How the Great Food War Will Be Won

Posted on 2015/01/14 by kauilapele
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(This is a great article which I as a reader of Kauilapele's Blog found today and it is quite interesting, especially for people who are in the organic food industry, people who truly want to protect the environment and it's insects and livestock, and people who don't want to be forced to eat poisonous food.  It shows you how to help win this fight.  This is a little complex IMO but well worth the read.)

Related to the last post, in this way: the media, and in this case, big food company PR firms, can put up all kinds of data, but based on an idea that “We’re going to run out of food so GMO, Roundup, other pesticides are NECESSARY (dammit)!”
Found this at RMN.

“Researchers from Iowa have shown that organic farming methods can yield almost as highly as pesticide-intensive methods. Other researchers, from Berkeley, California, have reached a similar conclusion. Indeed, both findings met with a very enthusiastic reception. The enthusiasm is appropriate, but only if one misses a deep and fundamental point: that even to participate in such a conversation is to fall into a carefully laid trap.
“The strategic centerpiece of Monsanto’s PR, and also that of just about every major commercial participant in the industrialized food system, is to focus on the promotion of one single overarching idea… that only they can produce enough for the future population (Peekhaus 2010). Thus non-industrial systems of farming, such as all those which use agro-ecological methods, or SRI, or are localized and family-oriented, or which use organic methods, or non-GMO seeds, cannot feed the world.
“…the necessary shift in perception is to see that, as in most wars, the crucial struggle in the food war is the one inside people’s heads. And that the great food war will be won by the side that understands that and uses it best.
“…The natural advantages of the grassroots in this realm are many. They include the power of the internet…
“Consequently, it is perfectly possible that a lie that took several powerful industries many decades to build up could be dismantled in months…”

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DINAR GURUS WEDNESDAY NIGHT

Dinar Gurus Wednesday Nite 10:30 PM

Date: Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 10:29 PM

 

1-14-2014   Intel Guru TNT Tony   [via Adept1]  ...we know the budget has been done and documents have been signed.  the guys who had been holding it up are now saying, “Okay, let’s do this”.  They just had the meeting yesterday, and all the people in all the countries were involved.  From the highest authority, they are now saying “Let’s go.”  The window started last night...The new window is in the next 4-5 days...they don’t want us to know the exact day or time. All we can do is look for it right now, at any time.

1-14-2015   Intel Guru DC  [via Adept1]  The Fed, UST, IMF and BIS have tested all their systems, and that was successful.  They don’t need anything else on that.  Law enforcement agencies are ready, and some are in lockdown and/or high alert. That’s the DC area...IN the rest of the US, the banks are ready to go. Iraq is ready, they wanted this at any time, and some of those holding it back in the US are now supporting this getting done.  On the cards, the Iraqi dinar is $3.58;  we have heard other rates on general exchanges from $3.11 to over four dollars.  All four currencies are still in the basket.   We are in a nice window to get this done in the next 4-5 day.  We are watching actions, not words, and everyone is getting ready for this.

1-14-2015   Intel Guru Delta   Budget – how it works based on their constitution. The budget gets passed by the GOI (Council of Ministers - they vote for it). It then goes to the             Parliament. Parliament usually reads it 2 times (not 3) and then they have open-discussion to see if any further ideas need to be implemented. After that, they put the budget up for voting. After the parliament votes for the budget it goes right-away to the President. When the President receives the budget (according to the constitution) he has about 15 days to sign it or not to sign it. If he doesn’t sign it, we start from square-one again...but that is not going to happen that way. The President does NOT have to wait the whole 15 days to sign the budget. He can sign it right away. After the President signs it, it goes to the Gazette (which is the official newspaper of the Iraqi government. From the Gazette it takes about 2-3 days which then becomes law.

1-14-2015   Intel Guru Delta   Budget - ...Parliament met (Monday) and they did read it the 2nd time and allowed time for open discussion. Next Tuesday (Jan. 20th) they should vote on the budget. If not, it should be passed before the end of this month! And will be effective retroactive to January 1, 2015. The good news is that for the 1st time in 11 years they have a budget that will pass. ...we all know it’s ready. They could vote for it on Thursday.  IMO, we all know that 1166 is not going to help them at all. They have to come out very high. Because of the oil prices and the deficit...they will have to come up to $1.49 to $1.50...at the lowest at $1.00.   IMO - They are going to listen to the IMF and increase the value of the IQD.     

1-14-2015   Intel Guru Delta   We are on the verge of a big change.  Because of the oil prices, a lot of things moved faster in our direction. Some of us were thinking that they could drag this out till March or April or June of 2015 but I have to tell you that in my opinion...based on the evidence that we got...that January 2015 we might see the rate change! ...all of the members of the 
Parliament are asking the same question...“how are we going to fix the deficit?” The financial committee assures everybody that with the help of the CBI that change is coming.  The only help...the only savior that will save the GOI is the CBI – (which just happens to be working together in a coordinated way).    

 

  

ENORMOUS VOLATILITY IN GLOBAL MARKETS

Buy Gold And Silver While It’s Still Available As China To Back Yuan With Gold

 

WITH ENORMOUS VOLATILITY IN GLOBAL MARKETS AND CRUDE OIL RALLYING almost $3, today the Godfather of newsletter writers, 90-year old Richard Russell, covers everything from China moving to back the yuan with gold to a huge surprise for global stock markets.  Russell also urges readers to buy physical gold and silver while they are still available.

Richard Russell:  “In almost every orthodox study, the stock market is overbought and overpriced. For instance, the market’s price-to-sales ratio is at an all-time high. The market’s capitalization to GDP ratio (this is Warren Buffet’s favorite indicator) is the second highest in history. The Shiller Cyclically Adjusted PE (CAPE) Ratio for the S&P is 27. That level has been exceeded only twice before in history – in 1929 and 2000. In other words, by almost all orthodox valuations, the current market is dangerously overvalued and way overdue for a correction or a bear market. This is the orthodox way of looking at this market.

 

Typically, bull markets do not end with overvaluations. They end with emotional extremes. They end at valuations far above what analysts envision. By any accounting, this has been, so far, a great bull market. … The recent back and forth action of the major averages is, in my opinion, laying the groundwork for the coming third and final phase of this bull market. In the coming third phase, I expect all classical valuations to be ignored. I expect money from around the world to pour into the US markets.

 

Collapsing Commodities

 

As I write 50 minutes before the close, the Dow is down 232 and the Transports are down 113. This is far from the dreadful 10 percent correction that has been missing in this bull market. The collapse of commodities — oil, copper, and foodstuff — has served to bring about a period of hysterical fear. A 10 percent correction will take the Dow down to roughly 16,200. But so far, a decline of about 600 on the Dow has served to frighten many investors out of their minds and out of the stock market.

 

I believe what we are seeing now is the preamble of the third phase of this giant bull market. If I had to guess I’d say that the base of the coming third phase could last into June. Thus the bull market will test our patience as we wait for the inevitable third and final phase of the bull market.

 

Will the Dow complete the long lost 10 percent correction (down to 16,200) before the bull market slips into its final speculative phase? With Europe close to recession and China slumping, foreign money has been going into the US dollar and US stocks. And it’s no wonder, with the US dollar and US stocks comprising the only games in town.

 

China's Ascent And A Move To Back Yuan With Gold

 

I am particularly interested in China, whose GDP is about to take over the US’s GDP. This will make China’s economy the greatest economy the world has ever seen.

 

China does not want to rule the world. China simply wants to be on par with the US. To do this, China wants its currency to be as strong as or stronger than the US dollar. The world knows that there is nothing behind the US dollar of tangible value. China intends to back its currency, the Yuan with gold. If world commerce is transacted with gold-back Yuan, China will have won a tremendous victory. History show us that gold heads to the most powerful nation. That’s all the proof China needs to show that it’s on par with the United States. Happily, China is not a militaristic state. China wants a voice along with the US in matters that affect the world.

 

Buy Gold And Silver While It Is Still Available

 

Once again, I suggest that my subscribers buy gold while the metal is still available. When all fiat currencies are lost, gold will be the last man standing. Sooner or later I believe we will see a panic for physical gold. Just as gold was hated a year ago, it will be loved and wanted a year from now.

 

Buy physical silver and gold while it’s available. Nothing is more loved than the item that was hated a few months ago. Remember, when we enter the new era, amazing discoveries and inventions will emerge. They will come from the United States, the land of the free and the home of the optimist.

 

Gold is trading well above its 1200 support level at 1206.80. I’m thinking that shortly it will be reintroduced into the world monetary system despite central banks' fear of gold. In the end it will be used to unite and as a basis for a fairer and a more productive world monetary system. Take the “L” out of gold and you have the word “God,” which I often thought of as more than coincidence.”

 

The audio interviews with Gerald Celente, Lord Christopher Monckton, Michael Pento, Bill Fleckenstein, David Stockman, Dr. Philippa Malmgren, Egon von Greyerz, Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, Stephen Leeb, Andrew Maguire, John Embry, Rick Rule,  Rick Santelli, John Mauldin and Marc Faber are available now. Other recent KWN interviews include Jim Grant and Felix Zulauf — to listen CLICK HERE.

Eric King
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GLOBAL CURRENCIES: TWO AMAZING DYNAMICS IN PLAY AT THE MOMENT

   THE ICE MAN

 

backdoc » January 15th, 2015, 10:24 am  IMO

WE CURRENTLY HAVE TWO AMAZING DYNAMICS IN PLAY AT THE MOMENT.

AS I'VE BEEN BEATING THE DEFLATION DRUM NOW LONG ENOUGH THE CRACKS IN THE PROVERBIAL CURRENCY ICE ARE BEGINNING TO WIDEN NOW!

WITH RUSSIA UNDER EXTREME PRESSURE DUE TO FALLING OIL PRICES THEY ARE NOW CAUGHT WITH THEIR PANTS DOWN AND NO WAY TO RUN WITHOUT TRIPPING OVER THOSE DRAWERS! LOL

VENEZUELA IS IMPLODING ALONG WITH ARGENTINA! NOW GUESS WHO IS HOLDING THEIR BAD DEBT? RIGHT CHINA! 

AND TO MAKE THINGS WORSE THE BLACK GOLD PRICE GOT RAISED OVER THE WEEKEND TO ASIA AND LOWERED TO EUROPE! MMMMM

NO LETS KEEP GOING WITH THIS CURRENCY THEME SHALL WE?

AS A RESULT OF IRAQ DROPPING ITS' CRUDE PRICE TO THE EMPIRE IN THE EU WE NOW SEE THE TWO BLACK GOLD CURRENCIES COME TO PARITY IN TWO TRADING DAYS!!

HOLY LUBRICATION OF PRICES BACKMAN!!! LOL

TODAY'S SHOCKING NEWS IS A RAISING OF HANDS BY THE SWISS BANK SAYING, OK, I GIVE UP!  (See Article Below)

SO THEY SEE THE HAND WRITING ON THE WALL OF TWO MORE CURRENCIES COMING TO PARITY, THE EURO AND THE DOLLAR!!

I ASSURE YOU FOLKS THERE IS MORE TO THIS THAN MEETS THE EYE!!

MY THEORY OF PARITY MAY HAVE ALREADY BEEN ACCEPTED BY THE SWISS AS THEY DEPEG FROM THE EURO!

THE DEFLATION SLIDE IS NOW UNDER WAY! AND SO THE REPRICING OF STOCKS WILL BEGIN AS SEEN THE LAST COUPLE DAYS!!

TO MAKE THINGS WORSE THE BIG BANKS ARE MISSING BIG ON EARNINGS!

FIRST JP MORGAN AND NOW TODAY BANK OF AMERICA!!

I WISH I HAD TIME TO SHARE MORE BUT MY SCHEDULE OF LATE IS CHALLENGED!

I WILL TRY TONIGHT TO SHARE MORE IF I HAVE A CHANCE!!

TRY TO THINK OF THE BIG PICTURE THIS WAY:

1. WE HAVE OIL TRYING TO BOTTOM AND FIND A BID TO COME OUT OF CONTANGO

2. WE HAVE BRENT AND WTI CRUDE OIL COMING TO PARITY

3. WE HAVE THE EURO ACCELERATING ITS WAY TO PARITY TO THE DOLLAR

4.WE WONDER IF THE GBP WILL ALSO BITE THE DUST AND COME TO PARITY WITH THE DOLLAR

5. WE AWAIT A VOTE BY TUES. ON THE BUDGET

6. WE SEE VERY SIMILAR EVENTS FINANCIALLY OCCURRING IN VIETNAM WITH CHINA PRESSURING THEM ON SWITCHING TO YUAN ESSENTIALLY! MMMMMM

7. WE AWAIT BUDGET DEFICITS TO BE EVAPORATED BY A STRONGER PURCHASING POWERED DINAR

8. WE SEE MASSIVE BOND INVESTMENTS IN IRAQ TO SUPPORT ITS CURRENCY

9.WE SEE STRONG ACTION BEING TAKEN TO OPEN UP TO A MARKET ECONOMY

10. FINALLY WE AWAIT A CRESCENDO OF ALL THESE POINTS LINING UP TO BRING GREAT POWER, JUST LIKE A FOCUSED LASER LIGHT!

THE ICE MAN CONTINUES TO DELIVER !!!!!

ABADI IS TRULY BECOMING A MIDDLE EAST HERO!

BACK TO PATIENTS

8@8, DOC IMO

 

Switzerland Stuns Markets

Switzerland Stuns Markets by Giving up on Currency Peg

walkongstick

LONDON — Jan 15, 2015, 7:53 AM ET   By PAN PYLAS Associated Press

 

Bowing to the inevitable, Switzerland has ditched an increasingly expensive policy to keep a lid on the export-sapping rise of the Swiss franc — a move that saw the currency spike a whopping 30 percent against the euro.

Thursday's decision to call time on its efforts to keep the euro from trading below 1.20 francs came amid mounting speculation that the European Central Bank will next week back a big government bond-buying program that will put more euros in circulation, diluting their value.

That expectation has seen the euro face intense selling pressure in currency markets, particularly against the dollar. The euro has fallen to nine-year lows against the dollar and below its launch rate in 1999.

As a result, the cost for the Swiss central bank of constantly defending the peg by buying euros or selling francs has been rising.

The scale of their task was evident in the franc's movements in the markets following the abandonment of the peg. At one stage, the euro had plunged a stunning 30 percent against the franc before recovering somewhat to trade 13 percent lower at 1.04 francs.

"Switzerland suddenly got a whole lot more expensive," said Michael Hewson, senior market analyst at CMC Markets.

Many analysts thought the decision was inevitable in light of next week's expected announcement by the ECB to break new ground in its efforts to inject life into the ailing 19-country Eurozone economy. A week ahead of the stimulus, which some in the markets think could be worth 1 trillion euros ($1.17 billion), the Swiss National Bank, or SNB, is preparing for the market impact.

"The first thing it says is that the SNB clearly expected to see a huge surge of inflows in the week ahead and saw little reason to provide these buyers of francs with an artificially cheap rate," said Simon Derrick, chief currency strategist at BNY Mellon.

The Swiss central bank said nothing of the sort, though, arguing that the "exceptional and temporary" measure to protect the Swiss economy was "no longer justified."

The peg, which was introduced in Sept. 2011, was an attempt to halt the rise of the franc — a traditional safe-haven currency for investors — against the euro at a time when the Eurozone debt crisis was at its height. The strong franc was then particularly problematic for Swiss exporters, who were forced to drastically cut prices to remain competitive.

Unsurprisingly, Thursday's move prompted a painful 11 percent drop in Switzerland's stock market as investors took fright at the worsening outlook for Swiss companies selling chocolate or ski holidays and the possibility that the country will suffer a sustained period of falling prices, or deflation. A stronger currency makes imports cheaper, further dampening already-subdued price pressures — in the year to December, prices fell 0.5 percent.

In an effort to contain the franc's appreciation and limit any damage to the Swiss economy, the central bank on Thursday also lowered a key interest rate — what it charges commercial banks to deposit at the bank — to minus 0.75 percent from minus 0.25 percent. The hope is that it dissuades banks from parking their cash at the national bank and instead possibly invest it.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/swiss-national-bank-scraps-minimum-exchange-rate-euro-28239702

 

 

MEN DO REMEMBER ...... SOMETIMES!

MEN DO REMEMBER ...... SOMETIMES!


A woman wakes during the night to find that her husband is not in bed.  She puts on her robe and goes downstairs to look for him. 

  She finds him sitting at the kitchen table with a hot cup of coffee in front of him. He appears to be in deep thought, just staring at the wall. She watches as he wipes a tear from his eye and takes a sip of his coffee.

 

'What's the matter, dear?' she whispers as she steps into the room.  'Why are you down here at this time of night?' 

The husband looks up from his coffee,  'It's the 20th anniversary of the day we met.' 

She can't believe he has remembered and starts to tear up. 

The husband continues, 'Do you remember 20 years ago when we started dating?  I was 18 and you were only 16,' he says solemnly. 

Once again, the wife is touched to tears. 'Yes, I do,' she replies. 

The husband pauses.  The words were not coming easily. 'Do you remember when your father caught us in the back seat of my car?' 

'Yes, I remember,' said the wife, lowering herself into the chair beside him. 

The husband continued.  'Do you remember when he shoved the shotgun in my face and said, "Either you marry my daughter or I will send you to prison for 20 years?' 

'I remember that, too,' she replied softly. He wiped another tear from his cheek and said,

'I would have gotten out today."'  
 

BILDERBERG AND THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL MAFIA....

Published: December 10, 2014

 

http://www.blacklistednews.com/BILDERBERG_AND_THE_GLOBAL_FINANCIAL_MAFIA/39827/0/38/38/Y/M.html

Source: ANDREW GAVIN MARSHALL

This is the fourth installment in a series that examines the activities and individuals driving the Bilderberg Group. Read the first part, second part and third part.

In the previous Bilderberg article, I wrote that financial markets were “a type of global parasite with unprecedented power capable of determining the fate of nations and peoples.” In truth, the "super-entity" known as financial market power functions like a cartel, or an organized criminal network: a Mafia. This installment examines some of the members of the global financial mafia who are present at Bilderberg meetings and thus are given unparalleled access to political leaders behind closed doors.

At Bilderberg meetings, participants frequently include leading officials and advisers to banks like JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, HSBC and AXA, among others. The participation of leaders and advisers to these and other large financial institutions provides world leaders with direct, "private" access to some of the leading voices at the core of global financial markets. The interests and actions of financial markets can thus be articulated to the leaders of powerful political, media, military, intelligence and technocratic institutions. The “invisible hand” may voice where and when it might smack.

Through Bilderberg, leaders in financial markets are given an inside look at, and access to, those who shape and wield foreign and economic policy in the world’s most powerful nations. Their interests become a part of that process, just as geopolitical interests are integrated into the actions of financial markets. While financial markets command no armies, they determine the flow and functions of money upon which all armies are dependent, and to which nations are obedient. Bilderberg brings these institutions and individuals together for an off-the-record, private chat about global affairs and policy.
 
Martin Feldstein, who serves on the International Council of JPMorgan Chase, attended all but one Bilderberg meeting between 2010 and 2014. Feldstein is one of the most influential American economists over the past several decades, serving as a professor at Harvard, a member of the Group of Thirty, the Trilateral Commission, the International Advisory Board of the National Bank of Kuwait, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He advised President George W. Bush as a member of the Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board between 2007 and 2009, a position in which he was given access to top-secret intelligence information. He had previously served as one of Ronald Reagan’s chief economic advisers, and President Obama appointed him in 2009 to serve on the Economic Recovery Advisory Board, advising on how to manage the "recovery" following the financial crisis.

Feldstein’s views are well known. Relating to Europe’s debt crisis, for which Bilderberg meetings hold a great deal of significance, Feldstein wrote in the Financial Times in July of 2013 that governments that bowed to “popular political pressure” to lessen the brutal austerity measures widely seen as the cause of mass unemployment, poverty and social unrest, were at risk of facing rising interest rates and “a new fiscal crisis.”

In other words, if governments bend to the will of the people, financial markets will seek to bend them back. A "fiscal crisis" only takes place when creditors (financial markets) decide to stop funding the government. In Europe, nations are largely dependent upon banks to provide them with credit to function. Thus, if the heads of financial markets don't like the policies of nations, they can cut off their funding, creating a major crisis and even collapsing the government. This leverage forces nations to follow policies favored by financial markets, such as austerity and various other "structural reforms." Meanwhile, the policies combine to impoverish the population, enrich the elite, allow for mass exploitation of resources and labor, and consolidate control of the economy into the hands of relatively few, large global banks and corporations.

Another key Bilderberg member and leading figure in financial markets is Josef Ackermann, whom I have written about previously. Ackermann has been one of Europe’s most powerful bankers over the past decade, as the CEO of Deutsche Bank and a major power player throughout the debt crisis holding key leadership positions in large industry associations such as the Institute for International Finance (IIF).

The current chairman of the Bilderberg Group, Henri de Castries, is chairman and CEO of the French insurance giant, AXA, one of the top companies on the Swiss study’s list of the "super-entity" of banks and insurance giants. De Castries is also a member of the European Financial Services Round Table (EFR), a lobby group made up of the chairmen and CEOs of Europe’s largest financial institutions.

In 2012, the Financial Times referred to Henri de Castries as one of France’s “best known captains of industry,” having served as an unofficial adviser to former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, and been school classmates with the current President Francois Hollande. De Castries is considered “as establishment as you can get in France.”
In the wake of the European debt crisis, Henri de Castries supported the policies of austerity and structural reform, warning in 2012 that the crisis would continue for some time. He suggested that governments needed to learn how to “spend less” and the only way to “win back our competitiveness” was “through business investment and not by public spending,” adding: “What we need is a profound cultural change.”Marcus Agius, a member of Bilderberg’s steering committee, is the chairman of PA Consulting, having previously served as the chairman of Barclays, the bank listed in the number one spot on the list compiled by the Swiss study. As chair of Barclays between 2007 and 2012, Agius also served as chairman of the British Bankers Association, was a director of the BBC from 2006 to 2013, and served as a Business Ambassador of the Trade and Investment Ministry of the British government. Agius also married the daughter of Edmund de Rothschild, bringing him into the family of one of the most prestigious and influential financial dynasties in the world.

 Agius resigned from Barclays in 2012 as a result of the massive global financial fraud revealed by the Libor rate scandal, whereby some of the world’s largest banks – including Barclays – formed a cartel at the British Bankers Association to manipulate the interest rate at which banks lend to each other, influencing prices throughout the global economy. Despite the resulting scandal for Agius and others, which forced resignations in 2012, he stayed on the bank’s payroll as an adviser until March of 2014, a full 20 months following his official resignation.

 Douglas J. Flint, who is chairman of HSBC, has attended every Bilderberg meeting since 2011. He is also chairman of the Institute of International Finance (IIF), and is a member of the European Financial Services Round Table (EFR), the Financial Services Forum, the International Monetary Conference (IMC), and serves on advisory boards to the Mayors of Shanghai and Beijing.

 W. Edmund Clark, the chair of one of Canada’s largest banks, TD Bank, has attended every Bilderberg meeting since 2010.

 Peter Sutherland has been a long-time Bilderberg participant, and serves as the chairman of Goldman Sachs International.

 Robert Zoellick, former World Bank president and Bilderberg participant at every meeting between 2010 and 2014, now serves as the chairman of the Board of International Advisers of Goldman Sachs.

 Peter R. Orszag, a Vice Chairman at Citigroup, attended Bilderberg meetings between 2010 and 2012.

 The Vice Chairman of Goldman Sachs, J. Michael Evans, attended Bilderberg meetings in 2012 and 2013.

 This is but a small sampling of some of the names of the leaders of financial institutions represented at Bilderberg meetings over the past few years. Apart from leading individual banks and financial institutions, many of the financiers who attend Bilderberg meetings simultaneously hold leadership positions within other large banking lobby groups, industry associations, and major international conferences.

 For example, Bilderberg members and participants frequently hold simultaneous leadership positions at the Institute of International Finance (IIF), the International Monetary Conference (IMC), and the Group of Thirty (G30), all of which have been the focus of previous installments of the Global Power Project, as they have been profoundly influential organizations in their own right. The fact that so many leading figures in those organizations are leaders and participants in Bilderberg meetings lends extra weight to the importance of the meetings.

 Roger Altman, a Bilderberg steering committee member and head of a large investment bank, wrote in a May 2013 article in the Financial Times that financial markets in the 21st century were “much more powerful than any government leader,” noting that the spread of austerity across Europe was not driven by Angela Merkel of Germany or other political leaders, but rather, by “private lenders... who declined to finance further borrowing by those countries,” and thus, “markets triggered the Eurozone crisis, not politicians.”
The views and the desires of bankers and financiers are important – and influential – precisely because if these individuals don't get what they want, they wield the power in numbers on screens that can force the hands of even the most powerful governments and politicians. As such, the favored policies of bankers frequently become the implemented policies of states.

 

 

Whistleblower Karen Hudes on the Criminal Banking Cartels

World bank whistleblower Karen Hudes on the criminal banking cartels....  

   

 

 

18th October 2014

CLICK....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoHSvqoKjq0&feature=player_embedded

 

UKRAINE - The Most-Censored News Story of 2014

The Most-Censored News Story of 2014 was what?

January 15 2015 

There is only one ongoing news story that’s being systematically censored out of virtually all U.S. news media. This has been the finding from a first-of-its-kind test of virtually all U.S. news media that report national and international news. The most-censored news story during 2014 will be identified here. The method that I employed in order to determine how heavily the U.S. press censors out a particular news story is: Throughout 2014 I constantly submitted original news reports, regarding specifically the topics that were (and still are) most widely considered by journalists (and often also by historians, and by other interested segments of the American public) to be the most puzzling and the least coherently explained and reported ongoing news stories in the American press.

Prominent recent examples of such news stories are (and most of the examples that are being cited here come from my own news reports on them, my actual tests of these stories, as was summarized by me in mid-2014 here, and so that’s where you’ll find the details on these ongoing heavily-censored stories):

— Barack Obama’s zero prosecutions of bank CEOs who were implicated by Senator Carl Levin’s Committee, and by the Inspector General of the U.S. Department of Justice, and by other federal investigations, into the cause of the 2008 economic collapse and the resulting soaring Federal Government (i.e., taxpayer) indebtedness (bailouts) in order to recover from this collapse, which was clearly caused by an explosion in mortgage-backed-securities frauds, though none of the implicated CEOs — the people who were in command and who were making billions from these MBS frauds — was prosecuted for it;

— Obama’s zero prosecutions also of the individuals who participated in America’s illegal torture program after 9/11, including George W. Bush and possibly also Barack Obama himself (as being an accessory-after-the-fact for his covering up their crimes, if not possibly even as his being a continuer of some of those crimes);

— The failure of any of the State Department’s Environmental Impact studies of the proposed Keystone XL Pipeline to calculate, or even to employ investigators who possessed scientific backgrounds relevant to the calculation of, the likely impact that the proposed pipeline would have on raising the Earth’s mean temperature during coming centuries and millennia — the commonly called “global warming” impact of the pipeline, if built and used — and the amount of sheer corruption which was involved in those Federal studies;

— The massacre in Odessa Ukraine on 2 May 2014 of opponents of the coup that the U.S. had carried out via the State Deportment, CIA and other agencies, which coup had overthrown (on 22 February 2014) the Russia-friendly, democratically elected, Ukrainian President, Viktor Yanukovych;

— The subsequent U.S.-sponsored Ukrainian ethnic cleansing program which has been carried out since then by the U.S.-backed new Ukrainian regime in order to eliminate the voters in the area of Ukraine called Donbass, which had voted 90% for Yanukovych and which voters therefore presented the threat of possibly electing out-of-office the Obama-installed leaders and thus of restoring a Russia-friendly person to Ukraine’s Presidency.

Those news stories are the main contestants that I have come up with as having been possibly the most-censored news story of 2014. I tested also other ongoing but under-reported news stories (by submitting, to virtually all national U.S. news media, the news reports I did regarding all of the various contesting ongoing suppressed news stories), but the few ongoing news stories, that are listed here, provide some sense of the sorts of news events and stories which I was testing, throughout this past year.

Without question, the most-censored news story of 2014, as determined by this test — a test that I have been constantly carrying out ever since the May 2nd massacre that the new Ukrainian Government perpetrated in Odessa — is precisely the Ukrainian news story: it’s the winner of my contest.

This ongoing news story started with the February 22nd coup, then included the May 2nd massacre which led to Donbass’s secession from Ukraine, and it finally is continuing with this ethnic cleansing of Donbass. The purpose of the May 2nd massacre was, in fact, to terrify the pro-Russians in Ukraine’s southeast — especially in Donbass, the most pro-Russian area — so as to precipitate the secession of Donbass, so that there would then be an excuse for the Ukrainian Government to bomb it and so to get rid of the residents there, whose overwhelming votes had clearly made Yanukovych Ukraine’s President. The Obama regime doesn’t want the people there; it wants only the land on which they live. It needs this in order to be able to place nuclear missiles there, aimed against next-door Russia. The Obama Administration’s game-plan is to keep the land, and to kill the people who are living on it. This sequence of events has been major news, and it’s been thoroughly suppressed in the U.S.

I have found that, whereas I was able to place, at some mainstream and some alternative-news sites, even news reports about President Obama’s violations of his publicly stated policy-commitments, and other such ‘controversial’ matters, only around a half-dozen news-media accepted even a single one of my numerous news-reports about the Ukrainian coup and its aftermaths — events that might even lead to a World War III, and that therefore are unquestionably important news events, which the public in a democracy ought to know about.

Not even President Obama’s promise in which he privately assured the assembled CEOs of Wall Street, at the beginning of his Administration, that he would not prosecute any of them, but instead would protect all of them from being prosecuted — and his following through with that secret promise — not even this protection by him of the mega-bank CEOs, has been as heavily censored out of the American press as has been the Ukrainian story.

Consequently, America’s press-lords are even more determined and united to suppress the reality in Ukraine than they are to suppress the reality about America’s 2008 economic crash and the resulting bailouts and soaring federal debt. There is something about the Ukrainian story that has caused virtually all owners of America’s news media to be determined to prohibit the American public from knowing the reality there. (See here how much in fear of losing their jobs the reporters throughout the West are, and how they are kept in line by their publishers and by the editors whom their publishers hire.)

This finding is, itself, like all of my news reports and commentaries, being distributed free of charge to virtually all U.S. national-news media (print, TV, and radio). The few media that will publish it are likely to be the same ones that have carried one or more of my news reports about the situation in Ukraine (and that’s fewer than ten). As regards all other American news media: those are the ones that are covering-up this important matter — not reporting it to their readers, viewers, and listeners.

It’s clear that they have been covering it up, because they certainly have been informed of the numerous events in this ongoing news-story about Ukraine after May 2nd: I and other investigative journalists have been submitting honest and well-researched and well-written news stories to them throughout that time regarding this U.S.-initiated and backed Ukrainian ethnic-cleansing program.

There is, for some reason, virtual unanimity among the owners of America’s press, that America’s public must be prohibited from knowing about the America Government’s operation in Ukraine. Perhaps one reason why this ongoing news story is so heavily censored is that the entire issue taking place in Ukraine could lead to something that might be far larger and potentially far more dangerous than merely a local ethnic-cleansing campaign. And

Americans would then pay close attention to it. The importance of this news story is why it is being suppressed.

THE ODESSA MASSACRE - WHAT REALLY HAPPENED
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4dJRnI-X8Q

US SUPPORT OF VIOLENT NEO NAZIS IN UKRAINE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-RyOaFwcEw

Shocking and insightful videos detailing the neo-Nazi, anti-Semitic, ultra-nationalist movement in Ukraine. The videos examine the ongoing US support of these groups, including the Svoboda party and Right Sector.
  

Houston police officers behind ticket-rigging scheme that caused dismissal of over 6,000 tickets allowed to quit or retire before they get fired

HOUSTON - Three Houston Police Officers at the center of a ticket-rigging scandal have abruptly left the force, the I-Team has learned.
HPD Spokesman Victor Senties confirmed Officer Gregory Rosa and John Garcia resigned Monday. Senties said Officer Robert Manzanales took a dishonorable retirement.
A termination hearing had been scheduled but the officers left before Chief Charles McClelland could fire them, according to Senties.
In August, the I-team revealed records which listed officers in two places at once. Dozens of speeding tickets showed how the officers listed each other as witnesses on tickets at one location, but at the same exact time were writing tickets to someone else at another location miles away..
Chief McClelland put the three officers on desk duty in August. A fourth officer, Rudolph Farias, committed suicide when the scandal broke.
"We certainly had enough information and evidence that we believe warrants an investigation," Chief McClelland said in August.
The alleged motivation for the ticket rigging scheme was to appear in court more often to collect more overtime. In September, the City Attorney's office dismissed more than 6,000 speeding tickets written by the officers.
"In the interest of justice and fairness it's the right thing to do," Chief McClelland said in September.
Chief McClelland had no comment Tuesday. The Houston Police Officers' Union said it would not comment while the Harris County District Attorney's Office reviews the case for possible criminal prosecution.
The officers' actions will in effect, go on their permanent record, according to police union President Ray Hunt. Houston Police must report the dishonorable retirement and the resignations amide a criminal investigation to the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement.

So, Just How Tired IS The Economy? Weeelll, It's So Worn Out That Even The Lotteries Are Collapsing

For what appears to be the first time on record, Powerball Lottery Sales declined year-over-year. As the following slides show, lottery sales declined 19% in FY14 vs FY13 and even more stunningly reflective of a nation whose disposable income (and hope) is in such short supply, sales in the first half of FY15 are down 40% from the first of FY14. As LaFleurs concludes, this will make it very challenging for most Lotteries to manage their budgets…

more plus charts: http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/the-us-economy-is-so-bad-even-lottery-sales-are-collapsing/118896

Russia Cuts Off Ukraine Gas Supply To 6 European Countries

Source: Zero Hedge

Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian state energy giant Gazprom to cut supplies to and through Ukraine amid accusations, according to The Daily Mail, that its neighbor has been siphoning off and stealing Russian gas. Due to these "transit risks for European consumers in the territory of Ukraine," Gazprom cut gas exports to Europe by 60%, plunging the continent into an energy crisis "within hours." Perhaps explaining the explosion higher in NatGas prices (and oil) today, gas companies in Ukraine confirmed that Russia had cut off supply; and six countries reported a complete shut-off of Russian gas. The EU raged that the sudden cut-off to some of its member countries was "completely unacceptable," but Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller later added that Russia plans to shift all its natural gas flows crossing Ukraine to a route via Turkey; and Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak stated unequivocally, "the decision has been made."
As Bloomberg reports,

Russia plans to shift all its natural gas flows crossing Ukraine to a route via Turkey, a surprise move that the European Union’s energy chief said would hurt its reputation as a supplier.
The decision makes no economic sense, Maros Sefcovic, the European Commission’s vice president for energy union, told reporters today after talks with Russian government officials and the head of gas exporter, OAO Gazprom, in Moscow.
Gazprom, the world’s biggest natural gas supplier, plans to send 63 billion cubic meters through a proposed link under the Black Sea to Turkey, fully replacing shipments via Ukraine, Chief Executive Officer Alexey Miller said during the discussions. About 40 percent of Russia’s gas exports to Europe and Turkey travel through Ukraine’s Soviet-era network.
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Sefcovic said he was “very surprised” by Miller’s comment, adding that relying on a Turkish route, without Ukraine, won’t fit with the EU’s gas system.
Gazprom plans to deliver the fuel to Turkey’s border with Greece and “it’s up to the EU to decide what to do” with it further, according to Sefcovic.

Which, as The Daily Mail reports, has led to a major (and imminent) problem for Europe...

Russia cut gas exports to Europe by 60 per cent today, plunging the continent into an energy crisis 'within hours' as a dispute with Ukraine escalated.
This morning, gas companies in Ukraine said that Russia had completely cut off their supply.
Six countries reported a complete shut-off of Russian gas shipped via Ukraine today, in a sharp escalation of a struggle over energy that threatens Europe as winter sets in.
Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Croatia and Turkey all reported a halt in gas shipments from Russia through Ukraine.

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As Bloomberg goes on to note, Gazprom has reduced deliveries via Ukraine after price and debt disputes with the neighboring country that twice in the past decade disrupted supplies to the EU during freezing weather.

“Transit risks for European consumers on the territory of Ukraine remain,” Miller said in an e-mailed statement. “There are no other options” except for the planned Turkish Stream link, he said.
“We have informed our European partners, and now it is up to them to put in place the necessary infrastructure starting from the Turkish-Greek border,” Miller said.
Russia won’t hurt its image with a shift to Turkey because it has always been a reliable gas supplier and never violated its obligations, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told reporters today in Moscow after meeting Sefcovic.
“The decision has been made,” Novak said. “We are diversifying and eliminating the risks of unreliable countries that caused problems in past years, including for European consumers.”

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That helps to explain today's epic meltup in NatGas futures...

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"They [the Russians] have reduced deliveries to 92million cubic metres per 24 hours compared to the promised 221million cubic metres without explanation," said Valentin Zemlyansky of the Ukrainian gas company Naftogaz.

"We do not understand how we will deliver gas to Europe. This means that in a few hours problems with supplies to Europe will begin."