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<blockquote data-quote="wkmac" data-source="post: 551069" data-attributes="member: 2189"><p>Along those lines. On Iraq and WW1, I ran across an interesting book from 1918' entitled, <a href="http://www.archive.org/stream/warandthebagdadr001985mbp#page/n35/mode/2up" target="_blank"><span style="color: red"><u>"War and the Baghdad Railroad"</u></span></a> and on page 25 I found the following statement.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Just ironic those words in light of today's world but then I've said all along that our efforts in the Middle East are an action and effort to hold together Old World Colonialism for it's variety of many reasons. Just a note of understanding. Iblis is basically the Islamic ideal of the judeo-christian satan. Iblis was a jinn (genie)who refused to bow down to Adam when ordered by Allah to do so.</p><p></p><p>Another aspect to watch in relation to our efforts in the Middle East as it relates to oil is our monoplistic protection of the dollar as the world currency as it relates to oil transactions. When Nixon killed Bretton Woods in 71' and closed the gold window for good, the US along with the NATO powers and OPEC replaced gold as the commodity backing of the dollar with oil on the strenght that all global transactions of oil would be made in dollars no matter by who or where they took place. In late 2000' <a href="http://www.rferl.org/content/Article/1095057.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">one lone leader and nation</span> </a>dare challenge that economic supremacy. In 2005', <a href="http://www.energybulletin.net/node/7707" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">a neighbor of above said nation</span> </a>also began making overtones of an even greater threat and offense and thus has since found itself surrounded and threatened. Now <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/30/business/main4057490.shtml" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">they've gone and done</span> </a>it but we'll get em'!</p><p></p><p>Of recent, we hear about the threats of the Big Russian Bear who we thought was dead but now seems posed to strike up long dormant rubblings of nukes and cold war tensions that must be met with strong military might. Maybe the heart of the issue is none of the above but rather an <a href="http://www.upi.com/Energy_Resources/2009/03/11/Analysis-Russia-and-Iran-oil-exchanges-may-compete-with-New-York-and-London/UPI-66671236800887/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">old familar cause</span></a>? Where's my <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20120509111328/http://www.rapidtrends.com/2009/05/23/us-dollar-no-longer-russia-reserve-currency/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">Bear Killer gun</span></a>?</p><p></p><p>In 2006' one of our southern neighbors started to get <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7407" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">a bit uppity</span> </a>about our money and <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6202791.stm" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">began looking elsewhere</span> </a>and thus found themselves on the "not so popular" list! And as our nation steams across the pacific as we speak to meet "a threat" we're told could be the end of us all, I wonder if we began to dig what we might truly find <a href="http://www.nkeconwatch.com/category/organizaitons/euro-asian-business-consultancy/" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">under the red flag and star</span></a>? I wonder who they've been "talking to" and what "oil potential" they might have? Even the <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18416.htm" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">powerful of our own</span> </a>are having to admit what's becoming more and more obvious.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Nixon Ends Bretton Woods August 1971'</p><p></p><p>[media=youtube]iRzr1QU6K1o[/media]</p><p></p><p>BTW: Did some of Nixon's early comments have a familar ring to it? We're such suckers aren't we!</p><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/FeltTip/happy-very.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":happy-very:" title="Happy Very :happy-very:" data-shortname=":happy-very:" /></p><p></p><p>Won't devalue the dollar he sez! In 1971' 2 people could attend a movie and get a drink and popcorn for less than $2. Now that cost is around $30. In another perspective as my wife pointed out as I 8itched about the $30 for the movies recently, how long did you have to work to earn the money for the movie? I responded, about an hour. She again, Back in 75' when we started dating, how long did you have to work for us to go see a movie? Same answer, about an hour! In 1975', you could buy a new car for between $2k and $3k, now it's $20k to $30k. So much for Nixon's assurance that the dollar wouldn't become devalued. But then we needed to corner and secure the global oil markets and the best way to do that was to monopolize all oil transactions to the dollar which OPEC handed us on a gol....uh "dollar" platter in <a href="http://www.trinicenter.com/oops/iraqeuro.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: red">1973</span></a>'.</p><p></p><p>Isn't it ironic that the very nations we are told represent some form of potential military threat are in fact more an economic threat than anything else and could it be that these nations in a drive to develop weapons we may not like and weapon that do pose a risk are doing so in order to protect their own natural right to economic freedom? We've so monopolized ourselves domestically in the area of State controlled economics that we fail to even see that our "benevolent" State is and has been doing the same thing on the international stage. The nation that opened the eyes of the world to the ideals and principles of free markets and free peoples may in the years ahead be seen in a very different context when historians view our 20th and 21st century actions from a future perspective where more and more facts will be known!</p><p></p><p></p><p>I guess from some this is just another long boring post or it's just spam. But then there are those brave souls here who dare to ask, "just how deep does this rabbit hole go?"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wkmac, post: 551069, member: 2189"] Along those lines. On Iraq and WW1, I ran across an interesting book from 1918' entitled, [URL='http://www.archive.org/stream/warandthebagdadr001985mbp#page/n35/mode/2up'][COLOR=red][U]"War and the Baghdad Railroad"[/U][/COLOR][/URL] and on page 25 I found the following statement. Just ironic those words in light of today's world but then I've said all along that our efforts in the Middle East are an action and effort to hold together Old World Colonialism for it's variety of many reasons. Just a note of understanding. Iblis is basically the Islamic ideal of the judeo-christian satan. Iblis was a jinn (genie)who refused to bow down to Adam when ordered by Allah to do so. Another aspect to watch in relation to our efforts in the Middle East as it relates to oil is our monoplistic protection of the dollar as the world currency as it relates to oil transactions. When Nixon killed Bretton Woods in 71' and closed the gold window for good, the US along with the NATO powers and OPEC replaced gold as the commodity backing of the dollar with oil on the strenght that all global transactions of oil would be made in dollars no matter by who or where they took place. In late 2000' [URL='http://www.rferl.org/content/Article/1095057.html'][COLOR=red]one lone leader and nation[/COLOR] [/URL]dare challenge that economic supremacy. In 2005', [URL='http://www.energybulletin.net/node/7707'][COLOR=red]a neighbor of above said nation[/COLOR] [/URL]also began making overtones of an even greater threat and offense and thus has since found itself surrounded and threatened. Now [URL='http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/30/business/main4057490.shtml'][COLOR=red]they've gone and done[/COLOR] [/URL]it but we'll get em'! Of recent, we hear about the threats of the Big Russian Bear who we thought was dead but now seems posed to strike up long dormant rubblings of nukes and cold war tensions that must be met with strong military might. Maybe the heart of the issue is none of the above but rather an [URL='http://www.upi.com/Energy_Resources/2009/03/11/Analysis-Russia-and-Iran-oil-exchanges-may-compete-with-New-York-and-London/UPI-66671236800887/'][COLOR=red]old familar cause[/COLOR][/URL]? Where's my [URL='https://web.archive.org/web/20120509111328/http://www.rapidtrends.com/2009/05/23/us-dollar-no-longer-russia-reserve-currency/'][COLOR=red]Bear Killer gun[/COLOR][/URL]? In 2006' one of our southern neighbors started to get [URL='http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=7407'][COLOR=red]a bit uppity[/COLOR] [/URL]about our money and [URL='http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6202791.stm'][COLOR=red]began looking elsewhere[/COLOR] [/URL]and thus found themselves on the "not so popular" list! And as our nation steams across the pacific as we speak to meet "a threat" we're told could be the end of us all, I wonder if we began to dig what we might truly find [URL='http://www.nkeconwatch.com/category/organizaitons/euro-asian-business-consultancy/'][COLOR=red]under the red flag and star[/COLOR][/URL]? I wonder who they've been "talking to" and what "oil potential" they might have? Even the [URL='http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18416.htm'][COLOR=red]powerful of our own[/COLOR] [/URL]are having to admit what's becoming more and more obvious. Nixon Ends Bretton Woods August 1971' [media=youtube]iRzr1QU6K1o[/media] BTW: Did some of Nixon's early comments have a familar ring to it? We're such suckers aren't we! :happy-very: Won't devalue the dollar he sez! In 1971' 2 people could attend a movie and get a drink and popcorn for less than $2. Now that cost is around $30. In another perspective as my wife pointed out as I 8itched about the $30 for the movies recently, how long did you have to work to earn the money for the movie? I responded, about an hour. She again, Back in 75' when we started dating, how long did you have to work for us to go see a movie? Same answer, about an hour! In 1975', you could buy a new car for between $2k and $3k, now it's $20k to $30k. So much for Nixon's assurance that the dollar wouldn't become devalued. But then we needed to corner and secure the global oil markets and the best way to do that was to monopolize all oil transactions to the dollar which OPEC handed us on a gol....uh "dollar" platter in [URL='http://www.trinicenter.com/oops/iraqeuro.html'][COLOR=red]1973[/COLOR][/URL]'. Isn't it ironic that the very nations we are told represent some form of potential military threat are in fact more an economic threat than anything else and could it be that these nations in a drive to develop weapons we may not like and weapon that do pose a risk are doing so in order to protect their own natural right to economic freedom? We've so monopolized ourselves domestically in the area of State controlled economics that we fail to even see that our "benevolent" State is and has been doing the same thing on the international stage. The nation that opened the eyes of the world to the ideals and principles of free markets and free peoples may in the years ahead be seen in a very different context when historians view our 20th and 21st century actions from a future perspective where more and more facts will be known! I guess from some this is just another long boring post or it's just spam. But then there are those brave souls here who dare to ask, "just how deep does this rabbit hole go?" [/QUOTE]
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