I’ve been gone for a while with some health issues (body falling apart with a hypermobility disorder).
I am hoping to post here tidbits that I find useful and interesting to know that explain and explore various threads in geopolitics, culture and history.
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To start, some posts from Moon of Alabama commenters about Russia, the Russian Central Bank, and Money....
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Russian Central Bank by law receives and must carry out instructions from abroad
From here: http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/02...bb09f351a3970dI don't think you understand how the global banking system works. The Russian Central Bank is a member of the Bank of International Settlements. It is not independent and follows the policies the City of London (or whichever cabal is in power).
This is what happens when you have a drunk President allow the United States write the Russian constitution:
USA instructs Russian Central Bank how to strangle Russian economy
http://www.pravdareport.com/russia/e...entral_bank-0/
Things are changing though. Russia just announced that they are ready stop using the SWIFT interbank cash transfer services:There is no other central bank in the world that would not be allowed to support the national economy. The Russian Central Bank is the only exception. This is a specific peculiarity of the Russian Central Bank. The law even says that the bank is a branch of foreign companies in Russia. For example, the Russian Central Bank is a depositary of the IMF. The law of the Central Bank does not have a word about the Russian economy. Yet, it contains detailed instructions on how to follow and execute instructions from abroad. The law was made during the 1990s. Putin tried to amend it in the 2000s, but it did not work out. As a result, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation works for a foreign country under the Russian Constitution. This state imposes sanctions on Russia. The Russian Central Bank is obliged to execute instructions from the USA - the Americans set an official task to weaken the Russian economy
Russian banks ready to switch off SWIFT – official
https://www.rt.com/business/418665-r...dy-shut-swift/
The potential disconnection of Russia from SWIFT has been under discussion since 2014, when the EU and the US introduced the first round of international penalties against Moscow over alleged involvement in the Ukraine crisis and the reunification with Crimea.
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Financial hegemony backed by military dominance:
From here: http://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/02...b8d2da799b970ci think the financial world is more complicated then many might want to entertain... you might find this pdf link on rouble nationalization (http://lit.md/files/nstarikov/rouble_nationalization-the_way_to_russia's_freedom.pdf) educational... it is a pdf of the book which has been out for a few years.. i have read parts of it, but not all of it..
here is page 19, which addresses some of your comment
"The financial world is not a group of geeks in front of computers, it is not
polite clerks in banks and not even traders at stock exchanges. The financial
world is aircraft carriers, nuclear-powered submarines, tanks, fighters and
helicopters. It is infiltrators and assassins, snipers and spies, politicians
and public figures. And all of that is only needed to preserve the existing
financial order of the planet, to retain their dominance and even assert
it. The most interesting thing is that despite clear physical signs of such
world order, most people do not even have a slightest idea how everything
functions. And those who dominate, those who created this theatre of the
absurd, need exactly that.
In order to understand what is happening around you today, you have to
realize three things, and they should be understood in combination.
1. The keystone of the modern financial world is the dominant part of
the dollar. That means that all prices in world economy are only defined in
dollars. Oil, gas, gold, aluminium etc. are only sold for dollars. All natural
resources, all metals and all their derivatives. That means that it is in dollars
that prices for production are defined. To put it short, everything, nearly
everything that is sold at the global market, is only sold for dollars. This
is how world economy works. If you want to buy gas or nickel — get your
dollars out. It is impossible to buy them for euros or Norwegian Kroner.
You have to exchange your currency for dollars. And that means creating
extra demand for them."
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