"EYE" on the Sydney Opera House

I Just had to post this up as I find this quite disturbing..

It's a projected image onto the Iconic Sydney Opera House during the "vivid" festival.

If you check out the rest of the images you will see all abstract type of colourfull shapes,

but this PECULIAR image has the Giant all seeing eye, within a circle on top of a pyramid shape..


I looked at the Aussie news this morning and nealy spit my coffee..what a curious image to project..and for what reason?
Just to reaffirm that we are all under the eye? we are being watched or something secret or masonic?
Or much more sinister?
I mean why would they use such an arcane image for such a purpose as a "light show"?? and on our Opera House.
Here's some information about the history and use of this all seeing eye image..from HERE

"The Eye of Providence, or the all-seeing eye of God, is a symbol showing an eye often surrounded by rays of light or a glory and usually enclosed by a triangle. It is sometimes interpreted as representing the eye of God watching over humankind. It is found in many eras and cultures. It is generally a symbol of the watchful and protective power of the Supreme Being, especially when that entity is considered in a solar or heavenly context." (end snip)
 
What do you think? and what is your interpretation of this symbol used in this context.
It's got me flummoxed....
 
A13

Vatican + European Central Bank + Connexions

What interesting times and connexions are appearing..appointments and anointments..
Scandal, Setups, assassinations and alliances.
A Money War and a changing of alliegances perhaps?
A global shift in the Power wealth structure, and of course some heads have to ROLL.

Firstly to re cap: DSK Saga, still in the throes of Chaos..and background factional fighting..
So we'll leave the DSK saga for the moment and turn our attention elsewhere.
Secondly, the appointment of  Mario Draghi..as head of the European Central Bank (ECB), who has long been assosciated to the Vatican.
Who was in 2009, the Head of the FSB ( Financial Stability Board) and also at Goldman Sachs, where he was a vice-chairman

There’s something sinister about the linkage between the Vatican, certain elites and the regulatory power that Anglo-Americans have yielded up to the EU-controlled Financial Stability Board.
The rise of a powerful European economic bloc, dominated by the Vatican and the Elite banking families and Industrialists, to gain European dominance.
( ie European Bailouts).

But, things have changed and this staus quo Will Be brought DOWN, and we see the machinations of that happening NOW.
From Source:

"Certain actions by Vatican loyalists and German corporatists involved in the European and global banking community have recently consummated in establishing a regulatory power that will oversee all major corporate, financial and banking decisions around the globe. That institution is the Financial Stability Board (FSB), headed by Italian banking guru Mario Draghi.

Draghi, a committed Europhile and dedicated Roman Catholic with connections that run deep within the global banking and finance community, and having historic Vatican Bank and European Central Bank connections, has suddenly become the most powerful regulator of banking, finance and commerce in the world. His overnight elevation to international prominence came in the wake of the 20 most powerful economies in the world signing over their individual sovereign powers regulating their economies to the FSB at the 2009 G-20 conference in London. "

Perhaps Mr. Draghi would have escaped our notice if it were not for the intriguing history that he possesses connecting him with the Vatican, Vatican banking, major financial enterprises that have strong connections with German banking and commercial interests, and both the Italian and the European central banks, and the fact of his Jesuit training. (end)

That all amounts to  extremely interesting connections when one is considering the previous experience of the Man who now heads up The European Central Bank.

From HERE  (notice the word"ANOINTS")

Eurozone anoints Italy's Draghi as ECB head

Eurozone finance ministers named Italy's Mario Draghi on Monday as their chosen successor to head the Euro
"The German government, along with other European governments, has spoken out in favour of Draghi taking over as head of the ECB should he decide to apply for the job, and it remains of this opinion," Seibert said.
The Italian central bank chief had already received the backing of the other key leader in the eurozone, French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Draghi played to German public opinion in February when he told a newspaper:
"We should all follow the German example" when it came to questions of economic reforms.(end snips)

SO, we see more about Draghi his connections to the Vatican, and to the Rothschilds, who were known as "God's Bankers" SEE HERE and HERE

THE House of Rothschild has been the long-standing trustee of the Vatican’s wealth.

“Early in the 19th century the Pope came to the Rothschilds to borrow money. The Rothschilds were very friendly with the Pope, causing one journalist to sarcastically say ‘Rothschild has kissed the hand of the Pope... Order has been reestablished.’ The Rothschilds in fact over time were entrusted with the bulk of the Vatican’s wealth. The Jewish Ency., vol. 2, p. 497 states, ‘It is a somewhat curious sequel to the attempt to set up a Catholic competitor to the Rothschilds that at the present time (1905) the latter are guardians of the papal treasure.’ Researcher Eustace Mullins writes that the Rothschilds took over all the financial operations of the worldwide Catholic Church in 1823.  Today the large banking and financial business of the Catholic Church is an extensive system interlocked with the Rothschilds and the rest of the International Banking system.(end snips)

SO, Back to Germany..Present day Germany.
From Der Speigel we see that: HERE

ECB's Balance Sheet Contains Massive Risks

While Europe is preoccupied with a possible restructuring of Greece's debt, huge risks lurk elsewhere -- in the balance sheet of the European Central Bank. The guardian of the single currency has taken on billions of euros worth of risky securities as collateral for loans to shore up the banks of struggling nations.

Since the beginning of the financial crisis, banks in countries like Ireland, Portugal, Spain and Greece have unloaded risks amounting to several hundred billion euros with central banks. The central banks have distributed large sums to their countries' financial institutions to prevent them from collapsing. They have accepted securities as collateral, many of which are -- to put it mildly -- not particularly valuable.

These risks are now on the ECB's books because the central banks of the euro countries are not autonomous but, rather, part of the ECB system. When banks in Ireland go bankrupt and their securities aren't worth enough, the euro countries must collectively account for the loss. Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank, provides 27 percent of the ECB's capital, which means that it would have to pay for more than a quarter of all losses.

No one really knows how high the central bank's risk is in the crisis-ridden countries of Ireland, Portugal, Greece and Spain. But Bundesbank statistics provide an indication of how drastically the situation has changed in Europe. They show that these countries' liabilities to the euro system have risen to €340 billion within about three years." (end snips)

HUGE risks, Big Risks..Who's the "Fall " Country?
Who will pay the price if the "rescue" fails? and who will own These Debts? and banks ?
Is it one big scam for "control"? or a huge global shift in Finance?
This is why the players have moved or have been taken out on the chessboard.
Then we see that snips from HERE

Germany Losing Global Clout

Despite Germany's economic clout, Berlin has failed to place German officials in top jobs at the EU and in key organizations such as the IMF and ECB. The country's global influence is suffering as a result.
The inability of Europe's largest economic power to clinch top posts in major global organizations has become a joke in international diplomacy. After being in office for almost six years, Merkel has not managed to place a single German official in a top job in the European Union, the United Nations or global economic organizations. Instead, the same old division of labor continues to apply: Germany comes up with the money while the top job goes to a Frenchman."(end snips)


IS this a plan to bring down the EURO?.
Perhaps Collapse it.
There is a power shift from WITHIN.
There will be MORE takedowns.
More Nations WILL Suffer.
AND Who will benefit?
Is This the BIRTH of the NEW World Financial ORDER?


See My previous Post: http://thirteenthmonkey.blogspot.com/2011/05/europe-vs-asia-for-top-imf-post.html

Please see HERE , HERE for more.

AND HERE for some excellent background information on Vatican Money Laundering Investigation:

A13

Strauss-Kahn + Connexions + CIA

The Saga of the EX IMF Chief, who has now been granted bail and is now under 24hr surviellance seems to have an interesting twist.
We Know, that "Strauss-Kahn is a member of elite groups who meet behind closed doors.
He belongs to the Bildebergers.
HE IS ONE of THEM.

BUT, at the same time he is the fall guy.

His "mistake" was to threaten the Washington-Wall Street Faction and push for reforms within the IMF,  Which then threatened America's STATUS QUO within the IMF.

Quoted from Here


"Last week, the International Monetary Fund urged the United States to "urgently" address its problems, saying the country stands out as the only large advanced economy with a fiscal deficit that will increase in 2011 from 2010, despite the ongoing economic recovery."(end snip)

"In recent years, a major shift has occurred in Europe's political landscape. Pro-American governments have been elected in both France and Germany. Social Democracy has been weakened.

Franco-American relations have been redefined, with Washington playing a significant role in grooming a new generation of European politicians." (From Here)

There are two main factors with the "SET UP" of DSK.

The first is obviously about the regime change at the IMF, the second to DSK being a candidate and possible winner in France's  presidential elections.


We see that Strauss Kahn was a strong contender in the French Elections against Nicolas Sarkozy.

France in many regards, has become a de facto US "client state regime", broadly supportive of US interests in the EU and US foreign policy.

The response to Lybia is a clasic example.


We know that just before and during this time he has been incarcerated, Greece has been in negotiaition for new terms of their "bailout" and also considered "DUMPING" the Euro. See Here:

Which would have HUGE ramifications.

And we saw how U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, pimped for the replacement of DSK "suggesting he can no longer perform his duties" as IMF Managing director.

But they were apparently "Good Mates"? Fickle? or just self serving?

But what we didn't know, according to Michel Chossudovsky of Global Research is that:

"Strauss-Kahn was refused bail by Judge Melissa Jackson, an appointee and protégé of Michael Bloomberg, who in addition to his role as Mayor is a powerful figure on Wall Street.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. charged (using scanty evidence) Strauss-Kahn "with seven crimes, including attempted rape, sexual abuse, forcible touching and unlawful imprisonment".

Who is Cyrus Vance Jr.?

He is the son of the late Cyrus Vance who served as Secretary of State in the Carter administration.

But there is more than meets the eye.

Nicolas Sarkozy's step father Frank G. Wisner II, a prominent CIA official who married his step mother Christine de Ganay in 1977 served as Deputy Executive Secretary of State under the helm of Cyrus Vance Senior, father of District Attorney Cyrus Vance Junior.

Is it relevant? 

The Vance and Wisner families had close personal ties.

In turn Nicolas Sarkozy had close family ties with his step father Frank Wisner (and his half brothers and sisters in the US and one member of the Wisner family was involved in Sarkozy's election campaign).

It is also worth noting that Frank G. Wisner II was the son of one of America's most notorious spies, the late Frank Gardiner Wisner (1909- 1965), the mastermind behind the CIA sponsored coup which toppled the government of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran in 1953.

Wisner Jr. is also trustee of the Rockefeller Brothers Trust.

While these various personal ties do not prove that Strauss-Kahn was the object of a set-up, the matter of Sarkozy's ties to the CIA via his step father, not to mention the ties of Frank G. Wisner II to the Cyrus Vance family are certainly worth investigating. 

Frank G, Wisner also played a key role as Obama's special intelligence envoy to Egypt at the height of the January 2011 protest movement. 

Did the CIA play a role?

Was Strauss-Kahn framed by people in his immediate political entourage including President Obama and Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner?  (end snips)

So, Perhaps this is  a Rothschild Vs Rockefeller scenario? Two oppossing Big Money factions?

We also see that Asia and developing Nations want to be "involved" in the IMF Management process.

Vying over the "restructuring" of one of it's "Fronts".
A big and very important front, but NOW we understand that the IMF is just a TOOL.

"The IMF is not the main architect of these devastating economic reforms which have served to impoverish millions of people, while creating a "favorable environment" for foreign investors in Third World  low wage economies.

The creditor banks call the shots. The IMF is a bureaucratic entity. Its role is to implement and enforce those economic policies on behalf of dominant economic interests."

Like any criminal enterprise, and "gang", which is what the IMF bascically is and what these people belong to, sometimes it's better if there is a scapegoat to take the "FALL", so to speak, then the restructure can take place behind the veneer of respectability..

Or maybe something more sinister..Time and certain outcomes will tell.
and so will those left "standing".

The restructuring not only of the IMF, But how it operates and that of the whole World Financial and Monetary System.


PLEASE SEE NEW POST:

STRAUSS-KAHN + FREE MAN + FUTURE FRENCH PRESIDENT


MORE : http://thirteenthmonkey.blogspot.com/2011/05/decapitation-x-2.html

http://thirteenthmonkey.blogspot.com/2011/05/honey-trap.html

http://thirteenthmonkey.blogspot.com/2011/05/europe-vs-asia-for-top-imf-post.html

and PLEASE see James' Blog over at Winter Patriot for MORE  http://winterpatriot.com/node/613
A13

Nuclear Terror Angst + Germany

Recently I did a post about Germany and how there are links to terrorism through Al Qaida supposedly organising there and a recent foiled terror attack HERE
Plus the "catch and release" suspected terrorist program that is also metioned HERE

Then, just after the fukushima disatser we see that a "Nuclear Disaster 'Will Have Political Impact as Great as 9/11' "  interesing choice of words there..as nuclear energy has now become a potent election issue.

""The earthquake of March 11 was no terrorist attack. But its political and psychological consequences will be as great as 9/11 because it has shown what a terrorist attack on nuclear plants would look like."



Really?

So now we see more "vunerabilities" come to light through their Nuclear program, which is at risk of being comprimised from a supposed Terrorist attack via Plane or even  a rouge computer virus.

Who knows?


The media are certianly pushing the possibility of an attack of some sort and this article here goes into detail about this:

Vulnerable to Plane Crashes   

German Nuclear Reactor Safety Test Finds Flaws

None of Germany's 17 nuclear plants is protected from a crash by a heavy plane, a commission concluded on Tuesday after weeks of safety checks. But it did not recommend that any should be taken offline immediately. The government said it wants to postpone a shutdown until alternative sources of energy are found.

Chancellor Angela Merkel ordered the review following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in March. She imposed a three-month moratorium on her controversial decision last year to extend the lifetimes of the plants, originally due to have been taken offline by around 2021.

The commission's report said it was feasible that the older plants could be upgraded to improve their resistance to a plane crash. The seven oldest reactors were shut down in March pending the outcome of the safety review, and it remains unclear how many of them will return to operation once the moratorium ends in mid-June.
However, Röttgen hinted that four of the oldest reactors -- Biblis A and B, Brunsbüttel and Philippsburg I -- may stay shut for good because they failed to meet the safety requirements even for a small plane crash.
Some 100 experts took part in the safety review to test how well equipped the plants were to cope with natural disaster or terrorist attacks. ( end snips)

So, The plants are vunerable, even to small planes..
but what makes all this interesting is the the news that Germany is now "limiting" the exchange it has with the USA about so called "intelligence"..

Germany Limits Information Exchange with US Intelligence

Angela Merkel's government has come under pressure following the deaths of German Islamists in Waziristan through American drone strikes. Berlin has responded by restricting the type of information that German intelligence agencies may pass on to their US counterparts

Is German Intelligence Used to Kill Germans?

The deadly air strike on Oct. 4, 2010 marked a turning point in the cooperation between German and American intelligence agencies. Bünyamin E. was the first German citizen to be killed in an American drone attack. His fate has both legal and political consequences and has placed the German government under pressure.
While American President Barack Obama, who ordered the massive use of air power in the first place, is being celebrated in Washington following the killing of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, different standards are being applied in Germany.

The discussion centers on the question of what types of information German intelligence officials should be allowed to pass on to their American partners, and whether this information could lead to the deaths of German citizens.

The American use of drones is becoming a serious problem for the German government. On the one hand, German intelligence agencies depend on close cooperation with the CIA, the FBI and the American military. "A smooth exchange of information is vital," says CDU domestic policy expert Clemens Binninger.

Only recently, the investigation of a terrorist cell in Düsseldorf headed by Moroccan national Abdeladim el-K. revealed how important information from Washington is.(end snips)

So it's like a symbiotic relationship, but is change in the air?
and will that "change " expose more vunerabilities?..with information sharing there is always the problem of one party to that information knowing more than the other..and using that to some sort of advatage or a means to manipulate.

Germany Imposes Stricter Rules for Cooperation with US

When providing information, the German intelligence agencies include wording to the effect that the Americans can use it "for intelligence purposes only" or "to protect against threats" -- in other words, not to hunt people down.
According to a German official, these instructions "rule out the possibility that German information could be used to plan a drone attack."

This will hardly put an end to the discussion of drone attacks. More than 30 Islamists from Germany are still in Waziristan. It is only a matter of time before another drone attack claims the lives of German citizens."

All at the same time as they have admitted the nuclear vunerability..Interesing.

A13

Europe VS Asia for Top IMF Post

The speculation abounds with whom the Top IMF post will be given to.
But firstly last week the IMF issued this statement to the US, Which we must keep in mind due to current events. 
From HERE

"Last week, the International Monetary Fund urged the United States to "urgently" address its problems, saying the country stands out as the only large advanced economy with a fiscal deficit that will increase in 2011 from 2010, despite the ongoing economic recovery."(end snip)


So, There was a "warning" of sorts..and look what has now happened to the Head of the IMF?


Coincidence?

Traditionally, the IMF head is a European, but now pressure is comming from China."Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told a regular news briefing on Tuesday said that the selection for leadership of the IMF should be based on "fairness, transparency and merit." 

Wow, that's the pot calling kettle black.

Lipsky, the replacement of DSK is stepping down in August and with so much power via China, the US debt comes to mind here, China or one of their representatives could be a contender for the head  position.

This has the Europeans nervous..

And the USA even more nervous with mounting debt issues with China
see HERE

"Holding $US1.2 trillion of US debt is a fast-growing risk to China. Traders have a theory about why the euro is reasonably stable amid a broadening debt crisis: Asian central banks are converting proceeds from recent intervention moves into other currencies. ''Asian central banks'' has become a euphemism for China, whose reserves now exceed $US3 trillion."

"Zheng, an executive vice-president of the China Centre for International Economic Exchanges, wrote in the China Daily that the ''root cause'' of the financial crisis was US ''long-term abuse'' of sovereign credit. He called for the Group of 20 nations to devise a multicurrency system."

AND this from HERE:

"This enough-is-enough dynamic was on display last week as the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, the BRICS economies, met in the Chinese resort city of Sanya. Chinese President Hu Jintao called for reform of international monetary and financial systems." (end snip)

So Who will be calling the shots? and to whose favour? Who is to benefit?
Looks like the BIG MONEY POWER cartels are having a factional spat.
There will be more scapegoats.
Maybe even whole countries.

snips from HERE

Europe and Asia Set for Battle over Top IMF Post

The post is traditionally occupied by a European; a French national has run the IMF for 26 out of the past 33 years. But a power shift at the fund towards emerging nations could lead to a bitter dispute over the succession this time round, with analysts saying China may decide to flex its muscles to try to get an emerging market candidate into the job.


The distribution of power at the IMF still mirrors the old economic order. Among the 24 directors are nine Europeans and the vote of the US member counts four-fold. The Brazilian director represents nine countries and his vote has a weighting of just 2.4 percent.

For decades, the deal has been that a European runs the IMF and an American deputizes to him and gets the top job at the World Bank, which provides credit to developing countries. (end snip)

But who "owns" America's debts? who are the DEBT holders?...the Chinese.

Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Jiang Yu told a regular news briefing on Tuesday said that the selection for leadership of the IMF should be based on "fairness, transparency and merit."

Formally, the decision on the IMF chief is taken by the 24 executive directors, but they act on the instructions of their respective governments. It will be up to the leaders of the most powerful nations to hammer out a deal.

Other names being put forward include Turk Kemal Dervis, a promising candidate if the post is not to go to a European, while men from India, Mexico and South Africa are also in the running.

Their prospects will hinge on whether the governments of emerging nations can agree on a compromise candidate this time." (end snips)

Looks like China's "representatives" are in for a chance?

We see HERE that China is making deals with nations such as Brazil to conduct trade in yuan. And this is not an isolated incident.

THEN, There is this From HERE:

Emerging economies flex muscle in IMF battle:

The battle to succeed Mr Strauss-Kahn, who is alone in a cell at the city's notorious Rikers Island jail, heated up when China, Brazil and South Africa challenged Europe's long-standing grip on a job that is pivotal to the world economy.

This marks the first time that China, the Fund's third largest member, has weighed in early and so publicly on an IMF selection debate.

South Africa's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and a senior Brazilian government official, who asked not to be named, both said the next IMF chief should be from a developing country, pressing forward a case to give emerging economies a greater say in world affairs.(end snips)

It's obvious that there is a battle going on of Monetary ideologies and alliances and the money powers are not happy how the progress is continuing...
Is this a turning point in world financial Powers?
The birth of a Monetary New WORLD Order?
Who is pulling the strings here?
Who will be the next scapegoat?
And Who will benefit.

See Penny for your thoughts HERE for more.


A13

HONEY TRAP?

This Strauss Kahn debarcle looks all too familiar as a high profile Honey Trap.
He really did pee off the big money powers and this is the price he is paying.


In my last post I mentioned this and the fact that the IMF had been in secret meetings about the situation of Greece and Portugal.
They knew his weakness and used it to bring him down and humiliate him with No Bail.
Humiliation seems to be the Mode of operation for the "entities"..they get off on humiliating those that don't "conform"
I'm going to post this as it explains how Strauss Kahn was "not following the program".
The Money Powers now need to "restructure" the IMF to make themselves again the beneficiaries and everyone else sinks deeper into poverty and debt..They've got one of "their Men" in the "head" position now.


But funnily enough, Lipsky, his replacement is due to step down in August..SEE HERE


So with such a very temporary arrangement Will the IMF become knobbled and used as an even more destructive force in compliance of Economies, and Countries to the New Order...The great levelling...where we all have to live in Poverty, become debt slaves on $1 a day?


Anyway, this is interesting...this article I'm posting will give more of an overview of why, perhaps, DSK was "Honey Trapped"...maybe little kids didn't appeal to him?


Sourced from Here

IMF chief Strauss-Kahn caught in "Honey Trap"
by Mike Whitney.


Mission accomplished?

"I have no way of knowing whether the 32-year-old maid who claims she was attacked and forced to perform oral sex on IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, is telling the truth or not. I'll leave that to the braying hounds in the media who have already assumed the role of judge, jury and Lord High Executioner. But I will say, the whole matter smells rather fishy, just like the Eliot Spitzer story smelled fishy.

Spitzer, you may recall, was Wall Street's biggest adversary and a likely candidate to head the SEC, a position at which he would have excelled. In fact, there's no doubt in my mind that if Spitzer had been appointed to lead the SEC, most of the top investment bankers on Wall Street would presently be making license plates and rope-soled shoes at the federal penitentiary. So, there was plenty of reason to shadow Spitzer's every move and see what bit of dirt could be dug up on him. As it turns out, the ex-Governor of New York made it easy for his enemies by engaging a high-priced hooker named Ashley Dupre for sex at the Mayflower Hotel.

When the news broke, the media descended on Spitzer like a swarm of locusts poring over every salacious detail with the ebullient fervor of a randy 6th-grader. Meanwhile, the crooks on Wall Street were able to breathe a sigh of relief and get back to doing what they do best; fleecing investors and cheating people out of the life savings.

Strauss-Kahn had enemies in high places, too, which is why this whole matter stinks to high-Heaven. First of all, Strauss-Kahn was the likely candidate of the French Socialist Party who would have faced Sarkozy in the upcoming presidential elections. The IMF chief clearly had a leg-up on Sarkozy who has been battered by a number of personal scandals and plunging approval ratings.

But if Strauss-Kahn was set up, then it was probably by members of the western bank coalition, that shadowy group of self-serving swine whose policies have kept the greater body of humanity in varying state of poverty and desperation for the last two centuries.

Strauss-Kahn had recently broke-free from the "party line" and was changing the direction of the IMF. His road to Damascus conversion was championed by progressive economist Joesph Stiglitz in a recent article titled "The IMF's Switch in Time". Here's an excerpt:

"The annual spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund was notable in marking the Fund’s effort to distance itself from its own long-standing tenets on capital controls and labor-market flexibility. It appears that a new IMF has gradually, and cautiously, emerged under the leadership of Dominique Strauss-Kahn.

Slightly more than 13 years earlier, at the IMF’s Hong Kong meeting in 1997, the Fund had attempted to amend its charter in order to gain more leeway to push countries towards capital-market liberalization. The timing could not have been worse: the East Asia crisis was just brewing – a crisis that was largely the result of capital-market liberalization in a region that, given its high savings rate, had no need for it.

That push had been advocated by Western financial markets – and the Western finance ministries that serve them so loyally. Financial deregulation in the United States was a prime cause of the global crisis that erupted in 2008, and financial and capital-market liberalization elsewhere helped spread that “made in the USA” trauma around the world....The crisis showed that free and unfettered markets are neither efficient nor stable." ("The IMF's Switch in Time", Joseph Stiglitz, Project Syndicate)

So, Strauss-Kahn was trying to move the bank in a more positive direction, a direction that didn't require that countries leave their economies open to the ravages of foreign capital that moves in swiftly--pushing up prices and creating bubbles--and departs just as fast, leaving behind the scourge of high unemployment, plunging demand, hobbled industries, and deep recession.

Strauss-Kahn had set out on a "kinder and gentler" path, one that would not force foreign leaders to privatize their state-owned industries or crush their labor unions.

Naturally, his actions were not warmly received by the bankers and corporatists who look to the IMF to provide legitimacy to their ongoing plunder of the rest of the world. These are the people who think that the current policies are "just fine" because they produce the results they're looking for, which is bigger profits for themselves and deeper poverty for everyone else.

Here's Stiglitz again, this time imparting the "kiss of death" to his friend Strauss-Kahn:

"Strauss-Kahn is proving himself a sagacious leader of the IMF.... As Strauss-Kahn concluded in his speech to the Brookings Institution shortly before the Fund’s recent meeting: “Ultimately, employment and equity are building blocks of economic stability and prosperity, of political stability and peace. This goes to the heart of the IMF’s mandate. It must be placed at the heart of the policy agenda.”

Right. So, now the IMF is going to be an agent for the redistribution of wealth.... (for) "strengthening collective bargaining, restructuring mortgages, restructuring tax and spending policies to stimulate the economy now through long-term investments, and implementing social policies that ensure opportunity for all"? (according to Stiglitz)

Good luck with that.

Can you imagine how much this kind of talk pisses off the Big Money guys?

How long do you think they'd put up with this claptrap before they decided that Strauss-Kahn needed to take a permanent vacation?

Not long, I'd wager.

Check this out from World Campaign and judge for yourself whether Strauss-Kahn had become a "liability" that had to be eliminated so the business of extracting wealth from the poorest people on earth could continue apace:

"For decades, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been associated among anti-poverty, hunger and development activists as the poster child of everything wrong with the rich world's fiscal management of the rest of the world, particularly of poor nations, with its seemingly one-dimensional focus on belt-tightening fiscal policies as the price of its loans, and a trickle-down economic philosophy that has helped traditional wealthy elites maintain the status quo while the majority stayed poor and powerless. With a world increasingly in revolution because of such realities, and after the global financial crisis in the wake of regulatory and other policies that had worked after the Great Depression being largely abandoned, IMF managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has made nothing less than stunning observations about how the IMF and the world need to change policies.

In an article today in the Washington Post, Howard Schneider writes that after the 2008 crash led toward regulation again of financial companies and government involvement in the economy, for Strauss-Khan "the job is only half done, as he has been leading the fund through a fundamental rethinking of its economic theory.

In recent remarks, he has provided a broad summary of the conclusions:

State regulation of markets needs to be more extensive;

global policies need to create a more even distribution of income;

central banks need to do more to prevent lending and asset prices from expanding too fast. 'The pendulum will swing from the market to the state,'

Strauss-Kahn said in an address at George Washington University last week.

 'Globalization has delivered a lot . . . but it also has a dark side, a large and growing chasm between the rich and the poor. Clearly we need a new form of globalization' to prevent the 'invisible hand' of loosely regulated markets from becoming 'an invisible fist.'" (Link---http://wcampaign.org/issue.php?mid=625&v=y)

Repeat: "...a fundamental rethinking of economic theory".... (a greater) "distribution of income"...(more) "regulation of financial companies", "central banks need to do more to prevent lending and asset prices from expanding too fast".

Are you kidding me? Read that passage again and I think you'll agree with me that Strauss-Kahn had signed his own death warrant.

There's not going to be any revolution at the IMF. That's baloney.

The institution was created with the clear intention of ripping people off and it's done an impressive job in that regard. There's not going to be any change of policy either. Why would there be? Have the bankers and corporate bilge-rats suddenly grown a conscience and decided to lend a helping hand to long-suffering humanity? Get real.

Strauss-Kahn broke ranks and ventured into no man's land. That's why he was set up and then crushed like a bug.

(Note: Strauss-Kahn has been replaced by the IMF's number 2 guy, John Lipsky, former Vice Chairman of the JPMorgan Investment Bank. How's that for "change you can believe in"?) (end snip)

Well from what i've been reading it certainly did look like he was becoming too human for his bosses and had to be made an example of..


Death or total humiliation and character assassination...No future.


Whatever he was trying to do..and his comments in the above article alluded to radical change within the IMF, and NOT to the corrupt and EVIL Money Powers Advantage.


Was he so naive?
Did he not know his Masters? Or their "Cunning Plans"?
He has paid a terrible price.


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Decapitation x 2

There have been two public and high profile "decapitations" over the weekend.
One literal and One metaphoric.
The public very violent decapitation by a "mentally unstable man" of an
elderly Woman in Tenerife, and the other more, secretive, symbolic one of Dominique Strauss Kahn the HEAD of the IMF and who is also Jewish.
Both must represent something as both were carried out about the same time, on or around Friday 13th May. Black Friday.

Cutting off the head, on a Friday was common practice in the past as Friday was the day in ancient times of symbolic decapitation.


THERE are many references to decaptitation on FRIDAYS.


Christians celebrate on Friday as the day of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ. Good Friday.


The number and date 13th has always been Auspicious.
especially on a Friday.


Also it is believed that on October 13, 1307, a day so infamous that Friday the 13th would become a synonym for Bad Luck, officers of King Philip IV of France carried out mass arrests of several thousand Templars.
This was mentioned in the Da Vinci Code book..and interestingly connected, Strauss Kahn's wife is a Sinclair, also the same "family" name of the main female character in the Da Vinci Code book....and French. hmm.
There seems to be an "arcane" or other worldly connection in these events.


Perhaps he peed off the Rothschild "entities", didn't want to follow the program, or was a real threat to the "order"..Not following the program? or something more profound.


Warring factions within the "Master Monetary" group perhaps?


I mean, don't they kill off those who run foul of them?...
No, they must have plans here and plans for the IMF.


This is a very symbolic decapitation of the head of the IMF..
Sourced from HERE


Dominique Strauss-Kahn: minister doesn't rule out 'set up'


A French government minister has said he could not rule out that IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn's arrest for alleged sexual assault was the result of a set-up with political motives.
We cannot rule out the thought of a trap," Henri de Raincourt, minister for overseas co-operation in President Nicolas Sarkozy's government, said in a broadcast interview.

"I refuse to have a personal opinion and say, 'Yes it was a trap,' or 'No, it wasn't a trap.' I don't know," he said.

"I note that this has happened just after the affair of the car and the suit in a short space of time," he added, referring to sniping at the Socialist presidential hopeful for using a Porsche and wearing tailor-made clothes.

"I am not ruling anything out," Raincourt added. "If this turns out to have been a trap, let me tell you that it would not be to the credit of those who set it."

Strauss-Kahn had not yet formally announced his bid to run for president for the opposition Socialist party and was trotting the globe as head of the International Monetary Fund, a key player in handling the financial crisis.

Police arrested him on a plane about to take off from New York on Saturday and charged him with sexually assaulting and trying to rape a maid in a hotel. US media said she had entered his hotel suite thinking it was unoccupied.


Strauss-Kahn's lawyers said he would deny all the accusations and plead not guilty. He was expected to be formally arraigned before a New York judge later on Sunday.


Sniping by Strauss-Kahn's political rivals has been growing in an election fight that risked getting ever dirtier, against a backdrop of long-standing claims about Strauss-Kahn's conduct in private with women.


Strauss-Kahn's wife Anne Sinclair and allies have defended him.


"I am convinced it is an international conspiracy," said Michelle Sabban, a senior councillor for the greater Paris region and a Strauss-Kahn loyalist.


"It's the IMF they wanted to decapitate, not so much the Socialist primary candidate," she said.


"It's not like him. Everyone knows that his weakness is seduction, women. That's how they got him." (end snip)

We know that there have been many public decapitations using "sex" or allegations involving some sort of sexual circumstance before.. That is how they operate, and keep their minions in place, manipulate or destroy them.
Bill Clinton comes to mind.


Strauss Kahn was due to meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday and European finance ministers today and tomorrow to fine tune a multibillion-dollar bailout package for Portugal, as well as consider new measures to counter Greece's worsening sovereign debt crisis.


It really looks like someone wants him out of the way and discredited.
Strauss Kahn's arrest also comes at a critical moment in France's upcomming elections
He has been rumoured to seek the opposition Socialist Party's nomination for president, with opinion polls suggesting he would likely replace Nicolas Sarkozy.


Has the IMF suffered a fatal "head" wound?
It will be interesting to see if these charges reflect the cuttting off the head of the IMF and it's demise? into something much more sinister..and obviously controlled by the same "entities" that are the Money Powers with one of their many HYDRA HEADS in New York..


Speaking of Money Powers, maybe it has something to do with Greece?


A rebellion of sorts? Warring factions do come to mind.


WHY? Would they want to  (quote)"DECAPITATE THE IMF?"


I'm sure it has something to do with the SECRET MEETING on the 6th May about the Greece "bailout" and factions within the top monetary powers are not in agreeance.


IS HE is the Scapegoat?


snips from HERE


Greece Considers Exit from Euro Zone


"The debt crisis in Greece has taken on a dramatic new twist. Sources with information about the government's actions have informed SPIEGEL ONLINE that Athens is considering withdrawing from the euro zone. The common currency area's finance ministers and representatives of the European Commission are holding a secret crisis meeting in Luxembourg on Friday night
Given the tense situation, the meeting in Luxembourg has been declared highly confidential, with only the euro-zone finance ministers and senior staff members permitted to attend.
In short, a Greek withdrawal from the euro zone and an ensuing national default would be expensive for euro-zone countries and their taxpayers. Together with the International Monetary Fund, the EU member states have already pledged €110 billion ($159.5 billion) in aid to Athens -- half of which has already been paid out.
"Should the country become insolvent," the paper reads, "euro-zone countries would have to renounce a portion of their claims." (end snips)


Is this beheading of the "IMF head" fallout from that "secret meeting"?


Just an update from here:


Euro down as IMF arrest weighs on EU debt woes:


The euro fell half a cent in opening Asian trade Monday as markets fretted that talks on Greece's debt crisis would be thrown into disarray by the arrest of IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn. (end snip)


INTERESTING.
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JAPAN: ANOTHER MOX Nuke Plant to be Shut Down.

With all the fallout of the Fukushima nuclear plant still ONGOING,


Japan calls for Hamaoka nuclear plant shutdown


The Hamaoka nuclear plant, which sits near a major fault line in Shizuoka prefecture, is considered Japan's most vulnerable nuclear facility


The operator of Japan's "most dangerous" nuclear plant is to decide whether to comply with a government request to temporarily close the facility and carry out work to improve its ability to withstand earthquakes and tsunamis.


Chubu Electric is considering the request to close the Hamaoka nuclear plant in Shizuoka prefecture, central Japan, which is thought to be the country's most vulnerable nuclear facility.

Located 125 miles west of Tokyo, it sits near a major fault line in a region where seismologists say there is an 87% chance of an earthquake of magnitude 8.0 or higher striking in the next 30 years.


Fears are mounting in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi crisis that another large quake and tsunami could cause radiation leaks that, depending on wind direction, could have a serious impact on the capital.


The issue of the Hamaoka plant was raised as concern grows over a dramatic rise in the temperature inside a reactor building at Fukushima Daiichi, scene of the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl.


The temperature inside the pressure vessel of the No 3 reactor rose to 217C on Sunday evening from 163C on Saturday morning. But the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power [Tepco], said that was still lower than the 286C observed during normal operations, adding that it would continue to monitor the unit.


The No 3 reactor is of particular concern because it contains plutonium-uranium mixed oxide fuel – or MOX – and would release highly toxic plutonium in the event of a meltdown.


Japan's prime minister, Naoto Kan, has bowed to pressure from the public and key scientific advisers and asked Chubu Electric to immediately shut down Hamaoka's two working reactors. A third reactor has been shut down for inspection and two others are being decommissioned.


If Kan's request is accepted, the plant would remain closed while a tsunami-resistant wall is built and emergency backup generators installed to improve its ability to function after a natural disaster.

Kan said the proposed Hamaoka shutdown was an "exceptional case" given its vulnerability to quake and tsunami damage. "If an accident occurs at Hamaoka, it could have serious consequences," he said, adding there were no plans to shut any more of Japan's 54 nuclear reactors. (end snip)


So, what's really happening here?


How many of these 54 Japanese reactors are compromised?


How many of the WORLDS reactors are also in a vunerable position?


Something to think about?


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Mothers Day

Happy Mothers Day to all of the Mothers that read my blog..

I'm taking today off to be spoilt :) as i'm a Mother, and to me, being a Mother is the most wonderfull thing in the world..It's the reason I live, It's also the reason I blog. Without my children, I wouldn't be a Mother or a complete Woman.
Mothering gives me hope for the future and makes me more resiliant.
We all have Mothers, or had them...that is the source of our physical existence, through a mother.
We came into this life through our mothers and I just want to say thank you..
Some Mothers can be Good, Some can be Bad..like all people.




I love this song "Mother" by Pink Floyd..
It may not be a "Happy" Mothers song.. It's a tale of resentment, but i guess sometimes we have that with our mothers at certain times in our life, they can be a handy scapegoat, or the source of lifelong scars.
But I still like it and will post it up here.
So, To all the Mothers out there, Have a great day, and bask in the love of your children and your family.
Mothers be kind and gentle to your children, teach them well, especially the truth....as they are our Future.


Mother: Pink Floyd.


Mother do you think they'll drop the bomb?
Mother do you think they'll like this song?
Mother do you think they'll try to break my balls?
Mother should I build the wall?
Mother should I run for president?
Mother should I trust the government?
Mother will they put me in the firing line?
Mother am I really dying?


Hush now baby, baby, dont you cry.
Mother's gonna make all your nightmares come true.
Mother's gonna put all her fears into you.
Mother's gonna keep you right here under her wing.
She wont let you fly, but she might let you sing.
Mama will keep baby cozy and warm.
Ooooh baby ooooh baby oooooh baby,
Of course mama'll help to build the wall.


Mother do you think she's good enough -- to me?
Mother do you think she's dangerous -- to me?
Mother will she tear your little boy apart?
Mother will she break my heart?


Hush now baby, baby dont you cry.
Mama's gonna check out all your girlfriends for you.
Mama wont let anyone dirty get through.
Mama's gonna wait up until you get in.
Mama will always find out where you've been.
Mama's gonna keep baby healthy and clean.
Ooooh baby oooh baby oooh baby,
You'll always be baby to me.


Mother, did it need to be so high?


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Kick Out The Jams..

With all the lies and bullshit going down, the absolute sync of stupidity and
seriousness of the moment.

I'm going to pay tribute to my parents' generation.
Thank you guys, thank you for your fight and your music..
The generation that suffered Vietnam, like we suffer Iraq and Afganistan and multiple theatres of bullshit NOW...
Incredulous lies.
Insane reality.


Colonel Kurtz Land Reality....
Apocolypse now?




Wilard??? anyone?
When is it going to end..


When are WE going to Kick Out The Jams...



When are we gonna get back to real reality?
If anyone can remember what that was..or is.
Maybe we should listen to our elders?..


So take a trip back, enjoy on a Friday in the midst of a pseudo reality..


We GOTTA KICK them OUT....

ROCK ON.


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Germany+ Crosshairs = Updated

UPDATE:
I'm going to RE REPOST this as I've found this article from 22nd April .
This just adds fuel to the fact that international terrorism is a product of the most abhorent and corrupt organisation on the planet, and Al Qaida is part of that product too..all have the same source.The Pentagon.


 An Islamist's Return: US Hands Over Suspected German Terrorist.



"American military officials have handed over a German-Afghan national suspected of membership in a terrorist organization that fought Pakistani and ISAF security forces in the Pakistan-Afghan border area.


He is part of a group in Hamburg who traveled to the region hoping to join the jihad.
 United States officials on Thursday returned 36-year-old Ahmed Wali Siddiqui of Hamburg, a suspected terrorist, to Germany. Siddiqui had been detained by US special forces in July 2010 in Kabul and had been held at the Bagram US military prison ever since..
The German Federal Prosecutor's Office is investigating Siddiqui on, among other things, possible charges of membership in a foreign terrorist organization and having received weapons and bombs training." end snip.


So we keep in mind, this "catch and release" terrorist program and then see all the other pointers that have come out in the media over the same period of this time, all connected, and leading somewhere.


I saw a comment by Mouser on a few Blogs , suggesting Germany could be the next big target for a False Flag Terrorist attack..on the back of the OBL "certified" death news, and "retribution" warnings.

It seems plausable with some of these examples I'm about to post up.


Firstly, Here is part of the comment by Mouser, This snipet is taken from comments in the Aangifan post.


"Putting the MSM announcements together, Europe is about to have a nuclear bomb set off. Which country of the G-20 is bucking at the bit of implementation of the NWO by zionist Rothschild and his crony banking families? Which country has endured over sixty years of being the 'bad guys' in the fake 6 million gas chamber holohoax? Which country has been paying repatriations (literally billions) to zionists and israel for something which never happened? Which country refused to be a part of the 'No Fly Zone' over non-IMF Libya? Which country refuses to put boots on the ground with NATO against Libya? Which country had a double rotar head-of-state helicopter accident as a warning three days sfter saying "no more" to Nitwityahoo?" (end snip)


OK, sounds very plausable.
We Know that Germany very recently BROKE UP a terror cell in Dusseldorf which was reported last Friday. snips from HERE


CIA Part of Investigation of 'Düsseldorf Cell'


Security officials in Germany arrested three suspects who may be linked to al-Qaida on Friday. The men could be the first group connected to the international terrorist group to be uncovered in the country since Mohammed Atta's Hamburg-based 9/11 terror cell. One of the men is believed to have had regular contact with al-Qaida.

According to information obtained by SPIEGEL, the main suspect in the so-called "Düsseldorf Cell" is Abdeladim K. of Morocco. He is believed to have been in regular contact with an allegedly high-ranking al-Qaida official in the Afghan-Pakistan border region.


Germany 'Remains in the Crosshairs'


German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich stated Friday that investigators had succeeded in "averting a concrete and imminent threat of international terrorism." The incident, Friedrich said, shows that Germany "remains in the crosshairs of international terrorism." He called on Germans to "remain vigilant." (end snip)


The language used here is "crosshairs" this is interesting, as only targets  or prey are in the crosshairs.
So we keep reading and see that Germany is debating whether or not to keep it's Anti-Terrorism laws :
And the words that are used in the title of this article are strange too as it refers to the German People as "prey".. interesting.
snips from HERE


'Limiting Anti-Terror Laws Would Make Germans Easy Prey'
The detention of three terror suspects on Friday has fuelled the oft-contentious German debate on national security versus privacy rights. Relief over the dismantling of the "Düsseldorf Cell" -- thought to be members of al-Qaida -- prompted German Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich to press for the extension of anti-terror laws, due to expire at the end of the year.


But the Friday arrests once again highlighted that Germany remains a target of Islamist terrorism. The men were said to be in the early stages of planning a bomb attack, possibly on a bus, German federal prosecutors said.(end snip)


Recently Germany also did not want to get involved with NATO's Lybian adventure and was critizied for not opting in, snips from HERE:


Berlin's stance on Libya has isolated Germany in NATO


It's decision not to support military action against Moammar Gadhafi puts into question German leadership at NATO, says former US Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns. It has also isolated Berlin in the alliance. (end snip)

Did you also know that Angela Merkel is Due in Washington on 7th June to recieve The Medal of Freedom..


snips from here HERE








Awkward Moment for Obama and Merkel

BERLIN — There will be an interesting diplomatic moment at the White House next month when President Barack Obama presents the Medal of Freedom, the United States’ highest civilian distinction, to Chancellor Angela Merkel.


Another event had made Germany’s reliability an even more delicate issue for its friends. The government’s flinch on Libya came in the same time frame as its nervous move in reaction to the nuclear accident in Japan (a total reversal of policy) that closed seven of Germany’s nuclear reactors.
Mrs. Merkel’s reaction to allies concern? According to a Brussels diplomat, she told some of her NATO peers that a mistake had been made on Libya.
(end snip)


So, The Germans are not Popular amongst the Liberators and Allies?
there are also other reasons to this, being the ongoing commercial dealings with Iran, and an Iranian Bank


see previous post : http://thirteenthmonkey.blogspot.com/2011/04/seimens-iran-banks.html


There's alot of info here ostracising and demonising Germany..but why? 

We also see that Israel had some "problems" with the Germans
snips from HERE


Rift in German-Israeli Association
German Politicians Under Fire for Criticizing Israel


A dispute is brewing in the German-Israeli Association over a fundamental question: How openly should German politicians be allowed to criticize the policies of the Jewish state? (end snip)


WHY is Angela Merkel being given the Medal for Freedom in June?
Freedom of what? for what?
Is there indeed a false Flag attack likely for Germany?


Just supposition, but it's needed now on the news of the killing of OBL and the supposed Terror attacks that we have been warned about..snips from HERE


Fears bin Laden killing may spark reprisals


International law enforcement agency Interpol has called for extra vigilance in the wake of the killing of Osama bin Laden by US special forces.
"This is a key moment because Al Qaeda has to avenge. This is a terrible defeat for them and they have to move as quickly as they can and it's up to us to stop them," said congressman Peter King.
Across Europe, leaders have welcomed the news of bin Laden's death but are also warning their embassies to be vigilant amid fears that a strike against Western interests is now more likely than ever.(end snip)

Has to avenge hey?
really..MUST AVENGE!
We will watch and wait to see who does the "avenging".
The Liars are becoming more brazen, and as i said before in my previous post: 


"We must increase our vigilance after this warning...
(Bin Ladens "certified" death)
They are moving into another "phase" of the WAR of terror..
This is strategic timing.
This is a "strategic" death anouncement,
This is a warning to all of us that  are aware of the "nature" of our governments, that there is another more viscious attack/ false flag in the offing.
Be Aware, Be Vigilant.
They will strike, and this whole "death show' is a warning."


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