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Global Economic Collapse
Thursday, February 12th, 2009Obama and the Mindset of War
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008It’s nice to see that I’m not the only one who suspects things are “business as usual” in the upcoming Executive administration. Muhammad Sahimi at Antiwar.com sums up the situation well.
Iran Ends Dollar Sales of Oil
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008In a move that Iraq took, just before they were attacked by the US: Iran has completely stopped oil transactions in US dollars. Iran had made plenty of statements to this effect some time ago, working slowly toward that goal, but the actual event has finally come to pass.
This event, I predict, means that a US war against Iran is inevitable. The only thing in the past that has kept the US dollar’s value from dropping to that of Monopoly money, is that it was being used as the default currency for oil trade world wide. Iran’s refusal ushers in the ire of an empire with rapidly devaluating currency, but with a military possessing plenty of functional advanced weaponry.
Why the ire? Because this move may further motivate OPEC to divorce the dollar as well. If all oil trading were to drop use of the once revered “petro-dollar”, it will easily drop to 10% of it’s currently suffering value or worse. All countries dealing with oil trade are upset about their rapid loss of buying power with the dollars they’re holding. Many are dumping them for the Euro already.
If the US doesn’t invade Iran at this point, the risk remains alive. If Iran is taken back to the petro-dollar by force of invasion, then the jittery feelings of nations holding US dollars may be eased and OPEC may be intimidated to remain on the dollar as trade currency. It’s a gamble, but frankly the only bet they can take to keep the country from drowning under the quagmire the Reagan, Bush, Clinton and Bush II administrations have put us in. Reaganomics soundly started our economic collapse and the rest continued the path. No, Clinton never had a real surplus.
Thus, war is the only avenue the US government has at this point to prevent the worst collapse of the US economy – far worse than the “Great Depression” ever was.
Attack on Iran Starting?
Saturday, February 2nd, 2008Three submarine Internet cables have been cut, leading to a massive outage of Internet connectivity in the Middle East, including the now known exaggerated complete cutoff of all Internet traffic to and from Iran.
One submarine cable being cut is an event for news. Three underwater cables cut within 72 hours of each other, all to the same region, but at different locations? Something is up and it doesn’t smell good. I have a very difficult time believing that this is coincidence.
The potential for this being a strategic, purposeful event to cut off communication with Iran cannot be overlooked. From a military perspective, this could be the sign of a coming attack against Iran.
Time will tell.
Addendum, Feb 2nd: It appears that Iran had partial bandwidth all along and India may be near 80% back by Monday. More here. Still no word as why three cables in two different areas were cut.
As a side note to this all, here is a fascinating article from back in 2001, talking about the NSA’s potential tapping of an undersea fiber run and just how much data transfer between continents is hinged on a few strands of fiber.
It is also interesting to note that Iran started its oil burse on Friday, no longer accepting the US dollar as trade currency. Exaggerated or not, this still smells fishy.
Another article on the incident here.
Rumblings of War and Things to Come
Wednesday, July 11th, 2007Several sites out there are starting to talk about the interesting sound bites coming from the Reich-wing these days.
First in line are comments by the new chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party, Dennis Milligan.
“At the end of the day, I believe fully the president is doing the right thing, and I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on [Sept. 11, 2001 ], and the naysayers will come around very quickly to appreciate not only the commitment for President Bush, but the sacrifice that has been made by men and women to protect this country.”
Shortly after, former Republican Senator Rick Santorum was recorded on the Hugh Hewitt radio show saying some rather prophetic things.
“Between now and November, a lot of things are going to happen, and I believe that by this time next year, the American public’s going to have a very different view of this war, and it will be because, I think, of some unfortunate events, that like we’re seeing unfold in the UK. But I think the American public’s going to have a very different view.”
Finally, we have the Homeland Security Secretary, pontificating on the nature of his bowels to the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune, stating that he has a “gut feeling” that new terrorist attacks may be underway this summer.
Earlier this month, ABC News reported that a secret US law enforcement report, prepared for the Department of Homeland Security (is it just me, or does that title make you want to goose-step?) warns that al-Qaeda is planning some sort of “terror spectacular” for this summer, relating the nature of the warnings as being an par with what was discovered before the 9-11 attack.
For a moment, lets take this information at face value and assume that there really is word on the intelligence grapevine that a new al-Qaeda attack is on the way. My question is a simple one: Why are these Republican shills using such information as an attempted bolstering point of a miserably failing President, instead of talking about, or even pushing for, steps needed to take to stop this coming attack? If Homeland Security (I’m goose-stepping now, I have to!) truly has solid information that something is going on, how is it that they don’t have enough information to nail these culprits? If a new attack on US soil is what it takes to make America appreciate and commit to President Bush, doesn’t that indicate how steeped in feces his current stance really is, motivating us to impeach him instead?
We have been lied to about 9-11. Three towers do not fall down into their own footprint, without it being done by controlled demolition. Jet fuel fires cannot burn hot enough to melt or even weaken steel, it’s half the needed temperature. The laws of physics do not bend or break for terrorists. This means, at the very least, that there is a lot more to the official story than meets the eye. Furthermore, with PNAC’s “Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategies, Forces, and Resources For a New Century” stating openly that a “new Pearl Harbor” was needed to support their goals, one has to get a little worried about what involvement the PNAC crowd had in the attack itself. Even if there is no connection to be found, they certainly used the opportunity to engage their plans.
So this new lineup of terrorist “booga booga!” doesn’t scare me into thinking that al-Qaeda is going to suitcase nuke the Salt Lake City LDS Temple, it scares me into thinking that our own government has planned, or is allowing to happen, a terrorist strike in the US, in order to secure a final choke-hold on power, centered entirely around the Executive office.
Bush has already signed the executive orders needed to take full control of the entire Federal government, legislative and judicial branches included. Little fanfare was raised by the press over this signing, but it was noticed in the Net. If we get another large terrorist attack, either real, faked or somewhere in the middle, Bush has set himself up to take full control of the United States, in an even more insidious and pre-planned fashion than Hitler had managed. We are at a very dangerous crux, with everything left to loose on the line with these new terrorist warnings.
For those who believe that it is impossible that our government would allow or fake a terrorist attack on US citizens, think again. Not only has the government proven in the past, with fallout tests, forced medical procedures and more, that they consider the US population expendable, but this kind of thinking has been documented before. It was called Operation Northwoods.
So, the big question in the end is, will the American Idle go along with fascist rule, or will they wake up and smell the manure that they’re up to their necks in?
Iranian Sensibility
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007Just when I was getting my knickers in a twist over the Iranian hostage situation, Iran does a double-take and decides to release the British captives.
Guardian article on the event.

