Requesting Prayer
First and foremost, I am asking for prayers for
Constance. She continues to run a low
grade fever which is well into its second week.
She believes this to be a reaction after receiving a Covid booster. I know right now she is feeling pretty lousy. Your thoughts and prayers are appreciated.
The Shaping of a New Economic Order
I had planned to write more in-depth about the following
articles. Unfortunately time does not
permit so I’ll let the articles speak for themselves.
Recently I noticed an article about microchip implants for
use for contactless
payments. Considering the geopolitical
realignment currently underway as well as the competition for who will redefine
the existing economic rules-based order, Windows Central’s statement comes more
into focus: “who
will govern this evolving global community and economy becomes relevant.
Especially since nonparticipants in this system would be unable to buy or sell
goods or services.”
A digital
Bretton Woods or something different?
Whichever way it goes I expect this contactless payment system will integrate
with a Social
Value Rewards System.
Former EU diplomat Alastair Crooke writes that the West’s expulsion of Russia from the SWIFT payment system was “an act of self-mutilation.”
"The current military operation
in Ukraine will, in due course, be relegated to the status of little more than
a footnote in global history, although the all-out financial war that has
erupted in Russia will be instrumental in shaping the coming new world
order."
"US hegemony over the
so-called “rules-based order” has been much more financial (rather than
military). That is, an order imposed by the US threat to 'sanction' any and all
offenders with a 'neutron bomb' of US Treasury bills...And on February 26, this
system began to die..."
"...They act only on
impulse. We know this because both the Fed and the ECB reported that they were
not consulted about the confiscation of gold or the expulsion of seven Russian
banks from the SWIFT financial clearing system. And they clarified that, if
consulted, they would have opposed both movements."
The International Institute for Middle
East and Balkan Studies writes the Ukraine war is a prelude to the
emergence of a new international order.
“It is important to emphasize
that this is not a traditional war, nor a conflict between two states over
disputed territory, nor a pre-election propaganda, but a war of an entirely
different kind. This war is a first step on the path to establishment of a new
order in international relations, that is a new division of spheres of
influence at the global level.”
“The developments in Ukraine
represent the beginning of the end of the existing world order…Put succinctly,
the current developments are a prelude to the emergence of a new international
order.”
The EU is flexing its muscle to dissuade China from siding with Russia. Meanwhile Russia and China profess to speak with “one voice.”
All of this is consistent with new age expectations that the forces of the old age would clash and from it would rise the new. But we know that’s not how things pan out.