Operation Legacy

British colonialism at its best:

http://rt.com/news/british-colonies-documents-destruction-512/

What did we have to hide?

Bitcoin

All you ever wanted to know about Bitcoin, and a lot more:

http://www.redicecreations.com/radio/2013/11/RIR-131125.php

According to Clif, the PTW have lost control, and it's only a matter of time now...

;)

Checkmate by China

It has been coming for quite a few years, but here we have it in print, in writing and in action: China has stated that it doesn't need/want to stockpile or buy the US dollar any more. This ties in with what Jim Willie has been saying, that China has resigned itself to writing off $1 trillion of US Treasuries, as they will be compensated by the corresponding increase in the price of gold, which they have been stockpiling, secretly and openly.

http://gizadeathstar.com/2013/11/hoarding-foreign-currency/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+GizaDeathStar+%28Giza+Death+Star%29

Couple this with all of the bi-lateral trade deals that China has been doing, based in the yuan (see this blog), and you can see that the move away from the US dollar has accelerated exponentially.

Predicted: 50% internal inflation in the US practically overnight. A lot of Americans are going to have quite a suprise coming.

Global Currency Reset

For better or worse - could it be much worse?

Here's a long interview with Jim Willie, laying out the death of the dollar:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPQRWrSdGF0#t=139

Unfortunately, even if (when) the US dollar does eventually get abandoned by other stronger economies, I do not see much improvement in global human rights issues, ecological improvements, economic resurrection, etc. For example, Israel has signed a deal with Russia for the use of the gas they found in the Eastern Mediterranean. China is still buying up huge tracts of African lands - can that be democratic? Saudi Arabia is making deals with Israel against Iran - strange bedfellows indeed. Doesn't look like 'peace' is any part of these equations.

However, it's interesting to be living through the most crucial moment in human history, as I'm convinced we're going to see huge changes well within my lifetime, and probably before the end of this decade. I don't think anyone can tell whether life will be better or worse - but it sure will be different.

Death of the Petrodollar - Continued

China is going to price its oil futures in Yuan, not dollars:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/11/21/china-crudeoil-idUSL4N0J62M120131121

Shooting Yourself in the Foot II

I'm back!

Part I of the Anglo-American Empire shooting itself in the foot was trying to introduce SWIFT controls on Iran, a few years ago, which only served to push Iran into the BRICS camp, and to encourage the BRICS nations to speed-up their moves away from the dollar.

In Part II is mentioned here by Prof J Farrell, where the Western alliance (Anglo-American élites/empire, etc, several possible titles) is criticising Germany for being over-productive and being responsible for the global economy faultering. That assertion belongs in the "you couldn't make this stuff up" folder, but there will be many peole who will believe it, or who will want to believe it.

This will result, according to Prof Farrell's speculations (which are often spot-on) in Germany moving closer to the BRICS nations, especially Russia, from whom it derives most of its energy needs, and China, as a partner in commerce. My speculation: this will result in even more yuan currency swaps away from the dollar, helping to sink the petrodollar more quickly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAUVHTXC4pE

Islamic Banking in London

Well, well, well!

http://rt.com/business/muslim-money-britain-bonds-907/

And here:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/10410467/Britain-to-become-first-non-Muslim-country-to-launch-sharia-bond.html

Unpalateable Truths

Here is an interview with Catherine Austin Fitts, where she speaks real truths that no-one wants to hear. She even mentions that America was built on stealing other peoples' land! Very rare to hear about that!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gssxv35TA-8

BRICSA Lay New Internet Cable

Here Prof. J Farrell talks about this, plus other very interesting titbits:

http://gizadeathstar.com/2013/10/news-views-from-nefarium-2013/

Here is another article about it, including the route of the cable:

http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-brics-independent-internet-in-defiance-of-the-us-centric-internet

Prof Farrell also mentions that the EU leaders are using the NSA spying scandal to do some political manoeuvering, plus the EU Parliament are making moves to block US access to SWIFT - which is huge news! Here's an article about it:

 http://rt.com/news/eu-surveillance-trust-us-720/

Debt ceilings, Dollars and Bank Charges

I have yet to read any of Prof. Farrell's books, but I have followed what he has to say for a few years, and I like his ability to pull together sometimes seemingly-unconnected data, to try to see where we're headed. Here he works out that depositors in a bank are actually a liability for the bank: we cost them money! Why encourage deposits when you can cream profits off the top on derivatives and from the shadow banking system? 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bo3hxBgjEg

Geoengineering Goes Mainstream

Well, by that I mean that the MSM is finally mentioning it. This typically blurred article, which of course mentions 'conspiracy theorists' and lots of mumbo-jumbo, is still important in that it is starting the debate.

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/green-living/lets-play-god-the-scientific-experiments-that-might-save-the-world-or-destroy-it-8884386.html

My hunch is that the people who have been geoengineering the climate for decades now are attempting to gain acceptance of it. You'd have to be an idiot these days not to notice it going on in the skies right above you, but it seems  no-one looks up any more.

FWIW, I do not think these experiments are benign.

The Sixth Stage of Collapse

Another thought-provoking article from Dmitri. It doesn't look good for our species, but it's even worse for the ecosystem and other species, and we don't care!

http://cluborlov.blogspot.fr/2013/10/the-sixth-stage-of-collapse.html

Monsanto and Argentina

Not a terribly informative article, but you get the general idea:

http://rt.com/news/monsanto-argentina-health-problems-484/

Note the comment about an increase in thyroid disorders - just like where I live. Personally, I'm convinced a lot of these health problems come from geoengineering.

QE, Neofeudalism and Privatisation

Here's Michael Hudson, explaining economics very clearly:

http://www.extraenvironmentalist.com/2013/10/16/episode-67-bubble/

I think there are some economists who will be wanting to hide their faces for not seeing this present situation coming. It has been 'the Emperor's Clothes' all over again, and very clear from some distance, but not, I suppose, if you're up too close?

Karen Hudes, Bitcoin and the Rule of Law

Lawyer Karen Hudes is all over the alternative media at the moment, with her story. Here are two of her most recent interviews:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av6bpIzvDvg&feature=c4-overview&list=UUG-G8LLr38fQUNZU8K0t-EA

And here she is at the Bitcoin conference:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCO9QJWJLiI

A lot of people are not going to want to believe this, but that doesn't really matter. Que sera, sera!

Investigative Journalism

The title of the blog post seems to be synonymous with 'conspiracy theory' lately, with anyone saying anything outside of what the MSM tells you being labelled the latter. Being over 50, however, means that I remember when journalists used to dig up the dirt and expose criminality, corruption and malfeasance. Now this is no longer possible, under pain of sanctions, loss of job and livelihood, or at the very least, the approbation of your friends and colleagues.

Despite all of this, some of us bloggers out there have continued to look under the carpet, beyond the falsehoods and through the facade, to try to understand the true nature of events unfolding around us. To this end, I recently posted on the Max Keiser web-site, where I am a regular visitor. As is often the case, the comments section is full of interesting, stimulating and sometimes shocking information, often posted by 'Joe 6-pack' who invariably lives out in the woods, like me. Here I have been able to glean a lot of information about life on the ground for average people - whether it be in the US, UK, Europe, Asia, etc. So, I think that I have quite a good feel for BS when I read it, for facts, or for bluff. It's a long and frustrating road to follow, but some of us prefer it to receiving our already-chewed and spat-out news from some dippy talking head sitting on a sofa with a low-cut top.

Copies of my original posts on the Max Keiser link, regarding the fact that China has just bought the building in New York which houses JPMorgan's gold vaults, seem impossible to cut-and-paste below (which is a pity, as there was lots of jucy info!) but basically it boiled down to the same crony-capitalism: The Company which just bought N°1 Chase-Manhatten Plaza was a Chinese Company called 'FOSUN'. I looked up their history, and (surprise, surprise!) they had given many press conferences and presentations with all the major Western banks (all the bad guys) as well as having dealings in the past with the Carlyle Group (lots about them on the web, mostly bad) and Prudential Insurance (lots on them, too!). After a few hours of research and a couple of postings, the only comment I got in return was:

"Lot of trolls here...".

Which means that what I posted must have been pretty near-the-knuckle: they prefer to denigrate you than to argue or deny what you have said. I consider this a (small) victory, but the worrying consequences are that the media (even, now, the alternative media) is saying that China is buying up the West, and dumping the dollar, whereas the truth is, in fact, that China is actually 'China', a Corporation like all the others, managed behind the scenes by the same corrupt oligarchs that still run the West, but they are crashing the West and moving East. These are the same people who are buying all of the gold in the West, shipping it East, and who will bring in the new global gold-backed currency.

This is not going to end well.

FOSUN just purchased J Morgan’s Chase Plaza. Here is a list of Corporate events and patrners they’ve been involved with over the last few years:

Read more at http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/10/faster-than-a-speeding-forklift/#eOLbBsO8Vc4V8tRX.99

‘Carlyle was able to complete an IPO of United Defense on the New York Stock Exchange in December 2001 selling a significant portion of its interest in the company. Carlyle completed a sale of its remaining United Defense stock and exited the investment in April 2004.[18] In more recent years, Carlyle has deemphasized its focus on defense industry investments.[19]
Carlyle’s 2001 investor conference took place on September 11, 2001. In the weeks following the meeting, it was reported that a member of the Bin Laden family had been in attendance and that they were investors in Carlyle managed funds.[20] Later reports confirmed that the Bin Laden family had invested $2 million into Carlyle’s $1.3 billion Carlyle Partners II Fund in 1995, making the family relatively small investors with the firm.[21] These connections would later be profiled in Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 911. The Bin Laden family liquidated its holdings in Carlyle’s funds in October 2001.[22′

Read more at http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/10/faster-than-a-speeding-forklift/#eOLbBsO8Vc4V8tRX.99

FOSUN just purchased J Morgan’s Chase Plaza. Here is a list of Corporate events and patrners they’ve been involved with over the last few years:

Read more at http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/10/faster-than-a-speeding-forklift/#eOLbBsO8Vc4V8tRX.99

FOSUN just purchased J Morgan’s Chase Plaza. Here is a list of Corporate events and patrners they’ve been involved with over the last few years:
http://ir.fosun.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=194273&p=irol-calendar
Sound familiar?
Also, on a recent trip to UK, the (omnipresent) HSBC advertising was talking of a change coming soon, emerging markets becoming top players, more south-to-south trade coming soon, etc.
Anyone who thinks these global banks have been wrongfooted by the Chinese is delusional. Just look at the picture at the top of this link: not a Chinese person in sight! A white, Western, corporate businessman.

Read more at http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/10/faster-than-a-speeding-forklift/#eOLbBsO8Vc4V8tRX.99

FOSUN just purchased J Morgan’s Chase Plaza. Here is a list of Corporate events and patrners they’ve been involved with over the last few years:
http://ir.fosun.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=194273&p=irol-calendar
Sound familiar?
Also, on a recent trip to UK, the (omnipresent) HSBC advertising was talking of a change coming soon, emerging markets becoming top players, more south-to-south trade coming soon, etc.
Anyone who thinks these global banks have been wrongfooted by the Chinese is delusional. Just look at the picture at the top of this link: not a Chinese person in sight! A white, Western, corporate businessman.

Read more at http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/10/faster-than-a-speeding-forklift/#eOLbBsO8Vc4V8tRX.99

FOSUN just purchased J Morgan’s Chase Plaza. Here is a list of Corporate events and patrners they’ve been involved with over the last few years:
http://ir.fosun.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=194273&p=irol-calendar
Sound familiar?
Also, on a recent trip to UK, the (omnipresent) HSBC advertising was talking of a change coming soon, emerging markets becoming top players, more south-to-south trade coming soon, etc.
Anyone who thinks these global banks have been wrongfooted by the Chinese is delusional. Just look at the picture at the top of this link: not a Chinese person in sight! A white, Western, corporate businessman.
Nuff said.

Read more at http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/10/faster-than-a-speeding-forklift/#eOLbBsO8Vc4V8tRX.99

FOSUN just purchased J Morgan’s Chase Plaza. Here is a list of Corporate events and patrners they’ve been involved with over the last few years:
http://ir.fosun.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=194273&p=irol-calendar
Sound familiar?
Also, on a recent trip to UK, the (omnipresent) HSBC advertising was talking of a change coming soon, emerging markets becoming top players, more south-to-south trade coming soon, etc.
Anyone who thinks these global banks have been wrongfooted by the Chinese is delusional. Just look at the picture at the top of this link: not a Chinese person in sight! A white, Western, corporate businessman.
Nuff said.

Read more at http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/10/faster-than-a-speeding-forklift/#eOLbBsO8Vc4V8tRX.99

Shadowstats

A lot of us know that most figures produced by all Governements are ficticious to the point of ridiculousness. The US Government is no different, but luckily for us, someone who was trained in accounting procedures took up where the Government left off, and has kept track of the real Government statistics. His name is John Williams, and here he lays it all out very clearly about the bleak future for the US:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=wF3kS0yx-dI

He says a similar thing to Jim Willie, about the dollars coming home to roost. Here's his website:

http://www.shadowstats.com/

Deamericanization

As the article says, there is an acceleration happening, and it's pretty difficult to keep up with events. But here is the GEAB's up-date on the events of the second half of 2013:

http://www.leap2020.eu/GEAB-N-78-is-available-The-de-Americanisation-of-the-world-has-begun-emergence-of-solutions-for-a-multipolar-world-by_a14827.html

Credit Bubble Cracking

Here`s Gregory Mannarino on fire and giving us 17 minutes of truth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkksdn5VW7o

It seems we`ve been lied to for hundreds of years, but thanks to the blogosphere, we are managing to get the truth out to the people. I wonder what they`ll do with it?

Economic Collapse Blog

I listen to this American regularly. Another case of a little guy speaking truth to power, and in this 40-minute podcast (Episode 188), he speaks more truth than you will ever see in the MSM:

http://x22report.com/