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Oil Bust Could End Dollar Domination
Oil Bust Could End Dollar Domination The US dollar survived the collapse of Bretton Woods in the ‘70s because its use in crude oil transactions made it the king of reserve currencies, but can it survive a collapse of petro dollars? Can the world survive the catastrophic geopolitical consquences that would follow? There is an […]
Ron Paul Says to Watch the Petrodollar
Ron Paul Says to Watch the Petrodollar The chaos that one day will ensue from our 35-year experiment with worldwide fiat money will require a return to money of real value. We will know that day is approaching when oil-producing countries demand gold, or its equivalent, for their oil rather than dollars or euros. […]
Saudi Aramco IPO More About Geopolitics Than Finance
Saudi Aramco IPO More About Geopolitics Than Finance In the first week of 2016, Saudi deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, in an interview with the Economist, revealed that the Saudi government is considering selling shares in government-owned Saudi Aramco and/or its downstream assets through an IPO. He indicated that a decision on the IPO […]
Final MH17 crash report ‘unsubstantiated, inaccurate,’ new Russian probe says
Final MH17 crash report ‘unsubstantiated, inaccurate,’ new Russian probe says The reconstructed airplane serves as a backdrop during the presentation of the final report into the crash of July 2014 of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine, in Gilze Rijen, the Netherlands, October 13, 2015. © Michael Kooren / Reuters Some of the key conclusions […]
U.S. Media Condemns Iran’s “Aggression” in Intercepting U.S. Naval Ships — in Iranian Waters
U.S. Media Condemns Iran’s “Aggression” in Intercepting U.S. Naval Ships — in Iranian Waters News broke last night, hours before President Obama’s State of the Union address, that two U.S. Navy ships “in the Persian Gulf” were “seized” by Iran, and the 10 sailors on board were “arrested.” The Iranian government quickly said, and even the U.S. government […]
War Between Saudi Arabia And Iran Could Send Oil Prices To $250
War Between Saudi Arabia And Iran Could Send Oil Prices To $250 The rift between Saudi Arabia and Iran has quickly ballooned into the worst conflict in decades between the two countries. The back-and-forth escalation quickly turned the simmering tension into an overt struggle for power in the Middle East. First, the execution of a […]
Iran Seizes 2 US Navy Boats, Crewmen
Iran Seizes 2 US Navy Boats, Crewmen Tensions were already running high between Tehran and Washington in the wake of Iran’s move to test-fire a next generation surface-to-surface ballistic missile with the range to hit Israel. And then the IRGC conducted a live-fire rocket test within 1,500 yards of a US aircraft carrier in the […]
Financial collapse leads to war
Financial collapse leads to war [This is a rerun from March of last year, whose time has finally come. With the new year, a sea change seems to have occurred in the financial markets: instead of “melting up,” the way they used to, they have started “melting down.” My original prediction is that this will […]
Clinton Email Hints that Oil and Gold Were Behind Regime Change In Libya
Clinton Email Hints that Oil and Gold Were Behind Regime Change In Libya On New Year’s Eve, 3,000 emails from Hillary Clinton’s private email server were released. One of them confirms – an email dated April 2, 2011 to Clinton from her close confidante Sidney Blumenthal – that: Qaddafi’s government holds 143 tons of gold, and a similar […]
5 killed in missile strike on Medicins Sans Frontieres clinic in Yemen
5 killed in missile strike on Medicins Sans Frontieres clinic in Yemen © Khaled Abdullah Ali Al Mahdi / Reuters At least five people have been killed in a missile strike on a Medecins Sans Frontieres medical facility in Yemen. The organization “strongly condemns this,” while adding that 10 people have been injured in the […]
Is Canada failing to live up to its human rights commitments with its arms deals?
Is Canada failing to live up to its human rights commitments with its arms deals? A soldier with the Gulf Co-operation Council forces prays in front of his armoured personnel carrier as his fellow solider keeps watch while they guard the Bahrain Financial Harbour in Manama. (James Lawler Duggan/Reuters) Listen 7:58 Canada has condemned a spate […]
The Quilliam Foundation is financed by Tea-Party conservatives investigated by Sam Harris
The Quilliam Foundation is financed by Tea-Party conservatives investigated by Sam Harris And Ghaffar Hussain, a London Borough PREVENT manager, is listed as a co-leader for their million dollar project The Quilliam Foundation, a counter-extremism think-tank in London that has influenced British government national security strategies, has received over a million dollars in funding from […]
Defense Industry Revenue Forecast Gushes Over Global Turmoil
Defense Industry Revenue Forecast Gushes Over Global Turmoil The global aerospace and defense industry is out of its doldrums. According to a new report by the accounting firm Deloitte, “the resurgence of global security threats” promises a lucrative “rebound” in defense spending. The report alerts investors that “revenue growth” is “expected to take a positive turn” due […]
America’s Subservience to Saud Family
America’s Subservience to Saud Family The Saud royal family are by far the world’s largest buyers of US weapons. The King of Saudi Arabia is by far the world’s richest person, with a net worth well over a trillion dollars; and, when his (Aramco’s) 260 billion barrels of oil reserves were valued at $100 per […]
Germany’s Refugee Crisis is Starting to Explode
Germany’s Refugee Crisis is Starting to Explode The Arab sexual assault in Cologne, Germany, occurred on New Year’s Eve when hundreds of male refugees robbed and carried out sexual assaults against over 100 girls. This illustrates one of the huge problems with allowing such a mass migration of a starkly different culture. But what has become […]
