"We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected their promises of discretion for almost 40 years, it would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subjected to the lights of publicity during those years, but, the world is more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the national auto-determination practiced in past centuries."
David Rockefeller
Council on Foreign Relations
Black Nobility
Corrupt
“Today, Americans would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order; tomorrow, they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told there was an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all people of the world will plead with world leaders to deliver them from this evil….individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by their world government.”
Henry Kissinger
Bankster Filth
"We shall have world government whether or not we like it. The only question is whether world government will be achieved by conquest or consent."
James Warburg to the United States Senate Committee on foreign relations, 1950
Corrupt
"Our great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men...who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.
We have come to be one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the civilized world - No longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and the duress of small groups of dominant men."
Woodrow Wilson
Crushing Defeat for Germany’s Merkel as Voters Reject Austerity
- Common Dreams staff
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her conservative party suffered a crushing defeat on Sunday in an election in Germany’s most populous state, a result which should embolden the left opposition to step up its criticism of her European ‘austerity’ policies. The victory of socialist François Hollande in the French presidential election was a repudiation of the austerity policies imposed on the euro zone by his predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, in collaboration with German chancellor Angela Merkel, who had endorsed Sarkozy in the election.
The crushing defeat leaves her vulnerable at a time when a backlash against her insistence on austerity is building across Europe. Recent elections have rejected austerity policies in Greece, France and Italy, severely weakening Chancellor Merkel.
According to early projections, the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) won 38.8 percent of the vote and will have enough to form a stable majority with the Greens, who scored 12.2 percent.
Voters in Germany’s most populous state handed a resounding victory to the center-left , dealing a heavy blow to Angela Merkel’s conservatives in what was interpreted as a backlash against the chancellor’s European austerity campaign.
The worst result in the state for the conservatives since 1949Exit polls in the election in North Rhine-Westphalia showed Hannelore Kraft of the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) had soundly beat her Christian Democrat (CDU) rival Norbert Röttgen, Merkel’s environment minister.
The SPD secured 39% of the vote to the CDU’s 26% in what amounted to the worst result in the state for the conservatives since 1949. The Greens took 12%, ensuring that a coalition with the SPD would mean a 10-seat majority in the state parliament. The Free Democratic party (FDP), Merkel’s coalition partner in the federal government, took 8.5% of the vote.
The parvenu Pirates party, whose platform is based on greater openness in government through technology, were celebrating their fourth successive entry into a regional parliament after polling 7.5%.
The result in North Rhine-Westphalia – whose 18-million population makes it bigger than EU countries including Greece whose perilous economic situation and Germany’s approach to it was often the focus of the campaign – is seen as setting the tone for next year’s federal elections.
GREEK POLICE THREATEN TO ARREST TROIKA AS BUDGET ROW ESCALATES
by Jane Burgermeister
*GREEK POLICE SAY THEY WILL ARREST TROIKA FOR JEOPARDISING SURVIVAL OF GREEK PEOPLE AND UNDERMINING DEMOCRACY
*WILDCAT STRIKES AND SIT INS IN PROTEST AT NEW AUSTERITY MEASURES
*EU TRIES TO COMPEL ALL POLITICAL PARTIES TO SIGN UP BEFORE ELECTIONS: END OF DEMOCRACY
The Greek police force is seeking an arrest warrant for the “Troika” officials belonging to the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund.
The Greek police federation sent a letter to ECB, the IMF and the EC, warning them that the arrest of the Troika could be imminent in a letter, which was also published in the Greek press.
The police accuse the Troika of undermining democracy, jeopardizing the survival of the Greek people and looting the country.
No doubt there is one honest judge left who will be ready to sign the arrest warrant if the police really need one. After all, police just nab burglars and put them in jail even without a warrant.
This blogger has argued all along that the Greek penal euro bailout is a gigantic crime scene and those individual who are responsible should be held to account.
The Troika are key figures in the EU bankster bailout scam, but the investigation needs to be widened. European Arrest Warrants should be issued for the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the French President Nicolas Sarkozy as well as the German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble, among others.
Firstly, Merkel played a crucial role in burying the recommendation by German economists for an orderly insolvency mechanism to be introduced in 2010, leaving Greece facing the prospect of a chaotic default inside the eurozone if it does not agree to paying penal interest rates to foreign creditors on a staggering and growing national debt.
Secondly, Merkel bullied Greek Prime Minister Andreas Papandreous into dropping a referendum on the euro bailout scam according to Bild newspaper, which celebrated her as “Merkules”.
“The open threats worked,” writes Bild, brazenly admitting the thuggery of Merkel. How long are people in Europe going to tolerate this mafia in power?
German citizens, who are also victims of the same bankster bailout scam – plans are afoot to raise the pension age to 75 or 80 -, should do their civic duty and support the arrest of this clique before Germans suffer the same fate and austerity cuts as the euro Ponzi scheme runs its course.
The Greek police threat to arrest the Troika comes as people are rising up against a new wave of austerity cuts.
More legal action should be launched by Greece to sue the EU, IMF and ECB for compensation.
In 2010 already this blog explained that the austerity measures being implemented by the Troika would lead to a death debt spiral. Greece is sinking deeper and deeper in debt precisely because it is doing what the Troika says. The mainstream media turn cause and effect on their head and claim Greece is in trouble because it is NOT carrying out austerity measures.
Greece is in a death spiral, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard wrote in the Telegraph yesterday.
“Another normal day at the Hellenic Statistical Authority.
We learn that:
Greece’s manufacturing output contracted by 15.5pc in December from a year earlier.
Industrial output fell 11.3pc, compared to minus 7.8pc in November.
Unemployment jumped to 20.9pc in November, up from 18.2pc a month earlier.
I have little further to add. This is what a death spiral looks like,” he writes.
“It is what can happen if you join a fixed exchange system, then take out very large debts in what amounts to a foreign currency, and then have simultaneous monetary and fiscal contraction imposed upon you,” he writes.
This is what happens
1) if you join a fixed exchange system at a rate which makes your domestic industry uncompetitive
2) then are allowed to run up a huge current account deficit in stealth by courtesy of the ECB and Bundesbank using the Target 2 payments system,
3) then have statisticians in the EU and Greek exaggerate your national debt to declare a national souvereign debt crisis,
4) and then have a brutal corset of interest payments to the banksters imposed on you, and also simultaneous monetary and fiscal contraction.
108 Pasok MPs have now called for an investigation into the statistics fraud.
500,000 people in Greece, in the meantime, have no more funds at all. They can’t claim support from the state and they can’t get a job.
15,000 people are already homeless.
The unemployment rate among people under 25 is 50%.
Children are collapsing in schools due to a lack of nourishment.
250,000 people depend on the church and charity for a daily meal.
The Orthodox church feeds 30,000 people a day.
Half the apartment blocks in the poor districts of Athens were not heated this winter.
Half a million people have gone to eke out a living in the country.
One million people are threatened with having their electricity cut off because they cannot pay the property tax which is being collected by electricity companies.
Every fifth business in Athens has closed down.
And the new round of cuts has not even begun to take effect.
Minimum wages will be cut by 22%.
The wages of state employees to be frozen.
150,000 officials are to be axed by 2012.
Power, infrastructure and real estate is to be sold off to foreign companies for a song under a special trust agency.
The banks are to receive 40 billion euros as recapitalization.
To accelerate the looting of Greece, Merkel and Schäuble proposed setting up a “Gauleiter” or budget overseer with control over the entire tax revenues of the country. Another proposal is to set up a special account to service the foreign creditors which the Greek government has no access to.
A German lawmaker has even called for Greece to be given a new name.
Georgios „Jorgo“ Chatzimarkakis said that the country needs to be given a new constitution – perhaps one enshrining Angela Merkel as the new Queen.
Only in the studios of ARD Globalist puppet Thomas Gottschalk do the voice of the Greek people not count. Gottschalk portrays the Greeks as children who need supervision of their economy because they can’t manage it themselves by adults like much of the rest of the mainstream German media, including Bild newspaper.
Germans should run the Greek economy because Greeks are too infantile to manage it. Democracy has no more role to pay. That is the patronizing message of Gottschalk crammed into the first week of his new early evening propaganda show.
The Telegraph calls the comments of far-right party leader, George Karatzaferis inflammatory, also strongly suggesting an independent political view has no more place in the new Greek bankster colony.
“The Greek far-right party leader, George Karatzaferis, said he could not vote in favour of the €130bn proposed bailout package proposed for the country.
In inflammatory comments made at a press conference, Mr Karatzaferis also said the IMF mission chief for Greece should be persona non grata in the country.
I explained to the other political leaders that I cannot vote for this loan agreement. If we want things to go forward, Poul Thomsen must be declared persona non grata for Greece.
We are not going to vote. Humiliation was imposed on us. I do not tolerate this. And I do not allow it, no matter how hungry I might be.
The Greek parliament is expected to vote through the EU package this Sunday as it has voted through all the other austerity cuts so far.
However, even Greek Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos has been forced to recognise that the country is at a turning point and must make a decision about whether to chose the euro or the Drachma. Especially if the Drachma is introduced as public money printed by the government with no interest attached, a return to the Drachma should prove to be the start of a recovery for Greece, attracting tourists, making its industry competitive again and allowing liquidity to flow through the economy.
Unions do u-turn and may now support a default on our debt
By Independent.ie reporters
Trades unions have changed their approach to our economic future and warned there may be a time when they would support a default on our debt.
Up to now unions had not supported such a move.
But addressing the ICTU conference in Killarney, Co Kerry, ICTU president Jack O’Connor said: “ Opinion is divided as to the potential consequences of threatening default and we have not, thus far, supported the call.
“We may well come to do so and we are conscious that resources are being run down as time passes.”
But he conceded that such a move could have massive implications for jobs and the public services and more importantly he also warned that such a move could result in the ECB pulling essential funding out of the banks.
Mr O’Connor warned the EU will spiral into deflation if expensive bailout regimes continue to be imposed on countries like Ireland, Portugal and Greece.
He said these austerity packages are inspired by the governments of Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s Nicolas Sarkozy and result in “a direct full-frontal assault on collective bargaining, pay and pensions.”
He added that while overall growth in Europe is improving, this is overshadowed by the threatened default of all of the stressed out country which carry billions in liabilities which could sink the global financial system beyond trace.
“A Marshall aid-type strategy is required to rescue Europe both economically and politically,” he said.
“However, those in charge have opted for the shock therapy of a reparations course instead, ignoring the lessons of history.”
On the domestic front, Mr O’Connor re-iterated union plans for €4bn to be taken out of the National Pension Reserve Fund to boost jobs and for more participation from private pension money in return for exemption from the new levy.
Mr O’Connor said the move would more than offset the deflationary effect of the billions of cuts scheduled for budget 2012 and create upwards of 80,000 jobs, providing an enormous boost to confidence.
“At the same time, the thorny issue of the failure of those with real wealth to contribute in proportion to their capacity to do so must be grasped.
“We can no longer afford the luxury of subsidising the rich and being one of the most unequal countries in the world.”
Up to 800 delegates are attending the conference where pay agreements for low earners, the banking crisis and job creation are top of the agenda.
In his keynote speech, Mr O’Connor also hit out at possible reforms to cut the pay of low earners in sectors such as hospitality and security.
He warned people were paralysed by the fear of losing their homes, pensions and jobs – and demanded homeowners making a genuine effort to service their mortgage be given a firm and absolute guarantee that their properties will never be repossessed.
“This is eminently possible in a state-owned banking system and the markets have already priced for it,” he added.
This being St. Patrick’s Day, Ireland’s fate is on the minds of many Americans. At a recent meeting of EU leaders in Brussels, German Chancellor Angela Merkel (in concert with French President Nicolas Sarkozy) laid down an impossibly difficult term sheet for Ireland to sign or suffer the consequences.
Walter Mead at The American Interest is not the only one who was appalled. But he’s the first American commentator to lambaste the German-French alliance for its arrogance and stupidity:
The Irish were once expected to pay with their heart’s blood for British imperial glory around the world; many of the soldiers and sailors who kept Queen Victoria’s empire strong were the sons of poor Irish crofters who took the Queen’s shilling because they had no alternative. Now France and Germany (two countries to whom the Irish turned in the past for help against Britain) want Irish taxpayers to pay the full and bitter price for the destructive folly of European bankers. And by fair means or foul the two largest powers in the EU want to force Ireland to give up its low corporate tax rate — widely seen in Ireland and around the world as one of the few tools that country has to promote its economic recovery.
It is rare to see power plays as naked and as brutal as this one in post-Soviet Europe. German and French banks went wild with euro-denominated loans to countries on the EU periphery during the last decade. Housing booms in Ireland and Spain, and the reckless overspending of the Greek government were made possible by feckless bankers. True, Irish home buyers (including speculators and flippers) along with real estate developers took out sketchy loans, but it takes two stupid and greedy parties to create a bad loan.
Fianna Fail, the deeply incompetent party of clueless cronies who ran the Irish government until their well deserved electoral thrashing last month, made a series of destructive decisions that culminated in a panic-stricken guarantee of the Irish banking system — a guarantee that in effect promised to protect owners of bank debt by converting bank obligations into obligations of the Republic of Ireland. The cost of the banking disaster looks to be roughly one-third of Ireland’s GDP — the equivalent in the US of a $4.5 trillion bailout.
"The real menace of our republic is this invisible government which like a giant octopus sprawls its slimy length over city, state and nation. Like the octopus of real life, it operates under cover of a self created screen...At the head of this octopus are the Rockefeller Standard Oil interests and a small group of powerful banking houses generally referred to as International Bankers. This little coterie of powerful international bankers virtually run the United States government for their own selfish purposes. They practically control both political parties."
- John F. Hylan, New York City Mayor, 1922
Woodrow Wilson, 1913
"Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
- Woodrow Wilson, 1913
Thomas Jefferson
"If the people let the government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny"
Thomas Jefferson (1778)
General Douglas MacArthur
“I am concerned for the security of our great nation, not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.”
General Douglas MacArthur
Thomas Jefferson
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
The victory of socialist François Hollande in the French presidential election was a repudiation of the austerity policies imposed on the euro zone by his predecessor, Nicolas Sarkozy, in collaboration with German chancellor Angela Merkel, who had endorsed Sarkozy in the election.
