Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 Page 66 Page 67 Page 68 Page 69 Page 70 Page 71 Page 72 Page 73 Page 74 Page 75 Page 76 Page 77 Page 78 Page 79 Page 8029 thing big is coming.” This might be it. At the same time, I today got an email from one friend in Germany, about the latest advertising campaign of Commerzbank, the other large Ger- man bank. Its logo is to the effect of, “Deutsch Bank, we’re the real German bank, and we’re here on your side.” In other words, they are preparing people for a potential bank collapse. I have tried to follow this Clinton health campaign business, and I agree with you. I think it distracts us from what is re- ally going on – the financial crisis. It was interesting to me, even in the debate last night, that Trump wouldn’t go to the health issues all that much. He kept hammering away at the financial thing. So, yes, I think something big is in the works. I am in agreement with you; they are pulling money out. They may acceler- ate their plans to “roll it over,” as you say, into Global 3.0. That’s the way it feels. Fitts: I’ve started to use the expression “cut and run” when Lockheed spun its IT division out before the $6.5 trillion missing was announced. They announced that they were going to spin it in January; they spun it out in July. The DOD announcement came in August. If you look at the date of the announcement of the spinout, it was the first date after the calendar involving their 2015-year. That was the soon- est that they could do anything if the bankers wanted to keep control through the Federal fiscal 2015, but announce the missing money after their calendar year was over. That just shrieks “cut and run” but there is something that you brought up with the Ger- mans, and I think that this is very interesting. We have suggestions that some American banks may help Deutsche Bank’s pain on the derivative side. That’s a big question mark. At the same time we have the Department of Justice putting a huge squeeze on the Germans. It is claiming a $14 billion fine on Deutsche Bank, and their DOJ is going hard after Volkswagen, indicting one executive on criminal charges although we know that GM killed 125 people with the faulty ignition switch and we hardly heard a peep about them. Farrell: Right. Fitts: They are squeezing the Germans on Deutsche Bank and Volkswagen at the same time Bayer is buying Monsanto at a 44% premium. If they’re going to institute a balanced budget amendment, we know what will happen to farm subsidies. Given what has happened with com- modity prices, the farmers can’t afford to buy seeds anyway, before anyone messes with their farm subsidies. If you see who the Monsanto insiders are, it’s easy to discern that somebody wants to get taken out before the election. Farrell: Yes, I agree. And I agree with the analy- sis about Bayer and Monsanto, too. They really are putting the squeeze on the Germans. We’ve discussed this many times – and often off the record – that this is also somehow looking to be a real behind-the-scenes war on Germany. There are so many details. We had the recent announcement that the Ger- mans are tripling the size of their military. Well, when Germany triples the size of the military, I stand up and notice. This is a bit of déjà vu. Fitts: That says two things: first they don’t an- ticipate the US honoring agreements or pulling back. They expect a pullback or a collapse. But also, if they want the euro to survive, they’re fig- uring that they need a Northern Europe central- ized military to survive. Farrell: Yes, and it’s interesting too. I did a News & Views last week about the United States army participating in war gaming contests in Germany with Denmark, Holland, Poland, Es- tonia, and a couple of other Central European nations like the Czech Republic. But the result of the war-gaming exercises for Americans were not too positive. We didn’t even place; we were beaten out by Denmark and Poland. The Ger- mans actually won the war games contest. This doesn’t bode well; something is going on behind the scenes. The other serious matter Lockheed cutting and “ If you see who the Monsanto insiders are, it’s easy to dis- cern that somebody wants to get taken out before the elec- tion. ”