Why the squirreling? One possible reason is the creeping imposition of negative interest rates across the world, which could make it more rewarding to bypass banks — and a safe or vault is, well, more secure than a mattress. Welcome to the upside-down world of modern monetary policy. In this new reality, borrowers get paid and savers penalized.

Almost 500 million people in a quarter of the global economy now live in countries where interest rates measure less than zero. That would’ve been an almost unthinkable phenomenon before the 2008 financial crisis, and one major economies didn’t seriously consider until two years ago, when the European Central Bank first partook in the experiment. Now the ECB and the Bank of Japan are diving deeper into the sub-zero world as they seek more ways to spark inflation.

The upshot: Now that they’ve tried the tool, central banks are likely to put it to use. Where once they assumed the “zero lower bound,” as it’s known in technical jargon, was as low as they could go, now they know better. Says Gabriel Stein, an economist at Oxford Economics, “Negative rates are here to stay.”

Kirby noted that the Federal Reserve had 3 emergency meetings in 3 days last week. Janet Yellen also had a secret meeting with Biden and Obama which violated American security protocols by having the President and his VP in the same location. Kirby thinks the whole American Empire of Debt will be unwound within weeks. That would mean, if he is right, maximum turmoil in American streets either prior to the Republican and Democratic presidential conventions in July or the November elections. Hillary thinks she should be crowned Empress but even she will see maximum resistance when the economy collapses.

Boring but critical economic stuff: The SGE (Shanghai Gold Exchange) will be launched officially on April 19. The Chinese have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Fund Transfer). SWIFT is the second most used system of settling global trade after the American CHIPS system (Clearing House Interbank Payment System). The MOU will allow China’s CIP (Chinese Interbank Payment system) to work closely with SWIFT. Kirby believes this will marginalize the US dollar and payment system. He believes China will back their currency with gold soon after the CIP and SWIFT system merge.

"We are in favor of a ban on minarets, on muezzins and a ban on full veils," Beatrix von Storch, who is also a member of the European Parliament, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung. "Islam is in itself a political ideology that is not compatible with the basic law," she said. The program would also call for tight control over mosques and Islamic religious schools teaching in Germany.

Her deputy Alexander Gauland, who leads the AfD in Brandenburg, voiced a similar stance. "Islam is not a religion like Catholic or Protestant Christianity, but rather intellectually always associated with the takeover of the state," he said. "That is why the Islamization of Germany is a danger." He went further to state that an enlightened Euro-Islam is impossible, calling the religion a foreign body. Storch said there is a place for Muslims in Germany as long as the secular law is not challenged.

AfD’s Euroskeptic and anti-immigration message resonated with German voters during last month’s regional elections. The party won seats in three state legislatures while pushing down Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats. In Saxony-Anhalt AfD won 24 percent of the vote, surpassing the chancellor’s party.

Also, out of 147 heavy-lift Super Stallion helicopters, only 42 are operational. Officers at military air stations in South Carolina, which the channel spoke to, name several reasons for the alarming state of the Marine fleet, such as budget cuts, the fight against Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) in Syria and the toll of wars in Afghanistan and Iraq all contributing to the problem.

US military spending dropped from $691 billion in 2010 to $560 billion in 2015. Lack of funds has forced the Marines to seek unconventional ways to procure the needed parts. They were reduced to ‘cannibalizing’, or taking parts from one aircraft to get another one airborne. This even led to the snatching of aircraft parts from museums in order to keep planes flying, according to the Military Times news outlet.

Nagalese is what prevents vitamin D from being produced in the body, which is the body’s main defense to naturally kill cancer cells. According to Thebigriddle.com: Nagalase is a protein that’s also created by all cancer cells. This protein is also found in very high concentrations in autistic children. And they’re PUTTING it in our vaccines!!

This prevents the body from utilizing the Vitamin D necessary to fight cancer and prevent autism. Nagalese disables the immune system. It’s also known to cause Type 2 Diabetes. So basically… they weren’t killing these doctors because they had found the cure to cancer or were successfully treating autism… they’re killing them because these doctors had been researching and had the evidence that the vaccines they’re injecting our precious children with are CAUSING our current cancer and autism crisis!!

And that it’s obviously being done knowingly and on purpose! The doctors they killed in Florida had been collaborating and were getting ready to go public with the information.

The cluster started with the deadly quakes that hit Kumamoto Prefecture last Thursday and Saturday. Temblors subsequently rocked the Mount Aso region and neighboring Oita Prefecture. There is a known concentration of faults in the area. Still, experts say it is highly unusual to have a string of quakes measuring around magnitude 6 and stretching over such a vast area. The epicenter of the Oita jolt was about 100km away from the first Kumamoto quake.

"I don't quite understand what is happening with the recent earthquakes, because it's an unfamiliar phenomenon," said Yoshihisa Iio, a professor at Kyoto University's Research Center for Earthquake Prediction. The Japan Meteorological Agency said it is unprecedented to have a group of large quakes in these three parts of Kyushu. Experts are divided over how far the shaking will spread and whether it could prompt more quakes centered elsewhere.

Part of the Futagawa fault zone, about 27km in length, slid by around 3.5 meters, according to the GSI. The government committee met on Sunday and agreed that the Futagawa zone was the culprit in the main quake. This zone, it turns out, is longer than previously thought and stretches close to Mount Aso's caldera. The committee warned local residents to brace for more aftershocks.

By contrast, the gains from Brexit would be felt disproportionately by consumers, in the form of lower prices, including for food, and perhaps also lower taxes. They, of course, have no representation in business groups. And the corporate gainers would tend to be those who suffer from excessive EU regulation but don’t export much to the EU. These businesses tend to be small and not heavily represented in the CBI.

Moreover, there is a category of gain that will not appear directly in the calculations of any business leaders, namely the benefit of the end of the EU regulatory juggernaut in the public and non-profit sectors. Britain’s most prolific cancer researcher, Professor Angus Dalgleish, told the journalist Dominic Lawson that the EU’s Clinical Trials Directive had increased the cost of experiments more than ten-fold.

The upshot is that although it is important for the voice of business leaders to be heard, we should beware of thinking that they have some special insight into the balance of economic advantages – still less into the all-important political and constitutional issues.

The exit of the UK, if it happens, could not occur at a worse time for the EU. It could prompt developments that would lead to the end of the Union. First, there would be the simple matter of the UK’s budget contributions, amounting to about £10 billion net. In normal times, sharing out this burden among the other EU members might not be too difficult. But these are not normal times.

Which country would line up to take its share of the burden? Germany – again? France? The result would be an unseemly row between members. Meanwhile, a clamour for a new deal, or a referendum on membership, in several other countries would be likely.

I have argued that whatever the EU achieved for Europe in earlier decades, it is now beyond its useful life. Indeed, with its elitism, self-aggrandizement, waste and focus on regulation and harmonization, it has become the major factor holding Europe back. Accordingly, if Brexit were to lead to the end of the EU, then Britain would have done the people of Europe a great service.

For example, two officials of the International Monetary Fund said last month that they needed the threat of an imminent financial catastrophe to force other players into accepting its measures such as cutting Greek pensions and working conditions, and – as the Greek government put it (via Bloomberg) – the IMF was “considering a plan to cause a credit event in Greece and destabilize Europe.”

High-level officials also admitted to intentionally destroying their own nations’ economies in order to “justify” structural economic reforms.

For example, Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Japanese central bank officials admitted that they kept Japan’s economy in a deflationary crisis to promote “structural reform” which would allow the Japanese economy to be looted by foreign interests. Japanese central bank officials admitted the same thing.

Indeed, the former head of the Bank of England said last month that the depression in the EU was more or less a “deliberate” policy choice. And an economist at insurance giant AIG – and former head of the European Commission’s unit responsible for the European Monetary System and monetary policies – said in 2008 that what European leaders wanted was to create a crisis to force introduction of “European economic government.”

"Mario Draghi's policies have greatly undermined the credibility of the ECB," said the deputy chief of the CSU's parliamentary faction, Hans-Peter Friedrich. His successor must "be a German, who feels an allegiance to the Bundesbank's tradition of currency stability," Friedrich said.

The Bundesbank is the German central bank on which the ECB was largely modelled when it took over the reins of monetary policy for all eurozone member countries. Another CSU politician and parliamentarian, Hans-Peter Uhl, slammed the ECB's zero interest rate policies.

"We cannot afford to have another Draghi," Uhl told Bild. "In future, we need a German financial specialist at the helm of the ECB." The central bank's statutes stipulate that ECB presidents operate free from any political influence.

The biggest tax dodger is technology giant Apple, with $181 billion held offshore. General Electric had the second-largest stash, at $119 billion, enough to repay four times over the $28 billion GE received in federal guarantees during the 2008 Wall Street crash. Microsoft had $108 billion in overseas accounts, with companies like Exxon Mobil, Pfizer, IBM, Cisco Systems, Google, Merck, and Johnson & Johnson rounding out the top ten.

Overseas tax havens have been the focus of recent revelations about tax scams by wealthy individuals, based on the leak of the “Panama Papers,” documents from a single Panama-based law firm, Mossack Fonseca, involving 214,000 offshore shell companies. The firm’s clients included 29 billionaires and 140 top politicians worldwide, among them a dozen heads of government.

But the sums involved in corporate tax scams dwarf those hidden away by individuals. According to the Oxfam report, the offshore manipulations by the 50 largest US corporations cost the US taxpayer $111 billion each year, while robbing another $100 billion annually from countries overseas, many of them desperately poor.

A Japanese chemist created a liquid version of what was to become the German Wehrmacht's miracle pill. The Berlin-based drug firm Temmler refined the drug and took out a patent in 1937. A year later, Pervitin was sold over the counter. It left people alert, fearless, and without need of food or drink. Pervitin is still on the market - illegally - and under a different name: Crystal Meth.

German chemists' inventive talents go back even further than the Nazi era, however. "No cough thanks to heroin," was the ad slogan for a cough medicine produced by the German drug company Bayer in the late 19th century. Heroin was prescribed to patients - adults and children - suffering from epilepsy, asthma, schizophrenia and heart disease. Any side effects? Bayer listed constipation.

McCrory is under continued assault from a highly organized and very rich coterie of homosexual organizations and their friends in business and the entertainment world for his defense of women and girls who do not want biological men urinating and showering with them. PayPal canceled an expansion into Charlotte. Bruce Springsteen cancelled a concert, as did Ringo Starr. The NBA is threatening to pull the All-Star Game. And dozens of other major corporations have complained about the law.

Transsexual advocates cast the issue as one of discrimination, that biological men have a right to urinate and shower with biological women and girls. The Detroit Free Press this week editorialized that it is a violation of their Constitutional rights not to be allowed in girls’ bathrooms and showers.

Leading the fight to intimidate McCrory and state law-makers is the $50 million-a-year anti-Christian Human Rights Campaign. Fresh off their victory in forcing gay marriage on the country, some gay pressure groups actually closed their doors, others have been concerned with how to keep their coffers full, their doors open, and the LGBT issue on the boil after seemingly having won everything they wanted. Standing up for “men in dresses” has certainly kept the LGBT issue on the boil and, presumably, the cash flowing.

Quoted by the Süddeutsche Zeitung on Tuesday, the draft dispenses with the central limitations imposed on German imperialism following its defeat in two world wars and amounts to a blueprint for the establishment of a new German police and military state. The draft contains three central points. These include the deployment of the armed forces domestically, and extension of foreign military missions, independently of post-war allies, together with a strengthening of the Federal Security Council.

On the domestic use of the army it states: “The character and dynamic of present and future security policy threats make a further development necessary in order that the Bundeswehr can make an effective contribution to countering threats on the internal and external borders on a clear basis.”

In plain English: The prohibition of deploying the Bundeswehr at home, as well as the separation of the police and army, which is constitutionally enshrined due to the experiences under the Kaiser, during the Weimar Republic and under the Nazi dictatorship, are to be thrown overboard. Although these principles have been continually eroded ever since the 1968 Emergency Laws, a deployment of the army inside Germany has so far been prohibited.