Civil Unrest Makes EU Governments Nervous

And so it damn well should. I'm just a little disappointed only a handful of people in Britain are waking up to the fact they have been screwed by their financial masters yet. But give it time.

(Images: From the World Economic Forum protests, Zurich, 2009. Above Below)

Irish Times: Governments growing nervous at increased social tensions

A continent-wide sense of injustice leaves Europe vulnerable to an explosion of unrest

ONE MILLION workers on the streets of France, wildcat strikes in Britain, rioting in Greece and the Baltic republics and sit-in protests by glass workers in Waterford: social unrest is spreading throughout Europe and no one knows where it is all going to end.

Last week the worst economic recession in at least 30 years claimed its first political victim in Europe when on Monday Iceland’s beleaguered prime minister Geir Haarde tendered his resignation following weeks of street protests. The collapse of the country’s banking system, which has shredded the value of the krona, driven interest rates to 18 per cent and unemployment to 8 per cent, put paid to his Conservative-led coalition.

The only problem is, the blame for the crisis is still put on the free market. On the surface this seems valid; you could blame 'irresponsible' traders. BUT the main responsibility lies with the central banks, Rothschild-operated, who deliberately engineered this crisis by increasing the money supply and rewarding malinvestment with government funding, all of which is borrowed from them with interest attached.

(Image: US Riot Police outside the 2008 Republican National Convention. Methinks if they knew how the Federal Reserve works, they would have tear-gassed and plasticuffed them instead of wasting time with the populace.)

And if all that sounds like I have had some 'space cake', I suggest you watch The Money Masters.

Fox News: 9/11 Truthers are 'mentally ill'

So first, FX (a Fox channel) broadcasts Rescue Me, in which a character who believes 9/11 was a neoconservative government op is featured.

Then Fox News (for the 100th time) slurs 9/11 'Truthers', this time describing them as 'mentally ill'.

I have no idea why, such a positive portrayal of 9/11 truth was given by FX. (Most 'truther' fictional characters are portrayed as either crazy or drug-taking losers.) Although it does promote - by saying it was a neoconservative conspiracy - the myth that 9/11 truth is a left-wing concept, thus shutting out half of the population to the truth movement. There are no wings when it comes to prosecuting mass murderers.







(Images: Top, 'September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows'...in other words, it's the 9/11 COVERUP not the TRUTH MOVEMENT that offends the victims; Middle, Dr David Ray Griffin (right) the author of Debunking 9/11 Debunking; Bottom, 9/11 Truthers getting the word out.)

If you aren't convinced that not just 9/11, but the entire totalitarian operation in the West today, is the work of a shadow government and not of 'neoconservatives', nor 'socialists', look at Obama's policies relative to Bush's.

- Torture: will continue. Guantanamo's closure is a distraction, the 'combatants' will be held eleswhere. Extraordinary rendition (aka kidnapping) will also continue.

- Central Bank Fraud: both the bank bailout under Bush, and the stimulus package being pushed by Obama, are not really 'bailouts' or 'stimulus' at all. They are blank cheques for the central bank to print what they want, and buy up infastructure.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122286874792094117.html

"Through 2009, the bill would permit the FDIC to request unlimited amounts to cover losses related to the higher limits."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/feb/04/cbo-obama-stimulus-harmful-over-long-haul/

- The 'War on Terror': this will continue, albeit with some token withdrawals from Iraq. The McCain-forecasted 100 year war is still on. Big escalations in Pakistan present a massive geoplitical and nuclear danger, and this fake 'war on terror' will only escalate, not wind down.

I could go on. But what's the point? It's fairly obvious that nothing has Changed, because the people in the real seats of power haven't changed.

(Image: A little detail to go with this picture: despite apparently being on opposite sides of the fake partisan political war; the Clintons and Bushes actually advise one another and agree on most policy. That's because they are pawns to the money masters. Oh, did I say that out loud?)

Central Banks: Begging, Borrowing, Stealing

The Bank of England has cut interest rates to a paltry 1 per cent. They are BEGGING people to BORROW.

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=473129&in_page_id=2&ct=5&in_page_id=2

Meanwhile, Obama says 'the time for talk is over' on the new $900bn US stimulus package. Yes, there's nothing to stimulate the economy like printing money; just ask the Weimar Germans and their wheelbarrows!

The Fed wants to STEAL even more, and the puppet politicians are doing their bidding and pushing these useless 'stimulus'/'bailout' packages, which is the reason this will be a world depression of the scale not seen in modern history.

More on the Geopolitical Situation

Yesterday I posted about Kyrgyzstan's US Air Force base, which will be closed. This was announced by their leadership in Moscow, along with a pledge from the Russians to provide billions in aid. Subtle.

So, this got me thinking. How much has a 'Russian Renaissance' occurred in the last decade? Or is China now the dominant player? How are things looking for America and Europe on the 'Grand Chessboard'?

(Image: Oil, the lifeblood of technological society. It gives us our best source of fuel, and is the basis for making plastics. It's not called 'black gold' for nothing!)

The most important thing in this global power struggle is still resources. Land, people, but especially natural resources in general, and oil/gas in particular. Who controls the resources?

Well, the five 'giant' oil companies are all Western: Shell (Anglo-Dutch), Exxon Mobil (American), BP (British), Chevron Texaco (American), and Total (French).

These are private companies, of course, but many of the biggest oil powers are state-owned, including members of the OPEC trade agreement. One of the biggest powers in oil and gas is Russia, which "has the largest reserves, and is the largest exporter, of natural gas. It has the second largest coal reserves, and is the second largest exporter of oil."

This power was demonstrated during the recent dispute with the Ukraine over gas, during which Russia shut off supplies to much of Eastern Europe. So that's what people mean when they express concern over dependence on foreign energy!

The fact that the frontline of East-West relations is now inside the old Soviet bloc (Ukraine, Georgia) tells you something about American dominance at the end of the 20th Century.

But in this new century, Western power has been challenged by a combination of a stronger Russia and the new Chinese superpower, which is predicted to become the biggest world economy around 2025.

Another interesting case where a country has favoured the East over the West is Kazakhstan, home of Borat and (apparently) quite a lot of oil. This oil has mainly been exported to Western Europe and Russia, but China recently moved into the Kazakh oil export market, buying up 'oil interests' worth $4 billion.

Perhaps the greatest geopolitical risk to America in particular today, however, is not in natural resources but in finance. The dollar is depreciating relative to the euro and most other world currencies - perhaps China could start trading in euros instead of dollars, which would definitely harm the US economy. Though, writes Thomas Palley in The Guardian, China would suffer from any attempt to destabilise the American economy (the Fed and the Bailouts haven't done this already!?!)

Does all this geopolitics affect the ordinary people? Well, not a great deal if you live in a wealthy country. Just, try and tell those in the 'third world' that the geopolitical game between America and Russia (which never really stopped) is harmless. Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan, countless African states have been ravaged by 'proxy' wars during the 'Cold War' and onwards, the best recent example being the Russia-Georgia conflict.

I am not an enthusiast for looking at the world through the lens of national politics and global trade. It tends to prevent us from identifying that the real rift is not between Europeans and Asians, Africans and Arabs, etc; but between British citizens and the owners of Shell; American citizens and the owners of Exxon, and so on.

That is not a wishy-washy Obama-style 'we are all equal' statement; nor is it a Marxist view of class struggle. It's simply a recognition that this global power game does not involve or relate to the average person, only to Rockefeller et al.

Unless you are in a 'developing' country sitting on natural resources - then of course it WILL involve you, like it or not. (Iraq, Iran, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Angola, Congo, Sudan - on and on.)

P-C

More Globalist Nonsense

From the appointed IMF World Bank Wonder Boy currently 'in charge':

Gordon Brown Calls For Global Co-Operation to Beat Economic Slump

I am getting bored of how many times he says 'New World Order' (but apparently that's still a conspiracy theory - have they acheived a real-life version of the Jedi mind trick?).

(Image: "You'll never guess where I have a Rothschild tattoo")

But here is a special treat from Comrade Brown, the Dear Leader of INGSOC. One of the problems, apparently, is 'implicit protectionism' going on at the moment. Double U-Tee-Eff? The problem is protectionism? Because here I thought the problem was the globalists and the bankers who engineered this crisis by deliberate increasing of the money supply.

It's funny...literally the same day, business secretary Peter Mandelson is warning against protectionism, saying that implementing it would worsen the economy. (you and your globalist masters did a good enough job of doing that!)

So in other words, protectionism isn't happening - but it simultaneously is part of the economic problems.

Yet more nonsense spewing from the shapeshifting 'big party' politicians who answer to their banker masters. Globalism is going to make everything OK, right? Maybe I should make it clear...

WE were supposed to be a SOVEREIGN NATION it was YOU who banned the guns YOU who vandalise the currency YOU who neglect our borders and YOU who are setting up the Police State THE PEOPLE will not take this forever be it 2 years or 200 years THEY WILL WAKE UP and THEN the spotlight will be firmly where it should be...ON YOU.

"The world will not accept dictatorship or domination" - Mikhail Gorbachev

US Bailout = $8.5 TRILLION

That's the bare minimum.

http://www.prisonplanet.com/cost-of-bailout-hits-85-trillion.html



And before you can say 'Weimar', hyperinflation is almost inevitable.
And before you can say 'Amero', the dollar will collapse.

Banking for Dummies...

...well, I could understand it. Want to know how you are being screwed financially?

http://www.michaeljournal.org/myth.htm

There are a lot of reasons for the economic crisis of late, but one fundamental of our money system that no politician talks about, or wants to talk about (except libertarians like Ron Paul) is fractional reserve banking, and central banks.


(Image: Might it be illegal for me to make my own money and then lend it out with interest attached?)

Fallen asleep yet? I wouldn't blame you - but this is boring in an important way, if that makes sense.

The link at the top of this post provides a simple analogy for how fractional reserve banking works. It's a good way to gain a basic understanding of how we are perhaps not as prosperous as we could be - and why.

It's not our irresponsible borrowing, or too much or too little regulation (as the 'wingnuts' always argue over). It's more fundamental. While we argue about socialism and capitalism, or government intervention, we have forgotten to notice who controls the money supply.



(Image: Bank of England, London - to be honest, I didn't know, until recently, that it wasn't part of the government. It has been government-owned since 1946, but the people who create the money and lend it out are not part of the government. In the foreground btw is a memorial to those who died in the Great War.)

The answer? Central banks, which are not operated by the government - they are controlled by private bankers. As the American saying goes, "The Federal Reserve is about as Federal as Federal Express".

If you or I created money from nothing, we would be arrested for counterfeiting. And rightly so. However, in the central bank system, private bankers are given special privilege to not only CREATE money from nothing (most of it is digital, not paper); they then LEND that new money to the government. We then have to pay back the interest through our taxes.

However, due to the interest, we cannot ever pay back the debt we now have with the bankers, because even if we gave them ALL of the money available, it would not cover our debt.

That is part of the reason why the national debt is so high among developed nations. Not so much because we took out too many credit cards and mortgages, and not so much because stock traders were irresponsible; but because of the private banksters who are the hidden leech sucking on the wealth created, through goods and services, by the people.

Who Is Prepared for Economic Disaster?

By 'prepared', I mean who is going to make a killing out of the economic situation we are all in. I have previously linked to research indicating the price of gold and silver is about to sky-rocket. Take a look and see where the economy is heading.

So today, I happened upon a report on the Global Money Supply comparing countries' financial status. In particular, at the bottom of that article is a chart showing each country's gold reserves as a percentage of their circulating currency. Gold reserves are, it seems, few and far between these days, so the paper you hold is secure against nothing except peoples' perception of money value.

This is, of course, fine, as long as there is not new money being created in large quantities. But you can see evidence (for the US in the first link in this post, and for Britain here), that the borrowing of money from central banks is out of control. And once this new money finds its way into the market (very little of it is actual paper), there will be a colossal revaluing of currency. Which is why gold and silver are being pushed as good investments as a temporary alternative investment, safer than keeping paper currency.

See here how and why gold and silver prices might have been subject to price-fixing by bankers, who stand to lose out if prices rise.

So, who has enough gold to back their currency? Chavez' Venezuela! (the only one of 25 economic areas surveyed). America is going to have a hard time getting their way and toppling his government when he stands to cash in anytime soon, once gold prices undergo the correction so sorely overdue.

That paper in your hand just might be disintegrating in value faster than you think.

Wave Goodbye to Independent Currency

BBC - Pound hits new low against Euro

(Image: You might not be seeing much more of that one on the right, if its value collapses further.)

Nobody was too bothered when Mr Brown sold off our nation's gold reserves back around the turn of the millennium (and at the bottom of the market, may I say).

But then again, if our currency has not been backed by gold for over half a century, who cares? It's just worthless paper promises anyway. But at least we might have had enough of what is now an important commodity, what with real money being worthless.

And now it looks like the pound is going to fall below the value of the Euro. I could be wrong here, but do we not have the strongest currency in the world? Or at least the developed world? It was the main reason we didn't want to join the Euro, and have refused to do so ever since.

Britain being the least prepared of the 'developed' nations for the current economic disaster, will unfortunately be the legacy of 12 years of Labour party control. And the gold reserve sale is part of that. So is the crippling quantity of government borrowing during the 'good times'.


-PUTS ON CONSPIRACY 'NUT JOB' HAT-

Of course, there is another explanation, other than that Blair and Brown are clueless. They are all Bilderberger group attendees, and therefore possibly subscribants to NWO type thinking.

(Image: The inside of a London cab. Seen left to right: Spying, Globalisation, Nanny State. Or, to the uninformed, "Passenger Notice: CCTV", "Euros Accepted", "Wear Your Seatbelt".)

Every incompetent action by the UK government in the last ten years could be perceived as a deliberate attempt to undermine our currency, and therefore hold up the Euro as a solution.

We are knee-deep in EU bureaucratic regulation already. Most of our laws are EU-determined, and our government just nods and enforces the will of Brussels. We didn't even get to vote on the Lisbon treaty, a repackaged version of the defeated EU Constitution which Labour promised a democratic decision on during the 2005 elections.

The strength of the Pound is both a source of national pride, and a significant reason for not joining the Euro. Intentional or not, the collapse in the Pound's value will help take another step toward Britain becoming part of a single European state.

Yard by yard, walk the thousand mile road, towards One World Government.

Central Banks, funding the Elite

I have been reading up on the likes of Ron Paul, the Campaign for Liberty and the Advocates for Self-Government lately.

While I still need convincing on some concepts of libertarian economics, as I dig deeper I seem to find more I can agree on. For instance, ending the War on Drugs by ending drug laws, or the suggestions of withdrawal from the UN and the World Bank, neither of which have really helped developing nations or situations of war.

One issue in particular is so important, in my opinion, and yet so misunderstood, or not even made aware to the average person, is the presence and effect of central banks, such as the US Federal Reserve or the UK's Bank of England.

(Image: The Bank of England, London, where money is 'made'.)

I thought about trying to explain it in a few words; but since economics is not my strong suit, I decided you would be better off hearing it from Dr. Paul himself. The following is a documentary film called "Fiat Empire: Why the US Federal Reserve Violates the US Constitution", and at 59 minutes, is quite long, but I got the message in about the first 10.

The only people who talk about the reasons for central banks' existence, and whether they are necessary, seem to be libertarians. These institutions rob all of us on a daily basis through artificial inflation, but nobody is aware of it.

Shut 'em down!

'The Truth', and yes, it is SCARY

"The Greatest Wealth Transfer In The History Of Mankind Starts Now!"

...and no, I'm not referring to panic-mongering following Obama's election. 'It's the economy, stupid!'

Is the whole world economy doomed? Should we invest in gold and silver now?

This and more here. And yes it is scary, but it is also factual, as much as I can tell.