Global Shift in the Balance of Power Is Moving from West to East
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Joachim Hagopian on March 19, 2015
A major recent event last week largely went unnoticed by both MSM and independent news sources alike.
By Joachim Hagopian
The British are apparently jumping ship away from the US
dollar/petrodollar in an overt effort to align itself more closely with
the BRICS alliance as it seeks a new standard international currency.
For several years Russia, China, Brazil, India and South Africa
(BRICS) have been preparing the world for its transition from USD
standard international currency to its own alternative-in-the-making.
America’s so called mother country England has seen the writing on the
wall and knows the global balance of power is rapidly tilting in favor
of where the sun always rises in the emerging East.
The European central banking cabal from the City of London, a
separate and private political and financial entity apart from the rest
of both London and England, sent British royalty Prince William to China
to quietly sign a deal to become a founding member of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).
This surprising new development is a clear indication that the royal
Bank of England is placing its financial bet and future on China and the
East as its rock solid anchor. Much of the world has been looking to
move away from and abandon the longtime global financial stronghold of
the US Federal Reserve, its World Bank and US dollar standard. A US official feebly chastised UK in the Financial Times:
We are wary about a trend toward constant accommodation of China, which is not the best way to engage a rising power.
More consternation arose when Germany, France and Italy
have additionally made overtures in the same direction. This worldwide
trend spells utter defeat for Obama and his disastrous foreign policy.
After Washington’s been exerting strong-armed pressure on Australia
as its key allied partner supporting its failing Asian pivot designed to
check China’s growing regional and global dominance in the Pacific
Asian market, Australia is now also looking to follow suit accepting and
embracing China’s lead.
According to international investor and entrepreneur Simon Black, the US is experiencing major economic blowback after two plus decades of aggression as the only global superpower:
… After years of endless wars, spying, debt,
money printing, bailouts, and insane regulations, the rest of the world
has had enough. And they’re looking for an alternative.
Enter the China led BRICS alliance and its New Development Bank and
now China’s other investment bank entry AIIB. Simon takes liberty in his
interpretation of Britain and Europe’s bold rebellion
after decades relegated to being a mere puppet of the US Empire: “Look,
you have $18.1 trillion in official debt, you have $42 trillion in
unfunded liabilities, and you’re kind of a dick. I’m dumping you.”
Perhaps some Americans may feel a bit betrayed and unsettled by our
longtime strongest global allies one by one seemingly abandoning the US
dollar and American Empire in its reckoning time of need.
If these geopolitical and
economic trends are examined beyond their face value though, the changes
occurring now may reflect much more significant, deeper changes than a
mere alteration of standard international currency (as impactful as that
will likely be for the US). These deep rooted fundamental changes have
everything to do with the major global shift now taking place where the
West’s ruling power elite itself is losing to the emerging global power rising in the East.
The latest act of bold economic defiance breaking rank with US Empire
interests mirrors last month’s bucking trend that Europe exercised when
putting the skids on the US campaign for sending heavy armaments to
Ukraine and pushing for war against Russia.
The fact is Europe and especially Germany depend on natural gas from Russia and the US imposed sanctions on Russia hurt Europe
even more than Russia. That along with wanting to avoid war in their
own backyard has nations like Germany and France softening their
hardline, US pushed anti-Russian posturing.
Several weeks ago German and French leaders attended meetings in
Mink, Belarus to negotiate a peaceful way out of the escalating violence
in Eastern Ukraine between the government forces in Kiev and the ethnic
Russian separatists seeking autonomy in the Donetsk and Lugansk region.
In the same way Netanyahu attempted to fan the war flames against
Iran, the same day Germany and France were gathering in Minsk to meet
with Putin and Ukraine leaders, Secretary of State Kerry showed up in Kiev
mouthing the same worn out lie of “Russian aggression” in a transparent
feeble attempt to sabotage the Minsk talks. Again, the tie-in is the
Israeli-US crime cabal constantly at work every chance they get peddling
and promoting more global violence, death and war.
But in a rare gesture of independence, unwilling to start a war so
close to home against nuclear powered Russia that Europe relies heavily
as a critical source for its natural gas consumption, the powers of
Europe are seeking a non-violent resolution to its regional conflict
that carries the devastating potential of triggering World War III.
Meanwhile, NATO Supreme Commander US Air Force General Philip Breedlove
fashions himself to be a Dr. Strangelove incarnate, making repeated
bogus claims and lies of Russian army presence inside Eastern Ukraine in
a vain yet persistent attempt to foment war. Having such a deluded and
deceitful warmonger in charge of the NATO nuclear arsenal poses a
calamitous threat to the entire world.
Yet his commander-in-chief Obama has chosen not to relieve him of command. Instead German leaders have openly criticized Breedlove and the European Union wants to replace NATO
with its own continental army. This very public geopolitical conflict
over such widely differing Western approaches toward Ukraine seriously
undermine American Empire’s global influence and power, again
underscoring simultaneous developments around the world that indicate
consistent across the boards US foreign policy failures and from the
broader context, a rapid US decline as the sole global hegemonic
superpower.
Putin advisor Sergei Glazyev nailed it when he said:
The war has been provoked to destroy the Russian
World, to draw Europe into it, and to surround Russia with hostile
countries. Unleashing this world war, America is trying to deal with its
own internal problems.
Current economic turmoil reverberating in Japan
is in large part due to the notorious corruption of the Abe government
that may soon have additional problems to contend with once accusations
over a fraudulent past elections get fully exposed.
Abe has been a subservient tool used by the same international crime
syndicate controlled by subversive Israeli-American forces. As such,
Japan will also be moving away from the USD/West geopolitics and very
likely pivoting toward China and a Pacific alliance that excludes the US
Empire finding itself increasingly isolated on the outs.
Though incumbent Prime Minister Netanyahu is the apparent winner in
today’s Israeli election, the despot had to claw and fight for his
political life to survive another day. Recent revelations that he’s been
a Russian spy surfaced right after his disgraceful debacle in front of
the Israeli captured US congressional audience on Capitol Hill two weeks
ago and then came the despicable treasonous display of 47 Republican senators threatening letter to Iran.
Bibi’s days of hate, war and
paranoia are numbered as the ugly truth about his evildoing will
continue to unfold that will soon bring him down. Showing his true evil
colors right to the end, the day before the election Netanyahu once
again reminded the world that an autonomous Palestinian state will never come to pass while on his watch.
Within the last couple weeks other mysterious events suggesting some
cataclysmic, behind-the-scenes development included the apparent disappearance of Vladimir Putin
for 11 consecutive days, fueling speculation from an internal political
coup to possible sickness and/or death to witnessing the birth of his
child at the bedside of his girlfriend in Switzerland.
Because so many monumental breaking stories and developments seem to
abound every week, Putin’s normally high profile lifestyle would
naturally generate even higher profile speculation over his abrupt,
extended disappearance. Of course it begs the question asking if it’s
merely coincidental with these other earth-shaking events or very much
related.
For years the CIA and US Empire have been hard at work in nations
from Eastern Europe through the Caucasus to Central Asia all the way to
China courting the favor of corrupt dictators and supporting coups
promoting anti-Russo-Sino US puppet governments along the entire
corridor bordering Russia and China. Despite such Obama’s plan after the
2008 Russian-Georgia conflict was to a reset relations with Russia.
But with last year’s US-induced Ukrainian coup and Russia’s
annexation by consensual vote of Crimea that “reset” plan went out the
window. In 2011 Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan signed the economic
alliance of the Eurasian Union.
Meanwhile, recognizing the strategic importance of the land bridge
between Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Putin has made inroads strengthening ties with the three South Caucasus nations.
Putin enticed Armenia to also join the Eurasian Union and has
mediated hostilities between Armenia and oil rich Azerbaijan while
seeking to repair and realign with Georgia that previously leaned toward
the West. US Empire has largely failed to gain a foothold in this part
of the world.
Other key geopolitical developments that have been ongoing for some time center in such remote places as western China’s mineral and oil-rich Xinjiang Province.
With the powerful US Navy patrolling and to a great extent controlling
Pacific waters in conjunction with Obama’s flop of an Asian Pacific
pivot, the geopolitics chessboard strategy to hem the two adversarial
giants in with hostile neighbors has generally backfired.
Furthermore, the US was not prepared for Russia and China to suddenly
renew an ultra-close economic, political and military bond that would
effectively counter US Empire’s hegemonic aggression. They promptly
signed a $400 billion oil-gas pipeline deal that will span a landlocked pathway, thereby foiling the US plan to seal off the China’s energy access via the Pacific.
Hence, Moslem populated Xinjiang Province that is the proposed
pipeline passage route has become a highly contentious target where the
West and CIA in particular have been funding and supporting a separatist
movement and acts of terrorism as a disruptive interdiction tactic.
Overall this covert strategy has failed.
The Western cabal controlled crime syndicate
led by the likes of kingpin Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
financed and supported by the likes of multibillionaire Sheldon Adelson
and the Saudi royal family along with congressional henchman and ISIS
friend Senator John McCain and the rest of his treasonous Republicans,
the rogue US intelligence agency the CIA and NATO’s General Breedlove
are all bent on plunging the US Empire-NATO forces into World War III on
multiple warfronts at every global hotspot – Ukraine, Syria, Iran, the
Caucasus all the way eastward to China’s Xinjiang Province and northward
to the oil-rich Arctic against the forces of the two most powerful
nations of the East – Russia and China.
As a desperate last ditch attempt to retain its many centuries of
Rothschild-Rockefeller power and dominance, these evil-minded,
megalomaniacal psychopaths know that their hitherto unchallenged global
control and strength that have bankrupted and nearly destroyed the
planet is fast slipping away. So they seem all the more erratically
resolute in seeking revenge by taking the entire earth down with them.
The truth about the horror and destruction these Western oligarchs
have conspired and caused worldwide for centuries cannot even be
fathomed. They have ensured a permanent state of war (in the US alone 93% of its 239 years)
right up to the present Bush crime family-neocon fabrication of the
“war on terror,” then under Obama this last year alone wrongly plunging
America into another dangerous cold war with Putin’s Russia, and dozens
of tragic false flag events like 9/11 designed to demonize Moslems into becoming the instantaneous post-Communist designated enemy of the twenty-first century with the US-Saudi-Israeli creation of al Qaeda/ISIS.
These dark malevolent forces of evil that have propagated so much
misery and suffering on humanity for so long are finally at last being
exposed like never before.
The Western oligarch agenda to inflict a globalized system of absolute totalitarian fascist police state NWO control
on every nation and people on earth trapped in hopeless debtor bondage
may just be running into a brick Eastern wall as clear losers in the
ongoing economic/currency war.
Despite the constant jabbing of Putin and his Russian bear in vain
attempts to manipulate him to react with military force in eastern
Ukraine and despite the failed overt assault in the form of US Empire’s
Asian pivot designed to close in and isolate China from the rest of
Pacific Asia, ironically it’s the United States that finds itself
increasingly alone as the longtime global village bully that’s finally
met its match about to get its comeuppance.
The smarter, economically stronger forces emerging from the East are
winning the power war potentially without even firing a single shot
against Western oppressors. Hopefully peace will prevail and the
international crime syndicate that has long controlled the West will be
deposed of as the murderous traitors to both peace and humankind.
As a necessary qualifier, actual real life tends toward shades of
gray far more than black and white. Undoubtedly elements of corruption
and evil lurk behind all the most powerful nations in both the West and
the East. But the forces of China and Russia appear to be seeking a far
more rational, humane and even peaceful resolution to the
West-instigated West vs. East geopolitical military showdown sinisterly
orchestrated by the international crime cabal’s global agenda of
polarization, militarization, privatization and unsustainable,
insurmountable debt-driven feudalism based on pure theft, deception,
exploitation, impoverishment and pervasive planetary destruction.
Seeking to avoid the inevitable bloodbath that would result from
world war and possible nuclear annihilation of all life forms on earth,
the East appears to be seeking to avert such global disaster by ensuring
that this ongoing war is won by successfully transitioning to an
international currency backed once again by the gold standard.
The Western central banking cabal consisting of the Bank of England
and other European central banks, America’s Federal Reserve Board, its
World Bank and International Monetary Fund along with the Israeli-US
government crime cabal all stand to ultimately be stripped of their
absolute power that have the entire world drowning in debt, crushing
destabilization and impoverished despair. But now a light at the end of
the tunnel at least is shining a little brighter.
Is the US or the World Coming to an End? — Paul Craig Roberts
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Is the US or the World Coming to an End?
It will be one or the other
Paul Craig Roberts
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 here http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article38165.htm 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/
The US Agency for International Development has been caught trying to use social media to overthrow the government of Cuba. http://rt.com/news/cuba-usaid-senate-zunzuneo-241/
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.” You can watch it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QU961SGps8g&feature=youtu.be
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.
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
has the same enemy as Russia has–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.
Defeated By The Taliban, Washington Decides To Take On Russia And China — Paul Craig Roberts
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Defeated By The Taliban, Washington Decides To Take On Russia And China
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The several days of organized protests in Ukraine are notable for the
relative lack of police violence. Unlike in the US, Canada, Thailand,
Greece, and Spain, peaceful protesters have not been beaten, tear
gassed, water cannoned, and tasered by Ukrainian police. Unlike in
Egypt, Palestine, and Bahrain, Ukrainian protesters have not been fired
upon with live ammunition. The restraint of the Ukrainian government
and police in the face of provocations has been remarkable. Apparently,
Ukrainian police have not been militarized by US Homeland Security.
What are the Ukrainian protests about? On the surface, the protests
don’t make sense. The Ukrainian government made the correct decision to
stay out of the EU. Ukraine’s economic interests lie with Russia, not
with the EU. This is completely obvious.
The EU wants Ukraine to join so that Ukraine can be looted, like
Latvia, Greece, Spain, Italy, Ireland, and Portugal. The situation is
so bad in Greece, for example, that the World Health Organization
reports that some Greeks are infecting themselves with HIV in order to
receive the 700 euro monthly benefit for the HIV-infected.
The US wants Ukraine to join so it can become a location for more of Washington’s missile bases against Russia.
Why would Ukrainians want to be looted?
Why would Ukrainians want to become targets for Russia’s Iskander
Missiles as a host country for Washington’s aggression against Russia?
Why would Ukrainians having gained their sovereignty from Russia want to lose it to the EU?
Obviously, an intelligent, aware, Ukrainian population would not accept these costs of joining the EU.
So, why the protests?
Part of the answer is Ukrainian nationalists’ hatred of Russia. With
the Soviet collapse, Ukraine became a country independent of Russia.
When empires break up, other interests can seize power. Various
secessions occurred producing a collection of small states such as
Georgia, Azerbaijan, the former central Asian Soviet Republics, Ukraine,
the Baltics, and the pieces into which Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia
were broken by “nationalism.” The governments of these weak states were
easy for Washington to purchase. The governments of these powerless
states are more responsive to Washington than to their own people. Much
of the former Soviet Empire is now part of Washington’s Empire. Georgia,
the birthplace of Joseph Stalin, now sends its sons to die for
Washington in Afghanistan, just as Georgia did for the Soviet Union,
These former constituent elements of the Russian/Soviet Empire are
being incorporated into Washington’s Empire. The gullible nationalists,
naifs really, in these American colonies might think that they are free,
but they simply have exchanged one master for another.
They are blind to their subservience, because they remember their
subservience to Russia/Soviet Union and have not yet realized their
subservience to Washington, which they see as a liberator with a
checkbook. When these weak and powerless new countries, which have no
protector, realize that their fate is not in their own hands, but in
Washington’s hands, it will be too late for them.
With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Washington quickly stepped
into the place of Russia. The new countries were all broke, as was
Russia at the time and, thus, helpless. Washington used NGOs funded by
Washington and its EU puppets to create anti-Russian, pro-American,
pro-EU movements in the former constituent parts of Soviet Russia. The
gullible peoples were so happy to have escaped the Soviet thumb that
they did not realize that they now had new masters.
It is a good bet that the Ukrainian protests are a CIA organized
event, using the Washington and EU funded NGOs and manipulating the
hatred of Ukrainian nationalists for Russia. The protests are directed
against Russia. If Ukraine can be realigned and brought into the fold of
Washington’s Empire, Russia is further diminished as a world power.
To this effect NATO conducted war games against Russia last month in operation Steadfast Jazz 2013. http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2013/10/17/nato-steadfast-jazz-exercise-chill-of-cold-war.html
Finland, Ukraine, Georgia, and neutral Sweden have offered their
military participation in the next iteration of NATO war games close to
Russia’s borders despite the fact that they are not NATO members.
The diminishment of Russia as a powerful state is critical to
Washington’s agenda for world hegemony. If Russia can be rendered
impotent, Washington’s only concern is China.
The Obama regime’s “Pivot to Asia” announced Washington’s plan to
surround China with naval and air bases and to interject Washington into
every dispute that China has with Asian neighbors. China has responded
to Washington’s provocation by expanding its air space, an action that
Washington calls destabilizing when in fact it is Washington that is
destabilizing the region.
China is unlikely to be intimidated, but could undermine itself if
its economic reform opens China’s economy to western manipulation. Once
China frees its currency and embraces “free markets,” Washington can
manipulate China’s currency and drive China’s currency into volatility
that discourages its use as a rival to the dollar. China is
disadvantaged by having so many university graduates from US
universities, where they have been indoctrinated with Washington’s view
of the world. When these American-programmed graduates return to China,
some tend to become a fifth column whose influence will ally with
Washington’s war on China.
So where does this leave us? Washington will prevail until the US dollar collapses.
Many support mechanisms are in place for the dollar. The Federal
Reserve and its dependent bullion banks have driven down the price of
gold and silver by short-selling in the paper futures market, allowing
bullion to flow into Asia at bargain prices, but removing the pressure
of a rising gold price on the exchange value of the US dollar.
Washington has prevailed on Japan and, apparently, the European
Central Bank, to print money in order to prevent the rise of the yen and
euro to the dollar.
The Trans-Pacific and Trans-Atlantic Partnerships are designed to
keep countries in the US dollar payments system, thus supporting the
dollar’s value in currency markets.
Eastern European members of the EU that still have their own
currencies have been told that they must print their own currencies in
order to prevent a rise in their currency’s value relative to the US
dollar that would curtail their exports.
The financial world is under Washington’s thumb. And Washington is printing money for the sake of 4 or 5 mega-banks.
That should tell the protestors in Ukraine all they need to know.
