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Jittering Blender 2y ago

nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a, does Broken Money contain dark humor or is it just me?

After you detail the establishment of the petrodollar system, I soon after read the following. “In 1999, Saddam Hussein of Iraq (which at the time had the second-largest oil reserves) began selling oil in the newly created euro”.

At this point I know that this shit won’t fly because the deal was to only be slinging oil for Benjamin’s.

Then we get to the following sentence. “The public reason at the time was focused on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, which were never found and were never there.”

I couldn’t help but think of the Black Bush Dave Chappell Show skit with “yellow cake” uranium.

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Lyn Alden 2y ago

I would say so, yes.

Perhaps more specifically, there are some understated topics to make them palatable to new people to the topics that have some humor for people that are more deeply familiar with the topics.

Anonymous 2y ago

Found this old CNN article from October 2000. I didn’t know the euro was accepted for oil back then. Puts more of the 9/11 attacks into perspective. As a 10 year old, I was always told “they hate us for our freedom” L O L