Petro Dollar = ISIS Dollar, Saudi Arabia, Sunni Salafist Wahhabism and US Foreign Policy - Connect the Dots

In 1971, Nixon de-tethered the dollar from gold thereby making it a 100% paper-electronic fiat currency.  But there is way more to the story and The Daily Reckoning sums it up perfectly with quotes from Jim Rickards book The Death of Money.

Did you know that when Nixon made his ‘temporary suspension’ of the Bretton Woods Agreement that gold would back currencies around the world that the gold standard didn’t die right then and there? No, it took four years before the gold standard/Bretton Woods was euthanized.

“But the dollar immediately began to lose ground which is exactly what Nixon wanted it to do, for he had tons of debt left over from President Johnson’s great society, and Vietnam War, and needed to print dollars and get them weaker to pay down loans with cheaper dollars....

The “dollar monopoly in energy trade” is another legacy of 1971: In 1974, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger cut a deal with the Saudi princes: Saudi Arabia would price oil in U.S. dollars and use its clout to get other OPEC nations to do the same. In return, the U.S. government agreed to protect Saudi Arabia and its allies against foreign invaders and domestic rebellions.  Link here.

The green (color of Islam) flag of Saudi Arabia contains 2 things:  a sword and an inscription in Arabic "There is no god but Allah".  The sword is very significant Muslim symbol because chopping off heads as an implement of terror against infidels constitutes the symbolic power of Islam religiously, culturally, politically and historically.

The deal that Kissinger, a Jew no less, cut with the anti-Semitic House of Saud and Sunni Salafist Wahhabism was far dirtier and evil than anybody could ever imagine. In Saudi Arabia, Jews are banned from the country and every religion except Islam is also banned and the death penalty for practicing any religion except Islam has been enforced, usually by publicly beheading infidels (the term Muslims use for non-Muslims) as sorcerers and witches.

America and Europe effectively agreed to military bankroll the expansion of Sunni Salafist Wahhabism and jihad against the West, Christianity and other non-Muslim and even moderate Muslim nations, sometimes overtly but mostly covertly and this was accomplished through the massive importation of Sunni Muslims into Europe and the US, along with their radical jihad Imams, mosques and Islamic centers all of which were financed with Sunni Salafist Gulf money.  While the concept of separation of church and state are codified into western (European and US) law, it's appropriate and valid to state that the only state supported religion in Europe and the US is Sunni Salafist Wahhabist Islam.  Many radical Sunni Muslims teach in western public schools and western prison systems are loaded with taxpayer funded Muslim clerics.

As Europe and America ponder the horror of how many western coverts to Islam are among ISIS butchers, the answer is simple.  We allowed this to happen.

Besides facilitating and spawning the rise of the most radical form of Islam ever to exist and largely on western soil where Islam used to be close to non-existent, the West and its banksters didn't really care so long as these evil Sunni Salafist Wahhabist Muslims continued to trade oil in dollars, thus preserving the petro-dollar and the dollar as the world's reserve currency.

The logical question is:  why would the West do such things and purposely destroy western culture? At the elite level, they are very comfortable with Sunni Salafist Wahhabism.  In fact, many western elites admire the ability of tyrants like the House of Saud and Islam to control populations while guarantying that the people never revolt for liberty; this is largely accomplished by rigidly imposing religion into every facet of daily living and vigorously oppressing those who reject theocracy. Women have no rights under Islam and homosexuality is considered an offense warranting the death penalty in some Muslim nations.

If there is one thing that western elites fear more than anything, it's Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations pulling the rug out from under the petro-dollar and trading oil in non-dollar currencies.  This would immediately crash the dollar, the entire western banking system and America would be nothing more than just another bankrupt banana boat republic.  It's critically important to understand the vast and absolute power of being the world's reserve currency.  The demise of the petro-dollar would wipe out Wall Street and every central bank on the planet.

For the first time ever, western elites feel threatened because new players have arrived on the scene and they are swimming in oil and gas.  Russia has the largest natural gas reserves on the planet and it's oil reserves rival that of Saudi Arabia.

Top Natural Gas Reserves by Country 2014, here.
Russia has 1,688.00 trillion cubic feet
Iran has 1,193.00 trillion cubic feet
Qatar has 885.29 trillion cubic feet
Turkmenistan has 265.00 trillion cubic feet
US has 308.44 trillion cubic feet

Not only is the West committed to importing Sunni Muslims, mosques, Islamic centers and jihadists as well as arming, funding and protecting them and their murderous groups like ISIS, the West is also committed to preserving the OPEC energy cartel from any threatening competition.  With Russia being the new big energy player, the West is now committed to locking up Russia's enormous natural resources in energy to protect OPEC and it's monopolistic powers, as well as the DOLLAR as the world's reserve currency.

As western central banks, especially the Federal Reserve and Bank of England, increasingly become the focus of attention following Wall Street's 2008 meltdown that was immediately rescued with trillions of electronically created fiat money and bond buying, which was nothing more than welfare for rich investors, the volatility of western central banking finally started to get some much need attention.   Banks are swimming in bad loans and writing off all the bad debt paper would bankrupt every western bank by wiping out its capital.  Hence, the urgency of doing anything and everything to keep a failed fiat financial system from collapsing, as it should, is the only priority of banksters, governments, globalists and the NWO that controls all economic activity.

The deviously evil House of Saud understands that it literally owns the West, that the West will do anything to preserve the dollar as the world's reserve currency, including Islamizing western nations and funding the expansion of Sunni Salafist Islam, it's violence and it's jihads.

The West wasn't duped - all the players fully understood what they were consenting to but corporate power,  bankster power and empire trumped everything, including preserving western styled liberty, law and culture.

Counterpunch published an extraordinary Q & A interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski in 1998 titled How Jimmy Carter and I Started the Mujahideen.  Brzezinski was Carter's National Security Advisor.

Q: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?

Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.

Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it?

Brzezinski: It isn’t quite that. We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn’t believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don’t regret anything today?

Brzezinski: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.

Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic [integrisme], having given arms and advice to future terrorists?

Brzezinski: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?

Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated: Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today.

Brzezinski: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn’t a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries.

Stirred up Moslems?  Indeed! The Saudis have dumped $100 billion into spreading its evil form of Islam.

Terrorists shaped by Wahhabi petrodollars

Over more than two decades, Saudi Arabia has lavished around $100 billion or more on the worldwide promotion of the violent, intolerant and crudely puritanical Wahhabist sect of Islam that the ruling royal family espouses.... The spread of Wahhabism sparked not only a separatist war against the Russians, but also a good deal of violence among Muslims....

There are similar strands leading back to Wahhabist indoctrination in the histories of very many of the known Muslim terrorists of the last 20 years.

The founder of the sect, Muhammad ibn abd al-Wahhab, was an eighteenth century Muslim zealot allied to the Al-Saud clan who promoted an extreme version of Salafism.

The US isn't fighting ISIS, the current brand of Islamic Sunni butchers on a rampage of murder and head chopping in Iraq and Syria, the US is pretending to fight ISIS when in fact it must support Sunni Salafist Wahhabism or risk having the House of Saud destroy the dollar by trading oil in non-dollar currencies.

The geo-politics of oil are indeed complicated, especially with big new players on the scene like Russia. Yeah, the US made the decision to jump in bed with Muslim butchers to protect the petro-dollar.  The blowback from American global empire builders has wrought devastation upon America's economy, America is bankrupt from endless wars, the phony baloney War on Terror is a joke that only beneficiaries are defense contractors.  Civil liberties have been crushed in America which is now just a Nazified Police State.  Moreover, every US intervention in the Muslim world actually serves to strengthen Saudi Arabia and its powers over us, all while vastly empowering recruitment for Sunni Salafist Wahhabism, radical Islam and its jihads.

Finally, America's neocon-theocons who are ferocious supporters of America's endless wars and the War on Terror are just to blind or stupid to grasp that they are effectively facilitating the spread of radical Sunni Salafist Wahhabist Islam, all in the name of squashing a religion that they perceive as an acute threat to them.

Although I detest Sunni Salafist Wahhabist Islam and consider it evil, I'm not anti-Islam or a Muslim hater. Moreover, I have documented why I believe that Sunni Islam is critical to world peace.  There are Muslims who oppose Wahhabism but many also fear it because of its savagery and butchery, as evidence by the carnage in Syria and Iraq,  The Muslim world remains in turmoil and God forbid that Wahhabism should win.

Why Sunni Islam is Crucial to World Peace and Crushing the NWO

Yet, Wahhabism has a huge advantage - it's got the US military fighting its jihads.  It's got western governments flooding western nations with nutjob Muslims, Saudi trained clerics and Saudi funded mosques.

The US government and Wall Street would rather see the entire planet Islamized than let the criminal banksters go bankrupt and sound money restored.  The US empire cannot exist with sound money.  The military-industrial-security complex cannot exist with sound money.  It can only feed off its victims of fiat central bank currency and the petro-dollar creates plenty of victims for feasting.

So long as the petro-dollar exists, the world will remain an extremely dangerous place and America will just continue on its journey to the black hole of totalitarian tyranny. 

Memorial Day - Let's do War By the Numbers Because We Love to Kill

Memorial Day should be the saddest day of the year for Americans and a day of profound reflection.  The parades, honoring the war dead/wounded and cheering US wars is what Memorial Day is all about but does anybody ever stop to pause and ask "Why did they die or survive to come home with debilitating injuries?".   It's frequently been said that young men die for old men's wars. While young folks who voluntarily enlist in the military are indeed smitten with the belief that they are actually serving their country and that military service is the highest form of patriotism, the real tragedy is that they have been duped by a government and military industrial complex that does not value their life or humanity.  Soldiers are merely pawns on the geopolitical chessboard as wars are endlessly waged for resource control, defense contractor profits and the never ending game to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Liberal or conservative, Republican or Democrat, Americans are addicted to the fantasy that war is noble, that murder is moral and that righteous people kill in the name of their flag.  Defending the homeland is the chronic battle cry.  Last I checked, America hadn’t been invaded by a foreign power since the War of 1812.   Yet, America has been involved in non-stop murderous wars for well over a century. Evergreen State College documented US wars and foreign interventions since 1890. It's a shocking documentation of the raw aggressiveness of American foreign policy and the waging of criminal wars against nations who did absolutely nothing to America nor threatened America in any way.

FROM WOUNDED KNEE TO LIBYA: A CENTURY OF U.S. MILITARY INTERVENTIONS

While it would be extremely difficult and time consuming to do an actual body count of all the wars listed in the above link, we can do a body count on what has been documented for the major wars and we can also document other estimates of deaths resulting from US foreign policy.

WW I resulted in the deaths of 35,000,000 folks. Historian Martin Gilbert puts the military death toll (soldiers killed) at 8,626 million. “The destructiveness of the First World War, in terms of the number of soldiers killed, exceeded that of all other wars known to history.”. But as with most wars, it is the civilians who bear the brunt of the horrors of war.

What caused WW I? A Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip shoots and kills on June 28, 1914 Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife in Sarajevo, Bosnia (a component of the Austro-Hungarian Empire). Within weeks, Europe breaks out into total war. Two murdered members of a European royal house triggered the deaths of 35 million folks.

How did America get involved? No Americans were killed and all the insanity of Europe’s ruling families and their long history of wars and empires was not an American problem. But was it? America own brand of royalty, Wall Street banking houses, gambled heavily on the outcome of the WW I by funding the governments involved, notably Britain and France. The Banksters were losing their bets and were about to lose all their money so they hatched a plan to get America involved. The horror of that Bankster Bailout is documented in the following blog post.

World War I, the Banksters, the Lusitania and Bailing Out America’s Wealthiest Families

World War II killed approximately 50 millions people and its documented that the rise of Hitler and Nazi Germany were funded by US and British banksters. Behind every war, a bankster is lurking like a lascivious and carnivorous beast ready to drink the blood of its victims and devour its body. No one really knows for sure how many folks died during WW II but historian Martin Gilbert estimated that in excess of 46 million were killed and he only counted those nations that lost a million or more. The numbers are staggering; here’s a list of nations who lost a million or more:

Country                         Civilian Deaths           Military Deaths

Soviet Union                    7.0 million                   13.3 million
Germany                          3.6 million                    3.1 million
China                               6.0 million
Japan                               2.0 million                    1.0 million
Poland (3 million Jews)     6.0 million
Jews (non-Polish)             3.0 million
Yugoslavia (mostly Serbs) 1.5 million

Total                             29.2 million                  17.4 million

With WW I and WW II killing a minimum of 85,000,000 million folks, how many more folks have been killed since the end of WW II? It’s estimated that America and American foreign policy are directly responsible for another 20,000,000-30,000,000 kills since the end of WW II.

“US covert and overt criminal Wars of Aggression caused 20-30 million deaths of human beings since World War 2, according to the outstanding documentation of James Lucas of Countercurrents.org. The US use/support of armed attacks is documented in 37 countries..." Read the rest here.

Major post WW II deaths include the death tolls from the Korean War and the Vietnam War. Wikipedia estimates the deaths from the Korean War at 2,500,000 – 3,500,000 and the deaths from the Vietnam War at 2,500,000-6,000,000, here.

Ironically, the Republican Party is now being dubbed the War Party and righteously so because the GOP’s Evangelical base screams for non-stop war, murder and plunder. But America’s conservative Republican Christians were not always a gang of murderous psychopaths and the GOP at one time opposed foreign interventions. In fact, WW I, WW II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War and the Balkan Wars were all initiated by liberal, progressive Democrats (Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Lyndon B. Johnson and Bill Clinton). Harry Truman also dropped two big atomic bombs on Japan, despite knowing that Japan would surrender, was unable to continue the war and was finished.

Let’s recap the war dead attributable to America, American foreign policy and American Banksters, all of which vastly enabled war by funding it while contributing to the massive death tolls.

WW I, 35,000,000 dead

WW II, At least 50,000,000 dead

Since the end of WW II, another 20,000,000 to 30,000,000 folks have died as a direct result of U.S. foreign interventionism. 

American politicians love to talk about American Exceptionalism and the flag waving voters eat it up. We are exceptional all right – exceptional in the art of war and murder.

What has our lust for blood cost us? It’s cost us ‘Shock and Awe’ economic destruction. We are now barely a shadow of our once free and prosperous republic and we’ve morphed into Nazi Germany.  America is now the Evil Empire that threatens life, peace and prosperity everywhere. 

When will the American blood lust be satiated? When Americans vote to fire the warmongers and replace them with constitutionalists who believe in the peaceful foreign policy of our founders.

Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few. James Madison

Memorial Day?  I'll pass on the celebrations and mourn what I know will be our fate.

The government propaganda and media complex can be counted on to leap into high gear with lies, deceptions, false flag attacks and a whole menu of psychological manipulations to con “we the people” into believing that war and murder are noble, just and patriotic.

But by far the worst manifestations of power transgress beyond the horrifying spectacle of the physical carnage of war because those same folks who deceptively internalized that war is noble also become its ultimate victims. Sooner or later the flag waving stops when folks realize that they have been systematically shorn of their own liberty and prosperity, and condemned to a miserable life under totalitarian tyranny. The film clips of euphorically happy flag waving Germans idolizing Hitler and his evil is a stark contrast to the starving, homeless and terrified Germans in bombed out and burned out German cities at the end of WW II. Worshiping the flag is most dangerous when folks fail to even realize precisely the flag stands for.

For Americans, they will eventually come to the frightening realization that they put their faith and trust in a government that betrayed them as they are forced to accept that they have been nothing more than pawns on the financial chessboard of empire wherein the wealth and power of the nation has been viciously concentrated into the hands of the ruling few – Banksters and their power brokers who delivered unto the people unemployment, economic misery, fiat currency, wars and grim futures.

At this point, what does the flag stand for? Nothing but the tens of trillions poured down the scary black hole of dark nothingness and militarism gone mad as they ponder the failures of an evil debt ridden empire that utterly bankrupted and destroyed a once great, glorious and prosperous nation.

Memorial Days should be about mourning the 100 million plus bodies that would never have been needlessly snuffed out had it not been for the evil US Empire, the military industrial complex and the banksters.  Memorial Day should be about deep soul searching and about how can the American people reject the insanity and reclaim their long lost moral compass.

President Andrew Jackson, a flawed and morally inconsistent man who opposed public debt and who also declared war on the national bank, was smart enough to understand human nature and its perennial quest for concentrated powers, whatever the cost.

“I am one of those who do not believe that a national debt is a national blessing, but rather a curse to a republic; inasmuch as it is calculated to raise around the administration a moneyed aristocracy dangerous to the liberties of the country.”

And what do we have today – a moneyed aristocracy with raw and absolute power and they have crushed the nation, destroyed the prosperity of the people and its evil military industrial security Bankster complex has decimated human beings all over the planet.

This is what U.S. foreign policy has delivered to America, yet we drink the poison because we lack the courage to think the unthinkable and to speak the unspeakable as we sellout out liberty with each election and march off into totalitarian statist hell.

Two time Medal of Honor winner Maj. General Smedley (USMC) spent over 3 decades fighting wars and concluded in 1933:

 War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses. 

I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else. If a nation comes over here to fight, then we'll fight. The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag. I wouldn't go to war again as I have done to protect some lousy investment of the bankers. 

There are only two things we should fight for. One is the defense of our homes and the other is the Bill of Rights. War for any other reason is simply a racket.