- During a recent visit to Caracas, Venezuela,
Iranian parliamentary speaker Gholam Ali Hadad Adel said U.S. opposition
to Iran's nuclear program was "only a pretext." "They
are worried that we want to be independent," Hadad Adel said through
an interpreter.[1] Adel was kind to use the word "pretext".
A more direct statement by Adel would have been to say that U.S. opposition
to Iran's nuclear program is more of the same hardliner propaganda coming
out of the Bush Administration, meant to drum up public support for additional
Bush Administration sponsored, pre-emptive strikes against nations that
dare to abandon the U.S. dollar in favor of the euro or any other foreign
currency.
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- Why else would Adel say that the U.S.
opposition to Iran's nuclear program was "only a pretext" if
he didn't possess full knowledge of what he believed to be the real reason
why the Bush Administration and its supporters in the U.S. Congress have
suddenly gotten themselves all hot and bothered over a nuclear program
that has been in play for decades and is by many accounts, at least ten
more years away from being able to produce even a single nuclear weapon?
What did Adel mean when he said that "they are worried that we want
to be independent" when Iran is already an independent country?
No foreign army is presently occupying Iran. It holds elections.
In 2000, the U.S. applauded when the Iranian people elected reformists
to the Iranian Parliament. In 2004, the Bush Administration, the
spread democracy by spraying bullets administration, frowned when those
same Iranian voters elected the resurgent conservatives into power once
again. The point here is that Iran is already independent by all
accounts, so what did Adel mean when he said that the Bush Administration
and its NEO-CON supporters are worried that Iran wants to be independent?
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- When mining alternative media sources
(the mainstream media in the United States is not and will not report this
information) to catch a glimpse of what Iran is attempting to become independent
of, the only plausible explanation to be uncovered suggests that Iran wants
to become independent of the U.S. dollar. It is of great importance
to understand that only those countries that are adversarial to the U.S.
dollar have earned the scorn of Bush's Global, Big Brother Machine.
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- Iraq stopped using U.S. dollars in 2000
under the U.N. monitored Oil for Food Program. Two months after the
U.S. invaded Iraq, all purchases of Iraqi oil were returned to petrodollars
once again. Venezuela President Hugo Chavez, who is considered a
dangerous adversary by the Bush Administration, has declared war on the
U.S. dollar. In October 2005, Chavez announced that Venezuela was
ready to move the county's foreign-exchange holdings out of the dollar
and into the euro.[2]
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- Now Iran and Venezuela have joined together
to gain independence from the U.S. Dollar. Chavez supports the opening
of the Iran Oil Bourse on March 20, 2006. The Iran Oil Bourse will
challenge U.S. dollar supremacy in global oil market transactions executed
on the New York Mercantile Exchange and London's International Petroleum
Exchange by creating the opportunity for countries to shift foreign-exchange
holdings out of dollars and into euros or other currencies.
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- In his February 1, 2006 Energy Bulletin:
(Trading oil in euros does it matter?) mathematical technician, Coilin
Nunan wrote, "If the denomination of these important imports, in particular
oil, were to move away from the dollar, then rich countries would move
their reserves into other currencies and consequently the dollar would
lose a lot of its importance."
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- What the Coilin statement means to America
is that if the dollar loses importance, the United States will lose importance
on the world stage. And if the U.S. loses the spotlight, so does
the Bush Administration, particularly in its ability to orchestrate world
affairs. And while the ultra-rich that control the elected elite
in the United States fear losing power and prominence throughout the world
and have proven that they will resort to war to retain power, it will be
the American middle-class and poor that will be called upon once again
to fight, and if necessary, die for their country under less than creditable
and honorable circumstances. Invading other countries to sustain
the value of a non-governmental money system is not honorable warfare.
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- It is not by chance that the Bush Administration
and the NEO-CON targets countries like Iraq, Iran, and Venezuela as adversarial.
All three had or have two things in common very large oil reserves
and a desire to weaken the United States by declaring war on the petrodollar.
The fact that the United States, and particularly, the Bush Administration
knows that North Korea already has nuclear weapons that are in the hands
of a deranged and disturbed, if not clinically insane leader, Kim Jong
il, but is for all intensive purposes, doing little if anything about it,
serves as more circumstantial evidence that the " Iranian nuclear
threat" propaganda churning out of the government and banking cartel
controlled mainstream media, is just that, war propaganda designed to convince
the American people that there is a new bogeyman out there that wants to
destroy our way of life with weapons of mass destruction.
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- It is sad to report that much of the
White House propaganda regarding Iran is having its desired effect on the
mainstream media and consequently, the American people. Most Americans
believe that Iran is a nuclear threat right now, when it is not.
If you poll one thousand Americans and ask if they have ever heard of
the Iran Oil Bourse, at best, maybe twenty will have knowledge of it.
If asked what a petrodollar is, again most Americans will have no clue,
not because they're clueless, but because they believe that what they read
in their newspapers and see on the evening news are complete news stories,
when they are not.
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- Here's the headline you will not read
or hear from the mainstream media, but no doubt should. America is under
attack. Iran and Venezuela have declared war on the petrodollar.
The reason why the U.S. dollar is vulnerable to attack is because our
currency is printed and loaned to the federal government by a syndicate
of private banking institutions doing business as the Federal Reserve.
The money system, the Federal Reserve System, is a funny money system that
makes money out of nothing and loans it to the government of the United
States at face value plus interest. The remedy for this currency
crisis is to abolish the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, eliminate the 16th
- Amendment commonly referred to as the
income tax amendment, and return the Secretary Treasurer back under the
control of the U.S. Congress, as well as the printing and management of
all our nation's currency. Finally, all currency and coin of the
United States must be permanently anchored to a gold or silver standard.
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- These objectives might seem impossible
to implement. But when weighed against the alternative; killing and
maiming while being killed and maimed, all to protect the interests of
a private corporation banking syndicate that created, funds, and has cleverly
disguised itself as a pillar of Americanism under the War on Terror canopy
as it sinks the U.S. taxpayer so deep into debt that no peaceful means
will ever achieve discharge of the debt, and suddenly, fixing our own county's
glaring defect, our fiat money system, so that the United States no longer
has to fight wars to sustain the value of its currency does not seem like
that difficult of a task when compared to the price the U.S. pays to wage
war.
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- [1] Associated Press, A Defiant Iran
Makes Atomic Boast, Ali Akbar Dareini, February 14, 2006, http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IRAN_NUCLEAR?SITE=IADE
S&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-02-14-15-47-01,
[Accessed February 14, 2006]
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- [2] WorldNetDaily, Iran, Venezuela declare
war on petrodollar, Jerome Corsi, February 9, 2006, http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48751,
[Accessed February 14, 2006]
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- Freelance writer / author, Ed Haas, is
the editor and columnist for the Muckraker Report. Get smart.
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