Every Major War Begins Under False Pretenses & the Central Banks Are Behind It. Economist Explains.
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Takeaways
- ❖The sinking of the Lusitania was an engineered 'false flag' operation by the British, with Winston Churchill's involvement, to draw the US into WWI.
- ❖Current US interventions in Venezuela and Iran are strategic moves to disrupt China's Belt and Road Initiative, a modern parallel to Germany's pre-WWI Berlin-Baghdad railway project.
- ❖Modern economics, particularly through 'Ricardian Vice' and simulations, is criticized as a deceptive tool to justify policies and obscure the immense power wielded by central banks and financial institutions.
- ❖The push for Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) is presented as a move towards 'central bank digital control,' enabling unprecedented micromanagement and totalitarian power over individuals and economies.
Insights
1Lusitania Sinking: An Engineered False Flag for WWI Entry
The sinking of the Lusitania in 1915, which killed Americans, was not an unprovoked act but a deliberate British ploy to generate anti-German sentiment and draw the US into WWI. The British officially listed the Lusitania as an auxiliary military ship, knowing Germany would target it. German embassies even placed warnings in American newspapers not to board the ship. Winston Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, ordered the Lusitania to slow down in a known U-boat vicinity, ensuring its destruction.
British official listing of Lusitania as auxiliary military ship, German newspaper warnings, Churchill's order to slow down the ship.
2Current Conflicts Target China's Belt and Road Initiative
Recent US interventions in Venezuela and Iran are not isolated events but are connected, serving as strategic attacks against China. Venezuela, with its vast oil resources, and Iran, a key oil supplier to China, are targeted to disrupt China's access to vital raw materials. This mirrors Britain's pre-WWI efforts to thwart Germany's Berlin-Baghdad railway, which aimed to create a continental trade route independent of British sea control. Bombing campaigns in Iran have specifically targeted Belt and Road infrastructure projects.
Venezuela's oil resources, Iran's role as oil supplier to China, bombing of Belt and Road infrastructure in Iran.
3Mao's Famine: An Intentional Policy-Induced Catastrophe
The Chinese famine during the 'Great Leap Forward,' which resulted in an estimated 80 million deaths, was not an accident but an intentional outcome of specific government policies. These policies included forcibly transporting harvest workers from rural areas to cities, declaring the Asian tree sparrow (a natural enemy of locusts) as 'enemy number one' leading to locust swarms, and seizing harvested crops while punishing farmers for storing food. These highly unusual and specific policies, enacted during a bumper crop year, point to a deliberate orchestration of famine.
Policies of forced worker relocation, sparrow extermination, crop seizure, and punishment for food storage, occurring during a bumper crop year.
4Modern Economics as Deception: The Ricardian Vice
Modern economics, originating with David Ricardo, employs a 'Ricardian Vice'—using unrealistic assumptions (e.g., perfect information, complete markets, rational agents) in logical mathematical models to generate desired conclusions. This 'great deception' presents theoretical possibilities as truths, obscuring the empirical reality and the power dynamics in markets. It hides that markets are often rationed, and power resides with the 'short side' (e.g., money suppliers), rather than being a neutral equilibrium.
David Ricardo's model of comparative advantage, the use of simulations in economic forecasts, and the lack of banks in leading economic textbooks.
5Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) as 'Digital Control'
The global push for Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) is not merely about modernizing currency but establishing a system of 'central bank digital control.' Unlike existing bank digital currency (BDC), CBDCs would grant central planners unprecedented power to micromanage individual transactions, control spending, and enforce compliance through programmable, permission-based money. This system, coupled with digital ID, represents a totalitarian dream, enabling absolute power over billions of people.
Christine Lagarde's justification for CBDCs, the concept of programmable money, and the link to digital identity.
Bottom Line
American investment and technology transfer to China over decades may have been a deliberate strategy by certain 'decision makers' to build up an opponent, creating the necessary conditions for a future 'world war' aimed at dethroning America and the dollar.
This suggests a long-term, highly cynical strategy where economic growth and industrialization in a rival nation are intentionally fostered, not for mutual benefit, but to serve a larger geopolitical agenda of conflict and systemic change.
If this is true, understanding the 'plotters'' objectives could allow for counter-strategies that disrupt their plans, such as fostering genuine, decentralized economic cooperation that doesn't serve a centralized, conflict-driven agenda.
The Club of Rome, founded with Rockefeller support, influenced China's one-child policy through a Japanese high-growth expert (Saburo Okita) who had joined their executive committee, leveraging simulations to convince Deng Xiaoping of the need for population control.
This implies that seemingly independent policy decisions in sovereign nations can be influenced by external, powerful, and anti-population growth agendas, using scientific-sounding but deceptive methodologies (simulations) to achieve their goals.
Exposing the historical roots and methodologies of such influence can empower nations and leaders to critically evaluate 'expert' advice, especially when it contradicts natural economic principles like the need for population growth for productivity.
Key Concepts
False Flag Operations
The deliberate staging of an event to deceive the public and justify a desired political or military action, often by blaming an opponent.
Ricardian Vice / Great Deception
The practice in economics of constructing models with highly specific and unrealistic assumptions to logically derive desired conclusions, thereby presenting theoretical possibilities as factual truths and obscuring real-world complexities and power dynamics.
Short Side Principle
In a rationed market, the side with the smaller quantity (demand or supply) determines the outcome and holds power to pick and choose with whom to trade. Applied to money, the suppliers of money (banks) hold significant power.
Heartland Theory
A geopolitical concept suggesting that whoever controls the 'heartland' of Eurasia (the vast interior landmass) commands the 'world-island' (Eurasia and Africa), and thus the world. This underpins strategies to prevent continental powers from forming alliances or developing independent trade routes.
Lessons
- Actively oppose the implementation of digital ID systems and Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), viewing them as tools for totalitarian control rather than mere financial innovation.
- Advocate for the decentralization of banking by supporting the creation and proliferation of many small, local banks, thereby distributing the power of money creation and credit availability away from centralized entities.
- Cultivate a deep understanding of history and economic principles, focusing on evidence-based analysis rather than relying on logical simulations or official narratives, to discern underlying agendas and power structures.
Notable Moments
Winston Churchill, as First Lord of the Admiralty, ordered the Lusitania to slow down in a known German U-boat area, despite warnings from his subordinates, directly contributing to its sinking.
This moment is presented as direct evidence of high-level orchestration of a 'false flag' event to manipulate public opinion and draw the United States into World War I.
Mao Zedong's 'Four Pests Campaign' specifically targeted the Asian tree sparrow, a natural predator of locusts, which then led to swarms of locusts destroying crops and exacerbating the famine during the Great Leap Forward.
This policy is highlighted as a specific, seemingly irrational action that, in conjunction with other policies, intentionally contributed to a massive famine, illustrating the guest's argument about engineered catastrophes.
Quotes
"Ordinary people don't want war in any country. Most ordinary people are good people and that creates this problem that they just can't imagine that we're dealing today, you know, as we look at the world with such dark and evil forces that are intentionally plotting to create a world war or get countries to declare war."
"The first world war itself was of course quite devastating for Germany... the number of people killed in the war I it's just horrendous huge waste of um yeah of lives and and resources very very sad."
"Power corrupts. Most people get corrupted by power. They can't handle power and absolute power corrupts absolutely."
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