United States

Authord by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com,

“Welcome to America, where your assets are literally the government’s business, and freedom is anything but free.”—Claire Bernish, The Free Thought Project

For some time, I’ve been forewarning readers that, as the governments of the former “free” world unravel, they’ll introduce capital controls, both to continue to fund their failing policies and to limit the freedom of their citizenries.

I’ve envisioned this as a “pincer” of sorts.

Authored by Rick Sterling via The Strategic Culture Foundation,

The U.S. mainstream media and Democratic Party politicians have built a major “scandal” out of accusing Russia of “meddling” in the U.S. election to help Donald Trump win the presidency and possibly even colluding with his campaign to do so. The charges began as “allegations” but now are routinely asserted as facts.

Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses UN General Assembly on Sept. 28, 2015. (UN Photo)

Ever more official lies from the US government

Paul Craig Roberts

The false reality constructed for Americans parallels perfectly the false reality constructed by Big Brother in George Orwells’ dystopic novel 1984.

Just Who Owns Ledger X?

originally posted on marketslant

All your transactions belong to us. Create, approve, outlaw outsiders. Do it under the guise of the investor's protection. CFTC doing the work of the people. The CEO is Paul Chou. Let's start there

LedgerX Paul Chou Career Timeline:

Goldman Sachs > LedgerX > Advisor to CFTC on Blockchain > LedgerX  Approved by CFTC

As Zerohedge caught on Saturday:

Shortly after Deutsche became the latest bank to warn that "markets seem to have entered frothy territory", going so far as to utter the dreaded "bubble" word, and suggesting that this time it will be different as "unlike 2016, the Fed does not appear to have enough patience anymore to postpone the rate hikes" and adding that "unfortunately, the Fed's resolution to raise rates this time seems to be firmer than in 2015 because of their assessment that US economy has almost reached full employment", one of the market's biggest bears actually scratch that, the market's biggest