Oil: How High Will It Go?

From Cryptogon.


There’s no good resistance until the $140 zone, where the previous high is. Now, if oil closes the gap, going for the previous high, it will mean that the dollar will break down substantially from here. The dollar’s problems are so severe that it appears to have lost its desirability as a safe harbor during geopolitical crises...

Riots In Athens And Rome

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Athens:





Rome:

The Runaway General

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...Here’s the most important sentence in the piece below: “The very people that COIN seeks to win over – the Afghan people – do not want us there.” Take any class in Small Wars 101 and you will learn that the U.S. has no chance for “victory” in Afghanistan, in any common sense interpretation of the term. So, check your so-called normal sensibilities at the door.
There are, however, a few metrics by which “victory” for the U.S. in Afghanistan may be measured.
First of all, the fact that mayhem continues is a victory for the corporations that profit from the absurd war-related contracts

There’s the unknown billions of heroin related dollars that are generated from covert operations in Afghanistan. The transformation of Afghanistan into a narcostate is a victory for black money operators.

Ultimately, victory will mean that Afghanistan becomes pacified in a manner that facilities effortless corporate rape. The purpose of the U.S. military is to tie the victim down. Then the people in the suits step into the room…

Vision Of Evil: “Kill TV” in the “Death Star”

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They called it the “Death Star” because according to one source who worked inside it, “you could just reach out with a finger and eliminate” somebody.
On the walls were television screens, known by the special forces boys as “Kill TV”, where footage from image-intensifier cameras of the enemy being blown up by air strikes, or being gunned down by undercover hit teams was shown.
This place was “the Machine”, a state-of-the-art military command centre hidden away in an airbase in Balad, a desolate stretch of land north of Baghdad...

U.S. Identifies Vast Mineral Deposits Worth $1 Trillion in Afghanistan; “The Saudi Arabia of Lithium”; “One of The Most Important Mining Centers"

Oh, blimey, what a lucky streak!

From Cryptogon.

June 14th, 2010
I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.
—Fight Club
The Soviets knew about it! They did geological surveys during their occupation of Afghanistan.
Which makes you wonder… Did the U.S. actually know about it all this time? This piece says otherwise, but it’s the New York Times.
Was this part of the internal narrative, part of the reasoning, for carrying out the 9/11 spectacle? CIA asset Bin Laden… Operating in the “Saudi Arabia of lithium.” Tell me another one....

Cryptogon's Rally Monkey

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U.S. Oil Rig Inspection Agency Staff Was On Crystal Meth During Work Hours

Not called Minerals Management for nothing....

From Cryptogon.


Staff members at an agency that oversees offshore drilling accepted tickets to sports events, lunches and other gifts from oil and gas companies and used government computers to view pornography, according to an Interior Department report alleging a culture of cronyism between regulators and the industry.
In at least one case, an inspector for the Minerals Management Service admitted using crystal methamphetamine and said he might have been under the influence of the drug the next day at work, according to the report by the acting inspector general of the Interior Department...

....Her biggest concern is the ease with which minerals agency employees move between industry and government, Kendall said. While no specifics were included in the report, “we discovered that the individuals involved in the fraternizing and gift exchange — both government and industry — have often known one another since childhood,” Kendall said.

Cryptogon: Toxic Beef, Rejected by Mexico, Sold in U.S.

Via: USA Today:

Beef containing harmful pesticides, veterinary antibiotics and heavy metals is being sold to the public because federal agencies have failed to set limits for the contaminants or adequately test for them, a federal audit finds.

Here is a link to the article on Cryptogon.com.

Cable Ties Kissinger To Assassinations

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As Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger canceled a U.S. warning against carrying out international political assassinations that was to have gone to Chile and two neighboring nations just days before a former ambassador was killed by Chilean agents on Washington’s Embassy Row in 1976, a newly released State Department cable shows.

Evil Bananas.

I was browsing through Cryptogon, when I caught an article on how Chiquita funded death squads in Colombia. If you follow the links back to the original article from Huffington Post on how Attorney General Eric Holder was one of the lawyers involved in getting Chiquita out of trouble on that one, you find the shocking statement that Chiquita's payments of money and guns to the Colombian paramilitaries led to the murder of 4000 civilians in Colombia.

So next time you eat that yummy, healthy Chiquita banana, just know that thousands of people have died for the greed of the company that brought it to you. Not that the banana itself is really to blame, the sick and corrupt corporations are.

Nonetheless, that banana is bleeding buckets of red blood.