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Funding our Adversaries - Thrift Savings Plan 2.65 [Economic Battle PlanTM points: 100) Background Briefing: Lt. Col. Allen West, Kyle Bass, and Roger Robinson join Kevin Freeman in the Economic War Room to discuss an important national security and economic issues. China has found a loophole to funnel US dollars into their economy. They desperately need American dollars to fund their initiatives, surveillance systems, and Belt and Road Initiative. Despite being in the middle of an economic war, we are thinking about taking money from our servicemen and women, from our veterans, and from patriotic government employees and investing it in communist China? Many in our government appear to be walking straight into China’s economic trap, even opening the door for our serviceman and women to unknowingly assist. Your Mission: Find out how your retirement money could also be at risk and why we need to take action now. Second, encourage your representatives to stop America’s Thrift Savings Plan from investing in China now! “The idea of investing American funds in Chinese communist companies that might be even, in fact, building weapons systems to be aimed and used against us just seems ludicrous.” –Kevin Freeman page 1 Funding our Adversaries - Thrift Savings Plan 2.65 [Economic Battle PlanTM points: 100) Ep. 2.65 (OSINT) Open Sourced Intelligence Briefing with highlights. This includes quotes and summaries of conversations in the Economic War Room with Kevin Freeman, Lt. Col. Allen West, Kyle Bass, Roger Robinson and patriotic men and women who have served our country 1. Our service members, veterans, and patriotic government employees are now being forced to invest in China. “Imagine, if at the height of the Cold War, our government took money from patriotic Americans and invested it in the communist Soviet Union. Or, if in 1967 we took money from our soldiers and put it in North Vietnam. Or, what if we took money during World War II and invested it in Hitler’s Germany? It sounds absurd, doesn’t it? And yet here we are two decades into a new century, and we’re actually thinking about taking money from our servicemen and women, from our veterans and from patriotic government employees and investing it in communist China in the middle of an economic war.” –Kevin Freeman » The Thrift Savings Plan is a fund created by our government to take some of the money earned during combat duty or other areas of service and invest in a thrift savings plan towards retirement, college, or a new car. a. Historically this has been a good vehicle to encourage investment and savings. b. There is a change coming to the Thrift Savings Plan, which is concerning: → Participants now make foreign investments through the MSCI/EAFE global index. That represents developed markets. Going forward, page 2 Funding our Adversaries - Thrift Savings Plan 2.65 [Economic Battle PlanTM points: 100) however, they may be forced to make foreign investments through the MSCI All Countries World Index. This means a huge increased investment in China. → As the percentage of US investment grows in China, the ability to decouple economically becomes more difficult. Government employees will be invested and vested in China, a nation that takes our intellectual property and demands knowledge transfer. → They require the US to give them technology in order to enter new markets. Now: → Foreign adversaries are aggressively seeking American capital to fund their economy and ideologies. → They have been lobbying to put their stocks on our market exchanges. → They are asking for Americans to blindly invest without any idea of what they are really investing in. Often, there are no audited financials to support the valuations of companies now being allowed on the exchanges. “What they did is they contacted the people that make up the index. And they said they didn’t have enough China exposure. And so, the MSCI agreed to quadruple the amount of money that their index invests in China. Then they got the Thrift Savings Plan Pension Board to agree to the idea of switching to the index which includes China. In essence, they just handed billions of dollars to China.” –Kevin Freeman page 3 Funding our Adversaries - Thrift Savings Plan 2.65 [Economic Battle PlanTM points: 100) China Case Study – How they are using US Capital markets in their favor. » China went from not having a strong maritime capability or capacity to where they are now building their first domestic aircraft carrier. » They are using the Belt and Road initiative to dominate globally but it is not for the betterment of the Chinese citizen. Instead, just look at what is happening in Hong Kong. » We are extending investment to help China grow and build their military regime. » US investment dollars are propping up a Communist ideology economically. “I might as well give you my concealed carry weapon and make sure you have plenty of bullets to say, shoot me in the head.” –Lt Col. Allen West What’s being done? Note: Senator Rubio, Senator Shaheen, and Congressman Meadows are fighting to help stop this capital transfer, but it should be a bipartisan initiative. “We should not be using the money of veterans, soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines, government employees, or the Coast Guard to funnel China’s economic growth and capital investment.” –Lt. Col. Allen West SOUNDING THE ALARM BELLS! Just as we used economic warfare against the Soviet Union, the Chinese have determined to fight a strategic economic war against us. Unfortunately, crony capitalists, politicians, and Wall Street appear to be lured into China’s trap. Roger Robinson, an economic warfare expert, former national security council member (from the team that took down the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union) sees what China is doing to us and our capital markets and is sounding the alarm! page 4 Funding our Adversaries - Thrift Savings Plan 2.65 [Economic Battle PlanTM points: 100) Lessons in History - Robinson Background: » President Reagan called Roger Robinson “the architect of the economic and financial strategy for the takedown of the Soviet Union.” “I came out of Chase Manhattan Bank, where I was a vice president and division executive, ironically, in charge of the Soviet Union and central to Eastern Europe for some five years. I knew where the money was. I knew what kind of credit worthiness they had, and more importantly, didn’t have. And so, I came to the Reagan administration with a good understanding of just how paltry their hard currency, income and cash flow really was. The fact that they were spending more than they were making by about $16 billion a year, that their total hard currency income was only about $32 billion dollars, roughly one third of the earnings of GM at the time, at least in terms of their total revenues. So, it was a it was a very sparse event.” “The Western banks and governments were funding 100 percent of that of that gap of, say, $16 billion. And so, I came in with the notion that we need a new strategy here, which is to go after the Soviet hard currency and cash flow. There’s a lot that happens in rubles. Most of their trade takes place there. But if we just concentrated on the hard currency dimension, this was where the dividends would be paid. And of course, two-thirds of that income was comprised of oil and gas deliveries. So, they were really focusing on natural gas as their savior for the 21st century and arguably beyond.” “So, what we went after was the Siberian gas pipeline project. This meant that they couldn’t use our technology and equipment to continue to supply the Siberian gas pipeline. They objected. They tried to sell that equipment anyway. And we closed the entire American marketplace to those offending companies page 5 Funding our Adversaries - Thrift Savings Plan 2.65 [Economic Battle PlanTM points: 100) making clear you can do business with the Soviet Union or the United States, but you’re not going to do business with both. And I think that this was a decisive moment, because Europe understood finally after we sanctioned those companies. All of them went under within about a six-month period, spilling one hundred and fifty thousand people into the streets of Europe unemployed. They started to get the idea of where their export destiny would lie. And it wasn’t with the Soviet Union. There were many factors that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. But I think none more potent than the economic, and particularly the financial piece.” Bottom Line: By cutting off access to Western markets and Western money, we were able to break communism in the Soviet Union. Roger Robinson’s Warnings as it relates to China: A. The Chinese Communist are accessing Western Markets and Western Money B. With this capital we are giving them, they are doing some really bad things. 2. China is an economic juggernaut, the likes of which the Soviets never knew. We need to understand how the game is being played against us today. » It’s really about stocks and bonds, namely our capital markets and MSCI All Country World Index. This is what makes up the keys to the kingdom. → China has much as a $1.9 trillion dollars from our stock market. → They have another trillion or so that we’re exposed as Americans through their Chinese bond market. » We’re talking about over $3 trillion of financing that we’re providing to the Communist Party and the Chinese totalitarian government. So, this is this is a huge problem.