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Germany Will NEVER Leave the Eurozone—Because It Can’t

From GonzaloLira, October 3, 2011:

There’s No Upside, Only Downside

Late last week, there was a spike in random speculation that the German government was preparing to exit the eurozone—and that in fact, the Germans had gone so far as to print new Deutsche mark bills and mint new Deutsche mark coins.

Several alternative news sites, including Zero Hedge and others, gave serious credence to this rumor—enough credence that the euro took a hit against the dollar and gold.

But at the end of the day, it was just random speculation from one Dr. Philippa Malmgren, who was interviewed by a Swedish newspaper as saying “My impression is that the German Government sent us a number of signals that, from their perspective there is no other solution [than for them to leave the euro].”

This random speculation—coupled with last year’s random speculation from Hartgeld.com, a German fringe site that claimed with absolute certainty that on May 12, 2010, the Germans would for sure go back to the Deutsche mark, having already printed and minted the new bills and coins—gave the Malmgren nonsense some legs.

The fact of the rumor is no big deal—there are always rumors.

The fact that the financial community took such nonsense so seriously points to the big deal in this situation—the underlying worry that a lot of market participants are fearing: What if the Germans all of a sudden cry, “Fuckit!”, and let slip the bonds of the eurozone?

Can they leave the eurozone?

Sure they can—anything is possible. But is it likely that the Germans will leave the eurozone?

In a word, no—because they are a creditor nation.

According to Bundesbank figures, Germany’s current account surplus for 2010 was €141 billion, with net capital exports of about €131; 2011 figures seem on track to match those amounts.

Suppose the Germans decided to exit the euro and go into the new Deutsche mark: What would happen to the euro?

Answer: The euro would drop like a rock—against anything and everything. Gold, silver, the dollar, the yen—since Germany is such a key component of the EMU’s overall balance of trade and balance of payments, Germany exiting would be catastrophic.

It would also be catastrophic for the Germans.

If Germany exited the euro and went into the new Deutsche mark, then the new-DM would rise against the euro—so therefore, German euro-denominated assets would take a massive hit.

After all, those German euro-denominated assets would remain in euros: They would not magically be converted into new Deutsche marks. Germany’s creditors—Greece, Spain, Italy, France, etc.—would owe Germany euros, not new Deutsche marks.

So they would pay Germany in euros—which would have fallen against the new Deutsche mark.

Thus Germany would take a massive hit on its capital exports, if it decided to exit the euro. The hit would be greater than a default, because debt default would be selective (Greece, Spain, maybe Italy), whereas euro devaluation against the new Deutsche mark would be across the board: Every loan Germany had made would be devalued by the degree that the new Deutsche mark rose against the euro.

Now if that is the negative of Germany exiting the eurozone, then surely there must be a positive—right?

Actually, there isn’t: Germany would not gain anything, by exiting the eurozone and going to the new Deutsche mark. It might make some local political hay—but the German population would quickly see the tremendous cost they had inflicted upon themselves. And the benefit—aside from German chest-thumping—would be nil.

Germany doesn’t have a problem with the euro—it’s the other countries that are screwed because of it. If Germany exits the European Monetary Union, they would essentially be shooting themselves in the foot.

What We Have To Worry About

Not Germany—they won’t ever leave the eurozone. What we have to worry about is that Germany will not let other nations exit the eurozone.

As a creditor nation, Germany wants to make sure that the countries that owe it money pay it back—and pay it back in the currency (and valuation of that currency) that they lent it out at.

If a country—say Greece—were to exit the eurozone and go back to a local currency, it might find it tempting—not to say politically expedient—to convert all debts from euros into the local currency. This could be easily done, by government diktat.

If this were done by Greece, they could convert all debts denominated in euros into debts denominated in New Drachmas, by a simple government decree—then devalue these New Drachmas, thereby making the euro debts less painful to the country and to the people.

This event would not technically be a default—after all, there would be no haircuts, let alone debt repudiation. But the creditor—Germany—would get screwed.

Nobody likes getting screwed unless its by a supermodel in a grungy club bathroom. Thus Germany has every incentive in the world to not only refuse to renegotiate sovereign debts, but also do everything in its power to keep these debtor nations in the eurozone.

The issue at this point in time is, Will the Germans allow a little debt relief in order to keep the weaker nations inside the eurozone? Or will they rape them so badly via austerity measures and intransigence, that they essentially force the weaker economies—Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain, Italy—into exiting the European Monetary Union, going to local currencies, and then devaluing?

This is the crucible the weak European nations find themselves in: Waiting on Germany's decision.

This post originally appeared in The Strategic Planning Group. If you are interested, check out the SPG preview page.

Occupy Wall Street: A Globalist Op Designed to Destroy Efforts to End the Fed

By Kurt Nimmo
Infowars.com, October 2, 2011


A couple days after the initial launch of the Occupy Wall Street protests, Infowars.com received an email taking us to task for attributing the movement to Anonymous, the activist hacker group.

How can a movement originated and funded by globalists end the globalist scheme to enslave the world?


“There is one major inaccuracy in all the coverage that has been bothering me, and that is the focus on Anonymous as the architects and organizers of the event,” an email received September 23 states. “The initial call for the protest was put out by the magazine Adbusters.”
The person, who shall remain nameless at this point – since I have not gained his permission to quote the private email he sent to me – is not merely a bystander or an outsider making an observation. He claims to be intimately connected to the movement through the General Assembly of New York, described as the central planning and organizing committee for the protest. His Facebook page reveals he is indeed connected to Occupy Wall Street.
The Adbusters Media Foundation describes itself as a non-profit “anti-consumerist” organization that functions as "a global network of artists, activists, writers, pranksters, students, educators and entrepreneurs who want to advance the new social activist movement of the information age."
Like many so-called leftist non-profits, Adbusters is a creature of globalist foundations. According to research conducted by Activistcash.com, Adbusters takes money from a number of supposedly progressive foundations, including the big Kahuna of leftish foundations – the Tides Foundation and Tides Center. Between 1996 and 2003, Tides doled out $334,217.00 to Adbusters, by far the largest amount of eight foundations donating.
Steve Baldwin claims Tides received over $7 million from George Soros. Although the monetary connection between Tides’ founder Drummond Pike and the arch globalist Soros is somewhat murky, researcher Ron Arnold has mapped out numerous connections between the two so-called philanthropists. Under IRS rules, Drummond is not obliged to reveal who he receives money from to fund a large number of supposedly progressive organizations.
“The Tides Foundation is a pass-through for other foundations’ money,” writes Arnold. “Tides Foundation is a public charity, not a private foundation. Tides Foundation passes other foundations’ money to a spectrum of left-wing organizations which the original donors would not or could not support on their own… Because none of the more than 260 projects under the Tides umbrella files its own Form 990 with the IRS, their finances are totally secret and not available for public inspection, an issue that requires congressional remedy.”
The Dj Osiris blog adds further detail: “It would seem George Soros is connected to the U.S. Day of Rage aka Occupy Wall Street through The Ruckus Society. On the U.S. Day of Rage website. The Ruckus Society receives funding from the Tides Foundation and George Soros’ Open Society Institute provides grants to Tides, including a mere $4.2 Million in 2008, the last year figures are available.”
As the filmmaker Michael Moore admitted to We Are Change activist and journalist Luke Rudkowski last week, the goal of the movement funded in large part with globalist lucre is to attack and dismantle capitalism. Moore discounted out of hand any effort to end the Federal Reserve and return the nation to sound and honest money controlled by the American people, not a cartel of bankers and oligarchs from the financial class, including George Soros.
Instead of addressing issues that will solve the serious social and political problems created by fractional reserve banking and other scams run by the ruling elite, the Soros lubricated anti-capitalist movement will steer popular outrage and political reaction into fireproof channels that can be controlled by globalist forces behind the curtain.
On the so-called right side of the political spectrum, a similar operation was carried out against the Libertarian Tea Party movement, now largely a cheering section and amen choir for the establishment Republican Party that is dominated by neocon personalities such as Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann, and the political cameleon and former Gore operative Rick Perry.
The Occupy Wall Street movement, funded by globalist foundations – and increasingly receiving sympathetic coverage by the corporate media, at least its “liberal” wing – is now describing itself as a gathering of “descamisados” (impoverished, landless) arrayed against the “estancieros” (land owners), a class warfare reference made popular in Argentina.
In reality, it is another consolidation of wealth program designed by the elite. Warren Buffet may take to the pages of the New York Times and call for taxing the “rich,” but what he is advocating is in essence a wealth consolidation program.
The ruling elite, their banks and transnational corporations do not pay taxes, the little people do, as Leona Helmsely arrogantly noted. Increasing taxes on the “1 percent,” as the movement demands, to save the “99 percent,” will result in a further erosion of the middle class, as the elite know.
“The higher taxes may very well cause the smaller businesses to go out of business,” notes the Collateral Damage blog. “They won’t have the economies of scale to compete with the bigger corporations, so what ends up happening is that the small business assets eventually get sold to the big corporations, usually for a fraction of what the assets are worth. So in effect, it ends up being a wealth transfer from the middle class to the super elite rich.”
If we look beyond the facile socialist rhetoric and examine who is funding and essentially running the Occupy Wall Street movement – the “liberal” foundations with the same globalist goal as their supposed ideological enemies on the so-called right (who defused the real Tea Party movement) – we realize that the movement is essentially another effort to colonize political opposition and render it ineffective and politically impotent.
The real movement, and the one posing a serious threat to the “1 percent,” the global elite, is calling for an end to the Federal Reserve, a return to the core principles of our once proud constitutional republic, and sound, honest money not controlled by the elite and the financial sector now tasked with taking down the economy and reducing America to a third-world wasteland.

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Carbon credits tarnished by human rights 'disgrace'

(This is what the carbon taxes they extort us are used to pay. It would have been better some degrees more of temp, if the anthropogenic global warming hoax were not just another matrix of b/s made to rob us blind and commit further genocidal land grabs).
See also: British Corporation Mass Murdering Ugandans in UN Sanctioned Land Grab


From Euractive, 03 October 2011


The reported killing of 23 Honduran farmers in a dispute with the owners of UN-accredited palm oil plantations in Honduras is forcing the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) executive board to reconsider its stakeholder consultation processes.

Aguán farmers allegedly killed by private militias

In Brussels, the Green MEP Bas Eickhout called the alleged human rights abuses "a disgrace", and told EurActiv he would be pushing the European Commission to bar carbon credits from the plantations from being traded under the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

Several members of the CDM board have been "personally distressed" by the events in Bajo Aguán, northern Honduras, according to the board's chairman, Martin Hession, who said they had "caused us great difficulties."
"Plainly, the events that have been described are deplorable," he told EurActiv. "There is no excuse for them."
But because they took place after the CDM's stakeholder consultations had been held, and fell outside the board's primary remit to investigate emissions reductions and environmental impacts, it had been powerless to block project registrations.
Another board member told EurActiv that Aguán was a "hot potato," which struck at the heart of the emissions trading scheme's integrity. "We all regret the situation extremely," he said.


Human rights abuses
At issue are the reported murders of 23 local farmers who tried to recover land, which they say was illegally sold to big palm oil plantations, such as Grupo Dinant, in a country scarred by widespread human rights abuses.
In July, a report by an International Fact Finding Mission was presented to the European Parliament's Human Rights Sub-committee, alleging that 23 peasants, one journalist and his partner, had all been murdered in the Bajo Aguán region, between January 2010 and March 2011.
The deaths were facilitated by the "direct involvement of private security guards from some of the local companies who are complicit with police and military officials," the report said.
In some cases it cited "feigned accidents" in which peasants were run over by security guards working for two named palm oil businessmen. In other cases, the farmers were simply shot, or "disappeared". 
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will be holding a hearing into the report on 24 October, and a delegation of MEPs will be visiting the region between 31 October and 4 November.
But because of a three-year gap between the stakeholder consultation process and the biogas project approvals, the CDM board recently ruled that the project had met the criteria of its mandate.
"We are not investigators of crimes," a board member told EurActiv. "We had to take judgements within our rules – however regretful that may be – and there was not much scope for us to refuse the project. All the consultation procedures precisely had been obeyed."
Last week, Hession submitted proposals to a CDM board meeting in Quito, Ecuador, addressing the time-lag between project consultations and registrations.
The CDM secretariat is also preparing an analysis report for a UN meeting next year, and a report on the CDM's integrity is expected to be published later this month.
But carbon credits from the plantations can still be freely traded on the EU ETS, which allows polluters to offset their carbon emissions by nominally clean energy investments.
Charities like the Lutheran World Federation are particularly concerned, as they say the situation in Bajo Aguán is deteriorating.
"There are worrying signs that the Honduran government is moving 1200 police officers and military personnel into the area," Toni Sandell a rights worker with the Christian NGO Aprodev told EurActiv. "That has previously been a source of conflict."
Other human rights workers in the region claim linkages between Honduran state forces and the landowner's militias they protect, which are said to have connections to local narco-traffickers.


EU urged to act
Green MEPs have been moved to demand that Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard act now against carbon credits from the Honduran palm oil plantations.
"As a big buyer [of carbon credits], as an EU, we can say that these kind of human rights allegations are so fundamental that we will not allow them to be bought," the Green MEP Bas Eickhout told EurActiv.
"We should throw these Honduran projects out of the system," he added, "as we did with the HFC 23s."
Martin Hession said that he felt "extreme sympathy" for Eickhout's suggestion but was concerned that the EU might not have optimal resources to effectively investigate rights violations.
"Ideally human rights problems need to be dealt with through the appropriate channels of the UN," he told EurActiv. "But there may well be structures in the EU which could deal with the issue," he said.  
Eickhout held a meeting on integrity in the carbon market at the European Parliament last week, which he described as a "launch pad" for putting Aguán on the Parliament's agenda and "building up pressure on the Commission to come forward with new proposals". 
An official with the European Commission's directorate-general for Energy told EurActiv that including human rights in the criteria for assessing CDM projects would be "very difficult".
"You can say that 'human rights' means the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights and check every project for compliance, but I think that takes us very far and the practicalities of it would be very difficult," he said.
For now, business continues as usual in Aguán and the world's carbon markets, despite the "systemic and grave human rights violations" noted by the International Fact Finding Mission. 
"If this is really a direct consequence of Europe's climate policies then I would like to send my sincere apologies to the people of Honduras," Bas Eickhout said.
"The CDM is supposed to be offering environmental benefits and sustainable development but these kinds of stories are really terrible. I don't want to hear them anymore."  


Arthur Neslen

Next steps: 

• 24 Oct.: The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will hold a hearing into the International Fact Finding report
• 31 Oct.- 4 Nov.: A delegation of European MEP's will visit the region
• October: EU report on CDM integrity to be published

External Links

European Union

• European Commission: Linking the EU ETS to other Emissions Trading Systems and incentives for international credits

International Organisations

• International Fact Finding Mission: Report: Human Rights Violations in Bajo Aguán
• UNFCCC CDM Executive Board

NGOs and Think-Tanks

• Lutheran World Federation: LWF urges UN human rights presence in Honduras

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