MAJOR FOREIGN HOLDERS OF U.S. TREASURY SECURITIES

[sullivan]

As the document is laid out in columns of text requiring monospaced fonts, it doesn't post well here.

http://www.treas.gov/tic/mfh.txt

What is interesting and a little frightening is that Ireland has gone from holding $13.9 billion of worthless T-Bills in June 2008 to $50.6 billion in May 2009. What on earth is going on? A country that was already in recession, whose government claims they don't have money for this, that and the other, is pouring billions into the black hole that is the US treasury?

[Wimpy]

Something that I noticed when scanning this chart Of Foreign Treasury Security holders is China actually increased it's Holdings, in one year, from $ 506Billion to $ 801 Billion.  Why all this fear talk about China cashing in their Treasury chips?  Same with Russia, from $63 Billion to $124 Billion?  If anything stands out in this chart are those countries who 'Have' cashed in some chips:

United Kingdom  from $271 Billion to $162 Billion  

Brazil  from $151  Billion to $127 Billion

Mexico  from $39 Billion to $28 Billion

Norway  from $47 Billion to $28 Billion

Canada  from $30 Billion to $11 Billion

Of the thirty plus Countries and consortiums listed the vast majority increased their holdings of US treasury securities.

Why would Brazil, Mexico, Canada and Norway, countries whom we import oil from, actually have a decrease in their holdings where the Oil Exporting countries on this list (Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Indonesia, Oman, Qatar...)  had a net increase in holdings from $164 Billion to $193 Billion?

I'll chew on this a while particularly focusing on the UK and it's big sell-off.

[abduLMaria]

what i don't understand is why other countries don't use their power to exert more control over American foreign policy.  personally i would find it a drag if another country decided to put their military base in my backyard.

if the world wants to be free of the Israeli-American "Ring of Fire", the 750+ military bases around the world, why don't some of these countries just admit making a mistake on American Treasuries, and just buy gold and silver to back their currencies ?

my guess is, the Central Banks of each of these countries is heavily infiltrated by the Zionist military-industrial-banking complex.

also, Israel & the US wreak enough Havoc that the only way many people see that they can provide for their family's welfare & safety is to buy into the American nightmare.  e.g. a North Vietnamese friend who was in Vietnam for the first part of the war and moved to one of the seats of the complex, San Diego, in order to raise his family.