India To Pay Gold For Iranian Oil;China Next

Is this the first step of the collapse of the US dollar?

more links to check out below

India to pay gold instead of dollars for Iranian oil. Oil and gold markets stunned
http://www.debka.com/article/21673/
Gold for Oil: India and Iran Ditch Dollar — Report
http://www.forexcrunch.com/gold-for-oil-india-and-iran-ditch-dollar-report/

NASA High Definition View Of Earth For 2012

A ‘Blue Marble’ image of the Earth taken from the VIIRS instrument aboard NASA’s most recently launched Earth-observing satellite – Suomi NPP. This composite image uses a number of swaths of the Earth’s surface taken on January 4, 2012.

Suomi NPP is carrying five instruments on board. The biggest and most important instrument is The Visible/Infrared Imager Radiometer Suite or VIIRS. NPP orbits the earth at 512 miles above the surface. The image is composited from 4 orbits. A map projection algorithm is used to put the VIIRS data in the image. The map projection transformation provides the global look of the image.

8000 x 8000 Resolution

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Credit: NASA/NOAA/GSFC/Suomi NPP/VIIRS/Norman Kuring