Bilderberg 2014: War Criminals, Big Oil and “Too Big to Jail” Banksters

Bilderberg 2014: War Criminals, Big Oil and “Too Big to Jail” Banksters Meet in Secrecy

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By Julie Lévesque

Global Research, May 30, 2014

http://www.globalresearch.ca/bilderberg-2014-war-criminals-big-oil-and-too-big-to-jail-banksters-meet-in-secrecy/5384502

The highly secretive Bilderberg group is holding its 62nd annual conference in Denmark from May 29 to June 1 at the Copenhagen Marriott Hotel in Denmark. This year’s conference is a mingling of military-intelligence, politicians, finance, oil, media, academia and neocon think tanks. (Click here for theofficial list of attendees. Note that there are always participants who are not mentioned on the list given to the public.)

While Bilderberg claims its annual conference is “to foster dialogue between Europe and North America”, the Worldwide monetary system as well as the US-NATO global war agenda are slated to be discussed behind closed doors.

According to Bilderberg expert Daniel Estulin, the group went as far as planning the 2008 economic crisis:

According to Estulin’s sources, which have been proven highly accurate in the past, Bilderberg is divided on whether to put into motion, “Either a prolonged, agonizing depression that dooms the world to decades of stagnation, decline and poverty … or an intense-but-shorter depression that paves the way for a new sustainable economic world order, with less sovereignty but more efficiency.”

WWII: SACRIFICED FOR THE BANKERS

THE GREATEST GENERATION: SACRIFICED FOR THE BANKERS

D-Day propaganda allows the state to glorify unjustifiable wars and carnage

Image Credits: Omaha Beach on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Wikimedia Commons

by KURT NIMMO | INFOWARS.COM | JUNE 6, 2014

Obama traveled to France and read from a teleprompter at Omaha Beach where over 9,000 Americans died. Obama said “blood soaked the water (and) bombs broke the sky.” Later he accompanied France’s socialist president, Francois Hollande, as a wreath was placed at a colonnade near thousands of stone crosses on the graves of the fallen.

June 6 in the 70th anniversary of D-Day. The media is out in full force and world leaders in full regalia as parachute drops are recreated, fireworks are displayed, and the IMAX film “D-Day Normandy 1944,” narrated by Tom Brokaw, is screened.

Over 60 million people, or 2.5% of the world population, were killed during the Second World War. Responsibility for the staggering loss of life and property is uniformly placed on Adolf Hitler and the Nazis. Excluded from the official history is the fact Hitler and the National Socialists would not have risen to power without the help of international bankers and American and German corporations.

Professor Antony C. Sutton’s Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler documents how key Wall Street financiers and other international bankers subsidized Hitler and the Nazis. Sutton documents how J.P. Morgan, T. W. Lamont, the Rockefeller interests, General Electric Company, Standard Oil, National City Bank, Chase and Manhattan banks, Kuhn, Loeb and Company, and dozens of other business interests supported and subsidized Hitler and the Nazis.

“American companies associated with the Morgan-Rockefeller international investment bankers,” Sutton writes, “were intimately related to the growth of Nazi industry.” General Motors, Ford, General Electric, DuPont and “the handful of U.S. companies intimately involved with the development of Nazi Germany were — except for the Ford Motor Company — controlled by the Wall Street elite — the J.P. Morgan firm, the Rockefeller Chase Bank and to a lesser extent the Warburg Manhattan bank.”

The late Senator Prescott Bush, the grandfather of former president George W. Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies profiting from the Nazi war machine and its destruction of Europe. In 2004 The Guardiannewspaper “obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism,” write Ben Aris in Berlin and Duncan Campbell. “Remarkably, little of Bush’s dealings with Germany has received public scrutiny, partly because of the secret status of the documentation involving him.”

Remarkable or not, much of the information linking the bankers and corporations to the Nazis is ignored by the corporate media and academia. Instead of unvarnished truth – Hitler was funded by Wall Street and a clique of international bankers profited from unprecedented mass murder – we are fed a diet half truth and outright lies and fabrication about the second deadliest war in history (the first being Muslim conquest of the Indian subcontinent more than five hundred years ago).

Financial flows to tax havens: Determinants and anomalies

Financial flows to tax havens: Determinants and anomalies

Europe’s banking union: privatizing Europe

The Euro Banking Stitch-Up

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posted by Morning Star in Features

Europe’s banking union is being hailed as the big fix for the too big to fail banks. It is anything but, privatizing Europe - warns TOM GILL

A FEW weeks ago MEPs finally signed off the European banking union. This, we are told, is the big fix to the out-of-control banking system that caused the 2008 economic meltdown that has rocked Europe ever since.

We are also told that whereas in the US regulators and the central bank took swift action to stem banking problems, the patchwork of national interests across Europe prevented countries from forging a united front to do the same. But this is all to change with a “union” and the clean-up of banks’ books. 

A new European authority will have the power to wind up or restructure failing banks — the so-called single resolution mechanism (SRM). And a common fund, financed by bank levies, will be established so that emergency cash can be injected into failing banks. 

The scheme introduces new rules making it easier to make bondholders and even large depositors of failing banks pick up losses. There will also be an obligation for countries to ensure that schemes are in place to guarantee the first €100,000 (£82,496.41) in any individual savings account.

“The banking union completes the economic and monetary union, puts an end to the era of massive bailouts and ensures taxpayers will no longer foot the bill when banks face difficulties,” stated Michel Barnier, the European official in charge of regulation.

A shiny new future, in short. Should we believe it? First of all, just check out the language of Martin Schulz, the European Parliament’s president. He said: “From now on, taxpayers will not systematically foot the bill for bank losses.” “Systematically” is the word to focus on. 

As Reuters wrote: “The conundrum of what to do if a very large bank wobbles remains.”

The reality is that the common fund of €55 billion (£44.66bn) is tiny. Compare that to the balance sheet of France’s “too-big-to-fail” BNP Paribas of two trillion euros. And the reality is we don’t know the health of Europe’s banks. 

How Banks Rip Off California and Other States

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How Banks Rip Off California and Other States on Infrastructure, and How to Fight Back

Financing infrastructure costs more than building it.

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“The numbers are big. There is sticker shock,” said Jason Peltier, deputy manager of the Westlands Water District, describing Governor Jerry Brown’s plan to build two massive water tunnels through the California Delta. “But consider your other scenarios. How much more groundwater can we pump?”

Whether the tunnels are the best way to get water to the Delta is controversial, but the issue here is the cost. The tunnels were billed to voters as a $25 billion project. However, that estimate omitted interest and fees. Construction itself is estimated at a relatively modest $18 billion. But financing through bonds issued at 5% for 30 years adds $24-40 billion to the tab. Another $9 billion will go to wetlands restoration, monitoring and other costs, bringing the grand total to $51-67 billion – three or four times the cost of construction.

A general rule for government bonds is that they double the cost of projects, once interest has been paid.

The San Francisco Bay Bridge earthquake retrofit was originally slated to cost $6.3 billion, but that was just for salaries and physical materials. With interest and fees, the cost to taxpayers and toll-payers will be over $12 billion.

UBS investigated in Belgium for money laundering

UBS investigated in Belgium for money laundering - prosecutors

BRUSSELS Mon Jun 2, 2014 5:29am EDT

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/06/02/us-ubs-ag-belgium-idUSKBN0ED0QP20140602

The logo of Swiss bank UBS is seen at a branch office in the north-eastern Swiss town of St. Gallen July 3, 2013.

CREDIT: REUTERS/ARND WIEGMANN

(Reuters) - Swiss Bank UBS (UBSN.VX) is being investigated in Belgium for suspected money laundering, Belgian prosecutors said on Monday.

A judge had launched the investigation, which may or may not lead to criminal charges and a trial.

"Nobody has been charged yet but an investigation into money laundering and organized crime has been started," a spokeswoman for Brussels prosecutors said without elaborating.

UBS said it was not aware of the investigation and could not comment.

The Swiss bank offers wealth management services in Belgium with offices in Brussels, Antwerp and Ghent.

(Reporting by Robert-Jan Bartunek in Brussels and Katharina Bart in Zurich, editing by Louise Heavens)

ECB to introduce a negative deposit rate

ECB prepares to launch fresh tools to battle low inflation

Mario Draghi to unveil package of measures next week to stimulate growth and fight threat of deflation

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10866802/ECB-prepares-to-launch-fresh-tools-to-battle-low-inflation.html

Mr Draghi said it was the central bank's "responsibility" to be alert to the risks of low or negative inflation Photo: AP

By Szu Ping Chan

10:42AM BST 31 May 2014

The European Central Bank is preparing to take monetary policy into uncharted territory this week as it fights to prevent the 18-nation bloc from being sucked into a Japanese-style deflationary trap.

Mario Draghi, the president of Europe's central bank, is expected to unveil a package of measures designed to boost eurozone lending and stimulate growth, including reducing one of its key interest rates to below zero.