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donsu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-01-06 12:35 PM
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The dollar's full-system meltdown

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_1380.shtml


The U.S. dollar is kaput. Confidence in the currency is eroding by the day.

A report in The Sydney Morning Herald stated, “Australia’s Treasurer Peter Costello has called on East Asia’s central bankers to ‘telegraph’ their intentions to diversify out of American investments and ensure an ‘orderly adjustment.’ . . . Central banks in China, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and Hong Kong have channeled immense foreign reserves into American government bonds, helping to prop up the US dollar and hold down interest rates,’ said Costello, but ‘the strategy has changed.’”

Indeed, the strategy has changed. The world has come to its senses and is moving away from the green slip of paper that is currently mired in $8.3 trillion of debt.

The central banks now want to reduce their USD reserves while trying to do as little damage to their own economies as possible. That’ll be difficult. If a sell-off ensues, it will start a stampede for the exits.

There’s little hope of an “orderly adjustment” as Costello opines; that’s just false optimism. When the greenback begins listing; things will turn helter-skelter quickly.

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Of course, everyone in Washington already knew that doomsday was approaching. That’s the way the system was designed from the very beginning. It’s all part of the madcap scheme to “starve the beast” and transfer the nation’s wealth to a handful of western plutocrats. That’s explains why the Fed and the White House whirred along like two spokes on the same wheel; every policy calculated to thrust the country headlong toward disaster.

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The financial crisis that we now face was created by design. It is intended to destroy the labor movement, crush the middle class, quash Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, reduce our foreign debt by 50 or 60 percent, force a restructuring of America’s debt, privatize all public assets and resources, and create a new regime of austerity measures which will divert more wealth to the banking and corporate establishments.

The avatars of neoliberalism invariably use crooked politicians to spawn enormous “unsustainable” debt so that the nations’ riches can be transferred to ruling elites. It works the same everywhere. It’s a form of corporate colonization, only this time the victim is the good old USA.

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Domestically, that plan appears to involve the activation of the police state.

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Oil

As long as oil is denominated in dollars, the central banks will be forced to stockpile American scrip regardless of its value. It’s no different than holding a gun to someone’s head. They will use our debt-plagued greenbacks or their cars and trucks will sputter, their tractors and factories will wheeze, and their economies will grind to a halt. It’s just that simple.

America cannot maintain its superpower status unless it continues to control the global economic system. That means the linkage between the dollar and oil must be preserved. The Bush troupe sees this as an existential issue upon which the future of America’s ruling class depends. By 2020, 60 percent of the world’s oil will come from the Middle East. Bush will do everything in his power to control the resources of the Caspian Basin, thereby expanding US dollar-hegemony and paving the way for a new American century.
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MercutioATC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-01-06 12:37 PM
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1. Two words: Buy Euros
...actually Chinese Renminbi might be a better chouce in the long term, but they're a bitch to buy.
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CrispyQ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-01-06 12:43 PM
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2. I don't understand how people don't see that this is what is happening...
"The financial crisis that we now face was created by design. It is intended to destroy the labor movement, crush the middle class, quash Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, reduce our foreign debt by 50 or 60 percent, force a restructuring of America’s debt, privatize all public assets and resources, and create a new regime of austerity measures which will divert more wealth to the banking and corporate establishments.

The avatars of neoliberalism invariably use crooked politicians to spawn enormous “unsustainable” debt so that the nations’ riches can be transferred to ruling elites. It works the same everywhere. It’s a form of corporate colonization, only this time the victim is the good old USA."

k&r
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-01-06 12:46 PM
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4. Do they have a plan for what to do with the crushed middle class?
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Double T Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-01-06 12:58 PM
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5. The American people have been, and some continue to remain,.....
Edited on Wed Nov-01-06 01:01 PM by Double T
in absolute DENIAL about their government and corporate america. The new world order, described by poppy bush during HIS reign of destruction, is about to takeover and the American people are going to be the biggest losers. Revolution and revolt will follow and IT will be UGLY. I still remain optimistic for the future, as a time of enlightenment will follow the economic and social chaos and destruction of our nation.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-01-06 12:45 PM
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3. You mean, protectionism? Globalization would hurt the dollar.
The other countries won't want to upset the USA too much...

But I'll admit it's time for America to reinvest in itself and stop the bleeding. Symbiosis.
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