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BTC #6: WHY BIDEN IS BULLISH FOR BTC

What is the result of the Fourth Turning?  It is a society where privacy becomes a luxury good.  Everything you considered a product since WW2, has now become a service that central planners will give you.

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Government responses globally to Covid19 don't make any sense until you open your mind to consider if there's another agenda at work here......The Great Facade is window dressing for the giving the banking industry cover for stealing all the value people have saved up since WW2.

All of you are apathetic.  Because of your inaction in 2020, I want to show you what your life will be in 2030.  

"Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better"  The Great Reset came from the "Great Facade of 2020" and we are glad you bought the idea of letting us  Build Back Better.     It's not some secret, the conspiratorial plot for world domination worthy of only ridicule.  It's happening, in plain sight and most of you are too apathetic to see it.  

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What did America get for its apathy?  Joe Biden.  How will the dominos fall around him to change the world?  

Do not pity Joe Biden. He is going to make you wealthy in his term if you own any BTC.  He is going to destroy anything with "fiat value" you have amassed up until this moment.   He is the dog that finally caught the bus and he is soon to be political roadkill. While he celebrates his victory in the Electoral College, powerful forces already are engaged to doom him and his presidency. His two central problems are that he has set the wrong expectations and that his policies will not work in the current domestic and international political, economic and military environment.

The only message in his “I’m-not-Trump” political campaign was that President Trump made a mess of domestic and foreign policy and that Biden would fix all of that. The deadly trap is that Trump did very well on many key measures and Biden inevitably will do much worse, creating a failed Biden presidency.  Biden was helped by the media on this account, but he won't be able to be saved from 4 years of fiat economic decay.  

His day one issue of COVID-19 already is a loser. He wants to lock down the USA until May to stop the viral spread.  That is not only pseudoscientific it is a prescription for economic calamity.  It will create massive CPI inflation.  That inflation destroys value of fiat money.  Researchers developed vaccines in record time, and are rolling them out now.  Taking them is a biological question for you now.  I don't trust this Rx because I do not trust the government.  This blog is not about that question.  It is about the financial impacts of his macroeconomic plans.  I believe the vaccines will be used to grab more power in an authoritarian move in the Executive branch. 

One aspect of the vaccine that is important is how he uses employed physicians and the military to roll out his vax timetable and if he is going to use the vax as a weapon to gain more freedoms from the public.  The complex issue of distribution now goes wholly to Biden. Any significant number of deaths among the vulnerable communities of nursing homes, the elderly in general, minorities, and those with pre-existing conditions will fall solely on Biden’s team. God forbid if mandates come for the young and children.  These stressors will cause them to fall back to lockdowns and masks which we know are poor options because of the economic damage they cause.  Similarly, sustained economic damage resulting from lockdowns will fall on Biden and Democratic officials.

THE CASE FOR BTC

The other Day One issue is Biden’s budget. He has proposed tax increases that will affect all income groups, with a disproportionate impact on high-income earners. Compounding that increase will be the “hidden tax” of an inevitable increase in inflation from the multitrillion-dollar COVID-19 relief bills. These combined tax increases will trigger investment capital flight, much as they did under former President Obama. The inflation will drive up both interest rates while the technocracy deflation will drive unemployment, and increase the wealth gap in spite of Biden’s tax policies.  Even though technology drives deflation, inflation will rage during Biden's term.  It is simple math

Unfortunately, the huge COVID-19 spending and inflation preclude the Federal Reserve from the zero-interest-rate policies that Janet Yellen used to float the Obama economy when she served as Fed chief. Her history is beyond bullish for Bitcoin.  Bitcoin's inflation rate is 1.8 % now.  The bottom line is that there is no budget or monetary policy solution that drives real economic growth. Cuts in national defense spending are inevitable in this environment, but even weakened national security cannot solve the budget problem. America has spent the milk money.  There is no other way to stimulate the American economy.  

Trump delivered spectacular growth to the economy, record private-sector jobs, and record low unemployment for Blacks, Hispanics and women. Real wages rose under Trump and the wealth gap got smaller. Even though the market has roared back after the COVID-19 hit and lockdowns in a K- recovery, it will be impossible to come near Trump’s record on any measure.  This is precisely why some CEOs have now used their entire corporate treasuries to buy BTC at 100% rates.  I think it is time for regular folks to consider following this plan as well.  Do not use leverage if you employ this tactic.

Biden’s tax policies and softened trade stance will make the situation dramatically worse.  This is very bullish for a massive BTC rally during his term.  There will not be enough money even for the traditional Obama/Democratic “solution” of creating public works jobs to fudge the unemployment figures.  Any COVID reflation trades will blow up by 2022.  This is a staple of all democratic presidents.  There is simply no money left.  

I also think the Georgia Senate runoffs might create another economic tsunami for Biden.  If the GOP somehow pulls off a win and controls the Senate, the Senate can refuse to raise the debt ceiling and this will crush the Federal Reserve quickly.   It eliminates the printing of money.  If the GOP loses I expect huge Biden spending bills.  

And no, the Green New Deal will not create enough “clean energy jobs” to offset this economic mess or decline in the oil and gas sectors. The ESG narrative is going to create massive inflation of hydrocarbons and the entire economy's supply chains rely on diesel fuel.  The green new deal will cost a lot more jobs than it makes and this will also sink the economy.  Job loss is usually deflationary, but this will be hidden by the hydrocarbon inflation in Biden's term.  On his first day in office, he canceled Keystone.  It will be looked at by history as the day we entered the 21 st century great depression.  This is another bullish headwind for BTC.  Fiat has to die for Bitcoin to ascend.  The possibility of serious economic collapse is very real for Biden and his team. And it is all on Biden — it has nothing to do with Trump, who was spectacularly successful in economic policy, helping all Americans.

Biden also will be forced to disappoint the progressive, radical left of the Democratic Party. The handwriting is on the wall with his Cabinet and staff appointments, but it will be crystal clear in the budget. There is simply no money for radical/subsidized transition of America’s energy sector, huge new health care spending, increased “social justice” programs (beyond the gigantic set of programs that already exist), or reparations.  He might even replace Powell in Feb of 2022.  I think it is possible he gets replaced by the 25th Amendment by his own party.

SCREWING THE NEOCONS THAT STOLE THIS ELECTION IS LIKELY

Similarly, Biden will be forced to cut defense spending, probably shocking the wide set of defense contractors, left-leaning military/intelligence officers, and neocons who supported his campaign and aided and abetted treason.  I'm expecting a tragic expensive end in Afghanistan.

Unfortunately, our international adversaries know all of this and have run the numbers. They know that Biden’s self-defeating economic policies under Obama, combined with his — and his major Wall Street backers’ — tilt toward China and a weakened military, will lead to a constriction of American influence in Asia, the Middle East and elsewhere.   The CCP will begin to fight for the annexation of parts of Russia and Taiwan.  I expect BRICS to attack the Petrodollar system.

Trump strengthened the U.S. economy and the military, constrained China, prevented North Korea from testing new nuclear weapons, slowed Iran’s nuclear program and terrorism, supported peace initiatives for Israel, restrained Russian expansion, strengthened NATO, discouraged Russia from using Venezuela as a forward nuclear base, created strategic energy independence (with record-low carbon emissions) — i.e., made the world safer for America and democracies.

Biden’s return to bureaucratic diplomatic channels, destruction of energy independence, and weakened military will make the world dramatically more dangerous for America and sets the stage for the Bitcoin revolution in his term.  

WHAT IS MY MACROECONOMIC VIEW OF A BIDEN ADMINISTRATION?

Our enemies will test Biden early and firmly in 2021.  I expect a non deal with the UK and EU to create a banking crisis in the Bank of England.  If this occurs the Fed will have to bail out their ally because this domino could quickly lead to a global depression.  It took 32 months, two prime ministers, and nearly 30 votes in Parliament to extricate Britain from the European Union—and the hardest part of the negotiations started in January 2020 and they still are ongoing today!

The two sides have until the end of this year in 2020 to hammer out the terms of their future relationship. Because Britain is leaving the EU’s customs union, which allows the circulation of goods without duties, those talks will have to include a trade agreement. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said he wants a quick solution, providing a tariff-free and quota-free exchange of goods. But EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has warned that a comprehensive deal is “basically impossible” to negotiate by year’s end.  If this deal falls through the Bank Of England Central bank is set to fail very quickly.  They already are using negative rates in several banks in the UK to stimulate an economy locked down by Johnson in March of 2020 due to The Great Facade called Covid.  Take a look here to see what a no-deal on Brexit means for interest rates on January 1, 2021.  HYPERLINK 

How likely is a deal?  Listen to this video:  HYPERLINK 

WHAT ASIAN SHOCKS SHOULD WE EXPECT WITH A BIDEN REGIME?  

China is already a Bitcoin power in mining and coin ownership.  They have done this as a hedge to a massive Federal Reserve debasement in our fiat currency.  Even the Chinese CCP is better prepared than most Americans.  I believe the CCP will ban BTC mining because there will be problems in the Petrodollar system due to systemic supply chain failure from the CCP lockdowns.  They would love to crash the Fed to bring in a new Bretton Woods era where they control the global Swift currency.  The rest of the world feels the same way about the USA's control of global currency.  Since Nixon dropped the gold standard of Bretton Woods, the USA today only makes up 25% of the world GDP but we control 75% of global transactions because the US dollar is the currency of choice.  This is not good for anyone but Americans.  So what will China do to push Biden?


China will up the pressure on the South China Sea and Taiwan.  They know the Hunter Biden scandal is real bad PR for the new president so they will use leverage to black mail him into a sweet deal for the CCP.  Biden won't let his second son die publicly.  The American voter just elected a compromised leader and China will go hard after him.   Expect confrontations early with China over Taiwan.  Don't be surprised if America's factory shutters its doors to Biden before a war.  Biden’s Wall Street backers will urge him to show patience with China to sustain their economic interests in Asia.  This will drive BTC even higher as the crisis deepens in the Fourth Turning. 

Frankly, I’d guess the over/under on America’s softening support for Taiwan and reducing forces in the South China Sea to be two years. Biden will cave to their demands and the USA will lose naval power in that region.  Caving to the CCP worsens the economic decay and this is very bullish for BTC.  I expect Hunter's dealings with the CCP will harpoon Biden's integrity.  I bet this is when his medical/cognitive issues will be used as a play of sympathy.  I see the 25th  Amendment's use somewhere in year two or three of Biden's reign.  If Biden is forced out, he saves face for his family, but this is probably the biggest bullish sign for BTC.  Why?  Kamala is gasoline for a total Federal Reserve collapse because she is further left than Biden.  She is Mrs. ESG's narrative.  This will create massive inflation few expect.  She will do things that end the Federal Reserve as we know it, and the industrial-military complex will blame her instead of the Central Bank for the massive economic collapse.  Harris will become Henry Wallace circa 1944, Henry Truman circa 1945,  or Lee Harvey Oswald circa 1963 for the Deep State.   She is the perfect fall person for The climax of the Great Facade.

WHAT ELSE COULD GO ON?   

The same can be said for Russian expansion in Ukraine or the Baltics. Biden and Harris will likely have already pissed off the EU by bailing out the UK in their dealings with the EU.  This will lead to the next domino dropping in Russia.  With Biden’s charm offensive to our European Union allies, Russian incursions will be met with a weaker NATO and calls for “diplomacy,” much the same way Europeans sat back, restrained the U.S., and watched systematic genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina until the U.S. finally acted (“under the United Nations flag”) to stop it.  Expect Putin to be uber aggressive with Biden in the Eastern bloc and in the middle East.  I believe this will cause an energy crisis in Eastern Europe during the winter of 2021.  Russia will incite Iran and Jordan to go after Israel.  Israel's best ally was Trump.  Trump calmed the entire middle East down and Putin was very very quiet while Trump was in charge.   "Red pilling" yourself with BTC immediately is the wisest decision you might ever make in your life before January 20th, 2021.  

SUMMARY:

This blog gives you many of the domino's I see in the macroeconomic world today on December 20th, 2020.  

BTC takes over will occur like a domino effect. Few see that today.  A series of small changes will lead to a massive crisis and collapse and a new global banking system.  After all the time of neatly putting the pieces together for you here in this blog, one wrong move by any of the political and economic players, one moment of distraction by our enemies, and all of it come falling down to ruin asset prices you spent a lifetime saving up. The domino effect will extend to every part of American life. 

Most of my members and patrons will ignore these signs because of apathy.  While ignoring all those moments that have already happened in this Fourth Turning, all the situations when we wanted or should have done something in 2008-2020, to make a move.  Our leaders froze and kicked the can down the road until we elected a president with a cognitive disorder because we liked him better than the last guy.  This is exactly what the industrial-military complex wanted.  They needed a figurehead they could control and make the fall guy.  We deserve what is coming, in my view.  Our apathy and inaction made us comfortably numb and this allowed our American impulses take over; we put each of these macroeconomic dominos neatly one behind the other.  We thought we were invincible since WW2 because America has been the King of the Hill.  All those soldiers who died in WW2 for the Bretton Woods agreement have died in vain because of the Federal Reserve's actions from 1945 until today.  And, in my opinion, 2021 is when it comes crashing down around us.  Any combination of these events will fuel a massive rise in BTC that most of you cannot fathom today.

A lot of you cared when you voted, just not enough cared.  That is how apathy operates in the USA.  All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify the decisions of incompetent bankers and politicians and to consume the propaganda the media feeds to the public.  The irony of American culture is this, American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.  Your way of life begins to end the moment you remain silent on topics that require you to speak up loudly about.

There is a toll to pay for apathy and inaction.  The refusal to take sides on great economic/political issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to tyranny. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.  That is why the forces behind Biden's campaign committed treason to get power.  

So, as Biden takes office, Trump’s documented record in domestic and foreign policy creates a clear scale for direct comparison. Unfortunately for the country whose assets are based on fiat money, Biden appears destined to fall flat on his face when you look at the monopoly board all around him.  For those of you who have a BTC life raft, 2021 might be the greatest year of your life.  Welcome to the Fourth Turning climax.  Many dominos can begin the fall, and the ones that fall will determine how far and fast it all happens.  Do not think your real estate investments are safe at all now.  I have sold two homes in the last 90 days.  Why did I do it?  

Are you folks aware that right now CVS, Walgreens, and Rite Aid are selling off their store real estate like it's going out of style? Why are profitable major businesses dumping commercial real estate at record rates now?  Do they know something you guys who own houses are ignore?  Look it up, they are selling off their real estate so they can be renters and finding either individuals or groups to buy the stores as investors/w leases.  Might you be too apathetic to look it up? Then ask yourself why this is happening now? Then maybe you’ll understand what the Fourth Turning is really all about.

Your house is part of your portfolio and it might be an anchor that causes your drowning in this crisis.  

It is the apathetic person who saw all the signs of the coming crisis unfold on TV in 2020 with their own eyes, while the charitable person sees the immediate need of the public and writes a blog about why they need a BTC life raft.  I can present the material to you, but I cannot make you care.  Apathy is a real bitch in an economic crisis.  This is why people can be so close to a real answer, and never pull their own trigger to act on their behalf.  


BTC #6:  WHY BIDEN IS BULLISH FOR BTC BTC #6:  WHY BIDEN IS BULLISH FOR BTC

Comments

Eye opening ( even though I'm reading this in October 23

Rohen Kapur

Nov 13, 2021: If you think about the South China Sea; why would the US want to turn that into a landing zone for special ops? Why might be a lot of opportunity there worth taking? Biden's war is coming as my Bitcoin series predicted. https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2021-11-10/air-force-seaplanes-special-operations-command-japan-3563136.html#.YY5y0fBjRLI.twitter

Dr. Jack Kruse

Remember China and Biden are card-carrying WEF members. This means they have the same goals. Pay attention to what is coming. The media will soften the blow to try to make it seem like nothing. Peter Schweizer, president of the Government Accountability Institute (GAI), said on Monday, July 11, 2021, that his organization had confirmed that President Joe Biden “was a direct beneficiary” of Hunter Biden’s financial deals with foreign interests. Schweizer explained how GAI cross-referenced Secret Service travel logs during Joe Biden’s tenure as vice president to corroborate the authenticity of Hunter Biden’s emails. GAI’s forthcoming reports on the laptop’s contents will expose disastrous dimensions of the Biden family. “We’re in the middle of the investigation now, but by the end of the year it will be completed, and it will take on a far more sinister tone than it has even now in terms of what it says about the Biden family and the vulnerabilities of the Biden family,” This is the kind of story that pushed BTC way higher as we enter 2022. https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/07/12/peter-schweizer-our-copy-of-hunter-bidens-laptop-confirms-joe-biden-was-a-direct-beneficiary-of-his-sons-deals/amp/

Dr. Jack Kruse

Re reading this for the second time. And still want to reread again. So much information and dot connecting!

David Mc Gettigan

This would make a great Webinar!

Frieda Mai

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-11/world-s-negative-yield-debt-pile-at-18-trillion-for-first-time

Dr. Jack Kruse

BTC #6 said pay attn to when rates go negative: Guess what just happened? US investment grade corporate bond yields turn negative. https://yalls.org/articles/97d67df1-d721-417d-a6c0-11d793739be9:0965AC5E-56CD-4870-9041-E69616660E6F/58adf793-fe7f-4130-b092-e9644440dcf2

Dr. Jack Kruse

Thanks a million!

Gina

You can cancel your 99 dollars here and buy into the gold group via the other URL and you'll get a lot more value.

Dr. Jack Kruse

full membership is at kruseatdestin.com and then Patreon becomes part of your membership. You also get the Q and A's and the next one happens 1/31

Dr. Jack Kruse

I became a full member. where is the information about exchanges on your site?

Gina

Epidemiologists are to a virus with a 99.98% survival rate as neocons and Democrats are to foreign wars. Just sayin'..........

Dr. Jack Kruse

This is why Yellen speaks poorly of BTC now that Biden is in. Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and Venezuela all use BTC to avoid the politics of the SWIFT dollar. The Biden protection plan is your BTC liferaft. There are 75 million people in the USA who can impeach the new administration peacefully by adding air to their life raft by adding #BTC to their own Treasury.

Dr. Jack Kruse

Biden's gonna keep popping wars that do zilch for American public interest Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria are all on the wrong side of our balance sheet. If he took, or bought, Greenland he would be stamped as one of the great, visionary presidents. Or will he give it to China/CCP?

Dr. Jack Kruse

The decibels of our current disenchanting political discourse continues to dampen the day. It makes things smell musty.......like the smell of revolution. TONIGHT's PREDICTIVE THOUGHT: Biden/Harris/Yellen supports Sinocentrism and building strength in the Belt and Road Initiative by weakening the dollar. I bet their policies make it easy for the CCP to capture Diego Garcia while the public and global markets provide a facade of sizzle. That scent of sizzle never exceeds the musty odor. This is why the US Capitol has been surrounded by metal gates keeping the American politicians safe from the voters, while the politicians let the borders open to illegal immigrants to attack the voters. The scent of revolution is in the air. That mystery smell coming from the Potomac river now scents the atmosphere, amplifying the intrusion of political sleaze. There can't be any large-scale revolution until there's a personal revolution, on an individual level. It's got to happen inside first. I smell a change in the air. You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Dr. Jack Kruse

Bullish for BTC: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/stockman-why-does-sleepy-joe-think-we-need-another-850-billion-transfer-payments

Dr. Jack Kruse

Crypto Casey has some simple step by step videos on youtube

David Putterman

I warned about the Brexit trade vote. The UK did a deal but the EU just did a trade deal with China's CCP. This is an effect I did not expect and maybe more bullish for BTC in 2020-2025. In my opinion, Europe as of today is done given its trade deal with China's CCP. WHY? They have been Bolivia'd, move away ASAP. All EU folks better have a BTC liferaft. You won't like what happens next my EU friends. China and Morales and the story of how a #NonCoup happened = The story of China and Bolivia. At the beginning of 2006, Prior to assuming the Bolivian presidency, Evo Morales traveled to the Peoples Republic of China where he publicly declared himself to be a great admirer of Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong. In the early years of Morales’s presidency, China made loans to the Bolivian state for the direct purchase of strategic products like military aircraft and weapons...Some purchases were notorious, such as a set of drilling rigs sold by CAMC Engineering to YPFB (a Bolivian State-owned energy company) that proved to be defective, and barges commissioned from a Chinese shipbuilder that has yet to be delivered. In 2014, China overtook Brazil as Bolivia’s principal source of imports, supplying half the country’s clothing imports as well as cars, motorcycles, cell phones, computers, and other domestic electronics that feed the growing consumerism of Bolivia’s burgeoning middle class. The cost of these value-added Chinese products significantly exceeds what China pays Bolivia for Bolivia’s commodity exports, resulting in a 2016 bilateral trade deficit of $4 billion for Bolivia. By 2017, the Bolivian government owed more than $700 million to Chinese banks (Export-Import Bank of China and the Chinese Development Bank), constituting 9.2% of the country’s total foreign debt. China has pledged a new $10 billion line of credit for strategic government projects. 9 major road segments Construction of the 600 mw Rositas hydroelectric plant. Expansion of the Viru Viru airport into a regional hub Development of the El Mutún steel plant China has pledged additional billions to fund the Bolivian Bioceanic Railroad. This doubles Bolivia’s foreign debt and China will be Bolivia’s largest creditor. All projects financed by Chinese loans must be awarded to Chinese companies, which come with their own materials, equipment, and technology, and often their own labor. It is asymmetrical, it does not develop Bolivia’s productive capacity, it does provide outlets for expansion of Chinese capital, generating profits for Chinese companies through energy and infrastructure and extractive ventures, and permanent Chinese foothold in the region. These megafirms have become the largest government contractors in Bolivia, winning awards for major public investment projects on a “sole source” basis, or through invitation-only solicitations to a limited number of Chinese firms...In transportation and energy, Chinese companies like Sinohydro, CAMC Engineering, Sinopec, and China Railway are engaged in the construction of multiple government projects, many of which have been plagued by labor, environmental, and feasibility problems. After repeated protests by workers over exploitative conditions, retaliatory treatment, and disproportionate hiring of Chinese nationals, the Chinese Foreign Minister pledged that China would comply with Bolivia’s labor norms. Morales government has inadequately enforced this commitment. Manufacturing sector: Chinese cos have built facilities that have made limited contributions to the national economy. A paper mill inaugurated three years ago has yet to turn a profit. A sugar refinery is barely operational due to planning around sugar harvests and infrastructure. Mining: Chinese companies began by building zinc refineries and a tin processing facility for Morales, but are now positioned to play a more significant role. Sinosteel was recently awarded a $450 million contract to develop the El Mutún steel processing plant. This is the first phase of a multi-stage undertaking aimed at catapulting Bolivia into the global steel market, which could provide significant investment opportunities for China. Lithium reserves: Chinese companies, under contract to the state, have developed a small lithium extraction facility, a pilot lithium battery plant, and a potassium salt refinery in the Uyuni salt flats, all with Bolivian funds. In September 2016, China received Bolivia’s lithium export: 15 tons of lithium carbonate, delivered at a substantially below-market price. Elsewhere, projects like Mutún and lithium extraction in Uyuni pose major ecological challenges—which Chinese firms, with their global track record of environmental abuse, and the Morales government, with its criminally lax enforcement will not resolve. Meanwhile, the transnational China Natural Resources is moving forward with plans to develop and operate its own copper smelting plant in Uyuni. which has also acquired mining interests in Madidi National Park, the gateway to the Bolivian Amazon, where it has been carrying out operations without an environmental license. Bolivia’s hydrocarbons sector: almost entirely handed its projects and management to Sinopec, already well-established in Bolivia through its road construction projects, and BGP, a subsidiary of China National Petroleum Company, to undertake exploratory activities in the Bolivian Amazon, on protected national reserves which are also indigenous territories. Yet…the Bolivian government bears the full financial risk for these precarious enterprises. For Bolivian workers, Chinese companies have re-introduced authoritarian and exploitative practices that undermine hard-won labor protections, while diverting jobs to foreign nationals, despite Bolivia’s abundant available workforce and scarcity of formal employment. The government’s failure to strictly enforce labor norms against Chinese contractors raises questions about the goals of Morales’s state-led development project. Domestic construction companies can’t compete with Chinese megafirms and are precluded from bidding on Chinese-financed projects. Many Chinese cos end up subcontracting with local operators, such as truckers, through exploitative arrangements that lead to community conflicts. Indigenous small and medium-sized domestic producers are being squeezed out by cheap Chinese imports. Over the past 5 years, Bolivian imports of Chinese furniture have cut domestic production in half, adversely affecting some 50,000 Bolivian carpenters. Six textile firms have recently shut down, along with Enatex, the state textile company.

Dr. Jack Kruse

Xi says China, EU investment deal will offer better business environment http://reut.rs/3aVDVyW And that statement tells us that it won't be good for the people of the EU. BTC bullish

Dr. Jack Kruse

https://www.followcn.com/xi-jinping-to-undergo-surgery-due-to-worsening-intracranial-aneurysm/

Dr. Jack Kruse

This is a fluid, real-time situation. I cannot readily guarantee an outcome. However, cover for hostile action and the prepositioning of military assets is now logistically feasible for China in the region. America's "unsinkable aircraft carrier" is in China's sights. There are more puzzle pieces lying around. Perhaps this article is showing us yet another piece that the media refuses to connect to the Big Picture..https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/weve-got-details-chinas-submarine-drones-94686

Dr. Jack Kruse

Even more interesting is the announcement on 18 Oct 2019 of China's first-ever Free Trade Agreement with an African nation. The beneficiary of this unprecedented treatment? Mauritius. A tiny island with a GDP of $14.3 billion. Rhode Island's GDP is $57 billion.Part of the FTA is creation of a Free Trade Zone where Chinese companies (and workers) will establish factories and build out new logistics infrastructure. With such a tiny economy, it seems that Mauritius' greatest appeal is its desire to reclaim Diego Garcia.China has been positioning itself quietly for years to benefit from the Chagos decolonization push in The Hague and the United Nations. With the UK and US on the outs with Mauritius, China is the obvious stakeholder to next-occupy the irreplaceable Diego Garcia.Without DG, the US Navy is naked in the Indian Ocean, and stripped of strategic bomber support in the theater of operations. It is not hard to imagine China cannily seizing the moment to secure Mauritius' trust and work behind the curtain to expel the US from Diego Garcia.In the scheme to acquire Syngenta, China showed its mastery of economic warfare. With the #beltandroad, they show complex nth-order planning and influence operations. In the South China Sea, they wield a real threat of force. And with DG, they have weaponized diplomacy.

Dr. Jack Kruse

Bearing that in mind, recall that on 1 March 2018, China affirmed its support of Mauritius in its claim to repatriate the Chagos Islands from the UK. Why? Well, China loves islands. War is about terrain and resources. It's about putting assets where they can influence.On 27 July 2018, the China state-controlled media arm Xinhua News Agency proudly reported on completion of the Bagatelle Dam in Mauritius. BRI had collected a critical scalp. Abandoning their previous sponsor (the UK), Mauritius aligned with China.

Dr. Jack Kruse

China's open advocacy for resolution of the matter by the ICJ and UN, while reiterating their support for Mauritius against the UK (and by proxy, the USA). China's position was clear. Indicators indicate. China is a master of exploiting gaps in international frameworks of law. What they cannot take by force, or leverage by trade/investment (as with #beltandroad), they can manipulate to their ends via proxies.

Dr. Jack Kruse

The six dissenters were: - USA - UK - Australia - Hungary - Israel - Maldives Fifty-six nations abstained from the vote. The UK has said it will disregard the ICJ and continue to allow for the joint military operations on the island.

Dr. Jack Kruse

In April 1973, a group of the displaced islanders commenced a series of legal actions against the British and Mauritian governments. However, the ensuing competing territorial claims and murky legal framework for a one-off have further complicated matters in int'l courts.In 2000, the British High Court ruled the Chagossians and their families could return to the Islands. But, they were delayed from doing so, and in 2004, the court order was overruled - the Chagossians would not return. Legal back and forth continued through the 2000's.In June 2017, the UN General Assembly formally adopted Res. 71/292 supporting Mauritius' push to "decolonize" the Chagos Islands from Britain. On 1 March 2018, China issued a formal advisory statement to the UN and ICJ supporting Mauritius' claim.The case was finally heard by the Int'l Court of Justice at The Hague in Sep 2018, with a ruling issued in Feb 2019 that Britain had indeed illegally seized the territory and expelled the Chagossians. In May 2019, the UN General Assembly affirmed the Hague ruling, 116-6.

Dr. Jack Kruse

In 1965, the UK purchased the Chagos Archipelago, including its largest island Diego Garcia, from the British colony of Mauritius. It executed a lease with the USA in Dec of 1966 for exclusive use of DG. Then during 1968-1973, more than 1000 natives were forcibly expelled.

Dr. Jack Kruse

China does not play geopolitics in the normal fashion, or on the normal timelines. They are known for their love of assets. This also means they use human capital as well as anyone. Chinese leaders are pragmatic. But they will use others' own emotions against them.One of the weaknesses (in China's eyes) of the Western nations is our guilt over historical colonialist abuses. It's not that these deeds didn't happen. It's not that we shouldn't find ways to do better. The issue is that many modern Western leaders are RULED by guilt. DJT wasn't. Biden is.

Dr. Jack Kruse

𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐢𝐧 The axis of the world turns upon control of four resources: Protein Water Energy Firepower The first is the subject here. China's enormous population demands massive amounts of protein. And war is on for it.

Dr. Jack Kruse

But this is China we're talking about. They banned a single trait in genetically-modified corn from the United States, and permanently realigned the global grain markets... All to buy a company more cheaply and shore up their food security gap.

Dr. Jack Kruse

The US holds the lease on the entire island of Diego Garcia. The British are the landlords. US Navy and Air Force operations can be staged and run with impunity throughout a region that China has decided to attempt to control completely. And they can't touch it.

Dr. Jack Kruse

𝐎𝐧 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡 𝐂𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐚 𝐒𝐞𝐚 All war is about terrain and resources - these are the raw materials of power. And when multiple entities decide they MUST control a certain place or asset, conflict is inevitable. One such place is the South China Sea.Further, there is no entity that China can leverage to give it shared real estate with the US under cover of "commerce". This was China's play to secure their first-ever foreign naval base in Djibouti, and plant themselves at a critical chokepoint.

Dr. Jack Kruse

China cannot do with DG what it did in the South China Sea, where it can menace US assets (such as Guam) and push the naval forces beyond their practical operating range via the threat of ballistic missiles. DG is simply too far from China.

Dr. Jack Kruse

Essential to this strategy is the "String of Pearls": An unbroken chain of dual-use ports (commercial and military) running along the entire Indian Ocean rim, connecting the South China Sea region all the way to the Mediterranean Sea. For China to achieve hegemony in the Indian Ocean region and secure the String of Pearls, it must "box out" the US Navy's superior force projection capabilities. But, DG complicates things. It's an unsinkable aircraft carrier.

Dr. Jack Kruse

𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬, 𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐈𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐬 Logistics is a map of human intent. Every single thing that moves, or must move, leaves a sign of the human intention that launches it. One just has to know where and how to look.

Dr. Jack Kruse

DG's freshwater resources means more vessel space, more electricity, and more valuable real estate available for other uses than processing and storing potable water. For a remote military base in the middle of the ocean, this is a critical, highly-desirable advantage. The location, infrastructure, and natural resources make DG a partially self-sustaining asset squarely in the middle of China's territorial ambitions. Recall, China is using Belt and Road to control logistics assets stretching from China to Europe.

Dr. Jack Kruse

DG has two special geographic traits: First, it is at extremely low risk for typhoons. Second, despite being in the middle of an impossibly-vast body of saltwater, DG naturally produces large sums of its own freshwater. This is a tremendous logistical advantage.The island's geological quirks make it home to a number of hydrological lenses, or bodies of freshwater that float on top of saltwater. DG's lenses are massive. This obviates the need for extensive water purification and storage facilities, or constant maritime resupply.Water is a heavy commodity to ship. A 20' ocean container equipped with a plastic bladder (a "flexitank") will only carry about 24,000 liters of water. A 40' container with 20 pallets of bottled water will yield about 17,280 liters of water. One person uses about 100L/day.

Dr. Jack Kruse

Nicknamed "Dodge" by American military personnel, DG has been the single point of failure for NATO operations anywhere in the Indo-Pacific theater stretching back to its buildout in 1980. Its location and infrastructure are what make it irreplaceable.DG is a unique installation. Boasting runways long enough to land/launch even the massive B-52 Stratofortress bomber, robust naval resupply infrastructure, and one of three US Air Force GEODSS optical space surveillance systems, DG serves multiple roles.

Dr. Jack Kruse

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐔𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 𝐀𝐢𝐫𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐟𝐭 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐫 The US military, for all of its might, still faces physical limits of distance and time. Control of key landmasses enables logistical operations at scale. The US has one of the most important. China wants it. Biden will help them. More than 1,700 km from the nearest mainland (India), Diego Garcia is the largest island in the Chagos Archipelago. Originally discovered by the French in 1790, the British took control in the 1800's. For NATO countries, it is an indispensable piece of the global puzzle.

Dr. Jack Kruse

Biden is compromised with respect to Ukraine........don't forget it

Dr. Jack Kruse

With more than 300 satellites deploying by 2025, the Hongyan constellation is China's attempt to completely break free from the traditional fiber optic cable model that powers the global telecom industry. Cable is vulnerable to breakage or sabotage. China demands better.Hongyan will connect directly to China's 5G network. China's 5G tech has also been the source of serious shenanigans. The picture is clear now - China wants to dominate telecom infrastructure of the 21st century. Their weakness in the plan is currency/debt. That is why BTC matters

Dr. Jack Kruse

MoIn 2014, Xinwei successfully launched/tested the Ling Qiao low-earth orbit (LEO) Motor Sich also makes the engines of large planes that release LEO's. Remember hypoxia #14? Communications satellite in partnership with Tsinghua University and China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC). The technical data from Spacecom was to be a great leap forward. Undeterred, Xinwei pressed forward. In Feb 2018, CASC disclosed that it was planning to deploy a massive global network of LEO satellites, codenamed "Hongyan" (translated, "wild goose"). And at the heart of it, Xinwei's satellite tech.

Dr. Jack Kruse

Now China and Ukraine might be where things change.....Consider the current conflict zones of greatest concern to the US military: Black Sea Persian Gulf South China Sea* Eastern Med Sea At each location, China and Russia have directly or indirectly positioned themselves to maximize the terrain to limit the US' blue-water naval might. It turns out a company in Ukraine is the key to the coming Biden US/China conflict. Jing is an unknown player in the West, except for one project: He was the founder and public face of the effort to bypass the Panama Canal and build a larger canal joining the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans through Nicaragua. The project has since been mothballed. Per @SCMPNews, the main reason was that Jing lost a good bit of his fortune (primarily built-in telecom and aerospace) in a market downturn in 2015. However, it did not slow Jing's other efforts to continue his stealth acquisition of Motor Sich. This is the company that is building the engines of the CCP missle that can neutralize the USN blue water dominance. I'd expect China Turkey Iran and Russia to cause Biden a lot of geopolitical problems with this missle.

Dr. Jack Kruse

It appears tonight the UK got their deal. https://news.sky.com/story/brexit-boris-johnson-says-trade-deal-is-his-christmas-present-for-the-country-12172450

Dr. Jack Kruse

BTC #7 will tell you that your actions should adapt as data changes

Dr. Jack Kruse

Yes, I agree with uncle Jack's perspective and have been of this mindset for the past three decades (I have total collapse fatigue, always seeing thru the central banking lies owning political talking heads and media.) 2008 was another scheduled reset, but the political class and elites wanted to pillage the middle class some more and now with the pandemic it's totally complete destruction of the American way of life! America as we know it is gone, unless the people rise up, but the dump down sheeple are fantasying about a reality that financially cannot return, because it's totally unsustainable financially we have been living on borrowed time! In 2021 we will witness the greatest wealth transfer unlike anytime before in history and most upper middle class Americans with 401k's, real estate are gonna get wiped out, sorry to say! Cryptos will do really well, but you better have the stomach for the volatility, if you want preserve wealth then I like metals, which will also do really well once the paper derivative pricing cannot be manipulate the physical market, which is also happening in the crypto markets thru the exchanges. The elite want us to be slaves to their fiat currencies (money, 401k's, stock, bonds, real estate, all paper assets) so they can create the boom and busts cycles. This rabbit hole topic is endless, and economic sovereignty will be critical to survive the future!

Mauricio Lluch

Thanks. Fascinating stuff!

Eric Dahl

China already flexing on Australian imports...rattling the cage...a prelude to what's coming ?

Ian

Any place but Canada is wise.

Dr. Jack Kruse

Right now that is the view but do I think it could change? yes. I have my eyes on three other trades. None are ready for prime time discussion

Dr. Jack Kruse

Any suggestions on countries to move to? lol It is getting absolutely ridiculous in Toronto.

David Robinson

Can you help me fathom? So it seems like you think that there is at least a 1000X increase from here. The way I see it is that BTC seems to be the endgame of where all the "Value" will go in this death based experiment that has been running for 10,000 years and has been ramped up exponentially since 1971 as you mentioned. I have been in for a few weeks. The network effect is too big already and as soon as Tesla, Apple, or any other company gets in it the gains will be unbelievable. It is like BTC will eventually be the measure of all of the monetary value in the world, right? That is what I have been puzzling about and it seems like it is headed that way. Everything will be measured against BTC

Eric Dahl

If that house is in a place like Cali, you could lose it. I doubt the probability for this to happen but right now that is the most socialist state in the union.

Dr. Jack Kruse

I'm selling all my real estate if I can......

Dr. Jack Kruse

Full member is bronze, gold? Can't see it here. Thanks.

Natalie

You sold some houses, but do you own the one you live in? Are you only talking investment? Or where you live as well? Would it be better to rent or pay off a mortgage given your understanding of the current global situation?

Lerissa Schwartz

The easiest way to put a billion dollars into Bitcoin is to put a million dollars in and wait.

Dr. Jack Kruse

no links. you need to understand exchanges. Become a full member and you will

Dr. Jack Kruse

yeah, I saw that as well as Fidelity and JP Morgan sez it's going to 650k... and nothing can stop it...

Penelope Pappas

"I use ledn for storage of extra coin. " JK on the last BC blog...

Penelope Pappas

blockfi gives interest...

Penelope Pappas

Dr Jack Kruse, would you please give a reliable link to read where/how to buy bitcoin. Where to keep it and etc...thank you very much! Have you discussed it here somewhere ?

Natalie

Slow the curve.

Dr. Jack Kruse

Some of the people here before the Q and A in five minutes feel the same way

Dr. Jack Kruse

If Trump won, what would another term do for Bitcoin prices? “Slow the curve”? ☺️

Sunny

What is beyond interesting to me is the DNI saying he doesn't think Biden is going to be the Prez... :-)

Penelope Pappas

We're keeping the house - it is paid off and we bought it 25 years ago - it is cheap living with prop 13... unless you are saying they will take it anyway? I wonder how that works... I can't even convince my husband there is a great reset, let alone a 4th turning...

Penelope Pappas

Did you see the conservation on Twitter between Musk and Michael Saylor? You better get in soon.

Dr. Jack Kruse

Thanks for packing my parachute:-)

Penelope Pappas

You, my friend are ON! Monday I will - once again - attempt to wire funds into Kraken...

Penelope Pappas

I also sold two houses in the last 4 months.

Dr. Jack Kruse

Same answer as above, but for me I would never own gold or silver. I have sold all my stocks and bonds.

Dr. Jack Kruse

Without knowing all variables I can not answer this

Dr. Jack Kruse

And would you recommend putting our entire portfolio or diversifying with commodities as well like gold and silver?

David Robinson

Would you recommend going with Blockfi for the interest or just holding our BTC offline? Also, is Blockfi applicable for Canadians?

David Robinson

That is because the first amendment was eroded beginning in 1963 by Dan Rather reporting of which way the head of JFK went post shot. We only found out Rather was lying in 1991 when the Zapruder film was released publicly. Rather was outed as a CIA asset in the 1977 Church Commission. For his lying, the CIA made sure this Dallas street reporter became the head of CBS news before his lying caught up with him and he was removed for obvious abuses of the truth.

Dr. Jack Kruse

It is the last chance he has. He has to show the Joints Chief of Staff that he has the goods and they can present the case to the SCOTUS. The recent Pentagon stop order of Biden onboarding is beyond interesting to me.

Dr. Jack Kruse

Not sure. I signed up for the interest benefit over BlockFi

Dr. Jack Kruse

Amazing the level of censorship if you compare "trump and emergency powers" of google vs. duckduckgo.

James

Also do you think there's much chance that Trump uses emergency powers? Would that cause crazy volatility in BTC and other markets?

James

Again great post! Ledn doesn't allow accounts from my state of residence... odd.Wonder what law prevents that?

James


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