John Day
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Massive losses will be “realized” throughout the world by second-tier and lower elites. Soros bet hard against markets, bought gold, and warned how everything would be so chaotic and bad in finance if Brexit was voted in. Did top tier elites make it look like they would rig this vote, then not-rig-it on purpose? Big head-fake, if so. The BIS boot was full of busy bankers yesterday and today. Looks like globalism just got an embolism.
With half the vote counted, “Leave” is a little ahead.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-06-23/nailbiter-continues-here-are-first-official-results-and-they-give-bremain-some-hopeThat’s it? That obvious? Right there in plain view? Is that old, dead bugger Monnet right about just tricking people into compliance? Why hasn’t anybody else ever thought of this in the history of the world?
<yes, sarc>
The sooner we all take our bitter medicine, the less-worserer things may be.
That will be very hard to see…All Your email Are Belong To Us, Love, Vlad.
The reports indicated that the decision as to whether to reveal the intercepts would be made by Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin, and it was possible that the release would, if made, be through a third party, such as Wikileaks.
https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Russia-Is-Reportedly-Set-To-Release-Intercepted-Messages-From-Clintons-Private.htmlHere are a couple of alternative views:
An essay looking at Vladimir Putin, the foremost leader on the world stage right now, and saying he has a “third way”. There is a lot of reference and struggling to explain, but basically it says he is a benevolent-despot, a philosopher-king, a godly-champion.
https://journal-neo.org/2016/06/14/what-if-vladimir-putin-does-know-a-third-way-for-society/
Not-dead-yet Fidel Castro talks about the war of ideas, truth vs deception, and the very real threat of “practical” nuclear war from the neocon ideologues, fronted by Hillary Clinton.Julian Assange announces that Wikileaks has another batch of Hillary Clinton’s State Dept. emails to publish, and mentions that Google is doing it’s best to help the old girl out while still keeping up appearances.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jun/12/wikileaks-to-publish-more-hillary-clinton-emails-julian-assangeGood thread, guys, especially Nassim.
Netanyahu DOES listen when Putin speaks to him, doesn’t he?
You are suggesting a Reverse-Samson-Option?A life lived well, and fearlessly, and as a hero at a critical moment in history.
He was trapped in a body that wouldn’t respond to his mind for years.
He is free now.Saudi press says US government did 9/11 attacks to justify the perpetual war which is necessary to sustain it’s existence. Yes, really, precisely.
“September 11 is one of winning cards in the American archives, because all the wise people in the world who are experts on American policy and who analyze the images and the videos [of 9/11] agree unanimously that what happened in the [Twin] Towers was a purely American action, planned and carried out within the U.S. Proof of this is the sequence of continuous explosions that dramatically ripped through both buildings… Expert structural engineers demolished them with explosives, while the planes crashing [into them] only gave the green light for the detonation – they were not the reason for the collapse. But the U.S. still spreads blame in all directions. [This policy] can be dubbed ‘victory by means of archives.”I’d like to put in my request for financial crisis before the Democratic convention next month, please.
The Democratic National Convention date is July 25. I wonder what would transpire if the second leg down of the global financial crisis hit before then.
China crash, Brexit, Greek default, global realization of retirement cookie jar filled with bad IOUs from the unemployed kids…
Lots of triggers.This is “The Century of Refugees”, so economically destroying Greece and stranding war refugees on Greek islands is not a bug, but a feature.
This is a deeper and deeper mine-strewn-desert for people to traverse, and with less and less light at the German end of the tunnel.@Raleigh, Thanks for the thoughts, but I really don’t think Trump is in this game without an invisible power center. Trump has what it takes to potentially win, finally passing Hillary in a poll. I think we should all be nervous about what the powers behind Trump might want to do. All the vested interests seem pretty freaked-out by him. I think he’s got a plan to take their lunch-money, but I don’t really think he’s going to give it to us. Donald isn’t Robin Hood.
@Rapier, I wouldn’t be so sure. Trump has thrown up a lot of stuff to see what people would salute, and he has changed tack quickly and with some aplomb whenever it was called for. I think he’s fronting for a cabal, but I don’t know who they are. I think they want to take over the casino.
We’ll see soon enough. If he’s doing all this on his own, he’s a dead-man.
He’s been in business in Atlantic City. He knows how that goes.
I think he’s got some kind of big guns behind him.Who is Really Behind Trump?
He’s “paying for his own campaign”, so nobody can follow the money.
This makes “vested interests” very nervous, doesn’t it?
If they are nervous enough, they may swallow the bitter medicine of Bernie Sanders.
They want the Hillary-heroin bad; real bad, but maybe she would lose.
Who is behind Trump? Who will take over the casino?
Sanders will do therapeutic amputations on banks and hedge funds. OUCH!
Is Trump about complete financial regime-change?
I don’t know. I’m asking. Some of these folks are sweating. What about this Goldman Alum on Trump’s team? Quiet guy. Doesn’t talk much…This piece by Pepe Escobar, looks at “The Panama Papers”. and recasts the story in a more realistic light. This is a vast database of financial files in a searchable format, a huge electronic transfer that may have been going on for years, and almost impossible to be the work of one person, the jilted-lover-employee story from yesterday. It is hard to comprehend the size of this data transfer.
What organizations are capable of doing this job? Are there any characteristics of Panama that give clues?
Well, that narrows it down, and it also fits with who the chosen targets are so far (frenemies and expendables).
Despite headlines, Putin is nowhere in this dragnet, not even “implicated”.
https://www.sott.net/article/315880-Pepe-Escobar-Panama-leaks-a-limited-hangout-psy-op-set-up-by-US-intelligenceThis Panama Papers article is from Gordon Duff, at Veterans Today, who comes to the same conclusion as Escobar, that this is a form of assymmetric financial and political war, which is being very carefully directed by the party in control of the database, which looks to be the US/Israeli deep-state and “friends”.
What is in this treasure trove of dirt, that we must never see? Duff takes a guess.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2016/04/04/the-very-nasty-truth-about-the-panama-papers/This Global Research article, which is partly an article from April 4, 2013, the day that a very similar, if not identical trove of financial dirty laundry was announced. (The same stuff, on April 4 each time, 3 years apart, advertises this as a special-operation.)
“We rule out an inside job. This is not a leak. This is a hack,” Fonseca, 63, said.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-panama-tax-fonseca-idUSKCN0X3020Hi Ilargi,
I just sent $100 (even) via PayPal, but should have sent $99.99, and just thought of it after the fact.
Can you give that to the Social Kitchen, please?Thanks,
John Day
“They wish to reunite as soon as possible with what remains of their family. They have a brother in Germany and hope one day to be able to join him there.”
We deal in abstractions until we deal in our own suffering.
That is the test.
How will we comport ourselves?Video of Bernie Sanders, as shown on 5PM news, Chicag 1963, getting arrested for participating in a civil rights protest. 1963 was Early for white kids to be doing that.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/18873/bernie-sanders-arrest-1963-civil-rights-ChicagoGood comments, Regionswork. I have also been “in the pews” since spring of 2008.
We have our work to do, too. No excuses. We know.Chris M, “Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.” 🙂
I think China has a very good historical understanding of the collapse of fiat monetary systems. Chinese study Chinese history hard (I hear).
Gold is the antidote. China is accumulating gold. So is Russia. Oil and minerals are essential, too, and Russia, China, Iran and even central Asian Republics can coordinate those.
China has built a hundred years of stuff that’s in mothballs. Maybe this was the best time to do that for the next hundred years. Maybe it was intentional.
The middle kingdom may have regained it’s traditional “long view” of the unfolding of history.
The revaluing of the yuan/renmenbi must be used as an attack, not a surrender.
Obvious, right?Something is brewing between Israel and Greece. Moshe Yaalon, the Israeli Defense minister announced in Greece that “Turkey had been giving ISIS money for oil for a very, very long time”. (He should know. The oil goes on to be refined in Israel.)
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-26/isis-has-enjoyed-turkish-money-oil-very-very-long-time-israeli-defense-minister
Tsipras is meeting with (retch) Bibi Netanyahu in Israel, and it is inferred that Mediterranean oil and gas is what’s up, among other things.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/205461/article/ekathimerini/news/tsipras-meets-netanyahu-in-israel
Look, something is up, and somebody is going to get their lunch taken.
Israel already considers Palestinian and Lebanese offshore gas to be theirs.
How can Israel, Greece and (unseen, but there) Russia cut Turkey out of the deal?
This has got to be about Cyprus, at least somewhat, and it stinks of something big.
Stay Tuned!JC Juncker says Dutch should not vote “NO” in their referendum on EU-Ukraine deal to prevent “a big continental crisis”.
Other pro-EU (NATO quisling) politicians shudder, since this is a lot like saying “Don’t think of an elephant”.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-01-10/juncker-dutch-no-vote-will-lead-big-continental-crisis“Younger crowd” means you don’t remember somebody who went away before most Americans had access to a TV? (1951) Born in 1958, I’m not so “younger”…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ish_KabibbleThanks Ishkabibble.
No keyboard activism (or not alone, anyway) but digging soil, studying, nurturing a food garden, learning and repeating season after season, is what I’m doing and advising. It’s the correct transitional move for most of us, and will bring about transformative changes in our beings, as we do what is in our “better nature”.Ilargi and Friends,
There is actually a purpose to the Congress of Parties 21 meeting, and it is to agree to the narrative, the terms that will be used as the world proceeds through the collapse modeled in The Limits To Growth in 1972.
It was a good model, the “standard run” and we have not been able to deviate from it as a species. The “You are here” line on the projection of trends in time is set at 2011 in the graph at this link. https://www.ecoglobe.ch/scenarios/e/adx0.htm
Scroll down a few. It’s big. Go forward 4 years. That is the downturn of food-per-capita, services-per-capita, and industrial-output, also known as “global economy” or “Gross Planetary Product”.
Now, scroll down this page a little to the graph of Gross Planetary Product.
https://www.voxeu.org/article/shrinking-planetary-gdp
It peaked in 2014 and is on the downturn. It is exactly the same graph and every political player in Paris knows it well.
Again, COP21 served to agree on the language, framework and excuses that global ruling and financial elites will use going forward into financial collapse and species (us) die-off, without having to tell the truth, which would just be way too much for us to bear.
It is like Bretton Woods that way. I’m sure there were lots of side deals done, too.
What our rulers are really good at is not what needs to be done for the good of the most people and most living things. The powers they have are powers of destruction, and the threats of destruction to coerce.
Look for more destruction of countries that are near the brink, and more weakening of democracies by flows of desperate refugees, and especially more divide and conquer.
(Grow vegetables. How’s it goin’ with the Greeks beta-testing this new global economy?)@Stone Lodge
What we as individuals can do for a brief moment in time is to learn to grow vegetables, and maybe get a little place with a propane tank, well and some solar panels. Get a diesel tank and some pink diesel for a small tractor and people of like mind with good backs.
Well, it’s likely too late for anything but digging and planting the garden. It takes a few years to actually work that out.Russia’s Dollar Exit Takes a Major New Step (ever nearer, the Gold Ruble… 🙂
https://journal-neo.org/2015/12/05/russias-dollar-exit-takes-major-new-step/Black Friday, Steely Dan
How does ISIS oil, and Iraqi Kurdish oil find it’s way to Israel ? It’s 77% of Israeli oil demand in-total.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-28/isis-oil-trade-full-frontal-raqqas-rockefellers-bilal-erdogan-krg-crude-and-israel-c
Lebanese American Journalist, Serena Shim, reporting on weapons flows from Turkey into Syria, got warned, got overrun by a cement truck going the wrong way on a one way, got taken to a hospital, where she “died of a heart attack”. This was in Turkey.
“Accident” says Turkish government.
“Hybris War to Break the Balkans” Greece figures in. Pipelines, railroads, refugees. Turkey is a hub for so many flows.Letting in Families, women and children is better than letting in nobody.
The basic humanitarian action is to stop funding wars covertly. Only Russia seems to actually believe in a policy that extreme.
Turkey is really , really pushing limits right now, making enemies in all camps.
The House of Saud is on increasingly shaky ground, too.
The US really needs to stop being a hegemon, and Israel needs to really stop putting the US up to that, and return to pre-Nakba borders.I sent a 0.25 Troy oz. Mexican gold bullion coin by registered international mail to Pireas Solidarity Clinic yesterday, after purchasing it at $1170/oz + 8% at a local dealer, here in Austin. The tracking number supplied doesn’t work on this perfectly legal form of asset transfer, but the software tells me it can’t track my package to Greece, so it recognizes it.
Financial geurrilla charity? I worked a lot last month, and still have kids in college and that $15,000 of credit card debt. I can’t buy things for myself until that is paid off, but I have a little wiggle room to do this, with the same charity we helped together this summer.
(I know it has been 5+ years since I contributed to Automatic Earth and Nicole’s trip to Austin, but I have excuses.)The First Question to Ask After any Terrorist Attack: Was it a False Flag?
https://www.washingtonsblog.com/2015/11/the-first-question-to-ask-after-any-terror-attack-was-it-a-false-flag.htmlColor Revolutions, covert movement of mercenaries and arms from one war zone to another (Libya to Syria), kettling of millions of refugees, then release of the stampede against another region to create a crisis-of-change, disinformation, obscuration of the real actors and their aims are all “innovations” in modern warfare. Change is set in motion, creating crises and “not letting them go to waste”.
Guess what. This is how our rulers really respond to climate change, peak oil and the Kondratieff Cycle. (Make sure everybody in your family has a space-blanket, like the boy in the picture)Secretary of the Imperial Military, Ashton Carter, says Russia and China may threaten the international order (Empire) and that the US will uphold (enforce) it.
“Agile”, “sustainable” and “innovative” is how the US will uphold the order, according to Carter.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-11-08/defense-secretary-suggests-putin-might-nuke-america-says-us-will-defend-internationaRight now Turkey is a very important regional enforcer for NATO, but things are breaking down and the Erdogan government has sold everything the state owned into global neoliberal economic networks. This is not working out for the new Ottomans.
“For the government, it is a horror scenario, because if Assad doesn’t go, Erdoğan goes. Simple as that! So what Russians are doing is terrible for the AKP government.”Gordon Duff, USMC combat veteran and editor of Veterans Today puts the Russian airliner crash into focus. It is elites talking to each other and trying to stampede each other’s herds. He provides some background.
https://journal-neo.org/2015/11/09/the-crash-coming-into-focus-hebdo-and-much-more/The Vinyard of the Saker has this excellent article about the “Hybrid Warfare” being carried out in the Balkans, Mideast and former Soviet states (Ukraine, with a particular focus on the crisis being focused on the Balkans, referred to by Angela Merkel in her “We’d sure hate to see war break out there again” statement in the third to last article.
Andrew Korybko’s Interview With Serbia’s “Geopolitica” Magazine (English Exclusive)
There need not be a dichotomy here. These positions are complimentary, not mutually exclusive.
Clearly, the destabilization of Syria by pumping in money and the hijacked stockpiles of Libyan weapons is the core root of the suffering. Over 10% of the population of Syria has been wounded or killed in the last 4 years. This is done secretly by the US, Turkey, the House of Saud, Israel, etc, for many selfish reasons, and with no thought of human suffering as anything but a useful tool.
We should embrace our best human qualities, rather than fight on the terms of the sociopaths who rule us. Embracing what is best in humans is the only personal choice which can lead to better human existence.
We need to be clever and spontaneous against our sociopathic owners, but we lose if we emulate them to fight them.
