Casual Observation

7 Comments

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   Oui on March 7, 2014 at 5:17 am

   Neocon Target: Why Syria? World’s Oil Supply System.

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   euzoius on March 7, 2014 at 9:00 am

   “Iraq floats on a sea of oil”—Paul Wolfowitz

   Iraq’s massive oil reserves have never been thoroughly explored or effectively exploited.  It’s some of the very last “cheap oil” on earth and now it can be sold at premium prices for low pumping costs. I hope that the Iraqi people can somehow (finally) benefit from their great national asset.

   Actually, Iraq’s oil could be seen as a long term global asset, to be used wisely over the coming generations and not pissed away in the gas tanks of plutocrat and yahoo Hummers and SUVs, or wasted in the appalling parade of double length semi-trailers which run day and night across the American interstates delivering shit for Walmart.  And pigs may fly.

   History will without question ultimately conclude that America’s oil industry/addiction was the only possible reason for Oilman Cheney’s illegal war of aggression against Iraq–a war undertaken solely to liberate Iraq’s oil from Saddam.  A war in which not a single principal will ever acknowledge the truth of their (painfully obvious) motive.  Watching Kerry fulminate about Putin’s “illegal” invasion of Ukraine is suitably comic.  

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   boran2 on March 7, 2014 at 9:47 am

   So is this finally mission accomplished?

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   keepinon on March 7, 2014 at 10:47 am

    Even though Bush II would never say it, perhaps Cindy Sheehan now knows what her son died for.

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   Oui on March 7, 2014 at 10:48 am

   The Geopolitical Warfare in the Ukraine and Syria are not far apart …

   Cheering a Neocon Led Coup d’Etat in Ukraine  by Robert Parry

   (Consortion News) – There was always a measure of hypocrisy but Official Washington used to at least pretend to stand for “democracy,” rather than taking such obvious pleasure in destabilizing elected governments, encouraging riots, overturning constitutional systems and then praising violent putsches.

   Where Syria Fits in the World’s Oil Supply System

   (WSJ) – Syria itself isn’t a major oil producer. The country’s exports have been severely restricted by U.S. and European Union sanctions in recent years and its energy infrastructure has been damaged by unrest. However, it lies in close proximity to pipelines and sea routes that transport much of the world’s crude.

   Qatar GCC gas pipeline west through Iraq and Syria to Mediterranean port

   (Oil and Energy News) May 15, 2013 – In March, the stakes were raised, especially for Qatar, when Iraq signed an agreement with Iran for a pipeline to bring gas from the latter’s massive South Pars field through Iraq into Syria [link RT.com]. It is important to understand that it was this very same pipeline specter that launched Qatar’s design to shape the conflict in Syria, which not coincidentally started about the same time that the initial agreement for the pipeline was reached.

   Before Russia Putin’s call to enforce R2P policy in Crimea:  Ukraine Tensions Flare as Pro-Russians, Crimea Tatars Clash.

   ○ The well-known hacker group Anonymous posted online the correspondence between Andrei Tarasenko, the deputy head of the Ukrainian nationalist organization “Trizub imeni Stepan Bandera” and Aslan Omer Kyrymly, the Deputy Chairman of Crimea Tatar Mejlis.

   Cross-posted from MofA – Syria: Insurgents Attack Chemical Weapon Depot

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   on March 7, 2014 at 11:50 am

   In the oil game you make money supplying oil and you make money by cutting off oil supplies and driving the price up. It’s controlling the spigot that’s the key.

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   The Voice In The Wilderness on March 7, 2014 at 6:06 pm

   Better that none of these countries produce oil. Better that oil and coal be only used a plastics feedstocks and never burned.