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  • The Slippery Truth About Oil Price [View article]
    But so does the right. Neocons are in bed with the mercantile bankers. This playing favorites is fascist and leftist. It is Hitler and Hamilton.


    On Nov 20 09:49 AM Brandon211 wrote:

    > Folks should really use "leftist" rather than "liberal." A liberal
    > is a person who believes in freedom. What you guys are referring
    > to is a "leftist." A leftist is a person who worships the state like
    > a mindless sheep.
    Nov 20 14:41 pm |Rating: 0 -1 |Link to Comment
  • The Slippery Truth About Oil Price [View article]
    Amazing, the Saudis and the Chinese are helping the American consumer fight massive asset speculation and appreciation. That makes the Saudis and Chinese more patriotic than our own Larry Summers!!!! hubpages.com/hub/The-R...
    Nov 20 14:39 pm |Rating: +1 0 |Link to Comment
  • Dollar Danger: Iran's Oil Bourse Steps Up Activity [View article]
    Ah, Fallujah, the hidden massacre. Just another war crime from Bush and Cheney. I agree that China has put the breaks on. If their oil gets disrupted, they will sell treasuries like no tomorrow. And if there is to be a world recovery, China is crucial to that recovery.

    On Nov 01 02:13 PM Chris Cook wrote:

    > @Old trader
    >
    > Clearly the distrust has historical roots in respect of Perfidious
    > Albion which go back a long way.
    >
    > I think the US has tended to be more open in their self-interest
    > - at least in terms of energy security - than the Brits. Even though
    > I am a Brit myself, I recognise that if there were an Olympic gold
    > medal for dissimulation and hypocrisy, we would win it out of hand.
    >
    >
    > @User 357705
    >
    > I think that the US, under Bush, fully intended to bring democracy
    > to Iran, after Iraq. Real Men Go To Tehran etc etc
    >
    > But post Fallujah they recognised their mistake, and the 'nuclear
    > threat' (not visible anywhere before Fallujah) was created as a justification
    > for a strategy to bomb Iran (but not its oil fields) back to the
    > Stone Age, leading to regime change at best and a failed state at
    > worst.
    >
    > I think that in mid 2007 the Chinese asserted themselves for the
    > first time, and pulled the plug on Bush's adventurism. I see that
    > point as the "Suez Moment" for the US. ie In the same way that a
    > US threat to pull the economic plug forced the Brits and French to
    > pull out from Suez, so the Chinese probably 'persuaded' the US to
    > give up any idea of bombing Iran.
    >
    > So in summary the US will not bomb Iran - period - without Chinese
    > agreement, I think, which would only be forthcoming if the Iranians
    > went mad. And whatever the propaganda view of Iran may be, my view,
    > having met some of the Iranian decision makers, is that the top level
    > Iranians are anything but mad.
    >
    > So to bomb Iran that leaves only Israel, and - putting the issue
    > of US permission/approval to one side - I think it suits Israel to
    > demonise Iran, to distract from their settlement agenda, in the same
    > way that it suits Ahmadinejad to demonise Israel as a distraction
    > from a failing economy.
    Nov 01 21:02 pm |Rating: +1 -2 |Link to Comment
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