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    Russell Lee Old-timer ‘cornering the market’ in Shawneetown, IL April 1937 Jean-Claude Juncker, a former Luxembourg PM, claims that his EU-wide center
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    #13619
    Professorlocknload
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    Would we expect anything less than war as a means of maintaining political power on the part of the world’s ruling elite?

    Very predictable, to say the least. And next go ’round, the US powers won’t risk the backlash they were given in their Syrian debacle. No, the next time an epic false flag will be choreographed to generate overwhelming maniacal public support.

    The end result, though foggy at best, will, in addition to reassertion of government control over it’s subjects, eliminate a vast portion of the earth’s perceived “overpopulation” problem.

    Still, everywhere, I hear cries for leaders to “Do More.” WTF, over?

    #13621
    Raleigh
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    Re yesterday’s post and Yellen – “A) doesn’t read the news or look at price charts for items or B) has no idea how to interpret data or C) is a liar.”

    I’ll take Door No. 3 for the win, Alex. It’s a prerequisite for the job.

    #13622
    TheTrivium4TW
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    Hi All,

    Deflation will not “repair” this finiancial system. The foundation of the financial system is fraudulent. The deflationary bust tactic is part of the overal societal asset and power stripping mechanism via debt money bubbles and busts strategy.

    It isn’t that we “need” deflation.

    No, WE NEED AN ENTIRELY NEW MONETARY SYSTEM WHERE MONEY IS NOT CONJURED INTO SOCIETY AS DEBT.

    This requires a change in consciousness, but the fact that I read articles on this site disinforming people that deflation is needed to correct the system’s current problems is quite disheartening.

    Ben and Jerry’s money stamp that says, “The system isn’t broken, it is fixed” is absolutely correct.

    You don’t “fix” a fixed (rigged) system, YOU THROW THE SYSTEM OUT AND START WITH A SYSTEM THAT ISN’T “FIXED” (RIGGED).

    #13624
    Raleigh
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    “Quietly, subtly, almost imperceptibly, the rules governing global trade and financial markets are changing. It is not happening by accident, but by wilful design. And despite the enormous impact it will have on all our lives, the public is not being consulted on any aspects of the process. Indeed, most people are not even aware it is happening. […]

    The ultimate goal of these treaties is to reconfigure the legal apparatus and superstructures that govern national, regional and global trade and business – for the primary, if not exclusive, benefit of the world’s largest multinational corporations. […]

    As I warned in early November 2013, the global corporatocracy is almost fully operational. The intentions of those negotiating the multiple trade treaties are now crystal clear: to place complete power and control over our economies in the hands of the largest global corporations, many of which bear the lion’s share of responsibility for the economic and environmental mess we’re already in.

    In the meantime, the clock continues to tick down. At any moment, a few quiet strokes of a pen behind the tightly closed doors of a luxury conference room could usher in a new age of corporate domination. With it will come a new kind of dystopia, bearing an uncanny likeness to the inverted totalitarianism foreseen by Sheldon Wolin.”

    https://ragingbullshit.com/2014/06/21/the-global-corporatocracy-is-just-a-few-strokes-of-a-pen-from-completion/

    #13625
    Raleigh
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    Trivium – “This requires a change in consciousness…” Yes, but a change in consciousness does not come until people feel pain, and a lot of it. When their world falls apart, when depression is finally realized, they will feel pain like they’ve never known. THIS is what causes a change in consciousness (hitting rock bottom), and this change in consciousness will then force the system to change. “When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.”

    Pain brings concentration. Nothing will change until that happens.

    #13626
    Diogenes Shrugged
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    TheTrivium4TW,
    Good post. Perhaps the “healing” will require deflationary debt collapse followed by a new monetary system, in that order by necessity? No way to convert all that bad debt to a new monetary system.

    Electronic Money starting in London

    #13627
    Diogenes Shrugged
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    Raleigh,
    You linked a very disturbing and eye-opening article there. I’m wondering how all these complex globalist partnerships are expected to survive after energy costs rise, the consumer base disappears, and the predicted wars and disruptions to social order interfere with production & commerce. Something tells me the global corporatist paradise they’re constructing might run about as well as a new Space Shuttle sans fuel tanks and guidance systems. Also, government money = taxes & inflation = extorted from the country’s consumer base. So if giant international corporations make a habit of suing nations, they’re actually just stealing from their own consumer base. It would be more straightforward to just raise prices, but I guess that wouldn’t support all the attorneys they plan to hire. Sheer criminal madness.

    #13628
    Diogenes Shrugged
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    Ilargi,
    For quite a long time now, you and Nicole have placed short-term U.S. treasuries at (or near) the top of the list of places to keep personal wealth for now. Karl Denninger wrote an interesting perspective on bonds today that might affect your thinking, and I was wondering if you would please comment on whether that might be the case. Thanks much.
    https://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=229115

    #13630
    Raleigh
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    “Xi’s anti-corruption program may be headed a little farther afoot — to the United States.

    Chinese diplomats in the U.S. suggested Wednesday that they may seek Washington’s help in extraditing what state media has reported is a list, compiled by Beijing, of more than 1,000 corrupt Chinese officials who have sought refuge in the U.S. […]

    “This is a huge issue right now in China,” said Arthur T. Dong, a Georgetown professor and expert in Chinese business. “We have a new sheriff in town — the new sheriff is Xi Jinping. He has an aggressive reform agenda he’s trying to propagate. He’s swept up some very senior people in the party and taken them down. He’s made it clear and used them as examples. He’s showed he is serious about instituting new business models.”

    The campaign is driving Xi’s targets abroad, Dong said.

    “There’s tremendous interest in obtaining residency and finding a way to put their assets in safer havens,” Dong said.”

    https://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/5/14/china-us-corrupt.html

    I’m sure this money would account for at least a fair share of the “cash” deals in real estate we’ve heard about.

    #13631
    Raleigh
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    “Wei, deputy director of the coal division of the National Energy Administration, was found with 100 million renminbi — $16 million — at his home, the financial news publication Caixin reported this week, citing unnamed investigators.

    Since the 100-renminbi note is the largest-denomination bill in circulation, that means that Wei’s alleged stash presented a bit of a storage problem. Such a hoard, if stacked in one tall tower, would reach 328 feet high, the Youth Daily said. Laid out end to end, the haul would stretch 96 miles — the length of Beijing’s Third Ring Road and Fifth Ring Road combined.

    Investigators had to bring in 16 cash-counting machines to tally the money, Caixin said; four of the devices — which can process 1,000 bills per minute — burned out in the process.”

    https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-china-corruption-20140516-story.html

    Ay caramba! He must be slightly ticked off he didn’t get that money out of the country.

    #13632
    Raleigh
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    “Another source who met Xi in private this year quoted him as saying implementing reforms had been “very difficult” due to opposition from state-owned enterprises along with influential party elders and their children, known as “princelings”.

    State-owned firms and princelings in business enjoy many privileges and virtually monopolize certain sectors, something at odds with China’s efforts to steer its economy away from a reliance on heavy industry and investment to one driven more by consumption and innovation. […]

    Underscoring the challenge, more than 30 percent of party, government and military officials were found to be involved in some form of corruption, according to a previously unpublished internal party survey carried out in 2013, said one of the sources.

    The source, who has seen a copy, did not say how the survey arrived at its conclusions.

    While he is walking a political tightrope, the sources said Xi was not meeting much resistance, for now, to the crackdown from party elders or others who might fear they could be next.

    But there is a limit to how many people he can purge.

    “The government would be paralyzed if Xi went after all the corrupt officials,” said a source who has regular access to Xi.”

    https://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/16/us-china-corruption-xi-insight-idUSBREA3F1UT20140416

    Talk about a free-for-all. These are the people who arrive with suitcases full of cash and push up prices in foreign “yes, we’ll-take-your-bribe-money” destinations.

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