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Iran received $10 billion in cash and gold as sanctions relief — Obama admin. denies direct role

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President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry meet with a small group of veterans and Gold Star Mothers to discuss the Iran nuclear deal at the White House on Sept. 10, 2015. (Olivier Douliery-Pool/Getty Images)

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The Obama administration reportedly signed legal waivers that allowed sanctions relief to the tune of $10 billion in cash and gold to be sent to Iran as part of the Iran deal. But the White House denies that they had any direct role in the payments.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the cash and gold were moved through third-party countries in the Middle East and Europe after Asian nations unfroze Iranian oil revenues and wired the funds to various banks, including in Oman, Switzerland and Turkey. U.S. lawmakers and Middle East allies worry, due to the highly liquid nature of cash, could be used to fund terror regimes.

The money was converted to currency and bars of gold, U.S. officials said. The White House put a single restriction on the transactions: They could not include U.S. dollars.

From the WSJ:

To enable the flow of the $700 million monthly payments, the White House signed a series of legal waivers authorizing countries to unfreeze Iranian oil revenues, the officials said. Without the waivers, those countries in many cases would have been in violation of U.S. secondary sanctions.

Some of the payments were previously reported; however, others went unreported. One unreported payment included $1.4 billion to Iran in the time period between when the Iran deal was finalized in July 2015 and when it went into effect.

The U.S. Treasury Department has a policy of criticizing large cash payments because, according the the WSJ report, “they could be used by criminal gangs, narcotics traffickers or terrorist organizations. International sanctions, however, have long restricted Iran’s access to global financial and banking systems, making other forms of payments necessary.”

Some observers worry that this might translate into funding terror regimes such as  the Assad regime in Syria, the Lebanese militia Hezbollah and the Houthi political movement in Yemen.

The Obama administration says it played no role in the $10 billion cash and gold payments to Iran, contending that the countries who unfroze the oil revenues and made the banking transfers acted of their own volition. U.S. officials also note that Iran felt payments related to the Iran deal were coming too slowly, and that “a final deal might not have been possible if they hadn’t found ways to get Iran some of the monthly $700 million payments during the 18 months of negotiations.”

At the beginning of December, Congress passed a 10-year extension on sanctions against Iran, which were set to expire Dec. 31. The extension became law, though the president declined to sign the bill.

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TRILLIONAIRE ROTHSCHILD WARNS HIS OWN CENTRAL BANKING SYSTEM IS FAILING AND BUYS GOLD

AUGUST 21, 2016 / JEFF BERWICK / 1 COMMENT

We have been highlighting the wave of billionaires who are all getting out of the stock market this summer and buying gold.  Well, now it’s a trillionaire.

Of course, he’s not “officially” on top in the “most wealthy” lists… but that is because the Rothschilds have been experts in hiding their wealth for centuries.

When Jacob’s great-great-great-great grandfather, Mayer Amschel Rothschild, died in 1812, his will explicitly stated that no public inventory of his estate was to be published and that no legal action was to be taken with regard to the value of the inheritance. It’s also been suggested that the Rothschilds use private, unrecorded, limited partnerships to accumulate wealth (you know, like all the ones in the Panama Papers).

By the end of the 19th century it was estimated that the Rothschild family controlled half the wealth of the world. No one can prove it of course, but it seems likely. You can see their fingerprints on many current events. In fact, their family has likely caused and financed both sides of nearly every war since and control virtually every central bank (to see a full list of all their crimes against humanity click here).

And so, when Jacob Rothschild says that he is buying gold because the central banks are out of control, you have to laugh.  He and his family have been in control of the world’s central banks for centuries.

But he has said it nonetheless.  In his semi-annual address to shareholders of RIT Capital Partners, Jacob Rothschild, announced that they are reducing stock market and currency exposure and increasing their gold holdings and warns that the world is now in “uncharted waters” and that the consequences are “impossible” to predict.

He stated:

The six months under review have seen central bankers continuing what is surely the greatest experiment in monetary policy in the history of the world.

We are therefore in uncharted waters and it is impossible to predict the unintended consequences of very low interest rates, with some 30% of global government debt at negative yields, combined with quantitative easing on a massive scale.”

It’s not impossible to predict. There’s going to be a gigantic crash.

That’s what Rothschild is telling us and what our analysis of Shemitah and now Jubilee 2016 reveal to us.  Financial disasters track these timelines and Rothschild knows all about it. He’s the best man to predict what is going to happen because he and other globalist elites have created the timeline of catastrophe that we regularly analyze and predict.

And he’s being clear that this timeline of catastrophe is moving ahead. For observers like us – and you – he is stating the obvious. And others are making it clear as well. With just a month-and-a-half until the end of the Jubilee Year, very connected billionaires are warning that things are going  horribly wrong.

It’s no coincidence. George Soros began to move heavily into gold a few months ago and so did his buddy Crispin Odey. And now Jacob Rothschild himself is moving into gold… We are certain they already own tremendous sums of it… but he is buying even more now in the final days of Jubilee 2016.

Rothschild and the others want us to believe they are concerned about this state of affairs. He’s pretending he’s making his move because he is worried.

He’s not worried. He KNOWS what is going to happen. He helped plan it.

They are acting concerned.  But, it’s just an act.

Rothschild, for instance, points out that despite central bank money printing boosting stock markets, this growth is detached from the real economy. In fact, he’s basically warning that years of overprinting and 0% interest rates have destroyed economies around the world.

This isn’t just speculation on our part. It’s not hypothetical. Globalist financial elites, and even now the super elites, are rushing into gold. They have the wherewithal to do it but unfortunately others do not.   It is estimated that 0.5% of the average American’s portfolio has exposure to precious metals.  And, that, is probably all they’ll have left once Rothschild prepares to destroy the system he created in order to buy up everything at pennies on the dollar, like they did in 1929.

If you haven’t begun to get a significant portion of your assets outside of the financial system (the banks, fiat currencies and the overall stock market excluding gold stocks), you’re preparing to play the victim. When Rothschild announces his own central banking system is in “uncharted waters” in the “greatest experiment in monetary policy in the history of the world,” and moves into gold… you should be right behind him (or right in front of him as we have been the last few years).

There are very few places that were built to help survive and profit from this very event… but this is what The Dollar Vigilante (TDV) was built for.  And we can help.

We’ve written the e-book “Getting Your Gold Out Of Dodge” (available for $44.95 – or included with a subscription to TDV) to help you easily invest in precious metals and internationalize them for protection without leaving the comfort of your own home.

And we also have a private group for subscribers across the world who have already taken steps to protect themselves and are more than happy to help you. And, our Premium newsletter’s subscriber portfolio is up 200% in the last year as we have predicted nearly everything that has been happening and is ongoing.

For less than $30/month you can get all that and more… it’s obviously money VERY well spent.  You can see everything offered here.

We are now getting very close to a massive event.  Most of the biggest globalist elites are not only warning about it but moving into precious metals and mining stocks… and out of the overall stock markets.

Even just a few months ago, the bond manager of what was once the world’s biggest bond fund had a dire prediction about what was going to happen:

It’s never been clearer… nor have you ever received more warning. Yet most people are not acting. Many are not even aware how close to the edge we are dancing.

Stick with us here at TDV and subscribe to the TDV newsletter to make sure you aren’t one of them. If for some reason you don’t believe us, then believe what Rothschild is telling you.

Anarcho-Capitalist.  Libertarian.  Freedom fighter against mankind’s two biggest enemies, the State and the Central Banks.  Jeff Berwick is the founder of The Dollar Vigilante, CEO of TDV Media & Services and host of the popular video podcast, Anarchast.  Jeff is a prominent speaker at many of the world’s freedom, investment and gold conferences including his own,Anarchapulco, as well as regularly in the media including CNBC, CNN and Fox Business.

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HOW INFLATION FOOLS PEOPLE INTO THINKING THEY ARE RICHER THAN THEY ARE

OCTOBER 30, 2015 / JEFF BERWICK / 1 COMMENT

[The following is an excerpt from the October issue of TDV released to subscribers today]

One of the biggest crimes against humanity is central banking and their constant devaluing of their currencies.

Some of the biggest names in history have identified central bank inflation correctly:

-“By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.” – John Maynard Keynes

-“Inflation is taxation without legislation.” – Milton Friedman

-“In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.” – Alan Greenspan

-“The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists.” – Ernest Hemingway

Note how eloquently Ernest Hemingway described our world today.

But, Lysander Spooner said it best when he said, “In reality there is no such thing as an inflation of prices, relatively to gold. There is such a thing as a depreciated paper currency.”

And so, in this topsy-turvy world of centrally planned banking and printing of fiat currencies it is nearly impossible to gauge the real value of things.

However, as Spooner said above, one good way to gauge things over a longer time frame is to look at things in the price of gold. Luckily, PricedInGold.com, ran by a friend of ours here at The Dollar Vigilante, makes this easy. First, let’s look at the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) in fiat money terms.

If you were to just look at that chart you would think, “Wow, what an amazing bull market!” But, you have to remember, this is in constantly devaluing dollars. Here is how the DJIA looks since 1985 when priced in gold (a much more stable currency).

All of a sudden things jive much more with reality. When priced in gold the Dow hit a major peak in 1999 and has been in a major bear market since with only a slight bounce since 2012. It should be noted that dividends should be taken into account but even adding them into the equation does not change the story much as this chart shows.

The green line is the DJIA in fiat dollar terms, dividends included. And the blue line is priced in gold, dividends included.

So, let’s look at GDP in “inflation-adjusted dollars” versus GDP when priced in gold. Here is GDP as calculated in 2005 dollars using the Consumer Price Index (CPI) to adjust for inflation.

Again, to the amateur eye it looks like US GDP has been in a near century long bull market.

Not so much when you look at the GDP priced in gold.

When priced in gold, US GDP hit a major peak in 2001 and has only had a slight recovery, similar to the recovery in 1975 before plunging more than 50% by 1980. But that is just a look at the stock market and GDP priced in gold. What does this mean for the average working man?

When looking at US wages since 1965, adjusted for inflation by the CPI, it isn’t terribly pretty. In general, wages in “real terms” are down over time albeit not by too much.

But the real story is looking at wages priced in gold.

Notice how things have been downhill since 1971? 1971 was the year the gold backing was removed from the dollar and the working man has been getting stiffed by inflation ever since.

Maybe things aren’t going as well as the cheerleaders on CNBC seem to tell us!

[Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from the 50 page newsletter issued to subscribers today which includes information on an option play to short the markets, three new gold stock recommendations by Ed Bugos, information on a new bitcoin ATM/Debit card and potential investment into the company and much more.  Subscribe here to gain access.]

Anarcho-Capitalist.  Libertarian.  Freedom fighter against mankind’s two biggest enemies, the State and the Central Banks.  Jeff Berwick is the founder of The Dollar Vigilante, CEO of TDV Media & Services and host of the popular video podcast, Anarchast.  Jeff is a prominent speaker at many of the world’s freedom, investment and gold conferences including his own, Anarchapulco, as well as regularly in the media including CNBC, CNN and Fox Business.

Who Won The Deal? Iran Or The US Or....

Banksters make out like bandits on Iran deal

Posted on July 15, 2015 by Bob Livingston

Never mind the hubris involved in the U.S. government dictating to a sovereign nation whether it can procure or create specific weapons systems for its own protection; the Iran deal is a boon to banksters and the military-industrial complex.

The deal lifts U.N. financial sanctions on the regime and opens the door for the country to begin (legally) exporting oil again. It seems to do little to curtail Iran’s enrichment of uranium, putting limitations on it rather than halting it and setting in place a phaseout of the country’s centrifuges that begins years down the road.

But here are some key provisions regarding the lifting of U.N., EU and U.S. sanctions:

• The Iranian central bank can now establish banking relationships and branches in EU countries.
• U.S. and eurozone banksters can begin new banking relationships with the Iranian central bank. (That means millions of potential new debt slaves.)
• U.S. banknotes (U.S. debt) can be sold to the Iranian government.
• The Iranian government can receive grants, financial assistance and loans from the EU central bank and EU member states.
• Other governments can buy Iranian debt, including government bonds.
• Iran is free to trade in gold and other precious metals.
• Iran will have billions of dollars available to fund its proxies in Syria, Lebanon, Yemen and other countries, which will further destabilize the region and facilitate new American arms sales to various opposition regimes and perhaps draw the U.S. into more conflicts.

One has to wonder if a representative of Goldman Sachs or the Rothschilds was involved in the negotiation. He was. His name is John (Kohn) Kerry.

But Iran’s rulers need to be careful crowing too much about this deal. The U.S. rarely honors its deals when there are new regimes to conquer or countries to destabilize. Just ask Saddam Hussein, Moammar Gadhafi, Hosni Mubarak and Bashar Assad — and various Indian tribes — how deals with Uncle Sam often work out… except in the case of Hussein and Gadhafi and most American Indians, they are no longer around to ask.

Disarm Public Before Money Becomes Worthless. The American Plan Of Servitude!

‘The More Power The Government Has…’

July 7, 2014 by Bob Livingston 

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“The more power the government has, the greater the risk to the people and the more dangerous the abuse.”–Edmund Burke, 1771.

Big government is organized crime in all but name, and the man in the street is numb to the universal risk in today’s world.

Politicians and bureaucrats are spending the world into oblivion while secretly hoping and expecting to escape debt with depreciated dollars: yours. The public is unaware.

Note that your “elected” politicians never talk about the ongoing depreciation (inflation) of paper money (U.S. dollars). They don’t want you to think about this. They would rather you think about Donald Sterling and his frivolous racial comments.

But you should be on high alert. Liquidity is not only negative; it is at its most negative level in history. Are we facing the second Great Depression or worse?

For the third time in 14 years, U.S. stocks are in a bubble and far more leveraged than ever before. There are now more corporate bonds outstanding in the U.S. than there are mortgage-backed securities. This is significant, and the heart of the next crisis and the debt bubble will be non-financial corporate debt.

Investors beware! Stockholders beware!

Thanks to the Fed, it now seems that we have a bubble in all asset classes much larger than 2007. The Fed and other central banks with their expansionary monetary policies, all designed to boost asset prices, are similar to a juggler who is trying to keep all his balls in the air. The Big One is coming and there will be no place to hide except in very depressed gold stocks.

For the past four years, we have seen hard financial times and deteriorating business; but let me remind you of history. We don’t get the classic ice age depression until the New York stock market tanks. I expect this in 2014, this year. Its setup is now! No matter the fundamentals, every stock market that is booming seems to paralyze the mass mind.

Keep your gold stocks, your silver and gold and, yes, your stash of cash close to your heart.

These things will be scarce!

The coming second Great Depression will be very high-risk to your assets and to you personally. Get a good dog and bond with him and keep him in your home at night along with your loaded gun. Don’t be scared; just be ready.

The more ready you are, the safer you will be. This will all make sense to you in time.

The Two-Party System

The American people keep losing because they keep believing that there are two political parties. This belief that there are two political parties is a great deception that covers over systemic rot.

The first road out of serfdom is to begin to see that the so-called two-party system is a one-party system, a government-party system. It is perfectly amazing how we hold to the two-party illusion. Most people just can’t shake the deception. It borders on dementia. The politicians love it!

I realized many years ago that no matter who got elected, things always kept going in the same direction. There were obvious political and economic solutions, but the one party with two names made certain that the established order did not change. The people love deception, and they cling to it.

The unofficial U.S. monetary policy is currency devaluation. This has been true since the changing of the monetary system into the private Federal Reserve System in 1913. It was all in the plan to slowly take trillions of dollars away from the American people without general public awareness.

The act of currency devaluation can be understood simply as printing new currency. This is not an innocent game, but is theft from every person in the world who holds or uses dollars.

Each time new money is added, either as paper money or computer entries, all money already in the system — whether in circulation or under the mattress — is worth less. It is an unannounced and insidious process that covers theft on a grand scale.

This is, in fact, a scheme of the ongoing theft and transfer of the savings and assets of Americans to the banker elite. No Representative or Senator ever warned of this massive silent transfer of wealth.

As currency is diluted and gets weaker, it buys less and prices go up at the grocery store. The result is that people confuse cause and effect. They naively think that rising prices is simple price inflation, but it is actually the result of currency devaluation, meaning the banking system stole your purchasing power by and through new money printing.

What do the banking elite call money printing? They use words and terms that disguise their money printing so the general public doesn’t understand. Their buzzword is “quantitative easing.” This stealth money printing has a very serious effect, namely the ultimate and total debasement of the currency and the general destruction of savings and impoverishment of the people.

There are numerous instances in history where the population was made poor and hungry because greedy monetary authorities printed paper money into worthlessness. It is now happening in America.

American dollars have been loosed on the world as pure fiat currency since President Richard Nixon closed all gold transfers to foreign countries in 1971. Now the chickens are coming home to roost. We are at the end of our system of debt. And of course the crowd is oblivious to their slow impoverishment.

An impoverished people is easy to control. Especially one that has no guns — hence the ongoing effort to disarm us.

Will Gold Continue To Climb? What Will Be The Effect Of World Instability Be On Gold?

Experts: Gold Won't Continue Rally

Wednesday, 02 Jul 2014 07:17 AM

By Dan Weil

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While gold prices have risen 7 percent since June 3, thanks to the military conflict in Iraq and political turmoil in Ukraine, many market participants don't think the move will last.

Gold has risen 10 percent this year, rebounding from the biggest annual slump in three decades, as the Federal Reserve said it will keep interest rates at almost zero for a considerable time and as unrest in Iraq and Ukraine spurred haven demand.

Gold for immediate delivery was at $1,327.55 an ounce in London. It reached $1,332.33 Tuesday, the highest since March 24.

Sliding demand for gold jewelry and bullion in China and India, the world's two biggest gold buyers, will put a lid on gold prices, experts tell The Wall Street Journal. So will the Fed's reversal of some of its monetary stimulus.



"Gold is likely to migrate lower as the U.S. economy improves [and] physical demand is harder to find," Bart Melek, a senior commodities strategist with TD Securities, tells The Journal.

The economy shrank 2.9 percent in the first quarter, but many analysts forecast it will grow at least 3 percent for the rest of the year.

Credit Suisse analyst Tom Kendall forecasts gold will average $1,270 an ounce in the third quarter and then slide to $1,220 at year-end, The Journal reports.

"Until you see a pickup in physical demand or a pickup in investment demand, it's hard to see gold hold significant rallies," says Howard Wen, an analyst with HSBC.

Recent currency moves buoyed the precious metal Tuesday, market participants say. The euro stood at $1.3688 Tuesday afternoon, up from $1.3532 June 11.

"The dollar weakness is helping gold stay supported at current levels," Mike Dragosits, a senior commodity strategist at TD Securities, tells Bloomberg. "Economic data will determine how dovish the Fed remains, and that will guide gold."


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