November 16, 2023
As I look at my contentions RE: social issues and key players on the domestic and international stages over-the- years–I notice that I have been wrong in my framing of \”things\” on many an occasion. But soon my readers will have the opportunity to fire back at me (although that potentiality has ALWAYS been there). I like thinking of myself as a lighthouse sending out a beam of light that makes my readers aware of the dangerous rocks common to US all.
And I\’m thinking that the issue/dynamic of this attempt should put the West (or any country using the world\’s reserve currency [the dollar]) on economic notice…
B is for Brazil; R is for Russia; I is for India; C is for China; and, S is for South Africa. But apparently a number of countries have recently joined BRICS: Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, North Korea and Iran have entered the fold–which begs for a new acronym!
To my mind, when you have 3-out-of-the four biggest oil producing countries joining an economy that is NOT backed by the greenback–you have the makings of an economic coup–whereby the dollar is replaced as the world\’s reserve currency by the yuan (or some other currency).
And if, perish the thought, the countries of the world (who are holding our debt) decide to call in their chits, well, in a word, we are fucked!!
Reportedly, US has incurred $33 trillion of international debt. I don\’t think we can (or ever intended to) pay off this massive financial debt. When you have the world\’s strongest military you can accomplish a great deal by force–but you still can\’t make the world do your bidding: particularly when recruiting numbers are falling for the \”grunt\” armed services. The air force, navy, and marines are still looking at successful recruitment–but the number of men and women wishing to join the army has fallen dramatically.
It is becoming increasingly apparent that BRICS & Co. want to replace the dollar with a currency NOT CONTROLLED by US. This New World Order might help many developing countries–but not so the 350 million Americans who have relied on the credit the dollar gave them to make US the largest consumers of any nation on the planet. If other countries are to become major \”consumption\” players–they will need the money and credit to do it.
I\’ve been talking and writing about the New World Order that is seemingly upon US for months (if not years)! Putin and Xi seem to be partnered in bringing it about. Heck, even CNN is finally mentioning this NWO in reports and features. But for some reason, US has put Its faith in the Almighty Dollar (In God We Trust?) thinking that that makes US bulletproof.
Here is a verse I penned in 1987-or-so:
You build a damn to hold back the flood
Have little boys thumb the leaks
Turning a deaf ear to the cries of the poor
Your metal feet trod the weak
And when the damn breaks open wide
the hungry come clawing through
You paint them homes of paper dreams
And smile when they fall through
The damn is breaking because we have had little boys (undereducated politicians) running the show for the oil companies–which has induced a collective, myopic megalomania–a myopic megalomania, incidentally–that has seen the Chinese exerting a quiet presence in every corner of the world.
The dice are rolled and unless the Giant Pandas have anything to say about it–We will come up \”craps.\”