198 - Chatuchak this week
🇹🇠Life in Bangkok proceeds at quite a different pace than elsewhere. The activity here is relentless - a bit like the heat! V and I have settled into our routine here that is different from HK and elsewhere and that is well adapted for the local circumstances.
Sun rises early here, currently around 0630 and it's nice to sit on our east facing terrace with a cup of tea and watch it rise over the city. By 0745 it it too hot to sit outside there any more so that's a good time to go swimming in the pool up on the roof - this is one of the many great things you can do here. Yes, it does have an infinity edge and a nice view over the city!
Evenings are great - there is lots going on in town if you want to go out and often we will just enjoy the evening on our terrace - you can watch the moon when it is there!
Another Monday brought another Satoshi Square Bitcoin meetup and it was nice to again meet familiar faces and of course there are many new ones as they arrive in transit through the city. I have a few more Bitcoiner meetups planned going forward and there are plenty of other groups - eg Cycling and Walking - nice!
V also wanted to go back to Chatuchak this week to get some more plants and I wanted to check out the Sunflower field. Chatuchak hosts the plant market on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday morning and the famous Weekend Market from Friday evening over the weekend. There is lots more there including the Antiques Mall and a fabulous park. BTW this year there will be no sunflowers - they have planted Solidago instead - I guess this is crop rotation.
If you are in Bangkok in the coming months - do say Hello - happy to meet up for a chat.
Interview of the week
Simon is taking a well-earned break (for December) from his weekly live and in-depth updates but before leaving he has done a few fascinating interviews that he is sharing during the month. Catherine Austin Fitts is publisher of The Solari Report and former US Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
Their conversation offers a critical examination of the current global financial architecture. They argue that the traditional model of sovereign governance has been usurped by a "Financial Industrial Complex." They go on to explore the mechanisms of this transition, specifically focusing on the weaponisation of stablecoins, the geopolitical shift toward multipolarity, the financialisation of Bitcoin and the emergence of a technological "control grid" designed to privatise fiscal policy and surveillance.
Roger Price
Click for the full analysis and to listen to the discussion
A central thesis established early in the discussion is the erosion of national sovereignty. Simon posits that Western political leaders—whether Trump, Starmer, or Macron—effectively function not as representatives of their electorate, but as "bond salespeople" for corporate interests. Think about it - it's obvious once you see it and it explains everything. Link above gives the full analysis and discussion.
More in this issue
- Photo memories - Bangkok and Chatuchak this week
- Project Updates - Conference insight and Checking Progress
- Plenty of useful links - don't say nobody told you!
- Closing out - Starting right from the beginning...
🛠️ Project Updates
This week I am sharing some more conference material. Saifedean recently gave the Keynote address at the Amsterdam Conference and I share quite some supporting information from Adam and Lyn. Also there is a check-in with TC who is now one year into his Bitcoin journey. What are you doing?
Amsterdam Keynote
Do take the time to watch and listen to Saifedean's address. With reference to his latest book (highly recommended as we discussed) he explains how it really was the broken money that allowed the funding of the first world war at the expense of all affected populations - something that continues till today. This was done surreptitiously and without any consent - people were manipulated to accept what was happening and those who tried to raise the alarm were shut down.
This should remind you of recent experience and if you think about what is happening now you will understand that Covid Crimes were just the pre-cursor.
Saifedean's Conference Keynote is required watching - click to watch
If you need help to understand this better, try this next one from Adam where he explains: Bitcoin is the only asset in existence with mathematically enforced scarcity, full global liquidity, and zero reliance on political discretion or human maintenance. Every other form of collateral carries operational baggage:
- Gold requires vaults, guards, and assayers.
- Real Estate requires maintenance, legal registries, and cannot be moved.
- Bonds require faith in politicians and central bankers.
- Corporate Credit requires faith in management and accounting.
Bitcoin removes these burdens. It is capped at 21 million units, verifiable by anyone, and transferrable instantly. It is the first asset to score optimally across every risk dimension: liquidity, counterparty, custody, and verification.
Lyn also understands all of this and she has written this rather more academic explainer if that is what you prefer:
Lyn Alden
Click to read Lyn's in-depth explanation as to how this does and will work going forward
It's true - Bitcoin changes you
One year in, our friend TC is looking back on the year past and how it has indeed changed him. Anyone who has taken time to look into Bitcoin and to use it for some time will certainly recognise and resonate with all that he says. What is your experience?
The best thing you can do it to buy some bitcoin every month and use it everywhere you can for daily and recurring payments. Also, aim to have more bitcoin at the end of each month than you had the month before. Keep doing that and benefits will likely ensue. It is never too late to do the right thing - happy to chat further if you like - just reach out.
đź”— Links for your edification
The following are links from my NetNewswire feeds - learn, enjoy and share.
Opt out - just do it now in the UK
You should be well aware by now that peaceful and passive resistance is one of the most useful things you and those around can do to push back on the lunacy that is being imposed on society. Your consent is just assumed!
Kris reveals that, without any notification, all NHS health data is now being shared with companies throughout the Empire. You do have the ability to opt out and you should. Of course this is well hidden and was never explained to the public.
He shows you the steps - it takes 1-2 minutes. Just do it now and help your friends to do it too. To save you searching, the opt-out link is here.
A Right Royal Mess
This next one may be difficult for some subscribers but you should be well aware that we are now in the times when much that was secret is revealed. For decades the information that James explains below has been known and people have tried to share it but been suppressed by the Empire machinery.
After reading "Anatomy of the State" you will be well aware that the legal system is necessarily corrupt and nothing will be done about all of this - rather they are using it to justify imposing controls to suppress and control you and the population "to protect the children" - can you see it yet?
These things need to be known and you need to think through the implications and consequences. Be aware that this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Nobody can be told what the matrix is - you need to see it for yourself.
Corbett
Click for James to explain what you should know - backup here
James refers several times to Princess Diana. Needless to say the truth around her death has also been suppressed for more than 25 years. In this presentation from 11 years ago (suppressed until now), David gives you the best explanation you will likely find.
Do click above and listen; it is fascinating and horrifying - do not say that nobody told you.
How Interesting...
Recently I came across series of rather interesting interviews from sources that you likely have not been looking into recently. These are all with people who (love them or hate them) have been rather close to the cogs in the money machine and now feel that it is time to come clean on what is really happening and what's coming next.
When you put these together it does all make sense - WDYT?
ASEAN and BRICS - what you likely did not know
Paul is an interesting and thorough researcher based in the Netherlands. He recently did a most interesting interview with Kathleen Tyson who shares some rather interesting perspectives that you will certainly not hear in the mainstream. Kathleen, whose background includes work with the Federal Reserve, Clearstream, and SWIFT, provides a "plumber’s view" of the evolving global monetary system.
Her conclusion is that the ASEAN model—peaceful, consensus-based cooperation using the Dollar AND other currencies for trade (aka Multicurrency Mercantilism) —is the preferred path for the East and Global South. She suggests that as the rest of the world builds sufficient financial "plumbing" to shield themselves from Western instability, the debt and liquidity crises of the West will eventually become isolated problems for the West alone to solve. The transition to a multicurrency world, she argues, offers greater resilience and optionality for the global economy. I tend to agree with most of this - WDYT?
Liz speaks up in the UK
Next up is an interview from the recent Bitcoin conference in Derby - Liz Truss was the former (short-lived) UK Prime Minister. I am hesitant to trust any politicians but the tale of her downfall (as she recounts it) is certainly worth listening to. This ought to remind you of "Yes (Prime)Minister" - the truth hiding in plain sight. As a Bitcoiner this should all be obvious to you too!
Perhaps you see it too
This is a rather interesting and thoughtful monologue from Spence. Listen and you will understand why he has come to the conclusion that many also do - and he is taking action as he can. Over recent years I meet so many people who think likewise - how about you - can you articulate it yet?
For those who want to take steps to exercise your options he helpfully has some solid advice to avoid being caught in the UK HMRC tax traps.
Too good not to share
During the week I came across this short (5 min) clip that rather well summarises the Covid Crimes period. Likely you now understand this too and perhaps this is useful to share with those of your friends and family who are still asleep (or maybe just waking up?) and you can get it as a book as well.
🤔 Closing Thoughts
Just one for this week - it should give you pause for thought. It also explains much once you see and understand it.
Hiding in plain sight - starting from the beginning
The book of Genesis, which opens the Old Testament narrative, stands apart from the rest of the biblical record until the final book of the New Testament, Revelation. Strikingly, the opening and closing books of Scripture — the Alpha and the Omega — share imagery, motifs, concepts and narratives that appear in the traditions of many peoples. In contrast, the books from Exodus through Jude are written in a distinctly Hebraic register and emphasise a different theological and legal agenda. Jason explains here:
Genesis contains five major themes that also appear, often in recognisable form, across the ancient Near East and beyond:
- A garden paradise with a serpent/dragon and a divine tree.
- A hero taken up into heaven.
- Gods descending to earth to father giants.
- A great flood as divine judgment and a surviving patriarch with his family.
- Confusion of languages and the scattering of peoples after population growth.
These individual stories that were collected into Genesis were widely known and taught 3,500 years ago in Babylon, Assyria, Anatolia, and across the various Indo‑Aryan and Semitic cultural branches of the second millennium BC. They were part of temple and school curricula and appear in a range of preserved texts — for example, the Atrahasis Epic, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Enuma Elish, and many other Mesopotamian and Near Eastern works.
Notably, outside of Genesis these motifs are largely absent from Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy, and they do not reappear elsewhere in the Old Testament narrative. The record of beginnings and endings (Genesis and Revelation) thus preserves a different set of traditions than the middle books, which emphasise the law, priestly worship, and covenantal instruction.
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