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Pacific Stereo Corporation 1970 – 1973
The following text is a reply shared with AUDIOKARMA.ORG at Pacific Stereo the early years
WOW.. this is a BELATED reply.. now living in San Diego, I was an early employee to Pacific Stereo, was trained in the engineering department with several of my musician buddies. You see, we musicians needed income to supplement making money doing music, so we all got jobs with Pacific Stereo working in the engineering warehouses of Emeryville (between Oakland and Berkeley, near the bay). The warehouse had three divisions: 1)engineering and store interior design upstairs; 2)sound room development and equip testing lower floor 1/3; and 3)Wood Construction and Wire Channels development lower floor 2/3. Half my team developed the portable store frames that were inserted into each warehouse. Each warehouse would be totally painted flat black, all walls, ceiling, and floors covered with indoor/outdoor carpet. The wood team would construct from 16-foot sections, an inner frame work of wood with slotted 4×4″ supports, the inner walls, and a couple of sound rooms. Spotted lighting was used to highlight contrasting colored section panels that served as back-board to hang a couple of shelves where stereo hi-fi systems were displayed as “pre-made” combinations.. very attractive to the eye. The 2nd half of my team was the sound room wiring team. We created the first master control panel where any combination of amplifiers, pre-amps, input source (i.e. tape, plastic record, radio receiver) and speaker models, could be mixed without causing damage to any components because of variations in equipment sensitivity (low wattage to high wattage quick changes, safely). After a good long season working for production and installation of stores (I installed most of the early west coast stores including San Diego, and two stores in towns like Akron, OH., I then moved to the new store in Berkeley after installing it, onto the sales team and helped develop and prove the sales training program, i.e. every sales person had the same script but learned how to make it their own. The sales script was well published and documented with simple-person pictures to teach us how to educate the customer, like a sound technician consulting sales with simple examples of explanation that made working with components instead of buying everything in one-console, a safe and understood choice by the customer. They would feel good about spending $500-$2000 in a “custom” component sound system they put together from hearing the combination of components that pleased their ear! After working the floor at the Berkeley Pacific Stereo, I got hooked with a leader called Phil, who was a brilliant sound man who could sell anyone; he looked like a ZZ-Top musician with his beard and long hair; and came up with the concept: Pacific Recycle Stereo, which he and I opened across the street from the new Berkeley store, and that is when Pacific Stereo started taking in components from customers who had developed their ear to sound, and now wanted to trade in their components to purchase changes and upgrades, therefore, recycle stereo !! (LOL) Yes, it was a GREAT journey. And, I took a long sabbatical after several years good service in Pacific Stereo, won a sales contest for weekend vacation at DisneyLand Anaheim, ended up in San Diego and forgot to leave. CBS bought Pacific Stereo after I left, and that history is well known and understood. OH… but the early days were GREAT adventure! And here I am, in San Diego, still playing music gigs and loving my sound ! Peace be with all you readers… ~ Clifford Maverick Taylor
Trump rally in Casper, Wyoming
The Great Reset: Defining How It Works
Here, I will share my research study into something called: The Great Reset.
I’m going to start by using the new Glenn Beck book “The Great Reset” with over 400 pages of source references created by those people who are members of the World Economic Forum meeting annually at Davos an Alpineresort town and a municipality in the Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. Davos is located on the river Landwasser, in the Rhaetian Alps, between the Plessur and Albula Ranges.
The Great Reset Lectures
By Glenn Beck (February 2022)
Preface
A Brave Terrifying New World
Never Let a Global Pandemic Go to Waste
Climate Change: The Catalyst for a “New World Order”
Modern Monetary Theory: Fuel for a Global Economic Takeover
Modern Monetary Theory: Fuel for a Global Economic Takeover
The Great Reset: Building a Twenty-First Century Fascism Machine (parts I and II)
Joe Biden and the Great Reset of America
Derailing the Great Reset
TYRANNY VS. LIBERTY
American Character ethic
History of American Character Ethic with Benjamin Franklin (1776)
1. The Character Ethic, as it was written by Benjamin Franklin (1776), taught that there are basic principles of Effective Living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they learn and integrate these principles into their basic character.
2. Character Ethic as the Cornerstone of success begins with things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule.
Recent History of Global Currency Reset
This video begins with a long forgotten clip from the Sean Hannity Radio Show in 2010. This was the single most important moment on Hannity’s show ever and he didn’t even know it:
If you understand what we are presenting to you in this video it will impact your life and the lives of your family members for generations. We’ve known about this for many years and have actually spoken directly to individuals who were inside of the meetings back in the early 2000’s when many of the decisions on this historical event were first being planned. We have been quietly sharing this information through our platforms since the early 2010’s in hopes of helping Conservatives, Christians, Veterans, Charities, and pro-American Patriots use this as a way to bring hope and joy to millions across the nation and the world. Also, this is the absolute key for Independent, Alternative, and Conservative media outlets and journalists to launch their platforms into the stratosphere. Never again will you have to worry about authoritarian censorship, ads being pulled, lawsuit warfare, or being banned/shadow-banned on NWO platforms. YOU will now be in a position to lead, to create, to inform millions, and ultimately (#1 goal of all) help spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Remember, after this event you will potentially have a great deal more influence on the world. You will be faced with unimaginable temptations to waste it away, hoard it, or to do immoral things that will ultimately lead to your demise. Look at how many sudden Crypto/Bitcoin “millionaires”, lottery winners, pro-athletes, and those who inherited large amounts of money simply wasted it away within a short period of time. We invite everyone to revisit the Story of the Talents in the Bible (Matthew 25:14-30) as you take this to the Lord in prayer.
Final note: We will not be answering any questions on this event after this video is published. We’ve done what we felt led to do the past several years and this will be our final post on the topic until after the event transpires. Take everything you learn here to the Lord in prayer.
The Massive Untapped Wealth Of Iraq (Babylon)
– start the video at mark 7 minute 20 second:
https://youtu.be/x7VpHEuJ7r4?t=7m25s
(Proverbs 13:22) “A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.”
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Update (3-10-18): Interesting to note that this video began DROPPING in views overnight by the thousands. That means one day it had over 30,000 views and the next morning we awoke to it having 17,000 views. What does that mean? Why did they do it? Perhaps the video contains information someone does not want you to know. This is one of the many reasons we rarely post anything on YouTube anymore.
Update (3-14-18): Each time this video hits 30,000 views it drops back down by 10,000 or more. Last night it had 29, 990 views and today we checked it and it was back down to 20,007 views. Mass censorship continues for anyone who isn’t a nihilist or anti-American.
Update (6-9-18): On June 5th and June 6th of 2018 we experienced a massive anti-Trump bot attack. Within 24 hours the bots down-voted this video nearly 500 times (before it had fewer than 50 down-votes since it was uploaded months ago). The bots also left scores of spam/vulgar messages that thankfully were blocked by the “approving comment” feature. We have no idea of where the bot attack originated at this time. YouTube notified us of the attack also which was apparently picked up by their algorithm. Would be great to just be able to upload videos without shadow banning, censorship, or bot attacks like the old days of YouTube. Just another reason we have decided to use this platform so sparingly.
Note: We do not monetize our videos yet YouTube is running commercials on this video and claiming “copyright” despite the fact that we’re using ROYALTY FREE MUSIC. Last year we had a video getting 10k views an hour that, once it hit 90k views, they completely stopped it from going viral. Censorship is real, it is disturbing, and it is one-sided.
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Anthropology Archaeological Reconnaissance – Clifford VF Taylor (Oceanologist / NAUI Diver)
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts”.
Sometimes, for some of us, the need for adversity in the world is a prerequisite for personal growth and development. Therefore, the conscious effort to enhance the quality of our thoughts should be structured as a tool which can be used to manage adversity and maximize our personal growth potential.
Again, these are the words of Roman-Emperor Marcus Aurelius (121AD – 180AD) whose simple statement with immense impact, is for those people who challenge themselves to consider it further:
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
As in times past, the world today is full of things and matters which cause much stress, confusing thoughts, and mixed emotions. Many people wander around in life, looking for answers and someone to make sense of it all for us. This is the base human need which governments and religions evolve from. It’s almost as if we are genetically hardwired to force someone else, or something else, to be responsible and accountable for our lives.
With that projection and externalization comes the inevitable shift-blaming:
- “I’m unhappy because so and so did something mean to me.”
- “My job is horrible because the company has no clue how to run a successful operation.”
- “I’m not passing because my teacher sucks.”
- “I’m poor because rich people are greedy.”
- “I’m dying because corporations are putting poison in the food.”
We can come up with an endless list of such statements, and though some statements may be partially true based on evidence, each statement also suggests that the speaker is helpless to do anything about it, and consequently has accepted a state of victim hood.
There is a well-known phrase which says that if we don’t live our life based on our own plan, than we will be living it based on someone else’s plan. Another way of saying that is “plan your life or someone else will plan it for you.”
What we are experiencing in this existence and within this world is an overabundance of people who are allowing others to plan their life for them. This is the baseline for the master and slave dynamic. We are either a master or a slave to varying degrees. We can be our own master or a master to others. Equally so we can be our own slave or a slave to others. We can even be all of those things at the same time depending on environment and situation.
As an example, a rich person could serve as a type of master over a thousand men but could be a slave to his own weakness to greed and avarice. Likewise, a man could be master over his own inner thoughts and feelings but still be subjected to a master-type influence by things in his environment which are outside of his control.
The difference which Marcus Aurelius is drawing our attention to is that we have full control over our own thoughts and how we want to perceive that which we have control over and that which we don’t. We have full control over our own thoughts which when managed consistently can begin to alter and adjust those things which we originally perceived as being outside of our control.
The suggestion is that if we accept a state of victimhood the quality of our thoughts will always be negative and detrimental to our overall well-being. If we do not accept a state of victimhood, no matter the situation, and focus the quality of our thoughts on what we can control we will soon begin to realize that the area which we do control will grow larger and larger.
This is called re-framing our thoughts. We can even re-frame the thoughts of others. This takes us back to the master and slave dynamic and how someone else will plan our lives for us if we don’t plan it ourselves.
You need to focus the quality of your thoughts on your own frames and how to re-frame those frames which put you in a victim hood type mentality.
We are bombarded every waking minute of our lives with messages that are attempting to force outside frames upon us. We are never told this because than we would not accept the frames that are detrimental to us and beneficial to others.
The world is the way it is today because there are more people who are allowing “masters” to formulate plans and frames for them as opposed to being their own masters. It should also be considered that we are both our own master and slave while simultaneously being master and slave to others as well.
The statement about quality of thoughts by Marcus Aurelius is a great place to start this series on the Wisdom of the Ancients, as it provides us a common frame to begin the discussion. This series will be primarily focused on self-discovery and self-improvement. We explain and trend the things in the world which we feel matter but let’s also begin the process of understanding what we can do to promote and encourage change in the world.
The Three Laws of Robotics by Issac Asimov
The Three Laws of Robotics (often shortened to The Three Laws or known as Asimov’s Laws) are a set of rules devised by the science fiction author Isaac Asimov. The rules were introduced in his 1942 short story “Runaround“, although they had been foreshadowed in a few earlier stories. The Three Laws, quoted as being from the “Handbook of Robotics, 56th Edition, 2058 A.D.”, are:
- A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
- A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
- A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.[1]
These form an organizing principle and unifying theme for Asimov’s robotic-based fiction, appearing in his Robot series, the stories linked to it, and his Lucky Starr series of young-adult fiction. The Laws are incorporated into almost all of the positronic robots appearing in his fiction, and cannot be bypassed, being intended as a safety feature. Many of Asimov’s robot-focused stories involve robots behaving in unusual and counter-intuitive ways as an unintended consequence of how the robot applies the Three Laws to the situation in which it finds itself. Other authors working in Asimov’s fictional universe have adopted them and references, often parodic, appear throughout science fiction as well as in other genres.
The original laws have been altered and elaborated on by Asimov and other authors. Asimov himself made slight modifications to the first three in various books and short stories to further develop how robots would interact with humans and each other. In later fiction where robots had taken responsibility for government of whole planets and human civilizations, Asimov also added a fourth, or zeroth law, to precede the others:
- A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.
The Three Laws, and the zeroth, have pervaded science fiction and are referred to in many books, films, and other media.
(1977) Lisa to Clifford.. this workboot shoe represents your future!
Dearest Clifford:
This shoe (workboot) represents your future!
Your drive and ambition will cause you to wear out many pairs of workboots just like this one. This boot is my wish to you for happiness. Unlike regular workboots, this workboot will never wearout, because if it does, it will represent the failure to follow your dreams!
This boot is small like you in comparison to the big world, but powerful in its potential.
Treat this boot as you would me, gentle and kind.
Like this boot, of which many hours were spent to make it, is our friendship which will never wear out, either. Go more quietly and softly along your path to success; the world can’t be conquered by a voice!
Love to you on your birthday, spend it wisely.
Lisa
Dinarland folk lore and utter non-sense
The US presidency will continue according to the philosophic and ideological guidelines of the new and constitutionally elected chief executive, Donald Trump. There is no credible evidence to support rumors of other unelected chief executives to succeed President Trump, including any such persons positioned by foreign powers (e.g., China, Russia, etc.).
President Donald Trump is reported to have purchased dinar along with many other speculative currencies. This has NOT been confirmed by any source, but it is considered possible as the highly speculative quality of this investment is no impediment to Trump. Further, there is no confirmation from any reliable source to the rumor that President Trump exchanged large amounts of dinar at any exchange rate.
There is no independent confirmation by any credible source that the character “zorra” except as partner of a guru who was dubbed by the “zorra” character as “one who knows”. Indeed, there is no credible confirmation from any credible or independent source that ANYTHING either of these characters have provided is anything but their own variations of new age religion and sci-fi fantasy.
Indeed, there is no independent or reliable confirmation of what is provided by ANY of the “usual” and popular dinarland sources. It has been observed publicly on many occasions over nearly a full year that all of the “intel” within dinarland (other than relayed factually news which is publicly available) has met the minimal threshold of accuracy, i.e., none of the “intel” has proved accurate. The primary response to attempts to note dozens of inaccurate predictions is dismissal, labeling as “cabal” agents, and ridicule. There is never – in fact, never – any argument that predictions of 800 number release have been accurate, no proof has been offered of the existence of even one “exchange center” or purported currency exchange (at “teaser” rates or other high rates), or that the fabled “Chinese elders” exist, to name only a few. A popular and convenient “refutation” is that these are secret matters and can’t be proved.
All confirmed sources agree that the “RV/GCR” is theoretic, at best, and much more likely, a useful story-line for sustaining dinarland reader interest. A score of references can be given to support this position, however, the only “sources” available to dinarland “gurus” is the internal and circular rumor mill of their guru community.
There was no relationship between an RV/GCR and the Congressional confirmation of the US President’s appointed Secretary of the Treasury. That has proven to be the case, despite so many predicting the swearing in would “flip a switch” or such a thing. This is an excellent example of dinarland gurus finding some semi-plausible basis for falsely stirring up excitement for the RV/GCR. The falsity of something happening due to these events being supposedly related to the RV/GCR can only be seen retrospectively, however, the dinarland culture has evolved to now where anyone pointing out such a failure is vilified while the falsity is carefully ignored.
All credible sources agree, there will be no simultaneous and sudden revaluation of currencies across the world. It is fully confirmed and documented that there has been NO treaty, ratified (as required by the US Senate), or otherwise, which requires gold backing of currency or revaluation of currencies. Of course, to anyone who has read the publicly available Paris Agreement on Climate Change, this is a known fact.
Read: http://unfccc.int/paris_agreement/items/9485.php
These are fully and publicly confirmed facts with easy access by any person.
After document review and a detailed analysis of the Paris Agreement, it has become completely clear that dinarland gurus have relied on investors’ trust to use this international accord (not a treaty) to falsely carry their story-line. There is no reference whatsoever in the accord which supports the idea of a GCR. The RV of IQD is neither mentioned or could it be realistically even influenced by the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement was merely another convenient current event which was used and its contents misrepresented to further the otherwise utterly factless story-line of popular gurus. Fortunately, simple fact-checking has fully debunked any dinar guru support of the Paris Agreement for their RV/GCR story-line.
On the subject of treaties and law, generally, be aware that all federal laws are included in the Federal Register, which is publicly available to anyone with internet access. There are no exceptions, if it is law, it is in full text in the Federal Register. Thus, it is extremely critical to note that there has never been passed a law called “NESARA” or anything like it in connection with “economic recovery”. It is not “secret”, it was not signed by a US President at the point of a gun (which would void the supposed law, anyway), and it was not authorized by some of the US Supreme Court (in which case, it would not be law, either). There is also no such thing confirmed anywhere but within new age religious websites and dinarland blogs as “GESARA”, this being a mutation of the acronym NESARA – swapping “global” in place of “national”.
The evolution and adaptation of NESARA is an interesting but unsurprising story. Multiple conspiracy theories have been combined to confuse and mystify a fairly simple story. “National Economic Security and Recovery Act (NESARA) was a set of proposed economic reforms suggested during the 1990s by Harvey Francis Barnard. Barnard claimed that the proposals, which included replacing the income tax with a national sales tax, abolishing compound interest on secured loans, and returning to a bimetallic currency, would result in 0% inflation and a more stable economy. The proposals were never introduced before Congress. … NESARA has since become better known as the subject of a cult-like conspiracy theory promoted by Shaini Candace Goodwin, doing business as “Dove of Oneness”, who claimed that the act was actually passed with additional provisions as the National Economic Security and Reformation Act, and then suppressed by the George W. Bush administration and the Supreme Court. Goodwin’s conspiracy emails have been translated into several languages and have a large following online.” http://investmentwatchblog.com/draining-the-swamp-monetary-and-fiscal-policy-reform-1996/
In a handful of recent posts by a popular guru, there was reference to “GESARA compliance regulations”. Of course, no reference was given. There could not be, as GESARA is a product of guru imagination, repeated often enough as to become a presumed truth – it is not. There are no “GESARA compliance regulations” because there is no such thing as “GESARA” associated with any governing body in the world. The preposterous quality of this make-believe set of rules or regulations places the burden of proof on anyone saying it is real. At very least, since it has been publicly mentioned, it is incumbent on the one who mentions it to offer a single legitimate and confirmable source for the existence of GESARA or its regulations. You can still buy the book which was written by Dr. Barnard (this is the 2005 edition, although the first edition was self-published in 1996): https://www.amazon.com/Draining-Swamp-Monetary-Fiscal-Policy/dp/0965112403
It’s interesting to note that Dr. Barnard urged economic policies somewhat similar to US Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, but Barnard’s book title ended up as a slogan for the Trump campaign, “Drain the Swamp”. Make of it what you will.
PLEASE NOTE: Do not burn your investment currency. Do not give away your investment currency. Do not even entrust your investment currency to anyone. Do not disregard the investment you have made – there is always a chance within a speculative currency investment that some profit can be made.
This intel is offered as a free and 100% uncompensated service. The motivation for relaying this intel is the hope that unsupported supposed “intel” does not become a part of your investment goals and objectives. You are always urged to do independent investment research. You are always cautioned that any representation that information is true “because you can’t find it elsewhere” is itself a deception. If you cannot confirm facts, it is not reliable. Reliance on information simply because it supports a conspiracy narrative is foolish and a simple manipulation. Integration of one’s own principles of faith is valuable, but can leave an investor open to manipulation when ordinary investment due diligence and personal research is neglected. Let us always reason together.
“Sources” are easy when you’re grounded in reality and you’re telling the truth.
As always, being and staying “grounded”, according to Merriam-Webster, means “mentally and emotionally stable; admirably sensible, realistic, and unpretentious.” Measure yourself against this standard and, with integrity, be brutally honest. Check to see if those whose advice you accept are in this way “grounded”.
Lost Any Liberal Friends?
QUESTION:
HI Cliff,
How are you? Was a great inauguration… any comments,
I’d love to hear.
Have you lost any liberal friends, or do you steer clear from them??
Hugs,
Judith
Grace Awake
ANSWER:
Grace:
I’ve been trying for months to inform my liberal, socialist, police-state ideologists that the appearance and election of Donald Trump to the political stage of the world’s most powerful country is a geo-political move of global proportions in support of a new, multilateral currency system with the intent to revalue the currency of emerging nations and re-balance the global economic system. It is a move away from seven decades of unipolar USD based global reserve currency pushed by the Western banking system and American Corporate imperialism.
And, more specifically, the liberal mandates of open societies and left-leaning freedoms have crashed into the walls of rational thought and real-world functioning progressive ideals. This was one of the most predictable outcomes in our world for the simple fact that the liberal-left and its proposed values and virtues are based on a fraudulent position which was promised to empower the people and end the threat of totalitarianism, but in fact weakened the moral fiber of civilization and skewed the diametric truths.
It has long been declared that the alternative to the mandates of liberalism is authoritarianism, totalitarianism, fascism, and the scalable loss of freedoms as society moves further to the right. This gross mischaracterization has been embedded in our culture through left-funded media and education strategies which have both arrested and corrupted the minds of generations.
Whether you consider the development of these diametric left and right political ideologies as chance or engineering matters less than the need to understand the path civilization takes as it shifts between one and the other. The human mind demands opposition as a method of advancement and learning. This foundational principle is hardcoded into our world and the human powerbase has mastered the art of harnessing it for the purpose of socioeconomic engineering. The diametric exists in spite of the human need for oneness and brotherhood.
The truth of the matter is that the extreme of the left or the right both act as catalysts for a return to the other. A civilization surrendered to extreme right authoritarianism will build an inner momentum for a return to the freedoms inherent in the center. This momentum becomes an unstoppable train which overshoots the center and reengineers culture and governance towards the far left. Equally so, a civilization weakened to extreme left openness and unaccountability will develop an outer momentum for a return to decency, strength and personal responsibility. The overshoot is just as dramatic.
The all or nothing approach of the liberal-left towards a full open society establishes a need for totalitarianism in the same manner that the extreme right presents its own justification. Harsh loss of personal freedoms and strong authoritarianism are required to hold both the left and the right in their extreme diametric positions. Neither can use the risk of authoritarianism as the justification to prevent the other from arising as the end result will always be the same.
The frequency of executive orders by the Obama administration and the use of regulations are examples of what we are discussing. The momentum towards a full open society built on the mandates of the liberal left has destroyed itself in the same manner that an extreme right ideology would have.
Those in the world who can grasp and understand the mechanics and methodology of this shifting diametric have an opportunity, and in fact a responsibility, to plan staged cultural and socioeconomic interceptions which would be meant to manage the return momentum and create a structural framework at the center which would hold the weight of a civilization with a growing self-awareness.
The dogma of “do what thou wilt” is the built-in weakness of the far liberal left in the same manner that “do what we tell you to do” is with the far right. The extreme of either ideology emerges near and at the end of civilizations. Other ancillary factors such as monetary policy and war act as further catalysts but the corruption begins within first, such as it does in our personal lives.
The road from fascist Germany in World War Two to liberal-left Germany today which has enacted self-destructive governance policies is a perfect example of this swing between extreme left and extreme right. The open borders and open society framework has failed not just in Germany and Europe, but across the world and political spectrums. The governed populations are beginning to accept that there is an ideological disease which has pushed western civilization to the brink of an identity collapse just out there on the edge of the extreme liberal-left platform.
The response is the “new modern nationalism” which we have discussed and is represented by the election of Donald Trump, the BREXIT vote, and the emergence of strong conservative-right candidates in nations around the world.
But with the death of worldwide liberalism also comes the end of American unipolar imperialism which has functioned as an extension of the international reserve status of the dollar and by default the once influential liberal-left culture which has dominated in varying degrees since the passage of the Federal Reserve Act in 1913. The shift towards a multilateral (or multipolar) monetary framework is releasing American culture from the death grip of this responsibility and allowing for a restructuring of the US financial system, the function of the Federal Reserve, and the geopolitical world.
The geopolitical transformation has been manifesting with shifting alliances in the Pacific as once America allies, such as the Philippines, are moving closer to China. The orientation of Eastern Europe is also a place where further changes can be expected as Ukraine remerges as a strong Russian partner. As an extension, we can assume that once important regions and nations, such as the American military presence in South Korea because of the North Korean threat will be reversed and new balances and borders sought.
Recent statements by Trump would suggest that he has communicated to China that the time has come to address the North Korean situation. Whether the eroding American establishment has indirectly supported the North Korean regime as a pretext to justify its presence in the South matters little now as the script unfolds and China cleans up the mess in its own backyard.
All of this does not bode well for the ideological objectives of worldwide liberalism. But we need to be cautious that authoritarian rulers do not emerge who would take advantage of this swing towards the new modern nationalism. Such rulers can care little for ideological allegiances as long as their rule is enforced and maintained.
The liberal-left and the conservative-right are tools for maintaining the momentum in the pendulums swing arc. The time may be past to prevent the emergence of an extreme right as the world shifts and liberalism is crushed under the weight of the new modern nationalism. But let these words settle upon us as we observe and learn the pattern of human nature and the unseen forces in this world. This is the rational approach and the logical end to that which is illogical and irrational.
With Donald Trump, we are moving this nation toward a multi-lateral global currency system without the old American establishment and their imperialistic form of democracy.
Sincerely,
Clifford “Maverick” Taylor
President Donald Trump’s Inauguration Speach: 2017-01-20
Chief Justice Roberts, President Carter, President Clinton, President Bush, President Obama, fellow Americans and people of the world, thank you.
We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and restore its promise for all of our people.
Together, we will determine the course of America and the world for many, many years to come. We will face challenges. We will confront hardships. But we will get the job done.
Every four years we gather on these steps to carry out the orderly and peaceful transfer of power.
And we are grateful to President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama for their gracious aid throughout this transition.
They have been magnificent.
Thank you.
Today’s ceremony, however, has a very special meaning because today we are not merely transferring power from one administration to another or from one party to another, but we are transferring power from Washington, D.C., and giving it back to you, the people.
For too long, a small group in our nation’s capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have bore the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered but the jobs left and the factories closed.
The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country. Their victories have not been your victories. Their triumphs have not been your triumphs. And while they celebrated in our nation’s capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land.
That all changes starting right here and right now, because this moment is your moment. It belongs to you.
It belongs to everyone gathered here today and everyone watching all across America. This is your day.
This is your celebration.
And this, the United States of America, is your country.
What truly matters is not which party controls our government, but whether our government is controlled by the people.
January 20th, 2017, will be remembered as the day the people became the rulers of this nation again.
The forgotten men and women of our country will be forgotten no longer. Everyone is listening to you now. You came by the tens of millions to become part of a historic movement, the likes of which the world has never seen before.
At the center of this movement is a crucial conviction that a nation exists to serve its citizens. Americans want great schools for their children, safe neighborhoods for their families and good jobs for themselves.
These are just and reasonable demands of righteous people and a righteous public. But for too many of our citizens, a different reality exists.
Mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities, rusted out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation.
An education system flush with cash but which leaves our young and beautiful students deprived of all knowledge.
And the crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential. This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.
We are one nation, and their pain is our pain.
Their dreams are our dreams, and their success will be our success. We share one heart, one home and one glorious destiny.
The oath of office I take today is an oath of allegiance to all Americans.
For many decades we’ve enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry, subsidized the armies of other countries while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military.
We’ve defended other nations’ borders while refusing to defend our own. And we’ve spent trillions and trillions of dollars overseas while America’s infrastructure has fallen into disrepair and decay.
We’ve made other countries rich while the wealth, strength and confidence of our country has dissipated over the horizon.
One by one, the factories shuttered and left our shores with not even a thought about the millions and millions of American workers that were left behind.
The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and then redistributed all across the world. But that is the past, and now we are looking only to the future.
But that is the past and now we are looking only to the future.
We assembled here today are issuing a new decree to be heard in every city, in every foreign capital and in every hall of power. From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land. From this day forward, it’s going to be only America first — America first.
Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families. We must protect our borders from the ravages of other countries making our products, stealing our companies and destroying our jobs.
Protection will lead to great prosperity and strength. I will fight for you with every breath in my body. And I will never, ever let you down.
America will start winning again, winning like never before.
We will bring back our jobs. We will bring back our borders. We will bring back our wealth, and we will bring back our dreams. We will build new roads and highways and bridges and airports and tunnels and railways all across our wonderful nation. We will get our people off of welfare and back to work rebuilding our country with American hands and American labor. We will follow two simple rules — buy American and hire American.
We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world.
But we do so with the understanding that it is the right of all nations to put their own interests first. We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone but rather to let it shine as an example. We will shine for everyone to follow.
We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones. And unite the civilized world against radical Islamic terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the earth.
At the bedrock of our politics will be a total allegiance to the United States of America and through our loyalty to our country, we will rediscover our loyalty to each other. When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.
The Bible tells us how good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity. We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreement honestly but always pursue solidarity. When America is united, America is totally unstoppable.
There should be no fear. We are protected, and we will always be protected. We will be protected by the great men and women of our military and law enforcement. And most importantly, we will be protected by God.
Finally, we must think big and dream even bigger. In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving. We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action, constantly complaining but never doing anything about it. The time for empty talk is over. Now arrives the hour of action.
Do not allow anyone to tell you that it cannot be done. No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America. We will not fail. Our country will thrive and prosper again. We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the earth from the miseries of disease and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow. A new national pride will stir ourselves, lift our sights and heal our divisions. It’s time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget — that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots.
We all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American flag.
And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams and they are infused with the breath of life by the same Almighty Creator.
So to all Americans in every city near and far, small and large, from mountain to mountain, from ocean to ocean, hear these words — you will never be ignored again.
Your voice, your hopes and your dreams will define our American destiny. And your courage and goodness and love will forever guide us along the way. Together, we will make America strong again. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And yes, together, we will make America great again.
Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.
Thank you!
God bless you!
And God bless America.
Tavis Smiley interviews Oliver Stone regarding the film: SNOWDEN
Tonight, a conversation with award-winning filmmaker, Oliver Stone. The DVD and Blu-ray release of his film, “Snowden”, comes out December 27 and there’s also a new book out about his work. It’s called “The Oliver Stone Experience”. We’ll talk about that and much more tonight with filmmaker, Oliver Stone.
Tavis: Pleased to welcome award-winning director, Oliver Stone, back to this program. His latest project is called “Snowden”, which releases December 27 on DVD and on Blu-ray.
There is also a wonderful and very heavy coffee table book called “The Oliver Stone Experience”, which delves into his film work over the years. We’ll get to this later in the program. Before we start our conversation, though, with Oliver Stone, first a clip from “Snowden”.
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Tavis: You buy that? You believe that? That secrecy is security and security is victory?
Oliver Stone: No, Tavis. He buys it and that is an argument that the national security people always make, that we are running an empire basically since World War II that has gotten so big and it’s so vast. And we have to know everything in order to preserve it and to maintain it. That’s basically the argument. We have to know everything.
Tavis: Yeah. What do you make of that argument?
Stone: Well, it stems from the film. “Snowden” is–you know, I got into this issue when, you remember, he broke the news in June of 2013. That was pretty stunning stuff.
It was evidence finally that the national security agency had gone way beyond its mandate and it was collecting information not just on American citizens, but on everybody in the world, on corporations, on banks, on governments, on people that it was interested in. It’s a vast operation beyond any comprehension.
Most people were really shocked. I was. Then I got into it with Ed. I went to Moscow and I met him, made many trips. And he told us more and more. He didn’t warm up right away. He was very cautious and he told us more over these nine visits over about a year.
And what happens is that, you see, he and I both agree. I mean, a lot of people agree that, if you really are fighting terrorism which was the original excuse given for this, you have to have selected targeting, which is to concentrate on the terrorist and his people around him, and they’re all findable.
Usually, we have a pretty good trace on them and you use human intelligence, you use signals intelligence. You know, we tracked a lot of the phone numbers of the people at 9/11. We had that before.
This is all true, but we have to really concentrate on that amount of targeting and focus on that and have the agencies communicate with each other. The FBI, the NSA, the CIA don’t communicate. And even though we add more intelligence agencies, the communication is not really working that well.
So here we are in this situation where we’re getting so much information that, in a sense, it’s so vast for our computers—although we build bigger and bigger computers, you know, I’m hearing stories now about new types of computers, you know, quantum computers and stuff like this—it’s getting out of hand. I mean, no one knows what’s going on in the world.
And the movie that we just picked is not only about surveillance. It’s also about cyberterrorism, cyberwarfare which is a new form of warfare which, I mean, Americans don’t know anything about, as well as drone warfare which comes from data mining.
Tavis: I don’t need to ask you, but I’m going somewhere with this, so stay with me. I don’t need to ask you whether you think that Edward Snowden is a traitor or a patriot. I think your views on that are pretty clear. But there are people whose views on Edward Snowden have changed over the years and there are other persons whose views have not changed. I want to talk about a couple of different people in those various categories and get your take on it.
Let me start with former Attorney General Eric Holder who was once a staunch critic of Edward Snowden and has said on the record since then that he does think that Snowden provided a public service. That’s his phrase, that he did provide a public service. You think it was a public service?
Stone: I do, I do. You know, Mr. Snowden, he always gave his motivations. He said, “I’m giving this information responsibly to journalists who’ve reported on this and it’s up to them to propagate what they think is in the interests of the American people.”
He always said that. He never veered from that story. He didn’t make any money off of this. I don’t know of any traitor who gives information away for free. He’s maintained that from the beginning, from the first time he met them in June until now. So the profit motive is out.
People who’ve actually seen this movie, actually seen it, have said, well, I’ve changed my mind on Snowden and I really think he should be pardoned or he should be brought back to the United States and given a minimal sentence for breaking the law. He always said, “I’m breaking this law in the service of a higher law” which is what Martin Luther King said.
Tavis: Absolutely.
Stone: You have to sometimes ruffle the…
Tavis: An unjust law is no law at all, yeah.
Stone: Not only that, I mean, it was just–he was shocked because he’s a bit of a boy scout in that way. He was very pure. He was a Libertarian, Conservative, Army family background. After he’d been in the NSA for a few years, he was surprised at just the crossing of barriers into personal lives every day that we were doing this and not questioning it.
It’s against the Constitution. You have to have reasonable cause to survey somebody, reasonable cause. There was no reasonable cause given and, especially when you take on the whole population of the United States, we’re not terrorists.
Tavis: I want to come back to Snowden’s politics in just a second because it’s a fascinating part of the journey that you took. But I want to stick with this point I made a moment ago of quoting a couple of other people who have their own thoughts about Edward Snowden.
So I mentioned Eric Holder and how he started to change on his view of Edward Snowden, it would appear, from the quote that I referenced a moment ago.
Now Congressman Mike Pompeo who Donald Trump, as you know, has picked to be the head of the CIA–I wrote this down. I wanted to make sure I quoted him correctly–has referred to Edward Snowden–this is a quote–“the traitor, Edward Snowden–that’s how he refers to him–“as the traitor, Edward Snowden”.
This is the guy who would run the CIA if approved by the Senate, nominated by Mr. Trump, and he has called for Edward Snowden to be executed. So what do you make of the guy that may run the CIA who has heretofore at least called for Edward Snowden, the traitor, to be executed?
Stone: Well, you’re jumping way ahead of me here. The movie was based on the idea that you would see it, you know, that this Congressman might see it, but they don’t even give it any thought. They have an ideological stance on it and you’re saying he’s preset, he should be executed. Trump said the same thing at one point a few years ago.
You know, life is much more complicated than that and you should be able to change your views as you go through life. This fellow presumably will get appointed to the CIA. He’s also advocating Guantanamo opening again, more prisoners, and also torture, he seems to be fine with torture.
So it’s all going in one direction which is pretty rigid. It’s another America. It’s going back to the dark side of Mr. Cheney, Dick Cheney.
Tavis: President Obama was asked just on Friday about Edward Snowden, as you probably already know. Certainly Oliver Stone knows this.
Stone: No, I didn’t know.
Tavis: There is a big movement afoot and I suspect it’s going to grow in the coming weeks to press President Obama to pardon Edward Snowden before he leaves office–don’t laugh–but there’s going to be a huge press for him to do that before he leaves office.
President Obama was asked about this on Friday and this is a direct quote. “I can’t pardon somebody who hasn’t gone before a court and presented themselves, so that’s not something I would comment on at this point.” That’s President Obama on Friday when asked about whether he would pardon Edward Snowden.
I guess the question is whether you think there is any chance that Barack Obama, before he leaves the White House, would pardon Edward Snowden?
Stone: I wish he would or at least pre-pardon him, you know. I mean, make the condition such that he could be pardoned. No, it’d be the merciful thing to do and a graceful thing for him. I mean, he’s done many good things, but he hasn’t changed the system, the surveillance system at all. We’ve maintained a war state. We’re still very much in this kind of neoconservative lock that we fell into with George Bush.
So I have not seen that sense of pardon in him. He’s a tough man, Obama. I’ve lost a lot of respect. I thought the 2008 election was going to be a different movement. We’re gonna get rid of this madness that we’re living in and I’m very disappointed.
But I do think he’s done some good things. He hasn’t pressed the war in Syria to the place where it could have been suicidal for us as well as the Syrians. But Hillary Clinton, on the other hand, was of another nature and I think she was much tougher than Obama. Obama’s regarded as weak by Trump, so I worry about that.
You know, he wasn’t weak. If you have a powerful country such as we have, the most powerful in the world, you have to learn the power of soft power. You have to be forgiving and you can’t always seek enemies in the world. And this is what I fear is what’s going to happen in this new administration.
Tavis: How do you juxtapose his conservative politics with what he actually did? Because when you get a chance to see the film and read more about this guy, you see that his politics have been a bit conservative.
Stone: He was, yeah. He came from a southern family, two generations of FBI and military. He expressed those opinions when he was young and they’re in the movie, some of them. He was definitely pro Iraq War. He signed up for the military. He went in and he had a fragile body. He broke his legs, not a major break, but it was enough to keep him out.
Then he went over and volunteered for the CIA and he got in because he was quite good on a computer, very smart young man. And, basically, once he got in, he did his job very well except he was posted in Geneva, he was posted in Maryland, he was posted in Japan where he learned a lot about cyberterrorism, and then he moved on to Hawaii.
So he became more valuable as he went. One of the programs he built was Epic Shelter, which was used as a backup program which is very helpful to our global presence. But at the same time, he got more leeway.
He was a contractor essentially for the NSA at the end. And in Hawaii, he was able to access cyber offensive operations as well as defensive operations. He was covering China and Pakistan. But he knows a lot about cyberwarfare and a lot about drone warfare.
So what he was seeing, we were putting these offensive capabilities to use. We were hacking a lot of different places. As you may not remember, because it’s been sort of covered up in history, in 2009, Obama launched the Stuxnet virus against Iran. It was not discovered, I believe, until June or so of the following year, 2010.
But the deal was Obama was told by his “intelligence” people that this Stuxnet virus would not go beyond the borders of Iran and it would end where it ended, and would never be traced to the United States or Israel, who are its originators.
All three things turned out to be wrong. The virus did limited damage in Iran. They rebuilt those reactors and then, on top of that, it moved on into other countries and it could not be stopped for a while. And it was traced ultimately with a lot of research to the United States and Israel. So, I mean, we launched a warlike device which is a form of cyberwarfare in Iran in 2009, and we were doing it since 2006, I’m told.
There were earlier prototypes of Stuxnet, but they weren’t working. So in 2009, we essentially declared a new form of warfare and said here we are, and we thought we’d hide it, but we couldn’t. Other countries figured it out and they started to copy us.
In fact, Russia was soon behind us as well as China is very good at it. They’re smart. There’s a lot of independent hackers in the world that are very like Dr. No’s. They operate on their own and they can do enormous damage.
And as a result, we have all kinds of accusations about cyberwarfare going on. You heard a lot during the election campaign and many of them were silly and really out of hand, based on a sort of McCarthy-like fear of Russia or China.
So we’re in a mess right now. We need a cyber treaty between countries. We really have to sit down and renegotiate this thing because no one knows what–as Snowden says, surveillance is in freefall. I mean, no one knows what’s happening.
Tavis: Is Trump the right person to hit the reset button with Russia, since you referenced it? And what does that look like, do you think?
Stone: I really hope so, because if I had one beef, the major obstacle I had with Ms. Clinton, what I’m most scared of her, was this Russia situation. She was certainly pressing the Russia button making accusations about their cyberwarfare influencing the election and so forth and so on.
It was, I thought, outrageous claims and she should have not made them because she had a short rope to hang herself with…
Tavis: Or put the evidence out.
Stone: Yeah. There was no evidence either.
Tavis: Either/or, I mean, yeah.
Stone: In fact, a lot of people I know in the intelligence world—you can reference James Bamford. He’s written a lot about the National Security Agency–do think it’s probably an insider at the Democratic National Committee that was upset about the bad things that the officers were doing there.
They were trying to block Sanders. They were also selling ambassadorships. Four major officials resigned, you know. They were in some way implicit in this thing. One was a treasurer too.
So these were not mild accusations. These were serious accusations of malfeasance against officials. In other words, Ms. Clinton–well, going back to your original question on Trump. God, I hope so. You know, if there’s one good…
Tavis: The Trump-Putin relationship, friendship, whatever it is, doesn’t scare you?
Stone: No, it doesn’t scare me at all because–I mean, you’re asking me several questions here. No, Russia has not behaved aggressively towards the United States, believe it or not. It’s been the United States has been behaving very aggressively towards Russia for many years. This has been going on since we expanded NATO.
I don’t know if you remember, we had Gorbachev and Baker back in the 90s agreed that NATO would not expand eastward. Well, we’ve expanded to 13 countries. The first Clinton, then Bush, and then Obama, three presidents have expanded NATO to the east. There’s no reason to have that organization which is a defensive organization made after World War II still existing.
Tavis: Of course, the NATO argument, as you well know–I’m telling you stuff you already know–the NATO argument is that if we don’t expand particularly in that region of the world, then Putin runs amok.
Stone: But he hasn’t run amok. He has not run amok. Contrary, if you look at the figures, Russia’s been shrinking. They lost 21 million Russians in the 1990s. They were cut off from Russia. He has never expressed an interest in revitalizing that empire.
He is trying to keep his land mass complete and, if you look at the history of NATO which is taking it right to the border and looking at the hostility of his neighbors, looking at the abrogation in 2002, George Bush unilaterally revoked the ABM Treaty which we had signed with Russia.
Nixon and Brezhnev had signed it in 1972. That’s a big treaty, Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. He just said it’s off the table. So how can the United States be trusted if it breaks treaties like this? There’s been a lot of provocation to Russia in many ways.
And because the United States has been very concerned about the Eurasian-Chinese unification sort of, the idea of a big economic bloc emerging from Eurasia with China, China is the biggest economic power in the world besides us. But Russia has 10%. As Julian Assange has said, Russia has 10% of our domestic economy. They don’t have anything like it. They’re a smaller country.
They’re like a European country and they have a smaller military, but they have an effective military. They spend–what is it–20% of our spending on defense. There’s no evidence that Russia is trying to be something bigger than it is. They’re trying to stay alive is what I’m trying to say.
Tavis: Let me circle back to the film. There have been award-winning documentaries that come to mind about Edward Snowden. What were the challenges or the reasons, the rationale, for your interest in wanting to do it as a feature film?
Stone: Because when I heard the story from Snowden, it was inside information. No one had ever written or done anything about the National Security Agency with realism yet. There’s been very few books written on it. Bamford is one of them, James Bamford. But getting inside the dialog, the mindset, the sets, the way they look, this is crucial stuff. We went on Ed’s story and it is his story, his point of view.
There has been no convincing counter story from the National. Security Agency blaming him. He is what he is. He’s a smart young man who worked his way up through the NSA where he saw these horrible things going on and he said, “Let the public decide.”
Well, the public, unfortunately, did not understand it because that story broke in 2013 and there’s been no reaction. We’re still in this state we’re in. There were some mild reforms, yes, but essentially he brought–I think we have accepted the fact that the government is a global surveillance state.
We accept it, but we don’t understand the implications of that. And that’s what I’m trying to say to you. We have gathered more data than any single person. We’ve tapped everybody.
We have 22,000 miles up in space. We have satellites with antenna on them as big as the Eiffel Tower listening in on everything. So let’s say we have a coups recently in Brazil. Dilma Rousseff is removed from office. She was a leftist. She was the inheritor of Lula’s Workers’ Party.
I think it was an interesting story about why she was removed with what information. Because we were tapping Petrobras, which is the oil company of Brazil, as we were tapping a lot of the companies in Venezuela and so forth.
So we gave information maybe to the opposition party and they used that to bring all kinds of corruption charges against her. That’s a possibility. So you get a lot of pressure from this information. You can create coup d’états.
In Ukraine, there was a tremendous amount of help form the United States giving to the Ukrainian government which overthrew, again, its president who was democratically elected, overthrew him, instead of waiting for another election.
So if we keep promoting regime change, as Hillary Clinton has said, in these countries, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Ukraine, Turkey maybe–we tried a month or two ago. There was a big coups in Turkey that came very close–Brazil.
I’m saying these are significant changes in countries and we don’t have that right. It seems to me that we are using this power we have to listen in on everybody to promote the agenda we want.
Now what is the agenda? We’ve never argued this with the public. We’ve never debated what should the United States be doing? Should we be going around the world policing it? Demanding regime change when we don’t like a leader? This has happened since 1940s. It’s been going on.
We’ve had at least 100 changes of government that we’ve been involved in. Is this the right role for the U.S.? If we are really out for the United States, if we think about America first, to use Trump’s quote, which is important, I suppose, to say, look, let’s think about America.
What’s good for our health? It’s not changing regimes around the world because they’re not going to attack us. We’re pretty mighty, as it is. Let me finish my point. The idea is that, if we’re America first, let’s concentrate on America. Let’s build up the infrastructure here, and that’s one good thing he said.
Horrible things he said, but one good thing was let’s try to build up this American infrastructure. Let’s put the jobs here. Now he may not succeed, but we can sure build our bridges and roads and try to re-ignite our country economically. We know we’re sagging. We feel it.
Tavis: Whether Mike Pompeo, the future head of the CIA, or just an everyday American, sees this film, what is it about the film that will get them to reconsider their view of him if they take his…
Stone: You know, a film operates in a dramatic level. It’s…
Tavis: It’s powerful.
Stone: It’s human. It makes the human. You understand his story. The public didn’t understand Snowden in 2013. He thought he was–he’s a guy who gave away secrets. That makes him a bad guy in American parlance, but if you look into why he did it and what his life was like and look at his girlfriend, his relationship, he stayed human.
There was a part of him that was honest and pure, and I think we appeal to that in the American people and they will see why he did it. Many Americans would do the same thing if they could. The thing is, he had the courage at 29 years old.
At 29, imagine what you were like at 29. To walk away from the money, the job, the girlfriend? He had a beautiful life in Maryland, but he said no. My conscience is my guide and he lived up to it.
Tavis: This book is not by you, but it is about you. Tell me about “The Oliver Stone Experience”.
Stone: Well, I happen to like it [laugh]. Matt Seitz is a television critic for New York Magazine and he’s written about film extensively, loves film. He’s a man who’s not harshly judgmental, to put it that way, and he’s a very sweet man. He’s a good writer and he’s written about films and this is five years of his work.
He put it out and I gave him access to my files. He went through them. He used what he wanted. There was no negatives. I didn’t put any conditions on it, and this is what he wrote. Some of it, I agree with, some of it I don’t, but I think it’s interesting because, if you’re interested in any particular film I’ve done over those 20 films over, whatever, 25 years, it’s there.
Tavis: It’s called “The Oliver Stone Experience”, as he just said, analyzing his 20 films over this period. And the movie, “Snowden”, by Oliver Stone on Blu-ray and DVD December 27, if you want to have a copy in your personal library. Oliver Stone, always good to have you on the program, sir. Thanks for coming to see us.
Stone: My pleasure. That was fast.
Tavis: Always. You got so much to say, which is why we want you on.
Stone: Did we actually last for 24?
Tavis: We lasted. We got through it.
Stone: Really?
Tavis: Yes. That’s our show for tonight [laugh]. Thanks for watching… And, as always, keep the faith.
Rising Star of the Right: Meet Tomi Lahren
Rising Star of the Right: Meet Tomi Lahren
(NEWSER) – Ann Coulter is so yesterday. Meet Tomi Lahren, whom the New York Timesrecently called “the right’s rising media star.” Lahren is a 24-year-old conservative who has an impressive social media following and hosts a show on the Glenn Beck-founded network The Blaze. One of her most-viewed segments was a callout of Colin Kaepernick in which she called for black communities to “take some responsi-damn-bility for the problems of black communities”; it’s been shared more than 1.5 million times since its August debut. Lahren has gotten more attention from the mainstream media since appearing on Trevor Noah’s Daily Show last week; Noah had to specifically ask his audience not to boo Lahren: “Imagine you’re at Thanksgiving again, and your racist uncle walked in.” More coverage of the young star:
- Lahren worked for One America News before getting picked up by The Blaze. Here’s the 2015 segment that went viral and got the Blaze’s attention. In it, she called out President Obama’s “halfway, half-baked, tip-toe, be-friendly-to-Jihadis mentality” after four Marines were shot in Chattanooga, Tenn.
- After the Daily Show interview aired, Lahren tweeted that if she were a “liberal snowflake,” she would complain about fairness, seeing as only six minutes out of 26 minutes filmed ended up airing, per the Huffington Post, which has the full interview.
- New York magazine noted that the interview may have been Noah’s “best work ever,” and that in that moment he may have finally earned Jon Stewart’s seat.
- Vox notes that Noah didn’t “destroy” her so much as “reveal her views,” which it says was a “much better” move. But the Huffington Post says that liberals cheering the interview are “missing the point” and need to start paying more attention.
- Charlamagne Tha God has been friendly with Lahren, and BET reports that the rapper was recently called out as being “not for black culture” as a result.
Its the Most Wonderful Time In Eight Years
Published on Dec 1, 2016
Goodbye Obama!
Songwriter Dana Kamide performs vocals on This wonderful, hilarious Christmas song parody which says it all!
– – Based on the song Andy Williams made popular in the 60’s…
This version also parodies the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” When George Baily begs God (through his guardian angel Clarence) to let him live again…
This time he begs God to help Donald Trump “Make America Great Again” Hillary makes an appearance as the Abominable Snowman in the end… Singer, songwriter and Entertainer Dana Kamide wrote the lyrics and performed the lead vocals and produced the video.
Democrats got Shellacked in last 3 elections. Yet Obama and the media still trying to make up stories why Donald Trump was elected instead of admit that for the last 8-10 years their policies have FAILED AMERICA!
Here are the lyrics:
It’s the most wonderful time in 8 years
Yet some kids are protesting
while Trump fans investing their time with good cheer
Sing It’s the most wonderful time in 8 years
It’s the hap-happiest voting season of all
With each staff member Trump picks, Democrats up to their old tricks …Just trashing them all
but It’s the hap- happiest election season of all
There’ll be one party hosting All three branches toasting
but how low now will the press go
There’ll spin misguided stories Trying to steal Trump’s glory
from a playbook written, long long ago
It’s the most wonderful time in 8 years
There’ll be much more enjoyment a lot less unemployment
Cuz Trump will be near
It’s the most wonderful time in 8 years (go up)
Hillary’s party’s not hosing they’re no longer toasting,
Beyonce, Kanye, Cop Killers, Racists and the Muslim Brotherhood
They ignored true stories of Hillary who wasn’t sorry
for her crimes now and long ago
Now It’s the most wonderful time in 8 Years
We’ll deport all the criminals, Taxes will be minimal
Bad trade deals disappear
It’s the most wonderful time
yes the most wonderful time
Oh the most wonderful time… in 8 years!
The New America, the De-Fragmentation of Cognitive Dissonance, and Political Consolidation
A pattern is beginning to emerge in the first days after the election. The reactions by the Democratic Party and liberal left regarding the election results have taken on a new and problematic pattern. This pattern is one of desperation as the full nature of what just happened begins to sink in and those in the American establishment have their control framework threatened for the first time in centuries.
But first it is important to understand the nature of the left and right. These two seemingly diametric political positions have been culturally and politically engineered with great precision and cunning to take advantage of the natural instincts and behavior of the disorganized masses. Both at one time represented the organic duality within each one of us. This duality is best understood by accepting that there is an inner battle taking place within each one of us.
This battle is one between bridled and unbridled virtues. The self-control and lack of self-control, best illustrated by the application of self-discipline towards the betterment of individual development, or the lack of self-discipline, either of which will either corrupt civilization, or enhance the qualitative aspects of civilization.
It is reasonable to consider the right to represent the action of self-discipline, as it provides a limited framework on self-destructive human behavior. Equally, it is reasonable to consider the left to represent the lack of self-discipline, as its merits and philosophies result in the degradation of virtues and values.
Both ideals can be maintained in balance within the individual and within the state. This best serves the overall development of both the individual and the state, as it provides the necessary room and adversity for growth and self-evolution to expand and contribute to the betterment of a cultural unification.
Within the United States over the last century a self-serving establishment has developed. This establishment has been allowed to capitalize on the international importance of the US dollar and consolidate much wealth and power within itself. This wealth and power has been prevented from being distributed to the disorganized masses through the psychological technique known as cognitive dissonance.
Most readers will already have a fundamental and workable understanding of cognitive dissonance. The action of creating two opposing positions, the dialectic, and promoting the utter extremes of both, the mass population becomes confused and accepts an undefined and complex center which only benefits the establishment and its redistribution of wealth.
All are forced to live and function within this manufactured center but are conditioned to align and associate themselves with one of the left or right extremes. At times the establishment will use the right to further its objectives and at other times it will use the left to further its objectives. The back and forth at no time benefits the disorganized masses.
The election of Donald Trump is important in regards to topic being discussed here. It is not a coincidence that Trump has been at times associated with both the right and left. This is not important. It has been satisfactorily proven here that Trump was a long-term strategy which was meant to remove the American establishment from the positions of power when the time came. The post How Rothschild Inc. Saved Donald Trump explains this strategy and is becoming more relevant and provable with each passing day.
That post reviewed the history of how Wilbur Ross of Rothschild Inc. ensured that investors stayed with Trump during the trouble years of the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. It is now being suggested that Wilbur Ross could be the Secretary of Commerce in the Trump Administration. Interesting.
Additionally, it is important to understand that Donald Trump doesn’t really align himself with either the false right or left paradigm. The use of the right-leaning Republican Party was only the vehicle which he used to infiltrate the halls of power and overthrow the establishment from within.
It can be expected that the ongoing tension and violence between the left and right in America, more coming from the intolerable left, will build the consensus that something must be done to bridge the gap and bring about the unification and consolidation of the one American demographic.
No doubt the establishment now only has the liberal left framework from which it will attempt to regain control back from the external international banking interests. Trump has completely taken over the reins of the republican mandates and is in the process of making them his own. The Republican Party will be the vehicle which is used to shift the American population to a more simple and well-defined center. This center will then be used to re-align American cultural interests within the developing international governance framework.
The division within the American masses remained relevant as long as the establishment wished to keep the nation divided and under the spell of a false and corrupt nationalism. The new America which is now beginning to emerge will be unified and positioned to implement enhanced diametric thought-forms within a larger and more macro international governance methodology.
Unbeknownst to the establishment, which grew up around the American order, a process of esoteric transformation was implemented a long time ago. This establishment was used to create and promote the opposing diametric patterns which would force and result in the alchemical transmutation of America. Some people may recognize and know that now; others will not. But international powers greater than those held by the American establishment have never been out of control, and always capable to direct the esoteric and masonic destiny of America.
When Trump announced his candidacy a year and half ago, JC Colins (Philosophy of Metrics) stated that Trump would win. The reasons given included his platform as being fully aligned with the broader and more macro mandates of the international transformation. Some readers considered it to be far-fetched that Donald Trump would be able to overcome the American establishment and take control of the nation’s levers and gears.
The Implosion of American Culture written by JC Colins about two years ago is now happening. The cognitive dissonance which has been used against the masses for so long will not consolidate within the new America and it will be replaced with a more international cognitive dissonance. All is meant to continue the process of alchemical transmutation.
The ancient mystery schools and esoteric mandates promote the alchemical process within each of us. It is our individual purpose and pathway. But this process is also meant to transform nations and the world. America is now, after WW1 (first initiation) and WW2 (second initiation), nearing the end of the third initiation where the transmutation within is completed. The final transmutation of the world is still in the future and a new cognitive orientation within America will now work towards this end. The third initiation is always about re-birth and not death. America is being reborn.
All The Presidents’ BANKERS: The Hidden Alliances That Drive American Power
Who Rules America?
All The Presidents’ Bankers is a groundbreaking narrative of how an elite group of men transformed the American economy and government, dictated foreign and domestic policy, and shaped world history.
Culled from original presidential archival documents, All The Presidents’ Bankers delivers an explosive account of the hundred-year interdependence between the White House and Wall Street that transcends a simple analysis of money driving politics, or greed driving bankers.
The author, Nomi Prins, ushers the reader into the intimate world of exclusive clubs, vacation spots, and Ivy League universities that binds presidents and financiers. She unravels the multi-generational blood, intermarriage, and protege relationships that have confined national influence to a privileged cluster of people. These families and individuals recycle their power through elected office and private channels in Washington, DC.
All the Presidents’ Bankers sheds new light on pivotal historic events, such as why, after the Panic of 1907, America’s dominant bankers convened to fashion the Federal Reserve System; how J.P. Morgan’s ambitions motivated President Wilson during World War I; how Chase and National City Bank chairmen worked secretly with President Roosevelt to rescue capitalism during the Great Depression while J.P. Morgan Jr. invited Roosevelt’s son yachting; and how American financiers collaborated with President Truman to construct the World Bank and IMF after World War II.
Prins divulges how, through the Cold War and Vietnam era, presidents and bankers pushed America’s superpower status and expansion abroad, while promoting broadly democratic values and social welfare at home. But from the 1970s, Wall Street’s rush to secure Middle East oil profits altered the nature of political-financial alliances. Bankers’ profit motive trumped heritage and allegiance to public service, while presidents lost control over the economy, as was dramatically evident in the financial crisis of 2008.
The unprecedented history of American power illuminates how the same financiers retained their authoritative position through history, swaying presidents regardless of party affiliation. All the Presidents’ Bankers explores the alarming global repercussions of a system lacking barriers between public office and private power. Prins leaves the reader with an ominous choice: either we break the alliances of the power elite, or they will break us.
Economic Collapse, Bailout & All The Presidents’ Bankers with Nomi Prins
BuzzSaw interview (September 5, 2014)
The following is an excerpt from ALL THE PRESIDENTS’ BANKERS: The Hidden Alliances that Drive American Power by Nomi Prins (on sale April 8, 2014). Reprinted with permission from Nation Books. Nomi Prins is a former managing director at Goldman Sachs.
Wall Street executives Lloyd Blankfein, Jamie Dimon, John Mack and Brian Moynihan (from left) are sworn-in prior to testifying before the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Wednesday.
NIXON’S BANKERS:
When What Was Good for Wall Street Was Good for the President
Wall Street’s War
While the protests against the Vietnam War intensified in the first years of the Nixon administration, the financial elite was fighting its own war—over the future of banking and against Glass-Steagall regulations. National City Bank chairman Walter Wriston was a steadfast warrior in related battles, as he fought with Chase chairman David Rockefeller for supremacy over the US banker community and for dominance over global finance.
Rockefeller’s sights were set on a grander prize, one with worldwide implications: ending the financial cold war. He made his mark in that regard by opening the first US bank in Moscow since the 1920s, and the first in Beijing since the 1949 revolution.
Augmenting their domestic and international expansion plans, both men and their banks prospered from the emerging and extremely lucrative business of recycling petrodollars from the Middle East into third world countries. By acting as the middlemen—capturing oil revenues and transforming them into high-interest-rate loans, to Latin America in particular—bankers accentuated disparities in global wealth. They dumped loans into developing countries and made huge amounts of money in the process. By funneling profits into debts, they caused extreme pain in the debtor nations, especially when the oil-producing nations began to raise their prices. This raised the cost of energy and provoked a wave of inflation that further oppressed these third world nations, the US population, and other economies throughout the world.
Bank Holding Company Battles
When Eisenhower signed the 1956 Bank Holding Company Act banning interstate banking, he left a large loophole as a conciliatory gambit: a gray area as to what big banks could consider “financially-related business,” which fell under their jurisdiction. In practice, that meant that they could find ways to expand their breadth of services while they figured out ways to grow their domestic grab for depositors. On May 26, 1970, the “Big Three” bankers— Wriston and Rockefeller, along with Alden “Tom” Clausen, chairman of Bank America Corporation—appeared before the Senate Banking and Currency Committee to press their case for widening the loophole.
During the proceedings, Wriston led the charge on behalf of his brethren in the crusade. Tall, slim, elegantly dressed, and the most articulate of the three, he dramatically called on Congress to “throw off some of the shackles on banking which inhibit competition in the financial markets.”
The global financial landscape was evolving. Ever since World War II, US bankers hadn’t worried too much about their supremacy being challenged by other international banks, which were still playing catch-up in terms of deposits, loans, and global customers. But by now the international banks had moved beyond postwar reconstructive pain and gained significant ground by trading with Cold War enemies of the United States. They were, in short, cutting into the global market that the US bankers had dominated by extending themselves into areas in which the US bankers were absent for US policy reasons. There was no such thing as “enough” of a market share in this game. As a result, US bankers had to take a longer, harder look at the “shackles” hampering their growth. To remain globally competitive, among other things, bankers sought to shatter post-Depression legislative barriers like Glass-Steagall.
They wielded fear coated in shades of nationalism as a weapon: if US bankers became less competitive, then by extension the United States would become less powerful. The competition argument would remain dominant on Wall Street and in Washington for nearly three decades, until the separation of speculative and commercial banking that had been invoked by the Glass-Steagall Act would be no more.
Wriston deftly equated the expansion of US banking with general US global progress and power. It wasn’t so much that this connection hadn’t occurred to presidents or bankers since World War II; indeed, that was how the political-financial alliances had been operating. But from that point on, the notion was formally and publicly verbalized, and placed on the congressional record. The idea that commercial banks served the country and perpetuated its global identity and strength, rather than the other way around, became a key argument for domestic deregulation—even if, in practice, it was the country that would serve the banks.
The Penn Central Debacle
There was, however, a fly in the ointment. To increase their size, bankers wanted to be able to accumulate more services or branches beneath the holding company umbrella. But a crisis in another industry would give some legislators pause. The Penn Central meltdown, the first financial crisis of Nixon’s presidency, temporarily dampened the ardency of deregulation enthusiasts. The collapse of the largest, most diverse railroad holding company in America was blamed on overzealous bank lending to a plethora of non-railroad-oriented entities under one holding company umbrella. The debacle renewed debate about a stricter bank holding company bill.
Under Wriston’s guidance, National City had spearheaded a fifty-three-bank syndicate to lend $500 million in revolving credit to Penn Central, even when it showed obvious signs of imminent implosion.
Penn Central had been one of the leading US corporations in the 1960s. President Johnson had supported the merger that spawned the conglomerate on behalf of a friend, railroad merger specialist Stuart Saunders, who became chairman. He had done this over the warnings of the Justice Department and despite allegations of antitrust violations called by its competitors. With nary a regulator paying attention, Penn Central had morphed into more than a railroad holding company, encompassing real estate, hotels, pipelines, and theme parks. Meanwhile, highways, cars, and commercial airlines had chipped away at Penn Central’s dominant market position. To try to compensate,
Penn Central had delved into a host of speculative expansions and deals. That strategy was failing fast. By May 1970, Penn Central was feverishly drawing on its credit lines just to scrounge up enough cash to keep going.
The conglomerate demonstrated that holding companies could be mere shell constructions under which other unrelated businesses could exist, much as the 1920s holding companies housed reckless financial ventures under utility firm banners.
Allegations circulated that Rockefeller had launched a five-day selling strategy of Penn Central stock, culminating with the dumping of 134,400 shares on the fifth day, based on insider information he received as one of the firm’s key lenders. He denied the charges.
In a joint effort with the bankers to hide the Penn Central debacle behind a shield of federal bailout loans, the Pentagon stepped in, claiming that assisting Penn Central was a matter of national defense.5 Under the auspices of national security, Washington utilized the Defense Production Act of 1950, a convenient bill passed at the start of the Korean War that enabled the president to force businesses to prioritize national security–related endeavors.
On June 21, 1970, Penn Central filed for bankruptcy, becoming the first major US corporation to go bust since the Depression. Its failure was not an isolated incident by any means. Instead, it was one of a number of major defaults that shook the commercial paper market to its core. (“Commercial paper” is a term for the short-term promissory notes sold by large corporations to raise quick money, backed only by their promise to pay the amount of the note at the end of its term, not by any collateral.) But the agile bankers knew how to capitalize on that turmoil. When companies stopped borrowing in the flailing commercial paper market, they had to turn to major banks like Chase for loans instead. As a result, the worldwide loans of Chase, First National City Bank, and Bank of America surged to $27.7 billion by the end of 1971, more than double the 1969 total of $13 billion.
A year later, the largest US defense company, Lockheed, was facing bankruptcy, as well. Again bankers found a way to come out ahead on the people’s dime. Lockheed’s bankers at Bank of America and Bankers Trust led a syndicate that petitioned the Defense Department for a bailout on similar national security grounds. The CEO, Daniel Haughton, even agreed to step down if an appropriate government loan was provided.
In response, the Nixon administration offered $250 million in emergency loans to Lockheed—in effect, bailing out the banks and the corporation. To explain the bailout at a time when the general economy was struggling, Nixon introduced the Lockheed Emergency Loan Act by stating, “It will have a major impact on the economy of California, and will contribute greatly to the economic strength of the country as a whole.” After the bill was passed, not a single Lockheed executive stepped down.
It would take several years of political-financial debate and more bailouts to sustain Penn Central. One 1975 article labeled the entire episode “The Penn-C Fairy Tale” and condemned the subsequent federal bailout: “While the country is in the worst recession since the depression and unemployment lines grow longer every day, Congress is dumping another third of a billion dollars of your tax payer dollars down the railroad rat hole.” (The incident was prologue: Congress would lavish hundreds of billions of dollars to sustain the biggest banks after the 2008 financial crisis, topped up by trillions of dollars from the Fed and the Treasury Department in the form of loans, bond purchases, and other subsidies.)
More Bank Holding Company Politics
Despite the Penn Central crisis, the revised Bank Holding Company Act decisively passed the Senate on September 16, 1970, by a bipartisan vote of seventy-seven to one. The final version was far more lenient than the one that Texas Democrat John William Wright Patman, chair of the House Committee on Banking and Currency, or even the Nixon administration had originally envisioned. The revised act allowed big banks to retain nonbank units acquired before June 1968. It also gave the Fed greater regulatory authority over bank holding companies, including the power to determine what constituted one. Language was added to enable banks to be considered one-bank holding companies if they, or any of their subsidiaries, held any deposits or extended any commercial loans, thus broadening their scope.
President Nixon signed the bill into law without fanfare on New Year’s Eve 1970. In fact, his inner circle decided against making a splash about it. They didn’t think the public would understand or care. Plus, they realized that there was a prevailing attitude that the Nixon administration had favored the big banks, and though it had, this was not something they wanted to draw attention to.
The End of the Gold Standard
The top six banks controlled 20 percent of the nation’s deposits through one-bank holding companies, but second place in that group wasn’t good enough for Wriston, who noted to the Nixon administration that his bank was really the “caretaker of the aspirations of millions of people” whose money it held. Wriston flooded the New York Fed with proposals for expansion. His applications “were said to represent as many as half of the total of all of the banks.” The Fed was so overwhelmed, it had to enlist First National City Bank to interpret the new law on its behalf.
By mid-1971, the Fed had approved thirteen and rejected seven of Wriston’s applications. His biggest disappointment was the insurance underwriting rejection. The possibility of converting depositors for insurance business had been tantalizing. It would continue to be a hard-fought, ultimately successful battle.
Around the same time, New York governor Nelson Rockefeller (David Rockefeller’s brother) approved legislation permitting banks to set up subsidiaries in each of the state’s nine banking districts. This was a gift for Wriston and David Rockefeller, because it meant their banks could expand within the state. Each subsidiary could open branches through June 1976, when the districts would be eliminated and banks could merge and branch freely.
Several months later, First National City Bank was paying generous prices to purchase the tiniest upstate banks, from which it began extending loans to the riskiest companies and getting hosed in the process; a minor David vs. Goliath revenge of local banks against Wall Street muscle.
By that time, the stock market had turned bearish, and foreign countries were increasingly demanding their paper dollars be converted into gold as they shifted funds out of dollar reserves. Bankers, meanwhile, postured for a dollar devaluation, which would make their cost of funds cheaper and enable them to expand their lending businesses.
They knew that the fastest way to further devalue the dollar was to sever it from gold, and they made their opinions clear to Nixon, taking care to blame the devaluation on external foreign speculation, not their own movement of capital and lending abroad.
The strategy worked. On August 15, 1971, Nixon bashed the “international money speculators” in a televised speech, stating, “Because they thrive on crises they help to create them.”16 He noted that “in recent weeks the speculators have been waging an all-out war on the American dollar.” His words were true in essence, yet they were chosen to exclude the actions of the major US banks, which were also selling the dollar. Foreign central banks had access to US gold through the Bretton Woods rules, and they exercised this access. Exchanging dollars for gold had the effect of decreasing the value of the US dollar relative to that gold. Between January and August 1971, European banks (aided by US banks with European branches) catalyzed a $20 billion gold outflow.
As John Butler wrote in The Golden Revolution, “By July 1971, the US gold reserves had fallen sharply, to under $10 billion, and at the rate things were going, would be exhausted in weeks. [Treasury Secretary John] Connally was tasked with organizing an emergency weekend meeting of Nixon’s various economic and domestic policy advisers. At 2:30 p.m. on August 13, they gathered, in secret, at Camp David to decide how to respond to the incipient run on the dollar.”
Nixon’s solution, pressed by the banking community, was to abandon the gold standard. In his speech the president informed Americans that he had directed Connally to “suspend temporarily the convertibility of the dollar into gold or other reserve assets.” He promised this would “defend the dollar against the speculators.” Because Bretton Woods didn’t allow for dollar devaluation, Nixon effectively ended the accord that had set international currency parameters since World War II, signaling the beginning of the end of the gold standard.
Once the dollar was no longer backed by gold, questions surfaced as to what truly backed it (besides the US military). According to Butler, “The Bretton Woods regime was doomed to fail as it was not compatible with domestic US economic policy objectives which, from the mid-1960s onwards, were increasingly inflationary.”
It wasn’t simply policy that was inflationary. The expansion of debt via the joint efforts of the Treasury Department and the Federal Reserve was greatly augmented by the bankers’ drive to loan more funds against their capital base. That established a debt inflation policy, which took off after the dissolution of Bretton Woods. Without the constraint of keeping gold in reserve to back the dollar, bankers could increase their leverage and speculate more freely, while getting money more easily from the Federal Reserve’s discount window. Abandoning the gold standard and “floating” the dollar was like navigating the waters of global finance without an anchor to slow down the dispersion of money and loans. For the bankers, this made expansion much easier.
Indeed, on September 24, 1971, Chase board director and former Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon (chairman of the Brookings Institution and, from 1972 to 1975, the Rockefeller Foundation) told Connally that “under no circumstances should we ever go back to assuming limited convertibility into gold.” Chase Board chairman David Rockefeller wrote National Security Adviser (and later Secretary of State) Henry Kissinger to recommend “a reevaluation of foreign currencies, a devaluation of the dollar, removal of the U.S. import surcharge and ‘buy America’ credits, and a new international monetary system with greater flexibility . . . and less reliance on gold.”
With the dollar devalued, investors poured money into stocks, fueling a rally from November 1971 led by the “Nifty Fifty,” a group of “respectable” big-cap growth stocks. These were being bought “like greyhounds chasing a mechanical rabbit” by pension funds, insurance companies, and trust funds. The Chicago Board of Trade began trading options on individual stocks in 1973 to increase the avenues for betting; speculators could soon thereafter trade futures on currencies and bonds.
The National Association of Securities Dealers rendered all this trading easier on February 8, 1971, when it launched the NASDAQ. The first computerized quote system enabled market makers to post and transact over-the-counter prices quickly. With the stock market booming again, NASDAQ became a more convenient avenue for Wall Street firms to raise money. Many abandoned their former partnership models whereby the firm’s partners risked their own capital for the firm, in favor of raising capital by selling the public shares. That way, the upside—and the growing risk—would also be diffused and transferred to shareholders. Merrill Lynch was one of the first major investment bank partnerships to go “public” in 1971. Other classic industry leaders quickly followed suit.
Meanwhile, corporations were finding prevailing lower interest rates more attractive. Instead of getting loans from banks, they could fund themselves more cheaply by issuing bonds in the capital markets. This took business away from commercial banks, which were restricted by domestic regulation from acting as issuing agents. But bankers had positioned themselves on both sides of the Atlantic to get around this problem, so they were covered by the shift in their major customers’ financing preferences. While their ability to service corporate demand was dampened at home, overseas it roared. Currency market turmoil also led many countries to the Eurodollar market for credit, where US banks were waiting. Thus, the credit extended through international branches of major US banks tripled to $4.5 billion from 1969 to 1972.
The market rally, cheered on by the media, was enough to bolster Nixon’s fortunes. In the fall of 1972, Nixon was reelected in a landslide on promises to end the Vietnam War with “peace and honor.” Wall Street reaped the benefits of a bull market, and more citizens and companies were sucked into new debt products. The Dow hit a 1970s peak of 1,052 points in January 1973, as Nixon began his second term.
A Coup and the Transformation of the Anglo-American Establishment: TRUMPS NEW WORLD ORDER
During the CNN coverage of the election results last night political commentator Gloria Borger said that Trumps landslide victory “amounts to a new world order”. This comment is a peculiar phrase to use considering its loaded with reference and association with the conspiracy theory culture.
For the last 18 months, I’ve been researching and blogging about how the Trump campaign platform and scripting has been engineered to promote the economic and geopolitical aspects of the transformation of the international monetary system.
For a brief historic review, with the growing reduction of the USD in its reserve capacity, American monetary authorities will be able to re-engineer the dollar from its existing international characteristics to meet the demands of the domestic economy. This domestic dollar will depreciate against the currencies of its largest trading partners which will in turn make American exports more affordable. This will increase jobs and reduce the overall debt-to-GDP ratio, making the national debt more manageable again.
The reduced international role of the dollar will mean that America can no longer print endless money and fund NATO and the UN to the extent which they have. The money will also not be there to defend other nations all around the world. This is aligned with Trump’s script and mandate when he enters office.
In consideration of this scenario, some readers have had a difficult time understanding how the U.S. would go from where we were to where we are now today; post election. Looking back is much easier than looking forward. But the outcome cannot be denied.
It is hypothesized that Brexit and Trump, as well as other populist movements around the world, represent a new modern nationalism which has been engineered to replace the globalization which has become the target of much resistance and protest.
It has always been assumed by the alternative media that globalization would usher in the so-called New World Order. The conclusion is that the engineered resistance to globalization – which was promoted and funneled by the alternative media, WikiLeaks, Anonymous, and other international and domestic groups – would serve as the catalyst for such a New World Order. This would manifest throughout nations and regions as the new modern nationalism.
In essence, the anti-globalist movement is the Trojan Horse for the further development and implementation of a more consolidated global governance framework.
The fact that this predicted script has now been followed almost to the letter should not be considered a coincidence.
The actions Trump takes in the first few months in office will further reveal the more complex aspects of this transformation. The alignment between Trump’s foreign policy mandates and the mandates of the larger multilateral transition have been confirmed with the response of Putin to the election results. The Anglo-American establishment which has developed and got rich by the international role of the USD has now been countered internationally by Russia and other geopolitical moves, such as the re-alignment between once American allies, and also countered domestically by the Trump victory.
The international banking interests no longer require this Anglo-American establishment and have orchestrated its removal from the halls of power within Washington. This represents the largest shift in how the world operates since at least World War II. Donald Trump served as the seed for this removal and transformation of the establishment. A casual view of his interviews from the 1980’s is suggestive of this clandestine operation.
A new American establishment is emerging from the ruins of the old. This establishment will be aligned with the mandates of the new multilateral world which is emerging (just look into the B.R.I.C.S. nation agenda). This world will be based on supra-sovereign monetary processes and will promote the new modern nationalism as the springboard of acceptance for the further consolidation of international mandates.
The election of Trump is possibly another piece of evidence that international banking interests just pulled off a non-violent coup in America. Now, we will wait and see the big gears start moving.
HOW ROTHSCHILD INC.
SAVED DONALD TRUMP
A Multi-Decade Strategy to Transform America
Donald Trump has been calling the United Nations weak and incompetent while stating that NATO is obsolete. Both are suggestive of a changing world in which the role of the United States will be consolidated within a larger global governance framework. This framework will be structured around the multilateral mandates of a new monetary system and the objectives of the UN’s 2030 Agenda.
For example, in 2005 Trump said:
“I have to start by saying that I’m a big fan, a very big fan, of the United Nations and all it stands for.”
This statement would appear to stand in contrast to the recent campaign announcements in front of an AIPAC crowd in which Trump spoke more truthful:
“The United Nations is not a friend of democracy. It’s not a friend to freedom. It’s not even a friend to the United States of America, where we all know, it has its home. And it surely isn’t a friend to Israel.”
This apparent flip-flop on the United Nations serves as a method of cognitive dissonance, and was promoted by USA Today back in March, ensuring that attention was given to Trumps 2005 statement. The other often reported flip-flops of Donald Trump serve the exact same purpose of cognitive dissonance, and are a constant focus of attention in the mainstream media.
Cognitive dissonance is a psychological methodology where a situation involving conflicting attitudes, beliefs, or behaviors, are manufactured. The internal diametric which develops causes extreme mental and emotional discomfort, which further leads to one of the opposing positions being adjusted for the purpose of restoring cognitive balance.
Cognitive dissonance can exist as a natural process of mental and emotional evolution but is widely used in our culture as a means of socioeconomic engineering and transforming of mass populations. Every time you hear the mainstream media suggest Trump is “flip-flopping” on policies or issues, the concept of intentional cognitive dissonance should come to mind.
In a 1988 interview on the Oprah Winfrey Show Donald Trump was asked about running for president and his words and demeanor on the subject of America are verbatim of how he talks in 2016. The talking points and script where decided almost thirty years ago and draw additional dissonance to the contradictory nature of his past and present comments on the United Nations and other politically charged topics.
The fact of the matter is that Donald Trump will establish a modern-nationalism within America which will facilitate the transformation of a culture which has become self-entitled on a false sense of exceptionalism. This exceptionalism has been based on the dominance of the US dollar as the world’s primary reserve currency.
The false exceptionalism stands in contrast and non-cognitive opposition to the natural exceptionalism of Americans which is expressed through hard work, ingenuity and fearless dedication. The modern-nationalism will evolve from these past virtues and harness the will of the people as decades of US unipolar dominance is reversed and replaced with a multilateral approach on global governance.
The question has often been asked about American willingness to support and acquiescence to an international power-broker and the United Nations. Never has it been considered that American nationalism would be used against it as a form of methodical mass transformation. The media attention which is being provided to Trump, though unfavorable for the most part, serves as a strong platform for the Trump message to be promoted and spread.
The cognitive dissonance which is further manufactured between the opposing positions of Trump and Clinton ensures that the positions of either can be fostered upon the people with a quick tweak here and an unseen nudge there. The place of balance between both can be reconciled in a vast number of creative and effective ways. This balance can also be engineered if a third opposing or replacement candidate were to enter the race on either side.
Considering the time and labor which has gone into building the Donald Trump character it is difficult to imagine that he will not become the next president. The case can be made that an equal amount of effort has gone into the Hillary Clinton public image, and the feminist trend towards symbolic androgyny would surely support the rise of a female leader.
But there is something about the Trump brand which is suggestive of a longer and more strategic approach. This multi-decade tailoring started in the 1980’s with the initial cultural injection of Donald Trump. There has been much written about this time period but little attention is provided to the obvious manufactured aspects of the Trump image.
In the early 1980’s Donald Trump was an up and coming real estate developer in New York. There was no connection between the Trump name and casinos or gambling. The obvious nature of the name Trump and its definition related to gambling and card games foretold of the massive empire which would develop in the coming years.
In 1987 Donald Trump purchased his first casino interests when he acquired 93% of the shares in Resorts International. Resorts International has a sordid history which began in the early 1950’s when it evolved from a CIA and Mossad front company which had been established for the purpose of money laundering the profits from drug trafficking, gambling, and other illegal activities.
The socioeconomic engineering benefits of mass population manipulation through means of drug addiction, gambling, and other vices, far outweigh those provided by money laundering alone. It can be assumed that money laundering acted as a secondary advantage in much the same way that the subjugation of the Chinese population through the spread of opium financially benefited the East India Trading Company centuries before.
On October 30, 1978, The Spotlight newspaper reported that the principle investors of Resorts International were Meyer Lansky, Tibor Rosenbaum, William Mellon Hitchcock, David Rockefeller, and one Baron Edmond de Rothschild.
Michael Collins Piper, in his book The New Jerusalem: Zionist Power in America has done an excellent job of describing the relationship between Donald Trump and Resorts International. The following excerpt sums up the relationship:
“In 1987, upon the death of longtime CIA front man James Crosby, the nominal head of Resorts International, up-and-coming young New York real estate tycoon Donald Trump stepped into the picture and bought Crosby’s interest in the gambling empire.”
“Trump soon became a household name, with his colorful personality and his insistence upon naming a variety of luxury hotels, apartment houses and other commercial ventures after himself. But while the name “Trump” appeared in the headlines, the names of the real movers behind Resorts International remained hidden from public view.”
The support of the Rothschild’s would become even more apparent.
After quickly expanding the reach of Resorts International to Atlantic City in the final years of the 1980’s, Donald Trump found himself in financial trouble as the real estate market in New York tanked. The three casinos in Atlantic City, like other Trump assets, were under threat from lenders. It was only with the assistance and assurance of Wilbur L. Ross Jr., senior managing director of Rothschild Inc. that Trump was allowed to keep the casinos and rebuild his threatened empire.
This was detailed in a Bloomberg article from March 22, 1992.
The connection between Baron Edmond de Rothschild, being one of the original principle investors of Resorts International, and Rothschild Inc. allowing Donald Trump to retain “ownership” over the Atlantic City casinos, which saved him from bankruptcy, should not be considered a coincidence.
Great wealth can both create and destroy men of perceived consequence.
Donald Trump landed on his feet when ironically the real estate market in New York turned and his wealth increased dramatically once more. From there the Trump Empire continued to roll forward and eventually expanded its brand into the realm of reality television, the newest method of socioeconomic and cultural engineering.
For those wondering, Wilbur L. Ross Jr. spent 24 years at the New York office of Rothschild Inc. In the late 1990’s he started a $200 million fund at Rothschild Inc. to invest in distressed assets. In 2000, on April Fool’s day, Ross raised an additional $450 million to invest in troubled companies. The timing of this strategy could not have been better, as this report from New York Magazine stated:
“The 2000–1 rolling stock-market crash, 9/11, and a globally synchronous recession pushed scores of companies into bankruptcy. New Economy highfliers like Enron, WorldCom, and Global Crossing went bust. But so did Old Economy stalwarts in industries like steel and textiles—victims of excess capacity, global competition, and generous union contracts.”
So it’s of course no surprise that billionaire investor Wilbur L. Ross Jr. would support the nomination of Donald Trump for president in this Bloomberg article dated March 9, 2016.
It would appear that Rothschild supported front men like Ross and Trump do extremely well in the worlds of finance and politics. Trump’s proclamations to bring jobs back to America will help “….industries like steel and textiles-…” and will support both domestic growth and an increase in wealth for those like Ross who have invested in distressed American assets.
Donald Trump, “…a valuable resource that may be used, especially as a surprise, in order to gain an advantage…” is in fact the establishment candidate for president. The difference is that the establishment is one based on the international banking interests, and not one based on the interests of domestic American elites, which are more represented by the Jeb’s, the Mitt’s, the Ted’s, and even the Hillary’s.
At no time in the history of the modern world and politics has an anti-establishment candidate been given so much media attention and free airtime. The negative reporting of Donald Trump by most media is scripted as such. The cognitive dissonance which is developing surrounding the Trump mandate and transformation of America is a strategy which began decades ago in the 1980’s when Donald Trump first began to canvas our television screens.
One merely need watch the Donald Trump of the past talk about running for president to witness the script in its pure form. All of the talking points about trade deals and bringing jobs back, as well as the United Nations, NATO, and the national debt, all fit within the methodology of the multilateral monetary transition.
It is probable that the plan would be just as workable whether the next president had been Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, or a wild card like Joe Biden, though a review of the history (just shared) leading up to this election compels me to think the Donald strategy was the Trump card that will now lead the charge of American nationalism towards a global governance framework under his presidency.
Clifford Taylor Fleischbein, Clifford VF Taylor, Maverick
Prospective, Good Drummer – Easy to Watch: Forty Six and 2
Maverick and the Coalition with Tamara take the stage for Escondido City Mayor’s “Unity In The Community”
Clifford “Maverick” Taylor Fleischbein is now working for fun in his return to the stage, performing his energetic guitar playing and singing with the young and vibrant Tamara Rodriguez:
The collaboration of these two artists will bring the musical sounds like “I Talked To ItalianO” with the fine blending of Techo-Pop sounds with Maverick’s unique and discernible guitar chops:
The Art of Controlled Patience
Jay Thomas – The ‘Lone Ranger’ Story
December 23, 2009 – Letterman Show
Why Your Life Is Not A Journey – Alan Watts
Live Life, NOW, and Dance to the Music
Famous Operatic Duets
The most important thing about singing a duet, is finding a partner that has a singing voice that blends well with yours. There should be some chemistry between you, that makes singing a love song believable. When you sing to each other, your eyes should meet, and it should show feelings between you both. It is a form of acting and takes practice. If it is not a love song, and sung between two of the same sex, there needs to be a presence about each of you, which reveals feelings such as humor, or friendship, or even a bit of the comic showing though.
A duet is when any two people sing and share a song together, They could be having a humorous time together, or more serious. Make sure that each have solo parts. Unless you try to freestyle harmonize, layer or echo lyrics, do not clash roles, trip up lines, or ‘cross lanes’. That means that if you sing lower than your partner, remain there. The limit would be if you are both singing the same note. Stay consistent.
Duet With Friends With Best Event
A duet is a musical composition for two performers in which the performers have equal importance to the piece. It is often used to describe a composition involving two singers. It differs from a harmony, as the performers take turns performing a solo section rather than performing simultaneously. In classical music, the term is most often used for a composition for two singers or pianists. A piece performed by two pianists performing together on the same piano is referred to as “piano duet” or “piano four hands”.[1] A piece for two pianists performing together on separate pianos is referred to as a piano duo.
this is going to be so much fun! Everyone, shut up, I’m about to sing. Kidding! But seriously I’m about to sing. This is going to be even better than that time I played Fantine in Les Mis in high school. Oh, did I mention that already? I’m sorry. I’s probably just because I’m nervous because I haven’t sung in public since I played Fantine in Les Mis in high school. The reviews said my performance was stunning.
Hip Hop Music Without Vocals
Hip hop music. While the term encompasses all aspects of hip hop music, it is most commonly used to refer to the instrumental, non-lyrical aspects of hip hop. This means thathip hop producers are the instrumentalists involved in a work. Modern hip hop production uses samplers, sequencers, drum machines, synthesizers, turntables, and live instrumentation.
A hip hop instrumental is casually referred to as a beat, and its composer is casually referred to as a producer or beatmaker. In the studio, however, a hip hop producer also functions as a traditional record producer, being the person who is ultimately responsible for the final sound of a recording.
PUSH to add DRAMA !
Just Push The Button! and see what you get ?
How To Save A Terrorist
Thank you, Phil Tyler, for bringing this to my attention:
Open Strings Lick
Here is the tabs:
How Wolves Changed the Eco System of Yellow Stone National Park
Published on Feb 13, 2014
If you likes How Wolves Change Rivers, check out How Whales Change Climate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M18Hx…
For more from George Monbiot, visit http://www.monbiot.com/ and for more on “rewilding” visit http://bit.ly/1hKGemK and/or check out George Monbiot’s book Feral: rewilding the land, the sea and human life: http://amzn.to/1fjgirx
NOTE: There are “elk” pictured in this video when the narrator is referring to “deer.” This is because the narrator is British and the British word for “elk” is “red deer” or “deer” for short. The scientific report this is based on refers to elk so we wanted to be accurate with the truth of the story.
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” – John Muir
When wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park in the United States after being absent nearly 70 years, the most remarkable “trophic cascade” occurred. What is a trophic cascade and how exactly do wolves change rivers? George Monbiot explains in this movie remix.
Narration from TED: “For more wonder, rewild the world” by George Monbiot. Watch the full talk, here: http://bit.ly/N3m62h
B-Roll Credits:
“Greater Yellowstone Coalition – Wolves” (http://bit.ly/1lK4LaT)
“Wolf Mountain” (http://bit.ly/1hgi6JE)
“Primodial – Yellowstone” (https://vimeo.com/77097538)
“Timelapse: Yellowstone National Park” (http://bit.ly/1kF5axc)
“Yellowstone” (http://bit.ly/1bPI6DM)
“Howling Wolves – Heulende Wölfe” (http://bit.ly/1c2Oidv)
“Fooled by Nature: Beaver Dams” (http://bit.ly/NGgQSU)
Music Credits:
“Unfoldment, Revealment, Evolution, Exposition, Integration, Arson” by Chris Zabriskie (http://bit.ly/1c2uckW)
This video was edited by Steve Agnos with editorial assistance from Chris Agnos (who also conceived the idea for the video) the brothers behind Sustainable Man. For more from Steve Agnos visit https://vimeo.com/steveagnos or https://vimeo.com/thesustainableman
For any concerns or questions, you may contact us at http://sustainableman.org/contact/
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Cosmic Conflict: The Origin of Evil
The Lost Broadcasts Live – Wishbone Ash (1971 BBC)
Blowin Free (1973)
Metamorphosis – Iron Butterfly (1971)
Iron Butterfly 2012 (THE FINAL PERFORMANCE) with Original founding members (In a Gadda da Vida)
Lee Dorman, bassist for Iron Butterfly, died on Friday December 21, 2012 at the age of 70, the Associated Press reports. According to a spokesman for the Orange County Sheriff’s Department, Dorman was found dead in a vehicle on Friday morning and may have been on his way to a doctor’s appointment.
Dorman was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1942. He joined the Southern California-based Iron Butterfly for its second and best-known album, In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida, which was released in 1968. The 17-minute title track helped the album sell more than 30 million copies, and a three-minute version of the song became a Top 40 hit.
2012 In Memoriam: Musicians We Lost
During Iron Butterfly’s temporary break-up in the 1970s, Dorman and guitarist Larry Reinhardt formed the metal-jazz fusion band Captain Beyond, with Rod Evans from Deep Purple. The group released three albums and had a radio hit with the 1973 song “Sufficiently Breathless.”
Iron Butterfly 2012 (In A Gada Da Vida) Preformance at The Mt. Tabor Theatre Portland Oregon with Founding Members Lee Doorman (Bass Guitar) and Ron Bushy (Drums)
Metal-Jazz Fusion band: Captain Beyond
25 Little Known Facts About Forrest Gump.
Forrest Gump, made in 1994, is heartbreaking, odd, and beautiful. Breath taking performances by a stellar cast of actors guarantees this film to be a delight every time.
1/25. Bill Murray, John Travolta and Chevy Chase turned down the role of Forrest Gump. Travolta later admitted that passing on the role was a mistake.
2/25. Tom Hanks’ younger brother Jim Hanks doubled for him in many of his numerous running sequences.
3/25. Tom Hanks signed onto the film after an hour and a half of reading the script but agreed only to take the role if the film was historically accurate. He initially wanted to ease Forrest’s pronounced Southern accent, but was eventually persuaded by director Robert Zemeckis to portray the heavy accent stressed in the novel and patterned his accent after Michael Conner Humphreys (young Forrest) who actually talked that way.
4/25. Tom Hanks wasn’t paid for the film. Instead he took percentage points which ultimately netted him in the region of $40 million.
5/25. When Forrest gets up to talk at the Vietnam rally in Washington, the microphone plug is pulled and you cannot hear him. According to Tom Hanks, he says, “Sometimes when people go to Vietnam, they go home to their mommas without any legs. Sometimes they don’t go home at all. That’s a bad thing. That’s all I have to say about that.”
6/25. The line, “My name is Forrest Gump. People call me Forrest Gump,” was ad libbed by Tom Hanks while filming the scene. Director Robert Zemeckis liked it so much that he decided to keep it in
7/25. With every transition of Forrest’s age, one thing remains the same – in the first scene of each transition he wears a blue plaid shirt.
8/25. Forrest and Dan’s Shrimp Emporium “Bubba Gump”, is now a themed restaurant in 33 locations around the world in the U.S., Japan, China, Mexico, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia and the UK. There is one in Orlando, Florida, at the entrance to the Universal theme parks, at the Anaheim Gardenwalk in walking distance from Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California in the Los Angeles area and at Pleasure Pier in Galveston, Texas.
9/25. When Forrest first learns to play ping-pong in the infirmary, he is told the trick is to “keep his eye on the ball” by another soldier. After that moment, whenever he is shown playing ping-pong, he never blinks.
10/25. The actor who plays the reporter on the scene when Tom Hanks visits Washington DC after his tour in Vietnam was, himself, an actual tourist from Atlanta, Georgia. He happened to be on Capitol Hill that day with his wife, and was asked to read.
11/25. Many of the extras in the hippie scene were actors from the Maryland Renaissance Festival, since the casting director Ellen Lewis realized that would be a good source of performers with long hair.
12/25. Gary Sinise’s lower legs were wrapped in a special blue fabric that allowed them to be digitally removed later.
13/25. During the ping-pong matches, there was no ball; it was entirely CGI, animated to meet the actors’ paddles.
14/25. The running scene was inspired by an actual event. In 1982, Louis Michael Figueroa, aged 16, ran from New Jersey to San Francisco for the American Cancer Society, unknowingly inspiring a line for Forrest Gump’s famous run on the silver screen. “I just put one foot in front of the other,” it goes. “When I get tired I sleep. When I get hungry I eat. When I have to go to the bathroom, I go.”
15/25. The park bench that Tom Hanks sat on for much of the movie was located in historic Savannah, Georgia, at Chippewa Square. The fiberglass bench he sat on, since then, has been removed and placed into a museum to avoid being destroyed by bad weather, or possibly stolen. The church where the feather first falls was about 100 yards just down the street from the bench. To this day, the bench is held in the Savannah History Museum, Savannah, Georgia.
16/25. Gump’s Medal of Honor ceremony uses the footage of the actual ceremony for Sammy L. Davis, who was awarded the Medal of Honor on 19 November 1968 by President Lyndon Johnson for his actions in Vietnam a year earlier. Tom Hanks’ head was superimposed on Davis’ body.
17/25. When Lt. Dan Taylor first meets Forrest and Bubba in Vietnam, he says, “You must be my FNGs”. Generally speaking, this stands for “F*ckin’ New Guys”.
18/25. Every still picture of Forrest during this film shows Tom Hanks with his eyes closed.
19/25. Robin Wright was sick with a cold while shooting the nightclub scene. In spite of this, she was still able to perform her own singing during a non-stop twenty-four hour shoot in which she was nearly nude except for her guitar.
20/25. David Alan Grier, Ice Cube and Dave Chappelle turned down the role of Bubba. Cube refused to play someone with a disability and Chappelle thought the movie would bomb. Chappelle has since admitted to deeply regretting not taking the role.
21/25. Kurt Russell has said that he did the voice of Elvis Presley (uncredited) in the film, reprising his role from Elvis (1979).
22/25. The shrimp boat used in the film now resides in the moat surrounding the Planet Hollywood restaurant in Downtown Disney, at the Disney World Resort in Florida. Also, one of the ping-pong paddles used in the film is signed by Tom Hanks and hung up on one of the walls inside the restaurant.
23/25. On the day that Tom Hanks shot the football running scenes he had been suffering from influenza.
24/25. Sally Field is only ten years older than Tom Hanks.
25/25. When this film became wildly successful, talk of a sequel naturally arose. However, at the time, Tom Hanks adamantly refused to work in any sequel (and making the sequel with another actor was not a consideration).
Age 75+ Long-Term Care Plan: Medicare – Part G – Nursing Home Alternative
Medicare – Part G – Nursing Home Plan
A zero premium, no deductible Long -Term Health Care Plan
If you are an older senior citizen (75 or older) who can no longer take care of yourself and need Long-Term Care, but the government says there is no nursing home care available for you, what can you do?
Opt for Medicare Part G.
Part G gives the older senior citizen (75 or older) a Gun (Part G) and one bullet. You are allowed to shoot one worthless politician. This means you will be sent to prison for the rest of your life where you will receive a roof over your head, central heating and air conditioning, three meals a day, cable TV, a library, and all the health care you need including dentures, glasses, hearing aids, new hip, knees, kidney, lungs, heart or sex change. They are all covered!
As an added bonus, your kids can come and visit you at least as often as they do now. Who will be paying for all of this? The same government that just told you they can’t afford to provide nursing home care for you.
This plan allows you to get rid of a useless politician, and as a prisoner you don’t have to pay any more income taxes!
Spirit In The Sky
Norman Greenbaum
When I die and they lay me to rest
Gonna go to the place that’s the best
When I lay me down to die
Goin’ up to the spirit in the sky
Goin’ up to the spirit in the sky
That’s where I’m gonna go when I die
When I die and they lay me to rest
Gonna go to the place that’s the best
Prepare yourself you know it’s a must
Gotta have a friend in Jesus
So you know that when you die
He’s gonna recommend you
To the spirit in the sky
Gonna recommend you
To the spirit in the sky
That’s where you’re gonna go when you die
When you die and they lay you to rest
You’re gonna go to the place that’s the best
I’ve been a sinner Yes I’ve sinned
But I got a friend in Jesus
So you know that when I die
He’s gonna set me up with
The spirit in the sky
Oh set me up with the spirit in the sky
That’s where I’m gonna go when I die
When I die and they lay me to rest
I’m gonna go to the place that’s the best
Go to the place that’s the best
Money Is Coming To Me
Money is coming to me
Money is coming to me
Money keeps coming to me
Money is coming to me
Money is coming to me
Money keeps coming to me
Money is coming to me
Money keeps coming to me
Money is coming to me
I just feel it, and i belive
It’s coming to me now,
And i’m not worried about how, ooo yee,
Money, is coming to me,
The Universe is working for me,
I just feel it, and i belive
Is working for me now,
And i’m not worried about how, ooo yee…
Money, is coming to me,
More then enough to live,
More then enough to give,
More then enough to share,
Feel like it’s already here,
More then enough to shop,
More then enough to drop,
More then enough to save,
There’s plenty left over to give away.
Money is coming to me
I just feel it, and i belive
It’s coming to me now,
And i’m not worried about how, ooo yee,
Money, is coming to me,
The Universe is working for me,
I just feel it, and i belive
Is working for me now,
And i’m not worried about how, ooo yee…
Money is coming to me, well
More then enough to live,
More then enough to give,
More then enough to share,
Feel like it’s already here,
More then enough to shop,
More then enough to drop,
More then enough to save,
There’s plenty left over to give away.
Money is coming to me
I just feel it, and i belive
Is coming to me now,
And i’m not worried about how, ooo yee,
Money, is coming to me,
Come on,…come on,come on,come on,
I believe it
I just feel it, and i believe,
Is coming to me now,
And i’m not worried about how, ooo yee…
Money is coming to me
Come on,…come on,come on,come on,
I believe it, and i recive it,
And life is already here….
Maverick: The Rock Love Gangster
The Gangster Is Back
Look out, the gangster’s back
I done traded in my old horse for a brand new Cadillac
I’m gonna play some blues
Cause I know you like that
Gonna get real loose
And do the jumpback jack
When I walk into a bar
Girls from near and far
Say I’m the gangster
Listen while a play for you
A crazy little thing called guitar blue
Red, black, yellow, or white
It don’t matter mamas
You’re all outta sight
Don’t get too heavy
Now don’t get uptight
Cause the gangster’s here to turn on your light
You’re my horse and you never win a race
And I dig you mama and your real crazy legs
When I walk into a bar
Girls from near and far
Say I’m the gangster
Do do do do do do
Do do do do do do
Do do do do do do
Do do do do do do
Go gangster (do do do do do)
Go gangster (do do do do)
Go gangster (do do do do do)
Go gangster (do do do do)
I’m a gangster
Started long time ago
Down in Texas where the guitars grow
Folks down there got all shook up
When I cut myself loose and did my stuff
Now it’s ready, set
Ready, set go
Time for the gangster to start the show
Well, I’m lookin’ for women
I’m on the road again
You know the gangster don’t lose
He always win
When I walk into a bar
Girls from near and far
Say I’m the gangster
You better look out the gangster’s back
Blues Without Blame
I ask my baby for a nickel
She gave me a twenty dollar bill
I ask her for a drink of whiskey
And she gave me a liquor still
Whoa, yeah yeah yeah
What can a poor boy do
Ain’t it hard, ain’t it hard
When you have to live the blues
I call my baby on the telephone
She said come on over Stevie I’m all alone
I said I can’t get my car started mama
Whoa, yeah
What can a poor boy do
When he has to live the blues
And while my baby’s makin’ it with my best friend
I know I’m being used, yeah yeah yeah
Lord have mercy
Lord have mercy on me
Lord have mercy
Lord have mercy on me, yeah
I’m tryin’ to find my babe
Won’t somebody please, yeah yeah
Won’t somebody please bring her home to me
Love Shock
Meet me at the station about a quarter past five
That’s about the time that I come alive, yeah
Don’t make sense if it ain’t the real thing y’all
Nothing but the real thing makes my bell ring
Love me baby, won’t you love me please
You got me down here on my knees, yeah
I’m so glad that I’m still alive
Come on baby, won’t you make me feel good now
Come on baby now don’t be too slow
Now I’m in a hurry, you know I got to go
Don’t make sense if you don’t know how to move
I’m a natural born lover, I was born in a groove, yeah
Oooh
[Spoken:]
It’s Jumpin’ Jack Flash on the drums
Let Me Serve You
Oh baby, don’t you want a man like me
Oh baby, don’t you want a man like me
Think about your future
Forget about your used to be
Just a little bit of rock
Just a taste or two of roll
I’ll give you sweet inspiration
Till it satisfies your soul
Oh baby, don’t you want a man like me
Let me serve you pretty baby
Serve you until you’re free
Let me serve you in the morning
Let me serve you in the afternoon
I want to love you pretty mama
Underneath the silvery moon
Oh baby, don’t you want a man like me
Let me serve you pretty baby
Think about what could be
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah…..
Rock Love
Do do do do doot
Do do do do doot
Do do do do doot
You got to have rock love
To weather the storm
It’s got to be rock love
To help you carry on
When the winds of temptation move your soul
Stay with me now, don’t you let it go
I told you so
Rock love will weather the storm
You got to have rock love to hear your song
It’s got to be rock love, yeah
To make you strong
When everybody puts you down
The rock of love will be around
It’s solid ground
Rock love will weather the storm
Rock love, yeah, will help you carry on
Sweet Jesus will see you through
Your trials, tribulations too
No matter how far you go
Still I will love you so
I told you so
Rock love will weather the storm
Yeah
Harbor Nights
I can see the harbor lights
Looks like the fourth of July
Maybe Christmas night
Reflected in water
In my cell, behind this wall
I share my time
With many a soul who is lost
Why must I always be a loser
Why can’t I ever be a winner
So as time
Goes rolling by
I lose my chance
It’s only one life
If I had the wings of an angel
O’er these prison walls I would fly
Straight from the darkness into the light
Why must I always be a loser
Why can’t I ever be a winner
[Spoken:] My dearest darling, as I’m writing you this letter
They’re coming to take me away
They’re beginning to shave my head now, sweetheart
But as their doing it
I just want you to know
That I wouldn’t have it any other way
I’m glad that I killed your mother
She was a low-down dirty old hag
But in the end darling
You will get your revenge
Because you see
Their gonna send you my belongings
In a plastic bag
La, la, la
A plastic bag
Deliverance
Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson: Gangster of Love
I Wanna Ta Ya You, Baby (Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson)
The Whole 1977 Johnny ‘Guitar’ Watson show
Reformed Monetary Policies for the 21st Century
Autonomous monetary policies cannot provide efficient means of directing the financial destiny of any nation. The interconnectedness of the international financial and monetary systems are such that changes in one area will have a dramatic and sometimes negative reaction in another area.
The dynamic between America’s negative balance of payments and China’s huge trade surplus are signs of this relationship. The large imbalances in the international framework from using the national currency of one nation as the global reserve asset has been the leading cause of poverty and ineffective income distribution worldwide.
The necessary reforms to address this global poverty and disparity 
in income distribution could be considered multilateral monetary reforms. These reforms are focused on three main areas, which are:
- Exchange Rate Adjustments
- Money Supply Adjustments
- Adjustments to Controls on Foreign Capital Flows
Foreign capital flows are the main mechanisms which transfer capital between trade deficits and trade surpluses. The other two components are used in conjunction to determine the volume and pace of the third.
For any one nation to enact autonomous monetary policies would be counterproductive to the realities of the world today. At any one time only two of the three areas above can remain autonomous. This means that there will always be one monetary policy which cannot be autonomous and will remain connected to the larger macroeconomic multilateral framework.
It is this one area which will influence and force change on the others.
An example of this dynamic can be explained by considering the condition of interest parity. Any nation which holds its domestic currency at a fixed exchange rate with an outside currency, or other exchange rate arrangement, while maintaining a balanced mobility of capital, will find that its interest rate policy will be decided through arbitrage activity.
This condition of interest parity functions across borders and prevents any one nation from maintaining autonomous monetary policies. The recent interest rate increase by the Federal Reserve and its corresponding effects upon the international monetary system can be considered proof of this dynamic.
As such, it is impossible for any nation to maintain independence and autonomy on:
- Fixed Exchange Rates
- Money Supply Adjustments
- Unregulated International Flows of Financial Capital
Being that the United States dollar has held the title of international reserve unit of account since the end of WW2, it was problematic and inevitable that massive global imbalances would take place. These imbalances have led to enhanced poverty around the world and caused inefficient income distribution between nations.
Not to mention the large trade deficit which America now holds, and the massive loss of domestic jobs.
Each nation can be interdependent in that its domestic fiscal policies are aligned to capitalize on the effective arrangement and implementation of macroeconomic monetary policies. Such changes are good for the Unites States and other nations. The toll which ineffective monetary policy has had on the US is obvious in the loss of factories and jobs, and the huge trade deficit.
This will change with adjustments to the international framework through the implementation of the three monetary policies described above:
- Exchange Rate Adjustments
- Money Supply Adjustments
- Adjustments to Controls on Foreign Capital Flows
Any analysis and prediction on domestic economies or the international economy must consider these larger monetary adjustments in order to be considered accurate or thorough.
The US political establishment understands that the dollar will need to depreciate and that this will bring back factories and jobs as American made goods become affordable once again. This will boost domestic growth and lower the debt-to-GDP ratio.
Monetary policy reform is not just good for the United States. It is meant to be good for all nations. The transition from the unipolar dollar based framework to the multilateral monetary reform based framework will be volatile. We have already experienced this over the last year or so, and will experience more yet before the transition is complete.
Understanding the dynamics of monetary reform is fundamental to understanding the transition itself. – JC Collins
Source: http://philosophyofmetrics.com/just-what-is-monetary-policy-reform/
Related:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-global-currency-moves-cost-u-jobs-132155544–business.html
The Murphy Twins are Drunk Again
Two men were sitting next to each other at Murphy’s Pub in London.
After awhile, one bloke looks at the other and says, ‘I can’t help but think, from listening to you, that you’re from Ireland’
The other bloke responds proudly, ‘Yes, that I am!’
The first one says, ‘So am I! And where about from Ireland might you be?’
The other bloke answers, ‘I’m from Dublin, I am.’
The first one responds, ‘So am I!’
‘Mother Mary and begora. And what street did you live on in Dublin ?’
The other bloke says, ‘A lovely little area it was. I lived on McCleary Street in the old central part of town.’
The first one says, ‘Faith and it’s a small world. So did I! So did I! And to what school would you have been going?’
The other bloke answers, ‘Well now, I went to St. Mary’s, of course.’
The first one gets really excited and says, ‘And so did I. Tell me, what year did you graduate?’
The other bloke answers, ‘Well, now, let’s see. I graduated in 1964.’
The first one exclaims, ‘The Good Lord must be smiling down upon us! I can hardly believe our good luck at winding up in the same place tonight. Can you believe it, I graduated from St. Mary’s in 1964 my own self!’
About this time, Vicky walks up to the bar, sits down and orders a drink.
Brian, the barman, walks over to Vicky, shaking his head and mutters, ‘It’s going to be a long night tonight.’
Vicky asks, ‘Why do you say that, Brian?’
‘The Murphy twins are drunk again.’
Quickly Destroy Cancer Cells With Plant “Wormwood”
Plant “Wormwood” is capable of rapid destruction of cancer cells
Sunday February 28, 2016 – 20:30
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BAGHDAD (obelisk) – Scientists from the University of California discovered that wormwood (Artemisia) is capable of destroying 98 percent of the cancer cells in the body in just 16 hours.
This discovery made the experts are working on creating a medical preparation by which to eliminate the disease Completely cancer.
The experts discovered that wormwood produces a artemizinin where clinical tests have shown that a dose of this medication is enough to destroy 98 percent of cancer cells in the body within 16 hours.
In the opinion of scientists, when you add iron to 100 percent of this preparation will destroy cancer cells in the body and prevents the emergence of new cancer cells.
It should be noted that the use alone could eliminate 28 percent of the cancer cells in the body wormwood plant Holi, but when you add the iron component of the mix destroy all the cancer cells in the body. In addition to the tests showed that this plant does not affect healthy cells.
Artemizinin material used in the prevention of malaria, but scientists have proved that the plant wormwood Holi is very effective in the fight against cancer.
Holi wormwood plant Artemisia annua, a type of wormwood plants, fragrant essential oils and custom height ranges between 50 and 150 cm, and his papers Khamlih blade and Qnabath transparent and veins striking green.
Ozahrarh and continue in the months of July and August, and spread in various parts of the world.
Giving Away Your Daughter In Marriage
1984 – No More Lonely Nights (Sir Paul McCartney) – Maverick married 2/14/1985
Give My Regards to Broad Street:
No More Lonely Nights
The critics hated this film and the public stayed away from it…too bad, I find it fascinating and Paul’s fans like me still love it….and the music was great as always.
Give My Regards to Broad Street (Part 1)
Give My Regards to Broad Street (Part 2)
Give My Regards to Broad Street (Part 3)
Give My Regards to Broad Street (Part 4)
Give My Regards to Broad Street (Part 5)
Give My Regards to Broad Street (Part 6)
Give My Regards to Broad Street (Part 7)
Give My Regards to Broad Street (Part 8)
2016 Valentine’s Day 31st Wedding Anniversary: the boys at play
Arvin and Cliff: cooking dinner
Arvin, Clifford and Taz: playing in the Office
Italian Altar Boy Confession
‘Bless me Father, for I have sinned. I have been with a loose girl.’
The priest asks, ‘Is that you, little Dominic Savino?’
‘Yes, Father, it is.’
‘And who was the girl you were with?’
‘I can’t tell you, Father. I don’t want to ruin her reputation.’
“Well, Dominic, I’m sure to find out her name sooner or later so
you may as well tell me now. Was it Tina Minetti?’
‘I cannot say.’
‘Was it Teresa Mazzarelli?’
‘I’ll never tell. ‘
‘Was it Nina Capelli?’
‘I’m sorry, but I cannot name her.’
‘Was it Cathy Piriano?’
‘My lips are sealed.’
‘Was it Rosa DiAngelo, then?’
‘Please, Father, I cannot tell you.’
The priest sighs in frustration. ‘You’re very tight lipped, and I admire that. But you have sinned and must atone. You cannot be an altar boy for the next four months. Now, you go and behave yourself.’
Joey walks back to his pew, and his friend Franco slides over and whispers, ‘What’d you get?’
Joey says: ‘Four months vacation and five good leads.’
A parable to meditate on
for our politically correct society
An old man, a boy and a donkey were going to town.
The boy rode on the donkey, and the old man walked.
As they went along they passed some people who remarked:
“What a shame, the old man is walking, the boy is riding.”
The man and boy thought maybe the critics were right, so they changed positions.
Later they passed some people who remarked:
“What a shame, he makes that little boy walk”.
So they decided they’d both walk.
Soon they passed some more people who remarked:
“They’re really stupid to walk when they have a decent donkey to ride.”
So they both decided to ride the donkey.
They passed some people who shamed them by saying:
“How awful to put such a load on a poor donkey.”
The boy and the man figured they were probably right, so they decide to carry the donkey.
As they crossed the bridge, they lost their grip on the donkey, the donkey fell into the river and drowned.
The moral of the story:
If you try to please everyone,
you might as well kiss your ass goodbye.
Have a nice day!
Watch his reaction when tree falls
Today… Its Raining !!!!!! 6 Words Are Hidden Can You Find Them All?
DAMP,
SHOWERS,
PUDDLE,
STORMY,
CLOUDS,
WET!!!
Just Got Paid (Medley of 70’s Classic Rock Songs) – played by Joe Bonamassa
Live @ the Hammersmith Apollo London,
March 28 – 2013
Joe Bonamassa – Guitar and Vocals,
Arlan Schierbaum – Keyboards,
Carmine Rojas – Bass,
Tal Bergman – Drums,
Lenny Castro – Percussion.
Joe Bonamassa “Just Got Paid” and “Dazed and Confused” Live at The Royal Albert Hall 2009
Joe Bonamassa “Introducing Eric Clapton” to “Further On Up The Road” from RAH Concert 2009
Steve Miller, Joe Bonamassa, Neal Schon, Joe Satriani, Warren Haynes, Steve Vai, Johnny A. & G.E. Smith all on guitar along with Shawn Pelton on drums at the Les Paul 100th Birthday Celebration at the Hard Rock Café in New York City
Big Bang Genius Test: Can You Figure Out the Answer?
Answer: 79 where it is the last digit x 10 + the sum of all the digits;
so (10 * 7) + sum( 1+1+7) = 79.
The Federal Reserve System and 12+1 Symbolism
“A Federal Reserve Bank is a regional bank of the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States. There are twelve in total, one for each of the twelve Federal Reserve Districts that were created by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913.” – From Wikipedia
“The number twelve frequently occurs among ancient peoples, who in nearly every case had a pantheon consisting of twelve demigods and goddesses presided over by The Invincible One, who was Himself subject to the Incomprehensible All-Father. This use of the number twelve is especially noted in the Jewish and Christian writings. The twelve prophets, the twelve patriarchs, the twelve tribes, and the twelve Apostles – each group has a certain significance, for each refers to the Divine Duodecimo, or Twelvefold Deity, whose emanations are manifested in the tangible created Universe through twelve individualized channels.”
-Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages
In the ancient mysteries there is a ritualistic procession which describes the path from confusion and despair to enlightenment and exultation. This process places the individual, or groupings of individuals, such as nations, on a journey of hardship and suffering, only to come out the other end liberated and illuminated.
It is perhaps symbolic of the birth into the material world and onset of suffering and confusion which ensues. When the righteous path is followed through life the spirit is able to rise up out of the ashes of despair and ignorance, and become one with the universal power of creation.
Or so the story goes.
In the song Carry on Wayward Son, the band Kansas sings:
“Once I rose above the noise and confusion, just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion, I was soaring ever higher, but I flew too high.”
Patience with the process of initiation in this life is a key element of the journey itself. When we reach too high, and too far, we falter and fall victim to the entrapments of the false self. Most stumble through this life never realizing that life itself is an initiation.
When we come to understand, and accept the reality that life is an initiation, the pieces begin to fit and purposeful meaning fills our hearts and minds with a quiet wisdom which does not need to be spoken.
Borrowing from Thomas Armstrong and his Human Odyssey: Navigating the Twelve Stages of Life, we find that each of our lives can be segmented into the following categories:
- Pre-birth: Potential
- Birth: Hope
- Infancy (Ages 0 to 3): Vitality
- Early Childhood (Ages 3 to 6): Playfulness
- Middle Childhood (Ages 6 to 8): Imagination
- Late Childhood(Ages 9 to 11): Ingenuity
- Adolescence (Ages 12 to 20) : Passion and Rebellion
- Early Adulthood (Ages 20 to 35): Enterprise
- Midlife Ages (Ages 35 to 50): Contemplation and Seeking
- Mature Adulthood (ages 50 to 80): Benevolence
- Late Adulthood (Age 80+): Wisdom
- Death and Dying: Life and Knowing, otherwise Gnosis
The obvious and immediate pattern which jumps out at us is that each subsequent period in the procession becomes longer in duration, when measured in years, or orbits around the Sun. Each period also becomes deeper and richer in experience. But only when we’re paying attention.
Whether Armstrong intended this as a structural component of his thesis is not known, but I would like to add my own thesis – that consciousness is not allegorically static, in that consciousness perceives each period within the same volume of space. Or each period takes up the same volume of conscious space as the period before and the period after.
Allow me to explain.
When we’re children the days pass as fast as a dragonfly. But as we age the days, months, and years are perceived to be moving at an ever quicker pace. Life speeds up and goes by faster and faster as we get older and older.
But is time really speeding up? Or is this the way consciousness breaks down and perceives each of the twelve periods in a person’s life cycle procession?
The older we get the longer each period lasts in years. But if consciousness can only perceive each period in the same volume of space, then it is conceivable that as each period becomes longer in years, consciousness will perceive that period in the same volume of space as the ones which came before it. Thus, time appears to be speeding up.
The other obvious point which can be made from Armstrong’s life structure is that each of the twelve segments make up the one whole. Each segment contributes to the completion of the Great Work.
This structure of twelve segments, or channels, making up the one whole, can be found throughout history and different cultures. It is as if consciousness subliminally understands the meaning of this structure and we work it into all human frameworks and machinations.
Pythagorean philosophy considered the dodecahedron to be the foundation of the material world. A dodecahedron is a twelve faced symmetrical geometric solid. All twelve sides make up the one whole solid.
In order to accept that this concept of twelve plus one has real symbolic meaning, I offer the following:
- Twelve Signs of the Zodiac (procession of the Sun)
- Jesus and 12 disciples
- King Arthur and the Twelve Knights of the Roundtable
- Twelve tribes of Israel
- Twelve apostles spreading the church
- Twelve kings of Israel
- Twelve old testament prophets
- Twelve great patriarchs
- Twelve judges of Israel
- Twelve brothers of Joseph
- Twelve knights of Charlemagne
- Twelve followers of Quetzalcoatl
- Twelve followers of Buddha
- Twelve Bedesmen
- Zeus and twelve Olympians
- Pan and twelve Lupercal Priests
- Romulus and twelve sons
- Odin and his twelve holy and ineffable names
- Alexander and his twelve Cheders
- Twelve great adventures of Izubar of Ancient Babylon
- Hercules and his twelve labours
- Himmler and his twelve SS knights
- Twelve Masonic signs of recognition
- Twelve months of the year
- Twelve hours of the day
- Twelve hours of the night
- Twelve inches in a foot
- Twelve days of Christmas
- Twelve grades in school
- Twelve jurors
- Twelve notes before the octave
- Twelve in a dozen
There are endless more, but let’s not forget the twelve Knights Templar who escaped arrest in 1307 and made their way to Switzerland with the famed treasure. Followed by twelve more, just like day follows night.
Each of the above stories are symbolic and allegorical tales which provide hints on the path and procession of our individual initiation in this life cycle – the completion of the Great Work. As such, each segment within the twelve has occult significance. The word occult is loaded with misunderstanding, and should be considered a process of thought. Each of the twelve segments creates a thought field.
In all cases the twelve are combined to make the one whole. This whole is the 13th and purposeful dodecahedron, which is represented as the completion of a process and the attainment of the whole. Hercules had to complete his twelve labours to ascend further. King Arthur and the twelve knights went on a quest to find the Holy Grail. The Grail was said to have held the blood of Christ. Christ and the twelve disciples describe a process which is meant to help us understand the ascent of consciousness and the completion of the cycle.
Like the Sun completing its cycle through the Zodiac.
After twelve hours of night the Sun rises.
Oh, I almost forgot, the Holy City has twelve foundations and twelve gates. The Tree of Life bears twelve fruit.
Moving on.
The Federal Reserve (you thought I’d never get to it) is structured in the same allegorical and symbolic way which has been described above. There are twelve Federal Reserve Districts with Federal Reserve Banks. They are:
- Boston
- New York
- Philadelphia
- Cleveland
- Richmond
- Atlanta
- Chicago
- St. Louis
- Minneapolis
- Kansas City
- Dallas
- San Francisco
And of course all twelve make up the Federal Reserve itself. Just like the Sun acts as the 13th culmination of the twelve with dominion over the whole Earth, the Federal Reserve has dominion over wealth accumulation.
In the picture which accompanies this post, we see the Federal Reserve Gold Symbol Seal embedded in the wall of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas. This symbol shows a bird sitting above twelve stars. We can assume that the twelve stars represent the twelve district banks and the bird represents the Federal Reserve System as a whole.
This close up picture of the seal gives us a better image of the stars and the bird. The bird can be interpreted as the American eagle, but can just as easily be interpreted as the phoenix, the mystical bird which rises from the ashes of its previous self. Regeneration.
But that is not all it represents. If it was all that innocuous than the above information would not exist. The reality and frequency of twelve plus one throughout history and vastly different cultures is not a coincidence.
Manly P. Hall wrote in The Secret Destiny of America:
“Philosophy teaches that the completion of the great work of social regeneration must be accomplished not in society but in man himself.”
Do you see?
“Once I rose above the noise and confusion, just to get a glimpse beyond this illusion, I was soaring ever higher, but I flew too high.”
I Believe
I Just Need An Exchange
Let us see if I’m getting these story lines, right:
- Platinum’s integrity has been unquestionable, accurately reporting the completion of banks receipt of necessary codes for exchange,
- Bruce is expecting to to do a celebration call on Tuesday night,
- Iko says Monday night is the final push,
- Martha says, “We’ll be in the bank this week,
- MillionDay has outlined multiple articles, leaders, and activated laws that all imply we’re on the cusp of a rate change,
- Poppy3 says we’re 5 months away from Economic reform being completed implying the RV/GCR is at any moment,
- BGG has said that the rate change could be within 7-10 days,
- not sure what Mountain Goat is saying because I stop reading as soon as I see, “and still no RV.” But, I’m sure he knows more and is smarter than everyone else because he writes with an arrogance that only comes from predicting events that have already occurred,
- KTFA/Frank 26 is also among the elite as he continually promotes his intel by passive agressively pointing out that, “his team is not like other teams.”
- Dr. Clark AKA. Mountain Goat’s alter ego is saying…well who cares what he is saying, because his intel is based largely on validating Mountain Goat which seems to be a creation of his need to feel appreciated, which is truly genious and in line with the superiority complex seen in the Goat’s posts.
All news seems to point to an eminent revaluation of world currencies, economic indicators seem to reveal a definitive need for such action, ships are reported to be moving out of Iran (which I believe is good) Iran’s currency saw a 33% rise this past week, China’s doing…stuff, that I think leads us to a GCR, Awake in 3D says 800 numbers won’t be posted on websites, but will be available on conference calls, and Prime Minister Abadi made an announcement that may have implied Iraq is moving to an International/Marke/Global economy.
Meanwhile, according to Rayren, (Bless his heart) banks seem to think we’ll be exchanging “this week”, for the past several weeks, and Dalred said, this past weekend was our last weekend (of waiting for the RV I’m assuming).
- Oil is above $32,
- Dow opened down,
- Shanghai closed up,
- Chinese are infusing Billions into the market,( which means something) various astrological, numerological, spiritual, and religous prophetic predictors are aligned to indicate massive changes,
- aliens are our ancestors and secretly controling the Earth,
- and United States government is an illegal corporation/shadow government, that is being taken out of control by the real Republic of the United States which will free us all from the bondage of public slavery created by illusionary debt.
In addition, massive humanitarian efforts are about to be launched world wide as soon as funds are released from the bonds, or the GCR, or the Elders, or the “Powers that Be.” These claims are backed by declarations made by the UN to “abolish poverty” in the next 15 years, various actions by the Chinese government to forgive massive amounts of debt, and lengthy discussion by world leaders to create new peaceful environments.
New technologies which have been held back until this time will soon be released for the good of all mankind, and everything we ever suspected about corrupt politicians has been drastically underestimated.
This combination of events all leading us to a spiritual awakening of a new global reality where “good” people, or at least people with good intentions will be the new “One Percenters” with the awesome responsibility of reshaping the world into a Utopia of abundance rather than a fake depiction of lack and starvation.
Like you, I desire to believe it. All of it, cautiously. After all, it is just too ridiculous to be contrived from the minds of mortal men.
So, I am ready to do my part. And once my family is taken care of, I’ll gladly pay-it-forward (PIF). I’ll dedicate my life to the service, testimony, and manifestation of the highest good in Jesus name. And, I’ll do it with all humility, knowing how little I really know.
But first, I just need to exchange.
LIFE is like a Camera photo shoot
LIFE is like a camera…
focus on what’s important,
capture the good times,
develop from the negatives,
and if things don’t work out…take another shot.
Post Modern F-idiots: What Happens If You Pay With a Two-Dollar Bill ?
The following is a true story. It amused the hell out of me while it was happening. I hope it isn’t one of those “had to be there” things, but the world today just has too many Fricken Idiots for my liking.
On my way home from the second job I’ve taken to get my mind off the lawsuit I’ve had with my sister, I stopped at Taco Bell for a quick bite to eat. In my billfold was a $50 bill and a $2 bill. That was all the cash I had on me. So, I figured that with a $2 bill, I could get something to eat and not worry about people getting twisted over my purchase. Boy — was I wrong:
Me: “Hi, I’d like one regular plain burrito please, to go.”
Server: “Is that it?”
Me: “Yep.”
Server: “That’ll be $1.04.. eat here?”
Me: “No thanks, it’s “TO-GO” [I hate effort duplication]
At this point I open my billfold and hand him the $2 bill. He looks at it kind of funny and . . .
Server: “Uh, hang on a sec, I’ll be right back.”
He goes to talk to his manager, who is still within earshot. The following conversation occurs between the two of them:
Server: “Hey, you ever see a $2 bill?”
Manager: “No. A what?”
Server: “A $2 bill. This guy just gave it to me.”
Manager: “Ask for something else, THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS A $2 BILL.”
Server: “Yeah, thought so.”
He comes back to me and says:
Server: “We don’t take these. Do you have anything else?”
Me: “Just this fifty. You don’t take $2 bills? Why?”
Server: “I don’t know.”
Me: “See here where it says legal tender?”
Server: “Yeah.”
Me: “So, shouldn’t you take it?”
Server: “Well, hang on a sec.”
He goes back to his manager who is watching me like I’m going to shoplift.
Server: “He says I have to take it.”
Manager: “Doesn’t he have anything else?”
Server: “Yeah, a fifty. I’ll get it and you can open the safe and get change.”
Manager: “I’M NOT OPENING THE SAFE WITH HIM IN HERE.” [My emphasis]
Server: “What should I do?”
Manager: “Tell him to come back later when he has REAL money.”
Server: “I can’t tell him that, you tell him.”
Manager: “Just tell him.”
Server: “No way, this is weird, I’m going in back.”
The manager approaches me and says:
Manager: “Sorry, we don’t take big bills this time of night.” [It was 7-p.m. and this particular Taco Bell in Sacramento is in a well lighted indoor mall with 100 other stores all open.]
Me: “Well, here’s a two.”
Manager: “We don’t take those either.”
Me: “Why the hell not?”
Manager: “I think you know why.”
Me: “No really, tell me, why?”
Manager: “Please leave before I call mall security.”
Me: “Excuse me?”
Manager: “Please leave before I call mall security.”
Me: “What the hell for?”
Manager: “Please, sir.”
Me: “Uh, go ahead, call them.”
Manager: “Would you please just leave?”
Me: “No.”
Manager: “Fine, have it your way then.”
Me: “No, that’s Burger King’s catch-phrase, isn’t it?”
At this point he BACKS away from me and calls mall security on the phone around the corner. I have two people STARING at me from the dining area, and I begin laughing out loud, just for effect. A few minutes later this 45 year old-ish guy comes in and says [at the other end of counter, in a whisper]:
Security: “Yeah, Mike, what’s up?”
Manager: “This guy is trying to give me some [pause] funny money.”
Security: “Really? What?”
Manager: “Get this, a two dollar bill.”
Security: “Why would a guy fake a $2 bill?” [Incredulous]
Manager: “I don’t know? He’s kinda weird. Says the only other thing he has is a fifty.”
Security: “So, the fifty’s fake?”
Manager: “NO, the $2 is.”
Security: “Why would he fake a $2 bill?”
Manager: “I don’t know. Can you talk to him, and get him out of here?”
Security: “Yeah…”
Security guard walks over to me and says:
Security: “Mike here tells me you have some fake bills you’re trying to use.”
Me: “Uh, no.”
Security: “Lemme see ’em.”
Me: “Why?”
Security: “Do you want me to get the cops in here?”
At this point I was ready to say, “SURE, PLEASE,” but I wanted to eat, so I said:
“I’m just trying to buy a burrito and pay for it with this $2 bill.”
I put the bill up near his face, and he flinches like I was taking a swing at him. He takes the bill, turns it over a few times in his hands, and says..
Security: “Mike, what’s wrong with this bill?”
Manager: “It’s fake.”
Security: “It doesn’t look fake to me.”
Manager: “But it’s a $2 bill.”
Security: “Yeah?”
Manager: “Well, there’s no such thing, is there?”
The security guard and I both looked at him like he was a Fricken idiot, and it dawned on the guy that he had no clue. (LOL)
So, I got my burrito for FREE and he threw in a small drink and those cinnamon things, too. I think I’ll go get a whole stack of $2 bills just to see what happens when I try to buy stuff! (LOL).
If I got the right group of people, I could probably end up in jail but at least I’d get free food. (LOL)
Kool & the Gang
Hall & Oates Live – 2005
Maneater
Sara Smile
Private Eyes
Rich Girl
Do It For Love
Everytime You Go Away
Out Of Touch
Say It Isn’t So
You Make My Dreams
Me And Mrs. Jones
She’s Gone
Forever For You
It’s A Laugh
I Can’t Go For That
Questions and Answers regarding I.M.F. 2015 SDR Review and inclusion of Chinese renminbi (RMB) currency
Q and A on 2015 SDR Review
November 30, 2015
IMF’s Executive Board Completes Review of SDR Basket, Includes Chinese Renminbi
The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) today completed the regular five-yearly review of the basket of currencies that make up the Special Drawing Right (SDR). A key focus of the Board review was whether the Chinese renminbi (RMB) met the existing criteria to be included in the basket. The Board today decided that the RMB met all existing criteria and, effective October 1, 2016 the RMB is determined to be a freely usable currency and will be included in the SDR basket as a fifth currency, along with the U.S. dollar, the euro, the Japanese yen and the British pound. Launching the new SDR basket on October 1, 2016 will provide sufficient lead time for the Fund, its members and other SDR users to adjust to these changes.
At the conclusion of the meeting, Ms. Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF, stated:
“The Executive Board’s decision to include the RMB in the SDR basket is an important milestone in the integration of the Chinese economy into the global financial system. It is also a recognition of the progress that the Chinese authorities have made in the past years in reforming China’s monetary and financial systems. The continuation and deepening of these efforts will bring about a more robust international monetary and financial system, which in turn will support the growth and stability of China and the global economy.”
The value of the SDR will be based on a weighted average of the values of the basket of currencies comprising the U.S. dollar, euro, the Chinese renminbi, Japanese yen, and British pound. The inclusion of the RMB will enhance the attractiveness of the SDR by diversifying the basket and making it more representative of the world’s major currencies. The SDR interest rate will continue to be determined as a weighted average of the interest rates on short-term financial instruments in the markets of the currencies in the SDR basket. Authorities of all currencies represented in the SDR basket, which now includes the Chinese authorities, are expected to maintain a policy framework that facilitates operations for the IMF, its membership and other SDR users in their currencies. The paper presented to the Board will be released soon.
- Question 1. What is the SDR?
- Question 2. What does an SDR review typically cover?
- Question 3. What are the criteria for SDR basket inclusion?
- Question 4. How do you define a freely usable currency?
- Question 5. What was the focus and outcome of the 2015 SDR review?
- Question 6. Why did the IMF staff recommend the inclusion of the Chinese renminbi into the SDR basket of currencies?
- Question 7. Why did the Board support the inclusion of the Chinese renminbi in the SDR basket?
- Question 8. When will the Chinese renminbi be officially included into the SDR basket?
- Question 9. Why will the Chinese renminbi only become freely usable on October 1, 2016?
- Question 10. Why has the weighting formula been changed and what are the major changes?
- Question 11. What are the new weights of each currency in the SDR basket?
- Question 12. What are the implications of the inclusion of the RMB into the SDR basket for the SDR itself and for the IMF operations?
- Question 13. How will the Chinese renminbi’s inclusion impact the global monetary system and the financial system in general?
- Question 14. What are the implications of the inclusion of the Chinese renminbi into the SDR basket of currencies for the renminbi and for China?
- Question 15. What are the implications of the RMB’s inclusion in the SDR interest rate basket?
Q1. What is the SDR?
The Special Drawing Right (SDR) is an international reserve asset, created by the IMF in 1969 to supplement its member countries’ official reserves. Its value is currently based on a basket of four major currencies (U.S. dollar, euro, Japanese yen, and pound sterling). The basket will be expanded to include the Chinese renminbi (RMB) as the fifth currency, starting on October 1, 2016 once the new basket of currencies takes effect.
SDRs are allocated to IMF members from time to time, based on each country’s quota in the Fund. A total of 204.1 billion SDRs have been allocated to date, most recently in 2009 when SDR 182.6 billion was allocated.
The SDR is neither a currency, nor a claim on the IMF. Rather, it is a potential claim on the freely usable currencies of IMF members. Holders of SDRs can obtain these currencies in exchange for their SDRs in two ways: first, through the arrangement of voluntary exchanges between members; and second, by the IMF designating members with strong external positions to purchase SDRs from members with weak external positions.
In addition to its role as a supplementary reserve asset, the SDR serves as the unit of account of the IMF and some other international organizations. It is also used in the IMF’s financing arrangements with its member countries.
Q2. What does an SDR review typically cover?
The composition of the SDR basket is typically reviewed every five years by the Executive Board to enhance the attractiveness of the SDR as a reserve asset. These reviews cover the key elements of the method of valuation of the SDR and seek to ensure that the valuation reflects the relative importance of currencies in the global trading and financial system. This includes the criteria used in selecting SDR basket currencies, the number of currencies in the basket, and the methodology for determining currency weights. The financial instruments comprising the SDR interest rate basket are also covered.
In the review concluded in November 2015, the Executive Board decided that the Chinese renminbi is determined to be a freely usable currency, effective October 1, 2016, and will then be included in the SDR basket as a fifth currency, along with the U.S. dollar, euro, Japanese yen and pound sterling. The weighting formula was also revised to address longstanding shortcomings.
Q3. What are the criteria for SDR basket inclusion?
The current criteria for inclusion were adopted by the IMF’s Executive Board in 2000. They established that the SDR basket comprises the four (expanded to five, effective October 1, 2016) currencies that are issued by members or monetary unions whose exports had the largest value over a five-year period, and have been determined by the IMF to be “freely usable”.
The export criterion, which acts as a “gateway,” aims to ensure that currencies that qualify for the basket are those issued by members or monetary unions that play a central role in the global economy. This criterion has been part of the SDR valuation methodology since the 1970s.
The requirement for currencies in the SDR basket to also be freely usable was incorporated in 2000 to allow the currency selection criteria to formally reflect the importance of financial transactions.
The Decision adopted by the Board at the 2015 SDR Review reconfirmed the existing two substantive criteria (exports and freely usable) while expanding the size of the basket from 4 to 5 currencies effective on October 1, 2016. In doing so, the Board considered that a five-currency basket would be both more stable and more representative, while the administrative burden of a larger basket would be manageable.
Q4.How do you define a freely usable currency?
A “freely usable” currency is defined in the IMF’s Articles of Agreement as a member’s currency that the Fund determines is, in fact, widely used to make payments for international transactions, and is widely traded in the principal exchange markets.
The concept of a freely usable currency concerns the actual international use and trading of currencies, and is different from whether a currency is either freely floating or fully convertible.
A currency can be widely used and widely traded even if it is subject to some capital account restrictions (in the past, currencies such as the pound sterling and Japanese yen were determined freely usable when some capital account restrictions were in place). On the other hand, a currency that is fully convertible may not necessarily be widely used and widely traded.
The freely usable concept plays a central role in the IMF’s financial operations. In particular, members receiving Fund financial assistance have the right to receive such assistance in a freely usable currency. Indeed, IMF lending operations are, in practice, conducted in freely usable currencies or SDRs, and in the latter case, borrowing members have the right to exchange SDRs into freely usable currencies. In the financial operations context, the freely usable concept seeks to ensure that a member can use the currency received from the IMF either directly or indirectly (by exchanging it into another currency without disadvantage) to address a balance of payments financing need.
Q5. What was the focus and outcome of the 2015 SDR review?
The IMF recently concluded the quinquennial review of the SDR currency basket. As China continues to meet the export criterion for SDR inclusion, the review focused on assessing whether the Chinese renminbi (RMB) could be determined to be a freely usable currency, which is the other criterion for inclusion in the basket. This criterion requires an Executive Board determination that the currency is, in fact, widely used to make payments for international transactions and widely traded in the principal exchange markets.
The Executive Board at its meeting on November 30, 2015 decided that, effective October 1, 2016, the Chinese renminbi is determined to be a freely usable currency and will be included in the SDR basket, as a fifth currency, along with the U.S. dollar, euro, Japanese yen and pound sterling. The weights of the currencies in the SDR basket were also revised in line with a new weighting formula based on the value of the issuers’ exports, the amount of reserves denominated in the respective currencies that were held by other members of the IMF, foreign exchange turnover, and international bank liabilities and international debt securities denominated in the respective currencies.
Q6. Why did the IMF staff recommend the inclusion of the Chinese renminbi into the SDR basket of currencies?
Increasing international use and trading. Since the last SDR review in 2010, the use of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) in international payments has risen substantially. In addition, RMB activity in foreign exchange markets covering two of the three major trading time zones has increased significantly and can accommodate transactions of the magnitude involved in IMF operations. This provided, in the judgment of staff, a basis for the RMB to be considered “widely used” to make payments for international transactions and “widely traded” in the principal exchange markets.
Operational considerations. While operational issues are not formal requirements for SDR inclusion, staff’s assessment that the IMF, its members, and other SDR users are now able to conduct operations in RMB without substantial impediments means there are reasonable assurances that IMF related operations can be conducted smoothly. This is the direct result of recent reforms implemented by the authorities, principally their decision to grant full access for official reserve managers and their agents to the onshore fixed-income and foreign exchange markets. The authorities have also undertaken key reforms to advance their broader agenda to support the international use of the RMB and strengthen macro-financial stability, such as full liberalization of domestic interest rates, steps toward a more market-determined exchange rate, and implementation of a new cross-border interbank payment system.
Complementary steps to enhance data disclosure. While data disclosure is not a formal criterion for a currency’s inclusion in the SDR basket, issuers of these currencies generally meet high transparency standards. The authorities have recently taken very welcome steps to increase data disclosure and enhance their commitment to multilateral data initiatives.
Q7. Why did the Board support the inclusion of the Chinese renminbi in the SDR basket?
The decision on whether the RMB should be determined a freely usable currency and included in the SDR basket rested with the IMF’s Executive Board. Since there are no pre-set thresholds or benchmarks, the decision ultimately required policy judgment by the Executive Board, framed by the definition of freely usable under the IMF’s Articles of Agreement and informed by quantitative indicators.
The report prepared by staff provided a rigorous technical assessment with a clear recommendation in order to inform Executive Directors.
The Board endorsed staff’s analysis and recommendation to determine the Chinese renminbi freely usable and include it in the SDR basket, as a fifth currency, along with the U.S. dollar, euro, Japanese yen and pound sterling, effective October 1, 2016.
Q8. When will the Chinese renminbi be officially included into the SDR basket?
The new basket including the Chinese renminbi will take effect on October 1, 2016.
The Executive Board previously extended the current basket to end-September 2016 in response to feedback from SDR users. The decision reflected the desire to avoid changes in the basket at the end of the calendar year (when trading volumes are low), facilitate the continued smooth functioning of SDR-related operations amid a higher than-usual level of uncertainty generated by the ongoing SDR review, and to allow sufficient lead time to adjust in the event that a new currency is added to the SDR basket.
Q9. Why will the Chinese renminbi only become freely usable on October 1, 2016?
The Chinese renminbi (RMB) has met all conditions and operational requirements for being determined freely usable and to be added in the SDR basket. However, if the Fund’s determination of free usability was to become effective as of the date of the review (November 30, 2015), it would allow the immediate use of the RMB as a freely usable currency in Fund financial transactions, when the Fund and its members are not yet operationally ready. The delayed inclusion of the RMB in the SDR basket also allows SDR users time to adjust their operations. Therefore, the Fund’s determination of the RMB as a freely usable currency and the RMB’s inclusion in the SDR basket will only come into effect on October 1, 2016.
Q10. Why has the weighting formula been changed and what are the major changes?
The Executive Board has long recognized the shortcomings of the previous method for determining currency weights in the SDR basket, in particular, the relatively low weight and narrow scope of financial variables, and the endogenous weighting of flows (exports) and stocks (reserves).
At the conclusion of the 2010 SDR Basket review, Directors welcomed a work program that would, among others, consider the relative roles of trade and financial indicators.
The new formula endorsed by the Board is one of the two alternatives presented in the 2010 Review and expands the share and representativeness of the financial variables and moves away from the endogenous weights implied by the old formula. In the new formula, exports and the financial variable are given equal weight and the coverage of the financial indicator has been expanded to better capture different financial transactions.
Q11. What are the new weights of each currency in the SDR basket?
Under the new formula, the respective weights of the SDR currencies are: 41.73% for the U.S. dollar; 30.93% for euro; 10.92% for the Chinese renminbi; 8.33% for the Japanese yen; and 8.09% for the pound sterling. This basket of currencies will take effect on October 1, 2016.
After these weights are used on September 30, 2016 to establish the new fixed amounts of currencies that comprise the SDR basket, the share of each currency in the valuation of the SDR on any particular day going forward will depend on the exchange rates prevailing on that day.
Q12. What are the implications of the inclusion of the RMB into the SDR basket for the SDR itself and for the IMF operations?
The inclusion of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) is the first major change to the SDR basket composition since 1980 when the basket size was reduced from 16 to 5 currencies (also, in 1999, the euro replaced the Deutsche mark and the French franc).
The RMB’s inclusion will enhance the attractiveness of the SDR as an international reserve asset. It diversifies the basket and makes its composition more representative of the world’s major currencies.
Operationally, the inclusion of the RMB into the SDR basket means that an RMB instrument will be included in the calculation of the SDR interest rate, along with changes to the procedures for exchange of currency between China and the Fund. It will also impact the conduct of future Fund transactions which can be carried out in RMB once the determination of the RMB as a freely usable currency becomes effective on October 1, 2016.
Q13. How will the Chinese renminbi’s inclusion impact the global monetary system and the financial system in general?
Put into a broader context, the inclusion of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) in the SDR basket could be seen as an important milestone in the process of China’s global financial integration. It also recognizes and reinforces China’s continuing reform progress.
As this integration continues and further deepens, and is paralleled in other emerging market economies, it could bring about a more robust international monetary and financial system, which in turn would support the growth and stability of the global economy.
The RMB’s inclusion will also enhance the attractiveness of the SDR as an international reserve asset, as it diversifies the basket and makes its composition more representative of the world’s major currencies.
Q14. What are the implications of the inclusion of the Chinese renminbi into the SDR basket of currencies for the renminbi and for China?
The inclusion recognizes a significant increase in the internationalization of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) in recent years, underpinned by policy reforms to achieve China’s transition to an increasingly open and market-based economy.
Inclusion in the basket will also support the already increasing use and trading of the RMB internationally.
Q15. What are the implications of the RMB’s inclusion in the SDR interest rate basket?
The RMB will be added to the basket on October 1, 2016, and its impact on the SDR interest rate will depend on the rates prevailing at that time. This effect is uncertain; nevertheless, since the interest rates in China are currently above the other rates in the SDR interest rate basket, it is likely that the SDR interest rate would rise when the RMB is included in the basket.
The various effects of a likely higher SDR interest rate on Fund borrowers, creditors, and the Fund’s own income position will be considered in the context of the next review of the Fund’s income position that is scheduled for April 2016