Cicronio

Predicated on "evidence" that Irak had (1) weapons of mass destruction which still haven't been found and (2) links to (non-existent) Al Qaeda terrorists resulting in Iraq presently being the world largest breeding ground for terrorists, the US has finally gotten control of its real reason for invading Irak - OIL.

For almost a century the US has coveted Iraqi OIL and has finally gotten it ALL with the war in Iraq. To read the historical facts regarding US encroachment of Iraqi OIL since World War I, click the following link:

"...In February 1919, Sir Arthur Hirtzel, a top British colonial official, warned his associates, "It should be borne in mind that the Standard Oil Company is very anxious to take over Iraq." (Quoted in Peter Sluglett, "Britain in Iraq, 1914-32," London, 1974)

In the face of the British-French domination of the region, the United States at first demanded an "Open Door" policy. U.S. oil companies should be allowed to freely negotiate contracts with the new puppet monarchy of King Faisal, whom the British had installed on the throne in Iraq.

The solution to the victorious allies' conflict over Iraq was found in dividing up Iraq's oil. The British kept Mosul as part of their new Iraq colony...


...Not one drop for Iraq

Iraq's oil was split five ways: 23.75 percent each to Britain, France, Holland and the United States. The remaining 5 percent went to an oil baron named Caloste Gulbenkian, known as "Mr. Five-Percenter," who helped negotiate the agreement.

Exactly zero percent of Iraq's oil belonged to Iraq. That's how it was to stay until the revolution of 1958..."

All over the planet, the US has placed its covetous eye and its bloody robber paws to take over the natural resources of other sovereign countries being the pillage of Latin America's natural resources an obvious example. More incredible is the fact that US pharmaceutical companies are stealing the genetic patrimony of South American indigenous people bytricking them into giving blood and tissue samples and patenting medicinal products for their own lucrative gain.

Clearinghouse for reviewing ecotourism no.6

"...One single North-American company has catalogued over 7000 Amazon plants without paying a cent for it.

Blood and DNA samples of native Indians Karitianas and Suruํs of the State of Rond๔nia are sold to foreign countries..."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopiracy

"...Biopiracy refers to the appropriation, generally by means of patents, of indigenous biomedical knowledge without compensation.[1] A classic case is that of the Rosy Periwinkle (Madagascar Periwinkle).[2] Research into the plant was prompted by the plant's traditional medicinal role and resulted in the discovery of a large number of biologically active chemicals, including vincristine, a lucrative agent useful during chemotherapy. Vincristine was initially patented and marketed by Eli Lilly. It is widely reported that the country of origin did not receive any payment.[3]

Biopiracy allegedly contributes to inequality between developing countries rich in biodiversity, and developed countries served by pharmaceutical industry exploiting those resources.

Bioprospecting is a frequent alternative neutral term or euphemism for biopiracy. While there is still no hard definition,[4] media and academia use this term to imply legitimatacy when speaking about endeavors to capitalize on tribal knowledge of natural resources..."

GROWING OPPOSITION TO BIO-PIRACY, LIFE PATENTS

"...Penang, Oct 25 (by Martin Khor) -- Opposition of civil society to "biological piracy" by the Transnational Corporations is rapidly spreading across the world, as more and more groups and people become aware of the theft by big corporations of the knowledge and biological resources of Third World communities to reap massive profits.

There is growing public outrage that these corporations are being granted patents for products and technologies that make use of the genetic materials, plants and other biological resources that have long been identified, developed and used by farmers and indigenous peoples, mainly in countries of the South.

While the corporations stand to make huge profits from this process, the local communities are unrewarded and in fact face the threat in future of having to buy the products of these companies at high prices...

...The genes of living organisms are the basic "raw materials" of the new biotechnologies. The "Gene Rush" has thus become a new version of the old "Gold Rush", in the scramble for future profits.

Farmers and indigenous communities, backed by citizen groups, are protesting against the companies being given patent rights whereas it is these communities that have been responsible for identifying and evolving the use of the plants for food, medicines and other functions.

The knowledge and use of "biodiversity" resides with these farmers and indigenous people, which have shared their knowledge and plants freely. Yet in patent applications, the companies are now claiming 'discovery' and 'invention' and thus exclusive right to produce and sell many "modified" plants and animals -- strains manipulated to incorporate selected foreign genes.

The companies, critics note, in fact have not invented or produced any new gene, merely identifying existing genes in plants and animals and transfer them to others. Third World communities are concerned that in future they will have to pay high prices for these materials, which in the first place they, more than any other party, had after all developed..."

Once again, The Klingon Empire (USA) warbling its national slogan of "Our Shit Right or Wrong", Manifest Destiny, a Big Stick, the Monroe Doctrine & the Moron-in-Chief bleating "Mission Accomplished" ensure Freedom & Justice for all.

Yeah, right.

Slartibartfas

If oil was really the reason for the Iraq war, than one has to say, that they really fucked it up.

We are at a point that in regards to securing the oil supply, the US would be better off if the Iraq war would not have started at all.

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What is up with all of the Klingon Empire references? Are America bashers running out of pejoratives and so now we get to hear the JV line up of "funny/clever" insults?

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Slartibartfas

Pah, just face the truth Klingon.

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Cicronio

Well, gollygeewillerkers, yahuckle, how fast can ya git to Manila before the nuclear chicken comes home to roost in Main Street, Anytown, USA?

At least, the Klingon euphemistic put down isn't as tacky as that dribble about dix, poos-ease & a$$ wholes a certain element had as a slogan till recently. Sheesh.

Snicker, snicker...

And, now, as everyone should be doing, instead of squawking about other people's writing skills, keeping to the topic of the thread...KLINGON EYEBALLING OF FOREIGN OIL

Perhaps, that once far-flung province of Rome known as Hispania aka Spain will usher in a new era of world peace with its invention of BIOPETROLEUM, a substitute for fossil OIL which should ease the Klingon Empire's eternal priapic desire for other sovereign nations' natural resources such as IRAQI OIL, VENEZUELAN OIL and, now, CUBAN OIL (Look up my other posts).

IfEnergy: Spanish Company to Produce BioPetroleum

"...A Spanish company is developing a system for producing energy from marine algae, with the hope of replacing fossil fuel and reducing pollution by late 2007. Biofuel Systems SL (BFS), the Spanish company developing the project and presided by Bernard Stroiazzo-Mougin, said that "the system will produce massive amounts of biopetroleum from phytoplankton, in a limited space and at a very moderate cost...

...If successful, BFS will produce biopetroleum that will have the advantages of petroleum, without the disadvantages such as carbon dioxide emission and other harmful derivatives..."

Oh, goodness gracious, does this mean the Klingon Empire might sink one of its own ships in a Spanish harbor a-la-Main-in-Havanna-in-1898, blaming Spain (Hmm, the date the Spanish possessions of the Phillipines and Puerto Rico got annexed by the Klingons) in order to have an excuse to invade Spain and take over its Biopetroleum plants?

Poor Moron-in-Chief and his administration of carpetbaggers with $$$stocks$$$ in the US OIL industry however will they earn their $$$daily bread$$$?

Looks like the $$$Clampetts$$$ will have to go back to their holler in them thar hills. Yahuckle.

Sebelius for VP, not Hillary

Maybe if you wouldn't use the silly Klingon refererence, then perhaps it wouldn't draw the attention away from what you have to say.

Feel free to keep using the Klingon reference, while bypassing people's questions about it. It's not going to help your credibility though.




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In cyber forums, what really counts is the credibility of the information you use to support your opinions. Information which, unless you personally have verifiable credentials of expert knowledge in the pertinent field in question, are links to web sites which the readers of the forums can judge to their own satisfaction as to their credibility.

Got it? Get it.

As to my references, they entirely up to my willful pleasure.

The Klingon Empire does not always get its way.

USA: Contempt for United Nations and International Folly

"When it suits the US, it uses the UN to seek legitimacy for its actions, to build coalition and impose sanctions on 'rogue states'. When world opinion goes against the US, it treats the UN with utter contempt. [...] Throughout the history of the UN, America has consistently vetoed any resolution or declaration that did not reflect US priorities or business interests. 'With note-worthy regularity', writes William Blum in Rogue State (2001), 'Washington has found itself - often alone, sometimes joined by one or two other countries - standing in opposition to the General Assembly resolutions aimed at furthering human rights, peace, nuclear disarmament, economic justice, the struggle against South African apartheid and Israeli lawlessness and other progressive causes'. Blum lists some 150 instances between 1984 and 1987 when the US cast a solitary 'no' vote against General Assembly resolutions.

This despite the fact that the US did not pay its UN dues for decades. When it finally agreed to pay past dues in return for a reduction in its assessments, it refused to fulfil the promise. The resentment against the US at typical UN meetings is so intense that it can be felt in the air. It was this resentment that led the UN's Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) to oust the US from the 53-member Human Rights Commission (HRC) in May 2001. [...] It was the vote of a number of European and 'friendly nations' that eventually ousted America. The US suffered a similar defeat in 1998 when it was ejected from, but later reinstated to, the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), a key committee that deals with funding in the whole body."

From the Klingon News Center aka Fox News, FOXNews.com - Robertson Calls for Chavez's Assassination - U.S. & World ,the following from Klingon Ayatollah Pat Roberston fatwa decreed against democratically elected Venezuelan president, Hugo Chavez with, how surprising, reference to OIL:

"...You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it," Robertson said. "It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... and I don't think any oil shipments will stop..."

FRYandBENDER

Glad to see someone has a sense of humor!

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FRYandBENDER

Geeze man, take a nap. You must hear the america bashing thing a lot if it gets you that upset.

And you can insult me all you want, but don't disparage the creative writings of Trey Parker and Matt Stone. They may use foul language and make crude jokes, but if everyone saw things the way they do, we wouldn't have nearly the amount of BS going on in the world.

There is no such thing as nuclear chickens.

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CHUQ

That is not quite accurate. The new Iraq Oil Law, will rape the country and give corporations unfair distribution of the oil.


This is a report issued by Global Policy Institute.


Crude Designs: The Rip-Off of Iraq’s Oil Wealth - UN Security Council - Global Policy Forum

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