After the 911 attacks, Iran attempted to initiate contact with the US because they were sympathetic toward our losses in the WTC, and wanted to address the threat to everyone, including them, by the Taliban and Al Qaeda; whom the Iranians detested as much as we did.
The Bush administration rejected this outstretched hand. Then Bush labeled Iran as a part of the Axis of Evil. This pretty much slapped Iran in the face. Not only that, Iran was becoming more and more moderate, leaning to a more western position politically and philosophically, and this upset the apple cart and caused the moderates to lose power to the conservatives and we have the Iran as it is today.
Now Iran is getting ready to open their own bourse and is pushing to trade its oil and oil futures in Euros. Saddam tried this back in 2000, and was met with ridicule. But Iran is not Iraq, and pressure from the US will not change their path, only strengthen their resolve. They are also keenly aware of the weakening dollar, and trading oil in Euros would put a buffer zone of protection between them, the US war in Iraq, and the collapse of the dollar. And I don’t think they would shed a tear if our dollar did collapse.
The list of foreign policy mistakes like this is a long one.
Our currency is in serious danger. We borrow around a billion dollars a day from China to keep the war machine going. The Chinese have a slick system. They manufacture and supply goods to us via big box retail stores like Wal Mart. For every dollar in profit from the sales of goods in these outlets, instead of distributing it within their infrastructure or spreading profits among stockholders or the people, they set it aside. Then lend us the very same dollars that we spent at these retail outlets buying Chinese manufactured products back to us with interest. This is simplified, but essentially what happens.
The Federal Reserve doesn’t help either. If you have ever seen President Bush on television spouting rhetoric like, “I’m going to ask Congress for $85 million to fund this, that, or the other thing,” where do you think that money comes from? The Federal Reserve just prints it, metaphorically, as it mostly just becomes 1’s and 0’s in a computer these days. They still represent dollars, though. For every dollar that is ‘printed,’ even if it’s converted to other currencies, works its way back to us in the form of inflation; because the market is flooded with dollars it takes more to purchase goods, reducing our purchasing power.
We are in a recession, yet the administration tries to tell us that we are only close to a recession. I don’t know about you, but when I’m paying almost $3 for a loaf of bread, almost $5 for a gallon of milk, and around $3 for a gallon of gasoline, that pretty much paints RECESSION all over for me. Yet the politicians, except for the few brave ones like Ron Paul and Dennis Kucinich, still lie through their teeth rather than tell it like it is.
Maybe it’s because I’m an American Indian, my heritage rich in false promises of a better tomorrow that were never fulfilled by the US government, that I have the insight which allows me to see through the smoke and mirrors of the perpetual lies about what really exists beneath the deceptions that they want to impose upon us.
Ron Paul has started a wake up call across this country. It will take time. But wake up we must.
As a final thought, we are also in the Fifth Night of the Mayan Calendar. This began on November 18th, 2007, and runs until November 12th, 2008. This is ruled by the energy of Tezcatlipoca, the god of darkness. According to the Mayans and the calendar, we will see the last desperate attempts of the West, and power hierarchies based on materialism everywhere, to remain in control and strengthen their power in some new, very oppressive way.
The upside is that following the Fifth Night, large groups of people will break away from this control on the Sixth Day, starting on November 13th, 2008, and they will be guided by their intuition on a path toward increased wholeness. This is when the hierarchies will really start to come apart in a probably drastic and chaotic way. But this is exactly the kind of chaos that’s needed for the recreation of an enlightened world.
We can only hope.
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