Thursday, January 26, 2017
[IAC#RG] Know your enemy
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Re: [IAC#RG] Fwd: Why Mass agitation on jallikattu now in Tamil Nadu and not earlier ?
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ToIndia Against CorruptionWhy Mass agitation on jallikattu now in Tamil Nadu and not earlier ?
Jallikattu issue has been hanging fire in Tamil Nadu for several years now. But, the state has never witnessed this sort of mass agitation demanding jallikattu.
In a state like Tamil Nadu, with around 700 lakh population, even if 0.1 % of the population (70000 people) join the agitation, it would be termed as mass agitation.
Many people wonder why this mass agitation has happened now and not earlier when Ms. Jayalalitha was the Chief Minister. The issue remained the same earlier and now and therefore, the emotions should have been the same earlier and now.
Can anyone explain this? Can we simply accept the theory that mob rule takes place when governance weakens ?
N.S.Venkataraman
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
[IAC#RG] RBI's Inadequate communication to the "Common Person" and experts
"1) Because it is false that information requested is covered under s/s 8(1)(a) of RTI Act. The CPIO has malafidely given a vague exemption, without specifics, to defend a corrupt foreign born rascal RBI Governor Shri Urjit Patel who was appointed by a thief called Narendra Modi
and ends with
9) Because despite my complaining to RBI on 6 April 2015 about the huge number of fake high denomination notes in India, no action was taken by you corrupt rogues and the prevalence of the notes increased actually from 15% to 25% so that Ajit Doval, Chota Rajan could rip off the nation"
Re: [IAC#RG] Agenda Behind Washington's War On Cash
24/1/16
Very interesting indeed to know what lies behind overnight declaration of demonitisation and give a short window of 50 days to put all cash in the banks.
"Washington,s war on terror had a hidden agenda,So does its war on cash. It is to be avoided at all costs if we human beings are to retain any vestige of autonomy or sovergnity." This is the message one gets. It gets re-inforced if you connect to S. Roy,s post of 3/1/16 on'Defending freedom.'
2. Washington has now become a tax haven and surely Trump as Pesident is not going to stop it. He may further reinforce this.
3. If this agenda of cashless economywas started in 2012 ,UPA Govt. would have known it as Bill Gates has been active in India through frequent visits during this period.. But after 2014 there has been closer cooperation. In hind sight even the motive behind Jan dhan Yogna looks suspect. It was not to help the farmers but to bring him in the banking net and get control over his meagre savings as they have done now for all.
4. The Govt. stance has been shifting so rapidly from black money to counterfeit currency to terror financing to money laundring and hawala and now finally the real motive'the cashless economy'
5. RBI's refusal to say how many notes of 500 and 1000 have been received back. Obviously all/ most of numbered notes issued by RBI have been returned. Against this their intention seems to be to put back into circulation only half the quantity.
6. One has to admit that voices in US and Europe are now becoming louder on how to prevent further erosion of induals,s choices to earn,invest and use his money rather than surrender to the Govt. and the banks this autonomy.
Sent: Monday, January 23, 2017 7:23 AM
To: Ankit Khetan
Subject: [IAC#RG] Agenda Behind Washington's War On Cash
Engdahl: The Sinister Agenda Behind the Washington War On Cash
http://journal-neo.org/2017/01/21/the-sinister-agenda-behind-the-washington-war-on-cash/
journal-neo.orgIt's kinda sneaking up on us like an East Texas copperhead pit viper. It began to get some wide attention in 2016, with prominent economists and financial media suddenly…
Cashless society -> digital money -> microchip humans
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=174697#174697
It's kinda sneaking up on us like an East Texas copperhead pit viper. It began to get some wide attention in 2016, with prominent economists and financial media suddenly talking about the wonderful benefits of a "cashless society." Then the government of Narenda Modi completely surprised his citizens by suddenly announcing withdrawal of larger denomination currency notes from circulation, forcing Indians to put their cash into banks or lose it. Now, everywhere we turn, it seems, someone is arguing the Nirvana benefits of a cashless, "digital" money world. It reminds me in an eerie way of a statement attributed to then US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger in the 1970's. He reportedly stated, "If you control oil, you control entire nations; if you control food, you control the people; if you control money, you control the entire world." Consider the following in this regard.
9/11, 7/7 & the War on Freedom :: View topic - Cashless society -> digital money -> microchip humanswww.911forum.org.ukThe British (UK) 9/11 Truth Campaign portal, website and forums
Modi and a USAID 'Catalyst'
On November 8, 2016 in a surprise televised address, Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi announced that, within a deadline of days, all Indian currency notes of 500 and 1,000 Rupees must be put in a bank account and exchanged for smaller denomination notes. At today's exchange rate 1,000 Rs is roughly equal to $15. This would perhaps be equivalent to the US Treasury outlawing all cash notes larger than a $10 bill.
Overnight, Modi's government de facto outlawed an estimated 86 percent of all cash in circulation by value. People had 50 days to hand in the notes or they become worthless. Yet the government, despite stating it would issue new, more secure 500Rs and 1000Rs bills, had nowhere near the equivalent value of new notes ready for replacement. They say it may take up to a year to print enough, which means confiscation, de facto. Faked opinion polls with slanted questions done only via smart phone apps of which only 17% of the population has access, claimed that "90% of Indians approve" the demonetization.
Yet it's far worse. India is an underdeveloped country, the largest in the world in population terms with more than 1.3 billion people. By demanding Indians turn in all 500Rs and 1,000Rs bills to banks, Modi is forcing major change in how Indians control their money in a country high on the corruption scale where few trust government let alone private banks, and prefer to deal strictly in cash or hoard gold for value. Nearly half the population, some 600 million Indians, do not hold a bank account and half of those, some 300 million Indians, lack a government identification, necessary to open an account.
When he presented his shock announcement, Modi pitched it in terms of going after India's black economy. Soon he shifted gears and was praising the benefits of a "cash-less society" to enable Indians to enter the digital age, appealing to younger Indians, savvy in smart phones and digital networks, to convince the older of the benefits of online banking and consuming. The drastic demonetization declaration was planned by Modi and five other inner-circle ministers in complete secrecy. Not even the banks were told before. The question is what is behind, or rather who is behind this drastic form of monetary shock therapy?
Beyond Cash
The answer is as sinister as it is suggestive of a larger global agenda by what I call in one of my books the Wall Street "Gods of Money." The Modi cash-less India operation is a project of the US National Security Council, US State Department and Office of the President administered through its US Agency for International Development (USAID). Little surprise, then, that the US State Department spokesman, Mark Toner in a December 1, 2016 press briefing praised the Modi demonetization move stating, "…this was, we believe, an important and necessary step to crack down on illegal actions…a necessary one to address the corruption."
Keep in mind that USAID today has little to do with aiding poorer countries. By law it must follow the foreign policy agenda of the President's National Security Council and State Department. It's widely known as a conduit for CIA money to execute their dirty agendas abroad in places such as Georgia. Notably, the present head of the USAID, Gayle Smith, came to head USAID from her post as Senior Director at the US National Security Council.
German economist and blogger, Norbert Haering, in an extensive, well-documented investigation into the background of the bizarre Modi move to a cash-less India, found not only USAID as the key financial source of the project. He also uncovered a snake-pit of organizational vipers being funded by USAID to design and implement the India shock therapy.
USAID negotiated a co-operation with the Modi Indian Ministry of Finance. In October, 2016 in a press release USAID announced it had created and funded something it named Project Catalyst. The title of their report was, "Catalyst: Inclusive Cashless Payment Partnership." Its stated goal it said was to bring about a "quantum leap" in cashless payment in India.
They certainly did that. Maybe two quantum leaps and some.
If we dig a bit deeper we find that in January, 2016, USAID presented the Indian Finance Ministry a report titled, Beyond Cash: Why India loves cash and why that matters for financial inclusion. Financial "inclusion" for them means getting all Indians into the digital banking system where their every payment can be electronically tracked and given to the tax authorities or to whomever the government sees fit.
Astonishingly, the report, prepared for USAID by something called the Global Innovation Exchange, admitted that "97% of retail transactions in India are conducted in cash or check; Few consumers use digital payments. Only 11% used debit cards for payments last year. Only 6% of Indian merchants accept digital payments…Only 29 percent of bank accounts in India have been used in the last three months." The US and Indian governments knew very well what shock they were detonating in India.
The Global Innovation Exchange includes such dubious member organizations as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a major donor to the Modi war on cash initiative of USAID. It also includes USAID itself, several UN agencies including UNICEF, UNDP, UNHCR. And it includes the US Department of Commerce and a spooky Maclean, Virginia military contractor called MITRE Corporation whose chairman is former CIA Director, James Rodney Schlesinger, a close associate of Henry Kissinger.
The USAID Project Catalyst in partnership with the Indian Finance Ministry was done, according to the USAID press statement, with a sinister-sounding organization called CashlessCatalyst.org. Among the 35 members of CashlessCatalyst.org are USAID, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, VISA, MasterCard, Omidyar Network of eBay billionaire founder Pierre Omidyar, the World Economic Forum-center of the globalization annual Alpine meetings.
War on Cash
However, a most interesting member of the USAID Project Catalyst together with the Indian Ministry of Finance is something called Better Than Cash Alliance. In point of fact the US-government-finance Project Catalyst grew out of a longer cooperation between USAID, the Washington-based Better Than Cash Alliance and the Indian Ministry of Finance. It appers to be the core public driver pushing the agenda of the global "war on cash."
India and the reckless (or corrupt) Modi government implementing the USAID-Better Than Cash Alliance agenda is clearly serving as a guinea pig in a mass social experiment about how to push the cash war in other countries. The Better Than Cash Alliance is described by the UNCDF, which is its Secretariat, as "a US $38 million global alliance of governments, private sector and development organizations committed to accelerating the shift from cash to electronic payments."
The Better Than Cash Alliance website announces that the alliance, created in 2012, is a "partnership of governments, companies, and international organizations that accelerates the transition from cash to digital payments in order to reduce poverty and drive inclusive growth." It's housed at the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) in New York whose major donors, in turn, surprise, surprise, are the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MasterCard Foundation. Among the Better Than Cash Alliance's 50 members are, in addition to the Gates Foundation, Citi Foundation (Citigroup), Ford Foundation, MasterCard, Omidyar Network, United States Agency for International Development, and Visa Inc.
Recently the European Central Bank, which has held negative interest rates for more than a year, allegedly to stimulate growth in the Eurozone amid the long-duration banking and economic crisis of almost nine years, announced that it will stop printing the €500 note. They claim it's connected with money laundering and terror financing, though it ominously echoes the Modi India war on cash. Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, whose shady role in the 1990's rape of Russia through his Harvard cronies has been documented elsewhere, is calling for eliminating the US $100 bill. These are first steps to future bolder moves to the desired Cash-less society of Gates, Citigroup, Visa et al.
US Dual Standard: Follow the money…
The move to a purely digital money system would be Big Brother on steroids. It would allow the relevant governments to monitor our every money move with a digital trail, to confiscate deposits in what now are legal bank "bail-ins" as was done in Cyprus in 2013. If central banks move interest rates into negative, something the Bank of Japan and ECB in Frankfurt are already doing, citizens have no choice than to spend the bank money or lose. It is hailed as a way to end tax avoidance but it is far, far more sinister.
As Norbert Haering notes, "the status of the dollar as the world's currency of reference and the dominance of US companies in international finance provide the US government with tremendous power over all participants in the formal non-cash financial system. It can make everybody conform to American law rather than to their local or international rules." He adds, referring to the recent US Government demand that Germany's largest bank, Deutsche Bank pay an astonishing and unprecedented $14 billion fine, "Every internationally active bank can be blackmailed by the US government into following their orders, since revoking their license to do business in the US or in dollar basically amounts to shutting them down."
We should add to this "benevolent concern" of the US Government to stimulate a War on Cash in India and elsewhere the fact that while Washington has been the most aggressive demanding that banks in other countries enact measures for full disclosure of details of Swiss or Panama or other "offshore" secret account holders or US nationals holding money in foreign banks, the USA itself has scrupulously avoided demanding the same of its domestic banks. The result, as Bloomberg noted following the suspiciously-timed Panama Papers offshore "leaks" of May, 2016, is that the United States is rapidly becoming the world's leading tax and secrecy haven for rich foreigners.
Perversely enough, in 2010 the US passed a law, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FACTA, that requires financial firms to disclose foreign accounts held by US citizens and report them to the US IRS tax office or the foreign banks face steep penalties. The EU signed on to the intrusive FACTA despite strong resistance. Then, using FACTA as the model, the Paris-based OECD drafted an even tougher version of FACTA in 2014 to allegedly go after tax avoiders. To date 97 countries have agreed to the tough OECD bank disclosure rules. Very few have refused. The refusers include Bahrain, Nauru, Vanuatu—and…the United States.
World's Biggest Tax Haven
You don't have to be a rocket scientist, a financial wizard or a Meyer Lansky to see a pattern. Washington forces disclosure of secret bank accounts of its citizens or companies abroad, while at the same time lifting control or disclosure inside the United States of private banking accounts. No surprise that such experienced private bankers as London's Rothschild & Co. have opened offices in Reno Nevada a stone's throw from Harrah's and other casinos, and according to Bloomberg, is doing a booming business moving the fortunes of wealthy foreign clients out of offshore havens such as Bermuda, or Switzerland which are subject to the new OECD international disclosure requirements, into Rothschild-run trusts in Nevada, which are exempt from those disclosure rules.
Rothschild & Co. Director, Andrew Penney noted that as a result, the United States today, "is effectively the biggest tax haven in the world." Today Nevada, Meyer Lansky's money laundering project of the 1930's with established legalized gambling, is becoming the "new Switzerland." Wyoming and South Dakota are close on the heels.
One area where America's institutions are still world class is in devising complex instruments of financial control, asset theft and cyber warfare. The US War on Cash, combined with the US Treasury and IRS war on offshore banking is their latest model. As Washington's War on Terror had a sinister, hidden agenda, so too does Washington's War on Cash. It's something to be avoided at all costs if we human beings are to retain any vestige of sovereignty or autonomy. It will be interesting to see how vigorously Casino mogul Trump moves to close the US tax haven status. What do you bet he doesn't?
F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine "New Eastern Outlook."
http://journal-neo.org/2017/01/21/the-sinister-agenda-behind-the-washington-war-on-cash/
journal-neo.orgIt's kinda sneaking up on us like an East Texas copperhead pit viper. It began to get some wide attention in 2016, with prominent economists and financial media suddenly…
So much emphasis is placed on select Jewish participation in Bormann companies that when Adolf Eichmann was seized and taken to Tel Aviv to stand trial, it produced a shock wave in the Jewish and German communities of Buenos Aires. Jewish leaders informed the Israeli authorities in no uncertain terms that this must never happen again because a repetition would permanently rupture relations with the Germans of Latin America, as well as with the Bormann organization, and cut off the flow of Jewish money to Israel. It never happened again, and the pursuit of Bormann quieted down at the request of these Jewish leaders. He is residing in an Argentinian safe haven, protected by the most efficient German infrastructure in history as well as by all those whose prosperity depends on his well-being.
http://spitfirelist.com/books/martin-bormann-nazi-in-exile/
Sunday, January 22, 2017
[IAC#RG] Agenda Behind Washington's War On Cash
Engdahl: The Sinister Agenda Behind the Washington War On Cash
http://journal-neo.org/2017/01/21/the-sinister-agenda-behind-the-washington-war-on-cash/
Cashless society -> digital money -> microchip humans
http://www.911forum.org.uk/board/viewtopic.php?p=174697#174697
It's kinda sneaking up on us like an East Texas copperhead pit viper. It began to get some wide attention in 2016, with prominent economists and financial media suddenly talking about the wonderful benefits of a "cashless society." Then the government of Narenda Modi completely surprised his citizens by suddenly announcing withdrawal of larger denomination currency notes from circulation, forcing Indians to put their cash into banks or lose it. Now, everywhere we turn, it seems, someone is arguing the Nirvana benefits of a cashless, "digital" money world. It reminds me in an eerie way of a statement attributed to then US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger in the 1970's. He reportedly stated, "If you control oil, you control entire nations; if you control food, you control the people; if you control money, you control the entire world." Consider the following in this regard.
Modi and a USAID 'Catalyst'
On November 8, 2016 in a surprise televised address, Indian Prime Minister Narenda Modi announced that, within a deadline of days, all Indian currency notes of 500 and 1,000 Rupees must be put in a bank account and exchanged for smaller denomination notes. At today's exchange rate 1,000 Rs is roughly equal to $15. This would perhaps be equivalent to the US Treasury outlawing all cash notes larger than a $10 bill.
Overnight, Modi's government de facto outlawed an estimated 86 percent of all cash in circulation by value. People had 50 days to hand in the notes or they become worthless. Yet the government, despite stating it would issue new, more secure 500Rs and 1000Rs bills, had nowhere near the equivalent value of new notes ready for replacement. They say it may take up to a year to print enough, which means confiscation, de facto. Faked opinion polls with slanted questions done only via smart phone apps of which only 17% of the population has access, claimed that "90% of Indians approve" the demonetization.
Yet it's far worse. India is an underdeveloped country, the largest in the world in population terms with more than 1.3 billion people. By demanding Indians turn in all 500Rs and 1,000Rs bills to banks, Modi is forcing major change in how Indians control their money in a country high on the corruption scale where few trust government let alone private banks, and prefer to deal strictly in cash or hoard gold for value. Nearly half the population, some 600 million Indians, do not hold a bank account and half of those, some 300 million Indians, lack a government identification, necessary to open an account.
When he presented his shock announcement, Modi pitched it in terms of going after India's black economy. Soon he shifted gears and was praising the benefits of a "cash-less society" to enable Indians to enter the digital age, appealing to younger Indians, savvy in smart phones and digital networks, to convince the older of the benefits of online banking and consuming. The drastic demonetization declaration was planned by Modi and five other inner-circle ministers in complete secrecy. Not even the banks were told before. The question is what is behind, or rather who is behind this drastic form of monetary shock therapy?
Beyond Cash
The answer is as sinister as it is suggestive of a larger global agenda by what I call in one of my books the Wall Street "Gods of Money." The Modi cash-less India operation is a project of the US National Security Council, US State Department and Office of the President administered through its US Agency for International Development (USAID). Little surprise, then, that the US State Department spokesman, Mark Toner in a December 1, 2016 press briefing praised the Modi demonetization move stating, "…this was, we believe, an important and necessary step to crack down on illegal actions…a necessary one to address the corruption."
Keep in mind that USAID today has little to do with aiding poorer countries. By law it must follow the foreign policy agenda of the President's National Security Council and State Department. It's widely known as a conduit for CIA money to execute their dirty agendas abroad in places such as Georgia. Notably, the present head of the USAID, Gayle Smith, came to head USAID from her post as Senior Director at the US National Security Council.
German economist and blogger, Norbert Haering, in an extensive, well-documented investigation into the background of the bizarre Modi move to a cash-less India, found not only USAID as the key financial source of the project. He also uncovered a snake-pit of organizational vipers being funded by USAID to design and implement the India shock therapy.
USAID negotiated a co-operation with the Modi Indian Ministry of Finance. In October, 2016 in a press release USAID announced it had created and funded something it named Project Catalyst. The title of their report was, "Catalyst: Inclusive Cashless Payment Partnership." Its stated goal it said was to bring about a "quantum leap" in cashless payment in India.
They certainly did that. Maybe two quantum leaps and some.
If we dig a bit deeper we find that in January, 2016, USAID presented the Indian Finance Ministry a report titled, Beyond Cash: Why India loves cash and why that matters for financial inclusion. Financial "inclusion" for them means getting all Indians into the digital banking system where their every payment can be electronically tracked and given to the tax authorities or to whomever the government sees fit.
Astonishingly, the report, prepared for USAID by something called the Global Innovation Exchange, admitted that "97% of retail transactions in India are conducted in cash or check; Few consumers use digital payments. Only 11% used debit cards for payments last year. Only 6% of Indian merchants accept digital payments…Only 29 percent of bank accounts in India have been used in the last three months." The US and Indian governments knew very well what shock they were detonating in India.
The Global Innovation Exchange includes such dubious member organizations as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, a major donor to the Modi war on cash initiative of USAID. It also includes USAID itself, several UN agencies including UNICEF, UNDP, UNHCR. And it includes the US Department of Commerce and a spooky Maclean, Virginia military contractor called MITRE Corporation whose chairman is former CIA Director, James Rodney Schlesinger, a close associate of Henry Kissinger.
The USAID Project Catalyst in partnership with the Indian Finance Ministry was done, according to the USAID press statement, with a sinister-sounding organization called CashlessCatalyst.org. Among the 35 members of CashlessCatalyst.org are USAID, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, VISA, MasterCard, Omidyar Network of eBay billionaire founder Pierre Omidyar, the World Economic Forum-center of the globalization annual Alpine meetings.
War on Cash
However, a most interesting member of the USAID Project Catalyst together with the Indian Ministry of Finance is something called Better Than Cash Alliance. In point of fact the US-government-finance Project Catalyst grew out of a longer cooperation between USAID, the Washington-based Better Than Cash Alliance and the Indian Ministry of Finance. It appers to be the core public driver pushing the agenda of the global "war on cash."
India and the reckless (or corrupt) Modi government implementing the USAID-Better Than Cash Alliance agenda is clearly serving as a guinea pig in a mass social experiment about how to push the cash war in other countries. The Better Than Cash Alliance is described by the UNCDF, which is its Secretariat, as "a US $38 million global alliance of governments, private sector and development organizations committed to accelerating the shift from cash to electronic payments."
The Better Than Cash Alliance website announces that the alliance, created in 2012, is a "partnership of governments, companies, and international organizations that accelerates the transition from cash to digital payments in order to reduce poverty and drive inclusive growth." It's housed at the UN Capital Development Fund (UNCDF) in New York whose major donors, in turn, surprise, surprise, are the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MasterCard Foundation. Among the Better Than Cash Alliance's 50 members are, in addition to the Gates Foundation, Citi Foundation (Citigroup), Ford Foundation, MasterCard, Omidyar Network, United States Agency for International Development, and Visa Inc.
Recently the European Central Bank, which has held negative interest rates for more than a year, allegedly to stimulate growth in the Eurozone amid the long-duration banking and economic crisis of almost nine years, announced that it will stop printing the €500 note. They claim it's connected with money laundering and terror financing, though it ominously echoes the Modi India war on cash. Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, whose shady role in the 1990's rape of Russia through his Harvard cronies has been documented elsewhere, is calling for eliminating the US $100 bill. These are first steps to future bolder moves to the desired Cash-less society of Gates, Citigroup, Visa et al.
US Dual Standard: Follow the money…
The move to a purely digital money system would be Big Brother on steroids. It would allow the relevant governments to monitor our every money move with a digital trail, to confiscate deposits in what now are legal bank "bail-ins" as was done in Cyprus in 2013. If central banks move interest rates into negative, something the Bank of Japan and ECB in Frankfurt are already doing, citizens have no choice than to spend the bank money or lose. It is hailed as a way to end tax avoidance but it is far, far more sinister.
As Norbert Haering notes, "the status of the dollar as the world's currency of reference and the dominance of US companies in international finance provide the US government with tremendous power over all participants in the formal non-cash financial system. It can make everybody conform to American law rather than to their local or international rules." He adds, referring to the recent US Government demand that Germany's largest bank, Deutsche Bank pay an astonishing and unprecedented $14 billion fine, "Every internationally active bank can be blackmailed by the US government into following their orders, since revoking their license to do business in the US or in dollar basically amounts to shutting them down."
We should add to this "benevolent concern" of the US Government to stimulate a War on Cash in India and elsewhere the fact that while Washington has been the most aggressive demanding that banks in other countries enact measures for full disclosure of details of Swiss or Panama or other "offshore" secret account holders or US nationals holding money in foreign banks, the USA itself has scrupulously avoided demanding the same of its domestic banks. The result, as Bloomberg noted following the suspiciously-timed Panama Papers offshore "leaks" of May, 2016, is that the United States is rapidly becoming the world's leading tax and secrecy haven for rich foreigners.
Perversely enough, in 2010 the US passed a law, the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FACTA, that requires financial firms to disclose foreign accounts held by US citizens and report them to the US IRS tax office or the foreign banks face steep penalties. The EU signed on to the intrusive FACTA despite strong resistance. Then, using FACTA as the model, the Paris-based OECD drafted an even tougher version of FACTA in 2014 to allegedly go after tax avoiders. To date 97 countries have agreed to the tough OECD bank disclosure rules. Very few have refused. The refusers include Bahrain, Nauru, Vanuatu—and…the United States.
World's Biggest Tax Haven
You don't have to be a rocket scientist, a financial wizard or a Meyer Lansky to see a pattern. Washington forces disclosure of secret bank accounts of its citizens or companies abroad, while at the same time lifting control or disclosure inside the United States of private banking accounts. No surprise that such experienced private bankers as London's Rothschild & Co. have opened offices in Reno Nevada a stone's throw from Harrah's and other casinos, and according to Bloomberg, is doing a booming business moving the fortunes of wealthy foreign clients out of offshore havens such as Bermuda, or Switzerland which are subject to the new OECD international disclosure requirements, into Rothschild-run trusts in Nevada, which are exempt from those disclosure rules.
Rothschild & Co. Director, Andrew Penney noted that as a result, the United States today, "is effectively the biggest tax haven in the world." Today Nevada, Meyer Lansky's money laundering project of the 1930's with established legalized gambling, is becoming the "new Switzerland." Wyoming and South Dakota are close on the heels.
One area where America's institutions are still world class is in devising complex instruments of financial control, asset theft and cyber warfare. The US War on Cash, combined with the US Treasury and IRS war on offshore banking is their latest model. As Washington's War on Terror had a sinister, hidden agenda, so too does Washington's War on Cash. It's something to be avoided at all costs if we human beings are to retain any vestige of sovereignty or autonomy. It will be interesting to see how vigorously Casino mogul Trump moves to close the US tax haven status. What do you bet he doesn't?
F. William Engdahl is strategic risk consultant and lecturer, he holds a degree in politics from Princeton University and is a best-selling author on oil and geopolitics, exclusively for the online magazine "New Eastern Outlook."
http://journal-neo.org/2017/01/21/the-sinister-agenda-behind-the-washington-war-on-cash/
So much emphasis is placed on select Jewish participation in Bormann companies that when Adolf Eichmann was seized and taken to Tel Aviv to stand trial, it produced a shock wave in the Jewish and German communities of Buenos Aires. Jewish leaders informed the Israeli authorities in no uncertain terms that this must never happen again because a repetition would permanently rupture relations with the Germans of Latin America, as well as with the Bormann organization, and cut off the flow of Jewish money to Israel. It never happened again, and the pursuit of Bormann quieted down at the request of these Jewish leaders. He is residing in an Argentinian safe haven, protected by the most efficient German infrastructure in history as well as by all those whose prosperity depends on his well-being.
http://spitfirelist.com/books/martin-bormann-nazi-in-exile/
Saturday, January 21, 2017
[IAC#RG] Fwd: Why Mass agitation on jallikattu now in Tamil Nadu and not earlier ?
Jallikattu issue has been hanging fire in Tamil Nadu for several years now. But, the state has never witnessed this sort of mass agitation demanding jallikattu.
In a state like Tamil Nadu, with around 700 lakh population, even if 0.1 % of the population (70000 people) join the agitation, it would be termed as mass agitation.
Many people wonder why this mass agitation has happened now and not earlier when Ms. Jayalalitha was the Chief Minister. The issue remained the same earlier and now and therefore, the emotions should have been the same earlier and now.
Can anyone explain this? Can we simply accept the theory that mob rule takes place when governance weakens ?
N.S.Venkataraman
Friday, January 20, 2017
Re: [IAC#RG] DEFIANCE OF JUDICIARY WILL LEAD TO ANARCHY
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2017 8:28 PM
To: indiaresists@lists.riseup.net
Subject: [IAC#RG] DEFIANCE OF JUDICIARY WILL LEAD TO ANARCHY
To
India Against Corruption
DEFIANCE OF JUDICIARY WILL LEAD TO ANARCHY
Supreme court ordered Karnataka government to release certain quantity of Cauvery water to Tamil Nadu, which was defied by Karnataka government. Supreme court has earlier ordered that Jallikattu should not be conducted in Tamil Nadu and the case to review the order is still pending. However, in several places in Tamil Nadu , Jallikattu has been conducted defying the supreme Court order.
There have also been similar other instances of defiance of supreme Court order in the past in variety of ways.
Possibly, the main reason for such defiance of judiciary is that it does not anymore command the type of respect that it did earlier.
With supreme court judges refusing to have transparency in the appointment of judges , quite a number of judges having been caught on corruption charges or accused of being corrupt, some former judges like Katju questioning the Supreme Court orders, some of the controversial observations of the judges inside and outside the court premises, some judges sharing platform with those facing corruption and criminal charges , judiciary seems to be rapidly losing it's pivotal position and lofty image that it once enjoyed.
In such circumstances, perspective seem to be developing among section of people that the order of judiciary need not be considered sacroscent and can be defied if mass protest can be organized against the order.
So far, those who defy the court orders by threatening to disrupt law and order have got away and courts give an appearance of being helpless in tackling such defiance.
This is a very unhealthy situation and can lead to anarchy.
With the credibility of the politicians and bureaucrats being so low, people seem to think that in the present conditions, judiciary should rise up to the occasion and punish the culprits and ensure fair play. It is increasingly becoming doubtful whether judiciary is now cut out to play such role of remaining as a watch dog and conscience keeper of society.
In any case, even if some damage has been done to the reputation of judiciary in recent times, the judiciary's verdict should be accepted unquestioningly by everyone to prevent a scenario of free for all.
N.S.Venkataraman
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Thursday, January 19, 2017
Re: [IAC#RG] Impleadment in matter of Shri Ashutosh Gupta's outrageous blog on NDTV.com
20/1/16
Dear Sh. S. Roy
I fully support your efforts to unravel this allegations because there is big money involved and it is not possible without police and political protection.
Dr. Harshvardhan has been living in west Delhi and that area has been his support base.
Vijay Goel is a resident of Chandni Chowk and that is his political base. He may not be a cabinet Minister like Dr. Harshvardhan, but as a State Minister certainly a member of Union Council of Ministers.
Kapil Sibbal never had any base in Old Delhi Chandni Chowk area.
Although it bears repetition AAP has proved to be a genie born out of the JanAndholan of 2012. Call it a foresight or knowledge of intimate affairs of the main actors of AAP, you had disassociated yourself during that period.
As their health minister,s appointment of a family relations and other monetary dealings are coming out including Maliwal,s there does not seem to be an end
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 1:05 AM
To: indiaresists
Subject: Re: [IAC#RG] Impleadment in matter of Shri Ashutosh Gupta's outrageous blog on NDTV.com
17/1/16
Swati Maliwal did not name the minister.
Never heard of brothels in Chandni Chowk. GB road is the known area for brothels and way beyond Chandni Chowk.
There is another Uninion Minister from this area as well. So Dr. Harsh Vardhan name could be a conjucture.
The matter is still worth pursuing-either to prove Maliwal is malicious in making the allegation or to expose the concerned minister. The racket is certainly thriving through police/political protection either at State or Centre level.
Regds
From: indiaresists-request@lists.riseup.net <indiaresists-request@lists.riseup.net > on behalf of Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 11:09 AM
To: indiaresists@lists.riseup.net
Subject: Re: [IAC#RG] Impleadment in matter of Shri Ashutosh Gupta's outrageous blog on NDTV.comLalita K claims to now not even be a primary member of BJP after being
nominated as Chairperson NCW. The latest simlar show cause / summons
NCW issued is to the Congress Home Minister in Karnataka over the
Bangalore gropings.
It is for Arvind Kejriwal and his party to disclose their evidence
against Dr. Harsh Vardhan considering that it was Swati Maliwal who
stated at her press conference that a Union Minister and prominent
Delhi politician (making Harsh Vardhan the only suspect) is the patron
of these GB Road brothels. Of course it is very convenient that AAP's
Ashutosh lost out to Dr. Harsh Vardhan from Chandni Chowk where these
brothels are situated.
On 1/16/17, Prodipto Roy <prodipto.r@gmail.com> wrote:
> All appointments of heads of important institutions are made on political
> considerations not on the basis of competence or merit. Lalitha K. is a
> member of BJP's National Executive so would never expose wrongdoing by her
> party members.
>
> What is the source of your evidence on Harsh V's GB Road connections?
>
> J. Roy
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RE: [IAC#RG] Impleadment in matter of Shri Ashutosh Gupta's outrageous blog on NDTV.com
Dear Sri Sarbajit Roy,
Thanks for responding. Communication is an essence of liberty of thought. I wholly endorse your right to obtain information under the RTI Act. Even so, as the saying goes: 'It is good to have the powers of a giant, but it is bad to use it like a giant'
Best wishes & regards,
KN
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From: indiaresists-request@lists.riseup.net [mailto:indiaresists-request@lists.riseup.net] On Behalf Of Sarbajit Roy
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 12:57 AM
To: indiaresists
Subject: Re: [IAC#RG] Impleadment in matter of Shri Ashutosh Gupta's outrageous blog on NDTV.com
Dear Justice Nath
You are absolutely correct that it deserves to be treated with contempt. In fact since the SC had outright rejected these "scurrilous" allegations and called for their deletion, I therefore intended to file a contempt petition in the SC against Mr. Ashutosh's act of filing these same Snoopgate allegations in the NCW to evade replying to my complaint about him making making outrageous sexual remarks about my deceased female ancestor.
For those interested the RTI no. is MOWCD/R/2016/50635 dt. 25.Oct.2016 (still unreplied) viewable at https://rtionline.gov.in/request/status.php using my present email ID.
I am now very reliably informed that Ms. Maneka Gandhi herself has intervened to instruct that my RTI is not to be replied to.
Had either my RTI been replied to or the NCW passed an order the case would have been different. But now any reasonable person would have reason to suspect something is fishy in Snoopgate matter and there must be some truth to the those "scurrillous allegations" levelled against Modi and Shah.
best wishes
Sarbajit Roy
Excerpts of text of RTI (unreplied)
Because I am concerned in larger public interest that Mr. Ashutosh has wilfully committed contempt of certain directions of the Supreme Court which the Hon'ble Commission should promptly report to the Registrar of the Supreme Court, kindly provide me the following requested information
1) Certified copy of all written replies filed by Mr. Ashutosh to summons / notice issued to him by NCW.
2) Copy of all the videorecordings made by NCW whenever Mr. Ashutosh has appeared before the Honble Commission.
3) Action taken, if any, on Mr. Ashutoshs allegations / complaints against Mr.Amit Shah and Mr. Narendra Modi which Mr. Ashutosh submitted to the Honble Commission.
4) Information if it is true that the strange inaction by NCW to pass orders in the complaints against Mr. Ashutosh are because the matter is stalled by Mr. Ashutosh's counter complaints against Mr. Amit Shah and Mr. Narendra Modi.
5) Information if it is true that Mr. Ashutosh has also levelled allegations against Dr. Harsh Vardhan, a Union Minister, to the NCW.
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Justice Kamleshwar Nath <justicekn@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Sri Sarbajit Roy,
Do you believe in this canard? It does not behove you to take it up. It deserves to be taken with the contempt it deserves!
Regards,
KN
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Former | : | Up-Lokayukta ( Karnataka ), Vice Chairman – C.A.T ( Allahabad ), Judge – High Court ( Lucknow & Allahabad ) |
Address | : | `Gunjan', C - 105, Niralanagar, Lucknow : 226 020. Uttar Pradesh, India |
Phone(s) | : | Landline : +91-522-2789033. Mobile : +91-9415010746 |
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Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2017 10:03 PM
To: chairperson-ncw@nic.in; indiaresists; cmdelhi; Manish Sisodia; Atishi Marlena; Ajay Mankotia
Subject: Re: [IAC#RG] Impleadment in matter of Shri Ashutosh Gupta's outrageous blog on NDTV.com
To:
Ms. Lalita Kumaramangalam
Hon'ble Chairperson
National Commission for Women
cc: Chief Minister of Delhi.
BY EMAIL
Dear Ms. Kumaramangalam,
Sub: Case / File no : 8/C160014050/2016/NCW/RS/NEE
Kindly refer to my appended email of 9.Oct.2016.
I am constrained to observe that it is well over 4 months now since the last hearing in the subject complaint and yet there is no order of the Hon'ble Commission in this matter for a complaint / counter-complaint alleging inter-alia sexual harassment by the present Prime Minister of India and the present President of the BJP Mr. Amit Shah made by Shri Ashutosh of Aam Aadmi Party.
To refresh your memory of this matter, (I am not giving the exact dates since these are on your file/s) you had summoned Mr. Ashutosh Gupta, National Spokesperson of Aam Aadmi Party, under NCW's statutory powers and which you announced on national television (Times Now) was based on my complaint against Ashutosh's outrageous and misogynistic article published by the "prestigious" news portal NDTV.COM.
Accordingly, Mr. Ashutosh Gupta dutifully appeared before you, refsued to answer queries about his writings and and instead counter-complained about sexual harassments allegedly committed by Shri Narendra Modi and Shri Amit Shah, which allegations he tendered in writing along with certain electronic evidences.
Very shortly thereafter this hearing Shri Ashutosh gave a public statement outside NCW's office to the media saying that you had personally assured him that you would conduct an independent and fair inquiry into his complaint and would also summon Mr. Modi in the same way Ashutosh was summoned. A video of this statement broadcast live by NEWSX is at URL
Ashutosh rakes up harassement charges on PM Narendra Modi, cites snooping charges on Amit Shah
Thereupon another NEWX reporter interviewed you on Mr.Ashutosh's statement in your office. I was also present during this interview and I have have my recording where you confirmed that Mr. Ashutosh's "complaint" against Mr. Modi / Mr. Shah would also be registered and sent to the NCW's Complaint and Investigation unit. A video of your statement broadcast live by NEWSX is at URL
NCW vs Ashutosh: NCW chief Lalitha Kumaramangalam speaks to NewsX exclusively
Thereafter when no order on my complaint was forthcoming, I sent you my reminder dt. 9.Oct.2016 and followed it up with an RTI request dated 25.Oct.2016 since I believed Mr. Ashutosh had committed criminal Contempt of the Supreme Court in your chambers. You had with great foresight officially videographed the proceedings. My RTI request is registered as no. MOWCD/R/2016/50635 dated 25.Oct.2016 and forwarded to your Commission by Shri V.S. Yadav (CPIO/MoWCD) very promptly. It is still not replied to.
In these circumstances wherein Institutions like the NCW and the DCW (Delhi Womens Commission) seem to be highly politicised paper tigers in the sense that NCW seemingly targets non-BJP politicians and the DCW Chairperson gets away with publicly imputing that one Dr. Harsh Vardhan (a BJP Union Minister) is running brothels on Delhi's GB Road, the complainants before you are fd up and constrained to give you final and clear warning to pass orders forthwith and dispose of the pending complaints against/by Mr. Ashutosh Gupta of Aam Aadmi Party.
In the alternative, I and the the INDIA AGAINST CORRUPTION jan andolan (to whom this email is being circulated) shall presume that no contempt has been committed by Mr. Ashutosh and that his allegations (NCW had summoned him in his capacity as Spokesperson Aam Aadmi Party) against Mr. Narendra Modi and Mr. Amit Shah in the "Snoopgate scandal" have been ascertained by NCW as being true and correct.
sincerely
Sarbajit Roy
National Convenor
INDIA AGAINST CORRUPTION, jan andolan
B-59 Defence Colony
New Delhi 110024
Tel :+ 91-8010205897
On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 10:59 PM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:
To:
Ms. Lalita Kumaramangalam
Hon'ble Chairperson
National Commission for Women
Dear Ms. Kumaramangalam,
Sub: Case / File no : 8/C160014050/2016/NCW/RS/NEE
I am constrained to observe that it is well over a month now since the last hearing in the subject complaint and yet there is no order of the Hon'ble Commission.
Since, I am given to understand that Mr Ashutosh had apparently submitted / deposed on 08.Sept.2016 that Mr.Modi and Mr. Amit Shah are as equally culpable of derogatory offences against women as he is, I am of the view that your Hon'ble Commission should pass an order in Mr. Ashutosh's matter as expeditiously as possible.
sincerely
Er. Sarbajit Roy
COMPLAINANT
B-59 Defence Colony
New Delhi 110024
Tel : +91-8010205897
On Tue, Sep 6, 2016 at 8:49 AM, Sarbajit Roy <sroy.mb@gmail.com> wrote:
To:
Hon'ble Chairperson
National Commission for Women
BY EMAIL
Dear Madam Chairperson,
1) I would be obliged if you would kindly also include / implead me in the subject matter as a complainant against Shri Ashutosh Gupta (alias Ashutosh). I also pray that M/s NDTV.com be impleaded as an offender.
2) My grievance is that Ashutosh and NDTV.com has published offensive, inaccurate, misleading, abusive, pedophilic, hateful, ethically objectionable, disparaging, or otherwise inappropriate material in the article accessible at
"http://www.ndtv.com/opinion/the-sex-was-consensual-private-act-why-aap-punished-its-man-1453374"
where Ashutosh has written inter-alia
"Indian history is full of examples of our leaders and heroes who had lived with their desires beyond social boundaries. Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru's reported affairs with many female colleagues were juicy gossip but it didn't spoil his political career. His relationship with Edwina Mountbatten is widely discussed. The entire world knew about it. Their affections continued till Pt. Nehru's last breath. Was it a sin? History is also witness to the fact that top leaders of the Congress in 1910s were worried about Gandhiji's relationship with Sarla Chaudhary, who was distantly related to Rabindra Nath Tagore. Gandhi Ji had confessed that Sarla was his spiritual wife. Kasturba Gandhi was very disturbed. C Rajagopalchari and other senior leaders of the party had to intervene. They persuaded, pressured, cajoled Gandhi-ji to leave Sarla. Gandhiji in his later days slept naked with his two nieces to experiment with celibacy. Pandit Nehru had told him not to do so as the country would rise against him but Gandhi-ji did not budge."
3) That although there was no such person as "Sarla Chaudhary" as described (which is probably a patently deliberate device devised by Ashutosh to claim she is a fictional character) it is obvious he is alluding to my deceased great-grand-aunt Sarala Debi Chaudhurani (who unfortunately has left behind no direct descendants to counter Ashutosh's calumny) using the despicable device of innuendo employed by gutter columnists.
4) I and my family are upset that NDTV.com website has published Ashutosh's distortions linking Mohandas Gandhi's sexual (masturbatory) fantasies to my deceased family members names to besmirch their iconic places in history. It is relevant to mention that Smt. Sarala Debi Chaudhurani is the pre-eminent feminist icon of India, prominent in nationalist and Congress circles and had written the musical score for both India's National Antem (ie. Jana Gana Mana) as well as the National song (ie. Bande Mataram). In fact these nation binding anthems were greatly popularised in Upper India by Smt. Sarala Debi of the highly nationalistic Adi Brahmo Samaj (a religious minority) of which I am an 'acharya' and an attack on Smt. Sarala Debi or Gurudev Rabindra Nath Tagore simply to defend a misogynistic sex-crazed rapist Minister is also an attack on our minority religion.
5) For your Eminence's information, Gandhi was never in India in 1910 (or even 1911, 1912, 1913....) whereas Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter Joseph Lelyveld writes that Gandhi was then (ie. since 1908) in a homo-erotic relationship with Hermann Kaltenbach in South Africa. Please see the ABC TC (US) url
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/gandhi-book-claims-indian-leader-bisexual-racist/story?id=13255847
Accordingly, I say that if at all the Congress Party or Ms. Kasturba Gandhi ('Ba') was very disturbed with Mr. Gandhi in 1910s, it was because of Mr. Gandhi's homo-erotic activities and homosexual / pedophilic proclivities rather than any alleged relationship (sexual or otherwise) with Smt. Sarala Debi Chaudhurani.
6) Accordingly, I sincerely hope that Hon'ble Commission impleads me as a complainant and strongly indicts Shri Ashutosh Gupta and NDTV.com. I also seek permission to submit my evidence during proceedings as and when directed by your honor.
PS : I am a non-political person and am filing this in my personal capacity as a relative of Smt. Sarala Debi Chaudhurani (deceased) to defend her honour.
Sincerely,
Sarbajit Roy
B-59 Defence Colony
New Delhi 110024
Tel : 8010205897
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