Letter Never Sent Tell me when to go.

Oil. oil. oil. oil. oil. oil. oil. The criminal enterprise masquerading as our government is not even pretending anymore. They have been emboldened by American apathy and ignorance. They are now discussing what they will do with the oil fields they plan on stealing from Iraq. No doubt the investment made to buy the election for Bush has paid dividends. It’s disgusting. How many crimes will go committed in your name? How many people must die before these leeches are burned off?

Washington Post: War Could Unshackle Oil in Iraq: U.S. Drillers Eye Huge Petroleum Pool

The importance of Iraq’s oil has made it potentially one of the administration’s biggest bargaining chips in negotiations to win backing from the U.N. Security Council and Western allies for President Bush’s call for tough international action against Hussein. All five permanent members of the Security Council — the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China — have international oil companies with major stakes in a change of leadership in Baghdad.

“It’s pretty straightforward,” said former CIA director R. James Woolsey, who has been one of the leading advocates of forcing Hussein from power. “France and Russia have oil companies and interests in Iraq. They should be told that if they are of assistance in moving Iraq toward decent government, we’ll do the best we can to ensure that the new government and American companies work closely with them.”

But he added: “If they throw in their lot with Saddam, it will be difficult to the point of impossible to persuade the new Iraqi government to work with them.”

So, not only is the seizure of Iraq an important boon for American business, but it will be a lever against other players like Russia, France, and China to promote greater American power worldwide. While I would very much hate to see anyone die fighting in Iraq I hope that any military action committed is a disaster. This is not the way things should be done. There should not be double standards or two different sets of rules. With all this stupid crap Bush intones about a regime change in Iraq, we could stand to gain from the same idea. We need a regime change in the United States.

The US government has been attempting to push the idea that Osama bin Laden is dead. There is no significant evidence that this is the case, and if the government does have evidence they haven’t been forthcoming with it. Why do they want people to believe he is dead? Why is it so important to annihilate the idea of bin Laden? Strategically, if the US lies about bin Laden being dead or if they make everyone think he’s dead it does two things. First, it diminishes his example and his power as a symbol of opposition to American global hegemony. If he is thought dead, presumably as a result of American military action, it serves as an example against any who would oppose the United States. It sends the message that if you oppose the US and you will be obliterated. Secondly, spreading the idea of his death also forces Al Quaeda (if there even is such an organization) to prove that he still lives. This keeps Al Quaeda from being able to stay sufficiently underground as they will need to smuggle tapes and other evidence to the media.

How do we even know bin Laden is behind the WTC attacks? The government has demonstrated a disturbing lack of common sense and has proven itself incapable of finding any real information out. Consider the following: the tape in which Osama bin Laden allegedly confesses to blowing up the WTC has been shown to be a fake. At the very least it has been pieced together from tapes that are several years old. Also, despite government assertions to the contrary the real identities of the 9-11 hijackers are still unknown to the public. The government may know who they were, but they are most likely not the people they say they were. No bodies were recovered, and the hijackers have been shown to have been using stolen identities. The truth is, we really don’t know who they were. Many of the people the FBI said were the 9-11 hijackers have been show to still be alive and well in the mideast.

Whatreallyhappened.com:

FBI Chief Robert Mueller admitted on September 20 and on September 27 that at this time the FBI has no legal proof to prove the true identities of the suicidal hijackers. Yet in the haste to move forward on the already planned war in Afghanistan, our government and the FBI (which does not have the best record for honesty in investigations to begin with, having been caught rigging lab tests, manufacturing testimony in the Vincent Foster affair, and illegally withholding/destroying evidence in the Oklahoma Bombing case) are not taking too close a look at evidence that points away from the designated suspect, ex(?) CIA asset Osama Bin Laden.

I don’t know what’s going on, but I know we’re being lied to and manipulated. This so-called war in Iraq is just another slap in our face.

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I went to Office Max today and had a good laugh. I immediately went and grabbed my camera from my car. Notice anything interesting in this photo. Click to zoom in.

Stepford Citizen Syndrome: Top Ten Signs Your Neighbor is Brainwashed:

9) “The media is liberal.”

Ann Coulter complains about the liberal media through the “liberal media,” where she’s regularly given a forum, yet Michael Moore has appeared on less than a handful of shows, though his book’s been a bestseller for six months. During the election, the corporately-controlled media portrayed Al Gore in a negative light, while touting Bush’s phony ranch-hand charm, and according to a report in F.A.I.R (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting), 75 % of the dominant sources of opinion on all three major networks are Republican. Yet the brainwashed continue to believe the media has a liberal bias. Go figure.

Our fearless leader, the mandate of heaven, George Bush II has decreed September 11th to be henceforth known as Patriot Day. I doubt our business-friendly corporate whore will make sure we have the day off to celebrate Patriot Day. This is nothing but crass emotionalism and tackiness. “Happy Patriot Day, my fellow American! United we stand! Let’s roll, under God!” Forgive me if I’m cynical, but this is the kind of crap they used to do in the Soviet Union.

From CNN:

We will not forget the events of that terrible morning nor will we forget how Americans responded in New York City, at the Pentagon, and in the skies over Pennsylvania — with heroism and selflessness; with compassion and courage; and with prayer and hope,” Bush wrote in the proclamation.

“Inspired by the heroic sacrifices of our firefighters, rescue and law enforcement personnel, military service members, and other citizens, our nation found unity, focus, and strength.”

“We found healing in the national outpouring of compassion for those lost, as tens of millions of Americans participated in moments of silence, candlelight vigils, and religious services,” the president said. “From the tragedy of September 11 emerged a stronger nation, renewed by a spirit of national pride and a true love of country.”

He should call it Death of the Freedom Day, or America Went to Hell Day.

Must be real swanky being president Bush. Get a salary of $400,000 a year, fart around all over the country, make deals with your friends that make them millions, go jogging in the morning before you get your orders for the day. The Washington Post had some interesting statistics on our lackluster ‘leader’:

Bush has spent a whopping total of 250 days of his presidency at Camp David (123 days), Kennebunkport (12) and his Texas ranch (115). That means Bush has spent 42 percent of his term so far at one of his three leisure destinations.

To date, the president has devoted far more time to golf (15 rounds) than to solo news conferences (six). The numbers also show that Bush, after holding three news conferences in his first four months, has had only three more in the last 15 months — not counting the 37 Q&A sessions he has had with foreign leaders during his term.

Bush has raised $114.8 million this year at 48 GOP events, surpassing Clinton’s record of $105 million in 2000 from 203 events. The Bush White House has challenged his tally only once, and Knoller countered with voluminous evidence.

If I spent only 42% of my time at work actually working, I would probably be fired, but this guy gets away with murder.

The Infinite War and its Roots by Stan Goff:

World oil consumption right now is about 75 million barrels per day. By 2010, that is expected to increase to 100 million barrels per day. This oil is produced by two major groups, let’s say, for the purpose of analysis — OPEC and non-OPEC (NOPEC). OPEC is largely concentrated in the Persian Gulf region. NOPEC is the North Atlantic, North America, Mexico, China, Nigeria, and so forth. That doesn’t tell the whole story, though. Gulf states’ oil does not peak in production until 2012, and half the world’s remaining easily extractable oil is there. World production is peaking right now. But world production is an average. NOPEC peaked several years ago, now being in permanent decline.

So, OPEC is getting stronger, and NOPEC is getting weaker.

Saudi Arabia — an OPEC nation — is the biggest pool, with Iraq next, and the Caspian Sea region a theoretical third (but this is very much in doubt ). The U.S. has for years been trying to ensure domination of OPEC, and they have accomplished that to some degree by ensuring the corrupt Saudis and others through those aforementioned investments. Given that OPEC production is still rising and NOPEC is in permanent irreversible decline, OPEC is regaining dominance in the overall oil market. The point at which OPEC regains definitive domination of world markets is called by some the “crossover event.”

Best predictions are that the “crossover event” will happen around 2011 . This is certainly understood by the current Bush Administration, which is heavily populated by members of the petroleum oligarchy.

Should forces hostile to U.S. imperialism (for whatever reason) gain control over the Gulf States and its oil, they would effectively control the lifeblood of the entire global economic system. U.S. hegemony would collapse in an historical instant. Compared to this scenario, Sept. 11 was a walk in the park. And the U.S. ruling class, especially the current petroligarchy administration, knows this.

Since world oil production begins to decline on average almost immediately, the U.S. as the biggest end user needs to figure out how to compensate for the losses being sustained in NOPEC production. Their solution, from what we can see now, may be to open the Caspian and accelerate extraction from the Gulf States, particularly Saudi and Iraq. But the most optimistic scenarios are that all three regions combined, might put out an additional 15 million barrels per day. Given that our extrapolated appetite will go up 25 million barrels per day within nine years, provided there is no economic collapse that truncates demand, the U.S. remains in a dilemma.

When’s the last time you gave a big, hearty fuck you to George W. Bush and his corrupt regime? Well..that’s too long.

More FBI lies. From the NY Times:

The nation’s secret intelligence court has identified more than 75 cases in which it says it was misled by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in documents in which the bureau attempted to justify its need for wiretaps and other electronic surveillance, according to the first of the court’s rulings to be released publicly.

Saudis have removed 100-200 billion dollars from American banks to signal their displeasure with the US. I wonder what effect this will have on the banking sector. Read the FT Article.