coinciding with the USA's next "debt ceiling deadline" - Fw: Julie Bishop summons all Aust Diplomats home]
Anyone know what's really happening? Is this the big global reset? With China and Russia stacking up gold at a couple tonne a month each (roughly) for some time now, they're certainly well placed for the next transition, and it's likely the biggest ever in wealth terms... The below is unprecedented for Australia. And the USA's next debt ceiling deadline is coming up too (they're about to hit $20 trillion): http://russia-insider.com/en/tale-two-economies-us-braces-debt-ceiling-crisi... Z http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/national/julie-bishop-to-recall-austra... ABC News FOREIGN Affairs Minister Julie Bishop will take the unprecedented step of recalling more than 100 of Australia’s senior diplomats in a bid to shape the Turnbull government’s foreign policy. A total of 113 ambassadors, high commissioners and consuls-general will return for three days next month in an Australian first, according to Fairfax Media. It’s estimated the meeting will cost almost $1.2 million, mostly in international flights and accommodation. The two-day meeting with the Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, Trade Minister Steve Ciobo and a representative from the opposition will be held in Canberra. “At a time of significant global uncertainty, it is vital that Australia harness the experience and intellect of our most senior diplomats,” Ms Bishop said. Julie Bishop says the meeting of Australian diplomats comes at a time of “significant global uncertainty”. “This meeting will be important in strengthening Australia’s influence and standing in the world.” Such meetings have become an established fixture on the calendar in other nations but Australia has traditionally flown staff to regional meeting points. Last year the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade copped criticism for flying nearly two dozen senior Canberra staff to Paris for a three-day regional conference, which partly looked at savings measures. Ms Bishop said the decision to recall the diplomats was “very efficient”. “There is no new money required and I believe it’s a very efficient and effective way of hearing from them on their experiences, observations, their real-time experiences,” she told reporters in Canberra this morning. “These are people situated in countries, in our missions across the globe, over 100 missions, and they are coming back to Australia to be part of our white paper on foreign policy.” _____________________________________ Larry's comments: They are being summonsed home from every country - hmmm ... never before on such a scale - even in WW1 and 2. I suggest potential currency collapse or WW3? or a little less - If it is not that, then why not use Skype or something to hold a worldwide meeting amongst Aust. Diplomats? When Trump brings in the gold standard for USD, every country who wants to buy from USA will need to pay in gold or have a gold based currency - China has been buying gold frantically too. Putin has been wanting the same for some time but it seems he waited to see who became the new USA President before he moves - Putin has been restoring church buildings that were decimated by the Communists right across Russia. He put the Lord's prayer back into Parliament and into all schools. I leave you with those thoughts .............. Larry
On 3/4/2017 5:19 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Anyone know what's really happening? Is this the big global reset?
Long ago silver was money, and gold was money, but banknotes were like checks - people would turn them into real money as fast as they possibly could. And then, for no readily understandable reason, near the end of the nineteenth century, silver stopped being money, and only gold was money. And then, people got used to using bank notes, and came to trust banks. Until the US started to run out of gold. Whereupon Nixon said that US dollars were money, and gold was not money, and sort of got away with saying that. And it came to pass that national currencies, banknotes, were money but only the home country, except that the US dollar was money everywhere. And people said that gold was not money, and for a while, it seemed like it might be true, that gold was not money, that only the US dollar was money. But somehow, gold never really stopped being money, and after a while people gave up on saying that gold was not money. So now we have two global moneys: The US dollar and gold - a potentially unstable situation. But chances are this situation will go on for a very long time without being resolved one way or the other way. If everyone starts thinking that one day the US dollar will stop being international money, they will turn all their dollars into gold, causing the prophecy to come true. And if everyone starts thinking that one day gold will stop being international money, they will turn all their gold into dollars, causing the prophecy to come true. And history suggests that it is not very likely that people are going to stop thinking that gold is money. But there is no indication that the crisis is near.
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James A. Donald
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Zenaan Harkness