You want to understand Uranium One - Follow the Real Money...
To understand Uranium One, you have to understand how asset value is retained through a financial collapse. When a currency collapses, a new currency is formed, and there is always marked down exchange of value assigned to the old currency. Gold is a target, and physical gold can be seized, taxed and likewise marked down in the process. Even then, there is no way enough precious metal on the market to sink even a fraction of the huge cash pile that exists today in tax havens around the world.
One way to protect this assets value is to park it via a small set of massive transactions into safe haven assets that are essential infrastructure, have massive forward book value and are guaranteed to maintain a true value after the re-normalization of a collapse. Preferably assets whose value will be protected and utilized by all parties sides and if anything, positively affected during associated warfare. One such enormous sink is energy stocks, and the intrigue around Uranium One and Rosatom is driven for the same reasons as the intrigue around Saudi Arabia, Aramco and Rosneft.
The elite plan is to park a reasonable portion of the otherwise enormous pile of worthless cash squirreled away in offshore accounts in places like the Cayman Islands into the Russian nuclear industry before this “big reset”. Various corrupt opportunists in government (read Clinton, Obama, Bush families along with a myriad of other deep state lackeys) worked since the soviet union collapsed placing the dominoes for this to happen. Its only natural they should try to grab a piece of the action! Ow dear - a few got caught with their pants down and a bar of uranium wedged solidly up their back passages - how very embarrassing all round! How did this happen? Well continue reading and discover the history behind the headlines. Now that a president is in office (Trump) that serves a different network of crime families seeking their own cut of the pie, everything is on ‘hold’ until a deal is done and the carvery is negotiated. Once the huge cash sinks are 'equitably ' under their thumbs, they will wind up the current global order - and not a moment before.
Multinationals want Iran's Business!
Iran has been encouraged since the 1950s by the American Government to establish a large Nuclear Power Program [1]. This was so successful that by the mid 70's the Shah of Iran had agreed to build twenty-three 1GigaWatt Nuclear Reactors before the year 2000 before he was deposed by the Revolution. Today's 'all-in' cost of a Nuclear Power Stations is approximately $10B USD - with some modern stations costing over $15B to construct [2] [3] [4]. This need has not gone away.
$230 Billion USD is up for grabs!
This is over half of Iran's Annual GDP - a country running a current debt to GDP ratio of around 11%. Such staggering investment that would see the country increase it's international borrowings towards Western levels and prove a huge boon to an investment community looking for money printing opportunities.
Russia has this business!
Private multinationals want this business. However, they cannot take this business over without also holding the commercial arm of Russia's Nuclear Industry currently held by Rosatom. There are several reasons for this:
• Chernobyl and Fukushima have highlighted serious the financial risks to corporations.
• Political risk to attaching Western Company labels on power plants in the Middle East.
• Existing Construction Infrastructure would be expensive to replace. Russia has already built, operates and manages the complete fuel cycle (including waste!) for Iran's existing Nuclear power plant.
Rosatom provides a political arms-length along with a degree financial separation from the risk. But surely Russian Atomic Industry is a sacrosanct part of the economy and of vital long-term strategic interest. How could this work out for Multinational interests?
Putin is a slut for Privatization!
Here is where Putin steps in. Since taking office, Putin has been organizing Russia's state-owned enterprises for a privatization carve up [5]. The West tried to dissect Russia in the 90's but it quickly became obvious it was in far too much of a mess to asset strip without significant investment. Change management was required in the form of Putin's administration under the strong arm of nationalism. His administration has faithfully engaged in a long-term program of modernizing and organizing these assets for sale at the expense of the Russian Tax Payer and the point is nearing where multinationals see potential profit in re-engagement.
But Putin is also Russian!
Multinationals need Putin to play ball now, and continue the program of divesting government assets. The only problem is that he sees Russia reaping the benefit of their investment into infrastructure and efficient reorganization. Putin is now in charge of a much stronger Russia, and is dragging his feet for a better deal.
West Applies a Headlock and Commences to Squeeze!
Smack downs have included the oil squeeze, economic sanctions and lock out from transaction systems. To counter these attempts to bring Russia back into the program, Putin has sought Chinese investment and applied some torque of his own through the BRICs initiative. Before he carves up the Russian Pie, he is going to get the best deal he can for it - and that is where China comes in. Putin is creating an environment to foster a bidding war for assets like Rosatom for the privatization step he can only put off for so long.
A Deal Over Iran Has Been Reached ... Maybe ...
All of a sudden, it was in American (aka Multinationals) business to buy out the Israelite Position on Iran and declare the situation resolved. What is the actual deal here? Odds are that the agreement is a carve up of Rosatom under an accelerated schedule that allows Western Multinationals to secure a piece of the action that provides a secure revenue stream for decades with a country that can pay its bills.
Rosatom has $500 Billion USD orders on its books!
Rosatom has at least over 50 Nuclear Power Stations on its books or under negotiation globally, 10 inside Russia and provides ongoing support for the entire Russian Nuclear Energy infrastructure. As long as Russia plays ball with the Multinationals and accelerates its program to sell off its state-owned assets, especially Rosatom, then the Iranian will still be on the table.
How Opportunistic was the Fukushima Disaster ...
Due to increases in regulations, the cost of building a power station is going through the roof - and this directly impacts the value of the forward order contracts on Rosatom's books. Maybe we should inquire a little more about that stuxnet virus - and its prototype cycle. Perhaps the Israelis tested it in some low security nuclear installation in the Ukraine. There hasn't been any odd programmable logic controller failures where core temperatures unexpectedly spiked - were there? Ow yes, that right ... there was one ... I think it was called Chernobyl. Nuclear reactors are weapons of mass destruction - and perhaps we are in a nuclear war right now without not realizing it. Maybe Mr Bose Hamilton Snowden knows a thing or two about the viral infiltration of reactors like those ones that went up in Fukushima while he was stationed in Japan (after all that was his job)...more on this another time perhaps.
"Eisenhower's 'Atoms for Peace' Program and the associated Nuclear Containment Strategy 'Operation Candor'" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atoms_for_Peace )
"CNN opinion: Japan and future of U.S. nuclear power" (http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/03/14/207687/cnn-opinion-japan-and-future-of-u-s-nuclear-power/ )
"Economics of nuclear power plants" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics_of_nuclear_power_plants#Capital_costs )
"The US Nuclear Industry:Current Status and Prospects under the Obama Administration" (http://carnegieendowment.org/files/Nuclear_Energy_7_0.pdf )
"Privatization of Russian state nuclear giant"( http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/19/us-nuclear-waste-idUSKBN0OZ1A020150619 )