High Oil Prices Due To Warmongering

22/6/2008

Elaine Meinel Supkis

The Washington Post is endless fun and games when it comes to warmongering and telling blatant lies. They have this 'expert' we can ask questions concerning things like the looming bankruptcy of America due to excessive imperial warmongering across the planet. Mr. Bob assures readers, the war budget is teeny weeny! And war has little to do with high oil prices. HAHAHA. Then we look at the movie 'Syriana' and see how the Cone of Silence works in America.

Don't Blame the Economy on the War

Dear Bob,

Some Democrats, prodded by the likes of MoveOn.org, have been trying to link the Iraq war to the economic slowdown. But most economists and political advisers are pretty cautious about connecting the dots. It's fine to argue that all sorts of bad things have occurred under President Bush's watch -- including this war and this recession -- and it's fine to argue that the money being spent in Iraq could be better spent elsewhere. But the argument that the war caused the economic downturn is a losing proposition that tends to backfire, mainly because the evidence against that thesis is too compelling.
*snip*
The bursting of the housing bubble has had devastating impacts on Wall Street and Main Street, and that is the main reason for the economic downturn. Even Paul Krugman, the New York Times's Bush-hating economics columnist, has grudgingly conceded that President Bush is right when he argues that the Iraqi conflict has nothing to do with the slowdown [And if Krugman, who actually argues that the war is a form of economic stimulus, is too mainstream for you, read this: Even Mother Jones has rained on the dot-connecting parade.]

Krugman admits that wars are 'stimulus'. Well---DUH. Indeed, governments are very addicted to wars...when they are fought far away. The stimulus this brings is in the form of deficit spending. This means the government grinds out more and more IOUs. These, in turn, stimulate businesses and you get a booming economy. If these wars bring home loot, all the better. All empires start out with such looting expeditions. All populations of empires love this stage. Everyone gets richer and no one pays any future bills. These get shoved into the far future as much as possible.

Mr. Bob isn't stupid. He is venal. His masters want him to deceive readers. He has to assure us that spending year after year after year in the red by a 'mere' 3-4% is no big deal. Why, one can do this forever, no?

No. One cannot do this forever. Indeed, I have proven over and over again, using charts and graphs that ALL wars cause INFLATION. When a war ends and governments have to reduce spending on guns, bullets and other things that get destroyed in wars, the economy has to retract painfully and this causes either stagflation or a full depression. History is crystal clear about this.

Orwell in his famous '1984' talked about the logic of eternal war. This way, the totalitarian governments never have to stop full military spending and suppression of the home populations. The wars drag on forever. Like the Cold War. We are in a new Cold War. This one is being waged against Muslims. We hope to militarily occupy all Muslim nations or have them be beholden to us for protection from their own people. Or we want to own the rulers by giving them big bribes. All this is expensive. To pay for this, we are going to the Japanese and Chinese rulers begging them to buy our Treasuries and bonds.

Mr. Bob doesn't mention this silly detail. By the way, what happened to the Soviet Union when it tried to run perpetual wars and repressive occupations? It went bankrupt, didn't it? Like all previous empires that tried the perpetual war financial schemes. The logic that makes this sort of financing so wonderful works only if the wars are very limited in time and cost. The US is spending more than the entire planet spends on military adventures. We are going bankrupt. There is no doubts about this anymore. As wars are piled on top of wars, after all, one third of the planet is Muslim, we end up fighting a raging sea of people who are quite capable of hitting back, hard.

And one tool they have is to raise the price of oil. Both the Chinese, the Russian and the Muslim leaders of the world wish for one thing: for the US to go bankrupt. This way, each gets revenge. Sweet revenge. Americans are fools if we think this isn't a great motivation for people! This is also true of Japan. Revenge is a very powerful force in human psychology.

Mr. Bob isn't worried about Mr. Hand:

To be fair, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, author of "The Three Trillion Dollar War," has been making the case that the full economic impact of the war has yet to be appreciated. But the strength of his argument lies in measuring costs that will be borne in decades to come, such as disability payments for veterans. As it is, the amount of federal spending on defense these days -- about 4 percent of GDP -- is quite modest compared to the share of national wealth consumed by the military at the height of the Reagan military buildup, or during the Korea and Vietnam conflicts, as I have previously discussed.

The war in Iraq certainly has contributed to higher oil prices, but it is far too simplistic to attribute the huge spike of recent years entirely to the war, overlooking far more important factors like growing energy demands in China and India. Evidence of a lack of correlation is the fact that oil prices have been reaching new record highs as Iraq's production has finally reached prewar levels. Indeed, Stiglitz himself has argued the war accounts for about a $5 to $10 premium on the price of a barrel of oil, which has shot up by more than $100 since the 2003 invasion.

Mr. Bob is a liar and a thief. He knows that the hike in oil isn't due to just wars...though he lies about this, of course! Just this last 2 months alone, as a parade of American and Jewish Israeli Zionists threaten nuclear war with Iran, each time they do this, the price of oil can and has jumped by far more than $10. The war premium is about $30. But this is a guess.

The warmongering by the Washington Post, the New York Times and the entire US media owned by Jewish activists is the real cause of high oil prices because they and AIPAC have been ruthlessly pushing the US into a confrontation with Iran. To trigger a potential war with Iran, Israel and the US have been wasting precious US diplomatic capital to push for a global BOYCOTT OF IRANIAN OIL. This is the direct cause of the present global oil shortage!

Now, Israel and the US are demanding a complete blockade of Iran. This means NO OIL FROM IRAN. This is driving up the price of oil by another $60 a barrel. This means the warmongering is responsible for about 65% of the high price of oil. The Washington Post knows all this. It isn't because they are stupid. They know they must misdirect the US public about the true cost of all this warmongering. It is costing our economy, our families trillions of dollars. It will destroy our nation. People in the US will freeze or starve to death thanks to this hidden war tax. If people knew the truth, they would be besieging Washington with demands we stop the stupid Iran oil boycott.

Our media deliberately leaves out stuff that connects the issue of Palestine to anything in the Middle East, anything to do with wars, oil or religion. Here is an older example of this sort of censorship. Mike Wallace got an Emmy for this interview which he maliciously edited so all mention of Palestine was removed:

Mike Wallace Interviewed Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on 60 Minutes. At the request of the Iranian President Ahmadinejad, the FULL UNEDITED version was shown on C-SPAN. "The cable public affairs net will air the 60 Minutes edited version, followed by the full 90-minute interview, to give viewers a window on what is left on the cutting room floor." - John Eggerton -- Broadcasting & Cable, 8/11/2006

PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD: Well, don't be hasty, sir. I'm going to get to that.

MR. WALLACE: I'm not hasty.

PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD: I think that the Israeli government is a fabricated government

[this part was cut by 60 Minutes] and I have talked about the solution. The solution is democracy. We have said allow Palestinian people to participate in a free and fair referendum to express their views. What we are saying only serves the cause of durable peace. We want durable peace in that part of the world. A durable peace will only come about with once the views of the people are met.
So we said that allow the people of Palestine to participate in a referendum to choose their desired government, and of course, for the war to come an end as well. Why are they refusing to allow this to go ahead? Even the Palestinian administration and government which has been elected by the people is being attacked on a daily basis, and its high-ranking officials are assassinated and arrested. Yesterday, the speaker of the Palestinian parliament was arrested, elected by the people, mind you. So how long can this go on?

We believe that this problem has to be dealt with fundamentally. I believe that the American government is blindly supporting this government of occupation. It should lift its support, allow the people to participate in free and fair elections. Whatever happens let it be. We will accept and go along. The result will be as you said earlier, sir.

MR. WALLACE: Look, I mean no disrespect. Let's make a deal. I will listen to your complete answers if you'll stay for all of my questions. My concern is that we might run out of time.

PRESIDENT AHMADINEJAD: Well, you're free to ask me any questions you please, and I am hoping that I'm free to be able to say whatever is on my mind. You are free to put any question you want to me, and of course, please give me the right to respond fully to your questions to say what is on my mind. [end of cut]

Do you perhaps want me to say what you want me to say? Am I to understand --

MR. WALLACE: No.

I am amazed that Americans can figure out even the most basic facts concerning the Middle East with this sort of censorship going on. In the NYT today, they had an article about the way Iraq has vanished from the evening news.

NYT: Reporters Say Networks Put Wars on Back Burner

CBS News no longer stations a single full-time correspondent in Iraq, where some 150,000 United States troops are deployed.

Paul Friedman, a senior vice president at CBS News, said the news division does not get reports from Iraq on television “with enough frequency to justify keeping a very, very large bureau in Baghdad.” He said CBS correspondents can “get in there very quickly when a story merits it.”

In a telephone interview last week, Ms. Logan said the CBS News bureau in Baghdad was “drastically downsized” in the spring. The network now keeps a producer in the country, making it less of a bureau and more of an office.

Interviews with executives and correspondents at television news networks suggested that while the CBS cutbacks are the most extensive to date in Baghdad, many journalists shared varying levels of frustration about placing war stories onto newscasts. “I’ve never met a journalist who hasn’t been frustrated about getting his or her stories on the air,” said Terry McCarthy, an ABC News correspondent in Baghdad.

Paul Friedman is Jewish. The NYT doesn't mention this little detail, it being a Jewish-owned newspaper. The blackout of this information in America is nearly total. If anyone dares breathe a word about all this, they are accused of being 'anti-semitic' even if they are, themselves, Jewish. Just as the Washington Post lies about the truth concerning our war finances and the high cost of oil, the NYT lies about WHY Iraq has disappeared from the news. Normally, when we look for crooks, we imitate Sherlock Holmes and look for MOTIVES.

The Jewish owned media is busy banging the war drums. They fully support Israeli Zionist Jews seeking to oust, destroy and eliminate all Palestinians from the Holy Lands. They are scared of Iran and the Shi'ites who have, unlike the Sunnis, successfully fought off Israeli Jews attacking their homes. The Shi'ites are moving upwards and outwards. They also have made huge inroads with the Palestinians because of all the betrayals by the Saudi Royals and other rich Arab Muslims. Iran's power is growing while the US/Israeli political power wanes.

Both the US and Israel are extremely unpopular with regular Muslims across the entire planet. The cost of holding these people in a neck lock is tremendously expensive. It is driving us to bankruptcy. The mainstream media is focused on justifying and terrorizing the US public into yet another nasty war in the Middle East. This is why none of them mention the hidden 'war tax' of very high oil prices due to the Iran oil boycott, for example. And of course, if people in America are upset about Iraq and the wild spending there as well as the imperial overreach, we would not want a war with the far more dangerous Iranians. So the wars we are in today are wiped off the face of the earth...in America. And this is TREASON.

Truce Starts for Israel and Hamas in Gaza

“It’s an illusion,” said Meir Kroytoro, 46, a factory worker. “Calm for how long?”

The Israeli government has proved itself “a coward,” he said. “It would have been better for the army to go into Gaza and finish the story once and for all.”
*snip*
There was widespread expectation in Gaza that the border crossings would soon open, allowing freer movement of people and goods. As part of the truce agreement, Israel is supposed to start easing the sanctions imposed after Hamas seized control of Gaza last June.

In this and several other aspects, the truce agreement appeared to run contrary to Israel’s stated policy of trying to squeeze Hamas out of power in Gaza while bolstering the more moderate and secularist Palestinian Authority, which is now confined to governing in the West Bank. Many critics of the Israeli government, as well as Palestinians, thus chalked the agreement up as a victory for Hamas.

Israel has to secure its own internal population of semi-slave half humans. The ghetto walls help in this enterprise just like the Germans used ghetto walls to isolate Jews during WWII. Once the high command in Israel get the OK, they will turn on the Shi'a. The Saudis heartily approve of this but are torn in two. They want all the Shi'a dead. But they also want all the Jews in the Middle East dead, too. This is a great recipe for WWIII, by the way. For Russia and China are very busy in the Middle East and the appeal to the rulers of the Sunni in forming alliances with the rising powers in the East is very strong. They can clearly see the US is going bankrupt. The US leaders on their knees begging for cheaper oil while simultaneously driving up the cost of oil via the Iran blockade shows clearly the Horns of Dilemma at work here.

Everyone has lots of bad choices. And History knows that everyone will fall upon the Horns of Dilemma and fix things by being suicidal. It happens all the time. There are plenty of impaled empires littering the historic landscape.

Today I finally saw a very dangerous film, 'Syriana'. It was written by a CIA operative. It is full of falsehoods and lies. The biggest being the total absence of any mention of 'Israel' or 'Jews' or anything to do with Zionism.

Here is a Washington Post review of this Academy Award winning film, Syriana:

In "Syriana," George Clooney plays CIA operative Bob Barnes, an avuncular career agent who used to know where all the bodies were buried -- mainly because he did most of the digging. In the 1980s, the Cold War made things morally easy, bifurcating the world into black fur hats and white Stetsons. But when a routine arms deal in Tehran goes awry, Bob realizes the rules are changing. It seems the CIA no longer needs seasoned agents like him -- the ones who know the cultural terrain. It's all satellite reconnaissance and missile button pushing these days. So what becomes of an obsolete foot soldier, still struggling to pay his son's college bills? These are urgent issues for Bob, but in "Syriana," they're just one ripple in a brave crude world.

A premium-octane thriller about a society that has become insidiously dependent on oil, "Syriana" was written and directed by Stephen Gaghan, whose screenplay for "Traffic" was a top-down expos of the global drug industry. Here, he repeats the procedure and succeeds even more persuasively.

The dealers this time are American executives, Arab princes, religious zealots, terrorists and economic opportunists, all connected one way or another to the oil industry. As in "Traffic," the addicts are us -- the consumers -- but instead of rolling, snorting or shooting narcotics, we're mainlining our SUV tanks with the good stuff.

Here is an interview of the CIA operative:

The movie's financiers were Jews. It is painfully obvious. First, the name of the movie makes no sense except if one is an Israeli Jew or a dual citizen here in the US. Israel hates Syria and is still at war with Syria. So the movie artfully uses that word in the title even though nothing in the movie takes place in Syria nor do any of the characters mention Syria.

The second clue that this movie was financed by Jewish Zionists is very simple: At not time, never, does any character in the movie say the words 'Jews' or 'Israel'. Nor are the sub-humans suffering the whips and lashes of the Jews in the Holy Land mentioned, either. Not one person talks about 'Palestine'.

I had to dig around to find out information about the guy responsible for making this movie. Here is one of the very few articles that mention Mr. Jeff Bewkes:

From the Jewish Journal:

The foot-tall invitation boasts a cast of dinner chairmen as A-list as a Spielberg film: Jeffrey Katzenberg, Ron Meyer, Jeff Bewkes (the granddaddys of Dreamworks, Universal Studios and Time Warner Inc., respectively), David Geffen, Brad Grey, Sumner Redstone - a formidable group. The head honchos of Hollywood and prime benefactors of The Simon Wiesenthal Center gathered at The Beverly Hilton (Wed., June 20) for a dinner honoring New Line Cinema CEOs Robert Shaye and Michael Lynne for their commitment to cultural diversity, social responsibility and philanthropy.

At the hotel, guests were ushered through metal detectors into an unusually dark ballroom, where a plate of roast beef posing as a steak awaited. After Rush Hour director Brett Ratner said Hamotzi, emcee Larry King took over the podium. With that million-dollar CNN voice, he butchered Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s last name while introducing him to the few-hundred guests apathetically picking at their plates. The Mayor praised the Wiesenthal Center’s mission, as well as its founder and dean, Rabbi Marvin Hier, who in turn, lauded the contributions of the crowd. A short video generated buzz about the Wiesenthal project being erected in Israel—the anticipated magnumopus of architect Frank Gehry’s career, though not without its challenges. Following that, Nikki Blonsky who will star in the film version of Hairspray belted an uninspiring rendition of “Good Morning Baltimore”.

The motivation for making this movie is to cut out all the connections between oil, Muslim radicalism, tensions in the Middle East and the Zionist move to colonize the Holy Land. The Americans were ONLY interested in oil. The Americans only wanted to get ahold of the oil. The Americans were advising the Muslim leaders as to how to make more and more and more money by cooperating with the US and repudiating Russia and China. Indeed, the complex relationship of Russia, China and the US were the focus of the film.

By the way, the article above has an interesting paragraph which I find very ironic. Since day one of the big media push to tell us breathlessly about Darfur, I said, this was a classic push to mislead and misdirect the US public. Push us into more wars against Muslims as well as misdirect us from looking at the horrors of what is going on in the Palestinian ghettos.

The highlight of the evening was an elegant Ann Curry, who received a medal of valor for reporting on humanitarian crises in Africa. “I am truly humbled and wish to be worthy,” she stated earnestly, acknowledging the magnitude of the company she was in. She eloquently recounted her experiences traveling to refugee camps and war zones. She spoke of genocide, rape and disease. From memory, she recalled the individual names and stories of people she encountered. She gave voice to their plight and admitted that it wasn’t enough. Her tone was somber and heartfelt, and without the camera in the way, her eyes met every face in the room.

The room of Jewish activists were all in tears, right? HAHAHA. Right. They weep for the poor people of Africa. But can't shed a tear for the natives in the Holy Land.

Back to Syriana: This fake movie spends a lot of time showing how Madrasses lure helpless Muslims into becoming terrorists. At no time do the actors pretending to be Muslims mention 'Israel'. They talk about Americans....as potential FRIENDS! Also, they show these terrorists being interested in attacking only Muslims. They are not focused on attacking the heart of the matter which lies in Jerusalem. Jerusalem, by the way, is never mentioned in this goofy movie.

Also, the movie has the American advisors to the Muslim royals talking openly and obscenely as well as disrespectfully! This is IMPOSSIBLE. At no point are they allowed to do this. Indeed, the strict rules of etiquette are very strong and imposed with greatest rigor. My parents dealt with the Saudi royals directly for years!

When the Saudis are pleased with their courtiers from America and this emphatically includes Bush and Cheney, they make them sit on small stools or cushions at the feet of the royals. In the movie, cheeky, stupid American CIA advisors openly call the royals insulting names in order to goad them into compliance. This is far too stupid for words.

Another thing: while torturing a Muslim, the Lebanese Hezbollah talk about how the Chinese torture Falung Gung. This is pure stupidity. The Lebanese Hezbollah know all about Israeli Jewish torture techniques. First hand! Why would they threaten an American Muslim CIA agent with CHINESE style torture when they would happily refer to ISRAELI torture? After all, they have a strong desire to make the American spy understand the true nature of Israel, wouldn't they?

But then, the topic of Jews torturing Muslims is verboten in America. We cannot know about this. We are allowed to know about our own torture of Muslims. Which this lying piece of garbage movie DOES NOT MENTION AT ALL. Imagine a Muslim in 2005 not talking about US torture in Afghanistan and Gitmo!

This movie won awards. I can see why. It is a superb piece of agitprop propaganda.

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[hans blink]

Maestra, your articles are like corn flakes. I read them the first thing when I wake up. Excellent analysis my exact thoughts when I saw the movie. Could I say then "great minds think alike"?

[GK]

Greg Palast is an apologist for Israel. Below he mentions Eisenhower putting quotas on Iraq in 1959. Did you know 'Eisenhauer' was known as the 'Swedish Jew' at West Point?

http://www.gregpalast.com/obama%E2%80%99s-secret-war-profiteering-tax/#more-2026

I can’t make this up:

In a hotel room in Brussels, the chief executives of the world’s top oil companies unrolled a huge map of the Middle East, drew a fat, red line around Iraq and signed their names to it.

The map, the red line, the secret signatures. It explains this war. It explains this week’s rocketing of the price of oil to $134 a barrel.

It happened on July 31, 1928, but the bill came due now.

Barack Obama knows this. Or, just as important, those crafting his policies seem to know this. Same for Hillary Clinton’s team. There could be no more vital difference between the Republican and Democratic candidacies. And you won’t learn a thing about it on the news from the Fox-holes.

Let me explain.

In 1928, oil company chieftains (from Anglo-Persian Oil, now British Petroleum, from Standard Oil, now Exxon, and their Continental counterparts) were faced with a crisis: falling prices due to rising supplies of oil; the same crisis faced by their successors during the Clinton years, when oil traded at $22 a barrel.

The solution then, as now: stop the flow of oil, squeeze the market, raise the price. The method: put a red line around Iraq and declare that virtually all the oil under its sands would remain there, untapped. Their plan: choke supply, raise prices rise, boost profits. That was the program for 1928. For 2003. For 2008.

Again and again, year after year, the world price of oil has been boosted artificially by keeping a tight limit on Iraq’s oil output. Methods varied. The 1928 “Redline” agreement held, in various forms, for over three decades. It was replaced in 1959 by quotas imposed by President Eisenhower. Then Saudi Arabia and OPEC kept Iraq, capable of producing over 6 million barrels a day, capped at half that, given an export quota equal to Iran’s lower output.

[Elaine Meinel Supkis]

It is more complicated. When Britain went bankrupt during WWI, they set out immediately after the war to tear apart and get huge hunks of the dead Ottoman Empire. They invaded the province they named 'Iraq' and LOST. It was a terrible defeat. Hither to, the British troops rolled over natives they wished to conquer. Once they killed off or enticed into betrayal the top rulers of various ancient kingdoms, they just rolled in and exploited the place.

Not this time. Hitler, by the way, reading the news in Germany, took note of this defeat. He and the military college in Tokyo realized Britain won the war but lost the ability to exploit the planet as an empire.

[Rosco]

Didn't the De Beers cartel do a similar thing with diamonds, restricting the supply during the Cold War by cutting a deal with the Soviets to keep their diamonds off the market?