Upcoming in 2016 (1) Greek default - July, (2) Rio Olympics disaster - Aug (3) War in Middle East - Sept

[ThePythonicCow]

Ken over at RedefiningGod.com has been laying out, with increasing detail, what he sees as the likely upcoming events for 2016, by which the Occulted Powers (OP's - his term for what I call the Bastards in Power) will usher in the new world order.

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In his latest posts, at Globalist Agenda Watch 2016 – The Rio Olympics are shaping up to be a showcase of human woe (+ More on Vladimir Putin, the “Savior of all Christians worldwide”), Ken sees three major steps unfolding this year (2016):

1. The first step just happened - the people of Great Britain voted to leave the European Union, further sparking a wave of "right wing" "nationalism" in Europe and the US (with Trump).
2. The second step will happen in July, when Greece will default on their next major debt payments, causing major financial problems for various Western banks and nations. Encouraged by the wave of nationalism following the BRExit vote, Greece will take a hard line in negotiations, and the IMF will refuse to sponsor another bailout of Greece.
3. The third step will begin in August, with a multitude of disasters at the Summer Olympics in Rio, Brazil from August 5 to 21. We will see riots, poverty, failed event preparation, sick athletes, wide spread theft and violence, and a major "ISIS" caused terrorist event.

The Rio terrorist event will motivate a break out of larger scale war in the Middle East, to defeat the "ISIS terrorists" once and for all. This will evolve into a larger, mostly conventional, war between (1) Russia and the BRICS nations, on the side of the Christians and a new "multi-polar" world order, and (2) the US and NATO, on the side of "the moderate rebels", with the figure head leader of the Muslim friendly Obama.

The Occulted Powers (OP's) are setting up both sides of this. They set up both the Remain and Leave sides of the UK BRExit referendum. They set up both sides of the BRICS vs NATO conflict that will become very violent late in 2016.

The Christian, nationalist, multi-polar, BRICS, Putin, Russia, ... side will dominate, and be used to lead the world into its new order.

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... that's what Ken foresees, and in my view, he may be right.

Folding the above in with what Jim Willie of GoldenJackass.com is saying, such as in his latest two part interview at SilverDoctors.com (see Part 1 here and Part 2 here), I would expect that many Americans will realize by late 2016 that the Greek default in July caused (well, is blamed for) greater financial pain, such as failures of some large banks, than the Sept 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers caused.

After some serious financial pain and economic break down, followed by a US Military loss in the Middle East, I would expect that the Globalist Occulted Powers will be ready to impose the new world monetary system, including forcing the US to begin issuing its own national currency, which Jim Willie calls the Scheiss Dollar, separate and distinct from the existing US Federal Reserve Notes (aka the Petro-Dollar) that have denominated the world's reserve currency since World War II.

The US economy will then enter third world status, struggling with

1. an immense overhang of debt at all levels, private and public,
2. immense insolvent promises of payouts from social programs and pension plans,
3. a manufacturing base devastated by decades of "globalization", and
4. a half trillion dollar a year trade deficit.

Just as the Western military/intelligence/industrial/financial complex drove other nations into economic collapse for many decades, forcing them to sell off any resource or income stream of value just to feed their people (see for example John Perkins' 2005 Confessions of an Economic Hit Man), similarly now the one "indispensible" "exceptional" "sole remaining super power" nation, the USA, will be driven into economic collapse, forced to prostitute its resources to feed its people.

The US will have to learn again, the hard way, how to produce as much of value that it can export to other nations as it consumes in imports from other nations. Much of US mineral, farming, and rebuilt industry will end up being owned by, colonized by, other nations, such as China, in this difficult process.

[Callista]

Thanks Paul - I really appreciate your take on this situation. What is your opinion of Karen Hudes information re the Global Currency Reset?

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...o-17-June-2016

(Apologies if you have already addresses this - pls point me in the right direction if there is anything on the forum regarding interpreting Karen's info)

[ThePythonicCow]

During (and following) the above, I would also expect:

1. The Washington led "trade deals" to fail: TTP, TTIP, TISA and CETA: U.N. Legal Expert Calls Proposed Trade Deals “Illegal”
2. The Eurozone to collapse - it's purpose was to further wreck the nation states of Europe, not to be part of the new world order.
3. The Saudi Arabian kingdom to fail - it was a Washington/New York fiefdom, funding the Petro-Dollar by funneling its oil profits into Treasuries and Gold that it will never see again.
4. The dominant Oceanic Anglo-American Empire of the last two centuries to be replaced by a new dominant Eurasian landmass empire.
5. (Just posted) A "grand solar minimum" for the next two centuries, with very cold weather, and reduced food production: Are we headed for a new solar minimum? (Judith Curry)

Perhaps Occulted Powers (aka Bastards in Power) will see fit to introduce into wide spread usage some of the exotic energy technology with which they teased us on 9/11, by using it to dustify the WTC towers.

And if we're really lucky, or if our human powers are adequately manifest, then perhaps they will also see fit (or be forced) to include humanity in the result as well.

A mini Ice Age is survivable, by most of humanity, if sufficiently advanced technology is used by to replace the energy that naturally falls on earth as sunlight, during warmer periods such as we have had for most of the last few millenia.

Perhaps the global elite have been motivated, at least in part, to complete their "new world order" project before the onset of this upcoming two centuries of Grand Solar Minimum, in order to be able to have a civilization sufficiently controlled and advanced that it can use such technology without blowing up the planet. One doesn't give loaded AK-47's to rambunctious five year olds to play with; one waits for them to grow up a bit first.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Callista (here)
Thanks Paul - I really appreciate your take on this situation. What is your opinion of Karen Hudes information re the Global Currency Reset?

https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...o-17-June-2016

Thanks for the kind words.

I commented at some length on another Hudes thread, a couple weeks ago, in several posts beginning at Karen Hudes update 14 June 2016: Global currency reset is coming -- Post #5.

I don't actually say much directly about what Hudes is saying there, because I only half trust her views ... but I agree with her forecast of a coming global currency reset.

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P.S. -- I just now started listening to the Karen Hudes interview that you posted. I disagree with much of it, though not quite all of it . I commented a bit more on your Hudes thread: Karen Hudes Interview on Liberty Talk Radio 17 June 2016 -- Post #3

[Callista]

Thanks Paul for the clarification - I also felt that Karen Hudes information was of a mixed bag, but some of it is very convincing. I nonetheless feel that her intention is honourable, but maybe some of her sources are questionable.

[Justplain]

Of course, we all realize that crystal ball gazing is a hard to be right in. I am not saying that this year hasnt had its problems but i seem to recall seeing a Camelot interview with some supposed Illuminati 'insider' last summer, i forget the guy's name (Karmen?), who predicted Israel invading Syria last winter and we'd be into world war 3 by now. That hasnt happened and i'd bet this prediction wont either.

Another couple of absurd storylines that keep popping up are David Wilcox, with 'the war is being fought now and the Blue Avians are winning' along with Ben Fulford's illuminati wars. These guys keep predicting huge changes, including some kind of mass disclosure. We have been waiting several years for a tangible shred of verifiable truth. None has appeared.

Anyway, if people like to make predictions, so be it, but the NWO aint gonna arrive. Brexit was part of the process to ensure it doesnt. The illuminati may profit from it, as they always hedge their bets, but they are farther from their globalist goals. BRICS aint gonna take on NATO cuz China has too many customers there. If the USA starts issuing its own currency it means that the Fed Bank has been defrocked, another good thing.

What is real is that the US is in a debt crisis, and resolving that could cause major problems. Also, i have heard there is a coming mini-ice age which will make the climate change lobby go bankrupt. We can only hope that low cost energy is available by then to heat our homes with, etc.

[Carmody]

People on the deepest level... desire the world, their parents and whatnot, to give them safe hugs. Safe haven. Safe directions.

Too bad for them....... they have to duke it out in the real world.

I listen to some of this stuff (very selectively!) and apply the maxim that 'even a stopped clock is right twice a day'.

Please read on this thing about how the universe actually works, OK? You are going to have to deal with the reality that it is all on you.

The subjects themselves, do indeed have a sort of predictability to them, as they are all events which are likely to have some form of manifestation on the horizon, as they are connected to events which will come to pass, in time. ie.... Greek default risk, potential for war in the middle east, and the Rio Olympics.

All these knots of potential will come to pass, they are forgone events. How they play out exactly, in their given moments.... is not the reality of their fear projections --in the now.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Justplain (here)
... but the NWO aint gonna arrive. Brexit was part of the process to ensure it doesnt.

If enough people figure enough of this out, then the NWO may well be still born ... yes.

However I do disagree regarding BRExit ... in my view it was a deliberately constructed event, right from its beginning with Cameron promising he would hold that referendum, back when he was still seeking the job of Prime Minister. The Bastards in Power are forever setting us against each other in various ways, and building up and tearing down public facing institutions. That's as instinctive to them as sliding pieces of ivory around a finely polished board is to a chess player.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Carmody (here)
Please read on this thing about how the universe actually works, OK? You are going to have to deal with the reality that it is all on you.

The subjects themselves, do indeed have a sort of predictability to them, as they are all events which are likely to have some form of manifestation on the horizon, as they are connected to events which will come to pass, in time. ie.... Greek default risk, potential for war in the middle east, and the Rio Olympics.

All these knots of potential will come to pass, they are forgone events. How they play out exactly, in their given moments.... is not the reality of their fear projections --in the now.

Reality happens on multiple levels, simultaneously. The famous Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, winner of the 1970 Nobel Prize in Literature, spent eight years incarcerated in a Soviet Gulag.

Solzhenitsyn maintained his intellectual powers and would go on to write the novels that helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system. One potentially retains great powers, even in the seemingly most adverse situations.

These great powers are, however, not without limit. What happens about one does not willy-nilly and entirely change character based on one's perception and influence, though there are deep interactions and interplay, beneath the awareness of most of us, most of the time.

There is a difference between standing in a herd of stampeding buffalo, and standing in a herd of sleeping buffalo. Someone of sufficient and appropriate powers may be able to part the stampede around their frail body, or (more easily, I suppose) be able to alarm the sleeping buffalo, but it's all entwined and interacting layers of reality.

We each have powers to effect our being, at the many levels it exists, powers to effect and interact with the many other beings with which we are connected, in various overt and subtle ways, and powers to influence and nuture (or neglect) those interactions ... but let us not fall for the sop that it's all no more and no less than whatever we make of it.

The fool who has no clue, at any level, that they happen to be standing in the middle of herd of stampeding buffalo will tomorrow find themselves (well, their frail bodies, at least) to be carrion for the coyote and vulture. All human bodies, even the world's strongest man, are frail when confronted with a herd of charging buffalo.

[Justplain]

Posted by Paul (here)
However I do disagree regarding BRExit ... in my view it was a deliberately constructed event, right from its beginning with Cameron promising he would hold that referendum, back when he was still seeking the job of Prime Minister. The Bastards in Power are forever setting us against each other in various ways, and building up and tearing down public facing institutions. That's as instinctive to them as sliding pieces of ivory around a finely finished board is to a chess player.

Yes, it is apparent the Bastards that Be do like to play a game of hegelian dialectic, and Brexit could've been orchestrated to weaken, or eventually take down the EU, and the EU was a CIA invention ro control Europe. However, the one thing that can be done to counter the NWO agenda is to reintroduce more democratic processes to the situation, as Brexit is doing. Get more people involved politically, get that herd of buffalo to think more about whats going on, and it makes them harder to corral into sheeple like settings. Then, with time, advances in technology will make us more independent and the illuminati can go off to an island and herd crickets.

The 'anglo-saxon mission' didnt materialize, as the nwo wont. Hillary Clinton may be a cabal puppet but the public is becoming harder to convince, such as in Obama's aborted drive to invade Syria or the occupy movement or the Bernie Sanders crowd or the new mayor of Rome or Brexit or Trump, etc.

The coming few years may be rough, but i foresee no nwo, just a further development of awareness.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Justplain (here)
However, the one thing that can be done to counter the NWO agenda is to reintroduce more democratic processes to the situation, as Brexit is doing.

The people have an immense power, but democracy is not a panacea.

There is a reason that the 17th Amendment to the US Constitution, was ratified in 1913, the same year that saw the introduction of the Federal Reserve and the US Income Tax (allowed by the 16th Amendment), all doubtlessly with the support and intention of key elite bastards.

The 17th Amendment changed the way in which we determine the Senators that each state sends to the US Federal government in Washington, from being determined by the various legislatures of each state, to being determined by a direct election of the citizens of each state. This was purportedly more "democratic", but given the considerable ability of the elite to manipulate popular opinion and to control the news (and propaganda) that reaches (or doesn't reach) the populace, actually gave the elite greater control over who might serve in the US Senate, not less control.

I remain rather sure that some of the elite bastards in power knew, anticipated, and intended that the BRExit referendum would vote for Britain to leave the EU. Mass manipulation of the various "sides" of this vote, pro and con, is quite evident. The "mob" is in ways significantly easier to manipulate than a thinking, aware individual, especially if you have considerable ability to track the mob, and to control what they are told, or not told.

Democracy is not a panacea. It matters not who votes, but who counts the votes, and who (dis)informs the voters (apologies to Stalin for misquoting him.)

[ThePythonicCow]

I am seeing two, rather indirect, but in my view quite telling, confirmations of the above forecasts.

First, James Corbett has just posted today a short clip on Youtube, inviting people to view his two year old documentary exposing the Federal Reserve. This new clip is What is the Federal Reserve? Watch this free documentary to find out (James Corbett; Youtube). The original documentary, from July 2014, is still available on The Corbett Report at Century of Enslavement: The History of The Federal Reserve.

A thread that I started a bit over a year ago, on this "End the Fed" movement, which puts this Corbett documentary and other such work in context, is available at The end the Fed movement is a major, long term, well financed psyop.. That thread is still highly relevant, in my view, and with Corbett's latest clip renewing interest in his earlier documentary, the drive to "End the Fed" takes on a bit of renewed energy.

Unfortunately, this is not an "End elite controlled debt-money" movement, but rather an "End the US Dollar reserve system, centered at the Federal Reserve" movement, to be replaced by (most likely) whatever the elite bastards are designing for monetary control of humanity next. Money is far too a valuable tool of monitoring and control, in so many ways, for the elite bastards to relinquish their control over.

Second, a major purpose of the recent Massacre in Orlando staged "mass shooting" is becoming more apparent to me. Obama's refusal to blame this staged event on Radical Islam has energized the right wing of America to do just that ... blame Radical Islam.

View (if you can stand Alex Jones) the recent interview of Alex with US Dept of Homeland Security (DHS) Whistleblower Philip Haney, which turiya posted at Mass shooting at Orlando Gay Nightclub - 49 dead, shooter killed -- Post #270. Both Alex Jones and Philip Haney are essentially shouting back at Obama: "No - it is Radical Islam and the Jihad for Sharia Law that's the evil that must be ripped out."

Those Americans not ready to engage in this deeply divisive conflict (Christian/American vs Islam/Sharia) can comfortably follow Obama's lead, while those ready to engage with anger can find energy in the words of those such as Alex Jones and his interviewee Philip Haney, author of the new Amazon Best Seller See Something, Say Nothing: A Homeland Security Officer Exposes the Government's Submission to Jihad.

When (not if, in my view, but when, and most likely during the Rio Olympics in August 2016) a major "Islamic Terrorist" attack occurs, many of those who had been comfortably reassured by Obama's words earlier will follow his lead to turn against the "Terrorists" and ratchet up the war in the Middle East.

Gun Control is a side issue here; "They" are not expecting to get our guns in America, but rather expecting to rile up the nationalist, conservative, right wing, Christian, gun rights and gun owning advocates in the US, as part of their usual tactic of controlling through chaos, deceit, and dissension.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Paul (here)
I am seeing two, rather indirect, but in my view quite telling, confirmations of the above forecasts.

And now here's a third confirmation. In the article ISIS Video Threatens San Francisco, Shows Golden Gate and Skyscraper, pjmedia.com reports that:

A new video released by ISIS today that heavily praised Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen also made specific threats against San Francisco and Las Vegas.

The video, released by ISIS in Mosul, rolls images of Mateen and news footage of the Pulse attack on June 12.

Gee whiz - I wonder who really controls the group claiming to be ISIS in Mosul ?

The drum beat of "Islamic, ISIS, ... terrorist attacks on Europe and America" continues to get louder.

A casus belli is being constructed before our eyes.

[avid]

...with controlled opposition in UK Brexit campaign (Boris Johnson is a confirmed Zionist, so is a traitor in our midst, but of course the Bullingdon Boys are all in the same mind-controlled kampf). There is pre-planned de-constructivism in our midst, and we are in it NOW! The 'Tower of Babel' is on its umpteenth demolition....

[Justplain]

Hi Paul, I do agree that illuminati psy-ops are ongoing, and evil they are. Even if Boris Johnson is a Zionist, this Brexit move is an excellent one to displace EU control on Britain. David Icke thinks so. De-centralization is an excellent antidote to globalization. Democracy is influencable, so therefore the information dissemination is important. Dont underestimate the ability for people to become informed using the internet. As mentioned earlier, brexit/occupy/sanders/rome's new mayor/etc, could all be passed off as illuminati tricks, but would we really believe that? Perhaps its all just more informed people getting fed up and taking action.

I know ISIS is funded by the west, as was the Taliban. If the illuminati were really winning this there would have been a war started when turkey shot down that russian jet. If the illuminati were winning, the anglo-saxon mission would be over by now. If the illuminati were winning, we would have no paper currency, and believe me if they try to ban cash they will fail (for instance, here in Canada a major retailer prints its own currency).

If one is really concerned about avoiding the nwo, one can buy land, grow food and get off the grid. For the most part it is possible to do now. I know some who have done it.

I choose to believe the world wont be compromised by the bastards to the extent of making it an unworthy place to live. I have faith that this wont happen. Also, as mentioned, there is a long, long history of erroneous predictions that have failed to come true. My higher self tells me that we will pull through, so enjoy what is good in life and keep up the good work.

[ThePythonicCow]

Ah - another dot just connected for me.

I have long wondered why gold is being pushed as "real money" to the right-wing, prepper, Christian, gun toting crowd.

I just now came across this Zerohedge article, Greenspan Warns A Crisis Is Imminent, Urges A Return To The Gold Standard.

Yesterday, I had strongly doubted (here) that there really was any gold left in Fort Knox (or anywhere else in the US) that could support Karen Hudes claims that the upcoming Treasury Dollars (aka Scheiss Dollars, in Jim Willie's terminology) would be gold backed and exchangeable for aurum (gold leaf in plastic bills).

Alan Greenspan remains a key "insider" for the Banksters. When Greenspan talks, people listen (See classic "When E.F. Hutton talks, people listen" TV ads from late the 1970's here and here).

The plan, plain as day from what Karen Hudes says, is to sell the American people on the new Treasury dollars using the claim that they are gold backed. That's why (at least one reason why) Alan Greenspan is reminding us, again now, of the inherent value of gold as a monetary basis, and why he is now out warning us that "we are in very early days a crisis which has got a way to go",

This claim that the new Treasury Dollars will be gold backed will be a bait and switch, in my estimation.

Only later will we learn, the hard way, that the US no longer has that gold, and that the US must back its currency the same way that so many other nations, driven into bankruptcy and economic collapse, have been forced to back their currencies in international trade ... by selling off everything including the kitchen sink. Our land, our mineral resources, our forests, our farm produce, our tax and duty collections, the revenue streams from our essential utilities and services, and if we ever figure out how to manufacture anything again, our factories and manufactured goods, will all belong to the highest bidder.

Greenspan, the Banksters, and the Bastards in Power want us Americans, in times of economic, financial and monetary collapse, to turn to gold backed currency as the solution. Those of us in the right-wing, prepper, Christian, gun toting crowd (I am not all of these, just to be clear) already have been seeing ads for gold, for years now, in the various places we frequent. Our family and friends, who might not know the difference in value between a silver bar and a chocolate bar today, will catch on quickly, when their Dollar and their Banks begin to collapse.

The Banksters don't actually care whether 1% or 2% of us right wing nut jobs own a gold or silver coin today. Rather they want the reported price, in Dollars, of gold and silver to jump sky high, about the time that they pull the current Federal Reserve Dollar and Banking system rug out from under the feet of the American people. That's one of the ways they will sell the "new and shiny" replacement Treasury/Scheiss Dollars, on the promise of gold backing.

Ka-Ching!

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Justplain (here)
If one is really concerned about avoiding the nwo, one can buy land, grow food and get off the grid. For the most part it is possible to do now. I know some who have done it.

I choose to believe the world wont be compromised by the bastards to the extent of making it an unworthy place to live. I have faith that this wont happen. Also, as mentioned, there is a long, long history of erroneous predictions that have failed to come true. My higher self tells me that we will pull through, so enjoy what is good in life and keep up the good work.

I am well aware of predictions that fail to come true; I have added quite a few of my own predictions to that ever growing pile, and given all the predictions I've made in this thread in the last day, I have no doubt that I have now just added a few more.

Since I lack a space ship that could take me to Alpha Centauri in my lifetime, I have no expectation of avoiding the New World Order (NWO).

Getting off grid doesn't really avoid the NWO, and even if it did, few can or would choose that alternative. Certainly I won't be choosing that alternative, so long as there is anything resembling a grid to get off. I have chosen to ride out this storm here, in the US, on the grid.

I do figure that human civilization has long been, and continues to be, deeply compromised by the bastards in power. I also figure that the better we understand what's going on and the better we prepare and strengthen our own abilities and resources, then the better we can deal with what comes, and care for ourselves, our loved ones, and what ever we hold dear.

[shaberon]

I have difficulty accepting that NWO controls BRICS.

The way I've come to understand New World Order, is simply, transnational corporatism that got a stranglehold on European governments after the "Old World Order" of Monarchy, followed suit through the United States, then attempted to globalize itself. So it's "been here" all along, but was always "coming" to the next open property on the Monopoly board.

It succeeded with the Soviets and Maoists; but, those countries figured it out, and purged most of the influence. Are they totally free, probably not...will they have to interface with existing global institutions, probably so. But I think it is a different machine with different owners. Almost all of the African countries are sick of the I. M. F.; they look to Chinese investment simply because the rates are better--and the Chinese do not tell them how to run their countries.

The Western system is mostly depleted, deception and violence will continue as always. For an outright war in the mid-East, the 35 or so U. S. bases and whatever else they could send, would have a life expectancy of five minutes. That sort of thing is all posturing, and the generals know it. Perhaps we could quit supporting the proxies and regime changers, and just let House of Saud and its cohorts bite the sand. Those monarchies, Turkey, and Israel won't make it far without continued "NWO" support.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by shaberon (here)
I have difficulty accepting that NWO controls BRICS.

The Anglo-American-Zionist empire certainly does not appear to control BRICS. But the conspiracy theorist in me suspects that there are one or more deeper levels overseeing affairs here on planet earth, which are up to their usual divide and conquer tactics, this time pitting East against West.

Which of these moving parts you apply the label "NWO" to will determine whether you view BRICS as opposing the NWO, or playing a key role in introducing the NWO.

[ThePythonicCow]

Posted by Paul (here)

• The Saudi Arabian kingdom to fail - it was a Washington/New York fiefdom, funding the Petro-Dollar by funneling its oil profits into Treasuries and Gold that it will never see again.

Clarification - if the Saudi kingdom doesn't fail of its own accord, it will be forced to fail.

You do not want to have the world's biggest thugs owing you and your family hundreds of billions (perhaps even a trillion or two) of dollars worth of gold and bonds, unless you have very good "protection". It's far less costly for the thugs to off you and your family than it is for them to pay the debt.

The Petro-Dollar agreement that Kissinger made with the House of Saud, back in the early 1970's, apparently included an agreement for the House of Saud to keep most of its "saved up" wealth from oil sales on deposit as Treasuries in some New York banks, and as gold in some Swiss banks. What's not to like about that deal? Surely US Treasuries and Swiss secured gold were two of the finest investments in the world.

Those treasuries (in Jim Willie's estimation) apparently provided the key funding for the Exchange Stabilization Fund, which was and perhaps remains the world's largest fund used to manipulate stock, bond, currency, and commodity markets.

As for the gold, the US Justice Department, under the guise of chasing tax cheats, has been strong arming the Swiss banks for several years now, including a 2009 settlement with UBS for $780 million, and a 2014 settlement with Credit Suisse Group AG for $2.6 billion. There are further details here. But, at least in Jim Willie's estimation, this also involved the US strong arming the Swiss banks for the gold held on deposit for the House of Saud. (Since when does the US Justice Dept have jurisdiction in Switzerland? Since whenever they decided to, it seems.)

Basically, the Petro-Dollar was funded by stealing Saudi oil, letting the Saudi princes enjoy their gold plated Rolls Royces and other pleasures, and getting the Saud's to fund a generation of building up Radical Islam in many parts of the world.