T DV Dispatch August 2023

(MONTH YEAR) ISSUE
august 2023 dispatch
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CONTENTS
SURVIVING AND PROSPERING DURING AND AFTER THE DOLLAR COLLAPSE
CIRCUS MAXIMUS..............................................................................................3
VIGILANTE’s VIEW..............................................................................................5
ECONOMIC REVIEW............................................................................................15
Post-Quantum Cypherpunk Vibes Installation & Initial Setup.................28
An Interview with Orania Leader Joost Strydom.................................37
Turkey, the country on two continents..................................................45
IN ClOSING........................................................................................................55
Resources.......................................................................................................72
CIRCUS MAXIMUS
Between Bidenomics, Firenados, and COVAIDS season 2, everyone is going to be

carted off to Smart City concentration camps before you can say NPC.
And once you’re checked in, you can never leave.
Just ask The Simpsons, who happen to have predicted a drone-surveillance city
sealed off in a dome, (because of climate change) preventing Springfield residents
from leaving and communicating with the outside world… Oh, and this is set to
happen in 2025!
Is life as we know it right now merely chance or twist of fate? Or is it a game set
in a world where governments and privateers uniformly loath individualism,
privacy, and independence? Carefully planned and openly simulated for years
by military, government, secret service, police, corporate controllers… and the
yellow folk in Springfield?
CIRCUS MAXIMUS
Sideshow Bill and Mr. Rothschild-Burns & Co. have four goals:
Obstruct autonomy
Blow up self-sovereignty
Incinerate the family unit
And destroy the free market.
But there is some good news.
You control your own game. And, you can choose to play outside your self-
imposed borders, and the ones forced upon you by the agenda on the table.
Beware though, what makes the game extra interesting is that you have only
one life and the game will lock you out of your account as soon as you die.
Perma perma-death.
Mari-Louise Kaplan
After graduating from law school, Mari-Louise worked for Big Tech as a regulatory advisor before
specializing in corporate communications and specifically investor relations. A native South African,
she has obtained residency in both Panama and Portugal where she has lived with her family over
the past 3 years, focusing on writing and editing expert-resource content for anarcho-capitalists and
those looking for personal, financial and location privacy and independence.
HEADLINES Vigilante’s View
Jeff Berwick
It definitely feels like the dog days of summer as we head into Labor Day weekend and you can
tell that most traders and investors are likely still at their summer cabins as the markets have
been fairly quiet.
It hasn’t been quiet in terms of dystopian news headlines though as we’ve cataloged more in the
last two weeks than I think we ever have.
So, let’s get right into it with the news rundown.
AUGUST 16
Worldwide Google BAN on Independent Media From Search Results | People’s Voice
Scientists raise alarm over new Covid variant and call for return of face masks | Daily Mail Online
Hawaii governor says state is looking to ‘acquire land’ that was destroyed in fires | The Post Millennial
Heart attack hospitalisations at record level since pandemic | Telegraph
Missing US crypto king found chopped up and stuffed down toilet by horrified plumbers | Mirror Online
Pilot dies in bathroom of Boeing 787 — forcing emergency landing after Miami takeoff | NY Post
The Dutch economy has slid into recession as inflation and interest rate hit export and spending | AP
AUGUST 17
Argentina’s Leading Presidential Candidate Vows To Shut Down “Thieving” Central Bank | ZeroHedge
”Doom Loop Walking Tour” Of San Francisco Sells Out | ZeroHedge
El Salvador Bonds Return Over 70% This Year, Drawing JPMorgan, Eaton Vance | Bloomberg
Michael Burry Loads Up On $1.6BN Notional Worth Of S&P, Nasdaq Puts; Goes Long Japan | ZeroHedge
Mortgage rates top 7%, hitting 21-year high | Yahoo Finance
Rutgers Student Disenrolled on Aug. 15 if Not Compliant with COVID Vaccine Mandates | Brownstone
Bonds, Stocks, Bitcoin, & Bullion Battered As Yuan & The Yield-Curve Rally | ZeroHedge
Americans have almost depleted excess savings, SF Fed study says | Bloomberg
AUGUST 18
China Evergrande Group Files Chapter 15 Bankruptcy in New York | Yahoo Finance
London authorities scramble as taxpayers remove surveillance cameras | Frontline News
Russian General: US Helped Create COVID-19, May Be Plotting New Pandemic | ZeroHedge
British Columbia Under State of Emergency as Wildfires Rage in Canada | NY Times
Soros Abruptly Ends ‘All EU Operations’ As Public Anger Reaches Boiling Point | The People’s Voice
Canada’s Fourth Largest Emergency Evacuation Underway As Wildfires Spread | ZeroHedge
Sydney office blocks sold at 16% discount as rates, remote working hit sector | Reuters
continued Jeff Berwick
AUGUST 19
X is Hiring Staff To Combat Election “Disinformation” | ReclaimTheNet

China rehearses invasion of Taiwan with troops storming ‘sea defences’ in chilling wargames | Daily Mail
Another One? Boeing Dreamliner Pilot Suffers “Fatal Cardiac Arrest” Shortly After Takeoff | ZeroHedge
Bitcoin Flash Crashes More Than $2,000 Amid Stale Reports SpaceX Sold Its Stake | ZeroHedge
AUGUST 20
John Podesta Calls for Urgent Rollout of ‘Great Reset’ Agenda Following Maui Destruction | People’s Voice
US escalates trade dispute with Mexico over genetically modified corn | Agriculture News | Al Jazeera
Biden to Reinstate COVID-19 Lockdowns Beginning Sept., TSA Whistleblowers Claim | DailyFetched
AUGUST 21
14 U.S Cities Planning to Ban Meat, Dairy, Private Cars by 2030 | Slay News
Lahaina Incineration is Deadly Weather Warfare – Dane Wigington | Greg Hunter’s USAWatchdog
Spanish officials says wildfire on Tenerife was started deliberately | ITV News
Underground activists wage campaign to bring down Sadiq Khan’s low-emission monitors | Daily Mail
AUGUST 22
Atlanta college reinstates mask mandate for students, employees on campus | Yahoo News
Lionsgate Brings Back Mask Mandates in Office | Hollywood Reporter
Livid Hawaiians Slam Biden For Cracking Jokes, Lying About Wife | ZeroHedge
FEMA officials staying at $1,000-a-night luxury hotels in Maui amid recovery efforts in Lahaina | Daily Mail
Home Sales Plunge Further as Demand Vanished at these Prices. Cash Buyers Pull Back | Wolf Street
S&P downgrades multiple US banks on growing liquidity worries | Reuters
Its far too early to declare the end of inflation | FT
AUGUST 23
Panama Canal Drought: Ships Backed Up, Global Trade Snarled By Lack of Rain | Bloomberg
’Sexual exploration rooms’ at German kindergartens for kids to masturbate and touch each other | RMX
US home purchase applications hit lowest since 1995 on rate rise | Bloomberg
US economy near stalling point as consumer demand weakens - survey says | Reuters
Economic data in Europe just went from bad to worse | CNBC
AUGUST 24
New BA.2.86 COVID variant could cause infections in vaccinated individuals: CDC | Insider Paper
Jordan Peterson can be ordered to undergo social media training, Ontario court rules | National Post
Wagner Decries ‘Murder’ Of Prigozhin Amid Reports Anti-Air Missile Struck Plane | ZeroHedge
BRICS welcomes new members in push to reshuffle world order | Reuters
US yields rise as data suggest higher rates for longer | Reuters
AUGUST 25
Trump surrenders to Fulton County authorities in Georgia 2020 election case | CNN
Greek police arrest dozens for arson as EU’s largest-ever wildfires rage | CNN
Fauci Declares That ALL Unvaccinated Citizens Must Be Locked Down This Winter | Dainikibidyaloy
Nicaraguan government bans Jesuit order and says all its property will be confiscated | AP News
Home affordability is the worst it has been since 1984 | CNN
Powell says Fed prepared to raise rates further to bring down inflation | Yahoo
ECB must gauge digital euro impact on banks before launch - Spanish official | Reuters
AUGUST 26
India buys 1 million barrels of oil from UAE using rupees instead of USD for the first time | Yahoo Finance
AUGUST 28
Powell signals no retreat, no surrender | Reuters

At Jackson Hole, post-inflation challenges vex central bankers” | Bloomberg
Eurozone money supply shrinks for first time in 13 years as lending slows | FT
NIH study suggests N95 Covid masks may be linked to seizures and cancer | Daily Mail Online
Judge in Trump Jan. 6 case is scion of Marxist revolutionaries | NY Post
AUGUST 29
As rates near their peak, the pain begins for Europe’s borrowers | Bloomberg
Best Buy joins retailers warning that shoppers are struggling to pay credit card bills | Yahoo
First spot bitcoin ETF could be coming soon as court rules in favour of Grayscale over SEC | CNBC
Hunting season fears: COVID-19 ‘evolving rapidly’ in white-tailed deer - Study Finds | Studyfinds.org
Covid to blame for just 1% of weekly deaths from all causes across the US, CDC data shows | DailyMail
Grayscale Spot Bitcoin ETF Is One Step Closer to Launching After US Court Ruling | Bloomberg
AUGUST 30
Add Q2 GDP To List Of Economic “Data” Revised Sharply Lower By Biden Administration | ZeroHedge
Kamala Harris slip-up reveals how Bidenomics hurting American families | Fox News
AUGUST 31
Expanded BRICS Set To De-Dollarize The World, Control Global Energy Supply | ZeroHedge
Over 1,600 Scientists Sign ‘No Climate Emergency’ Declaration | ZeroHedge
FEMA To Blast All Smartphones , TVs, Radios With Mass Alert Test On October 4 | ZeroHedge
Vigilante’s View
After a nice reprieve for a few months, the But, they might not do COVAIDS 2.0. Or, it may
globalists are trying to bring back the COVAIDS! not happen for another year or two. So, I am just
preparing for whatever does happen and hurriedly
It all kind of makes sense when you think about trying to finish our ranch before it all does.
it. For the foreseeable future, every summer
will be intense Climate Change psychological In the meantime, we are entering into Season
operations while it is hot out, and then when the Four of COVAIDS 1.0. Many places throughout
weather cools and heads into winter, they’ll just the West have already put in mask mandates.
do the COVAIDS again. Rinse and repeat. Useless plexiglass barriers are going back up on
trains and buses. And, Dr. Fraudci said this month
This time around a lot of people say they will not go that anyone who hasn’t been lethally injected
along with the mask mandates, lethal injections and (vaccinated) should be put on lockdown in the
lockdowns. But, most of the ‘people’ in the world USSA this winter!!
appear to be NPCs who just watch the television
‘news’, live in fear, and do whatever they are told. It’s like a nightmare that never ends no matter
So, we’ll see how this latest attempt at rolling out how much evidence and information we have
the COVAIDS fear goes. Already, I am hearing from that masks don’t do anything, that the tests
many people all over the world that they are seeing aren’t tests, that Covaids doesn’t exist, and that
many more NPCs with surgeon’s masks walking the lethal injections themselves are what are
around everywhere, just as they were told. killing millions of people.
I expect, though, that the globalists are I warned that if enough people did not
preparing for COVAIDS 2.0 and this time a lot understand that COVAIDS itself does not exist
of people will die. It will likely be the operating they’ll just keep bringing it back. Many ‘truthers’
systems that Kill Gates installed into people over and even normies have realized the lethal
the last three years that will be triggered (and injections are killing people but they still do not
likely highly targeted) to kill massive amounts of understand just how deep this psyop is and that
people in rapid succession. COVAIDS doesn’t exist. So, because of that, they
can keep coming up with new variants and saying
We saw how the entire world hid in their homes “hospitals are filling up”, even though they aren’t,
for three years from something that didn’t and the public will just continue living in fear.
even exist and didn’t kill anyone. When tens or
hundreds of millions of people are suddenly In any case, I’ve long past given up trying to
dropping dead all over the world, though, I wake up the world. And, there appear to be
expect 99.999% of people to go into shock and billions of NPC’s who cannot be woken up to
fear, and even the most adamant anti-vaxxer will anything anyway. So, now, the only important
be begging for Kill Gates’ new lethal injections things for us are to survive whatever is coming
and demanding the government lockdown the and profit from it.
entire country, worldwide.
I would suggest if you live in the Western world that
If this happens, I’ll be heading straight for our if you do want to get out before COVAIDS 2.0 you
ranch and quite likely going quite dark until the should do so ASAP. Once they roll that out, borders
culling is completed. will be locked down, and the camps will be opened
and they’ll be rounding up the anti-vaxxers.
Vigilante’s View
Mexico is still a great option as the Mexican government did less than almost any other
government on Earth during COVAIDS 1.0. And, even if they did want to round up
people and put them in camps, you have an excellent chance of avoiding that in Mexico
as the government has very little control and most people do not listen to what they say.
And, with what little control they do have, a small gift in the form of Mexican pesos can
usually get you out of almost anything.
Another good option is Nicaragua. They also did very little during COVAIDS 1.0 and
even just threw the Jesuits out of the country! I am telling you, Latin America is the
best area in the world in general. Now, what kind of payback is coming to Nicaragua
for removing one of the most dangerous secret societies is yet to be seen. But, imagine
Kanada or the USSA or any European country throwing the Jesuits out. It’s almost
unthinkable. Killary and Trump both are in bed heavily with the Jesuits. The Jesuits were
routinely thrown out of countries in the past but have since gotten their tentacles deep
into most governments.
In regards to Nicaragua, dozens of TDV subscribers have already created a parallel

society in Nicaragua at ECI Development’s ‘Eco-Village Asuchillo (EVA)’. Homes there
start for as little as $129,000 USD and they offer financing and they accept crypto,
including Monero and Pirate Chain!
At the very least, even if you can’t get out of the West right now, I’d suggest you consider
getting a home there and a Nicaraguan residency so if you have the chance to escape
you will have a place you can go.
Vigilante’s View
My Current Outlook
In the August Issue which went out on August 15, I said that that week was the 33rd
week of the year and I expected something significant to happen. And, it did, with stock
markets selling off all week along with crypto.
Stock markets rebounded this week as did crypto, with Bitcoin rising $2,000 on Tuesday
as news came out that the Grayscale fund won a court case regarding them converting
into an ETF.
I stated in the last Issue that I was being very cautious with regard to my crypto holdings
as we near September and I had sold some more BTC near $29k and closed out some
of my BTC loans. Then, Mr. A & W of TCV said that they expected a bounce to $28k from
$26k so I bought some more at $26k. And, I just sold some of that at $28k.
The question now is, where do things go from here? Mr. A, W, and Ed seem to all be in
agreement that we’ll see a fairly sharp pullback in September and so I have moved a lot to
cash and closed out even more loans just now as it hit $28k.
We are also on the cusp of the end of what could be the Jubilee year. If it is the Jubilee
year, it will end on September 15th in the evening when the Jewish New Year holiday of
Rosh Hashanah begins. This will make the September Issue timing very interesting as it is
set to go out in the evening on September 15th!
Vigilante’s View
Interestingly, too, just after this August Dispatch goes out on the evening of August 31st,
there will be a blue supermoon that evening. Full moons have usually meant a bearish
event in the Bitcoin market, so keep your eyes open for a significant move this evening.
It’s also worth noting that seven planets will be

in retrograde in September.
The home shopping channel, QVC, let slip

that there will be a disaster in September too
(HERE.)
And, a large amount of Hollyweird movies

over the years all use September 23rd as their
apocalyptic end-of-the-world date (see HERE.)
A Vedic astrologer, interestingly enough, also

says something big, like an attack, is going to
happen to the United States on September
23rd (see HERE.)
Whoa, Jeff, are you seriously pointing to Jewish

dates, eclipses, planets, and Vedic astrology as
something to pay attention to?
Well, if so, I am not the only one. JP Morgan

once said, “Millionaires don’t use Astrology,
billionaires do.”
I just pay attention to what comes to my

attention and how certain events and dates have affected the markets in the past.
And, right now, September 15th and 23rd look primed for some sort of major event.
Interestingly, Yom Kippur lands one day later on September 24th.
I am not just using those dates in a vacuum to make some predictions. Ed Bugos looks
at all the data points in the market and he is saying to expect a crash in September or
October. And, Mr. A & W predicted we’d see a drop-down from $29k in BTC to $24-26k
(which happened) and then said we’d see a bounce from $26k to $28k after that (which
happened) and they are now saying they expect BTC to go lower in September giving
targets of $20k and $17k.
It seems all the stars are aligning for this to occur… literally.
Vigilante’s View
The one main action I am taking is what I said use a VPN. And, I believe if you set your VPN
I would do as we got closer to September. to a Mexican location, I don’t think Simplefx
And that is increasing my shorts on the stock even requires KYC. And, you can even
market. To me, this is a low-risk trade with fund your account with Monero or 60 other
massive potential upside. It is low risk because cryptocurrencies!
if nothing major happens by mid-October I
will likely cover at least some of the shorts and I’ve been using it for years and never had any
the chances of the markets going much higher problems either. If you have never traded
in the next two months is very low due to the leverage futures before, start with small
decreasing money supply. amounts and make sure you understand how
things work before trading with larger amounts.
If something major happens and markets crash
in mid-September I’ll make massive gains.
Conclusion
I should point out that in the 2015 Shemitah
We launched the Vigilante Insider’s Club (VIC)
year, I was also heavily short using put options
this month and the first 50 club memberships
and I bought those options in early August.
sold out in the first hour. It has gone better than
While we didn’t see a major crash in September
expected as the group has already been full
we did have a major drop in August and it
of incredible insights and conversations. I’ve
returned over 4,000% to me in gains.
gotten a number of the VIC members to try their
first coffee enemas… just a warning, that might
Of course, in 2001 and 2008, the US stock
happen should you join in the future!
markets crashed on the exact end day of the
Shemitah. And, last year, at the end of the
Numerous business ideas and ventures have
Shemitah year, we didn’t see a major crash in
already been coalesced amongst the group
the US stock markets but the British pound
which is full of amazing people from across the
crashed on the exact end date of the Shemitah.
world. Some of them might even turn into multi-
So, that was a bit of an anomaly. But, the
million dollar ventures!
chances of something crashing in September
are very high for this reason. Some consider
If you missed out, don’t worry, we’ll be
this to be the Jubilee year (the once every 7th
opening it up again soon… perhaps even in
Shemitah event) and if so, something major
September… now that we are confident that
could occur.
everything is working well.
Ed Bugos has given a number of option trades
If that’s not for you, I also want to officially
to take advantage of this event to Premium TDV
announce that TDV will be doing its first live TDV
subscribers. But, if you don’t have an options
Summit in years at next year’s Anarchapulco.
account, the best place that I use to short the
The dates are yet to be decided but it will
stock market is Simplefx (If you use this link to
likely be in the two days before Anarchapulco
sign up you should get some sort of bonus)
(February 9-10th). I’ll likely be doing a two-day
event after Anarchapulco as well with my entire
Like most places, they don’t allow US customers
coaching team called The Game Changers.
but if you are based in the USSA you could just
Vigilante’s View
So, mark the dates in your calendar
if you’d like to come down for
Anarchapulco’s 10th anniversary event!
Early bird tickets are still available but
not for long so if you want to get the best
price, get them now!
There will also be a week-long event

called Anarchaforko during the week after
Anarchapulco too. All told, it will be more
than two weeks’ worth of events if you want
to escape from your snowbound slave state
to warm and free Mexico in February!
We’ll see what COVAIDS 1.0 Season Four

or COVAIDS 2.0 has in store by February but we ran Anarchapulco at the Secret Garden in
Acapulco all through Seasons 1-3 of COVAIDS 1.0 and we don’t plan on stopping no matter
what the globalists roll out.
And, if you can’t make it down, all the events will be live streamed so you can watch from your
smart city concentration camp while under lockdown this winter!
Enjoy the blue super moon tonight and get ready for what might be the craziest month we’ve
had yet in September!
Lucy reminds you to go for your morning walk, enjoy every organic taco and give lots of kishus!
Thank you as always for subscribing!
JEFF BERWICK
Jeff Berwick is an ardent freedom fighter against mankind’s two biggest enemies, the
state and the central banks. Chief Editor of The Dollar Vigilante since its inception in
2010, host of the popular podcast Anarchast and founder of the world’s premier liberty
event, Anarchapulco. Jeff was the first financial analyst to recommend bitcoin in 2011
at $3 and went on to recommend Ethereum at $2 and many more massive gainers.
He is one of the most well known speakers and advocates in the cryptocurrency space
having appeared on over 1,000 television programming, radio and podcasts and a
speaker at most of the world’s most important cryptocurrency events.
TDV Economic & Investment
Review & Outlook
Ed Bugos, TDV Senior Analyst
A deluge of newsflow continues to detract from the deflation reality that will soon be
felt everywhere, all the more because it is being ignored right now. And I am not talking
about China.
The Chinese aren’t deflating.
But let’s recap the “deluge” first, because there’s a lot of news, and I only want to mention
the important items before getting into earnings for Wall Street, and for the gold and
silver miners.
In the world of politics and the fight for freedom, we may have a guy who claims to be an
ancap who came out of nowhere to lead the anti-establishmentarian ticket in Argentina.
And he’s not dead yet.
Javier Gerardo Milei is an economist and professor. He has authored several books and
over 100 journalistic papers, and has swung hard from being an ardent neoclassical
Keynesian Bernanke lover who spoke at the WEF in 2014 as a globalist to an all out hater
of all political institutions, especially central banks. He promises to bring down the central
bank and many offices if not the whole government in Argentina. He is said to be an
outsider, but there are some questions yet to be answered to confirm that.
The Republican nomination debate went on without Trump who felt he was too good for
all the other schmucks, and is probably right. The Dems are still trying to indict the guy on
trump-ed up charges.
In the west, mandates for masks are being talked up again by some of the scardiest of
scaredy cats in Canada and the UK, as well as some colleges in the USSA. Canada’s top
court ruled that Jordan Peterson has to be re-indoctrinated or else lose his license. And
Australian banksters are classifying “mean speech” now as a potential pretext to debank
someone. I had to add the word “debank” to my personal dictionary.
Review & Outlook
continued Ed Bugos, TDV Senior Analyst
It’s a new world. And that is why we keep pounding the table on getting out of that system.
It’s going down.
Wildfires in the news are caused by humans - whether by “climate change”, by political
agendas, arsonists, or bad management of the forest by governments - and El Nino has
ravaged rice crops in Asia, apparently.
That will not help them keep food prices in check. In fact, food and oil prices are set to rise
despite the deflation in money on account of non monetary supply chain issues. In oil, the
SPR has finished selling.
Powell spoke at the annual bankers convention in Jacksonhole but he didn’t say anything
different. He just continued to repeat his message on rates - higher for longer - while the
market keeps front-running him by pushing down those bond yields whenever there is bad
economic data (this week it was a jobs number).
This will produce a problem as will any news that suggests rates will not return to the old normal.
The Disenfranchised BRICS

The CCP and the PBOC are
slowly preparing to launch
their own currency once the
BRICS bloc has agreed on
trade and monetary policies
with the countries that are
joining the economic bloc.
They have been buyers of
gold for some time but in
this century their holdings
have surpassed the Swiss
and most Western countries
in terms of the amount they
own (in tonnes below). It is
now sixth beyond the USSA (if it still owns its gold), Germany, Italy, France, and Russia. Together
Russia and China hold almost 5,000 tonnes if you believe the data, rivaling the 8,000 tonnes
held by the US and the three mentioned euro nations.
Unfortunately, there was no talk about gold at the BRICS conference, and really there was
no meat in the thing. So far it’s just a bunch of outcast countries trying to get together to
decide how much to steal from each other. They are no threat to the US dollar without
gold. And even with gold, they aren’t a long-term threat because anything that is gold-
backed is not gold, let alone by those governments notorious for lying.
Review & Outlook
Deflation and China vs the Western Economies
Every day the financial media talks
about deflation in China where
money growth is still growing but
the CPI is not. As I have shown
above, and in a recent issue, the
Chinese money growth rate has
slowed but is still expanding, and
the CPI growth rate has been
flat for a while. So has its asset
markets.
In the chart here I am comparing

the Chinese averages (blue and
orange) to the S&P 500 (red/black)
in the backdrop. A lot of people
worry about China’s markets
collapsing. And to be sure, Cramer probably sealed the deal when he said they wouldn’t.
But a lot of their collapse has already occurred as you can see in the China Index listed
on the NY Arca exchange (CZH - purple line), which fell from 450 down to almost 100 in
2021 and 2022. Other than an initial jump in 2020 they didn’t follow US markets higher in
2021, and they didn’t have the same inflation problem that the west ran into, because they
stopped inflating a decade ago.
They aren’t deflating but as reported in the previous August newsletter they have been
trying to bring down the economy’s inflation tax in preparation for the new currency, we
believe. This has wreaked havoc on the unsound boom that it created back between 2008
and 2014 where they built so many empty cities.
However, central bank policy around the world has tightened on all of the unsound booms
that they created over the last 20 years. China is no exception but it isn’t the worst culprit
in recent years. It has produced a lot of malinvestment with its five-year plans, giant empty
cities, Silk Road infrastructure, corporatism, and historic money printing. But perhaps not as
acutely as the US has, and not as over the top in any case.
The Chinese government’s debt/GDP ratio (77%) has been growing this century but is still
significantly below the USSA’s massive 129% ratio, which is all the more significant because
the US economy is so large.
I am bearish on the Chinese economy and its society under the CCP’s leadership, and as I
have previously argued, I am not optimistic about the BRICS regional bloc or its currency. In
Review & Outlook
fact, we have heard nothing about the gold backing hype that preceded their conference.
But dedollarization is still bearish for the dollar in the short term. So that will not be a
positive for the US economy or the dollar standard when it happens.
The financial collapse we see is going to be a global contagion and it is being led by
the US, first to the upside, and now to the downside with the Fed’s deflation policy. The
Chinese economy is certainly vulnerable and will come down with the global economy but
it is not the ticking time bomb that the US situation is right now with its most overvalued
markets, and bulls absolutely defiant of not only deflation, but also, the Fed, and the Trend.
The bulls are fighting the Fed, the trend, deflation, and ‘the Ed!’
The media meanwhile has pointed to deflation in China because it is conditioned to look at the
effects of inflation and deflation (consumer prices). But prices are impacted from two distinct
directions, by both, the money relation and the real side. The money relation means the impact
on a price from the supply and demand for the money used in its denomination (in exchange
for the good). The real side refers to the supply and demand dynamics for the actual economic
good. If we want to call every increase in prices inflation and every decrease in prices deflation
then we have to come up with a term for the effect on the price of a good that comes solely
from changes in the supply and (reserve) demand for the money good.
This is how they confuse people.
That is why the media thinks there is deflation in China while there isn’t, while not seeing
that there is deflation here. The effects of the deflation nevertheless are being felt in every
corner of the market.
And also on consumer prices - that’s why they are falling too.
Will China Collapse First?

Q&A from the Vigilante’s Insider Club,
Review & Outlook
The US Consumer
“An increasing share of low-income Americans are behind on rent and struggling to afford
food, adding to signs of growing financial distress in the economy. Among households using
the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s boosted pandemic benefits, 42% skipped
meals in August and 55% ate less because they couldn’t afford food, more than double last
year’s share…” Bloomberg Article
My take on the Western consumer right now (NAFTA and EU) is that they’ve been adding
to their credit card balances and debts to sustain a standard of living above their means
because they think the slowdown is temporary - because they believe Powell’s promise
of a soft landing. In the same way I believe that many businesses are trying to hold things
together. Both are waiting for lower interest rates before refinancing.
That may or may not come but meanwhile they are facing rising debt service elsewhere,
rising consumer price inflation, and a slowing economy, at least by many measures, making
it look as though Powell will succeed. As with the deflation conundrum, the western
media has been publishing reports about a waning consumer in China. These reports are
distractions from the bigger problems here. Even on this point, we all know that the Chinese
consumer is a natural born saver, unlike the US consumer. And we also know that the source
of growth is saving, and not consumption as the Keynesians believe is the source of growth.
The moment that interest rates come down even a bit, assuming they will - which I’m not
sure they will - the US consumer is going to jump at the opportunity to refinance his/her
debt, which will keep the pressure on rates going higher (borrowing demand tends to do
this regardless of inflation rates) without more spending.
That is, consumers don’t have to spend more to push up consumer price inflation and then
rates; they just have to borrow intensely when the banks aren’t lending easily. That will push
rates up.
When will this rush occur? As soon as yields come down a little and the consumer starts
to accept the new normal in the current and maybe higher levels of the rate of interest.
The US consumer and government have not been disciplined enough to cut back on their
borrowing demands so whatever relief comes from a pause in rate hikes and a fall in yields
will be offset by these pressures before they can lift asset prices.
And of course, any pivot at this point is going to be inflationary in its effect on prices
probably fast - given the tightness of labor markets, wealth effects, and increase in consumer
and government expenditures.
Review & Outlook
Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
Speaking of propaganda, news, and distractions, this article does a good job of explaining
the drop in bond yields and the DXY (US dollar fx) this week, and we’re looking for the
monthly jobs report to confirm it.
The nonfarm payrolls report is due tomorrow and is usually a market mover.
For months we’ve reported that the jobs data reported by the gubermint was out of touch
with the headlines we kept reading off the newswires from the big companies. But it all
makes sense now, doesn’t it?
The forecast for the NFP in August is between 170k and 180k, slightly below the 187k
reported for July, as per the trend below, but if the size of the aforementioned revisions are
an indication, look out below.
With the unraveling jobs market weighing on the dollar and bond yields, confirming
pivot hopes, the bulls are getting sucked into a dangerously expensive scenario with
fundamentals souring and deflation smiling.
We call it a bull trap.
Review & Outlook
Earnings, Earnings, Earnings
In real estate it’s location, location, location.
In the stock market - in fact, in all asset markets - it is now the Fed, the Fed, the Fed.
But it wasn’t that long ago that investors cared about earnings growth, which if you smooth out
the sharp ups and downs in recent years is in the 7 to 8 percent range for the S&P 500 index,
AFTER share buybacks.
Likewise, GDP has been growing below 3 percent for a long time if you exclude the volatility
around 2020.
These facts do not support a record price-to-sales ratio, or a 24x P/E ratio.
Such multiples belong to a high-growth economy, or a mania. And the only thing high growth
about the US economy has been money supply growth, so mania is at the top of our list of
explanations for these values.
But that easy money has ended for the moment.
Temporary it may be, but, ended … it surely has.
That fact is ignored and will bite the bulls in the ass. But while that’s brewing, let’s check in on
earnings and their trends for the Dow 30 Industrials, the S&P 500, and the HUI index’s gold miners.
Review & Outlook
S&P 500 Earnings Chugging Along, Low Single Digit Shrinking Growth
The trailing 12-month earnings per share number for the S&P 500 index is expected to be up
between 1 and 5 percent in the third quarter compared to the same quarter last year, as well
as compared to last quarter.
So basically earnings are forecast and expected to grow less than 5% annually in the coming quarter.
The quarterly EPS figure is

expected to be up about 14%
compared to last quarterly
EPS figure in Q2 and about
10% over the year-ago figure
in Q3, 2022. The dividend
yield is still a third of the US
treasury bond’s yield, and last
quarter was the first quarter in
years that the actual dividend
fell slightly. And just like the
Dow, you can see that the
S&P 500 index trades at an
average of 24 times earnings,
which implies a growth rate
of at least double digits if not
closer to 20 percent annually.
Probably nothing you don’t know but just keeping you up to date on the trends here. They
are not getting any better and valuations are still very rich.
Review & Outlook
Another way to put that is that the equity market (wall street) is not expecting any upsets, or
factoring in any bad news, i.e., so there is almost no room for error in the next two quarters,
especially the fourth quarter as that is the one that most analysts have procrastinated in
reducing their forecasts on.
DJIA Industrials - Earnings Fundamentals Peaked End of 2021

In the second quarter the Dow 30 Industrials
reported a combined quarterly revenue of $876
billion, up 2.2% from $857.3 billion in the first
quarter and up about 3% from $850.7 billion in
the second quarter last year. So far the quarterly
peak occurred in December at $890 billion.
Wall Street is looking for a slightly lower figure

in the third quarter than the $876 billion last
quarter, and then a record high of $928 billion
in the Q4, when pigs fly. On a trailing 12-month
basis, total revenues for the Dow companies
have flatlined at around $3.5 trillion this year
for many quarters, and aren’t forecast to rise
more than $50 billion by the end of 2023. In
other words, Dow revenues have stopped
growing this year, as expected … and inferred by the money supply.
That compares to an average CAGR of around 5% in the top line since 2019. As you know,
Apple, Chevron, Microsoft, United Health, and Wal-Mart contributed more than 50% of the
revenues in the Dow 30.
For the record, their share of Dow Revenues has increased from 46% to 53% since early
2019 with revenues for the Big 5 growing at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR)
of 6.8% compared to just 3.2% per year for the other 25 companies in the average. Three
companies have had a negative Revenue CAGR over the last five years: Boeing, Goldman
Sachs, and Intel; and about another five have had no growth for years.
The DJIA has relied on 5 out of 8 cylinders, fundamentally, these past few years.
The fastest top-line growth over the past four years goes to Salesforce, Microsoft, Merck,
Visa, Home Depot, JPM, United Health and Chevron, which have grown their top lines from
between 7 to 15 percent annually.
That’s the good news. It gets worse from there.
Review & Outlook
On a year-over-year basis, the Dow’s trailing twelve-month bottom line (net diluted EPS) fell
about 5% in the second quarter from the first quarter and by about 10% from the year-ago
TTM figure in Q2 2022.
Still, analysts are ‘expecting’ a 20%

bump up in the third quarter EPS
for the DJIA average relative to the
last one (Q1 2023) but relatively less
improvement on a year-over-year
basis. That’s in the quarterly data. In the
trailing twelve-month data, the year-
over-year Q3 bottom line is expected
to flatline or fall a few points, thereby
continuing the weakening spell. As you
can see in this chart of indexed trailing
twelve-month earnings for the Dow,
EPS peaked at the end of 2021 (with
S&P 500 earnings).
About half the companies in the DJIA are expected to report a decline in Q/Q quarterly
earnings in the third quarter coming up. It was 17 in the last quarter. But make room for
some disappointments this October.
Investors are paying an average of 35x trailing DJIA EPS excluding the four negative earners
(3M, Boeing, Intel, and Walgreens). That’s significantly higher than the broader S&P 500, btw.
Historically valuations like that meant that the market is expecting 25-35 percent in earnings
growth, but you see from the graph further above that that has only occurred in volatile
periods, and we are not in a high growth period now.
HUI Gold Miners

That is the ratio of the AMEX
Gold Bugs average (HUI) over
the Dow Industrials, which
shows that they have sat out
most of the unsound boom
that saw money supply almost
quadruple in this period.
Review & Outlook
The Fed’s deflation policy over
the past year has kept a lid on
precious metal prices while the
miners along with most capital
intensive businesses (including
manufacturers) suffered
from the massive inflation in
capex costs, and operating
costs resulting from the Fed’s
previous two decade long
inflationary policy.
Unlike the miners, many

companies, however, were
able to flex some pricing
power and keep their revenues from sliding too much in reaction to the deflation. So while
margins were under pressure everywhere in the economy, the miners got it worse because
they didn’t have any pricing power under the deflation policy.
What will change?

The bear market in the DXY will change things. It is overdue. We get one every other
decade historically. And we will get one soon. Recall my elaboration that while the dollar
is benefitting from capital inflows - or hot foreign investment money - chasing US dollar
denominated assets (stocks and bonds) that are being inflated by the Fed (usually), the
incentive to inflate money supply is not as intense as it is when the DXY is experiencing a
bear market. Even though they are still inflating, because the dollar is going up, foreign
investors are happy about their dollar investments as well as the dollar’s rising relative
purchasing power because they are selling America’s consumer goods. They are happy
when their currencies are weakening as long as they aren’t collapsing. This all changes
when the US capital markets and consumers are saturated.
In dollar bear markets, and there is no reason this time will be different, foreign investors are
watching their American investments fall, and foreign exporters are not selling as much to
Americans.
So they pressure their central banks to inflate in order to weaken their currencies against the
USD, and gain what they believe is a competitive mercantilist advantage.
What you have seen in the last year and a half is that the Fed has tightened and the dollar
has risen, which has forced all the other central bankers to tighten in order to avoid a
‘collapse’ in their currencies.
Review & Outlook
They don’t mind the weakness, recall, just not a collapse.
Hence when the DXY is falling on forex markets, the pressure to inflate mounts everywhere,
and because the Fed is likely inflating to support its falling stock and/or bond markets at that
moment, foreign trading partners are impelled to inflate more than usual. This results in not
only a precious metals bull cycle, but also a general commodity cycle. That’s what we are
waiting for. That’s when our gold stocks will explode.
In this kind of environment, price inflation runs hot too in general, and the Fed has trouble
keeping rates down too low, especially at the longer end of the maturity spectrum. This
means instead of getting 25x earnings, the Industrials may get between 10 and 15 times
earnings, which will grow also, but not as fast as they will for the miners. Many of the
Industrials have piled on the debt so they will be hamstrung by the higher new normal in
interest rates for a while while the rising gold price will widen profit margins for the miners.
Another factor that will help the miners is the recessionary or slow growth environment and
some unemployment because that will free up some of the highly specialized labor and
capital resources to be redeployed and employed in the mining sector without having to bid
them away with higher price offers.
At the moment, the miners are generally trading at valuations of half that of the Industrials,
and they pay twice the yield. The HUI’s average dividend yield is 2.8%. The Dow pays 1.5%.
The HUI has an average PE ratio of around 20 but if you exclude the high multiple royalty
companies like FNV, Royal Gold and Sandstrom, which all trade on par with the Dow’s 30x
plus average PE ratio, this falls to around 17x, or about half of the value of the Industrials. So
the values here do not factor in the bull market that we see.
Review & Outlook
So while revenue and earnings are falling for everyone I see the situation
worsening for the US blue chips and general stock and bond markets -
bond markets for different reasons - and financial assets broadly.
I see a commodity and hard asset cycle emerging with a bear market in
the US dollar forex.
But that bear market is still elusive. The forex dollar is just now pulling
back to the lower part of the bull market channel that started after the
2008 crisis. I’m looking for an upset in stock prices to upend it.
And then the fun will begin.
Ed Bugos
Ed Bugos is the Dollar Vigilante’s Senior Analyst and founding partner. He is an Austrian
economist and has been a dedicated investment professional since 1989, having
started his career as a stock and futures broker on Howe Street at one of Vancouver’s
leading brokerage firms. Ed retired in 2000, warning clients about the tech bubble,
and launched an online digest forecasting gold’s revival and bull market when it was
just $285. He saw the value in bitcoin as a potentially sounder alternative to the present
fiat currency system as early as 2011 before many of his Austrian peers. Ed has built a
career record of being early on major economic trends, bullish and bearish.
Post-Quantum Cypherpunk Vibes
Installation & Initial Setup
MR.P
Recap: What You Have Achieved So Far
Last month, you learned about Fedora Workstation and why it is a great choice for a
Linux distribution on your desktop/laptop. This is largely due to two factors: Fedora’s
release cycle on the one hand, and its community on the other. Overall, Fedora could be
described as a very good “just works” distribution, which is what most users are looking
for. In addition, I walked you through the installation process. With that, you should have
all the skills you need to install Fedora, which is secure, privacy-preserving, free-of-charge,
and runs on almost any PC. There were a number of takeaways, which I will summarize
next. For the detailed rationale or the specifics of installation and initial setup, please take
a look at last month’s dispatch.
The main takeaway regarding the installation process as a whole should be that there
is nothing to worry about, even if this is your first time installing any operating system.
Everything works flawlessly and within a well-structured installation GUI manager - it is
very intuitive! And in the unlikely event that something goes wrong, the community is
always there to cover you.
Regarding security, I strongly recommend that you enable full-disk encryption in the
“Installation Destination” menu. This will protect your data at rest. In other words, when
your computer is turned off (power off, not locked screen), the data is inaccessible and
can only be read by entering the correct password. If you choose a strong password,
there is no known attack that even the most powerful entities, such as nation-states, could
use to access your data.
Besides protecting data like family photos and documents that you might not want to see in
public, you should use full-disk encryption, especially if you use cryptocurrencies. Depending
on how you set up your wallets, your private crypto keys may be stored unencrypted on your
computer’s hard drive, making them available for extraction by anyone who successfully steals
your device, buys it on eBay, or recycles it from the landfill. This is not possible with a strong
password and full-disk encryption enabled. Of course, using a flawless system with no ways to
sneak around also means that if you lose your drive encryption password, you will not be able
to get your data back. This is why it is so important to practice good password habits, which
can be simplified with a password manager. To learn more about account security, such as
password management and multi-factor authentication, please check out the related articles.
After the installation was complete and you looked at the initial setup, you hopefully noticed
that Fedora is a breath of fresh air, with no unnecessary telemetry or marketing-speak menus
cluttering up your system. The takeaway here is that Fedora only offers what users really want
(unlike Windows or MacOS), making it much more user-friendly as the computer works with
you, not against you. Still, skipping over all the settings is not the best idea; you should check
your system settings!
continued MR.P
Finally, I briefly touched on updates, which include both application features and security
patches. After the updates have been processed by rebooting your system, you are finished
with an up-to-date system that is free of telemetry and data mining. Welcome to the free
world! There is much more to learn, so stay tuned for more articles about Linux in the future.
However, for this month, I have to issue a serious warning about a software recommendation
I made in the past, as well as talk about some actually quite exciting news.
Ravio OTP Authenticator Warning

Ravio OTP, my previously recommended authenticator app for iOS, has been acquired by an
obscure company called Mobime. While this company is not a proven malicious entity, I see
more red flags than I would like, forcing me to issue a serious warning regarding Ravio OTP.
In the theoretical case of a malicious actor, an update could be pushed to extract your 2FA
secrets, rendering your 2FA account protections ineffective.
Before I point out what red flags I see and why this leads me to believe that your 2FA
secrets managed by Ravio OTP may have been compromised, let me first give you my
recommended protective measures. Assuming a full compromise of Ravio OTP, user action
is required: you have to disable 2FA on each account you used Ravio OTP for, then use a
different authenticator app and re-enable 2FA for each site again.
This is a big headache to do, but the only way to make a clear cut assuming a fully malicious
application that has extracted your TOTP secrets. To emphasize, you need to generate new
secrets, not move (export) your old secrets to a new application. For this reason, you must
first disable 2FA on all sites managed by Ravio OTP, then re-enable it on each site using the
new authenticator app.
My new recommendation
for iOS is 2FAS (Two-
Factor Authentication
Service). However,
2FAS users may face
the same dilemma as
Ravio OTP users right
now, because there is a
fundamental problem
with the iOS platform
that I will explain at the
end of this section. The
only reasonable solution
would be to switch from
iOS to Android. 2FAS is a good replacement for Ravio OTP, which is now owned by the
dubious company Mobime.
continued MR.P
Regenerating all of your 2FA secrets may seem drastic to some readers, but please
remember that 2FA is an essential line of defense between a hacker and your accounts,
which may contain sensitive information or financial resources that you should protect as
much as possible. In fact, a compromise of your 2FA, in addition to a weak password or
phishing attack, would render most current Internet accounts completely vulnerable.
To explain why I am skeptical about Mobime as the new owner of Ravio OTP here are my
reasons:
• First, the acquisition process was not announced publicly, but was discovered by a
user. The previous maintainer, “tijme”, stated that he had planned to announce the
transition, but was “surprised by the speed of the transition from Apple’s side”. This
explanation makes no sense to me, as the takeover should have been announced
before the app was moved from his account to Mobime’s.
• Second, Ravio OTP is free, provides no cash flow, and the only reason someone
would want to maintain it is to provide a great service to the world. To put it another
way, if Mobime is not an altruistic company, it is likely that there is going to be some
upcoming paid feature nonsense or malicious activity in the near future. I don’t buy
the argument that they wanted to get the app to acquire all the knowledge and skills
from the code base because it is open-source and easy to look at. For this reason, it
has to do with Ravio OTP’s user base and not the code itself in my opinion.
• Third, Mobime offers other apps in the App Store that appear to be a mix of apps that
require special permissions - suggesting data collection practices. Specifically, these
are a VPN, a screen recorder, and a keyboard app. To me, as someone who knows
exactly what data each app can see, this screams malicious data collection practices.
• Fourth, Mobime itself is an opaque company with little information on the web.
To play devil’s advocate: Mobime could do the world a great service by driving the
development of iOS 2FA management, and tijme was simply overwhelmed with the
acquisition process as a hobby developer - making an official announcement impossible.
Nevertheless, this seems unlikely to me, especially in combination with the company’s
product catalog, and I strongly recommend switching to another more transparent
alternative like 2FAS and generating new secrets.
Finally, I would like to point out why 2FAS, as well as any other application on iOS, could fall victim
to an acquisition like Ravio OTP’s, and why this could happen to an open-source application in the
first place. The whole problem stems from the lack of user control, or user freedom if you want to
use that phrase, on Apple’s iOS platform. There is no way to install an application except through
the App Store. With this layer between the source code repository and the application distribution,
no user can really know if they are downloading the application created from the public code.
continued MR.P
Therefore, every iOS user has to trust Apple and the App Store developer accounts, and
cannot rely on the source code itself. This massive amount of control is also shown by the
fact that the Chinese version of Apple’s App Store does not offer VPN applications - so
there is no way to install them. As an aside, this situation makes it obvious that there is
no escape from draconian laws when living in Apple’s ecosystem. Don’t get trapped by
the system, use an open alternative! Keep this in mind for your next phone purchase and
consider an Android device.
In contrast, if Ravio OTP was an Android app, I would still be able to read the source code,
compile the app and install it - giving me control over the entire supply chain. This type
of installation without the need for an app store is called sideloading. Unfortunately,
sideloading is not possible on iOS because Apple strictly forbids any installation method
other than the App Store. The same goes for all prohibited apps - Chinese Android users
can sideload VPN apps, while iOS users are out of luck. This is why I would never use an
iPhone.
Fedora Meets Apple Silicon Macs Af

g
The Fedora Project has announced upcoming support for Apple Silicon Macs. Please don’t
expect the first release to be as polished as the others, but it’s great to see that Linux has
finally arrived on newer Apple machines. This was not possible for a long time because
these machines have a completely different processor architecture. If you want to tinker
with Fedora on a new Mac, take a look at “Fedora Asahi Remix”.
Zoom Data Collection

Another news story that caused quite a stir was Zoom’s decision to use your data for AI
training purposes. After a huge backlash, Zoom changed its privacy policy again and now
states that no data will be used for AI training “without your consent”. In other words, you
might find a tiny little button somewhere to opt-out, but most users won’t.
While many users obviously don’t like these collection practices, it’s amazing that most
users don’t see the glaring problem - the technological ability to collect data in the first
place. Your data is worth a lot of money, and of course, it will be used in every possible way
as long as it is available. Instead of reading and studying a company’s privacy policy all day
long, you should be looking at its technical capabilities. A solid cryptographic setup can
mathematically prove that your data is protected, without a company having to promise it
in some marketing-speak privacy policy.
For example, you can use Signal instead of Zoom for your conferencing needs. This way,
you use the encrypted and time-tested Signal Protocol, which protects your data and
metadata and prevents any form of data misuse. A screen-sharing option is available, too.
continued MR.P
Signal’s current implementation allows for 40 people, which is amazing for an end-to-end
encrypted protocol. However, I am not sure whether a call with 40 people will give you a
decent experience.
If you have a need for larger groups, you may not be able to encrypt your data end-to-end,
but that does not mean you have to use a massively privacy-invasive service like Zoom. My
next best recommendation, if Signal is too limited by its strong protections, is to try Jitsi
Meet. It doesn’t encrypt your data end-to-end, but you can host the open-source application
yourself. By controlling the server, you can ensure that no data is collected, while data is always
encrypted in transit. If self-hosting is too big of a step for you, you can also try out the service
by using some servers provided by the company behind Jitsi Meet, or find a community server
you have reason to trust. Keep in mind that if you don’t host the application on your own
server, you’ll have to rely on the promises made by the server operators.
VPN Provider Reevaluation

There have been some recent technological advancements in the VPN industry that
have caused me to reevaluate my recommendations. First of all, my four recommended
services (Mullvad, IVPN, Proton VPN, Njalla) are still the same, but their rankings have
changed. For this reason, I will not repeat all the ins and outs of these companies. If you
want to take a closer look, please read the TDV November 2022 Dispatch.
Without further ado, here is what has changed: Mullvad has implemented sound post-
quantum resistant WireGuard tunnels, making them the only major VPN provider to offer this
form of protection. Having said that, Mullvad is currently my top recommendation, far ahead
of any other company that can now be classified as a legacy technology VPN provider.
But what does this mouthful of a sentence mean? Well, you need to understand the threat
of quantum computers to modern encryption schemes and a bit of cryptography basics.
Let’s start with quantum computers themselves.
A quantum computer is a machine that can perform certain operations much more
efficiently than traditional computer systems. Because of this, some types of modern
encryption schemes can theoretically be broken. This is a huge threat, especially since
it is reasonable to assume that a lot of encrypted traffic that cannot be cracked with
today’s tools is being stored for later decryption when quantum computers reach a
level of processing power to do so. The threat of quantum computers is not new to the
cryptography world, but as these systems have advanced quite a bit recently, there are
estimates that quantum computers could reach the necessary capabilities within the next
10 years.
continued MR.P
After explaining why quantum computers are a threat even today, you need to understand
the basics of cryptography. Within cryptography, there are two types of encryption
ciphers - symmetric and asymmetric. Symmetric ciphers use the same key to encrypt and
decrypt, while asymmetric ones use some sort of mathematical constructs to split these
two operations into partial keys. You may have heard of public-key cryptography, which is
another name for this type of asymmetric encryption ciphers.
These two types of encryption families are often used in combination. For example,
asymmetric encryption allows you to establish a secure connection and exchange data over
an insecure channel such as the Internet. This is not possible with symmetric encryption.
However, symmetric ciphers are much more performant than asymmetric ones. This is one
reason why these combined systems exist. For example, when you connect to a website,
your browser exchanges a symmetric key via asymmetric encryption, and then uses the
key in conjunction with a symmetric cipher to speed up all data decryption and encryption
operations after the initial exchange.
If you have one of these combined systems where asymmetric and symmetric operations are
connected, both must be secure. If your symmetric cipher is broken, the asymmetric key exchange
at the beginning is useless, while if the asymmetric cipher is broken, the symmetric key can be
extracted by an attacker and then used to decrypt the symmetrically encrypted data.
Bear with me a little longer and you will see the whole picture in a second. Let us combine
quantum computing with your newly acquired knowledge of basic cryptography. To do
this, you need to know two quantum algorithms:
The first is Shor’s algorithm, which efficiently finds the prime factors of an integer. Without a
quantum computer, this is known as a mathematically hard problem and is the fundamental
reason why most asymmetric ciphers are secure. This means that if someone can build a
quantum computer powerful enough to run Shor’s algorithm, asymmetric ciphers like ECC
or RSA are broken.
The second is Grover’s algorithm, which allows for the efficient search (cracking) of
symmetric keys. Effectively it is able to brute-force a 128-bit key in 2^64 iterations or a
256-bit key in 2^128 iterations. This means that if you followed my Fedora installation and
initial setup and enabled full disk encryption using an AES256 encryption algorithm (you
don’t choose the algorithm, it’s the default), you will have the security of AES128 if Grover’s
algorithm becomes a significant threat. While symmetric ciphers are affected, AES128
is still known to be unbreakable, so if you choose AES256 today, your laptop’s data is
protected even against quantum computers.
Nevertheless, as discussed above, asymmetric ciphers are basically broken and therefore
need to be replaced by newer post-quantum resistant ciphers. These have been
standardized over the last few years, but no one wants to implement a newer cipher for a
continued MR.P
potential threat that will never exist and thus leave the realm of well-vetted cryptography. In
other words, no one should and wants to roll their own crypto.
For this reason, most post-quantum-resistant schemes will implement a hybrid encryption of
a legacy asymmetric cipher and a new quantum-resistant one. This way, if a bug is found in
the post-quantum-resistant cipher, the data is at least protected by today’s standards; if no
bug is found, it is even quantum resistant.
However, it is not so easy to implement a new cipher in an existing project, and I am pretty
sure that this will kill a ton of projects over the next few years (maybe even decades).
Fortunately, the WireGuard protocol provides the additional option of adding a pre-shared
symmetric key to its public key cryptography, which has a key length of 256 bits (meaning
that if Grover’s algorithm becomes feasible, it’s still secure). However, this only works if the
key is exchanged via a post-quantum-resistant asymmetric cipher. And this is what Mullvad
has recently implemented.
Specifically, Mullvad uses Classic McEliece,

which is one of the new quantum-resident
asymmetric ciphers, to exchange the pre-
shared symmetric key for the WireGuard
protocol. What this means is that your Mullvad
traffic has the least chance of being decrypted
in the future, making Mullvad the most
technologically advanced and innovative VPN
provider on the market right now.
In summary, Mullvad provides sound quantum-

resistant VPN tunnels with WireGuard. It is
unlikely that this feature will be added to other
protocols such as OpenVPN in the near future.
However, unless you are dealing with heavy
censorship, WireGuard is the best protocol for
privacy VPN use cases because it is fast and
secure. Performance-wise, you should see no
difference with a processor built within the last
few years. In other words, it’s time to feel some
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If you are connected using Mullvad’s post-

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To enable a quantum-secure In the WireGuard settings, you will find the

connection, navigate to “VPN Settings” “Quantum-resistant tunnel” option, which you
and then to “WireGuard Settings”. must enable.
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An Interview with Orania Leader
Joost Strydom
A. L. Hart Havens
As part of the BRICS coalition
alongside Brazil, Russia, India,
and China, the South African
government has in recent years
pushed the country closer to the
adversaries and competitors of the
United States, NATO, and the G7.
Furthermore, the BRICS alliance,
which just recently announced the
addition of Argentina, Saudi Arabia,
the United Arab Emirates, Iran,
Egypt, and Ethiopia, is said to be
developing a gold-backed common
currency that could undermine the
US dollar’s status as the world’s
reserve currency.
peaceful manner that also respects the rights
And while South Africa’s geopolitical alignment and wellbeing of South Africa’s numerous other
has been the focus of foreign policy news, the ethnic groups.
country’s grave domestic problems have gone
largely unnoticed in the collective Western What’s more, Orania is a prime example of a
world. In fact, a large political gathering last small, tight-knit community successfully building
month in which attendees and a prominent a self-sufficient society in a remote area that
politician openly called for the killing of the should be of great interest to enthusiasts of
Boers prompted none other than Elon Musk to intentional communities across the world.
lament the organizers’ aim of “openly pushing
for the genocide of white people in South TDV Offshore: Welcome, Joost. Can you
Africa.” briefly explain the history of Orania, what the
settlement seeks to achieve, and your role in the
Against this background, TDV Offshore is here movement?
today with Joost Strydom, the 30-year-old head
of the Orania Movement, an organization tasked Joost Strydom: First of all, Orania is in the
with facilitating the continued settlement of a extremely challenging yet privileged situation to
designated homeland for the Afrikaner people be breaking new ground for alternative idealists
on the banks of the Orange River in central and communities worldwide. The reason for this
South Africa. is that Orania is both an ambitious idea and a
real homeland.
As a word of caution, the mainstream media
is very quick to label Orania as controversial, More specifically, Orania is a freedom-driven
however, a closer look at the settlement reveals organization carrying the torch for Afrikaners
a tremendous determination of a proud people as well as for other embattled peoples, proving
to preserve its culture and language in a not only that freedom is necessary but that it is
Joost Strydom
continued A. L. Hart Havens
also possible. Furthermore, Orania is a home in Any chance of survival, let alone the
the deepest sense of the word. It is a home for opportunity to flourish, should start with solving
a people that have been repeatedly sold out, Afrikaners’ primary challenge – demographics.
humiliated, and deeply wounded – but never In a country created by the British Empire
conquered. with zero regard for local institutional
arrangements or land ownership, Afrikaners
In a country where Afrikaners are outnumbered are situated in a country the size of 16 Western
20 to 1, Orania is not just the only hope for European countries and outnumbered 20 to 1.
Afrikaner freedom but it is also becoming one Demographics are a serious challenge.
of the last resorts for survival – both physically
and as a place of survival for our culture, Afrikaner culture, religion, language, and
language, and religion. values have zero say in a one-man, one-vote
democracy and are simply disregarded.
Orania is a solution-driven, bigger-picture Furthermore, as the country’s previous minority
community, meaning that we have a plan for rulers until 1994, Afrikaners are widely resented
ourselves but also suggestions for others, and held responsible for a country in decay.
including the rest of our country. We believe in
a confederate system as a possible solution for These challenges cannot be overcome
a country so diverse that it recognizes eleven economically, militarily, or even politically! They
official languages! must be solved demographically. Orania has
done just that by relocating Afrikaners across
Orania faces multiple challenges, the first of South Africa to a barren and nearly unpopulated
which is to educate both friend and foe about area of semi-desert in the middle of the country
our ethical and workable idea. The second of where the weather is harsh and resources are
which is to physically and ideologically survive scarce.
and thrive in a very dangerous and hostile host
country. The Karoo region of South Africa is sparsely
populated, allowing Afrikaners to
become a demographic majority. By
achieving this, Oranians are creating
a de facto reality – one where we can
maintain our own culture, religion, and
control of our children’s futures.
Another aspect is the idea of our

own labor. Since labor practices
create demographic realities,
importing cheap labor from external
communities of a different culture will
change the demographics forever.
Orania strictly refrains from that.
Joost Strydom
The other two pillars of the Orania plan are its The Orania Movement is the driving force
own institutions and its own land. The set of behind the idea of Orania. As the head of this
independent institutions ranges from socio- institution, my primary role is to further the
economic and educational, financial, religious, cause of Afrikaner freedom by getting both
and production-related – everything people friend and foe to understand the legitimacy of
would need when their own government is our plan, convincing likeminded Afrikaners to
hostile and incompetent. Owning land is a relocate to Orania, raising funds for projects
logical step at a time and age when land is so in Orania, helping to develop and refine the
controversial in South Africa. Orania legally Orania idea and its practical implementation,
acquired land that is large enough to start a acting as spokesperson for the community, and
community. serving as Orania’s office of foreign affairs.
The Orania community has taken up alternative Orania has a broad leadership structure with
non-mainstream measures since the political multiple institutions and elected leadership at
inception of the idea and has created a set of different levels – landowner associations, the
alternatives including its own currency (the Ora), town council, an Orania representative council,
banking system, labor practices, and security and more.
in a professional, legal, and effective
manner. Orania has also created its
own justice system and has even won
a court case against the South African
government.
Orania is growing about 10% every

year! In terms of new businesses, we
are seeing growth of about 25% per
year. The main economic sectors in
Orania are retail, construction, tourism,
and pecan-nut farming. One of the two
local schools doubled the number of
attending children within a span of five
years and the local tertiary training institution
grew from five attendees to one hundred in TDV Offshore: Nelson Mandela made a
four years. Medical, security, and professional conciliatory visit to Orania in 1995 shortly after
services are growing by the day. securing the South African presidency. How
have Orania’s relations with the South African
However, looking beyond the buildings, the government been since the days of Mandela,
institutions, and services, Orania’s main success and what are they like under the current
is its highly committed and wildly enthusiastic president?
people. Oranians push with an unspeakable
determination against almost hopeless Joost Strydom: Orania has received visits
circumstances. And that, paired with a shared from many big players in the South African
home, makes every challenge worthwhile! government. This includes former presidents
Joost Strydom
Nelson Mandela and Jacob
Zuma and many more. Orania
tries to clearly articulate our
views, plan, and mandate to any
and all visitors of this sort. As it
is with local politics, there will
always be an amount of nuance
that is difficult to communicate
externally.  
It is of great importance that

we communicate and explain
our ideas to a broad audience.
The current situation in South
Africa is of grave concern for
Afrikaners, with the leader of development is preparing for that.   
the third-biggest political party openly chanting It is important to remember that Orania’s goal
“Kill the Boer. Kill the farmer. One farmer, one has from the very beginning been to populate
bullet,” while South Africa’s president Cyril this demographic hole, an empty desert area,
Ramaphosa makes no effort to stop him or with Afrikaners in order to restore Afrikaner
his supporters. South Africa also has more freedom. That is the goal!
than 120 laws based on race, which have
pushed Afrikaners out of the public sector There is a three-part process for approving
and educational establishments and away prospective new residents.
from business opportunities. With this in mind,
it would be ridiculous to pretend that the 1. New applicants go through an
government is friendly to our cause. administrative process including application
forms, a criminal background check, and
TDV Offshore: How does the Orania settlement general information (membership in the
plan to accommodate the ever-increasing Orania Movement, ability to financially support
number of new residents? themselves, occupations, etc.).
Joost Strydom: Orania is currently home 2. A panel of three peers and an ex officio
to about 3,000 residents, while the Orania member of the town council interview them
Movement, our supporter organization, has to make sure they understand Orania for what
around 6,000 members across the world. I it is and that Orania understands who they
always urge people to consider our trajectory are. Things like rejection of our Protestant
rather than the current population. We recorded Reformed faith, an inability to speak Afrikaans,
10% average annual growth from 2016 to 2020 direct violations of our values and culture,
and 15% average annual growth from 2020 and some instances of criminal records (rape,
to 2023! Our goal for the near future is to hit murder, etc.) can disqualify applicants even
10,000 residents and our current infrastructure before the interview.
Joost Strydom
3. The community either accepts or rejects provides water, local electrical infrastructure,
the newcomer. Orania is not a cult and there sewerage, and other utilities fully independent
is actually quite a lot of diversity among our of the South African government. The Orania
residents regarding viewpoints, politics, and Dorpsraad is probably the only municipality
even how we practice our Christian faith. in the country that can brag about 31 years of
In spite of this diversity, people holding clean, unqualified audits. It’s hard for foreigners
viewpoints deemed to undermine our mission to understand how rotten the rest of the
will not be accepted into the community. country’s municipalities are.
The South African economy is dependent on
TDV Offshore: Orania doesn’t receive much cheap black labor on an appalling level that is
in the way of public utilities from the South not far from slavery. Orania clearly refrains from
African government. How has the resulting engaging in this practice for three main reasons.
need for economic and energy self-sufficiency
manifested itself in Orania? 1. Demographics, as discussed earlier.
2. Religiously, we believe our labor is part

Joost Strydom: Orania unfortunately remains
of our offer to the Lord, and you cannot
somewhat dependent on the national power
contract it out. It is also wrong on a practical
grid, at least for the time being. Given that
level to misuse other people on this scale.
load-shedding (rolling blackouts) leaves the
Orania is the only part of South Africa
country without electricity for up to 10 hours on
that fully broke away from this aspect of
some days, we are working feverishly to create
the Apartheid legacy. Of course, gated-
our own power supply. It is a very expensive
community liberals who make use of cheap
and complicated process. We are already
black labor will tell you they are the true
about 30% dependent on our own (public
saints and we are the sinners.
and private) power generation and hope to
expand this further. The next goal is to be free 3. We want to empower Afrikaners to be
of load-shedding from 6am to 10pm so that productive and useful citizens. Visitors to
we can keep economic activity going.  Orania Orania are often baffled by sight of light-
skinned people engaging in manual
labor.
TDV Offshore: Does Orania have its

own government, police force, and
courts? How much autonomy does the
settlement enjoy within South Africa?
Joost Strydom: Orania has its own

security company that takes on some
police duties. It has a small full-time
staff, including a control room with
high-tech camera technology. Their
mandate is to protect Orania from
Joost Strydom
threats and to maintain internal public order. We Our city development team works with external
also have a large commitment from volunteers city architects to plan the city of tomorrow.
– residents involved in water rescue, emergency The Orania movement is working toward more
response teams like medical, fire, etc. recognition for our people, gaining international
support, fundraising, etc.
Our right to apply the rules concerning the
residency process and local legal framework has TDV Offshore: Tell us a bit about Afrikaans,
been examined by South Africa’s Human Rights your native tongue, and the official language of
Commission and no faults could be identified. Orania. Some linguists claim that it’s the easiest
Local mediation and arbitration issues as well as language for a monolingual English speaker to
criminal cases are typically handled internally. learn. Do you agree?
In some cases, for things that would be a crime
externally, suspects are handed over to the Joost Strydom: Afrikaans is, as far as I know,
South African police. On the other hand, the the youngest official language in the world! For
South African police won’t pursue cases related a period, it was known as “Kitchen Dutch,” often
to smoking marijuana since this has been meant as an insult, however, it developed into
decriminalized in South Africa but is illegal in a language in its own right and now Afrikaners
Orania. and Dutch have quite a few difficulties
understanding one another.
TDV Offshore: What are the major projects that
Orania and the Orania Movement are currently Afrikaans was probably also the fastest
working on? language to develop from a kitchen language
to a full academic language, with academic
Joost Strydom: Most of our current efforts works being published from the 1950s onwards.
are focused on growing our infrastructure Afrikaners built Africa’s largest economy and
to accommodate 10,000 residents. Water, best military. They also had a space program in
electricity, and sewerage are the main concerns. its early stages and built nuclear reactors and a
The Orania Dorpsraad built a major sewerage nuclear bomb, all in Afrikaans!
plant that works without electricity to
buffer against load-shedding. ORASOL,
the company we created to work on an
electrical solution, is also raising funds
and acquiring expertise to buy a battery
to support the entire town.
We organize festivals for our language,

are working on a national anthem, and
provide a home for Afrikaner monuments
that are vandalized around the country,
including that of Paul Kruger, whose face
is on the famous Krugerrand gold coin.
Joost Strydom
Preserving Afrikaans and the culture of its Conversations in Orania are much more positive
speakers is a major concern for us. For that than what I’ve experienced in the rest of South
reason, we won’t even consider applicants who Africa. Oranians don’t discuss problems,
are unable to partake in an interview conducted potholes, and farm murders, but rather
in Afrikaans. Afrikaans is very easy to learn, solutions, plans, and initiatives for what we are
however, there aren’t a lot of resources for creating here.
foreigners to learn it.
TDV Offshore: What is everyday life like in

Orania? What leisure activities are available
there? What about schools, churches, and
sports?
Joost Strydom: A lot of what is going on in

Orania is very practical. Remember, Orania
is still a pioneer community. Work, especially
physical labor, is an important part of day-to-
day life. It is also easy to spend more than 20
hours a week with volunteer activities, serving
on different leadership structures, security,
chamber of commerce, our own local bank, TDV Offshore: The Orania Movement has
schools, or churches. received considerable support from outside
of South Africa, namely from donors who wish
When our family moved here in 1995, there to contribute to the preservation of Afrikaner
were almost no services or economic activity. culture and the Afrikaans language. How can
So, the fact that things like entertainment people learn more about Orania and make a
businesses, gyms, etc. can now be found in donation to the movement?
Orania is a major comfort!
Joost Strydom: The most important
Jokesters have often stated that our national contribution anyone could make would be
sport is holding meetings! If residents aren’t at to share our message and to help the world
work, or serving the community, the Orange notice Orania and get us recognition. We really
River also makes for great entertainment. need that. Local and international donations
Oranians are outdoorsy people and they enjoy are obviously also very welcome. We mostly
farming, hiking, hunting, sport shooting and use it for specific projects like helping poor
more, while cultural activities and the arts are Afrikaner families coming here to afford school
also growing. We also have a very active culture fees, developing housing, working on energy
of socializing and dancing (called sokkie) and independence, and building specific projects or
visiting each other’s houses for a braai (our initiatives.
version of a barbeque and the social activities
that go with that). The Orania website is orania.co.za
People willing to make a monetary contribution
can do so at orania.co.za/donasies (donations)
Joost Strydom
We also have cryptocurrency options and a bank account in the Netherlands that people
can contribute funds to:
Bitcoin: 1P5XXgoo846VvuoL7z9pmcxXa3hBAdSnNi
Bitcoin Cash: qrezm6juexy42ucq5dcwfczynu3fckfx0sx0eh7nyq
Bank: ABN-AMRO
Account Holder: Vriende van Orania
Branch: Bovenkarspel, Grootebroek
Account Number (IBAN): NL 19 ABNA 0608 2674 30
However, I would like to reiterate that what we need the

most is international recognition. We believe that this
will lead to determined, visionary citizens around the
world stepping up and starting to build communities in
this style. Thank you.
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the August 2022 Dispatch (pages 30 to 40).
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Turkey, the country
on two continents
Luis Fernando Mises
LFM: Welcome back to The Dollar Vigilante. Then I went to use the restroom and I see this
Today, we are going to talk about Turkey. It’s “toilet” hole in the floor and panicked because
a place that’s been on my radar for a while, squatting is not something I felt like doing. I
especially because I’ve seen lots of videos of actually just walked right in, saw it, said “Nope”
how many cats they have. We have our friend and and came out. I wasn’t about to do any
Christy here from Texas. kind of yoga or pilates trying to go to the
bathroom. I thought, what am I going to do
Christy: Thank you for talking with me about it. now? I had to ask somebody there. I said, “Are
these the only bathrooms?” She guided me to
LFM: You’re a world traveler. You like to go another set of bathrooms. I looked at the other
everywhere and that is fantastic. It helps you see stalls and they were perfect, you know, perfectly
many points of view, and how people live and Americanized. I didn’t have to worry about that,
it opens up your worldview. I’m really excited to but it happened to be that the one I walked into
talk with you about Turkey. was the traditional Middle Eastern toilet type.
I’m curious, why did you go to Turkey? What LFM: Wait, so that is Turkey’s traditional way to
inside you said: “Hey, let’s try this out.” use the bathroom?!
Christy: It was for a business meeting that we Christy: They use both. A lot of other places that
had in Turkey. That was a short meeting but then I went to had the same thing. There are a lot of
we thought, you know, why not stop in Istanbul places that had it like that but in the more touristy
and spend a little time there? Obviously, you places, they had options. And then the hotel, of
don’t want to just go there for a meeting. I course, had a regular, Western-style bathroom.
had never been to Turkey before. I was in the
middle of a three-continent tour with meetings
in numerous countries. I was probably most
hesitant about Turkey only because I didn’t
know quite as much about it as some of the
other places that we were traveling to during
that time.
I did a little bit of research and it felt pretty

comfortable. We flew in, we landed at the
airport in Istanbul and the first thing I saw was
all the women surrounding the luggage claim
were wearing full burkas. You could only see
the women’s eyes and I was rather concerned
that I didn’t bring quite the right outfit for this
visit. Then I realized that they probably came off
the planes landing from Saudi Arabia. I just got
a slight scare there for a minute. You definitely
feel like a stranger in a strange land.
Turkey, the country
on two continents
continued Luis Fernando Mises
LFM: I can picture you there. You show up and I had a blonde moment thinking, “Well, do I not
you see people in burkas and then you see have to go through customs as I’m going to a
squatting toilets and you’re like “I’ve made a different continent?” But that’s not a thing since
mistake.” it’s the same country. But I think, again, I can
blame jet lag for all of those moments. I got over
Christy: I thought “This is not worth it. I just to the other side and Istanbul there is way more
don’t want to be here for three days living like Europeanized. It’s touristy and very blended with
this.” But then I thought “OK, come on, you lots of different cultures with tourists. Whereas this
wanted to experience new cultures, and what first part of Turkey was not, it was very much the
better way than to get a little shocked right out locals. So it’s a little bit different.
the gate, literally right out of the gate.”
Another funny thing about the bathrooms too

was at the hotel. In the shower, they had this
metal chain-like string and I thought that must
be to turn the shower on, so I pulled it and I’ll
blame jet lag… I pull this thinking it will release
the top of the shower. And then as the chain sort
of spins around, I see that it says EMERGENCY.
I panicked for a moment. I thought their
equivalent of the EMS is going to be at my hotel
door and I’m going to be naked in the shower
and I don’t know how the system works here.
What if they just break down the door or they

have a key and then I’m going to be sitting
here like, I’m so sorry, I didn’t know what it was.
Luckily nothing happened and when I saw
that it said emergency, I obviously didn’t pull it
again. Of course, it was a different button that
you pressed to get the shower head down and
I thought, you know what? Don’t go pressing
buttons or pulling chains in places you’ve never
been before.
Turkey is part of both Europe and Asia, so it

covers two continents. There are a few bridges, I was a little more guarded but I just asked at the
but I actually drove across the Yavuz Sultan front desk if there are any areas that they think I
Selim Bridge, which is probably about 10 -12 shouldn’t go to if I am on a walk. Everybody at
years old. It was really cool to be able to just the hotel speaks enough English that you can
cross over to another continent and still stay in communicate. There really wasn’t a place they
the same country. told me to avoid, so I was pretty confident.
Turkey, the country
on two continents
I mapped out the closest Starbucks but it was fees because you have an option of choosing
like five miles. So I didn’t do that. When you go when you’re paying by credit card on the ATM
into these hotels, you go through security but keypad. You always pick the local currency.
just like at the airport. Basically, they don’t scan
your stuff, you just walk through the detector, In every country I went to, I always chose the
all the hotels are like that and this hotel was at currency of their particular country. You avoid
a higher end I’m guessing it was four stars, and a lot of hidden fees when you do it that way
very nice! In dollars, it was around $125. So you and it ends up being cheaper. I would go look
could legitimately go to Turkey and stay in a at my credit card statement on my phone after
decent, what we would call a three-star hotel, purchasing stuff to know exactly what it actually
for probably $50 a night. And then I went out cost me instead of adding things up. A coffee
walking by the water, and took some beautiful would be two bucks. You could go to dinner
pictures. It was just gorgeous. It was a Muslim and get a gigantic best-meal-ever at a really
holiday, so they were all out picnicking, kids nice restaurant for 40 bucks. For something that
running around, and the smell of their food. The might be $200 in the US.
food is amazing in the Middle East. Specifically,
Turkey had some of the best food I’ve ever had. Things were generally less expensive. Plus,
the currency exchange was better. So you get
I went and grabbed a coffee, it was 50 Turkish both of those perks. Basically, I spent the day
Lira for a venti frappuccino, which is about there and actually walked to this Mediterranean
two bucks. I didn’t always sit and calculate restaurant which was very authentic and
everything. I’ve been told by other people probably not a nice part of town.
before I got there that you’ve got to be careful.
They will rip you off. But I never felt like they It’s funny that you mentioned cats because I
overcharged me. I used my credit card, of didn’t know that. But I did see cats. I went in to
course. And you always pick the currency of that get some wine at a liquor store and there were
country so there are no extra fees. You avoid the three baby kittens running around, it was near
a busy highway and I asked a guy
nearby if they were his. He said no.
I was thinking “But there are kittens
inside your establishment and you
sell food here!” They were super
cute. I didn’t even know that was
the thing until you said that at the
beginning of this conversation.
You get a massive amount of food

for a very reasonable price. It’s an
inexpensive place to go on vacation.
I was there for about two days and
then went back to Istanbul and
stayed at another hotel. I actually
found a place to get my hair done
Turkey, the country
on two continents
on Instagram. It was sort of a shot in the dark. I LFM: That’s good. I’ve noticed that, and that also
thought, why not go to Turkey and get your hair happens in European countries, Latin America
done? Because they’re known for their hair and and Mexico. The entertainment is watching
they are super inexpensive. He did a good job. other people. You go and they have all these
tables outside and you’re connecting and you’re
What was interesting about that was I was able to see other people live life. It was a nice
supposedly in the wealthiest, most expensive experience. As you said, it has good and bad
part of town and it was really, really busy. things. What would be the bad side of that?
Traffic was congested and people were just
everywhere. But I would not have thought that Christy: I will fully admit I’m a coffee addict. I
was the most affluent part of town. In the US can drink three Venti cups a day. So I guess for
that wouldn’t have been considered the high- me that’s what keeps me going. I’m very active
end expensive part of town. I don’t know what and I keep constantly busy - a little on the ADHD
the other parts of town look like. I saw a lot of side. But especially with traveling and just being
restaurants around and cafes and people. It’s exhausted, I needed two or three cups. You
kind of the same in Europe, specifically Spain. can’t always sit and linger over coffee because
You don’t see people just sort of ordering there’s no time when you’re traveling and it was
coffee to go. You see them ordering coffee and not easy to find a place in Turkey.
sitting outside. No matter how hot it is, they sit
outside with friends and actually relax and have A few other countries were like this too where
conversations. you could just say, hey, I want a large to-go cup
of coffee. That wasn’t easy to find. I went in to
I don’t think I ever saw anybody with a coffee order one and they said, “Oh, sorry, we don’t
cup in their car driving. I guess they cherish have that.” Also, they don’t call it to go, they call
those established moments of the day. You it something else. I can’t remember the phrases
know what I mean? Coffee time, lunch time, they use. Take away? That kind of stinks for
dinner time, they don’t make it quick and fast. busy people. But it’s just a lifestyle they’re used
It’s like their life isn’t so busy that they
can’t stop and smell the roses. Which
was both good and bad. It was really
cool just to kind of sit down and watch
all the people while you’re sipping tea,
your coffee. But then when you just
want the giant to-go, it would be nice
if there were places that actually did
that. I am sure there were since I saw
a few Starbucks but they were a lot
different than here at home. Also, no
McDonald’s on every corner and that’s
just not how they live their life. Which
was cool.
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on two continents
to and we are not, we don’t do that. Nobody You have to be aggressive and I’m not going to
goes and actually sips from a ceramic cup at a be aggressive in a foreign country where I don’t
coffee shop. I don’t even know that Starbucks even know all of their traffic rules and laws.
has ceramic coffee cups for you. Maybe a local
coffee shop. Maybe they do. But it’s not a big I probably sat there longer than I should have,
thing here. but I’m just not interested in being in a car
accident in a rental car in Istanbul. I’m sure
LFM: Starbucks back in the day used to do that. they’re used to it. I would say that it’s one of the
Even if you got a pastry, they would give it to biggest frustrations.
you on a ceramic plate because they liked the
idea of that same experience. To slow down and Now, the mosques were beautiful. I mean, I’m
enjoy it there. But I think that very few people Christian so I didn’t go into any plus I wasn’t
did that really. They just stopped carrying wearing the right attire. I wanted to go in and
anything that’s ceramic. just see the inside. They were really beautiful,
with really nice construction.
Christy: It’s definitely different. I do think there’s
one in downtown Dallas that still
has that when I was there a few
months back. But it’s rare. I think
you’d specifically have to ask for it,
which is kind of strange. Other than
that, Istanbul was really cool. They
had all the street food everywhere.
Grilled corn was a big one. It was
on every other corner! I guess it was
like the equivalent of our hot dog
stands. At least that’s what it felt like.
They had a lot of shops that sold
seeds and garden supplies. This
was all downtown. You wouldn’t see
that here in the US. It was also very
crowded. I guess that was one of the
negatives about Istanbul specifically. The traffic It wasn’t as clean as some of the other cities I’ve
was insane. Traffic stopped me in downtown been in but you also didn’t see any homeless. I
Istanbul, I was about five minutes from where my didn’t see any panhandlers or homeless and this
hair appointment was and my GPS said it was would have been their downtown in the busiest
going to be about a 45-minute drive. I seriously part of the city. I guess that was really just the
considered just hopping out and trying to park heart of Istanbul where I spent the time kind of
the car and walking to where I needed to go. walking through and of course, they had gold
But I was wearing high-heeled shoes because markets too and, it was pretty cool just to see all
I just thought I was going to an appointment, the culture. There were a lot of American tourists
not going hiking or walking or tour touring that or European Russian tourists as well so I didn’t
day. But the driving in Istanbul is super crazy. feel out of place. Everybody was pretty nice.
Turkey, the country
on two continents
LFM: What’s your biggest takeaway from that? There are certain regions you just can’t go to.
And of course, there are wars going on over
Christy: I had a lot of fear that I would not fit there too once you get closer to the border.
in. I had a fear that they would look at me like a You just don’t want to go too far. If I had gone
strange person. But people were really friendly. maybe an hour east I could have been in places
It was a really good experience. It wasn’t scary. that I shouldn’t have been. With that said, I still
I didn’t feel like people were ripping me off. I would have liked to see a little bit more of the
was warned about that by other friends who outskirts.
have been there but I never felt like they were
trying to take advantage of me or being pushy. I LFM: Thank you. I’m trying to put everything
suppose also from the media that we have here together. You said the prices were amazing.
that they would not be friendly to Americans… It seemed relatively safe and it was beautiful.
blonde Americans wearing shorts and T-shirts, People were friendly. On the other side, lots of
walking around the mosque taking photos. traffic, maybe you shouldn’t take a car. I would
say that generally of all big cities. Because even
LFM: What is one thing that you wish you in my case, from Mexico City, sometimes when
had known? we are going to a certain place in the city, we
just don’t even take the car because there’s
Christy: I would say if I had to do that part over nowhere to park it.
again, I wouldn’t have even rented a car from
the airport. I would have taken cabs because
it’s inexpensive. You do have to be a little
careful there. I’ve heard that some cab drivers
aren’t actually cab drivers, they’re there to take
advantage of you. And although this happens
rarely, they can take you someplace and then
demand a lot more money than what the cab
ride should be. You have to make sure they’re
legitimate. But it would be so much easier and
cheaper to just take their public transportation…
trains or a cab. I would have had more time to
experience the city if I had done that.
I actually wish I would have had some more

time there because once you think you see part
of the city, there are a million more things you
can go and do and afterward I read even more
and think, oh, I should have gone here. I should
have gone to the outskirts there. I like to go off
the beaten path a little bit. I didn’t really get an
opportunity to do that as much in Turkey as I
would have liked.
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on two continents
Christy: That’s something I wish I would have LFM: You mentioned that in places like
known. I wouldn’t even have bothered. It took Manhattan, Rio, Mexico City, etc. cars are a
an hour to go five miles and it was like that luxury sometimes because you don’t really need
the whole day. It wasn’t just like, oh, there’s an them. In places like where you and I live in DFW,
accident here. That was just how the traffic in a car is a necessity.
Istanbul is.
Christy: Yes. How often do people in Dallas
I went across a bridge near the city and it was specifically use the DART or the train to get
covered with people fishing and putting the fish where they need to go? I mean, hardly ever. I
in these big glass jars and that’s what they’re have from time to time but it’s not normal like
going to eat for dinner. All these people were it is in other places. You could be a millionaire
just out and about… you wouldn’t see that here running a Fortune 500 company in a big city
necessarily. You might, you know, go to Levon or and you’re still hopping on the train in the
go to a lake somewhere. Maybe you see a few morning with your croissant and your coffee
people fishing but to actually see kids, dads, and you’re going to work or to your meetings
women, and full families just out there fishing, or to a friend’s house. They use the trains to get
collecting all of this fish to eat probably for the everywhere, which are usually a lot nicer too.
next week - it was great!
LFM: Not as mainstream for sure. Perhaps
I guess the reason I got to watch them was probably more for lower income.
because I was stuck on that bridge for
about 30 minutes. I thought it was cool
to take a few pictures. Then, I thought
I’m over this, I could have walked back
and forth 25 times. Also, it wasn’t like
the cabs weren’t stuck in traffic too, but
they’re experienced drivers. So they were
maneuvering and they were doing circles
around me.
And a lot of people were on bicycles too.

I mean, tons of people, they obviously
knew better. If they lived down there, I’m
sure they didn’t even own a car.
It’s probably similar to New York as far as

the actual traffic congestion, maybe even a little Christy: Probably lower income or people that
worse. But I’m saying the people in New York specifically are commuting right off 75 or right
that actually live there don’t drive, you know, off the path of where the DART is. Nobody says,
and if they do, they have a car park that they “I’m going to hop the DART and go to the Dallas
only take when they’re leaving the city. Museum of Art” . They don’t often do that. Like
I said, I have from time to time when my kids
were younger just for the whole experience of
Turkey, the country
on two continents
it. There was a homeless guy once who tried here in the States but you’d only pay around
to bite me. So maybe that’s why I don’t do that $3,000 in Turkey. They say the quality and the
anymore. It was a fun experience. A memory care is really good too.
that my kids still bring up even at their ages.
I had another friend who, and in fact it was in
Christy: But back to Turkey, it was a really good Turkey, had gotten a sharp object in his eye
experience and inexpensive. when he was over there on holiday and this
was about 10 years ago. He said it was the best
I found out from somebody that her friend medical treatment, the best care, the cleanest
goes to Turkey every six months to get her hair facilities and very inexpensive. Here in the US
extensions put in because it’s actually cheaper you walk into a doctor’s office and you come out
than the US even including the airfare and the with a $5,000 bill because you had an in-grown
hotel. She gets a three day vacation out of it as toenail or something.
well. To me that’s a long flight to do something
like that. I care about my looks but
not like that. Some people might
think “I can’t believe hair extensions
are that expensive” but the good
ones could easily be $1000. They
last maybe six months. So if you go
there, you can have the same ones
put in for maybe $200.
LFM: What do you think the

flight costs?
Christy: I did the world trip so it

was one fee to connect to all of
these countries. I don’t know what
a flight to Turkey would cost individually, but my In Turkey this guy just paid for what he had
friend said it was pretty cheap. She could get a done. And he said that it was better care than he
flight for 400 or 500 bucks. I’m sure it’s on the would have received in the US. I should know
back of the plane, on seats that make you feel by now that what the news shows you is always
like you’re in a uterus again maybe. going to be the worst, the biggest fear tactics
and they’re only going to give you the worst
Turkey is also one of the places they go to for stories and you don’t get to hear about the
plastic surgery. I can’t even imagine putting other 99.9% of successful stories because that,
myself at risk in general for plastic surgery. that’s not newsworthy.
But people do it all the time and that’s one of
the destinations they go to. Another person LFM: Right. That’s why they made it to the news
told me it’s popular to get hair transplants and because they’re crazy or wild.
dental work. Complete replacement. I was told it
would cost like 50 grand to get your teeth done
Turkey, the country
on two continents
Christy: Exactly. It’s a global economy and all think that was the wild west and wondered
I feel like some of these other countries are where my cowboy hat and boots were. The
almost more innovative and they want the older people would think of the show Dallas,
industry and the business and they want to and the younger ones would say “Oh, school
be the best and they don’t want to be known shootings happen all the time there.”
as not as good as the US. We (the US) used to
be considered having the best of everything LFM: That’s still extremely rare. I’m so happy to
- from the space program to hospitals to hear your experience and I like how vulnerable
whatever else at one point - maybe even you are. How you start with the idea of “I may
education. And now, after having traveled have made a mistake coming here” and then
to places like Turkey, I don’t think that’s how it opens up and it becomes a fantastic
necessarily true anymore and it’s almost like experience. I think that’s what travel is all about.
we might have been asleep at the wheel.
I’m going to blame public schools for

a lot of this only because that’s the
industry I’ve been in and I’ve watched
it happen over the course of 30 years.
It’s almost like we’re not putting any
emphasis on building and designing
and technology and medicine and we’re
just really teaching kids things that aren’t
necessary. I think that we’re going to
pay the price for that if we don’t find
alternative models for them to be more
competitive within the world market. I
think people are starting to wake up.
It’s like running this global marathon
and suddenly these other countries are
running past the US and we’re just sitting here Christy: I was excited just to see how people
wondering what happened. live and I really got a good window into
that by going there. It was really cool and
LFM: I’m with you on that 100% and we stay ultimately, I think I told you this before, I
stuck on that without really producing anymore. think everybody just wants the best life for
themselves and their families and everybody
Christy: And just to say we’re the best doesn’t in the world is just going about trying to do
work anymore. As far as the political system that in the best way that they can.
goes, it’s the same thing. I mean, look at the
two parties running the country, it’s pretty Once you realize that, you’re a lot less fearful
embarrassing. That was one of the things because then you know you have that common
everybody knew of when I mentioned that I ground with other human beings, we all want
was from the US. I would typically say Texas, the same things.
they knew more about that, although they did
Turkey, the country
on two continents
People all over the world want success,
just like ourselves, they want good health
and education systems, just like ourselves.
People aren’t over there plotting how to
bomb us. Despite what the media will want
you to think and despite what the people
running foreign policy want you to think, we
don’t need to be over there. We create a lot
more problems for people by intervening
when they’re perfectly happy at living their
lives the way that they are.
LFM: Oh, I am absolutely with you on that.

Thank you so much and for everybody
reading this, if you have any questions
about Turkey, let us know.
Luis Fernando Mises

Luis Fernando Mises is the manager of TDV Groups. As a Free Market Anarchist
and host of Anarchast Español and Emancipated Human, he enjoys bringing
perspectives from all over the world to TDV readers through his interviews. A
passionate traveler, Luis consults and teaches Servant Leadership and Conscious
Capitalism all over the United States, and is a certified Yoga instructor, a
meditation teacher, a student of Austrian Economics, a member of the Tarrant
County Libertarian Party Executive Committee, an entrepreneur, and a family man.
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Ron Paul’s 2012 Fck Off Speech To Congress
Mr. Speaker:
This may be the last time I speak on the House Floor. At the end of the year I’ll leave
Congress after 23 years in office over a 36 year period. My goals in 1976 were the
same as they are today: promote peace and prosperity by a strict adherence to the
principles of individual liberty.
It was my opinion, that the course the U.S. embarked on in the latter part of the 20th
Century would bring us a major financial crisis and engulf us in a foreign policy that
would overextend us and undermine our national security.
To achieve the goals I sought, government would have had to shrink in size and scope,
reduce spending, change the monetary system, and reject the unsustainable costs of
policing the world and expanding the American Empire.
The problems seemed to be overwhelming and impossible to solve, yet from my

view point, just following the constraints placed on the federal government by the
Constitution would have been a good place to start.
In many ways, according to conventional wisdom, my off-and-on career in Congress,

from 1976 to 2012, accomplished very little. No named legislation, no named federal
buildings or highways -- thank goodness. In spite of my efforts, the government
has grown exponentially, taxes remain excessive, and the prolific increase of
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continued Ron Paul’s 2012 Fck Off Speech To Congress
incomprehensible regulations continues. Wars are constant and pursued without
Congressional declaration, deficits rise to the sky, poverty is rampant and dependency on
the federal government is now worse than any time in our history.
All this with minimal concerns for the deficits and unfunded liabilities that common sense
tells us cannot go on much longer. A grand, but never mentioned, bipartisan agreement
allows for the well-kept secret that keeps the spending going. One side doesn’t give up
one penny on military spending, the other side doesn’t give up one penny on welfare
spending, while both sides support the bailouts and subsidies for the banking and
corporate elite. And the spending continues as the economy weakens and the downward
spiral continues. As the government continues fiddling around, our liberties and our
wealth burn in the flames of a foreign policy that makes us less safe.
The major stumbling block to real change in Washington is the total resistance to admitting
that the country is broke. This has made compromising, just to agree to increase spending,
inevitable since neither side has any intention of cutting spending.
The country and the Congress will remain divisive since there’s no “loot left to divvy up.”
Without this recognition the spenders in Washington will continue the march toward a fiscal
cliff much bigger than the one anticipated this coming January.
I have thought a lot about why those of us who believe in liberty, as a solution, have done so
poorly in convincing others of its benefits. If liberty is what we claim it is- the principle that
protects all personal, social and economic decisions necessary for maximum prosperity and
the best chance for peace- it should be an easy sell. Yet, history has shown that the masses
have been quite receptive to the promises of authoritarians which are rarely if ever fulfilled.
If authoritarianism leads to poverty and war and less freedom for all individuals and is
controlled by rich special interests, the people should be begging for liberty. There
certainly was a strong enough sentiment for more freedom at the time of our founding
that motivated those who were willing to fight in the revolution against the powerful British
government.
During my time in Congress the appetite for liberty has been quite weak; the understanding
of its significance negligible. Yet the good news is that compared to 1976 when I first came
to Congress, the desire for more freedom and less government in 2012 is much greater and
growing, especially in grassroots America. Tens of thousands of teenagers and college age
students are, with great enthusiasm, welcoming the message of liberty.
I have a few thoughts as to why the people of a country like ours, once the freest and most
prosperous, allowed the conditions to deteriorate to the degree that they have.
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Freedom, private property, and enforceable voluntary contracts, generate wealth. In our
early history we were very much aware of this. But in the early part of the 20th century
our politicians promoted the notion that the tax and monetary systems had to change
if we were to involve ourselves in excessive domestic and military spending. That is why
Congress gave us the Federal Reserve and the income tax. The majority of Americans and
many government officials agreed that sacrificing some liberty was necessary to carry out
what some claimed to be “progressive” ideas. Pure democracy became acceptable.
They failed to recognized that what they were doing was exactly opposite of what the
colonists were seeking when they broke away from the British.
Some complain that my arguments makes no sense, since great wealth and the standard of
living improved for many Americans over the last 100 years, even with these new policies.
But the damage to the market economy, and the currency, has been insidious and
steady. It took a long time to consume our wealth, destroy the currency and undermine
productivity and get our financial obligations to a point of no return. Confidence
sometimes lasts longer than deserved. Most of our wealth today depends on debt.
The wealth that we enjoyed and seemed to be endless, allowed concern for the principle
of a free society to be neglected. As long as most people believed the material abundance
would last forever, worrying about protecting a competitive productive economy and
individual liberty seemed unnecessary.
This neglect ushered in an age of redistribution of wealth by government kowtowing to any

and all special interests, except for those who just wanted to left alone. That is why today
money in politics far surpasses money currently going into research and development and
productive entrepreneurial efforts.
The material benefits became more important than the understanding and promoting the
principles of liberty and a free market. It is good that material abundance is a result of
liberty but if materialism is all that we care about, problems are guaranteed.
The crisis arrived because the illusion that wealth and prosperity would last forever has
ended. Since it was based on debt and a pretense that debt can be papered over by
an out-of-control fiat monetary system, it was doomed to fail. We have ended up with
a system that doesn’t produce enough even to finance the debt and no fundamental
understanding of why a free society is crucial to reversing these trends.
If this is not recognized, the recovery will linger for a long time. Bigger government, more
spending, more debt, more poverty for the middle class, and a more intense scramble by
the elite special interests will continue.
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Without an intellectual awakening, the turning point will be driven by economic law. A
dollar crisis will bring the current out-of-control system to its knees.
If it’s not accepted that big government, fiat money, ignoring liberty, central economic
planning, welfarism, and warfarism caused our crisis we can expect a continuous and
dangerous march toward corporatism and even fascism with even more loss of our
liberties. Prosperity for a large middle class though will become an abstract dream.
This continuous move is no different than what we have seen in how our financial crisis
of 2008 was handled. Congress first directed, with bipartisan support, bailouts for the
wealthy. Then it was the Federal Reserve with its endless quantitative easing. If at first it
doesn’t succeed try again; QE1, QE2, and QE3 and with no results we try QE indefinitely
-- that is until it too fails. There’s a cost to all of this and let me assure you delaying the
payment is no longer an option. The rules of the market will extract its pound of flesh and
it won’t be pretty.
The current crisis elicits a lot of pessimism. And the pessimism adds to less confidence in
the future. The two feed on themselves, making our situation worse.
If the underlying cause of the crisis is not understood we cannot solve our problems. The
issues of warfare, welfare, deficits, inflationism, corporatism, bailouts and authoritarianism
cannot be ignored. By only expanding these policies we cannot expect good results.
Everyone claims support for freedom. But too often it’s for one’s own freedom and not for
others. Too many believe that there must be limits on freedom. They argue that freedom
must be directed and managed to achieve fairness and equality thus making it acceptable
to curtail, through force, certain liberties.
Some decide what and whose freedoms are to be limited. These are the politicians whose
goal in life is power. Their success depends on gaining support from special interests.
The great news is the answer is not to be found in more “isms.” The answers are to be
found in more liberty which cost so much less. Under these circumstances spending goes
down, wealth production goes up, and the quality of life improves.
Just this recognition -- especially if we move in this direction -- increases optimism which
in itself is beneficial. The follow through with sound policies are required which must be
understood and supported by the people.
But there is good evidence that the generation coming of age at the present time is supportive
of moving in the direction of more liberty and self-reliance. The more this change in direction
and the solutions become known, the quicker will be the return of optimism.
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Our job, for those of us who believe that a different system than the one that we have had
for the last 100 years, has driven us to this unsustainable crisis, is to be more convincing that
there is a wonderful, uncomplicated, and moral system that provides the answers. We had a
taste of it in our early history. We need not give up on the notion of advancing this cause.
It worked, but we allowed our leaders to concentrate on the material abundance that
freedom generates, while ignoring freedom itself. Now we have neither, but the door is
open, out of necessity, for an answer. The answer available is based on the Constitution,
individual liberty and prohibiting the use of government force to provide privileges and
benefits to all special interests.
After over 100 years we face a society quite different from the one that was intended by
the Founders. In many ways their efforts to protect future generations with the Constitution
from this danger has failed. Skeptics, at the time the Constitution was written in 1787,
warned us of today’s possible outcome. The insidious nature of the erosion of our liberties
and the reassurance our great abundance gave us, allowed the process to evolve into the
dangerous period in which we now live.
Today we face a dependency on government largesse for almost every need. Our liberties are
restricted and government operates outside the rule of law, protecting and rewarding those
who buy or coerce government into satisfying their demands. Here are a few examples:
- Undeclared wars are commonplace.
- Welfare for the rich and poor is considered an entitlement.
- The economy is overregulated, overtaxed and grossly distorted by a deeply flawed

monetary system.
- Debt is growing exponentially.
- The Patriot Act and FISA legislation passed without much debate have resulted in a steady
erosion of our 4th Amendment rights.
- Tragically our government engages in preemptive war, otherwise known as aggression,

with no complaints from the American people.
- The drone warfare we are pursuing worldwide is destined to end badly for us as the hatred
builds for innocent lives lost and the international laws flaunted. Once we are financially
weakened and militarily challenged, there will be a lot resentment thrown our way.
- It’s now the law of the land that the military can arrest American citizens, hold them
indefinitely, without charges or a trial.
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- Rampant hostility toward free trade is supported by a large number in Washington.
- Supporters of sanctions, currency manipulation and WTO trade retaliation, call the true
free traders “isolationists.”
- Sanctions are used to punish countries that don’t follow our orders.
- Bailouts and guarantees for all kinds of misbehavior are routine.
- Central economic planning through monetary policy, regulations and legislative

mandates has been an acceptable policy.
Excessive government has created such a mess it prompts many questions:
- Why are sick people who use medical marijuana put in prison?
- Why does the federal government restrict the drinking of raw milk?
- Why can’t Americans manufacturer rope and other products from hemp?
- Why are Americans not allowed to use gold and silver as legal tender as mandated by the
Constitution?
- Why is Germany concerned enough to consider repatriating their gold held by the FED
for her in New York? Is it that the trust in the U.S. and dollar supremacy beginning to wane?
- Why do our political leaders believe it’s unnecessary to thoroughly audit our own gold?
- Why can’t Americans decide which type of light bulbs they can buy?
- Why is the TSA permitted to abuse the rights of any American traveling by air?
- Why should there be mandatory sentences -- even up to life for crimes without victims --
as our drug laws require?
- Why have we allowed the federal government to regulate commodes in our homes?
- Why is it political suicide for anyone to criticize AIPAC ?
- Why haven’t we given up on the drug war since it’s an obvious failure and violates the
people’s rights? Has nobody noticed that the authorities can’t even keep drugs out of the
prisons? How can making our entire society a prison solve the problem?
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- Why do we sacrifice so much getting needlessly involved in border disputes and civil
strife around the world and ignore the root cause of the most deadly border in the world-
the one between Mexico and the US?
- Why does Congress willingly give up its prerogatives to the Executive Branch?
- Why does changing the party in power never change policy? Could it be that the views
of both parties are essentially the same?
- Why did the big banks, the large corporations, and foreign banks and foreign central
banks get bailed out in 2008 and the middle class lost their jobs and their homes?
- Why do so many in the government and the federal officials believe that creating money
out of thin air creates wealth?
- Why do so many accept the deeply flawed principle that government bureaucrats and
politicians can protect us from ourselves without totally destroying the principle of liberty?
- Why can’t people understand that war always destroys wealth and liberty?
- Why is there so little concern for the Executive Order that gives the President authority to
establish a “kill list,” including American citizens, of those targeted for assassination?
- Why is patriotism thought to be blind loyalty to the government and the politicians who
run it, rather than loyalty to the principles of liberty and support for the people? Real
patriotism is a willingness to challenge the government when it’s wrong.
- Why is it is claimed that if people won’t or can’t take care of their own needs, that people
in government can do it for them?
- Why did we ever give the government a safe haven for initiating violence against the
people?
- Why do some members defend free markets, but not civil liberties?
- Why do some members defend civil liberties but not free markets? Aren’t they the same?
- Why don’t more defend both economic liberty and personal liberty?
- Why are there not more individuals who seek to intellectually influence others to
bring about positive changes than those who seek power to force others to obey their
commands?
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- Why does the use of religion to support a social gospel and preemptive wars, both of
which requires authoritarians to use violence, or the threat of violence, go unchallenged?
Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the
world great religions.
- Why do we allow the government and the Federal Reserve to disseminate false information
dealing with both economic and foreign policy?
- Why is democracy held in such high esteem when it’s the enemy of the minority and makes
all rights relative to the dictates of the majority?
- Why should anyone be surprised that Congress has no credibility, since there’s such a
disconnect between what politicians say and what they do?
- Is there any explanation for all the deception, the unhappiness, the fear of the future,
the loss of confidence in our leaders, the distrust, the anger and frustration? Yes there is,
and there’s a way to reverse these attitudes. The negative perceptions are logical and a
consequence of bad policies bringing about our problems. Identification of the problems
and recognizing the cause allow the proper changes to come easy.
Too many people have for too long placed too much confidence and trust in government
and not enough in themselves. Fortunately, many are now becoming aware of the
seriousness of the gross mistakes of the past several decades. The blame is shared by both
political parties. Many Americans now are demanding to hear the plain truth of things and
want the demagoguing to stop. Without this first step, solutions are impossible.
Seeking the truth and finding the answers in liberty and self-reliance promotes the optimism
necessary for restoring prosperity. The task is not that difficult if politics doesn’t get in the
way.
We have allowed ourselves to get into such a mess for various reasons.
Politicians deceive themselves as to how wealth is produced. Excessive confidence is

placed in the judgment of politicians and bureaucrats. This replaces the confidence in a free
society. Too many in high places of authority became convinced that only they, armed with
arbitrary government power, can bring about fairness, while facilitating wealth production.
This always proves to be a utopian dream and destroys wealth and liberty. It impoverishes
the people and rewards the special interests who end up controlling both political parties.
It’s no surprise then that much of what goes on in Washington is driven by aggressive
partisanship and power seeking, with philosophic differences being minor.
in closing
Economic ignorance is commonplace. Keynesianism continues to thrive, although today

it is facing healthy and enthusiastic rebuttals. Believers in military Keynesianism and
domestic Keynesianism continue to desperately promote their failed policies, as the
economy languishes in a deep slumber.
Supporters of all government edicts use humanitarian arguments to justify them.
Humanitarian arguments are always used to justify government mandates related to the
economy, monetary policy, foreign policy, and personal liberty. This is on purpose to
make it more difficult to challenge. But, initiating violence for humanitarian reasons is still
violence. Good intentions are no excuse and are just as harmful as when people use force
with bad intentions. The results are always negative.
The immoral use of force is the source of man’s political problems. Sadly, many religious
groups, secular organizations, and psychopathic authoritarians endorse government
initiated force to change the world. Even when the desired goals are well-intentioned -- or
especially when well-intentioned -- the results are dismal. The good results sought never
materialize. The new problems created require even more government force as a solution.
The net result is institutionalizing government initiated violence and morally justifying it on
humanitarian grounds.
This is the same fundamental reason our government uses force for invading other
countries at will, central economic planning at home, and the regulation of personal liberty
and habits of our citizens.
It is rather strange, that unless one has a criminal mind and no respect for other people
and their property, no one claims it’s permissible to go into one’s neighbor’s house and tell
them how to behave, what they can eat, smoke and drink or how to spend their money.
Yet, rarely is it asked why it is morally acceptable that a stranger with a badge and a gun
can do the same thing in the name of law and order. Any resistance is met with brute
force, fines, taxes, arrests, and even imprisonment. This is done more frequently every day
without a proper search warrant.
Restraining aggressive behavior is one thing, but legalizing a government monopoly for
initiating aggression can only lead to exhausting liberty associated with chaos, anger and
the breakdown of civil society. Permitting such authority and expecting saintly behavior
from the bureaucrats and the politicians is a pipe dream. We now have a standing
army of armed bureaucrats in the TSA, CIA, FBI, Fish and Wildlife, FEMA, IRS, Corp of
Engineers, etc. numbering over 100,000. Citizens are guilty until proven innocent in the
unconstitutional administrative courts.
in closing
Government in a free society should have no authority to meddle in social activities or the
economic transactions of individuals. Nor should government meddle in the affairs of other
nations. All things peaceful, even when controversial, should be permitted.
We must reject the notion of prior restraint in economic activity just we do in the area of
free speech and religious liberty. But even in these areas government is starting to use a
backdoor approach of political correctness to regulate speech-a dangerous trend. Since
9/11 monitoring speech on the internet is now a problem since warrants are no longer
required.
The Constitution established four federal crimes. Today the experts can’t even agree on
how many federal crimes are now on the books -- they number into the thousands. No one
person can comprehend the enormity of the legal system -- especially the tax code. Due
to the ill-advised drug war and the endless federal expansion of the criminal code we have
over 6 million people under correctional suspension, more than the Soviets ever had, and
more than any other nation today, including China. I don’t understand the complacency
of the Congress and the willingness to continue their obsession with passing more Federal
laws. Mandatory sentencing laws associated with drug laws have compounded our prison
problems.
The federal register is now 75,000 pages long and the tax code has 72,000 pages, and
expands every year. When will the people start shouting, “enough is enough,” and demand
Congress cease and desist.
Liberty can only be achieved when government is denied the aggressive use of force. If one
seeks liberty, a precise type of government is needed. To achieve it, more than lip service is
required.
Two choices are available.
1. A government designed to protect liberty -- a natural right -- as its sole objective. The
people are expected to care for themselves and reject the use of any force for interfering
with another person’s liberty. Government is given a strictly limited authority to enforce
contracts, property ownership, settle disputes, and defend against foreign aggression.
2. A government that pretends to protect liberty but is granted power to arbitrarily use
force over the people and foreign nations. Though the grant of power many times is
meant to be small and limited, it inevitably metastasizes into an omnipotent political
cancer. This is the problem for which the world has suffered throughout the ages. Though
meant to be limited it nevertheless is a 100% sacrifice of a principle that would-be-tyrants
find irresistible. It is used vigorously -- though incrementally and insidiously. Granting
power to government officials always proves the adage that: “power corrupts.”
in closing
Once government gets a limited concession for the use of force to mold people habits
and plan the economy, it causes a steady move toward tyrannical government. Only a
revolutionary spirit can reverse the process and deny to the government this arbitrary use
of aggression. There’s no in-between. Sacrificing a little liberty for imaginary safety always
ends badly.
Today’s mess is a result of Americans accepting option #2, even though the Founders
attempted to give us Option #1.
The results are not good. As our liberties have been eroded our wealth has been
consumed. The wealth we see today is based on debt and a foolish willingness on the part
of foreigners to take our dollars for goods and services. They then loan them back to us to
perpetuate our debt system. It’s amazing that it has worked for this long but the impasse
in Washington, in solving our problems indicate that many are starting to understand the
seriousness of the world -wide debt crisis and the dangers we face. The longer this process
continues the harsher the outcome will be.
Many are now acknowledging that a financial crisis looms but few understand it’s, in reality, a
moral crisis. It’s the moral crisis that has allowed our liberties to be undermined and permits
the exponential growth of illegal government power. Without a clear understanding of
the nature of the crisis it will be difficult to prevent a steady march toward tyranny and the
poverty that will accompany it.
Ultimately, the people have to decide which form of government they want; option #1 or
option #2. There is no other choice. Claiming there is a choice of a “little” tyranny is like
describing pregnancy as a “touch of pregnancy.” It is a myth to believe that a mixture of free
markets and government central economic planning is a worthy compromise. What we see
today is a result of that type of thinking. And the results speak for themselves.
American now suffers from a culture of violence. It’s easy to reject the initiation of violence
against one’s neighbor but it’s ironic that the people arbitrarily and freely anoint government
officials with monopoly power to initiate violence against the American people -- practically
at will.
Because it’s the government that initiates force, most people accept it as being
legitimate. Those who exert the force have no sense of guilt. It is believed by too many
that governments are morally justified in initiating force supposedly to “do good.” They
incorrectly believe that this authority has come from the “consent of the people.” The
minority, or victims of government violence never consented to suffer the abuse of
government mandates, even when dictated by the majority. Victims of TSA excesses never
consented to this abuse.
in closing
This attitude has given us a policy of initiating war to “do good,” as well. It is claimed that war, to prevent
war for noble purposes, is justified. This is similar to what we were once told that: “destroying a village
to save a village” was justified. It was said by a US Secretary of State that the loss of 500,000 Iraqis,
mostly children, in the 1990s, as a result of American bombs and sanctions, was “worth it” to achieve
the “good” we brought to the Iraqi people. And look at the mess that Iraq is in today.
Government use of force to mold social and economic behavior at home and abroad has
justified individuals using force on their own terms. The fact that violence by government is
seen as morally justified, is the reason why violence will increase when the big financial crisis
hits and becomes a political crisis as well.
First, we recognize that individuals shouldn’t initiate violence, then we give the authority to
government. Eventually, the immoral use of government violence, when things goes badly,
will be used to justify an individual’s “right” to do the same thing. Neither the government nor
individuals have the moral right to initiate violence against another yet we are moving toward the
day when both will claim this authority. If this cycle is not reversed society will break down.
When needs are pressing, conditions deteriorate and rights become relative to the demands
and the whims of the majority. It’s then not a great leap for individuals to take it upon
themselves to use violence to get what they claim is theirs. As the economy deteriorates and
the wealth discrepancies increase -- as are already occurring -- violence increases as those
in need take it in their own hands to get what they believe is theirs. They will not wait for a
government rescue program.
When government officials wield power over others to bail out the special interests, even with
disastrous results to the average citizen, they feel no guilt for the harm they do. Those who take
us into undeclared wars with many casualties resulting, never lose sleep over the death and
destruction their bad decisions caused. They are convinced that what they do is morally justified,
and the fact that many suffer just can’t be helped.
When the street criminals do the same thing, they too have no remorse, believing they are only taking
what is rightfully theirs. All moral standards become relative. Whether it’s bailouts, privileges, government
subsidies or benefits for some from inflating a currency, it’s all part of a process justified by a philosophy of
forced redistribution of wealth. Violence, or a threat of such, is the instrument required and unfortunately is
of little concern of most members of Congress.
Some argue it’s only a matter of “fairness” that those in need are cared for. There are two
problems with this. First, the principle is used to provide a greater amount of benefits to the rich
than the poor. Second, no one seems to be concerned about whether or not it’s fair to those who
end up paying for the benefits. The costs are usually placed on the backs of the middle class and
are hidden from the public eye. Too many people believe government handouts are free, like
printing money out of thin air, and there is no cost. That deception is coming to an end. The bills
are coming due and that’s what the economic slowdown is all about.
in closing
Sadly, we have become accustomed to living with the illegitimate use of force by government.
It is the tool for telling the people how to live, what to eat and drink, what to read and how to
spend their money.
To develop a truly free society, the issue of initiating force must be understood and rejected.
Granting to government even a small amount of force is a dangerous concession.
Our Constitution, which was intended to limit government power and abuse, has failed. The
Founders warned that a free society depends on a virtuous and moral people. The current
crisis reflects that their concerns were justified.
Most politicians and pundits are aware of the problems we face but spend all their time in
trying to reform government. The sad part is that the suggested reforms almost always lead
to less freedom and the importance of a virtuous and moral people is either ignored, or not
understood. The new reforms serve only to further undermine liberty. The compounding
effect has given us this steady erosion of liberty and the massive expansion of debt. The real
question is: if it is liberty we seek, should most of the emphasis be placed on government
reform or trying to understand what “a virtuous and moral people” means and how to
promote it. The Constitution has not prevented the people from demanding handouts for
both rich and poor in their efforts to reform the government, while ignoring the principles of a
free society. All branches of our government today are controlled by individuals who use their
power to undermine liberty and enhance the welfare/warfare state-and frequently their own
wealth and power.
If the people are unhappy with the government performance it must be recognized that
government is merely a reflection of an immoral society that rejected a moral government of
constitutional limitations of power and love of freedom.
If this is the problem all the tinkering with thousands of pages of new laws and regulations.
It is self-evident that our freedoms have been severely limited and the apparent prosperity
we still have, is nothing more than leftover wealth from a previous time. This fictitious wealth
based on debt and benefits from a false trust in our currency and credit, will play havoc with
our society when the bills come due. This means that the full consequence of our lost liberties
is yet to be felt.
But that illusion is now ending. Reversing a downward spiral depends on accepting a new
approach.
Expect the rapidly expanding homeschooling movement to play a significant role in the
revolutionary reforms needed to build a free society with Constitutional protections. We
cannot expect a Federal government controlled school system to provide the intellectual
ammunition to combat the dangerous growth of government that threatens our liberties.
in closing
The internet will provide the alternative to the government/media complex that controls the
news and most political propaganda. This is why it’s essential that the internet remains free
of government regulation.
Many of our religious institutions and secular organizations support greater dependency
on the state by supporting war, welfare and corporatism and ignore the need for a virtuous
people.
I never believed that the world or our country could be made more free by politicians, if the
people had no desire for freedom.
Under the current circumstances the most we can hope to achieve in the political process
is to use it as a podium to reach the people to alert them of the nature of the crisis and the
importance of their need to assume responsibility for themselves, if it is liberty that they truly
seek. Without this, a constitutionally protected free society is impossible.
If this is true, our individual goal in life ought to be for us to seek virtue and excellence and
recognize that self-esteem and happiness only comes from using one’s natural ability, in the
most productive manner possible, according to one’s own talents.
Productivity and creativity are the true source of personal satisfaction. Freedom, and not
dependency, provides the environment needed to achieve these goals. Government cannot
do this for us; it only gets in the way. When the government gets involved, the goal becomes
a bailout or a subsidy and these cannot provide a sense of personal achievement.
Achieving legislative power and political influence should not be our goal. Most of the
change, if it is to come, will not come from the politicians, but rather from individuals, family,
friends, intellectual leaders and our religious institutions. The solution can only come from
rejecting the use of coercion, compulsion, government commands, and aggressive force,
to mold social and economic behavior. Without accepting these restraints, inevitably the
consensus will be to allow the government to mandate economic equality and obedience to
the politicians who gain power and promote an environment that smothers the freedoms of
everyone. It is then that the responsible individuals who seek excellence and self-esteem by
being self-reliance and productive, become the true victims.
What are the greatest dangers that the American people face today and impede the goal of
a free society? There are five.
1. The continuous attack on our civil liberties which threatens the rule of law and our ability
to resist the onrush of tyranny.
in closing
2. Violent anti-Americanism that has engulfed the world. Because the phenomenon of
“blow-back” is not understood or denied, our foreign policy is destined to keep us involved
in many wars that we have no business being in. National bankruptcy and a greater threat to
our national security will result.
3. The ease in which we go to war, without a declaration by Congress, but accepting

international authority from the UN or NATO even for preemptive wars, otherwise known as
aggression.
4. A financial political crisis as a consequence of excessive debt, unfunded liabilities,

spending, bailouts, and gross discrepancy in wealth distribution going from the middle
class to the rich. The danger of central economic planning, by the Federal Reserve must be
understood.
5. World government taking over local and US sovereignty by getting involved in the
issues of war, welfare, trade, banking,; a world currency, taxes, property ownership, and
private ownership of guns.
Happily, there is an answer for these very dangerous trends.
What a wonderful world it would be if everyone accepted the simple moral premise of
rejecting all acts of aggression. The retort to such a suggestion is always: it’s too simplistic,
too idealistic, impractical, naïve, utopian, dangerous, and unrealistic to strive for such an ideal.
The answer to that is that for thousands of years the acceptance of government force, to rule
over the people, at the sacrifice of liberty, was considered moral and the only available option
for achieving peace and prosperity.
What could be more utopian than that myth -- considering the results especially looking at the
state sponsored killing, by nearly every government during the 20th Century, estimated to be
in the hundreds of millions. It’s time to reconsider this grant of authority to the state.
No good has ever come from granting monopoly power to the state to use aggression against
the people to arbitrarily mold human behavior. Such power, when left unchecked, becomes
the seed of an ugly tyranny. This method of governance has been adequately tested, and the
results are in: reality dictates we try liberty.
The idealism of non-aggression and rejecting all offensive use of force should be tried. The
idealism of government sanctioned violence has been abused throughout history and is
the primary source of poverty and war. The theory of a society being based on individual
freedom has been around for a long time. It’s time to take a bold step and actually permit it
by advancing this cause, rather than taking a step backwards as some would like us to do.
in closing
Today the principle of habeas corpus, established when King John signed the Magna Carta
in 1215, is under attack. There’s every reason to believe that a renewed effort with the use of
the internet that we can instead advance the cause of liberty by spreading an uncensored
message that will serve to rein in government authority and challenge the obsession with
war and welfare.
What I’m talking about is a system of government guided by the moral principles of peace
and tolerance.
The Founders were convinced that a free society could not exist without a moral people.
Just writing rules won’t work if the people choose to ignore them. Today the rule of law
written in the Constitution has little meaning for most Americans, especially those who work
in Washington D.C.
Benjamin Franklin claimed “only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.” John Adams
concurred: “Our Constitution was made for a moral and religious people. It is wholly
inadequate to the government of any other.”
A moral people must reject all violence in an effort to mold people’s beliefs or habits.
A society that boos or ridicules the Golden Rule is not a moral society. All great religions
endorse the Golden Rule. The same moral standards that individuals are required to follow
should apply to all government officials. They cannot be exempt.
The ultimate solution is not in the hands of the government.
The solution falls on each and every individual, with guidance from family, friends and
community.
The #1 responsibility for each of us is to change ourselves with hope that others will follow.
This is of greater importance than working on changing the government; that is secondary
to promoting a virtuous society. If we can achieve this, then the government will change.
It doesn’t mean that political action or holding office has no value. At times it does nudge
policy in the right direction. But what is true is that when seeking office is done for personal
aggrandizement, money or power, it becomes useless if not harmful. When political action
is taken for the right reasons it’s easy to understand why compromise should be avoided. It
also becomes clear why progress is best achieved by working with coalitions, which bring
people together, without anyone sacrificing his principles.
Political action, to be truly beneficial, must be directed toward changing the hearts and
minds of the people, recognizing that it’s the virtue and morality of the people that allow
liberty to flourish.
in closing
The Constitution or more laws per se, have no value if the people’s attitudes aren’t changed.
To achieve liberty and peace, two powerful human emotions have to be overcome. Number
one is “envy” which leads to hate and class warfare. Number two is “intolerance” which leads
to bigoted and judgmental policies. These emotions must be replaced with a much better
understanding of love, compassion, tolerance and free market economics. Freedom, when
understood, brings people together. When tried, freedom is popular.
The problem we have faced over the years has been that economic interventionists are
swayed by envy, whereas social interventionists are swayed by intolerance of habits and
lifestyles. The misunderstanding that tolerance is an endorsement of certain activities,
motivates many to legislate moral standards which should only be set by individuals making
their own choices. Both sides use force to deal with these misplaced emotions. Both are
authoritarians. Neither endorses voluntarism. Both views ought to be rejected.
I have come to one firm conviction after these many years of trying to figure out “the plain
truth of things.” The best chance for achieving peace and prosperity, for the maximum
number of people world-wide, is to pursue the cause of Liberty.
If you find this to be a worthwhile message, spread it throughout the land.
And I yield back the balance of my time.
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