Tom Luongo: Bitcoin, Gold, Goats, 'n Guns

— The Davos crowd represents old European and British colonial money that has maintained power through monetary manipulation and currency control for centuries, but their system is now metastable and collapsing as competing factions (U.S., Europe, China, Russia) turn against each other.

— Trump and Brexit were populist reactions against this globalist agenda, though Trump lacked the executive knowledge to dismantle the deep state and federal bureaucracy despite having the legal power to do so.

— COVID was orchestrated as a form of blackmail to force acceptance of surveillance infrastructure, vaccine passports, and central bank digital currencies while destabilizing the U.S. economy and removing dissenting leaders through assassination.

— The Federal Reserve under Powell is acting in U.S. domestic interests—not globalist ones—by draining dollar liquidity from offshore markets and raising rates to break the eurozone and prevent European capital flight.

— Putin and Xi have rejected Western regulatory capture; they are building alternative financial systems (gold-backed oil benchmarks, BRICS expansion) that exclude the petrodollar and threaten the Western colonial order.

— The petrodollar is dying; Saudi Arabia is negotiating with China to price oil in alternatives to the dollar, and the dollar's status as global reserve currency is ending for the first time since 1944.

— The euro traded at $1.25 in March 2021, dropped to $1.20 after Powell's June 2021 reverse repo rate hike, and is now approaching parity ($1.00) with the worst weekly close in ~20 years as of this recording.

— Powell drained $1.7 trillion in base money from eurodollar and European bank balance sheets with a five basis point reverse repo hike in June 2021.

— Italian sovereign debt trades only 85 basis points above U.S. Treasuries despite being much riskier—a sign the credit system is broken and reflects global instability.

— U.S. interest rates are likely heading to 6% or higher as the Fed absorbs overseas dollar demand and forces fiscal austerity on Congress.

— Oil dropped from $80 to $40 per barrel overnight in March 2020 in a coordinated hit timed with COVID, signaling powerful players were executing a planned operation.

— Monitor geopolitical realignment: The U.S. Federal Reserve is now operating independently from globalist factions and raising rates specifically to drain European liquidity and prevent their escape. This shifts power dynamics; watch for capital flows, central bank gold purchases, and BRICS+ expansion as competing monetary systems emerge.

— Expect currency instability and capital controls: As the petrodollar dies and the euro breaks below parity, governments will restrict dollar outflows and implement CBDCs under the guise of stability. Hold Bitcoin and physical assets outside the digital surveillance system; don't rely on traditional finance or bank deposits alone.

— Recognize that populist movements (Trump, Brexit, Meloni, Milei) are real but fragile: They expose the Davos cartel's weakness and metastability, but lack the personnel and institutional knowledge to execute reforms. The real battle is between competing nation-states (Russia, China, U.S.) and competing monetary paradigms; Bitcoin's neutrality makes it a hedge against all state actors.