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David Stockman on The Recent Attack on Yemen… And Whether The US is Starting Another War
Here we go again. The “Joe Biden” thing just started another war in Yemen without a constitutionally compliant declaration by Congress. And it/they did so against a rag-tag tribe of desert insurgents who cannot possibly harm the liberty or security of the American homeland.
After all, the most fearsome missile possessed by the Houthi is the Burkan-3, which has a maximum range of 750 miles. Yet the last time we checked, the distance from Yemen to Washington DC was 7,200 miles. So why is the GOP leadership branch of the Uniparty saluting Sleepy Joe with a chorus of attaboys?
GOP Senate Leader, Mitch McConnel: I welcome the U.S. and coalition operations against the Iran-backed Houthi terrorists responsible for violently disrupting international commerce in the Red Sea and attacking American vessels. President Bidenâs decision to use military force against these Iranian proxies is overdue.
GOP House Speaker Johnson: This action by U.S. and British forces is long overdue, and we must hope these operations indicate a true shift in the Biden Administrationâs approach to Iran and its proxies that are engaging in such evil and wreaking such havoc. They must understand there is a serious price to pay for their global acts of terror and their attacks on U.S. personnel and commercial vessels. America must always project strength, especially in these dangerous times.
No, Speaker Johnson, America must not go abroad seeking monsters to destroy, as our sixth president, John Qunicy Adams, stated so cogently nearly 203 years ago on Independence Day. The Red Sea is not the Gulf of Mexico, Long Island Sound or the Gulf of Catalinaâmeaning that the Houthi blockade on ships heading to Israel in retaliation for the latterâs genocidal assault on Gaza is Jerusalemâs business to treat with, not Washingtonâs.
Moreover, the US Navy has not been hired by the UN or any other global body to safeguard every sea lane on the planet. Nor should it take the assignment if offered because the homeland security of America does not depend upon Washington functioning as the gendarmerie of the world.
In fact, there are only two ways our liberty and security could be threatened in todayâs world: Either by nuclear blackmail or by a conventional military invasion and occupation of US territory. Neither are even remotely possible; and, in any event, assurance of that impossibility does not require aircraft carriers and military bases strung around the planet.
As to nuclear blackmail, there is no nation on earth that has anything close to the First Strike force that would be needed to totally overwhelm Americaâs triad nuclear deterrent force, and thereby avoid a retaliatory annihilation of its own country and people. After all, the US has 3,800 active nuclear warheads and they are spread under the sea, in hardened silos and among a bomber fleet of 66 B-2 and B-52sâall beyond the detection or reach of any other nuclear power.
For instance, the Ohio class nuclear submarines each have 20 missile tubes, with each missile carrying an average of four warheads. Thatâs 80 independently targetable warheads per boat and at any given time 12 of the 14 Ohio class nuclear subs are actively deployed, and spread around the oceans of the planet within a firing range of 4,000 miles. So thatâs 960 deep-sea nuclear warheads to find and neutralize before any would be blackmailer even gets started.
And then there are the roughly 1,200 nukes aboard the 66 strategic bombers, which also are not sitting on a single airfield Pearl Harbor style waiting to be obliterated, but are constantly rotating in the air and on the move. Likewise, the 400 minutemen missiles are spread out in extremely hardened silos deep underground. Each missile carries 3 warheads, providing another 1,200 nuclear warheads that must be taken out by would be blackmailers.
Needless to say, there is no way, shape or form that Americaâs nuclear deterrent can be neutralized by a blackmailer, and the best thing is that the nuclear triad costs only $65 billion per year to maintain, including allowances for periodic upgrades.
At the end of the day, the only other potential military threat to the homeland security of America is invasion by a massive conventional armada of land, air and sea-based forces many, many times larger than the military behemoth that is now funded by Washingtonâs $900 billion defense budget. The logistical infrastructure that would be needed to control the vast Atlantic and Pacific Ocean moats surrounding North America and to sustain an invasion and occupation force on the North American continent is so mind-bogglingly vast as to be scarcely imaginable.
At the least it would take a $50 trillion GDP to support such a thing. And if obviously not the mere $2 trillion GDP of Russia or even the $18 trillion GDP of the Red Ponzi, exactly what distant interstellar domain of the known universe might we be talking about?
Moreover, itâs not as if in an age when the sky is flush with high tech surveillance assets that such a massive conventional force armada could be secretly built, tested and mustered for surprise attack without being noticed in Washington. There can be no repeat of the Akagi, Kaga, SĆryĆ«, HiryĆ«, ShĆkaku, and Zuikaku strike force steaming across the Pacific toward Pearl Harbor sight unseen.
As a practical matter, Russia has only one aircraft carrier and China has just threeâ two of which are refurbished rust buckets purchased from the remnants of the old Soviet Union, and which carriers do not even have modern catapults for launching their strike aircraft.
Likewise, neocon knuckleheads like Nikki Haley have been jabbering about Chinaâs growing Navy, which numbers 400 hulls compared to 305 ships in the US Navyâs fleet. But what she doesnât say is that most of these Chinese units are coastal patrol boats, which likely couldnât even make it to the coast of California, anyway.
In terms of Naval power projection capability, the proper measure of lethality is not the number of hulls, but the total displacement tonnage. In this connection, the US Navy has 4.6 million tons of displacement, averaging 15,000 tons per ship. By contrast, Chinaâs Navy has but 2.0 million tons of displacement, averaging only 5,000 tons per boat. That is to say, the Chinese Navy is totally visible, assessable and trackable, and is not remotely of the size and lethality that would make an invasion of America remotely plausible.
In other words, all of the Uniparty prattle offered by McConnell and Johnson in the quoted remarks above makes sense only through the false lens of a Washington-based Global Hegemon. So, yes, if Washington is obliged to keep the peace everywhere on the planet and safeguard all the sea lanes and all the air space from quarrelling local parties, as in the extant case, then let the assembled legislators call a vote and declare yet another war, as did the hapless Woodrow Wilson in April 1917 to no avail except the resulting rise of Hitler, Stalin, World War II, the holocaust and the Cold War.
But the truth is, local wars like the extant spat between Israel and its Muslim neighbors do not threaten either the peace or even the commerce of the globe. If it did, then the most immediately impacted parties would be the heaviest shippers and neighbors on the Red Sea.
For instance, Saudi Arabia lives on the Red Sea, with major ports at Jeddah, Yanbu, Jubail and the massive futuristic investment at Neom. Likewise, China sends more containership cargo through the Red Sea by far than any other nation. And, of course, Egypt collects the tolls from the Suez Canel through which the Red Sea traffic transits.
So, has Saudi Arabia, China or Egypt joined Washingtonâs coalition to bomb the daylights out of the Houthi?
âŠâŠHmmmm. We thought so. No they havenât.
But what is especially rich is all the handwringing from the Washington neocons about the 9% of global seaborne oil traffic that traverses the Red Sea/Suez route. The fact is, however, the US is now a net energy exporter. So higher oil prices would actually be a slight benefit economically.
But actually, despite the entire kerfuffle over the Houthi interdiction of Israel bound traffic, there has been no visible impact on global oil prices, even if you make use of a magnifying glass. So what in the hell, exactly, are they talking about?
Daily Price Of Brent Crude Since October 2021
Yes, until Israel comes to terms with its neighbors, seaborne traffic from China and the Far East may be diverted into the longer route from Asia around the Cape of Hope. But so what? The distance from Shanghai to Rotterdam through the Red Sea is just under 6,000 miles versus 9,400 miles around the Cape. That adds another third to the trip, but all the bleating from Washington about the extra costs is really too much.
The extra costs are variable costs from slightly more days on the water, but those extra costs are not close to being proportionate to the added mileage. And secondly, we are talking about Chinese commercial traffic to Europe, not California, even as this bogus point is coming from the very same Uniparty politicians that wish to have a war with China over Tiawan, which is none of Americaâs business, either.
The fact is, the US doesnât need any of its 700 global bases, nor 100,000 military personal in Europe and roughly 100,000 in Korea, Japan and elsewhere in Asia, as well. And most especially it does not need aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean Sea and Persian Gulf and 50,000 American troops in Syria, Iraq. Kuwait, Bahrain etc.
These latter forces depicted below (sans Afghanistan), in fact, are all sitting ducks in harmsâ way, waiting to get caught in the crossfire of local Shiite/Sunni conflicts or Israelâs perpetual conflict with its Arab and Muslim neighbors in the region. Yet all these forces would do exactly nothing to deter nuclear blackmailers or global armadas heading for the New Jersey shores, if such existed, which they do not.
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And, no, there is not a sinister monster state in Iran behind all of the commotion, either. Iran poses zero threat to Americaâs homeland security. Period. It has no missiles capable of reaching the US and has no nukes at all, and would never get any had the Orange Man not cancelled the 2015 nuclear agreement that Tehran was fully complying with.
The fact is, even though all of these bases and US naval forces in the middle east region are of no benefit whatsoever to Americaâs homeland security, they are also actually a profound disservice to the security of Israel, as well. Thatâs because the putative US military shield in the region has emboldened the rightwing religious fanatics led by Bibbi Netanyahu who control Israelâs government to fight a two-state settlement to the bitter end. And to do so without leveling with the Israeli electorate about the true implications of going it alone as a Garrison State.
That is to say, if Israel wanted to safely and permanently incarcerate the Gaza strip and its 2.3 million population in an open-air prison, then it needed not only the Iron Dome to protect its population against Hamasâ primitive rockets, but also a full-time garrison along the border to putdown any breach of the Wall, and thereby preempt anything remotely like the catastrophe of October 7th.
To put a fine point to it, the Gaza strip is 25 miles long or 131,000 feet. If you put one IDF soldier every 6 feet, thatâs a 22,000-man requirement. And on a 24/7 four shift basis thatâs 88,000 troops in total at an average cost of $40,000 per soldier plus $20,000 for the overhead and generals. Overall, we are talking $5 billion of expense to make the Gaza prison break-proof, which amounts to about 1% of Israelâs $550 billion GDP.
All along, thatâs been part of the unacknowledged incremental cost of the Garrison State alternative to a two-state settlement. It would have meant appreciably higher taxes on Israelâs citizen, but the bloody and barbaric breach by Hamas fighters on October 7th would have never happened, either.
In truth, however, Israel never even considered tightening its own economic belt to pay for the war policy that its militaristic and religious extremist government insisted upon. Netanyahu ceaselessly campaigned for decades implicitly on behalf of a Garrison State national security policy, but one funded on the cheap via a quasi-pacifist defense spending level.
Thatâs right. Israelâs military expenditures had plunged from more than 20% of GDP at the time of the last existential crisis during the Yom Kippur War of 1973 to just 5% of GDP on the eve of the October 7 attacks. In effect, Netanyahu falsely told Israeli voters that they didnât have to take the risks and make the territorial concessions implicit in a two-state and diplomatically-based solution to the Palestine problem. But at the same time, they could also avoid having to be taxed to the gills to pay for the alternativeâa costly, heavily militarized Garrison State.
The wink and nod underlying this false solution, of course, was a pitiless willingness to keep Hamas in check by “mowing the grass” every few years in Gaza, as a desperate Israeli government is now doing once again to the horror of much of the civilized world.
So even more than the failure of Israelâs vaunted intelligence operations in the run-up to the October 7th massacres, the real deep policy failure is the flaccid blue line in the chart below, slouching toward 5.0% of GDP defense spending after the Netanyahu coalition came to dominate policy in the 1990s. You simply canât have a Garrison State policyâno negotiations with the Palestinians, no two-state solution, no continuation of the Oslo or other international negotiations process and the quarantine of 2.3 million largely destitute Palestinians in a congested dysfunctional strip of land cheek-by-jowl with the Mediterranean Seaâon a 5% of GDP war budget.
In short, Israelâs $25 billion defense budget is a pittance compared to its booming, technologically advanced and robust $550 billion national economy. The latter, in turn, is 20X larger than what had been the $28 billion that passes for an economy in the shambles of Gazaâa whisp of GDP mainly funded by foreign philanthropists and so-called malign actors in the region. And even that will soon virtually cease to exist.
Even if you count a few hundred million per year of aid from Iran and others that flows through Qatar to Hamas, there is simply no contest. Israel is an economic Goliath relative to the thin resources of the Hamas terrorist apparatus and does not need a US military shield in the region to ensure its survival. It just needs a government that will tell voters the truth about the real cost of the Netanyahu policy of perpetual war.
Needless to say, Bibi Netanyahu and his coalition of rightwing religious parties would have likely never stayed in power with their “rejectionist front” against an internationally brokered and superintended two-state arrangement had they leveled with the public about the immense increase in military spending and taxes these policies required.
But even that is not the half of it. The truth is, Netanyahu is a megalomaniacal madman who has had the reckless audacity to pursue an utterly dangerous Machiavellian strategy of promoting and funding Hamas in order to kill dead as a doornail any prospect whatever of a two-state arrangement.
The public record makes absolutely clear that this is what Netanyahu has done, even as he failed to tell the Israelâs public that this policy, in turn, necessitated a full-bodied Garrison State with painful tax increases to keep his Frankenstein monster contained inside the Gaza prison walls.
Israel Tax Revenue As % Of GDP, 1995 to 2021
For want of doubt, the facts are these. Between 2012 and 2018 Netanyahu gave Qatar approval to transfer a cumulative sum of nearly one billion dollars to Gaza in the form of suitcases full of cash. And at least half of that is estimated to have reached Hamas, including its military wing.
According to the Jerusalem Post,
âŠâŠin a private meeting with members of his Likud party on March 11, 2019, Netanyahu explained the reckless step as follows: The money transfer is part of the strategy to divide the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. Anyone who opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state needs to support the transfer of the money from Qatar to Hamas. In that way, we will foil the establishment of a Palestinian state (as reported in former cabinet member Haim Ramonâs Hebrew-language book “Neged Haruach”, p. 417).
In an interview with the Ynet news website on May 5, 2019, Netanyahu associate Gershon Hacohen, a major general in reserves, said, “We need to tell the truth. Netanyahuâs strategy is to prevent the option of two states, so he is turning Hamas into his closest partner. Openly Hamas is an enemy. Covertly, itâs an ally.”
Indeed, earlier that spring Netanyahu himself was widely quoted as saying during the aforementioned meeting of Likud MKs that,
“Whoever opposes a Palestinian state must support delivery of funds to Gaza (cash in suitcases from Qatar) because maintaining separation between the PA in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza will prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state.”
So Israelâs governing faction of religious extremists, militarists, messianic settlers and Eretz Yisrael ideologues have chosen, instead, to live in a Garrison State and to be periodically compelled to “mow the grass” in the Gaza outdoor prison. Yet if its rightwing governments want to operate a modern-day Sparta, they need to tap their own taxpayers first.
In the meanwhile, Washington needs to truly sober up. Uncle Samâs checking account is massively overdrawn. Now is not the time to fund wars which do nothing for Americaâs homeland security (Ukraine) or to launch yet another war on behalf of an ally that is unwilling to pay for the Garrison State its own blood-soaked anti-Palestinian war policies require.
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The Great Taking Documentary
By Patricia HarrityâââââââââââââââDecember 12, 2023
Former Hedge Fund Manager Exposes a Scheme by Central Bankers â The Greatest Crime Ever
Contemplated.
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âThe Great Taking,â a new documentary initially aired on Childrens Health
Defense (CHD.TV), where former hedge fund manager David Webb takes the audience step
by step through his forensic investigation into the legal, financial and regulatory changes that
have set up âthe greatest crime ever contemplated ⊠the planned confiscation of everyoneâs
global securities assets.â David Webb, author of a book by the same title, exposes the
âscheme by central bankers to subjugate humanity by taking all securities, bank deposits and
property financed with debt.â
Watch: âThe Great Takingâ Documentary Exposes âThe Greatest Crime Ever
Contemplatedâ
Originally published by Childrens Health Defense
In âThe Great Takingâ documentary now airing on CHD.TV, former hedge fund manager
David Webb takes the audience step by step through his forensic investigation into the legal,
financial and regulatory changes that have set up âthe greatest crime ever contemplated âŠ
the planned confiscation of everyoneâs global securities assets.â
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âLegal certainty has been established that the collateral can be taken immediately and
without judicial review, by entities described in court documents as âthe protected class,ââ
Webb says in the film. âEven sophisticated professional investors, who were assured that
their securities are âsegregated,â will not be protected.â
In a CHD.TV interview Saturday with Childrenâs Heath Defense (CHD) President and CEO
Mary Holland, Webb said he has been studying global financial systems and warning of a
coming âGreat Takingâ financial collapse for more than 20 years. His decades of hedge fund
experience gave him insight into money flows and systemic risks that he believes
foreshadow an orchestrated crash.
Webb spent years researching historical precedents like Great Depression-era bank
closures and gold confiscation to help him understand the âplaybook used by powerful
banking interests during times of financial turmoil.â
He first noticed that money velocity rates showed how excessive money creation drives
unstable economic bubbles. The mainstream news coverage during the 1990s Asian
financial crisis aftermath did not fully explain the odd market movements he was seeing.
Digging deeper, Webb realized âthe scale of the money creation during this period was very
high.â He found Federal Reserve Board activity generating over 1% of gross domestic
product worth of new money in one week â âan order magnitude biggerâ than annual growth
rates, he said.
The massive liquidity influx was not going into the real economy, Webb said, but into
âdestructive things ⊠wars⊠various operations that are about control.â
Webb compared the state of the economy just before World War I to todayâs hyperfinancialized economy, saying both are about âlootingâ in the late phase of economic
bubbles, just prior to a crash.
Webb also witnessed a decade-long campaign to change commercial banking statutes and
ownership definitions, state by state, that set the stage for revoking investor property rights
during defaults.
âThe underpinning of the entire securities infrastructure in the U.S. is the Depository Trust
and Clearing Corporation, and this is the entity that was first formed to dematerialize all
securities in the U.S.,â Webb said.
Webb told Holland a career CIA operative with âabsolutely no background and banking or
financeâ was involved in this project and was later made the superintendent of banks in New
York state by Nelson Rockefeller.
âItâs very clear that this was a CIA project,â he said.
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The Lehman Brothers failure during the 2008 financial crisis was âteed upâ to cement new
precedents allowing elite creditors to seize client assets during financial busts, Webb told
Holland.
The Lehman collapse involved using client assets secured through derivatives and
securitized bonds as collateral, which creditors then seized.
âThe bankruptcy judge said that J.P. Morgan was under âsafe harborâ and could take the
client assetsâ and, as one of the largest banks, it was âcertainly a member of the âprotected
class,ââ Webb said. âAnd those words are used in the decision.â
In Webbâs view, sophisticated financial instruments promote interconnectedness and
complexity in global financial markets in order to multiply collateral flows while hiding
systemic risks and property rights issues.
In Webbâs assessment, creating centralized pools of assets sets up the system for secured
creditors to instantly seize collateral. If widespread insolvency hits, as Webb predicts will be
triggered, the âprotected classâ of big banks and funds will take all they can while everyday
investors get âonly a pro-rata share of what is left.â
âThe main takeaway is that this will affect everyone everywhere, globally, all the way to the
top of the system,â Webb told Holland. âThis has the potential to unite people to wind this
down.â
In the film, Webb said, âCentral banking should be a public utility. The very idea that it
should be controlled by private interests, that is the source of all the problems for humanity.â
âThe Great Takingâ was produced by Webb and executive produced by Holocaust
survivor Vera Sharav.
Webb has turned his efforts into a nonprofit project that aims to share this information
worldwide. Both the documentary and the downloadable book are available for free on
his website.
Documentary below can also be viewed on the CHD.TV
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Watch Video At: https://youtu.be/dk3AVceraTI
Source â Childrens Health Defense
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The #1 easiest residency program in the world in January 2024
| January 4, 2024 The most popular and by FAR the EASIEST residency program in the world attracted over 300,000 immigrants in the month of December alone.And for the entirety of 2023, it drew over 2.5 million people.Thereâs a reason why this residency program is so popular:1. The government makes it absurdly easy for incoming foreigners.There is practically zero paperwork, no criminal background check, and no health inspection. You donât have to buy property. You donât have to make an investment. You donât have to demonstrate proof of income. Itâs really simple. Basically you just have to show up.2. It is available to all nationalities and all ages.Unlike many residency programs which favor some nationalities over others, or have age restrictions, this one is available to literally anyone on the planet. And, per the above, the programâs easy procures apply equally to everyone.3. The government rolls out the red carpet for new residents.Foreigners who become new residents are eligible almost immediately to apply for, and receive, lucrative government benefits… ranging from free healthcare to childhood education. Many are even eligible for free housing and complimentary bus transportation to the nationâs most prominent cities.So what country holds claim to this unbelievably great, super-easy residency program?Why, the United States of America, of course.The only catch is that itâs only available to people who walk across the southern border.Rather ironically, however, foreigners who take a more civilized approach and actually, you know, apply for a proper immigration visa, are subjected to a Byzantine, highly bureaucratic, multi-year process that would test the patience of even the most enlightened Buddhist monk.It is quite a testament to a nationâs priorities that they make things so difficult for talented and qualified people who actually follow the rules, while simultaneously welcoming everyone else whose sole qualification is a willingness to sashay across the southern border.For its part, Europe is making a valiant effort to not be completely outdone by the United States with respect to illegal immigration.Boatloads of refugees continue arriving each day to the old continent, much to the delight of European politicians who willfully ignore the spike in rape, violent crime, and mostly peaceful protesters chanting Allahu Akbar in the streets of London, Paris, and Berlin.At least Europe (in most cases) still makes it relatively easy to legally become a resident.Portugal, for example, launched its âGolden Visaâ program in 2012, offering very favorable residency terms to foreigners who made an investment in the country.For years, the most popular investment was the purchase of real estate. So foreigners could obtain Portuguese (and hence European) residency by buying a sun-soaked villa on the coast.This program resulted in billions of dollars worth of transactions… and the surge in demand (much of which was from Chinese nationals seeking European residency) caused property prices to spike.Locals complained about the high cost of housing, so the government eventually changed the program and eliminated real estate purchase as an investment option.You can still obtain Portuguese residency by making other investments in the country (like venture capital). But Portugal is a great example that, if a good residency opportunity presents itself, it will not last forever.Fortunately, plenty of other countries have some Golden Visa type residency program, including Greece and Malta in Europe, and Panama in Central America.Article 193 of Panamaâs immigration law, for example, allows foreigners to apply for permanent residency with a real estate purchase of at least $300,000. And $300,000 still goes a very long way in Panama, where homes and condos still sell for $100 to $200 per square foot.Then there are countries which couldnât care less if you make an investment.Mexico is a great example; you can obtain Mexican residency simply for demonstrating that you have sufficient savings or income to live in the countryâ which isnât a very high bar.There are so many more examples we could go into (and we have a lot of great free material on the topic). But in general itâs worth noting that there is very little downside to having a second residency because it means that youâll always have another place to go.How crucial is it to have another place to go, i.e. a backup plan? Hopefully it will never be crucial at all. But if the day ever comes and you need to leave immediately, having legal residency somewhere else (ideally in a place you like to spend time) will be extremely valuable for your family.There are other benefits as well.In many cases, your legal residency in a foreign country can also set you up to eventually apply for naturalization… meaning you could one day obtain a second passport.This is a pretty great benefit given that a second passport confers all sorts of additional privileges, including the right to movement and visa free travel just for starters.Additionally, citizenship can often be passed to future generations. So your grandchildrenâs grandchildren could be entitled to the same passport that youâre able to obtain after a few years of legal residency.Perhaps the biggest benefit of having a second residency and/or citizenship is simply having additional options. More options not only mean more freedom, but it also mean less risk. And thereâs a lot of that in the world these days.Risk is something that, as investors, we try to hedge. In business, we make efforts to reduce it. And even in our personal lives we buy insurance policies to protect our homes, vehicles, and valuables from certain risks.Residency and citizenship is like an insurance policyâ itâs a hedge against certain sovereign and lifestyle risks.Many people have a very insular view and think to themselves, âwhy would I ever need to do anything outside of my home country?âThis is a naive, almost medieval view of the world. Besides, having a second passport or residency doesnât mean that you have to do anything. Thatâs the whole point: itâs just an option in case you ever need it. If you donât, youâll hardly be worse off.I read recently that prominent investor Ray Dalio received a passport from the United Arab Emirates, no doubt due to his political connections and strong economic ties to Abu Dhabi.(Iâd also bet that, for a guy as sophisticated as Dalio, this is probably not his second passport… but probably his third, fourth, or even fifth.)But you donât have to be a billionaire to obtain a second passport. There are several ways.For example, many European countries grant citizenship by descent to those who can trace their ancestors back to places such as Italy, Greece, Ireland, Poland, Lithuania, and others.Others offer passports through citizenship by investment programs, from small Caribbean countries like St. Lucia, to large major nations like Turkey.I think thereâs going to be more of these to come. Iâd be willing to bet, as Iâve written before, that we could see one in Argentina, which would be a really smart move for that country.And of course, you could opt to naturalize.Mexico, for example, offers very favorable terms. After five years as a resident, with about 18 months of the last two years spent living there, you become eligible to apply for Mexican citizenship.In Brazil you can apply for citizenship after four years as a permanent resident. In Peru and Argentina, itâs as little as two years.The world is a big place and you have plenty of options.And itâs important to keep them in mind and recognize that in most cases thereâs no downside to doing this.Itâs like having a free âput optionâ in finance, or a really cheap insurance policy. And in a world like ours, that makes a lot of sense right now. |
| Simon Black, Founder Sovereign Man |
Life expectancy in the U.S. is now DROPPING in the aftermath of COVID-19 vaccines
Life expectancy has been declining in the U.S., and the timing coincides with the introduction of COVID-19 vaccines.
The average expected lifespan for Americans in 2021 was 76.4 years, which represents a drop of 0.6 from 2020. Men can expect to live an average of 73.5 years overall, while women’s life expectancy is 79.3 years.
The leading cause of death in the U.S. in 2021 was heart disease, which is something that has been connected to COVID-19 vaccines. Many of the most widely reported side effects from COVID-19 vaccines have been cardiac related, with countless people suffering from a heart attack or stroke after getting jabbed.
Reports of vaccine-related injuries continue to pile up, and most of us are all too familiar with the alarming number of stories in the news about healthy young people dying suddenly.
While some experts try to argue that people arenât dying off due to COVID-19 vaccines, no one can dispute the rise in young people experiencing heart attacks. Although it was already ticking upward before the pandemic, it sped up dramatically post-2020.
One study by Cedars-Sinai Medical Center showed that heart attack deaths climbed for all age groups during 2020 and 2021, but the biggest jump was seen in those aged 25 to 44. The increase of 29 percent is simply too big to ignore.
Analysis shows mRNA shots could shorten lifespan by 24 years
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows just how damaging the vaccines have been. According to analysis by The Expose, men who get the mRNA shots could see as much as 24 years taken off their lifespan as a result.
In fact, they report that CDC all-cause mortality data demonstrates that each dose of a COVID-19 vaccine a person received raised their mortality by 7 percent in 2022 compared to 2021. In other words, people who got 5 doses were 35 percent more likely to die in 2022 than in 2021, while those who got just one dose had a 7 percent greater likelihood of dying in 2022 compared to 2021. For those who avoided the vaccine, their chances of dying were the same in both years.
They liken the vaccines to âslow-acting genetic poisonâ based on this data given the fact that people do not appear to be recovering from the damage caused by earlier vaccines when it comes to excess mortality. If the trend continues, a person who received 5 doses would be 350 percent more likely to pass away in 2031 and a shocking 700 percent more likely to die in 2041 than a person who did not get the jab.
FDA Commissioner Dr. Robert M. Califf characterized the dropping life expectancy for Americans as âcatastrophic,â writing on X on November 30: âWe are facing extraordinary headwinds in our public health with a major decline in life expectancy. The major decline in the U.S. is not just a trend. Iâd describe it as catastrophic.â
Not surprisingly, he stopped short of pinning the blame on vaccines. In fact, many of those who dare to suggest vaccines are causing deaths find themselves being censored. A whistleblower who recently shared data from the New Zealand Health Agency pointing to a strong link between vaccines and excess mortality was arrested and is facing prison time. The data he shared with the public pointed to the vaccines killing more than 10 million individuals globally.
He said he shared the data because it blew his mind and he wanted experts to analyze it and make people aware of what is happening.
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