Weltregierung, Weltwährung, Weltreligion

wie soll die Lobby Stimmen bringen? Du meinst wohl Kohle für den Wahlkampf, da läufts ihm bisher am besten.
Das grösste Problem werden die "Dieb"olds Wahlcomputer darstellen, die von ex-CIA Leuten geführt werden und von denen auch schon ex-Mitarbeiter ausgesagt haben, das Sie bezahlt wurden, um diese zu manipulieren. Die HBO hat sogar mal ein Dok zum Thema ausgestrahlt "Hacking Democracy". Zum Glück sind die erst etwa 30% verbreitet!

http://video.google.com/videop…o=0&type=search&plindex=1

die Lobby sind wohl eher da für die Interessen der profitablen Geschäftszweige, wie Banken, Pharma, Waffenindustrie etc..

http://blog.washingtonpost.com…ost_203.html?hpid=topnews

In Ron Paul Coins, Federal Agents Don't Trust

Rep. Ron Paul, candidate and currency.

As if Ron Paul's supporters needed any more motivation to storm the battlements and wreak havoc on the Republican presidential primary, now comes this: the feds are trying to take away their money.

Federal agents on Wednesday raided the Evansville, Indiana headquarters of the National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve and Internal Revenue Codes (NORFED), an organization of "sound money" advocates that for the past decade has been selling what it calls Liberty Dollars, a private currency it says is backed by silver and gold stored in Idaho, with a total of more than $20 million in circulation, according to the group.

NORFED officials said yesterday that the raid occurred just as they were preparing to mail out the first batch of about 60,000 "Ron Paul Dollars," copper coins sold for $1 and decorated with the craggy visage of Paul, the libertarian Texas congressman, Iraq war opponent and sound-money advocate who has sparked a surprisingly vigorous insurgent campaign for the GOP nomination. The group says that it in recent months it already shipped out about 10,000 in silver Ron Paul dollars that sold for $20.

Bernard von NotHaus, NORFED's founder and executive director, said in an interview from his home in Miami Friday night that his employees in Evansville had received the copper dollars late last week and managed to mail out only about 3,500 of them so far. After a six-hour raid, he said, the agents left with the rest of the coins, which weighed about two tons total, as well as smaller amounts of silver Ron Paul dollars, gold Ron Paul dollars that sell for $1,000 and platinum Ron Paul dollars that sell for $2,000. There was a separate raid, NotHaus said, of Sunshine Mint in Coer D'Alene, Idaho, a company that prints the organization's coins, where von NotHaus said agents seized the huge pallets of silver and gold worth more than $1 million that the organization says back the paper certificates issued to its customers.

"They took everything, all of the computers, everything but the desks and chairs," said von NotHaus, who says he served 25 years as the mintmaster for the Royal Hawaiian Mint. "The federal government really is afraid."

The Indianapolis branch of the FBI declined to comment on the raid and referred calls to the U.S. Attorney's office for Western North Carolina in Charlotte. That office's spokeswoman, Suellen Pierce, also declined to comment. But bloggers at the libertarian Reason Foundation posted on-line a 35-page copy affidavit for a search warrant filed last week with the Western District in Asheville laying out the government's case against NORFED. Pierce said that the search warrant in the case had been accidentally made public by a court clerk and has since been sealed, under court rules.

In the affidavit, an FBI special agent states that he is investigating NORFED for federal violations including "uttering coins of gold, silver, or other metal," "making or possessing likeness of coins," mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and conspiracy. "The goal of NORFED is to undermine the United States government's financial systems by the issuance of a non-governmental competing currency for the purpose of repealing the Federal Reserve and Internal Revenue Code," he states.

The agent states that the investigation started two years ago. And the U.S. Mint a year ago issued a warning against using the Liberty Dollar, prompting a lawsuit by NORFED. But that has not kept Liberty Dollar fans from speculating on-line that the raid was prompted by Paul's strong campaign -- which recently raised more than $4 million in a single day -- or by the precipitous recent decline in the value of the dollar.

A Paul campaign spokeswoman, Kerri Price, said yesterday that while Paul also supports abolishing the Federal Reserve, the campaign "does not have any affiliation with Liberty Dollars at all." von NotHaus confirmed this, saying that he knows Paul because they "move in the same circles" but that he had expressly not talked with Paul about his plans for the special coins so as not to violate federal election rules.

But the coins have been another rallying point for Paul's supporters, who have asked Paul to pose for photographs with the coins on the campaign trail. Jim Forsythe, a Paul organizer in New Hampshire who ordered 150 of the copper Ron Paul dollars, said yesterday that the seizure of the coins would likely fuel more support for Paul, who scores close to double-digits in some New Hampshire polls. "People are pretty upset about this," he said. "The dollar is going down the tubes and this is something that can protect the value of their money and the Federal Reserve is threatened by that. It'll definitely fire people up."

Von NotHaus, meanwhile, is urging Liberty Dollar supporters to express their outrage by donating to Paul, saying on the group's Web site that "in light of this assault on our financial freedom, it is clear that we need Ron Paul to lead this country more than ever." He said that all of his bank accounts have been frozen and that he expects that a federal indictment will soon be in the offing, saying that "once the federal government starts an investigation like this and takes it to a grand jury, they can indict a ham sandwich." Should he be charged, he said, "I'll turn it into my golden opportunity to validate the Liberty Dollar as a legal lawful currency and save the country from a monetary collapse."

What he's most concerned about for now, though, is the thought of all his customers waiting for their Ron Paul dollars. "People aren't going to get their orders, and they aren't going to get them for a while," he said.

That is good news, of course, for those already holding the coins. On eBay, the silver Ron Paul dollars that were purchased for $20 were selling for more than $170 last night.

--Alec MacGillis

http://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,517865,00.html

US-IMMOBILIENKRISE

Goldman Sachs errechnet Billionen-Lücke für Kreditmarkt
Mit einer ersten überschlägigen Rechnung zu den Folgen der US-Immobilienkrise hat die Investmentbank Goldman Sachs die Finanzmärkte aufgeschreckt. Danach wird der Ausfall der Hypotheken dazu führen, dass Kredite im Wert rund zwei Billionen Dollar zurückgehalten werden.

London - Die Summe basiert auf der Schätzung, dass der Schaden durch faule Hypothekenkredite sich bisher auf etwa 400 Milliarden Dollar beläuft. Für jeden abgeschriebenen Dollar aber würden Banken und Hedge-Fonds, die ihre Investition über Fremdkapital gestemmt hätten, etwa zehn Dollar zurückhalten, schreibt US-Chefvolkswirt von Goldman Sachs , Jan Hatzius in seinem Bericht an die Goldman-Sachs-Kunden.

Wenn diese Investoren nun von den Gesamtschäden von etwa 400 Milliarden Dollar ungefähr 200 Milliarden Dollar abschreiben müssten, würden sie ihre eigene Kreditvergabe um bis zu zwei Billionen Dollar reduzieren.

"Die volkswirtschaftlichen Konsequenzen könnten ziemlich dramatisch sein", schreibt Hatzius weiter. Wenn der Engpass innerhalb eines Jahres auflaufe, könnte die Folge eine "ernste Rezession" sein.

Wenn er sich dagegen über zwei bis vier Jahre hinziehe, müsste man immer noch mit einer langen Phase niedrigen Wachstums rechnen. Die Unsicherheit darüber sei sehr groß. Die Krise auf dem Hypothekenmarkt sei deshalb "eine volkswirtschaftlich viel größere Gefahr als allgemein angenommen", bilanziert der Analyst.

mik/Reuters

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/mon…007/11/17/cndollar117.xml

The dollar could collapse if Opec officially admits considering changing the pricing of oil into alternative currencies such as the euro, the Saudi Arabian foreign minister has warned.

Prince Saud Al-Faisal was overheard ruling out a proposal from Iran and Venezuela to discuss pricing crude in a private meeting at the oil cartel's conference.

Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal (right) and Saudi Arabian Oil Minister al-Naim, Saudi minister warns of dollar collapse
Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal (right) and Saudi Arabian Oil Minister al-Naim: supportive of the dollar

In an embarrassing blunder at the meeting in Riyadh, ministers' microphones were not cut off during a key closed meeting, and Prince Al-Faisal was heard saying: "My feeling is that the mere mention that the Opec countries are studying the issue of the dollar is itself going to have an impact that endangers the interests of the countries.

"There will be journalists who will seize on this point and we don't want the dollar to collapse instead of doing something good for Opec."

After around 40 minutes press officials cut off the feed, which had been accidentally broadcast to the press room.

Prince Al-Faisal added: "This is not new. We have done this in the past: decide to study something without putting down on paper that we are going to study it so that we avoid any implication that will bring adverse effects on our countries' finances."

Iran and Venezuela have argued that the meeting's final communique should voice concern about the level of the dollar, which has recently fallen to new record lows against the euro. They are pushing for oil to be denominated against a basket of currencies.
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The greenback also weakened slightly against the pound, although sterling's own recent weakness has pushed it down from $2.10 to $2.0457 during the week.

Nigerian finance minister Shamsuddeen Usman said that Opec could declare in the communique that: "While underlining our concern for the continued depreciation of the dollar and its adverse impact on our revenues, we instruct our finance ministers to study the issue exhaustively and advise us on ways to safeguard the purchasing power of our revenues, of our members' revenues."

Chancellor Alistair Darling will today urge his fellow finance ministers at a major G20 summit to increase investment in oil production and refinement.

http://video.google.com/videop…o=0&type=search&plindex=2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8khCJTDD44

Man kann das wunderbar sehen, wenn man Noten mit der Mikrowelle bestrahlt, dann explodieren die mikroskopischen Chips!

http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20011219S0016

Euro bank notes to embed RFID chips by 2005

Junko Yoshida
EE Times
(12/19/2001 5:14 AM EST)

SAN MATEO, Calif. — The European Central Bank is working with technology partners on a hush-hush project to embed radio frequency identification tags into the very fibers of euro bank notes by 2005, EE Times has learned. Intended to foil counterfeiters, the project is developing as Europe prepares for a massive changeover to the euro, and would create an instant mass market for RFID chips, which have long sought profitable application.

The banking community and chip suppliers say the integration of an RFID antenna and chip on a bank note is technically possible, but no bank notes in the world today employ such a technology. Critics say it's unclear if the technology can be implemented at a cost that can justify the effort, and question whether it is robust enough to survive the rough-and-tumble life span of paper money.

A spokesman for the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, Germany confirmed the existence of a project, but was careful not to comment on its technologies. At least two European semiconductor makers contacted by EE Times, Philips Semiconductors and Infineon Technologies, acknowledged their awareness of the ECB project but said they are under strict nondisclosure agreements.

The euro will become "the most common currency in the world" at midnight on Jan. 1, when 12 nations embrace it, according to Ingo Susemihl, vice president and general manager of RFID group at Infineon. The ECB and criminal investigators in Europe are already on high alert, worried not only about counterfeiting of a currency most people haven't seen, but also of a possible increase in money laundering, given the euro's broad cross-border reach.

The ECB said 14.5 billion bank notes are being produced, 10 billion of which will go into circulation at once in January, with 4.5 billion being held in reserve to accommodate potential leaps in demand.

Thwarting underworld popularity

Although euro bank notes already include such security features as holograms, foil stripes, special threads, microprinting, special inks and watermarks, the ECB believes it must add further protection to keep the euro from becoming the currency of choice in the criminal underworld, where the U.S. dollar is now the world's most counterfeited currency. The ECB spokesman said his organization has contacted various central banks worldwide — not just in Europe — to discuss added security measures for the currency.

In theory, an RFID tag's ability to read and write information to a bank note could make it very difficult, for example, for kidnappers to ask for "unmarked" bills. Further, a tag would give governments and law enforcement agencies a means to literally "follow the money" in illegal transactions.

"The RFID allows money to carry its own history," by recording information about where it has been, said Paul Saffo, director of Institute for the Future (Menlo Park, Calif.).

The embedding of an RFID tag on a bank note is "a fundamental departure" from the conventional security measures applied to currency, Saffo said. "Most currency security today is based on a false premise that people would look at the money to see if it is counterfeit," he said. But "nobody does that. The RFID chip is an important advance because it no longer depends on humans" to spot funny money.

RFID basics

The basic technology building blocks for RFID on bank notes are similar to those required for today's smart labels or contactless cards. They require a contactless data link that can automatically collect information about a product, place, time or transaction. Smart labels produced by companies such as Philips Semiconductors, Infineon, STMicroelectronics and Texas Instruments are already used in such applications as smart airline luggage tags, library books and for supply chain management of various products.

"Two minimum elements you need for RFID are a chip and an antenna," according to Gordon Kenneth Andrew Oswald, associate director at Arthur D. Little Inc., a technology consulting firm based in Cambridge, Mass. When a bank note passes through reader equipment, the antenna on the note collects energy and converts it to electric energy to activates the chip, he said.

The antenna then "provides a communication path between a chip on the bank note and the rest of the world," said Tres Wiley, emerging markets strategy manager for RFID Systems at TI. For its part, the chip "is a dedicated processor to handle protocols, to carry out data encoding to send and receive data and address memory" embedded on the chip.

Although the industry is "well down the road with the smart label technology," Wiley said he was "a bit surprised to learn that someone goes to that extent — to embed RFID into bank notes — to combat counterfeit money."

A number of challenges must be overcome before RFID tags can be embedded on bills, said Kevin Ashton, executive director of the Auto ID Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "The most obvious one is the price," he said. Today's RFID tags cost between 20 cents to $1.00, and "that's not economic enough for most bills," Ashton said. "We've absolutely got to get the cost way down." The goal of the Auto ID Center is to find an application that requires billions of RFID chips to bring their cost as low as 5 cents, he added.

While most chip companies with RFID expertise are keeping their plans for money applications close to their chest, Hitachi Ltd. announced plans last July for a chip designed for paper money that would pack RF circuitry and ROM in a 0.4-mm square circuit measuring 60 microns thick. Although the chip features no rewritable capability, Ryo Imura, chief executive of Hitachi's Mew Solutions venture, said at the time of announcement, "We'll consider them for the next generation of products." Hitachi's chip stores encrypted ID information in ROM during the manufacturing process, presumably to replace the serial number of each bank note.

Even without writable memory, Hitachi's chip is said to be fairly costly. Hitachi declined to be interviewed for this article.

While the size of the rewritable memory embedded on an RFID chip will determine the kinds of information it can store, it also affects the chip's cost.

Affordable with bigger bills

It is unclear whether the ECB will incorporate RFID chips into all euro bank notes or just on the larger bills. The EUR 200 and EUR 500 bank notes in particular — equivalent to roughly $200 and $500 in value — are expected to be popular in the "informal" economy. Embedding a 30 cents chip into a EUR 500 bill would make more sense than putting it into a European buck, several industry sources said.

Manufacturing processes are also considered a major hurdle to embedding a low-cost antenna and chip onto bank notes. "The chip is already so small," MIT's Ashton said. "To connect the two ends of a coil — an antenna — at precisely the right place on a chip could present a major problem."

A printing process is an option, Ashton said, but "you need a breakthrough in the high-volume manufacturing process." Such a technology does not exist today, he said.

Size and thickness are key attributes of an RFID chip for paper currency, said Karsten Ottenberg, senior vice president and general manager of business unit identification at Philips Semiconductors. "For putting chips into documents, they need to be very small — less than a square millimeter — and thin such that they are not cracking under mechanical stress of the document. Thinning down to 50 micron and below is a key challenge." That would require advanced mechanical and chemical techniques, he said.

Bank notes present "an interesting future application for us," said Tom Pounds, vice president of RFID projects at Alien Technology, which holds the rights to a fabrication process that suspends tiny semiconductor devices in a liquid that's deposited over a substrate containing holes of corresponding shape. The devices settle on the substrate and self-align. Rather than working on the interconnection to an RF antenna one chip at a time, "we can do a massively parallel interconnection," Pounds said. Bank notes are not Alien's primary focus at present, he said.

also ich persönlich habe noch kein Silber gesehen, das explodiert ist, aber ich bin mir sicher, dass der Staat die Edelmetallhalter zu Terroristen abstempelt früher oder später, vielleicht mit der Begründung, wir hätten explosives Material gelagert.

Was ja eigentlich stimmt, wenn mans wörtlich nimmt!

und wird noch mit Steuergelder finanziert!

da haben wir eine Organisation, dessen Ziel Genozid und Weltregierung ist, was die fein säuberlich in Ihren Publikationen festhalten....

....und wir bezahlen auch noch dafür!................

Auszug aus The First Global Revolution, 1991
``In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill.... But in designating them as the enemy, we fall into the trap of mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.'' --Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution, 1991

http://books.google.ch/books?i…&cd=1&cad=legacy#PPA75,M1

What if the international currency of the future isn’t the dollar, but isn’t the euro either? James D. Grant, the editor of Grant’s Interest Rate Observer and an expert on financial markets, discusses the “historical anomaly” of currencies like the dollar and the euro as uncollateralized international reserve currencies—that is, ones that aren’t backed by a guarantee that they can be exchanged for something else, such as gold or silver. Grant says the dollar has benefited from a largely successful grand experiment in uncollateralized currencies, but that this dynamic is being tested by current financial trends. For instance, foreign governments with large stock piles of dollars now seek to diversify these holdings, showing that their appetite for the currency has a limit.

http://www.cfr.org/publication…ollar.html?breadcrumb=%2F
http://www.cfr.org/content/pub…podcast/2008/P_Grant1.mp3