"Dick Cheney went to Saudi Arabia, and all Americans got was a lousy t-shirt saying 'So?' "
Thanks, Dick.
That was a Primal Moment.
Like when G.H.W. Bush said, in 1989 when the Wall came down, "THERE'S GOING TO BE NO PEACE DIVIDEND!" Lots of us said, thanks, weirdo. Now we know the 60 year Cold War was a fraud.
With Dick, we now know that we, the Taxpayers, have no representation in our (sic) government. Let that sink in good & deep. It's gonna take a few minutes for it to register where the phrase No Taxation Without Representation fits into US history.
Now consider.
Since 1965 the majority of working Americans have opposed open borders and the elites have said SO?
And most Americans hated deindustrialization and the elites said SO?
And then there's the past, current and present wars for the Jews that most of us oppose. They don't say SO? they just call us Auntie Semites.
And all my Aunties are dead!
Anyway I'd rather have the Enemy out in the open, barking in plain english.
Thanks again... DICK.
"turn up the oil spigots..."
I think the spigots are full open, Xymph. Nothing more to come. Wouldn't yours be, at $100bbl plus?
Peak Oil's behind us, some say. Nowhere to go but down and out. "So?"
I have never understood why americans fear/revere Cheney. People grovel at his feet. Amazing.
the only ones to fear the coward chene;y are the bigger cowards crawling in dc.
no peak oil for centuries.
TomDispatch on Bush's answer to the forthcoming Depression.
http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/
...the_bear_market
(That's the Bush who should be perceived as a traitor by around 95% of Americans)
and treated accordingly
,,,starting to become symbolic, particularly given the connections between this city and the financing of Zionism.
Xymphora getting realistic:
his link hereby is to:
Welcome to the Crumbling Future of the Vegas Strip
http://io9.com/371219/welcome-to...the-vegas-
strip
speculation, gambling: These ratios have risen with the latest estimates that the value of all traded paper instruments exceeds the underlying value of the assets on which they are written by 3:1. The fact that these assets may themselves be devaluing by up to 50 per cent (US housing values have declined by 25 per cent in two years) means that the overall ratio of global paper value to its leveraged base may indeed double: http://www.independent.co.uk/new...-it-
799494.html
(moonkoon's financial link from before)
So we have it: War for speculators, gamblers, liars inclusive Zionists. Not any responsibility.
"no peak oil for centuries."
5 dancing shlomos | 03.27.08 - 2:21 pm | #
There is no shortage of crude.
When tankers have to sit around waiting to discharge because the refinery product tanks are full, that tells us we have a demand problem, not a supply problem
When the product tanks are full, they can't process any more crude because there is nowhere to put it.
The reason the product tanks are full is because the tankers are not taking it to the filling stations.
The filling stations don't want so much because they are selling less.
Demand related shutdowns are being disguised this as refinery maintenance and refinery breakdowns.
"...to every one's surprise and indeed comfort, markets seem to have taken a U-turn and an abrupt one.
Indeed market fundamentals changed the scenario — almost overnight — if one could dare say so, underlining once again the crude markets were not in control of the simple demand — supply dynamics.
There are additional, extra-market forces, controlling the markets in a big, big way."
http://arabnews.com/?page=6&
sect...tegory=Business
And this,
“”Qatar’s oil minister has reiterated that the oil market is well supplied and there is no need for Opec to boost output at its February 1 meeting.
In the past week, US President George W Bush and his Energy Secretary Sam Bodman have both urged the producer group to pump more oil to ease the impact of record prices on the world’s largest economy….
…..The Qatari minister blamed the high price of oil on speculation in futures markets rather than on any problem in supplies.
....“You have to segregate the physical market from the paper market,” he said.”
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4366756a13.html
Here are a couple of graphs I found of UK and German oil consumption.
They have been flatlining for years.
US consumption is declining.
http://thumbsnap.com/v/Pa7dxljr.gif
http://thumbsnap.com/v/48AhoUzR.gif
http://thumbsnap.com/v/4Z8PuOTI.gif
It would be interesting to plot the retail pump price on those graphs. Governments are heavily reliant on petrol tax for revenue, so we're unlikely to hear many sincere complaints about crude prices.
OF YARMULKES AND EPITHETS
by Arnaud de Borchgrave
Benador Associates
March 26, 2008
Blogs, newspapers, radio, television, all in fierce competition, al-Jazeera's forced competition in the Iraqi war zone, imams double-shifting as spies, thousands of volunteer Pakistani spooks for temporary duty in Afghanistan, and it soon becomes multidimensional chess. Reporting these days requires speed reading -- and what Hemingway called a bullfeathers detector.
http://www.benadorassociates.com...m/article/
21192
Actually, moonkoon's graphs confirm what everyone suspects about utilities and essential services run by privatized cartels. Namely that prices, far from relating to performance or servicing costs, are a direct result of the irrational assertion that corporations are entitled to increase their profit each year no matter how irresponsibly they've run the business.
This state of affairs subverts the most basic principles of business and produces a culture of arrogant denial arising from the ability to raise prices to cover mistakes. But ultimately this denial leads to a chain of over-reach and cover-ups, and the company goes belly-up.
The Benador article looks like just one more piece of right-wing pro-bomb Iran blather. This passage
Tehran ran scared in the spring of 2003 and concluded Iran might be next on Bush's hit list. That fear subsided quickly as the insurgency, stoked in part by Iranian Revolutionary Guard agents, spread all over Iraq. Cheney indicated clandestine lethal aid from Iran was still continuing.
Gen. David Petraeus, commander of Multi-National Force-Iraq, went one better when he said the Easter Sunday rocket-and-mortar barrage against Baghdad's Green Zone was made possible by Iran providing the rockets.
is the embarrassing proof that America is losing, and losing badly, in Iraq. Rightt wingers can always be relied upon to whinge and moan and blame everyone but themselves when their self deception entices them out of their depth. If things were going as well as the Bush-Cheney junta would have us believe, there'd be nothing to complain about, would there?
Mr Borchgrave (I can't help wondering what one would inter in a Borchgrave) shoots himself in the foot in his closing remarks by insinuating that the ME situation is too complicated for mere mortals to understand. But he's wrong there. America is losing in Iraq and attacking Iran won't just confirm the fact. It'll put the profound incompetence behind the loss on public display for all to see.
Benador Associates is a propaganda firm. That is universally obvious. Why the hell you waste time on such things.
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