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Black Eagle Trust Fund
The 9/11 Attacks and the Black Eagle Trust Fund

"On that fateful day, the Securities and Exchange Commission declared a national emergency, and for the first time in U.S. history, invoked its emergency powers under Securities Exchange Act Section 12(k) easing regulatory restrictions for clearing and settling security trades for the next 15 days. These changes would allow an estimated $240 billion in covert government securities to be cleared upon maturity without the standard regulatory controls around identification of ownership."

Dear friends,

Few people are aware of the huge Black Eagle Trust fund, let alone its critical relation to the 9/11 attacks. A brilliant summary of excellent information regarding this covert fund compiled by meticulous researcher E.P. Heidner ties together many previously unexplained threads in the 9/11 mystery in ways that are most compelling. Heidner presents volumes of solid evidence to support his thesis that one of the main reasons for the attacks was to cover up the laundering of over $200 billion in bonds from this secretive fund that were to come due the day after 9/11.

Serious 9/11 researchers will likely be most grateful for the revealing connections in this careful research made between seemingly unconnected parts of the 9/11 story and the many people and organizations involved. Those less familiar with the 9/11 cover-up will almost certainly appreciate the broad overview given and the hidden history behind it all. If we follow the money, a lot of unexplained things begin to make sense.

Below are key excerpts from this remarkable paper with highlighting provided for those with limited time. If you do have time, the many diagrams, photos, and charts available in the original 58-page essay are most helpful. The full document also includes 232 footnotes for verification filling 17 pages worth of text. In the concise summary below, I've kept the original footnote numbers, so you will find they skip quite a bit. See the full essay to explore these informative footnotes. For the entire original paper with footnotes, click here.

Some readers may feel upset or overwhelmed with this material, yet the fact that you are reading this and that this powerful information is awakening many as it spreads around the Internet shows that we are making a difference. Others may be excited to finally see the bigger picture. See our "what you can do" section at the end of the article for ideas on how you can help spread the word and build a brighter future. Thanks for caring.

With best wishes,
Fred Burks for PEERS and WantToKnow.info
Former language interpreter for Presidents Bush and Clinton

Note: For what may be the most powerful single piece of evidence corroborating this theory, click here to read the Reuters news service article on the massive volume of electronic financial transactions conducted from inside the WTC just before the towers collapsed. Yet the investigation results are being kept secret.

Collateral Damage: U.S. Covert Operations and the Terrorist Attacks on 9/11

The September 11th attacks were likely meant as a cover-up for financial crimes being investigated by the Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI), whose offices in the Pentagon were destroyed on September 11th. [1] The attacks ... were intended to cover-up the clearing of $240 billion dollars in securities covertly created in September 1991 to fund a covert economic war against the Soviet Union, during which ‘unknown’ western investors bought up much of the Soviet industry, with a focus on oil and gas.

The 9/11 attacks also served to derail multiple Federal investigations of crimes associated with the 1991 covert operation. Hundreds of billions of dollars of government securities had to be destroyed. A critical mass of brokers from the major government security brokerages in the Twin Towers had to be eliminated to create chaos in the government securities market. A situation needed to be created wherein $240 billion dollars of covert securities could be electronically “cleared” without anyone asking questions – which happened when the Federal Reserve declared an emergency and invoked its “emergency powers” that very afternoon. [4]

There were three major securities brokers in the World Trade Center: Cantor Fitzgerald, Eurobrokers and Garbon Inter Capital. Cantor Fitzgerald was the largest securities dealer in the US [7] and arguably the primary target. [8] 41% of the fatalities in the Twin Towers came from Cantor Fitzgerald and Eurobrokers. [13] 24% of the 125 fatalities in the Pentagon were from the Naval Command Center that housed the Office of Naval Intelligence. 29 of 30 Office of Naval Intelligence employees died. The Naval Command Center had been moved into that newly opened section of the Pentagon only a month earlier. [21] And in the vaults beneath the World Trade Center Towers, any certificates for bonds were destroyed. [14]

On that fateful day, the Securities and Exchange Commission declared a national emergency, and for the first time in U.S. history, invoked its emergency powers under Securities Exchange Act Section 12(k) easing regulatory restrictions for clearing and settling security trades for the next 15 days. These changes would allow an estimated $240 billion in covert government securities to be cleared upon maturity without the standard regulatory controls around identification of ownership. [19]

The Origins of the World Trade Center Attack

Emboldened by the lack of consequences for subverting the U.S. constitution and breaking international law during the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s, a Bush administration group known as “the Vulcans” planned a bigger drive to crush Communism once and for all. They waged war against the Soviet Union and Iraq under George H.W. Bush, and against Iraq and Afghanistan under George W. Bush. Belonging to this group were Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Armitage, and Condoleezza Rice. [31]

The Vulcan’s drive to bring an end to the Cold War was fueled by a covert war chest invisible to congressional oversight. [32] This war chest would be known by several names: Black Eagle Trust, the Marcos gold, Yamashita’s Gold, the Golden Lily Treasure, the Durham Trust or Project Hammer. [33] The program also seems to have lined the pockets of the individuals that executed this policy. This was done to the tune of a staggering $240 billion dollars in covert and allegedly illegal bonds, which appear to have been replaced with Treasury notes backed by U.S. taxpayers in the aftermath of September 11.

The covert securities used to accomplish the national security objective of ending the Cold War ended up in the vaults of the brokers in the World Trade Center, and were destroyed on September 11, 2001. [36] They came due for settlement and clearing on September 12. The federal Agency investigating these bonds – The Office of Naval Intelligence – was in the section of the Pentagon that was destroyed on 9/11. [37]

To this key group of senior National Security officials called the Vulcans, who had participated in the victory of the economic cold war in 1991, the WTC, the Pentagon, the four airliners and their occupants would became ‘collateral’ damage in the ending of the Cold War. Their deaths were required to hide the existence of the Black Eagle Trust, and the covert activities it had funded for over 50 years. The destruction of these lives and buildings constituted a cover-up of continued lawlessness by a fraternity or brotherhood of businessmen and criminals often referred to as ‘the Enterprise’ in the 1980s, though it has remained in the shadows since.

Numerous sources have documented that at the end of WWII, the treasury of the Japanese Empire was discovered in the Philippines by a staff member of General Charles Willoughby, [Edward Lansdale], who was General MacArthur’s chief of Intelligence. Then known as the Golden Lily Treasure, this mass of wealth had been accumulated by the Japanese through over fifty years of pillaging by its army in Southeast Asia and China. It was deposited in the Philippines due to the U.S. submarine blockade of Japan. Reports vary, but documents in the public domain suggest the recovered treasure was in excess of 280,000 metric tonnes of gold, not including jewels and diamonds. [40] After the War [Lansdale] tortured Major Kojima Kashii – General Yamashita Tomoyuki’s driver – until he revealed and created a map of the gold sites. [41]

Lansdale briefed Assistant Secretary of War John J. McCloy about the findings, and a U.S. Cabinet level decision was made to confiscate the gold and cover-up its discovery. The gold would be added to the Black Eagle Trust fund. It was McCloy, along with Secretary of the Navy Robert B. Anderson and Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson who created the Black Eagle Trust. [42]

John McCloy, who had shared a box at the 1936 Olympics with Adolph Hitler, went on to become President of the World Bank. Robert Anderson would go on to operate the Commercial Exchange Bank in the British West Indies, be convicted of running illegal banking operations and tax evasion, and be sentenced to prison. [43] A fourth member of that group – William ‘Wild Bill’ Donovan – would go on to found the CIA and distribute the gold to key banks represented by his staffers.

The trust they created takes its name from the Nazi Black Eagle stamped on the gold bars of the Third Reich. Gold bullion confiscated from the Reich and not returned to its rightful owners and their heirs was the original source of funding for this trust. [44] Over the years, the significance of the Nazi gold would pale in comparison to the confiscated Japanese treasure.

The men responsible for initiating and executing the confiscation of Nazi and Japanese treasury gold represented the most senior Intelligence officers in the U.S. and Britain at the end of World War II, and the Cabinet of the President of the United States. The financial institutions represented by these individuals would become the major financial banks in the world, along with the Swiss-German banks they hid their gold in. The Yamashita gold would become the cornerstone of the Black Eagle Fund, from which many covert operations of the U.S. intelligence would be funded. [58]

Lansdale’s operation in the Philippines gave birth to most of the common features of modern covert operations for U.S. Intelligence: bribery, theft, torture, and false flag operations. It would be Lansdale who would initiate a bond between the US intelligence organizations and Israeli intelligence. It would be Lansdale that would set precedents for the Intelligence community to retain the services of organized crime on U.S. soil. Lansdale would hire American Mafia family heads Carlos Marcello, Santos Trafficante, Meyer Lansky, and Lucky Luciano in the U.S. war against Fidel Castro in 1961.

It would be Lansdale’s team that would propose and justify sacrificing innocent U.S. civilians in order to rally the American citizenry to support an invasion of foreign soil. This was done under a program run by Brigadier General William H. Craig, who reported to Lansdale for the Cuba project. [61] This project was called Operation Northwoods. Documents for this project would be accidentally released from the files of Robert McNamara into the public domain some 40 years later, exposing the degree to which Lansdale’s operatives would go to wage war. [62] These declassified documents revealed secret plans of the U.S. military to wage a fabricated “terror” campaign against US citizens as a pretext to justify a second invasion of Cuba.

Barrick Gold would become an investment for nearly every gold bullion bank associated with the Marcos gold recovery. These banks would loan gold to Barrick, which would then sell the borrowed gold as derivatives, with the promise of replacing the borrowed gold with their gold mining operation. The records of many of those transactions disappeared when Enron collapsed and the trading operation and all its records were taken over by UBS, another major recipient of Marcos gold. The FBI was reportedly conducting an investigation into those transactions, and the investigation files were kept on the 23rd floor of the North Tower of the WTC. A review of the personal accounts of September 11 now suggests that office was deliberately targeted with explosives prior to the collapse of the WTC towers. [73]

Taking Control

In November 1980, Ronald Reagan was elected to the White House. Sixty-nine days after the inauguration, John Hinckley attempted to assassinate President Reagan. Eight days prior to that attempt, there were a series of unprecedented policy changes that put George Bush in charge of Foreign Policy and National Security. That conferred new roles and powers on Bush, including "unprecedented powers for a vice president." [85] Vice President George Bush was named the leader of the United States "crisis management'' staff, as a part of the National Security Council system. [86] Then, on March 30, 1981, just eight days after these powers were conferred on Bush, President Reagan was shot.

The father of the assassin that put Bush in power was John (a.k.a. Jack) Hinckley, Sr., the owner of Vanderbilt Oil. Hinckley had been giving maximum donations every year to George H.W. Bush since he started running for Congress. In The Black Hole of Guyana: The Untold Story of the Jonestown Massacre, John Judge painstakingly documents that Jonestown was a CIA operation for converting dispossessed and lonely refugeesinto assassins. In an operation that was falling under Congressional investigation, the evidence had to be eliminated – and nearly all the inhabitants were murdered to prevent disclosure. [88]

A key player in the Marcos gold would be Banker’s Trust, which was taken over by Alex Brown & Sons, after Banker’s Trust floundered financially on its Russian loans in the mid 1990s. These Russian loans were facilitated by Enron, starting in August of 1993, and very possibly were part of the Project Hammer takeover of Soviet industry. Alex Brown‘s involvement would bring to the forefront the names of three names of individuals who would play multiple roles in this mystery: Buzz Krongard, Mayo Shattuck, and J Carter Beese.

Buzz Krongard is reported as the mentor of Beese and Shattuck from their years together at Alex Brown. Additionally, he managed the merger between Bankers Trust and Deutschebank Alex Brown. Bankers Trust, Zurich was a key Marcos gold holder. Krongard would move on to become Chairman of the investment bank A.B. Brown, Vice Chairman of Banker's Trust, and Executive Director of the CIA at the time of September 11.

Mayo Shattuck would be reported to be the personal banker for Adnan Khashoggi and Edgar Bronfmann during their partnership at Barrick Gold. [107] He would move on to become the CEO of Deutschebank who would resign for unexplained reasons the day after September 11, and would not be at the WTC office that day when the tower collapsed. It was his bank that was identified as the source of the illegal stock options that indicated there was insider trading taking advantage of the September 11 tragedy.

What happened to the Marcos gold after it was confiscated by U.S. agents in 1986 has never been reported, but throughout the early 1990s, the world gold market would be befuddled by the mysterious appearance of thousands of tonnes of gold which appeared to suppress the price of gold.

In preparation for their war against Communism, and in the years leading up to the failed – or faux – coup of 1991 which initiated the last days of Gorbachev and the rise of Yeltsin, Bush and a cadre of rogue KGB officials built a complex international network of banks and holding companies that would be used to take over ownership of the Soviet economy. Over 300 of these KGB turncoats who supported this operation would later be re-located to the US in the early 1990s and pensioned. [111] Periodic CIA reports to Congress would review KGB and organized crime complicity in the takeover of Russia by criminal elements, but all mention of the formidable role of the U.S. would be expunged from Congressional oversight and the public record. [112]

In the first phase of the economic attack on the Soviet Union, George Bush authorized Leo Wanta and others to destabilize the ruble and facilitate the theft of the Soviet/Russian treasury. This would result in draining the Russian treasury of between 2,000 to 3,000 tonnes of gold bullion, ($35 billion at the time). [113] The gold was ‘stolen’ in March of 1991, facilitated by Leo Wanta and signed off by Boris Yeltsin’s right hand man. The majority of the leaked reports from the CIA and FBI suggest the theft of the Russian treasury was a KGB and Communist party operation, but what those reports omitted was the extensive involvement of Boris Yeltsin, the U.S. banking industry and the CIA.

In the second phase, Wanta, George Soros and a group of Bush appointees would begin to destabilize the ruble. There were two major operations: the largest was coordinated by Alan Greenspan and Oliver North, and implemented by Leo Wanta.

The 9/11 Cover-up and the Black Eagle Trust

With an understanding of the economic war being waged on the Soviet Union, the focus needs to turn to reports that on September 11, 1991, President George Bush was responsible for issuing $240 billion dollars in secretive bonds as a part of this attack on the Russian ruble. There are six lines of evidence from eight sources that suggest this was indeed the case. Many of these instances are corroborated with documents available on the Internet, presented by those making the claims. [174]

The bonds sat for ten years, like a ticking time bomb. They had to be settled – or cashed in by September 12, 2001. The two firms in the U.S. most likely to be handling them would be Cantor Fitzgerald and Eurobrokers – the two largest government securities firms in the U.S. The federal agency mostly involved in investigating those transactions was the Office of Naval Intelligence. On 9/11, those same three organizations: the two largest government securities brokers and the Office of Naval Intelligence in the US took direct hits.

What happened inside the buildings of the World Trade on September 11 is difficult, but not impossible to discern. The government has put a seal on the testimony gathered by the investigating 911 Commission, and instructed government employees to not speak on the matter or suffer severe penalties, but there are a number of personal testimonies posted on the Internet as to what happened in those buildings that day.

Careful reconstruction from those testimonies indicates the deliberate destruction of evidence not only by a targeted assault on the buildings, but also by targeted fires and explosions. In the event that either the hijacking failed, or the buildings were not brought down, the evidence would be destroyed by fires. In addition to the investigative evidence being destroyed, the Federal Register reported that the physical securities held by the brokers in their vaults had been destroyed.

What would be even more revealing would be the actions of the Federal Reserve Bank and the Securities and Exchange Commission on that day, and in the immediate aftermath. As one of many coincidences on 9/11, the Federal Reserve Bank was operating its information system from its remote back-up site rather than it’s downtown headquarters. The SEC and Federal Reserve system remained unfazed by the attack. All of their systems continued to operate. The two major security trading firms had their trade data backed up on remote systems. Nevertheless, the Commission for the first time invoked its emergency powers under Securities Exchange Act Section 12(k) and issued several orders to ease certain regulatory restrictions temporarily.

The Federal Reserve Suspends the Rules

On the first day of the crisis, the SEC lifted “Rule 15c3-3: Customer Protection – Reserves and Custody of Securities.” Thus GSCC [Government Securities Clearing Corporation] was thus allowed to substitute other securities for the physical securities destroyed during the attack. “…collateral substitutions can and should be made with regard to immediately maturing collateral.” [191] At this point in time, the Federal Reserve and its GSCC had created a settlement environment totally void of controls and reporting – where it could substitute valid, new government securities for the mature, illegal securities, and not have to record where the original bad securities had come from, or where the new securities went – all because the paper for the primary brokers for US securities had been eliminated.

A review of the explanations for the actions of the Federal Reserve after September 11th exposes an amazingly complex web of analysis and speculation. The reports published by the Federal Reserve argue that the Federal Reserve’s actions increasing the monetary supply by over $300 billion were justified to overcome operational difficulties in the financial sector. While impressive as the reports are, what is noted by the casual reader is that all of the Federal Reserve analysis is speculative and suggestive, using phraseology such as “may have,” “likely,” “presumably,” or “should have.” There are few – if any – definitive statements about root cause and the appropriateness of the Federal Reserve response.

While the Fed was reporting outstanding account balances of over $100 billion per day (while not identifying the banks involved), the Wall Street Journal reported that at one point during the week after 9/11, BoNY was publicly reported to be overdue on $100 billion in payments. [198] The Deutschebank, which sat inside the WTC and was totally decimated, reported no such account balance increase, and JP Morgan, the other of only two clearing banks which uses the same traders and communications hub, reported no such increase in its account balance.No one has publicly asked: why is it that these other two banks were not seriously disrupted, while the Bank of New York – which had no structural damage – seemed unable to operate?

Certain key unknown figures in the Federal Reserve may have ‘conspired’ with key unknown figures at the Bank of New York to create a situation where $240 billion in off balance sheet securities created in 1991 as part of an official covert operation to overthrow the Soviet Union, could be cleared without publicly acknowledging their existence. These securities, originally managed by Cantor Fitzgerald, were cleared and settled in the aftermath of September 11th through the BoNY. The $100 billion account balance bubble reported by the Wall Street Journal as being experienced in the BoNY was tip of a three day operation, when these securities were moved from off-balance-sheet to the balance sheet.

[As reported on page 12 of a Federal Reserve document] “In the absence of complete information on deliveries into and out of its account at BoNY on September 11, and as a result of its assumption of settlement fails on the starting legs of blind-brokered RPs, GSCC recorded (after the close of business on September 11) $266 billion in transactions that apparently failed to settle.… Continuing connectivity problems prevented GSCC from giving BoNY delivery instructions after the close of business on September 11 and prevented it from acquiring information on activity in its account at BoNY during the day on September 12. Consequently, GSCC recorded $440 billion in settlement fails as of the close of business on September 12.” [201]

What appears to be the case is that the Federal Reserve imbalances reported on three consecutive days in the aftermath were largely concentrated at the Bank of New York, which is reported to represent over 90% of the imbalance, suggesting the Bank had been the recipient of massive fund transfers, and unable to send out transfers. Overall transactions for the day of 9/11 were seemingly down even more significantly than volume, but the transactions that came in after closing were extremely large, averaging in size in packages of $35 million or more. This would be consistent with a hypothesis that $240 billion of securities were being pushed surreptitiously into the money supply.

The Federal Reserve, without providing the detail required to substantiate it’s claims, would have the public believe that there were widespread liquidity issues, when in fact the issues were very concentrated primarily, if not singularly, in the BoNY, which has been the subject of an ongoing majormoney-laundering investigation for many years. These account balance issues resulted in the defacto expansion of the monetary supply, details of which are no longer reported by the Federal Reserve.

The reported cause of this market malfunction is seemingly suspect. By comparison, the Deutschebank which sat inside the World Trade Center reported no such account balance increase, and JP Morgan, the other of two clearing banks which uses the same traders and communications hub, reported no such increase in account balance. Additionally, while problems were being documented between the BoNY and GCSS, no other institution had those problems.

There is a contention that at the core of the September 11th attack, someone was planning to cover the 1991 issuance of $240 billion in covert securities used to finance the collapse the Soviet Union. The facts surrounding the financial aftermath of September 11 suggest this is not only possible, but that reports describing the aftermath have deliberately been misleading.

• The US dollar money supply was significantly increased in the aftermath of 9/11;
• The bank at the core of the illegal money laundering by ex-Soviet criminals was the source of the increased money supply (BoNY);
• The generally disseminated rationale for BoNY’s operational problems seems to have affected no other bank in a similar manner or magnitude and is inconsistent with reports on the BoNY operations in the aftermath;
• A key witness who might provide insight to these issues is a statistically aberrant death;
• The source of the BoNY’s $330 billion increase in assets is cloaked under the privilege of “private banking;”
• The only alleged “severe” disruption to the financial systems was the Federal Reserves account balance and the securities trading fails – both systems required to hide the laundering of $240 billion in covert securities.

This is not a ‘proof’ that $240 billion was laundered, but it provides probable cause for paying serious attention.

Conclusion

History has many interpretations, and this report has been just one of many – an interpretation pieced together from the bold admissions and revelations of insiders, whose stories have been ignored and suppressed by the major media organizations. It is an interpretation of history that suggests a few determined men strove to change the world in defense of Western capitalism in ways which they felt needed to be hidden from the public. Whatever emotion or logic that was adequate to cause them to hide their actions from the public was not strong enough to prevent them from committing the acts.

Footnotes: To explore the excellent footnotes for the above article, see the end of full article available here.

Author’s Note: This is the condensed version of this story. The author cannot vouch for the accuracy of the source materials, although efforts have been made to validate the consistency of the story line with as many references as possible. There is no single fact or reference that this story is dependent on. The author expects some details to be disputed, and possibly disproved, but contends that the story line will hold true regardless.

Note from Fred: Though I doubt this was the only reason for 9/11, it was likely one of the main motivators. For what may be the most powerful single piece of evidence corroborating this theory, click here to read the Reuters news service article on the massive volume of electronic financial transactions conducted from inside the WTC just before the buildings collapsed. Yet the investigation results are being kept secret. For an excellent 44-minute documentary which goes into this and much more, click here.

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March 17, 2014 by 2012thebigpicture

Secret Space War XIV: Tall White Nordics call Marduk’s Bluff ?

I see my world transforming before my very eyes. Has there ever been so much talk about ETs, inter-dimensional travel, space craft, aliens, laser weapons, directed energy,  spontaneous healings, disclosure and first contact? NO!
But now there is, and it’s becoming commonplace and expected in the alternative news communities. And once it saturates the consciousness of all of us, it’s going to spill over to mainstream media and the collective consciousness.
The general public have to be suspecting things with all the “UFO” sightings, the bizarre HAARP-induced noises, the fireballs, comets, earthquakes, volcanoes, sinkholes, mounting numbers of banksters offing themselves, television programs with paranormal subject matter, movies with provocative story lines…
There’s a ‘new normal’. Something has shifted, and we’re on a conveyor belt to our new reality. No one has a choice, because it’s moving so fast we can’t climb off!
It may be chaotic, but it’s without question the most exciting time to be alive on old Terra. It’s getting to the point that increasing numbers of people will be jolted awake, like they stuck a knife in a toaster. The masses are going to be forced to question what reality really is.
Welcome to the nether realms. It’s where we live now, and we’re still exploring our own block! There’s a whole lot more coming and life will never be mundane again. 
Kudos to ‘VeteransToday’ for continuing to upgrade the awareness of Humanity with Truth. Fabulous article.  I DID say the gloves are off and there’s no holding back now. There’s nothing to lose.  ~BP
by  Preston James

Ashtar

March 17th, 2014
Last December, 2013, 91 world leaders attended Nelson Mandela’s so-called “Funeral”. Russian President Vladimir Putin was notably absent.(1)
At the time this seemed somewhat strange, since almost every other nation was represented by their top leader.
But also absent were the top leaders of China and Israel. This article will present what are perhaps the actual reasons for these peculiar absences.
It turns out Mandela died many months earlier than the date of his Funeral and it has been alleged by insiders that his so-called funeral was cover for the secret crowning ceremony of Marduk, the Alien ET leader, believed to be the head Draco.(2)
It is believed by some that Marduk was perhaps driven away from Planet Earth during earlier times by a major earth catastrophe or as a direct judgement of God Almighty. Others believe that another alien ET leader from the Tall White Nordics forced him to leave in some kind of major cosmic warfare victory.

It is very difficult to get a handle on Marduk, why he suddenly appeared in Africa, why he was crowned King of Africa and what he is trying to accomplish if these claims are true. Obviously the average person on the street is never supposed to find out about the Alien ET connection, Marduk and what he represents which is believed to be the Third Force.(3)

It is believed by some that the Dracos are shape shifting inter-dimensional lizard-beings, evil to the core and thrive on promoting human suffering, and mass painful deaths of humans.
Thus they have been labelled negative energy vampires that induce their servants, the IZCS to induce as much human suffering and mass painful death as possible to keep their energy status high.
Yes, I know this sounds ridiculous and impossible, but good and credible Intel sources from deep inside the American Space War System have provided this information so it is  not that easy to simply discount.
For example over two hundred very credible witnesses emerged under Dr. Steven Greer’s “Disclosure Project”.  These credible witnesses cannot easily be discounted and have provided major proof of a secret Space War and Alien ETs presence using Anti-Gravity Craft (AGCs).

The adjective “Draconian” actually represents the nature of Marduk and his human followers who are the twelve luciferian bloodlines and all their close relatives dating back to ancient Babylonia.
It is believed that Vlad the Impaler was a Draco-human hybrid, noted for being soulless and someone who cherished creating as much terror as possible by making many of his victims suffer incredibly without dying for several days.
Some claim Dracos have established an iron grip on the world through its Cutouts, the private central zio Banksters who use Babylonian Money-Magick to establish “beach-heads” in every major nation-state. It has also been hypothesized that the IZCS are the zio Banksters direct associates and also have their subsidiary espionage fronts of World Zionists (WZs) such as AIPAC, B’nai B’rith, ADL, SPLC and the like.
If this is true it means that these tools of the Dracos which include the the private Central zio Banksters, IZCS, and the WZs espionage fronts in America, have been doing the direct will of these evil Dracos to create as much human suffering and painful human death as possible to feed their negative energy needs.
Those of the Draco’s Reps (Cutouts) who create the most human suffering and painful death, receive the greatest earthly rewards and are propelled up the Draco’s food chain to the highest levels of the governments they own and control (which is most of them).
It has been alleged that nearly every single member of Congress and the current Administration are under the power or “spell” of the Draco system and are basically owned by their Cutouts the IZCS, the WZ’s and their espionage fronts. the means by which this has occurred has been the so far successful deployment of sophisticated Psi-powered and Psychotronically powered MINDWAR against the American Citizen.

This has also been described as the technological applications of high tech luciferian “temple of set, or Reich of the Black Sun zionist technologies which have alleged to have been provided from the Dark-Side by the Dracos to their human leaders who have resided at the top of the NSA and the US Military, specifically formerly at the Presidio and Offhutt AFB. Omaha has traditionally been the capital of this US Military Pedophilia and mind-kontrol operations by this groups of criminally insane sickos and pedophiles (and still is). These individuals are known satanists and pedophiles and have used national security as a false cloak to prevent their wide-spread exposure and prosecution which would probably be death for their massive Treason and frequent pedophile crimes and murder/sacrifice of children.
The very top “Circle of Twelve” human leaders who run the IZCS are believed to be Draco-human hybrids with no souls and an addiction to the generation of mass human suffering and painful deaths as well as power, wealth from war and drug profits, pedophilia, human sex trafficking, and illegal organ theft and trafficking.(4)
It is also believed that those who sell out to lucifer, the apparent Wizard of OZ behind the Dracos often get their own “spirit guide” which appears to them periodically, especially after episodes of human sacrifice or imposition of great human suffering and painful death. These spirit guides are claimed to provide business Intel and other kinds of Psi-power help, but can be blocked by those wit strong character, a strong commitment to the “Golden Rule” of “Do Unto Others….” and various classical spiritual principles which are based on this basic human precept of morality.
It is also believed that the current administration is owned by the Bush crime Cabal as have all since President Reagan who is believed to have been the last duly elected president.(5)
Yes, it is believed that the Dracos have attained ownership of most governments of the world, but not all. Insiders claim that ever since Lee Wanta negotiated “win/win” end to the “Evil Empire” (Soviet Russia) as President Reagan’s Secret Agent under the Totten Doctrine, Russia has gone a notably different direction.(6)
Apparently President Putin did not attend the Mandela Funeral and did not pay homage to Marduk as the new king of Africa because he refuses to submit to the Draco system which would produce nothing but more suffering and painful death for his Russian Citizens. He appears to have become informed that Marduk and his Dracos are the Third Force and are attempting to take over the whole world, only this time they will turn on those that served them in the greatest betrayal in history, one that will make the “Night of the Longknives” look like child’s play.
And even though it is now known that the OSS Kingpins set up Maoist China as another Draco nation, it appears as if the new Chinese leaders want nothing to do with Marduk or his Dracos or any of his strategies to produce as much human suffering and painful death as possible.
Apparently someone or some entity has tipped off both the Chinese as well as the Russian Leaders that Marduk is going to pull the greatest betrayal in history and they are distancing themselves fast. What is the source of their knowledge on this?  More on that later after the third nation to refuse to attend Mandela’s funeral is discussed.
It is known that Israel’s top leader refused to attend the Mandela Funeral or pay homage to Marduk when he was crowned king of Africa. This seems strangely out of character since more than a few insiders believe that Israeli zionists have been the core of the Draco’s system on Planet Earth and have been the controllers of the IZCS, the WZ’s and all their espionage fronts in America and have done so on behalf of the City of London private Central zionist Banksters.
Yes, the British Prime Minister was there, but no leader of Israel. Hmm. What is the reason for Israel’s absence? The best possible explanation so far is that the Israeli leadership now realize that they are being thrown under the bus, that world zionism is now in its death throes and the Draco’s are done with them and going to thrown them to the wolves. They now realize that Marduk plans to level Jerusalem, gut Israel and bring a new unity to the Middle East for all including Palestinians, and rebuild the Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem for himself as perhaps the “Final Anti-Christ”.
This is greatly alarming to Israel’s zionist leaders who are now going for broke by having their American espionage fronts exert as much pressure of the US Congress and the Administration as possible to go ahead and attacks Syria, Iran and now the Ukraine.
Zionist Israeli leaders believe that unless they Balkanize Syria, Iran and now the Ukraine and get their natural gas and oil pipeline built while cutting off Russia’s sales and exports of the same to Europe, they are essentially finished.
Basically Israel is now pretty screwed because of their domination by world Zionists (WZs) who were in bed with Dracos for many years and served as Draco Central’s main Cutouts.  Note, the City of London Financial District is believed to the world capital of the Draco’s who are the originators and promoters of World Zionisms, the IZCS and the private Central zionist Banksters.
Yes, payback is a bitch and appears to be headed straight for the IZCS, the WZs, the zio Central Banksters and Israel. See the main thing to note about the Dracos is when you are no longer needed, you get “axed”.
Some very good Secret Space War sources have suggested that perhaps President Putin has made a secret treaty with Tall White Nordic Alien ETs who are allegedly the arch enemies of the Dracos.(7) Not only do they hate what the Dracos stand for but view them as parasites on all humans that must be eradicated or driven away like they were before. Apparently the Tall White Nordics have claimed that there are “Cosmic Rules of Play” that when followed can assure the defeat of the Draco’s and their whole system that has seduced and enslaved the world by placing numerous Babylonian spell on humans societies.
Allegedly the number one “Cosmic Rule of Play” is that the Dracos can only capture the human minds and hearts if humans consent by responding to various temptations and spells. If they refuse, their character is strengthened.  If they consent and give in to these temptations to violate the Golden Rule “Do Unto Others As You Wish Them To Do Unto You” their character is weakened. If they persist in more violations, eventually their character becomes so weak that their very souls can be snatched, allowing evil desires to replace that soul.
Apparently Putin has been fully briefed by the Tall White Nordics about Marduk’s evil plans to mass murder most humans while maximizing human suffering. He has allegedly consulted with the Orthodox Russian Church and formed an alliance to break this evil Draco hold on Russia.
Conclusion:
If information provided by current or former members of the American Secret Space War System have been accurate, it appears that President Putin has decided to stand fast against the evil Draco system that hijacked most of the world including the UK, Israel, France, Germany, NATO, and America. This is a very bold move and suggests that perhaps President Putin has some new backing from a very powerful Alien ET force, the Tall White Nordics who are also believed to be in contact with a new upcoming group deep inside the American Military and and Intel.
It is also believed that there is a very deep split within the Secret Shadow Government (SSG). The “Circle of Twelve” bloodthirsty “Denver Group” that currently controls the  IZCS, the WZs and their Cutouts (AIPAC, DHS and its TSA, B’nai B’brith, the ADL and the SPLC and the like), and even the American zionist Federal Reserve Bank has been basically untouchable until fully exposed by prominent federal Whistle-blower Stew Webb. It is now being chipped away at from all sides and is in notable decline.  It’s main Cutout the Bush Crime Cabal is losing power fast and is in deep decline and has been splitting from zio control lately for some unknown reason. Some believe that this notable decline in the SSG, the Circle of Twelve, and the Bush Crime Cabal is largely due to a new secret alliance with this new up and coming group on American Military and Intel and the Tall White Nordics like President Putin has entered into.
It is also believed that Chinese leaders have entered into a new alliance with a certain Alien ET group which has an underwater base on the floor of the Pacific Ocean somewhere off the California Coast.  It is not yet been leaked which particular group this is but so far it appears that it apparently has nothing to do with Marduk or the Dracos.(8)
Only time will tell where this is all going, but it appears that a major world conflict is brewing between those nation-states controlled by the Dracos and their zionist Cutouts and those nation-states no longer under their evil grip. It is difficult to get a good handle on all this due to the extreme compartmenting and so-called national security aspects. About the best we can do for now is speculate using the various leaks from inside the Secret Space War System that have occurred.(9) I would certainly like it if none of the claims about Alien ETs were true, however there is a large body on overwhelming evidence from very reliable, credible retired Military and Intel sources which suggests otherwise.
One thing is for certain.  All State-based Secrecy including Crytographics is ending and the process is well underway, thanks to the advent of inter-dimensional/multi-dimensional new zero-point or near zero point quantum computers. All physics texts will have to be completely rewritten because they are currently wrong, very wrong about many things.
And if the University and college Systems are to survive at all, every bit of their deep zio/Draconian censorship and suppression of the real truth about the world’s hidden history will have to be openly disclosed and discussed in the open.  No more situations like the illegal and extreme abuse of Dr. Kevin Barrett just because of his beliefs that he never taught in the classroom. All this censorship and suppression of real truth in the Universities will stop as all state secrets are exposed.
Then perhaps you will see real discussions about the true state of politics, history and economies determined by Babylonian Money-Magick instead of all the cover stories and blatant lies and mind-kontrol and obtuse cultural programming of the naive, suggestible students.
References:

(1) http://www.bbc.com/news/world-25321258

(2) http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/12/22/secret-space-war-xii-marduk-is-crowned-in-africa/

(3) http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/01/03/the-third-force/

(4) http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/04/10/kingpins-and-cutouts-aliens-and-hybrids/

(5) http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/11/10/was-ronald-reagan-the-last-duly-elected-president/

(6) http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/03/09/isa_ukraine-part-ii-update-the-cold-war-continues-contrary-to-the-destabilization-of-the-evil-empire/

(7) http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/03/02/secret-space-war-xiii-alien-partners-tell-putin-dont-worry-weve-got-your-back/

(8) http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/08/12/secret-space-war-viii-alien-quantum-computing-and-the-end-of-secrecy/

(9) http://www.veteranstoday.com/2013/05/31/secret-space-war-ii/

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/03/17/secret-space-war-xiv-tall-white-nordics-call-marduks-bluff/

http://2012thebigpicture.wordpress.com/

Monday Afternoon News, Rumors, and Opinions

Monday Afternoon News, Rumors, and Opinions

03/17/2014

TNT:

rrrr wrote St. Paddy’s Day is Here, Top of the Mornin’ to ye!. The Color of the Day is Green, and me’s thinkin’ ye knows what dat means’… May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light, and may good luck pursue ya each mornin’ and night. For there’s a grand, special Shamrock, we call thee RV… and she’s a bustin with beauty for all of ya’s to see… So May the road rise up to meet ye, may the wind be always at your back, cuz after this Day... your needs will suffer no lack.

Roush:     Kennedy Money:The Freeing of Humanity……….IS this what is taking the RV or Global Monetary Reset so long???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRbb_f_8VMg&feature=youtu.be

Trigger: POSITIVE QUOTE FROM NEALE DONALD WALSH / ESPECIALLY RIGHT NOW.

>>>"Life's invitation to us all: Play your part well. Have FUN with it.And when it does not seem like fun, bring wisdom to it. And when wisdom fails, bring patience. And when patience is in short supply, bring acceptance. And when acceptance is difficult, bring gratitude. For gratitude reverses any idea that something is going on should not be happening. And then, we have found peace."  Neale Donald Walsh

OOM&F:

~dinarmama7] Let's all keep OKIE in prayers. He has not been feeling up to par lately and is in a lot of pain. He needs this to be over so he can get the medical treatment he needs.

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Stage3Alpha:

Russian sanctions another step in the direction of a GCR!!

Posted by Sqwatchy on March 17, 2014 at 11:01am

Looks like things are progressing on a GCR. Now maybe everyone can see why this has to play out to get the world ready for the IMF moves to step in and save the world, like they made an emergency move rather than a 10 year planned coup on the USA financial system.  Let it play out, we are in a good spot I think.    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXGPzDq45gM

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RUSSIA IS OUT OF THE SWIFT SYSTEM STARTING TODAY

Posted by EXOGEN on March 17, 2014 at 1:19pm

http://www.dailypaul.com/314628/russia-is-out-of-the-swift-system-starting-today

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GET:

Topic: One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. R.A.Heinlein

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KTFA:

Thomas N »  Here is the first St Paddys joke for the forum

At an Irish wedding reception someone yelled …
“Would all the married men,
please stand next to the person
who has made your life worth living.”

The bartender was almost crushed to death.

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jdtolle » March 17th, 2014, Be truly inspired

Be inspired by life, and yet go beyond being merely inspired. Act on your inspirations.

Let life stir your passion, and let that passion push you into action. Let the outstanding, meaningful ideas flow, then do something real and useful with them.

Each time life makes a profound impression upon your heart, resolve anew to make a difference. Take the real goodness you see, and be the living instrument through which it is amplified and expanded.

There is so very much that can inspire you, in the ordinary moments as well as in the extraordinary experiences. Consider each inspiration as a starting point from which you can do truly amazing things.

There is a reason why you feel that warm, right and wonderful sense of inspiration. It resonates so well with you in order to give power and authentic purpose to your actions.

Follow that purpose, and make the most of that power. Be truly inspired to act on your inspirations, and lift all of life to inspiring new heights.

— Ralph Marston    Wishing All a Safe, Warm and Blessed Day

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Dinar Chronicles:

No RV till After Budget is Read on Tuesday March 18th by Anonymous

03/17/2014 

Iraq March 16-18th  Budget is read TWICE then posted to CBI & Gazette.
How can CBI  RV the currency before it is announced in the budget or posted on the CBI? Doesn't make sense.

They finally have permission from the PTB  to post a  new rate ??  It's good news

Agenda for the meeting (12) Sunday (16) March 2014

03/16/2014

First, read verses from the Koran.

Second: the first reading of the draft general budget of the Federal Republic of Iraq for the fiscal year of 2014. ( Finance Committee , the Legal Committee , the Committee of Economy and Investment). (Article 30).

Third: the vote on granting advance of the Independent High Commission for Elections.

Fourth: The vote on the bill exempting the Iraqi and foreign companies implementing investment projects. ( Finance Committee , Committee for Economy and Investment, Legal Committee ), (11 items).

Fifth: The vote on the bill modulated. ( Finance Committee , Legal Committee ), (13 items).

Sixth: The vote on the draft law of the Ministry of Health. (Committee on Health and the Environment, Legal Committee ), (21 items).

Begins the session time: eleven in the morning.

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The agenda of the session (13) Tuesday (18) March 2014

03/18/2014

First, read verses from the Koran.

Second: The vote on the draft labor law. ( Committee for Labor and Social Affairs , the Committee on the institutions of civil society). (Article 157). (The remaining 134 items).

Third: The first reading of the draft law by the Fifth Amendment to the Law maintenance of irrigation and drainage No. (12) for the year 1995. (Commission services and reconstruction, the Legal Committee , the Committee on Agriculture, Water and marshes), (2 items).

Fourth: The second reading of the budget bill for the Federal Republic of Iraq for the fiscal year of 2014. ( Finance Committee , the Legal Committee , the Committee of Economy and Investment). (Article 30).

Fifth: the second reading of the draft law amending the Law on Judicial Fees No. (114) for the year 1981. ( Finance Committee , Legal Committee ), (31 items).

Begins the session time: eleven in the morning.

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FIRST BONDS, THEN EVERYTHING ELSE.
      
        The new dollar (US Treasury Note) for the USD exchange is being announced, and the new exchange rate.

        This directly affects the bond purchases as when this is confirmed, the bank will be able to issue the contracts for the bond purchases.


The day for the release of the new currency is estimated to take place prior to March 17th.

        The RV/Currency Re-set can then take place since the 198 currencies involved will now be based on USD which will be GOLD/ ASSET  backed. (Obviously)

http://www.dinarrecaps.com/1/post/2014/03/monday-afternoon-news-rumors-and-opinions.html

1992 - DOUGIE MacLEAN, "The GAEL" (Theme to "Last of the Mohicans")

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1992 - DOUGIE MacLEAN, "The GAEL" (Theme to "Last of the Mohicans")

Posted By: hobie [Send E-Mail]
Date: Monday, 17-Mar-2014 17:50:27

In Response To: 2012 - CELTIC THUNDER, live, "DANNY BOY" (hobie)

Hi, Folks - From the original soundtrack recording, here's "The Gael", written by Dougie MacLean, main theme to Michael Mann's 1992 film "Last of the Mohicans". Thanks to YouTuber JokerRecordings. ===== http://youtu.be/2pCv7k_Hzvg ===== --hobie

History Of the "New Iraqi Dinar" - Dollars For Dinar

History Of the "New Iraqi Dinar" - Dollars For Dinar

03/17/2014

Post From Peoples Dinar By Maynard57

Group:

I don't mean to sound condescending, but you should all read this a couple of times.   It's a reprint outline of the genesis of the Plan for Iraq and is a really, really good article for reviewing some of the basic premises of our investment. 

Word to the wise:   stay strong on the fundamentals, understand the basics of what we're doing and interpret everything else you hear or read from that perspective.

 BIG kudoage to Tony Breitling, for having the good sense to paste this up.   That guy isn't the schmooziest, but he cuts to the quick if ever a quick needs a good trim.
...

  Let me offer a basic XOXOXO game plan for the plan:

 1.  Currency SWAP - This plan was grafted from the Marshall Plan in Europe.  We DID NOT just pump palates of USD to Iraq to run the Country.   We did a currency swap.  

The new IQD got delivered, but we traded USD to keep some at the rate when it was shipped.  Ultimately -we win, they win.  Get it?

2.  IQD rate needed to be held LOW.   Even in this article, they tell you that the IQD started in the early going to get popular.  Popularity means velocity.   Velocity means increased rate.  

At the time, they DID NOT want that.  Partly, for the reasons the US flattened their exchange rate in the first place:   to inhibit terrorist cadres from buying their toys and funding more rape, pillage and carnage.

    Reason number 2:    If you're not ready to open up for business, clearly not ready to enter the international forum economically, you don't have to worry yourselves about GATT strictures and the lot..  

But if  you are smart, you will use this toilet paper era to rebuild your infrasture on the <<<<CHEAP>>>>    People, that is just exactly what this really thoughtful plan envisioned.  It makes wonderful economic sense.

 Now, Read this thing, no less than 3 times and then read the news with this perspective.  

You just have to understand, and Tony B. keeps pounding on this:   There is no dates or rates we know of.   We don't need this kind of **.   We don't need to Maliki bash   It's all decidedly beside the point. 

There is no such thing as intel.   But there is a Plan and you best figure that out and spend your time trying to discern what it is and follow along like all seasoned INVESTORS.

 Maynard

 HISTORY OF THE “NEW IRAQI DINAR”   Dollars For Dinars

 How shipping tons of U.S. currency to Iraq remade its economy—and was roundly criticized all the same. Good decision, bad press.” – By John B. Taylor

In February, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform held a hearing that criticized the decision to ship U.S. currency into Iraq just after Saddam Hussein’s government fell.

As the committee’s chairman, Henry Waxman (D-California), put it in his opening statement, “Who in their right mind would send 360 tons of cash into a war zone?”

His criticism attracted wide attention, feeding antiwar sentiment and even providing material for comedians. But a careful investigation of the facts behind the currency shipment paints a far different picture.

The currency that was shipped into Iraq in the days after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s government was part of a successful financial operation that had been carefully planned months before the invasion.

Its aims were to prevent a financial collapse in Iraq, put the financial system on a firm footing, and pave the way for a new Iraqi currency. Contrary to the criticism that such currency shipments were ill advised or poorly monitored, this financial plan was carried out with precision and was a complete success.

The plan, which had two stages, was designed to work in Iraq’s cash economy, in which checks or electronic funds transfers were virtually unknown and shipments of tons of cash were commonplace.

In the first stage, the United States would pay Iraqi government employees and pensioners in American dollars. These were obtained from Saddam Hussein’s accounts in American banks, which were frozen after he attacked Kuwait in 1990 and amounted to about $1.7 billion.

Because the dollar is a strong and reliable currency, bringing in dollars would create financial stability until a new Iraqi governing body could be established and design a new currency.

The second stage of the plan was to print a new Iraqi currency for which Iraqis could exchange their old dinars.

One of the most successful and carefully planned operations of the war has been held up to criticism and ridicule.

The final details of the plan were reviewed in the White House Situation Room by President Bush and the National Security Council on March 12, 2003. I attended that meeting.

Treasury Secretary John Snow opened the presentation with a series of slides. “As soon as control over the Iraqi government is established,” the first slide read, we plan to “use United States dollars to pay civil servants and pensioners.

Later, depending on the situation on the ground, we would decide about the new currency.”

Another slide indicated that we could ship $100 million in small denominations to Baghdad on one week’s notice. President Bush approved the plan with the understanding that we would review the options for a new Iraqi currency later, when we knew the situation on the ground.

To carry out the first stage of the plan, President Bush issued an executive order on March 20, 2003, instructing U.S. banks to relinquish Saddam’s frozen dollars.

From that money, 237.3 tons in $1, $5, $10, and $20 bills were sent to Iraq. During April, U.S. Treasury officials in Baghdad worked with the military and Iraqi Finance Ministry officials—who had painstakingly kept the payroll records despite the looting of the ministry—to make sure the right people were paid.

The Iraqis extensively documented each recipient of a pension or paycheck. Treasury officials who watched over the payment process in Baghdad in those first few weeks reported a culture of good record keeping.

On April 29, Jay Garner, the retired lieutenant general who headed the reconstruction effort in Iraq at the time, reported to Washington that the payments had lifted the mood of people in Baghdad during those first few confusing days. Even more important, a collapse of the financial system was avoided.

This success paved the way for the second stage of the plan. In only a few months, 27 planeloads (in Boeing 747 jumbo jets) of new Iraqi currency were flown into Iraq from seven printing plants around the world. Armed convoys delivered the currency to 240 sites around the country.

From there, it was distributed to 25 million Iraqis in exchange for their old dinars, which were then dyed, collected into trucks, shipped to incinerators, and burned or simply buried.

The new currency proved very popular. It provided a sound underpinning for the financial system and remains strong, appreciating against the dollar even in the past few months. Hence, the second part of the currency plan was also a success.

The story of the currency plan is one of several that involved large sums of cash. For example, just before the war, Saddam stole $1 billion from the Iraqi central bank. American soldiers found that Iraqi money in his palaces and shipped it to a base in Kuwait, where the U.S. Army’s 336th Finance Command kept it safe. To avoid any appearance of wrongdoing, American soldiers in Kuwait wore pocket less shorts and T-shirts whenever they counted the Iraqi money.

A 2003 presidential order instructed U.S. banks to hand over Saddam Hussein’s frozen dollars. From that money, 237.3 tons in $1, $5, $10, and $20 bills was shipped to Iraq. Later, U.S. forces used the found cash to build schools and hospitals, and to repair roads and bridges.

General David Petraeus has described these projects as more successful than the broader reconstruction effort. But that wasn’t the only source of dollars. Because the new Iraqi dinar was so popular, the central bank bought billions of U.S. dollars to keep the dinar from appreciating too much.

As a result, billions in cash accumulated in the vaults of the central bank. Later, with American help, the Iraqi central bank deposited these billions at the New York Federal Reserve Bank, where they could earn interest.

Finally, when Iraq started to earn dollars selling oil, the United States transferred the cash revenue to the Finance Ministry, where it was used to finance government operations, including salaries and reconstruction.

Many of these transfers occurred in 2004, long after the financial stabilization operation had concluded. Iraqi Finance Ministry officials had already demonstrated that they were serious about keeping the controls they had in place.

The 360 tons mentioned by Henry Waxman includes these transfers as well as the 237.3 tons shipped in 2003 during the stabilization.

The new Iraqi currency proved to be very popular. It gave a sound underpinning to the financial system and remains strong. One of the most successful and carefully planned operations of the war has been held up for criticism and even ridicule.

As these facts show, praise rather than ridicule is appropriate: praise for the brave experts in the U.S. Treasury who went to Iraq in April 2003 and established a working Finance Ministry and central bank, praise for the Iraqis in the Finance Ministry who carefully preserved payment records in the face of looting, praise for the American soldiers in the 336th Finance Command who safeguarded the found money, and, yes, even praise for planning and follow-through back in the United States.

This essay appeared in the New York Times on February 27, 2007. Available from the Hoover Press is Strategic Foreign Assistance: Civil Society in International Security, by A. Lawrence Chickering, Isobel Coleman, P. Edward Haley, and Emily Vargas-Baron. 

To order, call 800.935.2882 or visit www.hooverpress.org.

John B. Taylor is the Bowen H. and Janice Arthur McCoy Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Mary and Robert Raymond Professor of Economics at Stanford University.

He was previously the director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and was founding director of Stanford’s Introductory Economics Center.

He has a long and distinguished record of public service. Among other roles, he served as a member of the President’s Council of Economic Advisors from 1989 to 1991 and as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs from 2001 to 2005.

He is currently a member of the California Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors.

http://www.hoover.org/publications/hoover-digest/article/6078

Obozo issues-executive-order-freezing-assets-seven-putin-aides

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Obozo issues-executive-order-freezing-assets-seven-putin-aides

Posted By: Watchman
Date: Monday, 17-Mar-2014 13:55:09

As was largely expected, the first retaliation by Obama has arrived, courtesy of a just issued Executive Order by the president, in which he has blocked and frozen "all property and interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person" (i.e. assets) of not only the pre-coup Ukraine president Yanukovich and the Crimean leader Aksyonov, including all Russians that operate in the Russian arms industry, but most notably seven Putin aides. Not Putin himself of course - that would be too "escalatory"... From the White House: I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, hereby expand the scope of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13660 of March 6, 2014, finding that the actions and policies of the Government of the Russian Federation with respect to Ukraine -- including the recent deployment of Russian Federation military forces in the Crimea region of Ukraine -- undermine democratic processes and institutions in Ukraine; threaten its peace, security, stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity; and contribute to the misappropriation of its assets, and thereby constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States. Accordingly, I hereby order: Section 1. (a) All property and interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of any United States person (including any foreign branch) of the following persons are blocked and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in... The people impacted: Vladislav Surkov Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov (born 21 September 1964)[1] is a Russian businessman and politician. He was First Deputy of the Chief of the Russian Presidential Administration from 1999 to 2011, during which time he was widely seen as the main ideologist of the Kremlin. Allegedly he contributed greatly to the electoral victory of President Vladimir Putin in 2004. Surkov is seen as the main architect of the current Russian political system, often described as "sovereign" or "managed" democracy. From December 2011 until 8 May 2013 he served as the Russian Federation's Deputy Prime Minister. While his resignation was described as voluntary, presidential spokesman Peskov linked the resignation with the government's failure to carry out decrees by President Putin., in the late 1980s he started as a businessman as the government lifted the ban against private businesses. He became a head of the advertisement department of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's businesses. During the 1990s he held key managerial positions in advertisement and PR departments of Khodorkovsky's Bank Menatep (1991 – April 1996) and Rosprom (March 1996 – February 1997) and Fridman's Alfa-Bank (since February 1997). In September 2004 Surkov was elected president of the board of directors of the oil products transportation company Transnefteproduct, but was instructed by Russia's PM Mikhail Fradkov to give up the position in February 2006. Sergey Glazyev (the same person who threatened dumping US Treasurys and abandoning the US Dollar) Sergey Yurievich Glazyev is a Russian politician and economist, Full Member of Russian Academy of Science since 2008. He was a minister in 1993, a member of the State Duma in 1993-2007, and ran for President of Russia in 2004. Glazyev was a co-founder of the Rodina party. Glazyev announced his retirement from politics in March 2007, and said that he did not intend to seek a further term in the Duma, arguing that Vladimir Putin's rule had crowded out all forms of political opposition and debate in the country. In July 2012, Putin appointed Glazyev as presidential aide for the coordination of the work of federal agencies in developing the Customs Union of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Russia. Glazyev has authored more than forty books and hundreds of pamphlets and research papers. One of his books has been published in English translation by the LaRouche movement's Executive Intelligence Review as Genocide: Russia and the New World Order (ISBN 0-943235-16-2). In 1995 he was awarded with the Gold Kondratieff Medal by the International N. D. Kondratieff Foundation and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences (RAEN). In August 2013 Glazyev claimed that stating that all Ukrainians favor Ukraine to integrate in the European Union "is some kind of sick self-delusion".[3] Because, according to him, "sociological surveys by Ukrainian sociological services say something different: 35% of people prefer the European Union and 40% the Customs Union". He blamed "numerous political scientists and experts, who have fed on European and American grants for 20 years, and a whole generation of diplomats and bureaucrats that has appeared after the years of the ‘orange’ hysteria, who are carrying out an anti-Russian agenda" and "who are too far from the economy and real life, don’t really know their country’s history and are divorced from its spiritual traditions" for creating "an effect that Ukraine doesn’t want".[3] Ukrainian opinion polls that polled support in Ukraine for European Union membership did indicate that at the time of Mr Glazyev's statements Ukrainians preferred joining the European Union rather than the Customs Union. Leonid Slutsky Leonid Eduardovich Slutskii is a member of the State Duma of Russia, a member of the LDPR party. Currently he is the Chairman of the State Duma Committee on the "Commonwealth of Independent States, Eurasian Integration and links with compatriots". Slutsky as been a First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma's Committee on International Affairs. He is dean of the international relations department at the Moscow State University of Economics, Information and Statistics. He has held senior banking positions and was an advisor to the mayor of Moscow. Slutsky also reported to a directorate of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR. He holds an economics degree from the Moscow Economic-Statistical Institute Andrei Klishas Dr. Andrey A. Klishas served as Vice President and Chairman of the Board of Directors at Interros Company since June 2008. Dr. Klishas is a visiting Professor of Constitutional and Administrative Law Faculty and an Assistant Professor of Constitutional and Municipal Department (Legal Department) of Russian Peoples Friendship University. Dr. Klishas is an Assistant Professor of constitutional and municipal department of Moscow University for the Russian Ministry of Domestic Affairs. From June 1998 to October 2001, he was the Legal Matters Director and Deputy General Director of Interros Company. From October 2001, Dr. Klishas served as the General Director of Interros and from December 2001, he was the Chairman of the Management Board. From January 2004, Dr. Klishas was a Member of the Board of Directors of the firm. He held different posts at Russian Federal Property Fund from 1995 to 1997 and at UNEXIM Bank, where he was the Deputy Head of Legal Department from August 1997 to June 1998. On July 2007, Dr. Klishas was elected the President of Federation of Hunting Dog Breeding. Currently, he is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Polyus Gold since June 26, 2008 and Open Investments company and a Member of the Board of Agros Group and Polyus CJSC. Dr. Klishas serves as a General Director at KM Invest Private Joint Stock Company. He has been Director of MMC Norilsk Nickel since December 2008. Valentina Matviyenko Valentina Ivanovna Matviyenko is the highest-ranking female politician in Russia, the former governor of Saint Petersburg and the current Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation. Born in the Ukrainian SSR, Matviyenko started her political career in the 1980s in Saint Petersburg (then called Leningrad) and was the First Secretary of the Krasnogvardeysky District CPSU of the city from 1984 to 1986. In the 1990s she served as Russian ambassador to Malta (1991–1995) and Greece (1997–1998). Between 1998–2003 Matviyenko was Deputy Prime Minister of Russia for Welfare, and briefly the Presidential Envoy to the Northwestern Federal District in 2003. By that time she firmly allied herself with Russian President Vladimir Putin, an alliance which secured her a victory in the governor elections in Saint Petersburg, Putin's native city. On 19 May 2007, the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation announced that on 16 May it had detained several members of an undisclosed youth religious group allegedly preparing an assassination attempt on Valentina Matviyenko’s life using hand grenades and plastic explosive. On 23 May FSB Director Nikolay Patrushev announced that the prevented attempt had been scheduled for June. Controversial businessman Vitaly Arkhangelsky accused Matviyenko in corporate raiding and corruption. According to him Matvieyenko is the real owner of the bank "Saint Petersburg" that staged a corporate raid on the property of his company, OMG that included Vyborg Port and Western Terminal of Saint Petersburg port using falsified documents with forged signature of Arkhangelsy. The lawyers of bank "Saint Petersburg" insist on exclusion materials of Matviyenko's involvement from the criminal case in London court. Dmitry Rogozin Dmitryi Olegovich Rogozin is a Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Russia, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia in charge of defense industry. In January 2008, he became Russia's ambassador to NATO, until December 2011. He was a leader of the Rodina (Motherland) party until it merged with other similar Russian parties to form the Fair Russia party.He speaks 4 languages and holds a doctor's degree. On 18 February 2011 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev appointed Dmitry Rogozin as a Special Representative on anti-missile defence and negotiations with NATO countries on this issue. On 23 December 2011 Dmitry Rogozin was appointed deputy premier of Russian Government in charge of defense and space industry. As responsible for the defense industry he leads the creation of the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects in the Defense Industry (Russian DARPA). In 2008 he was appointed a Russian ambassador to NATO. As Russia's NATO envoy he was heavily opposed to Ukraine and Georgia becoming members of NATO. After the two countries were denied membership of the NATO Membership Action Plan he claimed that: "They will not invite these bankrupt scandalous regimes to join NATO...more so as important partnerships with Russia are at stake.". For such words he was criticized by some Ukrainian and Georgian officials. Former Ukraine's envoy to NATO Ihor Sahach said: "In my opinion, he is merely used as one of cogs in the informational war waged against Ukraine. Sooner or later, I think, it should be stopped". The envoy also expressed a surprise with Rogozin's slang words. "It was for the first time that I heard such a higher official as envoy using this, I don't even know how to describe it, whether it was a slang or language of criminal circles… I understand Russian, but, I'm sorry, I don't know what his words meant".The Foreign Minister of Ukraine Volodymyr Ohryzko stated that he did not regard the statement as serious. Yelena Mizulina Yelena Mizulina is a Russian politician serving as a member of the Russian Parliament between 1995 and 2003 and again since 2007. Since 2012, she has been the center of attention in regard to a set of controversial laws concerning the rights of the LGBT community in Russia and the adoption of Russian orphan children by foreigners. She is currently Chairman of the Duma Committee on Family, Women and Children Affairs. She has changed her political affiliation several times, having served public office on behalf of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the liberal Yabloko and Union of Right Forces parties and is currently representing the region of Omsk in the Duma as a representative of the social democratic A Just Russia party. http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-03-17/obama-issues-executive-order-freezing-assets-seven-putin-aides