(Ep232) New Alliance Forming As An Old Currency Dies FULL EPISODE

In this Episode: Dave and Travis talk about how to deal with all of what happens in the world and how we need each other.  “Thunder Monkey” and “And Another Thing with Dave” talk about: Russia, China, and India form an economic and military alliance. Saudi Arabia talks about the sale of Oil in the Yuan while Russia makes plans to make the Rubal the Gold Standard Currency. It's a heavy 1, 2, PUNCH to the Petro Dollar and the Global American Empire. All this and more! Brought to you straight from The Thunder Monkey and Another Thing with Dave! You're not gonna wanna miss this! America has been in decline since the 70's. Wages have been stagnant. Corporate profits have gone through the roof. C.E.O's pay has skyrocketed. America is unraveling. We don't hate this country, but there's lots of room for improvement, right?  There is some new News coming down the pipeline. Kim Iversen of The Hill reported on how China, Russia, and India have announced that they are forming an alliance called "The Sides" • "The Sides" are forming a military and economic alliance and refusing to be pushed around by NATO and the US. o This sounds a lot like Casus Belli or Casus Foederis • China has started negotiations with Saudi Arabia regarding selling oil in the Yuan. Meanwhile Russia's economy has completely recovered and they are seeking to buy up as much precious metals as they can in hopes to soon become the new gold standard. o The only thing backing the US Dollar is your faith in it. The Supply Chain crisis is still going on, but is it manufactured? Dave and Economist Richard Wolf believe it is manufactured to artificially decrease the supply so that the demand price will be forced to rise. Travis takes a differing opinion and gives his account on how this is a crisis spiraling out of control and compounding on itself. With the supply chain fracturing to bits, why is the US not providing for itself? We are the largest importers of goods in the world. Russia and Ukraine are the world's largest exporter of fertilizer and wheat. We have the ability to store massive amounts of fresh farm food, that is I'm excess from an abundant crop yield to supplement low yielding years but doing so is a felony in the US. The government wants a fixed price on farm goods and controls the supply to fix a price on the demand. Dave and Travis also discuss how corporations can now donate an unlimited amount of money to political organizations thanks to Citizens United VS Federal Elections Commission o Anthony Kennedy wrote that "Independent Political Spending" from corporations and other groups violates the 1st amendment right to free speech. The justice who voted with the majority assumed that Independent Spending cannot be corrupt, and that spending would be transparent, but both assumptions have proven to be incorrect. Corporations are ruled as people and have the rights that people have but they don't live in a community. Corporations don't care about the good of the community like people do.  This makes Globalization a bigger problem. People are limited in their giving to Political organizations but Corporations have no limits. "They want you to feel alone. Having dis-ease causes disease." -Dave Smith "What people really seem to not want is… The parts that unite us, the parts that really matter. This is the stuff that people really have to get behind… they don't want you to know there's other people like you. The more we can connect with one another and help each other out… we can start making changes. You have to take a stand and make changes." -Travis Bueche  Sources used in this podcast: https://youtu.be/A-te4nwj9Z4   https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained