10.07.2009

psyops whiplash

OK so we just went through the Ahmadinejad is a crypto jew no he's not whiplash. Now we have the dollar is being taken down no it's not whiplash.

Here's Mike Whitney throwing Robert Fisk and the BLOGOSPHERE under the bus. Seems to me the blogosphere has been pretty good to Mike Whitney but what the fuck do I know. - ed.


Dollar Hysteria by Mike Whitney

Robert Fisk lit the fuse with his hyperventilating narrative which appears in Tuesday's UK Independent which went viral overnight spreading to every musty corner of the Internet and sending gold skyrocketing to $1,026 per oz. Now every doomsday website in cyber-world has headlined Fisk's "shocker" and the blogs are clogged with the frenzied commentary of bunker-dwelling survivalists and goldbugs who're certain that the world as we know it is about to end.

From Fisk's article:

"In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and France – to end dollar dealings for oil, moving instead to a basket of currencies including the Japanese yen and Chinese yuan, the euro, gold and a new, unified currency planned for nations in the Gulf Co-operation Council, including Saudi Arabia, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait and Qatar.

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