Watch The Price Of Oil
Russia and Saudi Arabia Want a Global recession and Putin and MBS especially want a recession in American right before the election.
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They are truly that gullible.
I hear that every election gas prices. Stakes are way too high, Democracy v. gas prices??? 
American voters are like 19 year old white men....it can't happen to ME. IE, we live in America. We will never lose democracy.
What makes them tick? Whatever brings them riches and power.
Go back to when Jimmy Carter was president -- oil prices had finally started to come down when the US allowed the exiled pariah Shah entry for medical treatment and Iran allowed its "students" to take over the US embassy and hold hostage every US citizen they could grab. And, just like that, oil prices shot up.
Same thing for Gulf War I and Gulf War II. The oil in the ground -- "the world's largest petroleum reserves" -- instantly shoot up in value, too. Imagine the joy of the bankers in Switzlerland and the croupiers in Monaco.
When Carter tried to wean America off fossil fuels, fiends of Big Oil got organized.
How a Deep State Plot Sank Jimmy Carter
PETER DALE SCOTT
WhoWhatWhy.Org, 11/02/14
The Safari Club was an alliance between national intelligence agencies that wished to compensate for the CIA’s retrenchment in the wake of President Carter’s election and Senator Church’s post-Watergate reforms. As former Saudi intelligence chief Prince Turki bin Faisal once told Georgetown University alumni,
In 1976, after the Watergate matters took place here, your intelligence community was literally tied up by Congress. It could not do anything. It could not send spies, it could not write reports, and it could not pay money. In order to compensate for that, a group of countries got together in the hope of fighting Communism and established what was called the Safari Club. The Safari Club included France, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, and Iran. (1)
After Carter was elected, the Safari Club allied itself with Richard Helms and Theodore Shackley against the more restrained intelligence policies of Jimmy Carter, according to Joseph Trento. In Trento’s account, the dismissal by William Colby in 1974 of CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton,
combined with Watergate, is what prompted the Safari Club to start working with [former DCI Richard] Helms [then U.S. Ambassador to Iran] and his most trusted operatives outside of Congressional and even Agency purview. James Angleton said before his death that “Shackley and Helms … began working with outsiders like Adham and Saudi Arabia. The traditional CIA answering to the president was an empty vessel having little more than technical capability.”(2)
Trento adds that “The Safari Club needed a network of banks to finance its intelligence operations. With the official blessing of George Bush as the head of the CIA, Adham transformed . . . the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), into a worldwide money-laundering machine.”(3) Trento claims also that the Safari Club then was able to work with some of the controversial CIA operators who had been forced out of the CIA by Turner, and that this was coordinated by Theodore Shackley:
Shackley, who still had ambitions to become DCI, believed that without his many sources and operatives like [Edwin] Wilson, the Safari Club—operating with [former DCI Richard] Helms in charge in Tehran—would be ineffective. . . . Unless Shackley took direct action to complete the privatization of intelligence operations soon, the Safari Club would not have a conduit to [CIA] resources. The solution: create a totally private intelligence network using CIA assets until President Carter could be replaced. (4)
Continues…
https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/government-integrity/the-deep-state-plots-the-1980-defeat-of-jimmy-carter/
Weird how little of this gets mentioned in what the late Sherman Skolnick called the "spy-riddled, oil-soaked monopoly press."
