Category Archives: Geo-Finance

Silicon Valley Bank: Crypto Risk

What looks remarkably similar to that of the 2007-09 banking calamity the closure of Silicon Valley Bank should awaken many to the dorsal fin that masks an even greater risk just below the surface.

“…banks that are openly favoring transacting in this monetary medium (which, by the way, has no direct conversion via the IMF) exposes conventional banking system to an entirely new ‘Off Balance Sheet’ (OBS) risk….”

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Colonial Pipeline – Not Just A Ransom Hack

The disruption of fuel supplies (east coast of the U.S.), although not fatal, is nonetheless a wound and one with a distinctive pathology. No incoming squadron of dive-bombers, cruise or hypersonic missiles, armed flotilla or laser beams fired from a space-based system but a nondescript, barely identifiable and devoutly parasitic force bent on disruption. A not so thinly veiled form of asymmetrical warfare with the added flair of ransomware, the neo-geek-tech rendition of the crazed loan gunmen; the perfect expletive for providing cover for a cause preferring to hide in plain sight.

“our goal is to make money and not creating problems for society.”

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Progressive Fascism; More Than Open Border Policy

In the world, where effect always follows cause, its best to think of an “Open Border Policy” as a welcome mat for national subduction, the end of sovereign identity.

“Money has no allegiance other than to the making of more money….”

In geological terms, subduction refers to how the Earth’s crust, in simplest terms, recycles itself. The earth’s crust is made up of a series of “plates” (a.k.a., “tectonic plates”) that make up the earth’s surface (continents and of course the ocean floor).  A “Subduction Zone” is the area where plates converge the denser of the two diving under the other and down into the mantle of the planet. An example of this is the West Coast of the U.S. where the Pacific Plate (Ocean) is slowly diving under the Continental (North American) Plate.

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Unleashing Iran; Collateral Threats

An ascending China is creating an entirely new level of instability in many areas most notably and the more immediate being the apparatus of Foreign Policy. It is entirely relevant to understand that the asymmetric threat that China represents should be considered as a product of the following:

  1. Predatory financial interests (of the West) with a global appetite.
  2. Weak/Feckless Political Operatives acting on behalf of Financial Interest neither of whom understand the history of the organism(s) they are dealing with or the punishing consequences of their actions.
  3. Failure to understand the importance of maintaining sound and sustainable domestic economic policy. And,
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Points of Departure But No Escape!

The U.S. Election is already being viewed, around the world, as the “formal end” to the idyllic ambition of self-governance; the ultimate manifestation of Benjamin Franklin’s great fear that the People were incapable of doing what it took to “keep it,” to preserve the charities of Liberty.

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