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...]
NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE NEFARIUM NOV 2, 2012
Joseph talks about the following article from Before It's News, and about the German gold audit, and debt jubilee: Germany to the Fed: We Demand to See Our Gold! Fed Refuses To Even Let Them See It … [Read more...]
NEWS AND VIEWS FROM THE NEFARIUM MAY 30 2012
Joseph Comments on this article from the Daily Torygraph....er....Daily Telegraph in the UK: Europe’s debtors must pawn their gold for Eurobond Redemption … [Read more...]
THE DAILY BELL: THE EURO QUIETLY COLLAPSING?
Joseph continues his series of video blogs in response to readers and listeners, this time focusing on an article in THe Daily Bell about the quiet collapse of the Euro: Is the Euro Slowly Dying? … [Read more...]
APOCALYPSE THEATER: THE HIDDEN NUCLEAR POWERS
With all the talk lately of "despicable Iran" and its nuclear program in the press lately, it's worth pausing and taking stock of the little-known probable nuclear powers that we never hear about. First, let's begin with this article, and then note certain details it contains quite closely: Europe's Five "Undeclared Nuclear Weapons States" As the article notes, the recognized nations with nuclear weapons are the USA, Russia - these two powers having by far and away the most built-up nuclear and thermonuclear stockpiles - France, the United Kingdom, and China (these nations also having … [Read more...]
RT TV LOOKS AT ITALY, LIBYA, AND FRANCE: A QUICK ASSESSMENT
As usual, Russian television is filling in some blanks left conveniently blacked out in the Western news media regarding Libya, and here one has to read between the lines very closely: Libyan deposits turn Italy oily If you've been following the unfolding European debt crisis, you'll have noticed that two leaders and their countries seem to be calling the shots: France's Nicholas Sarkozy and Germany's Angele Merkel. Recall that it was at France's instigation that the NATO action against Libya began, and the loser in this internal European polka is Italy, which had strong business ties to … [Read more...]