So it begins….Cashless society in Africa: Mastercard Biometric RFID national identity card

It was recently announced at the World Economic Forum in Cape Town, South Africa that MasterCard and the Nigerian National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) under the government of Nigeria would form a partnership to distribute a new identity card to every Nigerian citizen. The purpose of the card is to have all Nigerian citizens participate in the financial services sector under the control of MasterCard, a multinational financial services corporation [...]

What Does the Cyprus Deal Mean For Individual Investors?

by Phoenix Capital Research

 

Cyprus put another nail in the coffin of Democracy and capitalism over the weekend.

Having found that the Cyprus people and Parliament wouldn’t stand for the confiscation (THEFT) of depositors’ savings, the EU bureaucrats simply chose an option in which voting doesn’t occur.

This is precisely what I feared would happen: that any basic rules or laws would be tossed out the window during times of extreme crisis. This has [...]

Wholesale Changes In Banking On Our Doorstep: Are You A Depositor, Or Are You An Investor?

I was reading some comments from European Technocrats today regarding the decision by Cyprus to withdraw from the ECB Bailout of Cypriot Banks, when a certain comment by the German Finance Minister caught my eye.

It doesn’t seem like much, just a word change, but legally it makes all the difference in the world.

So when you open an account at a bank, are you a Depositor? Or are you an Investor?

Because Depositors [...]

Farage Slams Eurozone As “Complete Economic Disaster”, Beppe Grillo: Why Is Only Germany Getting Richer? UK: Cost of Living Soars Four Times Faster Than Earnings… German Employment Is At Its Highest Level In More Than 20 Years Ago!!

Farage Slams Eurozone As “Complete Economic Disaster”

Farage barks that it “is absolutely clear that Eurozone membership is completely incompatible with nation-state democracy.” The complete denial (and “unutterable drivel”) about the Eurozone crisis incenses him as he says “you’d think listening to everyone this morning that it’s over.” The real problem, he explains, is that they won’t face up to the reality that “You are not facing up to the consequences for [...]

Global Markets In Uncharted Territory Without A Bond To Guide Us

GLOBAL markets are on a journey into the unknown, with asset prices increasingly determined by a handful of politicians and technocrats without the bedrock once provided by risk-free sovereign debt.

UBS head of global sovereign research Michael Dow said that the explosion in public debt, and the frantic efforts by politicians and policymakers to deal with the consequences, had produced an environment where “policy risk” now determined asset prices.

“The actions of [...]

The Cashless Society is Almost Here – And With Some Very Sinister Implications

By Patrick Henningsen
November 29, 2012

Among the long list of items bundled by consensus reality merchants under the banner of ‘conspiracy theory’, is a world without cash – where technocrats rule over the populace, and everything and anything is exchanged via plastic and RFID chips.

In this sterile and controlled Orwellian hi-tech society, the idea of cash being passed from hand to hand would be as archaic as the thought of carrying [...]

Technocratic Control Over Greek Gold is Reason For Destruction of Economy

Susanne Posel, Contributor
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Activist Post

Last week, gold fell below $1,700 an ounce. This prompted caution in the metals markets as the Federal Reserve Bank continues its purchases of the mortgage-backed securities. The mainstream media touts this act as an attempt to stimulate the American economy; however, it is nothing less than a land-grab by the technocrats.

Overseas, Germany’s central bank has neglected to audit the country’s estimated 3,400 tons [...]

The Fed’s US Land-Grab Hidden Within Purchase of Mortgage-Backed Securities

Susanne Posel
Occupy Corporatism
September 24, 2012

As of August 9th of this year, the banks are legally allowed to co-mingle customer segregated funds with their own if the financial institution is insolvent, under duress or in bankruptcy. In other words, the technocrats have made the theft that Jon Corzine committed a non-criminal offense.

The latest scheme of the banking cartels has been introduced as QE3, which is nothing more than amassive land-grab in the domestic US [...]

EU’s Poorest Member Country Smacks Down Euro As Bulgaria Refuses To Join Eurozone

If one needs a shining example of why the days of Europe’s artificial currency are numbered, look no further than the EU’s poorest country which moments ago said “Ne Mersi” to the Eurozone and the European currency. From the WSJ: “Bulgaria, the European Union’s poorest member state and a rare fiscal bright spot for the bloc, has indefinitely frozen long-held plans to adopt the single currency, marking the latest fiscally [...]

Greece Prints Euros To Stay Afloat, The ECB Approves, The Bundesbank Nods: No One Wants To Get Blamed For Grexit

Wolf Richter   www.testosteronepit.com

A lot of politicians in Germany, but also in other countries, issue zingers about a Greek exit from the Eurozone and the end of their patience. But those with decision-making power play for time. They want someone else to do the job. Suddenly Greece is out of money again. It would default on everything, from bonds held by central banks to internal obligations. On August 20. The day a €3.2 [...]

Monti plans ‘Greek-style’ takeover of Sicily to avert default

London Telegraph
July 19, 2012

COMMENT: Prime Minister Mario Monti remains central to the banker-takeover of Europe and the world, which is now largely admitted. He is of course a long-term and frequent attendee at Bilderberg, and a senior international advisor to Goldman Sachs. His unelected rule by technocrats represents the future these globalists are working now to finalize, less the world stop them.

Mr Monti held an “urgent” meeting with the country’s president Giorgio Napolitano on [...]

CIA takes over as Ethiopian regime crumbles: analyst

Press TV
July 19, 2012

Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is turning more and more to the CIA for making his government’s critical decisions as the foundation of his regime crumbles, a political analyst says.

In an article published on Tuesday, independent journalist Thomas C. Mountain said that the isolation surrounding Meles Zenawi grows almost by the day as he faces “more insurgencies, an ongoing economic crisis and calls for regime change from [...]

Bankers Declare U.S. & Europe Conquered

World government now an open secret

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones
Infowars.com
Thursday, July 19, 2012

 

A recent CNBC clip in which financial analysts admit to viewers that America is under the control of a group of central bankers who are building a world government is a damning insight into how the establishment has dispensed with any pretense of trying to hide their agenda as it is finalized.

During the video, the host [...]

The Greatest Threat To Mankind

The ultimate sin of the technocrats

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Monday, July 9, 2012

 

The self-destructive, self-loathing, nihilistic drivel that poses as popular culture and modern society is like a ball and chain to humanity’s innate desire to realize its true potential.

In the video above, Alex Jones explains how the people in control of our planet are wantonly hurting the course of human development and sacrificing the very legacy of our species [...]

Why the latest euro bailout is certain to fail, the half-life of this bailout will be measured in weeks…

From Bruce Krasting:

Holy smokes! The EU technocrats have finally pulled out the big guns! The agreement on Friday was to take the incredibly bold step of avoiding subordination in the Spanish bond market. The money needed for the busted Spanish banks will now be made available directly from Brussels with few strings attached. Wow! What a breakthrough!

Global markets have taken a quick look at what has been offered up by [...]

If this was common knowledge, Obama would have no chance of reelection

From Azizonomics:

Under Obama, corporate profits have soared to all-time highs…

Renters are doing better than ever; rental income has exploded and almost doubled since the recession (bubble-watchers — this is a huge one)…

Yet employment still hasn’t recovered…

Income inequality under Obama has grown at a faster rate than under Bush or Clinton…

All that debt Obama acquired, and all the stimulus did work to redistribute wealth and income — it worked to redistribute [...]

Rockefeller Foundation Predicts 13,000 Dead at London 2012 Olympics

James Britpod
Infowars.com
June 7, 2012

A 2010 Rockefeller Foundation document entitled “Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development” outlines a scenario which results in the death of 13,000 during the 2012 Olympics.

The first worrying prediction begins in 2012 when ‘the pandemic the world had been anticipating for years’, finally hits, infecting nearly 20 percent of world population and claiming 8 million lives. Due to this pandemic, the Rockefeller Foundation outlines how the [...]

Bruce Krasting: Stop Believing What These ‘Experts’ Say About Greece

Three months ago I made fun of an ABC News report about the stock market. The occasion back then was the rise in the Dow Jones above 13,000. ABC has a panel of thirteen “experts.” All thirteen were in agreement; this time the move in stocks was the real deal. All thirteen experts were convinced that stocks had no where to go but up for the rest of the year. Of course they were [...]

Bankers Want To Keep Greece Mired In Depression

Astounding quote lifts veil on elite’s arrogance

Paul Joseph Watson
Infowars.com
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

An astounding quote buried at the bottom of a CNBC article lifts the lid on the arrogance of the global banking elite and their desire to see Greece remain mired in depression.

The article, entitled Greece to Leave Euro Zone on June 18: Wealth Manager, focuses on Integral Asset Management’s Nick Dewhirst’s contention that Greece will exit the single currency [...]

Independent article – Goldman Sachs conquers Europe:

Independent.co.uk

 

The ascension of Mario Monti to the Italian prime ministership is remarkable for more reasons than it is possible to count. By replacing the scandal-surfing Silvio Berlusconi, Italy has dislodged the undislodgeable. By imposing rule by unelected technocrats, it has suspended the normal rules of democracy, and maybe democracy itself. And by putting a senior adviser at Goldman Sachs in charge of a Western nation, it has taken to new [...]

Bilderberg Demands Internet ID for all EU Citizens

Infowars.com
May 24, 2012

 

Mark of the Beast: Bilderberg Pushes Mandatory Internet ID for Europe

 

Aaron Dykes
Infowars.com
May 23, 2012

While the internationalACTA treaty and United States’ CISPA legislation are setting the stage to clamp down on the world wide web, technocrats are working overtime to try to pin down your identity and make sure all your activities are thoroughly monitored and under control.

The European Union is now moving to create a mandatory electronic ID system for all EU citizens [...]

Mark of the Beast: Bilderberg Pushes Mandatory Internet ID for Europe

Aaron Dykes
Infowars.com
May 23, 2012

While the internationalACTA treaty and United States’ CISPA legislation are setting the stage to clamp down on the world wide web, technocrats are working overtime to try to pin down your identity and make sure all your activities are thoroughly monitored and under control.

The European Union is now moving to create a mandatory electronic ID system for all EU citizens that would be implemented across Europe to standardize business both online and [...]

Bilderberg Technocrats Hacking U.S. Elections

Infowars.com
May 16, 2012

Bilderberg steering committee member Peter Thiel has brought his partners from Facebook and Silicon Valley to the table with the top globalists. They seek to steer and control not only online social movements, but elections as well. Their designs on the 2012 elections are coming into view as the secretive group readies to meet in Chantilly, Virginia.

NWO: Web of Social Control 

Greek to declare bankruptcy at 2 p.m. today?

Greece’s political impasse continues and president Karolos Papoulias is expected to ask politicians to allow a government of technocrats to help Greece avoid bankruptcy at 2 p.m. today. But the leftist Syriza party has rejected the proposal.

via Reuters:

 

Greece’s president will ask politicians on Tuesday to stand aside and let a government of technocrats steer the nation away from bankruptcy, but leftists have already rejected the proposal and look set to force a new [...]

Elected governments have already been swept away – or replaced by EU technocrats without a vote, indeed to prevent a vote…

Europe’s political centre is starting to crumble, replicating the pattern of the early 1930s 

as the crisis ground into its third year under a similar mix of fiscal and monetary contraction.

Elected governments have already been swept away – or replaced by EU technocrats without a vote, indeed to prevent a vote – in every eurozone state where unemployment has reached double-digits: Spain (23.6pc), Greece (21pc), Portugal (15pc), Ireland (14.7pc) and Slovakia [...]

Amid Euro-Slump, IMF Clever Technocrats Are Forced to Rethink Austerity

Howard Schneider
Washington Post
April 18, 2012

Spain and other embattled European countries may be slashing government spending too quickly, the International Monetary Fund warned Tuesday, saying deep budget cuts could be choking off economic growth vital for curing their financial crises.

The findings were detailed in a new IMF study that raises basic questions about how Europe is responding to the debt crisis unsettling the continent’s markets and depressing its economies.

While concerns about [...]

Steve Keen On The Transmutation Of Zombie Banking Into Zombie Government!

Uploaded by CapitalAccount on Feb 28, 2012

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Ireland will reportedly hold a referendum on Europe’s new fiscal treaty for stricter budget discipline. The former prime minister is against it, saying a no vote could force ireland out of the euro. We’ve seen referendums called for before in the Eurozone crisis — didn’t seem to end well last time for democratic self-determination. Will this be yet another case of “the economic crisis [...]

TF Metals Report: Gold & Silver Looking Good; Caution Warranted

So, there you have it. The technocrats of Europe have spun up a deal to prolong the illusion that all might one day be well. This was expected simply because a default cannot be allowed for the reasons we laid out yesterday. The fiat currency reaction has been muted but the metals are rallying, regardless, due to the money creation that will be the end result of this latest “bailout”.

I’ll [...]

Iceland’s Viking Victory: Fitch has upgraded the country to investment grade BBB – with a stable outlook

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
London Telegraph
February 19, 2012

The strategy of devaluation behind capital controls has rescued the economy. (Yes, I know there is a dispute about exchange controls, but that is a detail.) The country has held its Nordic welfare together and preserved social cohesion. It is slowly prospering again, though private debt weighs heavy.

Nobody is forcing the elected government out of office or appointing technocrats as prime minister. The Althingi sits untrammeled [...]

The Years Of Stagnation And The Poodles Of Power — Typically provocative blog post compares West of today with Soviet Union of 1980s. Clearly many differences but similarities Curtis finds are striking – disillusion with politics, economics, corrupt technocrats, vacuous society

Adam Curtis
BBC News

Everybody is always remarking about how stuck our society feels these days. The music doesn’t change, the political parties are all exactly the same, and films and TV dramas are almost always set in the past.

We are also stuck with an economic system that is not delivering the paradise that it once promised – but is instead creating chaos and hardship. Yet no-one can imagine a better [...]

The 7 Stages of Banker’s Grief – Europe on the Brink of Psychosis

Uploaded by CapitalAccount on Jan 18, 2012

It is looking like the greek government may not be able to pay its bills in march as Athens is trying to renegotiate it’s bonds with investors who may need to take an even larger haircut than originally envisioned. In addition, labor unions are negotiating on proposed labor cost cutting. So how will this greek tragedy play out? No one seems to have any idea, so [...]

WARNING: We are reaching the breaking point, the collapse is coming!

Through sheer fatigue, they have people conditioned to think they can muddle through this.  They can’t.  Below are some of the canaries in the coal mine.  Things indicating the devaluation is coming.  They fall into two categories, indications of systemic collapse, and indications of TPTB preparing for the collapse.  The biggest indicator, of course, is gold and silver price action and efforts to suppress those prices.

Canaries in the Coal Mine:

Looting [...]

News That Matters – 1/9

By www.thetrader.se

 

Ft.com
China’s December lending and money supply growth exceeded economists’ estimates, reports Bloomberg, with new loans totalling 640.5bn yuan ($101bn) for the month. M2 rose 13.6 per cent, comparedhttp://ftalphaville.ft.com/thecut/2012/01/09/822301/chinas-december-mone…

Mario Monti has defended a tough crackdown on tax evaders in luxury ski and coastal resorts, rejecting angry reactions from leading members of Silvio Berlusconi’s centre-right party whose support in parliament is vital for Italy’s new government of technocrats,http://ftalphaville.ft.com/thecut/2012/01/09/822291/monti-defends-tax-cr…

David Cameron has left open [...]

MONTI SAYS EFSF NEED `SIGNIFICANTLY MORE’ FUNDING

While the technocrats cling to their vision for a European Bloc (amid a tumbling ‘stable’ EUR), Italian Prime-Minister-in-lieu Mario Monti is spreading the good word. Presented with little comment, via Bloomberg headlines, from a press conference in Rome, the Goldmanite builds the bridge to nowhere that the Socialist construct is unsustainable, yet the EFSF needs more funding to ensure the unsustainable social welfare model remains, err, unsustainable?

*MONTI SAYS EUROPE MUST [...]

Gerald Celente – Sneak Peak of the Top Trends for 2012

kingworldnews.com 

KWN is giving readers and listeners globally an exclusive sneak peak into Gerald Celente’s top trends for 2012.  Gerald Celente is founder of Trends Research and the man many consider to be the top trends forecaster in the world.  When asked about the top trends for 2012, Celente stated, “One of our tends is the technocrat takeover.  Over in Greece or over in Italy, they are all bragging they’re bringing the [...]