From Giordano Bruno at Neithcorp Press:
“Goldman’s involvement in the Greek snafu is assuredly not isolated. Goldman deals with many countries and has likely pulled the same scam everywhere. But why would a large international bank deliberately sabotage the economies of the countries it does business with? Would this not ruin the banks as well in the long run? Not if you consider the possibility that Goldman is destabilizing countries deliberately to help the IMF… Continue reading
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Ruby Ridge: Remembering The Lessons
A 2002 article at the National Review Online revisits Ruby Ridge, which for over 15 years has been a rallying point for libertarians fighting the federal leviathan.
Remember Ruby Ridge: Ten years later, there are still important lessons.
By Timothy Lynch, August 21, 2002Ruby Ridge” used to refer to a geographical location in the state of Idaho, but after an incident that took place there ten years ago today, the phrase has come to refer to a scandalous series of events that opened the eyes of many people to the inner workings of the federal government, including the vaunted Federal Bureau of Investigation. Now that ten years have passed, the feds will accelerate their ongoing effort to “move forward” and have the scandal declared “ancient history.” But the Ruby Ridge episode should not be soon forgotten. Continue reading
Where In The World Is Iraq’s Gold?
A thought occurred to me late at night. Do you remember these stories from the Iraq war?
WASHINGTON (CNN) –For the second time in a week, U.S. troops have discovered what appears to be a cache of gold bars hidden in a truck, which could be worth just less than a quarter of a billion dollars, according to a Pentagon official. Continue reading
Market Take-Down
Well, I know I promised to stay away from my blog. But a 1000 point drop in the Dow is reason enough to renege on a promise.
I’m going to state my considered judgment that that was no accident. It looked deliberate (like September, 2008) and seems to follow on other deliberate attempts to induce panic….(not that anyone needs to try very hard to do that, since the way governments are behaving nowadays is panic-inducing enough)
Why do I monger conspiracy thus?
Let’s review.
Rewind to the early part of April, a period that has occult significance, as it includes Hitler’s birthday (April 20). It also carries dark overtones from recent history in the US – the Columbine shootings (April 20, 1999), the Federal assault on Waco on April 19, 1993, and the WTC Oklahoma City bombing (April 17, 1995) and from WW II history (the NKVD’s massacre at Katyn in April 1940 , and several other important incidents related to the Nazi prison camps).
1. On April 10 we witnessed the “decapitation” of a large part of the leadership of Poland under the strangest of circumstances. Poland is a country that has been resisting the economic demands of the EU one-worlders and rearing its reactionary nationalistic head on several occasions, to wit., the devaluation of the zloty. The plane crash erased the bulk of the nationalists in government at one shot.
2. This mysterious crash was followed by another smaller but equally strange incident when Eurocontrol (correction: I read that the ultimate decision was not made by Eurocontrol but by EU members acting with coordination from Eurocontrol) over-reacted to the eruption of the Icelandic volcano and grounded the entire airline industry in many northern and western European countries, shutting down 70% of European flights and hitting the economy severely again. Hit two to the markets.
3. Around the same time we had whistle-blower Andrew Maguire outing JP Morgan market manipulation (March 23) and nearly becoming the victim of a hit and run driver (March 27).
This was followed immediately by widespread panic (around April 7) about the lack of physical gold in a number of vaults and behind the majority of contracts. That was hit three.
4. At the same time (April 16), there was the SEC filing of charges against Goldman Sachs. I’m all for flaying Goldman alive, but there’s no denying the “staged” elements of the case, its tardiness, and its potential to set off more litigation that could maul the banking industry badly. Hit four.
5. Now, against the background of street riots in Greece, with the EU tottering on its gouty feet, comes hit five – a market plunge of historic proportions apparently from a bizarre trading “mistake.”
Update: 6. April 20, blow up of BP oil rig/
Add in a few other suspicious developments, and malice aforethought rather than chance seems the more plausible explanation….
Now was it Goldman’s High Frequency Trading programs sending a warning to investigators? Or was it the infamous Plunge Protection Team? Perhaps this was a message from the Federal Reserve to those who want to audit it…..that bill has now been “gutted.”
Was it a “fat finger” at Citigroup (denied by the firm) or a “black swan” out of Nassim Taleb’s Universa hedge-fund, as the latest reports suggest?
I have my own ideas, of course. But they’re no more than theory at this point.
Whoever did it, I suspect money was made both on the way down and the way up.
Jim Rogers on Goldseek radio had the best word for the whole frightening mishap. He said someone should suffer for it. This is New York, the HQ of the world capital markets. If the NYSE can’t get it right, time to get rid of them.
But of course, no one is going to go anywhere. No one is going to suffer for their mistakes. The only people who will suffer, as usual, is you, me, and the rest of the investing public.
Vote Against Dodd Bill, Corker-Merkley Provision
Mish Shedlock, May 4, 2010
A bill sponsored by Ron Paul and Alan Grayson to thoroughly audit the Fed, passed the House. However in a brazen move that ought to offend the sensibilities of every citizen, the Fed is lobbying Senate members to water down the bill so that it is meaningless. Continue reading
IMPORTANT Financial Reform Bill Sneaks In Codex Alimentarius Provisions
Ellen Brown of the wonderful WebofDebt website (check out Ellen’s book, Web of Debt) sends me a note.
Note: I admire Ellen’s writing and research and believe her to be a very sincere person, but I disagree with her prescription, which is to monetize the debt. Monetizing debt is the problem, so it can’t also be the solution.
At the same time, I think libertarians are mistaken in treating Wall Street corruption as secondary to government corruption. Intrinsically, they’re right, but when you seem to ignore one type of crime (white collar crime) in your prescriptions for society while coming down tough on other kinds (street crime), then what you get is a skewing of the balance even more against the relatively powerless and what looks like apologetics for cronyism and rigged markets. And I know that’s not what libertarianism is about.
A CIRCULAR ABOUT THE FINANCIAL REFORM BILL
Senate Will Vote This Weekend!
Wednesday, April 28, 2010Colleagues,
My dear friend, Dr. Nick Gonzalez, *the* Dr. Gonzalez of alternative cancer treatment in NYC, just emailed this about supplements and the bill Rep Henry Waxman of California introduced as a sleeper that has passed the US House of Representatives. We need to mobilize our constituencies to prevent it from passing in the U.S. Senate in DC. Please forward this on to all your networks, and thanks!
I wasn’t sure if you were aware of Congressman Henry Waxman’s latest ploy; we need to mobilize immediately, get moving on your e mail list ASAP! Keep scrolling down, you’ll see my note to friends, and below that the links about the latest danger.
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*Congressman Henry Waxman of California never gives up, he slipped a provision into the “Financial Reform Bill” that gives the FTC unheard of power to investigate and regulate supplements. *
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*Apparently nobody knew about the provision, they are so dumb down in DC. Just when we thought things had quieted down. This has already passed the House; we most mobilize in the next days to alert our Senators and express our concern. Below is the info. It doesn’t seem as onerous as the McCain pathology, but it still opens up the door to undo our health freedom and freedom of expression.*
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*Please read — this is a stealth* de facto *attempt to impose the New World Order’s Codex Alimentarius upon the American people!* ***Best wishes to all,*
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Sir James Goldsmith: GATT, Nukes, Agribusiness Devouring Society
Sir James Michael Goldsmith, Anglo-French financier and corporate raider of the 1980s, is most infamous for taking over Goodyear Tires and restructuring it, thereby putting its many employees out of work.
In this deeply prophetic interview with Charlie Rose in 1994 he discusses his book about globalization, The Trap, and displays a more humane side of his complex intelligence.
In the earlier part of the interview (not shown here), Goldsmith gets into a heated debate with Clinton economic honcho Laura Tyson over the benefits of NAFTA and GATT in which Tyson comes off as both naive and uninformed.
In another part, Goldsmith calls Indian physicist and environmental activist Vandana Shiva “remarkable” and asks why it is that global “free” trade, supposedly so beneficial to developing countries, was protested widely and vigorously by huge numbers of people in India.
Take away points from the interview:
*This (globalization) is the establishment against the rest of society
*I am for big business until it devours society
*Big business loves total access to unlimited give-away labor
*In every developing nation you have a handful of people who control everything, the oligarchs
*This (globalization) is the poor in rich countries subsidizing the rich in the poor countries
(Lila: I’d add that the poor in poor countries are also subsidizing the rich in rich countries)*Free trade within homogeneous regions is to be preferred to global trade
(Lila: This coincides with something I’ve advocated for a while, on the principle of subsidiarity)*The European parliament is a force for pseudo-democratic institutions
*It’s already fixed by the two main parties, the Christian Democrats and the Socialists
*The people have a right to vote on the single most important economic decision of their life times
*Here in the USA we’ve had no debate on it (GATT) while we’ve had a huge debate about NAFTA which was a pimple
*GATT is going through because business wants it
*It’s a fix here (the US), as it is in Europe*We’ve allowed instruments that are supposed to serve us to become our masters
*GATT is an example of how an economic doctrine is going to destabilize our society
*Nuclear is another example. Here in Europe, we’ve not been allowed to discuss this disastrous form of energy, disastrous in terms both of economics and in terms of security
*Corporate agriculture is a third example of how we are destroying our societies
*The ruling machinery of government power in Europe is imposing this (GATT) without a debate
Mexican President Nominated For Citi Director
Robert Wenzel at Economic Policy Journal:
“Citi’s Board of Directors has nominated Ernesto Zedillo as a new non-management director candidate to stand for election at Citi’s annual shareholder meeting on April 20, 2010. He was the President of Mexico from 1994 to 2000 and is now Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and Professor in the Field of International Economics and Politics at Yale University.
Zedillo (58) worked at Mexico’s Central Bank (Banco de Mexico), serving in various positions, including those of deputy Head of Economic Research and deputy Director. Zedillo is on the boards of Alcoa Inc. and Procter & Gamble Company.
Obviously, despite the fact that it almost blew itself up because of schemes far from traditional banking, Citi continues to take the New World Order approach to banking.
There is nothing wrong with Citi attempting to penetrate into Latin America for business but, putting a former Mexican president on the board smacks of penetration via back door crony government deals versus attempting to serve the serve the consumer in the Latin American countries.
Sure, you have to deal with the crooked governments in these countries, but that’s what you have connected law firms for. They get things done in a very low key efficient manner. Putting Zedillo on the board sends a different signal, that Citi will not only deal with Latino politicians, but that it is part of the crooked club.”
Ron Paul: No Military Occupation Of Haiti
Statement of Congressman Ron Paul, United States House of Representatives Statement in Opposition to H Res 1021, Condolences to Haiti, January 21, 2010
I rise in reluctant opposition to this resolution. Certainly I am moved by the horrific destruction in Haiti and would without hesitation express condolences to those who have suffered and continue to suffer. As a medical doctor, I have through my career worked to alleviate the pain and suffering of others. Unfortunately, however, this resolution does not simply express our condolences, but rather it commits the US government “to begin the reconstruction of Haiti” and affirms that “the recovery and long-term needs of Haiti will require a sustained commitment by the United States….” Continue reading
Executive Order 12425: Interpol Brings Global Police State to US
John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute (via Lew Rockwell) sounds the alarm over executive order 12425, which places the International Criminal Police Organization (Interpol) beyond the reach of domestic laws, freedom of information act requests and constitutional checks.
“It’s hard to know exactly what the fallout from this executive order will be, but the ramifications for the American people could be ominous. For instance, if Interpol engages in illegal and/or unconstitutional activities against American citizens, it will be impossible for U.S. citizens to obtain information – via subpoena or other commonly used legal methods – regarding its records or activities. Continue reading