{"id":46552,"date":"2019-06-06T06:17:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T11:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46552"},"modified":"2019-06-06T06:17:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-06T11:17:09","slug":"why-trump-now-wants-talks-with-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46552","title":{"rendered":"Why Trump now wants talks with Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thesaker.is\/why-trump-now-wants-talks-with-iran\/\">Why Trump now wants talks with Iran<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If Tehran blocks the Strait of Hormuz it could send the price of oil soaring and cause a global recession<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/dxczjjuegupb.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Strait-of-Hormuz-900x540.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-42047\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iranian soldiers take part in National Persian Gulf Day in the Strait of Hormuz on April 30, 2019. There is concern about a blockade of the Strait and the disastrous impact that could have on the price of oil and world financial markets. Photo: AFP \/ Atta Kenare<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unlike Deep Purple\u2019s legendary \u2018Smoke on the Water\u2019 \u2013 \u201cWe all came out to Montreux, on the Lake Geneva shoreline\u201d, the 67th&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bilderbergmeetings.org\/press\/press-release\/press-release\">Bilderberg group meetings<\/a>&nbsp;produced no fire and no smoke at the luxurious Fairmont Le Montreux Palace Hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bilderbergmeetings.org\/press\/press-release\/participants\">130 elite guests<\/a>&nbsp;had a jolly good \u2013 and theoretically quiet \u2013 time at the self-billed \u201cinformal discussion forum concerning major issues\u201d. As usual, at least two-thirds were European decision-makers, with the rest coming from North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The fact that a few major players in this Atlanticist Valhalla are closely associated with or directly interfering with the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) in Basel \u2013 the central bank of central banks \u2013 is of course just a minor detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The major issue discussed this year was \u201cA Stable Strategic Order\u201d, a lofty endeavor that can be interpreted either as the making of a New World Order or just a benign effort by selfless elites to guide mankind to enlightenment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other items of discussion were way more pragmatic \u2013 from \u201cThe Future of Capitalism\u201d, to \u201cRussia\u201d, \u201cChina\u201d, \u201cWeaponizing Social Media\u201d, \u201cBrexit\u201d, \u201cWhat\u2019s Next for Europe\u201d, \u201cEthics of Artificial Intelligence\u201d and last but not least, \u201cClimate Change\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Disciples of Antisthenes would argue that these items constitute precisely the nuts and bolts of the New World Order.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The chairman of Bilderberg\u2019s steering committee, since 2012, is Henri de Castries, former CEO of AXA and the director of the Institut Montaigne, a top French think tank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Trump now wants talks with Iran If Tehran blocks the Strait of Hormuz it could send the price of oil soaring and cause a global recession Iranian soldiers take part in National Persian Gulf Day in the Strait of Hormuz on April 30, 2019. There is concern about a blockade of the Strait and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2383,441,4076,18938,827],"class_list":["post-46552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-bilderberg-group","tag-iran","tag-pepe-escobar","tag-the-saker-blog","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46552"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46553,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46552\/revisions\/46553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}