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Financial Warfare & The Big Reset: Koos Jansen Interviews Willem Middelkoop
Submitted by Koos Jansen via BullionStar.com,
The very reason I became interested in gold after the financial crisis in 2008 was because of Dutch gold guru, author, journalist, entrepreneur, and fund manager Willem Middelkoop. When I started reading his books I was immediately obsessed with economics and the gold market – along with thousands of others across the world. Who would have thought that I would become a precious metals analyst a few years later?
It was an honor to have contributed to Willem’s latest book The Big Reset with translations from Chinese policy makers that stimulate their citizenry to accumulate physical gold and my initial research into the Shanghai Gold Exchange that revealed Chinese gold demand was approximately twice a large as what was previously thought in the English-speaking world.
When The Big Reset was first released in January 2014 I’ve conducted an interview with its author about the inevitable reset of the international monetary system (the interview was published in two parts on this blog – one, two). Since then a lot has happened in the global realm of economics and at the same time The Big Reset became an international best seller. As we speak The Big Reset has been translated in Dutch, German and Chinese and is expected to appear in Portuguese, Arabic, Polish and Vietnamese.
To keep up with the most recent developments Willem has added 70 pages in the revised edition of The Big Reset. For me a reason to have another chat with him about what he saw has happened in the past two years:
The Big Reset
J: Is it a coincidence that after the financial crisis more tensions between the West and East emerged and is there a financial war played by the US?
WM: Economic warfare aims to capture or otherwise control the supply of critical economic resources or destroying a country’s currency. The US understands better than anybody else that a country can sometimes be hurt more by doing this than by bombing its infrastructure. A recent example of financial economic warfare was the sudden crash of the price of oil and value of the ruble soon after the annexation of the Crimea by Russia, in the second part of 2014. In less than six months the price of oil halved. This large drop could not be explained by fundamentals like supply and demand. Some market commentators said it reminded them of the Cold War era when the US and the former USSR competed not only in a military way, but also tried ‘to play the economy’. Because the USSR was increasingly more dependent on food imports, especially grain, the export of oil had to bring in enough dollars. The US decided to use its influence on Saudi Arabia (OPEC) and persuaded them to expand the supply of oil, making the oil price plunge in the 1980s. It would soon prove to be a fatal attack for Russia and the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. The fact that Saudi Arabia in 2014 again increased its oil production fuelled rumours of a new economic war against Russia. The collapse of the oil price led to collapse of the Russian ruble. The Russian Sberbank, confirmed that it had come under a financial economic attack in December 2014. Herman Gref, CEO of Sberbank, disclosed a foreign-based attempt to provoke a bank run during the December ruble crisis. In an interview he said that about $6 billion had been withdrawn from the Sberbank in a single day after a massive information attack, with people receiving text messages saying Sberbank was facing problems paying out deposits. Thousands of SMS-messages were sent, including a large number of mailings done from foreign websites.
Willem Middelkoop
J: What more do you see around the world in terms of financial warfare?
WM: In May 2015, the US had a number of high-ranking FIFA officials arrested in Switzerland in connection to a bribery case. Most observers did not understand that the US action was designed to pressure FIFA, ‘urging it to consider removing Russia as host of the 2018 FIFA World Cup because of its role in the Ukraine crisis and occupation of Crimea.’ China and Russia were also shocked to learn how the SWIFT international payment system was used as a means to attack Russia. In 2014, the United Kingdom pressed the EU to block Russia from the SWIFT network as a sanction for the Russian aggression in Ukraine. China responded quickly and launched its own alternative, the China International Payment System (CIPS). In addition, by 2012 SWIFT disconnected all Iranian banks from its international network. Alastair Crooke, a former MI6 official is one of the few individuals who has been very open about the purpose of this kind of financial and economic warfare.
J: Is this all meant to defend the US dollar hegemony?
WM: In a book, ‘Treasury’s War,’ the tool of exclusion from the dollar-denominated global financial system is described as a ‘neutron bomb.’ When a country must be isolated, a ‘scarlet letter’ is issued by the US Treasury that asserts that such-and-such bank is somehow suspected of being linked to a terrorist movement – or of being involved in money laundering. The author of ‘Treasury’s War’ Juan Zarate, chief architect of modern financial warfare and a former senior Treasury and White House official, writes this scarlet letter constitutes a more potent bomb than any military weapon. With Ukraine we have a substantial, geostrategic conflict taking place, being part of a geo-financial war between the US and Russia.
J: What’s China’s roll in this?
WM: It has brought about a close alliance between Russia and China. China understands that Russia constitutes the first domino; if Russia is to fall, China will be next. These two states are together moving to create a parallel financial system, disentangled from the Western financial system. That’s why both are accumulating so much physical gold. It includes replicating SWIFT and creating entities such as the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. One of the principal tools in the hands of Washington to control the global system was always the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Nations have to go to the IMF to ask for financial help, when in difficulties, but recently it was China – and not the IMF – which bailed out Venezuela, Argentina and Russia as their currencies crashed. China became concerned when the ruble crashed late 2014, and intervened to halt a run on the currency. The IMF and the World Bank are no longer at the center of the global financial order.
J: Why is this dollar hegemony so important for the US?
WM: ‘Great nations have great currencies and great currencies can give countries great power so they can even grow into empires’, political scientist Jonathan Kirshner once said. In order to maintain its monetary hegemony, the United States must weaken any potential competitors who will possibly challenge the US monetary hegemony. Wars in the Middle East are fought to strengthen the dollar’s position and fight regimes that have been supporting Russia. General Wesley Clark, the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO during the 1999 War on Yugoslavia, confirmed in an interview that the US had decided to work toward regime changes in seven countries, in order to secure US interest in the region before any new world power might arise.
J: Through the dollar the US has unlimited powers?
WM: Any country, like the US, that issues the dominant world reserve currency has almost limitless power to finance other countries. It gives the monetary hegemony ‘exorbitant privilege,’ as the French remarked in the 1960s. Because it can print the world currency the US can buy anything it wishes without having to worry about its liabilities. While the Soviet Union collapsed because they had to import food with hard-earned dollars from their oil exports, in the 70s and 80s, the US could start the Korean War and the Vietnam War with freshly printed greenbacks. By ‘obliging’ foreign central banks to keep their monetary reserves in Treasury bonds, the US in fact forced them to finance US military spending abroad, as Michael Hudson explains in his book ‘Super Imperialism’.
In this new form of imperialism, the US is able to rule not through its position as world creditor, but as world debtor. America’s weakness as a debtor country has indeed become the foundation of the world’s monetary and financial system. A Chinese market commentator once remarked: ‘World trade is now a game in which the US produces dollars and the rest of the world produces things that dollars can buy … a dollar hegemony that forces the world to export not only goods but also dollar earnings from trade to the US … Everyone accepts dollars because dollars can buy oil.’ Only when dollar-holding nations decide to buy natural resources instead of US treasuries, is the dollar’s reserve currency status in danger. This is exactly the exit strategy China and Russia seems to be playing right now. In recent years, the Russians have sold most of their dollar holdings, while they tripled their gold position. The Chinese have stopped buying extra US Treasuries since 2010 while they have imported and invested in huge amounts of gold. These developments signal the first stages of the US dollar’s decay.
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Then what, hmmmm? The New World Order, the new feudalism which fits perfectly with the slave state mindset of the old world and its lower orders?
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn what happens to other nations who are entitled to self-determination in their own way. However, I do care about what happens to my kith and kin in the USA, and I do intensely dislike the nazionist Wolfowitz Doctrine, AIPAC, the Project for a New American Century, and its batshit crazy Yinon Plan, the Trilateral Commission and rich boy jerk Bilderberg claptrap.
My advice to the world: go your own way. Do it quickly. Enjoy your own lands and choices.
Stay out of the USA. Stop asking for money or assistance. We will deal with traitors in our own way.
I owe you nothing. Your politicians sold you as slaves to the central bank cartel. Not my problem.
Great post V .
bollox... 'stop asking us for assistance'
the only thing the world has been asking america for decades is to please get its dick out of other country's business
And I would just add to that, and may the USA stay out of everyone eles's countries.
You seem to be under the impression that other peoples and nations have the choice... It's an American EMPIRE.
Bullets, bombs and missiles rain down from 55,000 feet from the largest military on the planet, on anyone who thinks they have a choice.
Good summary. I think I am starting to get it.
Welcome to the club.
Now spread the word... and choose your recipient wisely.
I, for one, have unwittingly drawn the forces of darkness upon me by challenging the 'official story' in conversation with a 'trusted friend' who turned out to be a card-carrying member of the establishment.
Everyone accepts (promise) dollars because (promise) dollars can buy oil.
Everyone accepts gold because gold can buy oil. No promises made nor needed.
(sorry, can't get rid of bold face.)
One thing that bothers me here: Since JPM, GS and other satanic angels (sorry, I mean agents of The Great Red Dragon) have offices in China, India and Russia, how do we know an alternative has actually been created to SWIFT and the IMF. Since this nonsense has been going on since the 1600s, seems to me they're just creating another illusion to sidetrack attention away from the City of London Corporation, where all these financial sociopaths (Snakes In Suits) call their lair. The rules there are different from everywhere else.
For example: http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2011/oct/31/corporation-london-...
If there's one place that deserves more than Wall Street to be plunged underwater by hypothetical melting icecaps, it's the Square Mile. I used to work with an old Oxford Man whose description was shocking.
Excellent summary, thank you!
Some fine Dutch gentleman. Good to see the Dutch tradition still lives
Didn't the Dutch have their empire, too?
Didn't the Dutch shlock a bunch of tulips, too?
Money promotes abuse, lots of money promotes lots of abuse and the eventual loss of that money...
The Dutch invented modern day capitalism. They had the first stock exchange in the world. Through its trade and colonial explotation they became a world power at that time. That period in Dutch history we call "the Golden Age". The Dutch during that period fought an epic war of indepdence with Spain while at the same time also fighting the English, French and Prussians (sometimes all at once together with varying results). But that did not stop trade. The Dutch even traded with their enemies. It became a defining moment in Dutch history. They also suffered the first modern financial crisis and the famous Tulip crisis of course.
what you say is true, except for the critical part: "modern day capitalism". There is no capitalism today (at least, not in the Western world). What you should say ( I think) is: NL invented the basis of true free trade and/or the basis of capitalism, none of which still exists today" (or somthing like that.
It's a pity that none are fit to serve the Empire.
In particular , our current US Administration.
No, Netherlands invented modern day capitalism as it is in its corrupt form. (back then it was less complex) And is today still kneedeep into this garbage core empire hell.
When our king became king of england, you could say netherlands was a main conduit for these corporation and banking practices and old capital from genoa and venice italy and antwerp.
"Over 70 % of Dutch firms think corruption is widespread in the NL source: Eurobarometer compared to > 95 % in Italy, 40% in Germany and < 10% in Denmark"
Yep Dutch history is criminally underrated these days. New York used to be called New Amsterdam too.
Actually, we (in the Netherlands) need more of it. In the 80s the country 'suffered' from what was called then "Hollanditis" but in the 90s we became fat, complacent and spoiled. Remember, we were the couuntry that brought the world Big Brother and other 'reality TV' shows. Recently things are stirring up again in the country with the people being fed up with the political system in the country and in the EU. In the 80s Hollanditis was a left wing event, now it is a right wing event. But still too many people sit on their asses. They could not be bothered nor would understand what Middelkoop (who is a regular contributor to RTL-Z financianl programs) said.
Another interview, with Assad.
http://nos.nl/nieuwsuur/artikel/2075919-het-volledige-interview-met-pres...
I can't wait 'till USA/ISIS goes fucking broke. Can you imagine if USSA actually had to stop borrowing (printing) money and operate like a business?
It is a business. It is fantastically profitable for the people who run it. It, and they, operate above any human law. They are not responsible for its debts---you are. And if you cannot or will not submit to tax and debt-slavery, they think nothing of killing you.
They're a business as much as the Mafia is a business, except the Mob were far less tolerant of communists.
A excellent summary of why we are doomed...eventually.
Futures down 100 + already
And to sound like a broken record, or the Voice in the Wilderness, "The shit will not hit the fan until de-Dollarization goes ballistic."
Also, as I've said umpteen times, "The de-Dollarization avalanche won't happen until the Russians and Chinese get their version of SWIFT (CIPS...) up and running for all the BRICS and EMs, and they do it in synch (to neutralize Fed, DOD and CIA efforts at divide & conquer). Until these things are done, bugger all will happen, except more agony, misery and indebtedness to the USSA empire"
It's like chopping away at a mighty tree. Eventually, there is that last chop and it's timber.
And this is why, when you understand global finance, you understand that there must be another world war.
China and Russia are two awfully big kids on the block to be teasing.
This all of course has been known for quite some time. Decoupling the Dollar from gold in the 70s and basically coupling it to oil accelerated this. Remember the oil crisis from the 70s? While people were suffering with rising gasoline prices and rising prices of food and anything else where oil played a role it meant great news for Western financial institutions. Because these oil producing countries were flooded with Dollars. "What to do with that?", they thought. They bought stuff in the West so the Dollars came back for goods produced in the West (toys, gadgets, infrastructure and of course weapons). Western banks and financial institutions were the only place that were safe enough to keep their Dollars so they parked them there or bought bonds or stocks. This all led to the coke induced boom of the late 80s and 90s. "Greed it good" said Gordon Gekko. But we spent more than we have and all Western countries are highly indebted. As the article says, as long as Dollar has monetary hegemony the US can dominate the world and we will continue to see geopolitical conflict and no rise in alternative fuels however good they may seem for the world. Cause it is all tied to oil.
WM is not any different then the banksters, make as much money possible moving PM's, sell books etc etc...
Why the fuck am i downvoted ? You dumb fuckers should have listened to WM in 2000, when he said to buy gold and silver back then, like i did and keep on doing. Maar het blijft een echte hollandse sjacheraar.
XXL66, take it as a compliment. voting does not matter or mean anything... in the "social media"
you are right, just like it doesn't matter voting for politicians.
No Whining for you. One Year.
"The more flak you get the closer you are to the target" -- WW2 bomber navigator's expression.
Clear and precise. Trump understands all of this, and as a result has decided that only he can save the US....possibly.
IMF/NWO are winning.
Why do so many people still believe that the US vs China thing is not a farce? I'm fucking sick of the ignorance here on Zerohedge. Everything is going to plan, and the red blue team dichotomy that you all so willfully swallow is a lie. Wake up fools.
I suggest you are more clueless than you are willing to admit ..
Cite your sources, not just your opinion ..
My eyebrow raised a bit here ..
I saw the ZH headline "Koos Jansen Interviews Willem Middelkoop."
You see, before that, I just received Jim Willlie's Dec. Hat Trick Letter in my inbox ..
On page 27 of Willie's letter his headline goes like this:
INTERVIEW WITH WILLEM MIDDELKOOP ABOUT THE BIG RESET...
Okay ..
I've been following this thang about the Big Reset for some time ..
Jim Sinclair talks about it back in Sept. with Greg Hunter ..
But I heard about it back in March via an even better source ..
It was alluded to via same source back in Dec. '14 ..
In fact, this was discussed via a world reknown currency expert re: to the aforementioned source back in late 2006, that if certain measures were performed in early 2006, we would not be talking about this matter at present, and probably not even about Russia in Syria and certainly not about ~$30 oil ..
http://wantarevelations.com/2014/01/wanta-plan-macro-financial-economic-...
Now I have to make note of a most intriging paragraph in Willie's latest:
GLOBAL RESET HAS BEEN TRIGGERED, THE PROCESS BEGUN, THE VOICE FINALLY WARNS... THE EVENTS HAVE BEGUN, AND THE USFED RATE HIKE MIGHT HAVE BEEN PART OF THE GLOBAL DECISION. $$$
The Voice gives an urgent warning that finally the breakdown is accelerating, the damage profound, the effects unmistakable, the plug pulled. The officials have not undertaken any remedy for several years. His message is clear and stark, the first time such a communication has been given to the Jackass and colleagues. It was given just a few days before the USFed rate hike decision was made. "Guys, the plug has been pulled. Let the show begin. Our organization has been alerted accordingly to that effect this morning at 4am, that the deed is done. The battle trigger code has been chosen. It will get incredibly ugly, as real casualties will result. The annihilation of entire groups of people within the corrupt and criminal systems will be unimaginable to normal humanoids. These systems will be totally dismembered and crushed, never to be resurrected. The cabal is being caught in a grand dragnet, with the outcome certain to be their extermination, along with all their agents and collaborators. [1] The effects of this event driven scenario will become visible to the ordinary people in early 2016 and forward. Once the dust settles, it is clear to me that the human population will be noticeably lower, with fewer people roaming this planet." The Voice is referring to the Satanist Bank Cabal groups. We mere mortals hope that reason prevails, that remedy is agreed upon, that transition is orderly, so that a billion people do not needlessly perish. But the Anglo-Americans have their favorite nuclear and virus toys. We have seen ample evidence of their chemical plant explosions as a warm-up to main events.
So this "The Voice" guy ..
Could he possibly know more than the guy working directly for President Reagan that personally brokered the demise of the USSR, and the inception of the Russian Federationi in 1990, via The General Agreement on Cooperation that began with a Marshall Plan to the RF with an initial $50 Billion?
https://app.box.com/s/hfgvcqg7gqh7i27at6sv53ywu87lwarp (Read Me First)
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[1] In intel circles, we call this decapitation.
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/05/11/the-intel-cowboys/
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/12/20/very-very-bad-things/
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2014/07/30/the-coming-return-of-the-real-us...
Here's a slightly used button for your clubhouse, Cubby.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_reset
I think that when Bob Chapman died, may God have his soul because what a great man he was, Jim Willie may have inherited some of his 'deep throat' sources.
Detroit, the future of the US:
http://memolition.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/google-street-view-docu...
Nice. And now in the spirit of democracy TV channels in the Baltic countries are being cut from programming because of the feeling of Russian propaganda included in them. An eye for an eye. Thank heavens I can get the truth from ZH. // Y or N
2006 I put up a wiki page describing exactly this and predicting the dollar will remain the world reserve currency until the lynchpin is pulled: Saudi. At the time I didn't see any way they could be brought down. Today, it's becoming clear. It'll change very quickly after that point.
Expect Russia, Iran and Iraq, to force ISIS south into Saudi and to finance rebellion within the country.
If I was American, I'd book an unpaid "sabatical", begin packing and heading to bug out location when the Saudi government falls.
Great article for those who want to understand the basis for America's wealth and it's huge advantage over other countries since 1945. Article explains how the world is resetting and the global trade dollar is being threatened with replacement and devaluation.
This could devastate America's wealth. I'm sending this out for those who are truth seekers and like to see a storm approaching and possibly prepare.
Of course most of the sheeple are so anxious, depressed and apathetic from vaccines, fluoride, GMOs and chemtrails, they are ready for the end anyway and don't want to be disturbed.
Americans don't even understand because of their censored education, that gold is money and everything else is credit, as JP Morgan said in 1913.
Well, what a sea change. It turns out that Mr. Putin is the only one in the world who is telling the truth while the gollums in the US and the UK sink under the weight of their incredible lies, fabrications and betrayals. As I mentioned some time ago, China, and to a lesser extent Russia, are the only governments in the world today who actually care about the health and well being of their citizens. The others, with the possible exception of Germany, are captured by the Zionist/Khazzarian mafia whose sole purpose is to destroy them, enslave the citizens and become the new hegemonic power. Aint gonna happen. Matter of fact, if I was in any way related to the Rothchilds or their henchmen I would be looking to buy a one way ticket on the first Mars explorer mission because there won't be anywhere on this earth that they will survive for very long.
While it is pretty certain that we are witnessing financial warfare against anybody who doesn't bow to the empire (BRICS, etc.), the results of this warfare seem "stretched." On a geopolitical level, Russia seems to have won on many scores (Crimea, Syria and maybe soon Iraq). Yet on a financial score the empire has overwhelmingly succeeded in crushing all the export earners of the BRICS as well as crushing their currencies & bond markets. Meanwhile the west enjoys zilch bond yields and relatively strong currencies (and a king dollah) while practicing or having gone through an orgy of money printing. Maybe the US will fall victim of its own success with the recent rate rise and the whole house of cards will come crashing down. However, I find it hard to accept that the geopolitical slippage of the empire has not been yet reflected in the markets by even one iota.
Coincidence?
Try thiese events from the past three days:
Kerry meets with Putin, says Assad can stay as ruler of Syria. US policy neutered.
Biden calls off Turkey, tells them to stop violating Iraq's borders. US policy neutered.
Fed raised Fed funds rate, banks raise prime rate.
Putin publicly backs Trump.
Ukraine defaults on Russian debt. While this may appear bad for Russia, it's worse for Ukraine, and even worse for US policy.
Today, the plug will be pulled on over a trillion$ in SPY options. Winners and losers, lots of both.
The world has changed radically in the past week. Trump is now the de facto US President. Obama can go to Hawaii and stay there for all the world leaders care. Kerry had no power; now he has even less, if that's possible.
Just watch: terrorism will be a non-starter for 2016. US intel has been found out (by Putin) and he's putting an end to it all.
Will truth and justice return to America? Just like bankruptcy, gradually, then all of a sudden.
h/t to Ernest Hemingway.
I think the US/zionist criminals in DC, London, etc. still have a few hands to play before it sinks. I have scene this wild optimism before. In the end, it's really a matter of whether the crooks will launch a global or large regional wat to protect their 'many mafias' economic world.
I don't think things will sink seriously until the major shooting starts. As long as 'King Dollar' reigns, then the criminals have lots of options. King Dollar dumps for good when the major shooting starts in earnest, and I don't mean 'proxy wars' fought by part-timers from Africa and the ME.
Willem Middelkoop: The Big Reset https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lTLMOgDAGc