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Central banking continues to fail

March 17, 2023 -

(Article by Mac Slavo republished from SHFTPlan.com)According to a report by CNN, the shocking implosion of Silicon Valley Bank should not deter the Federal Reserve from its war on inflation, according to former FDIC and Fed official Thomas Hoenig.

“The Federal Reserve is in the hot seat. It’s a no-win situation for them,” Hoenig, the former vice chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, told CNN in a phone interview on Monday.

As Gregory Mannarino said ...

Vladimir Putin praises digital ruble, calls for CBDC’s widespread use in Russia

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According to a Substack report from American writer and journalist Riley Waggaman, writing under the moniker Edward Slavsquat, Putin has called for the full-scale implementation of the digital ruble.

Waggaman wrote that after praising the "efficiency and functionality" of the Central Bank of Russia's CBDC, Putin instructed his government to prepare for the widespread introduction of the digital ruble.

"Now we need to take the next step, namely: Move to a broader, full-scale ...

European Union mulls INDEFINITELY freezing stolen Russian assets amid U.S. pressure

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Since the onset of the Ukraine conflict in late February 2022, the EU has frozen more than 200 billion euros ($217 billion) worth of assets owned by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation but were currently being held in financial institutions within the European Union. Moscow has vehemently condemned this action as a brazen theft of its financial properties.

While Western nations have grappled with legal hurdles preventing outright confiscation of these funds to aid Ukraine, ...

RIVERS OF BLOOD: Alleged Hamas supporter threatens MASS VIOLENCE at Paris Olympics (but it could be a false flag operation)

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In a 59-second video first posted on X, formerly Twitter, on Sunday, July 21, a man whose face is covered with a Palestinian keffiyeh scarf and speaking in Arabic accuses France of supporting Israel – which it referred to as the "Zionist regime" – and providing weapons to the Israeli Defense Forces. (Related: Thousands of applicants for Olympics-related jobs rejected due to terror links and security threats.)

"You helped murder our brothers and sisters, our children," he said, ...

Fortune 500 companies to incur more than $5 billion in losses from CrowdStrike outage – and that’s EXCLUDING Microsoft

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According to their calculations, the total direct financial loss that American Fortune 500 companies can expect to incur as a result of the fiasco is an incredible $5.4 billion – and that is not including Microsoft’s losses. They believe that cyber insurance will likely only cover somewhere from 10 to 20% of these losses, which would be between $540 million and $1.08 billion. They’re attributing this low coverage to the big risk retentions of many companies and the fact that a lot ...

CROWDSTRIKE DESTROYED the internet for a spell, so what’s next, and are YOU ready?

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This was a massive IT outage that literally savaged computer systems across the globe. So, what happened, and can it easily happen again, but much worse, and for a much longer period of time? Did you get chained to your blue screen? This was just a test.Centralized, digital world can implode in an instant

Attention world, there’s a CrowdStrike update that may have caught you off guard. Computers en masse have crashed, and even nerds with recovery keys in BitLocker are crippled ...

IT blunder by ‘Russia hacked the DNC’ firm CrowdStrike causes global chaos

4 days ago - A massive IT failure at CrowdStrike has disrupted travel, banking, and healthcare services worldwide. Flights were grounded as an IT outage left many computers displaying blue error screens. CrowdStrike, based in Austin, Texas, is a major cybersecurity service provider with nearly 24,000 customers, each a large organization.

(Article by Jack Montgomery republished from TheNationalPulse.com)

Infamously, it was hired by the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to claim Russia had ...

Russia promises a response to the West’s “theft” of its assets as EU plans to send interest earned on Russian funds to Ukraine

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The European Commission’s Josep Borrell announced on Monday that the $1.5 billion in interest will be sent to Ukraine during the first week of August to help the country cover its arms purchases.

A spokesman for the Kremlin, Dmitry Peskov, said that there will be retaliation against the West for expropriating the assets, with legal proceedings in the works against the entities that they believe stole roughly $282 billion worth of Russian assets. The money in question is still ...

The CrowdStrike global outage shows the serious dangers of a centralized, digitized world

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(Article by Dr. R P republished from DailySceptic.org)

It appears that in many cases, while the update was distributed automatically over the internet to systems, the workaround to fix the problem requires the machines to be rebooted in Windows’ safe mode, which usually requires physical access. The person at the keyboard then needs to know the password for the computer’s administrator account, and use this level of access to delete a file within a subdirectory of Windows’ ...

The censorship boomerang

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(Article by Bret Swanson republished from Brownstone.org)

The shock – both feigned and real – over Joe Biden’s long-obvious dementia cements our 2022 diagnosis of the ruling class’s dysinformation disorder. Yes, some knew and hid the truth, as the brilliant Timur Kuran explains. But many journalists and Democratic power brokers appear to have been truly clueless. Otherwise, they would have changed course long ago.

The refrain that Joe is “sharp as a tack” was just the ...

Microsoft CrowdStrike payment blackout caused supermarkets to go CASH ONLY

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The newly cash-only operations encountered hordes of angry and confused people who were unable to buy food from the local supermarket because they were heavy on cards and low on cash.

The issue began after a Microsoft software product failed, taking down air traffic control towers, television channels, banks, government office operations, and phone lines. Cybersecurity software firm Crowdstrike claims the collapse of the Microsoft system was prompted by a flawed anti-viral ...

CENSORSHIP: German government BANS conservative magazine, claiming to combat “hate speech” and “extremism”

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The German publication Compact, founded in 2010 and based in the town of Falkensee just outside of Berlin, was recently banned by the German Federal Ministry of the Interior for allegations that the magazine was disseminating "antisemitic, racist, anti-minority, historical revisionist and conspiracy theory content."

As part of the ban, over 300 federal police under Interior Minister Nancy Faeser initiated a nationwide raid on 14 properties linked to the magazine in the German ...

Tokyo to provide $3.3 billion loan to Kyiv using frozen Russian assets

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This figure represents approximately six percent of the substantial loan agreed upon by the Group of Seven (G7) nations during their summit in Italy in June.

At the summit, G7 leaders reached a consensus on utilizing interest from the frozen Russian assets to finance a $50 billion loan intended to assist Kyiv in acquiring weapons and rebuilding damaged infrastructure. (Related: EU okays transfer of $1.5B to Ukraine drawn from frozen Russian assets.)

Japanese authorities ...

Ohio faces influx of Mauritanian migrants, thanks to instructions for illegal entry posted on social media

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According to FOX 19, these Mauritanian nationals are finding their way to the Buckeye State based on a route posted on TikTok and WhatsApp. This route traverses from Mauritania to Turkey, then to either Central or South America before finally arriving to the United States. An immigration loophole in Nicaragua that allows relaxed entry requirements and a low-cost visa without proof of onward travel also contributes to the issue, according to the local Cincinnati news channel.

Mauritanian ...

Trump unveils “Trumponomics” plan for low taxes, high tariffs and JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon as Treasury Secretary – oh, and Jerome Powell and the Fed are here to stay

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Speaking to Bloomberg in an exclusive interview, Trump outlined the core tenets of his "Make America Great Once Again" platform. One major plank is the massive bilateral sanctions Trump plans to impose as a way to eliminate the federal income tax.

While admitting that he doesn't "love sanctions," Trump told the story of the late 20th century president William McKinley who raised enough revenue through tariffs to avoid the institution of a federal income tax. Trump's plan includes ...

No immunity for Monsanto: Oregon court overturns Monsanto/Bayer victory in ongoing Roundup trial

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The EPA's handling of glyphosate and Monsanto's products has been a subject of intense scrutiny, riddled with regulatory failures and deceptive influence from industry stakeholders. Recent revelations of internal documents questioning the credibility of EPA assessments have further fueled public skepticism about the agency's impartiality in evaluating health risks associated with glyphosate.

Today, the cancer-causing properties of their Roundup weed killer are well documented....

Western media stays silent about IDF admitting it activated Hannibal Protocol that killed many Israeli soldiers and civilians on Oct. 7

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Analysts observed that there have been no reports about it from major news outlets like CNN, the New York Times, the Washington Post, BBC, Reuters, Associated Press, the Wall Street Journal and NBC News. Instead, most of these outlets focused on misinformation such as Hamas fighters "raping" Israeli women or the existence of "beheaded babies" – false claims that U.S. President Joe Biden even repeated.

The only major English-language outlets that have reported on the news are ...

UN experts: Children in Gaza are dying because of Israel’s “targeted starvation campaign”

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In their statement, the UN experts declared that "Israel's intentional and targeted starvation campaign against the Palestinian people is a form of genocidal violence and has resulted in famine across all of Gaza."

The experts also encouraged the international community to "prioritize the delivery of humanitarian aid by land by any means necessary" and "end Israel’s siege and establish a ceasefire."

While the UN has yet to officially declare a famine in the Gaza Strip, ...

Major anti-globalist TV station DEBANKED in Germany and Austria

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According to LifeSiteNews, the online TV and news station AUF1 found itself a target of debanking efforts due to alleged "political involvement." AUF1 was founded by its editor-in-chief Stefan Magnet during the onset of the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in 2020. The station financed by viewer donations quickly gained significant reach and viewership in the German-speaking market.

Since its launch, AUF1 has expanded its operations despite numerous attacks and attempts ...

“Nearly all” AT&T customers hacked by data breach – now what?

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According to reports, not only were pretty much all of AT&T's 109 million subscribers affected, but so were all of the people they interacted with between May 1 and October 21, 2022.

The hack specifically impacted AT&T's Snowflake storage system, which facilitates large-scale data warehousing and analytics in the cloud. Snowflake is now under scrutiny for a number of security lapses in recent years, including multiple instances in which users' credentials were stolen by hackers....