REALPOLITIK: Politics & The Empire Of Economics, Part 1, The Kissinger’s Plan – “Use Economics to Build a World Political Power” – By Andrew Gavin Marshall

Source – andrewgavinmarshall.com – The President sat and listened to his closest adviser as they plotted a strategy to maintain Western domination of the world economy. The challenge was immense: divisions between industrial countries were growing as the poor nations of the world were becoming increasingly united in opposition to the Western world order. From…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: Throughout History, Debt and War Have Been Constant Partners – By Giles Fraser

Source – informationclearinghouse.info – As Greece’s spending on weapons shows, it’s not pensions or benefits that cripple economies, it’s the military-industrial complex. “The Guardian” – Somewhere in a Greek jail, the former defence minister, Akis Tsochatzopoulos, watches the financial crisis unfold. I wonder how partly responsible he feels? In 2013, Akis (as he is popularly…

WITH CRIMINAL INTENT: The Upside Down Economics Of Debt, Poverty, Unemployment – Ready to seize solutions, or need more pain? – By Carl Herman

Source – washingtonsblog.com – “If people were really self-interested, they would stop trying to be individualistic.” – John B. Cobb, founder of Seizing an Alternative conference (and here, videos here) Economic Hitman John Perkins’ 2-minutes on today’s neo-colonialism capitalism: Demonocracy’s 2-minutes on what the US national debt looks like if shown in actual amounts of…

ZERO HEDGE: Why Greece Matters A Lot – The Case Of Europe’s Falling Dominoes

Source – davidstockmanscontracorner.com – Over the weekend, we showed why contrary to unfounded speculation that Greece is entirely contained, there are still extensive linkages when it comes to the fallout a Grexit would reap if not directly on private commercial banks which over the years managed to offload their Greek exposure to the Europe’s taxpayers….…

ACROPOLIS NOW: Greece Contemplates Nuclear Options – May Print Euros, Launch Parallel Currency, Nationalize Banks

Source – zerohedge.com – As we said earlier today, following today’s dramatic referendum result the Greeks may have burned all symbolic bridges with the Eurozone. However, there still is one key link: the insolvent Greek banks’ reliance on the ECB’s goodwill via the ELA. While we have explained countless times that even a modest ELA…

AMERIKA: US Distracted by Rainbows & Flags as Global Banking Meltdown Begins – By Hanzei, E.

Source  – shatteringthematrix.com – When it comes to the news, where we choose or are guided to focus attention is critical as it determines what we know, how we think, feel and believe which powerfully shapes our view of the world. And don’t think for an instant that the government’s media arms are not aware…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: The 75 Trillion Dollar Shadow Banking System Is In Danger Of Collapsing

Source – theeconomiccollapseblog.com – Keep an eye on the shadow banking system – it is about to be shaken to the core.  According to the Financial Stability Board, the size of the global shadow banking system has reached an astounding 75 trillion dollars.  It has approximately tripled in size since 2002.  In the U.S. alone,…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: Why There Is No Growth – The Entire S&P 500 Free Cash Flow Is Going Back To Shareholders

Source  – zerohedge.com – In perhaps the best example of just how massive the impact of returns to shareholders have become, Deutsche Bank shows a snapshot the S&P’s consolidated income statement as of 1995 and 2015. While there are some clearly material changes transformations: the rise of financials’ revenues above energy companies for one, the…

ZERO HEDGE: Central Banks Scramble To Stabilize Crashing Markets: China Fails, Switzerland Succeeds (For Now)

Source – zerohedge.com – Following a week in which the Chinese stock bubble popped and a weekend in which the Eurozone bubble followed, it was all up to central banks to stabilize the devstation that would follow should the Plunge Protection Team, now global, not show up. And while US equities futures were looking grim…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: Alchemical Banksters – By Jay Dyer

Source – souloftheeast.org – This past week, the world’s preeminent vultures, the economic power elite, met in Davos to discuss the maintenance of their global fiat hegemony. Highlights included furthering austerity, noting that the serf class can’t have air conditioning and cars, as well as cheering on the death of privacy through the rise of technocracy. The degenerate elite, completely…

AMERIKA: Robert Reich – Mass Incarceration Is Leading to Economic Ruin

Source – robertreich.org -Imprisoning a staggering number of our people is wrong. The way our nation does it is even worse. We must end mass incarceration, now.   If I’m walking down the street with a Black or Latino friend, my friend is way more likely to be stopped by the police, questioned, and even arrested. Even if we’re doing the exact same thing—he or she is more likely to be convicted and sent to jail. Unless we recognize the racism and abuse of our criminal justice system and tackle the dehumanizing stereotypes that underlie it, our nation – and our economy – will never be as strong as it could be. Please take a moment to watch the accompanying video, and please share it so others can understand what’s at stake for so…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: Greece Declares Troika Debt Illegitimate, Odious, Illegal

Source – davidstockmanscontracorner.com  – “Europe Considers Emergency Debt Writeoffs As Greece Faces “Ungovernable Chaos”:  – European creditors will reportedly consider writing down their Greek debt in order to get the IMF back to the table and make the country’s long-term prospects more sustainable. Meanwhile, Greeks are taking to the streets and one portfolio manager warns…

GEO-ENGINEERING: California property values collapse as water shut-offs begin – wealthy community to go dry in days

Source  – theunhivedmind.com – Water shut-offs have now begun in California, where government-ordered restrictions are starting to leave large communities high and dry. As CBS News is now reporting, the Mountain House community of 15,000 residents will run out of water in just a matter of days. “The community’s sole source of water, the Byron-Bethany…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: Globalist Worries – A Gaping Hole in the Economic Matrix

Source  – marketplace.mybigcommerce.com – Stay with me on this one. You’ll see what the powers-that-be are really worried about. You can roll up Bilderberg, the Trilateral Commission, the Council on Foreign Relations, the World Trade Organization, NAFTA, and the several current trade treaties nearing completion… you can insert all these Rockefeller Globalist forces into one…

DAS KAPITAL: The End Of The Monetary System As We Know It Is Here – No More Retail Gold In Europe – By Jeff Berwick

Source  – dollarvigilante.com – I’ve been in Europe a couple of days now and one of my main goals here, other than protesting the G7, Bilderberg and visiting Liberland, was to find out if what Martin Armstrong wrote about – that there is a shortage of gold at the retail level in Europe – is…

VOODOO ECONOMICS: The NEXT Crisis – “Literally, Your ATM Won’t Work…” – By Bill Bonner

Source  – bonnerandpartners.com – While we were thinking about what was really going on with today’s strange new money system, a startling thought occurred to us. Our financial system could take a surprising and catastrophic twist that almost nobody imagines, let alone anticipates. Do you remember when a lethal tsunami hit the beaches of Southeast…