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,
we have the CIA playing a black ops game in the US to stop us from talking about bin Laden and his plans to bankrupt us,
we have Russia and China conspiring to bankrupt us,
we have both Russia and China eager to woo the Saudi royals away from our grasp and
we have the Saudis worried about internal revolutions in Islam due to the people who worship in this religion hating their guts and wishing they were dead!
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:
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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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
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