I just wanted to thank you all – those words really don’t begin to cover it – for your comment sna dsupport over the years. I hope, really hope that I can get back to writing a little more often.

One of the major problems I have about writing at the moment is that on the surface of official financial policy everything looks stalled or fixed depending on your point of view. Yet at the same time, beneath the surface and seemingly away from finance, almost everything is in flux. Which means unlike a few years ago, it is no longer about a critique of what our governments are ‘doing’ (which is largely just doing over what has already not worked) but trying to suggest what crucial but disguised or ignored things they are actually doing just out of view. The problem is that it can start to seem like dreaded conspiracy theorizing.

And sometimes I have to admit I feel lmost transfixed by what I see as the sheer immensity of arrogance and wilful blindness being unfolded around us.

Note that transactions denominated in dollars places the USA on the inside, in a legal sense, as France and BN Paribas found out in their dealings with Iran. That also allows the imposition of some aspects of US Law, and makes it difficult for anyone conducting business to make a transaction that is hidden from US eyes or their cyber equivalent.

hope you had a great time on holiday.

Things here have moved on.
What do you think of this defence spend ramp up, is to try to stimulate the economy now that it is obvious that QE doesn’t work like they wanted it to ?

Is there any official statement as to what QE actually does

I can understand the logic behind competitive militarisation as stimulus but wouldn’t a cooporative technological challenge on a global scale provide just as much bang for the buck.

Do you think such an approach might work ?

I look forward to when you get back

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-08-29/next-u-s-bank-bailout-could-come-after-a-cyber-terror-attack.html

So when the system is about to implode because it’s riddled with repayable private debts you cry ‘terrorist’ and deflect the blame. Genius.

They want everything we have.

http://www.conflictsforum.org/2014/conflicts-forums-weekly-comment-23-30-may-2/

Something big happened and nobody told us…………….REAL BIG.

http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/terms-of-trade

Meanwhile look at France
A mirror image ?

Something to do with people (Masons) getting wind of currency change me thinks.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/france/terms-of-trade

Here’s a website I chanced on which gives the POV of the rebels who are waging a partisan war. There is probably a propaganda agenda here but it doesn’t read like that to me, but perhaps I’m biased – It has a horrific realism to it :

http://cassad-eng.livejournal.com/2014/07/31/