Money Talks but Petro Dollars Scream

 

And the US Petro dollars are beginning to scream frantically. Why?  Because they are being slaughtered.  By what, or by whom?  By increasing numbers of nations far and wide who are tired of endless US sanctions and threats of sanctions and are bolting out of the US dollar altogether.  The biggest bolters are Russia, China and Iran, following more timidly are India and Turkey.  Even some of the European nations are mulling over other possibilities rather than remaining glued to the US Petro dollar. More and more nations want gold backed currencies, not fiat paper from the US press that is so debt ridden it can hardly hold its head up.

China, which holds most of the US debt in US paper dollars, is hastily dumping as much of this debt as they can.  However, it is not as easy as it once was to get rid of US Petro dollars.  The US has to essentially buy back some, if not most, of its own debt.  Which is making the US very angry as this weakens the US dollar.  Yes, the US, including the president, his cabinet, both houses of Congress, the mainstream press and the corporate billionaire class along with  the international bankers are all ( with few exceptions) very, very angry at China .  They think China should not be allowed to have gold backed currencies that other countries are finding more attractive than their own increasingly troubled debt ridden fiat currency backed with nothing but military might.

But the US military might is something.  Something scary.  It has been this military might that has kept the US dollar strong.  When countries try to escape the hegemony of the US dollar they can expect to be bombed by the US military such as the countries of Libya, Iraq. Afghanistan, parts of Syria and the on- going nightmare of the Saudi backed carnage in Yemen.  But would the US in its final frustration and fear of failing to keep the US Petro dollar afloat as the world’s reserve currency actually physical attack China?

China thinks so.

Over the past week most of the world (except for the US, Canada, and the other national citizens who are ‘discouraged’ from having factual international news) has been learning that China seems to be preparing for a shooting war.  As reported by the Business Insider (Oct. 29th, 2018) and other international news outlets, China’s Commander-in Chief has ordered the military command to “concentrate preparations for fighting a war”. What has prompted this tough talk about war from the Chinese?  Is it the never ending US tariffs? Perhaps.  Or maybe it’s more about the US sending two US warships through the Taiwan Strait and also sending more US military hardware to Taiwan.  China is very touchy about Taiwan.  As Taiwan has always been part of China, China wants the Americans out.

The Chinese minister of Defense Wei Fenghe warned that the US should be beware of messing around with what the Chinese consider the right to their own territory.  He said that China would not give up one single piece of its territorial holdings and that “challenges to its sovereignty over Taiwan could led China to use military force”.

What do we Canadians hear of this in the Canadian press?  Nothing that I know of.  Or the mainstream US press?  Nothing.  We may be at the brink of war with China but we know nothing about it from our governments and national news sources.  Trying to prop up the Petro dollar is leading us all into social and environmental chaos. It has to stop.  We can stop it if we try.  We can try right here in Canada by insisting that our public Bank of Canada be returned to us so that we can be taken out of the madness of the struggle  to prop up the Petro dollar by sinking even deeper into the debt crisis.   Next time.