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The International Organizations Immunities Act (IOIA)

Trillions hidden offshore:

…a majority (around 63%) of offshore wealth remains unexposed by mechanisms like the Common Reporting Standard (CRS), meaning significant portions still evade detection.

 

From Grok on January 20, 2026

The International Organizations Immunities Act (IOIA) is a United States federal law enacted by the 79th Congress and signed into law on December 29, 1945 (Public Law 79-291, codified primarily at 22 U.S.C. §§ 288 et seq.).

Historical Context and Purpose

The Act was passed in the immediate aftermath of World War II, during a period when the United States was actively participating in the creation and support of new public international organizations (most notably the United Nations, which was established in 1945, along with bodies like the Food and Agriculture Organization, International Labor Organization, and others). Its primary purpose was to facilitate the work of these organizations by granting them and their personnel certain privileges, exemptions, and immunities within the United States. This ensured they could operate independently, without interference from U.S. taxes, legal processes, or administrative burdens, similar to the protections traditionally afforded to foreign governments and diplomats at the time. Without such protections, international organizations headquartered or operating in the U.S. (e.g., the UN in New York) could face practical obstacles like taxation, lawsuits, or seizures that might hinder their global missions.

Key Provisions

The Act defines an “international organization” as a public international body in which the United States participates (via treaty, congressional act, or appropriation) and that has been designated by the President through an Executive Order as entitled to the Act’s benefits. Major immunities and privileges granted to designated international organizations include:

  • Immunity from suit and judicial process — The organization, its property, and assets enjoy the same immunity from lawsuits and legal proceedings as foreign governments (with the ability to expressly waive this immunity).
  • Inviolability of archives and immunity from search or confiscation of property and assets (unless waived).
  • Exemptions related to customs duties, internal revenue taxes on imports, registration as foreign agents, and treatment of official communications (matching those given to foreign governments).
  • Tax exemptions for the organization itself.

For officers, employees, and representatives (and often their families):

  • Exemptions from U.S. income taxes on salaries paid by the organization.
  • Immunity from legal process for official acts.
  • Certain immigration and entry privileges.

These benefits are not full diplomatic immunity in all cases (e.g., they are more limited for U.S. citizens working for such organizations), and they can be conditioned, limited, withheld, or revoked by the President (or in some cases the Secretary of State) if there’s abuse or other justification. Important Developments and Interpretation When enacted in 1945, foreign governments generally enjoyed absolute sovereign immunity in U.S. courts. The IOIA thus initially provided international organizations with similarly broad (near-absolute) protection. However, U.S. law evolved with the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) of 1976, which adopted a restrictive theory of immunity — foreign governments can now be sued in U.S. courts for commercial activities and certain other exceptions. A significant U.S. Supreme Court decision in 2019 (Jam v. International Finance Corporation) clarified that the IOIA’s reference to immunity “as is enjoyed by foreign governments” is dynamic — it incorporates the current (restrictive) standard under the FSIA, rather than the absolute immunity of 1945. This means international organizations can be sued for commercial activities in many cases, unless they qualify for other exemptions. Today, the IOIA continues to apply to dozens of designated organizations (via various Executive Orders), enabling the smooth functioning of entities like the UN, World Bank affiliates, and other multilateral bodies in the United States.

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On the matter of Zionism

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Wikipedia: Theodor Herzl was the founder of the modern Zionist movement. In his 1896 pamphlet Der Judenstaat, he envisioned the founding of a future independent Jewish state during the 20th century.

Backgrounder from Jay Dyer and Richard Grove:   Spies, Lies & The Middle East: Richard Grove on The Jay Dyer Show

Creation of Christian Zionism:

Official narrative promulgated by Wikipedia: Zionism

Professor Avi Shlaim reveals the Israeli apartheid plot to drive Iraqi Jews into occupied Palestine.

Not their first rodeo …

“During the reign of the Greek Emperor Heraclius, the Persian Emperor Chozroes attacked Jerusalem in the year 614 A.D. Chozroes pillaged the city, removed the Honorable Cross [of Christ] to Persia and took an enormous number of Christians into bondage, among them was Patriarch Zacharias. The Jews assisted Chozroes in committing evil against the Christians. Among the other Jewish wickedness, this one is mentioned: the Jews purchased from Chozroes 90,000 Christians as their slaves and slew them all.” – The Prologue of Ohrid (Feb 21)  Jerusalem Holocaust 614: An Untold Chapter of History

The Rothschilds…

The Balfour Declaration (1917)

Grok: Baron Edmond de Rothschild played a significant role in supporting Jewish relocation to Palestine during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A member of the wealthy Rothschild banking family, he was a key philanthropist who provided financial and logistical support to early Zionist settlements, particularly during the First Aliyah (1882–1903). Here’s a concise overview:Financial Support for Settlements: Rothschild funded the establishment and sustenance of early Jewish agricultural colonies in Palestine, such as Rishon LeZion (1882), Zichron Ya’akov (1882), and Petah Tikva. He provided money for land purchases, infrastructure, and farming equipment, helping these communities survive their challenging early years.

Administrative Oversight: Rothschild sent administrators to manage the settlements he supported, ensuring efficient use of funds and resources. His involvement was hands-on, earning him the nickname “HaNadiv HaYadua” (the Known Benefactor) among Jewish settlers.

Economic Development: He introduced modern agricultural techniques, such as vineyards and wineries (e.g., Carmel Winery), to make settlements economically viable. This created jobs and attracted more Jewish immigrants seeking sustainable livelihoods.

Scale of Contribution: By the early 20th century, Rothschild is estimated to have invested millions of francs (exact figures vary, but roughly equivalent to tens of millions in modern USD) in Palestinian settlements. His support helped sustain around 20 settlements, housing thousands of Jewish immigrants, primarily from Eastern Europe.

Zionist Alignment: While not formally part of the Zionist movement initially, Rothschild’s actions aligned with its goals. He later collaborated with Zionist organizations, and his efforts laid groundwork for the Jewish National Fund’s land acquisition strategies.

The Haavara Agreement was a 1933 pact between Nazi Germany and Zionist organizations, primarily the Jewish Agency in Palestine, to facilitate the emigration of German Jews to British Mandatory Palestine while preserving some of their wealth. Signed on August 25, 1933, it was a response to the economic boycott of Germany by Jewish groups protesting Nazi anti-Semitism. The agreement allowed Jews to transfer a portion of their assets to Palestine, but only indirectly, through the purchase of German goods exported to Palestine, which were then sold to recover funds.


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Mark Carney’s Dystopic Pedigree

ClearNFO: If you’ve read Quigley’s ‘The Anglo-American Establishment‘ you will love this excellent video by Matt Ehret. Here, Matt builds on Quigley and others while updating and filling in many missing pieces.  Enjoy!  

A Canadian Patriot Review Production by Matthew Ehret: Mark Carney’s Dystopic Pedigree


Related: Oh Canada!

A Deeper Historical Perspective of Modern Geopolitics

The US govt is going to start official hearings on freedom of speech & censorship in the UK.

“The censorship, the repression in the UK is off the charts…”  – “What’s happening now, is the weaponisation of populations…as a way of destroying British culture, English culture, indigenous. culture…”

“This is the nature of a parasitic imperial system…”

Crypto Rich @CryptoRichYT  Video: https://x.com/sjkokinda/status/1959288640061784503

Rich informed discussion with:

  • @sjkokinda
  •  @TFL1728 &
  • @NakedHedgie
  •  @PrometheanActn

#Starmer #Trump #Censorship #FreedomOfSpeech #OnlineSafetyAct #taxes #Turkey #Israel #EU #UK


Also on Sept 13, 2025: Crypto Rich @CryptoRichYT

🌍 What connects Israel’s strike on Qatar, Trump’s economic plan, the push for race & religious wars, and the City of London? @sjkokinda, @NakedHedgie & @TFL1728 expose what the empire fears most: humanity waking up. Don’t miss this!

Video: https://x.com/CryptoRichYT/status/1966822110786892142

 

Historical View by EM Burlingame

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Final Enclosure: Theft of Boomer Wealth and the Forced Collapse of the English Civilization by EM Burlingame …

Listen up, you half-asleep bastards. The last pile of wealth we English-speaking suckers have left—the Boomer stash, all those pensions and houses and scraps of dignity—is getting fenced off right now. Enclosed, they call it, like some fancy history lesson, but it’s just theft. Pure, gut-wrenching robbery by the Praetorians, those bloodless financiers who’ve gutted us for centuries. They’re packing up, abandoning our hollowed-out lands and what’s left of our so-called civilization, handing the keys to the oil kings from the desert who still have tens of millions of young men to sacrifice to the money god. Corrupt and fully owned governments here at home grease the wheels, tokenized finance locks it down. And you? You’re watching it happen, eyes wide shut, while they wipe us from our own dirt. Hell, all you cryptdiots are cheering it on.

It starts with the Financialist Kill Chain, that old, rusty blade they’ve been sharpening since forever. Infiltrate, influence, debt-trap, spot the assets, crash the economy, swap debts for land, suck it dry, then bail. That’s the drill. They’ve done it to empires, to tribes, to anyone with something worth grabbing. Now it’s our turn, the once-mighty English Civilization, hollowed like rotten teeth. The goal? Collapse us so they can steal the very ground under our feet. Look at Russia after the Soviets—debts piled high, assets stripped by oligarchs backed by foreign vultures. Wars, bubbles, welfare overloads, corruption rotting from the inside. It’s all engineered, a slow kill to prime the Boomer loot for the taking. Wake up—it’s your future they’re fencing!

Their shiny new toy? Tokenization and crypto, that digital snake oil turning real wealth into pixels on a screen. They call it progress, but it’s enclosure 3.0, trapping what wealth remains in algorithms while they sip champagne. Dot-com crash, 2008 meltdown, COVID cash floods—trillions poured in, now locked in a $2 trillion crypto casino that’s about become tens of trillions. Financialism’s their religion, math their god, and you’re the sacrifice. No more commons; just endless tribute to the code priests. It’s the great rip-off, humanity’s energy enslaved in bits and bytes, built on your taxes, out of your reach. Shock yourself awake—this ain’t freedom; it’s chains you can’t even see.

They pull it off through these fake liberal democracies, bought and paid for, puppets on strings. Started with the Dutch East India pricks in 1602, Venetian bankers pulling the wires. Democracy? Bullshit—it’s a tool to crush real kings and princes who wouldn’t bend to the money men. Elect some fools, stack the bureaucracy, drown nations in debt, brainwash the masses with ideology, kill all the native sons, whore the women. Sovereignty? Gone. Culture? Homogenized slop. In our lands, it’s laws that screw the people, policies that hand Boomer wealth to the shadows. Repression dressed as rights. Stab yourself in the gut— this is how they enclose us, end us, legal and clean.

Don’t bother with morals; these Financialists got their own bible, written in ledgers. Back in the 1600s, they kicked out the churches, built stock exchanges instead. Westphalia in 1648 neutered the popes, Glorious Revolution in 1688 crowned the merchants. Joint-stock scams like the VOC turned shares into salvation, central banks like England’s in 1694 made debt holy. Accountable aristocrats out, unaccountable investor scum in. Society flipped to worship stuff, growth, abstraction. Their ethics? Steal what you can, enslave everyone, justify with numbers. Boomer trillions? Just another offering on their altar. Ethics won’t touch ’em; they’re beyond your whining.

For us English types, this shit cycles every 400 years, bloody resets where people, princes, and parliaments claw at each other’s throats. Alfred the Great kicked it off in the 800s, Magna Carta in 1215 slapped down kings, Civil War in the 1640s gave parliament teeth, American Revolution tweaked the machine. Now we’re in round four, the English peoples cracking under fake divides, preyed upon by human refuse imported for the task, bribed with sanctioned raping of our women, all trust in tatters. It’s war every time, blood to balance power. But we gotta beat the Praetorians this go-round, unlike that 1688 fuck-up when they slipped through, giving us the illusion of power just to distract and blind us.

Those Praetorians—Roman ghosts turned finance goons, military spooks, intel rats—run the show now. Illicit cash flows, endless wars, hijacked religions. All run out of Qatar, yeah that one, the one backed the October 7th slaughter. They ditched Christianity for wealth worship, outsource killing to mercs, erode everything real. From Venice to Wall Street, they war on true leaders, embed their kill chain everywhere. Murdering where they must. To win, people and honest princes gotta link arms, smash the lies, reject their money cult. Kill the killers. History’s screaming at you—do it, or die quiet.

Face it, you fools: our wealth on paper? Already gone, tucked in UAE contracts, just like it hid in London’s City for 300 years. Dubai’s the new den, blending Sharia scams with global grease. Gotta spread Sharia law everywhere to lock in the new system, infuse the new regime, lock out what few natives survive. Post-9/11 wars remade the Middle East for this, zero taxes luring the loot, hidden banking structures to secure ill-gotten loot, theft of the Commons. It’ll run their machine for ages, exploiting Muslim hordes for labor and cannon fodder. Russia, China, Iran push back, but for us? Boomer assets tokenized, offshore, fueling the handover. Shock: it’s stolen, and you’re next. You don’t have the balls anymore to kill us in vast numbers to deny our claim, the only reply.

And who’s helping? Our own rent-sucking traitors—landlords, slumlords, tax-grabbing governments. They don’t give a damn who owns the title, long as the cash rolls in. Payrolls, Promotions and Pensions their only concern, millions of Stephens from Django happy to do their master’s bidding. Aristotle warned about tyrants loving foreigners; now it’s evictions, subsidies for invaders, communities gutted for profit. Our sons demoralized, our women raped. Stockholm, Munich, Paris, New York, London—natives out, migrants in, votes rigged, power diluted. They’re selling us out for scraps, speeding the collapse. Wake the fuck up—these disposable in their own country bastards are your neighbors.

But here’s their fuck-up, the crack in the wall: Molon Labe. Come and take it, motherfucker! That old Greek growl shamed ’em, the Greeks, into fighting for their dirt. From Westphalia’s cage to 1688’s sellout, Financialists commodified it all, flooded us with foreign fighters to crush resistance. Debt, screens, weakness—they’ve doused the fire in our young men’s guts. But those sons? We still got ’em, lot of ’em. And as has always been, they’re the only real wealth, ready to become battle-hardened in the wars for our lands, deeply wired to defend soil and blood. We got GWOTTERs and even some of the old ‘Nam boys still around. We’ll train ’em, stand ’em up, let ’em bleed the enemy, our young men. The pass is narrow; and we’re gonna have to hold it like the 300 at Thermopylae. Till our own Queen Gorgo, whoever she may turn out to be, rallies the women to empower their native sons to FIGHT.

This last enclosure—theft of Boomer trillions—is the endgame, more than 300 years of predation boiling down to now. It’s happening in your face, you blind drunks, you distracted fools. It’s happening, the wiping of our people from our lands. The only way to stop it? Deny the new “owners” physical possession. Who gives a fuck what your piece of paper, your digital ledger says. Come and enforce it you limp wristed fucks. Boys! Block the gates, fight like those Spartan ghosts two thousand years back. No abstractions, no pleas—just raw denial, blood in the dirt, this dirt. Reclaim or vanish. Your call, but time’s up.

Time to slap those patches on, boys! Time to stand and fight for our thousand year old civilization, here, in our own lands!

EM Burlingame – 蒲 奕 言  @EMBurlingame on ‘X’

Source: https://x.com/EMBurlingame/status/1959287865890000957


Also from EM Burlingame – 蒲 奕 言 | @EMBurlingame |
I believe this is one of the most clear and succinct expressions yet of where we are:
https://x.com/EMBurlingame/status/1958578036665983304

Did Putin Start the War?

US gets caught up in the euphoria of a proxy war against Russia

US Proxy War on Russia: L-R: Lloyd Austin: 28th United States Secretary of Defense; Volodymyr Zelensky president of Ukraine; Antony Blinken 71st United States Secretary of State

ClearNFO (5/22/25): Ukraine has been played as a sucker… used as a US/NATO tool against Russia on the Grand Geopolitical Chessboard. The scheme was to bleed Russia dry and destroy Russia. Luckily for the world this did not work. Ukraine has every reason to be angry with the ‘Anglo-American Establishment’ but they also played a part by believing the empire of lies would have their back. Ukraine has been sacrificed for a failed attempt to destroy Russia.

 

If you are tired of following the bright light of retail politics, try some wholesale politics, or  Realpolitik to see how the sausage is made.

  • At the very top level which is generally hidden from the plebs, it’s all about resources. All these wars are orchestrated by the established power structures a.k.a. apex predator class.
  • Plebs like you and me don’t matter
  • Health doesn’t matter
  • Environment doesn’t matter
  • Religion doesn’t matter
  • Traditional relationships don’t matter
  • Money, resources and concentration of power matters

Why did the West orchestrate the proxy war between Ukraine and Russia?  To bludgeon Russia using NATO-backed Ukraine.  The goal was and is to weaken and break up the Russian Federation and steal their resources.  Unfortunately for the Western Powers, this did not work.  Now the EU and the USA are fighting over the scraps in Ukraine.  It’s all about the resources.  The EU needs collateral to back their massive sovereign debt and so has no choice but to continue the lost war in Ukraine at any cost.  Their citizens be damned.

Note: World Bank (2005): Placed Russia first globally for subsoil wealth (oil, gas, coal, and minerals) at $75.7 trillion USD, aligning with later Statista estimates.

Every war is based not on religion but on resources and concentration of power.  It’s the grand chessboard and the plebs have no clue.

Mike Pompeo (5/21/24): She’s right. Putin started this war, and until he believes the costs exceed the benefits, he’ll continue his aggression.

 Scott Ritter’s reply to Mike Pompeo on 5/22/25:

Russia (Putin) did not start this war.

America did.

You’re the former Director of the CIA.

I know you brag about lying being a core value of the institution you led (pro hint—it’s not a good thing), but for once reach into your dark heart and tell the truth.

Did the CIA maintain a relationship with the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Bandera faction (OUN-B) from 1948 through 1990?

I’ll help you—yes.

Did the CIA use its connectivity with the OUN-B to build connections inside Ukraine designed to promote Ukrainian nationalism in a way that sought to bring harm to the Soviet Union and, after 1992, Russia?

Again, yes.

Did the CIA facilitate the work of USAID and NED, through various US funded NGO proxies, to help bring Ukrainian nationalists to power in the 2004-2005 Orange Revolution in Ukraine?

Yes.

Did the CIA view the return of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2010 as a threat to US strategic goals and objectives regarding Ukraine and Russia (i.e., Ukrainian NATO membership)?

Yes.

Did the CIA help orchestrate the 2014 Maidan Coup designed to remove Yanukovych from power?

Yes.

Did the CIA use its connectivity with the OUN-B in Ukraine and diaspora to promote an anti-Russian agenda in post-Maidan Ukraine?

Yes.

Did the CIA fund and help build, organize, train, and operate up to 20 bases inside Ukraine from which covert operations could be conducted against Russia, including actions that could be considered acts of war?

Yes.

Were you the CIA director when these bases were built and operated?

Yes.

Did the CIA help Ukraine prepare for a military operation designed to seize the Donbas from pro-Russian elements that was scheduled to take place in late February-early March 2022?

Yes.

Were you aware of these plans when you were CIA director?

Yes.

Who started this war?

You did.

Source:

William Scott Ritter Jr. (born July 15, 1961) is an American former United States Marine Corps intelligence officer, former United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) weapons inspector, author, and commentator.

Michael Richard Pompeo (born December 30, 1963) is an American retired politician who served in the first administration of Donald Trump as director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from 2017 to 2018, and as the 70th United States secretary of state from 2018 to 2021. He served in the United States House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017.

Not one inch… another whopper from the Empire of Lies aka the USA


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Total Estimated Aid to Ukraine (2003–2024)
–  U.S.: $128–$135 billion
–  EU (and Member States): $181.5–$182 billion
–  NATO (Direct Programs): $1.1–$2.2 billion
Combined Total: ~$310.6–$319.2 billion

The US orchestrated the Ukraine coup in 2014 and installed its own puppet. DJT has provided military aid to Ukraine during both his terms as president, yet he claims his innocence and poses as an honest broker in peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.  Clearly this is not a war between Ukraine and Russia, rather a war between the US –vassal states in Ukraine and Europe– and Russia.  Russia is wining the conflict in Ukraine. How then can the US pose as an honest / innocent third party brokering a peace deal?  And how can the US dictate terms to Russia when Russia is winning this war?  If DJT cuts off aid to Ukraine the war would end in about two to four weeks.

In addition to the military aid above, the US and its allies have frozen (a.k.a. stolen) about $300 billion in Russian sovereign assets.

Grok: The United States has frozen approximately $5 billion to $6 billion in Russian Central Bank assets. This amount represents a small portion of the roughly $300 billion to $350 billion in total Russian sovereign assets frozen by the U.S. and its allies, with the majority—around $200 billion to $230 billion—held in Europe, primarily at Euroclear in Belgium. Additionally, the U.S. and its allies have blocked or seized over $58 billion in assets owned or controlled by sanctioned Russian individuals and entities, such as oligarchs, though this is separate from the Central Bank reserves.

The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire | The Secret World of Finance

The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire | The Secret World of Finance

The Spider’s Web: Britain’s Second Empire | The Secret World of Finance Michael Oswald’s film The Spider’s Web reveals how at the demise of the empire, the City of London’s financial interests created a web of secrecy jurisdictions that captured wealth from across the globe and hid it in a web of offshore islands. Today, up to half of global offshore wealth is hidden in British jurisdictions and Britain and its dependencies are the largest global players in The Secret World of Finance.


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Alex Krainer: Economic Collapse & the End of Europe

Glenn Diesen interviews Alex Krainer on the Economic Collapse & the End of Europe

Alex Krainer: Economic Collapse & the End of Europe

Alex (Sasha) Krainer: Founder at Krainer Analytics. Monaco, Monaco. Author of #1 rated book on commodities, “Mastering Uncertainty in Commodities Trading,” and “Alex Krainer’s Trend Following Bible”; creator of I-System Trend Following – engineering, implementing and maintaining bespoke, high performance turn-key portfolio solutions (with audited track record); publisher of TrendCompass daily market reports; contributing editor at ZeroHedge.
https://x.com/NakedHedgie

Glenn Diesen is a professor of Russian international affairs, with focus on geoeconomics, conservatism and the Greater Eurasia Initiative. Professor at University of South-Eastern Norway
https://x.com/Glenn_Diesen


Eurasia, the “World Island”


Bonus: KunstlerCast 420 — Tom Luongo of Gold, Goats and Guns, Talkin’ Europe, Russia, and America in a Dangerous Year
https://www.kunstler.com/p/kunstlercast-420-tom-luongo-of-gold?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Tom Luongo is a Former Research Chemist, Amateur Dairy Goat Farmer, Anarcho-Libertarian and Obstreperous Austrian Economist who blogs and podcasts at Gold, Goats and, Guns. His work can also be found on sites like Zerohedge, Lewrockwell.com, Bitcoin Magazine and Newsmax Media. His work focuses on the attempt to connect the false narratives of geopolitics to viable long-term investment theses. He built the house that he lives in and loves hockey, his family, the art of drumming, board games of all kinds, a logically consistent argument, and the beauty of spontaneous order…. not necessarily in that order.


Grok’s Summary of Alex Krainer: Economic Collapse & the End of Europe…

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Breaking History Ep. 77: The Historic Fight for a Continental Republic

Breaking History Ep. 77: The Historic Fight for a Continental Republic

Hosted by Matt Ehret, this episode of Breaking History delves into the ideological and geopolitical battles that have shaped North America. From Benjamin Franklin’s republican ideals to Lincoln’s vision of Manifest Destiny, explore the complex interplay between British, American, and Canadian policies. Learn how historic efforts to unite or divide the continent resonate in today’s geopolitical struggles and what they mean for the future of a continental republic.


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Alex Krainer: How All Financial Fuses Lead to London

Posted August 30, 2024

Tom Luongo interviews Alex Krainer:  In this fascinating podcast, Alex pieces together a timeline which may explain how many of the recent global events are related, and why Ukraine is so darned important to the Collective West — It’s not what I thought.  Alex also identifies some of the great opportunities impending financial disruptions may provide for those with eyes wide open.

Podcast Episode #190 – Alex Krainer and How All Financial Fuses Lead to London

Tom Luongo:

  • Twitter/X: @TFL1728 or https://x.com/TFL1728
  • Web: https://tomluongo.me/

Alex Krainer: