Interpreting economic and financial reality

Editor's note: The most salient point about the following partially republished material from the Brownstone Institute is that the Covid attack on civilization "amounted to a gigantic transfer of wealth to elites, the largest in history, followed by a destruction of wealth of the middle and lower classes." So while this is true, here is something else to consider: the oligarch class are swimming in money. Governments around the world, including Japan (creators of QE), are becoming increasingly authoritarian because the modern debt-based fiat monetary system depends on centralized control to survive. For thousands of years humanity has lived under systems where power flows to those closest to the creation of money, while ordinary people absorb the cost through inflation, debt, and declining purchasing power. Despite massive technological advances that should lower prices and improve living standards, inflation continues because productivity exists inside the same debt-driven financial structure. Governments are not preserving prosperity as much as protecting a monetary system that concentrates wealth and power at the top. The result is increasing surveillance, rising socialism and fascism, heavy regulation (regulation protects the oligarch class), and economic pressure designed to maintain a system that many now see as no longer serving the public.
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Since Lockdowns, a 12% GDP Loss; Half of US Dollar Purchasing Power Stolen

BY Jeffrey A Tucker | June 2, 2026

Many of us have had the intuition that the economic damage from 2020 - including industrial stoppages, monetary printing, supply-chain disruptions, extended school closures, and general population demoralization - was in fact far greater than official statistics indicate.

Given Israel's large Russian-speaking population...

Editor's note: ...and the rise of Soviet-born leaders in senior roles within the Mossad and IDF, it is increasingly striking that the United States continues to provide such massive military aid and support to Israel. Major General (Aluf) Roman Gofman was appointed and sworn in as the Director of Israel's Mossad (the 14th director) on June 2, 2026. He succeeded David Barnea after a five-year term. There are approximately 1.3 million Russian-speakers (primarily immigrants from Russia and other former Soviet Union countries along with their descendants) who live in Israel, representing about 15% of Israel's total population. Herzi Halevi (also known as Herzl Halevi), whose paternal grandparents immigrated from Russia, served as the 23rd Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces from January 2023 to March 2025 (see Forget all the BS about Hamas, it was Israeli terrorists who were raping, killing babies and civilians, as their own officials now admit). Avigdor Lieberman, born in Chișinău, Moldavian SSR (Soviet Union, now Moldova), is the most notable former Israeli Minister of Defense with direct Soviet/Russian-speaking origins. It should also be pointed out that all of Israel's prime ministers since Israel's founding came from the Soviet Union, or eastern European countries that were part of the Russian empire. Something further needs to be pointed out. While Major General Roman Gofman is the first Soviet-born Mossad director in the modern era, he is not the first overall head of Mossad. Isser Harel, Mossad chief from 1952 to 1963, was born in Vitebsk (now Belarus) that was then part of the Russian Empire.

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For the first time in history, the head of Mossad is a native of the Soviet Union.

By Top War | June 3, 2026

Major General Roman Gofman officially took over as head of Israel's foreign intelligence service, the Mossad, replacing David Barnea. The ceremony took place on June 2 at the agency's headquarters, attended by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who called the fight against Iran's nuclear program the new intelligence chief's top priority.

It is always amusing to see what descriptions...

Editor's note: ...the media uses when describing military attacks. In this case, the media source Times Now describes an attack by Iran on Kuwait as "fresh attacks." Like fresh fruit. The never ending saga in the Middle East with Iran apparently hitting the passenger terminal in Kuwait with a "fresh" missile attack. But wait a minute, it is being alleged the passenger terminal was hit with a US Patriot PAC-3 (Patriot Advanced Capability-3) missile that went errant after being launched at an Iranian missile inbound for a target in Kuwait. U.S. CENTCOM denies the Patriot PAC-3 went errant. Iran claims they didn't target the passenger terminal. If U.S. CENTCOM is incorrect and it was a Patriot PAC-3 "hit-to-kill" missile that hit the terminal with Lockheed Martin currently raking in billions in contracts, they have a "fresh" publicity problem now trying to sell Patriot missile systems.

"Phish = Phoenician Fish"

Editor's note: This is the band Phish. Apparently, they are a pretty good rock group - if you're into that sort of thing. Many of the fans in the audience called "Phishheads" are apparently Jewish. The band itself is half Jewish led by Jon Fishman who is Jewish and plays the drums and the Jewish Mike Gordon. We read a recent essay on Phish and we learn how bands like Phish are financed, who is behind them and how they crowd out other artists. As was suggested, think of it this way: "if Phish hadn't had any family connections, they'd never have gotten famous and you would never have had the pleasure of listening to their music."

The Truth About Phish

Will we ever see a truly free market system that has ever existed?

Editor's note: Jeff Booth is a Canadian technology entrepreneur and author of the influential book The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation is Key to an Abundant Future. In his work, Booth explains how exponential technological progress drives deflation by rapidly lowering costs and increasing abundance, while the current debt-based fiat monetary system relies on perpetual inflation to service unpayable debt and sustain artificial growth. These opposing forces are on a collision course that widens inequality and risks greater authoritarianism. Booth positions Bitcoin as a critical monetary innovation due to its fixed supply and resistance to manipulation, offering a path toward sound money that aligns with technological deflation. His analysis provides essential context for understanding the urgent need to break free from humanity's long-standing debt trap.
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Humanity's 5,000-Year Debt Trap and the Path to Escape

June 3, 2026 | By AD News Network

For at least 5,000 years, debt has defined human societies. Anthropological records from ancient Mesopotamia show credit systems and interest-bearing loans operating long before coinage existed. Temple bureaucrats tracked debts in silver. This pattern repeated across empires. Debt fueled social stratification, peonage, and periodic revolts marked by debt record destruction.

The Trump administration and Israel are actively working...

Editor's note: ...to end Jordan's historic Hashemite custodianship of the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and its Islamic Waqf. The reported plan would replace the Jordanian trust with an Israeli-appointed body to transform the site into a multi-faith center, granting Jews equal access and permission for large-group prayers while giving Israel influence over imams, administrators, and sermons. This would override the 1994 Israel-Jordan peace treaty's recognition of Jordan's special role and forms part of Trump's "legacy as an instrument of Israeli maximalism." The effort is being advanced with input from Jared Kushner and US Ambassador Mike Huckabee (toxic Christian-Zionist eschatology), with Arab states briefed and showing responses ranging from opposition to silence.
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Trump's Plan for Al-Aqsa Mosque

By R.G. Uxton | June 1, 2026

Of the many outrages that have defined American foreign policy toward the Middle East, few have been as deliberate and as fraught as the reported Trump administration plan to dismantle the Islamic Waqf at the Al‑Aqsa Mosque compound. According to a joint investigation by Middle East Eye, citing American, Jordanian, Palestinian, Gulf, and Western sources, the United States and Israel are "actively working" on a new arrangement to terminate the century‑old Hashemite custodianship of the third‑holiest site in Islam. The reported scheme would replace the Waqf—the Jordanian‑run Islamic trust that has administered the Haram al‑Sharif since the early twentieth century—with an Israeli‑appointed body tasked with redefining the sacred enclosure as a "multi‑faith centre." Under the plan, Jews would receive "equal access" to the compound and would be formally permitted to conduct large‑group prayers on the esplanade; Israel would gain decisive influence over the appointment of imams, mosque administrators, and even the content of Friday sermons.

Israel getting shuffled around

Editor's note: New York remains the largest Jewish population center outside of Israel, with roughly 1.4 to 1.7 million Jews living across the state and metropolitan area. The Jewish population has deep cultural, religious, and economic influence throughout the city, especially in Brooklyn, where large Orthodox and Hasidic populations have built extensive networks of synagogues, schools, kosher businesses, and community institutions. The growing visibility of Israeli culture and cuisine in New York reflects the strong ties between American Jews and Israelis living abroad.
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'Brain Drain' Accelerates: Thousands of High-Tech Developers Leave Israel

A new Israeli report warns that growing relocation, overseas expansion and declining R&D employment threaten Israel's technology sector.

June 1, 2026 | By Palestine Chronicle

Key Developments

• Israel recorded its first decline in research and development employment in a decade, losing approximately 3,500 workers.

• Israeli technology firms are increasingly shifting operations, management positions and research activities abroad, particularly to the United States and Eastern Europe.

• The Innovation Authority warned that continued relocation could gradually erode the foundations of Israel's long-standing technological advantage.

"I can't breathe."

Editor's note: The white English male is under attack as Britain looks at itself. These people do not belong in Britain because they are bringing their ethnic strife with them:

Just-released: Haunting new image of Henry Nowak could bring the UK to her knees…

Weapons-obsessed killer jailed for student's murder
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Britain Mourned George Floyd. Why Won't It Mourn Henry Nowak?

A Dying Teenager Said "I Can't Breathe." Britain Looked Away.

By Alexander Muse | May 30, 2026

Consider what a nation chooses to see. Attention is not a neutral faculty, a camera that simply records whatever passes before it. A society has only so much moral attention to spend, and the way it spends that attention, what it magnifies and what it lets slide past, is among the most honest confessions it ever makes about its real beliefs. We learn what a people values not from its official creeds but from the deaths it cannot stop talking about, set beside the deaths it manages to forget within a week.

AI is being aggressively promoted and driven by...

Editor's note: ...wildly over exaggerated claims with marketing being more important than actual AI productivity. Is AI really helping people work better, faster and smarter in the way that it is being promised? Or, is AI making people less valuable and less productive even if it feels like it helps? Another thing here is that these AI companies are telling Americans there is going to be mass layoffs described as a "white color bloodbath" because of AI. That is another marketing scam ("Anthropic just admitted AI is bullsh*t"). Much of today's AI hysteria is being fueled less by proven technological reality and more by investor pressure, inflated stock valuations, venture capital incentives, enterprise software sales campaigns, and fear-driven marketing designed to push rapid adoption before the technology has truly earned the hype. A Harvard Business School study involving 758 Boston Consulting Group consultants found that AI boosted speed and productivity on routine consulting tasks (AI as the "easy button"), but researchers also warned that workers using AI were significantly more likely to produce incorrect answers when operating outside the technology's actual capabilities. The study described AI as a "jagged technological frontier," contradicting corporate hype portraying AI as a flawless replacement for skilled professionals. The problem here is that OpenAI is becoming a "gatekeeper for software development" while you get the shit version of AI.

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US government protecting 'data cartels' – whistleblower to RT (VIDEO)

Sam Altman's Open AI is building a monopoly on human knowledge, Zach Vorhies has warned

By RT | May 29, 2026 21:28

AI megacorporations like OpenAI and Anthropic have scraped every word of human knowledge from the internet, and the US government is helping them sell it back to the public, Google whistleblower Zach Vorhies has told RT.

While claims of declining Israeli influence...

Editor's note: ...over US foreign policy gain traction amid eroding public support, especially among Democrats and younger voters, and growing aid skepticism, US-Israel military cooperation is actually accelerating. Recent NDAA proposals expand joint technology development in AI, cyber, missiles, and autonomous systems. This builds on massive US resupply during recent conflicts and deeper operational integration against Iran. The reality is clear: strategic interests, shared threats, defense industry ties, and institutional momentum outweigh domestic political friction. Declining political sway has not weakened the alliance. It is simply shifting from cash subsidies to a more integrated military partnership that serves both sides regardless of polls (see The only thing here that this Huckabee character...).
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Congress quietly moves to integrate US and Israeli militaries

In the first step towards shifting aid further into the shadows, the House's 2027 NDAA would all but fuse the two countries' armed forces together

By Ben Freeman | May 29, 2026

At a time when the American public is expressing unprecedented levels of distrust in the Israeli government, Congress just proposed tying the U.S. to the Israeli military more than ever before.

The alleged theft by a former senior CIA official...

Editor's note: ...is a blatant betrayal of public trust. Stealing $40 million in gold bars and $2 million in cash, supposedly obtained through fraudulent claims and falsified documents, represents corrupt self-enrichment at taxpayer expense that deserves full prosecution and harsh punishment. While growing numbers of Americans distrust federal and state institutions due to repeated scandals, opacity, and perceived double standards, this pillaging highlights a really troubling disparity: everyday state troopers, particularly in Arkansas (major drug transport corridor), risk their lives daily as consummate professionals to intercept drugs, especially fentanyl, protect communities, and uphold the rule of law with honor and integrity. In contrast, a high-level intelligence official allegedly hoarding luxury watches, gold, and cash erodes confidence far more than isolated rogue criminals should. Americans should not tolerate such corruption, accountability must apply rigorously at every level to rebuild whatever legitimacy remains. Recently, Vice President JD Vance was appointed Chairman of the White House Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, an interagency body created by executive order to combat waste, fraud, and abuse in federal government programs. Eliminate fraud yes, but also eliminate the pillaging going on like in California and the property tax scam.
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FBI Arrests CIA Official With $40 Million in Gold Bars, $2 Million In Cash Stashed in His Home

By Tyler Durden | May 28, 2026

In what may be the most bizarre story of the week, if not all of 2026, the NYTimes reports that a senior CIA official was arrested last week after investigators found hundreds of gold bars worth over $40 million stashed in his Virginia residence, a non-fiat fortune that he apparently brought home from work, according to court papers.

To Vice-President J.D. Vance

Editor's note: Mockingbird Properties accuses Texas appraisal districts and school districts of "operating a massive system of inflated property valuations designed to support ever-growing municipal bond debt and higher property taxes." Local governments are artificially driving up home values, then using those inflated numbers to justify more borrowing, more bond issuance, and more tax extraction from homeowners. It portrays the system as legalized wealth transfer where ordinary property owners carry the burden while public agencies, bond interests, and bureaucracies keep expanding. The allegations are extreme and highly controversial but well documented. The core argument is blunt: rising property taxes are not simply about funding schools or infrastructure. They are tied to a debt machine that critics say rewards endless borrowing while stripping homeowners of equity and affordability.
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Florida Governor Calls For Special Session To Eliminate Property Tax For Homeowners

By Tyler Durden | May 29, 2026

Authored by Jacki Thrapp via The Epoch Times

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on May 27 called for a special legislative session to pass his plan to exempt homeowners from paying property taxes on their permanent residence.

The Republican governor revealed his plans to sign a proclamation that would require state lawmakers to convene in Tallahassee and discuss his "Save Our Homes" proposal starting on June 1.

In a glaring display of...

Editor's note: ...misplaced priorities (probably intentional), Spanberger is defying a court order to resume burdensome background checks on private gun sales for Virginians exercising their Second Amendment rights, while her executive orders explicitly block state police from cooperating with ICE to detain and deport criminal illegal aliens. This policy shields violent offenders from accountability at the expense of everyday residents, who now face greater scrutiny for legal firearm transactions than convicted criminals who entered the country unlawfully. Spanberger's approach exemplifies a troubling pattern of treating law-abiding Virginians like suspects and illegal immigrants like protected constituents.
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Spanberger Advances The Soft Coup Against America

The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact is advancing quickly among Democrats, but the Constitution itself has the tools for defeating it.

By Marly Hornik | May 24, 2026

Advancing the latest "progressive" scheme to upend our Constitution and make the people serve the government, Governor Abigail Spanberger has signed a bill forcing Virginia to join the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC). This ruse to overturn the Electoral College, a critical safeguard that ensures equal presidential representation for all Americans, is now just 48 votes away from national implementation.

The secret power behind the pirate City of London

Editor's note: This essay is worth revisiting. Why? Because the pirate City of London corporation ("the Square Mile") is a harvesting machine in this predator and prey ecosphere. The model of central banking is war. Start to distinguish the difference between the English and the British. The communist foot soldiers created in the City of London grafted onto and now destroying America today see nothing wrong here, nope, not at all. The state has credit. Distribution is effected by little pieces of paper. It's not that complicated.
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1666 - The Year the Bankers Set Fire to London

By Donny Ahzmond

First published March 27, 2021

My working title doesn’t exactly bury the lede, so let's get right to it. The Great London Fire was the clandestine operation of the City of London's banking and business cabal, its purpose being 1) to divert public attention from the cabal’s legislative schemes and 2) to accelerate the national debt and ultimately achieve a "great reset" of the financial system. More on that later. The connection is almost too obvious to avoid, yet virtually every historian avoids it, since they are paid to. I'm not going to convince you by painstakingly unfolding the details of the event. My method will be much simpler and more convincing. All I need to do is show you the lasting financial and political impact of the fre and who were its beneficiaries, and it will become apparent that those same actors must have had a hand in its creation. Nowadays all history must be read backwards in this way, starting with effects to get at the cause, since we know that historical events are dominated by a very small cadre of actors, mostly bankers and other rogues from ancient lines.

The following is an investigative report based entirely...

Editor's Note: ...on public records, federal court filings, and published reporting. No original interviews were conducted. All factual claims are drawn from the following primary sources: Executive Order 14338, "Improving Our Nation Through Better Design," signed August 21, 2025, and published in the Federal Register, Vol. 90, No. 163, pp. 41759-41760; federal court dockets including AFSCME v. Social Security Administration (D. Md., No. 1:23-cv-00596), EFF/Lex Lumina v. OPM (S.D.N.Y., filed February 11, 2025), New York v. Trump (S.D.N.Y., No. 1:25-cv-01144), Alliance for Retired Americans v. Bessent (D.D.C., No. 1:25-cv-00313), and AFL-CIO v. Department of Labor (D.D.C., No. 1:25-cv-00339); reporting by Bloomberg News, Wired, Reuters, NBC News, The Daily Beast, TechCrunch, Federal News Network, FedScoop, and FedTech Magazine; the Congressional Research Service report LSB11370 on Privacy Act lawsuits and DOGE; and official government websites including ndstudio.gov and americabydesign.gov. The author has no financial or professional connection to any individual or organization named in this report.
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THE INVISIBLE STUDIO

How the Trump Administration Built a Shadow Tech Agency Inside the White House,

Armed It With DOGE Veterans, Handed It Access to 27,000 Federal Websites,

and Asked No One's Permission 

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An Investigative Report

May 2026

The Executive Order No One Read

On August 21, 2025, President Donald Trump signed Executive Order 14338, formally titled Improving Our Nation Through Better Design. It was published in the Federal Register on August 26, 2025, in Volume 90, Number 163, pages 41759-41760. It created a new White House agency called the National Design Studio (NDS), established the position of Chief Design Officer of the United States, and quietly set in motion one of the most sweeping and least scrutinized reorganizations of how Americans interact with their own government. Most Americans have never heard of it. That is not an accident. When a billionaire Airbnb co-founder designs how Americans file their taxes, renew your passports, and collect their Social Security, the government has not been modernized. It has been acquired.