2014 is shaping up as a year of reckoning for the United States.
Two
pressures are building on the US dollar. One pressure comes from the
Federal Reserve’s declining ability to rig the price of gold as Western
gold supplies shrivel and market knowledge of the Fed’s illegal price
rigging spreads. The evidence of massive amounts of naked shorts being
dumped into the paper gold futures market at times of day when trading
is thin is unequivocal. It has become obvious that the price of gold is
being rigged in the futures market in order to protect the dollar’s
value from QE.
The
other pressure arises from the Obama regime’s foolish threats of
sanctions on Russia. Other countries are no longer willing to tolerate
Washington’s abuse of the world dollar standard. Washington uses the
dollar-based international payments system to inflict damage on the
economies of countries that resist Washington’s political hegemony.
Russia and China have had enough. As I have reported and as Peter Koenig reports Russia
and China are disconnecting their international trade from the dollar.
Henceforth, Russia will conduct its trade, including the sale of oil and
natural gas to Europe, in rubles and in the currencies of its BRICS
partners.
This means a big drop in the demand for US dollars and a corresponding drop in the dollar’s exchange value.
As John Williams (
shadowstats.com)
has made clear, the US economy has not recovered from the downturn in
2008 and has weakened further. The vast majority of the US population is
hard pressed from the lack of income growth for years. As the US is now
an import-dependent economy, a drop in the dollar’s value will raise US
prices and push living standards lower.
All evidence points to US economic failure in 2014, and that is the conclusion of John Williams’ April 9 report.
This
year could also see the breakup of NATO and even the EU. Washington’s
reckless coup in Ukraine and threat of sanctions against Russia have
pushed its NATO puppet states onto dangerous ground. Washington
misjudged the reaction in Ukraine to its overthrow of the elected
democratic government and imposition of a stooge government. Crimea
quickly departed Ukraine and rejoined Russia. Other former Russian
territories in Ukraine might soon follow.
Protesters
in Lugansk, Donetsk, and Kharkov are demanding their own referendums.
Protesters have declared the Donetsk People’s Republic and Kharkov
People’s Republic. Washington’s stooge government in Kiev has threatened
to put the protests down with violence. http://rt.com/news/eastern-ukraine-violence-threats-405/
Washington claims that the protests are organized by Russia, but no one believes Washington, not even its Ukrainian stooges.
Russian
news reports have identified US mercenaries among the Kiev force that
has been sent to put down the separatists in eastern Ukraine. A member
of the right-wing, neo-Nazi Fatherland Party in the Kiev parliament has
called for shooting the protesters dead.
Violence
against the protesters is likely to bring in the Russian Army and
result in the return to Russia of its former territories in Eastern
Ukraine that were attached to Ukraine by the Soviet Communist Party.
With Washington out on a limb issuing threats hand over fist, Washington is pushing Europe
into two highly undesirable confrontations. Europeans do not want a
war with Russia over Washington’s coup in Kiev, and Europeans understand
that any real sanctions on Russia, if observed, would do far more
damage to Europeans. Within the EU, growing economic inequality among
the countries, high unemployment, and stringent economic austerity
imposed on poorer members have produced enormous strains. Europeans are
in no mood to bear the brunt of a Washington-orchestrated conflict with
Russia. While Washington presents Europe with war and sacrifice, Russia
and China offer trade and friendship. Washington will do its best to
keep European politicians bought-and-paid-for and in line with
Washington’s policies, but the downside for Europe of going along with Washington is now much larger.
Across
many fronts, Washington is emerging in the world’s eye as duplicitous,
untrustworthy, and totally corrupt. A Securities and Exchange Commission
prosecuting attorney, James Kidney used the occasion of his retirement
to reveal that higher ups had squelched his prosecutions of Goldman
Sachs and other “banks too big to fail,”because
his SEC bosses were not focused on justice but “on getting high-paying
jobs after their government service” by protecting the banks from
prosecution for their illegal actions. http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/04/09/65578/
This
audacious recklessness comes on top of Washington’s overthrow of the
Ukrainian government, the NSA spying scandal, Seymour Hersh’s
investigative report that the Sarin gas attack in Syria was a false flag
event arranged by NATO member Turkey in order to justify a US military
attack on Syria, Washington’s forcing down Bolivian President Evo
Morales’ presidential plane to be searched, Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of
mass destruction,” the misuse of the Libyan no-fly resolution for
military attack, and on and on. Essentially, Washington has so badly
damaged other countries’ confidence in the judgment and integrity of the
US government that the world has lost its belief in US leadership.
Washington is reduced to threats and bribes and increasingly presents as
a bully.
The
self-inflicted hammer blows to Washington’s credibility have taken a
toll. The most serious blow of all is the dawning realization
everywhere that Washington’s crackpot conspiracy theory of 9/11 is
false. Large numbers of independent experts as well as more than one
hundred first responders have contradicted every aspect of Washington’s
absurd conspiracy theory. No aware person believes that a few Saudi
Arabians, who could not fly airplanes, operating without help from any
intelligence agency, outwitted the entire National Security State, not
only all 16 US intelligence agencies but also all intelligence agencies
of NATO and Israel as well.
Nothing
worked on 9/11. Airport security failed four times in one hour, more
failures in one hour than have occurred during the other 116,232 hours
of the 21st century combined. For the first time in history the US Air
Force could not get interceptor fighters off the ground and into the
sky. For the first time in history Air Traffic Control lost airliners
for up to one hour and did not report it. For the first time in history
low temperature, short-lived, fires on a few floors caused massive
steel structures to weaken and collapse. For the first time in history 3
skyscrapers fell at essentially free fall acceleration without the
benefit of controlled demolition removing resistance from below.
Two-thirds
of Americans fell for this crackpot story. The left-wing fell for it,
because they saw the story as the oppressed striking back at America’s
evil empire. The right-wing fell for the story, because they saw it as
the demonized Muslims striking out at American goodness. President
George W. Bush expressed the right-wing view very well: “They hate us
for our freedom and democracy.”
But
no one else believed it, least of all the Italians. Italians had been
informed some years previously about government false flag events when
their President revealed the truth about secret Operation Gladio.
Operation Gladio was an operation run by the CIA and Italian
intelligence during the second half of the 20th century to set off bombs
that would kill European women and children in order to blame
communists and, thereby, erode support for European communist parties.
Italians were among the first to make video presentations challenging Washington’s crackpot story of 9/11. The ultimate of this challenge is the 1 hour and 45 minute film, “Zero.”
Zero
was produced as a film investigating 9/ll by the Italian company
Telemaco. Many prominent people appear in the film along with
independent experts. Together, they disprove every assertion made by
the US government regarding its explanation of 9/11.
The film was shown to the European parliament.
It is impossible for anyone who watches this film to believe one word of the official explanation of 9/11.
The
conclusion is increasingly difficult to avoid that elements of the US
government blew up three New York skyscrapers in order to destroy Iraq,
Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Iran, and
Hezbollah and to launch the US on the neoconservatives agenda of US world hegemony.
China
and Russia protested but accepted Libya’s destruction even though it
was to their own detriment. But Iran became a red line. Washington was
blocked, so Washington
decided to cause major problems for Russia in Ukraine in order to distract Russia from Washington’s agenda elsewhere.
China
has been uncertain about the trade-offs between its trade surpluses
with the US and Washington’s growing encirclement of China with naval
and air bases. China has come to the conclusion that China and Russia
have the same enemy–Washington.
One
of two things is likely: Either the US dollar will be abandoned and
collapse in value, thus ending Washington’s superpower status and
Washington’s threat to world peace, or Washington will lead its puppets
into military conflict with Russia and China. The outcome of such a war
would be far more devastating than the collapse of the US dollar.
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