Einstein, Fascism and Zionism - Oil
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—– Original Message —–
From: “Malcolm Riddoch”
So Anthony,
we have then the proposition that:
US gasoline prices are most certainly not the lowest ever …
therefore oil supply was so obviously the motivation in Iraq.
I’m guessing here that you’re attempting to be ironic but taking your
admission at face value then … yes! Finally we can agree on
something. It is quite clear to me too that the current run up in oil
prices is bringing about a geopolitical shift of historic
proportions, as it’s now over half a decade since the lows of 1999
when crude oil was around $US10/barrel but accelerating since mid
2004 when it went from $35 to $40 and beyond. Crude has doubled in
price over just the last 30 months. Here in Aus we are in the midst
of a global commodities boom not seen since the late 1800’s gold
rushes with the Chinese buying up every mineral resource they can lay
hands on along with the energy resources needed to give form to their
growing industrial base and middle classes. Same goes for the
Indians, and between them they have almost a third of the world’s
population, their burgeoning middle classes will come to dwarf the
North American and European bourgeoisie, that is if they can lay
their hands on ‘our’ energy supplies.
Oil markets are tightening, OPEC is pumping full tilt, the Iraq war
has locked in at least a couple million barrels a day and yet the
economies of China and India are still growing fast, and as any
modernising industrial economy grows so too does its need for energy
to feed that growth. And so too does the critical national necessity
of attaining and maintaining security of that growing energy supply.
Dick Cheney saw this energy supply crisis coming in 1999 in a London
speech he gave while still Chair of Halliburton.
http://www.peakoil.net/Publications/Chen…
“by 2010 we will need on the order of an additional fifty million
barrels a day. So where is the oil going to come from? Governments
and the national oil companies are obviously in control of about
ninety per cent of the assets. Oil remains fundamentally a government
business. While many regions of the world offer greet oil
opportunities, the Middle East with two thirds of the world’s oil and
the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies, even
though companies are anxious for greater access there, progress
continues to be slow”.
As we enter the peak oil plateau that 50 mil bpd is looking
increasingly difficult and as Cheney also said “The end of the oil
era is not here yet, but changes are afoot and the industry must be
ready to adapt to the new century and to the transformations that lie
ahead.” The magnitude of this problem is truly global, our entire
modern hydrocarbon based industrial world civilization and in
particular the continuation of US military and economic hegemony is
in the balance. This for me is the fundamental political problem
underlying the Iraqi WMD circus which has simply been regurgitated
for the current Iranian nuclear WMD circus - any threat to the
security of any modern nation’s energy supply is a direct threat to
its economic and therefore national security, and most especially
where that concerns the ongoing dominance of the great powers.
Cheney goes on to say that “Oil is unique in that it is so strategic
in nature. We are not talking about soapflakes or leisurewear here.
Energy is truly fundamental to the world’s economy. The Gulf War was
a reflection of that reality.”
As US gasoline prices continue their seemingly inevitable rise, and
they are still very cheap at the moment, the underlying motivation of
energy security will continue to be most obviously the motivation
behind the current opening campaigns of what could turn out to be the
greatest war for Lebensraum in human history. A war that, quoting
Cheney again, “will not end in our lifetimes” and which if the
Neoconservative Pax Americana is to be successful will have to not
only secure the Persian Gulf but also eventually deal with the
Chinese one way or another.
Like the question of Israeli war crimes in their war for self-
determination I’m not concerned with the moral problem here but
rather the relations of power that animate leaders like Cheney and
grant them the potential to follow through on what is nothing other
than a problem of energy logistics and national survival, a problem
of Lebensraum.
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For someone not concerned with the moral problems here, you sure do throw
around words like “war crimes” and “slaughter” a lot. Hint: stop insulting
the intelligence, and you might get a conversation about the issues with
which you are “concerned.”
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