Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch)@TFL1728 | Alex (Sasha) Krainer @NakedHedgie | Crypto Rich @CryptoRichYT
(April 11, 2025): “This is war….The Trump administration is attacking the old European oligarchies from all sides….Israel’s been created there to cynically exploit the Jews …it is the tool of Western hegemony to enable Western powers to benefit from the vast natural resources in the Middle East.” Truth bombs & smart insightful analysis with …
Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch) @TFL1728
Alex (Sasha) Krainer@NakedHedgie
Crypto Rich @CryptoRichYT
Video link on X: https://x.com/CryptoRichYT/status/1911187067587215376
The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire | The Secret World of Finance Michael Oswald’s film The Spider’s Web reveals how at the demise of the empire, the City of London’s financial interests created a web of secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and its dependencies are the largest global players in The Secret World of Finance.
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Glenn Diesen interviews Alex Krainer on the Economic Collapse & the End of Europe
Alex Krainer: Economic Collapse & the End of Europe
Alex (Sasha) Krainer: Founder at Krainer Analytics. Monaco, Monaco. Author of #1 rated book on commodities, “Mastering Uncertainty in Commodities Trading,” and “Alex Krainer’s Trend Following Bible”; creator of I-System Trend Following – engineering, implementing and maintaining bespoke, high performance turn-key portfolio solutions (with audited track record); publisher of TrendCompass daily market reports; contributing editor at ZeroHedge.
https://x.com/NakedHedgie
Glenn Diesen is a professor of Russian international affairs, with focus on geoeconomics, conservatism and the Greater Eurasia Initiative. Professor at University of South-Eastern Norway
https://x.com/Glenn_Diesen
Bonus: KunstlerCast 420 — Tom Luongo of Gold, Goats and Guns, Talkin’ Europe, Russia, and America in a Dangerous Year
https://www.kunstler.com/p/kunstlercast-420-tom-luongo-of-gold?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Tom Luongo is a Former Research Chemist, Amateur Dairy Goat Farmer, Anarcho-Libertarian and Obstreperous Austrian Economist who blogs and podcasts at Gold, Goats and, Guns. His work can also be found on sites like Zerohedge, Lewrockwell.com, Bitcoin Magazine and Newsmax Media. His work focuses on the attempt to connect the false narratives of geopolitics to viable long-term investment theses. He built the house that he lives in and loves hockey, his family, the art of drumming, board games of all kinds, a logically consistent argument, and the beauty of spontaneous order…. not necessarily in that order.
Grok’s Summary of Alex Krainer: Economic Collapse & the End of Europe…
Tom Luongo interviews Alex Krainer: In this fascinating podcast, Alex pieces together a timeline which may explain how many of the recent global events are related, and why Ukraine is so darned important to the Collective West — It’s not what I thought. Alex also identifies some of the great opportunities impending financial disruptions may provide for those with eyes wide open.
Tony Blair, Bill Clinton & Sam Bankman-Fried at FTX/Salt Conference
The Network Behind FTX: Marty Bent and Mike Krieger join Whitney to unravel the network behind the meteoric rise of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX and what was actually going on at the company. The discussion goes far beyond the obvious fraud at FTX and looks at the networks that brought Bankman-Fried to power and were using him as a front for a dangerous agenda.
Listen to podcast here: https://rokfin.com/post/109744
Show notes: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2022/11/resources/show-notes/the-network-behind-ftx-with-marty-bent-and-michael-krieger/
Big Media Implodes: The Intercept And Other Media Engulfed By Scandal: FTX Was Giving Millions To Outlets Including The Intercept, ProPublica, VOX. Semafor, Vanity Fair, And More… To Control All Messaging Around Covid 19, “biosafety and pandemic prevention,” to ban certain virologists, and worse
Not that there was ever any doubt governments could rape, pillage and plunder you both physically and financially, we generally assume there is some due process prior to the taking of your assets. The latest examples of Justin Trudeau’s financial terrorism against Canadian citizens and now Biden’s financial attack on Russia is breathtaking in that there seem to be no barriers or limits to this overreach, or any due process to protect the legitimate rights or interests of the targets of these attacks.
The lesson many people and countries around the globe are learning is if you displease those who control the current financial system, your money and your assets can be seized at the flick of a pen. In short, your money is not safe in any bank controlled by these lawless tyrants.
It is time to find alternatives.
Gonzalo Lira: THE TRUTH ABOUT HUNTER AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE UKRAINE
Historically, Russia has never liked China. Based on culture and religion Russia is much more compatible with the USA than China.
Seeking individual rights and freedom, in February 1917 Russia abolished its monarchy and installed a provisional government which lasted about 8 months. During this 8 month period the USA (President Wilson and the head of the NY Federal Reserve) and bankers in Europe hijacked this provisional government using banker-backed and funded Trotsky and Lenin culminating in the October Revolution establishing the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) which became the tyrannical, godless, soul-crushing USSR in 1922 described by Aleksandr Solzhenitzyn in ‘The Gulag Archipelago’. In 1991 the unworkable, central-planning bureaucracy of Communist USSR fell of its own weight; was dissolved, asset-stripped by Wall Street and replaced by the Russian Federation which exists to this day.
In 1776 Russia helped Americans win the Revolution and gain independence; in 1917 America helped the Bolsheviks enslave the Russians.
Now, Biden’s puppet-masters have forced Russia into a closer strategic, financial and security alliance with China. Russians –and Putin– have always wanted to be friends and close allies with Americans, but the Anglo-American Establishment would never allow this. The US has managed to spoil every Russian rapprochement with an endless train of lies, cons and deceptions. Russia, in its seemingly endless forbearance, has been the West’s willing bride since 1991 only to be raped, slandered and left at the alter time after time — but no more. Russia has had enough; forced to confront the fact the US can never be trusted and will never be a partner in good faith.
The result of Biden’s push to financially isolate and destroy Russia (which is an act of war), will only hasten the destruction of the US Dollar as the world’s reserve currency. Other nations are witnessing this financial terrorism and abrogation of responsibility –including India and China– and will thus seek to protect themselves from future reliance on the USD, Western Central Banks, Visa/Mastercard or the SWIFT messaging system. China, India and Russia represent a full 37% of the world population and this does not include many other nations watching this overreach closely from sidelines. This will have a serious long-term impact on American prosperity, reducing our living standards by as much as 40% or more — permanently.
What you are witnessing is the purposeful demolition of the US Empire.
DECLARATION OF MSGR. CARLO MARIA VIGANÒ, ARCHBISHOP, FORMER APOSTOLIC NUNCIO TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ON THE RUSSIA-UKRAINE CRISIS If we look at what is happening in Ukraine, without being misled by the gross falsifications of the mainstream media, we realize that respect for each other’s rights has been completely ignored; indeed, we have the impression that the Biden Administration, NATO and the European Union deliberately want to maintain a situation of obvious imbalance, precisely to make impossible any attempt at a peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian crisis, provoking the Russian Federation to trigger a conflict. Herein lies the seriousness of the problem. This is the trap set for both Russia and Ukraine, using both of them to enable the Globalist elite to carry out its criminal plan
“We are looking at a winter of severe illness and death for the unvaccinated — for themselves, their families and the hospitals they’ll soon overwhelm” Joe Biden December 16, 2021
“The pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world” – Professor Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman, World Economic Forum.
Theses are the ones not secrete, not behind closed doors.
Health experts discussed the scientific and technological prospects of an effective universal influenza vaccine. Speakers included Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Margaret Hamburg, former FDA commissioner. Panelists discussed the need for more funding for research, better collaboration between the private and government sectors, advances in technology in flu research and the goal of a universal flu vaccine.
Event 201 was a 3.5-hour pandemic tabletop exercise that simulated a series of dramatic, scenario-based facilitated discussions, confronting difficult, true-to-life dilemmas associated with response to a hypothetical, but scientifically plausible, pandemic. 15 global business, government, and public health leaders were players in the simulation exercise that highlighted unresolved real-world policy and economic issues that could be solved with sufficient political will, financial investment, and attention now and in the future.
Crimson Contagion was a joint exercise conducted from January to August 2019, in which numerous national, state and local, private and public organizations in the US participated, in order to test the capacity of the federal government and twelve states to respond to a severe pandemic of influenza originating in China.
The simulation, which was conducted by the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services in a series of exercises that ran from January to August 2019, involved a scenario in which a group of about 30 tourists returning from China spread a novel influenza A respiratory virus in the United States, beginning in Chicago. In less than two months the virus had spread from a single index case (a 52 year-old man returning to Chicago) to infect 110 million Americans; 7.7 million patients would require hospitalization, and 586,000 people would die from the novel virus. The 70-page report issued at the conclusion of the exercise outlined the government’s limited capacity to respond to a pandemic. States experienced “multiple challenges” requesting resources from the federal government “due to a lack of standardized, well-understood, and properly executed resource request processes,” the report said. Federal agencies lacked the funds, coordination, and capacities to implement an effective response to the virus.
Clade X is a day-long pandemic tabletop exercise that simulated a series of National Security Council–convened meetings of 10 US government leaders, played by individuals prominent in the fields of national security or epidemic response.
Drawing from actual events, Clade X identified important policy issues and preparedness challenges that could be solved with sufficient political will and attention. These issues were designed in a narrative to engage and educate the participants and the audience.
In 2012, the pandemic that the world had been anticipating for years finally hit. Unlike 2009’s H1N1, this new influenza strain — originating from wild geese — was extremely virulent and deadly. Even the most pandemic-prepared nations were quickly overwhelmed when the virus streaked around the world, infecting nearly 20 percent of the global population and killing 8 million in just seven months, the majority of them healthy young adults.
The pandemic also had a deadly effect on economies: international mobility of both people and goods screeched to a halt, debilitating industries like tourism and breaking global supply chains. Even locally, normally bustling shops and office buildings sat empty for months, devoid of both employees and customers.
The pandemic blanketed the planet — though disproportionate numbers died in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central America, where the virus spread like wildfire in the absence of official containment protocols. But even in developed countries, containment was a challenge. The United States’ initial policy of “strongly discouraging” citizens from flying proved deadly in its leniency, accelerating the spread of the virus not just within the U.S. but across borders.
However, a few countries did fare better — China in particular. The Chinese government’s quick imposition and enforcement of mandatory quarantine for all citizens, as well as its instant and near-hermetic sealing off of all borders, saved millions of lives, stopping the spread of the virus far earlier than in other countries and enabling a quicker post-pandemic recovery.
China’s government was not the only one that took extreme measures to protect its citizens from risk and exposure. During the pandemic, national leaders around the world flexed their authority and imposed airtight rules and restrictions, from the mandatory wearing of face masks to body-temperature checks at the entries to communal spaces like train stations and supermarkets. Even after the pandemic faded, this more authoritarian control and oversight of citizens and their activities stuck and even intensified. In order to protect themselves from the spread of increasingly global problems — from pandemics and transnational terrorism to environmental crises and rising poverty — leaders around the world took a firmer grip on power.
At first, the notion of a more controlled world gained wide acceptance and approval. Citizens willingly gave up some of their sovereignty — and their privacy — to more paternalistic states in exchange for greater safety and stability.
Citizens were more tolerant, and even eager, for top-down direction and oversight, and national leaders had more latitude to impose order in the ways they saw fit. In developed countries, this heightened oversight took many forms: biometric IDs for all citizens, for example, and tighter regulation of key industries whose stability was deemed vital to national interests. In many developed countries, enforced cooperation with a suite of new regulations and agreements slowly but steadily restored both order and, importantly, economic growth.
By 2025, people seemed to be growing weary of so much top-down control and letting leaders and authorities make choices for them. Wherever national interests clashed with individual interests, there was conflict. Sporadic pushback became increasingly organized and coordinated, as disaffected youth and people who had seen their status and opportunities slip away — largely in developing countries — incited civil unrest. In 2026, protestors in Nigeria brought down the government, fed up with the entrenched cronyism and corruption. Even those who liked the greater stability and predictability of this world began to grow uncomfortable and constrained by so many tight rules and by the strictness of national boundaries. The feeling lingered that sooner or later, something would inevitably upset the neat order that the world’s governments had worked so hard to establish
How would world leaders manage the catastrophe of a fast-moving global epidemic of deadly disease? Atlantic Storm was a ministerial table-top exercise convened on January 14, 2005 by the Center for Biosecurity of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, the Center for Transatlantic Relations of the Johns Hopkins University, and the Transatlantic Biosecurity Network. The exercise used a fictitious scenario designed to mimic a summit of transatlantic leaders forced to respond to a bioterrorist attack. These transatlantic leaders were played by current and former officials from each country or organization represented at the table. There was an audience of observers from governments on both sides of the Atlantic as well as from the private sector, but the venue was designed to focus all attention on the summit principals and their discussions around the table.
The Dark Winter exercise, held at Andrews AFB, Washington, DC, June 22-23, 2001, portrayed a fictional scenario depicting a covert smallpox attack on US citizens. The scenario is set in 3 successive National Security Council (NSC) meetings (Segments 1, 2 and 3) that take place over a period of 14 days. Former senior government officials played the roles of NSC members responding to the evolving epidemic; representatives from the media were among the observers of these mock NSC meetings and played journalists during the scenario’s press conferences.
Softening up the terrain – Virus/pandemic movies flood the theaters 2001 – 2019:
Those familiar with the 76-year-old ‘Strategy of Tension’ a.k.a. Operation Gladio developed after WW2 by NATO and the CIA, will certainly recognize this strategy being implemented today across America and across the globe. This strategy was first uncovered in a 1984 court case in Italy. Since that time, Operation Gladio — Latin for “sword”—has been honed and refined into a useful and predictable tool to undermine existing governments for regime change. You can see its footprint in the Mosaddeq coup – CIA Operation Ajax, the Arab Spring operations and more recently in the 2014 overthrow of the Ukraine government in 2014 by the CIA, US State Department and others including George Soros who bragged he contributed $10M to this operation.
Interesting to note Nuland is married to Robert Kagan. Robert Kagan co-founder in 1998 of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC); who along with Bill Kristol identified and presaged the necessity of the attacks on 9/11 to rehydrate military spending after the fall of the Soviet hobgoblin in 1991. With defense spending down, we needed a new villain and PNAC was ready with the solution: “Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.”
The 9/11 Project
The reason I paint the recent thumbnail history above is to provide some context for how this same strategy of tension is being deployed here in the US today by the same deep-state operators.
Like Ukraine, in 2014 old injustices and grudges were flammed into action by Gladio operators to prep the ground for a hot civil war. Ukraine sits at the bottom of Russia, between Russia and the Black Sea. On the Western end you have mostly Ukrainians ethnically and as you move East you move to the Donbas area and into Crimea where there is a higher concentration of Russian-speaking residents who identify with Russia ethnically. A study of the history of Ukraine would reveal a bitter hatred of Russia based on the Holodomor where millions of ethnic Ukrainians were starved to death by Stalin in 1932-1933. BTW, the New York Times received a Pulitzer Prize for covering up Stalin’s genocide. See Hitler, Stalin and Mr. Jones.
Ukraine remembered the Holodomor during Operation Barbarossa and assisted Hitler in his failed attack on the Soviet Union in 1941. Thus, you can still find the remnants of this support in the form of Neo-Nazis in Ukraine today. These same Neo-Nazis were used by the US State Department in Ukraine in 2014 to ignite civil tension much like Antifa, BLM and others are being used today in the US. During the Euromaidan Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kyiv, CIA-backed snipers were deployed on buildings around the Maidan Square to shoot both the students and the police to help stir up the crowds and increase anger, fear and of course the tension.
This worked brilliantly and provided the State Department and Victoria Nuland the opportunity they needed to use the muscle power of the Neo-Nazis to complete their takeover of Ukraine.
This short historical lesson above is important to understand what is going on here in the US today. Operation Gladio has now been turned in upon the previous benefactors.
The necessity of a flawed victim
The George Floyd fiasco is a perfect example of an effective PSYOP to increase tension. This case gives each side something to be angry about – it inflames emotions no matter what side you are on; thus, a great tool to divide and increase civil tension. George had to be an imperfect victim. Why? To give each side something to complain about no matter the outcome. George was not blameless and the police officer was a white male so our corrupted media served up the perfect entrée of tension –hot and steamy– for both sides to gorge on. Had George been a saint and the white police officer a bad guy, everyone could get behind the the guilty verdict, but this would not escalate the division (tension) the media have worked so hard to create and sustain. The media chose this case from potentially 100s of other cases –which might have demonstrated real police abuse– to assure both sides could feel hurt and wronged with the required ‘Politically Correct’ guilty verdict. To tip the scales for guilt, the press made sure the jurors were sufficiently doxed in case anyone dared to side with the evil white guy — ‘wrong-vote’ would get your ass beat or worse.
COVID and –more importantly– the irresponsible reaction to COIVID by our ‘well-paid experts’ has increased tension just as the Floyd-Chauvin theatrical media production did. The COVID reaction is discarding the old idea of informed consent and violating the Nuremburg Code. A civil war is just what is needed to complete the total and complete destruction of any civil rights which may remain.
The impediments and thus the enemies of the Ruling Elite are: the family, the white male, culture, history, traditions, 1st, 2nd, and 4th Amendments and of course Christianity; and so all are under attack by the same folks who are running the George Floyd and COVID PSYOPS.
Here are two links I think are important in context to the above that will bring this closer to home:
