Another 250 For The USA

If past is prologue

Jul 07, 2026

U.S. hits road bumps for currency and empire
Finance bill contains pretext to integrate U.S. and Israel military
Entanglements aside, it embeds surveillance at the heart of the U.S. state

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July 7, 2026

I just got in from tending to my beans. However big a pole I find, Jack’s bean stalks keep growing. The sky’s the limit.

Throughout my childhood, that’s how we viewed the United States of America. You could climb and accrue riches, and there was a danger that a rogue giant or robber baron might destroy you. On balance, however, the odds favoured the small man.

The USA this month celebrates its founding, when the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence.

The 13 colonies cut their ties to the United Kingdom and yet the nation finds itself, 250 years later, in a difficult stage of growth.

The debate whirls around America’s future: is an empire condemned to a 250-year lifespan; a reserve currency to somewhat less; are corporations the threat to nation states; is the globalist ideology seeking to destroy nation states, particularly the individualist Anglosphere?

Those who say the dollar isn't going anywhere ignore the point that dominant currencies have a lifespan: the U.S. dollar has lasted 103 years. The British pound was dominant for the 105 years that Britannia ruled the waves; prior to that the French livre lasted 95 years, the Dutch guilder most of the 17th century, about 80 years. Spain with its real holds the record from 1530 to 1640, about 110 years.

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In the midst of a stock market bubble, thousands of data centres are being rolled out that citizens fear have more to do with surveillance than the assistance of AI (artificial intelligence), while competing with humans for land, water and energy.

The U.S. has just waged a war on Iran, conducted without a vote of Congress, proving war to be an act of executive fiat. It is a war that could have consequences as disastrous as the Suez crisis of 1956 which finally buried Britain’s imperial pretensions.

The war generated lots of smoke and reflection: closing a freeway for shipping, then huffing and puffing about forcing it to reopen; claims of negotiations which were brazenly intended to manipulate the stock and oil markets; narratives that prompted people to pick a side and react, while damage accumulated to everyone’s economic interest.

Permanent framework

Coinciding with the independence celebrations, is a proposal to merge with Israel some functions of the U.S. military. Section 219 of the National Defense Authorization Act (previously Section 224) would tie the civilian functions.

This not only meets the definition of entangling alliances against which Thomas Jefferson warned in his 1801 inaugural address. It risk subordinating the U.S. to Israeli interests particularly in the field of intelligence.

It is unclear who put the provision into the 1,000-page bill but Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed credit in a June 1 letter to Rep. Marlin Stutzman, thanking the congressman for endorsing “my plan” to establish a new, permanent framework for joint defence and technology integration.

The newspaper Hayom, owned by the Adelson family, has pushed for Israel to become militarily independent of the U.S. but the NDAA suggests this is a ruse for doing the opposite: expanding U.S. military support for Israel through merger.

Critics say the proposal would turn Israel from a recipient of U.S. military aid to part of the structure of defence and intelligence, free from Congressional scrutiny and impossible to unwind.

Five Eyes

U.S. intelligence agencies are forbidden from spying on Americans but integrating Israel into intelligence operations would do an end run, allowing Israel to do the surveilling and share its findings.

This already happens through the Five Eyes alliance (the U.S., UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) but would now also embed Israel.

Attempts to debate the NDAA provision were blocked in the House Armed Services Committee, before they even reached the floor. Congress returns from recess July 13.

Just Bizniz

Israel’s military sector has gained greatly from co-development with the U.S., becoming one of the world’s largest arms weapons exporters (a record $19.2 billion in 2025, bigger than the UK).

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Arms sales are also a diplomatic tool, as an article at Quincy Institute points out: locked into long-term contracts, governments are less likely to comment on Israel’s policies in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. [1]

This is especially the case in Europe, which is struggling to rebuild weapons manufacturing because of, or despite, the Russia-Ukraine war. The UK’s arms imports from Israel have jumped 1,500 per cent in five years.

All of which is a way of showing how corporate power shapes power relations, a theme to which we’ll return.

It is not a purely commercial affair, however, since Israel’s acquisition of U.S. military equipment and services is paid out of Washington’s foreign military financing programme.

As he arrived in Ankara, Turkiye, for a NATO gathering today, president Donald Trump suggested the UK’s reluctance to support the war on Iran had contributed to prime minister Keir Starmer’s downfall.

If the NDAA is approved without change, it would not be the last joint U.S.-Israeli war.

Netanyahu asked Trump, ahead of his meeting with Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, not to sell weapons that would modernise its air force.

Close focus

Don’t obsess with too close a focus. This is not primarily about the influence in the U.S. of foreign states, but the nature of banking and financial power: what used to be called generically the money power.

It is about corporations that are equivalent, in freedom of action and influence, to many nation states. It is about who controls those corporations through voting blocs held by BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street.

And it is about intelligence services which in many cases were set up by powerful financial interests, namely banks and their law firms, whom they serve to this day.

Who are the globalists? They are the money power which operates through corporations, with an increasingly technocratic eye: seeking uniformity, for it is easier to sell to, and manage, a uniform world, freed of stubborn individualists.

The money power is footloose: Babylon, Venice, Amsterdam, City of London, New York (empowered by 14th Amendment that granted "any person" — a corporation — due process or equal protection).

It is powered primarily by financial technology — a combination of mathematical, magical and psychological — and merely sees industrial technology as a means to extract value, in the same way that an investor-controller regards a corporation as a tool to acquire assets.

Copycat assault

Here we see an answer to the diluting of national character, especially in Europe and the Anglosphere, and not exclusively the “old world.”

It explains the assault on the Anglosphere and much of Western Europe — the copycat assault on liberties and nationhood in societies that valued personal autonomy, self-reliance and individual rights over collective obligations.

The corporatist objective is uniformity, reduced to an illusion of choice: the multiple cleaning products on the supermarket shelf containing the same sodium bicarbonate, or the United Colors of Benetton (diversity of appearance but not of opinion).

Why do you think the most common political buzzwords are hope and change? A great deal of hope is required to cope with constant change!

For clues, follow Dorothy’s Yellow Brick Road.

See Evading War & Digital Prison - Silencing Medusa’s shrill voice (Dec 31, 2025)

Open borders

You don’t have to be that old to remember when we accepted multiculturalism and it more or less worked — in which the goal was to ignore colour or ethnic characteristics as far as possible in social transactions. Critical race theory inverted this, but that’s another discussion.

Liberalism, a slippery concept in its modern iteration, is nothing but corporatism, which reduces liberty and the pursuit of happiness to a cost analysis: I can allow you any lifestyle you like, so long as you doing your thing doesn’t hurt my wallet.

It had to have open borders, and the forever wars that create the flow of refugees, because that cuts costs for some, and the cost can be hidden by government handouts, and the taxpayer is largely clueless about where his money goes.

This aforementioned uniformity is presented as efficiency and convenience, and now as bio digital identity.

Double entry

Liberalism captures democracy in order to fractionalise the people through identity politics. It is a cousin of fractional reserve banking, where commercial banks keep only a fraction of customer deposits on hand — magically the deposit is no longer yours — and lend your money out.

Accounting requires an equal and opposite entry for every transaction: cash out equals an asset in.

Double-entry bookkeeping was developed by gold traders. Because it was safer to leave your gold with the merchant, depositors were issued a receipt or IOU. Traders realised that since people did not redeem their gold at the same time, they could lend out the same gold many times.

Double-entry bookkeeping recorded the promise to pay (liability) and the borrower’s debt (asset), and thus created credit, or purchasing power out of nothing.

Professor Richard Werner, author of Princes of the Yen (2003), shows how this ledger-based accounting is what banks use today. They do not lend out existing money or reserves — they simply create new deposit liabilities, backed by the borrower’s promise to repay. [2]

Digital twins

And here we encounter the next stage of the transformation of the USA.

This process of recording a mirror of the real asset, in order to exploit it through credit creation, or double-entry bookkeeping, is related to the push for digital identity.

You will find it no surprise that bankers are the prime movers behind digital identity, as Moneycircus spotted at the start of the Covid saga.

See Bankers Infect the Economy - Covid Cure was Premeditated (Jul 13, 2021)

The concept of “digital twin” uses personal data, from lifestyle to health records and DNA, to create a virtual avatar for your physical body. Using this, the state, police or insurers can simulate outcomes, forecast behaviour — and of course make life more convenient, efficient and predictable.

Until you demur or depart from the expected behaviour or managed outcome!

Digital twins is simply a variant of double-entry bookkeeping; it is the same concept in that it relies on a mirrored, permanent record in which every action in the “real world” is recorded and balanced in a virtual model.

Applied to carbon credits, for example, it may track your behaviour and dock points for anything that offends against the carbon trade.

Carbon credits have been modelled on the bond market which began, as Werner points out, as a way to lend money without contravening the Christian or Islamic ban on usury, or lending at interest — buy or sell a bond at 90 (lending money) and redeem it at 100.

A digital twin, or a record of your person held in an AI data centre, requires an equal and opposite entry for every move you make — “I’ll be watching you” — allowing for real-time reconciliation between what happened, and what was planned for your life (your allocation).

I’m not saying it’s exactly the same process as bookkeeping but it is the same mindset. Even the same terminology is used: the blockchain or digital ledger.

CBDCs (central bank digital currency) work in various ways but have one thing in common: a digital ledger that records all transactions. It would be like blockchain, but not decentralised, there being a single central authority or syndicate holding and managing the ledger.

See Readying The Digital Chains - Programmable money by another name (Apr 15, 2025)

Final thoughts

As the leader of the Western world, the Anglosphere and, regardless of disputes, the defender of Europe (defender of the faith, in cultural terms), the U.S. is at a critical juncture.

NDAA Section 219 (formerly 244) is not merely about concealing and perpetuating aid to Israel. By merging the technologies and operations of intelligence, it has the potential to supercharge the surveillance state.

Israel, through its intelligence corps Unit 8200 of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) already has an inside track in the biggest U.S. tech companies. Able and ambitious Israelis are trained (partly with American money) in cutting edge technology, and can look forward to lucrative careers in U.S. firms, while retaining ties to the IDF and serving in the reserves for three weeks a year.

Microsoft employs an estimated 250-300 veterans of Israeli military intelligence, at least 100 are identified in Google, though it may be higher as IDF instructions often require veterans to keep their association with the unit private.

It cuts both ways, as Palantir has at least 50 staff in its Israeli HQ on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv and has tested its automated kill-to-order targeting systems in Gaza. [3]

The looming threat is not aimed exclusively at the U.S.

The head of Palantir UK is Louis Mosley, great grandson of the English fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley.

How he got the job provides an insight into our times and tendencies. Palantir CEO Alex Karp is an expert on his forebear.

According to The New York Post:

“As soon as Louis Mosley sat down, Karp began reciting from memory, for several minutes, one of Oswald’s 1939 speeches demanding Britain seek peace with Nazi Germany. When finished, Karp executed tai chi moves and walked out without saying goodbye. Mosley sat stunned, convinced his family’s past had torpedoed him. Instead, he was hired and now runs Palantir’s UK business.” [4]

Ultimately the NDAA is about much more than aid to Israel. It is the banking-corporate world view that sees people as problems to be managed by reducing them to uniform digits managed through an illusion of choice.

The net, or web, is closing on that momentous declaration: liberty, life, and the pursuit of happiness (in Aristotle’s sense of moral excellence, between the extremes of deficiency and excess). Perhaps it would have longer endured if they had said the pursuit of godliness, but they took that for granted.

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