Iran’s digital surveillance machine is close to completion, as reported by Wired. Governments don’t build surveillance systems because there is an actual need to watch 75 million citizens. They build them because power always seeks leverage over society. It is not unique to Iran. This is the inevitable endpoint of every state that believes it […]

According to ECB data cited by the Financial Times, American firms Visa and Mastercard now account for nearly two-thirds of all card transactions in the eurozone, while 13 EU countries have no national card schemes. Now, EU officials have issued a warning that an alternative medium must be deployed to counter US interference. As cash […]

Criminals are operating in increasingly sophisticated ways, but some forces are fighting crime in a digital age with analogue methods. We will launch https://t.co/kDcAf3UrlD – investing a record £115 million in AI and automation to make policing more effective. pic.twitter.com/RucIqbqXMF — Shabana Mahmood MP (@ShabanaMahmood) January 26, 2026 UK Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood announced the […]

A report cited by VICE says the U.S. death rate is expected to surpass the birth rate by 2030, meaning population growth would be driven primarily by immigration rather than natural increase. This is exactly the kind of story the press will sensationalize while completely ignoring the real cause: the collapse in economic confidence and […]

The year 2025 was not defined by a single shock, but by a decisive break in confidence. Governments repositioned, as did central banks, but both have realized they are unable to stop the cycle in motion. The public no longer trusts those in charge of monetary or fiscal policy and confidence was the dominant theme […]

QUESTION: Marty, I want to thank you for the WEC. It was the best one I have ever attended. I loved your comment on the perpetual dollar bears since the 1970s and how they have been consistently wrong. I find it curious when someone like __ ___ knows you are, then talks about the fourth […]

  The European Union is planning to cancel paper currency and move to CBDC to carryout: Claiming they wish to elmininate the American credit card system of VISA and MasterCard they claim for economic independence when in truth the European monetary system is collapsing.  They are seriously claiming national security insistenting that Putin wants to […]

QUESTION: How can you say that Bitcoin is not a store of wealth? Nobody agrees with you. DF ANSWER: Bitcoin is no more a store of wealth than copper or anything else. I have said from the outset that it is a trading vehicle. It will rise and fall like everything else. A store of […]

The European Central Bank (ECB) is urging citizens to “keep calm and carry cash.” The ominous message is a warning of trouble ahead. Bank runs, defaults, war, grid failures, pandemics—the current banking system cannot rely on what’s ahead. “Cash provides essential redundancy – a ‘spare tire’ – for the payment system,” the study’s authors write. […]

We are watching the initial dog & pony show where Trump parks nuclear-capable jets on both sides of the red carpet and then has a B-52 flyover. Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin has prepared to test a new missile in a move aimed also to show force, which is expected from both sides. This is just for […]