AFRICABIZ VOL 2 - ISSUE: 135
April 15 - July 14, 2014
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Editor: Dr. Bienvenu-Magloire Quenum
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A WORD FROM THE EDITOR

Dear visitor and international investor,

We warmly welcome you, if this is your first visit to Africabiz Online - The ultimate newsletter on trading and investing in 49 sub-Saharan African countries. If you are a regular and faithful reader, welcome back.

- GLOBAL ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL CHANGE IS HERE. NOW!

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC,) Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Iran, Ukraine and Free Energy. What is the link between events that happened in these countries - since early 1970's till nowadays - and the suppression of free energy for more than 40 years?

The Iraq invasion by US troops in 2003, the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980's, the war in Afghanistan (2001-present,) the demolition of Libya by Nato in 2011, the war on Syria since 2011, Nato and EU sponsored coup in Ukraine (February 2014) - what is the common thread?

The main thread connecting events in these countries is the petrodollar, that is a United States dollar earned by a country through the sale of its petroleum (oil) to another country.

It is named �Petro Dollar� because the US under the guidance of the Secretary of State Dr. Henry Kissinger (1973) negotiated with the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia - the biggest exporter of oil at the time, a geostrategic scheme requiring any country to pay US dollar for the purchase of oil. Subsequently, all other OPEC member states adhered to the scheme.

Few figures show the impact that the petrodollar deal had since mid 1970's for the US economy, the evolution of world affairs, and the US geostrategic "victory" over the world at large.

Indeed, world's daily oil consumption amounts to around 90 million barrels per day. At US$100/barrel that means US$3Trillion are needed per year for oil transactions, in addition to currency-reserves purchasing countries should garner to pay for the commodity. That is a enormous amount of money!

- The Petrodollar is the Cornerstone of US Supremacy

What is the basics of the petrodollar deal? Well, if South Korea for example, wants to buy oil from let say Nigeria, South Korea first has to buy U.S. dollars. South Korea could, of course, just buy Nigerian Nairas and conclude the deal with Nigeria.

Nigeria selling dollars to get back Nairas, or South Korea selling Won to purchase dollars may have to sustain hefty currencies exchanges fees in the process, which they cannot avoid - because the global system of trading oil is built entirely around dollars! It's pretty silly. The petrodollar, however, deal being ironclad, no country cannot escape. No dollars, no oil! Till nowadays - early 2014.

Thus, any country which dares circumvent the petrodollar deal is immediately in trouble. If it does not back down, and behave well, the country is either invaded, bombed and destroyed - and a puppet regime put in place to behave properly! Iraq (2003) and Libya (2011) - are the most visible examples.

And any attempt to promote a new energy system or free energy not based on burning fossil resources is forbidden. Researchers and entrepreneurs worldwide putting their life at risk.

- Any Supreme Power on Earth has a Limit!

So, since mid 1970's, the petrodollar assisted the US to be supreme in world politics and economy. It helped the US run massive deficits at home and finance Army bases all around the world - more than 700 and counting. Further, the US can import anything at discounted prices, allowing American citizens to shop at bargain prices at Wall Mart. Etc.

In brief, the US supremacy heavily depends upon the people of the world using US Dollars for their purchases of petroleum fuel products!

The petrodollar concept, however, has an Achilles heel. Any country which succeeds accumulating "huge" reserves of petrodollars become also a contender in the supremacy game. It can use its petrodollar reserves to invest worldwide, purchase land, build infrastructure and offer loans to third world countries. Japan is one of the contender, but refrains acting - as a "faithful" ally to the US. China, another contender, on its part, is now doing that, not only in Africa but also in Europe and even in the US.

Thus the petrodollar concept become more and more insecure (for the US) as time pass by and the flood of petrodollars over the world keep rising, particularly in the Eastern countries - Asia.

Therefore, one has to ask the following question: What happens to the US supremacy if the petrodollar is no more?

After the global economic turndown of 2008 [a, b, c, d, e, f, g], and the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq, emerging economies (China, Russia, Brazil and India) which cannot be bullied to submission started thinking about how to fight against the petrodollar supremacy. They set up the BRICS organization in 2008.

And then "erupted" the Ukraine crisis (February 2014,) which results in the annexation of Crimea by Russia (March 2014,) followed by political and economic sanctions enacted against Russia by the US and its Nato's allies. To retaliate, Russia decided to disconnect its national currency, the Rubble, from the Dollar. That is the situation now on the date of this delivery - April 15, 2014.

In other words, since the start of the Ukraine's crisis in February 2014, Russia is taking necessary political and economic measures to drop the petrodollar. Which means that most lesser powerful nations would follow suit as soon as the road is cleared!

- The End of the Petrodollar. The World at Crossroads

Let's quote a financial analyst and investment planner, Erika Nolan, writing in the Sovereign Investor Daily:

"...the petrodollar has now become like a choke-chain keeping an ornery pit bull on the porch. We run at the mailman, barking and snarling, with our teeth bared, but we quickly learn we have only so much chain before we get the choke. The mailman knows this � and so do we. And so we�ve reached the point where our barking � our almighty sanctions �� will prove increasingly impotent to meaningful countries like Russia�"

For more on the matter let us now listen to Jim Willie from goldenjackass.com, interviewed by Paul Sandhu, speaking about the global economic reset. Listen to Jim Willie geopolitics and geostrategic speech and be informed. It is a bit lengthy (two hours) but worthwhile to listen to, to understand what is going on now in this world - as economic (and political) change through breakdown of the existing order is here now!

For those who want the gist of the interview, below are listed the topics discussed and forecast made by Jim Willie - from this year 2014 and beyond:

1. The Ukraine turmoil - Russia and China's coordinated Financial and Commercial Response to the threats of the West led by the US. 2. Most of the Non-Western world is backing Russia, but there are 3 countries in particular that will play a key supporting role in this new 'cold war', and at least two of these have been strong allies of the US in recent times. 3. Jim gives his insight into what he sees happening to US treasuries and the US dollar, and the Petrodollar in the short and long term. 4. Jim forecasts a 'Split' dollar, a domestic dollar, let's call it the Republic dollar, and dollars held outside the US will become 'International dollars'. 5. The pressures that Jim sees placed upon the Domestic dollar and it's near instantaneous 33% devaluation (to start.) 6. The coming Barter System for settlement of international trade, reducing the US dollar to the dustbin of history. Jim Willie's website: http://www.GoldenJackass.com

- What for African Countries in This Geostrategic Change Described Above?

If you listen to the whole interview, you noticed that towards the end of the stream, Jim Willie stated that there is no middle classes in most African countries - with the exception of South Africa (this writer input).

No doubt, the looming economic and political change through the breakdown of the existing predatory system, open the door ajar for African countries to break free, setup competitive economies to create riches for all; and increase the purchasing power of the populations - that had stagnated for 50 years running - as extensively demonstrated in Africans, Stop Being Poor!

And solve once for all the energy crisis in Africa, opting for free energy technology.

Click here to read about: The Global Reset is Here Now! Time for African Nations to Flock With the BRICS.

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Many thanks for dropping by and see you here on July 15, 2014

Dr. B.M. Quenum
Editor of AFRICABIZ

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES IN AFRICA

- Several business opportunities - component parts of the Integrated Developing Scheme described in Africans, Stop Being Poor! are listed in following table.

- NO MORE SYSTEMATIC UPDATE TO "BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES"

With the release on January 31, 2013 of Africabiz Media™ flagship eBook, Africans, Stop Being Poor! The Roadmap to Prosperity for African Nations, the systematic update of the "Business Opportunities" section ends with delivery 129.

The several deliveries about "Business Opportunities" in African countries - started since 1997 - exposed in the table above number 128. Each of these opening way to at least five additional investment opportunities, that makes around 600 (six hundred) business opportunities exposed by Africabiz Online since 1997.

That is enough for anyone searching for business opportunities in African countries, to find his bread and water to entering the promising market of 49 sub-Saharan African countries where double-digit growth rate is the norm for well planned and professionally implemented projects.

From time to time, some exceptional project might be here reported, which needs shareholders.

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