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LinkedInOn Thursday May 9th's News and Views from the Nefarium, I referred to a very important article by Darryl Robert Schoon that was kindly forwarded to me by Ms. N.H. And though I commented extensively in that News and Views, it did not exhaust what I believe to be the significance of Mr. Schoon's post, nor the underlying possibilities he is implying. So, as a refresher, here's the link to his article: Gold: Who's Selling Who's Buying Who's Lying Now why bother talking about this again? Well, for one thing, the implications alone are arresting. Consider that, as a matter of serious … [Read more...]
CYPRUS: CLASH OF OLIGARCHIES AND GEOPOLITICS, PART TWO
March 24, 2013 By
In yesterday's blog about the affair of the theft of Cypriots' savings by European banksters, I presented the basic thesis that the background is as much geopolitical as financial. In that context, it should come as no surprise that the Cyprus affair occurs as the West is bogged down in Syria, caught red-handed in support of extremist rebels who make the Assad regime look like a font of compassion and restraint. Syria, of course, is a necessary operation in the geopolitical sense, for it ill-behooves any potential military operations against Iran to have a strong ally of Russia positioned … [Read more...]
TIDBIT: FLASH!! FIRST RUSSIAN OLIGARCHICAL CASUALTY FROM CYPRUS?
March 23, 2013 By
This was just sent to me from Zero Hedge: it appears that the first oligarchical casualty from the Cyprus matter has occurred: Russian Billionaire Commits Suicide … [Read more...]
CYPRUS: CLASH OF OLIGARCHIES AND GEOPOLITICS, PART ONE
March 23, 2013 By
I really don't know where to begin this series, nor how, and I do so with some trepidation, and for that matter, more than my usual amount of it. Whenever I blog, I am acutely aware of the fact that there is a certain responsibility I have, and chief among these is to make it abundantly clear to my readers that a large part of what I do here is speculation. Oftentimes I call it high octane speculation. But today, and for the next few blogs (however long it takes me to get my thoughts down in words), even the phrase "high octane speculation" seems inadequate, for in a certain punning sense, … [Read more...]
NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE NEFARIUM JAN 31, 2013
January 31, 2013 By
Joseph comments about the EU's and China's recent warnings to the US Federal Reserve, and also about the formation of a new deep space asteroid mining venture: China Just Threatened a Currency War if the Fed Doesn't Stop Printing Deep Space Industries Live Anouncement … [Read more...]
HSBC FINED FOR MONEY LAUNDERING
December 27, 2012 By
Ok... this is by now another one of those old stories, but as you know, we don't "do breaking news" here, but rather, comment on stories that we think have a deeper, longer significance, stories that are clues to deep institutional or cultural memes. This is one of them, and it involves the famous Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank Corporation, or HSBC, one of Asia's largest international banks. (And just as an aside, pay attention to that bank, HSBC, for you will encounter it again in my forthcoming book Covert Wars and Breakaway Civilizations). Anyway, to bring you up to speed, here are a couple … [Read more...]
ERIC SPROTT ON ALL THAT GOLD IN THE CENTRAL BANKS… ER… WELL…MAYBE NOT….
November 26, 2012 By
The past couple of days I've been blogging about our old friend, the Bearer Bonds scandals, and yesterday I happened to mention once again the curious amount of gold in the world, or rather, the curious fact that no one seems to know an exact figure. Well, I ran across this article and a few of you here found it as well, and I find it curious for any number of reasons, not the least of which is the amount of gold it mentions, which is yet another new figure. What made me sit up and take notice however, is that its author, Eric Sprott, is the manager of a ten billion dollar fund... so when … [Read more...]
THE IMF’s “NEW”(OLD) PLAN: DEBT-FREE GOVERNMENT-ISSUED MONEY
November 12, 2012 By
In case you missed it, the IMF (International Monetary Fund), that wondrous shill of US foreign policy and financial imperialism, has a "new" plan that, on examination, is really a very old one: IMF's epic plan to conjure away debt and dethrone bankers Now, at one level, this would appear to be nothing but a scheme to return to the system as obtained originally in the thirteen American colonies, where each colony issued its own colonial paper scrip until the Bank of England stepped in and shut that down. So, on paper, the scheme looks good. But let's stop and consider: do we really … [Read more...]