Are We Going to War With N. Korea?

Grant it, Mr. Shorty Pants in N. Korea does come across as a petulant child who says “I hate you” only to stomp off and get distracted by a bright shiny object somewhere else, but unfortunately, in spite of the lulls between the moments of saber rattling, I have some genuine concerns that the several nations of the world will find themselves involved in a war with N. Korea and here’s why.

Though it’s long been known that the U.S. dollar is no longer backed by gold, most persons don’t realize that the U.S. has instead been propping up the dollar with other assets, primarily oil, as a result of the treaty, commonly referred to as the Petrol Treaty, which garnered the signatures of numerous nations more than 40 years ago, who agreed that all oil transactions would be conducted in the form of U.S. dollars. Even if Mexico was selling their own oil to the Philippines, payment for the transaction would take place in the form of USD, not Pesos. So long as everyone who signed the treaty was willing to play ball this way, the U.S. could sit back and relax and corrupt the inherent value of the USD all they wanted—after all, when would anyone stop needing oil.  (Perhaps now you can understand why many U.S. government entities have appeared to do much to STOP the energy expansions into NON-oil related resources—but that’s another story.) It was based on this treaty in part that nations such as China and Japan have invested so heavily in the USD and foreign debt instruments in USD—so long as there’s oil transactions being had there will always be a value to the USD.  But what happens when one or two, or half a dozen of those nations take a stand that they will no longer be instrumental in propping up the otherwise useless USD—especially if such actions come at the risk of lowering their own nation’s currency value? Well, then you have a recipe for disaster and you create a U.S. government that might even pursue the manipulation of world events that might otherwise prop up the dollar—but only if their situation was desperate, right?

Might it be considered a desperate moment if key nations such as Russia, Mexico, Brazil (who is one of the top 5 holders of US foreign debt instruments), India, and China have renounced the use of the USD in their oil transactions??  It’s no secret that Venezuela and the Emirate nations have stopped playing in that particular sandbox, but to have nations which are ostensibly allies to the U.S.?  I suspect that the U.S. has been attempting for the past 18 months to brush off the consequences of these nations taking this stand on petrol transactions in hopes that their other trade transactions customarily conducted in USDs would be sufficient to prop up the value of the USD, but oops—not so fast. In December 2011, China and Russia announced that they would no longer use USD for trade transactions between them. It was at this time that I wrote an article encouraging our readers to watch this matter very closely as such an announcement from China and Russia was very disruptive to the U.S. economy; but I felt that the undeniable USD collapse wouldn’t transpire until one of our more ardent allies jumped on the same bandwagon.  Hate to tell you this, but that time has come.

Last Thursday, April 11^th,  a news story broke with the announcement that Australia and China would no longer trade between each other in the form of USD. Here’s the really interesting part aside from this monumental news…the story broke on the 11^th but the commencement date for this new policy to begin was announced to be April 10^th!  (This story wasn’t even addressed by U.S. media sources.)  I couldn’t help but wonder how long the U.S. kept such an announcement from the media outlets, nor was it lost on me that Mr. Shorty Pants in N. Korea designated April 10^th as the deadline by which all foreigners needed to leave their country in preparation for war. Nor was it lost on me that the news headline of Monday, April 15^th, only the second banking and trading day after that Australia/China headline broke, the price of gold had plummeted to the lowest level in 2 years with other hard assets such as silver (down 10%), copper, molybdenum, and oil down as well. (Once you start manipulating one market it will have an effect on other viable markets such as platinum, gemstones, rare art, food, etc.—and let’s not forget the overt manipulations going on amongst THE most valuable industry—ammo.)

For those of you whom I might have confused at this point, understand that the Federal Reserve and the U.S. Treasury have long been manipulating the value of gold and silver particularly. There’s NOTHING that’s happened in our economy which merits the value of the USD to INCREASE, and yet we somehow manage to defy gravity with a plummeting of gold values on the first banking/trading day after the intents of Australia and China have been made public??!  Just as a “Gold 101” moment here, the value of gold inherently goes UP as the value of the USD goes DOWN because it requires more U.S. dollars to pay for an ounce of gold. Again, there’s absolutely NO reason for gold values to have been dropped if it were not for blatant manipulations by the Puppetmasters.  Sure, there were the feeble attempts to explain this in the usual sound bites—the most ridiculous of which was that since Cyprus is having to sell their gold in order to qualify for the EU bailout, that supposed influx of gold impacted the market so significantly as to “water down the value of gold.” Um…for those that aren’t aware, Cyprus is NOT a significantly large nation or economic stage when it comes to their stashes of gold. They are NOT a major holder of gold or silver, etc.  Their influx of gold into the global economy is no more significant than if I were to lose a half an ounce of fat in 1 month.

The reason why gold has been manipulated upwards over the past 2 years was in an effort for the Central Bank to reclaim some of the US currency that’s out there before China dumps trillions of USD into the economy in an effort to try and mitigate the Monopoly Money Effect that such a huge influx would have on our economy.  The plummeted values in gold, in my opinion, are in an effort to now bring in massive amounts of gold as people panic and sell. The Central Bank buys it up at spot with its unlimited use of printed notes, and they accomplish a Gold Confiscation with much more flare and less stench than FDR did. That’s all well and good, but it’s too little, too late and it’s my belief that THEY know it.*

The USD is in far too much trouble right now for this little maneuver (and future manipulations of gold) to prop up the dollar in light of these significant global economic players refusing to use it as their currency of choice any longer. So, what’s a corrupt federal government to do in order to prop up their currency? Go…to…war…  And might there be anyone out there…anyone at all…that might be the perfect sparring partner?  Well, there are the usual suspects, of course, as well as heightened tensions in Syria and it looks like we’ve been doing a lot of aggressive poking at Ahmadenijad, who, for all his faults, seems to be wise enough not to fall for it. But is there a nation which contains a leader foolish and egotistical enough to fall for the provocation?

Let’s take the story today of the Blackhawk helicopter that went down near the N. Korean border—with the level of threats and tensions that are coming out of the nation, does a nation trying to AVOID war play chicken that close to the border of a trigger happy petulant child??  I don’t think so. What I can be rather confident of is that we most certainly won’t hear the real story why this helicopter full of highly skilled military was so close to the border. They’re making the story be about the copter going down but my question is what was it doing so close in the first place?? Is this an act of AVOIDING WAR?

While things seem to be quite tranquil when it comes to N. Korea over the past several days I have to ask myself, is this how things really are or is it how they are being reported? Since we’ve been at DEFCON 3 (Increase in force readiness above that required for normal readiness; Air Force ready to mobilize in 15 minutes; alert color “yellow”)   since the middle of last week, N. Korean missiles have been upright since last week, and I received a very reliable tip last Monday in which the National Guard was scrambled into action in Portland, OR with the U.S. Air Force reportedly on stand-by–which is customary at DEFCON 3. (Portland, OR is the area that’s assigned to protect Guam where many U.S. munitions are thought to be stored. Additionally, it is reported that N. Korea’s missiles are suspected to be capable of hitting the West Coast of the U.S.)  With all of this…I’m having a hard time just ignoring this or just calling it “saber rattling.”  What would YOU think if you were to receive the following e-mails and messages like the ones I’m posting below from valued sources??  Do you think that YOU would believe that “all is well”??–redacted/edited in order to protect identities–

I may be flawed in my summation and beliefs expressed here, but when I look at the entire stage, it sure is making sense to me that we’re going to war soon. I’d love to be wrong in this instance, but what I DO KNOW to be 100% accurate is that things are going to continue to happen in our life that will test our resolve to choose to stand firm in the role of proactive participants or as helpless victims.

Take these words and comments with a grain of salt until you’ve confirmed for your own sake their validity, but regardless, it’s my hope that you’ll never underestimate what CAN and WILL happen in this world today and that you’ll find peace as a result of your faith and your preparedness efforts.

*In fact there are probably a lot of sales of “paper gold” going on right now. Dealing with Paper gold/gold paper is a part of the manipulation.  Paper Gold is an SKR (Safe Keeping Receipt) but in a lot of cases now it’s not even an official SKR (which is required in order for an owner of the asset to leverage that asset as collateral for a loan or for use in a trading platform), rather it’s merely a promise to pay or an IOU that the market’s seeing lately. But that’s actually how the Central Bank manipulates the market because they push out all of this paper gold into the market which pushes the price down (by dilution) and they then buy all the physical gold which is then followed by them bringing in all of the paper gold which then drives the price up.  The reality is there’s not a lot of physical gold changing hands anywhere in any real substantial amounts.