By Bill Lindo
Belize City, June 3rd 2022: A perfect storm has been devised in order to bring-down this Belize and the world, and it is now going forward with little resistance.
There are several aspects to this perfect storm. But the reason the resistance is low is because of the mind-set of a growing portion of our Belizeans which we have adopted from the decadent Western world (the West is Europe, United States of America, Canada, Japan and Australia). A good example of this decadence is the outburst over the last week from Mr Dean Flowers, President of the Public Service Union (PSU) about the Government hire of Florencio Marin, Sr as an advisor to the Minister of Agriculture, with specific focus on the cane farmers and the BSI-ASR sugar factory. According to an interview given by Mr Flowers to Channel 7 TV News: “It would appear that these kinds of hiring would suggest that we don’t have competent public officers within the public service to provide the kind of advice that is necessary to these technical officers…this is a practice in which they continue to hire dinosaurs….they [the dinosaurs] have a difficult time staying awake for 8 hours a day.”
Humans have been on planet Earth for over 200,000 years and during this time, successful societies from Ghana, Kenya, Egypt in Africa; the Chinese, Indian and Japanese in Asia; and the Mayans and others from Latin America and the Caribbean all have one thing in common – respect, deference, and the highest esteem for elders in the various societies. The Christian Bible specifically and repeatedly tells us to respect our elders. We all know that age brings wisdom. Seniors have plenty of experience in life and can teach young people about handling life’s problems. And even the Americans put an age limit on youths to become President, but none on old age. My step-father who was a civil engineer went to school and got a BSc in Engineering but could not get any job because he did not have a professional engineer (PE) certificate. He had to work with others for six years before he could take a two day exam from the State of New York; and after he passed the exam he got the right to put PE behind his name and could then take on more significant jobs.
In fact, in the over 10,000 years of recorded human history, NONE, NO country nor empire was successfully run by young people. Young people cannot run any successful country. WHY? Simple, lack of experience. Mr Flowers, education teaches the basic knowledge, but experience is what counts. And never forget – no employer pays for education – we pay for skill which can only come from experience. And-by-the-way, Mr Marin was not hired for some 8-5 job. He was hired for helping the Minister and Ministry in negotiations of cane farmers and the factory. He is very respected by the cane farmers of the North and he has good relations with the factory — therefore, he can bring the two sides together. This is not a job for civil servants. But this problem of disrespect for old citizens is prevalent in our society, even in the current Cabinet, this why they keep making mistakes. But thank God PM Briceno is not of this mind-set. This business of youths leading society is part of the games played by the global banking elites who have run the Western countries exclusively since the end of World War II. In the beginning of this article, I wrote: A perfect storm has been devised in order to bring down this Belize and the world, and it is now going forward with little resistance. Let’s look at the political economy of the world and our Belize.
Remember one rule: All wars are banker wars.
Why engineer a war? Simple – when you play both sides of a chess game, you always end up the winner. In the past lending money to sovereigns – kings, dukes was dangerous. They can kill you at will or they can refuse to repay, so the bankers learn that it was much safer to lend to two sides. And if no enemy exist, best to create one to save your life, and get back your money with interest. Plus, chaos is the ultimate recipe for pushing draconian agendas that the public would never allow to pass during peacetime. In the international area, geopolitics is simple to understand. Conflicts/wars are always engineered and always designed to benefit a particular group of mainstream power brokers and financial elites. If you are one of those people who assume all of these events are what the British calls “merely random and unfortunate coincidence” then you will remain in the dark for the rest of your life – and will never understand why terrible things are happening to you as the world falls apart.
Since September 17th 2019, the Western Financial System started to unravel. The Western world has the largest financial bubble ever created in human history and all bubbles burst. The repo market fell apart. The financial institutions started to issue huge amounts of printed money to keep the system afloat. But soon it was known that there could not be a repeat of 2009 – no massive bailout of the financial classes on the backs of American workers and the developing nations of the South. A few months later the global elites unleash Covid 19 on the world and all 193 countries of the UN went along with the lockdowns, vaccine passports, elimination of small businesses and other draconian measures for a scam by the global elite to bailout their speculative financial bubble. One of the news last week out of Davos was the remark by Stephane Bancel, CEO of Moderna that they will have to destroy over 30 million doses of the spike protein vaccine because Americans have refused to take it and foreign countries, especially from Africa have also refused it.
Then the big boys decided to go for the whole-hog – elimination of God, private property, elimination of freedom, complete elimination of the American System of Capitalism, rule by a nameless faceless bureaucracy, they even had the nerves to write and say – “you will own northing, but you will be happy” to be a slave of the Oligarchy. The bankers decided no more finance for medium size manufacturing companies, no finance for family farms, no finance for fossil fuel — exploration, extraction nor distribution. “In contrast to the Carter-era energy crisis, which was sparked by an embargo from foreign oil producers at a time of declining American oil output, today’s energy shortages are largely the result of domestic U.S. government policies, as the Biden administration attempts to force Americans to switch to alternative energy sources such as wind, solar, and electric from fossil fuels. This effort has included shutting pipelines, suspending oil and gas leases, and putting up regulatory roadblocks—all of which has reduced new investment in U.S. oil and gas production; and shutting off credit.” wrote Epoch Times, May 29, 2022. Remember the big boys/global financial elites used the euthanasia-crowd-mantra of global warming to demanded that the 193 UN members sign off on the above at COP 26 in November 2021.
Well, first Putin of Russia said no – Russia earns foreign exchange by selling fossil fuels, so their living standards will stop raising. Then Xi of China said no also, because China had tried the change to wind and solar energy on a pilot scale six months before, and it was a complete failure. And the smart Indians who depends on coal for energy said no – why, if Russia, China and Saudi Arabia and Iran are all against, then they will also be against. The Western Bankers were not amused. They publically said, Russia and China and later India will pay for this – by December 2021 Ukraine started to cause major problems for Russia. The provocations by the dupes of the Western Bankers led to “a special military operations” in Ukraine by Russia. Within one week massive sanctions never before used were placed by the West on Russia.
But the West forgot the ABC’s of economics. Over and over I have been saying this for over 30+ years. True wealth has nothing to do with money or debt creation — true wealth comes from resources, the means of production and especially human labour. “The sole source of wealth is the rise in the productivity of human labour effected through technological progress” is the way George Price wrote it for me in my 1995 book – ABC’s of Economics.
China and Russia using American System principles of Capitalism continue to understand what real wealth is. You can have all the money in the world but if you have no manufacturing base or resource development then you have nothing.
It’s as simple as that.
If a nation has no real wealth and no means of creating it, no printing press is going to save its economy. Paper is still paper. Venezuela, Weimer Germany, and Zimbabwe learnt this the hard way.
The West has abandoned much of its means of production with its post-industrial nonsense and has crippled the exploration of its own resources through fake environmental concerns like “carbon pollution.” The East and the South have not done this. This is why Russia have easily survive the West sanctions. On June 3rd in Sochi, Russian President Putin said “The root causes of the current crisis lie with US financial policies during the Covid19 pandemic and Western Europe over-reliance on renewables and short tern gas contracts, which have led to price hikes and raising inflation.”
But the real key is what is the sanctions doing to the countries other than Russia. The nations of the BRICS bloc (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) have all been highly active in trade with Russia despite western sanctions and the removal of Russian banks from the SWIFT international payments network. Russia’s trade with China have increased by over 1000%, 900% with India, 450% with Brazil and some 400% with South Africa since February of this year.
While all eyes are on the shooting war in Ukraine where Russia has cut-off Ukraine’s sea access; and is now on the verge of taking full control of the Donbass (industrial area of Ukraine) and about 1/3 of the land of Ukraine, very few realize that the worst damage is going to hit the very countries that put the sanctions on Russia. The rest of the world watched the West financially cancel Russia with a mix of awe and horror. This act of economic warfare revealed a nearly-unthinkable conclusion: If they did it to Russia, they could do it to us, too… In other words, the financial elites in the US and Europe are creating the conditions which can destroy the dollar.
The dollar’s status is entirely dependent on faith and belief in its demand. If demand for dollars wavers because of global sanctions, then all those trillions of greenbacks held in overseas banks will come flooding back into the United States, pushing that nation deeper into stagflationary crisis. The globalists are perfectly aware that this will be the consequence. In fact, they’re counting on it.
As several writers are saying the year 2030 is consistently mentioned by the UN, the IMF, the WEF and the rest of the cabal of globalist institutions as the final milestone for their Great Reset agenda.
If a global economic crisis is the catalyst as it appears to be, then several years would be required to let the collapse play out – along with the introduction of a “solution” to the problem.
Today we are already seeing 40 year highs in inflation in the West, along with considerable supply chain disruptions. Multiple globalist institutions are “predicting” food shortages around the world in the next 3-6 months. It seems the war – economic and shooting, will expand rapidly within a year to include China, and most of the damage will be done by the end of 2024. This will all depend on how fast China and the oil exporters dump the dollar; the dollar dump may be the primary trigger.
A significant part of the WEF’s Great Reset agenda and the IMF’s Special Drawing Rights global digital currency initiative would require the end of the dollar as the world’s reserve currency. The stage is already set for this scenario. The U.S. will be painted as an example of why nationalism “cannot work” and why no single nation should be trusted with so much power in the form of a world reserve currency. That kind of power tempts governmentsinto excessive money creation power debt-financed spending sprees. Not onlyto print new money to pay for those old debts, thus debasing and degrading the dollar’s purchasing power worldwide (also known as inflation). But look at what the U.S. did to Russia – freezing bank accounts and cancelling credit cards of the world’s 10th largest economy. The globalists would call this an abuse of power.
Don’t be fooled.
It’s a complete con.
War, whether economic or shooting, and the death of the dollar as the global reserve currency is a perfect excuse for the “perfectly rational” introduction of an international financial oligarchy one world government. And, unlike its predecessors, this ruling council would operate right out in the light for everyone to see, not in the shadows deep in the bowels of central banking cartels. Of course, they get to have their own group, and that group intends to garner all the benefits of the crisis and the power that will be derived from the panic.
But all is not going well for the Global elites of the West. First, Russia refused to go along with their curbs on energy, then the BRICS countries stuck together when the West went after Russia. And last week May 25th at the 7-day International Health WHO Conference in Geneva, Botswana read a statement on behalf of the 47 African members to say they will NOT support the Biden 13 amendments design to strip countries of their sovereignty. In addition to the 47 African countries, China, Russia, Malaysia, India, Iran and Brazil also refused to cede their sovereignty to the WHO. Brazil also said that if the Western countries try any games they will remove themselves entirely from the WHO. And former President Trump warned the WHO globalists that if he becomes President of the United States again, he will remove the USA from the WHO – no ceding of sovereignty to no global elites.
Belize in the meanwhile is going along its merry way to implement the dictates of the global elites. Before the Covid 19 scam, Belize was suffering from some 52% poverty rate which has increase to about 60% since Covid 19. The current government has created several low-interest special vehicle debt schemes for agro-processing but as usual these are only for the big boys. The aim is to destroy small and especially medium size enterprises because “you will own nothing and be happy”. The large Mennonite agro-industrial enterprises will continue to control, because of cheap government credit, government market protection, while denying the same to other Belizeans. The caucasian communities will continue to control rice, beans, corn, pig, chicken and beef meats plus eggs. Milk and cheese will only be supplied by them. Animal feeds, and cheap toxic soya cooking oils will be supplied by the Mennonites. Lack of government support and credit will keep out others. And make no mistake! Prices will continue to increase because Mennonites don’t absorb losses. They relentlessly pass-on price increases to consumers.
Belize’s economy rests on two legal and one illegal posts. The tourist sector has returned to about 80% of pre-Covid 19 levels, but the future doesn’t look all that well as the main market is United States which is going into recession – a hurricane as Jamie Dimon the CEO of JP Morgan Chase, America’s largest bank stated this week. And Belize doesn’t get that much from tourism because 80% of it is owned by foreigners who keep their profits mainly in the United States.
The agriculture sector is mainly sugar, bananas and some citrus for export, while the Mennonites control the domestic market for basic foods. Local roots Belizeans are mainly in the small vegetable sector of agriculture. While sugar prices have increased globally along with other commodities, prices given to local farmers have also increase but not as much as global prices. Fertilizers have increased an average of 26% due globally to lack of raw materials because of the decision of the global bankers to restrict credit to fossil fuels, fertilizers and food commodities in order to reduce supply and drive up prices. The miracle in Belizean agriculture will be in the Mennonite communities as some of them become billionaires in Belize in the near future.
The weakness of the current PUP government economic policy is based on the mistaken concept of money being wealth; and that support of the big boys is support of Belize. Before Covid 19, the Barrow government policy which is the same as the current government was already facing a recession in Belize. The same people who were running the government before 2020 are the same people running the current government –except the ministers and their CEO’s. No CEO of the major utilities was change. The same contractors who before 2020 got over $ 400 million dollars in construction contracts over the previous 12 years have received over $ 200 + million dollars in new contracts in the last 18 months; and are expecting another $ 260 million in the 12 months. The members of the advisory economic committee before 2020 were reappointed to advice the new government. The same tired neo-liberal austerity policies are still in vogue. It seems Belize is cursed.
In the same Epoch Times article quoted above wrote, “People don’t realize what’s fixing to hit them,” Texas farmer Lynn “Bugsy” Allen said. “They think it’s tough right now; you give it until October. Food prices are going to double.” Most people don’t have a clue of how things work – a farmer after preparing a field plants his corn. He must wait 90 days before he can harvest where the average 20 lbs. of seed is turn into some 3,000 lbs. of corn by the hand of God. The farmer must pay now close to $ 15 per gallon (67% increase) for diesel, and over 26% more for fertilizers and other inputs. The total cost increases are on the order of 30-40%. May/June is planting months so around September/October is harvest time. The farmer will sell the corn in October, so until then (4 months later) will the consumers of corn and its by-products see the extra increases in costs. That’s the message of Texas farmer “Bugsy” Allen above. And by then prices of corn will be over $ 0.59 cents per pound from the current $ 0.37/lb. wholesale in bulk.
The effects of these deliberate manufactured price increases and shortages will continue in the West until the citizens overthrow the global elites. This is why suddenly there are mass-shootings nearly everyday in America. Deep-state have planned it. They want to take away the guns because deep down in the culture of the Americans is the urge for freedom. No dictatorship can enslave a population that is armed.
The tourist product in Belize is some 80% foreign owned. But a local Belizean have decided to empower local Belizeans in the Belize District with an unprecedented huge investment of over $350 million
Port Coral – The main section (middle photo) will be completed in November 2022
dollars. NEVER in the history of Belize has such a large project been undertaken by any local Belizean group. Questions? Why cannot the government of Belize create special vehicles to create cheap (2% interest) financing for this venture? Why is this only done for the Mennonites and a certain group of elites from the South who are allied with foreign interests? Why are certain ministers of government so viciously against this project, and trying everything in their power to kill this project? Why kill this project when over 400+ Belizean workers are earning a living wage? Perhaps those ministers of government who are hell-bent on turning Belize over to the global elites can tell us common folks what they are getting for their treason?
I need to remind the PUP government that our party have a political creed/philosophy which is based on the concept of national sovereignty – self-sufficiency, control of local finance for the benefits of local roots Belizeans, the active promotion of family farms – certainly not large foreign owned and controlled corporate imperial factories and farms. And please remember we promised the Belizean people 50,000 new jobs at living wages – only 3+ years are left to deal with creating a “full-set dirigiste” economy for our Belizean citizens.
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