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7/19/2012 10:23:50 PM

Battles in Damascus, rebels claim Syria borders


Members of the Free Syrian Army chant slogans against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Azzaz, Aleppo province July 17, 2012. Picture taken July 17, 2012. REUTERS/Abdo (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST MILITARY )


AMMAN/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Rebels battled deep into Damascus and seized control of parts of Syria's borders on Thursday, pressing on with their advance after the assassination of Bashar al-Assad's top security officials brought their 16-month uprising to a head.

Government forces unleashed helicopter gunships and artillery against their own capital. Damascus residents told of buildings in flames and corpses in the streets.

Diplomatic efforts - clearly overtaken by events on the ground - collapsed in disarray when Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution that would have imposed sanctions on Syrian authorities unless they stop using heavy weapons. Washington said the Council had "failed utterly".

The next few days will be critical in determining whether Assad's government can recover from the blow of Wednesday's bombing, which wiped out much of Assad's command structure and wrecked his inner circle's aura of invulnerability.

The attack on a crisis meeting inside a security headquarters killed Assad's powerful brother-in-law, his defence minister and a top general. The head of intelligence and the interior minister were wounded and their condition is not clear.

Assad's own failure to appear in public for more than 24 hours - he was finally shown on television on Thursday afternoon swearing in a replacement for his slain defence minister - added to the sense of his power evaporating.

Rebels claimed control of the main border crossing with Iraq on the Baghdad-Damascus highway at Abu Kamal - one of the most important trade routes in the Middle East - and at least two crossings with Turkey, at Jarablus and Bab al-Hawa.

Lorries were queued up at Bab al-Hawa, a major commercial crossing, shut while battles raged nearby. Footage which rebels said was filmed at the checkpoint showed them climbing onto rooftops and tearing up a poster of Assad.

"The crossing is under our control. They withdrew their armored vehicles," said a rebel fighter who would only be identified as Ali, being treated for wounds on the Turkish side.

Damascus residents said a heavy onslaught of security force shelling and firing from helicopters went on through the night and continued on Thursday. Some reported explosions in the capital's troubled northeastern and southern districts.

A woman who visited the neighborhood of Tadamon, the scene of heavy fighting, said a police station was destroyed.

"I saw five charred bodies strewn across the street," she told Reuters by telephone. "Seven police cars were torched ... some mosques in Damascus are calling on loudspeakers which shelters are available for people who have fled."

A witness said rebels attacked the main police headquarters in Damascus. "Gunfire has been intense for the past hour. It is now dying down but the streets around the police command remain empty," said a resident of Qanawat, an old central district where the Damascus Province police headquarters is located.

Other parts of the city were paralyzed. Homes and shops were shuttered as Damascenes feared violence. Officials in neighboring Lebanon said refugees were pouring across the frontier: a security source said 20,000 Syrians had crossed.

"Everyone is looking now at how well Assad can maintain the command structure. The killings yesterday were a huge blow, but not fatal," said a Western diplomat following Syria.

UTTER FAILURE

International diplomacy has been ineffective throughout the crisis, with Western countries condemning Assad but lacking the stomach for the sort of robust intervention that saw NATO bombers help blast Libya's Muammar Gaddafi from power last year.

Thursday's failed U.N. Security Council resolution, which would have extended a small, unarmed U.N. monitoring mission, was the third that has been vetoed by Russia and China.

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, said the Security Council had "failed utterly", and Washington would look outside the body for ways "to bring pressure to bear on the Assad regime and to deliver assistance to those in need".

To replace the vetoed text, Britain proposed a four-paragraph resolution that would do nothing but extend the expiring mandate of the mission for another 30 days. Russia said it would consider it.

Areas of Damascus without fighting were largely deserted. Residents said the roads to many southern districts where fighting was heaviest were closed or peppered with checkpoints.

Syrian TV flashed a warning on its screen, telling residents gunmen disguised in Republican Guard uniforms were spreading through Damascus "planning to commit crimes and attack people".

Activists said real Republican Guard forces were in the Midan district. "We tapped into their walkie-talkies ... we are afraid of a massacre," activist Samir al-Shami said.

"Everyone in the neighborhood is arming themselves. Some with machineguns, some with shotguns. Some even just with knives," one resident near Midan said.

"I can't even tell you what is going on outside because I've shuttered the windows and locked the doors. I just hear every now and then the gunfire, it's like it's in the room," said another resident near Midan reached by telephone.

People fleeing violent areas began searching for safe havens, some even taking refuge in the marble courtyards of the ancient Umayyad Mosque in Damascus's historic Old City.

"LIBERATION" PLAN

The bombing on Wednesday seemed part of a coordinated assault on the capital that has escalated since the start of the week. Rebels call it the "liberation of Damascus", the climax of an uprising in which activists say 17,000 people have been killed.

A security source said the bomber who struck inside the security headquarters was a bodyguard for Assad's inner circle. Anti-Assad groups claimed responsibility.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned the Damascus blast and expressed grave concern over the use of heavy weapons.

"Time is of the essence," he said. "The Syrian people have suffered for too long. The bloodshed must end now."

Elsewhere in the country rebels said they had "liberated" the town of Azaz in northern Aleppo province, bordering Turkey. Activists released video of the town of Talbiseh, in central Homs province, being sprayed with gunfire from helicopters.

Fighting also erupted near the Syrian-Israeli frontier. Israel promptly responded saying it would not accept refugees.

"In the event of the regime's downfall, which could happen... (Israeli forces) here are alert and ready, and if we have to stop waves of refugees, we will stop them," Defence Minister Ehud Barak said.

(Additional reporting by Oliver Holmes, Samia Nakhoul and Dominic Evans in Beirut, Suleiman Al-Khalidi in Cilvegozu, Turkey; Writing by Peter Graff; Editing by Myra MacDonald)

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7/20/2012 12:22:16 AM

U.S. In Worst Drought Since 1956
















The United States is in its worst drought since 1956, according to a
report by the National Climatic Data Center. A full third of the country was suffering from severe to extreme short-term drought, up from 23 percent in May. Overall, 56 percent of the country is in drought conditions, including much of the Plains and Midwest.

The drought could have far-reaching implications, from crop death to increase wildfire risk to the disruption of shipping on the Mississippi River.

“We’ve never seen a drought like this and we have to make sure we do something about it,” said Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn. The Democrat called on Congress to pass the farm bill, which provides for insurance programs to aid hard-hit farmers.

38 percent of corn planted is reported as in poor or very poor conditions, leading to rising prices for corn. The price of corn has jumped 34 percent in the last month, and it’s expected they will go higher.

The drought comes against a backdrop of global warming. While no weather event can be directly tied to global climate change, climate scientists have predicted that global warming will make droughts more likely worldwide. The United States is expected to be one of the regions hardest-hit by increasing droughts.

Last month was the fourth-warmest June on record, with temperatures 1.13° F above average. Only Australia, Northwestern Europe, and the Northwestern United States were cooler than normal.

The 2012 drought is already causing disruption. More concerning, however, is what the future holds. This year’s drought is the worst in 56 years. Few people expect that it will be 2068 before we see another one this bad.

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7/20/2012 10:52:32 AM

Protests won't stop in Spain
Massive protests in Spain against austerity cuts

Demonstrators protest against austerity measures announced by the Spanish government in Barcelona, Spain, Thursday, July 19, 2012. The country is in its second recession in three years and its government borrowing rates are unsustainably high as investors worry the government may face new costs in rescuing the banks. If the government's borrowing rates do not fall back down, it may eventually need a sovereign bailout like those taken by Greece, Ireland and Portugal. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

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MADRID (AP) — Tens of thousands of angry Spaniards protested in 80 cities throughout Spain on Thursday against the government's latest austerity package, blaming officials for "ruining" the country.

Protesters flooded Madrid's main Puerta del Sol square and the streets in front of parliament late into the night. Large deployments of riot police manned barricades in front of the legislature, fearing rising tensions could lead to violence.

Large crowds also gathered in Barcelona and Bilbao, while leading Spanish newspaper El Pais estimated on its website that more than 100,000 had attended the rally in the capital.

Marchers in Madrid carried Spanish flags bearing black bows for mourning and banners saying, "No to the cuts" and "You have ruined us."

The country is in its second recession in three years and its government borrowing rates are unsustainably high as investors worry the government may face new costs in rescuing the banks. If the government's borrowing rates do not fall back down, it may eventually need a sovereign bailout like those taken by Greece, Ireland and Portugal.

Isabel Urbelz, a 54-year-old civil servant, said she was angry with the government because it had cut her Christmas bonus.

"I am indignant, I'm angry. Why can't they cut elsewhere?" she said.

Concerns over Spain's attempts to restore market confidence in its economy resurfaced after a bond auction went poorly and its borrowing costs edged higher — even as the country's parliament passed the latest round of harsh austerity measures designed to cut its bloated deficit.

The ruling conservative Popular Party used its majority in Parliament to push through the measures, which include a rise in sales taxes and a wage cut for civil servants.

The government also published details of the €100 billion ($122.9 billion) financial assistance agreement between Spain and the Eurogroup aimed at shoring up the country's struggling banks.

The Economy Ministry statement said the precise bailout amount "will be known once a bank to bank scan is complete," and that the loan mechanism will be available until Dec. 31, 2013. It also said the interest rate will be variable.

The vote in parliament followed an auction of medium-term Spanish bonds, where the government had to pay substantially higher interest rates to unload €2.96 billion ($3.62 billion) in bonds maturing in 2014, 2017 and 2019. Its target range was €2 billion to €3 billion. Demand was roughly two times the amount on offer for each issue. But that was down from earlier auctions.

And the interest rate on the five-year debt rose sharply to 6.46 percent, from 5.54 percent at the last such auction on July 5. The Treasury provided no comparable rates for the other maturities.

In the secondary bond market, where issued debt is traded openly, the interest rate, or yield, on benchmark Spanish 10-year bonds — a measure of investor worries about the security of a country's debt — was at 6.95 percent Thursday, up 0.05 percentage points on the day.

The Spanish government, led by Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, introduced the latest round of spending cuts and tax increases to shave €65 billion off the government's budgets by 2015. Some specific measures were left to be addressed later, such as speeding up the phasing in of an increase in the retirement age from 65 to 67.

The austerity package was unveiled by Rajoy last week after finance ministers from the other 16 countries that use the euro agreed the basic terms of a bailout of up to €100 billion to strengthen Spain's banking sector and gave the government an extra year to reach deficit-reduction targets.

The eurozone finance ministers are scheduled to hold a conference Friday to give final approval for the bank bailout package.

Treasury Minister Cristobal Montoro pulled no punches as he launched the debate in the morning. A day after saying "there is no money" to pay civil servant wages because recession and a jobless rate of nearly 25 percent are sapping tax revenue, he said Thursday that Spain simply cannot go deeper into debt.

"It is time to call a spade a spade," he told lawmakers from the podium. "Financing public services with more deficit and more debt will doom us."

Socialist opposition leader Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba accused the government of acting as a puppet to Brussels with so much belt-tightening at a time when so many people in Spain are out of work.

"Catch a plane to Brussels and tell them these cuts are a barbarity," Perez Rubalcaba said.

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AP correspondent Daniel Woolls in Madrid contributed to this story.


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7/20/2012 11:01:35 AM
In this and the next posts I will be presenting messages dealing with such controversial sunjects as mass arrests vs containment and even Ascension. The first one below (by Kauilapele) is 5 days old but pretty interesting at that.

Montague Keen 7-15-12…”You are now entering the final stages of the removal of all that is dark in your world”… “I assure you that things are moving forward”

As you can hopefully see in the bolded italicized highlight below, that is a prime point that I got from this. And the titled piece, “I assure you that things are moving forward”. That’s another one.

This whole scenario that is coming through is not going to come through in an “Instant De-crapification where All Dark Ones are Taken Out at Once with Rockets and Guns Blazing and then Millions of Galactic Ships Reveal Themselves All Over the Planet” kind of way, in my view. There are steps to all of this, and I’m quite sure “Humanity in General” has been continually “tested” to see what the reactions would be, if indeed the “Instant De-crapification where All Dark Ones are Taken Out at Once with Rockets and Guns Blazing and then Millions of Galactic Ships Reveal Themselves All Over the Planet” scenario were carried out.

And as much as I feel that many are just doing what they feel is theirs to do (and there may indeed be other reasons for it), the “get your guns out and arrest people” just is not my own personal scenario. Does the “protect my gun rights for God’s sake because the government and Obama want to take ‘em all” idea have anything to do with my personal mission here? No.

“The corrupt are floundering as time is running out for them. They will be given an opportunity to redeem themselves, to change their ways. Some will accept, others will refuse, and will be removed from the Earth. Revenge is NOT what we are about. It is is a product of the Cabal. It is third-dimensional thinking. You need to rise above all that is third-dimensional. Please do not waste your valuable time and energy demanding arrests. You are encouraged to do this to keep you in the third-emotional state of mind. It is time to move forward to your new beginning, a totally new way of living life on planet Earth that will bring joy to all who dwell on it.”

Highlights

  • You are now entering the final stages of the removal of all that is dark in your world.
  • The people should come together and agree what needs to be accepted.
  • You are entering a period of recovery where you are expected to take personal responsibility for your actions when you no longer act like sheep.
  • Forgive the insecure who pop up all the time. They see threat or offence where none was ever intended. You each have your own path to follow and you will be guided on it.
  • The corrupt are floundering as time is running out for them. They will be given an opportunity to redeem themselves… Some will accept, others will refuse…
  • Revenge is NOT what we are about. It is is a product of the Cabal.
  • Please do not waste your valuable time and energy demanding arrests.You are encouraged to do this to keep you in the third-emotional state of mind.
  • It is time to move forward to your new beginning, a totally new way of living life on planet Earth that will bring joy to all who dwell on it.
  • There are many good and honest people who are stepping forward to share their truth and experiences with you in an effort to bring all the good people of the Earth together… This is what you came on Earth to do.
  • Every assistance will be made available to you to restore your planet and humanity.
  • I assure you that things are moving forward. The Cabal will never admit it. They want to keep you in the dark and under their control until the last possible moment.
  • …the 99%… will come together in harmony to move forward into a future that can only be dreamed of at this moment in time.
  • You have a wonderful future ahead of you. Forgive those of a lower vibration who have created havoc in your lives… “Make love, not war” should be our motto!

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Montague’s Message for Sunday, 15th July 2012

You are now entering the final stages of the removal of all that is dark in your world. Many more of you are emerging from the programmed control state. You are removing the block that was placed on humanity. You are, at last, enjoying the freedom that was denied you. Darling, shortly after my passing, I told you mankind had been interfered with. You understand fully now and are able to assist others with information regarding the realignment of the Atlas, enabling people to become the beings that they were designed to be. The Dark Cabal will put every obstacle in your way to prevent the awakening of mankind. They never wanted this information to become public knowledge. It is important to wake up to the degree of control exercised over you. Your news is controlled worldwide. They are all singing from the same hymn sheet. Newspapers just alter the news slightly to pretend it is authentic. This is done to manipulate and control your minds so that you are at all times ready and willing to believe whatever they tell you and you are ready to obey their orders. You are told it is the “law” or a “statute” that you must obey. Just who decided this in the first place?

The people should come together and agree what needs to be accepted. There are “laws” being created every day that you are totally unaware of, until, of course, “you break the law”. Governments should be elected by the people for the people, not for the benefit of the banksters alone. You live in a world of plenty, but it is not being shared by all. Stop allowing yourselves to be manipulated. Refuse to see the divisions that were created to enable conflict to be manipulated. You are entering a period of recovery where you are expected to take personal responsibility for your actions when you no longer act like sheep. Be able to face yourself in the mirror and be proud that your actions harmed no man; that you dealt honestly and honourably with all who crossed your path. Forgive the insecure who pop up all the time. They see threat or offence where none was ever intended. You each have your own path to follow and you will be guided on it.

The corrupt are floundering as time is running out for them. They will be given an opportunity to redeem themselves, to change their ways. Some will accept, others will refuse, and will be removed from the Earth. Revenge is NOT what we are about. It is is a product of the Cabal. It is third-dimensional thinking. You need to rise above all that is third-dimensional. Please do not waste your valuable time and energy demanding arrests. You are encouraged to do this to keep you in the third-emotional state of mind. It is time to move forward to your new beginning, a totally new way of living life on planet Earth that will bring joy to all who dwell on it.

There are many good and honest people who are stepping forward to share their truth and experiences with you in an effort to bring all the good people of the Earth together. This has not happened for thousands of years. This is what you came on Earth to do. We can see it all coming together nicely. Race or creed must not be a barrier. The human race must come together as one. Those amongst you who are not human should return from whence they came. Their deliberate destruction of your planet and humanity will take a little while to repair. Every assistance will be made available to you to restore your planet and humanity. As the Cabal made its plans to destroy humanity, we too, made our plans to restore life on Earth to the quality once enjoyed in ancient times when life was lived to the full. Love prevailed and freedom was enjoyed by all.

I assure you that things are moving forward. The Cabal will never admit it. They want to keep you in the dark and under their control until the last possible moment. Some of them are endeavouring to move away from the dark. They are beginning to see how evil their plans are and they want to be rescued. Many of them are so evil that they cast a shadow of darkness wherever they go. They can no longer hide their evil intent. It becomes more evident every day, and they are having difficulty holding their shape as more of you become aware and alert.

Mankind has had so much to deal with. His body was altered, his history manipulated and changed out of all recognition. He has been in a wilderness of confusion for 2000 years, but HE HAS SURVIVED ALL THAT WAS DONE TO HIM AND HE IS THE STRONGER FOR IT. HIS NEWLY ACQUIRED KNOWLEDGE HAS MADE HIM FEARLESS. Such is the 99% that will come together in harmony to move forward into a future that can only be dreamed of at this moment in time.

We have come a long way since I passed to Spirit in 2004. We in Spirit, see the full extent of the great awakening. It is indeed a joy to behold. Our grateful thanks go to all who have assisted as every effort is important in the great scheme of things. It has been a great team effort. Together we can move mountains; and we will . . . nothing can stop us now.

I would like to extend my grateful thanks to all who donated to The Montague Keen Foundation. Veronica has carried the cost for eight years. Now, more is expected of her. She needs to travel to take part in various events and to visit other organisations, etc. It is important that the message gets out and is available to all. It will take a load off her mind in these difficult but exciting times.

Look to the future. You have a wonderful future ahead of you. Forgive those of a lower vibration who have created havoc in your lives. They are to be pitied as they have never experienced the joy of love or the wonderful sense of belonging that love, alone, brings to your life. “Make love, not war” should be our motto!

Onward and upward we go, my love, on the most exciting journey in the history of the universe.

Forever your adoring husband, Monty.

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7/20/2012 11:03:46 AM

Benjamin Fulford 7-17-12…”It is time to look at the big picture again”… “The money making machine at the Federal Reserve Board has been closed down so collapse is inevitable”

The only thing I will add here, is that I have always felt, in many ways, that I was a Global citizen, even though my birthing and residence was in the United States. Ben makes this point at the end, “The big blockage remains on Asians and other countries being allowed to spend their money in Europe and the US without impediment. If that becomes possible, Europeans and Americans will be hired in large quantities to engage is a massive campaign to end poverty, stop environmental destruction and start a new age.” And to me, this means allowing all to work together AS a Global Community is where we would do well to go. This will undoubtedly be touted by a few as meaning, “China wants to buy out the US”, and presented as a fear-based interpretation.

But I would say to those who stand and say that “Only my country is the best”, and so on, are missing the point of Global Community. That is who we are.

Highlights

  • When historical events are taking place, the daily rush of news event can fog the vision. We have entered such a time of fog now
  • The vast majority of the world’s money is now controlled by non-Westerners who have a very different agenda from that of the people who have been ruling the West and most of the world since at least 300 years ago.
  • Right now in the West, the regime change against bankster controlled criminal government has started with Iceland but it will end with the United States and the Vatican.
  • What happened to make the fall of the Soviet Union inevitable… was the theft of the Soviet Union’s foreign exchange reserves that made the collapse a matter of time…. What we are seeing in the West is the same.
  • The money making machine at the Federal Reserve Board has been closed down so collapse is inevitable.
  • For the past 30 years the United States and Europe (as a whole) have been running a trade deficit with the rest of the world.
  • What is now happening is that the creditor nations have stopped issuing new credit… That is why there is now a 147 nation alliance, led by Brazil, Russia, India, China and Africa that is telling the Western nations they will not buy their bonds or other “financial products.”
  • …time is on the side of the 147 nation alliance. The big problem for the West is that the Western nations have “out-sourced” most of their industrial infrastructure.
  • …the money being earned at Chinese or ASEAN export factories is not being spent on Western IOUs… [but] on “real” things like real-estate, commodities and factories.
  • What this means is that both the EU as a whole and the United States are bankrupt but are refusing to admit it.
  • …Chinese are perceived by the rest of the world as arriving with bags of money and business plans while Western nations arrive with guns and plans for mayhem. Guess who is losing and who is making friends…?
  • The big blockage remains on Asians and other countries being allowed to spend their money in Europe and the US without impediment.
  • If that becomes possible, Europeans and Americans will be hired in large quantities to engage is a massive campaign to end poverty, stop environmental destruction and start a new age.

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It is time to look at the big picture again
Benjamin Fulford, July 17, 2012

When historical events are taking place, the daily rush of news event can fog the vision. We have entered such a time of fog now, so it is a good time to stand back and look at the big picture. The European “crisis,” the US “fiscal cliff,” and the ongoing war-mongering by the NATO terrorist states in the Middle East are all part of a fundamental and unstoppable shift in the way this planet is ruled. No amount of propaganda in the Western corporate media and no amount of number inputting in central bank “black screens,” is going to change that reality. The vast majority of the world’s money is now controlled by non-Westerners who have a very different agenda from that of the people who have been ruling the West and most of the world since at least 300 years ago.

The best analogy for what is happening to the West is the fall of the Soviet Union. It started with a ship-yard strike in Gdansk Poland and ended with the fall of the Soviet Union in what in retrospect seems like no time whatsoever. At the time, though the several years in between those two event seemed to last an eternity.

Right now in the West, the regime change against bankster controlled criminal government has started with Iceland but it will end with the United States and the Vatican.

It is something like a Titanic hits the iceberg type of moment where technicians and the ship’s top crew know the vessel is doomed even if they cannot say exactly how long people have to get onto the lifeboats.


What happened to make the fall of the Soviet Union inevitable was not, as we are told, the economic failure of the Soviet model. Instead, it turns out it was the theft of the Soviet Union’s foreign exchange reserves that made the collapse a matter of time.

What we are seeing in the West is the same. The money making machine at the Federal Reserve Board has been closed down so collapse is inevitable.

Think of it as following: a high flying Wall Street Trader has been fired. He has enough money from his “golden handshake” and savings to keep on going as if nothing has happened. However, you notice that he has begun to sell off his sports cars and art collection.

He has also been borrowing money from banks but he is now fully mortgaged out so he has had to borrow from friends. That has also hit bottom so he has begun hitting non-bank financial companies and loan sharks for money. He has also been writing checks that he knows will bounce (think of the 19 announcements that the “euro crisis” has been solved).

If you are watching all this from the sidelines, you will know that it is not long before the Wall Street high flier will be moving out of his fancy digs.

The situation in the Western world is very much like what has been described above. For the past 30 years the United States and Europe (as a whole) have been running a trade deficit with the rest of the world.

The financial leaders in the West have been secretly financing this deficit by making promises they could not keep. That is why, for example, a $300,000 bond backed by a lifetime of labor is issued every time an American citizen is born. That is why the Chinese have been secretly issued liens on much of US real estate as well.

These maneuvers have bought time and created the appearance that all is well, especially in the US. However, just like Wall Street junkie above, you can deny reality for a certain time but it always catches up with you.

This is the case with the West.

What is now happening is that the creditor nations have stopped issuing new credit.

That is why there is now a 147 nation alliance, led by Brazil, Russia, India, China and Africa that is telling the Western nations they will not buy their bonds or other “financial products.”

The Western nations, however, have prevented the creditor nations of the world from investing their earnings in trade with the West in buying real things, like multi-national corporations, in the West.

The result has been what appears to be a Mexican stand-off, with two people pointing guns at each other while sitting across from each other on a table.

However, in this case, time is on the side of the 147 nation alliance. The big problem for the West is that the Western nations have “out-sourced” most of their industrial infrastructure. These nations made the arrogant assumption that the rest of the world would make real stuff while the Western world gave them orders through the banks and other financial institutions.

Now they find though, the money being earned at Chinese or ASEAN export factories is not being spent on Western IOUs. The Chinese have been taking their dollars and spending them all over the world on “real” things like real-estate, commodities and factories. Other countries have begun to do the same.

What this means is that both the EU as a whole and the United States are bankrupt but are refusing to admit it.

In the case of the EU, the member countries have been announcing they will print “Euros” in order to get themselves out of their crisis. The problem, of course, is that the European central bank does not have the legal right to print Euros any more Euros [...the legal right to print any more Euros].

There is a similar situation with the US.

Many readers, at this point, will object and say that both the US Federal Reserve Board and the European Central Bank have announced massive money printing schemes. The question is then, “where did all this money go?” The answer is that it was blocked every time.

Who is doing the blocking? The answer is the 147 nations that are tired of NATO mass murder and invasion. They can tell the Bank for International Settlements, the BIS, to block the money and they do.

In the case of the United States, a slightly different situation exists. The US is in deeper debt to the rest of the world than the European Union. So far, the Chinese have been keeping them going because a US trade deficit with China is in China’s long term geopolitical interested. The more US dollars they get that they can spend in Asia, Africa or South America (but not Europe and the US) the more friends and influence they get around the world.

The result already has been that Chinese are perceived by the rest of the world as arriving with bags of money and business plans while Western nations arrive with guns and plans for mayhem. Guess who is losing and who is making friends in these circumstances (hint: not the Westerners).

The big blockage remains on Asians and other countries being allowed to spend their money in Europe and the US without impediment. If that becomes possible, Europeans and Americans will be hired in large quantities to engage is a massive campaign to end poverty, stop environmental destruction and start a new age.

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