Reply #22: Higher with inflation in 70's w/embargo. It's US war policy to blame. [View All]

[McCamy Taylor]

Iraq is in civil war, Iran is threatened with war. Venezuela is threatened with coup. The US is doing everything it can to destabilzie the governments of all the oil producers EXCEPT Saudi Arabia and the US. Keep oil prices high so Bush oil buddies and Bush Family Saudi bosses reap enormous short term profits. which is what the whole Bish presidencu is about.

Read Cash's "The Mind of the South." The "south" was all about cotton plantations which made a lot of money--if you had slavery--but slavery corrupted the South till this day. Now, oil is the new cotton, and the way the Bush family and friends are approaching oil draws upon the southern cotton tradition, with latino and arab and oriental people (I guess you could call them browns) around the world, replacing african slaves. Very dirty, sordid business, but what do you expect from a family which decided to go south and model itself on a tradition based upon exploiting the labor of others under the guise of serving a Calvanist diety?

Anyway, under Calvanism, if you make a profit, it is a sign of God's favor. So, if the Bush's kill or enslave foreigners to increase the price of oil that is a good thing, especially if they can lie to themselves that it is making AMERICA stronger. Never mind that 99% of America doesnt share the wealth. (This is in Cash, too.) The Bushes would have us imagine that American white pople belong to a brotherhood of white people who can all feel a rosey glow that their kinfolk--the Bushes--are so rich and powerful.

Read the book if you want to understand what makes *'s mind tick.