In the Shadows of a Presidency

In the Shadows of a Presidency

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Publisher’s Foreword

Your beliefs become your thoughts,

Your thoughts become your words,

Your words become your actions,

Your actions become your habits,

Your habits become your values,

Your values become your destiny.

– Mahatma Gandhi

When my love swears that she is made of truth,

I do believe her, though I know she lies.

– William Shakespeare

I look very much forward to showing my financials, because they are huge.

– Donald Trump, Time, 14/4/11

I have the absolute right to PARDON myself …

– Donald Trump, Twitter, 6/4/18

Iam not a fan of Donald Trump nor where he is leading the United States, and find today’s rhetoric highly polarized and unreliable. Where does that leave me: Looking into the shadows, trying to discern truth from factional fictions. In the Shadows of a Presidency , Daniel Estulin delivers a perspective from his viewpoint as a scholarly researcher into secret groups, covert actions, future technology and as a foreign-policy advisor to various governments, including the Russian Federation.

I met with Daniel in New Orleans in May of 2017 to premiere his astounding, award-winning film, Bilderberg: The Movie. He explained his thoughts on Trump and I told him mine. We disagreed, but I am firm believer in the marketplace of ideas and the Constitution of the United States of America, which while giving us the right to a free press, does not always give us an inerrant one. Caveat Lector!

America in 2018 is unhinged and getting worse. Where will our republic be in the future? Divisive discourse, fake news, voter suppression and apathetic voters appear par for the course. Will America survive?

A different way of looking at the Trump phenomenon, comes from author and former bass guitar player for the rock group, Blondie, Gary Lachman, in his book, Dark Star Rising: Magic and Power in the Age of Trump:

… biographer Wayne Barrett wrote, Trump was born with bullshit capacities beyond what you and I could possibly imagine.

This has even been confirmed academically. The Princeton University professor of moral philosophy Harry G. Frankfurt is a bullshit expert, having written On Bullshit, a philosophical analysis of the part it plays in modern life. In Time magazine, Frankfurt wrote that Trump’s eyebrow-raising tweets and other public statements, which are neither well-informed nor especially intelligent, are not examples of his lying but of his bullshitting. The difference between a liar and a bullshitter, Frankfurt writes, is that the liar asserts something which he himself believes to be false, and thereby misrepresents what he takes to be the truth. The bullshitter is not constrained by any consideration of what may or may not be true. He is indifferent to that. His goal is not to report facts but to shape the beliefs and attitudes of his listeners in a certain way. Where the liar knows the truth and respects it – he does not want to get caught in his lie – the bullshitter couldn’t care less about it. He isn’t interested in the truth, which for him is in the eye of the beholder, as beauty was for Keats. He is interested in the effect his bull­shit has on his audience. In other words, like positive thinking and chaos magick, in what works.

Which view of Trump is correct? Who knows, and it may be an olio of sorts that is beyond knowing. To try and figure it out I’ll do what my father always urged me to do, read it all, take some time to cogitate and then act.

Until then, I guess I am in agreement with American conservative political commentator Glen Beck, who said: I don’t know which way to take Donald Trump. And only time will tell. Only time will tell.

Onward to the Utmost of Futures

Peace,

RA Kris Millegan

Publisher

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6/6/18

Table of Contents

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Publisher’s Foreword

Preface) Change of Epochs

Part I President of the United States - Donald J. Trump

1) The Conspirators

World Economy on the Brink of Collapse

The End of the Road?

2) The Insurrection

President Trump and the Deep State, a.k.a. The Modern British Empire

The Russians Have Landed’ – Whoops, It’s the British, Once Again

3) The Intended Coup

James Comey

4) The Drug Wars

Connecting Drugs, Money Laundering and Big-time Banking

Trump’s Executive Order vs. Dope, Inc.

A Short History of Drugs


Parallel Universe of Drug Business

5) Disintegration or Hope?

Out in the Open

6) George Soros

The secret of Quantum Fund NV

The Economic and Cultural Looting of the East Bloc

Why the British Hate Trump

Part II The Spooks

7) WikiLeaks and the global covert intelligence war

8) Goldman Sachs

Hidden System of Finance

Iran/Contra

9/11 and the Missing Trillions

Parallel world of corporate media

Who is who of the elite?

Control files – down we go the rabbit’s hole

The Co-conspirators

What now?

9) The Deep State within a State

The Deep State

Programmed Conflict

NSA formulating American foreign policy in secret

10) The CIA vs the NSA

Part III The Black Budget

11) Financial Coup d’etat

Breakaway Civilization: 2014

Exchange Stabilization Fund

Silicon Valley

Control systems

12) Selling Friendly Fascism 3.0

The Ransacking of Iraq

13) Central Banking Warfare Model & War on Cash

Who runs the show?

14) The world goes cashless

China-Russia duopoly

15) Private Space Investment

Global Financial Payment, Clearance and Global Reserve Currency

Part IV A New Model

16) Realignment of Powers

Macron and the reincarnation of Napoleon III

The Rothschilds

Napoleon III

The ideology of British imperialism

Macron

Frexit was Coming

It’s Time for the Elites to Rise Up Against the Ignorant Masses

This was then

17) Globalization and Civilization

The elite open a second front

Mass Psychology Model

Things to come

18) The Federal Reserve of the United States

What’s behind it

Easing Your Way into Bankruptcy

Real Reform

Hybrid warfare on the financial front

19) The Syrian Crisis and Global Reset

Global Reset

Initial Crisis

20) Digital Alternative

The Dots thus far

The End Of An Era: Centralization of everything

The Desperate Road To War

Part V The Russians

21) The Change of the Global Order

Bretton Woods and the 1970’s Oil Hoax

Gold Window

From Bretton-Woods to Petrodollar

Reaganomics

22) Washington Consensus

As Things Stand

Russian Party of Power: from Varangians to Greeks, from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) to United Russia

The operating principle of the Russian colonial economy

Back to the Future

American Credit System vs Monetary System

Things to come

The New Yalta agreement

Index

Contents

Landmarks

Prologue

Change of Epochs

Big time politics and big time economy always go together – in many countries elections are no longer a purely domestic or political affair, they have acquired an economic dimension as well. It is particularly true for a country like the United States.

That said, it is easy to see why Donald Trump is ninety percent inevitable as a reaction to US foreign policy, and probably domestic policy, too, because today the line between what is domestic and foreign is pretty blurred.

National sovereignty has been increasingly replaced by corporate sovereignty. Initially nurtured by the state, major transnational companies, global financial institutions, and international online communities have become strong enough to pursue an independent policy, and, in some cases, dictate the needs and opportunities of entire countries, including the United States.

These non-state actors now shape the global agenda. China, which is a potential rival to the US, has been transformed into an economic giant thanks to neoliberal globalization – and it may soon be pushing for a geopolitical re-division of the world.

What we are witnessing today on the global stage is as much about geography as it is about politics. A new order is being created where geography and money are proving to be the ultimate trump cards: geography becomes the governing economic decision-making factor. Geography is giving us our first major political tectonic fault line. The war is on for the ever-depleting natural resources, not to mention water and food in the age of global population explosion.

We all know what is happening in the Middle East – secular regimes are being replaced with anti-Modernity forces. The choice of controlled chaos as a foreign policy strategy by US Democrats played a major role in destroying these secular regimes and contributing to the barbarization of vast territories and reversing history itself.

Historically, there have been two main cycles in the US. The period of expansionism usually represented by Democrats like Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, JFK, was followed by inward-looking periods with Republicans at the helm, with the exception of George Bush Jr. Trump’s election is the response to the expansionist policy, a need to get some breathing space and focus on the domestic agenda.

America First, to make a leap forward and be a beacon for the rest of the world, as Trump said in his inauguration speech. America needs a break. It needs to refocus, regroup its energy and realign its resources. The big question is when will those inevitable changes be enforced?

That said, America’s shift of focus to its domestic issues is temporary. These internal problems are expected to be resolved at the expense of external stakeholders and external factors. This is why there has been so much attention to Russia, China, Iran and the oil market. This is why migration is such a hot topic, as well as ISIS.

I believe that the US will continue to bolster its positions, but through different means. They will seek to undermine the EU and China. Of course, you have to factor in the emerging global social and technology order that can have a major impact on the US and the world economy as a whole.

This has been the case since the institutions which singularly distinguish modern from medieval history were put into place. That occurred back in 1439 at the Council of Florence. What were those new institutions?

The conception of the modern nation state republics under the government of natural law.

The central role of the fostering of scientific and technological progress as the mandate given to the republic.

These two ideas represent a crucial argument: their existence, in any part of Europe, changed everything in all of Europe. Why? Because these changes increased the rate of development of per capita and per km2 of mankind over nature. So, no nation could afford not to progress, not to develop, for fear of being left hopelessly behind. This is what is behind the ferocious conflict over the past 580 years between the forces representing classical culture of Solon, Socrates and Plato against the forces representing Venice-led evil and their modern-day lackeys represented by the Deep State and the supranational elite circles.

Any innovation in technology has a direct impact, internationally. However, the prevalence of the paying capacity over productions factors will definitely speed up the process of the world’s regionalization. It’s a kind of fencing off from globalization as a way to restrict access to competitors.

The trend for building such exclusive, corporate economic zones has been there for a long time. We are talking about the so-called corporate states. These exclusive areas are growing ever bigger, absorbing an increasing number of countries. Recently, a senior researcher with the New America Foundation authored a piece on the miracle of a non-state future:

According to him, we are moving back to the Medieval Period. By 2030, we will see the New Middle Ages dominated by para-states or free economic zones. It will be a world of cities, mostly seaports that play a role in global trade without a single control center. Only 10 percent of the population will be lucky to live in this beautiful and shining new world while the rest will be relegated to a barbaric and archaic existence.

Certainly, we all need to be aware of this. But why Trump? America and the world in general need to be perceived not as a united front but as a nesting doll hiding at least three Americas. The first layer is the America of Wall Street, Washington’s bureaucracy, Chicago, Hollywood and Silicon Valley.

It’s America’s one percent, America of the printing press, hedge funds, insurance companies, and so on. They sell air. It is an America that lends to others; and it was represented by Hillary Clinton. That’s why her campaign was so tough. That’s why she was playing for keeps. The real world economy, including the services sector, accounts for 80 trillion dollars – while the global financial market is 800 trillion dollars, and if you add derivatives it is as much as one and a half quadrillion dollars of financially engineered fraud. In the future, somebody will have to pay the price for these transgressions. The Clinton crowd dearly hopes it won’t be them. But, how do you pass the buck without writing off one’s responsibilities? That’s the fight worth fighting for, and this one percent is engaged in that fight to the death.

There’s the second America, post-industrial or corporate America. It stands for production, transnational companies born out of the second industrial revolution. Trump became their voice. But most importantly for us, it is a marriage of industrialists in the energy, oil and military sectors with the services and construction industries.

Nonetheless, Trump would have never won if the third America did not support him, at least for now, but maybe also with a view to the future. This is the high tech America. It is the America of knowledge, of brain workers, new technology and IT that has emerged in the past 40 years.

On the global stage, Trump has become the symbol and mouthpiece of those forces that are not ready to sacrifice America for global schemes and will forgo them for the sake of America First ideology.

This vision represents a radical change in the balance of forces in the global arena and, consequently, a change of the direction in which mankind is going. This is an issue of universal concern. We are witnessing actors in a process where the world is entering a new era. It is an era marked by the struggle for national liberation of societies separated by state boundaries and customs against their common enemy: the all-destroying dominance of the global ruling class against the background of looming social collapse due to the aggression of liberally minded global profiteers.

The looming new multipolar world is far from benevolent. It is horrible, full of conflicts and mostly resembles the period between two world wars with its ferocious free-for-all struggle of all against all, which made it possible to form such phantasmagoric World War II alliances as the one of Poland and Germany against Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union.

What is the solution? It is the realization of the real threat: the entrenched belief that for truth and meaning to be obtained, we must gaze at the gods of mass media and kneel as neophyte communicants at the tele-altar techno-theatrical cathedrals, like acolytes or sorcerer’s apprentices. Modern man is far from being irreligious, even in our science-driven era.¹ He has simply changed his old priests and gods for new ones, and in this book, I will decipher who they are and how this has been done.

Toronto, June 21, 2017

1 Esoteric Hollywood, Jay Dyer, Trineday Press, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-63424-077-2.

Part I

President of the

United States -

Donald J. Trump

Chapter 1

The Conspirators

It was November 5, 2014, at the Dartmouth Conference in Dayton, Ohio. A day before, on November 4, midterm elections took place in US and the Republican Party scored an overwhelming victory. The conference began with each speaker presenting views on what had happened.

On November 6, a group of Russian intelligence analysts met in Washington with a select group of Republican Party apparatchiks. The US representatives were interested in the Russian vision of what would eventually become the biggest electoral upset in the history of the United States. The question posed was as simple as it was predictable. What do you think will happen in November 2016? The Russians explained to the Americans that the 2016 elections would be the first elections that couldn’t be controlled by either Party’s spin machinery; they would be idea-driven and that was why it was absolutely out of the question to assess the candidates’ chances based only on pure political strategies, because the machinery, though well-oiled, simply would not work this time around. The American delegation sat there, in silence, contemplating what turned out to be prophetic words of high-level Russian analysts.

Now let’s turn to the ideological side of the debate. Beginning in 1981, the growth of global economy in one way or another was, in essence, driven by a redistribution of US dollars, printed by the Federal Reserve and passed through the Federal Reserve System – and that process is controlled by the IMF, WTO and other global Bretton Woods institutions. For all this talk about the Bretton Woods system being abolished back in 1971, the truth is this: the IMF, the World Bank and WTO are Bretton Woods-created institutions. The system is alive, albeit wearing a different mask.

On the whole, everybody understood that money printing required assets to back surplus money. In the 1980s, the role of assets was played by various newly emerging derivatives; in the 1990s and the beginning of the 2000s those were assets that appeared as a result of the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Apropos, the United States had two approaches at the time. The first approach implied using assets taken from the USSR to cover debts accumulated in the 1980s and then start from scratch. That was the approach of the Bush administration. There was yet an alternative approach: to embezzle everything and make good use of those assets. That was done by the Clinton administration in the rape of Russia period of the early to mid-1990s. For that reason people who emerged in Russia as affiliated units of the Clinton team (the entire financial and economic structure of today’s Russia) is considered ideological thieves.¹

Things were rolling along smoothly, but beginning in the early 2000s, it became clear that there were no assets left. The United States government decided to print money backed by completely fictitious assets – subprime mortgages.

American economist John Hoefle explains this phenomenon in a few short paragraphs. "As the speculative bubble came to dominate the US and world economies, feeding it became paramount. Among other things, this led to a sharp run-up in real estate values, to provide ‘wealth’ which could be turned into mortgage debt, and then into a wild assortment of securities to be used, with lots of leverage, to play in the derivatives markets. To keep the mortgage-debt flowing, as prices rose into the stratosphere, the bankers repeatedly loosened the requirements for home loans. This process, which was driven by the banks and the derivatives market, ultimately exploded. This was falsely portrayed as a ‘subprime’ crisis, but in reality it was the death throes of the financial system itself.

"In mid-2007, the failure of two Bear Stearns hedge funds signaled the collapse of the global securities market as speculators realized the game was over and began to try to cash out. The market for speculative paper quickly dried up, sending the nominal valuations plunging. The market, which had grown phenomenally through leverage, began to collapse in a reverse-leverage implosion. Speculators had borrowed trillions of dollars to place bets, gambling that they would win enough to pay back their loans and still turn a nice profit. This game worked for quite a while, but it quickly turned nasty when the market seized up. Suddenly, the speculators found themselves losing on their bets, leaving no profits to pay off their loans, and thus losing on both ends. Assets began vaporizing by the trillions, and worried lenders began demanding more collateral on margin calls, causing sales of assets that further depressed prices, in a vicious, reverse-leverage spiral.

The ‘solution’ to this blowout adopted by the central banks, was to begin to flood the financial markets with liquidity, through a series of interest rate cuts and cash injections. Though they had sworn to impose discipline on the markets, the central banks quickly capitulated under the pressure of enormous losses, in a hyperinflationary panic. The injections quickly escalated from the billions, to the tens of billions, to the hundreds of billions, as they raced to plug the holes caused by the savage deflation of the valuations in the system. But no matter how much money they injected, the system kept collapsing. The money pumped into the bailout – money that serves no economically useful purpose – will only accelerate the process. This means that the faster the government pumps in the money, the faster the value of the dollar will collapse, and the faster the global economy will collapse.²

By 2008, the entire system imploded. In fact, the 2008 crisis was a twin of the prewar Great Depression that began with the US stock market collapse in October 1929. The spring of 1930 saw a deflation shock. The crisis itself commenced in 1930. Further on, unlike the 1930 crisis, US monetary authorities, mainly the Federal Reserve, for the first time openly started an issue of money not supported by any assets at all. But why did it not have any impact on inflation? Because the problem was caused by the changes in the structure of money supply. The credit multiplier dropped by a factor of four between 2008, when it stood at 18, and 2014, when it was only 4. Hard money supply subsequently soared four times – from 0.8 trillion dollars to 3.3 trillion dollars. That means that Washington simply printed 2.5 trillion dollars with no inflationary impact. In 2014, Obama stopped the printing press. Why? Because a fall of the credit multiplier to less than 4 kick-starts a process called non-payment crisis.

After that, in 2012, Barack Obama won the election and in early 2013, for the first time in 35 years since the beginning of the Reaganomics, he eliminated all the representatives of Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan from his Economic Council. In 2014, Obama suspended money printing.³ It is absolutely clear that the only chance for financiers to ensure money printing in this context is to control the Federal Reserve System from the White House. And that is when the bankers/financiers started to promote certain people (Hillary Clinton instead of Bernie Sanders) to the post of US President.

The alternative group, (isolationists behind Trump) also began to position themselves for the upcoming 2016 general elections in the United States. At that time, on November 5, 2014, many within the US establishment believed that it would be Rand Paul representing the Republican party. Russian intelligence experts, however, back in 2014, knew with a certain degree of accuracy that the Republican nomination for the Presidency would be Trump’s to lose.⁴ This may be because Trump matched in the best possible way the image of a perfect anti-crisis manager who could make the right decisions. He is not a politician, because politicians first and foremost think about ways not to leave themselves open and thus, vulnerable. Instead, Trump thinks about ways to get results. So, the split happened not between the parties as it was in 2014 but within them: the Republicans won because the plan to switch on the printing press to save the global financial system was associated with the Democrats while the plan to save the national economy was associated with the Republicans. The most prominent isolationists, that is the advocates of defending the national economy, were Rand Paul and Trump from the Republican party and Bernie Sanders from the Democratic party. That is why President Obama, initially, stood firmly behind Sanders. The chronology of the events is simple to follow. The Strauss-Kahn affair happened in 2011, the Goldman Sachs scandal in 2013, Obama stopped the printing of money (Quantitative Easing) in 2014. In 2016, we had Brexit in the United Kingdom and Trump’s victory in the United States.

And that brings us to the November 2016 United States presidential election.

The 2016 election was drastically different from the previous vote: for the first time in many decades the contenders represented two completely divergent models rather than slightly varying versions of the same economic model.

Such a model required a network of institutions that supported dollar-denominated transactions and legalization of the amounts that were printed (generally speaking, the broader the dollar was used, the more dollars were needed so more had to be printed). This is not a trivial job because you cannot entrust legalization to just anybody (the profits needed to be shared appropriately), and the US banks were banned from having subsidiaries (to support competition).

This led to the establishment of special transnational financial institutions that would have offices in every city and every financially important street in major cities. But it would take a lot of money to maintain such a vast network, while the profits they make are not sufficient, provided they engaged in ordinary commercial operations. To put it crudely, the focus was made not on commercial viability but instead on creating a presence that would cover all the planet’s economic areas.

Savings offices in the Soviet Union were a prime example of the strategy. They were opened in every city quarter simply because people needed it. Today Sberbank, which inherited that network, is shutting down many of them because they don’t provide the needed financial benefits. The same can be said of most transnational banks: most of their offices are loss-making and require huge investments.

Therefore, as long as the world was demonstrating economic growth and, more importantly, the money was printed, it made sense to preserve and develop the network. The total profits were huge and some of it could be easily diverted to general goals. But, 2008 saw the start of a crisis that shrunk the banks’ revenues significantly. In 2014, the US cut its printing volumes (it prints just enough money to support its budget deficit). The US dollar couldn’t expand further. Inflation was inevitable, but the US couldn’t allow it. As a result, transnational banks ran into trouble.

They became aware of the issues as early as 2011. The bankers and financiers tried to take the issue of global currency out of US hands and into the hands of what was expected to become the ‘central bank of central banks’. It would be a supranational institution that would have the exclusive right to print the global currency during the financial crisis. The US dollar would remain a national currency, and its issue would be limited by the amounts set by the ‘central bank of central banks’.

At the G8 and the G20 meetings at the time, it was decided to set it up under the IMF, and debates of shares, purely technical deliberations, were already underway. But then came the Strauss-Kahn scandal⁵ and the theme disappeared from the media and from internal correspondence between