#GoldforOil

India bypassed U.S. sanctions against Iran by agreeing to pay Tehran gold for oil.
China is soon to follow. This will surely have damaging effects on the U.S. Dollar.

Update 2.7.2012: Someone did not want everybody to know about
#GoldforOil so they have re-released the 'official terms of the deal'.

 Update 11.13.2012: The above article has been slgihtly 'removed' from the Internet,
 which seems pretty strange.  So I have another article/link for you here.

Judge significantly invested in BP

BP 20$ billion escrow fund

Barad-dûr also known as BP