An often misunderstood aspect of the postmillennial worldview is God’s plan for ethnic Israel, the modern day Jews. According to some dispensationalists, the postmillennial view of the kingdom of God must be incredibly anti-Jewish, since it denies a literal one-thousan…

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Due to the emergence of digital currencies and immediate banking and exchange over secure internet based systems, there isn’t (and probably won’t be) a single, unified “BRICS currency” used for daily transactions, but the group is developing a digital trade settlement unit, tentatively called “The Unit,” aimed at reducing reliance on the U.S. dollar for international trade, backed by gold and a basket of member currencies like the Yuan, Rupee, Real, Ruble, and others. This initiative, alongside increased use of national currencies for trade, represents a move towards de-dollarization, creating an alternative financial system, though a full replacement for the dollar remains a long-term, complex goal requiring significant economic integration.

In a nutshell, the Unit will be tied to a basket of commodities based on physical gold (and tied first to gold prices) and other stable items of exchange (oil, minerals, even grain) and then each BRICS nation will have the choice of tying the value of its currency to the Unit — or letting it “float” against the Unit as a fiat currency. Thus the Unit is also partially tied to “hard” national currencies tied to commodity prices. The Unit will not be a physical piece of currency, but a digital value. Since these countries now increasingly exchange with their own native currencies, all that is necessary if the messaging and exchange system and an agreement establishing the reserve of commodities by which the Unit will be valued.

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President Trump’s attempted seizure of Venezuelan oil reserves — valued at well over $10 trillion — is not simply a resource grab or a foreign policy maneuver. I argue that it is a desperate structural intervention necessitates by the United…

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Tucker's Sarcasm: The "Dawn" of the American Empire Click play to connect to youtube In Tucker Carlson’s most recent monologue, his established rhetorical style (known for blending populist nationalism with a critique of …

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President Trump’s attempted seizure of Venezuelan oil reserves—valued at approximately $10 trillion—is not simply a resource grab or a foreign policy maneuver. I argue that it is a desperate structural intervention necessitates by the United States’ crippling $38.5 trillion …

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