The grifter's importunate hand
An insatiable grasp
Whispering in semaphore
Pious and vain
Surrounded by sycophants
Withered and gray
He promises deliverance
Day after day
Releasing only pestilence
And festering decay
@realpeteyb123 Crown of Aragon Territory
Catalonia — Kingdom of Aragon very interesting and rich History dating back to the Habsburg rule of Charles V which interestingly included the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Is the map you used an accurate depiction?
The most important financial story of the decade is not the war. It is what the war is accelerating.
In 2022, the United States froze $300 billion in Russian central bank reserves with the stroke of a pen. Every finance minister on earth watched. They saw SWIFT, sanctions, and Treasury access become weapons aimed at any country that would not comply. And they understood, all at once, that dollar-denominated assets had become political instruments — confiscatable, freezable, sanctionable at the discretion of a government they did not elect.
That was the moment the global financial order quietly cracked. Ever since, foreign central banks have been selling Treasuries and buying gold. It started slowly in 2022. Accelerated in 2023. Accelerated again in 2024. In early 2026, with the Iran war underway, the line was finally crossed: for the first time since 1996, foreign central banks now hold more gold than US Treasuries. Roughly $4 trillion in gold against $3.9 trillion in American government debt. Thirty years of dollar dominance ended in a number nobody put on a front page.
The acceleration is compounding. Central banks have been net buyers of gold for 16 consecutive years — the longest streak on record. Bank of America confirms they have been net sellers of Treasuries since March 2025, with the pace accelerating after the Liberation Day tariffs and accelerating again after the strikes on Iran. The countries doing this are not adversaries. They are NATO allies, neutral states, emerging economies, every continent. The pattern is universal because the lesson was universal.
Every war we start, every sanction we impose, every account we freeze accelerates the trend. The dollar did not lose its reserve status in a moment. It lost it in a decision — the decision to treat the global reserve currency as a weapon. The world responded then. It is responding faster now. The reserves are already moving. The headlines are the last to know.
When energy is generated on-site at the point of use - when every house, factory, hospital, and farm produces its own continuous clean power - there is no reason to fight wars over oil and gas.
The petrodollar becomes obsolete.
The strategic rationale for forward deployment collapses.
Energy 3 is not just energy policy. It is the single largest piece of foreign policy reform available to us.
End the dependency. End the wars that protect it.
@AnaKasparian The villages directly above that lake are Maronite, Melkite Greek Catholic, and Greek Orthodox — they’re among the oldest Christian communities on earth. My grandparents' and aunts' resting place is just over that ridge. These are not Hezbollah villages, and they never were.
Everyone needs to understand that all the tech oligarchs are going to fight us tooth and nail on IBOR.
Because they live in an inverted reality where if they aren’t allowed to control what speech is allowed in the public square they built, that infringes on their rights.
But don’t let them gaslight you.
The construction company who builds the roads doesn’t get to ban people from driving on them bc they don’t like their opinions.
The power company can’t shut off your power bc they don’t like your opinions.
The water company can’t shut off your water bc they don’t like your opinions.
The phone company can’t shut off your phone bc they don’t like your opinions.
And in the near future, the tech giants won’t be allowed to shut off your access to the public square, and the primary engines of modern commerce bc they don’t like your opinions.
Freedom will be completely extinguished in America if we don’t take this crucial step.
The tech oligarchs also want to keep the multi-trillion dollars worth of YOUR data all for themselves. So mark my words, they will all be staunchly opposed to IBOR making your data your intellectual property.
But if we don’t make it a hardset legal principle that our data is our intellectual property, and force any business, broker, nonprofit, or government agency who uses it to pay us royalties - then all economic power will be consolidated into 5 mega corporations, and we will be stuck a nightmare surveillance state.
The only way to make the technological revolution a rising tide that lifts all ships, and the only way to make mass surveillance impossible to carry out, is to pass an internet bill of rights where the data we generate is our intellectual property and every time it gets touched we have to be paid royalties.
That will give everyone a financial lifeline. And that will put a financial governor on mass surveillance. It will make dragnetting all of us prohibitively expensive and force the government to only surveil people who are actually a threat.
The tech oligarchs have almost unlimited money and they are going to be staunchly opposed to IBOR.
So we are going to need to organize from both the left and right and overwhelm them with numbers.