China quietly cut off shipments of sand to Taiwan last Wednesday, depriving the country that produces 2/3 of the world’s computer chips of a critical raw material, potentially affecting everything from computers and cars to missile guidance systems.Continue Reading

Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Egypt plan to join BRICS, the economic alliance of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. The timing is awkward for President Biden as he prepares to meet with the Saudis, but Turkey’s membership is potentially more significant.Continue Reading

A panel on Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) at the recent World Economic Forum meeting offered a glimpse of how central banks could be used to control your ability to buy and sell.Continue Reading

THE RECENT MEETING of the World Economic Forum in Switzerland featured presentations by corporate CEOs on new technologies that could easily be integrated into the prophesied mark of the Beast. We also discuss the claim by the co-founder of a popular cryptocurrency that your future lies in something called a Soul-Bound Token.Continue Reading

Central banks around the world are working to create their own digital currencies to compete with Bitcoin. However, they want to make their digital dollars programmable, so they can control how and with who you spend your money.Continue Reading