Explaining More Things About Global Power





July 19, 2008

Elaine Meinel Supkis


Just last week, Bloomberg News finally reported the obvious: US war talk about Iran leads to higher oil prices! Amazing! Since then, our allies and others have pressured us behind the scenes to stop doing this. Also, Saudi Arabia is trying to bribe Moscow to stop supporting Iran. And China has behind the scenes, used their trillion dollar reserves to twist Bush's arm about arming Taiwan. And the Soviet-style terror watch list grows and grows at a mad rate. Reporters who annoy the Zionist dual citizen running Homeland Security are put on this list.


Saudis offer Moscow billions to break with Tehran

MOSCOW - Saudi Arabia has offered to buy Russian arms worth 2.4 billion dollars (1.5 billion euros) if Moscow stops supporting Iran, a Russian newspaper reported Tuesday, citing diplomatic sources.
"The kingdom's government advised Moscow to cease its cooperation with Tehran, and in exchange it held out the prospect of profitable contracts with Saudi Arabia," the daily business newspaper Kommersant wrote.
The report came one day after Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with the General Secretary of Saudi Arabia's Security Council, Prince Bandar bin Sultan.
Citing sources in Russia's defence industry, the newspaper said Saudi Arabia was ready to buy at least 100 BMP-3 combat vehicles, 150 T-90 tanks and 160 Mi-17, Mi-26 and Mi-35 helicopters.


The Saudis are accustomed to running things this way. They buy stuff if people are good to them and obey them. Sometimes they make mistakes like when they allowed the US and Europe to export Iraqi oil during the 190's right when Russia suddenly jerked into view when Russia was privatized and all that Russian oil hit world markets. The price of crude collapsed. The Saudis hated and feared Saddam just as much as the Israelis by then because Saddam suddenly invaded Kuwait. The US mercenary troops hired by the Saudis drove out the Iraqis in Gulf War I.


Indeed, the only time the US trade deficit moved into positive territory for one quarter was due to the Saudi payments to the Pentagon! The Israelis and the owners of US media supported this suppression of Saddam because he was paying Palestinian bombers if they attacked Israeli Jews. The IDF was very anxious to take down Saddam. But not the Saudis. The Saudis needed him to distract and distress the Iranian Revolutionaries. Also, he kept the millions of Shi'as in Iraq under lock and key, a top priority item for the Saudi royals.


The Saudi fingerprints were all over the 9/11 attacks. This is why Kissinger was first fingered for leading the 9/11 coverup commission. The Bush/Saudi/bin Laden connections had to be eliminated, censored or morphed into something less conspiratorially dangerous. I am sorry to say, one of the deep cover actions taken in the following three years of CIA-business was to launch a misinformation campaign online that would convince people that the true conspiracy wasn't important, instead, they were to go chase off after various rabbits like greyhounds on a race track running after a mechanical rabbit that goes in circles.


First, they used the 'there was no jet hitting the Pentagon' false flag story. That ran well for about a year then collapsed as the obvious failures in that story line didn't take. Then they upped the speed on the 'bombs in the World Trade Center' false story. This took hold. Because it is so obviously false yet can't be totally defeated by obvious evidence like the 'no jet hit the Pentagon' false story, it has utterly destroyed anyone's desire to examine or talk about the SAUDI-BUSH CONNECTIONS TO 9/11. Now, the media can stay silent and anyone online who mentions 'bin Laden' and '9/11' are instantly silenced by a mob of very angry people who passionately believe in these mystery bombs, no one ever talks about all this but the small 'bombs in the building' community.


THIS SERVES THE SAUDIS AND BUSHES JUST FINE. This is not a digression on my part. I lost thousands of readers by tackling this deal head on. I can't prove this is all a CIA/DARPA con job but deep in my bones, I am certain about this. I grew up in the heart of that dark land of lies which is the CIA. My own parents spent most of their time lying to me about nearly everything including myself. The Bushes lie to various family members such as wives, for example. Within families, there are conspiracies that lock out other members. My own family directly knows the entire Saudi royals.


We have lived in Saudi Arabia. Did government business there. We also know the Bushes. This sounds unbelievable but alas, it is true. 'But why are you a nobody online, Elaine?' people ask. Well, even when I camped out in front of the UN for one month and tormented both Bush Sr. and the Chinese communists and even when many heads of state, visiting the UN, would stop in to chat with me, none of this made the news except on CNN and this is never mentioned since and Ted Turner, to my horror, sold CNN, well...no one listens to me because I know too much.


Back to the Saudis: they are slippery fish. King Faisal was fairly straight forwards and in some ways, an honorable man. He even allowed my mom to be in a photograph with him, unveiled, inside Saudi Arabia itself! She was the first woman ever honored in this fashion there! He was also assassinated soon afterwards. This was due to his using oil as a weapon against Israel. The half brother who replaced him was thoroughly corrupt and loved idleness and money. And he was literally bought off. Since then, Saudi Arabia does nothing for the Palestinians. Nothing. This, in turn, inspired bin Laden who is roughly my age and ran in the same circles, to oppose the new king who sat on that bloody throne.


Bin Laden, like myself, is very, very real. And extremely astute. He knows the various big hot shots on the world stage the same way I know them. He knows their weaknesses. One of the queerest things happening today is how the '9/11 Truth' movement and many other people online have basically erased bin Laden and now pretends he doesn't stride the world's stage or turn the Wheel of History!


He is rapidly going from 'the man to fear' to 'who's that?' Or even, 'bin Laden is FAKE.' Wow. I was systematically erased this same way. And this is because the CIA at first, thought they controlled bin Laden. They foolishly thought he was on their 'side' namely, accepting the powers and the wealth of the Outer Darkness and would toil towards the goal of enslaving humanity for the ruling elites. Instead, he turned on them and did a direct hit.


Which at first, pleased the hell out of them! This was the 'Pearl Harbor' the elites desperately wanted. They could goad all the West into focusing on hating bin Laden. But there were several flaws in this plan. One top flaw was, bin Laden was a friend of the Bushes as well as his father being very deeply intertwined in the CIA as well as the murder of King Faisal. Secondly, bin Laden is a 'magician': he knows about the Outer Darkness, the Cave of Death, how wealth is attached to this dire cave, how INTERNATIONAL FINANCES WORK, how the Saudi royals interface with both Israel and the US, etc. In other words, he knew far, far too much.


So, after announcing we would capture him and put him on trial, this morphed rapidly into 'Kill that brat! Shut him up!' The last thing the people bin Laden knew wanted was for him to go on trial in a global 'let's get to the bottom of this' investigation! So instead of capture, the battle of Tora Bora was an assassination mission. This is why the Pentagon, the first week, called this 'the perfect battle' when it was a total defeat. For after digging like mad, they discovered they did NOT kill bin Laden! This flipped out the Saudi royals as well as the Bush clan. The guy who knew too much was loose and able to strike them all down!


Bin Laden's tactics and strategy will go down in history if there is any real historians, as a tremendous thing, he is like Napoleon or Genghis Khan. Americans bridle at this idea because we are self-centered. We imagine no one is smarter than us. This is why people want desperately to believe that Bush engineered 9/11 rather than taking advantage of bin Laden's long range plans. Israel and the oil bosses around Cheney desperately wanted to have the US on the warpath in the Middle East. The desire to drive up oil profits and gain power over OPEC was a tremendous temptation. Bin Laden knew this! This is why he knew the CIA and Bush would both join the King of Saudi Arabia in enabling and funding the 9/11 attacks.


The Saudi royals today are continuing this bizarre game. By offering Russia money to help them isolate the Shi'ite revolutionaries who now not only run Iran but are wrestling away power from the US in Iraq and taking over all systems there, now Saudi Arabia, a corrupt government that is basically destroying Islam because they are cooperating with the suppression of the Palestinians, the Saudis will now face not just one but TWO nations that are accusing them of corruption and defiling Mecca. And that is bin Laden's goal. He is fighting over who runs Mecca and who owns Jerusalem! He doesn't give a fig about what happens to the US. He does know that his battle over Mecca and Jerusalem is all about destroying the US ability to fund the defense of the Saudi royals and the Israeli Jews! Bankrupting the US will weaken both, greatly!


He is so cocky about this, he even boasted openly that this is his strategy! But like myself, this business was covered up and deliberately ignored by US politicians and the press. Online, there is virtually no mention about any of this by anyone at all at this point. Even writers who used to talk about this have shut up due to the mobs who attack them from all sides to make them shut up. As usual, I don't care. This is for the historical record.


Putin is no fool. He ran the KGB and when he did this, he got his paws on tons of information that is totally hidden from view. We can't see this information. Or rather, those of us who know this information won't talk about it. Or in my case, no one believes me. Not only did I spar with the future Pope in Tübingen in 1968, I also sparred directly with Stasi and the KGB. Being a CIA brat, these agencies sent people to deal with me and to see if I could give them information. Instead, I spied on THEM. This led to a comical encounter when I told the Stasi that I was going to sneak into East Germany and take them by surprise. The KGB contacted the West Germans and they stopped me. Rats. What fun that would have been.


Back to Putin: he was a KGB agent in East Germany. He knows my records. I know his stuff. And this is why I never, ever underestimated him and his powers. He is very interested in the Middle East. He is also very interested in bankrupting the USA. He also knows the Chinese lived with me in New Jersey and that I had some rather hysterically funny arguments with the CIA and the State Department over future Chinese plans to bankrupt America. And he trotted off to China at the first opportunity after playing a very delicate diplomatic game to CONSPIRE with the Chinese over this little business of bankrupting the USA. Note that both China and Russia are the biggest joint holders of US debt. Now, what do bankers do when they hold someone in debt? DEBT IS SLAVERY.


So,

All the foreign mercenaries in the world can't stop the Shi'a from overrunning Saudi Arabia!


So Saudi Arabia has advertised their weakness to the world with this news that they want to buy out the Russians vis a vis the Shi'a. The Shi'a, in turn, know that this only strengthens them in the eyes of the 'Arab Street'. Namely, either the Sunni overthrow their corrupt leaders or they will lose legitimacy and the Shi'a will be the only ones 'blessed by Allah'. This is no small matter. Not at all.


Putin is a very smart man. He is canny as a fox. He knows how black ops operates and he knows how it FAILS. This is key. The failure of the KGB in Russia was tremendous. Russia collapsed! Using strong arm tactics, blackmail and other KGB tools, Putin pulled a putsch on New Year's Eve 2000. He figuratively put a gun to Yeltsin's head and ordered him to resign. A man capable of doing this is most dangerous. Americans, accustomed to viewing ourselves as smart and clever, like to make fun of Putin. This is foolish. Just like we make fun of other successful geniuses like Mao. Or Hitler, for that matter. Hitler worked undercover in Germany before taking over. Indeed, the ability of the dark ops people to take over is a lesson here: the Bush family is CIA. Soon after the Putin putsch, the Bushes destroyed the ability to count votes in the 2000 election and got the Supreme Court to rule in Bush's favor by basically saying, votes don't count.


I know this jumps all over the map here but whenever we look at the Dark Side of history, this is what happens! It is very naive for people to think, they are not being manipulated outrageously even as they are being jerked about violently by the strings.


Iran Pours Cash Into Afghanistan, Seeking Leverage Against U.S.

(Bloomberg) -- The flags of Iran, Afghanistan and Tehran-based Abad Rahan Pars Road & Construction Co. fly above a railroad work camp west of the Afghan city of Herat, signaling another commercial incursion from across the border.
Surrounded by a mud-brick wall in the style of an ancient desert fortress, the site houses 1,000 Afghans and Iranians building tracks to link Mashhad in northeastern Iran with Herat, about 200 miles away. The line will run alongside a highway the company completed in 2006 and transmission wires that feed Iranian electricity to Herat's 350,000 residents.
``Every single day Iran is trying to have more influence, and where there is money, there is political power,'' said Masoud Sana, the Herat Chamber of Commerce's international relations director. ``The Iranians are always trying to find out information about what the Afghan government is going to do next.''


Money=influence. Well, what a shock! The US hands out lots and lots of money to the world for this or that. But EVERY PENNY of this money is really from Russia, China and Japan! This money is courtesy of these opponents of US hegemony. All of them are playing their own global power games. The US is allowed to imagine we are the global movers and shakers rather than fools and tools. This is due to the CIA being operated on behalf of international bankers and industrialists. Who don't care about the US budget and trade deficits! Indeed, they WANT these! These fools are unwittingly playing into the hands of Russia, China and Japan! Let me be very clear: the KGB and Chinese communist secret police and the sons of Japanese warlords all are very focused on destroying US economic powers! This is their plan! This is their REVENGE.


They are not stupid. They are smart. The people running the CIA are not stupid, they are also smart. But this is where hubris comes in: Russia and China and Japan have lost wars and gone bankrupt in the last century! They have been taught very harsh lessons. The leaders in Russia and China are in particular, extremely wily, this is how they survived! They climbed to the top the hard way. Japan fears both and is very torn over all this. They want the US to be their servants and underlings and mercenary forces. They love the present status quo. But this is destroying the US. And this strengthens Russia and China both of whom have some very serious historical bones to pick with Japan! Like the Saud king, their desires endanger them. They have a bad strategy in the long run and both Russia and China understand this and are exploiting this. Like Saudi Arabia, Japan is now triangulating with Russia and China.


BBC: Island row hits Japanese condoms

Advertisements promoting Japanese condoms have been removed from Korean underground trains amid a rekindled territorial dispute. The action was taken following complaints from passengers, a Seoul Metro spokesman told AFP news agency.
"If the territorial dispute with Japan over Dokdo had not flared up again, such complaints would not have been lodged with us," said Kim Jeong-hwan. Dokdo is the Korean name for islets known as Takeshima in Japan.


People in the street in Asia are a lot more aware of their own situations vis a vis Japan and other great powers. This is due to everyone having very vivid memories of many 19th and 20th century wars! The Chinese are most anxious to assure everyone, China wants PAX, not war. China wants to have a balance of power but of course, with them at the apex, they being the biggest, by far, in this game of international power. Japan's collapsing child support base has exposed them to a total loss of both economic and military power. This is now obvious to all their neighbors. The Japanese youth no longer oppose their own government but have given up and gone home to die. The Korean and Chinese youth are very activist and explode into the news regularly. The US could shove the blacks out of New Orleans after Katrina and nothing happened. But the earthquake in Sichuan still troubles the government as people express rage over that mess!


This is a sign of strength, not weakness. The US press greets Chinese agitation as 'the government is weak'. This is false. This is a sign of a people who are basically strong, not weak! In the US, we are weak. Economic conditions deteriorate, the government now openly oppresses us, the Constitution is dead and there is no street rage!


Japan has been secretively and not so secretively been restoring to power, the concept of the war lords being gods. This irritates all their neighbors who sense that Japan is weakening as the US goes bankrupt. Everyone in the communist world knows that the US is deep in debt to the communist powers. This gives them all some satisfaction. For the last three years, I have been very angry that the US always sides with Japan in these battles over Japanese war lords, Japan's refusal to pay reparations of various sorts to victims of Japanese aggression including paying the civilians put in concentration camps, soldiers used as slave labor, etc. The US lost lots of face in Asia due to this. And we did this because Japan owns our government.


Since 2000, both Russia and China have been heavily investing in buying up the US economic systems. Including our government debts. This way, they have an armlock on us. As we can see below:


U.S. plan to meet with Iran heightens debate

The Bush administration's decision to abandon a long-held policy and meet with a top Iranian official on Tehran's nuclear program has intensified the political debate in Washington about how best to deal with America's adversaries.
The White House decision was hailed Wednesday by Barack Obama, the presumed Democratic presidential nominee, who has criticized Republican rival John McCain and President Bush for spurning high-level talks with Iran in the past. Obama said the United States should "stay involved with the full strength of our diplomacy."
Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.), defeated by Bush in the 2004 presidential election, said the move represented "the most welcome flip-flop in recent diplomatic history."
*snip*
Administration officials insisted that the initiative was not a substantive change, but a tactic designed to increase pressure on the Iranians to accept the offer. Burns, they say, will be present but will not negotiate.
"There's no change in the substance, but it sends a strong signal," said Sean McCormack, the chief State Department spokesman.


Both China and Russia don't want their nuclear powers diluted. They both didn't like it when Pakistan and India got nukes. They want the power that nukes give as blackmail! But they also want to control the US. China wants lower priced oil right now because high-priced oil is interfering with the modernization of China. China is furious that the US is pushing relentlessly for war. All attempts at stopping this while still pressuring Iran to stop the nuclear bomb process has been a very delicate operation for China. Russia has played the US for a fool in all this. Russia loves high oil prices. But Russia also wants to keep the US from dominating the Middle East. The whole game with Iran has strengthened Russia's hand in Saudi Arabia and now Russia will insidiously entice the Saudis to shift their alliance. The Saudis are in grave danger because their alliance with the US means stealing Palestinian lands and riling up all of Islam over this business!


Iran's President is every bit as smart as Putin and Hu. He plays this game masterly, playing from weakness. I actually admire him for his ability to poke right where it matters every time he needs the US and Israel to go nuts. Now, we are being dragged over to Teheran to pet this claw-happy kitty cat. The cat won, you know. He knows! The US is unable to use real diplomacy. We rely too much on force:


Gates warns of militarization of US foreign policy

As the conflict in Afghanistan shows, coordinating war-fighting with diplomacy, job creation and road-building often doesn't work well, the Pentagon chief said in remarks prepared for delivery at an international policy dinner.
"Getting all these different elements to coordinate operations and share best practices has been a colossal — and so far an all too often unsuccessful — undertaking," said Gates.
He added that the increased involvement of the military in jobs that historically were done by civilian agencies has led to concerns of "a creeping militarization of some aspects of America's foreign policy."
*snip*
Gates has repeatedly said that the State Department and some non-governmental organizations have been underfunded and understaffed for too long. And he has warned that military might alone cannot win wars.
Instead, he has called for more support for so-called soft power, with civilians contributing more in nonmilitary areas such as communication, economic assistance and political development.


HAHAHA!!!!! I will die laughing. HAHAHA. Gates, lest we forget, is CIA!!!! And now he is asking the Pentagon to be smart? HAHAHA. Well, just this week, they got caught trying to get many millions for these 'pods' to put in jets so the generals could fly in comfort and style! THEY ARE MONEY SPENDING FOOLS. They are bankrupting America. Everything is gold plated and breaks...JUST LIKE IN THE SOVIET UNION. All our allies who don't pay taxes are demanding we spend our tax IOUs in Europe and Japan, etc. They all want a piece of our Debt Paid Cake. And we let them eat it!


If Gates wants more money for diplomacy, he knows where to cut back: his own budget! HAHAHA. And the ruling elites will assassinate him if he tries this! This is how they make money! Gads. Are we ever stuck. US foreign policy has been not only 'militarized', it has been 'CIAized' by the Black Ops section. The section that spawned the anthrax assassin. The part that was run by the Buses and is still run by the Bushes.


And Gates knows where I live. He wants more 'political development' workers who understand international politics, the nature of money and international trade, history, and who knows many world leaders and rulers, he can call me for help. HAHAHA. HAHAHA. End of story. He will not call. No one will call. Everyone will claim that people like bin Laden or myself are nobodies who know nothing.


Here is a sampling of headlines from the great site, Antiwar.com: Picture_24


We lost the wars. We lose 'hearts and minds' because we are mean and insane. End of story. Anyone wants diplomacy, we then have to turn on our own rulers and take them on. Because they are malicious fools who pushed us off the economic and diplomatic cliff. They did this to make themselves richer and so the Jews can live like Germans in 1939. This is no good and we are rapidly losing power thanks to all this. We are not a strong nation or a united nation. And Chertoff is never, ever in the news or says anything in public, he is a dual citizen traitor who is torturing our own people just as the CIA is doing this in secret prisons and the Pentagon helps.


Afghan leader visits site where US-led strikes hit wedding

(AFP) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai flew Thursday to a remote village to commiserate with families of 47 civilians killed when US-led coalition air strikes hit a wedding party, his office said. The president, who rarely travels in Afghanistan because of the threat from extremist insurgents, flew to Deh Bala near the border with Pakistan by helicopter and met more than 100 tribal elders for two hours, it said.
"I have not come here today to make political speeches, I have come to share your grief," he told the gathering according to audio copies handed to the media, who were not invited to the event.
Karzai also met relatives of the victims -- mostly women and children -- of the July 6 strikes which the coalition has said killed only militants.
The president said his government would send to Mecca the head of every family that had lost someone. A Muslim is expected to make the pilgrimage if they have the means.


We are fighting civilians. And this push to assassinate bin Laden has morphed into a disaster where we are assassinating wedding parties! And this causes us to lose power all over the place. Right on the heels of this, the Taliban successfully attacked and overran our outermost bases in Afghanistan! And the people there say, 'Good riddance'. And the US openly talks about war with nuclear armed Pakistan? HAHAHA. And Iran kitty is sneaking into Afghanistan and making friends? HAHAHA. What a total disaster all of this is.


CNN reporter criticizes TSA, finds self on terror watch list

CNN's Drew Griffin reported on the bloating of the watch list, which an ACLU count pegged at 1,001,308 names Wednesday afternoon. Griffin's is one of those names, he says.
"Coincidentally, this all began in May, shortly after I began a series of investigative reports critical of the TSA. Eleven flights now since May 19. On different airlines, my name pops up forcing me to go to the counter, show my identification, sometimes the agent has to make a call before I get my ticket," Griffin reported. "What does the TSA say? Nothing, at least nothing on camera. Over the phone a public affairs worker told me again I'm not on the watch list, and don't even think that someone in the TSA or anyone else is trying to get even."


Back to Chertoff: Ridge used to be on the news every month. He was interviewed on TV. People knew his face. He resigned because of the collapse of the investigation into the CIA black ops anthrax assassin. His replacement is a Mossad double agent dual citizen who looks like a cross of Lenin and the Joker. This man can't appear on TV because he is scary and he can't answer questions because he is a traitor. So when anyone investigates him, he lashes out using this stupid Soviet secret list. Now, the mainstream media is getting fed up about all this.


So it is finally making the news. This list was bogus from day one. Many foreign journalists instantly found themselves on this stupid list. Only now, as it vacuums up American mainstream reporters, it is getting some media notice. I hope all the reporters end up on this list. Serves them right.


The Soviet spy/terror state went bankrupt because this sort of thing is very expensive to run! So why are we imitating this? Ask the Real Rulers at the next secret Bilderberger meeting.

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Israel, as does every other nation, needs oil to survive. Israel does not sit on any oil, nor do its closest attackable neighbours ( Syria, Lebanon, Jordan ).
So who supplies Israel with the oil it needs to exist? I believe the current answer is Russia.
And on an entirely different topic: If you might need any steel for fencing or other projects buy it yesterday. The price hikes for steel combined with the increase in shipping costs is really worrisome.
And on one of my favourite topics:
http://www.survivalblog.com/2008/07/the_tomato_rebuildmachining_te.html

Posted by:CK | July 19, 2008 at 11:28 AM



All metals went up this last three years. Including even gold.

Posted by:Elaine Meinel Supkis | July 19, 2008 at 01:49 PM



Seems like Israel wants to be the Switzerland of oil. Instead of OPEC, they will be OIEC. Oil Importing and Exporting Country. Walmart of Oil. Oil Traders.

http://samvak.tripod.com/brief-russia-israel01.html

Israel is perfectly located to offer an affordable alternative to expensive and often clogged oil shipping lanes through the Suez Canal or the Cape. A revival of the Trans-Arabian pipeline (Tapline) to Haifa can considerably under-price the politically wobbly Iraqi-Turkish and the costly Suez-Mediterranean (Sumed) alternatives.

With one of every five Israelis a Russian émigré and confronted with the common enemy of Islamic militancy, Israel and Russia have embarked on a path of close cooperation. Prime Minister Sharon's visit to Russia last month was a resounding success. Faced with these millennial geopolitical developments, anti-Semitic conspiracy theorists are having a field day.

The Jewish lobby, they say, is coercing America, its long arm, to hijack the Iraqi oil fields in the forthcoming war and thus to counterbalance surging Russian oil exports. Israel, they aver, planned to carry out, in October 2001, an operation - "Mivtza Shekhina" - to secure southern Iraq's oil fields while also mitigating the threat of weapons of mass destruction aimed at its population centers.

Conspiratorial paranoia notwithstanding, it is unlikely that the USA is motivated by oil interests in its war on Saddam. A battle in Iraq aimed solely at apprehending its crude would be fighting over yesterday's oilfields. Only an easily replaceable one tenth to one eighth of American oil consumption emanates from the Gulf, about a million barrels per day of it from Iraq. Moreover, the war is likely to alienate far more important suppliers, such as Russia - as well as the largest European clients of Gulf oil extracted by American firms. Strictly in terms of oil, a war in Iraq is counterproductive.

Additionally, such a war is likely to push oil prices up. According to the Council on Foreign Relations, "for every dollar-per-barrel increase in oil prices, about $4 billion a year would leave America's $11 trillion economy, and other importing countries would lose another $16 billion per year".

Posted by:GK | July 19, 2008 at 02:24 PM




Here are the Saudi's admitting they in NYC to 'document the event'.

http://vodpod.com/watch/11634-five-dancing-israelis-arrested-on-911?pod=peterchamberlin

Posted by:GK | July 19, 2008 at 03:14 PM