Switzerland Stuns Markets

Switzerland Stuns Markets by Giving up on Currency Peg

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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."

ZAP / POOFness Mid Week Update "Moving Forward"

Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 20:17:09 -0500

HI ALL

THE RELEASES ARE ONGOING, AND RIGHT AFTER MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY, THE VARIOUS ENTITIES WILL BEGIN WORK IN EARNEST ON THE HISTORIC BOND REDEMPTIONS, AND THE RELEASE OF THE OTHER FUNDS I MENTIONED LAST MESSAGE.

THE CONTINUANCE OF THE PROCESSES BODE WELL FOR ALL OF US, AND WE ARE MOVING FORWARD IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

A SIMPLE REMINDER THAT THE TECHNOLOGIES WE HAVE, AND ARE ABOUT TO RELEASED, REQUIRE A DIFFERENT WAY OF THINKING TO BE HANDLED PROPERLY.
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FOR THE LONGEST TIME, WE DID NOT HAVE THE PHILOSOPHY IN LOCK-STEP WITH THE TECHNOLOGY, AND THE RELEASE OF THE GENIE IN THE BOTTLE WITHOUT THE PROPER UNDERSTANDING OF THE GENIE, HAS CREATED MUCH TROUBLE FOR ALL OF US. PRIME EXAMPLE NOW IS FUKUSHIMA.

TALKING ABOUT THAT ONE, THE MOST RECENT REPORTS STATE:

Engineer: Outright failures continue to plague Fukushima plant — “Public may think worst is over… Nothing could be further from the truth” --

Japan TV: New method failing to stop flow of highly contaminated water — Experts: ‘Diluting’ radiation in ocean adds to danger; Spreading it out only makes health damages worse (VIDEO) (1,018)

ABC: ‘Mysterious surge’ in sick marine mammals all along California coast — Infested with parasites, extremely emaciated; “Very seriously ill… in very bad shape” --

 Experts: “We’re extremely concerned right now” — Deaths up 1,500% at rescue facility — ‘Number mystifies officials’ (VIDEOS) (1,949)

Neutron beam seen 13 times at Fukushima — Maybe evidence of nuclear fission or release of plutonium (413)

Unprecedented: ‘Cataclysmic’ die-off of birds on entire West Coast — Beaches covered with dead bodies

 Professor: It’s tragic… never seen anything like this… We ignore it at our peril… Canary in the coalmine for us… Scrambling to figure out what’s going on with ecosystem (VIDEOS) (386)

Fukushima released 13,000,000,000 times more neutrons than initially estimated — “Obvious implication for human health” --

Gov’t: “Neutron radiation is the most severe and dangerous radiation” known to mankind; Can travel great distances

GO SEE: HYPERLINK

"http://enenews.com/outright-failures-continue-plague-fukushima-japan-tv-new-method-failing-stop-flow-highly-contaminated-water-public-thinks-worst-could-be-further-truth-video"

http://enenews.com/outright-failures-continue-plague-fukushima-japan-tv-new-method-failing-stop-flow-highly-contaminated-water-public-thinks-worst-could-be-further-truth-video

WE WHO LIVE IN NORTH AMERICA ARE NOW BREATHING, EATING, AND DRINKING CONTAMINANTS.

THIS WILL KILL US OF COURSE, AND INTERESTINGLY, THE FEW SNIPPETS OF INFORMATION IN REGARD OF THIS CATASTROPHE, RARELY IF EVER MAKE IT INTO MAINSTREAM NEWS.

 IT SEEMS IT IS MORE IMPORTANT TO KNOW IF JUSTIN THE BEAVER HUNTER IS REALLY SAD OVER BEING DUMPED BY HIS GIRLFRIEND.   I HAVE NO WORDS.

Dear Susan and Zap with Poof in mind  --  First of all Thanks to all you do it is highly appreciated ! Will the New Republic really be the start of a new beginning financially and freedom in sight from the oppression of slave dominance we are in ?

Will we be free from Banking Control and able to Invest freely to move money to and fro? No more GMO's and pollution ? Clean up the Government bad voting practices?

Taxes come down so we can move and support our families?
What about Carbon fossil fuel ?

Will the Chinese Family be part of The New Republic to oversee smoothness of the Governance performance continuing ?

THAT’S A LOT TO ANSWER. EACH ITEM IS COMPLEX IN ITSELF.

YES, THE NEW REPUBLIC WILL SIGNAL THE START OF MANY NEW PARADIGMS, AND THE SLAVE ASPECT IS TO DISAPPEAR.

YES, FUNDS MOVEMENTS WILL BE GEARED PRIMARILY TOWARDS PROJECT FUNDINGS.

GMOs AND POLLUTION ARE PROJECT ITEMS THAT WILL BE RESOLVED. GOVERNMENT AND VOTING PRACTICES ARE AN ITEM THAT MUST BE ADDRESSED, AND WILL BE.

TAXES…NO IDEA WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH THOSE, BUT SOME FORM OF TAX TO UPKEEP THE HIGHWAYS, AND WATER TREATMENT PLANTS, AND SCHOOLS, AND SO ON IS REQUIRED (COMMON SENSE HERE).

CARBON FOSSIL FUEL IS A MISNOMER. OIL IS CREATED DEEP UNDERGROUND ON A DAILY BASIS. IT DOES NOT COME FROM BIG LIZARDS FROM YESTERYEAR.

 NEW POWER TECHNOLOGIES WILL ABOUND. THE CHINESE FAMILY IS NOT HERE TO OVERSEE THE NEW REPUBLIC. THEY ARE HERE TO PROVIDE OUR HUMANITY WITH THE WEALTH REQUIRED TO CLEAN OURSELVES UP.

It is so hard to believe there will be many investors become Millionaires , or Billionaires just off The Currency Exchanges . This is actually mind bending and hopefully The exchanges will be allowed to happen along with The New Republic .

THE NEWLY WEALTHY MAY NUMBER HIGH, BUT NONE WILL BE ALLOWED TO GO OUT AND BUY A COUNTRY, OR A CONTAINER OF GUNS.

 THIS ROLLOUT IS STILL BEING MASSAGED FOR EFFECTIVENESS AND SAFETY.

I been told not for a while yet for this RV to happen you are saying things start Jan 15th. taking place .

ON JANUARY 15, I WILL BEGIN PROCESSING ALL THE PROJECT SUBMISSIONS.

THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE RV. THE TIMING OF THE RV IS STILL AN UNKNOWN TO ME, BUT IT IS TO BE SOON.

Hope is an awesome thing indeed and May God guide us into an awareness of a great new start for our Children and Grandchildren to prosper from - Lets clean it all up in togetherness

Praying everyday it all takes place and God Bless you and all that is involved and thanks to the Chinese Family for trying to right a great wrong in the history of Humanity. - StreetSmart

YES AGREE. HOPE IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE. FROM HOPE COMES DREAMS.

FROM DREAMS COMES ACTION. FROM ACTION COMES CHANGE. FROM CHANGE COMES FULFILLMENT OF THE HOPE. THANK GOD FOR THIS.

Hi Zap, Susan and All:   Well that is most interesting - basically we will have no more Zap to kick around anymore?

I COULD LEAVE SNUFFLES TO HANG ABOUT A BIT AND ANSWER QUESTIONS I GUESS.

I WILL NOT BE NEEDED ANYMORE, AND MY WORKLOAD IS GOING TO GO THROUGH THE ROOF.

If so, then we should be rejoicing, but we have learned over the years that this result is evasive. If Zap's recent message is for real, then our resurrection cannot be far behind.

I AM COUNTING ON IT.

If only... but we will still miss the weekly update/motivational speech. Many times we looked forward to Sunday updates - first from Poof, then Zap - as our only means of keeping the faith and hope alive.

IF I GO, THEN YOU DO NOT NEED ME. “WHEN YOU NEED ME, BUT DO NOT WANT ME, THEN I MUST STAY. WHEN YOU WANT ME, BUT NO LONGER NEED ME, THEN I MUST GO”. FROM NANNY MCPHEE.

If we can soon be propelled to the next level of co-habitation and helping others on the planet, however that comes about, then hallelujah!

Our continued hopes and patience to this end are a direct result of the informed and enlightening counsel of Zap and Poof, among all the others we peruse to verify our hopes and give us inner courage in the face of our continued struggles in a world of challenge and sadness.

VERY VERY SOON NOW. THE PURPLE PIGS ARE PREPARING THE CELEBRATION.

If this is truly the time, then thank you for your strength, humor, insight, efforts and passing on the knowledge.  If not, we look forward to reading more of your humbling motivational weekly hope.

Happy trails - we hope for you only the very best, and no cat food! We truly hope to hear from you regarding our dreams, skills and requests for funding, as well as our recent responses to your requests for applicants to work with you.     Sincerely,   M & B

THANKS MUCH FOR YOUR KIND WORDS. IF IT DOES TAKE LONGER THAN WHAT I WAS TOLD, I WILL HANG A BIT. BUT IT ALL LOOKS TO BE A GO, AND WE CAN ALL GET TO THE WORK AT HAND, AND BEGIN MAKING A DIFFERENCE.

S,     Really enjoyed the newsletter. You try and do indeed capture the whole needs of the listening audience.   I appreciate Zap giving Poof his due. The world needs more guys like Poof.

Kudos to both you and Zap.   My questions / thoughts are these:

It appears from Zap’s part the Admiral is about to walk in and this should trigger the F&P. Does this seem like the right assumption?

THERE ARE A NUMBER OF FACTORS AND MILESTONES THAT NEED TO BE REACHED BEFORE THE F&P ARE TRIGGERED. THE ADMIRAL IS PART OF THAT MATRIX OF EVENTS/PRECURSORS.

In my old southern understanding from your input : Hang on to your drawers as this is going down and soon. Also to use your quality meditation to steady your anxieties and maximize our inner knowing. Thanks I will use it.

Despite world events this seems to be on a track to completion and very little can stand in the way. Is this a correct assumption?

ABSOLUTELY.

The start date for the unfolding is January 15, 2015. Would this be a hard date?

Zap’s words:     ZAP’s GOODBYE TO YOU WILL BE COMING SOON, AND I WOULD SAY BY THE END OF THIS MONTH AS WE BEGIN THE PROJECTS AND THE RELEASES TAKE EFFECT.

He, you, DT and all significant others think the funds reach their final destinations by months end……correct?   Your thoughts are appreciated.     J

YES. TOMORROW, JANUARY 15, IS MY START DATE FOR THE PROCESSING OF THE PROJECT SUBMISSIONS. FUNDINGS FOR THE LARGE PROJECTS ON THE BOOKS WILL BEGIN IN ANOTHER WEEK.

PROJECT FUNDINGS FOR ALL OTHER SUBMISSIONS WILL BEGIN IN FEBRUARY AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE YEARS AHEAD. IT IS ONLY THE BEGINNING OF IT ALL.

Hi Zap     Sorry to bother you, i know you are too busy, but your posts are the best (i see at dinar gurus/dinar recaps).

I would like to establish a communication with you to ask about the funds for Historical Bonds.

My platform in HK says that the IMF will release the codes on January 15th, do you confirm?

And so the release of TRN.  I want to do some projects with the funds too! Thank you!

Hope you can answer this question.  Best Regards!     YM

YES, THE IMF AND THE OTHERS ARE CONFIRMING THE CODES AS WE SPEAK.

 THE DISPOSITION OF THESE FUNDS ARE SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 20 AFTER THE US HOLIDAY.

AND WHEN YOU RECEIVE YOUR FUNDS, AND WISH TO DO PROJECTS, YOU WILL HAVE A CHOICE OF THE PROJECT OF CHOICE.

SO MUCH WORK ON OUR COLLECTIVE PLATE THAT IT WILL BE A JOY PICKING OUT WHAT YOU WANT TO DO.

IT MUST RESONATE DEEP IN YOUR SOUL WHAT YOU DO TO BE EFFECTIVE IN WHAT YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO DO. GLAD YOUR BENT IS IN THIS DIRECTION. MUCH THANKS.

IN CLOSING, THE SWITCHBOARDS AT DIAL A DINAR AND THE OTHER RUMOR LINES HAVE BEEN TREMENDOUSLY BUSY, AND I CAN ALMOST RETIRE NOW ON THE $12 I HAVE MADE.

 I PUT IT INTO BOB’S BANK FOR HIS SUPER TRADE PROGRAM, AND BOB HIMSELF TOLD ME I WOULD BE RICH FROM THE RETURNS, AND BE ABLE TO BUY MANY DONUTS AND COFFEES.

AND BOTH BAMBI AND FLUFFY, HIS REALLY COOL SECRETARIES, AFFIRMED THIS BY CLAPPING THEIR HANDS WHILE JUMPING UP AND DOWN FOR A REALLY LONG TIME…UNTIL BOB LEFT WITH THE MONEY.

IN ETERNAL GRATITUDE.   ZAP

“GOD IS; I AM; WE ARE”   “BE GOOD, BE LEGAL, TELL TRUTH”  January 14, 2015  Copyright ZAP 2013-2015

Thank you, for any help you can give us, as we continue to help you stay informed. Please go to paypal.com via: friends and family thru goneforthfornow@gmail.com ..Namaste, Susan..... if you have a problem please contact us thru 2goforth@safe-mail.net ..consultations continue...S

Love and Kisses,    'THE OFFICE OF POOFNESS'    Susan and Staff

" No one has ever known we were among you - until now."

"...a traveler from distant stars, escaped from a dying world, looking for a way to extend his own life. His body, decaying and weak, he could not prevent his own demise.

Apparently, his whole species was becoming extinct.

So he traveled the galaxies looking for a way to cheat death.

He came to a world rich with Life, where he encountered a primitive race.

Humans...a species which, with all his powers and knowledge, he could maintain indefinitely.

He realized that, within a Human body, he had a chance for a new life.

He found a small boy. Ra took him, and possessed his body, like some kind of parasite looking for a host.

And, inhabiting this Human form, he appointed himself ruler.

There was a rebellion on Earth.

Fearful, Ra outlawed reading and writing...he did not want people to remember the truth."

- "Stargate"

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"From the dawn of time we came, moving silently down through the centuries, living many secret lives. No one has ever known we were among you - until now."

- Sean Connery "The Highlander"

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"Evil can be defined as any kind of behavior which allows one person to progress, at the overall cost of anothers' material, emotional, or spiritual welfare.

It is a fine line, since almost all of Human interaction is based on some form of manipulation. Either soft manipulation or hard.

The hard form of manipulation that seeks to progress on the losses of others, can - and should be defined as evil.

But we have learned to excuse those who perpetrate evil, to suspend justice, to turn the other cheek, and blind ourselves to the manipulation thrust in our faces on a daily basis.

Some may associate this type of manipulation with strength, but those who exercise this kind of demented manipulation actually gain great pleasure in seeing others suffer and fall.

When we realize the extent of this type of mental and spiritual corruption, we then can begin to take appropriate measures to defend ourselves - and even go on the attack.

We often talk about Humanity, and our service to humanity. But the word 'Humanity' contains the word 'Human'.

If we don't know of the things that make us Human, or are not aware of the sharp distinctions between Human Beings and the other non-human, manipulating entities - there is not much credence in even talking about 'Humanity'.

Humanity must be made up of Human Beings who are aware of what it means to be truly Human.

Most of what we call 'Human' is, as I have demonstrated - alien in nature.

To be truly serving Humanity is to be serving the Human in us.

We serve that end best when we expose what is anti-human in us, and exorcise from our own natures the traits and drives which force us to believe in, and act upon non-human concepts that are totally foreign to us.

We must eradicate the concepts, traits, and drives which poison our emotions, our minds, and our planet.

While we inhabit this planet, each of us has one sovereign purpose, which is to leave the planet, our home, in a better state than we initially found it.

To even begin to accomplish this task, we must first have our own lives in order, and be connected to our own darhma.

That is, we must be living authentically, while being passionately and creatively involved in something which is a true extension of our own uniqueness.

This is man's true religion.

However, the sooner we try to attend to this calling, the time comes shortly when we come into conflict with a force whose motives are diametrically the opposite - that is to destroy, and leave the planet in the worst condition possible.

The serpent masters who visited our planet ages ago, arrived and took over without permission.

They literally invaded our sovereign planet, and interfered with the destiny and evolution of the native inhabitants, while possessing no rightful status to do so, aside from force, entrapment, manipulation, and coercion of Human Beings.

Like so many terrestrial 'illegal alien immigrants', neither these alien species, or any of their progeny have any respect or love for the world they have invaded and occupied.

Their treatment of Earth, their plundering of nations, the decimation of indigenous peoples, and their violations of nature herself, should be taken as ample evidence of their origins.

The Human victims of the Earth must remedy the injustices perpetrated against them and their Home Planet by assertively taking back their power, and exercising their birthright as Humans of the Earth.

Men and women, acting as their own 'immigration officers' have both the right and the responsibility to bring justice upon and expunge these entities who have violated, and continue to violate Universal Law, and Human sovereignty.

These parasitic, predator, invaders have no status or authority of jurisdiction on planet Earth.

The so-called controllers or hidden masters, the secret chiefs and those decedents of the original alien visitors, whose influence and mechanization's have brought untold horrors on the Earth and on Humanity - have absolute no right to hold their 'offices', pass their laws, to exercise command, or to formant wars.

There is no right or justification for these foreign invaders to impoverish, slaughter, enslave, divide, or mislead mankind.

These entities have no right to interfere in any way, with the destiny and evolution of the Earth.

Since these invading entities have usurped the sovereignty of Humankind, and falsely appropriated their authority in the face of their alien status, they must be held totally accountable for every one of their crimes against Human Beings and planet Earth.

The Nephilim of the days of old have never left this planet, and they are not about to 'return to save us from ourselves'. They have never been away, and it is exactly they who create the conditions that plague mankind.

It is the duty of all Humankind to continue to work toward the total exposure and final elimination of these universal dregs.

- Michael Tsarion Quote From "Origins and Oracles" Series

http://youtu.be/yZdup3bBrNI

How to wash a cat

How to wash a cat

1. Put both lids of the toilet up and add 1/8 cup of pet shampoo to the water in the bowl...
2. Pick up the cat and soothe him while you carry him towards the bathroom.
3. In one smooth movement put the cat in the toilet and dose the lid. You may need to stand on the lid.
4. At this point the cat will self agitate and make ample suds. Never mind the noises that come from the toilet, the cat is actually enjoying this!
5. Flush the toilet three or four times. This provides a ‘Power-Wash’ and ‘Rinse’.
8. Have someone open the front door of your home. Be sure that there are no people between the bathroom and the front door.
7. Stand well back, behind the toilet if possible, and quickly lift the lid.
8. The cat will rocket out of the toilet, streak through the bathroom, and run outside where he will dry himself off.
9. Both the toilet and the cat will be sparkling clean.

Yours Sincerely,

The Dog

CIA mind-control program: did it really end? By Jon Rappoport

NoMoreFakeNews.com

Follow me on a few twists and turns down the rabbit hole.

Start with this untitled June 27, 1994, document, stored at the National Security Archive at The George Washington University.

It was written by a CIA advisory committee, and forwarded to the Presidential Committee on Human Radiation Experiments, which was preparing public hearings in 1994.

Here is a key quote:

“In the 1950s and 60s, the CIA engaged in an extensive program of human experimentation [MKULTRA], using drugs, psychological, and other means, in search of techniques to control human behavior for counterintelligence and covert action purposes… Most of the MKULTRA records were deliberately destroyed in 1973 by the order of then DCI Richard Helms…Helms testified that he agreed to destroy the records because ‘there had been relationships with outsiders in government agencies and other organizations and that these would be sensitive in this kind of a thing but that since the [mind-control] program was over and finished and done with, we thought we would just get rid of files as well, so that anybody who assisted us in the past would not be subject to follow-up questions, embarrassment, if you will.’”

Helms was not only admitting he destroyed the records, he was stating that the MKULTRA program deployed, through contracts, “outsiders” to carry out mind control experiments. He was determined to protect the outsiders, to keep their identity and work secret. He was also dedicated to preventing these people from exposing the nature of their mind-control work.

Subsequently, some of these “outsiders” have been revealed. But no one really knows how deep, far, and wide the CIA penetrated into academic and research communities to enable MKULTRA.

Helms also stated that MKULTRA was ended. There is no reason to believe this. Therefore, his justification for destroying huge numbers of documents was absurd.

For example: Back in the early 1990s, I interviewed John Marks, author of Search for the Manchurian Candidate. This was the book that exposed the existence of the infamous CIA MKULTRA program.

John Marks related the following facts to me. He had filed many Freedom of Information (FOIA) requests to the CIA for documents relating to their mind-control program. He got nothing back.

Finally, as if to play a joke on him, someone at the CIA sent him 10 boxes of financial and accounting records. The attitude was, “Here, see what you can do with this.”

I’ve seen some of those records. They’re very boring reading.

But Marks went through them, and lo and behold, he found he could piece together MKULTRA projects, based on the funding data.

Eventually, he assembled enough information to begin naming names. He conducted interviews. The shape of MKULTRA swam into view. And so he wrote his book, Search for the Manchurian Candidate.

SNIP

Time Line for the New Republic

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Dan 1 Comment

http://itccs.org/2015/01/09/time-line-for-the-new-republic/

Posted on January 9, 2015

A Time Line for the Establishment of the Republic of Kanata and its Common Law

Thursday, January 15, 2015: The Republic is formally proclaimed and a High Court of Justice is established under common law. This provides the legal basis for common law courts and Citizen Grand Juries to operate under the new jurisdiction of Kanata.
Monday, January 19: Local common law courts and Grand Juries are established. Republican sheriffs are appointed to serve and enforce the Revocation (stand down) Orders to former crown agents.
Monday, February 16 – March 16: District Conventions are summoned to elect delegates to the first General Congress of the Republic, to be convened on Tuesday, June 30, 2015 in Winnipeg.
District One: Columbia
District Two: The Plains
District Three: Ontario
District Four: Quebec
District Five: Atlantic
District Six: The North
June 30 – July 3 , 2015: The first General Congress of the Republic convenes. The Constitution of the Republic is debated and adopted, and a Legislative and Executive branch is elected and ratified by the High Court of Justice.
Friday, July 3, 2015: The Government of the Republic of Kanata is officially established. Kanata Day is proclaimed as the first legal holiday of the Republic.
www.republicofkanata.com
Issued 9 January 2015 by the Provisional Council, Winnipeg
Colin Sullivan, Secretary