fed has created so much money to buy all these government bonds that Americans will witness considerable inflation in 2022. This inflation will hurt you if your income fails to keep up with the rise in prices of the things that you normally buy.
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ETHNOCIDE & MULTICULTURALISM
#177
From Ken’s book And They will Riot in the Streets – A Nation Deceived is a Nation Enslaved
Ethnocide is the deliberate destruction of national, ethnic, racial, or religious groups. In this time of history, Western civilization culture is being destroyed. Ethnocide is the reason for the destruction or removal from public view of historical statues. Statues that symbolize an ethnic culture should be banned, which some people construe as prejudice and racists. Because the white race has dominated others, symbols of the white race are considered evil. Multiculturalism is the separation of nation and state. Multiculturalism views a country not as a vehicle to advance and protect the interests or values of a specific group. Instead, it provides an economic exchange with no assumed national mission and no particular people for whom the country exists. Multiculturalism says that this space belongs to everyone and no one in particular.
The multicultural model departs from the traditional view of a nation-state whereby the state or government exists to serve its nation or people. For example, Sweden used to protect its people, language, culture, and traditions stemming from its Judeo/Christian roots. The state protected Swedish values and interests. But, lawmakers have since transformed Sweden from multi-ethnic to multicultural—favoring no particular people. Consequently, Sweden has committed ethnocide whereby there is no default or identity of what it means to be Swedish. The Swedish people do not exist whereby they can claim to be Swedish and separate from other people. Foreigners have just as much claim to Sweden as people who were born Swedish.
There is no wisdom in a people who fail to protect their culture, customs, and way of life. Why is there no wisdom? Because in secular societies, there is no God. Liberals, and Globalists, tend to believe that people are born good and, therefore, God need not play a role. Christians believe that people are not born good. People are not born evil, but human nature is not always good, and therefore since people are not inherently good, we need Biblical truth to show us the way. If people are not going to be accountable to God, they will put their faith in government. It is not the government that has made people good in America; Biblical teachings have made good people—wisdom begins with the fear of God. The secular world has brilliance and knowledge—but there is no wisdom. Spiritual strength is necessary to have moral strength—democratic and cultural values are not enough to save people from forces bent on destroying them. In a secular society, everything has to be watered down because of offenses—including the truth.
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