Chief of State?

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The CIA publishes it’s “World Factbook” at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/.  This Factbook lists every nation on earth and provides a modest description of each nation’s history, demographics, natural resources, industrial capacity and income.  The Factbook is a particularly interesting document because it sometimes seems to tell the truth.

For example, if you visit the CIA World Factbook website, and enter “United States” into the search engine, you’ll see a description of a nation called “United States”. This description includes a map at https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html.  This map is interesting because, while it includes the location of some major cities and rivers, it does not include any reference to the States of the Union.  Admittedly, the map is small.  Including the borders of each of the States of the Union might make the map extremely difficult to read.

On the other hand, the “Factbook” is published on the internet and there’s no apparent size limit sufficient to prevent the CIA from providing a map of the “United States” that’s large enough to identify all of the States of the Union–or even all the counties, if they cared to do so.

Therefore, some people believe that the “United States” being described by the CIA map is not merely an oversimplification.  Instead, they believe the CIA map is accurate and doesn’t describe any States of the Union because there are none in that particular “United States”.  Instead, we see a properly drawn map that corresponds to the singular territory that is sometimes described as “this state”.

 

Change Your Money, Change Your World

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I wrote the following article last week for the International Forecaster.   In broad strokes this article attempts to illustrate that by changing the monetary system from fiat to gold-based, you completely change the political and economic environment.  There is little that is finally more revolutionary than a fundamental change in one’s monetary system.  Ron Paul is attempting to change our monetary system from fiat dollars to gold-based.  His candidacy is revolutionary.

After this article was written, reports came in that Iran was selling it’s crude oil for gold. (See, Iran Sells Crude Oil for GOLD“).  The sale of Iranian crude for gold parallels Ron Paul’s attempts to restore a gold-based dollar.  Both efforts signal an attack on the fiat dollar, fiat currencies in general, the central banks and the New World Order.

In the Ron Paul campaign and the Iranian sale of crude for gold, we may be witnessing evidence of an “idea whose time has come”:  the restoration of a gold-based monetary system.  If so, monetary events may start to unfold very rapidly.

 

Iran to Sell Crude Oil for Gold Story CONFIRMED

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On January 24th, I published “Iran to Sell Crude Oil for GOLD“.  I described the story as potentially the most important of the year and, if true, likely to precipitate an attack or invasion of Iran.  But I also admitted that the report was based on a single source (DEBKAfile) and though it seemed credible, might be mistaken.

Today, I see the following video wherein Russia Today TV news confirms the original report:

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1GtcrVOYDw&feature=player_embedded#!

The sale of crude oil for gold is not an absolute guarantee that Iran will be attacked or invaded, but it’s pretty close.  The world is shaking, right now.  The world is being changed by the sale of crude for gold.  If this sale is allowed to stand, the U.S. dollar will die, and the New World Order will expire.  The world is at war.

 

Obama’s Eligibility

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The Constitution of the United States requires all candidates for President to be “natural born citizens”.  There is enormous doubt and controversy as to whether Barack Obama meets that definition.

The following video reports that prior to Obama’s election, there were at least eight attempts in Congress to pass laws and/or constitutional amendments that would change the definition of “natural born citizen” (as found in the Constitution) to allow persons not born in this country to become President.  The video implies that these attempts to alter the definition of “natural born citizen” were part of a conspiracy specifically tailored to allow Obama to be elected.

I’m not convinced that all eight (or perhaps any) of those congressional attempts to redefine “natural born citizen” were part of a conspiracy to elect Obama–even before he was known or nominated.  It seems more likely that some congressmen believe that eligibility to become President should be extended to those immigrants who entered this country as children and grew up as “Americans”.  Alternatively, by seeming to try to make young immigrants eligible to become President, those Congressmen might simply be pandering for the support and votes of immigrants.

 

Bank Holiday Coming?

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Warren Pollock is a “semi-retired Wall Street executive”.  He’s interviewed by Max Kaiser and predicts that the American “empire” is failing; that that failure will include a “bank holiday” wherein most Americans’ bank savings will be effectively seized.

Pollock claims we are now in a “totally lawless” situation.  The government is passing laws now to legalize these future seizures.  The American people’s bank savings will be directly seized by the banks rather than taxed indirectly and then distributed from government to banks. All savings accounts would be revalued.  The existing dollars in your bank account, pension funds, brokerage accounts will be replaced with new dollars that have perhaps half the purchasing power of the existing dollars.

“Nothing is safe in terms of [bank account] savings.”

Chaos cometh.

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Iran to Sell Crude Oil for GOLD

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This might be the biggest story of the year.

As I’ve reported earlier (see Invading Iran (Rounding Up the Usual Suspects), the fiat dollar has been the World Reserve Currency since the end of WWII and the only currency capable of purchasing crude oil on the international markets from A.D. 1971 through A.D. 2005.  The fiat dollar’s primacy in international oil trade created a foreign demand for “petro-dollars”.  That demand created an artificial, extrinsic value for fiat dollars that are intrinsically worthless.

Saddam Hussein threatened the dollar’s primacy as the world’s only “petro-dollar” in A.D. 2000 by selling Iraqi crude for euros.  We invaded Iraq in A.D. 2003, wrecked the country and hanged Hussein, but it was too late to stop the world’s slow slide away from reliance on “petro-dollars”.  As a result, the dollar’s value as measured on the US Dollar Index has fallen about 36% since A.D. 2000.

 

Diebold accidently leaks 2012 election results!

Satire

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojmOESqVeak

 

Georgia Judge Subpoenas Obama

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According to the Associated Press,

“A judge has ordered President Barack Obama to appear in court in Atlanta for a hearing on a complaint that says Obama isn’t a natural-born citizen and can’t be president.  . . .  A Georgia resident made the complaint, which is intended to keep Obama’s name off the state’s ballot in the March presidential primary.”

Reportedly, there are laws that will allow the President to avoid appearing in court next Thursday, so no one expects him to appear.

Nevertheless, Obama’s citizenship issue is gaining traction.

As for the lawsuit seeking to compel Obama to prove his citizenship, they probably won’t work insofar as people are suing Obama.  But I suspect that each state’s Democrat Party may have an obligation to run only those candidates for any office that meet the legal and/or constitutional requirement to run for and hold that office.  If so, the plaintiff’s seeking to prevent Obama might do well to direct their lawsuits at their state Democrat Party rather than the President.  There might even be a requirement for the state Secretary of State to affirm that all candidates meet various election requirements. If so, the plaintiff’s might direct their lawsuit at the Secretary of State rather than Obama.

 

Irish Journalist vs EU Spokesman

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Here’s a video of an Irish journalist insisting that a spokesman for the EU explain why the Irish people are being held liable for paying billions of euros owed by a foreign (non-Irish) bank.

Note that this foreign bank’s debts were not “guaranteed”.   Presumably, this means the European creditors who lent their money to the foreign bank didn’t bother to ensure that repayment of their loan was secured with bonds, property or other forms of security.  I.e., if the bank defaulted on its debt, the creditors would still be able to attach the underlying bonds, property, etc. to recover their loans.

 

Being So Wrong for So Long

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What might be the psychological consequences of a collapse of fiat currencies, in general, and of the fiat dollar, in particular?

Yes, we all know that if the dollar collapses, food supplies will disappear, the electricity grid may fail, there’ll be chaos in the streets as starving Americans seek to steal any remaining food, etc..  We get that.

But what will be the psychological consequences for millions of Americans who are forced to admit that by trusting the government and the fiat monetary system, they’ve been so wrong for so long, that the resulting catastrophe is inescapable?  More importantly, what will be the psychological consequences of being forced to admit that we each became personally responsible for that catastrophe when we accepted the government’s lies?