History's turning spiritual tides

Key Market report for Friday, 14 February 2025

To underscore the importance of the change of US policy toward Russia, in yesterday's newsletter I shared an excerpt from my book "Grand Deception." However, there is a broader, deeper context to this turn which may not be apparent in day-to-day events.

Today many observers are reaching the conclusion that the struggle we are experiencing in the world today has a spiritual dimension. In terms of living experience, this dimension might be more important than the military, economic and financial events. I have alluded to this in my book's last chapter. It may not be an investable hypothesis, but it may be appropriate to share on Valentine's Day.

The parasite’s migration

For generations, much of humanity has been confined to a matrix in which some of our worst impulses are rewarded most richly and in which the system of incentives has driven conquests, colonial exploitation, destruction of entire civilization, depopulation of native peoples, oppression at home and forever wars which are now glaringly obvious in the "free world." Since the rise of Venetian Empire and the Lombard Banking era in Italy in the 13th and 14th centuries, this system has determined the march of Western civilization.

The parasite migrated from Venice to Amsterdam where it spawned the Dutch Empire. From there it staged the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688 to implant itself in the CIty of London and give rise to the British Empire which remains undead to this day and has reincarnated itself by infesting the institutions and governing structures of the United States. But there it might meet its end. Donald Trump's outreach to Vladimir Putin may have marked the turning point.

The excerpt I shared yesterday conveys some of the reasons why the relationship between the United States and Russia matters far more than is commonly understood. It also explains why the banking cabal is fighting so hard to destroy it. It is the very "monolithic and ruthless conspiracy" that John F. Kennedy warned us about. From today's perspective, it may be hard to envision just how this parasite could be dislodged from humanity, but: it got there somehow, so it should be possible to rout it out somehow.

In Russia there comes the hope of the world…

Nothing lasts forever, so neither should the cabal's degenerate, pathogenic rule. In that sense, the conversation between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, 12 February could be the best news we have had in years. In the last chapter of “Grand Deception,” I wrote as follows:

Perhaps more than at any point in history, the future of humanity lies in the hearts and minds of the people of the United States and the people of Russia. Do we dare imagine the world we could all build together if we rejected the needless fear and hostility? What might we achieve if we turned our talents and energies toward improving our world rather than producing arms of destruction? What if we chose beauty and harmony over power and dominance? Do we dare believe that it is our privilege to move humanity forward to a new, better, more gratifying way of living?

Life is a magical gift and our present experience in the world of artificial scarcity and manufactured hostilities may not allow us even to fully envision what life could be like in its full splendor. Like people in a never-ending sandstorm, we cannot see the beauty that surrounds us, let alone enjoy it. Each and every one of us is vaguely aware that some important part of the human potential, perhaps something divine in us, remains unfulfilled yet eager for its own realization. The future is in our hands and we ought to strive to find and fulfill that potential. That is the struggle worth all of our earnest efforts, which must begin in mutual respect and friendship among nations and peoples so that we may begin to rediscover humanity for what it potentially is.

As utopian as these musings may sound, there can be little doubt that warfare wastes more than just economic resources. It also wastes human lives, it stunts and misdirects our creative energies and destroys the foundations on which we could build a far better future.

Vladimir Putin, I believe, understood these things perfectly well and I think this largely explains his unwavering disposition to engage with his American counterparts in a friendly and constructive dialogue. In order for us to avoid making a massive mess of things, it would be important for the American side to reject hysterical demonization shoved daily down their throats and to reciprocate Putin’s disposition with friendship. As a human being and as a father, this is my fondest hope for the future. To begin with, this would be the first step toward thawing the new cold war and preventing the hot one from erupting. Furthermore, in absence of hostility, the two powers could take steps to rid the world of nuclear weapons and end the senseless and costly global arms race. That would free up vast resources that could be allocated to building a future with far more prosperity and freedom than ever before.

I don’t know whether we can attain utopia, but I do know that we don’t have to destroy the world. Perhaps, just like in the 19^th century, the future lies in the hands of the Russian and American people. In 1944, American mystic and reverend Edgar Cayce said that, “In Russia there comes the hope of the world, not as that sometimes termed of the communistic, or Bolshevik, no; but freedom, freedom! That each man will live for his fellow man! The principle has been born. It will take years for it to be crystallised, but out of Russia comes again the hope of the world.” I believe that this hope depends on what the world does with it.

Still, the most important struggle perhaps, is the struggle to engage the American people who I believe hold the keys to the future of humanity. As Georg Friedrich Hegel prophesized, “America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World’s history shall reveal itself.”

It may be - it certainly seems so - that we have reached that junction and the sleeping giant has now awakened. In addressing the American people, Ernesto "Che" Guevara said, "I envy you. You North Americans are very lucky. You are fighting the most important fight of all – you live in the belly of the beast." In referring to “the strengths of our respective Nations, and the great benefit that we will someday have in working together,” Donald Trump foreshadowed what Cayce had announced. But I would underscore once more that the keys lie, not in our fallible, mortal leaders, but in the hearts and minds of the Russian and American people.

Our allies are us

In the same way that the American people firmly rejected the sinister scheemings of the criminal Biden/DNC cabal, so they can persist resolutely to move humanity along the path to a better future. Back in 1971, Walt Kelly popularized the quip that, “We have met the enemy and he is us.” Today we can and we should reverse this. We shall meet our friends, our brothers and sisters, our allies in this magnificent adventure: they are us. Today we are living in times when the burdens of World history are revealing themselves and the principle, that each man shall live for his fellow man, has indeed been born.

Incidentally, my book, Grand Deception was banned in 2017, only five weeks after it was published. Subsequently, I was cancelled altogether on Amazon, which also appropriated over three years of my royalties, which they “forgot” to pay out (you’ll understand, Bezos’ yachts and space program cost a lot of money). I am grateful to a reader who just alerted me that the book is available at the following link where you can access it free of charge.

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Trading signals for Key Markets, 14 Feb. 2025

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