Events in the World

We live in a world of information where, thanks to the Internet and globalization, we have information from all around the world at hand. The disadvantage of such information is its amount. This may result in a situation in which we focus on details but not the essentials that are most important. What do we mean by the essentials? In this conception it means to understand the reason of particular important events that have influenced, influence or will influence further development in the world.

Censorship of information is not past yet. Censorship is visible even in advanced countries, not avoiding the USA, Great Britain, Germany, France and others. The decisive factor is who the owner of the media in question is. Mainstream news mass media are often owned by big transnational companies and if they are not controlled by them, then they at least support the politics of the current government in the country. Certainly, the information provided is not claimed to be censored, but it is “a choice of topics“ that appeals interesting to the general public. Even socially “unsuitable“ information – when it has to be published – can be adjusted in an appropriate manner to sound at least neutral.

The more information we have the more we are overloaded. Here is an example. We might know how many leaves there are on a tree, how heavy the tree is, what its capacity is, how old it is, its Latin name, how high it is, what colour its wood and bark is, when it is in blossom, what lowest temperature it can be in, how much humidity it needs, how much oxygen a day it produces, etc. We could continue like this from one tree to another. But when somebody asks us how big the forest we are in is, we answer than we do not have such information. We only know about many details. So we cannot see the forest for the trees. The same it is with common information. We have detailed information on various subjects but do not have a good answer supported by facts when asked what global consequences it might imply.

Based on our own experience we can denote just one piece of information (of military, political or economic nature) out of a thousand as “crucial“. It is right this piece of information that moves us forward when it comes to assessing further development on the global level. On average, it appears once in three days. All the other information can be considered “sauce“ that is almost of no significance for an analysis of global military, economic and political course of events. To tell apart such crucial pieces of information is not easy at all, at least in the beginning. It takes some time before we can discover them thanks to our experience and intuition quite easily. Then it is sufficient to check once in a couple of days the internet sources proved by long time and we are quickly in the picture. There is no need to watch TV three times a day or listen to the radio news, nor is it necessary to read daily through five different newspapers. We can still perceive what is happening on the global level and what is probably going to happen.

Everyone of us likes to hear positive news. But when we are confronted with negative news we try to displace it from our consciousness into our subconsciousness and in doing so “solve“ the problem. More precisely, the problem is not solved, we just ignore it. The same case it is when we face news that does not fit into our perception of the world. We do not want to admit we have let ourselves be deceived by some other information. That is why at that point many people start behaving aggressively and offensively. It is caused by them losing ground, because they do not have arguments good enough that could be used to doubt the given information and they think that a lack of facts can be substituted by vulgarity. Unfortunately, they are only pathetic and there is no problem to work out their psychological profile.

In the following text we are going to have a look at certain important events that influence the global development and that could be an impulse for some deep thoughts. References to various sources only represent the main idea that other thousands of sources often deal with. If interested, you can find more details without great effort.

Oil

Only a few of us can imagine our world working without this raw material. Although the oil reserves are not inexhaustible, mass media keep forgetting to inform about a breaking point in oil production. Upon reaching it, the world production of oil will start decreasing constantly. Experts do not share their opinions. Some think this will happen in a couple of years, some others do not rule out the possibility we have already reached such point. It is also appropriate to mention here that many oil-wells had reached their production peak long time ago. It is also worth mentioning that the greatest reserves of oil are in the Middle East.

We can often hear about replacements of oil that can be turned into liquid hydrocarbons. It would be indeed possible, but the production and mining is more expensive than in case of oil. Also higher prices of energies would not favour the economic growth at all with regard to the increasing market saturation (see below).

A very important finding to understanding certain connections was revealed in 1990, when Dick Cheney said: "Whoever controls the flow of Persian Gulf oil has a "stranglehold" not only on our economy but also on that of most of that of the other nations of the world as well." This sentence can be found, e.g. in the article The Coming War With Iraq: Deciphering the Bush Administration's Motives.

To get acquainted more with the oil crisis we recommend you to read at least the article Peak Oil.

Dollar

When the World War II ended the Brettonwood Treaty entered into force meaning the US dollar became a world reserve currency. The United States committed to exchange dollars for gold, but because of considerable drawings of gold out of US banks, this treaty was abolished in 1971. For the next two years there were negotiations with countries unified in the OPEC organization that resulted into a treaty to trade oil on the international level exclusively in dollars. This gave a creation to a petrodollar. This monopoly of the dollar was broken at the end of 2000 when Iraq started to trade oil for euro (U.N. to let Iraq sell oil for euros, not dollars). Obviously, after the invasion to Iraq in 2003 trading oil for dollars was immediately reintroduced (Petrodollar or Petroeuro? A new source of global conflict).

With regard to ever growing indebtedness of the USA, for several years there has been a discussion about an upcoming collapse of the dollar. Many analysts expect such collapse to happen this year. Profesor Panarin, who expects not only the collapse of the dollar this year, but also the end of the USA, deals with this topic in a greater detail. For example also Matthias Chang came to the similar conclusion, who wrote in an article The Second Wave of The Financial Tsunami - The Wave Is Gathering Force and Is Most Likely to Hit the Global Economy Between the First and Second Quarter of 2010. Count On It! in the late of year 2009 that american economy will reach critical point at the end of 1st quarter of 2010 and that to their collapse will come in the 2nd quarter of this year. Perhaps it is unnecessary to add what the collapse of the dollar would cause on the global military, political and economic area. Chang sees military conflict as inevitable consequence of the collapse of the american economy.

September 11, 2001

Each of us can certainly remember this day very well. This date makes us think of the Twin Towers going down and damaged Pentagon. But there is little awareness of an interesting collapse of building No. 7. Within the very first days after the attack mass media published information that depicted the terrorists as mere amateurs. At the same time there started to be first logical leaks in the evidence presented. Thus started a several-year lasting investigation with participation of scientists, analysts as well as civilians, various photographs, testimonies of eye-witnesses and further evidence that would enable a deeper analysis of the whole event were searched for. Approximately 2005 gave a start to different studies and books that impeached the credibility of the official version. The more studies and films there were, the faster the research grew. Among top experts doubting the official version we can mention at least professor of physics Steven Jones, Professor Ray Griffin and architect Richard Gage.

For a basic overview is sufficient summary of the unofficial version which contains whole range of links to various literature and videos. It would certainly be a shame not to mention the websites Top Documentary Films and The PentaCon, where we can watch some of the movies that we will probably never see on TV.

Doctor Neal Krawetz’s research (http://www.hackerfactor.com) is almost unknown to public. His research deals with digital analysis of the picture, forensic analysis of digital data, elaborating profiles based on analyzing people’s texts and computer safety. At his website he, among others, analyzes in great detail how some videos and photographs of several al-Qaeda members were manipulated – for more information go to the article A Picture's Worth... (6 MB).

A team of nine scientists, who spent 18 months preparing a very expert study on unreacted nanothermite (a very advanced explosive) found in the dust of the downfallen buildings of the World Trade Center, launched a very hard blow to the official version. Their complete study was published in April 2009 and can be downloaded here. A video with one of the study authors, Professor Niels Harrit can be downloaded here (it lasts 10 minutes). A more detailed seminar of professor Harrit in English lasting 102 minutes is here.

Supporters of the unofficial version ask for reopening of the investigation of the September 11, 2001. They ask for an independent investigation, preferably with an international participation.

Probably everybody knows how this incident was presented in mass media, but for the sake of completeness, there is a link to a brief summary of the official version.

War in Afghanistan

It was not even a month after September 11 when the attack on Afghanistan started. This was meant to be punishment of the main culprits (Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda) allegedly responsible for attacks of September 11, 2001. The interesting thing is the attack on Afghanistan is said to have been planned months before September 11, 2001. Details on this are brought e.g. in the article from BBC of September 18, 2001 – US 'planned attack on Taleban'.

When we take a look at e.g. list of most wanted terrorists of the world at the FBI website, we will not find any explicit information concerning Osama bin Laden’s link to September 11, 2001. This means that before the attack on Afghanistan there was evidence against him, and now there is none anymore.

The chronology of particular events can be viewed e.g. in the article War in Afghanistan (2001–present).

War in Iraq

After Afghanistan, Iraq was the next in line. The reason was the alleged existence of weapons of mass destruction. The British were not left behind the Americans in accusing Iraq of having weapons of mass destruction at all. In September 2002 they issued a study named Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction, where they mentioned, among others, the threat that Iraq is able to use chemical and biological weapons within 45 minutes following the order to use it. On 20 March 2003 the Iraqi massacre was started under the name Iraqi freedom. This war did not have the necessary mandate from the UN, no evidence on presence of weapons of mass destruction was found, the war was illegitimate.

The numbers of dead Iraqi civilians from the beginning of the war are over 600,000. Some data reckon with over 1,000,000 of dead civilians. More can be read e.g. in the article Ignorance of Iraqi death toll no longer an option. Undoubtedly, majority of the people in Iraq would be more than happy to change “democracy” for the totality of Saddam Hussein. Their relatives would still be alive and they would not have to tremble for their lives.

Evidenced Iraqi oil reserves make up for approximately 10 % of the world reserves. When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, it got under its control the total of 20 % of the world oil reserves. That was obviously unacceptable and the world came quickly to “help“ Kuwait. More information about these events and statements of some of the American politicians about oil in the Middle East can be obtained from the article Blood and Oil. Here we can also read Jimmy Carter's quote of 1980 saying: "... An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America. And such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force."

We have mentioned Iraq trading its oil for euro between 2000 and 2003. By doing this, Iraq was only pouring oil to fire.

July 7, 2005

Great Britain, as a perfect ally of the United States of America, became a target of a terrorist attack in summer 2005. London was hit during the morning rush hour. And this event has two versions, with their short comparison we can meet here. Concerning this event we can only remark that this attack was a few days later perceived by military-political analysts as an inside job.

The Financial Crisis

From around 2000 it was rather clear it was just a question of a couple of years before the world gets into insolvable trouble. The year 2008 proved to be a decisive year. Living on credit started demonstrating its downsides. National governments started releasing great financial sums in order to reduce the impacts of the crises. By doing so they only succeeded in postponing the problem for a while, not in solving it.

Various economic analysts and politicians flood us through mass media with information about a happier future. But is this real? Probably not. The reason for this answer is a great saturation of markets. Let us describe this in a greater detail. Prices of majority of products and services keep falling. This is good for consumers but not for producers. They have lower revenues and still less and less funds for innovations while facing strong competition that is – thanks to globalization – often international. And many products have such characteristics that they do not need to be modified as often as in the past.

Market saturation is closely connected with the problem of indebtedness. Redundancies, decrease of wages and lower revenues result in problems with loans repayment, whether by individuals or companies. It is a vicious spiral. People do not have the ability to save money anymore. It is because banking transfers are much easier than payments in cash. And when we do not have money physically in our hands, it is easier to spend it.

It is necessary to see the world in global consequences. Problems of the dollar, market saturation and high indebtedness can draw the world in a chasm very quickly. It is connected with fast growing political tension in many areas. We can expect the economic and political problems would easily break into military solutions. Many countries would be facing the rationing system and buying everything we might need would become very difficult. There is no place for optimism anymore.

Iran

Nowadays, it is Iran which is being rumoured to be a great threat to the world. It is very similar to the situation before the war in Iraq when evidence on existence of weapons of mass destruction was presented. Then it was lies and because of these lies, maybe over a million people died. And it is the same “experts“ and intelligence services who speak about evidence that Iran is trying to get a nuclear weapon.

It is sad that “democratic“ countries have double standards. Nobody is making pressure on Israel to get rid of its 200–400 nuclear weapons. Israel deliberately wipes off any germ of resistance and does not hesitate to attack sovereign countries which is an explicit infringement of the international law, not mentioning attacks on civilians targets and use of white phosphorus against civilians (the attack on Iraq in 1981 – Operation Opera, attack on civilian targets in Lebanon 2006 – Amnesty International Accuses Israel of War Crimes, attack on Syria in 2007 – Why did Israel attack Syria?, use of white phosphorus against Palestinians in 2009 – Israel accused of war crimes over phosphorus use). Most likely, no sanctions will ever be imposed on Israeli actions. Their nuclear weapons are a threat for the Middle East and thus for the whole world. If we wish for a non-nuclear Middle East we should start from Israel.

Iran controls around 10 % of the world oil reserves (Oil reserves) and has the second largest reserves of natural gas - around 15 % of the world reserves (List of countries by natural gas proven reserves). But their missiles can under no circumstances reach the United States. The greatest threat for the United States is their oil bourse opened after a lot of troubles in 2008 (Iranian oil bourse – an important article) and its focus on China and India (Iran’s major oil customers, energy partners). In what way does the oil bourse mean a threat to the dollar? The trading currency at this bourse is not the dollar which is undermining the dollar stability.

We can also mention negotiations concerning possible delivery of the excellent Russian system of air protection S-300 that should seriously hamper the US and Israeli attack on Iran.

It is useful to have a look at the map of the world and find the Caspian Sea, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Persian Gulf and countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan). This will tell us more than mere words and we will find out why Iran is so important. Occupation of Iran would result not only into control of vast oil and natural gas reserves, but also to a direct interconnection between Iraq and Afghanistan. This would mean placing the NATO forces in the vicinity of the southern borders of the Russian Federation.

We should realize that Iran has very strong allies. Attacking Iran may mean a disaster for the whole world. Iran is not Iraq.

We recommend you to watch video Iraq cospiracy.

We have gone briefly through at least some important events in the world. Similarly, we could speak about the war in Yugoslavia (1999), the war in Georgia (2008), planned US missile defense in Europe, operation Ajax, operation Mongoose, Tonkin incident and consequent entry of the United States of America in the war in Vietnam, etc. We demonstrated there is a great difference between official and unofficial information. Unofficial sources of information are not a subject to censorship. If we take at least ten minutes to think about the above stated information and we understand it, the better for us. In this way we can save ourselves from many problems. If we do not understand the information now, we will certainly understand it later.

Let us not seek for complicacy where there is none. Let us use common sense and let us put the events into context. Observing unimportant information will not get us anywhere. It is just a waste of our time and energy. It is much better to spend five minutes of our time three times a week watching and assessing crucial information than dealing every day just with the “sauce“. Unimportant information is not going to help neither us nor our relatives and friends.