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Trump seeks $1B from nations for Board of Peace permanent membership—report​

The Trump administration is reportedly asking countries that want a permanent spot on President Donald Trump‘s new “Board of Peace” to contribute at least $1 billion, according to Bloomberg on Saturday who obtained a draft charter for the proposed international organization.

The White House Rapid Response account on X called Bloomberg’s report “misleading,” stating the proposal “offers permanent membership to partner countries who demonstrate deep commitment to peace, security, and prosperity.”

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/worl...embership-report/ar-AA1UqdPW?ocid=socialshare
 
Just a little food for thought from ferfal. Nothing to see, can listen in one tab, play around the forum in a different tab.

You are NOT READY for What´s Coming​

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The Mercenary Revolution: How Money Replaced Loyalty in War​

Jan 19, 2026 The Financial History Files

War didn’t become deadlier when it became modern — it became profitable. Long before defense contractors and standing armies, warfare crossed a quiet threshold: soldiers stopped fighting for kings and started fighting for cash. This video explores the mercenary revolution — the moment violence detached from loyalty and became a service you could buy. From medieval condottieri to modern private military firms, this isn’t just military history. It’s economic history. And it explains why money, not ideology, has shaped who fights, who wins, and who pays the price.
In this episode of The Financial Historian, we trace how the rise of cash economies transformed warfare into a financial system — one governed by incentives, contracts, debt, and solvency. You’ll see how mercenaries forced states to reinvent taxation and borrowing, why wars became longer and harder to stop, and why the same logic still drives conflict today. This isn’t about morality. It’s about math — and once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
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Key Facts & Insights
• Mercenary armies emerged as feudal systems collapsed and cash economies expanded across Europe
• Italian city-states pioneered contract-based warfare through professional mercenary commanders
• Payment-based loyalty reshaped incentives, prolonging wars and fragmenting political power
• Standing armies were created to control mercenary logic — not eliminate it
• Modern states redesigned taxation and debt systems to sustain permanent military payrolls
• Private military companies revived mercenary economics under corporate structures
• Wars increasingly became contests of financial endurance, not battlefield heroism
• Those with capital hedge conflict; those without absorb the cost through inflation and taxes

The Mercenary Revolution: How Money Replaced Loyalty in War
 

CIA’s remote-viewing files expose a hard limit on “moon warnings”​

“They have told us to stay away… They are not friendly, are they?” This phrase, reported to be spoken by an anonymous U.S. official in a scenario involving remote viewer Ingo Swann, has become the kind of quote that goes further than any document number could particularly when the reported location is the Moon’s dark side, a region that is perpetually hiding from Earth’s observation.

It’s no wonder the phenomenon has endured. Between 1977 and 1995, a program dubbed Project Stargate attempted to harness the power of ‘remote viewing’ as if it were merely another arm of statecraft, as if the government’s commitment to satellites and signals intelligence would naturally include the study of mental perception at a distance. The images of the moon, the towers, the domes, the machines, and the sense of being watched, all of it is right at home in our contemporary fascination with secret agendas and concealed truths.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/tech...on-moon-warnings/ar-AA1Uz04L?ocid=socialshare
 
^^^^
That calls to mind a recent vid over at Mario's channel, maneco64. He accused PAUL VOLCKER, of all people, of being the primary cause of the Financialized economy we now "enjoy" (not).

Mario's theory seems to be, Volcker, who was arms-length tied into the Fabian Society (I'm going from memory of Mario's rant, here) took the new debt-based fiat-money system that, 8 years in, was failing...and rescued it with manipulated interest rates and a succession of debt-based instruments. What could have collapsed about 1984, and been replaced with, again, sound money, instead was given 40 more years of zombified existence as we have dug ourselves, individually and as a nation, into un-repayable debt.

Don't have the link. It was this week - I'm not sure if this was mentioned in his title heading.

But...is Volcker the hero or the villain? I've thought of him as a hero, in that we got a 25-year run with Reagan-based Supply-Side prosperity. But Mario's point, and it is worth exploring, is that all of that was based on debt.
 
Reagan took deficit spending to 11 in an effort to bankrupt Russia and win the cold war.
 
pmbug said:
Reagan took deficit spending to 11 in an effort to bankrupt Russia and win the cold war.
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That was the result.

But while Tosspot Tip grudgingly accepted the reality of the need for tax cuts (which, remember, increased tax receipts) he was ABSOLUTELY not going to cut SPENDING.

And now we know why: Spending, money-giveaways, as in, graft and payoffs...is the central source of the Jackass Party's power.

So, who was wrong there? Reagan won the arms race. Tip and his America-Last Party, were hell-bent on making the hated Land-Of-The-Free, PAY for that victory, with economic collapse.

The gift the two of them gave, from their graves.
 
HNN opinion piece.

Psychological Warfare and a Mental Invasion That Dominates Our Lives

Comment: He digs into our heads without being invited. A mental invasion that commands attention in conversations where people meet. I am talking about Donald Trump's psychological warfare. A form of terrorism that impacts us all, yet is never on the negotiation table when our most powerful...
www.highnorthnews.com
 
Doug Casey

Nothing to see, can listen in one tab, play around the forum in a different tab. It's someone's opinion so take it fwiw and dyodd.

Jan 23, 2026 Doug Casey's Take
Find us at www.crisisinvesting.com
In this enlightening episode, Matt and Doug discuss the historic highs in silver, breaching $100 per ounce, and gold approaching $5000. They analyze the rapid movement in the precious metals markets, discuss strategies for holding and buying more, and delve into the lagging performance of mining stocks. They touch on broader economic issues, including Trump’s political maneuvers, global unrest, and the absurdity of the ongoing drug war. Doug shares insights on historical U.S. territorial expansion, the implications of Alberta’s potential secession, Trump’s so-called ‘Board of Peace,’ and the intense dynamics involving China and other global powers. Listener questions spark discussions on diverse investing strategies, private ownership, and managing personal wealth amidst chaotic global markets.

Silver over $100! What comes next?
 

Is Wegmans collecting shoppers’ biometric data at its Philly-area stores? The company won’t say.​

Grocery chain Wegmans came under fire earlier this month after signage at its New York City stores revealed it was collecting biometric data on shoppers.

But the Rochester-based supermarket chain won’t say whether it’s collecting biometric data on shoppers at eight Philly-area stores. There are Wegmans stores in Cherry Hill and Mount Laurel in New Jersey and in Glen Mills, Malvern, King of Prussia, Collegeville, Warrington, and North Wales in Pennsylvania.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/com...ompany-won-t-say/ar-AA1UQoNN?ocid=socialshare
 
searcher said:
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Odd that the government PAID and FACILITATED the open, organized INVASION OF THIS NATION by 40 MILLION PEOPLE OF WHICH NOTHING, NOT ONE THING, IS KNOWN.

That is, literally, Treason - facilitating an invasion by foreign operatives, mostly hostile. Violating THOUSANDS of laws while doing it.

And this partisan douche is not bothered by that.

So, tell me - what option do those who love home and family have, OTHER THAN Secession?
 
Trump Derangement is, frankly, boring.

It says FAR moar about the idiot(s) suffering from it, than it does about Trump.

It says that said idiot(s) cannot examine their own attitudes and premises.

As many of us can, do, and all of us must.

Look. I don't like Trump. Never have - he's the obnoxious bigmouth who made good...yeah, I actually knew someone like him, in my youth; a rich summer resident in our resort area, who had some unpleasant habits with the local girls. Which brought out the worst in me. And, this clown I knew, is now successful - in real estate, just like Trump.

So. Trump brings out the worst in me; but dammit, most of what he said (SAID, not what he IS DOING) was true, needed, imperative of action.

Much more was not. And much of what he said, that he's stood for all along (cheap money, for example) is the result of his economic ignorance.

But this HYSTERIA over EVERY THING HE SAYS...and so much of it POSTURED (a Congress-cretin is supposed to pass bills, not scream into microphones) is indicative of mental aberration on the part of the TDS patient.

Not everything Trump says is bad. Even now...when he's showing mental impairment. Something that began about 18 months ago; something the Trump cheerleaders first noticed but now spend energy denying.

There are checks and recourses to keep an impaired President in line (that should have been used with President Alzheimer, but were NOT, and by the same TDS hysterics now wigging out) and those should be done. Such as this jackass idea to annex Greenland. We don't need moar territory and ABSOLUTELY not moar centralization of power in Imperial Washingtoon.

But this guy is just a clown.
 
Empire / the dark dudes are seeing America go off the script and are now actively creating a colour revolution ( their tried and tested divide and rule tool ) . Expect some difficult times and choices for team Trump
The paid for trouble makers are being encouraged to tool up. This presents a dilemma in regards to the right to bear arms .
 

This isn't America. It's "Do As You're Told."​

Path to Liberty: January 28, 2026
The founders fought a long, bloody war to secede from the British - where government held total power, and the people were expected to comply, or die. The views they held EVEN before shots were fired - that’s what America is supposed to be. On this episode, it’s the story of the REAL American Revolution

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