For decades, the US and Saudi Arabia have shared a peculiar relationship: the Saudis sell relatively cheap oil to the United States for which they accept our fiat currency. They then recycle those paper dollars into the US military-industrial complex through the purchase of billions of dollars worth of military equipment, and the US guarantees the security of the Saudi monarchy. By accepting only dollars for the sale of its oil, the Saudis help the dollar remain the world’s reserve currency. This has meant that we can export inflation, finance the warfare/welfare state, and delay our day of financial reckoning. … Continue reading

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The chart below would appear to be in conflict with the results of a recent Gallup poll regarding stock ownership by Americans. The ratio of household equities to money market fund assets is near a record high, 60% above 2007 high and 30% above the 1999 internet bubble high. The chart would appear to prove irrational exuberance among the general populace. In reality, the lowest percentage of Americans currently own stock over the last two decades. With the stock market within spitting distance of all-time highs, only 52% of Americans own stock, down from 65% in 2007. As the stock … Continue reading

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“You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized.”—George Orwell, 1984 In past ages, those who dared to speak out against tyranny—viewed as an act of treason—were blinded, castrated, disfigured, mutilated, rendered mute by having their tongues cut out of their heads, and ultimately crucified. In the American police state, the price to be paid for speaking truth to power (also increasingly viewed as an act of treason) is surveillance, censorship, jail and ultimately death. It’s a diabolically ingenious tactic for muzzling, disarming … Continue reading

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“I was seeking for a fool when I found you.” Or so says Jacques in Act 3 of As You Like It. The great William Shakespeare died 400 years ago this week, so in honour of his quadricentennial, here are ten of the Bard’s best barbs. 1. “Scurvy politician” King Lear, Act 4, scene 6 “Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician seem to see the things thou dost.” Shakespeare’s scurvy means “contemptible” or “despicable” while he used a politician to mean a crooked plotter or schemer who, in this quote from King Lear, only chooses to see what … Continue reading

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The only durable solution to today’s complex crisis is the total destruction of the British Empire, with its Saudi and Obama underlings. How can this be brought about? No single action will wipe out the centuries-old British structures, but a series of simultaneous flanking actions—starting with the battle to disclose the 28 pages from the original Congressional Joint Inquiry into 9/11, exposing the Saudi Royal hand behind the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil in history—can achieve that vital goal, if humanity is to survive and prosper.

The British and the Saudis, and especially Obama, all know what keyholes can be unlocked with the disclosure of those 28 pages. U.S. investigators, following the 9/11 attacks, developed mountains of evidence, linking top Saudi government officials and Saudi Royals to the 19 terrorists. And at every step along the way, the FBI, the ultimate defenders of London and Wall Street, ran vicious cover-ups, to protect the Saudis and the British circles that were ultimately behind the attacks. Congressional and Commission investigators had established a map of Saudi officials in southern California, southern Florida, northern Virginia, New Jersey, and in Berlin, Germany, who were part of a tightly-knit support apparatus facilitating the attacks on New York and the Pentagon. The “follow the money” trail they were pursuing went directly from the Al Yamamah accounts at the Bank of England, through Prince Bandar bin Sultan’s personal bank accounts at Riggs National Bank in Washington, D.C., into the hands of the Saudi intelligence “handlers” of the two lead hijackers in San Diego, Nawaf al-Hazmi and Khalid al-Mihdhar.

This is an enormous flank, and the Obama White House, the Saudis, and the FBI are already pushing back hard against any new disclosures. In so doing, they are further confirming that the blood of the 2,977 innocent Americans killed on 9/11 is on their hands.

SEE “London/Saudi Global Terror Network”