tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11817097.post3271673086809300582..comments2023-09-20T22:07:15.915+09:00Comments on And you may find yourself...: Propping Up a Papier-Maché DietySebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15861556483662617818noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11817097.post-6817347157506563042012-02-09T09:49:02.229+09:002012-02-09T09:49:02.229+09:00Actually, I double-MacGuffined, hiding the Petrodo...Actually, I <i>double</i>-MacGuffined, hiding the Petrodollar inside oil, inside the nuclear issue, like Russian dolls. You're right, of course, that oil is the most widely-traded (legal) commodity, and Iran only produces 4.77% of the world's supply - that's less than half of what the U.S. itself produces. But you know what fucks up the commodities & futures markets even more than control of 5% of the supply? When the World Reserve Currency collapses.<br /><br />My basic point is that, even if it's about nukes in Israel's eyes, it ain't about oil, it's about <i>money</i> in a very literal sense.Sebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15861556483662617818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11817097.post-13088135665183320842012-02-09T04:44:33.711+09:002012-02-09T04:44:33.711+09:00"Of course, clever commentators will note tha..."Of course, clever commentators will note that Iran's nuclear program is the MacGuffin within this tangled yarn: the real engine of all this amplifying hostility is oil."<br /><br />Oil has nothing to do with it. Oil is a commodity traded on the world market with sources all over the world. The U.S. doesn't even get most of it's oil from the Middle East. <br /><br />This is Israel's party and, yes, the U.S. is along for more than the ride, but not for oil.<br /><br />If you insist in seeing a McGuffin in all this, then it's oil and not the nuclear issue.Jeffreynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11817097.post-28156257716765980912012-02-08T10:18:31.227+09:002012-02-08T10:18:31.227+09:00Gosh, only 130 dead and 800 wounded? Well, then, f...Gosh, <i>only</i> 130 dead and 800 wounded? Well, then, fuck it, why get our knickers in a twist, eh?<br /><br />Not to mention using the past-tense with regard to Homs is, perhaps, overconfident.<br /><br />And the article on Russia, while interesting, is too infatuated with Putin-as-gadfly, forgiving him his cryptofascistic lust for control, while painting the entire opposition as the illegitimate marionette army of some Reagan-era CIA soft-power initiative. Anyone who forgives one power-mad imperialist while opposing another (in this case, the U.S.) can go fuck themselves.<br /><br />A bit brusque, forgive me, I'm still on my first cup of coffee.Sebhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15861556483662617818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11817097.post-78875415878433806302012-02-07T08:43:23.252+09:002012-02-07T08:43:23.252+09:00The Homs massacre was somewhat overblown.
And spea...<a href="http://angryarab.blogspot.com/2012/02/what-happened-in-homs.html" rel="nofollow">The Homs massacre was somewhat overblown.</a><br />And speaking of Russia, this is <a href="http://colorrevolutionsandgeopolitics.blogspot.com/2012/02/why-love-putins-russia-cause-its-all-we.html" rel="nofollow">gold</a>JMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03223879013564312871noreply@blogger.com