https://youtu.be/3asCfDi3_sY?feature=shared
The Money Masters - Full Length
The Money Masters is a 1996 documentary film produced by attorney Patrick S. J. Carmack and directed and narrated by William T. Still.
It discusses the concepts of money, debt and taxes, and describes their development from biblical times onward. It covers the history of fractional-reserve banking, central banking, monetary policy,the bond market, and the Federal Reserve System in the United States.
https://youtu.be/fmPh66Ygm6E?si=qoAjGGBt2TKt3JSM
How Does India Vote? | The Cost of 2024 Polls |
India is going to elections next month.
968 million voters will vote in 28 states and 8 union territories.
It will be the largest election in the world, making it an exercise unmatched in size and scope.
How big are India’s elections? Palki Sharma tells you on Between the Lines.
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BLOODBATH
https://youtu.be/j-VzZW6r1vo?si=P9usaR2zwiGW_9B3
Why the Indian Stock Market Crashed
In a startling downturn, the Indian stock market experienced a significant crash, with the Nifty dropping over 300 points and the Sensex plummeting by nearly 1000 points.
This sudden decline marks a sharp contrast to recent achievements, including India's ascent to become the fourth largest global stock market, surpassing Hong Kong.
Despite the International Monetary Fund's continued optimism about India's economic growth, the stock market witnessed a widespread sell-off. What factors have contributed to this sudden market downturn? Palki Sharma tells you.
https://youtu.be/24XjhytWC4U?feature=shared
Panic Selling In China: Investors Dump Everything! Prepare For Stock Market And China's Yuan Crash
Explore the latest episode of China Update uncovering the turmoil in the Chinese stock market and economy. From panic selling to foreign investors withdrawing, the video delves into the causes and consequences of China’s financial challenges. Will the stock market crash, and is a Chinese Yuan collapse imminent? Get insights on the economic downturn, unemployment, and the potential impact on the Chinese Communist Party’s regime. Discover the strategies China’s leadership might employ and the outlook for the country’s growth in the next 5 to 10 years.
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No Money in Banks: Can’t Withdraw, Missing Deposits, Restricted Transfers! China's Bank Run Imminent
It may seem inconceivable, but the notion that the money in your bank account naturally belongs to you is not a given. In the People's Republic of China, this is not just a baseless fear, but a reality that exists.
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https://youtu.be/QcfHGnzZB9c?feature=shared
Dire Economy! China Can’t Afford Military and Police Wages, Starts Major Salary Cuts
Back in July, when we last looked at the unprecedented horror show that is the US budget deficit - and concluded correctly, long before the Q2 Quarterly Refunding Announcement, that debt issuance was about to explode and yields would soar - we warned that the debt Rubicon was about to be crossed and "US Debt Interest Payments Are About To Hit $1 Trillion."
Fast forward to today when the endgame has apparently arrived: according to the Treasury's own calculations, total interest is now over $1 trillion (or $1.027 trillion to be precise).
We calculated this by multiplying the average interest rate on marketable US Treasury debt (which according to the Treasury is 3.096% as of Oct 31) by the $26.003 trillion in marketable US debt (as of Oct 31) which nets off to $805 billion, and adding to this non-marketable debt interest (which as of Oct 31 was 2.884% multiplied by the amount of non-marketable debt which is $7.696 trillion) and which in turn is an additional $222 billion in interest. Add across and you get $1.027 trillion.
Naturally, this calculation of estimated real-time interest costs - which is entirely based on Treasury data - is different than what the Treasury actually paid. Interest costs in the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30 ultimately totaled $879.3 billion, up from $717.6 billion the previous year and about 14% of total outlays, however that number is merely lagging what the pro forma print currently is, and will inevitably catch up to it, and then lag on the other side even as pro forma interest payment start dropping (once interest rates plunge after the next QE/YCC is launched).
Fans of exponential functions, we got you covered: the unprecedented surge in both interest rates and interest expense in the past two years means that total US interest has doubled since April 2022 and that's with the inherent lag in interest catch up - as a reminder, the vast majority of 5, 7, 10 and 30 year debt is still locked in at much lower interest rates, and as such, rates will continue to rise as all of the existing debt rolls into much higher rates over the coming years.
Looking ahead, the staggering surge in both yields and total long-term Treasuries in recent months confirms the government will continue to face an escalating interest bill. As a reminder, we were the first to point out that it took just one month after US federal debt first rose above $33 trillion for the first time, to spike by another $600 billion...
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) October 18, 2023One month later:
Total US Debt is now $33.649 trillion, up $58 billion in one day and up $604 billion in one month... up $20 billion every day, up $833 million every hour.
At this rate US debt will be $41 trillion in one year. https://t.co/tOrhqmkFXL pic.twitter.com/UfYOluX1Bq
... bringing the total to $33.6 trillion, more than the combined GDPs of China, Japan, Germany, and India.
And just to show you how terrifying it is about to get, BofA's Michael Hartnett notes that "the CBO projects that US government debt will rise by $20 trillion next 10 years, or $5.2 billion every day or $218 million every hour!"
Some more context: total world debt (government, corporate & household) hit a record $227tn in Q1’23, double from $110tn in 2007 & $0.5tn in 1952.
And then there was this warning from the TBAC which very tongue-in-cheek said that "Interest rate expense, as % of GDP, is likely to rise over the medium term", and also over every other term.
As Bloomberg's Mark Cudmore concludes, the worsening metrics may "reignite debate about the US fiscal path amid heavy borrowing from Washington. That dynamic has already helped drive up bond yields, threatened the return of the so-called bond vigilantes and led Fitch Ratings to downgrade US government debt in August."
An even more damning conclusion comes from Hartnett, Fiscal excess in the 2020s is adding to already high levels of government debt; until policy makers address the trajectory of government debt, investors are likely to worry that asset-bearish solutions to indebtedness such as inflation, default, currency debasement, are set to be pursued; but as likely central banks may simply bail out governments in coming years via QE & the introduction of YCC (policies that would be v US dollar negative).
Finally, as we explained yesterday (see "How Treasury Averted A Bond Market "Earthquake" In The Last Second: What Everyone Missed In The TBAC's Remarkable Refunding Presentation"), the US treasury market was this close to collapse as recently as last week, and if it hadn't been for some clever language and sleight-of-forward-guidance by the Treasury, in the latest TBAC statement, the endgame for US debt would now be in play. For now, however, it has been merely delayed.
This type of ghost town is locally known as "rotten-tail" homes.
AFP via Getty Image
‘Creepy’: Abandoned Chinese mansion development reclaimed by farmers
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China's Economy is Failing- And It's Way Worse Than You Thought
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https://youtu.be/UptsCnj0vpA?feature=shared
China’s GDP Is Completely Falsified! Actual H1 GDP: -5%, Yearly Forecast: -10%
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https://youtu.be/oMaVyMxMFl0?feature=shared
3500 New Ghost Cities Emerge in China: Trillions Wasted in Spectacular Missteps
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China Just Built 1 Billion Empty Houses for Nobody
“Interest on the federal debt is now so immense that it’s consuming 40% of all personal income taxes… If federal finances continue on their current path, we are only a few years from the entirety of income taxes being needed to finance the debt…”
The government collects $2.6 trillion of individual taxes at the point of a gun and threat of prison. Meanwhile they still operate at an annual deficit of $2 trillion. And this is before interest on the national debt starts to really skyrocket. Our Troll Secretary of the Treasury Yellen had the opportunity to lock in trillions of our national debt for 30 years at 2% rates, but purposely kept rolling it on a short-term basis.
Interest on the debt will surpass $1 trillion annually within the next year, and, as you can see, will be approaching $2 trillion per year in a few more years. The government already spends every dime of the taxes they collect. That means they are already printing more fiat and borrowing from the rest of the world in order to pay the interest on the debt they already have.
Foreign countries, in particular China and India, are not only not buying any new US Treasuries, but unloading the Treasuries they already have. With the BRICS purposefully moving away from the USD for their trade, it’s only a matter of time until our mountain of debt crashes down in an epic avalanche upon the unsuspecting American public. The writing is on the wall, and if you refuse to read it, you will be shocked and devastated when you see your supposed paper wealth evaporate.
Now you know why Biden and his handlers are attempting to provoke wars across the globe against those countries who they realize are engineering the demise of the USD as the basis for world domination and control. We have evil men ruling our nation and they would rather burn it all to the ground than lose their wealth, power and control.
November 26, 2023
Amidst the deflation of the Chinese bubble gaining momentum, Beijing is responding with increasing desperation, resorting to extreme measures to salvage the nation’s financial stability.
The property market is at the epicenter of the storm, with policymakers applying unprecedented pressure on banks to address a monumental $446 billion funding shortfall. This funding is urgently needed to stabilize the industry and complete millions of unfinished apartments. A draft list of eligible developers, including industry giants like Country Garden Holdings Co. and Sino-Ocean Group, reveals a strategic pivot to aid some of the most distressed builders.
However, the challenges are far-reaching, encompassing millions of homes sold but left unfinished. More property developers defaulting on debt adds to construction delays and stalls residential projects, triggering a vicious circle of diminishing confidence in the housing market. Analysts estimate around 20 million units of uncompleted and delayed presold homes across China, necessitating over $440 billion to finish these homes.
In a desperate attempt to address the liquidity gap facing developers, China contemplates allowing banks to offer unsecured short-term loans. This move, though, is fraught with risks, as critics warn of the vulnerabilities of stretched banks engaging in unsecured developer lending.
As China grapples with the daunting task of rescuing its financial sector, a multi-trillion dollar black hole looms large. The challenge extends beyond the realm of developer debt, with local government debt exceeding $12 trillion and a $3 trillion trust industry. The unfolding crisis, marked by dwindling confidence, defaults, and liquidity shortfalls, paints a sobering picture of China’s economic teeter-totter, with global implications that echo far beyond its borders.
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Credit Bubble Bulletin: Weekly Commentary: Really BIG
🚨JUST IN: MAJOR CHINESE SHADOW BANK DECLARES ITSELF 'SEVERELY INSOLVENT'
China's major shadow bank Zhongzhi declares 'severe insolvency' with a $36 billion shortfall, signaling liquidity problems in the $2.9 trillion Chinese shadow banking sector.
Known for real estate… pic.twitter.com/DQnIoXziCv
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) November 25, 2023
China is ramping up pressure on banks to support struggling real estate developers, signaling President Xi Jinping’s tolerance for property sector pain is nearing its limit pic.twitter.com/ILuO4F53GO
— Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) November 24, 2023
China 🇨🇳 home prices fell the most in eight years in October, signaling the property slump is worsening even after the government ramped up efforts to revive demand: pic.twitter.com/DFg73QbpAf
— Win Smart, CFA (@WinfieldSmart) November 25, 2023
Governments are Designed to Control the People
Most likely, nothing of this article will be found in the mainstream media. In classic Orwellian terms – such as “War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, and Ignorance is Strength.” Means; saying one thing and doing the opposite; This is everywhere the order of the day.
Once one understands that governments are structured to control the people, all becomes much clearer. For example; why governments always act in the interest of Big Banking, Big Business, Big Pharma, Big Biotech, with associated organisations and personnel, but ominously never in the interest of the public.
With the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. 2001, the power elite started with great speed the process of integrating Humanity into the New World Order. Not only in America and Europe but worldwide, while democratic rights silently were abolished. Anyone who has studied the EU’s decision-making procedures will discover that these are far from being democratic, the EU has evolved into an EU-Politburo.
The world has become an insane asylum but society is too asleep to notice the insanity. Just as insane dreams are never questioned, people do not even question their insane lives.
The implications of mass sleepwalking are obvious: with billions of people asleep the Deep State has the advantage. As, these people are easily controlled. Their conscious soul exists within a mental prison, harnessed for time, labour, and energy. Those people have little or no freewill because they have abandoned consciousness.
They keep acting like sheep, and never will break away from the madness. Wakeup and stay grounded to fight for our free world without any dictatorship. There is no single saviour of this world. There are many saviours, when many people wakeup en mass. –
The wealthiest families of this planet exercise a powerful, profound and clandestine control over global politics. This control began in Europe and has its continuity to be traced back to the time when the bankers discovered. that it was more profitable to give loans to governments than to needy individuals.
These banking families and their subservient beneficiaries have come to own most major businesses in this world, which they have secretly and increasingly organised themselves as controllers of governments and worldwide arbiters of war and peace.
Begin with a look at today’s world; it is tempting to see who and what the dark society really is and now is falling apart. Since 2021, we are in this transition process. As humanity moves into higher consciousness, and now there is more positive energy than negative on planet Earth.
For centuries, we have functioned out of an old, negative consciousness of war, violence, cruelty, and the need for power. This, now is changing. Change may seem slow, but it is certain that humanity is shifting towards peace, cooperation and togetherness.
Worldwide Network of Powerful Forces
A worldwide network of powerful forces exert almost total control over all areas of importance on this planet. This is something that now is beginning to understood with greater clarity thanks to access to the Internet and resulting from the work of many dedicated investigative journalists, authors, filmmakers, activists, whistle-blowers, and those who have spoken out about their own experiences with these groups.
There are powerful forces operating in and beyond the world, and it seems that those who are ‘in the know’ have always recognised this.
A high level FBI agent came forward to confirm that the Illuminati – crime cabal, run this world. Watch this recommended highly informative video to better understand the Occult World of Commerce. Explained by the late Jordan Maxwell, first 15 min.
https://youtu.be/16MGACpcClQ?feature=shared
Jordan Maxwell continued as a preeminent researcher and independent scholar in the field of occult / religious philosophy. His interest in these subjects began as far back as 1959. He served for three-and-a-half years as the Religion Editor of Truth Seeker Magazine, America’s oldest Freethought Journal (since 1873).
His work exploring the hidden foundations of Western religions and secret societies created enthusiastic responses from audiences around the world. He has conducted dozens of intensive seminars; hosted his own radio talk shows; guested on more than 600 radio shows; written, produced and appeared in numerous television shows and documentaries (including three two-hour specials for the CBS TV network, as well as the internationally acclaimed five-part Ancient Mystery Series) — all devoted to understanding ancient religions and their pervasive influence on world affairs today.
His work on the subject of secret societies, both ancient and modern, and related symbols, has fascinated audiences around the world for decades. Considering the rapidly moving events of today, explaining the true real part hidden religious agendas that play in our modern war-torn world. He feels these controversial subjects are not only interesting to explore, but too important to ignore! His extraordinary presentations includes documents and photographs seldom seen elsewhere.
It is important that all people try to stay as informed, positive and optimistic as possible.
However too many watch every night the wrong source; public TV, to be indoctrinated with lies from the media mongers with their misleading images, and consequently accepting unconsciously the mainstream narrative that shows realities based on anger, anxiety and fear.
Keep eyes and mind open and become aware that the world is manipulated by people, who on their turn are manipulated and mind controlled by the Upper Echelon Crime Cabal that amongst many others include all ‘admired’ royalties from every monarchy.
Control of the Many by the Few
The bloodlines began the process of replacing the overt royal dictatorships with one that had the appearance of freedom while being business as usual. Tyranny was replaced with the much more effective tyranny that one cannot see, or most people don’t see. It is the system of Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars. Read the preceding article for more details.
In today’s world; free trade and the centralisation of gold and other precious metals is viewed outwardly as a positive concept: In an increasingly global society, the free and open exchange of goods strengthens the world economy.
Adequate structure is vital for control of the many by the few. The formation of political parties produced the structure through which members of parliaments, and those at other levels of government – local and state – can be controlled. Instead of having to force their will upon hundreds of individuals, all they have to do is force it upon those who control the parties and they, in turn, will enforce it upon their members.
The Wrong People Destroy Everything
Unfortunately, when control of such a system is placed into the hands of the wrong people – as it has been from the outset, it does in fact have the opposite effect: It destroys national economies and makes poor nations more dependent upon the rich.
It’s the same with doctors, lawyers, scientists and teachers, keep your head down, don’t rock the boat, and certainly don’t oppose anything significant through personal conscience that is against the wishes of the party establishment.
Real personal ‘progress’ in any of these professions demands that you close your mind or sell your soul. Preferably both.
For example the UK Parliament have people known as ‘Whips’ to make sure their MPs vote accordingly to the party line. The fact that Whips are allowed to exist and operate openly is already proof of corruption and irrelevance of politics. They offer MPs promises of good things for themselves, if they comply, and if they still won’t budge, they are told the facts of life about the consequences for their careers.
The same system operates in every country, although not always with official Whips. Detailed files are kept on politicians, aided by intelligence agency data, which can be used to terrify a doubter into line through fear of his/her secrets becoming public. The ones that control the parties also control the intelligence agency network, not least the Rothschild dynasty.
There are no boundaries at that level or moral dilemmas about little things like integrity and laws of data protection. The more secrets people have that would destroy them if revealed, the better they are to fill key positions. If they ever try to stand up against the official line, there is always the file.
Politics is full of fraud and without integrity
are three types of politicians that get anywhere near the government power:
Today people in large numbers correctly say elections are irrelevant, because never anything changes. While most of these elections are rigged to make sure the right result is being obtained, by the wrong people.
Those who have big secrets that can be revealed at any time if they refuse to take orders.
It is not said that every politician is like that, only the vast majority who make it to the government or the top of major parties, in charge or in opposition, with any chance to forming a government. The glue that coordinates the manipulations between different political parties and countries is the spider’s web of secret societies the Freemasons as the most influential.
In fact it doesn’t matter for whom you vote, the Rothschild – Illuminati through the control of any party decide which government gets installed. They control all camps of political currents. Politics is full of fraud without integrity – saying one thing and doing the opposite.
Purposely the faulty monetary policies, economic policies, and political policies have caused this on-going economic crisis, and kept continuing. The primary perpetrators are the central bankers, led by the FED, first by Greenspan, Bernanke, and now Janet Yellen and obediently followed by the ECB.
The United States has given the world two choices: war to defend the US Dollar, versus cooperation with Eastern Alliance toward the Gold Standard.
No breakthrough will come either way or both after the collapse of the fiat money system, and or through mass awakening by the mob.
When the crisis was made a business
Today’s green campaign is a broken system
Former London banker Alexander Pohl worked for years for one of the world’s greenest banks. Idealistically driven he financed big wind and solar farms genuinely convinced he was making the world a better place.
Gradually he woke up to the fact that today’s green is a broken system. He gave up banking and emigrated with his family to his little forest paradise in remote, northern Sweden.
The dream was to return to nature, to start an Eco-farm and put as much distance as possible between his family and the industrialisation of nature.
Until that … A wind farm was built at the gates of his paradise garden.
Documentary filmmakers Poels and Alexander Pohl make the journey together to ask questions and unravel the green wonderland to its true core …The dream was to get back to Nature, start an eco-farm and put as much distance as he could between his family and the industrialisation of nature.
Until….. A wind park was planned at the gates of his paradise garden. Documentarian Poels and Alexander Pohl are taking the journey together…. to ask questions and unravel the green wonderland to its true core …
Headwind"21 [Documentary]
https://youtu.be/7RgyLDVlAg4?feature=shared
For more info and support visit https://www.marijnpoels.com/headwind
The Grip Begins To Tighten Against The Deep State
The undercover chaps and lasses at James O'Keefe's new undercover media venture have done it again - this time tricking a BlackRock recruiter into making several damning admissions.
In a series of covertly-recorded meetings, recruiter Serge Varlay describes how BlackRock - the world's largest asset manager - is able to "run the world," and that it's easier to pull off shenanigans when "people aren't thinking about it."
According to Varlay, US Senators can be 'bought' for as little as $10k.
"The senators…are f***ing cheap – you got 10 grand, you can buy a senator," he remarked.
You can take this big f*** ton of money and buy people, I work for a company called BlackRock…It’s not who is the president it’s who is controlling the wallet of the president. You could buy your candidates. First, there is the senators these guys are fuckin cheap. Got 10 grand you can buy a senator I’ll give you 500k right now It doesn’t matter who wins they’re in my pocket. -OMG
Blackrock is also apparently loving the war in Ukraine, which Varley described as "real fuckin' good for business."
Ukraine is good for business, you know that right? Russia blows up Ukraine’s grain silos and the price of wheat is going to go mad up. The Ukrainian economy is the wheat market. The price of bread goes up, this is fantastic if you’re trading. Volatility creates opportunity for profit…
According to Varley, it's "exciting when shit goes wrong."
"So what are you gonna do if you’re a trading firm? The moment that news hits, within a millisecond, you’re going to pump trades into whoever the wheat suppliers are. Into their stocks. Within an hour or two that stick goes f*cking up and then you sell and you just make, I don’t know, however many mil," he continued. "The Ukrainian economy is tied very largely to the wheat market, global wheat market, prices of bread, you know, literally everything goes up and down. This is fantastic if you’re trading.
"Volatility creates opportunity to make profit. War is real fucking good for business."
Watch:
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) June 20, 2023BREAKING: @BlackRock Recruiter Who “Decides People’s Fate” Spills Info on Company’s World Impact
“It’s not who the president is- it’s who’s controlling the wallet of the president”
“You got $10K? You can buy a senator"
“War is real f***ing good for business” #BlackRockExposed pic.twitter.com/DZIy1DuZKF
As the Post Millennial notes, Varley also described himself as a person who "decide[s] people's fates."
"Every f*cking day, I literally decide how somebody’s life is going to be shaped," he said. "I’m not actually a finance guy, I just know what happens because I’m recruiting people who do these things."
More via the PM:
Varlay said these banks run the world because "you acquire stuff. You diversify, you acquire, you keep acquiring. You spend whatever you make in acquiring more. And at a certain point, your risk level is super low. Imagine you’ve invested in 10 different industries, from food to drinks to technology. If one of them fails it doesn’t matter, you have nine others to back you up."
Varlay said that once "you own a little bit of everything… you can take this big f*ck-ton of money and then you can start to buy people."
The dark corners of secretive global powers
Would the collapse of the US dollar come as a surprise? History tells us it shouldn’t. On its current trajectory, it seems destined to go the way every other fiat currency in history has gone; towards its destruction and eventual collapse.
Money creation via debt issuance must be balanced with economic growth. As the debt burden increases, growth increase is required, and when this growth falters, as is the case, so does the entire system unless the debt is expunged. So, the only questions for the Dollar are:
The difference this time around is that the whole world would be affected.
“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” (Aldous Huxley)
So who really controls the world? The Illuminati? Freemasons? The Bilderberg Group? Or are these all red herrings to distract your prying eyes from the real global elite? The answer, like most topics worth exploring, is not quite so simple.
Have no doubt, there are secretive global powers whose only goal is to keep and grow that power. But it really may not be as secretive as you’d think. And that’s what makes it even more criminal…
Let’s explore the three main categories: Financial, Political and Media. This is a harder task than you may imagine, since they all work in concert by design.
For the Financial Elite; follow the money. Systems theorist James B. Glattfelder sheds light on the dark corners of bank control and international finance with his scientific process analysis he pulls some of the major players out of the dark.
“From a massive database of 37 million companies, Glattfelder pulled out the 43,060 transnational corporations (companies that operate in more than one country) that are all connected by their shareholders. Digging further, he constructed a model that actually displays just how connected these companies are to one another through their ownership of shares and corresponding operating revenues.”
Huge Amount of Concentrated Control in Small Number of Hands
Only 1318 transnational corporations form the core of the economy. In attached graphic, the Super connected companies are red, very connected companies are yellow. The size of the dot represents revenue.
Above image is a chilling one that looks like some sort of intergalactic light globe. Glattfelder has done a remarkable job of boiling these connections down to the main actors — as well as pinpointing how much power they have over the global market. These “ownership networks” can reveal who the key players are, how they are organised, and exactly how interconnected these powers are.
“Each of the 1318 had ties to two or more other companies, and on average they were connected to 20. What’s more, although they represent 20 per cent of global operating revenues, the 1318 appear to collectively own through their shares the majority of the world’s large blue chip and manufacturing firms — which is the “real” economy — that represents a further 60 per cent of global revenues (GDP).
When further untangled the web of ownership, tracked back to a “super-entity” of 147 even more tightly knit companies — all of their ownership was held by other members of the super-entity — that control 40 per cent of total wealth in the network.
According to his data, Glattfelder found that a top of 730 shareholders control a whopping 80% of the entire revenue of transnational corporations.
And — surprise, surprise! — They are mostly financial institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom. That is a huge amount of concentrated control in a small number of hands…
Here are the top ten transnational companies that hold the most control over the global economy – and if you are one of the millions that are convinced Big Banks run the world, you should get a creeping sense of justification from this list:
Interconnectedness of Top Players
Some of the other usual suspects round out the top 25, including JP Morgan, USB owner of Credit Suisse, and Goldman Sachs. What you won’t find are ExxonMobil, Microsoft, or General Electric, which is strange. In fact, only China Petrochemical Group Company at number 50 is the first company in the row that creates something.
The top 49 corporations are financial institutions, banks, and insurance companies — with the exception of Wal-Mart, which ranks at number 15… The rest essentially just push money around to one another. Here’s the interconnectedness of the top players in this international scheme:
Who is the Main Player?
The number one player is Barclays: “Barclays was a main player in the LIBOR manipulation scandal, and were found to have committed fraud and collusion with other interconnected big banks. They were fined $200 million by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, $160 million by the United States Department of Justice and £59.5 million by the Financial Services Authority for “attempted manipulation” of the Libor and Euribor rates.
Despite their crimes, Barclays still paid $61,781,950 in bonuses earlier that year, including a whopping $27,371,750 to investment banking head Rich Ricci. And yes, that’s actually his real name…”
These are the guys that run the world. “It’s essentially the “too big to fail” argument laid out in a scientific setting — only instead of just the U.S. and U.K. banks, these form an international cabal of banks and financial institutions so intertwined that they pose a serious threat to global economics.”
Effectively, instead of “too big to fail,” these are “too connected to fail”…
Who is Who of Global Power Brokers
Glattfelder contends;
“a high degree of interconnectivity can be bad for stability, because stress can spread through the system like an epidemic.”
It is one thing to have suspicions that someone is working behind the scenes to control the world’s money supply.
It’s quite another to have scientific evidence that clearly supports it. But these guys can only exist within a political system that supports their goals. And those political systems are pretty much operating in the open…
The Political Elite has made every major geopolitical decision of the last seven decades that went through one of the following organisations: the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations The Bilderberg Group and the World Bank/International Monetary Fund (IMF).
The Trilateral Commission cofounded in 1973 by the infamous David Rockefeller to create a group of the world’s power brokers that work together — outside of any official governmental or political allegiance — to bring about cooperation between North America, Western Europe and Japan. Launched under the guise of working together to solve the world’s problems. A noble goal — but their “problems” are very subjective.
It actually is a global who’s-who of power brokers. And while the Trilateral Commission excludes anyone currently holding public office from membership, it serves as a revolving door of the rich and powerful from the financial, political and academic elite. To familiarise yourselves with the entire member list take a look at:
http://www.trilateral.org/download/file/TC_list_12-13(2).pdf .
You’ll be shocked at who else is part of this secretive organisation. Just recently, this site is removed by the Google cabal.
Yet the Fed, other central banks and governments continue to manipulate the free market and strip future growth and earnings. Entrenched financial institutions and politicians continue to enrich themselves to maintain their wealth and power at our expense.
Discover what lies dormant beneath the surface of the people and motivate citizen’s spirit to rise up, to take back what the “Bad Guys” have stolen from us. If we the people WAKE UP now it will happen because we have the majority in numbers, open your eyes and your heart to the options that are available.
To be Continued, Stay Tuned…
https://finalwakeupcall.info/en/2023/09/12/who-rule-the-world/
Banco Ambrosiano Scandal
The apparent suicide in June, 1982 of an Italian financier known as ”God’s banker,” who was found hanged beneath London’s Blackfriars Bridge, has added to the mystery of a major Italian financial scandal in which the Vatican appears heavily involved.
Five days after he vanished, his secretary jumped to her death from a window of the Milan bank. Mr. Calvi 61 years old was found in London hanging from a rope under Blackfriars Bridge on June 18, 1982.
He had joined Milan’s Banco Ambrosiano as a clerk, worked his way up to become its president and, along the way, through a series of spectacular deals, transformed what had been a modest regional bank into a major financial power, with assets of $18.7 billion in 1981.
”The Ambrosiano affair makes everyone wonder about the Vatican’s finances, but it really illustrates the fragility of the international banking system that we are all trying to preserve,” said Guido Carli, a former governor of the Bank of Italy and now a prominent industrialist.
As usual with such scandals in Italy, there are also unverifiable reports of the involvement of organised crime figures and even a recently discovered secret Masonic lodge opposed to the government that are somehow involved.
There are also reports that Banco Ambrosiano may have been a target of the British secret service, which is said to suspect it of financing Argentine arms purchases during the war over the Falkland Islands.
The Bank of Italy first became suspicious about Banco Ambrosiano in 1978 during a general crackdown on bank fraud, but immediately ran into a heavy political opposition.
This Vatican bank is officially known as the Institute of Religious Relations, from 1971 to 1989 its President was Archbishop Paul Marcinkus from Cicero, Illinois. Before that, he worked as a bodyguard for Pope Paul VI. However, he will be remembered for a scandal that broke out in 1982.
Suicide Corrected as Murder
The scandal began with the collapse of Banco Ambrosiano, one of Italy’s largest private banks, with a debt of $1.4 billion. Soon after, Roberto Calvi, the bank’s managing director and friend of Marcinkus, was found dead hanging under a bridge over the river Thames in London, in England.
The location of Blackfriars bridge was seen as indicating a link to P2 because members of the illegal group referred to themselves as ‘frati neri’, Italian for ‘black friars’.
The organised crime syndicate had used Ambrosiano to recycle funds, some of which were moved out of Italy via the Vatican bank. No-one was ever convicted for carrying out or commissioning Calvi ‘s murder.
Five people, including mafia boss Masonic grand master Licio Gelli were tried in connection with his murder, but were all acquitted. It is best known internationally for having been at the heart of a murder mystery involving both the Mafia and the Vatican that centred on the death of “God’s banker”!
It appears that the Vatican, through the Vatican Bank, is the main shareholder of Banco Ambrosiano and that they have channelled a billion dollars from the bank to 10 subsidiaries. Several rumours surrounding the scandal were, that other shareholders at the bank were involved in this organised crime and some were even members of the secret Masonic lodge-P2.
When Italian investigators tried to interview Marcinkus about the scandal, he was uncooperative. He refused to leave the Vatican and even refused to answer questions, referring to his diplomatic immunity.
Marcinkus was eventually indicted, but he never went to trial because the charges against him were dismissed. He remained in charge of the Vatican bank for seven years.
Prince Bernhard vetoed Pope John Paul I
The scandal even gave rise to some conspiracy theories. The most famous was used in the plot of Godfather Part III, as Pope John Paul I was assassinated by the mafia on orders in August 1978. John Paul I had been chosen as Pope in 1978, but Prince Bernhard the prince of the Netherlands vetoed it. He was found dead in bed after only 33 days in office. The official cause of death was a heart attack, but no autopsy was performed. According to the conspiracy theory, he was killed because he wanted to end the relationship between the church and the private bank.
According to senior officials investigating the scandal who do not wish to be identified, the Banco Ambrosiano affair centres on the close but ambiguous relationship between Mr. Calvi and Archbishop Paul C. Marcinkus, a 60-year-old native of Cicero, Ill., who for the last 10 years has run the Vatican’s free-wheeling but extremely secretive bank. The bank’s formal name is Instituto per le Opere de Religione, the Institute for Religious Works, and it is commonly referred to as I.O.R.
Archbishop Marcinkus, a former chief of papal security, has been a controversial figure in financial circles because, as head of the Vatican bank, he was responsible for the Vatican’s losing a reported $30 million in the collapse in 1974 of the business empire of Michele Sindona, the Sicilian financier.
During 1980 and 1981, investigating officials say, the late Mr. Calvi mounted an extensive lending program to the Peruvian, Nicaraguan and Nassau subsidiaries of the Banco Ambrosiano group, using funds borrowed in the Eurodollar market that eventually totalled some $1.2 billion to $1.4 billion.
Most of this money was then lent to a series of Panamanian companies with names such as Bellatrix Inc., Manic Inc. and Astrolfine Inc., most of which are thought to have no more than mail addresses. The loans were granted roughly evenly by Banco Ambrosiano in Milan and by its Luxembourg subsidiary, Banco Ambrosiano Holdings.
But Mr. Calvi lent these funds, investigators say, only after receiving what bankers call ”letters of comfort” from the Vatican bank. These letters, though vaguely worded, implied that the Vatican had an interest in the companies and was aware of their borrowing plans. Although such letters do not constitute a legal guarantee that the signatory will repay the loans, they are often issued to reassure lenders that a borrowing company has reputable backing.
But the Vatican bank also demanded and received what investigators call a ”counter letter” signed by Mr. Calvi and absolving it from all legal and financial responsibility for the loans to the Panamanian companies.
Investigating officials believe the Vatican did have an interest in the Panamanian companies and probably controlled a number of them. But they are convinced that Mr. Calvi was also part owner and effective manager of most of the companies and used the money they borrowed to buy shares in Banco Ambrosiano and probably in other companies as well.
By now, one senior official involved in the investigation estimates, the Panamanian companies own around 20 percent of Banco Ambrosiano.
House of Cards
As interest rates rose and the dollar strengthened, investigators found it likely that it became increasingly difficult for Mr Calvi to pay his loans in dollars with the dividends from his shares, which were often paid out in weak Italian lira. To remain solvent, he was forced to borrow more.
”It was a house of cards that was bound to fall down,”
one official said.
There is speculation that the Archbishop may have agreed to the deal to help out an old colleague and financial adviser since Banco Ambrosiano is regarded as one of Italy’s ”Catholic” banks with longstanding links to the Vatican. He may also have wished to protect the Vatican’s own stake in Banco Ambrosiano, which is assumed to be far more than the 1.8 percent shown by the latest official figures.
In the view of the Italian Treasury Minister, Nino Andreatta, and of Mr. Campi, the central bank’s governor, the Vatican acted improperly in issuing letters of comfort to Banco Ambrosiano at the same time as it asked the bank to absolve it from any responsibility for the Panamian companies. They believe it must therefore bear at least a moral responsibility for any losses incurred, according to senior officials.
Toward the end of his life, Mr. Calvi is said to have become increasingly involved with suspected underworld figures as his needs for ready cash increased. There are also rumours that he lent Peru $200 million to buy Exocet missiles for the Argentine forces during the Falkland war and thus became a target for the British secret service.
In light of the rumours, officials at the normally staid Bank of Italy and Finance Ministry expressed amazement at the finding by a London coroner that Mr. Calvi did indeed commit suicide by hanging himself under the bridge. The common reaction was:
”Why bother to go to London to do that?”
Scandalised Money Laundering
Paolo Cipriani, director of the bank, and his deputy Marco Tullio have resigned after the arrest by Italian tax police of a Vatican monsignor who used to work as a senior account manager in the Administration of the Patrimony of the Apostolic See (APSA), which manages Vatican real estate holdings. The monsignor, Nunzio Scarano, is being questioned in jail over allegations of money laundering, corruption and fraud.
Pope Francis is scandalised and angry at the goings on behind the scenes at the IOR. He has decided to begin his planned clean-up of the Roman Curia, the central government of the Church, with a complete shakeup at the IOR.
Vatican security officers have been instructed to freeze any attempt to meddle with IOR documents, while an internal commission of inquiry with wide powers prepares a secret report on the current financial shenanigans, for the eyes of Pope Francis only.
The Vatican Bank has a damaged image at a time when the Pope is urging his flock to turn their attention to the plight of the world’s poor. There is speculation that one of Pope Francis’ options could be to dissolve the IOR altogether and transfer all Vatican banking to a reliable commercial bank.
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The Bankers of God (Film 2002)
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair (Italian: I banchieri di Dio also known as The God's Bankers) is an Italian drama film directed in 2002 by Giuseppe Ferrara. Audio in Italian with English subtitles.
The film tells the story of the scandal of Banco Ambrosiano, mainly related to the figure of Roberto Calvi. The Clearstream scandal exploded as a case full of intricate affairs involving the financial world, the Vatican, the Masonic Lodge P2, the Italian Secret Service, the Secret Intelligence Service, the Italian politics, the Mafia and the Banda della Magliana. The movie narrates in detail all these connections, trying to reconstruct events and plots.
