Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Articolo sui petrodollari da WorldNetDaily

Di tono un po' complottista con toni patriottici americani.
Pero' e' azzeccato nella parte in cui spiega che, comprando petrolio per
miliardi di dollari da amministrazioni nemiche, gli USA si stanno scavando
la fossa.
In particolare, e' interessante che dall'Arabia Saudita partono
finanziamenti per i sunniti in Iraq. Forse e' li' che gli USA potrebbero
cambiare la loro politica estera: smetterla di darsi la zappa sui piedi
comprando petrolio, apparentemente economico, da una dittatura nemica.
Magari a lungo termine gli converrebbe di piu' quello, piu' costoso da
estrarre, del Canada.
http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/world/*http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061208/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_insurgency_saudi
 
http://worldnetdaily.com/page2.asp
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   The plan to destroy America – via the dollar
 
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   Posted: December 8, 2006
   1:00 a.m. Eastern
   The value of the U.S. dollar on the international market is continuing to
plummet, despite record growth in the US
   economy.
   Since October, the dollar has fallen 4 percent against both the euro and
the Japanese yen. And this week, the dollar hit
   the lowest it has been against the euro since March 2005.
   With the Dow setting records every week and America creating more jobs
than it can fill, why is the dollar falling? There
   are several reasons.
   Approximately 70 percent of all foreign-exchange currency is currently
held in U.S. dollars. The U.S. then sells Treasury
   debt into that foreign exchange market.
   This is a bit complicated, but here's what that means. Each U.S. bill is
a receipt for Treasury debt. Once accepted as
   "money" it has value to its bearer. But, it is debt to its issuer. The
system relies on the global flow of U.S. dollars
   in and out of foreign currency reserves. A smaller foreign exchange
holding in U.S. dollars means a smaller pool out of
   which to sell U.S. debt.
   This sets up a financial peril that is little understood by most
Americans. It sets up a double threat to the dollar. It
   not only shrinks the dollar's value, but also raises both the trade
deficit and the budget deficit. Now stay with me,
   here. This may be some of the most important information you will need to
try and force Congress to do something – and
   also to take action to defend your own personal financial future.
   It has become apparent that there is a new strategy to destroy America.
It is a new kind of warfare designed to destroy
   the value of American currency via a carefully coordinated attack against
our dollar by a coalition of our enemies. And,
   based on the rapid shrinking of the dollar's worth, despite an economic
boom, it appears to be working.
   Certain countries have begun quietly divesting themselves of U.S. foreign
exchange holdings, converting them to euros. In
   2004, the Switzerland-based Bank for International Settlement reported
that the U.S. dollar-denominated deposits of OPEC
   countries fell from 75 percent of their total deposits in the third
quarter of 2001 to 61.5 percent by the end of 2003.
   In the same period, the share of euro-denominated deposits of OPEC
countries rose from 12 percent to 20 percent. OPEC
   member euro-denominated deposits reached 44 billion in June 2004, nearly
double the 23.4 billion euros these countries
   held in the third quarter of 2001.
   In the same period of time, the dollar holdings of the OPEC member
countries decreased from $145.3 billion to $132.1
   billion. In 2005, China negotiated major oil and natural gas rights from
Iran.
   For years, North Korea's Kim Jong-il has been flooding the global economy
with so-called "supernotes" – counterfeit U.S.
   $100 bills so good even Secret Service agents can't tell the difference
without conducted sophisticated tests.
   The 2005 arrests of major Asian crime figures in several U.S. cities led
investigators straight to Pyongyang – and from
   there to Beijing. Experts now believe that a significant percentage of
U.S. $100 bills now in circulation are
   counterfeit.
   The strategy is to flood the market with counterfeit dollars to deflate
its value. Then to convert U.S. holdings to
   euros, thus pushing the dollar into a deflationary freefall.
   In January 2006, China announced an intention to reduce 75 percent of its
foreign exchange reserves currently held in
   U.S. dollars.
   Since China is the world's second-largest holder of U.S.
dollar-denominated foreign-exchange reserves, it has the power
   to create a catastrophe. At the same time, Venezuela and Iran are now
demanding that all payments for oil shipments be
   paid for in euros – not dollars.
   In addition, both nations are planning regional central banking schemes
designed to hold all foreign exchange holdings of
   participating countries in euros instead of dollars. This explains why
enemy operators, spearheaded by members of the
   Saudi royal family, have flooded hundreds of millions of dollars into
Venezuelan held bearer-bonds that are used to buy
   as many banks as possible throughout the Caribbean and South American
areas.
   All these factors cannot be coincidence. They reveal a concerted,
well-coordinated strategy to destroy America through
   economics.
   I believe oil is being used in this same overall strategy against
America. Last October, OPEC agreed to reduce production
   to keep oil prices up near $60 per barrel. The price was suggested by
Hugo Chavez after consultation with his friends in
   Tehran and Moscow and accepted by OPEC.
   With that one brilliant maneuver, Chavez cornered the global oil market.
Venezuela has vast deposits of heavy oil in the
   Orinoco, but heavy oil is expensive to extract and refine at free-market
prices. However, at $60 per barrel, the Orinoco
   reserves give Venezuela the largest proven oil reserves in the world.
   Not just larger than the vast reserves of Iran or Saudi Arabia, it is
larger than both of them put together. In fact, it
   is bigger than all the proven oil reserves in the Middle East combined.
Venezuela's deposits alone could extend the oil
   age for another 100 years.
   Hugo Chavez is raking in some $200 million a day in oil sales, most of it
from the United States. If Chavez demands
   payment in euros, it will throw the whole U.S. economy into a crisis.
   Amazingly, Hugo Chavez has now become the go-to guy for all of OPEC. He's
held audience with every oil sheik and dictator
   in the Middle East, including our "friends" the Saudis and Kuwaitis. With
the recent re-election of Chavez, the U.S. is
   ringed by five of the most virulently anti-American leftist regimes in
Latin America.

 estrarre, del Canada.
O magari gli converrebbe estrarre il petrolio in Irak, il cui governo ora, dopo 
l'abbattimento del truce Saddam, è "amico" e democratico.

Persio wrote:
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Beh, quello era uno degli obiettivi, se non quello principale, dell'
Operation
Iraq
Liberation
ma abbiamo visto tutti che non e' andata molto bene.
Ma, al di la' del giudizio (negativo nel mio caso, presumo molto negativo
nel tuo) sui neocon, rimane il fatto che sborsare miliardi di dollari tutti
i giorni a un paese nemico e' un suicidio.
Quanti soldi sono partiti dall'Arabia Saudita per organizzare i dirottamenti
del 9/11?


La cosa non è così semplice perchè se gli Usa non comprano
lì, compra la Cina a prezzi minori (e gli Usa pagano di più)
con pochi effetti sull'Arabia Saudita (che ha minacciato di tenere
i prezzi bassissimi per danneggiare l'Iran in caso di sua
aperta intromissione al fianco degli sciiti iracheni).
Ciao!
-- 
Avvertenza:
Dal 1 Gennaio 2007, il nome *CptKirk* verrà sostituito
da *Surak 2.0*.
L'indirizzo di posta, per il momento, resterà lo stesso

 
No, non e' una cosa semplice. Ma si tratta di vedere anche interessi un po'
piu' a lungo termine.
A parte la vendita ai cinesi, c'e' anche il fatto che l'attuale governo (o
dittatura, piu' correttamente) saudita non e' molto stabile, ed e'
possibile che venga sostituito da uno integralista che non vende nulla, ad
alcun prezzo, agli USA.

 non vende nulla, ad alcun prezzo, agli USA.
Come detto, che ci sia questo o un altro cambia poco,
già agiscono contro l'Occidente
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 del 9/11?
L'Arabia Saudita avrebbe finanziato il 9/11?  Eppure, se così fosse, sarebbe 
stato facile prevedere che questo evento avrebbe giustificato, se non la guerra 
all'Irak, almeno la "guerra al terrorismo" e la "caccia all'islamico" nel mondo 
occidentale.
Sarebbe stato questo l'obiettivo dell'Arabia Saudita?  Mi sembra illogico.