by Joseph P. Farrell, Giza Death Star:

This has been a “geopolitical” week, and we round out what has thus far been a clown show, with Canada’s Justin Turdeau being the clown in chief this week, closely followed by the clowns in the US Congress – McCarthy, McConnell – doubling down on more uniparty aid for the Ukraine in the latest “budget deal”.  But there’s some more geopolitical bad news lurking, and I suspect that this article which was shared by many of you has a “hidden story” that will be the subject of today’s high octane speculation. The story is simple: one of Russia’s largest bank’s chief executive officers, Andrei Kostin, is calling for an end to SWIFT (The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Transfer), the computerized financial clearing system for the vast amount of financial clearing in Europe, Asia, and Africa, and thoroughly under the thumb of the USA, with headquarters in Brussels (gee….just like the European Union. What a coincidence!):