We will no doubt look back upon the current era as the “crime of the century” for so many different reasons.…Central to everything is the U.S. issuing the global reserve currency by fiat knowing full well it truly means “non payment”. The absolute cornerstone to the dollar retaining confidence and thus value has been the suppression of the price of gold.
After nearly six years of negotiations, trade ministers recently announced they had reached agreement on the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. This does not mean the TPP is a done deal. The next hurdle for this rigged corporate power grab is to convince the participating governments, including Congress, to ratify it.
Ukraine won’t cut its defense budget next year. On Thursday, Secretary of National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksandr Turchynov Turchynov said that “despite all difficulties, the spending on security and defense must not decrease.”
Vladimir Putin took part in the final plenary session of the 12th annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club. Here is Vladimir Putin’s Address to the Valdai conference: “Societies Between War and Peace: Overcoming the Logic of Conflict in Tomorrow’s World”.
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