'Greek default hype part of Euro vs Dollar global currency war'.

RussiaToday on Jul 22, 2011 - A major U.S. credit agency says it will downgrade the Greek debt to 'default status' as a result of the second bailout for the country. The plan agreed by EU leaders, includes both government and private loans totaling around 150 billion euros. For a broader discussion on the state of the European economy we're joined live from Germany by William Engdahl, author of 'Gods of Money'.

USD & World Trade - The Theft Under Our Nose.

The US have stole the world resources by giving valueless paper in return. They stole at least USD 14 trillon worth of world resources and still the world is missing the plot. USD14 trillion is USA's total debt as at May 2011 and its growing at USD1 trillion p.a This means every year USA steals USD1 trillion worth of our resources under our nose by printing paper currency and the world is still blind to the theft.

If only the Muslim world wakes up. If only the Muslim world finds an alternative other than USD in trades between itself. It will begin to at least stop some of the thieving. If only the Muslim world becomes a common market. In trades with non Muslim countries it can first try barter trade. When that limit has been reached exchange of each others currencies. And when forced then can use yuan or euro cautiously lest they become another USD. Muslim intellect must sit and discuss solutions to this problem.

But this will never happen when we have Muslim nations in blind support of the US. Much of these nations' investments are in the US including real property. It is difficult to dethrone the USD in the light of such fundamental compromises of principles.

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BRICS credit: Local currencies to replace dollar.

SANYA: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa - the BRICS group of fastest growing economies - Thursday signed an agreement to use their own currencies instead of the predominant US dollar in issuing credit or grants to each other.

The agreement, the first-of-its-kind, was signed at the 3rd BRICS summit here attended by Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, China's Hu Jintao, Brazil's Dilma Rousseff, Russia's Dmitry Medvedev and South Africa's Jacob Zuma.

"Our designated banks have signed a framework agreement on financial cooperation which envisages grant of credit in local currencies and cooperation in capital markets and other financial services," Manmohan Singh told reporters at a news conference with other BRICS leaders.