De Dollar Hegemonie 3

Dit keer is Iran aan de beurt, want de dollar begint te wankelen en de oliewinsten van de Westerse concerns moeten blijven stijgen. 'Exxon Mobil Corp. reported a 27 percent rise in fourth-quarter earnings earlier this week. Shell's full-year earnings rose 37 percent to $25.3 billion while sales rose 12 percent to $379.0 billion. The earnings were the largest ever for a British or Dutch company, but are likely to be passed by Britain's BP PLC next week. Shell's new CEO Jeroen van der Veer tried to emphasize the positive in the results, citing "record cash and earnings" for the full year and "success in exploration and gaining access to new resources."' http://www.forbes.com/work/feeds/ap/2006/02/02/ap2495065.html Ondertussen analyseert Mike Whitney in Information Clearing House de ware achtergronden van het conflict met Iran: 'Those who doubt that the Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld team will attack Iran, while so conspicuously overextended in Iraq, are ignoring the subtleties of the administration’s Middle East strategy. Bush has no intention of occupying Iran. Rather, the goal is to destroy major weapons-sites, destabilize the regime, and occupy a sliver of land on the Iraqi border that contains 90% of Iran’s oil wealth. Ultimately, Washington will aim to replace the Mullahs with American-friendly clients who can police their own people and fabricate the appearance of representative government. But, that will have to wait. For now, the administration must prevent the incipient Iran bourse (oil-exchange) from opening in March and precipitating a global sell-off of the debt-ridden dollar. There have many fine articles written about the proposed “euro-based” bourse and the devastating effects it will have on the greenback. The best of these are “Petrodollar Warfare: Oil, Iraq and the Future of the Dollar” by William R. Clark, and “The Proposed Oil Bourse” by Krassimir Petrov, Ph.D. The bottom line on the bourse is this; the dollar is underwritten by a national debt that now exceeds $8 trillion dollars and trade deficits that surpass $600 billion per year. That means that the greenback is the greatest swindle in the history of mankind. It’s utterly worthless. The only thing that keeps the dollar afloat is that oil is traded exclusively in greenbacks rather than some other currency. If Iran is able to smash that monopoly by trading in petro-euros then the world’s central banks will dump the greenback overnight, sending markets crashing and the US economy into a downward spiral. The Bush administration has no intention of allowing that to take place. In fact, as the tax-cuts and the budget deficits indicate, the Bush cabal fully intends to perpetuate the system that trades worthless dollars for valuable commodities, labor, and resources. As long as the oil market is married to the dollar, this system of global indentured servitude will continue. Battle Plans. The Bush administration’s attention has shifted to a small province in southwestern Iran that is unknown to most Americans. Never the less, Khuzestan will become the next front in the war on terror and the lynchpin for prevailing in the global resource war. If the Bush administration can sweep into the region (under the pretext disarming Iran’s nuclear weapons programs) and put Iran’s prodigious oil wealth under US control, the dream of monopolizing Middle East oil will have been achieved.' Lees verder: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article11743.htm Een gewelddadig optreden zal de crisis in het Midden Oosten alleen nog maar vergroten. Zouden de socialisten, liberalen en christenen die nog meer militairen naar Afghanistan willen sturen hierbij hebben stilgestaan? Allemaal vragen die we deze volksvertegenwoordigers straks kunnen stellen.