https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojvQWO6fonE
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[DISCLAIMER] By posting this, I’m not at all suggesting this is a good thing, but perhaps it is. I don’t know. I’m not personally interested in this subject.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulDAF7RtW30
Related: The Rothschilds, world kingpins, worth $500 trillion! They own Reuters, AP, and fix the price of gold…
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Do you honestly believe Jeff Bezos is the world’s richest man? A guy who started selling books over the internet 20 years ago?! History tells a different story. The Rothschilds are worth several hundred TRILLION dollars. Here’s the quantifiable numbers. It’s a simple matter of math, market manipulation and compounding interest.
The family bragged about the wealth they made as a result of the Battle of Waterloo. They even bankrolled a Hollywood movie about it in 1934 starring Boris Karloff as Nathan Rothschild, ‘The House of Rothschild’ which you can watch here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqCTv…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cl1-gbGz458
MY NOTES
14:05 Sean: “My belief, given a lot of research I’ve done, is that the Rothschilds in … the birth of the Illuminati, they’re responsible for it, and they are Satanists. … And I do believe that via this story of Israel and the reimplementation of the state of Israel, that they hijacked the Jewish story, and they hide behind the label of anti-Semitism, so you cannot criticize the central bankers and the money masters.”
18:30 SGT Report Sean is Catholic, now leaning Lutheran
Sean likes Putin because he’s returning Russia to Christianity. I commented:
Ritual based, Russian Orthodoxy isn’t real Christianity. Real Christianity is people actually abiding in Christ personally (which most US ‘Christians’ also do not do). In many ways, KGB Putin is turning Russia into a police state, which truthers would abhor if it happened here. And he’s preparing to successfully bomb, bomb, bomb the USA.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cMuM3gg-fk
Amazon has operated its retail segment at a loss while relying on more profitable business segments – like Amazon Web Services – to offset these losses. The company’s explicit goal is to drive its competitors out of business before seizing their market share.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTf85hAOBsk
The “Federal Reserve, which isn’t federal, artificially manipulates interest rates, which destroys the dollar.
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World Affairs Brief, December 22, 2017 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
Beware of Bitcoin and other Cryptocurrencies:
One has to wonder why the US government has seized and destroyed every private gold backed currency that has tried to give citizens honest money. And yet when a purely fiat digital currency emerges, they leave it untouched. In fact, it has long been known that the NSA had a role in developing the theory behind them, as Natural News points out. I don’t agree with all Mike Adam’s hyped up conclusions, but whatever the Deep State helps create (Google, Facebook, etc.) you can bet there’s a surveillance aspect to it.
NSA mathematicians detailed “digital cash” two decades ago… First, take a look at this document entitled, “How to make a mint: The cryptography of anonymous electronic cash.” This document, released in 1997 — yes, twenty years ago — detailed the overall structure and function of Bitcoin cryptocurrency.
Who authored the document? Try not to be shocked when you learn it was authored by “mathematical cryptographers at the National Security Agency’s Office of Information Security Research and Technology.”
The NSA, in other words, detailed key elements of Bitcoin long before Bitcoin ever came into existence. Much of the Bitcoin protocol is detailed in this document, including signature authentication techniques, eliminating cryptocoin counterfeits through transaction authentication and several features that support anonymity and untraceability of transactions. The document even outlines the heightened risk of money laundering that’s easily accomplished with cryptocurrencies. It also describes “secure hashing” to be “both one-way and collision-free.”
Although Bitcoin adds mining and a shared, peer-to-peer blockchain transaction authentication system to this structure, it’s clear that the NSA was researching cryptocurrencies long before everyday users had ever heard of the term. Note, too, that the name of the person credited with founding Bitcoin is Satoshi Nakamoto, who is reputed to have reserved one million Bitcoins for himself. Millions of posts and online threads discuss the possible identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, and some posts even claim the NSA has identified Satoshi. However, another likely explanation is that Satoshi Nakamoto is the NSA, which means he is either working for the NSA [or] is a sock puppet character created by the NSA for the purpose of this whole grand experiment. The NSA also wrote the crypto hash used by Bitcoin to secure all transactions
People ignorantly have jumped on speculative bandwagons like these which make blockchain creators very wealthy, but they also lose their passwords. Some of the early investors have lost speculative fortunes that way. Most of the recent speculative rise in Bitcoin have come from Asians thinking they are getting away from controlled fiat home currencies, but cryptocurrencies are the mother of all fiat money and will eventually collapse. Today Bitcoin just lost over a third of its inflated value. Above all remember this warning: when the internet suddenly goes down in the next war, how will you retrieve your value and convert Bitcoins back to anything tangible?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubgK_K3LUJo
From: Henry Makow
The Best Solution? — Ronald Bernard’s Bank of Joy
September 12, 2017
Ronald Bernard has not just
running the world, he is taking
positive steps to reform banking.
The Bank of Joy is a Dutch initiative to eventually issue an alternative currency and to run a bank that works without charging interest,
and that does not loan out money unless they have it.
Description of The Bank of Joy
“Who are we? B of Joy is a sustainable, cooperative, fair-trade, savings and investment bank. The initiative is of, for and by the people. We ourselves are the change. B of Joy helps with the positive growth of both awareness and the economy, and puts the citizens and society first. Its goals are a just society and a healthy economy. Our starting point is abundance instead of shortages.
What do we stand for?
Unlike the current banks we do not, as a full reserve bank, lend out more money than we have received. Next to financial returns, B of Joy also gives Ecological, Emotional and Social (F.E.E.S) returns. We invest in local economies, in innovation and in small and medium enterprises. The B of Joy doesn’t only stand for bank. It stands also for Awareness, Citizen and Movement.
As soon as the Movement is big enough, we will instigate referenda, so that citizens can determine policies themselves. For example: in Switzerland all citizens can vote on important issues. B of Joy doesn’t work with bonuses, interest and speculation. B of Joy guarantees sustainable development and a stable economy. We will turn money back into a means of transaction so that it will serve us again.
How will that work in practice?
With our new form of mortgage one will save in 30 years, on a house costing 230.000 euro, an average of 100.000 euro on interest. By eliminating interest we will become the first truly sustainable financial initiative in the Netherlands.
Through the Bail-free saving- and investment program we protect deposits amounting to 100.000 euro or more against the greedy hands of politicians, the EU and banks. The assets will serve society and will be inflation-proof, because we will compensate for inflationary effects on the euro.
B of Joy members will have access to a fixed value currency (URA), a members marketplace, business guide and collective purchasing power. This will promote connections, save on costs and improve turnover. Every member is part-owner, has a say in the cooperative through 1 vote and a right to share in the returns. How can you take part in the realization of this bank?
For 25 euro or more, you can become a supporter of the initiative and, if you want, a member for the first year free of charge. For 100 euro you are a part-owner of the bank and you will receive a member certificate that in the future can give yield. By taking part, you help create a just society based on abundance. For ourselves, for our children and the future of our world. Will you join us?”
Related – Detailed lecture on the Bank of Joy
———— Bank of Joy Promo
During the 44-year period since 1973, income among women grew by roughly 30 percent as more skilled and trained women entered the market, gained experience, and were promoted to better-paying jobs. Those opportunities and contributions are good news — but they do not change the reality that men’s income has been flat for 44 years.
In fact, the report notes that “the real median earnings of full-time, year-round working men were 1.1 percent lower in 2016 than in 2007.”
TRANSCRIPT, SOURCES AND MP3: https://www.corbettreport.com/?p=16167
The 9/11 Heist
In 1998, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey agreed to privatize the World Trade Center, the complex of office towers in Lower Manhattan that they had owned and operated since their construction in 1973. In April 2001 an agreement was reached with a consortium of investors led by Silverstein Properties and on July 24th, 2001 Larry Silverstein, who already owned World Trade Center Building 7, signed a 99 year lease for the Twin Towers and Buildings 4 and 5.
The lease was for $3.2 billion, and was financed by a bridge loan from GMAC, the commercial mortgage arm of General Motors, as well as $111 million from Lloyd Goldman and Joseph Cayre, individual real estate investors. Silverstein Properties only put down $14 million of its own money.
The deal was unusual in a variety of ways. Although the Port Authority carried only $1.5 billion of insurance coverage on the WTC complex, which earlier that year had been valued at $1.2 billion, Silverstein had insisted on doubling that amount, insuring the buildings for $3.55 billion. Silverstein’s insurance broker struggled to put that much coverage in place and ultimately had to split it among 25 dealers. The negotiations were so involved that only temporary contracts were in place for the insurance at the time the lease was signed and by September the contracts were still being finalized.
Silverstein’s group was also explicitly given the right to rebuild the structures if they were destroyed, and even to expand the amount of retail space on the site if rebuilding did take place.
Within hours of the destruction of the Twin Towers on September 11th, Silverstein was on the phone to his lawyers, trying to determine if his insurance policies could “construe the attacks as two separate, insurable incidents rather than one.” Silverstein spent years in the courts attempting to win $7.1 billion from his $3.55 billion insurance policy and in 2007 walked away with $4.55 billion, the largest single insurance settlement ever. As soon as the deal was announced Silverstein sued United and American Airlines for a further $3.5 billion for their “negligence” in the 9/11 attacks, a claim that was struck down by the courts but is still on appeal.
Perhaps even more outrageously, in a secret deal in 2003, the Port Authority agreed to pay back 80% of their initial equity in the lease, but allowed the Silverstein group to maintain control of the site. The deal gave Silverstein, Goldman and Cayre $98 million of the $125 million they put down on the lease, and a further $130 million in insurance proceeds that were earmarked for the site’s rebuilding.
In the end, Silverstein profited from the 9/11 attacks to the tune of $4.55 billion and counting.
But that’s the 9/11 insurance heist you saw. There was a much deeper, more complex, and well-hidden heist that was taking place behind closed doors on September 11, 2001, deep in the heart of the World Trade Center itself. …
So what was the Marsh.com project really about? Why was it so important for it to be finished before September 11th, and what kind of transactions did it enable? More importantly, what information was lost when the data center on the 95th floor of the North Tower suffered a direct hit on 9/11 and the buildings were demolished? …
Although the put options on American and United Airlines are usually cited in reference to the 9/11 insider trading, these trades only represent a fraction of the suspicious trades leading up to the attack. Between August 20th and September 10th, abnormally large spikes in put option activity appeared in trades involving dozens of different companies whose stocks plunged after the attack including Boeing, Merrill Lynch, J.P. Morgan, Citigroup, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley, Munich Re and the AXA Group. …
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3xgjxJwedA
This is drier than part 1, but also important — explaining the Talmudic bankster system that is destroying us, while they get rich, having sold their souls.
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7:25 ‘City of London’ manipulates the gold rate.
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Real Big Power: Revelations by insider Ronald Bernard-part 2
Published on Jun 9, 2017
Part 2: Dutch spoken, English subs. A DVM-TV production.
In accordance with part 1 (link below) see here part 2, in which Ronald Bernard describes how the pyramid of power functions and converges. At the end of the interview you see a short overview of part 3 in which many questions will be answered. Soon more parts will follow. Related article: https://irmaschiffers2014.wordpress.c…
Part 1, full version: https://youtu.be/VzoaxTudJks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYZIODJ999s
🌎 The Psychopaths of the New World Order – Part 4 – Ronald Bernard Interview Analyzed
Published on May 19, 2017
In part 4, I’m going to review some of the secrets revealed by New World Order insider, Ronald Bernard. We will analyze his interview and briefly review the psychopathic traits of some of the New World Order’s “usual suspects” – including Lord Jacob Rothschild, David Rockefeller, George Soros, Prince Bandar, Henry Kissinger and George HW Bush.
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30:25 Sean Hannity was told by a son of Rupert Murdoch to no longer talk about Seth Rich
Fox had their D.C. affiliate retract Seth Rich stories too
31:25 Mark in N.C.: How the CIA works
56:00 Is the CIA using ISIS to keep the drug trade going in the Philippines?
The US government is a ‘nartocracy.’ “The CIA drug trade is a primary driving force….”
130:20 Ellen Brown, banking expert is guest
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OJukKKlu8A
What Really Happened: Michael (Mike) Rivero Wednesday 5/24/17: Today’s News Talk Show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8RQFAOfRcY
Ken O’Keefe Unveils The Truth About Adolf Hitler
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j7ohfRBfB4
Jeff Rense and Gerald Celente – Mad As Hell !
The beginning of some anti-Trump actions lining up.
James mentions:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpV1xV2mKhw
MARCH 15TH: ROTHSCHILD, DEBT CEILING & DEMISE OF THE DOLLAR
Deanna is an expert on Germany real history, but here she discusses US history. A few of her statements seem questionable, but it’s still very interesting, especially being able to listen at 1.5x speed.
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15:00 Civil war: “It was not a war to free the slaves.”
18:00 Andrew Jackson was not a hero. He did not “kill the bank.”
33:30 The Fed is audited every year??? “It isn’t owned by private owners.” ???
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02 22 2017 Deanna Spingola
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wt47jtHrBMw
Russia to be Debt Free by Year’s End, 1509
“The only way they can obtain world power is to get rid of us.”
– Eustace Mullins
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFoLluYAQrE
NOT for the immature! Zionist Antichrist will rule the NWO
Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, Lawmakers Call For Reinstatement of Glass-Steagall
February 1, 2017
Press Release
Washington, DC—Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) joined 26 Members of Congress in introducing the Return to Prudent Banking Act today. The bipartisan legislation, endorsed by Public Citizen and the AFL-CIO, would reinstate important consumer protections put in place after the Great Depression and require separation between commercial and investment banking.
“From the Great Depression through the turn of the 21st Century, Glass-Steagall helped keep our economy safe. Repealing it allowed too-big-to-fail banks to gamble with the savings and livelihoods of the American people, with devastating, irrevocable consequences. Hawaiʻi, along with communities across the country, paid the price in 2008 with the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Today, the banks that were “too big to fail” in 2008 are even bigger and more powerful now. We must reinstate Glass-Steagall and create a financial system that works for every American—not just Wall Street banks,” said Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02).
“The 2008 crash nearly took down our entire economy and led to the great recession which wiped out average Americans’ income. But now, Democrats and Republicans have memorialized support for Glass-Steagall in their respective political platforms. Even President Trump has declared his support for a new Glass-Steagall law,” said Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur (OH-09). “That is why we are here, to build on the momentum and the movement to reinstate Glass-Stegall.”
“Wall Street banks should not be allowed to use taxpayer-insured consumer deposits to gamble in the markets and then get taxpayer bailouts for failed decisions,” said Congressman Walter B. Jones (NC-03). “It’s time to put American taxpayers and depositors first. It’s time to pass the Return to Prudent Banking Act and reinstate Glass-Steagall.”
Entire Article
Well-kept secret for sure. I remember proudly saying “The Pledge of Allegiance” in grade school, every day — pledging support to a country that destroys countries to bring about the New World Order. Yikes!
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A well-kept open secret: Washington is behind India’s brutal experiment of abolishing most cash
From: Natural News
Cost of U.S. healthcare now 800% higher per person than it was in 1960, even when adjusted for inflation
Tuesday, August 23, 2016 by: J. D. Heyes
One of the most massive political scandals ever perpetuated on the American people was President Barack Obama’s healthcare “reform” law – one of the most onerous, under-performing and destructive pieces of legislation ever to be codified in U.S. statutes.
One of the biggest lies of all is that the 2,700 page plus behemoth was supposed to lower healthcare costs – for patients and hospitals, as well as for insurers. Out-of-pocket costs and premiums were also supposed to fall dramatically, as Obama promised repeatedly during his first campaign for the White House.
But that was then. Today, not only are premiums literally skyrocketing just a few years after the law has fully taken effect, but out-of-pocket expenses, mostly for ever growing insurance plan deductibles, have also grown exponentially.
Consider that in the U.S. today, a single trip to the emergency room – depending on the severity of your illness or injury – could easily top $30,000, $40,000, 50,000 or even more. If your plan has a high deductible, or if you simply cannot afford coverage regardless of Obamacare’s mandate that you have coverage, just one such visit could bankrupt you or doom you and your family to a lifetime of crippling economic despair – all while our president and the Democrats who helped him pass the law receive better plans, VIP treatment and government subsidies to pay for their own coverage.
A ‘reform’ law that has only made things harder and more expensive for Americans
The Obamacare law – not “greedy” insurance companies or Republicans – is responsible for this calamity.
In fact, according to one recent analysis, compared to 1960, Americans today are suffering through an 800 percent increase in premiums, deductibles, out-of-pocket expenses and overall care. As documented by Global Research, a Canada-based think tank, in that year healthcare as a percentage of total gross domestic product (GDP) was just 5.1 percent. That figure had grown to 15 percent by 2002, but had risen further still to 17.9 percent by 2011. Estimates put it at 20 percent of GDP by 2020.
Further, the think tank noted, between 1960 and 2009, the average annual increase of healthcare spending rose from $147 per person to $8,086, or a 55-fold increase. If adjusted to 2010 dollars, the annual increase rose from $1,082 to $8,218.
In 1980, a normal hospital room in the U.S. cost $127; today, prices are many times higher.
The figures get worse from there. As noted by The Economic Collapse Blog:
— This year alone, Americans will spend nearly $2.8 trillion on healthcare. By 2019, it is estimated that Americans will spend $4.5 trillion on such care.
The classified cable from the Public Library of US Diplomacy published by WikiLeaks exposes Rothschild Bank “advising” a “secret and corrupt” billion dollar transaction in order to create a “massive money laundering scheme” in Senegal and crash the struggling nation’s economy.
The secretive Rothchilds are rarely in the news and never publicly rebuked by governments, however the classified cable discovered by Your News Wire reveals that a US diplomatic official clearly referred to the actions of Rothschild Bank as “corrupt” and the transaction as “indefensible.”
From: Katherine Albrecht
— Thu, July 21, 2016 —
Mark of the Beast // Credit Cards // RFID // GMO’s Genetically Modified Food //
Katherine spends the first half of the hour discussing microchipped credit cards.
Judith McGeary joins Katherine in the second hald of the program to discuss the new GMO labeling bill. Congress just passed a bill requiring GMO labeling, but it’s not as straightforward as you might think!
Judith encourages listeners to call the Whitehouse and urge President Obama to veto senate bill 764. The Whitehouse comment line is: 202-456-1111.
Farm and Ranch Freedom Alliance
From: presscore.ca
Clintons and Federal Reserve stole Fort Knox gold
In October of 2009 China received a shipment of gold bars from the United States Department of the Treasury Bullion Depository in Fort Knox. The gold is regularly exchanged between countries to pay debts and to settle the balance of trade. Most gold is exchanged and stored in vaults under the supervision of a special organization based in London, the London Bullion Market Association (or LBMA). When the shipment was received, the Chinese government ordered special tests be performed to guarantee the purity and weight of the gold bars as China is the largest foreign holder of US Treasury securities. Chinese officials were shocked to learn that the bars were fake. The gold shipment contained a tungsten core with a thin coating of real gold. These tested gold bars originated in the US and had been stored in Fort Knox for years.
The Chinese government quickly launched an investigation and issued a statement that implicated the US government in the scheme. The gold shipment serial numbers revealed that these fake bars were made by the Federal Reserve bankers during the Clinton administration. It was during the Bill and Hillary Clinton presidency that the bankers of the Federal Reserve manufactured between 1.3 and 1.5 million 400 oz tungsten blanks. 640,000 of these tungsten blanks were gold plated and were shipped to Ft. Knox where they remain there to this day.
According to Chinese investigators, the balance of this 1.3 million to 1.5 million 400 oz tungsten cache was also gold plated and then “sold” into the international gold market. Not only has the United States gold stocks been swapped with fake gold the global market has also been been defrauded by the Federal Reserve bankers and the Clintons. As much as $600 billion dollars worth of gold has been affected by the Clinton Gold Heist.
E. Michael Jones’ quotes transcribed by Jeff Fenske:
“The Jewish people are an organized entity whose constitution is the Talmud, which is anti-logos. It is a way of keeping Jewish people from the truth and keeping Jewish people from Christ.”
“The Jewish leaders keep the Jewish people captive in order to push their agenda.”
“The legitimatization of usury began not with Luther but with Calvin … has led to the situation we’re in today.” [from part 2]
“It was Jewish predatory behavior. You had Jews involved. You had demi-Jews, who were known as Calvinists, and they held the moral law in contempt.” | “…Jewish predatory, economic behavior.” | “What is the message of Amsterdam? Exploit your fellow man to the fullest extent possible. And that’s the legacy of Calvinism and these Judaizers left with Holland.” | “If the Jew lends you money you become the slave of the Jew. The classic instance of this was Winston Churchill. His family was deeply involved, and he became a representative of Jewish interests because they forgave his debts.” [from part 3]
“Psychoanalysis is form of sexual liberation as political control.” | “Deviance is redefined: … What used to be a sin is now a virtue.” | “Freud became the vehicle for cultural subversion.” | “The Frankfurt school, at its base, developed the ideology that you have to reject your family. By rejecting your family you would be less likely to be anti-Jewish.” (Kevin MacDonald) | “White Americans should simply accept their coming minority status. And there is something wrong with you if you think otherwise. … Fundamentally, it’s about white guilt.” (Kevin MacDonald) [from part 4]
“The essence of Jewish identity is rebellion against logos. The Jews, for the most part, rejected Jesus Christ…. That’s why it’s important to break through basically the Jewish control of our minds that took place when we all went to college and we studied people like Sigmund Freud, to break through that to the logos.” [from part 5]
“Lenin staffed it [the secret police] with Jews, because he knew they’d be merciless.” | “If you think that the Russian revolution was a unique phenomenon in all of history then you can’t see any connection between that and neoconservatism. And so you’re totally befuddled to the contemporary manifestations of the same spirit. The link has to be the Jews. [from part 6]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNWPYQjXSYA
World Affairs Brief, April 22, 2016 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
Copyright Joel Skousen. Partial quotations with attribution permitted. Cite source as Joel Skousen’s World Affairs Brief (http://www.worldaffairsbrief.com).
This Week’s Analysis:
The Saudi Connection to the 9/11 Hijackers
Trump Wins Big in New York
Transgender Bathroom Idiocy
Battle of the Brexit
Silver and Gold Market Manipulation
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SILVER AND GOLD MARKET MANIPULATION
Robert Kirby puts it bluntly: Silver and Gold used to be the best hedge against fiat money—that’s why they have been targeted (for manipulation). Demand for precious metals has been going up, but price has gone down—which is opposite to the laws of supply and demand. Deutsche Bank has finally admitted it participated in the rigging of price for gold and silver. While it will pay a fine that doesn’t even come close to its gains, it has agreed to name other conspirators. Strangely, no American banks are being fingered, though we know they are also involved with using naked shorts to depress the price of gold and silver. Zerohedge writes,
Earlier today when we reported the stunning news that DB has decided to “turn” against the precious metals manipulation cartel by first settling a long-running silver price fixing lawsuit which in addition to “valuable monetary consideration” said it would expose the other banks’ rigging having also “agreed to provide cooperation to plaintiffs, including the production of instant messages, and other electronic communications, as part of the settlement”…. a group of silver bullion banks including Deutsche Bank, Bank of Nova Scotia and HSBC (later UBS was also added to the defendants) were accused of manipulating prices in the multi-billion dollar market.
The lawsuit, which was originally filed in a New York district court… alleged that the banks, which oversee the century-old silver fix, manipulated the physical and COMEX futures market since January 2007. The lawsuit subsequently received class-action status. It was the first case to target the silver fix.
This is part of the reason why silver has risen from $11/oz to over $17/oz recently. At its high before the manipulation began silver was over $30/oz. so it still has a ways to go before it reaches its true market value.