Money Wars - Part 1

The Great Con

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Money dominates our world. 

We measure our success by counting zeros. We plan relationships around finance. Children are born and immediately beholden to some portion of the national debt—about $78,000 at present. Wars are fought and healthcare is issued or denied based on it. And bankers increasingly use money, finance, and the stock market to wield incredible power over humanity at large. 

Despite the fact that we have laws against monopolies and other forms of undue power and influence, some get hit with the book (e.g. Trump) while others get a free pass.

At one time, money might have been a tool for freedom and prosperity. But tools can be misused, especially when we stop training the youth in how to use them ethically. 

What’s the goal of this series?

There’s a war being waged through our money and financial systems—a war most of us never realized we were fighting. But we are on the battlefield whether we like it or not. And if we want to end the Money Wars, we need to relearn the truth about money and unlearn the lies we’ve been told.

This series will attempt to do just that. 

Weaponized Money

In Canada, during the 2022 Ottawa Protests known as the Freedom Convoy, banks in Canada and elsewhere unlawfully froze the bank accounts of protestors and organizers, according to Viva Frie, a Canadian lawyer and commentator. While we cannot confirm who was behind the unprecedented move, it undoubtedly benefited the globalists. 

Since the Trudeau government couldn’t shut down the lawful protests, they chose to do an end run around the rights of their citizens, and starve out the protestors by cutting off their money.

GoFundMe, a crowdsourced fundraising platform, unilaterally confiscated over $10 million in trucker donations, intending to send the money to charities of their choosing, claiming that the funds were going to support “white supremacy and hate.” In effect, the powers that be used their total control of money and finance to tyrannically go against the will of the people.

Every actor, from the Canadian Government, to GoFundMe, to the banks involved are all guilty of one of the highest crimes known to man—breach of trust and contract, a violation of fiduciary duty, or being an accomplice therewith.

(Keep this in mind, because later in this series, I’ll show precisely how to tell that the existing state of our financial system is without a doubt unlawful and a violation of the very heart of what it means to be a civilized society.)

Here’s another example of how the financial system is used as a weapon against freedom, trust, and the rule of law:

In mid 2023, Ken Paxton, a Texas Attorney General, was impeached and his salary unilaterally suspended due to the seriousness of the crimes under investigation—the prosecution alleged. (AG Paxton covers this in his interview with Tucker Carlson on X.)

The prosecution used taxpayer money to fund a secret investigation and later, to higher attorneys to prosecute Paxton. They denied Paxton access to public funds for his own defense—even common criminals are entitled to a defense paid for by the state. On Memorial Day weekend, the impeachment was quietly pushed through, and a legal process was used to freeze Paxton’s pay and slap him with a Gag order. In effect, the powers that be used money to prevent a man who was later acquitted of all charges to defend himself. 

These are just two examples of systemic problems; under the excuse of money, finance, and ‘the market,’ all manner of frauds, unlawfulness, illegalities, and tyranny is imposed upon free people everywhere.  

WE THE PEOPLE have, in effect, ceded the financial battleground to liars, cheaters, and fraudsters. But because it happens via the ‘free market,’ the people have falsely believed it's unfair, but not unlawful or wrong. 

It is all three: unfair, unlawful, and wrong.

We have to acknowledge the elephant in the living room.

A millionaire can afford lawyers to get a fair trial—hopefully, while the average joe has essentially no ability to pay for their right to equal treatment under the law that we supposedly place in such high regard in this country and in the world in general.

We’re told we have some of the most advanced healthcare in history, and yet, if you can’t afford it, you won’t receive it. 

Socialism and Communism, in part, became so popular because, deep down, everyone knows the truth—that our world is a debt slave plantation where money and finance have become the modern day shackles and whips of the technocratic age.

A Single Flame in the Darkness 

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There’s a dark room, pitch black. 

You can’t see anything when inside. 

Light a single candle, with a pathetic little flame, and all the big bad darkness runs screaming out of the room.

Anyone got a light?

How did it get this way?

Is there anything we can do about it?

When did our money and financial systems become tools of tyranny and oppression?

What exactly are the scams that occur through the financial system?

The answers to these questions are not only mind-blowing to read about, but provide actionable intelligence we can use to safeguard our future.

There’s a war being waged. The weapons are digital, the casualties financial, and the suffering ubiquitous. It’s a war that touches all people of all lands, and yet, it’s one that only a handful of people see and still fewer have the courage to fight. 

I had a friend when I was in college. Their room was a disaster. They never cleaned it—literally. Old plates, soda cans, ashtrays filled to the brim, and a persistent sense that you’re getting sick just standing in the doorway. It took years of not cleaning to get it to that point. But in one weekend, and a little encouragement from his significant other, he was able to completely turn things around. He had a clean room again. 

The good news is that, when it comes to any form of corruption, things can be turned around very quickly once we acknowledge the collective mess we’re sitting in. 

Let me be clear: the technical details about money might be boring and dry, which I will endeavor to make interesting for you. The powers that be want you to roll your eyes and tune out, thinking it’s boring—that’s how we got here in the first place. If you can commit to gaining key knowledge and understanding, you can join the ranks of fighters who will one day restore sanity and the rule of law to our world, including fixing our broken and weaponized monetary system.

The Great Con

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A good con has key elements:

• The Con Artist is the guy who initiates and orchestrates the scam. 

• The Mark, or Target is the victim who is deceived, the target of the weaponized messaging and communications.

• The Pitch is the story the Con Artist uses to gain the trust of the Mark, often a mix of true statements to make the false ones go down easily. 

• The Hook is the element of the Con that entices the Mark, usually something that’s wanted or needed.

• The Play is the main thrust of the Con, where the Mark is manipulated into doing something that benefits the con artist, like handing over money or bank account information. 

• The Misdirection is the part of the con job that assists the Con Artist in hiding his true intentions and objectives from the Mark.

When it comes to our financial system, it is, from top to bottom, a sophisticated Misdirection. 

A good Hook for a con is both believable and unverifiable; it contains some portion of truth that obscures the greater truth of the Con itself. 

The Con Artist’s job is to make the Mark fixate on what he can get out of the deal—a carrot on a stick—so much so, the Mark avoids investigating the Misdirection narrative. The bait is so enticing to the Mark, they don’t want to ruin it by investigating or being skeptical; this is exactly where the Con Artist wants the Mark.

With respect to our financial system, there are parts of it that work well enough, which are designed to distract us from its corruption.

For instance, if you have $1000 in the bank, and you pay a bill for $60, using banking Bill Pay, the bank reliably calculates and shows an accurate transaction—you see the $60 charge and the reduction of bank balance to $940. 

When it comes to accurate accounting and math, the bankers do a good job. This is critical to pulling off the Great Con that is our financial system as a whole.

Most of the day-to-day transactions in banking, such as debit and credit card charges, check payments, wire transfers, auto payments, and so on, are generally above board and accurate. Since they work, we tend to assume the rest of the financial system is above board. 

The same method happens in medicine: When you break your leg or cut yourself, you get reliably good triage and care. This instills confidence so that you blindly accept other things that aren’t so good—like toxic mRNA jabs.

As a teaser for some of the things we’ll cover in this series, let’s talk about something we’re all familiar with: loans and credit. 

When you go into a bank and apply for a loan, we tend to believe that the bank has the money somewhere. If we need a $100,000 loan for a new home, we fill out a loan application with the bank, which, upon approval, the loan amount is transferred to our bank account—or whatever place it needs to go. You might think that the money was safely and securely in the vault, or digitally stored in their Federal Reserve Cash account for the bank. But you’d be wrong. 

This is a carefully-curated illusion.

The truth is, the bank didn’t have the $100,000 on reserve in the vault, with the Fed, or anywhere. The bank created the money ‘out of thin air’ after it approved your loan application. 

‘Money out of thin air’ has become a trope in recent history. And it’s mostly true. But there’s actually something more insidious going on. 

What’s really happening is that the bank is converting the money you created by filling out the loan application, acting as a currency exchange house. Your loan application is a form of money, which you created in the act of filling out the application! The bank then has the gaul to charge you exorbitant interest for money it never had. What’s more, if you default, or stop making payments, the bank can foreclose on the note, and confiscate real property as surety, in compensation for money it never had and was never at risk of losing. 

All that might sound like a poorly-researched TikTok video. But as we’ll dive into in a future installment of this series, this is how it works. And as I’ve been saying, by understanding this, we can stop it and also have access to a powerful financial tool for our own abundance.

The world of finance is made intentionally confusing and befuddling, using complicated terms like hypothecation, surety bonds, debentures, annuities, demand deposit credit, negotiable instruments, accommodation, and so on. 

It acts like a smoke screen—part of the confusing and hard-to-penetrate narrative of Misdirection used by the Con Artist to stop you from learning the whole truth. 

Here are some other confusing things we’ll bring clarity to in this series:

You might have heard that fiat money is worthless paper, and yet, it seems to work just fine in our everyday lives.

Why is that?

You might have heard that gold-backed money is constitutional money, God’s money, and is immune to banker manipulation and inflation. And yet, when we had gold-backed money from 1900 to 1933, we saw inflation as high as 17.8%.

You might have heard from the mainstream media that the Federal Reserve, the central bank of the US, helps stabilize the money supply, reduce inflation, and maintain price stability. And yet, since the Fed was enacted in 1913, we’ve seen a staggering 3,001.27% inflation rate. 

What happened?

Why have the bankers and our trusted elected officials failed to fix our financial system?

Sometimes problems persist because we don’t know how to fix them. Other times, problems persist because Con Artists, scammers and bad faith actors use these problems as backdoors to enable their nefarious goals.

The good news is that, like the founding fathers did in the mid-18th century, once we rediscover the truth about valid money and how it works, we can quickly switch to better systems. 

Part of the problem is that most people don’t know there’s a problem. And part of the reason people don’t know there’s a problem is because we don’t know what money is, where it comes from and how it’s supposed to work correctly.

We don’t have a standard in mind to help us identify what’s not working—which we’ll be doing in this series.

In the next installment of this series, we’ll fully unpack money, currency, and one of the most powerful secrets of money—one we can use now to secure our wealth and deal a powerful blow to the enemies of freedom and prosperity.

Welcome to Money Wars …

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