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I don't think big finance really cares about the petrodollar or the collapse thereof. Having control of the resources whether direct or indirect is the important objective. I do think there are some who think salvaging the petrodollar is important, but big picture it is quite irrelevant. If you take into consideration money is nothing more than digits on a screen than irrelevance of the petrodollar is self evident.Furthermore, I think the end game is to have a fully digitized one world currency. No longer needing physical dollars, euros, yuans, or whatever currency you want to throw out there.Before this can be done one needs to have control of the most valuable resources. It just so happens that the countries not trading in petrodollars are also the same countries in which the west doesn't have control of said resources. Who would of thought?
Originally posted by Happy1
reply to post by GD21D
I'm wondering if you could address the USD/petro dollar link and the countries that are trading oil in other currencies other than the USD?
How about the collapse of the western banking system? Relating to this war?
Originally posted by GD21D
OK..... I'm really not sure how to respond to this. All you really offered was that Obama's an idiot, and he's egomaniacal.He very well be egomaniacal, but an idiot he is not. You don't become the leader of the most powerful country in the world by being an idiot, even if the position is nothing more than a window dressing for democracy.But I digress.The nature of geo-politics is a little more complicated than this or that guy is an idiot. Relations between nation states is something subjected to infighting on a consistent basis, and has been for thousands of years. Especially when one world power attempts to increase its own strategic footprint to the reduction of another. Thus, you may see a divide grow between two factions within the same governing force. One side may feel open war with another power as a risk worth taking, while the other may not.You can be sure there is a group of people in the western world who do not want to risk open war with China and Russia. Although, on paper, circumstances of a world conflict appear favorable to western powers, war is not won on paper. There have been many times unforeseen circumstances and events have shifted outcomes of conflicts. I'm quite positive I'm not the only one with this understanding, even if it is lost upon yourself.I don't care why Obama has resisted involvement in the Syrian conflict. I only care that this specific position aligns with my own ideals. Therefor, I would continue to support his resistance, regardless of what I personally think of him or his other policies.
Originally posted by Happy1
reply to post by GD21D
Obama is an idiot, at best - the worst he is, has yet to be seen.
He reads scripts - he has no idea what's going on - and could care less.
He is an egomaniacal twit.
Originally posted by GD21D
I don't think big finance really cares about the petrodollar or the collapse thereof. Having control of the resources whether direct or indirect is the important objective. I do think there are some who think salvaging the petrodollar is important, but big picture it is quite irrelevant. If you take into consideration money is nothing more than digits on a screen than irrelevance of the petrodollar is self evident.Furthermore, I think the end game is to have a fully digitized one world currency. No longer needing physical dollars, euros, yuans, or whatever currency you want to throw out there.Before this can be done one needs to have control of the most valuable resources. It just so happens that the countries not trading in petrodollars are also the same countries in which the west doesn't have control of said resources. Who would of thought?
Originally posted by Happy1
reply to post by GD21D
I'm wondering if you could address the USD/petro dollar link and the countries that are trading oil in other currencies other than the USD?
How about the collapse of the western banking system? Relating to this war?
Originally posted by SajeevJino
again and again ..here everyone saw what happens on the Chemical attack
and Please don't tell me these all are done by Rebels
Does they have this much of Nerve gas
It's clear that assad was behind this attack
Originally posted by GD21D
reply to post by nosacrificenofreedom
I have this feeling that people don't actually read what I post. They find a little tid bit they don't agree with and run with without any consideration as to the context of the whole text.Let me clarify for you.If you can control the majority of the most important resources you can control the medium of exchange used for those resources Nobody of any importance gives a rats @$$ about the dollar, not now, not ever. Beyond the fact that the petrodollar is used as a means for asymmetrical warfare big finance doesn't care whether you call it a dollar, or euro, or samolian, or whatever silly name you can make up. What you call medium of exchange is just playing semantics. Control of the resouces is what is paramount.In being confident that this is the case I tell you this. If the west just so happens to be successful in putting Iran and Syria under their thumb in the next 5-10 years. You will begin to see movement to consolidate the European and North American mediums of exchange. This may include intentionally collapsing the ones currently in place, although I'm not 100% confident that a collapse is necessary for consolidation. I can see a collapse only being used if there is internal resistance from the European and North American populaces. As of now I don't see any evidence that these populaces will offer any amount of resistance that will make an intentional collapse necessary.
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Originally posted by gladtobehere
Armed Opponents in Syria Admit Use of Chemical Weapons.
Al-Jaledi, who is a former, high-ranking member of the Jabhat al-Nusrah has reportedly left the al-Nusrah to continue fighting with another, also al-Qaeda associated brigade.
On his Twitter account, Al-Jaledi apparently said: “If it was not for confidentiality on this matter, I would reveal who was the fighter who made the said chemical bombs”.
On Thursday, Syrian television released two intercepted telephone conversations among members of the so-called “Shuhada al-Bayada Battalion” and their Saudi Arabian liaison, the Egypt based financier Adulbasit, in which the terrorists were admitting that the group had used chemical weapons in Deir Balba, in the countryside of Homs.
The revelations occur as an international campaign, led primarily by the USA, UK and France, in the attempt to justify an illegal military aggression against Syria intensifies.
Confidentiality? Sir, theres not much "confidentiality" remaining when you say that you can ID the person who constructed the chemical weapons used in Syria.
Looks like they've also intercepted some communications discussing the attacks.
At this point, is there ANYONE who believes that the US government and their allies arent behind this attack?
Originally posted by Happy1
Maybe Benghazi and Fast and Furious need to be re-opened and a world court (I know the US doesn't recognize the world court) or some other international agency can take a look at the criminals running the US.
Originally posted by grandmakdw
Get ready for a draft to "employ" the young generation
Obama's way of job creation
Get ready for a better economy
War historically brings bad economies out of the doldrums
Obama's way of improving the economy
Get ready to "need" the NSA spying
Once they retaliate by terrorism on US soil we will "have" to allow the intrusive invasive NSA to spy all it wants
Get ready for the world to see Obama's balls they didn't know he had for his legacy
edit on 26-8-2013 by grandmakdw because: spelling
Originally posted by grandmakdw
reply to post by RP2SticksOfDynamite
How to make the hollywood crowd think you have balls
Kill tens of thousands to avenge a few thousand
Talk about a warm hollywood fuzzy
Make a great movie, just star some cute kid to avenge
Then show at least a thousand ugly men dying
Wow makings of a blockbuster
Don't you thinkedit on 26-8-2013 by grandmakdw because: added stuff