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Friday, January 20, 2006 |
The real rationale for recent threats to Iran is the same as that a few years ago for attacking Iraq: the decision by those countries to replace the tumbling dollar with euros in the oil trade.
EnergyBulletin: "Contemporary warfare has traditionally involved underlying conflicts regarding economics and resources. Today these intertwined conflicts also involve international currencies, and thus increased complexity. Current geopolitical tensions between the United States and Iran extend beyond the publicly stated concerns regarding Iran's nuclear intentions, and likely include a proposed Iranian 'petroeuro' system for oil trade.
'Operation Iraqi Freedom' was a war designed to install a pro-U.S. government in Iraq, establish multiple U.S military bases before the onset of global Peak Oil, and to reconvert Iraq back to petrodollars while hoping to thwart further OPEC momentum towards the euro as an alternative oil transaction currency."
RaisetheHammer: "Starting in 2006, Iran will start up an 'oil bourse', or a stock exchange for trading energy, that will be based on the euro, not the US dollar. While this may seem innocuous, it will be a grave risk to continued American global hegemony."
ICH: "Iran does not pose a threat to the United State because of its nuclear projects, its WMD, or its support to 'terrorists organizations' as the American administration is claiming, but in its attempt to re-shape the global economical system by converting it from a petrodollar to a petroeuro system. Such conversion is looked upon as a flagrant declaration of economical war against the US that would flatten the revenues of the American corporations and eventually might cause an economic collapse."
In fact, the war in Iraq and the threats to Iran are meant to maintain the dollar hegemony. It is also a war against the euro. Britain does not have the euro and is therefore more likely to support the American viewpoint. But in essence the present American policy is also aimed at thwarting the rise of the euro.
GoldEagle: "Whatever the strategic choice, from a purely economic point of view, should the Iranian Oil Bourse gain momentum, it will be eagerly embraced by major economic powers and will precipitate the demise of the dollar. The collapsing dollar will dramatically accelerate U.S. inflation and will pressure upward U.S. long-term interest rates. At this point, the Fed will find itself between Scylla and Charybdis-between deflation and hyperinflation - it will be forced fast either to take its 'classical medicine' by deflating, whereby it raises interest rates, thus inducing a major economic depression, a collapse in real estate, and an implosion in bond, stock, and derivative markets, with a total financial collapse."
12:30:49 PM 
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Guardian: "The government is secretly trying to stifle attempts by MPs to find out what it knows about CIA 'torture flights' and privately admits that people captured by British forces could have been sent illegally to interrogation centres. A hidden strategy aimed at suppressing a debate about rendition - the US practice of transporting detainees to secret centres where they are at risk of being tortured - is revealed in a briefing paper sent by the Foreign Office to No 10.
The document [pdf] shows that the government has been aware of secret interrogation centres, despite ministers' denials.
Dated December 7 last year, the document is a note from Irfan Siddiq, of the foreign secretary's private office, to Grace Cassy in Tony Blair's office."
12:03:28 PM
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FloridaToday: "Equipped with an electrical generator fueled by 24 pounds of plutonium, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is scheduled to blast off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station between 1:24 p.m. and 3:23 p.m. on the world's first mission to explore Pluto.
Government studies show there is a one in 350 chance of a launch accident that would trigger a release of radioactive plutonium."
The repeated launching delays show that there was a definite risk. As usual the mainstream media did not report the protest or the danger.
11:51:09 AM
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LATimes: "Federal investigators have obtained potentially billions of Internet search requests made by users of major websites run by Yahoo Inc., Microsoft Corp. and America Online Inc., raising concerns about how the massive data trove will be used."
11:42:12 AM
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