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The problem is that these soldiers are being told they are defending their country. They are not told that that US and UK oil companies will profit from Iraqi oil sales, and they are definitely not told ‘oh by the way, we supported Saddam for years in the 1980s which was when he gassed the Kurds’, and that some allege that even that was exagerated.

And of course they are not told that Clinton Secretary of State Madeleine Albright felt that UN sanctions pushed heavily by the US were amazingly ‘worth it’ even though they resulted in the deaths of an estimated 500,000 Iraqi children.

If they were I doubt many would sign up for the military, and if we were all told these things I highly doubt we would still be at war at all.

You know, that picture always chokes me up. And that is why the Pentagon has kept reporters away from the worst areas of Iraq. Because pictures make something vague and abstract very vivid and real. That is dangerous to those in control.

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Carbon trading futures are a complicated and technical instrument

Isn’t there a lot of talk about how part of the US Economic problem is being caused by banks doing things that are so complicated, many bankers don’t even fully understand it? Complexity on its own does not prove there is anything corrupt about a process - but I think it means people should take a good hard look at it. Complexity can hide problems, corruption, cheating. Why does carbon trading have to be complicated?

This entire post is Just My Opinion. Take it as it is. I don’t have ten links to give evidence that Carbon Trading is a bad thing, or that it is being abused. My gut instinct is that something is wrong. Rich people are going to make more money trading the right to pollute, and if I am not mistaken, the richer the company, the more it can pollute. Does this mean that a fledgling electric company in some third world country will now also be saddled with carbon credits?

Definitely warrants investigation. Anyone have any opinions on this?

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The most interesting use or abuse of this idea is by politicians. By appearing nice and concerned about the public, we assume they are good people. Luckily with the Internet, we can get information proving they are not very nice at all, and ‘break’ the Halo Effect.

I think it obviously works in reverse too. If you see someone who is sarcastic and irritated, you assume they are not a nice person, dumb, etc. But they could just be having a bad day, they could have some medical issue that is causing them a lot of stress, or any other of a thousand reasons that people can be moody or depressed. They could still be a smart, honest, good person, but just be run down by Life. There are a lot of us in this category…

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When Hussein started selling oil in Euros, it attacked the dollar’s dominance as the world currency. And of course, two other countries tried, or are trying, to follow suit. Venezuela tried in 2001, and within a year Chavez was almost removed in a military coup - in the Ron Paul speech I linked to above, he states it is widely rumored that our CIA was involved in that coup.

And now Iran is starting its own oil bourse (exchange).

Notice a trend here?

Luckily for Bush, 9/11 happened not long after Hussein started selling oil in Euros, otherwise we would not be in Iraq. Interestingly, all Iraqi reserves were quickly converted back to US dollars once we took over, and oil was once again sold in US dollars. Boy were we lucky we had an excuse to get our military into the Middle East. Whew.

To add some fuel to the fire, you have Peak Oil. The link goes to a US Department of Energy Report, called the Hirsch Report, that talks about the peaking of world oil supplies, and future ‘energy shortages.’ Oh, and US and UK oil companies are also going to reap profits from the sale of Iraqi oil. Like icing on the cake.

Luckily we are in Iraq, making permanent bases to ’spread Democracy’. It is also very fortunate that Global Warming became widely known about a year and a half after the Hirsch Report stated:

“Waiting until world oil production peaks before taking crash program action leaves the world with a significant liquid fuel deficit for more than two decades.

Most sources feel we either hit ‘peak’ in 2005, or will hit it by 2012. So fortunately Global Warming became an issue. How would the US Government explain to people why they had to save energy and drive more fuel efficient cars? What would happen if the morning news started with “we are headed for 20 years of energy shortages, the worlds oil is in decline!”.

Panic. People would at least go into Survival Mode™, not spending any more money than necessary… which would send our economy into a horrible spiral.

So here we are. Our military is smack dab in the middle of the remaining oil left in the world, people are working to ‘become energy independent’ and never think to ask why we didn’t need to be independent back when Saddam was killing the Kurds… and they don’t panic because luckily, we have another reason to use to explain to people why they need to cut back on energy usage and of course, why other countries should too. We are ensuring that the worlds oil is sold in dollars… except for those pesky Iranians, trying to set up their oil bourse. I wonder what will happen when Iran gets that set up?

Iran completes oil bourse, February 17th, 2008.

Oh yes, the next time you see tiny speedboats ‘menacing’ US warships, remember that The Gulf of Tonkin never happened. 50K Americans, and millions of Vietnamese died and years later it turns out there were not even any Vietnamese boats there at all on the second day… and on the first day, OUR soldiers shot at the Vietnamese - and they still did not fire back at us.

So ask yourself: do you think Bush would care about 3000 dead Americans, now that you see there are solid, very real motives for attacking Iraq?

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