Now that America is undergoing a blitzkrieg of reforms that are
sending the Khazarians in panic, will the Eurozone be the Global Reformists’
next focus?
Recent actions of the International Monetary Fund, the US and
British regulators against the largest German bank, i.e. Deutsche Bank, and the
integrity of the euro and the Eurozone itself, all suggest that the planned
shutdown of the Khazarian EU project continues undeterred.
Deutsche Bank fined for $10 billion sham Russian trades
By Karen Freifeld and Arno Schuetze | NEW YORK/FRANKFURT
NEW YORK/FRANKFURT Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) has agreed to pay $630 million
in fines for organizing $10 billion in sham trades that could have been used to
launder money out of Russia, the latest in a string of penalties that have
hammered the German lender’s finances.
In two detailed reports, U.S. and British regulators criticized
the bank for not knowing the customers involved or the source of money for the
trades, which helped buoy revenue during a slowdown following the global
financial crash.
The scheme involved so-called mirror trades carried out between
2011 to 2015 – for instance, buying Russian stocks in rubles for a client and
selling the identical value of a security for U.S. dollars for a related
customer.
The New York Department of Financial Services outlined a web of
trades “converting roubles into dollars through security trades that had no
economic purpose” and stretched from Moscow, London and New York to Cyprus and
the British Virgin Islands.
“I have a billion ruble today … will you be able to find a
security for this size,” the watchdog cited one party to a deal as telling a
Deutsche Bank trader in Moscow.
The regulator said the bank had missed numerous opportunities to
prevent the scheme. “These flaws allowed a corrupt group of bank traders and
offshore entities to improperly and covertly transfer more than $10 billion out
of Russia.”
It said the scheme – in which the parties involved often lost
money on the trades due to fees and commissions – could have been used for
money laundering.
While U.S. and British regulators – which fined Deutsche $425
million and $204 million respectively – penalized the bank for not having
adequate controls, they did not say top management was aware of the improper
nature of the trades.
The fines – which comes weeks after a $7.2 billion U.S. penalty
for the sale of toxic mortgage debt – marks another step in Deutsche Chief
Executive John Cryan’s attempts to draw a line under the bank’s misdeeds in the
wake of the financial crisis, as it sought to carve and then keep a foothold on
Wall Street.
That has left a costly legacy of billions of euros of fines.
Germany’s biggest bank is expected by analysts to report a loss later this week
for 2016 of more than 650 million euros.
Aside from targeting the bankers, the IMF itself blames the
politicians within the Eurozone…
Damning IMF Report Reveals Dysfunction Within Eurozone
Sputnik 19:03 31.01.2017
The euro was introduced to be the common currency
within the EU and its 19 members have been struggling to maintain
confidence in is since the start of the sovereign debt crisis
of 2009. Put simply: a number of members have been struggling
to repay or finance their government debt, largely because
of increased public spending and slow growth.
However, the IMF has pointed to deeper problems within the
Eurozone. Its latest report says many countries are running “excessive
deficits” — spending more than they are earning — and one
of the biggest challenges to the eurozone “are rooted
in distorted political incentives” at both national and Eurozone
levels.
One of the central principles of the Stability
and Growth Pact (SGP) is that countries must not run an annual
budget deficit — the difference between its income and its spending
each year — of more than three percent of its GDP.
Both Spain and Portugal are in breach of the SGP,
triggering the warning from the Commission, which should have imposed
fines on both countries for breaking the rules of the common
currency, but declined to over fears it would drive up anti-EU
sentiment in both countries.
People march during a protest called by the main union against
the government’s austerity and social measures in Madrid, Spain December 18,
2016
Taken together with the woes over the Greek third
bailout — the subject itself of disagreement between the IMF and
the Eurozone — the breaches are a further sign of the
dysfunctionality of the single currency, because of a north-south
divide in the economies of the member states. For the SGP
to work, all euro member states must have similar fiscal policies and
economic cycles — which they patently don’t have.
Enforcement Politics
At the height of the sovereign debt crisis of 2008-9,
Greece, Portugal, Ireland, Spain and Cyprus were unable to repay or
refinance their government debt or to bail out over-indebted banks
without the assistance of third parties like other Eurozone
countries, the European Central Bank (ECB), or the IMF — otherwise known
as the Troika.
One of the fundamental issues of sovereign debt crisis
is that — previously, when the countries all had their own
currencies — the governments would have devalued the currency
to recover the situation. With a shared currency, they were unable
to adopt that course of action.
The IMF also says that oversight of the Eurozone is too
complicated and political. The responsibility for enforcement is shared
between the European Commission and the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) —
the finance ministers of the Eurozone.
The European Commission has the right and duty to monitor
implementation of the SGP without having full power to take
action in cases of noncompliance because ECOFIN has the final word
on monitoring and enforcement decisions, the report says.
“This incomplete separation of powers between the two
entities has long been seen as a weakness of the SGP for at
least two reasons. First, the ECOFIN gathers officials responsible
to their own countries’ constituencies and with the mandate
of advancing national interests. As a result, some have argued that the
enforcement of the SGP has not been evenhanded, with preferential
treatment granted to larger countries holding more voting rights.
Specifically pointing out the two culprits, i.e. bankers and
politicians, the regulators are effectively saying that the European Union
project, as it was designed by the Khazars, must go as it forces the population
to bite the “austerity” bullet every time there’s a financial crisis of their
own making, just to keep the bankers afloat.
To make matters worse for the bankers, Donald Trump is expected
to appoint an EU ambassador who advocates for the shorting of the euro as the
EU currency could fail within the next 18 months.
“I am not certain there will be a European Union in which to
have negotiations… The one thing I would do in 2017 is short the euro. I think
it is a currency that is not only in demise, but has a real problem and could
in fact collapse in the coming year or year and a half.”
What this all means is a continuation of the battle royale
between Donald Trump and Angela Merkel, who was one of those who actively
interfered with the last US elections.
UK, Germany, & France ‘grossly interfered’ in US election – Russian FM
Leaders and top officials from the UK, Germany, and France have
“grossly interfered” in US internal affairs, “campaigned” for Hillary Clinton,
and openly “demonized” Donald Trump, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
said.
Speaking at a press conference following a meeting with Austrian
counterpart Sebastian Kurz, Lavrov said Moscow “is tired” of accusations it meddled in
the US election.
In fact, Lavrov said, it is time to “acknowledge the fact” that it was the
other way around.
“US allies have grossly interfered in America’s internal
affairs, in the election campaign,” Lavrov said.
“We noticed that Angela Merkel, Francois Hollande, Theresa May,
and other European leaders” did so. He added that
official representatives of some of the European countries did not mince words,
and essentially “demonized”
Donald Trump during the election campaign.
Since the money laundering penalties levied against Deuthsbank
involved an attack of the Russian currency, Vladimir Putin could enter the fray
(the Russian government is obviously supplying the critical data necessary for
indictment), for whom Merkel’s intelligence chief is already attending to.
Panicked Germany accuses Putin of ‘aggressive’ propaganda plot aimed at TAKING DOWN Merkel
Germany has clashed with Russia over an alleged propaganda
campaign against Angela Merkel
Head of Berlin’s BfV intelligence agency, Hans-Georg Maassen,
condemned the Kremlin for increasing its “operations” against the German Chancellor
and other government figures.
Mr Maassen said: “We see aggressive and increased cyber spying
and cyber operations that could potentially endanger German government officials,
members of parliament and employees of democratic parties.”
The surveillance chief, who raised similar concerns about Moscow
efforts to interfere in German elections last month, said he expected further
cyber attacks from Vladimir Putin’sintelligence
agencies.
Knowing that the German bank is too interconnected with other
big banks, it’s understandable that whatever Trump does, bankers and media need
to oppose.
Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein told employees that President
Donald Trump’s order to halt arrivals from seven Muslim-majority countries was
not a policy the bank endorsed, according to a source familiar with the matter.
“This is not a policy we support, and I would note that it has
already been challenged in federal court, and some of the order has been
enjoined at least temporarily,” Blankfein told employees in a voicemail on
Sunday.
Blankfein said Goldman Sachs would work to minimize potential
disruptions to employees and their families caused by Trump’s order, according
to a transcript seen by Reuters.
Most U.S. corporate bosses have stayed silent on Trump’s
immigration curbs, underscoring the sensitivities around opposing policies that
could provoke a backlash from the White House.
While Apple, Alphabet Inc’s Google and Facebook emailed their
staff to denounce the order, many of their counterparts in other industries
either declined to comment or responded with company statements reiterating
their commitment to diversity.
It’s now pretty obvious that, as the Reformist Collective gained
the participation of the unorthodox Donald Trump, the once covert hybrid WW3 is
now nearing its climax as both sides of the Atlantic will be run by populist
leaderships that the Khazarians are not so happy about.
It is highly anticipated that one more departure, e.g. Frexit,
and the whole one-currency bloc is history.
The global criminal syndicate may have stashed some of their
loot in industrialized China, and elsewhere, to save them for the rainy days,
it doesn’t mean that the same game that they been playing will not be used
against them, when necessary.
In fact, what amuses knowledgeable Asians is the inability of
the Western oligarchs to play the same game, follow the same rules, that the latter
themselves have set forth, a long time ago.
This is the main reason why the Eastern Alliance must regain
control, as it has systematically done so, of the global economy.
There will be changes because we all want to leave this planet a
lot better than we’ve found it, for the sake of the next generation.
Source: https://geopolitics.co/2017/02/01/bringing-down-the-khazarian-project-german-controlled-european-union/