and in other news of the bizarre….
The US confirms plans to sell some $60 billion dollars worth of arms to the Middle East. That’ll help.
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July 31st, 2007 at 7:02 pm
“During a stop-over in Shannon, Ireland, Ms Rice told reporters: “There isn’t a doubt, I think, that Iran constitutes the single most important, single-country challenge to… US interests in the Middle East and to the kind of Middle East that we want to see.”
Yep that oil bourse that the Iranians want to set up would destabalise their currency and consequently their whole economy.
“The sale of satellite-guided bombs to Saudi Arabia, the first such sale to any Arab country, is thought to be part of the proposed $20bn arms deal with the kingdom ….”
Hmm. The Yanks must have forgotten that Osama bin Laden is Saudi and all the attackers of 9/11 infamy were also from there. Not to mention that the Saudi Royal family is known to fund the fundamentalist Wahabi sect whose devotees are implicated in militant movements world wide.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6923430.stm
August 1st, 2007 at 9:45 am
Probably will help, frog. Rices’s statement: “Iran constitutes the single most important, single-country challenge to… US interests in the Middle East and to the kind of Middle East that we want to see” is fairly clear.
That “kind of Middle East” presumably being one which is divided, a good customer for US weapons, open to having its natural resources managed by western companies and politically subservient.
The sales to Saudia seem to have overshadowed the $30 billion Israel is getting. Poor old Lebanese…
August 1st, 2007 at 1:22 pm
meanwhile, the price of oil is the second highest ever:
http://tinyurl.com/8c9ab
could the two be related?
August 1st, 2007 at 4:00 pm
Can’t ECAN do a better job of clarifying this…Don’t they have staff for that sort of thing???
http://www.ecan.govt.nz/NR/rdonlyres/7C612189-CE48-45C9-8614-4AB0C6B01 752/0/RPSProposedChangeNo1FINAL2Notified28July2007.pdf
jh
August 1st, 2007 at 7:19 pm
stuey
Probably. A friend’s dad has a saying, “Everytime a stone drops on an Arab’s toe the price of oil goes up.” Pretty apt
I say.
August 1st, 2007 at 7:46 pm
its not good is it fwwog, its bad really
August 1st, 2007 at 7:52 pm
yous fwwog, whaarrt. listen up fwwogs ECANT
politics in Canterbury about to be boiled down fwwog,
its going to be city fwwog,
what do you think of that,
make positions fwwogs,
August 2nd, 2007 at 12:44 am
stuey Said:”meanwhile, the price of oil is the second highest ever”
Close, but no cigar.
http://www.wtrg.com/oil_graphs/oilprice1869.gif
and for the adventurous
http://books.google.com/books?id=7KAylETFC38C&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=pennsy lvania+crude+oil+price&source=web&ots=IOr9FdaVwF&sig=_VxSWq93yCw7P7lnM fJYkzU88kk
August 2nd, 2007 at 2:04 pm
oh inflation adjustment shustment
August 3rd, 2007 at 12:40 am
Pity the poor old working man in the 1860s
Tuppence for a quart of lamp parafin when you’re only earning twenty quid a month and a dozen hungry mouths to feed 
August 6th, 2007 at 2:06 pm
Have you noticed to whom and how much military hardware France and Russia have been selling lately?
August 6th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
To make matters worse. The chimps in the US government are GIVING THE ARMS AWAY, courtesey of the US taxpayer. Feckin chumps for electing those fools and we think we got it bad with our chimps in Parliament!
http://www.countercurrents.org/steel030807.htm
http://www.care2.com/news/member/860103097/443838