Video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ASGm1z2e8
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Al Mayadeen TV report on the implications of the lifting of the international arms embargo on Iran.
Source: Al Mayadeen TV (YouTube)
Date: October 18, 2010
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Transcript:
Reporter:
The 13-year (UN) arms embargo on Iran has (finally) ended. Another (major) page in the (story) of international sanctions (on Iran) has been turned. In 2023, the restrictions imposed on Iran’s missile program will be lifted. Thereafter, the (UN) Security Council will close the Iranian nuclear file two years later. This timeline (for the nuclear file) was set by the (UN) Security Council, just after the signing of the (Iran) nuclear deal.
This would have been a normal (step) had the US administration not withdrawn from the (Iran) nuclear deal more than two years ago. It would have gone unnoticed had the US not done everything possible to reinstate the (UN) sanctions against Iran through various legal and illegal means that got to the point of issuing threats (against other states).
Abbas Aslani, the Director-General of the World and Foreign Policy Department at Tasnim News Agency:
The termination of the arms embargo reveals that the US has failed (to weaken) Iran, and has itself become (internationally) isolated. If the (arms) embargo was not lifted, the nuclear deal would have fell through. This (progress) shows that no great power can unilaterally impose its own will on the world.
Reporter:
Tehran has hailed this (new development) as a victory in the battle of wills (with the United States). This is a political and economic victory that will allow Iran to import and export weapons.
Mohammad Mehdi Malaki, Researcher in Iranian and International Affairs:
Lifting the (arms) embargo is a legal and diplomatic achievement. It is a triumph against US pressure and an indication that the international community no longer sees Iran as a security threat.
Reporter:
Many believe that this triumph serves as another indication that the US is facing (international) isolation and is slowly losing its international influence. It will open the way for Iran to further cooperate with Europe in order to preserve the (Iran) nuclear deal.
All eyes will remain fixed on the US election results which will determine how the US will deal with the new reality. (The US) will either rejoin the nuclear deal, or will (impose) more sanctions (on Iran).
The US is indeed facing international isolation and is losing international influence. It has started losing influence years ago. That is what happens when someone decides to create an empire. Not only is the US facing immense financial problems, it has created a heap of enemies. The US empire will be the shortest lived in history. We shall now see how the Anglo-American elites will react to the collapse of the US empire; will they accept it, or will they decide to play dirty, instigating a wider war ? The future is going to be very interesting indeed.
Every war that America has engaged in they had the luxury of fighting far from home, ie American citizenry and infrastructure was safe and isolated. If they precipitate another war, with one of the main players, they’re guaranteed, with modern warefare, that American cities will be hit, resulting in colossal loss of American civilian life…..I honestly think that they haven’t even dreamt of that scenario. Another part of the equasion is the forgone assumption that their vassals would rally to assist them, I’m not so sure, I doubt whether they’d be prepared to sacrifice their manhood, their children and their future for an arrogant bully only interested in domination and subjugation at any price.
Iran is expected to buy military hardware with its last bit of USD reserves?
Iran is expected to sell military hardware to neighboring war-ravaged allies and receive payment in local currency?
Iran is expected to buy backdoor-riddled military hardware with its last bit of USD reserves?
What bank will handle the payment transactions, assuming an arms deal takes place? The Iranian banking system is incompatible with the world system.
Years ago, many Iranians were taking out loans from Western banks, bringing it to Iran and putting it in any bank and getting 20% annual interest. They would repay a fraction of that to the Western bank, as the original interest on the loans was usually 2-3%. They would end up pocketing a good deal. This quickly became a “business”, and USD was pouring into Iran at an enormous rate.
The Iranian banking system had become a US dollar sink. Foreigners were starting to bring US dollars to Iran, to put in the bank. But the US eventually caught on, and sanctions started, which have been surely and steadily devaluating the Iranian currency ever since, making it financially unsound to continue doing the banking “scam”, if you can call it that. Let me tell you, those days many people made a killing while it lasted.
So, even today, if relations improve and Iran and the West become friends, and sanctions are lifted and the Iranian currency is not manipulated and devaluated anymore, people will certainly start running the same scam again.
Thus, Iran and the Zionist world economy can never be allowed to reconcile, because theoretically all money would eventually end up in Iran, unless someone else starts offering higher guaranteed month to month interest payments on a short-term deposit.
The Iranian banking system, for those that don’t know, is based on the idea of pooling people’s money, generating a profit by investing that money, and returning that profit to the people whose money is in the bank. In sharp contrast to the Zionist system that prevails in the world as a cohesive structure based on a single theory of money.
So, I don’t get it. Can someone explain how this is a win for Iran? What has Iran won?
My uneducated knee jerk answers:
Iran is expected to buy military hardware with its last bit of USD reserves? No, they will use gold and oil, either as barter or in exchange for yuan and rubles.
Iran is expected to sell military hardware to neighboring war-ravaged allies and receive payment in local currency? No, well sort of yes. They can ‘loan’ the hardware, sort of like the U.S. lend-lease program in the World Wars, and receive payment in political support as well as, yes, local currency – if they use the new Chinese-Russian payment systems.
Iran is expected to buy backdoor-riddled military hardware with its last bit of USD reserves? Yes and no again. From the U.S. and the EU no, from China and Russia, yes. Electronic defenses with 5G programming speed could be quite helpful in warding off attacks.
What bank will handle the payment transactions, assuming an arms deal takes place? The Iranian banking system is incompatible with the world system. What world system? The Chinese and Russians have developed and are using systems outside U.S. control, avoiding the SWIFT system and the BIS. If you do’t use U.S. dollars, the U.S. has much less control of your foreign and domestic policies.
Why do you assume that Russian and Chinese hardware won’t be riddled with backdoors?
Why do you assume that Russia and China are different than the West? I don’t see either of them following a particularly moral or spiritual path. They are the same materialist capitalist profit before people gang as the West.
Please explain the money transfer system that Russia and China have developed that circumvents global Zionism. Why have they not been using it to get around sanctions with Iran?
Until the ruble or the yuan can take the place of the USD, which I can only see happening in a post wwiii world where the US has been vanquished, nothing will change. Nothing will change afterwards either, if all that’s going to happen is swapping Gaius for Gneius.
Jamshyd, they don’t follow a spiritual path but they are all you’ve got. And they will be summoned to answer the call like many times before. Not because they are “exceptional” but because they are the ultimate targets of the enemy of humanity. And please don’t question this.
Ken,
Can you explain why you believe Russia and China will not reach the same point as the West, even though they all tread the same path?
To say that materialist capitalism is any different than materialist socialism or materialist communism is splitting hairs.
Any ideology that begins with the assumption that people are objects and their purpose for existence is to work for material prosperity is just plain wrong and idiotic, in my opinion.
Jamshyd,
Countries change their systems. They make mistakes and learn. One important thing is not to believe in one’s infallibility. The fact that Ayatollah Khamenei is a deeply spiritual man does not mean that there are no billionaires in Iran – or does it? But it doesn’t matter. Please answer this question: What kind of a system should Russia and China adopt (bear in mind – I agree on the futility of the bloodsucking corporate capitalism).
I respect your views and am trying to find out what your vision is. Remember, no system is perfect. Although socialism was “materialistic”, it was much much more humane than many Islamic theocracies. Basically, it helped the liberation of half the world. So, please, think carefully.
Thanks and I look forward to your reply.
How can I refuse, Ken, when you ask so nicely. I had you in mind too when I replied to Yk in the next post below this one.
Cheers
I did not assume that Russian and Chinese hardware would not have back-doors – you are reading that into my comment.
I am not arguing about moral or spiritual paths, just responding to your first set of questions,which did not concern morality.
The Russian and Chinese foreign exchange systems have been explained elsewhere. Do I understand them fully? No, but the fact that you don’t think they have been using them to get around sanctions perhaps means they have been more successful than you think. Entirely around? No, but trade does go on.
As for the U.S. losing its global reserve status – the petrodollar, it will last until the U.S. Fed prints so many that they essentially become worthless, much like the Weimar mark and Zimbabwe [whatever it is] – or as you say, until WW III. The U.S. is hugely in debt, along with most of the rest of the world and needs to print more and more money simply to stay afloat.
I simply meant that because China and Russia do not follow a moral or spiritual path, and as they obviously espouse the same ideals as the West, then what is it exactly that distinguishes them from the West? What makes them trustworthy where the West is not?
Position granted – my focus at the moment is the U.S. military-industrial complex and its 800+ bases straddling the world in order to support U.S. corporate hegemony. After they go away (after a financial collapse?) I’ll start worrying about other moralities.
Jamshyd
There’s no denying the fact that Iran is facing a no hold bar assault from the AngloZionist empire and its minions, but Jamshyd joon I’m sorry to say that you need to start offering some of your views on how you believe Iran can be rid of all these warfare.
It would make for better discuss and I think right now what Iran required more than anything is a solution moving forward, nothing is wrong with remunerating about our suffering, in fact that’s what makes us human but it helps and goes a long way to start talking about the solution Jamshyd or what you perceive could be the way out for Iran. Thanks.
Yk,
I’m flattered that you think I could possibly have a solution for Iran.
I’m nobody, mate. I know a little bit of history, and I have my eyes peeled. All I can do is prattle on about what was and what is.
What I do know is that nobody in the world, and that includes China and Russia, would want the Islamic banking system to go global.
I remember before the sanctions started, many Iranians, mostly retired people, lived off the interest of their savings. Imagine having 100,000 dollars in your account, generating 20,000 dollars of interest per annum. And this at a time when gasoline was only 2.5 cents USD per liter, and bread was 1 cent.
The real question is, where is this 20% interest going in other countries? For those who claim that Russia and China follow a different banking system, please explain what the Zionist Alfa-Bank in Russia, for example, does with the profits it generates with people’s money.
I know many old people in Australia have a million dollars sitting in their retirement accounts. None of them are getting 200,000 dollars of yearly interest from the bank.
So, you understand how dangerous it is to let Iran do its thing? I can see from the globalist perspective why Iran must be annihilated at any cost, just as I can see from Kapricorn4’s post why Germany had to be annihilated. No new financial system can be allowed to rear its head in competition to the existing one. And obviously, China and Russia are not presenting any competition, or they would be dealt with like Germany and Iran.
I’m afraid I’m in no position to offer solutions, Yk. I am flabbergasted that the Iranian establishment allows the Rouhani-Zarif Zionist fifth column reformist clique to operate. Is democracy really more important than victory? Even when the voters’ mentality is being manipulated by the ziomedia to predetermine who they will vote for?
You want to know what I think they should do? They should put the whole reformist party enterprise behind bars, dissolve the democratic system, hand the country over to the revolutionary guard, and start a serious campaign to educate the Iranian masses and pull them back from the brink of the abyss that they’ve been led to by the materialist-hedonist mentality that the ziomedia has instilled in them.
Iranians need to get off their asses and start working. Enough sitting around and sipping tea. Enough of this lazyness taken to its utmost extreme limit. Iranians need to be put to work, producing tek and building factories and production lines, instead of the preposterous shit that goes on here, that would make any rational person’s head explode if they heard about it.
The magnitude of Iranian brain drain is absurd. Everyone who is worth their salt leaves Iran. All we have to work with here is the third rate idiots who were never good at anything in school. How can a country hope to reach its full potential when all its best and brightest move abroad?
And Iran must do something about the staggering corruption here ASAP.
It is said that during the reign of Artaxerxes II, the roads of the civilised world had become unsafe due to bandits and thieves. Cyrus III, known as Cyrus the Younger, was tasked with solving the problem. He gathered all the thieves and bandits and removed their eyes or hands. Everywhere you went, there were blind or ‘handless’ beggars on the side of the roads. The roads became so safe that a woman could travel at night alone carrying valuables.
This is what we need in Iran, again. The country is being choked to death by thieves and bandits, especially those who steal from Iran to take to the West.
For what it’s worth, I am all for abolishing the blood-sucking usury imposed on the world. Somewhere in the future, I see this as becoming much more urgent.
The Goat Nations have the advantage of driving the world to a prescribed desriny descibed in their Holy Books. The Sheep Nations ,on the other hand ,are driven ,pushed and prodded by World Pseudo-christians to follow their destructive unGodly ways. Even the True Christ knew that the only way to overcome the Liars and Cheaters in the Temple was through humility. When false accusers dragged Him to the Roman Law court, He answered Them nothing, rejecting Their authority, because They had none. That doesn’t compute in this self-serving, look at me world. Sheep have no recourse ,if the Rule of God is trampled by Man’s Law. Better to stand firm against Them and suffer whatever They want me to suffer and answer Them nothing. There is no sin in being Jailed, Extorted, and/or Crucified by Satan. The Sin would be to conform to Their irreligious practices of Law. God reqiures so little from me, to do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly With My God, while the world does to Me as it pleases. As sure as my Soul lives, and as sure as my God lives, the times of the Nations has an end. To be chosen for slaughter by the Adversary only serves to expose Their evil.
The world waits for a Savior that they already killed, when He returns, it won’t be to forgive the Goats. But rather, He will destroy them ,and gather up His Sheep into the Fold.
Jamshyd
Don’t be flattered because I perceive you someone with intense love for his country and religion, but you see the Iranian people have been taught a serious lesson in real term by all these draconian sanctions; never trust or dine with the West even with the longest spoon.
The Russians given the recent statement by Lavrov have also found out about this the hard way and that includes the Chinese. So this present an opportunity for Iran to have some breathing space as it reduces the connivance of the powerful nations against Iran.
Don’t get me wrong I have no illusions about the materialist based definition of human civilization by these two nations, obviously they are against the emergence of another powerful world player in Iran especially based on the model Iran is offering which emphasize on maintaining a balance between material and spiritual civilization. But often Jamshyd we are forced to choose the lesser of two evils, right now they are the lesser of the two evils.
As for the likes of Rouhani, I believe every nation on earth have there own fair share of their likes. They have been westoxicated ( that goes for many Iranians too) and our often clerics only in garb, in their own ignorant ways they meant well filled with illusions about the so called western success forgetting that this success is as a result of indescribable barbarism.
But I am sure Iran can weather this storm if the government follow the instructions of the Leader about focusing on internal strength.
Yk,
It is not just Iran that I love, but the whole world. For me there is no distinction between the mountains of Iran, the lakes and forests of Finland, the great prairies of Canada or the beaches of Australia, it is all my country. And all the people of the world are my people, as far as I’m concerned. Nationalism is just racism in disguise, in my opinion, and it is a very dangerous thing.
My religion is my everything, it is the air that I breathe, it is my reason for living. Without it, I am nothing, just a wretched creature, lost and hopeless.
When faced with a choice between two evils, we are supposed to choose rather to fight to the death, I believe. And I think this is what sets us apart, and has brought us this far, against all odds.
I am sure Iran will weather this. Iran has weathered a lot over the millenia. As we say here: این نیز بگذرد this too shall pass.
I believe, that the Iranian people, and all the people of the world, need to find their way back to the spirit, as a matter of the most urgent and vital consequence. I hear people peddling socialism and communism as the sure answer to the problems of people today. It is like saying, wear a green hat instead of a blue hat.
I regret that there is a billion (trillion?) dollar media machine out there whose only purpose is to lead people astray, and which has been spreading calculated lies to undermine all religions and spirituality, and guide people down the path of materialism and hedonism.
I do not see any hope in Christianity, in its countless modern incarnations. Sunni Islam is completely hopeless too, in my opinion. But I am sad to say that even Shia Islam has not been able to withstand the lies of the enemy, if Iranian youth of today are any gauge. Unfortunately, Shia Islam cannot offer a young Iranian a viable alternative to the so-called Western Culture of global Zionism, in today’s world. The truth is, Western Culture has no serious competitor right now, because they have molded the world into a certain shape these last hundred years, and western culture is like a key that fits in that lock.
What I mean is, if you are living a “traditional” lifestyle, like people in my village were living 50 years ago, with no electricity, gas, running water, phones, or asphalt roads, no advanced technology, living in the natural world, then Shia Islam was the perfect fit, it was a path and a roadmap that people could follow to navigate life and the world and find the way to success and victory and salvation, and avoid pitfalls along the way. But we do not live in the natural world anymore, we live in a world that is so far from natural that a rural Iranian from 50 years ago would not recognize or understand it at all.
In this “fake” manufactured world of today, Western Culture is like the manual to success, and whether you are Chinese or Russian, Muslim or Christian, you have to live in this artificial world of global Zionism, and you have to act like a “western person”, by which I am referring to certain patterns of thinking and behaving proper to the system which first emerged in the West, which is how everyone does act, even Shia Muslims in Iran.
An effort needs to be made today to reiterate the truths that are at the core of religion (from Latin re-ligio; to re-link [to the spirit]) and make religion what it originally was, ie. a path that all people can follow and find the spirit, reconnect to it and find salvation.
The truths need to be laid out in a way as to be applicable in a modern living setting, which is where we have to live, whether we like it or not. They have to lead a person to liberation from the mental shackles imposed by the materialist system, and then to victory and salvation in this world and the next.
It is not impossible. The first truth is that materialism is a lie. There is no world of objects out there that exist by themselves, as themselves, and we ourselves are not physical objects either. We are an awareness, a feeling, a consciousness; we are first energy, and only then matter, just like the world. We are an energy that animates matter, our bodies.
The second truth is that the energy that is in us, is the same energy that is in everything else. We are animated by the same spirit, all of us, animals and insects and all. We are like the fingers of a glove, the spirit is the hand.
The third truth is that an opposing will has found its way into our world, separated us from the spirit, and keeps us imprisoned and enslaved in a world made of lies.
The fourth truth is that we are going to die. And when we die, all that we knew as “our selves” will perish and be no more. The energy, the soul, does not die, but the soul is a singular impersonal energy, it is not the person that we became after a lifetime of experience and learning.
The fifth truth is that it is possible to hold onto our memories and experiences, what makes us who we are, our individuality, even after death. And to accomplish this feat is the ultimate goal of religion, and it is the only worthwhile task for mortal man, who has so little time here.
Hi,
I’ll feel free to reply. I agree 99% with what you are saying and you, are looking for that spiritual vision that could guide that would guide the world. Let me assure you of one thing – as a scientist and philosopher I did my best to erode the mindless materialism that rules the modern world.
One person (and there are many) who would have articulated this kind of thinking is the great Jalal-Ud-Din Rumi. He is an example we can all follow.
Jamshyd Jan,
A few commentators for whom I keep coming to this site. You are one of them. Please continue to enlighten us.
Just like you, a very highly learned person from Iran used to share his opinions regularly by the name “Minute by Minute”, unfortunately he is not around for sometime. He seems to be affected with some mental illness and suffering from memory loss. I pray for him.
The spirit is like an ant, and the body like a grain of wheat which the ant carries to and fro continually.
The ant knows that the grains of which it has taken charge will change and become assimilated.
One ant picks up a grain of barley on the road; another ant picks up a grain of wheat and runs away.
The barley doesn’t hurry to the wheat, but the ant comes to the ant, yes it does.
The going of the barley to the wheat is merely consequential: it’s the ant that returns to its own kind.
Don’t say, “Why did the wheat go to the barley?” Fix your eye on the holder, not on that which is held.
As when a black ant moves along on a black felt cloth: the ant is hidden from view; only the grain is visible on its way.
But Reason says: “Look well to your eye:
when does a grain ever move along without a carrier?”
—
Wealth has no permanence: it comes in the morning, and at night it is scattered to the winds.
Physical beauty too has no importance, for a rosy face is made pale by the scratch of a single thorn.
Noble birth also is of small account, for many become fools of money and horses. Many a nobleman’s son has disgraced his father by his wicked deeds.
Don’t court a person full of talent either,
even if he seems exquisite in that respect: take warning from the example of Iblis*.
Iblis had knowledge, but since his love was not pure, he saw in Adam nothing but a figure of clay.
* Iblis; Azazel, Satan
-Rumi, Masnavi
Thank You for your beautiful words, which brings light to the true meaning of spirituality🙏🙏
Dharma has been standing on one leg for quite some time. What will happen when even that solitary leg is removed ?
So very few people have wisdom now and the comprehension about what is actually happening in today’s world.
Thank you for your kind words.
Iram indeed is gone with all its Rose,
And Jamshyd’s Seven-ring’d Cup where no one knows;
But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields,
And still a Garden by the Water blows
And this I know: whether the one True Light,
Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite,
One Glimpse of It within the Tavern caught
Better than in the Temple lost outright
Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make,
And who with Eden didst devise the Snake;
For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man
Is blacken’d, Man’s Forgiveness give–and take!
Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose!
That Youth’s sweet-scented Manuscript should close!
The Nightingale that in the Branches sang,
Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
-Omar Khayyam
ON TIME
By – Kahlil Gibran – 1883-1931
And an astronomer said, Master, what of Time?
And he answered:
You would measure time the measureless and the immeasurable.
You would adjust your conduct and even direct the course of your spirit according to hours and seasons.
Of time you would make a stream upon whose bank you would sit and watch its flowing.
Yet the timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness,
And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.
And that that which sings and contemplates in you is still dwelling within the bounds of that first moment which scattered the stars into space.
Who among you does not feel that his power to love is boundless?
And yet who does not feel that very love, though boundless, encompassed within the centre of his being, and moving not from love thought to love thought, nor from love deeds to other love deeds?
And is not time even as love is, undivided and spaceless?
But if in your thought you must measure time into seasons, let each season encircle all the other seasons,
And let today embrace the past with remembrance and the future with longing.
From ‘The Prophet’
Jamshyd
To say your response humbled me is an understatement, it completely left me speechless.
Jamshyd meeeehn you are one tough nut to crack, and I mean that as a compliment, and are one of the reason why I keep coming back to the comment section of the site.
I’m proud to know you are a Shiite and a world citizen for that matter, you’ve taught me another definition of life today; when faced with a choice between two evils, we are supposed to choose rather to fight to death. That capture it for me summary of Resistance and true revolution, Husseini.
I recall an incident I read on Elijah Magnier TL; he said during the Iran Iraq war the Soviet attack Iranian oil tanker or something (I can’t remember precisely) and the army chiefs asked Imam Khomeini what to do he said “you can make your own decision, but if I were you I would attack there tankers too.”
I think the Imam by this response demonstrated the essence of a true Resistant, you do not fear worldly powers and some have taken his acceptance of the ceasefire at face value, to me I am strongly convinced that he accepted it because of the fact that most of the Iranian officials at the time supported the acceptance of the ceasefire, so for the Imam not to accept it would weaken and polarized the position of the revolution at infant stage as most officials are demonstrating sign of subversiveness with their mind already made up to accept the ceasefire. Since Imam Khomeini is not a dictator he accepted the will of the majority.
While the implication of the decision is still being exploited by the West through some westoxicated officials in Iran, such errors is still being committed today by these equivalent of 5th columnists in Iran.
While I believe that the ideal you auspice is the final destination of humanity I think we are still enmeshed in the defeatist Western ideology as demonstrated even by those leading so called multi polar nations today. Old wine in different bottles, it will also come to naught.
Thanks for brilliant submissions Jamshyd, I do hope you can reply me.
They can just use China’s currency.
Hitler’s Debt Free Money
“When Hitler came to power in 1933, the country was completely, hopelessly broke. The Treaty of Versailles had imposed crushing reparations payments on the German people, who were expected to reimburse the costs of the war for all participants — costs totaling three times the value of all the property in the country. People were living in hovels and starving. Nothing quite like it had ever happened before – the total destruction of the national currency, wiping out people’s savings, their businesses and the economy generally. Making matters worse, at the end of the decade global depression hit. Germany had no choice but to succumb to debt slavery to international lenders.
Or so it seemed. Hitler and the National Socialists, who came to power in 1933, thwarted the international banking cartel by issuing their own money. In this they took their cue from Abraham Lincoln, who funded the American Civil War with government-issued paper money called “Greenbacks.” Hitler began his national credit program by devising a plan of public works. Projects earmarked for funding included flood control, repair of public buildings and private residences, and construction of new buildings, roads, bridges, canals, and port facilities. The projected cost of the various programs was fixed at one billion units of the national currency.
One billion non-inflationary bills of exchange, called Labor Treasury Certificates, were then issued against this cost. Millions of people were put to work on these projects, and the workers were paid with the Treasury Certificates. This government-issued money wasn’t backed by gold, but it was backed by something of real value. It was essentially a receipt for labor and materials delivered to the government. Hitler said, “for every mark that was issued we required the equivalent of a mark’s worth of work done or goods produced.” The workers then spent the Certificates on other goods and services, creating more jobs for more people.
Within two years, the unemployment problem had been solved and the country was back on its feet. It had a solid, stable currency, no debt, and no inflation, at a time when millions of people in the United States and other Western countries were still out of work and living on welfare. Germany even managed to restore foreign trade, although it was denied foreign credit and was faced with an economic boycott abroad. It did this by using a barter system: equipment and commodities were exchanged directly with other countries, circumventing the international banks. This system of direct exchange occurred without debt and without trade deficits.
Germany’s economic experiment, like Lincoln’s, was short-lived; but it left some lasting monuments to its success, including the famous Autobahn, the world’s first extensive superhighway. Hjalmar Schacht, who was then head of the German central bank, is quoted in a bit of wit that sums up the German version of the “Greenback” miracle.
An American banker had commented, “Dr. Schacht, you should come to America. We’ve lots of money and that’s real banking.” Schacht replied, “You should come to Berlin. We don’t have money. That’s real banking.”
In Billions for the Bankers, Debts for the People (1984), Sheldon Emry commented: “Germany issued debt-free and interest-free money from 1935 and on, accounting for its startling rise from the depression to a world power in 5 years. Germany financed its entire government and war operation from 1935 to 1945 without gold and without debt, and it took the whole Capitalist and Communist world to destroy the German power over Europe and bring Europe back under the heel of the Bankers.” Such history of money does not even appear in the textbooks of public (government) schools today.”
Thank you.
I have never carefully studied Third Reich economics, having been taught that economy follows ‘captains of industry’, and numerous lies about the american 30s’ depression recovery. Not that I believed much, but without proper tools it is difficult to build anything. I have read/heard passing references to probably everything you wrote above, but never such a coherent summary. I have copied, and reformated it, as an outline of my future studies.
Daddy, daddy, why don`t governments issue their own money?
“Give me control of a nation’s money supply, and I care not who makes its laws.” So said Mayer Amschel Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking dynasty. That`s why,child, that`s why.
So, was Carroll Quigley wrong about BIS?
Iranian air force is in need of new aircrafts.
Its current inventory consists of outdated and aging jets from the 1960s-1970s. Many of these jets are unable to be operable due to lack of spare parts.
In the event of a war, Iran will surely lose the control of air from the more numerous and highly sophisticated American (or potentially Israeli, Saudi etc ) jets.
But even with new purchases, it’s is doubtful that these new jets will be enough to resist a massive air attack campaign against Iran.
Iran quite possibly has one of the largest inventories of ballistic and cruise missiles not to mention UCAV’s, NLOS and LM’s. Iranian backed resistance forces number in the hundreds of thousands, in many regional countries, parked right outside US bases (in full view). That’s why your mentioned ‘massive air attack’ does not materialize. Iranian retaliation will be swift an decisive.