Waarom Iran het volgende doel is

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Stupid banker tricks for global control

By: Paula Devlin

For some inexplicable reason, the Main Stream Media (MSM) has been ignoring the fact that Iran will open an Oil Bourse in March of 2006. The new bourse will require that purchases of oil use Euros as the exchange. Iran has required that oil purchased from them be done in Euros since the spring of 2003. The shift to Euros could be a step towards requiring oil to be purchased with gold.

For all the saber-rattling about Iran’s nuclear power development, it’s the oil and corresponding shift away from complete dollar hegemony over it that are the source of the elitists’ fears. They want complete control over oil and fiat currency. Why else would all the central bankers have sold so much of their gold reserves a few years ago if not trying to convince us yahoos that it just wasn’t valuable any more? Iran’s Oil Bourse will put a stick in their spokes and they aren’t happy about it.

We are hearing louder drumbeats about what an evil country Iran is and how they must to be reined in. That means the United States must finesse an exit from Iraq, where the globalists still have barrels of oil priced in dollars, and start beating up Iran. But we cannot exit Iraq completely without facing the possibility of losing it and not having oil priced in dollars. If oil is not priced in dollars, there will be no incentive for various nations to continue to hold them and to carry our debt. Foreign holdings of U.S. debt hovers around 50%.

Washington keeps digging us deeper into the debt hole by spending on wars, unsupportable social programs and subsidizing parasite Mexico while it is in bed with China.

The administration and the media must face the fact that China is quietly going about securing oil contracts with those who used to be our allies, particularly Canada, Venezuela and Brazil. China is building a wall around us, preparing to squeeze the life out of us by depriving us of oil, without firing a shot. They control the Panama Canal (through Hutchinson Whampoa) and have a major shipping facility in the Bahamas (again, through Hutchinson Whampoa). They are also working closely with Iran, not only for oil, but in helping Iran develop its nuclear capacity.

An Iranian Oil Bourse means an opportunity to shift from the dollar to the Euro. Is there any reason to think that China (and everyone else) would not divest itself of dollars/Treasuries so it could do business in another, more sound, currency? Is there any question that our European alliances have grown cool in anticipation of a currency shift? Currently, the only oil exchanges are New York’s NYNEX and London’s IPE (both owned by U.S. corporations). Would not the oil-producing nations feel that they should play in the big leagues too and have some control over the rest of the oil-for-money game? And who would be surprised (outside the Beltway) that our enemies would not capitalize on this?

Over the past forty years, American manufacturing has been exported hither, thither and yon, wherever the Barons of Industry could make more by paying less. At least half of our military hardware is made by foreign sources, a really smart decision by the lunatics in Washington, too busy lining their own pockets to give a rat’s rear about the future of our nation. One can only wonder how the elites expect to sustain any kind of protracted war without the manufacturing infrastructure to support it since they sold most of it to foreign interests.

It is quite distressing for rank-and-file Americans to recognize that our government has gradually alienated most of the political world because of its belief that loyalty is purchased with dollars.

The administration harps on that Islam is a religion of peace. They would be hard-pressed to prove it from history. The religious issues are part of the disinformation campaign (but still an issue) and the globalists couldn’t care less who puts his butt is in the air or whose throat is slit for refusing to do so. As long as they have control of the globe’s credit, they have the power they seek. It appears that the more aggressive Muslims want both global financial and religious control. The elites don’t have to live with the consequences of allowing vast hordes of non-Christian immigrants into Christian countries to effect these goals.

Globalization is important to the elites because it provides the central bankers more concentrated international power. WTO, GATT, NAFTA etc., have allowed multinationals to expand all over the world and pay people with paper printed by Uncle Sam; created by Uncle Sam through increasing the indebtedness of its citizens. Again, it is the ordinary person who will suffer the consequences of this insatiable greed while the perps hide out with their peacocks on obscure Caribbean islands.

Agitating for a war with Iran is the last of the stupid banker tricks to be played on the United States. If we go forward with it, it will fail. You don’t need a think tank where everyone claims to have IQ’s of 300 to figure that out. The elites should have figured that they couldn’t rape and pillage our nation and still have it available for all its wars.

While our state militias have been deployed to protect the interests of the bankers of the City of London and their bedmates on Wall Street, our borders are left open to an invasion of unprecedented proportions. Few dare call it treason. The ordinary citizen is too busy trying to pay outrageous bills inflated by litigious lawyers and pandering politicians to have time to connect all the dots to see what a sorry state we are in. When the foreign troops are here to enforce martial law for some stupid banker reason, Americans will realize too late that their great nation became a house of cards long before it collapsed.

"Published originally at EtherZone.com : republication allowed with this notice and hyperlink intact."

http://www.etherzone.com/2006/devl011206.shtml

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Heeft iemand al iets van de Nederlandse media vernomen over de komende Iraanse Olie Beurs, vraag ik mij af.

[ Bericht 0% gewijzigd door Hallulama op 13-01-2006 14:38:41 ]

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Op vrijdag 13 januari 2006 14:50 schreef klez het volgende:

Wat is de Iraanse regering dan ook stom om zo de kat op het spek te binden, niet waar?
Gewoon het spel met de Europese onderhandelaars meespelen en die satanische VS staat volledig alleen in haar complot om het 4e reich tot stand te brengen.

Ja, dat is zeker stom van Iran, ik begrijp daar dan ook geen zak van.

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Op vrijdag 13 januari 2006 15:13 schreef RuL0R het volgende:

Lage koers is g oed voor de export en ik geloof dat dat vrij gunstig zou zijn voor de VS aangezien er geld het land uit stroomt in ruil voor goederen.

De huidige staat van de Amerikaanse economie kan een instorting van de dollar niet gebruiken.

Ieder land? Ook Rusland, China, India, Brazilie, Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba?

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Op vrijdag 13 januari 2006 15:07 schreef Basp1 het volgende:

Nee ik snap er ook niets van het zal wel door hun geloof komen dat ze er niet van mogen houden om in hun ster genaaid te worden.

Ik doelde op de uitspraken van de Iraanse president richting Israel.

Ik kom zojuist het volgende kick-ass artikel tegen, kan iemand die er verstand van heeft eens commentaar geven?

Hang on tight!

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Krassimir Petrov, Ph. D.
January 17, 2006

Abstract: the proposed Iranian Oil Bourse will accelerate the fall of the American Empire

I. Economics of Empires

A nation-state taxes its own citizens, while an empire taxes other nation-states. The history of empires, from Greek and Roman, to Ottoman and British, teaches that the economic foundation of every single empire is the taxation of other nations. The imperial ability to tax has always rested on a better and stronger economy, and as a consequence, a better and stronger military. One part of the subject taxes went to improve the living standards of the empire; the other part went to strengthen the military dominance necessary to enforce the collection of those taxes.

Historically, taxing the subject state has been in various forms - usually gold and silver, where those were considered money, but also slaves, soldiers, crops, cattle, or other agricultural and natural resources, whatever economic goods the empire demanded and the subject-state could deliver. Historically, imperial taxation has always been direct: the subject state handed over the economic goods directly to the empire.

For the first time in history, in the twentieth century, America was able to tax the world indirectly, through inflation. It did not enforce the direct payment of taxes like all of its predecessor empires did, but distributed instead its own fiat currency, the U.S. Dollar, to other nations in exchange for goods with the intended consequence of inflating and devaluing those dollars and paying back later each dollar with less economic goods - the difference capturing the U.S. imperial tax. Here is how this happened.

Early in the 20th century, the U.S. economy began to dominate the world economy. The U.S. dollar was tied to gold, so that the value of the dollar neither increased, nor decreased, but remained the same amount of gold. The Great Depression, with its preceding inflation from 1921 to 1929 and its subsequent ballooning government deficits, had substantially increased the amount of currency in circulation, and thus rendered the backing of U.S. dollars by gold impossible. This led Roosevelt to decouple the dollar from gold in 1932. Up to this point, the U.S. may have well dominated the world economy, but from an economic point of view, it was not an empire. The fixed value of the dollar did not allow the Americans to extract economic benefits from other countries by supplying them with dollars convertible to gold.

Economically, the American Empire was born with Bretton Woods in 1945. The U.S. dollar was not fully convertible to gold, but was made convertible to gold only to foreign governments. This established the dollar as the reserve currency of the world. It was possible, because during WWII, the United States had supplied its allies with provisions, demanding gold as payment, thus accumulating significant portion of the world's gold. An Empire would not have been possible if, following the Bretton Woods arrangement, the dollar supply was kept limited and within the availability of gold, so as to fully exchange back dollars for gold. However, the guns-and-butter policy of the 1960's was an imperial one: the dollar supply was relentlessly increased to finance Vietnam and LBJ's Great Society. Most of those dollars were handed over to foreigners in exchange for economic goods, without the prospect of buying them back at the same value. The increase in dollar holdings of foreigners via persistent U.S. trade deficits was tantamount to a tax - the classical inflation tax that a country imposes on its own citizens, this time around an inflation tax that U.S. imposed on rest of the world.

When in 1970-1971 foreigners demanded payment for their dollars in gold, The U.S. Government defaulted on its payment on August 15, 1971. While the popular spin told the story of "severing the link between the dollar and gold", in reality the denial to pay back in gold was an act of bankruptcy by the U.S. Government. Essentially, the U.S. declared itself an Empire. It had extracted an enormous amount of economic goods from the rest of the world, with no intention or ability to return those goods, and the world was powerless to respond - the world was taxed and it could not do anything about it.

From that point on, to sustain the American Empire and to continue to tax the rest of the world, the United States had to force the world to continue to accept ever-depreciating dollars in exchange for economic goods and to have the world hold more and more of those depreciating dollars. It had to give the world an economic reason to hold them, and that reason was oil.

In 1971, as it became clearer and clearer that the U.S Government would not be able to buy back its dollars in gold, it made in 1972-73 an iron-clad arrangement with Saudi Arabia to support the power of the House of Saud in exchange for accepting only U.S. dollars for its oil. The rest of OPEC was to follow suit and also accept only dollars. Because the world had to buy oil from the Arab oil countries, it had the reason to hold dollars as payment for oil. Because the world needed ever increasing quantities of oil at ever increasing oil prices, the world's demand for dollars could only increase. Even though dollars could no longer be exchanged for gold, they were now exchangeable for oil.

The economic essence of this arrangement was that the dollar was now backed by oil. As long as that was the case, the world had to accumulate increasing amounts of dollars, because they needed those dollars to buy oil. As long as the dollar was the only acceptable payment for oil, its dominance in the world was assured, and the American Empire could continue to tax the rest of the world. If, for any reason, the dollar lost its oil backing, the American Empire would cease to exist. Thus, Imperial survival dictated that oil be sold only for dollars. It also dictated that oil reserves were spread around various sovereign states that weren't strong enough, politically or militarily, to demand payment for oil in something else. If someone demanded a different payment, he had to be convinced, either by political pressure or military means, to change his mind.

The man that actually did demand Euro for his oil was Saddam Hussein in 2000. At first, his demand was met with ridicule, later with neglect, but as it became clearer that he meant business, political pressure was exerted to change his mind. When other countries, like Iran, wanted payment in other currencies, most notably Euro and Yen, the danger to the dollar was clear and present, and a punitive action was in order. Bush's Shock-and-Awe in Iraq was not about Saddam's nuclear capabilities, about defending human rights, about spreading democracy, or even about seizing oil fields; it was about defending the dollar, ergo the American Empire. It was about setting an example that anyone who demanded payment in currencies other than U.S. Dollars would be likewise punished.

Many have criticized Bush for staging the war in Iraq in order to seize Iraqi oil fields. However, those critics can't explain why Bush would want to seize those fields - he could simply print dollars for nothing and use them to get all the oil in the world that he needs. He must have had some other reason to invade Iraq.

History teaches that an empire should go to war for one of two reasons: (1) to defend itself or (2) benefit from war; if not, as Paul Kennedy illustrates in his magisterial The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, a military overstretch will drain its economic resources and precipitate its collapse. Economically speaking, in order for an empire to initiate and conduct a war, its benefits must outweigh its military and social costs. Benefits from Iraqi oil fields are hardly worth the long-term, multi-year military cost. Instead, Bush must have went into Iraq to defend his Empire. Indeed, this is the case: two months after the United States invaded Iraq, the Oil for Food Program was terminated, the Iraqi Euro accounts were switched back to dollars, and oil was sold once again only for U.S. dollars. No longer could the world buy oil from Iraq with Euro. Global dollar supremacy was once again restored. Bush descended victoriously from a fighter jet and declared the mission accomplished - he had successfully defended the U.S. dollar, and thus the American Empire.

II. Iranian Oil Bourse

The Iranian government has finally developed the ultimate "nuclear" weapon that can swiftly destroy the financial system underpinning the American Empire. That weapon is the Iranian Oil Bourse slated to open in March 2006. It will be based on a euro-oil-trading mechanism that naturally implies payment for oil in Euro. In economic terms, this represents a much greater threat to the hegemony of the dollar than Saddam's, because it will allow anyone willing either to buy or to sell oil for Euro to transact on the exchange, thus circumventing the U.S. dollar altogether. If so, then it is likely that almost everyone will eagerly adopt this euro oil system:

* The Europeans will not have to buy and hold dollars in order to secure their payment for oil, but would instead pay with their own currencies. The adoption of the euro for oil transactions will provide the European currency with a reserve status that will benefit the European at the expense of the Americans.
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* The Chinese and the Japanese will be especially eager to adopt the new exchange, because it will allow them to drastically lower their enormous dollar reserves and diversify with Euros, thus protecting themselves against the depreciation of the dollar. One portion of their dollars they will still want to hold onto; a second portion of their dollar holdings they may decide to dump outright; a third portion of their dollars they will decide to use up for future payments without replenishing those dollar holdings, but building up instead their euro reserves.
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* The Russians have inherent economic interest in adopting the Euro - the bulk of their trade is with European countries, with oil-exporting countries, with China, and with Japan. Adoption of the Euro will immediately take care of the first two blocs, and will over time facilitate trade with China and Japan. Also, the Russians seemingly detest holding depreciating dollars, for they have recently found a new religion with gold. Russians have also revived their nationalism, and if embracing the Euro will stab the Americans, they will gladly do it and smugly watch the Americans bleed.
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* The Arab oil-exporting countries will eagerly adopt the Euro as a means of diversifying against rising mountains of depreciating dollars. Just like the Russians, their trade is mostly with European countries, and therefore will prefer the European currency both for its stability and for avoiding currency risk, not to mention their jihad against the Infidel Enemy.

Only the British will find themselves between a rock and a hard place. They have had a strategic partnership with the U.S. forever, but have also had their natural pull from Europe. So far, they have had many reasons to stick with the winner. However, when they see their century-old partner falling, will they firmly stand behind him or will they deliver the coup de grace? Still, we should not forget that currently the two leading oil exchanges are the New York's NYMEX and the London's International Petroleum Exchange (IPE), even though both of them are effectively owned by the Americans. It seems more likely that the British will have to go down with the sinking ship, for otherwise they will be shooting themselves in the foot by hurting their own London IPE interests. It is here noteworthy that for all the rhetoric about the reasons for the surviving British Pound, the British most likely did not adopt the Euro namely because the Americans must have pressured them not to: otherwise the London IPE would have had to switch to Euros, thus mortally wounding the dollar and their strategic partner.

At any rate, no matter what the British decide, should the Iranian Oil Bourse accelerate, the interests that matter-those of Europeans, Chinese, Japanese, Russians, and Arabs-will eagerly adopt the Euro, thus sealing the fate of the dollar. Americans cannot allow this to happen, and if necessary, will use a vast array of strategies to halt or hobble the operation's exchange:

* Sabotaging the Exchange - this could be a computer virus, network, communications, or server attack, various server security breaches, or a 9-11-type attack on main and backup facilities.
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* Coup d'état - this is by far the best long-term strategy available to the Americans.
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* Negotiating Acceptable Terms & Limitations - this is another excellent solution to the Americans. Of course, a government coup is clearly the preferred strategy, for it will ensure that the exchange does not operate at all and does not threaten American interests. However, if an attempted sabotage or coup d'etat fails, then negotiation is clearly the second-best available option.
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* Joint U.N. War Resolution - this will be, no doubt, hard to secure given the interests of all other member-states of the Security Council. Feverish rhetoric about Iranians developing nuclear weapons undoubtedly serves to prepare this course of action.
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* Unilateral Nuclear Strike - this is a terrible strategic choice for all the reasons associated with the next strategy, the Unilateral Total War. The Americans will likely use Israel to do their dirty nuclear job.
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* Unilateral Total War - this is obviously the worst strategic choice. First, the U.S. military resources have been already depleted with two wars. Secondly, the Americans will further alienate other powerful nations. Third, major dollar-holding countries may decide to quietly retaliate by dumping their own mountains of dollars, thus preventing the U.S. from further financing its militant ambitions. Finally, Iran has strategic alliances with other powerful nations that may trigger their involvement in war; Iran reputedly has such alliance with China, India, and Russia, known as the Shanghai Cooperative Group, a.k.a. Shanghai Coop and a separate pact with Syria.

Whatever the strategic choice, from a purely economic point of view, should the Iranian Oil Bourse gain momentum, it will be eagerly embraced by major economic powers and will precipitate the demise of the dollar. The collapsing dollar will dramatically accelerate U.S. inflation and will pressure upward U.S. long-term interest rates. At this point, the Fed will find itself between Scylla and Charybdis - between deflation and hyperinflation - it will be forced fast either to take its "classical medicine" by deflating, whereby it raises interest rates, thus inducing a major economic depression, a collapse in real estate, and an implosion in bond, stock, and derivative markets, with a total financial collapse, or alternatively, to take the Weimar way out by inflating, whereby it pegs the long-bond yield, raises the Helicopters and drowns the financial system in liquidity, bailing out numerous LTCMs and hyperinflating the economy.

The Austrian theory of money, credit, and business cycles teaches us that there is no in-between Scylla and Charybdis. Sooner or later, the monetary system must swing one way or the other, forcing the Fed to make its choice. No doubt, Commander-in-Chief Ben Bernanke, a renowned scholar of the Great Depression and an adept Black Hawk pilot, will choose inflation. Helicopter Ben, oblivious to Rothbard's America's Great Depression, has nonetheless mastered the lessons of the Great Depression and the annihilating power of deflations. The Maestro has taught him the panacea of every single financial problem-to inflate, come hell or high water. He has even taught the Japanese his own ingenious unconventional ways to battle the deflationary liquidity trap. Like his mentor, he has dreamed of battling a Kondratieff Winter. To avoid deflation, he will resort to the printing presses; he will recall all helicopters from the 800 overseas U.S. military bases; and, if necessary, he will monetize everything in sight. His ultimate accomplishment will be the hyperinflationary destruction of the American currency and from its ashes will rise the next reserve currency of the world-that barbarous relic called gold.

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