Simmering Hope

If you think that the bank account confiscation happening in Cyprus is not going to happen here in Canada, you better think twice.

Harper Government included some interesting proposals for the next ‘Economic Action Plan 2013’, presented on March 21, 2013 in the House of Commons.

This is what Minister Flaherty has declared:
“As always, our Government’s top priority is jobs, growth and long-term prosperity,” said Minister Flaherty. “Those who took part in this year’s consultations can be assured that their ideas are being carefully considered as we develop Economic Action Plan 2013 in this difficult and uncertain global economic environment.” Source: http://www.actionplan.gc.ca/en/news/harper-government-announces-date-economic-action.

In the mean time, the Economic Action Plan 2013 paints a different image
“The Government proposes to implement a “bail-in” regime for systemically important banks. This regime will be designed to ensure that, in the unlikely event that a systemically important bank depletes its capital, the bank can be recapitalized and returned to viability through the very rapid conversion of certain bank liabilities into regulatory capital”

I wonder what is the meaning of ‘bail-in’? What are the ‘certain bank liabilities’? Would they get the regulatory capital via our saving accounts?

What if one morning we wake up reading that Canada adopted the new proposed European Parliament law stating that “Deposits below 100,000 euros are protected … deposits above 100,000 euros are not protected and shall be treated as part of the capital that can be bailed in,” Hokmark told Reuters, adding that he was confident a majority of his peers in the parliament backed the idea.
The European Commission has written the draft of the law, which now awaits approval from eurozone member states and the parliament on whether and when it can be implemented. It’s been reported, the law is planned to take effect in the beginning of 2015.

Interesting times to come.

For some time I was thinking that it must be a connection between the so called ‘rogue’ nations with state owned central banks (as opposed to Rothschild controlled ones) and the military interventions over there.

Remember the false flag about the weapon of mass destruction in Iraq?
Back in time, Iraq considered moving from petrodollar to petroeuro. Would that have been sufficient to grant the attacking of the country? Well, considering the implications of such an act on American’s economy, the answer is yes. therefore the spin doctors started working on the ‘weapons of mass distruction’ scenario and the rest is history.

Moving on to Libya.
Back in March 2011, Patric Henningsen wrote a very interesting article ‘Globalists Target 100% State Owned Central Bank of Libya’ in which he stipulets the following:

‘Eric V. Encina writes: One seldom mentioned fact by western politicians and media pundits: the Central Bank of Libya is 100% State Owned. The world’s globalist financiers and market manipulators do not like it and would continue to their on-going effort to dethrone Muammar Muhammad al-Gaddafi, bringing an end to Libya as independent nation.

Currently, the Libyan government creates its own money, the Libyan Dinar, through the facilities of its own central bank. Few can argue that Libya is a sovereign nation with its own great resources, able to sustain its own economic destiny. One major problem for globalist banking cartels is that in order to do business with Libya, they must go through the Libyan Central Bank and its national currency, a place where they have absolutely zero dominion or power-broking ability. Hence, taking down the Central Bank of Libya (CBL) may not appear in the speeches of Obama, Cameron and Sarkozy but this is certainly at the top of the globalist agenda for absorbing Libya into its hive of compliant nations.
When the smoke eventually clears from all the cruise missiles and cluster bombs, you will see the Allied reformers move in to reform Libya’s monetary system, pumping it full of worthless dollars, priming it for a series of chaotic inflationary cycles.’

So let’s recap: Libya had oil and a state owned central bank with about 144 tons of gold in its vaults (according to International Monetary Fund). Look at Libya now. If nothing else, they have the Central Bank of Benghazi which is NOT state controlled.

Currently there are 5 countries with state controlled central banks: Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria.

Countries that became controlled by the global bank cartels: Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and South Sudan.

Under Chavez, Venezuela payed off all debt to the IMF and world bank in 2007 and it is now debt free.

Taking into account all of the above, is it reasonably safe to argue that the alleged use of Syria’s chemical weapons against its citizens, it’s a false flag?

To be honest, I don’t know what to believe anymore. Probably the truth is somewhere in the middle.

Hospital receptionist who put the Australian pranksters’ call through, dies in suspected suicide

According to Daily Mail “A receptionist at the private hospital which treated the Duchess of Cambridge has died in a suspected suicide – two days after being duped by an amateurish hoax from an Australian radio station.
The woman’s unconscious body was found at an address yards away from King Edward VII Hospital, where she worked, just before 9.30am today.
The emergency services were called and two ambulances were despatched to the central London residence”

I wonder if the DJs in case are proud of themselves now. They were playing with somebody’s life, as they could not have known the emotional state of the person in case.
Regardless the reasons she took her life, the point of origin was the phone call. So, people, stop defending the pranksters! Not everything in life is ‘ha-ha funny!’.
True, she made the mistake of falling to the dupe; maybe English was not her mother tongue, maybe she had many other issues to deal with, maybe she was severely disciplined for the mistake (apparently the hospital denied that). It does not matter why she outed herself. What it does matter is the creepy way of making fun of an unfortunate situation, which was the severe morning sickness the Duchess of Cambridge suffered from.

Our world is going to the crappers, that’s for sure. Still not convinced? Take a look at the next headline:

Silvio Berlusconi set to run again to become Italian prime minister

According to The Telegraph “”Berlusconi is determined to run again and he believes millions of Italians will vote for him,” an insider in Mr Berlusconi’s People of Freedom Party told The Daily Telegraph.”

Seriously? the best option for Italy right now is to have the old crook running the country again? What was so stellar about Berlusconi’ previous performance I wonder? And no, I am not talking about his sexual encounters.

Moving on with the headlines:

Magnitude 7.3 Earthquake, off the east coast of Honshu, Japan

Even if people were urged to move to higher ground, it does not look like it’s going to have the devastating effects of the 2011 one, which had a magnitude of 9.0.

At this point the most important thing is the safety of Fukushima. And according to Reuters ‘The U.N. atomic agency said it had been informed by Japanese authorities that no problems had been detected at nuclear power plants in the region nearest to the epicentre of Friday’s earthquake.

A 7.3 magnitude quake centred off northeastern Japan shook buildings as far away as Tokyo and triggered a one-metre tsunami in an area devastated by last year’s Fukushima disaster, but there were no reports of deaths or serious damage”

More Mother Nature purging?
Death toll from Philippines typhoon climbs past 500

“The death toll from the storm has surpassed 500, with more than 400 people missing.

More than 310,000 people have lost their homes since Typhoon Bopha struck Tuesday and are crowded inside evacuation centers or staying with their relatives, relying on food and emergency supplies being rushed in by government agencies and aid groups”

Now that Parti Québécois won the elections, they have a minority government. I wonder where that would leave them regarding the referendum for independence.

I don’t even know what to say, other than I am so fed up with all their shenanigans, that I might be content with them leaving the Confederation. All this separation crap is getting old and stinky. The main question is : Why now? Since 2008 the whole world seems to be going to the crapper; amid so many global financial problems, Canada was more or less safe. Why is PQ trying again to destabilize Canada now? Is Canada set up for a fall? Did Canada piss off EU by not agreeing to contribute to bailing out failing economies of Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, etc?

A somebody/nobody from Quebec, with big separatism dreams and full of bull shit otherwise, was questioning if Canada would survive if the next separatism referendum in Quebec wins.

I am not able to eloquently explain why an independent Quebec may be a bad idea for them, rather than for us, therefore I am going to present the explanation given by a poster on abovetopsecret ( I corrected the wrong spelling)

Question: What would be the implications if Quebec separate?

Answer: provided by poster “vox2442”; a member of AboveTopSecret.com, in thread: A new country in North America? What do Canadians and Americans make of this?; and this full link URL to the post: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread877512/pg6#pid14894734.

Implications? OK.

1) The immediate death of the Quebec economy.

Upon exiting Canada, Quebec exits every trade pact negotiated by the federal government. Might take a few years to get established with the WTO, after the UN recognition of course. In the mean time, Quebec has no economic protection, no bargaining strength, no international credit, and no means of extracting debt money from creditors.

Furthermore, Quebec will lose the billions invested in Quebec based R&D, industry loans, credit guarantees - all of the things that have supported the growth of the Quebec economy since the end of the 2nd world war.

Foreign investment will be the key to survival - but with a population of only 8 million, there’s not much of a point in training the mandatory French speaking staff. Much easier to just export goods to Quebec - and much more profitable, because they can’t complain to the WTO about price gouging, unfair trade practices (no trade pacts), and so on. Look forward to $5.00/liter gas, for example - and you *know* they’ll charge it if they can even slightly get away with it.

And then of course there’s the fact that you’re currently running a 20 billion dollar trade deficit and have a public debt in excess of $200 billion - most of which is to the Government of Canada. Plus your share of the Canadian National Debt, which will surely be demanded

2) The immediate isolation of Quebec from the rest of the world.

The Canadian government is currently responsible for the operation and control of Quebec’s international borders and points of entry (airports, port facilities). Until Quebec can rectify that situation with the TSA, DHS, and a bunch of other US agencies, look forward to at least a year of the US border being sealed and heavily patrolled. Likewise, with no oversight from Transport Canada, no international flights from Quebec will be possible until infrastructure, treaties and other international agreements are in place.

Air Canada will see no more subsidy money for flights inside Quebec, so look forward to paying whatever the hell they want you to pay to get around. Likewise Via.

There is no reason to assume that the borders with the rest of Canada will remain as open as they are today. You can expect that there will be a lot of public pressure from the rest of Canada to adopt a system similar to the one currently in operation with the USA. Minus the trade agreements, at least for the first few years. After all, with no security in place at the various ports, who can be sure that the terrorists aren’t going to storm in to North America via Quebec?

3) Loss of protection

The Canadian military will be gone completely overnight. Likewise the RCMP and CSIS. Police funding will dry up with the transfer payments. And remember - no one’s opening the borders until you’ve got your policing under control.

4) Loss of territory.

This is a big one, and the one that no one in Quebec really wants to face up to. Canada has no obligation to release the Province of Quebec as it stands to a new, independent Quebec. the most likely scenario is that Quebec will be able to negotiate for a package slightly larger than what was Quebec’s at Confederation - minus the St Lawrence Seaway (crown possession, sorry.). Native land claims will need to be addressed within that smaller package of land as well. With no military to stop the Canadian Government, look forward to pretty much everything north of Chibougamau being occupied and nationalized, followed by an open invitation to settle things at the Hague, once your membership in the ICJ has been confirmed, of course.

5) The extinction of Quebec’s distinct culture inside of a generation.

Why?

Currently the industries and agencies that exist solely to promote Quebec culture in and out of Quebec are funded directly or indirectly by the Canadian government. With Quebec out of Canada, that funding will vanish - and a population of 8 million simply is not enough to warrant special attention from any outside investor. Look forward to TV dominated by dubbed US sitcoms (all your stations will be able to afford), the death of your film industry, and the further death of Quebec music. Canadians will no longer feel the need to study French in schools, and will turn their attention to more relevant global languages - Chinese and Spanish, more than likely. With a lack of French speaking trade partners, Quebec schools will be forced to put more emphasis on learning English to compete - or did you think the Americans were going to learn French all of a sudden? Say goodbye to Federal museum funding, and everything else that props up Quebec culture in and out of Quebec.

Those are the immediate implications that I can think of, off the top of my head.

Separation is a suicide worthy of a Darwin Award.

If you are trying to understand what’s going on in the Persian Gulf, keep reading the following article.

The U.S.-Saudi Dilemma: Iran’s Reshaping of Persian Gulf Politics is republished with permission of STRATFOR.

Abstract from the article:

“Ironically, Iran owes its thanks for this historic opportunity to its two main adversaries — the Wahhabi Sunnis of al Qaeda who carried out the 9/11 attacks and the “Great Satan” that brought down Saddam Hussein. Should Iran succeed in filling a major power void in Iraq, a country that touches six Middle Eastern powers and demographically favors the Shia, Iran would theoretically have its western flank secured as well as an oil-rich outlet with which to further project its influence.

So far, Iran’s plan is on track. Unless the United States permanently can station substantial military forces in the region, Iran replaces the United States as the most powerful military force in the Persian Gulf region”

More:
“While Iran already is well on its way to accomplishing its goals in Iraq, it needs two other key pieces to complete Tehran’s picture of a regional “indigenized security arrangement” that Vahidi spoke of. The first is an understanding with its main military challenger in the region, the United States. Such an understanding would entail everything from ensuring Iraqi Sunni military impotence to expanding Iranian energy rights beyond its borders to placing limits on U.S. military activity in the region, all in return for the guaranteed flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz and an Iranian pledge to stay clear of Saudi oil fields.

The second piece is an understanding with its main regional adversary, Saudi Arabia. Iran’s reshaping of Persian Gulf politics entails convincing its Sunni neighbors that resisting Iran is not worth the cost, especially when the United States does not seem to have the time or the resources to come to their aid at present. No matter how much money the Saudis throw at Western defense contractors, any military threat by the Saudi-led Gulf Cooperation Council states against Iran will be hollow without an active U.S. military commitment. Iran’s goal, therefore, is to coerce the major Sunni powers into recognizing an expanded Iranian sphere of influence at a time when U.S. security guarantees in the region are starting to erode.

Of course, there is always a gap between intent and capability, especially in the Iranian case. Both negotiating tracks are charged with distrust, and meaningful progress is by no means guaranteed. That said, a number of signals have surfaced in recent weeks leading us to examine the potential for a Saudi-Iranian accommodation, however brief that may be”