SVB'S (COMPLETELY PREDICTABLE) COLLAPSE.

DO NOT FEAR THE COMING #BANKPOCALYPSE!!

Right now the internet is melting down with palpable fear.

America’s 12th largest bank just went TITS UP as Financial Gurus, Network Talking Heads and DC Denizens shriek and howl in stunned disbelief.

Cramer now surpasses Robert Reich as an inflated & boosted (by media) Cheerleader of financial bullshittery that puts Ponzi schemes to shame. Hopefully this latest reality check will deflate him right off the air.

“HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN!!?”

“REEEEEGULATOOOORS!! WHERE **WERE** YOU?”

As the financial world reels in shock, recoiling in HORROR, I’m laughing.

Why am I, who’s almost completely illiterate in the world of banking & finance, laughing?

Don’t I realize?

Can’t I appreciate the inbound PAIN to tens of thousands of Americans from this massive banking collapse?

Am I a MONSTER?

No, I’m a hobby historian.

“We have to stop this collapse to prevent…”

WHAT?

MASSIVE ACCOUNTABILITY?

And I’m still laughing as I call for no assistance to the SILICON VALLEY Bank.

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*PATTERNS AND TRENDS.

Have I mentioned I’m a patterns & trends guy?

History is one of THE best methods to learn about the human condition and how people will generally follow a PATTERN of behavior when confronted with a historically repeating scenario/set of circumstances.

As a hobby historian I’m well familiar with the patterns of history and what that can teach open minds interested in applying viable solutions found in the past to current issues plaguing us today.

You can do this because almost every human endeavor being conducted today has a near countless reflection of similar actions going back through recorded history.

You can focus on the **outcomes** of what actions were taken to address those issues that brought success, in some cases, marked success and what decisions, made by other people throughout history brought failure and even more, what actions were taken that turned an ordinary, uninteresting failure into a disastrous tragedy.

This is one of the KEY REASONS most schools don’t teach history any more, or if they do, it’s the US.GOV DEPT. OF EDUCATION APPROVED COURSE of rewriting history to further victimize & indoctrinate your children to hate you and their Country.

Portland Oregon, 2020 George Floyd riots. This is a Portland ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER. Calm down, Folks! She’s just trying to make the World a better place! (For Luciferians! ….via your CHILDREN!)

*VICTORIOUS EXEMPLARS.

Victor Davis Hanson, a historian par excel lance, wrote his book THE SAVIOR GENERALS to exacerbate a critical point being lost in the modern flotsam & jetsam of modern warfare’s focus on money, weapons, equipment & mundane, vapid politics.

ONE PERSON, in this case, a General, can save or ruin a Nation’s fortunes and it can happen overnight.

Hanson studied what DECISIONS & ACTIONS these five Commanders made that reversed an unwinnable military disaster into a stunning & effective victory.

Then Hanson shows the reader where the vision & generalship of all five Commanders meet, flow, if you will, towards achieving their victories against all odds.

He delves into their personalities and traits to define the SUCCESSFUL Warrior Mindset needed not just to win, but to win when you’ve been placed in a “Kobiyashi Maru” scenario.

I am, of course, mentioning all of this FOR NO REASON WHATSOEVER.

Now SHIFT your attention from military to financial. The past seven years has FORGED us into a new, hybrid Army. One now prepared and CAPABLE of fighting 5GUW

(Fifth Generation UNRESTRICTED Warfare)

Think of General Flynn’s actions from the day he was SHOVED out of his Office as Trump’s National Security Advisor to today as him (figuratively) STOMPING AROUND trying to whip us into shape to handle our very critical part of the new type of warfare. (New, in the sense WE have only recently been made aware of the SILENT WAR)

Flynn, to me, is like the historical General von Steuben, relentlessly drilling & training the Colonists of the American Revolution into a real force, rather than the farmers & shopkeepers they’d started out as.

NEIN! VERDAMMT SCHWEIN!! TOO SLOW, TOO SLOPPY! DO IT AGAIN!!

LOCAL ACTION, NATIONAL IMPACT!! THEY STOLE OUR ELECTIONS LOCALLY! WE’RE GOING TO HAVE TO WIN BACK OUR FREEDOMS ONE (1) COUNTY, ONE (1) STATE AT A TIME!

*DISASTROUS EXEMPLARS.

For two examples of what happens when the WRONG MAN is in charge of people’s fortunes and lives let me introduce you to Roman General Varus & the First Officer of Air France Flight 447, Pierre-Cédric Bonin.

Varus’ inept & incompetent leadership resulted in the slaughter of three Roman Legions (20,000 men) in the Teutoburg Forest by the cunning & savage Germanic War Leader Arminius.

Varus’ hubris & lack of ability was often on display throughout the several years he commanded Roman forces in the field, the army’s professionalism & competent junior officers recovering him from facing the consequences of repeated bad decisions.

Arminius’ carefully prepared ambush was simply too much for the Roman forces Varus had foolishly allowed to spread out over miles along a singular trail thru dense forest where Varus failed to reconnoiter or send out pickets.

For years afterwards, Emperor Augustus, when pressed by the demands of military manpower of the Empire, would shout in utter vexation “VARUS!! GIVE ME BACK MY LEGIONS!”

Varus got 20,000 people killed, but to me, the story of how Pierre-Cédric Bonin killed “just” 228 people plus himself is particularly infuriating.

As First officer or Air France Flight 447 he had a duty towards the safety of the flight’s passengers & crew yet he failed them, utterly.

He panicked after frozen pitot tubes, along with a burst of moderate turbulence shook the aircraft, an Airbus A330 and caused a slight roll to the right.

Bonin overcorrected by slamming the stick to the left and from that moment onwards the aircraft & everyone else was doomed.

As the relief First Officer & the Captain, who’d just returned to the cockpit struggled to figure out what was happening, Bonin had moved his stick into an steep climb and as the other crew were attempting to orient themselves via instrumentation none of them realized Bonin was stalling the plane.

Up until 2 minutes before the Jet hit the water and came apart THE STALL WAS COMPLETELY RECOVERABLE. But Bonin had not told anyone he was climbing the aircraft in a PANIC.

And then, as he continued to hold the stick at nose up the plane tragically passed the point of no recovery.

His last words “But what’s happening?” Are his inadequacies as a pilot manifesting in one of history’s worst air disasters.

*RINGERS.

Back to SVB and all of the panic mongering going on right now. (And yes, you ain’t seen NUTHIN’ yet!)

Here’s a pattern for ya!

FTX = A run/margin call was precipitated by a rival Cryptocurrency Broker named CZ.

Who created an INVESTOR PANIC at precisely the worst moment possible for FTX which had already begun it’s CRIMINAL asset shifting antics as Bankman-Fried desperately tried to keep the scam going.

…except we’re now finding out SBF of FTX was buying off the SEC, the MSM & the DC Denizens!

This Crypto rival of Bankman Fried finished FTX with TWEETS that destroyed **investor confidence** in FTX as a cryptocurrency exchange causing a margin call FTX couldn’t survive.

Tweets? YES. This isn’t just a tweet. It is a very new form of economic, non kinetic WARFARE.

ADANI = Their margin call/bank run was caused by an investment research group called HINDENBERG RESEARCH founded in 2017 who, after studying the Adani Group’s publicly available information for two years determined Adani is, in essence, run by a family of unrepentant & powerful criminals.

Adani’s losses up to February 2nd, 2023 were 107 BILLION DOLLARS…and counting.

And now here comes Peter Thiel

.Thiel stated SVB was going insolvent and was doing his fiduciary duty to his clients.

Where in the world was ANY oversight of FTX, the Adani Group or SVB?

Answer = FTX shows what’s happening.

FTX paid off those charged with protecting their investors. FRAUD.

The Adani Group was in bed with the Indian Government which allowed their insane valuation. MORE FRAUD.

We don’t yet have a full grasp of what’s transpired with SVB, but it’s looking like the inability to learn the lessons of 2008 coupled with the WOKE MIND VIRUS manifested in ESG (Environmental Social and Governance) was wholly unprepared when rising interest rates caught up with them.

Do not fear this coming #BANKPOCALYPSE!

Like Trump, learn to prepare your ground to turn their misfortune to your benefit.

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