LoneGunman
Expert Member
Given that three major undersea cables have been cut in the last few days, a little digging brings out an historical precedent:
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Spokesman Magazine, July, 2004 by Dennis Casey
(taken from
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0QUY/is_2004_July/ai_n6142317/pg_2
At the outset of the war, the Germans had five transatlantic cables that ran through the English Channel. One went to Brest in France, another to Vigo in Spain, one to Tenerife in North Africa and two to New York via the Azores. The English cable ship Telconia cut them all in England's first offensive action in the war. This left a cable that ran between West Africa and Brazil that was largely American-owned that the Germans could use. In short order the allies ended that source of direct cable communications with the overseas world. Consequently, Germany was forced to use their powerful wireless station at Nauen, just a few miles outside Berlin. From this moment, German messages were routinely picked from the air and began pouring into the offices of British Naval Intelligence. In order to capture this flood of information, four new allied listening stations were established along the English coast with direct wires to Admiral Hall's offices..
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On the other hand, there's chatter online about OPEC and Saudi's, and general moves by the US to try protect its currency..
Iranian oil Bourse I think comes into play very soon. Not surprising that its Internet has been near totally disrupted, sealing it off.
Here's a diagram of the world internet traffic cables:
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/2008/02/01/SeaCableHi.jpg
And look here at the internet traffic report for Asia - and specifically Iran - note 100% packet loss for Iran.
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm
So Iran has been cut off from the net.
When Iran changes its oil bourse, it means it'll no longer accept US dollars for oil payments. They'll require 'other' currency that has not lost value as the dollar has. Same thing happened in Iraq just before the invasion there. They started accepting other currency for oil instead of the dollar.
What a lot of people don't realize is that the dollar used to be the only currency used by nations to buy oil.
That is what propped the dollar and kept it afloat. If countries start using other currencies to buy their oil, the dollar will continue to fall more and more. Basically, the trade of dollars for oil is what has kept the dollar 'valuable'. If that stops, the dollar falls.
Might be a good think. Bankrupt countries can't play 'empire'
On the other hand, it can just mean a deliberate bit of sabotage in order to remove the clouds of general static, from net chatter, and allow poised army surveillance, to focus on key areas of interest, ahead of military action.
The next week or two, might be interesting..
------snip
Spokesman Magazine, July, 2004 by Dennis Casey
(taken from
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0QUY/is_2004_July/ai_n6142317/pg_2
At the outset of the war, the Germans had five transatlantic cables that ran through the English Channel. One went to Brest in France, another to Vigo in Spain, one to Tenerife in North Africa and two to New York via the Azores. The English cable ship Telconia cut them all in England's first offensive action in the war. This left a cable that ran between West Africa and Brazil that was largely American-owned that the Germans could use. In short order the allies ended that source of direct cable communications with the overseas world. Consequently, Germany was forced to use their powerful wireless station at Nauen, just a few miles outside Berlin. From this moment, German messages were routinely picked from the air and began pouring into the offices of British Naval Intelligence. In order to capture this flood of information, four new allied listening stations were established along the English coast with direct wires to Admiral Hall's offices..
--------end snip
On the other hand, there's chatter online about OPEC and Saudi's, and general moves by the US to try protect its currency..
Iranian oil Bourse I think comes into play very soon. Not surprising that its Internet has been near totally disrupted, sealing it off.
Here's a diagram of the world internet traffic cables:
http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Technology/Pix/pictures/2008/02/01/SeaCableHi.jpg
And look here at the internet traffic report for Asia - and specifically Iran - note 100% packet loss for Iran.
http://www.internettrafficreport.com/asia.htm
So Iran has been cut off from the net.
When Iran changes its oil bourse, it means it'll no longer accept US dollars for oil payments. They'll require 'other' currency that has not lost value as the dollar has. Same thing happened in Iraq just before the invasion there. They started accepting other currency for oil instead of the dollar.
What a lot of people don't realize is that the dollar used to be the only currency used by nations to buy oil.
That is what propped the dollar and kept it afloat. If countries start using other currencies to buy their oil, the dollar will continue to fall more and more. Basically, the trade of dollars for oil is what has kept the dollar 'valuable'. If that stops, the dollar falls.
Might be a good think. Bankrupt countries can't play 'empire'
On the other hand, it can just mean a deliberate bit of sabotage in order to remove the clouds of general static, from net chatter, and allow poised army surveillance, to focus on key areas of interest, ahead of military action.
The next week or two, might be interesting..
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