Oil, Power and Psychopaths
Oil, Power and Psychopaths
January 3, 2015
Posted by Raúl Ilargi Meijer at 10:24 pm
Iran has a very long running dispute with the US about its nuclear technology. The US wants Assad (Bashar Al-Assad) out of Syria, while Iran and Russia support Assad (Russias sole proper base in the Middle East), whos an Alawite (a Shi-ite branch), a people historically persecuted by Sunnis. ISIS (or Daesh in the region) is Sunni. So are the Saudis. Iran is Shiite. Bahrain is ruled by Sunni but has a majority Shiite population. And I could go on for a while. A long while.
All this plays into the oil game, the falling oil prices. Blaming OPEC for the recent price fall is seeing the world from a childs perspective. OPEC and its major voteholder, Saudi Arabia, are no more to blame for the plunge than the US, Russia or other non-OPEC producers. Everybody produces as if theres no tomorrow, and the Saudis have merely concluded that their only choice is to do the same. Its a race to the bottom.
The reason is the fast declining demand for oil; China is nowhere near as mighty as we seem to think, Europe is a basket case, emerging economies are being strangled as we speak by the surging dollar and the Fed taper, and were just getting started. Its cute and all that nobody wonders how much virtual money has vanished into the great beyond as both oil itself and the companies that get it out of the earth have lost half of their values in Q4 2014, let alone the countries that depend on oil for their very existence. But cute doesnt cut it.
Oliver Stone talks about Ukraine: The CIA Coup. Ive talked about exactly that all of last year. While on vacation, Obama declares new sanctions on North Korea for hacking a Japanese company only the FBI claims it was guilty of. While US sanctions against Iran are ongoing.
America is trying to control the world by throwing it into confusion, emboldened by poorly understood theories about military superiority, and creating conflicts all over the place that look like they will never be solved. Whereas all it would need to do is make sure it secures itself, its own territory, not control the entire planet. ....................(more)
The complete piece is at:
http://www.theautomaticearth.com/oil-power-and-psychopaths/