We are always watching for information regarding the Shanghai Cooperation Organization
(SCO), Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), BRICS and One Belt,
One Road (new Silk Road) project.
The consortiums listed above headed by China and Russia,
respectively, and the latter two being headed by committees from various
member nations, are quite possibly the news story for the next 25-50 years.
What these organizations are putting together are turning out to make the
Western World's Industrial Revolution, that ran for approximately 120 years
beginning in the mid 1800s, look like child’s play. While the Industrial
Revolution had far reaching impacts on our world, even to this day, the focus
was on the United States. With these centrally planned organizations the very
nature of the plan is to spread the wealth, share the expense, and allow a
rising tide to lift all boats.
For the past two decades the SCO, in particular, has gone
about its business of planning this melding of member nations and working out
details of how the manufacturing will be distributed, how the monetary and
financial systems will be integrated, and where the leadership centers will
be located. Outside looking in, it seems to be an extraordinary undertaking
that is beginning to reach an inflection point in its development.
Most of the economic and financial systems are in place.
Most of the transportation and communications systems have been developed and
are either working or being built as we speak. Raw power systems, like
nuclear, hydroelectric, and solar power are either in place or being built
out all across the land. The West is asleep at the wheel regarding this
massive build out that is happening all across the Eurasian, Middle Eastern
and into north-western Africa landscape.
Being at just over half of the global population, you
would think someone might be curious as to what is happening in Asia.
Encompassing close to 70% of the world's natural resources, including most of
the oil, it seems like someone in the West should be reporting regularly on
these changes. Not a peep.
A couple of months ago, we reported the
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Kazakhstan International Financial
Center met with the President of the Shanghai Gold Exchange for the specific
purpose of gold distribution along the Silk Road project. Kazakstan is not
only a member of the SCO, it is also a member of the EEU and just happens to
provide most of the smelting of metals, of all kinds, including uranium, iron
ore and precious metals, for Russia.
Today we learned the Silk Road Fund is purchasing a gold
mine. Not only is China purchasing mines of all types around the world, now
through the Silk Road Fund gold mines are being purchased.
As OilPrice.com
recently reported
China’s new Silk Road trade route is
quietly becoming one of the biggest stories globally in natural resources.
With reports the past week showing that this emerging trade corridor may have
a new target commodity for big Chinese investors.
Gold.
Bloomberg broke the story late last
week that China’s $40 billion Silk Road Fund is looking at buying its first
gold mine. With the big buyer reportedly in talks over the Vasilkovskoye
operation in Kazakhstan.
Vasilkovskoye currently belongs to Glencore — a firm that is aggressively
selling assets in order to pay down debt. And it appears the sale of
Vasilkovskoye may go a long way toward that goal, with the Silk Road Fund
apparently considering a price tag around $2 billion.
Reports suggested that the Silk Road Fund won’t bear this whole burden.
With the fund instead looking to partner with gold producer China National
Gold Group in making the acquisition.
The China National Gold Group has been acquiring gold
mines for at least the past couple of years. The thing about all the mining
operations that China, and now Silk Road Fund, are acquiring is the gold
leaves the Western world forever. Not only is it gone from the open market,
it becomes opaque as to the volume of gold each of these mines produces. It
is no longer reported to or by the World Gold Council or any other agency
outside of China. You may be saying “big deal, who cares”. Well, it is a big
deal, as the gold market is already difficult enough to track. Nations
already aren’t too keen in sharing information about their true gold
holdings, and now we see gold being unaccounted for as it is coming out of
the ground!
The SCO and EEU decided to join forces, and are now
moving closer together and will be officially forming an alliance. This will
now bring an even larger portion of the population under one “umbrella” and
allow the networked systems within the EEU to be networked with the SCO. This
is to say nothing of the security forces being put in all across the land.
These security forces dwarf NATO/U.S. military and instead of ensuring the
Pentagon war contractors produce another “not ready for prime time” piece of
non-working military hardware, the security forces that are aligning have
equipment the West has no counterpart. For example, the S-400 air defense
system and the electro-magnetic non-lethal, digital signal scrambling weapon,
used recently in Syria. Both of these weapons have been developed by Russia
and deployed across Russia, into Syria and Iran. Possibly other locations as
well, but the above locations are well documented.
As Pepe Escobar reported recently on the security forces that are now coming together:
Let’s start with the geopolitical Big
Bang you know nothing about, the one that occurred just two weeks ago. Here
are its results: from now on, any possible future attack on Iran threatened by the Pentagon (in conjunction with NATO)
would essentially be an assault on the planning of an interlocking set of
organizations — the BRICS nations (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South
Africa), the SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization), the EEU (Eurasian
Economic Union), the AIIB (the new Chinese-founded Asian Infrastructure
Investment Bank), and the NDB (the BRICS’ New Development Bank) — whose
acronyms you’re unlikely to recognize either. Still, they represent an
emerging new order in Eurasia.
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Consider it a diplomatic masterstroke of Vladmir Putin’s Russia to have
merged those two summits with an informal meeting of the Eurasian Economic
Union (EEU). Call it a soft power declaration of war against Washington’s
imperial logic, one that would highlight the breadth and depth of an evolving
Sino-Russian strategic partnership. Putting all those heads of state
attending each of the meetings under one roof, Moscow offered a vision of an
emerging, coordinated geopolitical structure anchored in Eurasian
integration. Thus, the importance of Iran: no matter what happens
post-Vienna, Iran will be a vital hub/node/crossroads in Eurasia for this new
structure.
So, not only do we have gold flowing to all points East,
especially into China and Russia, but we have a massive military
infrastructure that has no equal. Meanwhile in the West, we have ongoing
false flag operations, Pokemon Go sweeping the landscape, and trade deals
that enslave the population instead of building up the population. If we
don’t begin paying attention and aligning ourselves with what is happening
our children will not stand much of chance. Jim Rogers moved to China for the
specific purpose of exposing his children to the next wave of economic
forces. His children will know and understand Mandarin and at least one other
Chinese language. His children will grow up with the knowledge of the SCO and
the impact it is making on the world. I am not suggesting we all move to
China; I am, however, suggesting it may make sense to expose our children to
the Chinese culture and language. This would provide them with a major leg up
on their peers. If we don’t get in the game, we most certainly lose. I have
heard said that if you do what wealthy people do you will have a much better
chance at creating wealth for yourself. The West is bankrupt, in more ways
than one. The East has all the wealth, all the gold and owns the West’s debt.
It doesn’t take a person of very high intelligence to see that “acting as if”
means following what the Chinese are doing to create wealth.
Below is a round table with Alasdair Macleod, Dave
Kranzler and Craig Hemke. While this video is was produced in March 2015, the
information is as relevant today as it was when only produced:
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