With Assange's New Swiss Banker Friend, Revolution Is in the Air

 

Swiss banking about to fall? 

He's messing with some dangerous folks.

Julian Assange has a new BFF, a Swiss banker named Rudolf Elmer. In front of TV cameras, Elmer handed Assange two discs that allegedly hold the names of over 2000 individuals and corporations using the Swiss banking system to evade paying income tax.

Assange stated they would vet and, barring any anomalous findings, make them public within a couple of weeks. At long last, a deep look inside the secretive world of Swiss banking.

Of the largest 100 economic units in the world, 51 are corporations, and now Assange is playing a game of chicken with them along with the United States government. Allegedly one third of the money in the world is currently held in Swiss banks, and those rich people won’t be very happy about having to pay taxes on it.

It begs the question, how much longer can this guy keep doing this stuff before somebody takes a shot at him?

Worldwide there is activism, protest and revolution the likes of which we’ve never seen simultaneously before. Most recently is Tunisia where the dust hasn’t settled yet, but the brutal dictator Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali has fled the country to France. Many credit diplomatic cables released by Assange outlining government corruption for helping to push Tunisians over the top in their revolutionary effort.

In Algeria tensions run deep over the price of food, and several Algerians have even copied the self immolation of Tunisian Muhammad Bouazizi, 26, who was distraught over his inability to find a job. Additionally, three Egyptians have followed suit and set themselves on fire in protest as well. It’s gotten so bad that Muslim clerics have felt it necessary to weigh in and express that Islam explicitly prohibits suicide.

“A spokesman for Al-Azhar, Egypt’s highest seat of Sunni learning that is funded by the state, would not comment on the cases of self-immolation but said suicide was forbidden in Islam. “It is unacceptable to take one’s own life as an expression of frustration or protest or anger,” Mohamed Rafa’a al-Tahtawi told state news agency MENA.”

In the Ukraine a group of feminist women organized under the name Femen have adopted different tactics to fight the sex trade there. These women have decided that sex is used to sell everything else, so several beautiful young women disrobe from the waist up in public protests over the inaction by the government. They seem to be quite effective.

Europe isn’t immune from this either. In the UK protests broke out over a £6 billion tax debt owed by communications giant Vodafone that was settled for £1.2 billion. Spontaneous demonstrations in 52 cities shut down Vodafone locations for one day.

It’s probably part of the reason that so many students took to the streets in protest over the British government’s intent to triple the cost of university education. This by the same conservative government that reduced Vodafone’s tax liability by 80%.

With all that dry tinder out there, Rudolf Elmer hands Julian Assange some gasoline and matches. On top of the diplomatic cables being released at approximately 100 per day showing corruption and collusion with US interests in countries worldwide, now we have information on wealthy and corporate tax cheaters. It will be difficult to keep a lid on when people who live in the street realize that corporations earning trillions of dollars are paying no taxes.

This is part of the massive global political awakening about which Zbigniew Brezinski warned the Council on Foreign Relations presciently last year. It’s on the heels of a year of labor unrest in China in 2010, where wages had to be increased 100% in some areas to avert violent strikes.

It’s curious that Assange is still alive. The US never hesitates to kill people in the way of profits. It’s estimated there were as many as 50 million Native Americans living here when the Europeans first showed up, most of whom were slaughtered or starved in the name of profits. The American response has always been to kill those who are inconvenient.

Yet Assange lives, and he publicly accepts two discs which could bring down the entire Swiss banking system. I still have to wonder if it’s all a set up, and Assange is being used by the government to distract us from more important matters. However the longer it goes on the less inclined I am to believe that, and I think he really is as advertised.

Many spiritual traditions from around the world have pointed to this moment in time as a period of great cleansing. The Mayans, one of the most advanced civilizations ever, even gave it a specific date: December 21, 2012. That so many of the spiritually attuned indigenous peoples of the world agree on that time, and given the events of today, it’s difficult to dispute their prognostications. The veil is indeed being pulled back for all to see.

I wondered for a long time where the young people were, and why hadn’t they taken to the streets. While it’s not happening yet in the United States, young people all over the world are rising up against corrupt political systems with the intent of creating more equity in the world. The final play for the government has two options. The first is that they could negotiate reasonably with the people in order to create a more equitable system. Don’t count on that one. The second is to become ever more repressive, which historically has been the government’s play, to crush these rebellions in order to restore the status quo. That’s what you can expect.

I believe one of these people soon to be outed as a tax evader will take things into his own hands. Just like the railroads back in the day, so, too, do today’s corporations have their private security details. In fact, Montesano just bought Xe, formerly Blackwater Security, which is well-equipped for just such a mission. I think the governments have shown considerable restraint, but I don’t believe these corporations will be able to hold their water. They’ll shoot first and deal with the consequences later. If the contents of Assange’s insurance file, and any other protection he may have rigged, are as damaging as people suppose, it could ignite a class struggle the likes of which we’ve never imagined.

It appears people used to getting their own ways are suddenly no longer calling the shots, which could be the reason for the restraint government has shown up till now. In the end, however, governments and corporations will behave like governments and corporations, and their need to suppress and repress will trump intelligence, then we’ll all get a chance to see whose side the military takes. Time to get the popcorn, because we’ve got one hell of a show on the way.

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