The Man Who Sold The World

What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, but loses his own soul?

The price of an ounce of gold touched US$5600 today. That’s a 100% increase in a single year. Even Aussie houses didn’t moonshot that fast during the plandemic. Outside of crypto, it’s kind of unheard of.

Silver is up 500% in two years.

And the thing is, this isn’t POODLECOIN we’re talking about here. It’s gold. The OG GOAT of money.

People were using gold as money four and a half thousand years before Jesus was born.

But this isn’t a goldbug article. I’m not a goldbug. I try not to be a ‘bug’ about anything. Everything has its time, and nothing is magic money. Nothing is forever. Precious metals will have an epic rally as the American empire falls and Western civilisation collapses along with it, but they too will fall in time. The universal law of entropy always wins. Everything that is born one day dies.

I’m looking at you, cryptobros.

We forgot that truth, though. We’ve lived all our lives in a society that believed itself eternal, its worldview unassailable, and its destruction impossible. Every night on the news, we heard about another shithole place somewhere that had famines or wars or genocides, and we knew those types of things only happen over there. Never here. Then Alan Kohler would come on and tell us why oil rallied or gold sold off or stonks somethinged, and we just stared. Then some blonde would come on and talk about low-pressure systems, and we’d hear about the sportsball results, and our eyes would stay glazed and impassive. Stupefied by this screen technology that had hacked our dopamine reward system like some interplanetary alien mind virus so that we never peeked behind the curtain of the false reality it was presenting us.

We have lived through a forever moment of Western consumerism that became extended to the ends of the earth. This is the world we’ve grown up in.

But the foundations of that world were never as solid as we assumed them to be. Unlike what neocon intellectuals got rich from saying back in the 90s, history had not, indeed, ended.

We have lived in an empire, and now, like all empires before it, that empire is collapsing. The future now will not be like the past. A 500-year paradigm that has gripped almost all the earth is now slipping away, taking with it the beliefs, the social order, the physical reality, and the underlying assumptions it was built upon.

In 1971, Richard Nixon pulled the rug on the world when he told other nations that they could no longer redeem their US dollars for gold as they had since the end of World War II. This was done because the Vietnam War had led to too much American military spending, and the French, in particular, were refusing to hold US dollars. The closing of the gold window in 1971, along with the oil shock and ultimately the Islamic revolution in Iran, was behind the inflation and turbulence of the 1970s.

Back then, people thought and talked a lot about weird things like gold and inflation and nuclear war.

Then Ronald Reagan opened the debt spigot in the 1980s. The gloom of looming reality was dispelled. But it wasn’t morning in America. It was credit card time in America, and then, since the globalisation trend of the 90s, around the world. And we’ve been maxxing that plastic ever since.

Money has flooded planet Earth since the 80s, and since money is debt in the Anglo-American financial system that has been installed around the world, debt has flooded the planet while asset values have ballooned. The asset-owning rich have feasted while the asset-poor wage slaves have had to toil ever more for ever less.

This is the US debt clock, but you can substitute any ‘advanced’ or ‘developed’ economy you like (or hate) in the graphic below.

The US government has added another trillion dollars of debt in the last 71 days just to keep the illusion of the forever moment of Western unassailability going a bit longer. This is what has kept rare Pokemon cards, Holden Torana A9Xs, elite dog breeds, and diamond-encrusted, platinum-plated skull art pieces at ever-more eye-watering prices year on year.

The recent action in gold and silver prices is a canary in the coal mine of the global financial system. Of the global civilisational system, really.

Batten down the hatches. She’s about to blow.

A single data point can’t prove a theory, however, and when my theory, which I’ve written about for over ten years now, is that our civilisation is collapsing, I’ll need more data points to make my case.

Thankfully for me, they’re everywhere. Two weeks ago, nations around the world closed their embassies in Iran and told their citizens to leave. The US is positioning military assets around Iran, and the Chinese have been sending in planeloads of defensive equipment for the past few weeks.

In late 2019, I wrote about an obscure crisis in an obscure market that portended an imminent financial catastrophe. At the time I was writing, COVID was being released, and a few months later, central banks around the world used the plandemic as a cover to pump trillions of dollars into the global financial system and keep it solvent for a few years more.

Those few years are now up, and the repo market is again requiring billions in liquidity to keep the global banking system apparently stable. The architecture of the American-controlled debt-based monetary order is fracturing, and this will make the elites trigger another distracting catastrophe so we the sheeple don’t realise we’ve been living on planet casino from the moment we were born and the game is always rigged.

My bet is that this, at one level of analysis, is why we’re about to see World War III. It’s a systemic necessity to head off domestic revolts.

For the war to get going, however, Trump has to sign off on it. Despite his many flaws, I don’t believe Donald Trump wants to be responsible for blowing the world up. Trump is a builder, a developer. He’s not a destroyer. I do believe he really wants to make America, and thereby himself, great again.

But he’s got a problem. His past is catching up with him, and Donald is not the messiah.

He’s been a very, very naughty boy.

Nose status: powdered.

Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t just some random pedo. He was the coordinator of a kompromat campaign. They’re commonly used by intelligence agencies and organised crime (but I repeat myself) to gain leverage over public-facing powerful figures. It’s how you rule the rulers.

They’re not new. Abe Saffron was doing it in King’s Cross decades ago to get leverage over politicians, judges, and police. It’s why the Cross was Sin City back then.

And before you look it up, yes, he was.

Epstein was a creepy, failed high school maths teacher until billionaire Les Wexner gave him a mansion and an expenses account to put powerful Americans in compromising positions with underage girls so those people would do what they were told. His consort, the ghoulish Ghislaine Maxwell, is the daughter of Robert Maxwell, aka ‘Israel’s superspy’. She is just a perfectly normal pervert who happens to have submarine and helicopter licences. Nothing suss at all.

It’s a sordid pastiche of wickedness and weakness all round. The long and short of it is that Trump is being held hostage by the same forces that propped up Epstein to make sure Donald does what he is told. If he doesn’t do what he’s told when he’s told, his base finds out all the morbid details of what Trump got up to on that demonic island in the Caribbean.

QAnon never quite got to the bottom of that Canaanite temple on Epstein’s island

Netanyahu is under political pressure at home due to corruption proceedings that are only held at bay by the ongoing war against Iran and its proxies. There’s a temporary ceasefire with Teheran at the moment; Netanyahu can’t allow peace to break out, however, as that would certainly lead to his imprisonment.

Bibi visited Trump over Christmas. I wonder if he sang Christian Christmas carols with his greatest allies? Likely not. Whatever was told to Trump over Hanukkah lox and bagels, though, must have fired him up. After the visit, Trump went into war mode all over the place. Maduro was captured on January 3, and the armada buildup around Iran began shortly after.

China and Russia have both stated that they will not allow Iran to be attacked again. Iran has stated that there will not be a ceasefire again, and that this time they will hit Israel with everything. Israel will not be able to deter such an attack conventionally, and they have 200 nukes as well as a significant portion of their population who are religious nutjobs obsessed with starting the War of Gog and Magog to destroy the nations (goyim). Iran also has an eschatological vision of global war to trigger the Mahdi among their leadership, and they’ve said they’ll use the next conflict to take out the oil production of the Gulf states. They will also close the Straits of Hormuz.

Those are two eschatological visions that both require a global war of destruction to birth the end times. Add Christian Zionism into the mix, and it’s a combo mad enough to burn the world.

Oil goes to $700/barrel when the Strait of Hormuz closes. It’s a tipping point that, once breached, will have calamitous consequences. China and Russia will take the gloves off with their pesky little neighbours, and with China, that likely means a push out into the Pacific. That’s World War III on Australia’s doorstep.

And all because one man liked his girls underage, and would rather burn the world down than acknowledge it and repent.