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Lindsey Williams: Plans of the Illuminati Elite! Middle East War, Dollar Devaluation, Oil $150-200, Gold And Silver To Skyrocket …..(20 Oct 2010)

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November 4, 2010 Posted by | Economics, EndTimes, GeoPolitics, Social Trends | , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

U.S. Quantitative Easing is Fracturing the Global Economy!

  • The FedRes has just announced QE2.0 at US$600B. Of course, the real figure is much higher. QE does not work. Americans are maxed out in debt. How can you stimulate the economy by encouraging more borrowing and spending? QE2.0 is really a bailout of the banksters! It will cause a flood of funny money into the Asia and emerging economies. It will stoke inflation. This is financial world war. A planned destruction of all fiat currencies to usher in the One World Currency, Global Central Bank and Luciferian New World Order!
      
    U.S. Quantitative Easing is Fracturing the Global Economy
      ….Great structural changes in world trade and finance occur quickly – by quantum leaps, not by slow marginal accretions. The 1945-2010 era of relatively open trade, capital movements and foreign exchange markets is being destroyed by a predatory financial opportunism that is breaking the world economy into two spheres: a dollar sphere in which central banks in Europe, Japan and many OPEC and Third World countries hold their reserves the form of U.S. Treasury debt of declining foreign-exchange value; and a BRIC-centered sphere, led by China, India, Brazil and Russia, reaching out to include Turkey and Iran, most of Asia, and major raw materials exporters that are running trade surpluses.
       …..
    What is reversing trends that seemed irreversible for the past 65 years is the manner in which the United States has dealt with its bad-debt crisis. The Federal Reserve and Treasury are seeking to inflate the economy out of debt with an explosion of bank liquidity and credit – which means yet more debt. This is occurring largely at other countries’ expense, in a way that is flooding the global economy with electronic “keyboard” bank credit while the U.S. balance-of-payments deficit widens and U.S. official debt soars beyond any foreseeable means to pay. The dollar’s exchange rate is plunging, and U.S. money managers themselves are leading a capital flight out of the domestic economy to buy up foreign currencies and bonds, gold and other raw materials, stocks and entire companies with cheap dollar credit.
     
    This outflow from the dollar is not the kind of capital that takes the form of tangible investment in plant and equipment, buildings, research and development. It is not a creation of assets as much as the creation of debt, and its multiplication by mirroring, credit insurance, default swaps and an array of computerized forward trades. The global financial system has decoupled from trade and investment, taking on a life of its own.
     
    In fact, financial conquest is seeking today what military conquest did in times past: control of land and basic infrastructure, industry and mining, banking systems and even government finances to extract the economic surplus as interest and tollbooth-type economic rent charges. U.S. officials euphemize this policy as “quantitative easing.” The Federal Reserve is flooding the banking system with so much liquidity that Treasury bills now yield less than 1%, and banks can draw freely on Fed credit. Japanese banks have seen yen borrowing rates fall to 0.25%.
     
    This policy is based on a the wrong-headed idea that if the Fed provides liquidity, banks will take the opportunity to lend out credit at a markup, “earning their way out of debt” – inflating the economy in the process. And when the Fed talks about “the economy,” it means asset markets – above all for real estate, as some 80% of bank loans in the United States are mortgage loans.
     
    One-third of U.S. real estate is now reported to be in negative equity, as market prices have fallen behind mortgage debts. This is bad news not only for homeowners but also for their bankers, as the collateral for their mortgage loans does not cover the principal. Homeowners are walking away from their homes, and the real estate market is so thoroughly plagued with a decade of deception and outright criminal fraud that property titles themselves are losing security. And despite FBI findings that financial fraud is found in over three-quarters of the packaged mortgages they have examined, the Obama Justice Department has not sent a single bankster to jail.
     
    Instead, the financial crooks have been placed in charge– and they are using their power over government to promote their own predatory gains, having disabled U.S. public regulatory agencies and the criminal justice system to create a new kind of centrally planned economy in the hands of banks. As Joseph Stiglitz recently observed:
     
    In the years prior to the breaking of the bubble, the financial industry was engaged in predatory lending practices, deceptive practices. They were optimizing not in producing mortgages that were good for the American families but in maximizing fees and exploiting and predatory lending. Going and targeting the least educated, the Americans that were most easy to prey on.

     
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November 4, 2010 Posted by | Economics | , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

JP Morgan and HSBC Face RICO Charges in Silver Futures Class Action Lawsuit!

  • The bullion banksters are facing more lawsuits. If they are forced to unwind their massive short positions in silver, it will get explosive. Silver will go on a moonshot, so will gold.
      
    Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro: JP Morgan and HSBC Face RICO Charges in Silver Futures Class Action Lawsuit
    Banks alleged to have used naked short-selling to rig market
    NEW YORK, Nov. 3, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — JP Morgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:
    JPM) and HSBC Securities Inc. (NYSE: HBC) face charges of manipulating the market for silver futures and options in violation of federal commodities and racketeering laws, according to a new lawsuit filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
       
    The suit – which alleges violation of the Commodity Exchange Act and the Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act – alleges that the two banks colluded to manipulate the market for silver futures starting in the first half of 2008 by amassing huge short positions in silver futures contracts they had no intent to fill, but did so to force silver prices down to their benefit.
     
    The suit was filed on behalf of Carl Loeb, an independent investor in silver futures and options, by Seattle-based Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, a class-action and complex litigation firm. “The practice of naked short selling has long been a serious issue on Wall Street,” said Steve Berman, co-counsel and managing partner at Hagens Berman. “What we know about the scope and intent of JP Morgan and HSBC’s actions in this short-selling scheme dwarfs any other similar attempt to manipulate a commodities market.”
     
    According to the complaint, JP Morgan amassed a sizeable short position in silver futures and options in part through its March 2008 acquisition of investment bank Bear Stearns. By August 2008, JP Morgan and London-based HSBC controlled more than 85 percent of the commercial net short position in silver futures contracts.
     
    The suit alleges that, starting in early 2008, the two banks began manipulating the silver futures market by accumulating unusually large “short” positions and then secretly coordinating enormous sales of silver futures contracts on the Commodity Exchange, which is known as “COMEX” and is part of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
     
    According to the lawsuit, JP Morgan and HSBC used a variety of methods to coordinate their manipulation of the market for silver futures contracts, signaling when to flood the COMEX market with short positions, which caused the price of silver futures and options contracts to crash.
     
    The suit describes two “crash” events that were set in motion by JP Morgan and HSBC, one in March 2008, and the other in February 2010, after defendants had amassed large short positions.  In the wake of both events, the suit alleges, COMEX silver futures prices collapsed.
     
    “We believe that JP Morgan and HSBC’s scheme was carefully conceived and coordinated to maximize their profits at the expense of innocent investors who believed that they were trading in a market free from manipulation,” Berman said.
     
    The complaint also contains allegations that in September 2008, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission launched an investigation that would eventually consider allegations made by a London-based independent metals trader named Andrew Maguire that the silver futures market was being manipulated.
     
    The complaint alleges that Maguire disclosed to the CFTC on Feb. 3, 2010 that he received a signal from the two banks of their intent to drive down the prices of silver futures two days later, on Feb. 5, 2010. Maguire’s information was correct and the price of silver dropped dramatically between Feb. 3, 2010 and Feb. 5, 2010.
     
    In addition, the lawsuit states that both JP Morgan and HSBC still maintain highly concentrated holdings in short positions in silver futures and options, giving both banks the ability to continue manipulating the price of silver.
     
    Plaintiffs’ attorneys have asked the court to certify the case as a class action and enjoin JP Morgan and HSBC from continuing their alleged conspiracy and manipulation of the silver futures and options contracts market.

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November 4, 2010 Posted by | Economics | , | Comments Off

Silver Breaks Out From Price Manipulation, The Gains Will be Breath Taking!

  • As I write this, silver has broken out of the US$25.00/oz resistance. There is no doubt that it is heading towards US$30/oz soon. Jim Willie gives us his great insights in this article. Excerpts:
      
    Silver Breaks Out From Price Manipulation, The Gains Will be Breath Taking
    A love affair with silver is so natural. The fundamentals are astoundingly positive and bullish in price prospects. … Industry has countless uses for silver, significant demand. But industry has only miniscule isolated uses for gold, in trivial demand. So silver wins on the Demand side of the equation. Central banks own a huge amount of gold. They frequently sell it, even through their slippery surrogate the Intl Monetary Fund. Central banks own zero silver. So silver wins on the Supply side of the equation.
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    Since the significant game changing FOMC meeting on September 21st, where the telegraph message delivered to the world financial markets was made by megaphone, the impact has been clear and stark. Compared to closing prices on September 21st versus October 29th, just five weeks, the silver price had risen from $20.64 to $24.56, up 19.0%. During the same timespan, the gold price had risen from $1274.30 to $1357.60, up 6.5%. My claim, a loose forecast often repeated, has been that the silver breakout gains would be at least double and possible triple the gold gains. We have seen exactly that in recent weeks.
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    Implied net silver investment increased by a staggering 184% to 136.9 million oz last year, reaching its highest level in 20 years. Overall jewelry demand fell slightly by 1.1% in 2009 to 156.6 moz, a testament to the historical norm. It falls with a bull market, not to contradict it, but to confirm it!! That is the opposite message, contrary to what the official gold industry propaganda preaches. In fact, India and China posted increases in jewelry demand last year, outside the global trend. Silverware demand rose by a decent 4.6% to 59.5 moz, largely due to a surge in Indian fabrication.
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    The big story is the huge decline in net silver supply from above ground inventory stocks, which were reduced by 86% to 20.2 moz in 2009. The drawdown was driven mostly by the surge in net investment, higher de-hedging (the active reduction in forward sale contracts), lower government sales (like official mints), and a drop in scrap supply. The scrap supply came down by 6% from 2008, enough to register a 13-year low of 165.7 moz. It was the third consecutive year of losses in the scrap category. Government stocks of silver, the feeder in official coin mint programs, fell by an estimated 13.7 moz last year, to reach their lowest levels in more than a decade. Data was supplied by the Silver Institute (SEE
    LINK).
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    The most reliable and expert sources within my contacts mention a specific point, with consistency. When the US elections are over, and after the USFed gives some guidance on the QE2 Launch for monetized debt, the system will experience tremendous added strains and will gradually show signs of breakdown again, in accelerated mode. This time, unlike September 2008, efforts to stabilize will not be possible. The system will degrade, as supports, pylons, control cables, levers, guy wires, and buttresses will be removed in the coming weeks. The Midterm Elections served at the roadblock event, the beacon on the horizon, the gate factor, the delayed lit fuse. The actions taken in November will involve both the US captains and foreign entities. The US brass can act without as much concern of voter backlash. The foreign financial decision makers can act with knowledge that the USGovt, the USFed, and Wall Street will not make a single solitary move toward bank system reform, toward bank debt restructure, or toward debt liquidation on the balance sheets. Instead, the US will redouble the magnitude of what failed, their habit, their engrained failure in policy, their legacy.
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    The monetary system works gradually to unmask the corrupt precious metals market, and to lay bare the absent bullion at the official metals exchanges. Angry depositors like the Chinese and Arabs have been demanding their bullion for return back home, no longer trusting the London and New York banksters. They have grown fully aware of illicit gold leasing as commonplace. The fraud of the USGovt balance sheets, recording deep storage gold as a ledge item, an utter absurdity, only adds to the motive to unmask the banksters at their own game. The fast rising deadly USGovt deficits has brought cries to prove the collateral for new debt added upon old debt, in an uncontrollable debt episode. The world pursues gold & silver, knowing the USGovt has none, even as it continues to suppress its price with heavy hands. Foreign creditors are angry that the gold & silver they hold has been pushed down in price by illicit USGovt devices.
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    The Silver price will rise much more than price inflation. The Silver price will rise in response to money fleeing corrosive vehicles like the major currencies, whose basis is not gold but rather rapidly growing debt resting upon broken banking and economic foundations. The Silver price will rise as the USTreasury Bond bubble becomes more widely recognized. The Silver price will rise as greater volumes of freshly printed money undermine the USDollar well behind controlled activity.
    The Silver price will rise more than most analysts anticipate out of the sheer release from corrupted markets that hold down the price after a mountain of silver has been shorted in the market without collateral.
      ……
    The shorts are being squeezed, in clear fashion since August. The naked short quantity for Silver is well beyond a full year of annual global output from the mining industry. As the markets work toward a freely traded system that seeks a true equilibrium, the Silver price will move past $100 per ounce easily. Laughter now will be followed by sheepish quiet in three years. But first it will surpass the $40 price, maybe as soon as late 2011 or early 2012. … My forecast is for a $29 to 31 price for Silver by mid-January. Both December and January are strong seasonal months for silver, just like September.

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November 4, 2010 Posted by | Economics | , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

William Engdahl: Print & Pump – ‘Fed’s $500 Billion Boost To Feed Mega-Banks’!

November 4, 2010 Posted by | Economics | , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Catherine Austin Fitts: The Looting Of America!

November 4, 2010 Posted by | Economics, GeoPolitics | , , , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

   

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