Okay so this
is not ‘new’ but hey, you’re just not going to see it in the sunset media...
Various
groups and experts in investment have been hollering about the sheer
criminality of it for months but there’s no one much out there listening. GATA,
Max Keiser, Casey Research – all these kinds of info moles were onto it first
and Max of course, did his usual sardonic laugh; well, it’s now a cynical laugh.
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The US
Commodities Exchange operating company, CME, introduced this thing they are
calling the ‘Central Banks Incentive Program’ – which is a discount program for
any foreign central bank that trades in commodities in the USA. Now look, this
is not only specifically illegal, but it is rampagingly criminal-minded; nobody
can say they are not aware of the meaning of this kind of thing. The excuse the
CME is giving –not that it is being compelled by anyone to offer any excuse - is
that by encouraging foreign central banks to trade in commodities on US
Exchanges, this helps ‘provide liquidity.’ Well, no, Central Banks don’t help
provide liquidity they are liquidity,
because they have a limitless ability to print legal tender, whose specific and
only point is that of the preserving of the government monopoly right on money
issuance. And their only role is in protection of the currency itself and of
the banking conduits thereof; they use interest rate policy to assist the
viability and acceptability of the currency – not to affect commodity market prices, my god that would just be plain
open fraud.
Which brings me to the ambiguity over ‘right
and wrong’ in today’s world.
Everyone’s
going to have an opinion on all of the problematic issues of - terrorism and
urban violence and invading people’s privacy, and freedom of expression and
freedom of religion or the rationality of modern science, or the politicisation
of medicine. And so they should.
Of course, they
say that winners write the final history.
My concern
is that history is taking too long to be written at the precise present time...
Which I realise is a little illogical of a statement since it includes the
relativism of the passage of time.
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Why I like
Jeremy Hackett’s menswear company, is that he focuses less on old school ideas
of ‘Empire,’ and much more on quality of clothes and an identifiable British
culture of design. Which is the problem I have with the current producers of
the official James Bond movies – I don’t think they can distinguish between ‘jump
cut editing,’ or ‘flash photography,’ or Hollywood tropes and jingoism (what
the common popular view of the British Empire and its presumed morality is) -
and a narrative that is genuinely faithful to Ian Fleming and/or even Kevin
McClory, for that matter. The latter of whom, just for the record, was my
father’s second cousin through the Irish Bell family. Dame Gertrude Bell, as I
have regularly noted here, being the British Foreign Office instrument that
established the House of Saud.
Without tea
and sugar and ships and the Royal Science Academy – what, really, is the British Empire?! Now let me
remind you all – these things are all of
them from the Stuarts, not the Windsors. And the real British Secret
Service contains the following heads of department: Clifford, Arlington,
Buckingham, Ashley, and Lauderdale. The
CABAL. Now you watch the current producers turn all of this on its head and
confabulate the CABAL, with SPECTRE.
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You stay here,
though. I’ll show you THE Secret Service.
