I was reading this thinking the fuck buddy email was from the big black guy. I don't know about you, but I'd be on the first flight to Philadelphia to take up Connies offer.
Its painfully obvious when you spend a few hours researching it.
As Henry Ford said, "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning."
Its obvious to everyone that the US is going down financially and will not be the world superpower for much longer. This is no secret. Is the US going to sit back while their money slowly becomes worth nothing and their economy goes way downhill, never to recover. Or are they are going to do something drastic in order to stay in control. I know what I'd do, if I was them.
The sad thing is, they can do it and still look like the good guys.
Will be interesting to see how they angle their next attempt to get public support for an attack on Syria/Iran. An attack on US soil? It could be that extreme.
Most oil sales throughout the world are denominated in United States dollars (USD).[1] According to proponents of the petrodollar warfare hypothesis, because most countries rely on oil imports, they are forced to maintain large stockpiles of dollars in order to continue imports. This creates a consistent demand for USDs and puts upward pressure on the USD's value, regardless of economic conditions in the United States. This in turn allegedly allows the US government to gain revenues through seignorage and by issuing bonds at lower interest rates than they otherwise would be able to. As a result the U.S. government can run higher budget deficits at a more sustainable level than can most other countries. A stronger USD also means that goods imported into the United States are relatively cheap, although any country benefitting from this position could also be seriously damaged if their currency were to appreciate significantly against other world currencies, particularly in exports which would become relatively more expensive for the rest of the world. Another component of the hypothesis is that the price of oil is more stable in the U.S. than anywhere else since importers do not need to worry about exchange rate fluctuations. Since the U.S. imports a great deal of oil, its markets are heavily reliant on oil and its derivative products (jet fuel, diesel fuel, gasoline, etc.) for their energy needs. As the price of oil can be an important political factor, U.S. administrations are quite sensitive to the price of oil. Political enemies of the United States therefore have some interest in seeing oil denominated in euros or other currencies
In 2000, Iraq converted all its oil transactions under the Oil for Food program to euros.[4] When the U.S. invaded Iraq in 2003, it returned oil sales from the euro to the USD.[5]
Then Libya-According to more than a few observers, Gadhafi’s
plan to quit selling Libyan oil in U.S. dollars — demanding payment instead in gold-backed “dinars” (a single African currency made from gold) — was the real cause of the invasion. The regime, sitting on massive amounts of gold, estimated at close to 150 tons, was also pushing other African and Middle Eastern governments to follow suit.
“Had Gadhafi sparked a gold-driven monetary revolution, he would have done well for his own people, and for the world at large,” she concluded. “A Gadhafi-driven gold revolution would have, however, imperiled the positions of central bankers and their political and media power-brokers.”
Adding credence to the theory about why Gadhafi had to be overthrown, as The New American reported in March, was the rebels’ odd decision to create a central bank to replace Gadhafi’s state-owned monetary authority. The decision was broadcast to the world in the early weeks of the conflict.
In a statement describing a March 19 meeting, the rebel council announced, among other things, the creation of a new oil company. And more importantly: “Designation of the Central Bank of Benghazi as a monetary authority competent in monetary policies in Libya and appointment of a Governor to the Central Bank of Libya, with a temporary headquarters in Benghazi.”
The creation of a new central bank, even more so than the new national oil regime, left analysts scratching their heads. “I have never before heard of a central bank being created in just a matter of weeks out of a popular uprising,” noted Robert Wenzel in an analysis for the Economic Policy Journal. “This suggests we have a bit more than a rag tag bunch of rebels running around and that there are some pretty sophisticated influences,” he added. Wenzel also noted that the uprising looked like a “major oil and money play, with the true disaffected rebels being used as puppets and cover” while the transfer of control over money and oil supplies takes place.
Other analysts, even in the mainstream press, were equally shocked. “Is this the first time a revolutionary group has created a central bank while it is still in the midst of fighting the entrenched political power?” wondered CNBC senior editor John Carney. “It certainly seems to indicate how extraordinarily powerful central bankers have become in our era.”
Similar scenarios involving the global monetary system — based on the U.S. dollar as a global reserve currency, backed by the fact that oil is traded in American money — have also been associated with other targets of the U.S. government. Some analysts even say a pattern is developing.
Iran, for example, is one of the few nations left in the world with a state-owned central bank. And Iraqi despot Saddam Hussein, once armed by the U.S. government to make war on Iran, was threatening to start selling oil in currencies other than the dollar just prior to the Bush administration’s “regime change” mission.
It should be noted that in 1963 President Kennedy signed in legislation to restore currency printing to Congress, effectively putting the Federal Reserve out of business.
He was assassinated under suspicious circumstances 5 months later. The 10% of United States Notes that he had got into circulation, were quickly removed and replaced once again with Federal Reserve Notes.
So all this bs in the US has got me interested in why the US is so fucked up.
Have been doing a lot of reading of not only conspiracy nutjob sites, but also very reputable sites and the results are fairy depressing.
It all comes down to the US Federal Reserve, a PRIVATE corporation that completely controls the US economy. Like most others, I thought the word 'Federal' meant the US Federal Reserve was a government department. Nope, private bankers control the supply of money to the US. The Federal Reserve was created in 1913.
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On December 23, 1913, the Federal Reserve Act, also known as the Glass-Owen Bill, was passed. The Republican controlled Senate rammed the bill through when many members of the US Congress were home for the holiday. The President, Dr. Thomas Woodrow Wilson, signed it into law one hour after being passed by the Congress! Somebody very powerful really wanted this law passed. The Federal Reserve System is an independent central bank.
Anyway, this video is very good. Watchit.
In a nutshell, it goes like this: 1945 - Bretton Woods Agreement makes the US Dollar the world's reserve currency, provided the US promises to continue to back it by gold 1971 - Because of war spending and general corruption of politicians, the US refuses to continue the agreement and defaults, making the US Dollar backed by nothing, and stealing gold from other countries 1973-1975 - US enters into agreements with OPEC nations that they will ONLY sell their oil in US Dollars and will invest excess profits in US Treasuries. In exchange, the US military is pledged to defend OPEC oil fields. This creates the era of the PetroDollar, which means the US Dollar is effectively backed by oil (not as good as gold, but better than nothing). This might be why the dollar continues to hold up against other currencies in the face of massive printing. Due to these agreements with OPEC, all oil importing countries MUST obtain US Dollars to buy oil. This creates an artificial demand for the US Dollar, making the US wealthy through force of military. It allows the US to win the arms race and Cold War. It creates artificial demand for US Treasuries, allowing the US government to borrow money and spend on wasteful projects without taxing the American people as much. It also requires the US to police the Middle East and install puppet dictators, something the people there hate and resent. 2000 - Iraq decides to stop selling oil in US Dollars and instead sell oil in Euros. Same year, the Project for a New American Century writes it's infamous "Rebuilding America's Defenses" which discusses needing a "New Pearl Harbor." Same year, George Bush Jr. "wins" presidency amid claims of fraud. 2001 - 9/11 2003 - After war drums beat and lies are told about WMD's, US invades Iraq and overthrows their government. One of the first acts is to go back to selling oil in US Dollars. 2007 - General Wesley Clark reveals that he was given a document back in 2003 showing how the US military was going to invade 7 countries in 5 years. Mid-2000's - Libya organizes a group of nations to create a competing currency backed by gold. 2011 - US wages a war by proxy against Libya, killing the leader, and one of the first acts is to install a central bank. In recent years, Iran has been working with Russia, China, and other countries to sell their oil in other currencies. The US has been plotting (yes, a "conspiracy") to overthrow the government of Iran again (first time was in 1953). Iran's closest ally is Syria. The US is trying to beat the war drums to invade Syria NOT because of chemical weapons, but to set up the attack on Iran. (The war drums against Iran have not worked, so far.) If Iran can sell oil in other currencies, other countries will follow. This will be the destruction of the PetroDollar, which is to say that all that irresponsible borrowing and money printing in the US will finally crash the currency and the economy. And if the US is able to kill off Iran, the next targets are Russia and China. In other words: World War 3.
Have Windows 8 and fucking hate it. Using Start 8 to remove metro crap and make it almost like Win7, but occasionally manage to get into an app that takes me to that horrid metro thing.
My usual routine of using the browser is flipping through a few bookmarks, and Dolphin seems to be the only browser where you can swipe from the left of the screen to access bookmarks.
IIRC in Chrome you have to hit 2 buttons to access bookmarks.
Android is far superior to iOS these days, but its taken a LONG LONG time for me to get it set up how I like it and get the battery life acceptable.
I must have spent a solid 80 hours trying all sorts of Roms, before settling on RGUI. Battery life was pretty shit, so have spent a whole lot of time fixing that. I love how you can download betterbatterystats and see exactly what is waking the CPU from sleep and draining battery. After sorting all the wakelocks and uninstalling all the nasty apps like facebook and google maps, battery life is exceptional.
Its more stable than (jailbroken) iOS, has never crashed or frozen.
Just loving the range of apps these days, even for things like using the proximity sensor to turn the screen on with a flip cover case. There are dozens and dozens that do it with various differences. Apps are polished although I do find the iOS equivalents to work smoother on the iPhone.
The HTC One really is fantastic, but the build quality is inferior to iPhone.
I've had mine what, 2 months? And its already got bits breaking off it. I was in a hurry one day and tried to put the charger in the wrong way around (as you always do with USB, wrong way first). I didn't press especially hard, and its broken off a big chunk of plastic around the USB port.
5 years of iPhones, and thousands of times trying to put an iPhone charger in the wrong way, and nothing ever broke.
