Joseph comments about the following two articles and the latest chapter in the Bearer Bonds scandals: Billions in bearer bonds could be lost due to Hurricane Sandy: sources Shadow banking doubled during crisis to record 67 trillion dollars … [Read more...]
JAPANESE FINANCE MINISTER MURDERED BY SUICIDE?
The day before the 11h anniversary of the September 11 attacks, 73-year old Japanese Finance Minister Tadahiro Matsushita was found hanging in his home: Japan Banking Minister Matsushita Found Dead at His Home Now, if you're like me, your antennae are immediately pulsing with suspicion over this one. My intuition is telling me this is another case of "murder by suicide," because Matsushita was part of the new Japanese government's attempts to get to the bottom of the plundering and corruption of that country by the decades' long oligarchical rule of the Liberal Democrats. As I have … [Read more...]
REMEMBER THOSE FAKE GOLD-BACKED BEARER BONDS….? WELL… GET A LOAD OF THIS…
My friend Mr P.T. sent me this as I was scheduling these few weeks' worth of blogs, and I just had to share it, because in its own way, it's shining a light once again on all those stories of fake gold-backed U.S. Federal Reserve bearer bonds that seem to keep being seized: Don Coxe - Emergency Fed Meeting & Gold Backed Bonds Now, as I read that, I thought, "where have we heard this before? And what might it all mean?" Well, obviously, from the title of this little musing, we've heard of this before in connection with all those allegedly fake gold-backed US Federal Reserve Bearer … [Read more...]
JUST FOR THE RECORD: THE ORIGINAL ASIA NEWS STORY ON THE JAPANESE BEARER BOND SCANDAL
I thought I'd better post this, just for the record. It is the original Asia News story about the Japanese Bearer bond scandal. A close glance at the Asia News website will reveal its strong Vatican connections: Mystery surrounding 134.5 “fake” billion US dollars seized in Ponte Chiasso remains … [Read more...]
GOLD, BEARER BONDS, AUDITS, SPECULATIONS, AND REALLY WILD SPECULATIONS PART TWO
Joseph comments in this series of vidblogs about the following articles, various scenarios out there including the "White Dragon" scenario, and offers his own wild speculations: Germany to Review Bundesbank Gold Reserves in Frankfurt, Paris, London and New York Fed Lawsuit in India to get their Gold back from The Bank of England and the Bank for International Settlements Indian central bank challenged in court to repatriate country's gold Switzerland Wants Its Gold Back From The New York Fed … [Read more...]
NOW IT’S FILIPINO BEARER BONDS: A CLOSER LOOK: PART FIVE: A BRIEF POSTSCRIPT
I have noted in the previous sections of this miniseries the peculiar resemblance of the Filipino Bearer Bond scandal to the subsequent Spanish and Italian Bearer Bonds scandals. But there is more information out there about this, and it appears here: FED Bond Notes Billions Or CIA Forgery Plants? Here we note the following things: 1) the Filipino version of the scandal clearly has a connection to China via Hong Kong; 2) it was perpetrated in part by an individual claiming to be a son of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos; 3) this individual was prosecuted and sentenced … [Read more...]
NOW IT’S FILIPINO BEARER BONDS: A CLOSER LOOK:PART TWO: SYNTHESIS

Today I am continuing my little miniseries on the Filipino Bearer Bond Scandal, one that went virtually unnoticed in the American media. Note what we have to date: 1) The Japanese Bearer Bond Scandal of June 2009, which did receive major media attention in the USA; 2) The Spanish Bearer Bond Scandal, which did not receive major USA media attention; 3) The Italian Bearer Bond Scandal earlier this year (2012) which also did not receive major USA media attention; 4) Now the Filipino Bearer Bond story, which in fact began in 2000, but which did not receive any major USA media … [Read more...]
NOW IT’S FILIPINO BEARER BONDS: A CLOSER LOOK: PART ONE: DETAILS
Readers here know of my fascination for the various bearer bond scandals that began to break in recent years, beginning with the seizure of some $134,000,000,000 in allegedly counterfeit bearer bonds beginning with the Japanese Bearer Bond Scandal in Italy in 2009. Well, in case you haven't heard (funny how the media over here isn't reporting on these stories since the Japanese one, isn't i1!?), there has been yet another such story emerging, as recently as January of this year, as reported by Bloomberg here, and which I blogged about last January. But it requires a closer look: No One … [Read more...]
THE VATICAN: CLEANING UP ITS FINANCIAL ACT…?
There's an interesting report from CNBC that says the Vatican is cleaning up it's financial act: Ponder this one for a moment, before I run out to the end of the twig and speculate wildly once more: Vatican seeks to explain US money laundering tag Now, you'll note that according to the article, the U.S. State Department put the Vatican on a list of "jurisdictions of concern" for money laundering. All of this brought back to my mind the sordid history of the 1980s, and widespread allegations of financial corruption. It all began when Pope Paul VI died, and when Albino Cardinal Luciani, … [Read more...]
BACK TO LORD BLACKHEATH AND ALL THAT EXTRA GOLD: ANOTHER SPECULATION
As most of you are aware, I've been fascinated for some time now with the stories of all the allegedly fake bearer bonds that seem to pop up every now and then. There was first the Japanese Bearer Bond scandal, involving some $134,000,000,000 in bearer bonds that were self-evidently faked. Well, one scandal might have been written off as being merely an odd episode on otherwise tranquil financial seas, but then mere weeks ago, another story broke in Spain about the seizure of more allegedly faked series 1934 U.S. Federal Reserve bullion-backed bonds in the trillions of dollars, and then, mere … [Read more...]