The Crown – Gold, Silver and Freedom

April 28, 2024April 30, 2024

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

It completely missed my attention, and would have remained so had I not reinstalled Instagram on my mobile (#BlueTweedJacket), that the seals are now opened and the four horsemen of the apocalypse have, quite possibly, been released. Bear with me.

It all leads back to a very strange story that occurred on 24/04/2024 in the City of London, when 4 military horses were seemingly startled by some kind of building noise in Belgravia (Gematria : “Rise of the Phoenix”, remember this Economist cover from 1988?

“behold, a pale horse and his name that sat upon him was death..”

You can read about the horses here and work out the imagery for yourself. The key part for me is how the four horses ran through the City of London, much to the amazement of onlookers. Thus it was announced. I wonder if the names Vida, Trojan, Quaker and Tennyson could be signs in some way too?

For the uninitiated, the City of London is a separate country within the UK, explaining the bizarre yearly ceremony where the Monarch has to ask permission from the Lord Mayor of London to enter the City of London. I am unsure if fakey Prince Charley has done it yet, perhaps the City would say no, knowing he’s not really King. Seemingly, anyway, this all happened as the result of magically generating the finance for royalty to win their wars and the power of the City grew, to the extent that Corporations inside the city have votes, like citizens do, not that are many left within the old Roman city walls. A population decline that began with a Great Fire, way back in 1666. Oh wait a sec, 24/04/2024 (2+4)(4+2)(2+4)…666 again? After clearing the lower-grade humans away from inside the city, it went on to gain prominence in controlling world finance and the world of corpus-rations, or dead entities. You could even argue it controls the USA through the Eurodollar market, allowing it to manage and use the world reserve currency for it’s own purposes, exactly as it did with the British Pound, prior to 1926.

I can see the pieces linking together, Winston Churchill, as Chancellor of the Exchequer back in 1926 unrelentingly demanded a strong pound after the inflationary costs of The Great War, causing a general strike and leaving many coal miners without income and starving (I sense my own ancestors suffered too), which thanks the Lords of Finance book, explains how this led to a trans-Atlantic trade of Gold flowing across to the USA after WW1 and ultimately left the USA atop the world in 1945. Compare that to the closely-comparable current flow of gold from Europe and North America to Asia, or the new Switzerland of the East, Singapore. Got to wonder why he did it, eh? Or maybe, got to wonder who he did it for.

Match that with “You will own nothing and be happy” mantra of the World Economic Forum. Many of us are meant to die, especially the unproductive ones (by their measurements, let’s just ignore that not everything that can be counted, counts) and those that survive are meant to have every part of their lives tracked and controlled. I’m not joking, Denmark already has 95% of the population signed up to a Digital ID that includes a contract clause for allowing the bank, local government, any government agency (think : the health dept says you didn´t get the latest booster of the COVID-25 vaccine) and anyone else to basically lock your ID. No paying for anything, no access to anything, no state healthcare, no car, no nothing. If you don’t believe me that it’s already weaponised, ask this guy here, who without yet being convicted of any crime took part in a trucker protest by lobbing some potatoes on the motorway and got locked out.

Now, what about the names of those horses? Well, the first one, it maps via Gematria to “Dollar Collapse”, then the next one is called Trojan. Aha, another clue perhaps? What is Gold still measured in, even today? The city people once thought was a myth, somehow managed to have a weight named after it, the Troy ounce, used to measure gold. The one solid money unit people have always known they can rely on when everything else falls apart. Any ideas on those two other names…? Well, Tennyson was a Victorian poet whose most famous poem line was “Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die.“, about the Charge of The Light Brigade in the Crimean war, and I seem to recall something happening in Crimea right now again. Quaker, a religion or an Earthquake. It may become clearer later.

I think I see the financial future clearer now. When money dies, as it has just been anounced it will, then we all turn back to gold, even briefly as the one unit we can trust, then the system resets, just as it did in 1923 for Germany (and 1945-46, again, painfully) and how it always works out for every fiat currency that has ever existed, be it Pounds, Francs, Dollars, Livres, Pengo or Dollars. Those that don’t prepare at all, be it by holding gold, silver or even tinned food are destined to expire, or fight, in a Darwinian trial that the elite will enjoy watching unfold and are poised, ready to grab your assets on the cheap. Then they’ll offer you the solution to scarce expensive food, rationing implemented and managed via an app on your phone. Digital ID worldwide through the back door and their Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), with all the controls they wanted all along.

October 23, 2021October 9, 2022

Utopia

Utopia : an imaginary perfect world, where citizens live in perfect, perpetual harmony

or alternatively :-

Utopia : 2013 Channel 4 UK television series, about some internet conspiracy realists, who discover a secret plot to reduce the population of the world to 500 million, by the creation of a fake virus scare and the releasing of the cure. A two-part vaccine designed to make the majority of the population infertile, bar a select few with certain genetic characteristics

Well, with an outrageous plotline like that, I am not surprised it sank into only being known and remembered by outliers of society, right? I mean, honestly, how ridiculous to think that human beings would fall for something so ludicrous and far-fetched. After all, this plot to kill 500 million people is just a bizarre conspiracy theory, yes?

Actually no, it’s quite literally written in stone. In the state of Georgia, USA, you will find the Georgia Guidestones, along with ten new commandments for us all to follow. Moses would be impressed, although the writing quality and clarity of the message has been somewhat lost compared to the literary sharpness of Thou shalt not Kill. In fact, those ten commandments are not only clear but when you think about it, but most of them are variations of steal – transgressions against the life of your fellow man. Quite simple to obey and easy to know yourself. Your soul will tell you if you’re abiding by them or not.

Then what about the other parts of the story? I won’t even try to explain, just watch this short trailer here and decide for yourself.

As an advance warning, there is quite a lot of violence in there, especially one scene early on that I had to completely skip. I can see though, that it is probably necessary to show the extent dark forces will go to to achieve their goals, but I abhor TV violence. I believe young minds find it hard to differentiate between TV and reality and this normalises it. This desensitisation reminds me of a work incident once, where I was tricked into watching a man be gaffa-taped to a chair and choked with his own tie, his fellow employees all standing around mocking, all under the guise of him deserving it because he had visited a virus-infested website on the work computer. They called it Mandatory Security Training and for some reason, everyone else watched it, thought this all to be normal and I find that rather worrying if so. The complete disregard for the trauma they may cause on fellow employees by releasing this and calling it mandatory, disgusts me even now. I also always find it interesting how the people promoting population reduction never see themselves as part of the problem they’ve identified. This series is full of hidden references that would be completely missed had it been watched back in 2014. Like the “good” health minister being manipulated out of his role and replaced by the vaccine champion with a hidden agenda, Tyrian purple, freemasonic symbology and not least, the pharmaceutical company producing the vaccine being called Corvadt. . This kind of subtle wordplay is often present in television and film. it’s also interesting that Channel 4 dropped the show after two series, but it got taken up by Amazon and I would guess redirected toward a safer route by Mr Bezos. John Cusack is now the main star and, while he may be good at making himself a suitable beta male for alpha widows in Hollywood films by appearing to be a good soulful guy who sands boats, I don’t see him being good here for passing on the message of what the show was really originally about.

Watch it.

Consider the Georgia stones again. Perhaps the main difference to absorb here is that whereas Moses dealt with commandments – simple laws of the universe that your soul itself will tell you when you are transgressing, the Georgia version deals with guides, mere suggestions on how to live life. I hope no-one falls for them, but I fear they will, since the sinister aspects are well hidden behind vaguely-written sentences, that hint at promises of the perpetually perfect harmony we all believe we want. We would know better if a full vaccine list had been released anywhere in the world for any brand, but it has not – only the active ones. To put that in perspective, Utopia lays it out that the ingredients causing the infertility are inactive, but are delivered separately in each dose and it’s only when mixed that they become active. Clever. It’s almost as if someone wrote this seriously to warn us of something. Indeed, someone (I forget who), once said that Fiction writing allows you to say true things that you could never say openly as truth. Do you dare to watch it? It may help you awaken from your hypnotic trance and helpfully, the whole series seems to be freely available on Bitchute.

New rules (not laws or commandments) for life written in stone, Tyrian Purple everywhere and a special product that is number 6 on the periodic table, comprised of six-sided molecules bonded six at a time possibly being injected into our bodies. It’s all sounding increasingly biblical, isn’t it? I’m not sure whose utopia it is, but it certainly isn’t mine.

August 12, 2021October 9, 2022

33, The Key to the Door

A while ago, I wrote a post pointing out the 3 and 33 coincidences, if we can call them that, around this Crown virus crisis. It’s also good to know that (a) you’re not alone in spotting these coded messages and (b) however hard you try, as an uninitiate into the secret lore, there are so many more being pushed that you can’t find them all.

3 – and That’s The Magic Number

A reminder

Just recently, it was highlighted to me that the code was put out there right at the beginning. A call to arms, perhaps, for each and every man to begin enacting his small part of the giant jigsaw puzzle. Ordo Ab Chao – Order out of Chaos or Order from Disorder, the motto of freemasonry. There’s certainly a been a lot of chaos this past year, just need to see what order is planned. It becomes more obvious when you see the robocops/police wandering around cafes and restaurants in France, tooled up in body armour and guns, demanding to see the telephone Coronapas of patrons. Somehow this is necessary and worse, considered normal. Anyway, cast your mind back to February and March 2020. Did you get the message when they talked about 33 cases in news stories across the world?

July 25, 2021October 9, 2022

Sim City

About 30 years ago, an enjoyable computer game appeared on the market that allowed you to run a city exactly the way you wanted it, allocating zones as residential or industrial, then building infrastructure such as power stations, roads and railways. As I recall, the success in the game was measured by the growth of your cityscape and the amount of taxes collected. It was called SimCity.

Now, amusing as it was, fast forward 30 years and it becomes clear that either someone played that game and decided that the real world could be structured the same way, or, the whole point of the game was to condition a certain type of thinking in people that things being decided by higher powers was good and that taxes were good. I can’t agree with either of those last two prepositions and as a result, I gave up on the game pretty quickly. I even felt some strange guilt as I flattened a developed residential zone and thought about those imaginary SIMulated citizens, the lives they’d built and the dreams they had, which I’d just crushed with my belief that I somehow knew better.

Looking back, it’s clear that the game could be viewed as some kind of psychology test for world improvers. I’d bet, for example, that most politicans were fans. Take Justin “trendy” Trudeau, for example. Yes, please, take him. Every time I see him now, I see a child who probably played SimCity incessantly, never stopping and maybe even having discussions with his Dad (Fidel, or Pierre, take your pick) to analyse where he’d gone wrong so he could be a better world improver when he grew up. For sure, to be a politician now means that you really do not see the people you are supposed to represent as valid human beings, just commodities that can be swept off the table or electronically deleted to suit your higher purposes. Take Richard Holden, ConSelfServative MP for Northwest Durham and his recent Facebook tirade that people refusing the COVID-19 vaccine are idiots. Part of me senses he knows he may not be needing their votes ever again in a future general election, so his true colours about not even seeing them as valid people is revealed. Either because they won’t be able to vote, or an election will not be happening.

So, how might a real-life Sim City work? Well, you’d certainly need a lot of technology to make it happen, wouldn’t you? A reliable, high-speed internet network that could monitor the success or failure of each zone and the infrastructure you were building. Like 5G, perhaps? Only a conspiracy theorist would think that though, because of course the 5G infrastructure investment has continued unabated during a time people were supposed to be in lockdown and it’s all so we can have faster internet to call the overworked NHS or watch Netflix*, isn’t it? Secondly, what measurements of real-life success would you use…happiness..probably no…financial, probably yes. So if we measure every life in those terms, it fits entirely with the elimination of low-economic activity generating pensioners and not really caring about how people are doing as long as the tax revenues are up. Depression could go through the roof and be seen as positive for economic activity, as long as those SIMs are buying their meds and still paying their taxes.

This leads to the third question – how do you get those SIMs to undertake what you want to do without protest, or at least too much protest and still continue to have them as productive citizens – productive on your terms where you get to take a cut of their productivity through taxes, anyway? As I get older, I become more and more aware the SIM city-style planning that was carried out on my own doorstep in the 1940s to the present day. Let’s begin by looking at World War 2, for example, and ask if someone looked at a map and thought it rather inefficient that much of Europe overlapped with unworkable borders, where whole regions were comprised of villages and towns where one might be 90%, say, German, then the next, say, 90% Polish. These people co-existed side-by-side and traded and often intermarried, but the barriers of language, culture and patriotism might lead a high level world improver to wonder how you could, well, improve things. Of course, you couldn’t take the map, draw your preferred line, then get these people to move, so it’d take something serious like a war with mass death and displacement to make it happen. Which is what did happen, along with the destruction of huge residential areas, now converted back to wilderness or industrial zones.

You may or not agree with me, but in the 1950s, Durham County council drew a categorised list of every town and village in the County as being A, B, C or D, with D meaning the village was not have any money spent on it and that the residents would be encouraged, by neglect and closure of key facilities, to move. Sim City planning at it’s finest, since the residents themselves were never told this was going on until people found out many, many years later. My grandparents own village was categorised as D. It still exists now, as it got swallowed up by urbanisation and has become quite a desirable place to live. If anything, this shows the failure of centralised planning compared to a free market.

Then we have city centre planning in Newcastle in the 60s and 70s. I sat in the car with my Dad in the 1970s and drove past rows and rows of empty Victorian terraced houses in Scotswood, Newcastle, scheduled for demolition following compulsory purchase and removal of the residents. Many of whom had lived there for generations. Again, human emotion, attachment and community means nothing to the average, yet very dangerous, central planner. Just cold hard credits. The real legacy of these central planners was not just the destruction of the communities, but the building of horrific tower blocks of low, low quality, followed by the exposed corruption of central planners like T. Dan Smith and the demolition of many of these blocks in subsequent years. Incidentally, the young me watched a cartoon called Mary, Mungo and Midge about living in one of these tower blocks that were being built at breakneck speed across the country, that I’d now see as brainwashing for children of what a better centrally-planned future is going to be.

So, what about the future, how might you control your SIMs? I think we all got a little insight into it about 6 weeks ago, without even realising it. Picture the scene I am about to describe as akin to as something from a James Bond film. The evil arch-villain sits on a swivel armchair in front of a large screen with a major public event taking place. He demonstrates his power at the press of a button and the result is available for all the others attending the video conference to see. The arch-villain (let’s call him Swabia, for no reason in particular), then swivels on his chair to face the other video conference attendees, stroking the cat on his knee and says confidently, in guttural English – “…well, gentlemen, you have now seen the power of our new technology, are you not impressed?”. The other attendees are impressed and shocked at the power of what they just saw and then the bidding, or negotiations for the coming power divide begin.

What event am I talking about? Well, the collapse of Christian Eriksen in the Euro 21 opening game in Copenhagen. It was unlike anything I have ever seen in my 40 years of watching football matches and especially not for a world superstar, primed to sporting readiness for this tournament. What’s interesting is that tweets did come out saying Eriksen had had his COVID-19 “vaccine” in May. Danish media were all quick to dismiss this, without actually saying at any point that he had not had the injection. This probably says a lot about the quality of media and journalism, no desire to track down the truth, or if the truth has been tracked down, pass it onto their readers. Subsequently, doctors have no idea what happened to Eriksen that night, he’s now fine, but they’ve fitted a pacemaker anyway (perhaps he should’ve said no to that) and it’s debatable whether he’ll ever play top level football again. Now, imagine if you had the power to exterminate SIMs who were past their use-by date, say, the old ones, or make people ill in residential areas that you wished to convert to industrial or run a new piece of infrastructure like a road or railway line through – on this basis it’s a very useful technology to have. SimCity is no longer a game, but becomes real-life.

Come to think of it, the city of the future may also be a Simp City, given the decline in testosterone and increase in oestrogen levels in men recorded these past years. Something to talk about another day.

As an aside, I cancelled Netflix about 6 years ago and I’m never going back. Not only is it a lot of mind-programming, I cannot tolerate TV series of more than, say, 6 episodes and no defined end. I haven’t even watched BBC since Christmas 2020.

June 24, 2021October 9, 2022

Water

One subject I omitted coverage of in the book to a great extent is the title of this post, Water. The essential of human life, for we could go a while without food and just maybe, nibble on some leaves, but we could not go without water for very long. Even humans in the state of hubris mentioned in the previous post know water is essential. The French, with their rich language and cultural Celtic history that’s still under there somewhere, awaiting a revival, even refer to it as L’Eau, quite literally, the life.

Yet, it is clearly taken for granted right now.

We shouldn’t be surprised. It’s there, quite literally, on tap for most of us whenever we need it and need it we do, for our daily showers, pots of tea/coffee and even chucking 1,000 litres of the stuff into a pool in the garden for the summer. What traditionally happens in markets is that as abundant commodities get cheaper, their abundance becomes relied upon and factored into modern life with increasing usage and reliance. It’s much the same with oil, where it’s used for heating, transport, packaging and even pharmaceuticals, among many things. Even corn, is apparently so abundant that the excess can be used to make Ethanol for adding to petrol, in an effort to appear “green”. I have no idea what’s green really about producing a foodstuff with artificial fertilisers, often produced from Natural Gas, then expending energy to convert that foodstuff into a fuel that can be added into petrol, but no matter, apparently this is somehow good for the planet. To the extent that the UK is about to introduce a new fuel with a higher percentage of Ethanol that may even damage car engines. It’s for the good of the environment though, right?

On this environmental note, did you know that manufacturing one car consumes a water footprint of approximately 500,000 litres of clean water? Think about that the next time that you’re told your water consumption is responsible for the destruction of the planet. Next, refer to the relatively recent James Bond film, A Quantum of Solace, in which water was the commodity targeted by the bad guys in order to take control of the world. Quantum, interesting word choice for another post on another day…Now you’ve done that, and realised that perhaps yet again the goldfish bowl entertainment presented to you years before is predictive programming, it may be time to think about potential water shortages. After all, little could re-engineer society quicker than a world where water was a resource to be fought over.

Which leads me onto recent press.

In a variety of locations, reservoirs are being drained. Official reasons given include cleaning, or simply to top up river levels. That’s certainly the reason given for the emptying of Tunstall reservoir, near the place of my birth in Northern England :-

To the locals, that one doesn’t make any sense. The river in question, The Wear, has not been short of water lately and in fact overflowed a short while ago. It got me thinking, where else in the world this may be happening and a few internet searches helped confirm this is not an isolated phenomenon.

California, for example. Farmers here are mystified, since some of them will be unable to grow their planned crops this year at all because of this.

Colorado is also indulging in the same activities.

In Northern Italy, the story is presented as the exciting uncovering of a lost village.

In London, canals are drained as a clean-up operation. Might be a valid reason, or may not.

So, enjoy your water while you can. Nothing could displace the existing way of life quicker than to leave people without drinking water. Food -well yes, but you can survive a few days. Water – it all falls apart quickly. If it was possible to wager on how this goes, I’d put my money on that it’ll be water shortages caused by a dry summer, which was of course caused by….(dramatic pause)…Global Warming! Then it’s only one small step further to an extreme solution of locking people down into their homes and enforcing rationed usage of key resources. Perhaps even the curtailment of meat (those pesky cows and their methane are destroying our planet, of course), alongside water, electricity and even the stopping of retailing certain items in shops and online. Forcing people to stay in their homes would once have been seen as untenable, but after the flock has accepted it for the past year, they are very likely to do as they are told again. It’s for the good of the planet, right? I’d even take this a step further and say that the surveillance society now has the technology to actually monitor that you are sticking to the enforced climate lockdown, something that they have been lacking since The Crown implementation of 2020. Magnetised beings and a 5g network feels like something with great tracking potential, if you’re into that. Perhaps the Eriksen experiment was a public test run.

If this sounds like the life you want, then great. I don’t, but we’re both on this planet, trapped in what feels like a dystopian video game. Good luck with your quest, only the bad news is that this is not actually a video game, where, if it goes badly you can just press reset and start again. No, this is it and the choices we make now may be the difference between life and death.

April 17, 2021October 9, 2022

The New World Financial Centre

The British Empire and Sir Stanford Raffles in particular were a very shrewd lot. They identified a seemingly irrelevant island with a population of about 150 people as a piece of prime real estate back in 1817. What’s happened since is well-known of course, as the city of Singapore has developed into a major international trade and financial hub, with all the wealth and status that goes alongside that.

This place had always been on my to do list, so when a work trip in 2018 presented me with the opportunity for a one day stopover, I took it with both hands. While I didn’t actually sit down for a Singapore Sling, I did take a wander around the Raffles hotel complex and see the art deco railway station, where bullet damage from the 1941 Japanese invasion was still visible in some of the outer walls, before it probably disappears as the city modernises even further and obliterates the British symbols. The railway itself has already been moved to the North of the island and the future of the station seemed uncertain then, but ghosts were visible everywhere, as I peered through the locked gate into the past, surrounded by modern skyscrapers. I also saw the 1920s post office building, now a hotel, the main square in front of the Town hall where hundreds of thousands were executed by the Japanese and one of the world’s most expensive pieces of undeveloped real estate, The Singapore Cricket Club. I can only wonder how much longer that last piece of Imperial history will last. The battle of Singapore itself in 1941 has always fascinated me. For obvious reasons, it does not feature large in British history when World War 2 is mentioned, but will probably forever be Britain’s biggest military defeat, with a loss of 100,000 military personnel into Japanese captivity and subsequent death, along with the loss of two Battleships – The Prince of Wales and The Repulse.

I’d love to revisit some day on less of an intense schedule, but I sense my days of travel are numbered and I’ve used most of those numbers up. No matter, at least I can say I saw some of the world before all prison doors were locked with a resounding thud.

At the time, I was not ignorant of the island’s position as a major trade route and centre of wealth. Goldmoney and Bullionvault have offered Singapore as a precious metals storage location for years. However, it’s only when you are actually there on the ground, staring up at the impressive skyscrapers that you really understand how the wealth and energy is migrating from the old world to the new.

It’s interesting how stories coincide once more and get you thinking on a particular route. A few weeks ago, I expressed the view that Bitcoin is a distraction, or a preparation for a release of a new monetary system to replace the Petrodollar that has existed since 1971, the year of my birth, the introduction of decimalisation to the UK, the closing of the Gold Convertibility window in the USA and the official founding of the World Economic Forum – more on the last one later. In my view, the coming of digital currencies is inevitable and they may not be nice, with features such as time limitation (spend it or lose it) and extra credits available only to those who follow the rules of society (get the jab or don’t eat meat?). However, for them to be truly accepted, they will need to engineer a collapse of the current system and when that system collapses, every monetary system change ever has had to promise some kind of gold backing to get the public onside.

Historically, the old world still rules the precious metals world, with familiar locations like New York, London and Switzerland being where most of that trade is transacted. As the old world declines further and the new world rises, an Asian powerhouse, one with independence, strong defences, good shipping links and a robust financial system to trade gold and silver is required. There’s no doubt on these metrics that Singapore ticks all the boxes.

What really triggered it was a story mentioning the huge new precious metals facilities being developed in Singapore. It’s not the first time media, including the BBC, have reported on this. Yes, it looks possible a new world currency backed by gold/silver is coming and it will all be stored in Singapore, perhaps with an offshoot for Europe in London. On this, Brexit suddenly makes more sense – a European nation outside EU control, a defendable island where the wealth can be stored as the mainland descends into destruction. The Corporation of London certainly has a pedigree line of survival and growth, regardless of the general situation in the country. You may laugh, but despite a recent short period of comparative peace, Europe has a long, long history of huge wars for resources and after a year of rewarding people for doing nothing, while the continent becomes ever-more dependent on a few producers to carry the mass on their shoulders cracks may appear and Atlas may yet shrug.

When you think about it, it’s interesting how Switzerland always managed to remain neutral during the many European wars of the last few centuries. It becomes clearer why when you are aware of the high levels of banking secrecy Switzerland has historically maintained regarding account holders and fund sources. Consider also how much plundered loot found its way to Switzerland during World War 2. Why, the World Economic Forum itself is even based in Switzerland and Klaus Schwab, it’s apparent founder, was born in Germany in 1938, just before World War 2 began. I’d be interested to learn more on his family history, and this article is something of a primer. Having conducted their meetings in Davos, Switzerland for the entire history of the organisation, they are now holding their first-ever meeting in Singapore in August, 2021.

On closer examination of the Asian map, Singapore is crucial to all trade heading from China, Japan and Korea etc to India then onwards to Europe. Ships can only sail through one narrow strait. The Evergreen in the Suez canal feels like the first visible supply disruption which will expose Europe to how reliant it has become on foreign imports of essentials. Perhaps when those containers do finally arrive, they will be loaded up with precious metals for the return trip as Europe is stripped bare?

Meanwhile, almost everyone in Europe wanders around like idiots, wearing masks and continuing to following “official advice”, not laws on all kinds of things that really are basic human rights, like seeing family and friends, or conducting mutally beneficial transactions with other human beings. Blithely unaware of the probable imminent end of their way of life. You know, that “way of life” that you have been told terrorists hated so much that it needed to be protected, yet was immediately signed away the moment you got told a new virus with a 99.6% survival rate hit?

What do I know really? If I was better at these things I wouldn’t be working in an office following the limitations of my school programming, but on the basis of these jigsaw pieces slotting together, perhaps we should be investing in Singapore. Especially banks if it is going to be the new Switzerland after the World Economic Forum meeting. Not to say there won’t be bumps along the way – one other thing about that map is the seeming inevitability of a conflict between the old world powers and the new. That same Asian map shows how China is totally hemmed in from the sea because the USA controls Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the Philippines. If China could punch through and take Taiwan or part of the Phillipines, they could control the Pacific. A war is brewing. I note, for example, that the UK recently sent their aircraft carrier to the China sea. A war in which Singapore will remain an agreed neutral by all parties, just like Switzerland did during the last century, but a war in which the destruction and rewards to the victors may well be huge and end up on this small island nation.

November 14, 2020October 9, 2022

Furlough

The Corona / COVID-19 crisis has invented a whole new multitude of ways to distribute money to favoured interests and individuals. In addition to being unemployed, you can now get your full salary for doing nothing, while someone else you worked with has to continue to do their job, on the same salary, with all of the commitments their job requires. In the UK that has become known as ‘furlough’. In many cases, it goes way beyond those in employment – the self-employed can also make claims to get their earnings covered. Staying at home, being paid full salary, having all the time in the world to do the house up, improve the garden, or even find another job to boost your earnings even more – a concept in the UK that has become affectionately known as “double-dipping.” It all sounds idyllic, doesn’t it, but there must be a catch, and, of course, there is.

If the various schemes introduced to pay employed people to do nothing sound like a major extension to the welfare system, then that’s probably because they are. Some people were bound to question the point in being productive, when for the same amount of money you could do nothing. Not everyone will feel that way, and some will be upset and stressed about the loss of work, but in terms of bending minds, taking power from people, and getting them used to rules, it is very reminiscent of the 1980s deindustrialisation of Northern England. A period when hopelessness and despair took over from community, self-sufficiency, and a strong work ethic. The schemes may also be the start of something that has been thrown around for several years now and never gained traction – Universal Basic Income. The concept of Universal Basic Income (UBI) is quite simple – every citizen is issued with a basic amount of government fiat currency per year, enough to live on. It never caught on because too many people could see through it – whatever the UBI level is, it would become the new zero, and self-sufficiency and freedom would surely be eroded. To say nothing of the existing gold base supporting more and more newly issued currency units every year.

Where the extra fiat currency has come from to fund all this, it is hard to see any real statistics on. We know that at some point, public borrowing must rise, and indeed, that is being presented through the news to make it palatable to the public, but increasing borrowing takes time. Wherever it came from, the consequence of these policies must be Inflation. Quite simply put, there must be a lot more currency units in circulation than there were a year ago, and even if the majority of those units are in bank accounts right now, doing nothing, at some point, they will begin to enter the market and circulate. At that point, prices must begin to rise. Whether this happens tomorrow or in a few years seems to be the only question.