OPEC verlaagt onder druk Saoedi-Arabië de oliewinning met 2 miljoen vaten: energie sancties van EU tegen Rusland komen terug als boemerang

Posted on October 6, 2022June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Hoorde vanmorgen om 5.33 u. (CET) op CBC Radio 1 Charlottetown dat de OPEC, onder druk van Saoedi-Arabië (S-A), ofwel onder druk van de psychopathische massamoordenaar Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), heeft besloten de olieproductie terug te brengen met 2 miljoen vaten per dag……

Foto ANP uit het artikel van BN DeStem >> ‘OPEC verlaagt productie‘ (waarin men spreekt over een verlaging van de olieproductie met 1,5 miljoen vaten per dag, terwijl dat toch echt 2 miljoen vaten zijn)

Om dat te voorkomen, ja zelfs om de oliewinning te verhogen, bezocht oorlogsmisdadiger en VS president Joe Biden MBS en dat geheel tegen zijn verkiezingsbelofte in dat hij Saoedi-Arabië en dan met name MBS tot paria van de wereld zou maken…… Nu blijkt dus dat het verraad van Biden aan zijn eigen belofte en onderdanig bezoek aan massamoordenaar MBS totaal zinloos is geweest!! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Nog lulliger voor Biden: Saoedi-Arabië zou de productievermindering hebben doorgedrukt in samenspraak met Rusland….. Een ‘deskundige journalist’ uit de VS durfde te stellen dat Rusland een energieoorlog voert tegen de EU…… Uiteraard zei ook deze plork niets over het feit dat de EU onder druk van de VS energie als wapen heeft ingezet tegen Rusland, dit door sancties in te voeren op leveringen van gas en olie uit Rusland……

Kortom de sancties van de EU en de VS komen als een boemerang terug op de neus van onder andere de Duitse hufter-minister van buitenlandse zaken Baerbock, tevens voorzitter van die Grünen, de ondemocratisch aangestelde kwaadaardigheid en voorzitter van de Europese Commissie von der Leyen en natuurlijk niet te vergeten ‘onze’ VVD premier Rutte, de aartsleugenaar die volkomen onwettelijk uit ons aller naam Rusland de oorlog verklaarde….. (wat bezielt deze enorme disfunctionerende grijnzende keutelaar??!!!)

De Duitse bondskanselier (premier) Olaf Scholz bezocht ook MBS en daarna de Golfstaten om daar gunstige contracten af te sluiten voor de levering van olie en gas aan zijn land en ook die bezoeken waren tevergeefs!!

Tja dat krijg je als je Rusland wilt straffen en daarom met staten in zee wilt gaan die een verleden en heden hebben waarin ze wat betreft geweld en mensenrechtenschendingen oneindig veel verder gaan dan Rusland….. Zo voeren S-A en een paar Golfstaten, met hulp van Egypte, Marokko, de VS, Groot-Brittannië en Frankrijk een genocide uit in Jemen…… Om nog maar te zwijgen over de steun van Saoedi-Arabië voor terreurgroepen als ISIS en Al Qaida, die in Syrië overigens nog steeds door de VS worden gesteund en beschermd…. (de VS vermoordt zelfs op verzoek leiders en onderbaasjes als die niet lekker liggen binnen deze groepen, waarmee de VS vervolgens naar buiten toe ‘goede sier maakt’ en net doet of het deze terreurgroepen te vuur en te zwaard bestrijdt…..)

De teller van het aantal vermoorden middels de genocide in Jemen stond begin vorig jaar al op 500.000 waaronder meer dan 100.000 kinderen….. Ofwel het aantal onder leiding van Saoedische soennitische terreurcoalitie vermoorde Jemenitische sjiieten moet nu al aanzienlijk hoger liggen, inclusief het aantal kinderen zoals je wel zal begrijpen…… Dit gaat al 8 jaar lang door en nooit is er ook maar één land geweest dat sancties eiste tegen de genoemde genocide plegende landen, vergelijk dat eens met hysterische ophef over de Russische inval in het fascistische Oekraïne….. (inclusief de leugens over ‘het grote aantal Russische oorlogsmisdaden….’)

De verontwaardiging over dat laatste, zelfs bij zogenaamde Nederlandse intellectuelen, gaat zover dat men de ramen wel wil dichtplakken met Oekraïense vlaggen, maar men eist geen sancties tegen de landen die een genocide uitvoeren in Jemen, laat staan dat ze ook maar één Houthi vlag op de ramen plakken of daarvoor hangen…. De Houthi’s proberen de sjiitische moslims in Jemen nog enigszins te beschermen al heeft dat niet al te veel succes…. Echter voor de inval van de Saoedische terreurcoalitie hadden de Houthi’s de soennitische terreurgroepen ISIS en Al Qaida al bijna het land uitgeschopt, de reden voor Saoedi-Arabië om in te grijpen……

Die terreurgroepen werden door de huidige president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Al-Hadi uitgenodigd in Jemen om de sjiitische inwoners om zeep te helpen….. Deze Al-Hadi heeft geen enkel mandaat, ofwel deze kwezel is een juntaleider die dient als marionet van Saoedi-Arabië (toch steunt het westen deze achterlijke rotschoft en dan tegelijkertijd Rusland demoniseren, wat een zooitje hypocrieten, gadver!!)……

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Zie ook: ‘De Russisch – Saoedische olie-oorlog was niet tegen elkaar gericht, maar tegen de VS productie van schaliegas en -olie‘

‘De grootste diefstal uit de geschiedenis van de mens: inflatie‘

‘COP26: gelekte documenten tonen aan dat de fossiele industrie landen en die van de intensieve veehouderij deze klimaattop willen frustreren‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht!!)

‘Venezuela >> regime change: ‘de 12 stappen methode’ die de VS gebruikt‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht!!)

‘Libië na de VS terreur: seksslaven, ISIS & illegale wapenhandel‘

‘Chavez waarschijnlijk vermoord……..‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht)

Voor meer berichten over de oliewinning, gaswinning, Jemen, genocide, Saoedi-Arabië, M. bin Salman, Joe Biden, ISIS, Al Qaida, Baerbock, Scholz, Rutte, of von der Leyen, klik op het desbetreffende label direct onder dit bericht.

De Russisch – Saoedische olie-oorlog was niet tegen elkaar gericht, maar tegen de VS productie van schaliegas en -olie

Posted on April 18, 2020June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

De
zogenaamde ‘olie-oorlog’ tussen Saoedi-Arabië en Rusland, gevoerd
voor de prijs van olie was niet gericht tegen elkaar, maar tegen de
schaliegas en schalie-olie productie van de VS en niet in de laatste plaats daar de VS zich voor de zoveelste
keer niet wenst te houden aan afspraken gemaakt door de OPEC.

De
VS weigert simpelweg minder olie en gas te produceren, anders dan
door ‘natuurlijke oorzaak’, zoals de Coronacrisis die zorgt voor een
fiks verminderde vraag naar olie en gas….. Sterker nog: de VS noemt
deze ‘natuurlijke vermindering van productie’ een vermindering van
productie zoals bedoelt door de OPEC, terwijl de OPEC landen te maken hebben met
eenzelfde vermindering van vraag naar olie en gas, en
daarbovenop een vermindering van deze productie wensen om de prijs
weer op peil te krijgen…….

In feite
is de VS dom bezig, immers een vermindering van het aanbod aan olie en gas zou de prijs voor de schalie-olie en schaliegas-winning juist meer rendabel maken….. Deze winning van gas en olie wordt zwaar gesubsidieerd en met een verminderd aanbod zou de prijs zoals gezegd omhooggaan, waardoor subsidiëring meer lucratief is. Door het niet handelen van de VS op de vraag van de OPEC en de reactie daarop van Saoedi-Arabië en Rusland daalde de olieprijs zover dat men in de VS nog meer geld moet toeleggen op elk geproduceerd vat
olie…. Precies dat laatste was dan ook de bedoeling van vooral
Saoedi-Arabië, daar haar olie (en dat van Rusland) een stuk
goedkoper kan worden gewonnen en men wel ruimte heeft voor een ‘tijdelijke’ prijsverlaging.

Lullig voor Saoedi-Arabië maar Trump heeft
nog eens laten weten dat zonder de VS het Saoedische koningshuis nog
geen 2 weken kan standhouden, waarna de psychopathische moordenaar Mohammad bin Salman (MBS), de Saoedische kroonprins,
weer braaf luistert naar wat de meesters in de VS wensen: een fikse
reductie op de productie, zodat de winning van schalie-olie weer
lucratief wordt en dat is zo als een vat olie minstens $ 40.– oplevert (ook al wordt deze productie nog steeds
gesubsidieerd, zelfs als was het alleen door de niet aan milieuregels
gebonden productie van deze uiterst vervuilende olie- en gaswinning….)

Volgens Mike Whitney, de schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel zou Putin de olieprijs op minstens $ 45.– per vat willen houden, echter daarmee zou Putin in de eigen voet schieten, immers zo wordt de zwaar gesubsidieerde schalie-olie en gaswinning in de VS weer enigszins lucratief. (en reken maar dat Rusland als Saoedi-Arabië de hele schalie-olie winning in de VS plat zou willen leggen…)

Het
volgende artikel werd zoals gezegd geschreven door Mike Whitney en door mij
overgenomen van Information Clearing House, onder het artikel
kan je klikken voor een ‘Dutch’ vertaling, dit neemt wel enige tijd
in beslag:

The
Russia-Saudi Oil-Price War Is a Fraud and a Farce

By
Mike Whitney

April 16,
2020 “Information
Clearing House”
–
The Russia-Saudi oil-price war is a fabrication concocted by the
media. There’s not a word of truth to any of it. Yes, there was a
dust up at an OPEC meeting in early March that led to production
increases and plunging prices. That part is true. But Saudi Arabia’s
oil-dumping strategy wasn’t aimed at Russia, it was aimed at US
shale oil producers. But not for the reasons you’ve read about in
the media.

The
Saudis aren’t trying to destroy the US shale oil business. That’s
another fiction. They just want US producers to play by the rules and
pitch in when prices need support. That might seem like a stretch,
but it’s true.

You
see, US oil producers are not what-you’d-call “team players”.
They don’t cooperate with foreign producers, they’re not willing
to share the costs of flagging demand, and they never lift a finger
to support prices. US oil producers are the next-door-neighbor that
parks his beat-up Plymouth on the front lawn and then surrounds it
with rusty appliances. They don’t care about anyone but themselves.

What
Putin and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman want is for US
producers to share the pain of oil production cuts in order to
stabilize prices.
It’s an entirely reasonable request. Here’s a clip from an
article at oilprice.com that helps to explain what’s really going
on:

“… there was a sliver
of hope that oil prices may rebound after Reuters reported that Saudi
Arabia, Russia and allied oil producers will agree to deep cuts to
their crude output at talks this week but
only if the United States and several others join in with curbs to
help prop up prices that have been hammered by the coronavirus
crisis. However, in an attempt to have its cake and eat it too, the
U.S. DOE said on Tuesday that U.S. output is already falling without
government action, in line with the White House’s insistence that
it would not intervene in the private markets….

… OPEC+ will
require the United States to make cuts in order to come to an
agreement:
The EIA report today demonstrates that there are already projected
cuts of 2 (million bpd), without any intervention from the federal
government,” the U.S. Energy Department said.

That is not enough for
OPEC+ however, and certainly not Russia,
which on Wednesday made clear that market-driven declines in oil
production shouldn’t be considered as cuts
intended to stabilize the market, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov
tells reporters on conference call.

“These are completely
different cuts. You are comparing the overall demand drop with cuts
to stabilize global markets. It’s like comparing length and width,”
Peskov said…..Moscow’s participation is highly contingent on the
US, and is unlikely to agree to output cuts if the US does not join
the effort.” (“Historic Oil Deal On The Verge Of Collapse As
Russia Balks At U.S. ‘Cuts’”, oilprice.com)

Putin
is being reasonable and fair. If everyone else is forced to cut
supply, then US oil producers should have to cut supply too. But they
don’t want to share the pain, so they’ve settled on a strategy
for weaseling out of it. They want their reductions in output (from
weak demand during the pandemic) to count as “production cuts”.
They even have a name for this swindle, they call it “organic
production cuts”, which means no cuts at all. This is the way
hucksters do business not responsible adults.

What
does Putin want from this deal?

Price
stability. Yes, he’d like to see prices settle somewhere north of
$45 per barrel but that’s not going to happen for a while. The
combination of a weaker demand (due to the coronavirus) and
oversupply (from the Saudis flooding the market) have ensured that
prices will remain low for the foreseeable future. Even so, Putin
understood what the Saudis were doing by flooding the market, and he
knew it wasn’t directed at Russia. The
Saudis were trying to persuade US oil producers to stop freeloading
and cut production like everyone else.
That’s the long and short of it. Check out this excerpt from an
article by oil expert, Simon Watkins at oilprice.com:

“Saudi Arabia
was continually peeved …(because)
its efforts to keep oil prices up through various OPEC and OPEC+
agreements were allowing these very shale producers to make a lot
more money than the Saudis, relatively speaking. The reason for this
was that U.S.
shale producers…. were not bound in to the OPEC/OPEC+ production
quotas so could fill the output gaps created by OPEC producers.”
(“The Sad Truth About The OPEC+ Production Cut”, Simon Watkins,
oilprice.com)

This
is what the media fails to tell their readers, that US oil producers–
who don’t participate in any collective effort to stabilize prices–
have been exploiting OPEC production quotas in order to fatten the
bottom line at the expense of others. US
producers figured out how to game the system and make a bundle in the
process.
Is it any wonder why the Saudis were pissed?? Here’s more from the
same article:

“This allowed the U.S.
a rolling 3-4 million bpd advantage over Saudi in the oil exports
game, meaning that it quickly became the world’s number one oil
producer…. Hence, Saudi Arabia decided initially to unilaterally
announce its intention for the last OPEC+ deal to be much bigger than
that which it had pre-agreed with Russia, hoping to ambush the
Russians into agreeing. Russia, however, turned around and told Saudi
Arabia to figuratively go and reproduce with itself. MbS,… then
decided to launch an all-out price war.” (oilprice.com)

So
you can see that this really had nothing to do with Russian at all.
The Crown Prince was simply frustrated at the way US oil producers
were gaming the system, which is why he felt like he had to respond
by flooding the market.
The obvious target was the US shale oil industry that was taking
advantage of the quotas, refusing to cooperate with fellow oil
producers and generally freeloading off the existing quota system.

And
what’s funny, is that as soon as the Saudis started putting the
screws to the US fracking gang, they all scampered off to Washington
en masse to beg for help from Papa Trump. Which is why Trump decided
to make emergency calls to Moscow and Riyadh to see if he could hash
out a deal.

It’s
worth noting that domestic oil producers have been involved in other
dodgy activities in the past. Check out this excerpt from an article
in the Guardian in 2014, the last time oil prices crashed:

“After standing at well
over $110 a barrel in the summer, the cost of crude has collapsed.
Prices are down by a quarter in the past three months….

Think about how the Obama
administration sees the state of the world. It wants Tehran to come
to heel over its nuclear programme. It wants Vladimir Putin to back
off in eastern Ukraine. But after recent experiences in Iraq and
Afghanistan, the White House has no desire to put American boots on
the ground. Instead,
with the help of its Saudi ally, Washington is trying to drive down
the oil price by flooding an already weak market with crude. As the
Russians and the Iranians are heavily dependent on oil exports, the
assumption is that they will become easier to deal with…

The Saudis did something
similar in the mid-1980s. Then, the geopolitical motivation for a
move that sent the oil price to below $10 a barrel was to destabilize
Saddam Hussein’s regime….

Washington’s
willingness to play the oil card stems from the belief that domestic
supplies of energy from fracking make it possible for the US to
become the world’s biggest oil producer.
In a speech last year, Tom Donilon, then Barack Obama’s national
security adviser, said the US was now less vulnerable to global oil
shocks. The cushion provided by shale oil and gas “affords us a
stronger hand in pursuing and implementing our national security
goals”. (“Stakes are high as US plays the oil card against Iran
and Russia”, The Guardian)

This
excerpt shows that Washington is more than willing to use the “oil
card” if it helps to achieve its geopolitical objectives. Not
surprisingly, good buddy, Saudi Arabia, has historically played a key
role in helping to promote those goals. The current incident,
however, is the exact opposite. The Saudis aren’t helping the US
achieve its objectives, quite the contrary, they’re lashing out in
frustration. They feel like they’re being squeezed by Washington
(and US producers) and they want to prove that they have the means to
fight back. Flooding the market was just MBS’s way of “letting
off steam”.

Trump
understands this, but he also understands who ultimately calls the
shots, which is why he took the unusual step of explicitly warning
the Saudis that they’d better shape up and step in line or there’d
be hell to pay. Here’s a little background that will help to
connect the dots:

“..the deal made in
1945 between the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Saudi
King at the time, Abdulaziz, that has defined the relationship
between the two countries ever since… the
deal that was struck
between the two men on board the U.S. Navy cruiser Quincy… was that
the U.S. would receive all of the oil supplies it needed for as long
as Saudi Arabia had oil in place, in return for which the U.S. would
guarantee the security of the ruling House of Saud.The
deal has altered slightly ever since the rise of the U.S. shale oil
industry
and Saudi Arabia’s attempt to destroy it from 2014 to 2016, in that
the U.S. still guarantees the security of the House of Saud but it
also expects Saudi Arabia not only to supply the U.S. with whatever
oil it needs for as long as it can but also – and this is key to
everything that has followed – it also allows the U.S. shale
industry to continue to function and to grow.

As far as the U.S. is
concerned, if t his
means that the Saudis lose out to U.S. shale producers by keeping oil
prices up but losing out on export opportunities to these U.S. firms
then tough..

As U.S. President Donald
Trump has made clear whenever he has sensed a lack of understanding
on the part of Saudi Arabia for the huge benefit that the U.S. is
doing the ruling family: “He
[Saudi King Salman] would not last in power for two weeks without the
backing of the U.S. military.”
(“The Sad Truth About The OPEC+ Production Cut”, Simon Watkins,
Oil Price)

Trump
felt like he had to remind the Saudis how the system actually works:
Washington gives the orders and the Saudi’s obey. Simple, right? In
fact, the Crown Prince has already slashed oil production
dramatically and is fully complying with Trump’s directives,
because he knows if he doesn’t, he’s going to wind up like Saddam
Hussein or Muammar Gaddafi.

Meanwhile,
US shale oil producers won’t be required to make any cuts at all
or, as the New York Times puts it: “It was not immediately clear if
the Trump administration made a formal commitment to cut production
in the United States.”

Got
that? So everyone else cuts production, everyone else sees their
revenues shrink, and everyone else pitches-in to put a floor under
prices. Everyone except the “exceptional” American oil producers
from the exceptional United States. They don’t have to do a damn
thing.

Mike
lives in Washington state. He can be reached
at fergiewhitney@msn.com.
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Aandelenbeurzen: één groot ‘bloedbad’

Posted on March 9, 2020June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

BNR en DeBeurs.nl spraken vanmorgen over een ‘bloedbad’ op de beurzen, een ‘bloedbad’ ofwel het onderuitgaan van de aandelenkoersen doordat Rusland weigert om de olieproductie terug te schroeven*, zodat de olieprijs niet verder daalt en uiteraard door de uitbraak van het Coronavirus dat steeds meer slachtoffers eist in het westen. (waar men China eerder de les durfde te lezen en het gore lef had te zeggen dat China niet goed is omgegaan met de Coronavirus uitbraak, waarvan de Wereldgezondheidsorganisatie (WTO) intussen stelt dat China deze crisis juist wel goed heeft aangepakt….)

‘Bloedbad?’ Juist de grote aandeelhouders zijn verantwoordelijk voor echte en grote bloedbaden over de wereld, door bezit van grote aantallen aandelen in de wapenindustrie……

Intussen hebben onze pensioenfondsen alweer honderden miljoenen verloren, dit daar deze fondsen toestemming hebben gekregen van Rutte 3 om nog meer van door ons gespaarde pensioengelden te vergokken op de aandelenbeurzen, niets anders dan een heel grote diefstal!!

‘Bloedbad op de beurzen?’ Wat een walgelijke vergelijking!!

(voor de aandelenkoersen klik op deze link)

* En dan durft men Rusland een onbetrouwbare olie- en gasleverancier te noemen……

Voor meer berichten over aandeelhouders, pensioenfondsen, oliewinning en/of Coronavirus, klik op het betreffende label, direct onder dit bericht.

De grootste diefstal uit de geschiedenis van de mens: inflatie

Posted on January 30, 2020June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Ben
bepaald geen fan van Bill Bonner, echter het volgende artikel van
zijn hand bevat (althans zeker voor mij) aardige gezichtspunten op het
financiële beleid in de VS als instrument om dollars bij te kunnen
drukken en daarmee de waarde van de dollar te verminderen. Zo zou de
huidige dollar volgens Bonner in vergelijking met die van 1971 nog
maar 3 dollarcent waard zijn……

Eén en
ander is het gevolg van de ‘nieuwe dollar’ die in 1971 onder ‘tricky dick’ Nixon werd
geïntroduceerd en waarbij de Fed de macht kreeg om (fiks) dollars
bij te drukken en daarmee de inflatie te voeden…….. Het grootste
deel van het volk in de VS begreep niet waarom hun geld destijds zo
snel in waarde verminderde en gaven de schuld aan de arabieren
(vanwege de hoge olieprijs), echter de energiecrisis van de 70 er
jaren bracht alleen de prijs terug op het niveau van voor de grote
dollar diefstal in 1971* >> de OPEC besloot minder
olie te produceren, waarop de prijzen stegen naar het niveau van
voor 1971…… Zie in het artikel hieronder hoe de inflatie zelfs met dubbele cijfers groeide…… (het is een studie waard om te zien wat het effect van de nieuwe dollar en de infaltie in de VS was op
de Nederlandse economie en die van de ons omringende landen….)

Inflatie
is zoals Bonner zegt inderdaad een instrument om mensen nog meer
belasting te laten betalen, waar de winsten daarvan in de VS vooral
naar de superrijken stromen…… Terwijl 50% van de onderlaag in de VS sinds 1999 30% armer is geworden, stijgen de inkomens van de welgestelden jaar op jaar……

Vergeet bij dit alles niet dat ook in de EU, ofwel bij de Europese Centrale Bank (ECB) de geldpersen al jaren overuren maken……. Een zaak die in feite de ‘EU maatschappij’ steeds verder ontwricht…….

Lees het
artikel van Bonner, overigens onderdeel uit een soort ‘dagboek’, waar
je de link naar het vervolg van het hieronder opgenomen artikel, onder dat artikel terugvindt. Mocht je het interessant vinden dit ‘dagboek’ te volgen, neem dan
het adres van Bonner & Partners of van Money and Markets over en
houdt de boel in de gaten, dit artikel nam ik over van Money and Markets:

Bonner:
The Feds and the Biggest Money Heist In History

Bonner: The Feds and the Biggest Money Heist In History

Posted
by Bonner &
Partners | Jan 28, 2020 | News

Inflation
is always and everywhere a rip-off. –
Bill Bonner

BALTIMORE, MARYLAND —
The nice thing about inflation, at least from the feds’ point of
view, is that it doesn’t leave fingerprints.

Today’s dollar, for
example, is worth only three cents of the pre-1971 dollar. But who
dunnit? Who stole 97 cents out of every dollar?

New-Buck Scam

People thought the
switch to a new buck in 1971 was just a “technical” move. Still
do. But there was a big difference. The old dollar was a killjoy. The
feds just couldn’t have much fun with it. But the new one was like
an inflatable sex toy — it would go along with anything.

And when the first
wave of consumer price inflation hit in the ’70s, few people
understood what had happened. They thought the Arabs had pulled a
fast one. But as we saw last week (catch up here and here),
the First Oil Shock only returned the real price to where it had been
before the feds’ funny-money printing began.

Investors didn’t
notice their pockets were being picked either. In new dollars, the
Dow barely moved throughout the ’70s. But it lost 92% of its real
value.

And still today, only
you… and we… seem to realize how the Federal Reserve’s money
printing and ultralow interest rate policies (from 2009 to 2015) put
$20-some trillion into the pockets of the richest people in the
country.

Most people got
nothing from it. And relatively, the poor got poorer as the rich got
richer.

The bottom 50% of the population are actually 30% poorer
today than they were in 1999 — even using the feds’ phony
inflation calculator.

But does anyone blame
the real culprits? Nope. They blame the Mexicans and the Chinese.

Do
they vote for someone who pledges to end inflation? Or someone who
calls for more of it?

It doesn’t matter
whether the inflation goes into the capital markets or the consumer
economy… it works the same way, like a thief in the night. And now
underway is probably the biggest heist in history…

Like
a Street Mugging

Milton Friedman was
wrong about inflation. It is “always and everywhere a monetary
phenomenon,” said he. But that misses the point of it. A shooting
star is a phenomenon. So is irritable bowel syndrome; nobody is sure
what causes it.

But inflation is no
more a “phenomenon” than a street mugging; it is done for a
reason, to transfer wealth from some people to other people. It’s a
way for the feds — and their clients, cronies, and hangers-on —
to get more than taxpayers are willing to give them.

If they tried to
support their boondoggles and jackass programs by direct taxation
alone, there would soon be mobs gathered in the Capitol, with pitch
bubbling and rails at-the-ready.

But inflation?

Here at the Diary,
we guess about a great number of things — always trying to connect
the dots. We’ve been at it for so long, we’ve probably been wrong
about most everything. We’ll get to the rest in due course.

But one thing we’re
probably not wrong about is inflation. And when the Fed announced at
its December 2015 meeting that it would stop inflating and
“normalize” its monetary policy, we knew it was BS. Why?

With its ultralow
interest rates and its quantitative
easing (QE) programs, the Fed created a hothouse atmosphere. The
QE program alone gave some $3.6 trillion in new money to big
investors.

It was as if a very
rich person in a small town bid on all the houses that came up for
sale.

Prices rose. Everyone thought he had gotten richer. But take
away the reckless buyer, and the market would quickly adjust to
normal supply and demand pressures. Prices would fall back to
“normal.”

Falling prices would
cause the “wealth effect” to reverse into a “negative wealth
effect.” The economy would go into recession.

Keep
the Heat On

Either you keep
feeding warm air into the hothouse… or the orchids die. Greenspan,
Bernanke, Yellen, and now Powell — have all kept the heat on.

The last Fed chief to
turn off the heat was the recently
deceased Paul Volcker. He saw the “Inflate-or-Die” trap. To
escape it in 1980, he raised the Fed’s key rate to 20%, cut off the
hot air, and opened the windows, causing the worst U.S. recession
since the Great Depression.

Naturally,
politicians, economists, and the press howled and whined. A mob even
burned Volcker in effigy on the Capitol steps. But inflation quickly
fell, from nearly 14% in 1980 to only 3.2% in 1983.

Years before, another
great Fed chief, William McChesney Martin, explained why a good
central banker is more likely to be branded a villain than a hero:

In the field
of monetary and credit policy, precautionary action to prevent
inflationary excesses is bound to have some onerous effects… Those
who have the task of making such policy don’t expect you to
applaud.

Tough
Love

It’s been 40 years
since Volcker’s tough love. Since then U.S. federal debt has gone
from under $1 trillion to $23 trillion.

The Dow, too, went
from under 1,000 to over 29,000. And the people willing to support an
honest central banker — traditional fiscal conservatives and Ronald
Reagan — have disappeared.

As for the old
conservatives, they went AWOL when Republicans realized that, in a
funny-money world, “deficits don’t matter.”

William McChesney
Martin died in 1998. (He was replaced at the Fed in 1970 when he
resisted the new-money plotters.) Paul Volcker died late last year.

Today, Fed jefes are
willing to go along with the gag, and are described by the popular
press as “saving the world” (Greenspan), or “heroes” with
“the courage to act” (Bernanke).

And the current U.S.
president is not worried about curbing inflation. He wants more of
it. Here’s the commander in chief commenting on the Fed’s brief
fling with prudence:

It was a
killer when they raised the rate. It was just a big mistake. And they
admit to it. They admit to it. I was right. I don’t wanna be right,
but I was right.

More to come…

Regards,

Bill

• This article
was originally published by Bonner & Partners. You can learn more
about Bill and Bill Bonner’s Diary right
here.

Zie ook het vervolg van dit artikel: ‘Bonner: How Paper Money Became the Means for Modern Inflation‘

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* In Wikipedia spreekt men bij de eerste oliecrisis in 1973 over ‘een politieke actie van de arabieren gericht tegen het westen’, terwijl de olieprijs in dollars werd en wordt weergegeven, ofwel de arabieren kregen inderdaad veel minder voor hun olie, daar de inflatie destijds zelfs met dubbele cijfers groeide, zie het artikel hierboven….. Wikipedia……

Door de inflatie van de ‘petrodollar’ (ofwel de olieprijs in
dollars), was de prijs van olie op een veel lager niveau gekomen, waarop de
arabieren het westen maar vooral de VS ‘de bel aanbonden’ en begonnen met de vermindering van de olieproductie, zodat de prijs omhoog ging. De olieprijs werd overigens vanaf 1971 in dollars weergegeven. (al werd ook voor die tijd vooral naar de VS gekeken wat betreft de olieprijs, daar het land eerst de grootste olieleverancier was en later tot de grootste olieproducerende landen bleef behoren)

Venezuela >> regime change: ‘de 12 stappen methode’ die de VS gebruikt

Posted on February 9, 2019June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Hoe
de VS te werk gaat als het een haar onwelgevallig regime wil laten
vallen, is op deze plek meermaals aangehaald: organiseer een opstand
onder het volk, het liefst middels een economische oorlog, die
aanvankelijk in het geniep wordt gevoerd: VS bedrijven onder druk
zetten, bedrijven die in bijvoorbeeld Venezuela levensmiddelen
verkopen, hun voorraden niet of onvoldoende te bevoorraden,
hetzelfde geldt voor farmaceutische bedrijven. Hierdoor ontstaat
ontevredenheid onder het volk, een situatie die kan leiden tot een
volledige opstand……

Een
opstand die uiteraard wordt georganiseerd en geregisseerd door de
VS >> CIA), waarbij men het liefst gewelddadige figuren inzet die middels
zwaar geweld als het doodschieten van demonstranten, het bewuste
bewind zoals dat in Venezuela in een kwaad daglicht stelt, ofwel: de
doden zouden te danken zijn aan het bewind, dit noemt men een false flag operatie en is een specialiteit van de CIA en het Pentagon…….

Met
een opstand in het land ligt de weg naar een staatsgreep open. Immers
op het punt dat er sprake is van een opstand, die ‘met geweld wordt
onderdrukt’, stappen de reguliere westerse media in de zaak en middels het
schreeuwen van moord en brand en de eis sancties in te stellen…..
Met sancties zoals in het geval van Venezuela, wordt het leven voor
de bevolking nog zwaarder, waarna men in diezelfde media in de
westerse politiek ingrijpen eist…… Zie hier in het kort de
werkwijze van de VS.

De VS heeft in Venezuela een tekort aan voedsel en medicijnen veroorzaakt, waar dezelfde VS nu de door haar naar voren geschoven kandidaat Guaidó wil voorzien van….. levensmiddelen en medicijnen!!

Op dit moment, even na 12.00 u. is er een Duitse correspondent in Venezuela aan het woord op WDR 5, en stap voor stap herhaalt zij de leugens die tot de door de VS georganiseerde opstand in Venezuela hebben geleid, zo herhaalt ze de leugen dat er geen economische oorlog is gevoerd tegen het land en dat de tekorten aan Maduro’s beleid zijn te danken…… Terwijl er aantoonbaar een economische oorlog is gevoerd tegen Venezuela en dat deze de grote tekorten heeft veroorzaakt……

De correspondent spreekt alsof de toestand van het Venezolaanse volk hetzelfde is als die voor de Palestijnen in de Gazastrook en op de West Bank, of sterker nog: of deze te vergelijken is met de genocide die de Saoedische terreurcoalitie uitvoert in Jemen (met grote steun van de VS en GB…) en waarbij dagelijks grote aantallen mensen omkomen…. (opvallend is het volgende onderwerp op WDR 5: fake news [nepnieuws] en de betrouwbaarheid van de reguliere media…..)

Het hieronder opgenomen artikel van de
schrijver Vijay
Prashad, werd op 5 februari jl. gepubliceerd op CounterPunch. Prashad haalt nog een aantal extra punten aan die in het stappenplan
van de VS worden gebruikt om te komen tot een verandering van regime. Prashad doet dit o.a. door zaken uit het verleden aan te halen, zoals de coup van
de VS tegen de socialistische president Allende in Chili op 11
september 1973 (de eerste 9/11, als de tweede, onder regie van de CIA….)

FEBRUARY
5, 2019

The
12-Step Method of Regime Change

by VIJAY
PRASHAD

On
15 September 1970, US President Richard Nixon and National Security
Advisor Henry Kissinger authorised the US government to do everything
possible to undermine the incoming government of the socialist
president of Chile, Salvador Allende. Nixon and Kissinger, according
to the notes kept by CIA Director Richard Helms, wanted to ‘make
the economy scream’ in Chile; they were ‘not concerned [about
the] risks involved’. War was acceptable to them as long as
Allende’s government was removed from power. The CIA started
Project FUBELT, with $10 million as a first instalment to begin the
covert destabilisation of the country.

CIA
memorandum on Project FUBELT, 16 September 1970.

US
business firms, such as the telecommunication giant ITT, the soft
drink maker Pepsi Cola and copper monopolies such as Anaconda and
Kennecott, put pressure on the US government once Allende
nationalised the copper sector on 11 July 1971. Chileans celebrated
this day as the Day of National Dignity (Dia de la Dignidad
Nacional). The CIA began to make contact with sections of the
military seen to be against Allende. Three years later, on 11
September 1973, these military men moved against Allende, who died in
the regime change operation. The US ‘created the conditions’ as
US National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger put it, to which US
President Richard Nixon answered, ‘that is the way it is going to
be played’. Such is the mood of international gangsterism.

Phone
Call between Richard Nixon (P) and Henry Kissinger (K) on 16
September 1973.

Chile
entered the dark night of a military dictatorship that turned over
the country to US monopoly firms. US advisors rushed in to strengthen
the nerve of General Augusto Pinochet’s cabinet.

What
happened to Chile in 1973 is precisely what the United States has
attempted to do in many other countries of the Global South. The most
recent target for the US government – and Western big business –
is Venezuela. But what is happening to Venezuela is nothing unique.
It faces an onslaught from the United States and its allies that is
familiar to countries as far afield as Indonesia and the Democratic
Republic of Congo. The formula is clichéd. It is commonplace, a
twelve-step plan to produce a coup climate, to create a world under
the heel of the West and of Western big business.

Step
One: Colonialism’s Traps.

Most
of the Global South remains trapped by the structures put in place by
colonialism. Colonial boundaries encircled states that had the
misfortune of being single commodity producers – either sugar for
Cuba or oil for Venezuela. The inability to diversify their economies
meant that these countries earned the bulk of their export revenues
from their singular commodities (98% of Venezuela’s export revenues
come from oil). As long as the prices of the commodities remained
high, the export revenues were secure. When the prices fell, revenue
suffered. This was a legacy of colonialism. Oil prices dropped from
$160.72 per barrel (June 2008) to $51.99 per barrel (January 2019).
Venezuela’s export revenues collapsed in this decade.

Step
Two: The Defeat of the New International Economic Order.

In
1974, the countries of the Global South attempted to redo the
architecture of the world economy. They called for the creation of a
New International Economic Order (NIEO) that would allow them to
pivot away from the colonial reliance upon one commodity and
diversify their economies. Cartels of raw materials – such as oil
and bauxite – were to be built so that the one-commodity country
could have some control over prices of the products that they relied
upon. The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC),
founded in 1960, was a pioneer of these commodity cartels. Others
were not permitted to be formed. With the defeat of OPEC over the
past three decades, its members – such as Venezuela (which has the
world’s largest proven oil reserves) – have not been able to
control oil prices. They are at the mercy of the powerful countries
of the world.

Step
Three: The Death of Southern Agriculture.

In
November 2001, there were about three billion small farmers and
landless peasants in the world. That month, the World Trade
Organisation met in Doha (Qatar) to unleash the productivity of
Northern agri-business against the billions of small farmers and
landless peasants of the Global South. Mechanisation and large,
industrial-scale farms in North America and Europe had raised
productivity to about 1 to 2 million kilogrammes of cereals per
farmer. The small farmers and landless peasants in the rest of the
world struggled to grow 1,000 kilogrammes of cereals per farmer. They
were nowhere near as productive. The Doha decision, as Samir
Amin wrote,
presages the annihilation of the small farmer and landless peasant.
What are these men and women to do? The production per hectare is
higher in the West, but the corporate take-over of agriculture (as
Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research Senior Fellow P.
Sainath shows) leads to increased hunger as it pushes peasants off
their land and leaves them to starve.

Step
Four: Culture of Plunder.

Emboldened
by Western domination, monopoly firms act with disregard for the law.
As Kambale
Musavuli and I write of
the Democratic Republic of Congo, its annual budget of $6 billion is
routinely robbed of at least $500 by monopoly mining firms, mostly
from Canada – the country now leading the charge against Venezuela.
Mispricing and tax avoidance schemes allow these large firms
(Canada’s Agrium, Barrick and Suncor) to routinely steal billions
of dollars from impoverished states.

Step
Five: Debt as a Way of Life.

Unable
to raise money from commodity sales, hemmed in by a broken world
agricultural system and victim of a culture of plunder, countries of
the Global South have been forced to go hat in hand to commercial
lenders for finance. Over the past decade, debt held by the Global
South states has increased, while debt payments have ballooned by
60%. When commodity prices rose between 2000 and 2010, debt in the
Global South decreased. As commodity prices began to fall from 2010,
debts have risen. The IMF points out that of the 67 impoverished
countries that they follow, 30 are in debt distress, a number that
has doubled since 2013. More than 55.4% of Angola’s export revenue
is paid to service its debt. And Angola, like Venezuela, is an oil
exporter. Other oil exporters such as Ghana, Chad, Gabon and
Venezuela suffer high debt to GDP ratios. Two out of five low-income
countries are in deep financial distress.

Step
Six: Public Finances Go to Hell.

With
little incoming revenue and low tax collection rates, public finances
in the Global South has gone into crisis. As the UN Conference on
Trade and Development points out, ‘public finances have continued
to be suffocated’. States simply cannot put together the funds
needed to maintain basic state functions. Balanced budget rules make
borrowing difficult, which is compounded by the fact that banks
charge high rates for money, citing the risks of lending to indebted
countries.

Step
Seven: Deep Cuts in Social Spending.

Impossible
to raise funds, trapped by the fickleness of international finance,
governments are forced to make deep cuts in social spending.
Education and health, food sovereignty and economic diversification –
all this goes by the wayside. International agencies such as the IMF
force countries to conduct ‘reforms’, a word that means
extermination of independence. Those countries that hold out face
immense international pressure to submit under pain of extinction, as
the Communist Manifesto (1848) put it.

Step
Eight: Social Distress Leads to Migration.

The
total number of migrants in the world is now at least 68.5 million.
That makes the country called Migration the 21st largest country in
the world after Thailand and ahead of the United Kingdom. Migration
has become a global reaction to the collapse of countries from one
end of the planet to the other. The migration out of Venezuela is not
unique to that country but is now merely the normal reaction to the
global crisis. Migrants from Honduras who go northward to the United
States or migrants from West Africa who go towards Europe through
Libya are part of this global exodus.

Step
Nine: Who Controls the Narrative?

The
monopoly corporate media takes its orders from the elite. There is no
sympathy for the structural crisis faced by governments from
Afghanistan to Venezuela. Those leaders who cave to Western pressure
are given a free pass by the media. As long as they conduct
‘reforms’, they are safe. Those countries that argue against the
‘reforms’ are vulnerable to being attacked. Their leaders become
‘dictators’, their people hostages. A contested election in
Bangladesh or in the Democratic Republic of Congo or in the United
States is not cause for regime change. That special treatment is left
for Venezuela.

Step
Ten: Who’s the Real President?

Regime
change operations begin when the imperialists question the legitimacy
of the government in power: by putting the weight of the United
States behind an unelected person, calling him the new president and
creating a situation where the elected leader’s authority is
undermined. The coup takes place when a powerful country decides –
without an election – to anoint its own proxy. That person – in
Venezuela’s case Juan Guaidó – rapidly has to make it clear that
he will bend to the authority of the United States. His kitchen
cabinet – made up of former government officials with intimate ties
to the US (such as Harvard University’s Ricardo Hausmann and
Carnegie’s Moisés Naím) – will make it clear that they want to
privatise everything and sell out the Venezuelan people in the name
of the Venezuelan people.

Step
Eleven: Make the Economy Scream.

Venezuela
has faced harsh US sanctions since 2014, when the US Congress started
down this road. The next year, US President Barack Obama declared
Venezuela a ‘threat to national security’. The economy started to
scream. In recent days, the United States and the United Kingdom
brazenly stole billions of dollars of Venezuelan money, placed the
shackles of sanctions on its only revenue generating sector (oil) and
watched the pain flood through the country. This is what the US did
to Iran and this is what they did to Cuba. The UN says that the US
sanctions on Cuba have cost the small island $130 billion. Venezuela
lost $6 billion for the first year of Trump’s sanctions, since they
began in August 2017. More is to be lost as the days unfold. No
wonder that the United Nations Special Rapporteur Idriss Jazairy says
that ‘sanctions which can lead to starvation and medical shortages
are not the answer to the crisis in Venezuela’. He said that
sanctions are ‘not a foundation for the peaceful settlement of
disputes’. Further, Jazairy said, ‘I am especially concerned to
hear reports that these sanctions are aimed at changing the
government of Venezuela’. He called for ‘compassion’ for the
people of Venezuela.

Step
Twelve: Go to War.

US
National Security Advisor John Bolton held a yellow pad with the
words 5,000 troops in Colombia written on it. These are US troops,
already deployed in Venezuela’s neighbour. The US Southern Command
is ready. They are egging on Colombia and Brazil to do their bit. As
the coup climate is created, a nudge will be necessary. They will go
to war.

None
of this is inevitable. It was not inevitable to Titina Silá, a
commander of the Partido Africano para a Independència da Guiné e
Cabo Verde (PAIGC) who was murdered on 30 January 1973. She fought to
free her country. It is not inevitable to the people of Venezuela,
who continue to fight to defend their revolution. It is not
inevitable to our friends at CodePink: Women for Peace, whose Medea
Benjamin walked into a meeting of the Organisation of American States
and said – No!

It
is time to say No to regime change intervention. There is no middle
ground.

Join
the debate on Facebook

Pompeo: US Military Obligated to “Take Down” the Iranians in Venezuela

(de opgeblazen oorlogshitser en oorlogsmisdadiger Pompeo beweert dat Hezbollah werkzaam is in Venezuela en daar een leger heeft dat gezien zijn woorden amper onder doet voor de gezamenlijke NAVO troepen… ha! ha! ha! Ook hier is totaal geen bewijs voor deze belachelijke beschuldiging…)

‘Halliburton en Chevron hebben groot belang bij ‘regime change’ in Venezuela‘

‘Mike Pence (vicepresident VS) gaf Guaidó, de door de VS gewenste leider, groen licht voor de coup in Venezuela‘

‘VS coup tegen Maduro in volle gang……..‘

‘Antiwar Hero Medea Benjamin Disrupts Pompeo Speech on Venezuela‘

‘Venezuela’s Military Chief, Foreign Allies Back Maduro‘

‘Als de VS stopt met spelen van ‘politieagent’ en het vernielen van de wereld, zullen de slechte krachten winnen……‘

‘VS weer op oorlogspad in Latijns-Amerika: Venezuela het volgende slachtoffer…….‘

‘Venezuela: VS verandering van regime mislukt >> de Venezolanen wacht een VS invasie‘

Vast Majority of Democrats Remain Silent or Support Coup in Venezuela

‘Trump wilde naast de economische oorlogsvoering tegen Venezuela dat land daadwerkelijk militair aanvallen……‘

‘Venezolaanse regionale verkiezingen gehekeld door westen, terwijl internationale waarnemers deze als eerlijk beoordeelden……….‘

‘Venezuela: Target of Economic Warfare‘

‘Venezuela: de anti-propaganda van John Oliver (en het grootste deel westerse massamedia) feilloos doorgeprikt‘

‘Venezuela: ‘studentenprotest’ wordt uitgevoerd door ingehuurde troepen………‘

‘Abby Martin Busts Open Myths on Venezuela’s Food Crisis: ‘Shelves Fully Stocked’‘ (zie ook de video in dat artikel!)

‘Rex Tillerson waarschuwt Venezuela voor een coup en beschuldigt China van imperialisme…….. ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!‘

‘Edwin Koopman (VPRO Bureau Buitenland) over Venezolaanse verkiezingen met anti-Maduro propaganda bij de ‘onafhankelijke NOS…..‘

‘EU neemt uiterst hypocriet sancties tegen de Venezolaanse regering Maduro………‘

‘Venezuela ontwricht, wat de reguliere media u niet vertellen……..‘

‘VS steunt rechtse coalitie (MUD) in Venezuela………‘

‘Venezuela’s US-Backed Opposition Turns Up The Violence Following Assembly Vote‘

‘10 Things You Need to Know About the Terrorist Attack in Venezuela‘

‘Venezuelans in the Streets to Support Constituent Assembly‘

‘What Mainstream Media Got Wrong About Venezuela’s Constituent Assembly Vote‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

‘The Left and Venezuela‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

‘Rondje Venezuela schoppen op Radio1………‘

‘Karabulut (SP) blij dat ze Maduro eindelijk ook kan schoppen………‘

‘Venezuela moet en zal ‘verlost’ worden van Maduro, met ‘oh wonder’ een dikke rol van de VS en de reguliere westerse media‘

‘Venezolaanse regering treedt terecht op tegen de uiterst gewelddadige oppositie!!‘

Libië na de VS terreur: seksslaven, ISIS & illegale wapenhandel

Posted on May 6, 2017June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Op de dag van de Dodenherdenking kreeg ik een artikel van Anti-Media, over de gevolgen van de in feite illegale VS oorlog tegen Libië (de VS had ook daar de NAVO aan de hand). Het eens meest welvarende land van Afrika is gedompeld in chaos. De illegale wapenhandel draait als een tierelier en er zijn zelfs openlijk slavenmarkten…… Martelingen en executies zijn aan de orde van de dag…. Alles mede dankzij de inzet van Nederlandse F16’s……… Die weliswaar niet mochten bombarderen, maar die wel doelen konden aanwijzen, de hypocrisie druipt eraf………

Sinds de dood van Khadaffi zijn grote voorraden wapens van leger en politie verdwenen, wapens die ‘toevallig’ worden teruggevonden in o.a. Syrië en Irak……. Overigens heeft de VS, samen met Egypte een groot aantal ‘gematigde rebellen’ (lees: psychopathische moordenaars) plus wapens overgebracht van Libië naar Syrië, om daar de strijd aan te gaan met het reguliere Syrische leger (de eerste aanzet tot omverwerping van Assads bewind door de VS, dateert al van 2006…..)…….

Vluchtelingen die via Libië naar Europa willen vluchten en die ‘de boot niet halen’, worden of tot (seks-) slaaf gemaakt, dan wel worden ze vastgehouden voor losgeld, waarna deze mensen worden gedood als het losgeld niet wordt betaald, althans als ze de gevangenis overleven……

Dat in het land waar man en vrouw gelijk waren gesteld voor de wet, het land waar huisvesting, scholing, gezondheidszorg, gas, water en elektra praktisch gratis waren…… Het land waar zowel jongens als meiden in het buitenland konden studeren, waar de staat niet alleen de studie betaalde, maar ook de kosten voor huisvesting en voeding…….

Nu is uitval van elektriciteit aan de orde van de dag (meermaals) in Libië, kosten voor de meest basale zaken zijn torenhoog en de verschillende ‘gematigde rebellen’ voeren een waar schrikbewind…….. Wie nu in Libië durft te zeggen, dat mannen en vrouwen gelijk zijn, loopt grote kans te worden vermoord…..

In het volgende artikel ook aandacht voor het feit, dat de beestachtig vermoorde ex-president Khadaffi de dollar, die als basis dient voor de oliehandel, wilde vervangen door de gouden dinar. Deze munt wilde Khadaffi ook doorvoeren als betaalmiddel voor heel Afrika, daartoe had hij al enorme hoeveelheden goud gekocht….. Dit goud is na de dood van Khadaffi geroofd en zou zich nu deels in Europa bevinden…….

Als er één ‘land’ was dat baat het bij de dood van Khadaffi was het (alweer) terreurentiteit VS……

Mensen lees en huiver:

Sex
Slavery, ISIS & Illegal Arms Trade: Libya Plunged Into Failed
State After US Invasion

Sex Slavery, ISIS & Illegal Arms Trade: Libya Plunged Into Failed State After US Invasion

May
4, 2017 at 8:01 am

Written
by Anti-Media
News Desk

(MPN) Today’s
Libya is virtually unrecognizable from the Libya of years past.
Following the violent ouster of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi
in 2011, things have taken a turn for the worse as the north African
nation declines further into failure.

One
example of Libya’s steep decline has been the proliferation of the
illegal arms trade. In 2014, the United Nations named Libya as the
primary source of illegal weapons for
14 different countries, fueling a series of international conflicts.
More recently, a new
report released by
the Geneva-based Small Arms Survey has also labeled Libya as an
international hotspot for illicit weapon sales, examining thousands
of attempted trades.

The
Gaddafi regime, prior to losing power, had tightly regulated the
domestic arms trade and prevented the illegal sale of weapons. But
now, Libya is unable to secure its borders. The weapons market has
surged in the years since the 2011 invasion that resulted in
Gaddafi’s ouster, as the Libyan government’s weapon stores were
looted and quickly fell into the hands of terrorists.

In
addition to appearing on online arms markets, weapons from the
Gaddafi regime’s arsenal have been found throughout North Africa
and the Middle East, particularly in the
hands of Daesh (ISIS) militants who
are active in Syria and Iraq. Many of these weapons were
purchased by the U.S. government and
deliberately given to “moderate rebels” in Syria, which – at
the time – included the al-Nusra Front, a branch of al-Qaeda that
operates in Syria.

In
addition, Libya’s geographical location has led to the growth of
another illicit industry – sex slavery.

With
many West African migrants traveling through Libya as they seek
passage to Europe, sex slavery has become so commonplace that live
slave auctions now occur in plain view of the public, according
to a recent statement from
the International Organization for Migration. Those not sold into
slavery are sometimes thrown in private prisons, where they are held
until their families make a ransom payment. Those whose families are
unable to pay are taken away and killed, while others have reportedly
wasted away from a lack of food and other basic necessities.

Libya
still lacks a federal government, which has led to the rise of
several warring factions, many of them based on tribal affiliations.
Some of the more powerful factions include infamous terrorist groups
like Daesh, who, according to U.S. intelligence agencies cited
by the New York Times,
maintain a presence of some 5,000 fighters in the troubled nation.

Worse
still, while U.S. bombings and some armed Libyan factions have
reduced Daesh’s power, they have also torn
apart the country’s social fabric and
set the stage for all-out civil war. In addition, the
Italian government recently asserted that
Daesh militants are leaving Libya for Europe, posing as wounded
Libyan government soldiers.

Libya
has also been crippled by constant power blackouts and surging prices
for food and other necessities, as well as months of lost salaries
for many people who have been put out of work. The situation has
deteriorated so much that numerous civilians, many of whom once
detested Gaddafi and even fought against his regime in 2011, are
lamenting the loss of the nation’s longtime ruler. Tebu Mohammed, a
Libyan citizen living in Tripoli, expressed the views of many Libyans
when he told
the Daily Mail that
“Libya died with Gaddafi. We are not a nation anymore.”

Gaddafi’s
Libya: prosperous and independent

The
current situation in Libya stands in sharp contrast to what things
were like under Gaddafi’s rule. Despite his 42-year-long despotic
rule, along with his
reputation as
a “crazy leader,” Libya was once Africa’s most economically
successful nation and enjoyed the continent’s highest standard of
living, thanks to handsome oil reserves that helped to fill the
state’s coffers.

Gaddafi
used state money to offer a variety
of popular services including
free electricity, interest-free loans, grants to newlyweds, legal
rights to housing, maternity bonuses for new mothers, free education,
50-percent subsidies on new car purchases and free healthcare. The
country’s literacy rate also rose from 25 to 87 percent during his
time as its leader. In addition, Gaddafi nationalized Libya’s
central bank and kept Libya free of external debt.

However,
Gaddafi committed a cardinal sin in the lead-up to his assassination
– not against the Libyan people, but against the hegemony of the
U.S. dollar. In the early 2000s, Gaddafi had saved up a large amount
of gold and planned to introduce a gold-backed pan-African
currency based
on the Libyan dinar in order to restore economic strength to a
continent besieged by neocolonialism. He had planned to start selling
Libyan oil using the dinar before the 2011 invasion, a move that
would have challenged the petrodollar system – an agreement
negotiated in the 1970s where OPEC nations sell their oil in dollars
in order to create artificial demand for the currency.

Recently
declassified emails from
then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton provided concrete proof that
the dinar was a major determining factor in the invasion of Libya.
Considering this, it should come as no surprise that the Libyan oil
industry, as well as the country’s central bank, were privatized
following Gaddafi’s death.

Libya
is not the only nation to have been decimated by the U.S. for
undermining the dollar’s hegemony. In 2000, former Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein rejected the petrodollar system and began
selling Iraq’s
oil in euros. Despite economic sanctions from the U.S. and its
allies, Iraq had made
millions of dollars as
a result of the switch at the time of the 2003 U.S. invasion.

The
U.S. made an example of Iraq to show what happens when a country
subverts the U.S.’ economic hegemony, doing the same to Libya just
8 years later. With terrorism, slavery and a proliferating illegal
arms trade, Libya’s current condition is showing the world what the
consequences can be when the U.S.’ superpower status is challenged.

By Whitney
Webb /
Republished with permission / MintPress
News / Report
a typo

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Mijn excuus voor de vormgeving.

Chavez waarschijnlijk vermoord……..

Posted on April 26, 2016June 14, 2024 by Willem Wachtmeester

Op Information Clearing House gisteren een interview van Mike Whitney met Eva Golinger, een gelauwerd onderzoeksjournalist. Met de ‘Freedom of Information Act’ in de hand, haalde zij diverse smerige VS zaken boven tafel.

Volens Golinger is Chavez vrijwel zeker vermoord. In het interview noemt zij een aantal moordaanslagen op Chavez, tijdens de jaren van zijn presidentschap. In alle gevallen is de VS de grote boosdoener en initiatiefnemer op de achtergrond. En inderdaad, als je de buitenlandpolitiek van de VS ziet, zou de moord op Chavez maar een voetnoot zijn, bij de enorme terreur de de VS in veel landen heeft losgelaten op de bevolking…… Laatste bericht dienaangaande, was onlangs op de BBC te zien, waar in een documentaire wordt gesteld, dat het neerhalen van MH17 een complot is van de CIA, zelfs met medeweten van een Nederlandse geheime dienst……… Daarover later meer…..

Overigens is de VS zelfs op economisch gebied bezig regeringen omver te werpen, dat geldt ook voor Venezuela en Rusland. Met het massaal dumpen van olie, gas en kolen op de wereldmarkt, worden de economieën van deze landen geschaad en probeert de VS deze landen te destabiliseren, althans dat is de bedoeling, die godbetert in Venezuela is gelukt….. Intussen is de VS zelf in feite failliet en drijft het op een zeepbel, die op spanning wordt gehouden door China, de EU en Saoedi-Arabië….. Onlangs, tijdens de OPEC-top hield de VS Saoedi-Arabië met succes voor, de olieproductie niet te verminderen, wat het terroristische Saoedische bewind wel van plan was…….

Hier het verslag van het interview (voor een vertaling kan u onder dit artikel op Dutch klikken, dit neemt wel enige tijd in beslag):

The
Strange Death of Hugo Chavez

An
Interview with Eva GolingerBy
Mike Whitney

“Hugo
Chavez defied the most powerful interests, and he refused to bow
down….I believe there is a very strong possibility that President
Chavez was assassinated.”

— Eva
Golinger

April
25, 2016 “Information
Clearing House”
– “Counterpunch“- MW–
Do you think that Hugo Chavez was murdered and, if so, who do you
think might have been involved?

Eva
Golinger– I believe there is a very strong possibility that
President Chavez was assassinated. There were notorious and
documented assassination attempts against him throughout his
presidency. Most notable was the April 11, 2002 coup d’etat, during
which he was kidnapped and set to be assassinated had it not been for
the unprecedented uprising of the Venezuelan people and loyal
military forces that rescued him and returned him to power within 48
hours. I was able to find irrefutable evidence using the US Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA), that the CIA and other US agencies were
behind that coup and supported, financially, militarily and
politically, those involved. Later on, there were other attempts
against Chavez and his government, such as in 2004 when dozens of
Colombian paramilitary forces were captured on a farm outside of
Caracas that was owned by an anti-Chavez activist, Robert Alonso,
just days before they were going to attack the presidential palace
and kill Chavez.

There
was another, lesser-known plot against Chavez discovered in New York
City during his visit to the United Nations General Assembly in
September 2006. According to information provided by his security
services, during standard security reconnaissance of an event where
Chavez would address the US public at a local, renowned university,
high levels of radiation were detected in the chair where he would
have sat. The radiation was discovered by a Geiger detector, which is
a handheld radiation detection device the presidential security used
to ensure the President wasn’t in danger of exposure to harmful
rays. In this case, the chair was removed and subsequent tests showed
it was emanating unusual amounts of radiation that could have
resulted in significant harm to Chavez had it gone undiscovered.
According to accounts by the presidential security at the event, an
individual from the US who had been involved in the logistical
support for the event and had provided the chair was shown to be
acting with US intelligent agents.

There
were numerous other attempts on his life that were thwarted by the
Venezuelan intelligence agencies and particularly the
counterintelligence unit of the Presidential Guard that was charged
with discovering and impeding such threats. One other well known
attempt was in July 2010 when Francisco Chavez Abarca (no relation),
a criminal working with Cuban-born terrorist Luis Posada Carriles,
responsible for bombing a Cuban airliner in 1976 and killing all 73
passengers on board, was detained entering Venezuela and later
confessed he had been sent to assassinate Chavez. Just five months
earlier, in February 2010, when President Chavez was at an event near
the Colombian border, his security forces discovered a sniper set up
just over a quarter of a mile away from his location, who was
subsequently neutralized.

While
these accounts may sound like fiction, they are amply documented and
very real. Hugo Chavez defied the most powerful interests, and he
refused to bow down. As head of state of the nation without the
largest oil reserves on the planet, and as someone who openly and
directly challenged US and Western domination, Chavez was considered
an enemy of Washington and its allies.

So,
who could have been involved in Chavez’s assassination, if he was
assassinated? Certainly it’s no far stretch to imagine the US
government involved in a political assassination of an enemy it
clearly – and openly – wanted out of the picture. In 2006, the US
government formed a special Mission Manager for Venezuela and Cuba
under the Directorate of National Intelligence. This elite
intelligence unit was charged with expanding covert operations
against Chavez and led clandestine missions out of an intelligence
fusion center (CIA-DEA-DIA) in Colombia. Some of the pieces
that have been coming together include the discovery of several close
aides to Chavez who had private, unobstructed access to him over
prolonged periods, who fled the country after his death and are
collaborating with the US government. If he were assassinated by some
kind of exposure to high levels of radiation, or otherwise inoculated
or infected by a cancer-causing virus, it would have been done by
someone with close access to him, whom he trusted.

MW–
Who is Leamsy Salazar and how is he connected to the US Intelligence
Agencies?

Eva
Golinger– Leamsy Salazar was one of Chavez’s closest aides for
nearly seven years. He was a Lieutenant Colonel in the Venezuelan
Navy and became known to Chavez after he waved the Venezuelan flag
from the roof of the presidential guard’s barracks at the
presidential palace during the 2002 coup, as the rescue of Chavez was
underway. He became a symbol of the loyal armed forces that helped
defeat the coup and Chavez rewarded him by bringing him on as one of
his assistants. Salazar was both a bodyguard and an aide to Chavez,
who would bring him coffee and meals, stand by his side, travel with
him around the world and protect him during public events. I knew him
and interacted with him many times. He was one of the familiar faces
protecting Chavez for many years. He was a key member of
Chavez’s elite inner security circle, with private access to Chavez
and privileged and highly confidential knowledge of Chavez’s
comings and goings, daily routine, schedule and dealings.

After
Chavez passed away in March 2013, because of his extended service and
loyalty, Leamsy was transferred to the security detail of Diosdado
Cabello, who was then president of Venezuela’s National Assembly
and considered one of the most powerful political and military
figures in the country. Cabello was one of Chavez’s closest allies.
It should be noted that Leamsy remained with Chavez throughout most
of his illness up to his death and had privileged access to him that
few had, even from his security team.

Shockingly,
in December 2014, news reports revealed that Leamsy had secretly been
flown to the US from Spain, where he was allegedly on vacation with
his family. The plane that flew him was said to be from the DEA. He
was placed in witness protection and news reports have stated he is
providing information to the US government about Venezuelan officials
involved in a high level ring of drug trafficking. Opposition-owned
media in Venezuela claim he gave details accusing Diosdado Cabello of
being a drug-kingpin, but none of that information has been
independently verified, nor have any court records or allegations
been released, if they exist.

Another
explanation for his going into the witness protection program in the
US could include his involvement in the assassination of Chavez,
possibly done as part of a CIA black op, or maybe even done under the
auspices of CIA but carried out by corrupt elements within the
Venezuelan government. Before the Panama Papers were released, I had
accidentally discovered and was investigating a dangerous corrupt,
high level individual within the government, who Chavez had
previously dismissed, but who returned after his death and was placed
in an even more influential, powerful position. This individual
also appears to be collaborating with the US government. People like
that, who let greed obscure their conscience, and who are involved in
lucrative criminal activity, could have also played a role in his
death.

For
example, the Panama Papers exposed another former Chavez aide, Army
Captain Adrian Velasquez, who was in charge of security for Chavez’s
son Hugo. Captain Velasquez’s wife, a former Navy Officer, Claudia
Patricia Diaz Guillen, was Chavez’s nurse for several years and had
private, unsupervised access to him. Furthermore, Claudia
administered medicines, shots and other health and food-related
materials to Chavez over a period of years. Just one month before his
deadly illness was discovered in 2011, Chavez named Claudia as
Treasurer of Venezuela, placing her in charge of the country’s
money. It’s still unclear as to why she was named to this important
position, considering she had previously been his nurse and had no
similar experience. She was dismissed from the position right after
Chavez passed away. Both Captain Velasquez and Claudia appeared in
the Panama Papers as owning a shell company with millions of dollars.
They also own property in an elite area in the Dominican Republic,
Punta Cana, where properties cost in the millions, and they have
resided there since at least June 2015. The documents show that right
after Chavez passed away and Nicolas Maduro was elected president in
April 2013, Captain Velasquez opened an off-shore company on April
18, 2013 through the Panamanian firm Mossack Fonesca, called Bleckner
Associates Limited. A Swiss financial investment firm, V3
Capital Partners LLC, affirmed they manage the funds of Captain
Velasquez, which number in the millions. It’s impossible for an
Army Captain to have earned that amount of money through legitimate
means. Neither him nor his wife, Claudia, have returned to Venezuela
since 2015.

Captain
Velasquez was especially close with Leamsy Salazar.

MW–
Can you explain the suspicious circumstances under which Salazar was
flown out of Spain to the safety of the United States on a plane
belonging to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)? Doesn’t
that strike you as a bit strange? At the very least, this suggests
that Salazar was acting as an agent for a country that is openly
hostile towards Venezuela? That makes him either a collaborator or a
traitor. Do you agree?

Eva
Golinger– Of course it was highly suspicious that Salazar was flown
out of Spain, where he was allegedly on vacation with his family, and
taken to the United States on a DEA plane. There is no question that
he was collaborating with the US government and betrayed his country.
What remains to be seen is what his exact role was. Did he administer
the murderous poison to Chavez, or was it one of his partners, such
as Captain Velasquez or the nurse/treasurer Claudia?

While
this all may sound very conspiracy theory-ish, these are facts that
can be verified independently. It is also true, according to
declassified secret US documents, that the US Army was developing an
injectable radiation weapon to use for political assassinations of
select enemies as far back as 1948. The Church Commission hearings
into the Kennedy Assassination also uncovered the existence of an
assassination weapon developed by CIA to induce heart attacks and
soft-tissue cancers. Chavez died of an aggressive soft-tissue cancer.
By the time it was detected it was too late. There is other
information out there documenting the development of a “cancer
virus” that was going to be weaponized and allegedly used to kill
Fidel Castro in the 1960s. I know most of that seems like science
fiction, but do your research and see what really exists. I don’t
believe everything I read either. As a lawyer and investigative
journalist, I need hard evidence, and multiple, verifiable sources.
Even if we just go on the official US Army document from 1948, it’s
a fact that the US government was in the process of a developing a
radiation weapon for political assassinations. More than 60 years
later we can only imagine what technological capacities exist.

MW–
Can you explain why the DEA was involved in this operation and not
the CIA as many would expect?

Eva
Golinger– I think CIA was involved. They work together on
high-profile political cases, and they were operating out of the
Intelligence Fusion Center in Colombia together. Why it was DEA and
not CIA that brought Leamsy Salazar to the US has not yet been
revealed, but I don’t think that means the CIA wasn’t involved in
the whole operation.

MW–
On a personal note, Hugo Chavez was a giant among men and a real
hero. Would you please tell us what his loss has meant to you
personally and how his death has impacted the people of Venezuela?

Eva
Golinger– The loss of Hugo Chavez has been crushing. He was my
friend and I spent nearly ten years as his advisor. The void he has
left is impossible to replace. Despite his human flaws, he had a huge
heart and genuinely dedicated himself to build a better country for
his people, and a better world for humanity. He cared deeply about
all people, but especially the poor, neglected and marginalized.

There
is a picture taken of Chavez by a bystander, when he had been at
an event in the center of Caracas and was walking through a large
plaza that had been cleared by security. All of a sudden, he saw a
young man, disheveled and seemingly on drugs, barely able to keep
himself upright, wearing ragged clothes. To the horror of his
security guards, Chavez went over to him and lovingly put his arm
around him and offered him a cup of coffee. He didn’t judge the
poor guy or reprimand him, or show disgust. He treated him like a
fellow human being who deserved to be seen with dignity. He stayed
there with him for a while, just telling stories and chatting like
old friends. When he had to go, he told one of his guards to offer
the man whatever help he needed.

There
were no cameras there, no TV, no public. It wasn’t a publicity
stunt. It was genuine, sincere care and concern for a fellow human in
need. Despite being president and a powerful head of state, Chavez
always saw himself as an equal to all people.

His
unexpected death has had a tragic toll on Venezuela. Sadly, those he
left in charge have been unable to manage the country through this
difficult times. A combination of corruption and external sabotage by
opposition forces (with foreign support) has crippled the economy.
Mismanagement has been widespread and destructive. US agencies and
their allies in Venezuela have seized the opportunity to further
destabilize and destroy all remaining remnants of chavismo. Now they
are trying to tarnish and erase Chavez’s legacy, but I believe this
is an impossible task. Even if the current government doesn’t
survive the vicious attacks against it, Chavez’s memory in the
millions of people he impacted and improved the lives of, will
weather the storm. “Chavismo” has become an ideology founded on
principles of social justice and human dignity. But do people miss
him terribly? Yes.

Eva
Golinger is winner of the International Award for Journalism in
Mexico (2009), named “La Novia de Venezuela” by President Hugo
Chávez, is an Attorney and Writer from New York, living in Caracas,
Venezuela since 2005 and author of the best-selling books, “The
Chávez Code: Cracking US Intervention in Venezuela” (2006 Olive
Branch Press), “Bush vs. Chávez: Washington’s War on Venezuela”
(2007, Monthly Review Press)

Since
2003, Eva has been investigating, analyzing and writing about US
intervention in Venezuela using the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
to obtain information about US Government efforts to undermine
progressive movements in Latin America.

A
version of this interview appeared on Telesur
at: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Golinger-Chavez-Assassination-Attempts-Documented-Very-Real-20160413-0025.html

Mike
Whitney – lives in Washington state. He is a contributor to Hopeless:
Barack Obama and the Politics of Illusion (AK
Press). Hopeless is also available in a Kindle
edition. He can be reached at fergiewhitney@msn.com.

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en: ‘Venezuela ontwricht, wat de reguliere media u niet vertellen……..‘

en: ‘Venezuela: Target of Economic Warfare‘

en: ‘Venezuela’s US-Backed Opposition Turns Up The Violence Following Assembly Vote‘

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en: ‘Venezuelans in the Streets to Support Constituent Assembly‘

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en: ‘The Left and Venezuela‘ (met mogelijkheid tot directe vertaling)

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en: ‘Venezolaanse regionale verkiezingen gehekeld door westen, terwijl internationale waarnemers deze als eerlijk beoordeelden………‘

en: ‘Karabulut (SP) blij dat ze Maduro eindelijk ook kan schoppen………‘

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The Feds and the Biggest Money Heist In History

Like
a Street Mugging

Keep
the Heat On

Tough
Love

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Slavery, ISIS & Illegal Arms Trade: Libya Plunged Into Failed
State After US Invasion

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Libya: prosperous and independent