Rouble Nationalization – the Way to Russia’s Freedom. Nikolay Starikov
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There is no conspiracy, but if we speak the language of practical results, the consequences are as if there has been a conspiracy.
When the heroes go off the stage, the clowns come on.
What do we know about the world around us? Only what we see, hear and read. Knowledge comes together with information and knowledge is followed by understanding. Everyone deals quite well with everyday problems. Everyone knows that if the sky is overcast with clouds, it is going to rain. And that means that one should take an umbrella or not even leave home in the first place. Any adult knows that if food is left on the table, and it is warm in the room, it will go off. Everyone knows not to put fingers into a socket or jump off high buildings onto driving cars, like Hollywood film characters. But there are fields of human activity where practically no one understands the way things work. And I do not mean nuclear physics or the structure of Universe. I mean the sphere that nearly everyone uses, knows of it existence and yet will not be able to answer even the simplest questions regarding the way it functions.
Maybe, ordinary people do not even need this understanding? Why burden oneself? We do use TV sets, microwave ovens and digital cameras. But when asked how an image can be transferred with the help of numbers, or what waves rage in that little box and make things warm up, few people will be able to give a coherent answer. It is not that things feel more useful if we do not know how exactly they work, is it?
Yes. Heating up a sandwich without knowing how a microwave oven works, is possible.
Yet establishing a prosperous state while not understanding the principles of the modern world order is impossible. Similarly, all attempts to build one's own prosperity in a world where everything is in accordance with definite, logical but concealed laws, not knowing the basic principles of today's world, would be like sand castles. The rules are set, the game has been on for a while. But no one announces the rules. On the contrary, other players are trying to convince us that we are competing in ballet, while it is actually ultimate fighting. Imagine the following situation: a tennis player has arrived at a competition. He is holding a racket, wearing a baseball cap and he has tennis balls in his pockets. And only when he is already on what should be a tennis court, he realises that it is not a lawn but ice, as at an ice rink. And his opponent looks a bit strange: he is wearing new skates and a helmet and is holding a stick. How long can the tennis player withstand the hockey player if they are actually playing hockey?
The conclusion is easy to make: one must understand what game one is playing, who the opponents are and what the rules are. Otherwise, one is bound to be defeated. Otherwise, at a national level one can easily play Gorbachev's part. He became the best German of all times and ruined his own country at the same time. He helped Germany reunite and a year later tore his motherland apart![12]
One has to be an idiot to cut down the size of the army and reduce the weapons in exchange for beautiful promises![13] And all of this served under the pretty sauce of 'world peace', 'disarmament' and 'elimination of the nuclear threat'. Everything was given up. The leaders of the USSR gave up the country's allies, its army its bases and then the country itself was given up as well as its citizens who all of a sudden found themselves in what was now a foreign country. And what happened in the end? Did the world become more secure? Did the main opponent, the USA together with NATO, disarm? How much blood has been shed in wars since then?
This is what incompetence and lack of judgement in political leaders may cause. Their good intentions to establish peace for everyone lead to wars and catastrophes because rivalry and political struggle were never cancelled. And therefore there is a sphere that everyone needs to understand, even if it seems too difficult and one does not feel like it. Even if one does not want to think about it or it is hard to believe in it. Because common ignorance will eventually concern everyone, and even if it does not concern yourself, it will concern your children. In any form. In the best case scenario, ordinary people will buy dollars as they get more expensive again and will start selling euros when they get cheaper. For their future retirement allowance they will buy shares that by the time they actually retire will cost nothing. In the worst case scenario a tank strike will shatter their house and an explosion in the underground will take their lives or health…
Politics and finances. These are the spheres of human life that require knowing at least the basic principles, otherwise it may incur real damage to human life. Finances today have brought politics to heel, have replaced politics with themselves. Not understanding this sphere may destroy peoples and countries. Today's world is based on finances, it lives among finances and is controlled by them. Therefore, dear reader, you will have to examine modern currencies. There is no moving on without it.
The financial world is not a group of geeks in front of computers, it is not polite clerks in banks and not even traders at stock exchanges. The financial world is aircraft carriers, nuclear-powered submarines, tanks, fighters and helicopters. It is infiltrators and assassins, snipers and spies, politicians and public figures. And all of that is only needed to preserve the existing financial order of the planet, to retain their dominance and even assert it. The most interesting thing is that despite clear physical signs of such world order, most people do not even have a slightest idea how everything functions. And those who dominate, those who created this theatre of the absurd, need exactly that.
In order to understand what is happening around you today, you have to realise three things, and they should be understood in combination.
1. The keystone of the modern financial world is the dominant part of the dollar. That means that all prices in world economy are only defined in dollars. Oil, gas, gold, aluminium etc. are only sold for dollars. All natural resources, all metals and all their derivatives. That means that it is in dollars that prices for production are defined. To put it short, everything, nearly everything that is sold at the global market, is only sold for dollars. This is how world economy works. If you want to buy gas or nickel – get your dollars out. It is impossible to buy them for euros or Norwegian Kroner. You have to exchange your currency for dollars. And that means creating extra demand for them.
And that is not all.
2. Not only is the dollar the main means of payment in todays international trade but it is also the main means of savings. And by that it is not private savings of people around the world that are meant but savings of countries themselves. The so-called gold and foreign currency reserves. Whichever country you take – it will have less gold in the reserves than currency[14] Therefore it would be more sensible to call such reserves foreign currency and gold ones.[15] But you had better get used to it – in the financial mirror-world all terms are designed to confuse the situation rather than make things clear.
3. It is not the United States of America but a private institution called the Federal Reserve System of the USA that issues the main currency of the world.[16] Private initiative has nothing to do with it. The US dollar just does not belong to the USA. The fact that the dollar is issued by a private institution is even stated on the dollar bill. But who reads that? Meanwhile, it says everything quite clearly. No one hides anything. American money says nowadays: Federal Reserve Note.
You are not holding a US dollar, you are holding a dollar of the Federal Reserve System.[17] But this strange situation has not always existed in the USA. It will soon be 100 years since the American government decided to privatise emission of the dollar. The Fed was established in December 1913, when President Wilson signed the Federal Reserve Act.[18] When money was issued by the Government and not by a private institution, dollar bills said a different thing: United States Note. Can you feel the difference? There used to be state money (bills) and now there is corporate money (bills). But, alas, there is no state money in the USA any more.
Even on the Federal Reserve official website you will find public information
Gorbatchev's achievements in German reunification are enormous and undeniable. It is not for nothing that he was conferred with a title of 'the best German. The thing is that he was the one who insisted on the scenario that was realised in reality. Germany's allies in NATO – Great Britain and the USA – vehemently opposed to the restoration of Germany's unity. A certain interim period was suggested. The Anglo-Saxons have always been afraid of independent and strong Germany, and this argument will have importance in their policy as long as Germany is powerful. And having done so much good for the Germans, Gorbatchev did as much bad for Russians. As of today, the Russian people is the most numerous divided people not only in Europe but in the whole world! There are Russians left beyond the borders of Russia and Belorussians and Ukrainians, that are not three 'fraternal' peoples but one people. A unified country was cut into pieces, a unified people was divided. So, why is Gorbatchev so disliked in his motherland?
The Germans were mad with happiness and were ready to sign any conditions of reunification. Including leaving NATO for the unified FRG. Gorbatchev took their word for it. When, a bit later, withdrawal of Russian troops from the former GDR was discussed, Germany was ready to pay any amount as compensation. And this is understandable – how much does it cost to unify a people? No amount of money can be excessive here. Gorbatchev refused to take the money although the USSR had to take loans from the West at the time. As a result the troops were withdrawn into the fields. Why hurry? The troops needed to be withdrawn slowly, to make sure that unified Germany was neutral and kept to its obligation on leaving NATO. Nothing better than a 100,000 strong army has been invented to control politicians over keeping their promises.
The share of gold in the Russian gold and foreign currency reserves is less than 10%.
We mean countries whose currencies are not considered reserve currencies. More information on this system below.
This organisation has many names – FRB, The Federal Reserve, The Federal Reserve System, The Fed etc.
We will speak of peculiarities of the dollar, its history and its numerous varieties in one of the chapters of this book.
Or Act of December 23, 1913 / http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/Federies/Federi.htm.