Thursday, January 15, 2015
The Real Motive Behind the Charlie Hebdo False Flag Attack
The world is being taken to war one propaganda lie at a time. Most average people have no idea that they are being manipulated and soon the majority of people on this planet will be convinced that it is perfectly acceptable to kill strangers that they have never met as a result of this false flag based propaganda.
The Path to War Is Complicated
There are multiple paths to World War III, and I predict that the reasons for going to war will soon be readily apparent to even the sheep among us. Presently, there are two distinct paths to World War III, namely, plunging oil prices and Muslim extremism. Both of these paths are going to be exacerbated by a false flag event(s) and we have just witnessed the first example of this public opinion manipulation (e.g. Paris assassinations and bombings).
Plunging Oil Prices
As I have reported over the past week, the United States and Russia are playing a game of “chicken”. On one hand, Russia is leading the charge to “ditch” the Petrodollar as the world’s reserve currency. On the other hand, the U.S. has driven the price of oil so low, that Russia and the rest of its BRICS allies are being forced to use their reserve oil, gold and cash to stay afloat during a time when low oil prices are devastating Russia and the BRICS. Certainly, war have been fought for lesser reasons.False Flag Terrorism With An Agenda
Extremist Arab Gunmen killed a total of 12 people in an attack on the satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, on January 7. A third gunman killed a policewoman and four people at a Paris kosher supermarket in the eastern Porte de Vincennes area of Paris on January 9.
The reason given for the attacks was the disparaging of the Islamic faith and its Prophet Muhummad as expressed by Charlie Hebdo. This excuse used as the provocation for the these attacks is remarkably similar to the excuse first used to explain the reason behind the murder of Ambassador Stevens because of a film made in which a spoof was directed at the Prophet of Muhammed. The ridiculousness of this excuse, related to Benghazi, was discredited. Yet, this did not deter the false flag planners of the Paris event as they attempted to use the same journalistic “disrespect to Muhammad” excuse for launching a false flag attack in Paris in a case of “the same song, second verse.
The Paris attacks combined with the atrocities being committed by ISIS has the West on edge with regard to Muslim extremism. Yes, there is clearly Muslim extremism, but the Paris events are clearly designed to promote and greatly increase the level of fear.
Public Surveys As Propaganda
The best way to shape public opinion is to create a public opinion poll is to create a poorly designed poll which will yield the results that the poll makers seek. The use of close ended questions, as was the case with a recent Rasmussen Poll produced results which told the American people that you have a lot to be fearful of when it comes to the Muslims. In a case in point, a poorly designed Rasmussen survey indicated that 65% of American citizens believe that similar attacks to the Paris assaults could take place in the United States within the next year. Promoting generalized fear is one of the basic tenets of propaganda.
More Muslim Vilification Released In the Shadows of These Events
It is interesting that the main stream media which has enjoyed a love fest with the Islamic religion, while ignoring some of its extremist elements and subsequent acts, with regard to their previously one-sided reporting.
There has been a shift in reporting in which there has been a recent shift in the reporting of Muslim extremism. The shift is that the unmitigated threat of some of these groups is being exposed.
Steve Emerson, described as a terrorism analyst, reported to Fox News that parts of London have a Muslim police force who attack people if they don’t dress according to religious rules. He went on to tell the American network: that “In Britain, it’s not just no go zones, there are actually cities like Birmingham that are totally Muslim, where non-Muslims simply don’t go in. And parts of London, there are actually Muslim religious police that actually beat and actually wound seriously anyone who doesn’t dress according to Muslim, religious Muslim attire.” The media message being spread to the West, fear Islam. This is a precursor step into getting citizens in Western countries to accept a war in the Middle East against Islamic extremism because if we don’t “they will kill many of us and most certainly will take over our neighborhoods”.
The Jack Ruby- Lee Harvey Oswald Moment In Paris
In an old familiar pattern, anyone who possess information which could threaten the goal of a false flag action, must be eliminated with extreme prejudice.
In the JFK assassination, Lee Harvey Oswald could be allowed to provide public testimony because of what he knew about the operation. Oswald is assassinated and Rub, who must also be silenced, mysteriously dies in jail.
In the same vein, Police Commissioner Helric Fredou, the number two police officer in charge of the Regional Service of France’s Judicial Police, Limoges, “committed suicide on the night of Wednesday to Thursday at the police station.”
Isn’t the timing of this event a little too convenient? Fredou was an intimate part of the Charlie Hebdo investigation. Shortly before his suicide, Fredou dispatched his own team of police officials to further investigate the murders in Paris. He is reported to have waited for the return of his team for a debriefing. Immediately following the police debriefing, he killed himself. Or, is it more likely that the police chief was suicided in order to keep the information quiet about what he had learned?
One isolated report in Le Parisien presents the act of suicide as being totally unrelated to the Charlie Hebdo investigation. Otherwise, there has been a total news blackout in France of this event.
Senator Feinstein Exacerbates the Fear
This past Sunday, Dianne Feinstein said that the surprise Parisian attacks are not only threatening Europe, but she warned that “terrorist cells” exist in the United States as well. How does Feinstein know this? Did ISIS leaders take Feinstein to lunch and present their grand plan to the Senator?
This Feinstein charade is so easy to see through, it is difficult to believe that the false flag planners could even promote this nonsense with a straight face as Feinstein would have you believe that there is a terrorist hiding on every street corner that has a bomb with your name on it.
Certainly, there is a morsel of truth in every lie, but the facts here are being embellished in an effort to convince the American people to give up more of their civil liberties in the name of fighting terror. Ultimately, this tyranny will go by a different name, World War III, and it is clear that this war will be fought in the Middle east. Of course Biblical scholars would state the same.
Conclusion
This article brought together many different aspects of a propaganda machine designed to promote fear, increase hostilities and fan the flames of the coming war.
All the elements of false planning are here: (1) the creation of the patsy (2) a contrived event designed to promote fear resulting in an increased “need” for surveillance, security and militarization and (3) preparations for mobilization of the military.
No doubt, that these flames are merely the precursor to main event which cannot be that far away.
Credit to Common Sense
Russia Just Pulled Itself Out Of The Petrodollar
Back in November, before most grasped just how serious the collapse in crude was (and would become, as well as its massive implications), we wrote "How The Petrodollar Quietly Died, And Nobody Noticed", because for the first time in almost two decades, energy-exporting countries would pull their "petrodollars" out of world markets in 2015.
This empirical death of Petrodollar followed years of windfalls for oil exporters such as Russia, Angola, Saudi Arabia and Nigeria. Much of that money found its way into financial markets, helping to boost asset prices and keep the cost of borrowing down, through so-called petrodollar recycling.
We added that in 2014 "the oil producers will effectively import capital amounting to $7.6 billion. By comparison, they exported $60 billion in 2013 and $248 billion in 2012, according to the following graphic based on BNP Paribas calculations."
The problem was compounded by its own positive feedback loop: as the last few weeks vividly demonstrated, plunging oil would lead to a further liquidation in foreign reserves for the oil exporters who rushed to preserve their currencies, leading to even greater drops in oil as the viable producers rushed to pump out as much crude out of the ground as possible in a scramble to put the weakest producers out of business, and to crush marginal production. Call it Game Theory gone mad and on steroids.
Ironically, when the price of crude started its self-reinforcing plunge, such a death would happen whether the petrodollar participants wanted it, or, as the case may be, were dragged into the abattoir kicking and screaming.
It is the latter that seems to have taken place with the one country that many though initially would do everything in its power to have an amicable departure from the Petrodollar and yet whose divorce from the USD has quickly become a very messy affair, with lots of screaming and the occasional artillery shell.
As Bloomberg reports Russia "may unseal its $88 billion Reserve Fund and convert some of its foreign-currency holdings into rubles, the latest government effort to prop up an economy veering into its worst slump since 2009."
These are dollars which Russia would have otherwise recycled into US denominated assets. Instead, Russia will purchase even more Rubles and use the proceeds for FX and economic stabilization purposes.
"Together with the central bank, we are selling a part of our foreign-currency reserves,” Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said in Moscow today. “We’ll get rubles and place them in deposits for banks, giving liquidity to the economy."
Call it less than amicable divorce, call it what you will: what it is, is Russia violently leaving the ranks of countries that exchange crude for US paper.
More:
Russia may convert as much as 500 billion rubles from one of the government’s two sovereign wealth funds to support the national currency, Siluanov said, calling the ruble “undervalued.” The Finance Ministry last month started selling foreign currency remaining on the Treasury’s accounts.The entire 500 billion rubles or part of the amount will be converted in January-February through the central bank, according to Deputy Finance Minister Alexey Moiseev. The Bank of Russia will determine the timing and method of the operation.The ruble, the world’s second-worst performing currency last year, weakened for a fourth day, losing 1.3 percent to 66.0775 against the dollar by 3:21 p.m. in Moscow. It trimmed a drop of as much as 2 percent after Siluanov’s comments. The ruble’s continued slump this year underscores the fragility of coordinated measures by Russia’s government and central bank that steered the ruble’s rebound from a record-low intraday level of 80.10 on Dec. 16. OAO Gazprom and four other state-controlled exporters were ordered last month to cut foreign-currency holdings by March 1 to levels no higher than they were on Oct. 1. The central bank sought to make it easier for banks to access dollars and euros while raising its key rate to 17 percent, the emergency level it introduced last month to arrest the ruble collapse.Today’s announcement “looks ruble-supportive, as together with state-driven selling from exporters it would support FX supply on the market,” Dmitry Polevoy, chief economist for Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States at ING Groep NV in Moscow, said by e-mail. “Also, it will be helpful for banks, while there might be some negative effects related to extra money supply and risks of using some of the money on the FX market for short-term speculations.
Bloomberg's dready summary of the US economy is generally spot on, and is to be expected when any nation finally leaves, voluntarily or otherwise, the stranglehold of a global reserve currency. What Bloomberg failed to account for is what happens to the remainder of the Petrodollar world. Here is what we said last time:
Outside from the domestic economic impact within EMs due to the downward oil price shock, we believe that the implications for financial market liquidity via the reduced recycling of petrodollars should not be underestimated. Because energy exporters do not fully invest their export receipts and effectively ‘save’ a considerable portion of their income, these surplus funds find their way back into bank deposits (fuelling the loan market) as well as into financial markets and other assets. This capital has helped fund debt among importers, helping to boost overall growth as well as other financial markets liquidity conditions....[T]his year, we expect that incremental liquidity typically provided by such recycled flows will be markedly reduced, estimating that direct and other capital outflows from energy exporters will have declined by USD253bn YoY. Of course, these economies also receive inward capital, so on a net basis, the additional capital provided externally is much lower. This year, we expect that net capital flows will be negative for EM, representing the first net inflow of capital (USD8bn) for the first time in eighteen years. This compares with USD60bn last year, which itself was down from USD248bn in 2012. At its peak, recycled EM petro dollars amounted to USD511bn back in 2006. The declines seen since 2006 not only reflect the changed global environment, but also the propensity of underlying exporters to begin investing the money domestically rather than save. The implications for financial markets liquidity - not to mention related downward pressure on US Treasury yields – is negative.
Considering the wildly violent moves we have seen so far in the market confirming just how little liquidity is left in the market, and of course, the absolutely collapse in Treasury yields, with the 30 Year just hitting a record low, this prediction has been borne out precisely as expected.
And now, we await to see which other country will follow Russia out of the Petrodollar next, and what impact that will have not only on the world's reserve currency, on US Treasury rates, and on the most financialized commodity as this chart demonstrates...
... but on what is most important to developed world central planners everywhere: asset prices levels, and specifically what happens when the sellers emerge into what is rapidly shaping up as the most illiquid market in history.
Credit to Zero Hedge
Russia Cuts Off Ukraine Gas Supply To 6 European Countries
Vladimir Putin ordered the Russian state energy giant Gazprom to cut supplies to and through Ukraine amid accusations,according to The Daily Mail, that its neighbor has been siphoning off and stealing Russian gas. Due to these"transit risks for European consumers in the territory of Ukraine," Gazprom cut gas exports to Europe by 60%, plunging the continent into an energy crisis "within hours."
Perhaps explaining the explosion higher in NatGas prices (and oil) today, gas companies in Ukraine confirmed that Russia had cut off supply; and six countries reported a complete shut-off of Russian gas. The EU raged that the sudden cut-off to some of its member countries was "completely unacceptable," but Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller later added that Russia plans to shift all its natural gas flows crossing Ukraine to a route via Turkey; and Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak stated unequivocally, "the decision has been made."
Russia plans to shift all its natural gas flows crossing Ukraine to a route via Turkey, a surprise move that the European Union’s energy chief said would hurt its reputation as a supplier.The decision makes no economic sense, Maros Sefcovic, the European Commission’s vice president for energy union, told reporters today after talks with Russian government officials and the head of gas exporter, OAO Gazprom, in Moscow.Gazprom, the world’s biggest natural gas supplier, plans to send 63 billion cubic meters through a proposed link under the Black Sea to Turkey, fully replacing shipments via Ukraine,Chief Executive Officer Alexey Miller said during the discussions. About 40 percent of Russia’s gas exports to Europe and Turkey travel through Ukraine’s Soviet-era network....Sefcovic said he was “very surprised” by Miller’s comment, adding that relying on a Turkish route, without Ukraine, won’t fit with the EU’s gas system.Gazprom plans to deliver the fuel to Turkey’s border with Greece and“it’s up to the EU to decide what to do” with it further,according to Sefcovic.
Which, as The Daily Mail reports, has led to a major (and imminent) problem for Europe...
Russia cut gas exports to Europe by 60 per cent today, plunging the continent into an energy crisis 'within hours' as a dispute with Ukraine escalated.This morning, gas companies in Ukraine said that Russia had completely cut off their supply.Six countries reported a complete shut-off of Russian gas shipped via Ukraine today, in a sharp escalation of a struggle over energy that threatens Europe as winter sets in.Bulgaria, Greece, Macedonia, Romania, Croatia and Turkey all reported a halt in gas shipments from Russia through Ukraine.
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As Bloomberg goes on to note,Gazprom has reduced deliveries via Ukraine after price and debt disputes with the neighboring country that twice in the past decade disrupted supplies to the EU during freezing weather.
As Bloomberg goes on to note,Gazprom has reduced deliveries via Ukraine after price and debt disputes with the neighboring country that twice in the past decade disrupted supplies to the EU during freezing weather.
“Transit risks for European consumers on the territory of Ukraine remain,” Miller said in an e-mailed statement. “There are no other options”except for the planned Turkish Stream link, he said.“We have informed our European partners, and now it is up to them to put in place the necessary infrastructure starting from the Turkish-Greek border,” Miller said.Russia won’t hurt its image with a shift to Turkey because it has always been a reliable gas supplier and never violated its obligations, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told reporters today in Moscow after meeting Sefcovic.“The decision has been made,” Novak said. “We are diversifying and eliminating the risks of unreliable countries that caused problems in past years, including for European consumers.”
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That helps to explain today's epic meltup in NatGas futures...
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"They [the Russians] have reduced deliveries to 92million cubic metres per 24 hours compared to the promised 221million cubic metres without explanation," said Valentin Zemlyansky of the Ukrainian gas company Naftogaz."We do not understand how we will deliver gas to Europe. This means that in a few hours problems with supplies to Europe will begin."
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Check to you Europe (i.e. Washington)... Because it's getting might cold in Europe...
(and bear in mind the consequences of cold, pissed off Europeans in the past).
Credit to Zero Hedge
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