Can everyone really not see what is about to happen to America?

The value of the US dollar is determined in large part by the fact that oil is sold in US dollars. If that trade shifts to a different currency, countries around the world won't need all their US money. The resulting sell-off of US dollars would weaken the currency dramatically.

So here's an interesting thought experiment. Everybody says the US goes to war to protect its oil supplies, but doesn't it really go to war to ensure the continuation of the petrodollar system?

The Iraq war provides a good example. Until November 2000, no OPEC country had dared to violate the US dollar-pricing rule, and while the US dollar remained the strongest currency in the world there was also little reason to challenge the system. But in late 2000, France and a few other EU members convinced Saddam Hussein to defy the petrodollar process and sell Iraq's oil for food in euros, not dollars. In the time between then and the March 2003 American invasion of Iraq, several other nations hinted at their interest in non-US dollar oil trading, including Russia, Iran, Indonesia, and even Venezuela. In April 2002, Iranian OPEC representative Javad Yarjani was invited to Spain by the EU to deliver a detailed analysis of how OPEC might at some point sell its oil to the EU for euros, not dollars.

This movement, founded in Iraq, was starting to threaten the dominance of the US dollar as the global reserve currency and petro currency. In March 2003, the US invaded Iraq, ending the oil-for-food program and its euro payment program.

There are many other historic examples of the US stepping in to halt a movement away from the petrodollar system, often in covert ways. In February 2011 Dominique Strauss-Kahn, managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), called for a new world currency to challenge the dominance of the US dollar. Three months later a maid at the Sofitel New York Hotel alleged that Strauss-Kahn sexually assaulted her. Strauss-Kahn was forced out of his role at the IMF within weeks; he has since been cleared of any wrongdoing.

War and insidious interventions of this sort may be costly, but the costs of not protecting the petrodollar system would be far higher. If euros, yen, renminbi, rubles, or for that matter straight gold, were generally accepted for oil, the US dollar would quickly become irrelevant, rendering the currency almost worthless. As the rest of the world realizes that there are other options besides the US dollar for global transactions, the US is facing a very significant – and very messy – transition in the global oil machine.

1. When will this supposedly start?

2. How will it supposedly start?

3. What should we do to prepare if ever this actually were to happen?

Great post!

Gadhafi’s Gold-money Plan Would Have Devastated Dollar
It remains unclear exactly why or how the Gadhafi regime went from “a model” and an “important ally” to the next target for regime change in a period of just a few years. But after claims of “genocide” as the justification for NATO intervention were disputed by experts, several other theories have been floated.

Oil, of course, has been mentioned frequently — Libya is Africa‘s largest oil producer.

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The massive preparation that our government has undertaken has convinced me that, by their actions, they believe this coming collapse will make all previous collapses look like a kindergarten picnic. The have militarized law enforcement and stockpiled enough supplies and ammunition to fight a decade long war. They have seized control of the media, green lighted legislation to strip the rights of anybody they deem a threat. This controlled takeover is reminiscent of the Nazi parties 1930's takeover of Germany.

This is a very good point. So we don't manufacture all that much these days right. So how much demand will there be for a flatscreen TV, a Cell Phone, a new Car?

Much of what makes America run is well, Americans! The Farmer will still have food, even without the big green mega million John Deer tractor. The Ranchers wills till ranch beef, rabbits, sheep, chickens etc. Raw materials are here in abundance, you can cut wood and shape it into anything from a fire log to major construction.

The people who will be hurt are the ones who have no skills, who believe in socialism, who do not want to work and happen to also believe they are owed something. First they will get hungry, then angry, then they will begin to steal or take, then they will be dead.

Barter will be the currency of the day. We will not need money, people will be people and will pay their debts with work, or with services.

The Fed and big government will be a distant memory. So will everything related to it.

Americans will be just fine. This e who want the system to take care of them, will find it hard, very hard.

Like your line of thinking OP... actually it's more I'm concerned that you're right. Pinned it for you.

I have an 82 year old friend that literally is crying & screaming. "Do people not see that this is 1932 Germany all over again, I had to live through that, please God tell me I don't have to live through it again"

I simply do not understand why people are so blind to what is going on.

The dollar won't collapse because the dollar is backed by the new coin of the realm technology and military might not the old coin of the realm petro dollar.

The dollar won't collapse because the dollar is backed by the new coin of the realm technology and military might not the old coin of the realm petro dollar.

Thank you! I hope I'm wrong, but I don't believe I am. The signs are all there. The collapse is coming.

OP doesn't understand the difference between M2 and M3.

The dollar is strong broseph. Relax.

Yeah we all know how the old USSR did with their whole militarized backed financial system. They lived it, came thru it, and some say much better at standing than the US is if there is global currency collapse. Tough old fuckers and smart technology driven young folk. Apparently history hasn't taught us Americans' a damn thing, but thats ok we can all blame common core.

Keep deluding yourself, just dont ever say you were not warned.

Care to add just why you think I'm dumb, anonymous coward?

Can everyone really not see what is about to happen to America?

The massive preparation that our government has undertaken has convinced me that, by their actions, they believe this coming collapse will make all previous collapses look like a kindergarten picnic. The have militarized law enforcement and stockpiled enough supplies and ammunition to fight a decade long war. They have seized control of the media, green lighted legislation to strip the rights of anybody they deem a threat. This controlled takeover is reminiscent of the Nazi parties 1930's takeover of Germany.

Your scenario assumes this collapse is 'accidental'. It isn't. This has been planned for 100 years or more. They aleady have a solution too, and it involves an overt UN/globalist takeover. There will not be enough of us independent-minded people to stage a succesful resistance, we will be far outnumbered by the takers and those lacking the skills, or resources, to fend for themselves. Those of us who want no part of their pre-planned solution will be labeled domestic terrorists and dealt with accordingly.

That will lead to a massive export boom and huge business uptick in America.

As every country scrambles to buy from USA anything of substance (aircraft, trucks, bulldozers, glass, corn syrup, paper, anything of substance) and pay with the proceeds of selling T-bills. Business will look real good as willing buyers who are willing to pay ever higher prices all come out of the woodwork. Happy times for business, taxes for the government, ever more greenbacks printed to redeem those T-bills.
Pretty good until you want to import something. But then USA was self-sufficient before, USA can be self-sufficient again.

Just bring our boys home, close overseas military bases and we will be fine in America.

Posts like this are the reason I occasionally wander over here, what with all the tard-tards who can't spell or post anything more lucid than a dopey one-liner and a cartoon.

The real question mark in all of this is which way the military will face when they fire? Will a paycheck make them fire on civilians, or will they turn around and start arresting and shooting the millionaires and politicians who crashed everything?

Sometimes I think I'm only sticking around out of morbid curiosity, but at least I'm pre-bugged out.

Good luck with everything there in the cities, 12 hours after the lights go out and stay out.

I have an 82 year old friend that literally is crying & screaming. "Do people not see that this is 1932 Germany all over again, I had to live through that, please God tell me I don't have to live through it again"

I simply do not understand why people are so blind to what is going on.

Back in 2008, when the markets tanked and governments all over the world began to realize that the petro-dollar was in fact collapsing and would not pull out of its tailspin, our leaders in America orchestrated a plan for the coming inevitable collapse of our financial system.

First, they started QE and began dumping extra money into the market to keep it afloat while they began to work their plan. The stockpiling of emergency supplies began in earnest, mostly in fema region 3, close to D.C. The stockpiling of massive amounts of hollow-point ammunition, and the preparation of fema emergency camps soon followed. The passage of laws like NDAA and the internet kill switch were green lighted, government officials were placed in news agencies to facilitate the proper dissemination of information to the people. Obama phones are being given away, so that everyone will be able to see and hear the dear leaders federally mandated emergency addresses when the time comes.

Massive drills were prepared and executed, some with foreign forces assisting us military personnel, like the drill retaking Denver international airport from a hostile force by the US army and Russian spetznaz working together. The U.N. small arms treaty was signed by Obama, promising the U.N. that the disarming of the American populace would indeed take place at some point in the near future. Look this up, U.N. small arms treaty. You WILL be disarmed. Laws have been passed to seize your stockpiled food. See how this neatly circumvents the preparations some of the wiser amongst us have made?

Look people, the plan for a controlled collapse of the American financial system has been put into place all around us for the past several years, and now they are ready to let the markets fail. QE has stopped. No more propping up the economy with funny money. They used QE to buy themselves time to implement their plan, and now the preparations are complete.

They are ready.

Are you?

I wrote this on the fly, and I am sure I have left out a few things that can be added to this small list of preparations made by our faithful government so I encourage you all to help list them in this thread.

I also hope somebody can help me get a pin for this so it will be seen by as many people as possible. This collapse is coming. Its going to happen.

The massive preparation that our government has undertaken has convinced me that, by their actions, they believe this coming collapse will make all previous collapses look like a kindergarten picnic. The have militarized law enforcement and stockpiled enough supplies and ammunition to fight a decade long war. They have seized control of the media, green lighted legislation to strip the rights of anybody they deem a threat. This controlled takeover is reminiscent of the Nazi parties 1930's takeover of Germany.