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A bad idea...!
If you believe that there are errors on both sides of our two party system
and that as a country, we can do better than we are doing today,
Yes, sure... but how much will it matter now?
Well, nobody likes to hear bad news, and, like most everybody else, i
don't like to send bad news, either, if i can help it. How about talking
about talk about opportunities instead? Yes, i think there are
opportunities for us to do something to prevent, or at least mitigate,
certain problems that look like they are going to turn into something
real nasty real soon. I am talking about World War 3, an event (if one
may call it that), which, inspite of all the trouble that currently
exists in the world, is still considered by many something hypothetical
that is unlikely to happen, while there are others who consider it an
increasingly likely and rather imminent threat. Count me in the latter
camp. Why? Well, some of you may recall that years ago i have pointed at
the connection between the US attack on Iraq and Iraq's decision to stop
using the US Dollar as their oil trading currency and to use the Euro
instead. And right now Iran is moving to do the same - and the US has
beenm ratching up the rhetoric about Iran being a threat to the world
(well, anybody who has nuclear weapons is a threat to me: Israel,
anybody? Pakistan? India? France? Britain? Russia? China? the USA?
Argentina? Well, maybe not yet. North Korea? Maybe close. Taiwan? Let's
keep that a secret. Japan? Another secret. - Heck what is this blabbing
about "trying to prevent proliferation of nuclear arms"?)
Anyway, with something called the Iranian Oil Bourse reportedly
scheduled to open in March of this year, the US sees an enemy much more
important to tackle than anybody with nuclear weapons. You surely have
not failed to notice how Iran, with no nuclear weapons yet, is
increasingly being painted as much more dangerous than North Korea,
which reportedly already has such weapons. But North Korea has no oil,
so it is not posing a threat to the US dollar.
What does "threat to the US dollar" mean? If the US dollar is no longer
the world's reserve currency, i.e., not of much value for others outside
the US any longer, then the US economy will be toast, since it is based
on the fiction of a valuable dollar that has allowed the US for decades
to live high on the hog at the expense of everybody else in the world.
Here is a quick primer on the subject for anybody who is not yet
familiar with the issue:
http://www.countercurrents.org/us-petrov200106.htm .
If you think this is an unrealistic way of looking at the issue, go to a
search engine and do a search with the three words "iran", "oil", and
"bourse" (without the quotation marks and commas) to get some second
(etc.) opinions.
If you then have any questions, feel free to ask me (i may not always be
able to answer them, but i'll probably be able to point you in the
direction of possible answers).
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