I was really interested in the Mexico tangent and its implications; I'll link some recent articles and reactions from the "blob" It's noteworthy to mention that Canda also followed the U.S. with its F.T.O designation on the same day it was announced.
Canada especially Vancouver is a huge for Mining, it's where the majority of international mining companies are incorporated. All the mining conferences and private placement deals seem to take place in Vancouver. And this FTO doesn't just effect Mexico, Ecuador (which is a dollarized economy) and of course Columbia have major cartel infiltration into their economies
My takeaway is that the Monroe Doctrine is happening, big time. And Mexico could be on track to economic shock collapse followed by becoming a full-blown U.S. territory if they push this hard.
It feels like this F.T.O is setting the groundwork to absorb major swathes of economies in the western hemisphere. Especially the numerous state-run petro/mining industry conglomerates
Canada for whatever reason has an oversized influence in mining globally
74% of all mining concessions in Mexico are owned by Canadian companies.
I picked mining as an example industry to focus on because it is so “state heavy” and has lots of government involvement and special international deals.
Of the ~15billon/yr the Mexican State gets roughly 58% of the mining production value rights 42% goes to foreign companies
But in this theoretical scenario where USA purges the Mexican State of any and all Cartel fingerprints, taking a way bigger slice of this mining pie could be a major carrot to incentivize this
The Tom Luongo thesis that the “City of London” and/or “Bank of England” is the root of all global suffering has a lot going for it. There isn’t a country on Earth that hasn’t been royally fucked by these people. Russia, China, India, Latin America, etc. it’s a LONG list. Often with a multi-million human body count thrown into the mix. A big upcoming question is how the Latin American economy will be restructured after these over-leveraged derivative debt bombs blow up. A healthy and robust Latin American economy will go a long way toward keeping people there and not coming into the US. Keep in mind the same free trade policies that destroyed US manufacturing happened there as well. We are all victims of that City.
these terrorist designation sanctions/seizures reshuffles the deck and gives Trump a ton of new playing cards. A very good sign that they are competent this time around, Leaner,more maneuverable, hacking the processes without needing congress
With the Narco-State status of the country, every industry/politician is so intertwined. I think that an U.S. Economic incursion/intervention or regime change.
It doesn’t seem out of this world to imagine a Press conference where the State Dept goes over all of Shienbaums Cartel connections, demands new elections etc…
Maybe an ‘89 Panama-like situation could balloon into full-or partial control of Mexico especially when you consider respect to the Mexican-China-Cartel relationship
Think how Russia was financially gutted in the 1990s. Think short-term decision making combined with smash and grab economics. Which fueled the massive waves of human immigration to the US in the first place.
Ski vs sky in slavic surnames is just Polish vs how Russian is typically romanized. So a name ending is ski is just likely Polish. Conclusions may be made from surnames of Polish origin, but the rule is not what stormy suggested,as it's an extremely common name suffix in Poland,just meant the family was noble, and Poland had way too many nobles.
I remember reading “Charlie Wilson’s War” a long time ago. It described the network of Israeli and Chinese military hardware being transported to Afghanistan to fight the Soviets. Heck, they even made a movie on it starring Tom Hanks. No surprise they’d utilized similar networks and strategies for other operations.
It’s a very interesting book. It detailed how these social networks developed in the 1980s to help obscure US involvement. (I’m sure plenty of Soviet veterans were very pissed off when the book came out. But hey, they kinda did the same thing to us in Vietnam so fuck’em.) But if you examine the “Charlie Wilson formula” it’s been largely repeated these last 40 years across the world. For some reason the US intelligence apparatus allowed the book to be published. Otherwise the author might’ve received the CIA award for Journalistic Excellence (AKA a bullet.)
I vaguely remember how the people in the book compared their superior model to another US operation in Nicaragua. It was basically an open secret the US was backing the Contras, which was a problem. I think the Contra operation had more resources but had a lot of snags with Congress and journalists. Wilson’s op flew under the radar and was very successful at the fraction of the cost. Astral mentioned cheap Chinese AKs and it reminded me of that book.
Hard to say. As Stormy can attest, not everyone at WEF Davos is a commie. Epstein apparently had a taste for investing in REAL science and research. Once you create a popular meeting spot for the rich and powerful, people might want to come just to network. I’d be surprised if Epstein island was a 24/7 365 orgy party. Might’ve doubled as a low-key meeting place to discuss business and politics.
Wait, so if everyone knew what Jeffrey was up to…doesn’t it follow that anyone who met with him(especially after first arrest) should be viewed as such? Whole lot of everybody denied knowledge. Whole lot of relevant people.
The law applies to some people more than others. If the enforcement arm of the law is never gonna prosecute, does it matter that you broke the law? The only reason Epstein got arrested in the first place was because some elite rival faction wanted it to happen. Some group that wasn’t allied with the London-Tel Aviv community that Epstein associated with on multiple levels.
I’ve been trying to develop an “elevator pitch” for the Euro-dollar thesis for normies and I’ve had some modest success. It’s helps when the average American (correctly) thinks he’s being screwed by the current system. He just doesn’t understand how.
I think there are three critical preconceptions that normies must first understand to learn about the Euro-Dollar system.
1) Fractional Reserve Banking
2) Fiat Currency
3) Debt Leveraging
All three are deeply tied together, making them all the more toxic.
But these three concepts must be taught separately (at first) for the normies to first understand them. Normies and basically most people in general also prefer a story format.
Another great episode. Only problem is I’m ready for another one right after I finish.
It’s more impressive after the guest suddenly bailed at the last minute. Which is kinda rude but hey it happens.
Problem playing episode 8
Great stuff boys, thanks for the conversation.
Exceptional greatest!
Stormy= the goat
I use that Kanye quote all the time. My wife finishes it for me now. You’ve got to cross your arms and lean back.
I was really interested in the Mexico tangent and its implications; I'll link some recent articles and reactions from the "blob" It's noteworthy to mention that Canda also followed the U.S. with its F.T.O designation on the same day it was announced.
Canada especially Vancouver is a huge for Mining, it's where the majority of international mining companies are incorporated. All the mining conferences and private placement deals seem to take place in Vancouver. And this FTO doesn't just effect Mexico, Ecuador (which is a dollarized economy) and of course Columbia have major cartel infiltration into their economies
My takeaway is that the Monroe Doctrine is happening, big time. And Mexico could be on track to economic shock collapse followed by becoming a full-blown U.S. territory if they push this hard.
It feels like this F.T.O is setting the groundwork to absorb major swathes of economies in the western hemisphere. Especially the numerous state-run petro/mining industry conglomerates
https://insightcrime.org/news/brief/mining-company-admits-relationship-mexico-organized-crime/
https://www.elfinanciero.com.mx/empresas/2024/01/11/inseguridad-golpea-la-inversion-minera-cae-345/
https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https://thespectator.com/mexico/mexican-state-cartel-alliance-amlo/
https://www.bnamericas.com/en/features/mexico-cartels-target-growing-role-in-mining-supply-chain
https://paywallbuster.com/articles/?article=https%3A%2F%2Fworldview.stratfor.com%2Farticle%2Fimpacts-us-terrorist-designations-targeting-mexican-cartels
Background Blob info On Mexico:
Council on Foreign Relations Primer (2/21/25) https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/mexicos-long-war-drugs-crime-and-cartels
Congressional Research Serivces Report -2022
https://sgp.fas.org/crs/row/R41576.pdf
International Institute for Strategic Studies - Dec 2024
https://www.iiss.org/publications/armed-conflict-survey/2024/the-expansion-and-diversification-of-mexican-cartels-dynamic-new-actors-and-markets/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbI2QmwiBX0
This is interesting but how is the mining companies in Toronto connected to Mexico
Canada for whatever reason has an oversized influence in mining globally
74% of all mining concessions in Mexico are owned by Canadian companies.
I picked mining as an example industry to focus on because it is so “state heavy” and has lots of government involvement and special international deals.
Of the ~15billon/yr the Mexican State gets roughly 58% of the mining production value rights 42% goes to foreign companies
But in this theoretical scenario where USA purges the Mexican State of any and all Cartel fingerprints, taking a way bigger slice of this mining pie could be a major carrot to incentivize this
I don't know that much about the Neoliberalism privatization wave across Latin America in the 90's
But this seems to be the first step in a re-privatization wave that's pro-American interest.
Thoughts?
The Tom Luongo thesis that the “City of London” and/or “Bank of England” is the root of all global suffering has a lot going for it. There isn’t a country on Earth that hasn’t been royally fucked by these people. Russia, China, India, Latin America, etc. it’s a LONG list. Often with a multi-million human body count thrown into the mix. A big upcoming question is how the Latin American economy will be restructured after these over-leveraged derivative debt bombs blow up. A healthy and robust Latin American economy will go a long way toward keeping people there and not coming into the US. Keep in mind the same free trade policies that destroyed US manufacturing happened there as well. We are all victims of that City.
these terrorist designation sanctions/seizures reshuffles the deck and gives Trump a ton of new playing cards. A very good sign that they are competent this time around, Leaner,more maneuverable, hacking the processes without needing congress
With the Narco-State status of the country, every industry/politician is so intertwined. I think that an U.S. Economic incursion/intervention or regime change.
It doesn’t seem out of this world to imagine a Press conference where the State Dept goes over all of Shienbaums Cartel connections, demands new elections etc…
Maybe an ‘89 Panama-like situation could balloon into full-or partial control of Mexico especially when you consider respect to the Mexican-China-Cartel relationship
Think how Russia was financially gutted in the 1990s. Think short-term decision making combined with smash and grab economics. Which fueled the massive waves of human immigration to the US in the first place.
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Another banger. Pete’s podcast and yours are already the only places I go to get an honest run down of what’s going on
Ski vs sky in slavic surnames is just Polish vs how Russian is typically romanized. So a name ending is ski is just likely Polish. Conclusions may be made from surnames of Polish origin, but the rule is not what stormy suggested,as it's an extremely common name suffix in Poland,just meant the family was noble, and Poland had way too many nobles.
I remember reading “Charlie Wilson’s War” a long time ago. It described the network of Israeli and Chinese military hardware being transported to Afghanistan to fight the Soviets. Heck, they even made a movie on it starring Tom Hanks. No surprise they’d utilized similar networks and strategies for other operations.
Oh my god dude that is a whole story yeah. That’s what they *do*
It’s a very interesting book. It detailed how these social networks developed in the 1980s to help obscure US involvement. (I’m sure plenty of Soviet veterans were very pissed off when the book came out. But hey, they kinda did the same thing to us in Vietnam so fuck’em.) But if you examine the “Charlie Wilson formula” it’s been largely repeated these last 40 years across the world. For some reason the US intelligence apparatus allowed the book to be published. Otherwise the author might’ve received the CIA award for Journalistic Excellence (AKA a bullet.)
I vaguely remember how the people in the book compared their superior model to another US operation in Nicaragua. It was basically an open secret the US was backing the Contras, which was a problem. I think the Contra operation had more resources but had a lot of snags with Congress and journalists. Wilson’s op flew under the radar and was very successful at the fraction of the cost. Astral mentioned cheap Chinese AKs and it reminded me of that book.
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I’m not talking about that. I had more of an inward looking question.
There’s a lot of people who he met who didn’t go for his schemes
Hard to say. As Stormy can attest, not everyone at WEF Davos is a commie. Epstein apparently had a taste for investing in REAL science and research. Once you create a popular meeting spot for the rich and powerful, people might want to come just to network. I’d be surprised if Epstein island was a 24/7 365 orgy party. Might’ve doubled as a low-key meeting place to discuss business and politics.
Wait, so if everyone knew what Jeffrey was up to…doesn’t it follow that anyone who met with him(especially after first arrest) should be viewed as such? Whole lot of everybody denied knowledge. Whole lot of relevant people.
The law applies to some people more than others. If the enforcement arm of the law is never gonna prosecute, does it matter that you broke the law? The only reason Epstein got arrested in the first place was because some elite rival faction wanted it to happen. Some group that wasn’t allied with the London-Tel Aviv community that Epstein associated with on multiple levels.
If this is the play, they are going to take a shot at the duc d'orange.
They have to.
They already did
And NOW 🥁🥁👉🏼Phase 2 https://youtu.be/yhvfsIsF2lw?si=pAN4tYTR1jqFkWAg
I’ve been trying to develop an “elevator pitch” for the Euro-dollar thesis for normies and I’ve had some modest success. It’s helps when the average American (correctly) thinks he’s being screwed by the current system. He just doesn’t understand how.
I think there are three critical preconceptions that normies must first understand to learn about the Euro-Dollar system.
1) Fractional Reserve Banking
2) Fiat Currency
3) Debt Leveraging
All three are deeply tied together, making them all the more toxic.
https://youtu.be/m__J1Jw6TxA?si=
But these three concepts must be taught separately (at first) for the normies to first understand them. Normies and basically most people in general also prefer a story format.
Great work as always, fellas.
On a smaller note - excellent music choice.
Knew you’d like it buddy
What’s the outro song??
Mr kitty after dark