By: John Cioffoletti
World
War III is under way. It is not about nukes in Iran or terrorists in
Afghanistan, or oil in Iraq. In the end, it boils down to food and the
destruction of Everyman's net worth – in other words, money. World Wars occur
because the moneychangers deprive Everyman of his ability to provide for
himself and his family.
The
so-called Arab Spring is a case in point. It began, if you remember, on Dec.
17, 2010, when a 26-year-old Tunisian produce seller, Mohamed Bouazizi, died by
setting himself on fire after authorities seized his cart because he didn't
have a vendor's license. He preferred death to being deprived of his living.
Riots ensued, toppling Tunisia's president. Violence spread quickly from Tunis
to Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria and Libya.
The
mainstream media would have you believe that the people of these Mideastern and
North African nations were demanding democracy. That's a red herring. What they
are willing to fight and die for is their right to feed their famlies.
So
what about Iraq and Iran? Why did the United States invade Iraq, and why is it
sword-rattling at Iran? Again, it's about money. Iraq's Saddam Hussein, while a
butcher and a despot, certainly was no worse than some African regimes we
ignore. Hussein drew our military attentions because he decided, in 2000, to
defy the U.S. petrodollar and sell his country's oil for Euros, not U.S.
dollars, and was developing a currency based on silver and gold.
Noted William Clark, in 2005: It is now obvious the invasion of Iraq had less to
do with any threat from Saddam's long-gone WMD program and certainly less to do
to do with fighting International terrorism than it has to do with gaining
strategic control over Iraq's hydrocarbon reserves and in doing so maintain the
U.S. dollar as the monopoly currency for the critical international oil market.
And
now Iran is our enemy de jour, not because it habitually invades
other countries – it hasn't done so for more than 200 years, unlike the U.S.
and its allies France, Great Britain and Japan, to name a few – but because of
Iran's 2007 decision to accept payment for its oil in non-U.S.
Dollar-denominated currencies.
All
of these events: two wars, Arab Spring, have their roots in the massive U.S.
dollar debasement caused by the printing presses of the U.S. Federal Reserve.
Amok, these printing presses have caused massive inflation in the price of oil,
corn, wheat, rice, sugar and other human staples outside the U.S. This is why a
26-year-old Tunisian man is willing to set himself on fire. Ask Mohamed
Bouazizi's widow what she thinks of ethanol.
While
we focus on Iran's nukes and Afghanistan's so-called terrorists, tensions
around the world will escalate into World War III as the superpowers jump into
the fray. The battle over the U.S. Dollar's 60 years' primacy is at hand. In
the end, the fiat Dollar (and the fiat Euro, for that matter) will become
ashes, but not before thousands, perhaps millions, of decent young men and
women have been slain beneath the feet of the moneychangers at the central
banks.
Assuming
you are not of draft (military conscription) age, how can you shelter your
family from the oncoming financial Armageddon? Try a 5,000-year-old solution:
physical silver. It doesn't rot and it doesn't lie.
