Oil Goes Up As US Politicians In Israel Threaten Iran

May 21, 2008

Elaine Meinel Supkis

The politicians who supposedly represent us have been very busy this week. Are they stopping the mad speculators who are driving up oil prices? Are they dropping the war talk that is driving up oil prices? HAHAHA. No. They are all yelling, as usual, for MORE war with Iran! The shouting for war is increasing. Pelosi is in Israel demanding our navy blockade Iran and prevent Iran from selling oil???? ARGH. Someone reel this lunatic in! She is a traitor to the US. We are going bankrupt already. Does this fool want more of this game? But then, the warmongers at the NYT assures us that the war talk isn't war talk. Right. Oil will be over $150 a barrel by next week if not earlier thanks to Pelosi, Bush, and a whole cast of criminals.

Olmert to U.S.: Impose naval blockade on Iran

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has proposed in discussions with the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, that a naval blockade be imposed on Iran as one of several ways to pressure Iran into stopping its uranium enrichment program.

Although the White House denied a published report that U.S. President George W. Bush intends to attack Iran before the end of his term in January, the Bush administration is said not to have ruled out entirely the possibility of an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.

A story in the Jerusalem Post quoted an unidentified official as claiming that a "senior member" of Bush's entourage to Israel last week made the statement about attacking Iran in a closed meeting. However, White House press secretary Dana Perino said the article is "not worth the paper it's written on." She added that the administration's preference and actions for dealing with Iran remain through peaceful diplomatic means.
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Israelis who spoke to Bush and his entourage while they were in Israel last week said they had the impression that the military option "is on the table," and that the president felt a sense of deep obligation to overcome the Iranian threat.

The Iranian issue was central in Olmert's meeting over lunch Monday with Pelosi, together with 12 other members of Congress in the bipartisan delegation Pelosi led. Among those present were House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Howard Berman, and heads of the House Appropriations Committee, Nita Lowey and Gary Ackerman.

The AIPAC crew who run the Democratic party shows their true patriotism: to Israel. It should be painfully obvious to them that the oil from Iran is needed in world markets. If this is restricted even slightly, the speculators will hammer us by bidding up the future price of oil. And if we want to park our navy in the Gulf of Persia bathtub as sitting ducks...the death of the US empire was written long ago. And the method of this will be the sinking of much of our fleet in a flaming battle in the Persian Gulf. Along with the destruction of the Saudi oil fields and the annihilation of the Iranians. Who will take the Jews along with them in a general holocaust called 'WWIII' which will end with all American cities looking like Fallujah.

When the Democrats took over Congress, I didn't celebrate this. The Democrats seem bent on causing WWIII. Obama seems reluctant to do this but according to the NYT, he is going down to Florida to beg the elderly Jews there to vote for him rather than bomb, bomb, bomb Iran McCain. They wanted AIPAC Hillary who promised to answer the 3am phone call with shrieks of 'Kill them all, kill all the Iranians, kill Iranian babies! Death to all mothers in Iran!'

That should please any good witted ethnic cleanser, of course. For the US to do this: a war crime. We hung Nazis for this.

Another Rumor on Attacking Iran Bites the Dust

Who needs the morning coffee to jolt you awake, when you’ve got headlines like this one from The Jerusalem Post?

Bush intends to attack Iran before the end of his term

It’s provocative, that’s for sure. But it’s also wrong, according to The White House. In a statement issued later in the day, the president’s press secretary, Dana Perino, wielded one of the nastiest barbs in journalism, saying the article was “not worth the paper it’s written on” — after including the usual complaint about the “quoting [of] unnamed sources.”

The Post, in turn, quickly corrected its report, which was the easy part. But the farther that false news spreads on the Web, the more likely it is to remain in circulation.

Naw, they don't want a war, they want to blockade Iran? That is a declaration of war. We blockade Cuba. This is extremely unpopular with nearly the entire planet but we insist on it. This doesn't cause the price of oil to shoot up by $100 a barrel. The threats on Iran does. The connection is very powerful and to me, obvious as hell. It is never mentioned by our media which is why we had the comedy of the Democrats in Congress passing a bill demanding the US sue OPEC for the high prices. Why, OPEC refuses to ship us more oil!

Gads. This infantilism coupled with brutal vicious attacks on small nations in our path is so embarrassing. The rest of the world is laughing at our Congress. We are losing face in China and Japan. So why are we doing this? The only people impressed by this are the Israeli Jews. Who seem to have the total upper hand. The NYT admits the majority of Democrats including many Jewish Democrats, are against a war with Iran. Iran doesn't give up easily. They fought a long war with Saddam who got help from the US. They will not roll over dead for us any more than the Iraqis or the Afghanis.

Report: U.S. Will Attack Iran

Israel’s Army Radio is reporting that President Bush intends to launch a military strike against Iran before the end of his term.

The Army Radio, a network operated by the Israeli Defense Forces, quoted a government source in Jerusalem. The source disclosed that a senior official close to Bush said in a closed meeting that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney believed military action against Iran was now called for.

Bush concluded a trip to Israel last week, where he said, "The objective of the United States must be to . . . support our strongest ally and friend in the Middle East.”

The Radio report, which was quoted by the Jerusalem Post, disclosed that the recent turmoil in Lebanon, where the Iranian-backed group Hezbollah had seized virtual control of the country, was encouraging an American attack.

Hezbollah’s aggression in Lebanon is seen as evidence of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s growing influence, and the U.S. official said that in Bush’s view, “the disease must be treated, not its symptoms,” according to the Post.

The White House on Tuesday denied the Army Radio report, saying in a statement: “As the president has said, no president of the United States should ever take options off the table, but our preference and our actions for dealing with this matter remain through peaceful diplomatic means. Nothing has changed in that regard.”

The hot head talk about war is all over the place. While in the embrace of the most despicable war mongers on earth, the US mouthpieces say nothing but 'war, war and more war' but when they emerge from the Temple all covered with lipstick and semen, they all say, 'We didn't really promise the Whore of Babylon we would launch the Apocalypse.'

This is not believable. All parties were content to wait a tad two months ago because they thought that Hillary's appeal to 'working people, white working people' would defeat Obama. Then the bomb threats could be upped because BOTH the GOP and Dem candidates would be whole hog war mongers seeking to fight for Israel no matter what.

This plot has been ruined. So they have upped the ante. They want to start a war but can't be too naked about this. Thus the double talk. Saying one thing, namely lies, to the unsuspecting American public while rushing off to the True Masters in Israel and mouthing nothing but criminal conspiracies to launch a nuclear war against Iran. Arrest them all for war crimes!

The discussions about who is Chamberlain are particularly disgusting. No one is trying to stop the US. When we went insane and lunged at Iraq, the whole world including many Americans held record anti-war demonstrations. This time around, no one is bothering. Instead, the fury is growing as people put two and two together and realize that global oil prices are due to American/Israeli attempts at trying to isolate Iran and prevent Iran from operating their oil bourse that won't accept dollars.

In this battle of wits, Iran will win, by the way. All the oil pumping nations are edging away from the US. The dollar is dying. Last month, the G7 conspired to up the value of the dollar. But now, it is collapsing rapidly just like oil is shooting up. And this combo is fatal to the US public. I see some very ugly things that will come about due to this. If we rage like a blind Cyclops, we will try to crush Saudi Arabia, etc. Only this will destroy us. We get no oil this way. And it can and will launch WWIII. After all, the US tried to tear China in two just over a month ago and is being rather surly about the earthquake victims. China is in no mood to cosset us. And China does not want high oil prices, either.

Bush to Arab nations: You're running out of oil

PRESIDENT George Bush yesterday told leaders of the oil-rich states of the Middle East that they must face up to a future without their precious hydrocarbons.
In a stark warning, he said their supplies were running out and urged them to reform and diversify their economies. The outgoing United States president told the World Economic Forum, meeting in the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, that it was time to "prepare for the economic changes ahead".

Mr Bush's family name is inextricably linked to the oil industry, and this was his strongest statement yet on the future of global supplies.

He told the conference: "The rising price of oil has brought great wealth to some in this region, but the supply of oil is limited, and nations like mine are aggressively developing alternatives to oil.

"Over time, as the world becomes less dependent on oil, nations in the Middle East will have to build more diverse and more dynamic economies."

This man is insane, as we all know. He is also stupid. Bin Laden desperately wanted Bush to win both elections. 'Praise Allah, we shall destroy America!' he gloated. Congratulations, bin boy. You win.

Gates: U.S. 'stuck' in Guantanamo

Efforts to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are at "a standstill," Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a Senate subcommittee Tuesday.

"The brutally frank answer is that we're stuck, and we're stuck in several ways," Gates told the defense subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

Human rights groups have long called for the facility to be closed, alleging that detainees endure numerous human rights violations amounting to torture.

CIA chief Michael Hayden admitted this year that the agency had used waterboarding, a controversial technique that simulates drowning, on three Guantanamo detainees.

Gates said that he favors closing the detention center, which currently holds about 270 detainees, but that a number of problems stand in the way.

We are stuck in Iraq, in Afghanistan and stuck in a very deep financial pit and it gets worse by the hour, by the day. We should take Gates and all the other clowns driving us into so many wars in the Middle East and stick them all in Gitmo and then ask Castro to blockade it. Good riddance.

From the Antiwar.com Blog:

In March of 2006, Neil Cavuto interviewed Paul about this issue asking: Would our national security be threatened if Iran had the bomb?

Paul replied: “Could it be any worse than 30,000 nuclear missiles faced us down in the Cold War against the Soviets. Did we feel like we had to have regime change in the Cold War? Did we use containment and we can’t contain Iran?”

In the September 2007 debate hosted by Fox, moderator Brit Hume asked the candidates about a hypothetical situation involving an uncooperative, nuclear capable Iran.

Paul replied: “Thinking back to the 1960s when I was in the Air Force for 5 years and there was a Cold War going on and the Soviet’s 40,000 and we stood them down and we didn’t have to have a confrontation. We should back off. We should be talking to Iran right now. We shouldn’t be looking for the opportunity to attack them.”

In a post-debate interview with Bill O’Reilly regarding Iran, Ron Paul literally says many of the same things, including “How come we got through the Cold War when the Soviets had 40,000 of them?”

Obama has been saying what Ron Paul has been saying and I say, in the name of god, we have to defeat these war mongers. Obama isn't perfect but he isn't a Zionist robot setting out to drive us off the cliff. We have no choices left. Lord help us. I don't know if we can afford to wait until next January at this rate. Now we know why Pelosi refused to impeach Bush.

She is a traitor just like him.

Breaking news:

Olmert warns of Syria concessions

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has described peace talks with Syria as "exciting", but warned that they might involve "painful concessions".
"It's always better to talk than shoot," Mr Olmert said, though he did not say what the concessions might be.
Earlier, the two sides revealed that they had begun the talks - the first since 2000 - under Turkish mediation.
Previous negotiations collapsed over a possible withdrawal from the Golan Heights, which Israel occupied in 1967.

From my perspective: Olmert who is under fire for corruption is trying to fix his nearest borders in preparation for the Big Battle over Iran. These are not 'peace talks' but strategic moves to insure that Syria doesn't strike at Israel when Israel and the US launch WWIII.

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[B.A.]

It's what I did when playing Civilization or the great Alpha Centauri: Make amends with the dangerous neighbour, making concessions if necessary, then attack the faction further away, using air superiority. Resources are limited, so you take them down one by one. And when facing a stubborn enemy or a resisting population, the announcement "Faction Eradicated" brings a sense of relief: good riddance! The thing is, on my day to day life I'm a pretty decent person... A well desigend simulation teaches you a lot about yourself. I really should not be getting my education from reading blogs and playing games, but there you have it.

[B.A.]

It's what I did when playing Civilization or the great Alpha Centauri: Make amends with the dangerous neighbour, making concessions if necessary, then attack the faction further away, using air superiority. Resources are limited, so you take them down one by one. And when facing a stubborn enemy or a resisting population, the announcement "Faction Eradicated" brings a sense of relief: good riddance! The thing is, on my day to day life I'm a pretty decent person... A well desigend simulation teaches you a lot about yourself. I really should not be getting my education from reading blogs and playing games, but there you have it.

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

I used to play these sorts of games as a kid, even. Good way to learn ruthless imperial politics. Once, we designed a Risk game that expanded to the other planets and then other star sytems. It took months to play the game. We got to use space ships and lasers.

But the best game of all is Go. People who are too aggressive end up losing territory to more careful players. The game is won by the player using the LEAST number of stones to hold the MOST territory. Anyone can occupy angry populations with lots of troops. This bankrupts the victor.

The US has gone from war to war to war now for 60 years. At tremendous expense. I had that story of our Japan Ambassador in tears begging the Japanese to please pay us more money for protecting them.

They won't. We are going bankrupt.

[AA]

Elaine - check out jpost today for an article entitled
Microsoft almost as much Israeli as American

Hmmm
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1211288142138&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

[B.A.]

The Jerusalem Post article seems to be about Ballmer being nice to his hosts. No mention of Israeli dominance of Microsoft R+D or level of ownership. So Israelis have top engineers from Microsoft, Intel, etc. Good for them. They're smart, ambitious and highly educated. So are the Chinese. And the Indians. I'm not anti anyone myself. I just worry about faulty political checks and balances systems, since it is in the nature of all those seeking power to want no limitations placed on them.
I find more interesting the whole section of JPost on the Iranian Threat. Warmongering indeed. This after Bush told Arab oil producers they need to diversify to other energy sources. "But only the ones we approve of!" Talking and acting like a bully, while the Iranians (Thanks ATimes!) present a balanced, sensible initiative for a holistic negotiation between all parties, including Palestinians, of course.. Will they be nuked after that? I wonder...

[Ryan]

Elaine,

Have you heard about the recent gag orders of several websites?

Specifically, this one got taken down for a few days until the ACLU and EFF helped counter to allow them to it up.
http://judicial-inc.biz/

That site had been postulating different scenarios that would cause the US would go to war with Iran, and the site went offline suspeciously after the author posted about the Kitty Hawk being a possible false-flag attack.
http://judicial-inc.biz/85kitty_hawk_sacrificed.htm
http://judicial-inc.biz/Nuclear_attacks_on_america.htm

I am student of astrology, and the analysis I've done shows the middle of February, 2009 to be a particularly omnious timeframe for death of lots of people. These crazy people running our government are going to cause WWIII!

[Bokonon]

Nothing will come of the Syria-Israel talks, the only thing that the Israelis have to offer is the Golan Heights. The Syrians are prepared to talk because it stops the Israelis and the US from doing anything.

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

Probably right, Bokonon.

[GK]

Have you heard of the popularity of the book "Currency Wars" in China? Amazing.

Richard Cook writes a brilliant article excerpted below on how the US will be used and discarded after WWIII to control the middle east.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8977

Has the Battle for America Begun?

by Richard C. Cook

The world’s financial elite, long having made their homes in the metropolises of Western Europe, also with a major branch in New York City , may be the party that is really behind what could be an attempt to start World War III by pitting the U.S. against the Asiatic land powers, most notably Russia

The elite have long viewed control of the vast resource-rich Asian continent as the key to control of the world, with the fulcrum of domination being the oil-rich Middle East . Such a war could begin if the U.S. and Britain follow through by attacking Iran on the heels of the Afghan and Iraq wars and recent military deployments to the Persian Gulf region.

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European Lust for Control of the Middle East

It was really the European elite, both deeply materialistic and coldly inhumane, that was responsible for both of the 20th century’s world wars, for funding the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia , and for bringing about today’s economic crisis that threatens to reduce to abject poverty or even starve perhaps half of the world’s population. Now a third world war threatens, and while it appears on the surface that the immediate cause may be U.S. ambitions in the Middle East , this is a mask for the underlying machinations of the European controllers who are pulling the strings.

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Connection with the 2008 Presidential Election

The war scenario is unfolding now and will likely accelerate as we approach the November presidential election. The actions underway appear to be designed to present any new president with a fait accompli, where corrective action is no longer possible. It would be the last and worst of the catastrophes visited on our nation by the revolutionary cabal of George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, and the neocon shock troopers who took over when the Supreme Court awarded Bush the presidency after the 2000 Florida election debacle. Within nine months came the 9/11 attacks, followed by wars against Afghanistan and Iraq using off-the-shelf plans. Next came the Department of Homeland Security and the Patriot Acts.

Now in 2008 the three remaining presidential candidates are all compromised. Hillary Clinton, with her husband Bill, have long been servitors of that branch of the international financial elite headquartered on Wall Street in New York City . Recently, Republican candidate John McCain traveled to do homage to Israel , then attended a soiree with the Fourth Baron Rothschild in London . Barack Obama has also affirmed his loyalty to Israel , though his utterances against Iran are less vehement than those of Hillary Clinton, who has threatened to “obliterate” that nation.
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According to Benjamin Freedman (1890-1984), an American eye-witness to events within the Woodrow Wilson administration, Wilson took the U.S. to war only after being pressured to support Great Britain when the British agreed to facilitate creation of a Zionist state in Palestine . The original Zionists, led by Theodor Herzl, had been favorably disposed to accepting a British offer of virgin land in Kenya , but the financiers wanted Palestine because of Middle Eastern oil and proximity to the Suez Canal . The result was the Balfour Declaration of 1916.

At the end of World War I came the Russian Revolution, when the financiers paid for the Bolsheviks to destroy the Russian Christian monarchy of the Romanoffs. Soviet communism was the result. Less than a generation later another world war was fought, with World War II ending with the triumph of the U.S. , Britain , France , the Soviet Union, and China as allies. Afterwards, finance capitalism exerted its control of the developing world through the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. According to economist Michael Hudson, the West declared the existence of a Cold War only after the Soviet Union refused to accede to U.S. hegemony by joining the IMF. (Michael Hudson, Superimperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire, 2003)

Another major revolution followed World War II, as had happened after World War I, but this time in China , where the communists under Mao Tse-Tung took over. In 1948, the nation of Israel was declared, partly through the instrumentality and wealth of the Third Baron Rothschild, who was also an MI5 controller and alleged Soviet agent. (See Roland Perry, The Fifth Man, 1994.)

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According to Asia Times Online (April 8, 2008), Currency Wars “has become a runaway bestseller in China in the past nine months. The book caused a sensation of interests and heated discussions in Chinese cyber space and other media on Western intentions behind its demand that China quickly appreciate the value of its currency. Song Hongbing, the book's author, draws from a wide range of literature in English and argues that the modern history of international finance is primarily a process of how a very small number of powerful families in the West have established their control over governments and international institutions.

“According to Song, there is no such thing as a free market when it comes to global finance and financial institutions. From the Rothschild family at the time of the Napoleonic Wars to the rise of J.P. Morgan, the Rockefellers, and other prominent U.S. financial powerhouses, Song sees all the modern wars, depressions, and manmade disasters having a linkage to the manipulation of a handful of Western private bankers.”

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For the longer-term, we should step back, reassess the geopolitical outlook, and take the long-overdue step of recognizing who our natural allies in the world really are. One of these is Russia . Instead of fighting Russia we should forge a new alliance with that nation with the aim of securing peace, first in the Middle East and then in the world.

Richard C. Cook is a former U.S. federal government analyst, whose career included service with the U.S. Civil Service Commission, the Food and Drug Administration, the Carter White House, NASA, and the U.S. Treasury Department. His articles on economics, politics, and space policy have appeared on numerous websites. His book on monetary reform, entitled We Hold These Truths: The Hope of Monetary Reform, will be published soon by Tendril Press. He is also the author of Challenger Revealed: An Insider’s Account of How the Reagan Administration Caused the Greatest Tragedy of the Space Age, called by one reviewer, “the most important spaceflight book of the last twenty years.” His Challenger website is at www.richardccook.com.

[GK]

Found that article on Currency Wars book on at the Asia Times. Does anyone really read the US newspapers anymore?

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/JD08Cb01.html

Fanning the flames of currency wars
Currency Wars (Huobi Zhanzheng), a book written by a Chinese native who lived in the United States and worked on Wall Street, has become a runaway bestseller in China in the past nine months [2]. The book caused a sensation of interests and heated discussions in Chinese cyber space and other media on Western intentions behind its demand that China quickly appreciate the value of its currency. Song Hongbing, the book's author, draws from a wide range of literature in English and argues that the modern history of international finance is primarily a process of how a very small number of powerful families in the West have established their control over governments and international institutions.

According to Song, there is no such thing as a free market when it comes to global finance and financial institutions. From the Rothschild family at the time of the Napoleonic Wars to the rise of JP Morgan, the Rockefellers and other prominent US financial powerhouses, Song sees all the modern wars, depressions and men-made disasters having a linkage to the manipulation of a handful of Western private bankers.

The Great Depression of the 1930s, the oil crises of the 1970s, and the fall of the Soviet Union were all apparently masterminded by the small group of Western bankers and financiers. The book's significance and its number one spot in China today is due to the author's argument that after Japan was brought to its knees by the forced appreciation of the yen, and after the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 that shattered the other Asian "miracle economies", the American and European financial oligarchs are now turning their attention to China - and the form of the real Western subversion of the Chinese economy would come in the form of "currency wars".

As the book's preface makes very clear, the West has so far been unable to stop the rise of China but there is clear and present danger ahead. The analogy here is that China is like a huge economic development aircraft carrier, which can take on all challenges coming from every direction.