Trump and Kudlow seemingly can't tell the difference between what is good for the US government, and what is good for the people. The idea that global reserve currency status for the dollar is essential to "America" relies on the false notion that the interests of the US regime and the interests of ordinary taxpaying Americans are one and the same. These interests rarely coincide, however, and they certainly don't when it comes to reserve currency status. This is especially the case when the dollar is unbacked by any commodity like gold, and is simply a floating fiat currency that can be inflated at the will of the regime at any time.

That global reserve currency status benefits the regime itself is obvious. This status for the dollar does indeed allow the regime to more recklessly inflate the dollar and increase deficits. This enhances the US regime's ability to bribe voters with enormous welfare programs and involve the US regime in a dazzling array of wars that have nothing to do with defending US territory. None of this, however, improves the standard of living of Americans who pay the bills.

Even worse, when the dollar ceases to be the dominant reserve currency — an event that is inevitable — holders of dollars will see their purchasing power plummet. Yet, it is not the end of reserve currency status that is to blame for the inflationist pain. Rather, the fault will lie with the decades of monetary and fiscal mismanagement made possible by the dollar's status as global reserve currency.

Monthly negative cash withdrawals have only ever taken place five times, the last being in April 2018. Experts said the figures show households are less willing to hold money in banks following the collapse of US lender Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in March, which damaged confidence and exposed fresh weaknesses in the financial system. A City source told the Daily Mail: 'No doubt about it, this is big. It's the largest month-on-month withdrawal.'

The quake registered an upper six on the Japanese Shindo scale of up to seven near Suzu city, Ishikawa, prompting warnings it could cause major landslides. Suzu is found on the northern tip of Ishikawa Prefecture's Noto Peninsula on the Sea of Japan coast, which sits around 180 miles from Tokyo.

PMC: We should remember the press conference at the White House on February 7, 2022 at which the US president and Germany’s chancellor publicly expressed their intention to blow up the Nord Stream. Chancellor Scholz who was on an official visit to the United States, fully endorsed President Biden’s stated intent to blow up the Nordstream gas pipeline, “if Russian tanks enter Ukraine”. Olaf Scholz was fully aware that this act of sabotage of the Nord Stream had been planned well in advance by the US Administration, to the detriment of more than 400 million Europeans.

DV: Do you have unequivocal evidence that Chancellor Scholz was involved?

PMC: I will read the transcript of that Press Conference on 7 February 2022. The questions were addressed to both President Biden and Chancellor Scholz:

"Andrea (Reuters) Q: Thank you, Mr President. And thank you, Chancellor Scholz. Mr President, I have wanted to ask you about this Nord Stream project that you’ve long opposed. You didn’t mention it just now by name, nor did Chancellor Scholz. Did you receive assurances from Chancellor Scholz today that Germany will, in fact, pull the plug on this project if Russia invades Ukraine? And did you discuss what the definition of 'invasion' could be?

PRESIDENT BIDEN: The first question first. If Germany — if Russia invades — that means tanks or troops crossing the — the border of Ukraine again — then there will no be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring an end to it.

Q: But how will you — how will you do that exactly, since the project and control of the project is within Germany’s control?

PRESIDENT BIDEN: We will — I promise you, we’ll be able to do it.

O'Neill was referencing Yeoman 2nd Class Joshua Kelley, whose stage name is Harpy Daniels, who announced on TikTok in November that she would be the Navy's first 'digital ambassador.'

After O'Neill sent out his tweet Wednesday afternoon, others chimed in to share in O'Neill's outrage over the ambassadorship. His tweet quickly gained 1.1 million views and thousands of likes and retweets.

'As a Navy veteran, I am ashamed on behalf of the US Navy. I hope that goes over as well as Bud Light did,' one person responded. 'This is beyond disturbing. I’m a former military officer and I just can’t believe what our brass is doing,' another added. 'An insult to every veteran and their families. My dad just rolled over in his grave at Arlington. I'm so glad he didn't have to see this happen,' a woman wrote.

The Military Times reported last month the US Navy, Air Force, and Army are all on track to fall short by 'thousands' of recruits. The Navy specifically is looking at a shortcoming of some 6,000 members. The Army is set to be off by around 10,000 while the Air Force is projected around 3,400.

The debt ceiling is the amount Congress has authorised America’s government to borrow in order to meet its basic obligations, from providing medical insurance to paying military salaries. The current ceiling for gross debt is $31.4 trillion (117% of gdp), and America is careening towards it. On May 1st Janet Yellen, the treasury secretary, warned that the government was set to exhaust its cash reserves and run out of budgetary gimmicks as soon as June 1st.

At this point, America would face either a sovereign default or swingeing cuts to state spending. Either outcome would be devastating for global markets. A default would undermine faith in the world’s most important financial system; big budget cuts could trigger a deep recession. Even if Congress manages to raise the debt ceiling before anything so dire happens, its flirtation with disaster serves as a warning about the deterioration of America’s fiscal health and the difficulty of recovering it.

For all their concern about the fiscal outlook, the former CBO [Congressional Budget Office] directors are, like most sane individuals, also unanimous in the view that a failure to lift the debt ceiling now, therefore opening the door to default, is a horrific idea. The mere threat of doing so risks further impairing the government’s finances by driving up borrowing costs and weighing down economic growth. America requires a serious political debate and bipartisan agreement to put its budget on sounder footing. Alas, its leaders are inclined neither to seriousness nor to agreement.

In a statement, the Fed affirmed the stability of the financial system but acknowledged the distress would likely cool the lending environment. "The US banking system is sound and resilient," the central bank said. "Tighter credit conditions for households and businesses are likely to weigh on economic activity, hiring, and inflation. The extent of these effects remains uncertain."

“We’re not here to beat people up,” says Boyer, who heads SITE, a private protection agency that is patrolling gas stations and hotels in Philadelphia at the behest of store owners. “We’re here to let the public know that they can feel safe.” Boyer’s armed guard service has boomed over the last year as Philadelphia police staffing issues led to longer response times. Neil Patel, the owner of this Karco gas station, says he hired Boyer in December after thieves stole an ATM from his gas station and the police didn’t respond for six hours.

It’s true that Neil Patel, the gas station owner, says he hasn’t had to report one criminal incident since Boyer’s firm started patrolling his lot. Before then, he says, his store was a constant blur of crime; people stealing and carjacking — one time, his car was vandalized while police were in the store, taking down a report about another crime. He’s sick of it all. I asked: couldn’t an armed guard have escalated those situations and led to someone being killed? “Too bad,” he said. “They deserve it.” Then he retreated behind the bulletproof glass shielding his cash register.

Ben Cook, a technology entrepreneur, purchased a home in the Dolores Heights neighborhood seven years ago and has been renovating it for the better part of the last two years. Over the course of that period, he has been at pains to protect the safety of his contractors, their expensive construction materials, and other items targeted by thieves at the work site from repeated thefts.

Police have told Cook that they simply won’t investigate these types of crimes, according to Cook. After repeatedly calling the San Francisco Police Department to report the thefts with little to show for his efforts, an officer told Cook after Saturday’s break-in that he would have better luck hiring private security guards.

“I decided to invest a lot of my time and a big chunk of savings to put down roots here. I do love this city,” Cook told me. “But sometimes it feels like civilization is crumbling.”

Stakeholder Foods has developed a 3D printed grouper fish fillet from stem cells, which are then processed via bioprinting technology into a fish-like shape. The product, which was created in conjunction with Umami Meats, mimics the taste and texture of natural fish, and it could be on supermarket shelves later this year.

“In the coming months, we intend to announce our plans for bringing this world-class cultivated fish to the market,” said Mihir Pershad, CEO of Umami Meats at a tasting event in Israel last week, via The Telegraph. “In the first tasting, we showcased a cultivated product that flakes, tastes and melts in your mouth exactly like excellent fish should,” he explained.

More bank failures are imminent. Fiat currencies are collapsing (by design). The goal of the corrupt establishment is to take out the small and mid-sized banks, and leave just a few giants standing, holding all the assets. JP Morgan, anyone?

Once the small and mid-sized banks are destroyed, the powers that be will initiate the final collapse of the dollar and attempt to force everyone into Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), which will be the final nail in the coffin of human freedom.

The pope went on to warn that in Europe, freedom is under threat from “a consumerism that anesthetizes” and makes people forget the past to float in a selfish present. “This is the dangerous persecution of worldliness, brought about by consumerism. But when the only thing that counts is thinking about oneself and doing what one likes, the roots suffocate,” he asserted, underscoring Europe’s demographic crisis. The whole of Europe is in crisis,” he stated.

“So let us reflect on the importance of preserving the roots, because only by going deep will the branches grow upwards and bear fruit,” he said. In his insistence on the importance of rediscovering Europe’s Christian roots, Pope Francis echoed similar concerns often expressed by his predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI.

In 2009, Benedict declared that by forgetting its Christian roots, Europe was exposing itself to the risk of seeing its “original dynamism stifled by individualism and utilitarianism.” To be a place of peace and stability, Europe must not forget those values that are “the fruit of a long and silent history in which, all will agree, Christianity has played a key role,” he said.

“When the Church asks for the Christian roots of Europe to be recognized, it is not doing so to claim a privileged status for itself,” Benedict added. “Its aim is to keep the historical memory alive.” Even more deeply, the Church wants to “reaffirm that Europe’s values are mainly rooted in its Christian heritage which even today does not cease to nurture them,” he said.

One of the biggest pushers of this dystopian vision is his royal highness King Charles, whose coronation will take place on May 6. He beckons us to follow his lead into this new religion. When Charles talks about the Great Reset and the goals of the UN it sounds more like a religion than anything else. Earth worship.

While he claims to be a Christian, he never mentions the Bible, God the Father, or Jesus Christ, the one who has the desire to save not the Earth but the souls of those who inhabit the Earth. The Luciferians believe they can create their own version of heaven on Earth without the God of the Bible, and this is the greatest deception they dangle in front of weak human beings.

None of the digital ambassadors were paid, the spokesperson said, and no promotional or recruiting materials with the ambassadors exist. The campaign is reminiscent of Bud Light's partnership with trans-star Dylan Mulvaney which led to an immediate backlash, cost billions and caused the brand's sales to plummet.

The Navy's digital ambassador program has now ended, running from October 2022 through March 2023, and officials are now working to assess its effectiveness. But authorities say the Navy is still expected to fall 8,000 short of its recruitment goals for the year.

The article begins by citing Samuel Huntington’s “clash of civilizations” thesis, which argues that a clash between East and West would define the post-Cold War future as a form of cultural and religious identity conflict. In presenting this theme, the article then dives into what Xi Jinping has touted as his ‘global civilization initiative’ based on the premise that “civilizations can live in harmony.” The catch, as interpreted by The Economist, is that the “West must stop promoting its values, or Huntington will be proven right.”

Arguably, the world has been in a cultural conflict for a while now, and it didn’t start with US-China competition. The rise and surge of political Islam, after all, pursuing hard-line interpretations of Sharia law, and even going as far as terrorism and insurgency, was a reaction to Westernization in the Middle East, an attempt to try and enforce an Islamic identity against it. To some extent, the War on Terror was a ‘clash of civilizations’ as much as it was a clash of ideologies and cultural identities which saw each other as mutually existential threats.