Protecting Assets

We begin this week with an overview of how authoritarian regimes tried to separate you from your assets. Like all of the distractive and disruptive situations they’re going to try to force you into this is probably the most egregious. If you have no assets if you have no liquidity or money, you have very little bargaining in the world that they are creating. So it’s important for you to understand their job is to make you as poor as possible and is dependent as possible.

I will start by what has been done before so you get a sense of how this is kind of a wash, rinse and repeat mechanism of separating you from your money works.

They will begin by creating systems of chaos that create the devaluing of the currency and runaway inflation. This will begin as some kind of economic crisis, such as a war, or the disruption of goods and services, the implementation of high tariffs to disrupt supply and demand, saying you taxes are being wasted on unnecessary services, a completely fabricated mythical enemy that seizes the country’s assets, and or lying about how the enemy from within dried up the countries resources. These are just different kinds of ways that this can be presented in the media.

The way you will feel this is suddenly you have less buying power, you work more and it just isn’t enough. This creates economic panic within the populous. I wanna be perfectly clear to state also that this can happen due to the circumstances created by something like the pandemic in 2020. And the way it was handled by one political group as opposed to another. Without getting into the weeds of whose party is to blame here in this country. I will just say one party worked pretty hard to relieve inflation, get interest rates down, and get the flow of goods and services back in order, which increased jobs that were well paying, and also created economic opportunities. To be clear a government that does that is not an authoritarian regime because they are working for the people not for themselves. These things take time to sort out right rhemselves.

In contrast and authoritarian regime will not seek out policies procedures or any kind of mechanism to stop the free fall of your monies value and the runway inflation. For them these disruptions are part of the mechanism to control you. They will also add complicated roadblocks for you actually accessing your money. Dismantle protections, increase fees, create delays in accessing your money, complicated forms and procedures, they might take over entire institutions calling them corrupt and freezing all assets so you can’t ever get at your money. They might use language like in 2008 that banks are too big to fail but you are responsible to bail them out. This could be through taxation or the seizing of goods or assets. All of these things can be in the playbook.

So let’s look at where the United States is right now and some of the warning signs that we need to be aware of. With agenda 2025 there’s specific outlines for dismantling the FDIC. This is an insurance mechanism was put in place after the Great Depression by FDR to protect you and your money. The Federal Reserve ensures your money is safe if it is held in a bank that is registered with the FDIC. If a bank closes or there is a crisis then the United States government will back whatever money you have in that financial institution. You might have seen this sign on the doors of all of your banks (whether you like your banking institution or not) this is actually something that you have a right to, and if your money is deposited into these banks, you’ll get your money back if the incoming administration does not dismantle this system. In response to this, I would begin contacting your State Representavies and voicing your concerns about the FDIC.

You also need to be aware that PayPal Venmo, and all these other cash apps are not covered by the FDIC. If something should happen to those organizations if they should crash, if they should go under, etc… any monies you have in their system will be lost you will have no protections for getting it back. So it’s really important if you use these apps to make sure you transfer that money immediately into an FDIC secured bank account.

What I’m going to write about now is uncertain. I haven’t gotten full clarity as to it being something they want to implement, so keeping that in mind. The rumor is, there’s going to be a push to shift the US monetary system over to a cryptocurrency. I don’t think it was any coincidence that after the election bitcoin hit $88,000 plus and some of the other bitcoins jumped in price. I can’t even begin to tell you how terrible an idea this would be. Currently, there is no country that uses bitcoin or other cryptocurrency as the basis of its economy. Cryptocurrencies are wildly unstable. And not, everybody has access to them currently as a means to pay for goods and services. I write this only because I want people to be aware of the potential for an economic crisis through the shifting of one currency type to another. I think it also goes without saying that investing in cryptocurrency is an error in judgment. So many people have lost money in cryptocurrencies and NFT’s so much so that investing in them is a kin to a Ponzi scheme. Although the price of gold right now has dropped, that just because the dollar is strong and that is a natural cycle that happens with fluctuations of the US dollar. Investing in metals when the price is low is often a long-term strategy. It is a stable asset to hold when other things economically could go wildly unstable.

I have a little historical context that can be insert here to give you a sense of what could happen. When the Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia, they had this notion of “day one”. The Khmer Rouge were going to start a new country, a new calendar, a whole new government without the influences of the western world. Everything was going to be new and create on the premise of returning to the true cultural roots of the country. Everything that was perceived as modern or western was going to be discarded and destroyed(Elitist agendas). That included: monetary systems, educational systems, medical services, any kind of science or medicine, libraries, schools etc…. The ideology was to roll the country back to a time the Khmer Rouge propagandized as ‘better”… more ethically pure. It started by going into all the cities and marching out all of the teachers, college professors, scientists doctors, anybody who had any education and forcing them to work in the fields as farm workers. This was to silence the ones who could push back. This tactic separated the people them from resources. This action cause the social structures to halt an invited an economic collapse of an epic scale. You can do a Google search on Cambodia, Khmer Rouge , and how all of that went down. In a very short time, it completely isolated and destroyed the country from within. The 1973 movie, The Killing Fields documents this story from the perspective of the surviving journalist, Dith Pran.

I think the thing to pay attention to after the new administration moves in, is the first 100 days where most of the chaos of implementation and dismantling will happen. It’s vital during this period of time to keep your head clear and not react to the chaos they’re going to seed. The thing to do is to plan and have things in place so your life can move on normally while they are trying to create utter chaos. Their plan is to create division, disengage you from your friends, family and make you fearful of what will come next. During this time, hunker down, know who your community is, stay in communication and be aware. Don’t fall into the trap of being thrown around by their crazy chaotic messages and actions. That is what they want.

So returning back to the concept of protecting your assets, it’s important to have some cash on hand, move your money into banks that are covered by the FDIC. If you have to use cash apps of any kind that includes PayPal, Venmo, etc… that you remember to move that money immediately into a bank account that is covered by the FDIC. It might be good to have some silver/gold coinage available in case the currency does wildly fluctuate. At least you’ll have something that people might be interested in bartering with as a currency. But like anything don’t go overboard. Think rationally. Think of what you need. What you might need to barter for if you don’t have it right now and just be aware of what’s happening. It’s not about hoarding and hiding. It is about creating strategies that will keep you and your community functioning. As a community come together to discuss and assess resources and the flow of these resources. The earlier you come together to do this the better.

One of the strategies you can plan for in case things go really bad is to make sure you have stores of some dry goods, water, salt, honey/sugar for food and preserving, hygiene products such as toothpaste, shampoo, soap, etc… for a few months anything such as medicines or vitamins or supplements that you need for your own healthcare and self-care. Getting these things ahead of time and having them on hand, will prevent you from having to negotiate much higher prices later on or the lack of these things if there are disruptions in supplying demand.