With Thieves Like Us....Who Needs Frenemies?

Denizens

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/16/why-todays-cyprus-bailout-could-be-the-start-of-the-next-financial-crisis/
Updates will be added.

Well the game is finally up, destruction of Cyprus nigh on complete. All it took was an ‘accidental explosion’ destroying the country’s biggest power-plant, apparently by a ‘brush fire’ back in July 2011, a few Trojan Greek bonds, and a new president with an infamous Count Dracula ‘haircut’.

Adding a nice slap-on-the-wrist to Russia for not supporting the annihilation of Syria… the guarantor powers of the U.K. U.S.A. and Turkey must be laughing under their G8 cue cards.

I find it quite funny how Cyprus is usually forgotten in the news, especially by the BBC. There are all sorts of newsworthy items, like the gas and oil deposit revelations, or a new president being elected after a two-week 50-50 vote debacle, but these things are nothing now.

Merkel and her ilk cause havoc for a nation, and it's all over the news headlines. Not that anyone cares about the Cypriots, they care about their Euros in the bank, and their bonuses, their laundered money, and their tax haven being destroyed. What a joke it all is!

Of course, Cyprus must toe the line, what with its massive deposits of natural gas and maybe oil, going to be shared among undesirables in a few years time. The island having major strategic significance in the region, especially for returning soldiers from Afghanistan, and its proximity to all Mid-East so-called ‘trouble spots’, and not forgetting the short flight time to our friends in Qatar and Saudi Arabia.

It's the Carnival season in Cyprus, and Lent Monday (this year 18th March), celebrated as 'Green' or 'Clean' Monday, a Bank Holiday, how convenient. The bailout conditions will surely herald the start of some big changes, a big clear out for the country. How will others in the EU react?

 

 

 18/03/13  Update. According to Journo Tim Marshall, the Russians have offered to bailout BoC in exchange for 'exclusive control of the Cypriot gas reserves'! Is this true I wonder?

19/03/13  Update. Trading suspended, banks still closed...I laugh at the irony of this. Being a former employee within the financial sector and quite aware, like most, that buying Greek bonds was like signing a death warrant for the economy, the rich list in Cyprus must grin and bear it now. I hesitate to say it, but they saw this coming and did NOTHING.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trading-suspended-in-cyprus-amid-bailout-woes-2013-03-19?siteid=rss

I notice no mention of the money laundering, insider dealing, the dummy accounts, 'the old-boys' network, the scheming hedge fund managers, and the corruption that is the life-blood of Cyprus... Why should the ordinary man in the street have to pay for their crimes?

One... Two... Many Lone Gunmen?

Greg Rodriguez

John Noveske

Keith Ratliff

Who Are You?

How do you recognise discrimination?

More recent events in my life have caused me to re-think why I find myself in my current predicament. What am I doing with my life? Who am I? Stuck on a perpetual roller-coaster, I spin around, get flipped upside down, and pulled back up again through a daily slog of trying to find a meaningful existence.

It appears that the system is definitely against me.

As I complete endless job applications with my qualifications, who I’ve worked for, my age, marital status and number of children, I am confronted by a page of simply outrageous enquiries.

 

Sometimes it’s sixteen pages, sometimes it’s only thirteen. Before I sign and send my latest thesis length application, even for a minimum-wage-part-time job, I must answer some excessively probing questions.

 

These are designed to avoid discrimination, according to the U.K. government. Strangely, they seem to highlight the very things that once were supposed to be left out for fear of… discrimination.

 

1)      What is your Sexual Orientation?

 

 Are you = Lesbian/Gay, Heterosexual, Bisexual or Rather not say?

 

2)      What is your Religion/Religious Affiliation or Rather not say?

 

3)      Please describe your Ethnicity/Ethnic Origin – You should put a tick against the one you feel you belong to.

 

 WHITE = English/Welsh/Scottish/Northern Irish British or Irish or Gypsy or Irish Traveller or OTHER WHITE?

 

 MIXED = White and Black Caribbean or White and Black African, or White and Asian or OTHER MIXED?

 

 ASIAN OR ASIAN BRITISH = Indian or Pakistani or Bangladeshi or Chinese or OTHER ASIAN?

 

 BLACK OR BLACK BRITISH = Caribbean, African, OTHER BLACK?

 

 OTHER ETHNIC GROUP = Arab or OTHER ETHNIC GROUP or prefer not to say?

 

If other white/other mixed/other Asian/other black/other ethnic group (please supply details).

 

4)        Are you Romanian or Bulgarian? Please specify.

 

5)    Cultural Identification - Describe who you identify with (related to ethnicity).

 

6)        Are you a member of a Secret Society? If yes, please indicate which one.

 

7)        Are you a refugee from the Montserrat Volcano?

 



 

 

Rock n Rolling in it

Diamond meteorite 2010

Scientists put forward their idea on how to stop future asteroids from destroying the planet.

http://www.universetoday.com/100021/laser-blasting-system-could-blow-up-big-asteroids/

 

 

http://news.discovery.com/space/astronomy/diamond-meteorite-space.htm

 

 

'Diamonds Are Forever': When Bond investigates mysterious activities in the world diamond market, he discovers that the evil Ernst Blofeld is stockpiling the precious gems to use in a deadly laser satellite capable of destroying massive targets on land, sea and air. Bond, with the help of beautiful smuggler Tiffany Case, sets out to stop the madman, but first he must grapple with a host of enemies.



The Russians are swimming in diamonds apparently ...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2204566/Russia-diamonds-Source-Siberian-asteroid-crater-supply-world-markets-3-000-years.html



Brits 2013 Robbie Williams
Diamond Life

Oscars 2013

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/belgium/9882462/Mole-mastermind-sought-for-perfect-Brussels-diamond-heist.html

Armed robberies these days seem to mirror, or even presage, their mythical Hollywood effigies. Stealing with style seems to be the in-thing. Forget being a handy cracker with a stethoscope and immovable cast iron safe.

If you know how to open a Swiss Fokker 100 Airliner cargo hatch door, in just a few seconds, you could be rolling in it. This is what the Belgium police discovered earlier this week, when a highly-trained professional gang took just three minutes to hold up a Swiss passenger jet, before escaping into the night with $50 million worth of diamonds.

“Belgian police were baffled by a robbery that took place with precision, military timing and apparent insider knowledge, allowing the gang to aim for the delivery of a diamond consignment within a 15-minute time window. Wearing masks, hooded police anoraks and armed with machine guns equipped with laser sights, the robbers struck just before the aircraft was cleared for take-off."

They broke through Brussels’ airport perimeter fence, using a Mercedes and an Audi, around 20 minutes before the Helvetic Airways plane, bound for Zurich, was due to take off. They made a high-speed exit out the same hole they came in through, disappearing into the night. Because many of the diamonds were uncut, the chance of recovering them is slim.

You have to admire the audacity of these guys, pulling off a heist of this magnitude in a time-slot shorter than a cigarette break. Of course, stealing is wrong, but then, who isn’t stealing something somewhere everyday… the corporations, the elite bankers, the meat industry, and not forgetting our own government.

My dire financial straits have me thinking that maybe I should take a course in aircraft engineering, or hydraulic-seal manufacturing. You never know when something like that might come in handy!

If there are any rough diamonds out there going spare, well you know…


Icarus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1566_Icarus

Rag and Bone Men

What do Popes, horses, and bones, all have in common I wonder? On February 11^th Pope Benedict XVI announced his resignation, the first pope to do so in 600 years. Of course, it had nothing to do with any stolen private papers by an ex-secretary.

According to various researchers studying the ‘Prophesy of the Popes’, he is the last-but-one Pope ‘til the end of the world, ‘when the city on seven hills will be destroyed, and the terrible judge will judge his people’.

Ireland’s St Malachy, so we are told, prophesized that the last Pope to be appointed, before the great and dreadful day of the Lord, would be called ‘Petrus Romanus’. It’s interesting to note that two out of various contenders just happen to have Peter (Petrus) as a name. The Vatican is well-aware of the prophesy.

What fun the doomsayers will have with this one!

Talking of prophesy, February 11^th is also the anniversary of the day in 1858 that a young Bernadette Soubirous witnessed an apparition of the Virgin Mary who said, “Go drink in the spring and wash in its waters.”

In obedience Bernadette dug the ground with her hands and a previously unknown spring of water gushed out, becoming the largest Catholic pilgrimage shrine in Europe, at the small Pyrenees town of Lourdes, France.

The Vatican is quite versed in understanding prophesy, as Pope Benedict XVI explains in his writings on other famous ‘Marian visions’, such as those at Fatima, Portugal, on which he reviews the ‘Third Secret of Fatima’.

February 11^th is the birth date of Elizabeth of York (1465), that’s King Richard III (Bones in the car park fame – Shakespeare’s ‘A horse, a horse, my Kingdom for a horse’) niece, and Pope Gregory III election to the seat in 731. He’s the Pope responsible for outlawing Hippophagy (the eating of horse meat). According to Wilson’s Almanac, it’s also Alex Jones birthday.

 
Keeping it topical, the latest controversy to adorn cinema screens is the Hollywood propaganda film, Zero Dark Thirty. The word zero comes via the French zero, from the Venetian zero, which (together with cipher) comes via the Italian zefiro, from the Arabic ṣafira = "it was empty", ṣifr = "zero", "nothing". This was a translation of the Sanskrit word shoonya, meaning "empty".

Thirty is a square pyramidal number, and a double star in the constellation Pegasus. According to legend, everywhere the Ancient Greek Horse-God Pegasus struck his hoof to the earth, an inspiring spring burst forth.

Carl Jung and his followers have seen in Pegasus a profound symbolic esoteric in relation to the spiritual energy that allows access to the realm of the Gods of Olympus. (Wiki)

 

The Thirtieth Degree of the Southern Jurisdiction of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in Canada was known as Knight Kadosh. The term ‘Kadosh’is derived from the Hebrew word "קדוש", which means holy or consecrated. (Wiki)

What does all this translate to? A dark empty pit, or spring run dry, poisoned by the unclean practices of others? Defiling the sacred? A dark period of time that is about to befall the planet, destroying the human spirit? It could mean anything depending on your synchromystic leanings.
 

A final note… Pope, the horse (1806 – 29 August 1831), also known as Waxy Pope, was a thoroughbred racehorse that won the 1809 Epsom Derby, and was a leading sire in Ireland. Pope died on 29 August 1831 at a place called Clearwell!

Interesting Links for further reading:

http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/book/feb11.html

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:4DyBbYt8ic4J:www.arch.cam.ac.uk/~ml12/download/hippophagy.pdf+hippophagy&hl=en&gl=uk&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESgiUYTpSsSDigo8vEkwDliozGO_NdBAlEFLvqDv2ix8QTBETBhHQgI_AuMOLcJdNnZ9e0kySoIaeSjcvQHI2gNQjcBz_h0tomfyQufwSG762eSVIUKecchmn_69G54N6F5HRaYQ&sig=AHIEtbSvuvhgyyBswvvJa1uAq6H2PCePbQ

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2011/10/slaughtering_horses_for_meat_is_banned_in_the_u_s_why_.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_glue

 

 

African Queen Rocks the Kasbah Boat

The recent news of the abdication of the Queen of the Netherlands prompted me to recall an old blog post of my meeting with Willem-Alexander, Prince of Orange, heir to the throne of the Kingdom of the Netherlands (and his mother Queen Beatrix 60% share in Royal Dutch Shell).

From the news we read that, “Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, the oldest reigning Dutch monarch, announced her abdication on Monday evening in a sudden move three days before her 75th birthday. After 33 years on the throne Beatrix said she would relinquish the crown at the end of April. The abdication secures the Dutch throne for Crown-Prince Willem-Alexander at the age of 45.”

I read about the vast wealth that the continent has afforded to the Netherlands, and the many kingdoms that came before it. I wondered if there is some connection between the tragedies befalling the clan and the reasons behind her abdication. The unassuming Prince (as he was) and the power and riches he is about to inherit, along with the Bilderberg pass.

Really quickly I came across a nice picture, courtesy of Ashlee Buczek, of the African Queen in Mali. So, like all ‘there’s no such thing as coincidence’ mantras, North Africa suddenly appeared to sway to the synchronistic beat. After the recent Mali interventions, and the Algerian hostage crisis, I wonder if the Queen has decided to jump ship.

http://ashleebuczek.blogspot.co.uk/

Meeting ATT the President of Mali in Dec. 2011

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/dec/14/shell-bp-potential-takeover-oil

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_War

 

Orange is the colour, Beatrix is her name! The crowds cheer in their currently high-sync wigs, before the fatal car crash ‘attack’ that missed the royals in 2009.

 

King Mansa Musa of Mali, once the richest man in the world

http://diasporicroots.tumblr.com/post/40186160722/mansa-musa-one-of-the-richest-men-who-ever-lived