The demise of the dollar

The demise of the dollar

By Robert Fisk

In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US currency for oil trading

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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Cocaine Contaminates Majority of U.S. Currency

I remember there wsa survey back in the last 70's . I forget what the percentage was then, but that was the days when it first hit BIG. I'm amazed that it's still so popular as it seems to be.

For cocaine users, a rolled up $20 bill may be the most convenient tool for snorting the powder form of the drug. Or so it would seem from a new analysis of 234 banknotes from 18 U.S. cities that found cocaine on 90 percent of the bills tested.



Cocaine Contaminates Majority of U.S. Currency: Scientific American