The Daily Bell reported over a week ago that now Mexico is joining Germany, the Netherlands, Ecuador, and the growing list of nations calling for repatriation of their gold from the apparently increasingly and all but bottomlessly corrupt Federal Reserve: The New Era in Gold Repatriation will Affect Everything There real problem, as the repatriation phenomenon attests, is a breakdown of trust in the central banking system in general. But ponder these words carefully: "The old era in which central banking trust was ingrained in the system is gone now – and the ramifications are many … [Read more...]
FIRST VENEZUELA, THEN GERMANY, THEN ECUADOR, NOW BRAZIL…
Sometimes you just have to sit back and laugh at the banksters. As I sit here today blogging for the next two weeks, enjoying a (GMO) turkey sandwich on fresh (GMO) bread made with wholesome (GMO) grains, slathered with mayonnaise made from (GMO) eggs from (GMO) chickens and topped with cheese from (GMO) cows' milk, I have to laugh. Most regular readers here will know I've been covering the story of Germany wanting to audit its gold and, in some case, to repatriate all or a substantial portion of it. The move, however, began with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. No surprise there, or so … [Read more...]
THE LIST HAS GROWN: SWITZERLAND, THE NETHERLANDS, AND ECUADOR JOIN GERMANY IN CALLS FOR AUDITS OF THEIR GOLD
The calls for full audits, and in some cases, repatriation, of foreign gold reserves being held by the New York Federal Reserve are growing, as now Switzerland, the Netherlands, and Ecuador have joined Germany in those calls and in Ecuador's case, repatriation, of its gold: German Calls for Gold Repatriation Intensify As Fed Refuses to Allow Inspection Obviously, the Fed's refusal to comply "in the interest of security" is a complete fabrication and obfuscation, what what is Germany going to do? Rush out and tell the world the processes by which the Fed "operates"? Doubtful. As the … [Read more...]
PRIOR TO THE ECUADORIAN ASYLUM FOR ASSANGE” ARGENTINA BANS UK SHIPS FROM ARGENTINE PORTS
Iranian Press TV is reporting that British ships have been banned from docking at Argentina's largest port and capital city, Buenos Aires: British ships banned from Buenos Aires Now, normally I am inclined to take anything coming out of Tel Aviv, Tehran, or The Washington Post as the sort of swill and codswallop one finds in the grocery store queue (usually under the astrology sun sign booklets and next to People magazine), but in this case, the codswallop is being backed up by the likes of Great Britain's own Daily Torygraph...er...pardon me, TELEgraph: British ships banned from … [Read more...]
SPECIAL EARLY EDITION OF NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE NEFARIUM AUG 22 2012
Joseph comments on Ecuador's recent decision regarding Julian Assange and the cyber attacks on Russia and the UK: … [Read more...]
ASSANGE, OLIGARCHS, TECHNOCRATS, ECUADOR, AND THE GREAT DEBATE
Yesterday I wrote about what I consider the proper historical and economic background from which to view Ecuador's decision to grant Mr. Julian Assange political asylum. It was, as I suggested there and last week in my News and Views from the Nefarium, a decision based in part upon some shrewd geopolitical calculation on Ecuador's part - possibly and in my opinion probably after quiet consultation with the Chinese, Russian, Brazilian, and Argentinian embassies in that country - and in part from a long and bitter experience with the West and its "aid" in helping "develop" the country by … [Read more...]
TIDBIT: AFTER ECUADOR, RT IS HIT WITH CYBER ATTACK
Well the covert wars between the nutters in London and Washington and the nutters in Moscow apparently are proceeding apace: in the wake of Ecuador's decision to grant asylum to Julian Assange and to tell the Anglo-American oligarchs where to stick it. This is what they said: Shadowy Hacker Group Takes Down RT Web Servers Now, since the Kremlin seems to be, oddly enough, the only media outlet reporting on Western news in any sort of fashion that conveys real information (and some interesting analysis), isn't it just odd that, of all media outlets, they are the ones to be hit with a … [Read more...]
BEHIND THE ECUADORIAN DECISION TO GRANT ASSANGE ASYLUM: A LONG HISTORY OF ECONOMIC RAPE AT THE HANDS OF THE FINANCIAL POWERS OF THE WEST
Two days ago - that is to say, Thursday August 16, 2012 - I spoke in my News and Views from the Nefarium about the decision of the Ecuadorian government to grant celebrated (or depending on one's lights, infamous) Wikileaks founder Julian Assange political asylum in its embassy in London. In that talk, I suggested that the Ecuadorian government and foreign ministry had probably done a bit of shrewd geopolitical calculation, and that there was more behind its decision than meets the eye. I suggested that this geopolitical calculation included its own national sovereignty, for the British aide … [Read more...]
NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE NEFARIUM AUG 16 2012
Joseph comments on the story of the U.K.'s threats against Ecuador to turn over Julian Assange: For the Mike Huckabee and Bob Beckel execution statements, see these: US embassy cables culprit should be executed, says Mike Huckabee Fox News' Bob Beckel Calls For 'Ilegally' Killing Assange: 'A Dead Man Can't Leak Stuff' (VIDEO) … [Read more...]