The Final Demise of Dollar Hegemony?

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AUGUST 20, 2018 ADMIN 10 COMMENTS

Sanctions left and sanctions right. Financial mostly, taxes, tariffs, visas, travel bans – confiscation of foreign assets, import and export prohibitions and limitations; and also punishing those who do not respect sanctions dished out by Trump, alias the US of A, against friends of their enemies. The absurdity seems endless and escalating – exponentially, as if there was a deadline to collapse the world. Looks like a last-ditch effort to bring down international trade in favor of — what? – Make America Great Again? – Prepare for US mid-term elections? – Rally the people behind an illusion? – Or what?

All looks arbitrary and destructive. All is of course totally illegal by any international law or, forget law, which is not respected anyway by the empire and its vassals, but not even by human moral standards. Sanctions are destructive. They are interfering in other countries sovereignty. They are made to punish countries, nations that refuse to bend to a world dictatorship.

Looks like everybody accepts this new economic warfare as the new normal. Nobody objects. And the United Nations, the body created to maintain Peace, to protect our globe from other wars, to uphold human rights – this very body is silent – out of fear? Out of fear that it might be ‘sanctioned’ into oblivion by the dying empire? – Why cannot the vast majority of countries – often it is a ratio of 191 to 2 (Israel and the US) – reign-in the criminals?

Imagine Turkey – sudden massive tariffs on aluminum (20%) and steel (50%) imposed by Trump, plus central bank currency interference had the Turkish Lira drop by 40%, and that ‘only’ because Erdogan is not freeing US pastor Andrew Brunson, who faces in Turkey a jail sentence of 35 years for “terror and espionage”. An Izmir court has just turned down another US request for clemency, however, converting his jail sentence to house arrest for health reason. It is widely believed that Mr. Brunson’s alleged 23 years of ‘missionary work’ is but a smoke screen for spying.

President Erdogan has just declared he would look out for new friends, including new trading partners in the east – Russia, China, Iran, Ukraine, even the unviable EU, and that his country is planning issuing Yuan-denominated bonds to diversify Turkey’s economy, foremost the country’s reserves and gradually moving away from the dollar hegemony.

Looking out for new friends, may also include new military alliances. Is Turkey planning to exit NATO? Would turkey be ‘allowed’ to exit NATO – given its strategic maritime and land position between east and west? – Turkey knows that having military allies that dish out punishments for acting sovereignly in internal affair – spells disaster for the future. Why continue offering your country to NATO, whose only objective it is to destroy the east – the very east which is not only Turkey’s but the world’s future? Turkey is already approaching the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) and may actually accede to it within the foreseeable future. That might be the end of Turkey’s NATO alliance.

What if Iran, Venezuela, Russia, China – and many more countries not ready to bow to the empire, would jail all those spies embedded in the US Embassies or camouflaged in these countries’ national (financial) institutions, acting as Fifth Columns, undermining their host countries’ national and economic policies? – Entire cities of new jails would have to be built to accommodate the empire’s army of criminals.

Imagine Russia – more sanctions were just imposed for alleged and totally unproven (to the contrary: disproven) Russian poisoning of four UK citizens with the deadly nerve agent, Novichok – and for not admitting it. This is a total farce, a flagrant lie, that has become so ridiculous, most thinking people, even in the UK, just laugh about it. Yet, Trump and his minions in Europe and many parts of the world succumb to this lie – and out of fear of being sanctioned, they also sanction Russia. What has the world become? – Hitler’s Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, would be proud for having taught the important lesson to the liars of the universe: “Let me control the media, and I will turn any nation into a herd of Pigs”. That’s what we have become – a herd of pigs.

Fortunately, Russia too has moved away so far already from the western dollar-controlled economy that such sanctions do no longer hurt. They serve Trump and his cronies as mere propaganda tools – show-offs, “we are still the greatest!”.

Venezuela is being sanctioned into the ground, literally, by from-abroad (Miami and Bogota) Twitter-induced manipulations of her national currency, the Bolívar, causing astronomical inflation – constant ups and downs of the value of the local currency, bringing the national economy to a virtual halt. Imported food, pharmaceuticals and other goods are being deviated at the borders and other entry points, so they will never end up on supermarket shelves, but become smuggle ware in Colombia, where these goods are being sold at manipulated dollar-exchange rates to better-off Venezuelan and Columbian citizens. These mafia type gangs are being funded by NED and other similar nefarious State Department financed “NGOs”, trained by US secret services, either within or outside Venezuela. Once infiltrated into Venezuela – overtly or covertly – they tend to boycott the local economy from within, spread violence and become part of the Fifth Column, primarily sabotaging the financial system.

Venezuela is struggling to get out of this dilemma which has people suffering, by de-dollarizing her economy, partly through a newly created cryptocurrency, the Petro, based on Venezuela’s huge oil reserves and also through a new Bolivar – in the hope of putting the brakes on the spiraling bursts of inflation. This scenario reminds so much of Chile in 1973, when Henry Kissinger was Foreign Secretary (1973-1977), and inspired the CIA coup, by “disappearing” food and other goods from Chilean markets, killing legitimately elected President Allende, bringing Augusto Pinochet, a horrendous murderer and despot, to power. The military dictatorship brought the death and disappearance of tens of thousands of people and lasted until 1990. Subjugating Venezuela might, however, not be so easy. After all, Venezuela has 19 years of revolutionary Chavista experience – and a solid sense of resistance.

Iran – is being plunged into a similar fate. For no reason at all, Trump reneged on the five-plus-one pronged so-called Nuclear Deal, signed in Vienna on 14 July 2015, after almost ten years of negotiations. Now – of course driven by the star-Zionist Netanyahu – new and ‘the most severe ever’ sanctions are being imposed on Iran, also decimating the value of their local currency, the Rial. Iran, under the Ayatollah, has already embarked on a course of “Resistance Economy”, meaning de-dollarization of their economy and moving towards food and industrial self-sufficiency, as well as increased trading with eastern countries, China, Russia, the SCO and other friendly and culturally aligned nations, like Pakistan. However, Iran too has a strong Fifth Column, engrained in the financial sector, that does not let go of forcing and propagating trading with the enemy, i.e. the west, the European Union, whose euro-monetary system is part of the dollar hegemony, hence posing similar vulnerability of sanctions as does the dollar.

China – the stellar prize of the Big Chess Game – is being ‘sanctioned’ with tariffs no end, for having become the world’s strongest economy, surpassing in real output and measured by people’s purchasing power, by far the United States of America. China also has a solid economy and gold-based currency, the Yuan – which is on a fast track to overtake the US-dollar as the number one world reserve currency. China retaliates, of course, with similar ‘sanctions’, but by and large, her dominance of Asian markets and growing economic influence in Europe, Africa and Latin America, is such that Trump’s tariff war means hardly more for China than a drop on a hot stone.

North Korea – the much-touted Trump-Kim mid-June Singapore summit – has long since become a tiny spot in the past. Alleged agreements reached then are being breached by the US, as could have been expected. All under the false and purely invented pretext of DPRK not adhering to her disarmament commitment; a reason to impose new strangulating sanctions. The world looks on. Its normal. Nobody dares questioning the self-styled Masters of the Universe. Misery keeps being dished out left and right – accepted by the brainwashed to-the-core masses around the globe. War is peace and peace is war. Literally. The west is living in a “peaceful” comfort zone. Why disturb it? – If people die from starvation or bombs – it happens far away and allows us to live in peace. Why bother? – Especially since we are continuously, drip-by-steady drip being told its right.

In a recent interview with PressTV I was asked, why does the US not adhere to any of their internationally or bilaterally concluded treaties or agreements? – Good question. – Washington is breaking all the rules, agreements, accords, treaties, is not adhering to any international law or even moral standard, simply because following such standards would mean giving up world supremacy. Being on equal keel is not in Washington’s or Tel Aviv’s interest. Yes, this symbiotic and sick relationship between the US and Zionist Israel is becoming progressively more visible; the alliance of the brute military force and the slick and treacherous financial dominion – together striving for world hegemony, for full spectrum dominance.  This trend is accelerating under Trump and those who give him orders, simply because “they can”. Nobody objects. This tends to portray an image of peerless power, instilling fear and is expected to incite obedience. Will it?

What is really transpiring is that Washington is isolating itself, that the one-polar world is moving towards a multipolar world, one that increasingly disregards and disrespects the United States, despises her bullying and warmongering – killing and shedding misery over hundreds of millions of people, most of them defenseless children, women and elderly, by direct military force or by proxy-led conflicts – Yemen is just one recent examples, causing endless human suffering to people who have never done any harm to their neighbors, let alone to Americans. Who could have any respect left for such a nation, called the United States of America, for the people behind such lying monsters?

This behavior by the dying empire is driving allies and friends into the opposite camp – to the east, where the future lays, away from a globalized One-World-Order, towards a healthy and more equal multi-polar world. – It would be good, if our world body, the members of the United Nations, created in the name of Peace, would finally gather the courage and stand up against the two destroyer nations for the good of humanity, of the globe, and of Mother Earth.

Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a water resources and environmental specialist. He worked for over 30 years with the World Bank and the World Health Organization around the world in the fields of environment and water. He lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He writes regularly for Global Research; ICH; RT; Sputnik; PressTV; The 21st Century; TeleSUR; The Vineyard of The Saker Blog; and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance.

The Economy is Doing So Well!

by EraOfLight

Caring about truth
By pushing fake money onto the financial class, the feds have increased the share of national income made by the “One Percent” to three times what it was in the 1970s. The bottom share had to go down. There are 2.3 million people, for example, who earn more than $1 million per year and the top 0.1% earn more than $6 million per year.
But the bottom half of the population has an average income of only $16,000 per year. Seven out of 10 Americans, says USA Today, have less than $1,000 in savings. How is it possible that an economy can be doing so well, when most people in it are worse off?
What are the rich doing to deserve twice the total income share? Are they producing twice as much? Of course not. It is because the system is rigged, against the lower and the middle class. The bottom 90% got 35% of national income as recently as 1980. Now, they only get 25%.
In America, the low unemployment rate is almost a miracle. At 3.5% nationally, it is at a 17-year low. In California and in Hawaii, apparently, not a single person could be found in a recent survey who admitted to being jobless. These cup-half-full figures don’t take into account the 102 million American adults of working age who really don’t have jobs.
It is said that Inflation remains below 2%, but that is only if you follow the official bogus numbers and don’t take into account the rampant inflation in the asset and housing markets. The stock market, too, requires a special caveat emptor. It is no longer a place where you can discover how much companies are worth. It is apparently part of a grand wealth redistribution system, due to the fake money that is dumped into the markets. Assets go up and the people who own them find themselves with a greater share of the nation’s wealth.

The end of the dollar-system
The world economy and its financial structures have never recovered from the great financial meltdown of 2008. Soon people will realise that the economy has sunk into a classic debt trap. What is now looming over the global financial system is a crisis that could spell the end of the post-1944-dollar system.
After a decade of unprecedented low interest rates to bail out the financial institutions, creating new asset inflation bubbles in stocks, bonds and housing, Central Banks are in the early stages of what some call QT or Quantitative Tightening.
Interest rates are rising and have been for the past year, so far very gradually. The Fed however, is continuing to raise rates. The Fed Funds stand at 1.75% after nearly ten years at effectively zero percent. Were they to stop now it would signal a market panic, revealing that the Fed knew something far worse than they admit to.
Never in its history have the Central Banks indulged in a monetary experiment with such low rates for so long, the effects of reversing this are going to be as unmatched as well. At the beginning of the 2008 financial crisis, the interest rates were around 5%. That is what they are aiming for now as being the return to “normal.” However, with rising interest rates, the lowest credit sector, the so-called non-investment grade or “junk bonds” face domino style defaults.
Countercyclical fiscal policy
The difference between the next crash and the last two is that this time, the central banks have less room to manoeuvre. At the end of an expansion cycle, like the one that has been experienced for almost ten years, governments should be running a surplus.
The idea of countercyclical fiscal policy is; When the economy is hot, it is supposed to have budget surpluses. When the economy cools down, you then heat it up with more spending.
But currently, conducting a pro-cyclical fiscal experiment, late in the expansion cycle, while governments are still borrowing heavily, is economic suicide, bearing in mind that annual deficits are presently programmed to reach in the trillions and this figure is based on a situation without a crash or a recession.
Elites run the system for their own benefit
In a small government, citizens can run the show. They know what is going on, and have a say in what happens next. But, in a global Deep State Empire, citizens play largely symbolic roles. They vote, but their votes don’t really matter. They voice their opinions, but no one really cares what they think.


The real power now is in the hands of an elite cabal, who “work the system” for their own benefit. This is The Swamp that Donald Trump campaigned against. The inside deals, the bribes, the sweet sinecures, and the greasy campaign contributions. The elite get farther and farther ahead. Their interests and those of the rest of the people increasingly diverge. They get richer, while 90% of the population loses ground financially.
The masses have no idea what is going on, how the game is played, or how they are being ripped off. As the scale increases, gradually and then suddenly, a big gap opens between the “leaders” and the “people” – between public policy and private consequences, and between real news and “fake news.”
The elite insiders – in business, government, academia, religion, and media, whether it is the centralised government from the left or the right – have become the parasites.
A total of 75% of government spending is economically non-productive including military, debt service, social security. Unlike during the 1930s’ Great Depression, when the levels of government debt were almost at nil, today on average, the debt is over 105% of GDP and rising.
Spending on national economic infrastructure in the 1930s resulted in the great economic boom of the 1950s. But now; for example, spending $1.5 trillion on a dysfunctional F-35 all-purpose fighter jet program won’t do the trick.


Financial Perception
In an attempt to control people and perpetuate the current system, Central Bankers and government officials make deceptive statements about how “under control” or “anchored” inflation is and how solid the economy is looking for the years ahead with a cumulative GDP growth, etc. This grand deception is necessary for them to manage tightly, not just the fraudulent monetary system, but it is of the utmost importance for them to manipulate the public’s perception, which is one of the markers to look for when distinguishing a fiat currency system from one based on sound money.
During the millennia when currency was gold-based, and therefore sound, there was no need, actually no way to manage expectations about future price levels. Inflationary expectations seldom changed because the price of most things, in terms of gold, seldom changed. But in a fiat currency system, where money is not redeemable into a tangible asset and circulates solely because the governments say one kind of paper is valuable and other kinds are not, perception isn’t just another tool of monetary policy – it is the policy’s prime directive. When perception-management fails, the next option is direct intimidation in the form of capital controls and asset confiscation!
Debt reflation has now become impossible
The Khazarian crime mafia invented and implemented the perpetually growing debt spiral, but now something has changed. A change of this sort is enormous as it signals the trend to get out of debt. People are deleveraging by paying down debt. That is, of course, a contraction. A contraction means a depression.
The world is slipping into a depression and it’s going to get very nasty. The end result will be; nations’ governments are going to have to revalue gold because that is the only thing they will have left.
They will have to resort to that to keep trade going. No country is completely independent economically. All nations need things that others produce. In order to keep the world trade going, there is no other solution than going back to gold.
For at least one hundred years the financial system has been manipulated to the hilt, bringing the world to its knees through the financial engineering of the elite, which should have been alarming enough in and of itself for every well-educated expert. But the majority has been masterfully kept in the dark about the hidden agenda, not taking heed of the bells ringing loud and clear. In-depth analyses reveal that the whole monetary system is in its final stage of self-destruction.
The excessive currency printing of debt-money has arrived in its final ‘reflation’ stage of self-destruction. Because the debt in the world has grown so excessively, the credit-system has gone into reverse mode, as a result of the invention of the perpetual debt spiral. By not issuing enough money to be repaid with interest, an absurd situation arises in that not enough liquidity is created to repay all debt, while even more ludicrous, when all debt is paid off, there is no more currency left in circulation.
Reflation is no longer possible at this point and it would seem that the deflationists are being proven to have been correct all along. They are correct in regards to a credit system working in reverse with a negative feedback loop, stoking a deflationary death spiral.
Debt Reflation is the deflation of debt that is making the economy even worse
Reflation is a fiscal or monetary policy, designed to expand a country’s output and curb the effects of deflation. What we are seeing now, is the reverse of this. The economy is moving in the opposite direction. In fact, debt reflation is the deflation of debt, weakening the economy, leading to contractions in the economy, propelling it into a collapse.
Clearly the Khazarian mafia is getting scared and running out of ammunition. The fact that the Khazarian mob controlled Bank of Japan, like the ECB in Europe, was forced to resort to negative interest rates, proves their fake fiat monies are worth less than nothing. The US Federal Reserve Board will be forced to do the same thing.
The more people put money in their banks, the more that money is vanishing.
It’s a remarkable time right now. This is all taking place before we are able to identify and decipher what is happening, what the world is going through or where it is headed. People who are AWAKE have long seen this coming, and now we find ourselves in the middle of it all.
There are really two converging worlds – the vibrational changes from beyond are attacking the Khazarian Mafia-controllers that block these positive energies, and jam the beneficial signals bestowed on the people, by instilling fear, disunity and insecurity, meanwhile bombarding us with a toxic cocktail of electromagnetic, chemical, genetic, nuclear and techno-trans humanist influences.
There is just one small problem, what will happen to the currencies of these central bank issuers including and especially those of The Fed, who also are caught up in the negative feedback loop? These will vanish as a result of their own intentional flaw in the financial system of not putting enough money into circulation to pay back all the outstanding loans plus interest payments.


Collectively we must stand together
It’s time for us all to collectively stand together and address the root cause of our problems. To put this into perspective: There are a billion people being enslaved and just a handful by comparison doing the enslaving. The way out of this is to come together in mutual support, love, kindness and understanding. Put aside the manufactured irrelevancies that divide us – religion, politics, race, culture, and income.
This is not to say people have to reject their beliefs; just don’t let them be weapons of division, but instead embrace all differences with respect.
We are all in this together, and we need to face this challenge together, not steal from each other, loot, or riot, or look the other way because of something happening to someone else, with a ‘not my problem’ attitude.
The Deep State is seeking to enslave all of us, whatever one’s religion, race or colour of one’s skin. They are crossing off different groups one by one, just like the Nazis did in Germany in WW2. The cabal’s worst nightmare is our non-compliance – the refusal to pay taxes, refusal to leave homes when banks foreclose on them because of an economic collapse caused by these same banks. Stated simply: the refusal to comply with our own enslavement in any shape or form.


Non-compliance Action on a massive scale:
The system cannot cope if this is done on a massive scale and that makes the point that we should undertake this action together, united. Instead of compliance, we need non-compliance, this being a peaceful protest without violence. We should not comply with what is unfair or unjust, or simply because it targets our freedom and that of others. This approach differs substantially from non-compliance in a spirit of hostility, rage or violence. Instead the weapons deployed are those of love and laughter – and an unshakable determination to not cooperate with our own enslavement.
The Next Recession Is Going to Be Horrific
Please take note of the well meant advice, in being prepared for a rough ride through life. Make sure you have food, fuel, water, and shelter, next to gold, silver and crypto.
The importance is who will have the narrative, the Deep State or President Trump. One thing is sure the housing bubble is going to pop this summer, and that will be the end of the Central Banking system if Trump has the narrative. Otherwise expect WW3.


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Federal Reserve to Start Processing ACH Payments for Immediate Withdrawal

In today's video, Christopher Greene of AMTV reports Federal Reserve to Start Processing ACH Payments for IMMEDIATE Withdrawal (9.15.17).

BANCO POPULAR BANKRUPTCY, sold 1 EURO TO SANTANDER, ANOTHER BROKEN LIVES TO BANK CAPITAL 27 since 2008.

ECB organized the bankruptcy of Banco Popular with its stress test, PA pay shareholders or having to rescue

" Popular Bank, first bank intervened by the EU " . (Laughing, why they did not intervene when they came to do several times the stress tests and found the bankruptcy ?,  because they were waiting to fall in bag not pay shareholders and save the rescue.

" The ECB organized the bankruptcy of Banco Popular using its stress test, not to pay shareholders or having to rescue the bank

It has been sold for 1 euro to Santander, another bank broken with 27 capital increases. 

They know perfectly well that they can not pay shareholders of any bank but allow new capital increases to subscribe ".

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Spain's government has nothing to do with German or French, which has blocked the actions of the ECB stress test  in their country . The government of the  Zionist Brand Spain,  may  do so now, COPYING Germany and France  and once you have removed the dead from the People 's Bank.

All Spanish banks are bankrupt s only  Bankia  it is not because it was reorganized to be rescued by the state. " Only Bankia exceeded tes t stress with the worst casescenario".

These guys ministers of  Lehman Brothers  as  Guindos,  know a lot about how to organize bankruptcies. 

"De Guindos says it's a good start of Popular without using public funds."  (elmundo daily). "The Government argues that the sale of the Popular has been done with" full transparency " . ( Elmundo daily ).

They know perfectly well that they can not pay shareholders of any bank but allow new capital increases ( more than  27 expansions  since 2008 ),  the  Banco de Santander and all  Sicavs  to subscribe ". 

"Six  'invisible guardians'  control 40% of the shares of Santander 

"The Cantabrian bank identifies six major custodian banks and fund managers with 30,000 million euros in securities of the entity".

Paloma Botín said that the transaction will have no cost to the taxpayer:  LIES.

Since when this kind of financial used the honor to decorate their operations, but their misrepresentations?

If you have to ruin the country do so without the slightest gesture of concern, or scruple.

The capital increases are based on only 1% of the  FGD Fund Deposit Guarantee under warranty Spain , which really should be at 115% as fractioned Funds Federal Reserve approved  Obama and now Trump He wants to raise  that ceiling in  10 trillions of dollars . 

A third more on  debt of  19,918 trillions  of dollars accumulated Obama and Bush. 

Print money like that, decompensating balance of payments of other nations that can not issue debt or currency to taste.

"The Banco Santander has destroyed shareholder value with expansion  capital".

There has been no transparency, have only made the bed to shareholders not to compensate them. 

The government works for banks, not citizens.

The government "functionless" Zionist Brand Spain , has left bankrupt the People 's Bank  not topay the 305,000 shareholders  and could be sold without being rescued,  and for a symbolic price of 1 euro.

305,000 shareholders  who have lost all their money and as with the collapse of British bank  Northern Rock Bank, will  not receive 1 euro for their actions.

The stress test only serves the ECB to see when they can make the transfer of assets of a failed bank, blocking its assets and transfer them to another.

June 7, 2017, has actually been done on 6/6 date you have waited to celebrate, as the Normandy landings and the birthday of the late David Rockefeller:

PEOPLE 'S BANKRUPTCY, sold  1 EURO  TO SANTANDER, another bank BROKEN LIVES OF 27 TO CAPITAL INCREASES SINCE 2008.

305,000 SHAREHOLDERS  LOSE THEIR INVESTMENTS IN BAG.NORTHERN ROCK AS WITH BANK.(what  I announced  and thus meets).

" Popular Bank, first bank intervened by the EU " . (Laughing, why they did not intervene when they came to do several times the stress tests and found the bankruptcy ?,  because they were waiting to fall in bag not pay shareholders and save the rescue.

January 20, 2016: 

2016 NEW bank mergers

The formula of mergers already planned since 2008, and announced new mergers  of already merged.Probably see all alone Do three major banks in Spain? : 

CaixaBank  (merge  Sabadell and Bankia ),  Santander  (merged with the Popular, ¿ Liberbank,  Mare Nostrum ,  especially  with the help of  the cancellation of the judiciary in demand for non - payment  of settlements transfer tax from which is exempt -  ? and Caja Murcia), BBVA

August 2016:  "The bank robs us. The state is no longer anything regulator.Your money will disappear and their property will be seized. "

November 16, 2012:    "More on Banks Ill, Part 2".

August 12, 2012:   "The harmful effects of the new Banco Malo or speculation."

November 2, 2014:    "The Rothschilds give a coup d'etat across Europe. The ECB takes the control of banking " .

Wall Street and more money is spent on paying dividends to buy shares

CARLOS JARAMILLO

06/06/2017 - 20:41

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Since 2008, US companies with higher share buyback programs have recurrently beaten the market -only in 2015 were worse than the S & P 500-. However, this situation has changed so far this year, with the  buyback  losing strength on the floor and in the volume of capital for these operations by US companies.

The S & P Index Buyback index rises less than 6% so far this year, 3 percentage points less than the S & P 500. This trend has been accompanied by a decline in the volume of repurchases. According to data compiled by RBC Capital Markets, the amount used by US companies to withdraw some of its securities market has fallen to the area of ​​325.000 million dollars, in contrast to over 400,000 million dollars that came to use just a year ago when he approached near record highs graphic--see.

The volume of capital used by US companies dividend is at the same level as that used to buy back shares, which has not happened since 2010.

According to data collected by the entity, the total amount allocated to dividend payments by US companies has also fallen slightly in recent months, but the decline has been lower.

"As a starting point, we find that dividends are more stable than share buybacks. On average, cuts in payments to shareholders in all recessions since 1970 were only one quarter of the drop in profits. Meanwhile, the culture of the  buyback  find that are freely available, and oscillating with confidence, profits and market conditions ,"explained from UBS.

According to data collected by the Swiss entity, programs to remove outstanding shares across the Atlantic went from renting around 0.5% in 2004 to offer almost 3.5% in 2008 to then dropped to slightly above 0.5% in 2009. the programs buybacks US rented about 2% in 2016 and UBS estimate that this year will fall to 1.5% and environment in 2018 they will remain flat.

According highlight One of the circumstances that are causing such operations have lost prominence are the high valuations of the US market. The S & P 500 is trading at a PER (times benefit in stock price is collected) 17 times to 12 months, implying a 13% premium over the average for doing so since it started millennium. "Analysts estimate that profits will grow 11% in 2017, but valuations have also climbed, so that companies may have to pay more to acquire their own titles , " explains FactSet analysis team.

 from Citi, the US was the only major market where share buybacks exceeded the dividends. "US companies now distribute as much capital as they used to reinvest in your business and have progressively taken the form of share buybacks rather than paying dividends," materialize from the US entity.

The threat of a kind

One of the problems that warn experts on buybacks programs across the Atlantic is the tendency of some companies to buy back their shares into debt.

One of the most significant cases is that of McDonald? S. Between 2014 and 2016 the fast food firm spent over 20,500 million in the same period when the earnings of the company did not reach 14.000 million.

According to data published by FactSet, a total of 119 companies in the S & P used in the last 12 months money buying shares that gained in the period. "With many companies issuing debt to finance their buybacks , rate hikes will make the cost of repurchasing shares is higher , " warn from FactSet. In the meeting that the Fed willhold this month a new rate hike is expected and the company plans to raise the price of money a third time before the end of the year, although the market doubt the latter.

No more 'Trump-trade'

One of the great strengths on which it counted the market for US listed impulsasen benefits were tax cuts announced by Trump, few promises that the market no longer believes. Investors came to price the new president hand cut the corporate tax to 15% and that could make a kind of tax amnesty to repatriate the cash that companies have abroad, which would have supported profits and thus pay . "We expect firms to direct most of its cash to buy back shares repatriated," Goldman claimed in January.

Repurchases will not start in Europe

Historically, US companies have been buying back shares much more active than European, a trend has not been reversed.According to data from UBS, the  buyback in the Old World have offered no shareholder return since the crisis, as share issues , especially the banca- offsetting 

Dutch Elite Banker Blows the Whistle on the Illuminati Banking System (Video and Transcript)

(BP) This “bankster” for some reason decided to tell the truth about the psychopathic world of the banking industry and how it really is versus how we thought. 

Related How the Rothschild-Rockefeller Empire Conquered the World 

Source - Starship Earth: The Big Picture

by BP, April 25th, 2017

Ronald Bernard was an entrepreneur who was already driven to be very successful when he was invited to enter NWO finance. 

He states that his mind was like a “freezer” and he was able to operate with zero empathy, driven solely by a fierce desire to rise to the top of the corrupt Illuminati empire. 

He claims about 8500 people run the entire world and are responsible for creating all manner of chaos to allow them to manipulate the financial climate and generate more wealth.

In the first video are 5 key points he made in his revealing interview, with English subtitles. 

The second video is the full 40 minute version which I’ve yet to watch, also with English subtitles.

~ BP 

https://youtu.be/NagYge8fSJM

https://youtu.be/nEpcY5JU120

Published on Apr 19, 2017 

Finance Insider reveals a reality that is as shocking as can be (if no great surprise to increasing numbers of the waking public). This is the MOST convincing testimony I have ever come across.

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Interviewer: Ronald, you have a very strong background in the financial sector, asset management, deposit trading, as far as I understood. Can you us something about your experiences? For how long did you work there?

Ronald: Well, my experiences are more complicated than what you mentioned just now. Actually I have been an entrepeneur my entire life. Independence being the key component to me. I have once tried being an employee, but that didn’t work out. Being an entrepeneur, I have seen many sectors, amongst which I have experienced the financial world. All my other companies as an entrepreneur, like my own fashion line for ladies, car-dealership and also import-export had me involved to such an extent with building up my own fortune, it inherently guided me into the world of finance. Working in import-export, you encounter different currencies and you have to go to the exchange to trade through brokers. One of these brokers said at some point, “Ronald, I’ve been looking at your life for a long time and you are always busy. You earn money, we know, but what is your goal?” I replied: “the only goal I have as an entrepeneur is to earn as much money as I possibly can” because the more money I have, the quicker I can retire, be free and of course have status, basically everything you want in this society. Or at least, that’s what I thought back then. So the broker said: “In that case, stop what you are doing now, stop with all those companies and just start dealing money, go into the financial world.” And that is the beginning of that situation that is connected to your original question. The broker, had a place in the exchange market and he dealt in currencies, deposits, so trading in assets to make money out of differences in interest rates, and that involved the aforementioned asset management. Those three aspects together formed the interesting package I said yes to. He said: “All right, you can take my place here, I’ll train you, introduce you to the network, but in exchange I want 10% of your annual earnings.” So he basically sold me his spot in the financial world and asked a 10% commission which I paid him. I said “Yes, fine with me!” Then he replied: “There is one thing you need to know. If you can’t put your conscience in the proverbial freezer, and I don’t mean on -18 degrees, but on -100, then don’t get involved in this. Oops! That was the message, “you want a lot of money, you can obtain that, I can help you, but it comes at a great cost, because you can not do this with a clear conscience.” Well, I laughed at that, I was young and naive. From my youth, from the way I came into life; my far from ideal youth led me to develop a certain view of the world and humanity.

Interviewer: What do you mean by that? No warm, loving family?

Ronald: My mother always did the best she could to make us feel loved, but she was hampered by that due to the behavior of the father, who caused us to feel more like we lived in a war zone with each other. That isn’t an exemplary situation to grow up in. As a child, growing up like that led me to believe that the world and humanity are far from great.

Interviewer: So putting your conscience in the freezer was fitting in as a starting point?

Ronald: I was, partially, already used to doing that out of self-preservation, so to put my conscience in the freezer was not an impossible task to me. 

Interviewer: So it became a survival mechanism to you?

Ronald: Yes, yes. And my view of humanity and the world around me wasn’t exactly positive either. I only thought of myself, that’s the way I grew up to be out of self-preservation and I got into the deal. Which meant, that slowly, I build up a customer base. As I improved my skills within the network, I got deeper into the financial world, and then it turns out the world is really small, and you keep noticing that. Even when I was still working in import-export dealing in grain and such, you notice it is just a small circle. And if we talk about the hard core circle in the financial world, I don’t mean miss Jean at the bank, but the big global flows of money which you use for trading. 

 Interviewer: You are talking about world wide cash flows, so not the Netherlands in particular where you started working?

Ronald: The Netherlands do play a distinct part in this story, but the world does not revolve around it. The Netherlands are part of a large global financial system in which you work through the exchange market if you want to do official transactions. And many banks, who do the currency exchange get certain assignments from clients, which they can’t get away with easily. Then the need arises for people like me, who were the straw men where big money flows are involved. We used certain financial constructions, international legislation, to move the money in such a way making everything ‘OK.’ So all supervisors, regulatory bodies that are in place world wide, because they are… That no one wakes up seeing what is going on, like a year or two ago, with the scandal around Panama…

Interviewer: The Panama Papers.

Ronald: Yes.

Ronald: Yes then…

Interviewer: Yes.

Ronald: I think, well that was about avoiding taxes, tax evasion is when you break all the rules. This had to do with avoiding. But when you see what happened there, I’m like “guys that is old news, and who are you boring with that?” Because it is peanuts and hardly relevant. However, for the common people, that is great news, but it is not anything big. But it does show, there is something very wrong in this world. For example, there are people in the Netherlands, with certain positions, who have bank accounts in Panama with legislation that allows them not to pay taxes in the Netherlands, which is still completely legal. Constructions like that were part of my job, when we had to change currency. We had changes, the first boycotts in Iraq early 90’s, when there was a boycott in Iraq because of the war that started there. And we were confronted with what we called ‘Iraqi-dollar’, Iraqi-dollars, which were actually American dollars. The American dollar has a direct relation to the oil prices which made it a world trading currency backed up by oil. As long as that connection is in place, the dollar has value. Officially, the Iraqi people weren’t allowed to sell their oil due to the boycott. In theory, that is because never before was there such big business in oil, with discounts in this case, because officially it wasn’t allowed… so with discounts it still crossed the borders. Because the energy was always paid in dollars, these Iraqi-dollars had to go somewhere. You couldn’t just take them to the desk at the bank because all the regulations and checks did provide a certain protection, because money laundering and criminality wasn’t anything new back then. Now we call it terrorism, but that was then also the case. So then you need people to take the heath. As straw men you got invited to a bank in, for example, Germany, with basements full of trucks filled with money.

Interviewer: Tax evasion?

Interviewer: Wow!

Ronald: And then you think ’sure… trucks, transports, a busy company.’ Then they show you they are all filled to maximum capacity with dollars. And they tell you “We need to get rid of all this cash.” So change them for Pounds, German Marks, this and that, in such way, and it needs to go there and there.

Interviewer: Are we now talking about money laundering? Or… Ronald: Well, processing cash. Processing cash in such a way that we can legally reintroduce it into the money circuit. Interviewer: So that was your task? Ronald: That was an assignment my colleagues and I got. Interviewer: Okay.

Ronald: Yes.

Ronald: You are never alone on an assignment, because you can not do this on your own. It is not possible. We all know Scrooge McDuck scooping money with his shovel, well we literally had to do that over there. It was impossible to process all at once. So then you need to find a way. cash used to be the predominant way of paying, where nowadays most is digital. But you tried to find a way to process the cash. How do you reintroduce the cash into the circuit so Iraq can deal in it’s oil without being hampered? Because they are the ones that own the money. Iraq doesn’t want to… look, you mentioned money laundering, but what it was about the boycott, Iraq had to stick to the rules, and by… you know, everything you want to know about the world, you can know by following the money. That is the bottom line. Everyone can say ‘blah blah’, but make sure you follow the money, then you’ll find the truth. Same goes for that situation. So the only thing Iraq and their buying partners wanted, was to remain free of any accusations. Because the partners who bought it were the ones placing the boycott in the first place. But they are actually all friends on the same side. Everybody thinks there are opposites like good and bad guys in the world, but on the higher levels it is just a game and they are all working together. However, they do have to stick to the rules and regulations, which they themselves have created to keep the rest of society suppressed and make sure that it will not be too crowded at the top. So you have to play by your own rules. So that is what is going on there, is to make sure that nobody can trace you. Apart from the elite themselves, nobody in the lower ranks can find out what really happened.

Interviewer: Compartmentalized, that’s how we call it.

Interviewer: Everyone knows only his own little piece. Only the elite knows what is happening.

Ronald: Yes, but because we were doing the dirty work, we had to know a lot. Because we couldn’t afford to make any mistakes. 

 Interviewer: How high in the pyramid did you get? Were you close to the top of the pyramid?

Ronald: Well, we were communicating with them.

Interviewer: Okay.

Ronald: My ego would have loved it to get to the position of belonging to the top itself. Nowadays we still talk about 8000-8500 people who run the entire world. It would have been amazing to get into such a position back then.

Interviewer: All right, but if we say the top knows 100%, can you estimate how much you knew and understood of what happened?

Ronald: In my work, I had to know 100% of what was going on. There was no other way, because the interests of the people involved were huge.

Ronald: Exactly. If I wouldn’t know all the details I would end up making mistakes. Which would cause a spin-off, because those mistakes would be detected. Then the people that don’t know anything about it, would interfere. We are talking about having nerves of steel to function at this level.

Interviewer: Especially for the top.

Interviewer: So did you have nerves of steel?

Ronald: Yes, it worked just fine.

Interviewer: The freezer worked very well for you…

Ronald: Well, no, the thing is… I gave a small example of what was involved. So in this case, currency exchange. Dollar to something else, deposited in a safe manner, and managing assets well, so it could grow to rate of return, leading to reinvestments with the money. The level I played at in those 5 years, and that didn’t happen overnight, you need to earn your place. I am skilled at connecting the dots, information in order to achieve a full picture of all the things involved, that need to be taken into account within the playing field. Which is a very detailed process. You stand out when you are gifted in this. This is the reason I was trusted with the full 100% of the information where it concerned my jobs. So I didn’t know about everything they knew, but everything I needed to know regarding the case I was working with colleagues. I was often put in the leading role, because I kept a good overview of the situation, and I was good at innovative thinking to solve the problem. I had fun, creating solutions in such a way to always stay ahead and outsmart them, staying within the rules of the game but playing around with them to make everything match up. I loved that game. However, on the other hand you had a great amount of responsibilty and you learned more and more about the real world, since through the financial world you learn all of the actual truth.

Ronald: Yes, I played at the highest level for about 5 years. And then it was totally over, out and done with. That was a very intense moment for me.

Interviewer: That happened suddenly, or was there a reason? Interviewer: So you say “all”, in what regard?

Ronald: Well, your clients give you glimpses of how the world actually works. In hindsight, I still didn’t know everything, but I did know a lot, because my clients were banks who didn’t want blood on their hands. But within those banks there is always a number of people who know damn well what is going on. So like 1% within a bank knows the truth of the matter regarding the happenings within the world, which is not surprising considering they are involved in the flows of money. Those are your clients. You also have governments to deal with, multinationals, you have to deal with secret services, and what they now call terrorist organizations. You get all of those groups that involved with the big money as clients, then you start seeing the connections. So they might be compartmentalized as you just mentioned, regarding knowledge, but because I am in the middle I see how they relate to another; you see the money coming from this place, then going to that place, etc. You keep gaining information and thereby overview of what is really going on.

Interviewer: So do you have to serve and keep all of those groups happy, including terrorist organizations, you were trying to keep everybody happy?

Ronald: Yes. Interviewer: Dear God! Ronald: Yes. That was my job. Interviewer: Keeping all the balls in the air.

Ronald: Yes, indeed. So one of the things that I found out that I did not know before, but now I do, is about secret services; you think they are there to serve and protect a people, country, etc. but they actually turn out to be criminal organizations, to be more precise, the system is heavily so. We are talking about financing wars, creating wars, so basically creating a lot of misery in this world. So lots of conflict. And then I think to myself, if only people knew what the world is really like. Secret services will stop at nothing. Nothing. But they also have their flows of money, because if they are trading in drugs or weapons, or for that matter, people… all that money has to go somewhere. Everything has to be financed.

Interviewer: You say “if”, but could you confirm they are doing this? Ronald: All of them. All of them.

Interviewer: Yes.

Ronald: So the entire world as we think we know it, is just an illusion we believe in. Which is something you find out in this line of work, and where it all went wrong for me, to put it that way.

Interviewer: ‘Right’, you mean, finally that is.

Ronald: In hindsight, yes it was for the best, but my ‘freezer’ started to malfunction. There were things happening. For example, I went to a different trade market, and one of my colleagues there said: “Ronald, do you remember that case with the Italian lira?” I sometimes mention that during talks as well. “Do you remember those deals?” in which we did massive dumping of the lira, which reduced the value of the currency, which caused a company in Italy to be hit in such a way they went bankrupt. And then you hear at the exchange, “You remember that successful deal with the lira?” I say, “yes.” And then they say, “Did you know that the owner committed suicide and left a family behind?”

Interviewer: Things like that… Ouch.

Ronald: And back then we laughed at it. Ha ha ha, all together, all of us. We looked down on people, mocked them. It was just a product. Waste. Everything was worthless trash. Nature, the planet, everything could burn and break.

Interviewer: Just useless parasites. Ronald: Just as long as we met our goals, as long as we were growing. Many of my colleagues ended up drinking or using drugs. Not me. Maybe I should have. Interviewer: Or not.

Interviewer: Can you give an example, because I can sense a lot of terrible things happened to you.

Ronald: No, in hindsight, it was for the best and I’m happy to still be alive. However, all those horrible things started to eat at me.

Ronald: Well, that was the beginning of the end. You get so deep into these circles, and you sign a lifetime contract. Not with blood or anything. To never disclose names of companies, organizations or people. I think that is why I am still alive. You have to stick to it. If we are talking about the worst things that I have experienced… I just told you about things that made the freezer glitch, my conscience started to show itself. Let’s put it this way, I was training to become a psychopath, and I failed. I did not complete the training, and didn’t become a psychopath. My conscience came back and the most difficult part for me was, because I had such a great status there, I was a success, I was trusted with the people playing at this level. To put it carefully, most of these people followed a not very mainstream religion. So you have Catholics, Protestants, all sorts of religions. These people, most of them, were Luciferians. And you can say, “religion is a fairy tale, God doesn’t exist, none of that is real.” Well, for these people, it is truth and reality, and they served something immaterial, what they called Lucifer. And I was also in contact with those circles, only I laughed at it because to me they were just clients. So I went to places called Churches of Satan.

Ronald: Yes, it is a difficult part for me to talk about.

Interviewer: I can feel that, but only whatever you wish to share is all right.

Ronald: Yes, I only talk about things I want to tell. But it does evoke lots of emotions and with my conscience not being in the freezer it touches me deeply.

Interviewer: Can you tell me the worst thing that has happened that caused the tipping point in your situation?

Ronald: Yes, so I visited these churches, just as a visitor, dropped by, and they were doing their Holy Mass with naked women and liquor and stuff. And it just amused me. I didn’t believe in any of this stuff, and was far from convinced if any of this was real.

Interviewer: So now we are talking about Satanism? Interviewer: It was just a spectacle to you…

Ronald: No. And then I started to slowly break down. I lived through quite a lot as a child myself and this really touched me deeply. Everything changed. But that is the world I found myself in. And then I started to refuse assignments within my job. I could no longer do it. Which made me a threat.

Ronald: Yes, in my opinion the darkness and evil is within the people themselves. I didn’t make the connection yet. So I was a guest in those circles and it amused me greatly to see all those naked women and the other things. It was the good life. But then at some point, which is why I’m telling you all this, I was invited to participate in sacrifices… abroad. That was the breaking point. Children.

Interviewer: You were asked to do that…? Ronald: Yes, and I couldn’t do that. Interviewer: Would you like to stop for a moment by the way? Interviewer: For them… of course.

Ronald: I was no longer capable of functioning optimally. My performance started to shake and I had refused tasks. I had not participated. The purpose of the whole thing, eventually, in that world, is that they have everybody in their pocket. You need to be susceptible to blackmail. And blackmailing me proved to be very hard if I look back on it. They wanted to do that through those children. And that broke me.

Interviewer: Is that - you are not telling me something new - what they also do in politics?

Ronald: Yes, but I that I did in my first life. Because through commercial psychology, mass psychology, I was able to manipulate situations for my own benefit.

Ronald: If you google this, you’ll find enough worldwide witness accounts to know this isn’t a Walt Disney fairy tale. Unfortunately the truth is that worldwide they have been doing this for thousands of years. I once studied theology and even in the Bible you find references to these practices with Israelites. The reason the first 10 tribes were banished to Babylonia was because of these rituals with children. Including the sacrificing of children. So this is pertinent, all this made me believe, because I realized there was more to life than meets the eye. There is a whole invisible world. It is real. You really do talk about a dark force and a manifestation of light. So I resorted to studying theology to make sense of it all.

Interviewer: And psychology as well if I remember correctly?

Interviewer: That is scary, because if you dig into that you find Tavistock Institute and mind control, MK Ultra, Monarch and the like…

Ronald: Yes, that is correct, but that was all part of the job. Through training at the job I got into that more deeply, because when you are making deals you also need to manipulate the media. You have to manipulate lots of things because nothing can be seen as it is. Everything has to appear to be something different. You see the people as a flock of sheep. You put a couple Border Collies and drive them in a direction. And to be honest with you, I still see that happening around me. People are still, through the systems and methods that we ourselves used to use, being treated in that same way. And it still works. People still don’t understand how it really works and are still on the level of “as long as I have my beer” and whatever, completely self absorbed, also a survival mechanism. I mean it is the program after all, but you still see how stupidly easy it is to put people in a certain direction. When you are the one pulling the strings, that is.

Interviewer: Mass psychology.

Ronald: Yes. Much later in all those studies and discoveries I found a document, which they are claiming is bullshit of course, the protocols of Zion. And nowadays I recommend everyone to read the whole of that incredibly boring document. Just work through it, read it through.

Interviewer: We are also talking about Zionism…

Ronald: Yes, of course. If you read the protocols of Zion, and really study them and understand, then it is like reading the newspaper of the daily life. How from their position of ultimate power, and ultimate it has literally become, but that is only because the people don’t stand up for themselves. They don’t realize what reality is.

Interviewer: And we have all been programmed. If you dare say you are against Zionism, then you are brand an anti-Semite.

Ronald: The negative, you can say evil, the Luciferians, Satanists, whatever you which you call it… it is a real entity. I have found that what is written in the Bible, and not just the Bible, you can find it in so many books, there really has been a moment of separation from the manifestation of light, in which a group went their own way and are carrying an intense hatred, anger; the people who do not underestimate the severity of this are but few. Because this is an all annihilating force that hates our guts. It hates creation, it hates life. It will do anything to destroy us completely, and the way to do that is to divide humanity. Divide and conquer is their truth. Humanity is a manifestation of light. That is the true creation. As long as you divide them based on politcal parties, skin color, you name it… then you - from a Luciferian point of view that is - suppress the full capacities of your enemy, their full power. They can’t stand up for themselves, because if that would happen, the Luciferians would lose. Then this monster, the greedy monster would disappear. I tell people about this old American general who puts an entire room of people in the dark. The eyes adapt to the darkness, but you can’t see a thing. The general doesn’t say a word and suddenly he flicks on a lighter. One little light. Due to the prolonged darkness, you experience a manifestation of light from a single point and everyone can slightly see each other again. And then he says… “that is the power of our light.”

Interviewer: Beautiful.

Ronald: Unite. Unite. Come together, and this entire shit story seizes to exist. That’s how fast it could happen. But that is easy for me to say now, but then I was in a period of my life in which I was crumbling down.

Interviewer: Could you tell us something specific about that?

Interviewer: But you did still show up to work after that?

Ronald: I started to refuse assignments. My conscience came back after the request involving the children and I started to refuse more and more. I had a conscience and I couldn’t function anymore.

Ronald: Yes, it got very hard, all the tensions. So on the one hand, you are playing with money on a high level, in which you can’t afford to make mistakes, otherwise everything falls down at once, your entire business is ruined, everybody involved, including yourself. Then you are really screwed. So that brings a lot of stress, factoring in the resurfacing of a conscience. I was warned off when I got into this. “Don’t do it if you can’t put your conscience at -100 degrees in the freezer.”

Ronald: I didn’t really have a choice, I had my own business with several offices and employees, everything was still rolling. Interviewer: That must have been hard. Interviewer: And you probably realized that then?

Ronald: Broken. I couldn’t do it anymore. So I tried to work through it, keep up appearances. I didn’t know how to get out of this, I was trapped as well. Everybody was trapped. This all led me to crashing completely eventually. My body just simply stopped. The first thing I saw was my mother crying at the Intensive Care.

Ronald: Yes, I heard myself laugh at it back then, but it wasn’t a joke at all. I totally did not understand where I really got into. Interviewer: And your proverbial freezer was switched off? Interviewer: You ended up at the IC? Ronald: Yeah, I really shut down. Interviewer: You had literally crashed?

Ronald: Yes, I suppose you could say that. But that is, I can’t say in short, since I don’t know how long we have been talking, the world that I found myself in. If you have any specific questions, then I can answer them, but I had hoped to be more concise. But I just don’t know how.

Ronald: Yes. Yes. And… at that time I didn’t believe in anything, but I can still recall how I saw, from that corner, I was looking down upon myself. I saw how they were working on me. Interviewer: You had a near death experience…

Ronald: Well, you could call it that. I have seen I am not my body. I’m ‘in’ my body, but I am not just my body. I have seen them working on me. And later on, I’ve been reluctant to talk about it for a long time. I really talked about it much later. But when I did, I had researched so many things already and started to believe. I was starting to better understand the spiritual and the material. At that point this intense experience got it’s own place. The realization that I’m not my body, it’s just a vessel. So I lived through all of that, but I also needed a long time to recover.

Interviewer: Yes, of course. Ronald: Yes I was a train wreck. Complete wreck. I was completely burned out. I had crashed, and the body needed a year to recover. I don’t really want to get into it now, but in those circles I got tortured physically during my exit time. This was in order to make sure I would never break the contract of secrecy. So I was taken for a certain amount of time. I was ‘treated.’ All those factors together, just increased the stress I was experiencing, literally running full speed towards my own end.

Ronald: No, they exposed me to certain types of torture that makes sure you’ll never damage anyone in that world. It did all happen that way, so the end of my first life was so extreme that I couldn’t handle it anymore. I couldn’t handle it anymore, in no way. However, my mindpower was so strong, that it only happened with and to my own body. That was… well, I didn’t know what to do anymore. There were no options left for me. So that is why sometimes I think - of course it is not true - but I wish, like so many colleagues, I had taken the drugs and alcohol route. At least my end would have been more gentle. Most of them are just dead by now. Even though I know there are more strawmen walking around, there are little still alive whom I knew back then. Most of them are already gone. Well I was dead too, but I’m still here.

Interviewer: Do you mean abductions, as we call it, or programming? Interviewer: So you still have something left to do… Interviewer: Well, you have my gratitude for all you have shared.

Ronald: To me, it is a very big deal.