December 11 2007 at 12:11 AM No score for this post
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TEHRAN, December 8 (RIA Novosti) - Iran has stopped selling its oil for U.S. dollars, the Iranian ISNA news agency said on Saturday, citing the country's oil minister.
"In line with a policy of selling crude oil in currencies other than the U.S. dollar, the sale of our country's oil in U.S. dollars has been completely eliminated," ISNA reported Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari as saying.
He also said "the dollar is no longer a reliable currency."
Iran is the world's fourth-largest crude oil producer.
At a November summit of Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries heads of state, Iran proposed that oil sales be carried for a variety of currencies, excluding dollars, but was not supported by any other members except Venezuela.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had previously called the U.S. currency a "worthless piece of paper." (...)
old news? hussein the former president of the Irac, a once paid agent of the USA, had to give his life for these news. How many more people have to die for this decaying Empire?
and there is a presidential candidate for the 2008 election that wants to get US troops out of every country and stop trying to upkeep an empire
but the traditional news media shun him, so he has great support on the Internet though
I learnt a couple years ago in one of English textbooks this :
" THE MOST IMPORTANT OFFICE IN THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT IS THAT OF
THE PRESIDENT, WHO IS ELECTED EVERY FOUR YEARS. HE IS THE HEAD OF THE FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT AND HIS POWERS ARE EVEN WIDER THAN THOSE OF THE BRITISH PRIME
MINISTER. BUT IT IS DIFFICULT FOR THE PRESIDENT, WHOEVER HE IS, TO ACT
AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF BIG BUSINESS, I.E. POWERFUL CAPITALIST GROUPS
WHICH CONTROL BOTH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AS WELL
AS MOST OF THE AMERICAN PRESS ".
Try to imagine it literally, guys. Don't you think that Eugeniusx could become an awesome executioner?
there is a presidential candidate for the 2008 election that wants to get US troops out of every country and stop trying to upkeep an empire
Cool. Afghanistan will be overcome by Taliban, Iraq will fall into total anarchy, Al-Qaeda-supported tribes will overthrow Musharraf and get a nuclear bomb, Iran knowing well that it doesn't have anybody to be afraid of will sweep off Israel from the map, bandits from all the world will be fighting for the right to control export of oil from the Persian Gulf... but not too long, because when the oil prices will hit $500 for barrel the world economics will cease to exist and nobody will need oil anymore.
I cincerely hope that this populist bastard will be kept shunned.
USA is an empire, the only super power. It has some responsibilities it may not just cast away.
American system of "democracy".
All the civilized kinds of democracy are in fact "democracy". Only primitive societies can afford to have a true democracy (like Chechnya, but you don't like it for some reason). A civilized society is the one that has some mechanisms of self-regulation many of which aren't "constitutionalized", and "big business" controlling the state governments through controlling mass media is just one of them.
Hellerick, you must be "brainwashed" by the american ideology and their way of life. Oh, poor bory.
... USA is an empire, the only super power. It has some responsibilities it may not just cast away...
- Do you really think that americans are like old romans ?
No, there is not ONLY super power presented by USA. You are fatally wrong.
Americans are boasting off everything they have. But don't believe everything
that is boasting off.
There are other countries in the world and they are just in a "quiet position".
But don't be 100% sure that ONLY americans are "super power" at the moment.
Does anybody knows what developed technology is hidden in some countries of the world ? Or do you think that yankees know it ? They know nothing what everything is hidden in such countries as China or Russia.
These TWO also SUPER POWERS are just in position of "sleeping tiger" and nobody knows (except themselves) what technical advance they reached.
Hellerick, don't be so sure with yankees. You may be disappointed.
You realise that Israel could wipe the entire Middle East off the map? They can take care of themselves.
But the US can't AFFORD to keep its empire. The dollar is plummeting, Social Security is going to collapse, millions of people don't have health insurance. We can't secure our OWN BORDERS with 12 million people here illegally. How can we secure another country?
Hellerick, you must be "brainwashed" by the american ideology and their way of life. Oh, poor bory.
I don't care about American idealogy. There are many things in American policy and way of life I dislike and hate. And yet there many things I admire in it. America is not good or bad, it just exists, with all its advantages and faults. It's the most important country on the Earth, and I don't see anything wrong in it -- it's just a fact you have to live with, like sand in Sahara.
Do you really think that americans are like old romans ?
They are much more influential than ancient Romans. America is the homeland of what we call "the global civilization" now.
No, there is not ONLY super power presented by USA.
Do you know any other super power? Let me guess... it's Slovakia?
Does anybody knows what developed technology is hidden in some countries of the world ? Or do you think that yankees know it ? They know nothing what everything is hidden in such countries as China or Russia. These TWO also SUPER POWERS are just in position of "sleeping tiger" and nobody knows (except themselves) what technical advance they reached.
Cool, Russia and China are hiding their technologies? What for? Hidden technologies are worth of nothing, only the working technologies do matter. Anyway, it's very likely that America will eventually lose its world's leader status, but it still doesn't change the fact that they are a super power now.
You realise that Israel could wipe the entire Middle East off the map? They can take care of themselves.
I hope they can, but I'm afraid that the time of glory of Israel is gone. Well-being of Israel is based on $billions USA subsidizes in it every year and on the fact that USA supports many moderate regimes in the region. Israel seems to have a nuclear bomb, but in today's wars it has no use. If USA won't be interested in Near East region then Israel won't exist anymore.
But the US can't AFFORD to keep its empire. The dollar is plummeting, Social Security is going to collapse, millions of people don't have health insurance.
Social security will collapse if a populist government will care about social security, and won't care about national economical interests, incuding the ones abroad.
But who the heck cares about what Americans can afford? They just have to keep the empire -- whether they like it or not. All the other nations are accustomed to live in the world in which somebody else secures the world's economics, nobody else has any "far defense" instruments. A neo-isolationism policy of America would be huge stress for whole world (including USA itself) -- maybe fatal one.
You keep using the word populist. The candidate I've spoken of is then both populist and not populist at the same time. He said that Social Security must be OPTIONAL so that it's possible to opt out of it.
You said "isolationism". But isn't the US isolating itself from the world with its WARS OF AGGRESSION? Iraq has NEVER invaded the United States. The neoconservatives want to invade Iran now because...
if you look at the map, the US has troops in Afghanistan and Iraq. They just want to meet with each other
Igor wrote about the USA:
... We can't secure our OWN BORDERS with 12 million people here illegally. (...)
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12 mio.? I thought about almost 300 mio.. Am I wrong?
blue-eyed Igor wrote:
You realise that Israel could wipe the entire Middle East off the map? They can take care of themselves.
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You are a typical US-American: No Idea about geography! Do you not know that Israel is part of the Middle East?
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Hellerick is correct: "Well-being of Israel is based on $billions USA subsidizes ..."
Which doesn't change the fact that the USA always deeply depended on Iraq. It was depending on the will of an insane maniac. What you did expect? Amercans are fighting for their freedom and independence now. They have as much right to do it now as they had in 1776.
I thought about almost 300 mio.. Am I wrong?
When you said "almost" you excluded native Americans?
Americans are not fighting for their own freedom and independence. They are losing freedom through malicious laws like the Patriot Act.
The war in Iraq is a war of aggression to benefit the oil companies. It's not surprising, considering the president used to be in the oil business himself. In general it is the philosophy of the neoconservatives to control and police the world. But according to the Constitution, which is the law of the land, that war is illegal because it was undeclared. Only CONGRESS has the right to declare a war.
