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Putin: It Is Time To Play Your Ace In The Hole
Submitted by Ron Holland via The Daily Bell,
You've got to know when to hold 'em
Know when to fold 'em
Know when to walk away
And know when to run
You never count your money
When you're sittin' at the table
There'll be time enough for countin'
When the dealin's done.
"The Gambler" by Kenny Rogers
The entire world is watching Putin play poker with the Western politicians lead by Obama and followed by Washington quislings in London, Brussels and Berlin. America's goal since the end of the Cold War has been to weaken by financial, economic and, if necessary, military means any real competition to its global financial and resource domination through the petrodollar and dollar world reserve currency status.
The current trade and economic sanctions against Russia and Iran follow this time-tested action that is never successful on its own, as we know from the 50-plus-year blockade of Cuba. But this strategy can lead to opposition nations retaliating by military means, often their only alternative to end blockades etc., which are an act of war and allow the US and other democracies to bring their ultimate superior military power to bare against the offending sovereign state. This worked for Lincoln against the Confederate States of America, by Woodrow Wilson against the Central Powers before World War One, against the Japanese Empire before World War Two, Iraq, Libya – the list is endless.
Recently the US has created the oil price collapse, working closely with its client state Saudi Arabia, in order to weaken the economic power of both Iran and Russia, the two main nations opposing US hegemony, foreign policy and petrodollar policy. Yes, this will play havoc with the US shale oil industry as well as London's North Sea oil industry but oil profits pale in comparison to the importance of maintaining Western power over Russia and China.
I hope Putin realizes the US is not playing games here, as this is a financial and strategic game to the death for Washington and it's Western allies that have foolishly followed the Goldman Sachs/central banking cartel's deadly sovereign debt recipe and for growth and prosperity. The time is up; the debts can never be repaid and sooner or later must be repudiated one way or the other.
China is waiting in the wings as the new world economic power and while it is too big to challenge, US strategy is to take out its top two allies, Iran and Russia, to buy time for Wall Street and Washington. The strategy might be a competitive economic course of action but the risk of military consequences and even a third world war loom on the horizon and no country has ever defeated Russia in a land attack. This is risky brinkmanship just to protect our banking and Wall Street elites and their profits at the expense of the American people, I might add, but the US has done this before.
Is This Just a Repeat of the Versailles Treaty, Russian-style?
This has all happened before. It's the same old game with different players. I fear we are watching a repeat of the Versailles Treaty, Russian-style. If you look closely at real history rather than the establishment-directed propaganda dished out to the public, you'll realize that the Western financial elites and central banking cartel seldom change tactics. Why should they? Their financial empires continue to grow during all major wars and financial crises and if they should guess wrong, then they get taxpayers to bail them out.
The Goldman Sachs, Rothschild and Soros types control the Western democracies as well as the financial markets and use paid or blackmailed cheerleaders and front men to advance their best interests to the populace as acceptable economic or political policies.
For example, Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points statement given on January 8, 1918, claiming the war and US intervention was a moral cause to advance peace in Europe after World War One, was one of the leading reasons the Germans sued for peace. In hindsight, we know that American intervention was really instituted to prevent an Allied loss or negotiated settlement that could make it impossible for French and British banks to pay back their massive loans to the US banking establishment and thereby bankrupting our leading banks of the day.
Once the war was over the platitudes about freedom, self-determination and making the world safe for democracy dissolved into the Treaty of Versailles, probably one of the most vengeful and unfair peace treaties ever forced on a defeated foe. The entire Austrian-Hungarian empire was totally destroyed except for the small area of present Austria and Germany, which was stripped of much of its territory and subjected to a vengeful, unpayable war debt comparable to America's current national debt today. Sadly, the treaty created the public anger and economic chaos that eventually brought Hitler to power and set the stage for the Second World War.
So Where Does Russia Go from Here?
First, the US cable pundits are suggesting that Putin might retaliate by invading Ukraine. Why would Russia want Ukraine? Except for substantial agricultural resources that can be purchased on the open market, this is a bankrupt country with a long list of failed governments. The country has become a pawn in the battle between East and West, and its people have already suffered so much. Now Russia might move in the East to protect Russian-speaking areas and could be willing to suffer the additional economic consequences of creating a land bridge to Crimea but the military option appears quite limited and counter-productive at best.
No nation will win a shooting war between the US, UK and EU versus Russia and China. The consequences are too horrible to be contemplated but Russia has an ace in the hole that can win the financial and economic battle going on today.
First, Russia should join with China in a new gold, oil and natural resource backed monetary union as an alternative to the failed debt democracy model pushed by Wall Street, the central bank cartel and self-serving politicians in the West. It simply does not work in the long term to finance prosperity and improved standards of living through mountains of debt placed on future generations.
Washington has destroyed every tax haven and bit of personal and financial privacy in the world because of its desperate need for revenue. Every financial haven has caved, including Switzerland, because they cannot hope to prevail against the US, UK and EU. The US intends to make Russia a pariah state and cut it off from trade, funds transfer, banking and Western credit markets. It will not relent until Putin is overthrown and Russia is compliant with and a supporter of the New World Order. Next in line following Russia will be China. Thus, a monetary union could provide the needed support for Russia necessary to guarantee the independence and self-determination of China.
Second, Russia should act offensively rather than defensively on the financial front by creating corporate tax-free/low income tax zones and welcoming corporations, successful individuals and entrepreneurs to take up residence and create jobs and prosperity. The Hong Kong model does work to create industry, service industry and free-market prosperity and to win, Russia needs far more than a resource-based economy.
Russia needs more population and a larger middle class and should offer residency and citizenship opportunities to productive and successful workers, entrepreneurial businesses and corporations etc. with the right of reasonable financial and corporate privacy along with the low tax benefits.
Canada, the wonderful country I live and work in today, offers permanent residency benefits and citizenship to hundreds of thousands of foreigners wanting to work and immigrate to Canada together with low corporate tax benefits.
Russia can and should do the same, although the market will require bargain prices as Russia does not have the long history of rule of law, security and peace like Canada does. Russia should look at good climate areas like Crimea and other areas around the Black Sea and maybe Kaliningrad in the north directly in the middle of the EU.
Competititon, free markets, minimal regulation and low taxes are the 21st century solution to military aggression, over-indebted and resource-hungry empires. Putin said it best in his news conference last week.
"They won't leave [the bear] alone. They will always seek to chain it. And once it's chained, they'll rip out its teeth and claws. The nuclear deterrence, speaking in present-day terms. As soon as this happens, nobody will need [the bear] anymore. They'll stuff it. And start to put their hands on its Taiga [Siberian forest belt] after it. We've heard statements from Western officials that Russia's owning Siberia was not fair." – Vladimir Putin
Vladimir Putin, now is the time to play your ace in the hole. Russia can win the financial and economic war being waged against it but not by playing the same old game of poker where cheating prevails. Show the world that Russia is worthy of 21st century leadership in a peaceful and competitive manner by using the debt, currency and banking weaknesses of the West to defeat an opponent out to chain Russia as it has the rest of the world into surrender and serfdom.
If you are as concerned as I am about where the world is headed, consider securing a second home internationally in the right location as a means to protect you and your family. Think of it as lifestyle insurance.
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Whew, that's a relief.
I actually like the old Stoogie and I'm glad nothing's happened to him.
Or would it be better for him if I told you that I hated the old Stoogie?
GMC, baby.
Shabat Shalom
Oh, look, here's Ben Shalom Bernanke.
Prolly going to tell Putin to print 'aces in the hole' if he doesn't have any.
That's sweet.
It's the eyelashes . . . .They've gotta be fake (that, or a Friesian Heifer's missing theirs!).
Rather mind-boggling isn't it! :-D
Who's got Vlad's suicide watch tonight?
Tylers, can you boot this motherfucker please?
Give the guy a break, he is only allowed to type when jumbotron lets him come up for air. Poor fucking guy...leave him be...hes blowing dudes in truck stops and working for the nsa part time as a j-trig troll. Gotta pay off that community colledge debt somehow!
Hey, I work for the NSA and it's a great gig.
Six figure salary plus OT. I can ruin the credit rating of anybody who pisses me off. My college debt gets completely erased because I work for Uncle. Utah's great. Lots of horny Mormon girls.
plus I get free Mountain Dew for working the late shift.
WOW! You get paid to be a douche bag cunt?! This truley is a golden age! I admire your honesty, but I prefer when you just spew endless stupidity onto the interwebs. The fact you get 6 figures for this is truely mind bending.
But I have to ask, whats it like not having and principles, morals, intelligence, critical thinking skills, competent literacy or conscience? Is it kinda jsut like being a lab monkey that gets electrical shocks when he presses the wrong button?
Or is it more of a power trip thing knowing your are attempting to mold humna history via the interwebs (laughable really) to fit your masters narrative of lies?
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Polly want a cracker?!
Here you go! Thats a good boy! Keep being a good little parrot.
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Actually, douche bag cunt is more of a hobby than a career with me.
Difficult for me to answer the one about no principles, morals, intelligence, et al.
I suppose I'd need some in order to comprehend what I'm missing. But thanks for pointing that out.
You'd be surprised at how many real blondes there are in Utah. Party on, amigos.
So youre just a monkey pressing buttons avoiding the shock? How sad, how very sad what we have become. But at least you know you are a paid liar and a troll and you are okay with that. I mena sure, youre just one step above pedophile, but if you keep it up Im sure even that wil open up for you! Then from there you might even get the chance to be an american politician!
What can I say? I get FREE Mountain Dew-- and that includes all the beta flavors that haven't hit the market yet.
Did I mention that I can also fix credit problems?
Here's the thing, oh strongly offended dude,
I get to laugh at everybody. Look around this place and you'll see lots of people who will not laugh at certain individuals, causes, or topics.
Want to know why?
Because you are ruled by what you dare not make fun of.
Am I ruled by Grandmother Putin or Canasta-playing Obama?
Am I ruled by the NSA or the Okhrana?
Am I ruled by you?
Think about it.
Free Mountain Dew? I'm down. Where do I sign up?
tarabel kookhrana asked:
Having thought about it, I have a question for you.
Does your mom do your laundry or does she make you do it yourself?
I would imagine he just sleeps in his own filth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MT0-OL_71yU
Anyone who has been owned by a Companion Parrot will know that the repertoire of the talkative species (e.g. Macaw (small and large), African Greys, Amazons), far exceeds such trivialities, and they KNOW what they are saying, so the "conversation", thoough pretty one-sided, is usually context - sensitive (especially with African Greys, who can develop a CONSIDERABLE vocabulary!)
Only problem - "no volume control, no on-off switch!" (though bedtime is usually a bit quieter . . . . . :-) )
Internet comic tarabel said:
That's really good news. It's nice to know that they are having to scrape the bottom of the barrel to find people willing to sell out the US and every ideal that it ever claimed to stand for.
I am a chosenite. Now chosen to listen to the Great Gig In The Sky sung by Tarabel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVBCE3gaNxc
Sounds like a nice gig.
I guess you particularly like flying the drones and launching the hellfires into wedding processions, or extra curricular trips paid by Kolomoisky to Odessa to set apartment buildings on fire with people locked inside...
With Amerikant Parrot and Dumbotron, it makes me miss the good ol' days with MDB or Krugman.
They were FUNNY.
Why are you so scared of alternative viewpoints in life?
La-la-la-la-la... Not listening. I can't hear your answer so don't bother.
"who's got Vlad's suicide watch tonight?"
that adds to the conversation, how?
You know if it were a more intelligent argument coming from him, I wouldn't call him out for the piece of shit that he is. Take for example, LetThemEatRand, he can at least present his ideas more thoughtfully than trying to derail and hijack the flow. I don't attack him for it, even though I disagree with him on many points. This AmeriKunt Parrot is a 100% POS troll.
This article is ridiculous. There is nothing even close to a free market in Russia, so how is Putin going to create some little "Zones" of tax-free markets? He interferes in every aspect of financial life there and he and his cronies own or control the oil and gas industry. Only a fool would start a business in Russia and expect to have a chance at success.
And China is LOVING the oil price collapse. Why would they line up with Putin?
This is a dumb article.
Yeah like Eugene Kaspersky:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Kaspersky
The Russians are very smart and have some of the best programmers in the world. The USA has Trayvon and dumb whites who watch TV and NFL,NBA,NCCA ball games and cheer Obama thugs like fools.
They are catching up to the west very quickly. Oh and the US Air Force cannot get their spy satellites into space without Russian rocket engines.
Why would China side with Russia? Because they know the NWO divide and conquer. China would be next.
that's hilarious, because USAF just set the record for launching 29 satellites on a single rocket a few days back... and it sure as fuck wasn't built in Russia... in short, you're a liar so shut the fuck up
29 3lb micro-satellites on a Minotaur. anything of serious bulk needs the Russian engines for at least another year.
... and 50 successful launches on an Atlas 5... in short, nothing you said refutes the fact that USAF does _not_ need Russian rockets to get its spy satellites in the air, which was the original premise of this discussion... the clown above who posted that is still wrong at best and a damned liar at worst, take your pick
The Atlas V uses a Russian engine.
This misses some of the strategic elements in play, but does have merit.
Should Russia create SEZ as was done in China, and create areas with the same rules (as close as possible) to Hong Kong, the money flooiding in would be impressive.
However, Russia has a similar immigration stance as Japan or Germany - if you move to Russia, in 300 years the locals will still NOT refer to your descendants as Russian. Your family will be outsiders for thousands of years.
The flood of money and talent would be wise, the issue of letting them keep that money in a market run by rules and not the mafia is of concern and hard to implement.
Tribalism is very common in most nations not speaking English.
"...and no country has ever defeated Russia in a land attack."
This is false, the Mongols defeated Russia, by attacking from the East.
Also, Japan beat Russia on land in 1905.
And Russia surrendered to Germany in 1918, leaving the Western Allies to face Hindenburg and Ludendorff alone. American resources barely got there in time.
And america lost the War of 1812 to Britain. So what. America lost in Viet Nam, and seemingly in Afganistan and Iraq. Strategy is what is important and resources not to mention supply lines.
We have a brainless brain trust incharge of strategy in the US, we do not have Financial surplus only debt financing. The US is in a disasterous shape to start a war with anyone.
Tell it to Sir Edward Pakenham, mon ami.
I made no claim of an unbroken US winning streak. Talk to Red Cloud. And I was not the one writing a theoretically scholarly article claiming that Russia had never lost a land war.
Finland won, by the way.
Lithuania won, by the way.
Latvia won, by the way.
Estonia won, by the way.
Poland won, by the way.
Did anybody mention the Tatars?
where are they now?
btw Tatars are russian nationals
Elvira Nabiullina is Tatar heritage
The chosenites are winning. May god help us.
You do realize whose God you're appealing to right?
You are right, Russia did lose war invading ON LAND other countries abroad (few times). What is more correct to say is: NO invader did succeed invading Russian own mainland and stay as its ruler, IN MODERN TIMES.
TheJapanese Army did surprise the dodering Tsarist armies in 1905, but then got their ass handed to them in 1938 by Zhukov.
The Japs had been invincible up to that point.
The defeat shook them up so much that Japan did *NOT* declare war on the Soviets in wwII, even though the Germans declared war on the US following the US declaring on Japan.
Also from the East. However, China owns the East now. So, no one (other than perhaps China) spends much time game-planning that scenario.
It is difficult to estimate how Russia would have fared against Japan (Russo - Japan war) and Germany (WWI) had Russia not had:
Nicholas II at the helm
The Russian Revolution of 1905
The Bolshevik Revolution
Never mind the fact that the Germans were kind enough to help Lenin return to Russia to help get Russia out of the war.
The premise is fair, but ignores an important truth: Communism doesn't work for periods of time longer than 30 years. And there is no way to cleanly break away from the Dollar. China has a steaming mountain of bad debt and a decelerating economy. Russia has little advanced economic activity, and an aging alcoholic population. Don't think these 2 countries are natural allies, either. If Russia tries to unify with China and de-couple versus the West, there is a real liklihood China tries to 'eat' Russian land and resources, i.e. make Russia a deal it can't refuse. You know how China regards territories like Hong Kong (already annexed) and Korea as part of its sovereign state? I'm sure they still remember that Vladivostok used to belong to them. And let's not forget the kerfluffle in 1969 that had both nations reaching for the 'nuke' button.
@ Amerikan Fairyriot
Lick my ring and make it sing, you slag .gov whore.
On a brighter note i'm having a fucking ball watching the Vichy DC / NeoCON / BankenScum get more and more desperate every day.
Feeling good Billy Ray?
London Bridge is falling DOWN.
The Puppet UK/EUUUUUU elected servants are in TOTAL disarray and the ENSUING civil unrest will keep 'em far far too busy to dampen the BRICS & ASEANPAC POWER GRAB.
PS Drake was a PIRATE. Nothing has changed bar the Chinese excepting REAL ESTATE rather than fed OPIUM. Saddle Up Suckers
The last thing any country that lives by exports needs is a strong currency. What is required is a currency that is stable enough to act as a medium of exchange with countries with whom it has balanced trade. At the end of the year it squares up it's accounts with partners and after settlement (or accepting a slightly devalued currency...the cycle repeats.
Too many here are looking for the next country that will assume the reserve role...it is not going to happen. Look for a world of balanced trade (when gold is included) and you'll see the future more clearly. Russia and China are well matched trading partners. China in particular seems to be lining up all it's partners to accept Yuan while it agrees to accept their paper. Neither will want to accumulate each others 'promises', they want stuff and call it even. The world has had it with this post Bretton Woods system...even the USA sees the price it has paid.
There will be major disruption in ending it but it has to happen and the world will be better off when it does.
"Russia needs more population and a larger middle class and should offer residency and citizenship opportunities to productive and successful workers, entrepreneurial businesses and corporations etc. with the right of reasonable financial and corporate privacy along with the low tax benefits."
The last thing Russia needs is to weaken its ethnic cohesion. It's one of the foundations of a successful nation and the first thing the banking mafia attacks as they need ethnic and cultural conflict for divide and rule purposes.
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Apart from that quibble the key point is correct that the banking mafia are currently driving EUSUK politics so if Putin wants a third option other than 1) the destruction of Russia or 2) WWIII then he needs to 3) take down the banking mafia. Almost no-one in EUSUK wants this coming war so if the Wall St. banks can be taken out so they can no longer buy the political process then the conflict will fade away like mist.
Preezy might be willing to send over 5 million Guatemalan/African free-shitters. That should constitute a tapeworm of sufficient size to create considerable crime and fiscal distress.
Does this mean that we are no longer playing chess with Grandmother Putin? Now it's poker. Are we saying that Obama is playing Canasta or Crazy 8s and has to put his checkerboard away?
A couple of points on the Treaty of Versailles that cannot be allowed to go unchallenged.
1) The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk which Germany imposed on defeated Russia earlier in the war was far more rapacious so they didn't really have much to complain about, especially considering what they asked of France after the close of the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-- or, for that matter, what their own documented intentions were in the event of German victory.
2) Few people who have actually read the Fourteen Points would find much to disagree with. This was their power. But almost nobody understands that America was not part of the Allied Powers. Wilson refused to associate his country with all of the dirty deals that had already been struck. Germany surrendered to the Allied and Associated Powers. Versailles was a product of Britain, France, Italy, and (yes) Japan, paying off their dirty deals over Wilson's vehement protests and warnings. In the end, Lloyd George (British PM) saw Wilson's point but did not back him up. "We shall have to do it all over again in twenty-five years and at three times the cost." Almost a perfect prophecy.
Readers interested in this incredibly interesting period of human history are advised to find a copy of Richard M. Watt's "The Kings Depart: Versailles and the German Revolution." Much of our current world becomes far more comprehensible after consulting this monumental work.
One observation on the new Okhrana meme: Vichy DC is now the rage quote of the day for Putinistas everywhere. Grandmaster Putin the chess player has, alas, been cut from the team as you can see by the new focus on poker.
Always interesting to observe the new "thought leaders" in action, as if I'd let anybody lead my thoughts other than myself.
The only reason it's poker and not chess, is because poker is mostly a matter of the cards you get, while chess takes more brains than the anti-Putin side possesses.
I appreciate your quiet tone tonight. Sherlock would immediately know why, having noticed the discoloration of your goatee by several slippy cups of eggnog and nutmeg.
I'm always thankful for small favors.
Poker is also a matter of bluff, which rarely works in chess. Perhaps this explains why it has been abandoned for the new venue by, well, Vladimir Maverick.
And you haven't yet seen the fun I've been having down the list, so I'll allow you to pre-emptively withdraw your left-handed compliment if you so desire.
But really it's simple to understand where I'm coming from.
Anything that I dare not or will not laugh at, I am bound to obey.
Lots of obeying goes on around here. That keeps me busy.
So here's to better times-- a toast and a flick of the hat brim to you in this time of joy and reflection.
Plus an upvote since it seems to mean so much to people, for some reason.
Fuck the chosenites. They can all go fuck themselves. Fucking parasites.
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...said Seth Rogen's cabin boy.
why tarabel you're right again
But as you obviously know (but declined to say)
Champion 'bluffing' requires a 'poker face' or not exhibiting a "tell" (a give away twitch)
Unfortunately, Oblather, only has three poker faces when he plays:
1) Dumb
2) Dumber
3) George 'Kingfish' Stevens.
We all remember who 'won' the Syrian showdown.
I respect those kind of marriages. Just make sure you hide the rolling pin in the garage.
I don't like chess. I like poker.
"Once the war was over the platitudes about freedom, self-determination and making the world safe for democracy dissolved into the Treaty of Versailles, probably one of the most vengeful and unfair peace treaties ever forced on a defeated foe. The entire Austrian-Hungarian empire was totally destroyed except for the small area of present Austria and Germany, which was stripped of much of its territory and subjected to a vengeful, unpayable war debt comparable to America's current national debt today."
What's wrong with this statement?...
Germany, Hungary and Austria didn't destroy themselves deliberately with their national debt like the United States' has "multiple times" since WW II!
Fixed it!
The below info was a good find on the interweb and I've posted this before, but here we go again for a refresher. It will answer a lot of questions why 'the big four' is pushing into Russia and beyond. This goes beyond Obama, Merkel, etc. They're voiceboxes with wires coming out of them. The recent spending bill with the FDIC insurance for these boys was also an eye opener for those who are paying attention. They're used to getting what they want in the west with zero resistance. But, Russia appears to be standing in their way, for now. The questions is, who will sacrifice themselves for the 'The Big Four'?
Some people have started realizing that there are large financial groups that dominate the world. Forget the political intrigues, conflicts, revolutions and wars. It is not pure chance. Everything has been planned for a long time.
Some call it “conspiracy theories” or New World Order. Anyway, the key to understanding the current political and economic events is a restricted core of families who have accumulated more wealth and power.
We are speaking of 6, 8 or maybe 12 families who truly dominate the world. Know that it is a mystery difficult to unravel.
We will not be far from the truth by citing Goldman Sachs, Rockefellers, Loebs Kuh and Lehmans in New York, the Rothschilds of Paris and London, the Warburgs of Hamburg, Paris and Lazards Israel Moses Seifs Rome.
Many people have heard of the Bilderberg Group, Illuminati or the Trilateral Commission. But what are the names of the families who run the world and have control of states and international organizations like the UN, NATO or the IMF?
To try to answer this question, we can start with the easiest: inventory, the world’s largest banks, and see who the shareholders are and who make the decisions.
The world’s largest companies are now: Bank of America, JP Morgan, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.Let us now review who their shareholders are.
Bank of America:
State Street Corporation, Vanguard Group, BlackRock, FMR (Fidelity), Paulson, JP Morgan, T. Rowe, Capital World Investors, AXA, Bank of NY, Mellon.
JP Morgan:
State Street Corp., Vanguard Group, FMR, BlackRock, T. Rowe, AXA, Capital World Investor, Capital Research Global
Investor, Northern Trust Corp. and Bank of Mellon.
Citigroup:
State Street Corporation, Vanguard Group, BlackRock, Paulson, FMR, Capital World Investor, JP Morgan, Northern Trust Corporation, Fairhome Capital Mgmt and Bank of NY Mellon.
Wells Fargo:
Berkshire Hathaway, FMR, State Street, Vanguard Group, Capital World Investors, BlackRock, Wellington Mgmt, AXA, T. Rowe and Davis Selected Advisers.
We can see that now there appears to be a nucleus present in all banks: State Street Corporation, Vanguard Group, BlackRock and FMR (Fidelity). To avoid repeating them, we will now call them the “big four”
Goldman Sachs:
“The big four,” Wellington, Capital World Investors, AXA, Massachusetts Financial Service and T. Rowe.
Morgan Stanley:
“The big four,” Mitsubishi UFJ, Franklin Resources, AXA, T. Rowe, Bank of NY Mellon e Jennison Associates. Rowe, Bank of NY Mellon and Jennison Associates.
We can just about always verify the names of major shareholders. To go further, we can now try to find out the shareholders of these companies and shareholders of major banks worldwide.
Bank of NY Mellon:
Davis Selected, Massachusetts Financial Services, Capital Research Global Investor, Dodge, Cox, Southeatern Asset Mgmt. and … “The big four.”
State Street Corporation (one of the “big four”):
Massachusetts Financial Services, Capital Research Global Investor, Barrow Hanley, GE, Putnam Investment and … The “big four” (shareholders themselves!).
BlackRock (another of the “big four”):
PNC, Barclays e CIC.
Who is behind the PNC? FMR (Fidelity), BlackRock, State Street, etc.
And behind Barclays? BlackRock And we could go on for hours, passing by tax havens in the Cayman Islands, Monaco or the legal domicile of Shell companies in Liechtenstein. A network where companies are always the same, but never a name of a family. In short: the eight largest U.S. financial companies (JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, U.S. Bancorp, Bank of New York Mellon and Morgan Stanley) are 100% controlled by ten shareholders and we have four companies always present in all decisions:
BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard and Fidelity.
In addition, the Federal Reserve is comprised of 12 banks, represented by a board of seven people, which comprises representatives of the “big four,” which in turn are present in all other entities.
In short, the Federal Reserve is controlled by four large private companies: BlackRock, State Street, Vanguard and Fidelity. These companies control U.S. monetary policy (and world) without any control or “democratic” choice. These companies launched and participated in the current worldwide economic crisis and managed to become even more enriched.
To finish, a look at some of the companies controlled by this “big four” group
The same “big four” control the vast majority of European companies counted on the stock exchange.
In addition, all these people run the large financial institutions, such as the IMF, the European Central Bank or the World Bank, and were “trained” and remain “employees” of the “big four” that formed them.
The names of the families that control the “big four”, never appear.
"We are speaking of 6, 8 or maybe 12 families..."
financial version of the sicilian mafia
“Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men’s views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.” (President Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom, 1913.)
I guess that after he sold out his Country to the banksters, he had a twinge to his conscience.
Yes. He did say the following:
I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men. -Woodrow Wilson
There's plenty of evidence but little done to stem the destruction:
Years later, reflecting on the major banks’ control in Washington, President Franklin Roosevelt paid this indirect praise to his distant predecessor President Andrew Jackson, who had “killed” the 2nd Bank of the US (an earlier type of the Federal Reserve System). After Jackson’s administration the bankers’ influence was gradually restored and increased, culminating in the passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. Roosevelt knew this history.
The real truth of the matter is,as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson… -Franklin D. Roosevelt
(in a letter to Colonel House, dated November 21, 1933)
The only reason money controls is because we the people allow them to. Stop letting your children grow up to be tax collectors, teachers, cops or soldiers, and their system goes away? Get it?
Burn in a Devil's Hell, Mr. Wilson. Burn, burn, burn.
You richly deserve your damnation.
It's Zionist organized mafia. The Mafia (when it originated) was to defend the people against an exploitative governing body. These people are exploiting and draining the wealth and health of people to enslave them.
Well done.
Looks like the Fed is going to keep printing...
Usury is very profitable!
– The Honorable Louis McFadden, Chairman of the House Banking and Currency Committee in the 1930s
Looks like we are turning Russia into a country with debts & Bailouts... so it doesn't have any advantage on the US, NATO, and EU Countries.
Bailouts for Russian Banks & Businesses. Which has to mean Printing Press Time, selling reserves, selling assets, privatizing Energy & Military Businesses.
Probably it is a CB Plan all along to get Russia just like Europe & USA... high debt, lots of printing of fiat.
It appears Ron conveniently forgot his beautiful Canada has just sent military supplies and 'consultants' to Ukeland. Canada has also put up sanctions and is nothing more than a u.s.s.a. ass licker like its little sister Austrailia, the EU, the UK and Germany.
Just thought I'd remind him...
Canada is not only making a claim for the North Pole that it's own oceanographers say it has no claim to but is also ready to confront a nuclear armed Russia in order to assert that bogus claim.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/stephen-harper-s-north-pole-bid-caught-b...
Pretty ballsy for a bunch of asslickers if you ask me...
How many divisions does Canada have?
Icebreakers?
Russian Pivot
Michael Hudson Professor of Economics U of Missouri KC
http://michael-hudson.com/2014/12/russian-pivot/
Better is this competent analysis
+1
Good analysis..
You know, I like you, tovarisch.
I learn a lot about how the other side views things by examining your posts. Can't say that I agree but I appreciate the effort you go to in presenting a rational case rather than slavishly spewing the latest communique from the hive mind.
I wish you'd have more to say on non-Russian topics. Can't say that I'd agree then, either, but I would be interested nonetheless.
Couple of points though...
1) Do you really put your faith in an American academic economist from a JV-league school? That's really the crown jewel of your position?
2) Here are a couple of counterpoints for you to consider, courtesy of the insidious opposition.
http://news.yahoo.com/expats-eyeing-exits-russian-ruble-plunges-030240220.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2014/12/24/russias-natural-gas-sales-plummet-is-russia-captive-to-european-buyers/
And, as a good intelligence officer, you can file this one away as an interesting fairy tale for now. But if it comes true, you can take credit for recognizing it first. I remember when I saw Boone Pickens with his TV ad about natural gas as the fuel of the future and I thought to myself: what is this moron jabbering about?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/next-shale-revolution_821866.html
Be well and may God run with you this holiday season.
Oh, and a Christmas upvote in your stocking as well.
futurama
gods and gold is why the world turns
And all living things produce methane, dead or alive. The fuel of the future. Boone Pickens knows what he is talking about.
I do apologize about the Simpsons thing. Thanks for the clarification.
When he started yapping about converting coal plants to natural gas, I thought it was the dumbest thing I'd ever heard of in my life. Fortunately, I didn't share that opinion with everyone else until just now. But I learned to have some respect for advancing oil recovery technologies that may seem absurd at the moment.
It is Hudson's position. He is top reality, not politic.
forget bloomberg, forbes, weekly standard all big part of problem
those are not expert of anything Russia...
forget the ivy league where the problem clans dominate schools
controlled media gives blindness, not world view
I posted Hudson cos I see many kneejerk shutout any Russian expert, but might hear Hudson.
System will deceive.....example is western origin world university ratings where none Russian school in top 200?
yet this one reality: TopCoder rankings http://community.topcoder.com/tc?module=AlgoRank
Russia is normally 20 to 30 of top 50
recent there is more chine
last I look more poles than americans
Pickens is what is wrong with America.
I never thought he mentally stable
no soul
I know how he operate in Oklahoma very well
Also, friend found himself in one of takeovers. Top Engineer, hated Pickens, quit and later returned Russia.
He bought his name on OK State U. stadium, while tution, all costs to students go to sky.
It's Putin up or Shut up time , for sure.
The USA people are severely deceived by omission -- show them these very instructive histories.
http://patrick.net/forum/?p=1223928
The main oligarchs in the New World Order expected Putin to fall in line.
Putin told these globalist to F themselves. Now their out to get him.
Nice song. I got another one. ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZ8k6fVe25k
In this current Clandestine Shadow Global Economy Germany's ONLY OUT is to ditch the shackles of Goldman's Central World Bank.
Granny Merkel is begging ' Set me free why don't ya Lloyd? '
Granny Merkel is begging ' Set me free why don't ya Lloyd? '
+1 for a good laugh.
Putin's problem is the banking mafia can afford to bribe limiltess number of proxies to throw at him and so he has to deflect every one. Sooner or later they'll either succeed or start WWIII.
The solution is to take out the banking mafia as then they won't have anything to bribe people with.
The simplest way to do that is to use their own weapon against them - debt.
One way might be to create a Russian version of an overnight "Chapter 11" type bankruptcy where a Russian company can default on certain debts and be back in business the next day and then use that to target debt default at specific financial entities for example
- only western banks
- only USUK banks
- only Wall St. banks
- only one Wall St. bank at a time e.g. Goldman Sachs
The Article is Based on existing financial system. Russia is an ancient culture which rejects a lot of our financial engineering as destruction of capital. A Russian general even say, "why do we need to import immigrants when our population is 150 million?, we built Soviet Union with a population of only 50 million. The loss of a few million Russians to emigration is the result of those who seek the easy pasture out in western dream world. Let them go".
Russians will survive this western attacks using only the Russian way. As usual. The west will learn their lessons again. And again, I am sure this is not the end for neither party.
The Article is Based on existing financial system. Russia is an ancient culture which rejects a lot of our financial engineering as destruction of capital. A Russian general even say, "why do we need to import immigrants when our population is 150 million?, we built Soviet Union with a population of only 50 million. The loss of a few million Russians to emigration is the result of those who seek the easy pasture out in western dream world. Let them go".
Russians will survive this western attacks using only the Russian way. As usual. The west will learn their lessons again. And again, I am sure this is not the end for neither party.
Go west young man.
My grandpas did.
Maybe us with the blood of liberty of human, need to continue west?
Snowden leads the way?
Ron Holland
At ease, private Holland, Putin is playing his aces just fine. Remember a pinochle deck has 8 of them and President Putin has all 8 of them.
I understand that Putin isn't going fast enough for you. And sometimes it looks like he took a hit. But that's all part of his plan.
You don't know all of what Putin's done so far.
For example, you don't know if Putin got teamed up with Snowden months before he made his run.
Even the all-wise Jumbotron don't know that.
But don't expect Putin to tell you if he did. Getting Snowden was an ace in the hole. But Putin pretended not. Did you fall for the Mickey Mouse/Donald Duckery that he couldn't leave the transit zone till they decided whether to give him asylum? Then he got one year on probation and then he's got to reapply for another one.
Snowden arrived in Moscow in June 2013. From January 2013 to May 2013, (just before Snowden landed), 4 (four) CIA agents were tossed out or publically identified in Moscow.
Coinkydink or no coinkydink, that is the question? When Snowden ran, did he get the name of every CIA agent on the planet?
If he did do you think Putin is going to tell you and Obama that? Of course not.
The main reason the NSA wants Snowden back is TO FIND OUT WHAT HE TOOK AND PUTIN NOW HAS.
Either Putin has to pretend he doesn't have much OR TO PRETEND SNOWDEN GAVE HIM A LOT MOAR.
It's not just a matter of playing your ace in the hole.
Ask Jumbotron.
Yup. Time to give that little gas valve ¼ turn clockwise.
He should wait until the end of January when the weather gets a little colder in Euroweenie land.
!/4 turn on a 1/4 turn valve is closed.
Putin = Playing five card stud with two cards. (And cratering Natgas just reduced that to one card.) You can't win with one Queen very often.
Did Reggie love move to Russia?! ! Oh no! What will Obombya ever do without it? And why would Putin want that Queen anyway? Poor REggie and Obombya, just a couple Chicago bath house bubble toys.....
On the bright side, once Obombyas term is up Reggie will be forced to working the truck stops with amerikkkan parrot and jimbofawn , maybe you guys cna hook up?
Big picture:
Leninists (forceful fascism) vs. Rhodesianists (soft fascism). This is simply a very large turf war over ideology to rule the planet. Either way, the people will be under fascistic rule.
'Gay marriage' debates in the US seem quaint in comparison.
Stupid sheople.
This time the U.S. has bit off way more than it can chew. Russia-China are constructing an asymmetric counter-attack in the financial/economic war that the U.S. has started. They are doing it mostly under the radar, and they are first putting in place the infrastructure needed to immunize themselves against the destructive effects that will be unleashed when they do make their counter-attack.
This preparation phase will take more time - months, perhaps a year or two. But once the infrastructure is completed and tested, there's going to be a devastating series of attacks against the house-of-cards dollar-centric order that will leave a trail of destruction from London to San Francisco to New York.
Russia-China is playing with financial nuclear fire, and they know it. Before they unleash the unthinkable, they know they have to be fully prepared and as immunized against harm as is possible - including being ready for military action.
Be patient - it's coming. But it is being prepared by true strategists. Be patient....
Very well said. Most lucid and well informed submission so far. The USA! USA! groupies should google 'Russia-China Double Helix' and see for themselves, the shocking content about what China and Russia have all along been up to, under the radar but in plain sight....it will chill and shrivel their tiny scrotums to deflated balloonlets.
a strange coincidence that a couple weeks ago, russia's richest man (Alisher Usmanov) bought Watson's Nobel Prize for co-discovery of DNA and its double helix structure only to give it back.
then there's that DNA discovery in Siberia a few years ago:
and now this:
it's difficult to take that double helix essay seriously when the author claims putin and jinping as enlightened leaders. it's too soon to tell, and i don't know the two characters personally. what i do know is that some of the policies of the russian and chinese regimes are somewhat draconian and hardly enlightened.
i admit the world pool of enlightened leadership is bleak for talent, but there are better candidates out there to lead the world into a new enlightenment.
4 junks? and no comment?
maybe putin is an enlightened one after all:
(Reuters) - Russia has agreed on a new deal to supply coal and electricity to Ukraine, which is struggling with a lack of raw fuel for power plants due to a separatist conflict in the industrial east, Russian officials said on Saturday.
The move comes a day after Kiev said it would suspend train and bus services to Crimea, effectively creating a transportation blockade to and from the region annexed by Moscow in March this year. Kiev has briefly cut off electricity to Crimea before.
Russia will supply coal and electricity to Kiev without advance payment as a goodwill gesture from President Vladimir Putin, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov told TASS news agency.
"Putin made a decision to start these supplies due to the critical situation with energy supplies and despite a lack of prepayment," Peskov said.
Russia plans to supply 500,000 tonnes of coal to Ukraine per month, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak told Rossiya 24 television. It is ready to supply another 500,000 tonnes per month if an additional agreement is reached, he added.
Ukraine's coal reserves stand at 1.5 million tonnes compared with normal winter stocks of 4-5 million tonnes, according to energy ministry data.
The country used to be self-sufficient in electricity, but months of fighting a pro-Russian uprising has disrupted coal supplies to thermal power plants, which had generated around 40 percent of its power.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/27/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-coal-...
nah...he's still killing the world with that coal.
unless this is a lever to use in negotiating for the nuke power biz of ukraine.
have the russians got better at their work since the chernobyl accident?
Never forgot that hot mic incident when Russia....
It doesn't appear missile defense negotiations are still on the table. Can't imagine what that has to do with this situation. Of course, there is the matter about those other "issues."
Ah, yes. The old intentionally left open hot mike ploy.
It gets me every time (not)
thats sheeple ....fool!
Russia has the weaker hand in this "great game". True, they are playing it well; but I do not believe that it can win a war relying on economics only.
If Russia tries to win the war on the economic battleground, it will need lots of help. China is the obvious source for such help. But substituting Yuan for Dollars will just lead to subordination to China instead of the United States. This could be negated if Russia and Germany become as friendly and cooperative with each other as they were in the days of Schroder, and -better still- if Germany joins Russia and China in a "co-prosperity sphere".
The facts are that the "Evil Empire" is determined to squeeze Russia until it cries "Uncle Sam", and surrenders its resources and markets to the capitalists of the west. And there are plenty of "Russians" who are prepared to sell out "Mother Russia" in order to get a portion of the spoils for themselves.
I am certain that the great majority of the Russian people do not want to surrender their sovereignty to the American Hegemony, and that they do not want to become an add-on to China in the manner that Canada is to America. Their leadership at present reflects that. And the Russian leadership knows that it cannot count on the German leadership, subordinated as they are to the American Hegemony, to break with the Americans and to seek an alliance with Russia.
What then? Without a combination of political and economic cooperation with Germany and China, what else could happen? What other outcome or course of action could there be?
I expect that the Russian military are feverishly "war-gaming" how a war with the United States/NATO would turn out under various scenarios and circumstances. To openly state -even intimate- that "all military options are on the table" would be folly, for the Russians would lose the element of surprise if they gave the Americans any hint that Russia would be considering a "first strike" initiative of any sort. So Putin's language is very defensive and renounces any interest in military action.
But then there was that metaphor of the Russian Bear used in his press conference last week, in in his speech in Sochi last month. In both, he intimated that the bear (he) was getting angry, and that the bear (him) was approaching the point that any more harassment would cause the bear (him) to attack.
I believe that Russia has the ability to inflict a damaging first strike against American military on a much larger scale than the Japanese did in 1941, without using nuclear weapons. And I believe that the Russian Army and Air Force could sweep through the Baltics and eastern/southeastern Ukraine before the US and NATO can mobilize. But what then? There are many outcomes, from Germany stewarding a peaceful realignment of the European Continent that would reflect "the changing facts on the ground", to World War III without nuclear weapons, to WW III with "tactical" nuclear weapons, to "Mutually Assured Destruction".
If the United States keeps Germany and Russia apart, tightens the economic screws on Russia, and convinces the Chinese to interfere only on the periphery, then Russia eventually reach the point at which it must decide either to fight or to surrender.
>>>If the United States keeps Germany and Russia apart, tightens the economic screws on Russia, and convinces the Chinese to... interfere only on the periphery, then Russia eventually reach the point at which it must decide either to fight or to surrender.
I believe your last paragraph is completely accurate. The Axis Powers (NYC-London-Tel Aviv) may be correct in their expectation that they can, over time, pressure Russia into compliance. But they may also get us all nuked, if the Russian leadership believes that that is Russia's best hope for survival.
And the First Rule of First Strike: you do not talk about First Strike. Just carry the nuclear football with you at all times, even to Brisbane.
@anachronism Wishful thinking from someone who thinks he's a Patriot ? USA alawys wins ? What ???
They ran from Veitnam - they've run from Iraq - they've run from Afghanistan (last 2 just before surrender)They've left Lybia. Common denominator --
ALL these Countries were destroyed & are wrecked - millions killed & the ONLY winners were the Military/Industrial arm of the USA Government.
Russia is different - - - - -
Keeping Germany and Russia apart. As long as Germany doesn't suffer too much with these sanctions, perhaps. I wonder how long the EU as a whole will continue bending over for the US? I also believe if a god-awful choice between the EU and US is reached, the US will hand up the EU in a nanonsecond. I'm sure many in the EU realize this.
Russian first strike? I've also wondered that. If Russian options dry up, it has to fight. If only to keep yet unborn possibilities for the future viable.
MAD...the Russians can land warheads on Mons, DC and Cheyenne mountain with ease and have had that technology for years. We can do the same to them but then where's the spoils of war from that decision? It seems like a child's response at the end of a heated argument, "If we can't play the game our way (West or East) then NO one gets to play. (Tip over the game board and throw a tantrum)
Backing Russian into a corner in the hopes we defeat it...that's the rub isn't it? In the hopes of a capitulation, what if we foul up and Russia makes a decision we weren't expecting? American omniscience in strategic policy hasn't always worked.
I can't predict the future at all. God knows where this will turn. But in the end, I do believe Russia will not go quietly.
The US does have some sort of ICBM missile shield technology. This sent the Russians ballistic a few years back . . .
I'm not rooting for the NWO or Murrica, but I think if Russia launched, Preezy would let all of them hit their targets b/c he doesn't think the US is worth defending.
We do have some anti-ballistic weaponry. Any best chance to hit an ICBM is in it's boost phase when it's at its largest and slowest speed. Once it sheds a stage or two, it's smaller and screaming along at Mach God Knows What. That's why we've been drooling to set up anti-ICBM missiles in Poland. Get as close as possible to exploit the boost phase.
Still, hitting even the largest Russian warhead as it re-enters the atmosphere, that monster warhead on an SS18, won't be easy. If we miss, say goodbye to NYC, Northern NJ and SW Conneticut.
Add to that Russia's "launch on warning" is now controlled by computer and has a "dead man stick" approach to it. I fear "launch on rumor" may be next.
F**k you, Western oligarch-captured governments! I'm signing up with Vlad!
With ANY luck the US Military/Industrial Complex has shot itself in the foot -maybe even (hopefully) fatally !
This is worth the read - --
http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/oil-price/china-s-pivot-toward-europe-may-cut-u-s-out-of-deal
China builds rail, roads and infrastructure. Their people will be busy for a long while. Western countries build prisons, military hardware, surveillance capability. Their people will be slaves.
You want to know what Russia could do? As suggested by the former assistant US Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts: when the Fed and Wall Street dump naked short gold futures contracts into the COMEX (to falsely drive down the price of gold), Russia can buy it all up (the contracts) and demand delivery since no one ever does. Exposing the blatant fraud and showing the world they have no gold, that'll turn the U.S. into a third world country by dinner time.
There are reports that Russia is converting much of the money it receives from oil and gas sales to buy physical gold. Russia inceased its gold stockpile by 55 tons last month, I believe. India and China are also buying up physical gold in large amounts. At the same time, some of the Wall Street banks are getting out of their gold commodity holdings - one is seeking to sell off its gold vaults, and one announced recently it was not going to sell gold anymore because of the problems of "provenance" of title to gold bars. The provenance problem arises because gold in a vault may have been sold, leased or hypothecated one or more times, so the vault owner may not own the gold, so it is not necessarily safe to buy or sell it, since someone may come along later and claim it.
It seems clear that China, India, and Russia are positioning themselves to either destroy the paper gold market by making it clear there is no physical supply to back up the paper gold certificates, or to announce gold-backed currency. Various central banks have announced recently that they will not sell any more of their gold. Germany still has not recieved its gold from the New York Fed, although Holland recently got 122 tons of its gold from there.
They could do that, and it would be sweet. But awhile ago I suggested they have others do this for them. How? Simple. Just demand payment in physical gold for their exports. Others will have to go get the gold to pay with physical gold, creating the same situation you said, but with the actual "dirty deeds" (as the DC crowd will characterize them) done by OTHERS, not Russia.
Seems like a decent play for a while.
But is there enough gold in the world. I guess when the price goes up on Gold, then we don't need as much to use to Buy Russian Oil & Gas.
Both will work but Putin doesn't want spearhead towards him with all the corrupted media in the US.
Canada, the wonderful country I live and work in today, .......
hahahahahha , Canada, totally destroyed by jewish cabal, importing excessive biomass from Asia.
this is no example for anybody.
either you do it with your own resources, or don't do it , my dear.
if you pretend to be clever and source in the resources, then you are deadly wrong.
U might achieve your goal with those new resources, but it will backfire on other front and genereate even bigger problems in other segments, not economy, but society. And bad society is much worse, then bad economy.
And people move to Canada NOT because of low tax. People move to Puerto Rico for low tax.
This article is garbage. You can suggest strategy for Putin, but you can't follow basic rules of grammar? Your spell checker does not find stupid mistakes like lead/led "politicians lead by Obama," bare/bear "bring their ultimate superior military power to bare" and worst of all it's/its "Washington and it's Western allies." Your third-grade English teacher would be very disappointed. Maybe you should learn English grammar before you presume to advise heads of state.
another english major on the rag; what would the internet do withoput their whining?
the ideas matter. the grammar just needs an editor. if you can't understand that concept maybe the grammar police is the only job worthy of yourself.
You’re one of those massive men with squeaky voices aren’t you ozzzo? And the eyelashes of a cow? The sort of person who writes a letter to the council because your neighbour doesn’t keep his wheelie bins lined up straight against the wall. You work in public sector IT “support” but spend most of your time making squeaky, smug excuses like “Well, I could reset your password but not without a ‘Credential Change Request Form – CCF-ISG-CCR01?”. You have your own little corner that nobody else likes to go near in case they get a querulous lecture on how the tomato is actually a fruit. You actually think that you’re funny and that wearing a bowtie makes you look sophisticated and intelligent. Cock. They’d fire you if they thought they could prise you out from where you’ve got wedged behind that desk.
Second, Russia should act offensively rather than defensively on the financial front by creating corporate tax-free/low income tax zones and welcoming corporations, successful individuals and entrepreneurs to take up residence and create jobs and prosperity.
This and Russia don't go together. You welcome corporations and successful entrepreneurs and they will have a "Russian partners" in no time. You don't make the pay-offs and your business will be raided , records seized and you will be in jail many months before you are brough to trial.
This article is a huge fukin JOKE. Smart corporations, individualsand entrepreneurs are LEAVING QUICKLY. Along with the money.
To all the fucking ignorant Americans commenting on this site-
Such ignorant, uneducated, unresearched opinions based on nothing-
USA-9 Trillion owed to "Foreign Interests"
18 Trillion Total Gov't. Debt
70 Trillion Total Debt (Pensions, etc.)
200 Trillion "Unfunded Liabilities" (S.S., Medicare, Mediicaid)0
5 Banks--300 Trillion Derivatives Exposure
Gold Reserves --maybe 1,000 Metric Tonnes
Read- www.shadowstats.com for truth.
GDP- -2% to -6% for last 5 years
True GAAP Annual Debt Deficits- 4 Trillion-6 Trilllion
True Unemployment-24%
True Inflation- 6%
AMERICA IS BROKE!
Russia & China have ZERO foreign debt!
Russia & China have over 50,000 Tonnes GOLD (do the math)
Russia & China own 4 Trillion Dollar Reserves & Treasury Bonds
Russia & China expand across 11 time zones-ISOLATED??? hahaha
Russian ICBM's now travel @ Mach 17 and are undetectable by US radar
Russian Submarines now also undetectable
Russia & China are now sharing these technologies
While I am an American, it's time to face the truth!
If USA wants war, they will unleash HELL ON EARTH
TOTAL DOMINATION AGENDA WILL NOT STAND!
Our broke-ass GOV'T wants to boss around all the world.
Fucking delirious assholes
Then you are on to the chosenites now aren't you...
Yeah at some point it is not just shipping jobs overseas that slows the economy. It is debt that demands more of the few dollars circulating... which just goes to large looting organizations in a fascist country.
http://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/international/intinv/iip_glance.htm ($28 Trillion foreign Ownership of US Property compared to $24 Trillion in US Ownership of Foreign Property) (This is very interesting as Big Banks are growing strongly, but the number of total us banks is dramatically decreasing, like someone is gaming the system, Commercial Banks in the U.S. - FRED - St. Louis Fed)
Money
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/mult (Up to Date, but looks like Crap, eh?)
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M1V (M1 seems to increase with Mortgages)
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/M2V (M2 seems to show different bubble perhaps)
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/MZMV (MZM seems to show peak in Economy 1981)
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/GFDEBTN (Total Debt)
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/GFDEGDQ188S (Total Debt as percent of GDP)
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/CP (corporate profits, 1-1-2014)
The debt/deficit does NOT matter.
THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The only reason I or anyone else would sit at a gambling table and go 200+ trillion in debt is because i had NEVER intended to (or knew) I would not have to pay it back.
It's global chess game and it's been being played for hundreds of years now, who/banks that was involved with Napoleon? Same players today.
Gotta love the Huffington Post....well and truly sold their Anus to TPTB.... now have to post same bullshit and lies as MSM.
Well done Huffington..... another poltiical shit sheet sucking Obama and Bankster cock.
Huffing what?
Where is your humanity? The sheeple gotta have somewhere to shit.
Don't move to Guam. Lots of people did that to get away from WWII. Bad idea.
The Q99X2 forces are ready. We are scheduled to move into the food storage facilities once Putin and the rest of the free world pulverizes the NWO. We like to eat.
The way forward proposed in this article is good. Whether it can be carried thru is another matter, although some progress is being made between Russia-China.
One thing is certain: there will be no negotiated settlement of this growing Western-created dispute to impose its banking hegemony, control over what's left of natural resources and to hide its own complete bankruptcy from public view.
The West wants full in-your-face capitulation from Russia but it'll never get it.
What the West wants and never will get could be summed up with one word: "Endsieg"
And that's how history will rhyme again ...
There are no good guys any more. The last of them died in Berlin and Nuremberg.
http://www.lulu.com/shop/gerd-schultze-rhonhof/1939-the-war-that-had-man...
http://www.lau-verlag.de/b%C3%BCcher-1/geschichte-v/1939-der-krieg-der-v...
This post, in the context of this awesome new cold war that is now being fought around the ME Oil patch and all the way to Alaska's shores, is symptomatic of what lies ahead. We have to give the guy credit for that.
Versailles Treaty sealed a race to bottom in Europe which led to Armageddon.
The financial crisis of western civilization, expression of a new type of war which has been made necessary by Oppenheimer's toy's legacy --as shown in the Cuban 1962 crisis stalemate and subsequent surrogate wars initiated by Uncle Sam in Nam and all over the world since then-- now comes to a head in our global "village".
The Empire is now naked but all the more aggressive, as showing your warts and shortcomings is what Oligarchs know is deadly for their own survival. History rhymes.
As the current conundrum shows : no amount of debt print can solve the growth stagnation resulting in First World from peak RM and tipping ecological degradation and its consequential social, dystopian fall-out.
We are stymied both ways : extracting RM costs more and more, cleaning up the mess from global hyper-consumption costs more and more. And the debt pump is no solution to either challenge, as leveraged games built on sterile casino plays have an awesome sting.
Robotics only adds to more social inequailty, without solving the cancerous fallout of the current paradigm.
Our ship is now the Titanic heading for the big one. The financial cobweb is so polluted that untying its threads, to obtain debt Jubilee acceptable to all, is like undoing the Gordian knot. We all know how that finished. Alexander cut it and it led to a major war. It destroyed both civilizations : Persian and Greek.
The tragedy of our times is that no model exists that allows us to escape another showdown of the type that occurred in 1939-1945, repeat of Alexander's legacy; awesome zero sum game that Oligarchs love to play at the expense of unsung heroes, martyrs to imperial game of thrones time and again. Looks like we head that way once again.
FDR's dream of multilateral governance has now come to its designated cul-de-sac since the day Aldous Huxley died.
Putin is an old style Oligarch just like the Western ones, a kleptocratic neo-Romanov who has no respect for law and justice.
We are in a race to bottom and there is no sign of anybody who can turn this Titanic around.
Hoping that Putin will save western civilization from itself is like hoping Islam is more fair in its Jihad than the West was in its Crusades ! Tweedle dee and Tweedle dum.
The Muslims did throw the Crusaders into the Sea-- as they also destroyed Mongol barbarism's advance-- but lost the subsequent phase of knowledge acquisition, staying prisoners of past revelatory dogma and thus destroying the wonderful legacy of Scherazade's tales of 1001 nights; Aladdin's lamp of knowledge that grew in Baghdad's house of wisdom. Something that continues to haunt them today as we see all over Asia and Africa.
My bet is the next flowering of the knowledge tree will occur somewhere east of Eden after the next Armageddon.
I just hope and hope that I am wrong.
The dumbing down of western man cannot be a one way street.
Which Treaty will be our Undoing?
I probably will miss a few:
- NAFTA
- CAFTA-DR
- TPP
At issue is Obama’s support for the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which would establish the world’s largest free-trade zone.
This is how Obama Avoids Impeachment from Boner.
The administration is moving aggressively in hopes of wrapping up negotiations by the middle of next year on a 12-nation free-trade pact in the Asia-Pacific region before the politics become even more daunting ahead of the 2016 presidential campaign.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-hopes-to-enlist-gop-in-push...
The dynamic, as the White House plots strategy for the new year when the GOP has full control of Congress, has scrambled traditional political alliances. In recent weeks, Obama has rallied the business community behind his trade agenda, while leading Capitol Hill progressives, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), have raised objections and labor and environmental groups have mounted a public relations campaign against it.
Or is it one of our Deregulations like Congressional Budget Powers, War Powers, Legislative Powers? Patriot Act, NDAA, NSA Spying Powers?
1978 - Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978,
1980 - Depository Institutions (J. Carter, followed by S&L Crisis, 5000 convictions, RTC)
1981 - Executive Order 12287, (R. Reagan, removed price controls on Petrol)
1984 - Caribbean Basin Initiative (Free Imports to USA)
1992 - Energy Policy Act (H.W. Bush)
1994 - NAFTA, Deregulation of Trade, 3 Nations (W. Clinton)
1996 - Energy (W. Clinton, followed by ENRON Scandal)
1996 - Telecommunications Act (W. Clinton, cross ownership)
1999 - Gramm–Leach–Bliley Act (Phil Gramm, W. Clinton, followed by 2008 Financial Crisis)
1999 - bombing campaign in Kosovo (W. Clinton, over 60 days)
2000 - Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000 (P. Gramm, W. Clinton, derivatives)
2002 - McCain–Feingold Act (G.W. Bush, Campaign Finance, soft money unlimited)
2005 - Energy Policy Act (G.W. Bush, subsidies, excluded clean air Water acts)
2005 - Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005 (BAPCPA).
2005 - CAFTA-DR Ratified, 2006 El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala
2009 - 2014 Continuing Resolutions in which Congress gives up Budget Powers
2010 - Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (money is free speech for corps)
2011 - US combat in Libya (B Obama, over 60 days)
US is rotting from within with the politicians & bankers like the Roman Empire. Putin doesn't need to do anything, just enjoy the freak show.
"When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat." -- George Carlin
Everyone in the world is in on it! There is no hope! They control everything! There is no future! We might as well all kill ourselves!
You guys are leaving the military industrial complex right out of the equation. The elephant is in the room and he has started shitting across the fence into the neighbours' 3 yards down. How the fuck do you get rid of an Elephant?
We seem to have missed one very important lesson .....
Low regulation of the financial sector leads to Wall Street crashes (1929/2008) and global recessions.
Regulation is written by the elite to make you pay for their gambling and NOTHING more. Allow those bastards to fail and they will quickly clean up thier balance sheets.
This get's to the nub of the problem absent other remediations.
There's not many tightrope walkers that will work high enough that a fall will kill them without a net.
Take the net away and the show would be very boring.
The problem is that Congress gets paid very well for their net-rigging service.
What we see now, is a cruel battle with time. On the one hand, Russia and China, together with the rest of the BRICS, are trying to get rid of the dollar and form their own currency system to gain complete independence, on the other, the neocon banking-corporate puppets in the US are in panic and seek desperately a pretext to come to war with Russia and put an end to this threat for their plans. This explains their agony to drag Russia into a warm conflict.
They OWN you.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsL6mKxtOlQ ....endeavor to perservere
http://www.euronews.com/2014/12/01/le-pen-i-admire-cool-head-putin-s-res...
Human race is a flatout and uttlerly failed experiment - which is still deep deep in Stonage. Proof of thousands of years of absolutely useless history. Fault of the 0.01% as well as the 99.99%.
Nothing changes, nothing changed - except maybe more glittering on the surface - and more disgusting shit below the surface.
Every minute you waste on this topic - and hope that anything will change any time soon - is a lost minute.
All you can do is to prepare for the inevitable.
Maybe some millions years later in the future - with double or triple the brain - the events and lessons of at least 2 or 3 centuries can be kept in mind. Permanently. And in the minds of the 99.99% as well as in the minds of the 0.01%.
The failing is those who create the economic system for themselves only legislate for self gain and greed.
The middle class and poor are just forced to play this game unless they together challenge the elite and we all know that ends in a bloody revolution every time.
HOLD THIS THOUGHT AS YOU READ THE NEXT BIT EVERY CREDIT ISSUED CREATES THE DEBT THAT MUST BE REPAID AT ALL COST.
To the event to make this happen is when the middle and poor have no futures left because we are talking 99% of the population and in true democratic terms sacrificing the 1%'ers is actually democratic. For greed? Nope pay off the debt in full because most of the value they own that was issued credit created the debt
--->> THEY CANCEL.
That should make a few wealthy collars nervously twitch ...
I too have a somewhat pessimistic view of our race. Among other proofs of our insanity I offer;
1) Cold War plans by the superpowers to destroy life on earth rather than allow their elites to lose their power.
2) An economic system functioning only by ever increasing debt and therefore by indefinite growth in a world with finite limited resources.
3) Allowing the decimation of all other species on earth overlooking that an environment in which they can no longer live will become one in which we can't live either.
4) Creating a world where everything and everyone is seen through the lens military and economic warfare - a life brutal and bitter in which arts have been reduced to just another money machine.
“Lets dedicate ourselves to what the ancient Greeks wrote so many years ago, to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world. Let us dedicate ourselves to that”
? Robert F. Kennedy
How truly hopelessly naive seem the sentiments of the sixties.
He obviously could not be allowed to live.
Nyet....just need rid of your chickenshit and above levels
then people follow
if has not leadership
fish rot from head
These people. they OWN you.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsL6mKxtOlQ ....endeavor to perservere
In 2009 Russia lowered foreign corporate taxes to ZERO in order to lure companies to Russia. Although I applauded the effort I knew it wouldn't work because there was still to much distrust of Russian Gov. Will it now work as the author suggests? I still have my doubts.