{"id":59288,"date":"2021-09-12T08:31:33","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T13:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59288"},"modified":"2021-09-12T08:31:33","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T13:31:33","slug":"end-of-the-us-empire-orwells-1984-newspeak-dirt-cheap-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=59288","title":{"rendered":"End of the US Empire&#8211;Orwell&#8217;s 1984 Newspeak &#038; Dirt Cheap Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"c-blog-article__header\">\n<h3 class=\"c-blog-article__title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/goldswitzerland.com\/end-of-the-us-empire-orwells-1984-newspeak-dirt-cheap-gold\/\">END OF THE US EMPIRE \u2013 ORWELL\u2019S 1984 NEWSPEAK &amp; DIRT CHEAP GOLD<\/a><\/h3>\n<p><time class=\"updated\" datetime=\"2021-09-10T15:55:12+00:00\"><\/time><\/header>\n<div class=\"c-blog-article__content\">\n<p>The final phase of Empires normally ends with the same signals whether it was 2000 years ago in Rome or\u00a0 today in the US.<\/p>\n<p>One of the first signs is losing wars together with excessive debts, deficits, devaluations and decadence \u00a0The US being defeated and hurriedly fleeing from Afghanistan in a few days clearly signifies the end of the US empire.<\/p>\n<p>The mighty US military has in the last few decades conducted disastrous wars against very small countries with no big armies or weaponry. Vietnam, Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan come to mind but there are many more as we show below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brown.edu\/news\/2021-09-01\/costsofwar\">Brown\u2019s University has just made a study<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0<strong>US cost of wars since 9\/11<\/strong>. They arrive at a staggering\u00a0<strong>$8 trillion and the loss of 900,000 lives\u00a0<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>So in the last 20 years, the US has spent $8 trillion or\u00a0<strong>40% of annual GDP\u00a0<\/strong>on conducting totally unsuccessful wars. The report also states that even after the exodus from Afghanistan the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/watson.brown.edu\/costsofwar\/papers\/2021\/USCounterterrorismOperations\">US is still involved in wars in over 80 countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-55785 jetpack-lazy-image jetpack-lazy-image--handled\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/goldswitzerland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/end_of_US_empire.png?resize=982%2C759&amp;ssl=1\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 982px) 100vw, 982px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/goldswitzerland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/end_of_US_empire.png?resize=994%2C768&amp;ssl=1 994w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/goldswitzerland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/end_of_US_empire.png?resize=582%2C450&amp;ssl=1 582w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/goldswitzerland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/end_of_US_empire.png?resize=150%2C116&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/goldswitzerland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/end_of_US_empire.png?resize=768%2C593&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/goldswitzerland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/end_of_US_empire.png?resize=360%2C278&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/goldswitzerland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/end_of_US_empire.png?resize=490%2C379&amp;ssl=1 490w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/goldswitzerland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/end_of_US_empire.png?resize=750%2C580&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/goldswitzerland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/end_of_US_empire.png?w=1100&amp;ssl=1 1100w\" alt=\"Current extent of the US empire\" width=\"982\" height=\"759\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" data-lazy-loaded=\"1\" \/><\/figure>\n<p><strong>US CURRENT WAR ACTIVITY<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The cost of being involved in some kind of war activity in 85 countries will continue to cost the dying US empire dearly for decades to come.<\/p>\n<p><strong>1984 IS HERE AGAIN<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Are the 2020s going to be a return to Orwell\u2019s 1984 with Big Brother watching us everywhere?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it certainly looks like many governments and the elite is leading us in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>Covid has been a superb excuse for controlling the people in a number of countries. Free speech has been banned in the media and unacceptable censorship is now the rule on social media whether it relates to vaccines, climate or race.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>END OF THE US EMPIRE \u2013 ORWELL\u2019S 1984 NEWSPEAK &amp; DIRT CHEAP GOLD The final phase of Empires normally ends with the same signals whether it was 2000 years ago in Rome or\u00a0 today in the US. One of the first signs is losing wars together with excessive debts, deficits, devaluations and decadence \u00a0The US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5,6],"tags":[1212,2299,259,1211,374,18507,379,6864,607,647,827,3142,31757,862],"class_list":["post-59288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-1212","tag-control","tag-empire","tag-george-orwell","tag-gold","tag-gold-switzerland","tag-government","tag-newspeak","tag-pandemic","tag-precious-metals","tag-united-states","tag-us-empire","tag-us-empireegon-von-greyerz","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59289,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59288\/revisions\/59289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}