How The Bush Stole Summer Vacation
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - George Orwell
How the Bush Stole Summer Vacation
"There's no denying that this is an oil administration, you can't talk about the career of any George Bush -- father or son -- without talking about oil." - Peter Eisner
The above link provides an interesting series of charts showing how Americans are NOT better off... and I, like a lot of other people, am not happy about the high cost of gas at the pump or the cost of propane, which has trippled its price (in our area and necessary) since 9/11.
I, like others, was caught up in the tragedy of 9/11 and, like the World, stood behind George Bush when he went after his family friend's son [fact, look it up], Osama.
What 'pains me' is, I did this without anybody presenting evidence 'Osama did it' and accepted what I was told by my leaders without question; besides, who WMD would NUK LER ever POISON GAS believe RAPE we TOTRURE could WMD be KILLERS led WMD astray TRIGGER by NUCLEAR CLOUD those WMD elected MISSLES by/for ANTHRAX trust WMD ?
I was brought up to believe "innocent until proven guilty" ...but hey, according to the newspapers recently, evidence gets planted and modified by the ones, one would trust sometimes, so....I'm still scratching my head over that.
What turned me into a skeptic, despite I would rather not believe my government was complicit, was a growing consensus 9/11 may have been an inside job.
One of the most troubling aspects is, why George W. Bush and his Republican administration resisted an official investigation of 9/11 for 18 months while Democrats stood by and did very little or nothing to challenge this horrendous action.
If 9/11 was an inside job, 'we need to get the fox out of the chicken house' immediately, before any more damage is done, and this involves the 'I Word' (impeachment). ...He did sort of mention 'another attack' during his April 28, 2005 Press Conference.
January 26, 1998
The Project for the New American Century, January 26, 1998, Letter to President Clinton
Despite obvious attack Iraq text, the more interesting aspect of this letter is who signed it and where they are now.
Elliott Abrams, Richard L.Armitage, William J. Bennett, Jeffrey Bergner, John Bolton, Paula Dobriansky, Francis Fukuyama, Robert Kagan, Zalmay Khalilzad, William Kristol, Richard Perle, Peter W. Rodman, Donald Rumsfeld, William Schneider, Jr., Vin Weber, Paul Wolfowitz, R. James Woolsey, Robert B. Zoellick.
To read complete text, [click here].
June 23, 1998
Richard B. Cheney - Defending Liberty in a Global Economy - To read complete text [click here].
August 10, 2000
Shortly after Desert Storm, the Associated Press reported Cheney's desire to broaden the United States' military role in the region to hedge future threats to gulf oil resources. Cheney is CEO of Dallas-based Halliburton Co., the biggest oil-services company in the world. Because of the instability in the Persian Gulf, Cheney and his fellow oilmen have zeroed in on the world's other major source of oil--the Caspian Sea. Its rich oil and gas resources are estimated at $4 trillion by U.S. News and World Report. [ article - August 10, 2000 Cheney's Black Gold: Oil Interests May Drive US Foreign Policy]
May 15, 2001
Halliburton & KMNF [Azerbaijan] Ink 12 Year Contract
"Halliburton International Inc. and KASPMORNEFTELOT (KMNF), the marine division of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR), have entered into a 12-year contract for a marine base and associated services to support Halliburton Sub sea offshore construction activity in the Caspian region. Halliburton Sub sea is a business unit of Halliburton Company’s Energy Services Group. "The base, with a 6,000-square metre lay down area, is located at KMNF’s Southern Basin adjacent to Caspian Shipyard. It will be primarily utilized to support Halliburton Sub sea’s catamaran crane vessel Qurban Abbasov (previously known as the Titan 4) during the restoration and upgrade of the vessel and during the forthcoming offshore construction, pipe lay and sub sea activities. The site will also be developed to provide warehouse, office and training facilities that will include advanced diver and life support technician training, utilizing the company’s 16-man modular saturation system. "The Qurban Abbasov is operated by Halliburton Sub sea in an alliance agreement with SOCAR for a period of 12 years. It will provide an advanced, stable, dynamically positioned construction platform for saturation and remote vehicle diving; flexible and bundle pipeline installation with trenching; emergency pipeline repair, subsurface well intervention with wire line; and coiled tubing. It also will be used in flotel configuration for hook-up and commissioning work. "'The acquisition of the marine base is a further indication of our commitment to the Caspian region and to the success of the partnership arrangements with SOCAR,' says Edgar Ortiz, President and Chief Executive Officer, Halliburton’s Energy Services Group." --Aylward, Marine Publishers and Halliburton Press Release, May 15, 2001.
[Ed. NOTE: The original documents are currently missing and here were their link addresses: http://www.aylward.co.uk/story1.htm - and - http://www.halliburton.com/ESG/ESGNWS/ESGNWS_051501.asp . Another interesting point is this contract runs out in 2013 and perhaps why Iran is of interest.]
August. 6, 2001
PDB Memo where Rice tells Bush,
"Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."USING PLANES!
This information surfaced, ONLY, when Rice was forced to reveal the name of the document during the investigation of 9/11 and, just so everybody knows, the majority of her testimony was NOT under oath [click to read].
SEPTEMBER 11, 2001September 27, 2001
FBI Press Release shows majority of 9/11 Hijackers = Saudi Nationals [click to read]
October 4, 2001
Ted Rall Cartoon
November 19, 2001
There's no denying that this is an oil administration, you can't talk about the career of any George Bush -- father or son -- without talking about oil." [November 19, 2001] - [Dark heart of the American dream]
September 4, 2002
Plans For Iraq Attack Began On 9/11
(CBS) CBS News has learned that barely five hours after American Airlines Flight 77 plowed into the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was telling his aides to come up with plans for striking Iraq — even though there was no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the attacks. To read complete text, [click here].
Anonymous Cartoon
March 20, 2003
U.S. launches cruise missiles at Saddam
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- U.S. and coalition forces launched missiles and bombs at targets in Iraq as Thursday morning dawned in Baghdad, including a "decapitation attack" aimed at Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and other top members of the country's leadership. To read complete text, [click here].
April 28, 2005Quoted text from Press Conference
Look, Kim Jong Il is a dangerous person. He's a man who starves his people. He's got huge concentration camps. And, as David accurately noted, there is concern about his capacity to deliver a nuclear weapon. We don't know if he can or not, but I think it's best, when you're dealing with a tyrant like Kim Jong Il, to assume he can. - George W. Bush
One of the reasons why I thought it was important to have a missile defense system is for precisely the reason that you brought up: Perhaps Kim Jong Il has got the capacity to launch a weapon; wouldn't it be nice to be able to shoot it down? - George W. Bush
This is a six-party talk: five of us on the side of convincing Kim Jong Il to get rid of his nuclear weapons and, obviously, Kim Jong Il believes he ought to have some. - George W. Bush
THESE QUOTES ARE SCAREY because they seem ALL TO FAMALIAR remembering George W. Bush was wrong about Iraq in his "AXIS OF EVIL" speech [click to read].
April 30, 2005
BILLIONS OF UNITED STATES TAX DOLLARS MISSING FROM IRAQ [click to read]
HALLIBURTONIRAQPROFITS[click to read]
OIL COMPANIES SHOW RECORD PROFITS [click to read]
Fraud Traced to the White
House
How California’s energy
scam
was inextricably linked to a war for oil scheme
by Katherine Yurica
http://www.yuricareport.com/PoliticalAnalysis/FraudinWhiteHouse.htm
HIGH
GAS PRICES FORCE CHANGES
[The above original article is no longer available at:
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/24-04222005-479340.html
and here is what it said:
High Gas Prices Force Changes
By WILL LESTER
Published: Friday, April 22, 2005
WASHINGTON -- Half the people in the country say record-high gas prices are starting to cause them problems. Who's to blame? Americans point a finger at the oil companies, foreign nations that control the oil supply, and politicians.
More than half say they're cutting back on driving, and many plan to stay closer to home on their summer vacations.
An Associated Press-AOL poll found 51 percent of those surveyed say that if gas prices remain high for the next six months it will cause a financial hardship for them. Thirty percent of those polled classified the hit as "serious," according to the survey conducted by Ipsos-Public Affairs for the AP and AOL News.
"You have to decide -- gas, groceries, medicine," said Marcia Cain of Indianapolis, who is semi-retired. "I'm on limited income. I don't go out as much -- eating out, going to listen to jazz. It uses gas you don't want to use."
Cain paid $2.15 per gallon this week after paying $2.35 per gallon the week before. "It aggravates me, but there's not much I can do about it," she said.
High global oil prices have pushed the cost of regular gasoline for U.S. motorists to about $2.21 per gallon, with prices ranging from an average of $2.64 in California to about $2 in Oklahoma, according to the auto group AAA. Prices are expected to remain above $2 nationally through the summer.
Americans spread the blame around, with 29 percent blaming the oil companies, 24 percent blaming foreign governments that dominate oil reserves and 23 percent saying politicians. Eight percent blame the high prices on "environmentalists who want to limit oil exploration," while 6 percent blame "people who drive gas-guzzling vehicles."
Anxiety about gasoline prices comes as President Bush is pressing Congress to approve energy legislation that includes tax breaks and subsidies, mostly for energy companies, and would open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil development. The House passed its version of the bill Thursday.
The president gets low marks from the public for his handling of the nation's energy problems, with 62 percent saying they disapprove. When he first took office, people were more inclined to say he would handle energy problems effectively.
Many people, 41 percent, say gas prices are making them seriously consider purchasing a more fuel-efficient vehicle.
Sales of big trucks and SUVS are off at General Motors. And purchases of Ford's largest SUVs -- the Excursion, Expedition and Explorer -- all fell by more than 24 percent in the first three months of the year.
Automakers that produce hybrid cars that run on a combination of electricity and gas are reporting strong interest from consumers.
Seth Miller, who lives in Sumter, S.C., and serves in the Air Force, spent almost $80 at $2.10 a gallon the last time he filled up his Chevy Silverado truck. He has considered getting something that would be less of a gas guzzler.
"If it were feasible for me to buy another (more fuel-efficient) vehicle and keep my truck, I would," Miller said.
The survey found gas prices have prompted 58 percent to reduce their driving, 57 percent have cut back on other expenses and 41 percent have changed vacation plans to stay closer to home.
"We're going to end up with a couple of short trips," said Tom Brewer, a father of three from Cable, Ohio. "We will stay within two or three hours from home.
Dermot Gately, a New York University economics professor, said it takes time for consumers to feel the full impact of gas prices.
"The next time they buy a vehicle -- in two or three years -they may be more careful to get a more fuel-efficient one," he said. "It's a relatively slow adjustment."
The Associated Press-AOL poll was based on telephone interviews with 1,000 adults from all states except Alaska and Hawaii. The interviews were conducted April 18-20 by Ipsos-Public Affairs. The poll has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.
Tax cuts were devoured
by rising fuel prices
and funneled to BIG OIL;
leaving one to ask,
Who Is Making A Fortune on Oil & Gas ?
http://www.davidicke.net/newsroom/america/usa/092001p.html
The connection has timed out
The server at www.davidicke.net is taking too long to respond.
* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.
* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.
* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.
Here is what the article said:
The Bush Family 'Oiligarchy'
Part Four: At the Candidate's Ear
By Sam Parry, August 20, 2000
Many of George W. Bush’s senior foreign policy advisers also have close ties to the oil industry.
Condoleeza Rice, George W.’s chief foreign policy aide and leading candidate to serve as his national security adviser, has been a director of Chevron Corp. since 1991. Rice is currently in charge of public policy for Chevron’s board of directors, which has used her expertise in Russian issues to help Chevron navigate its way to investments in the Caspian Sea oil fields.
In 1993, Rice was granted a rare honor when Chevron named an oil tanker after her.
Lawrence Eagleburger, a seasoned Bush counselor who held top State Department posts under George W.’s father, is a director of Halliburton Corp., the world’s largest oil field services company.
When looking for a running mate, George W. also turned to Halliburton. He asked Dick Cheney, Halliburton’s chairman and chief executive, first to vet other candidates and later to take the job. With Cheney at Halliburton’s helm for the past five years, the Dallas-based company grew into a global juggernaut, now with two-thirds of its business overseas. It has business in nearly 130 countries, counts about 700 wholly and partly owned subsidiaries, employs more than 100,000 workers worldwide, and boasts a 1999 income of $15 billion. [AP, July 26, 2000]
Halliburton's global network of investments includes projects in politically volatile areas, some with savage human rights records. Other countries, where Halliburton has subsidiaries, have come under criticism for bank secrecy.
The nations where Halliburton does business include oil-producers such as Nigeria, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Libya, Angola and Russia. The company’s roster of subsidiaries also lists companies in offshore banking havens, such as the Cayman Islands, Barbados, Panama, Cyprus and Vanuatu. [Halliburton’s annual report, March 2000]
While the political Cheney might have worried about the nature of U.S. business ties to some of these countries, Cheney the oilman apparently sees nothing wrong with lucrative investments in these places, even though Iran and Libya remain on the State Department’s list of terrorist states.
As politician-Cheney promotes the need for a missile defense system in the U.S. for fear that “rogue” states might develop missiles powerful enough to threaten American cities, oilman-Cheney has negotiated Halliburton investments in some of those very countries and has criticized the use of economic sanctions as a tool of U.S. foreign policy.
During Cheney’s tenure, Halliburton built up operations in Nigeria despite the country’s pattern of human rights violations. Halliburton’s subsidiaries signed contracts with Royal Dutch Shell and Chevron, two companies that have been at loggerheads with Nigerian indigenous groups in the Niger Delta.
In April 2000, Brown & Root Energy Services, a business unit of Halliburton, was selected by Shell Petroleum Development Co. of Nigeria to work on the development of an offshore oil and gas facility, the first of its kind for Shell. The deal, valued at $300 million, has been questioned by those who have worked to hold Shell accountable for its pollution and notorious human rights record in Ogoniland in the Niger Delta.
Shell has been involved in oil exploration and export in Nigeria for more than 40 years, much of it in the fertile lands belonging to the Ogoni people in the Niger Delta. During this period, Shell’s activities led to repeated environmental calamities, caused by oil spills, noxious gas flares, cleared forests, despoiled farmland and pipeline blowouts.
Shell’s operations and the money they generated for the military government of Sani Abacha earned Shell free rein in its operations. Gen. Abacha’s government used force to crush popular protests against the oil industry throughout the Niger Delta.
Just five years ago, in November 1995, the year Cheney joined Halliburton, renowned writer and environmental advocate Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his colleagues were hanged by the Abacha government for their efforts to prevent Shell from continuing to poison the environment of the Niger Delta.
It is estimated that more than 2,000 people have been murdered for their involvement in protests against Shell’s activities in the Delta. Most of those murdered were Ogoni who had rallied behind Saro-Wiwa in the early 1990s.
In 1999, Gen. Abacha died under mysterious circumstances that have yet to be fully clarified. An interim government gave way to a popularly elected administration headed by former Nigerian Gen. Obasanjo. The transition to democracy in Nigeria has led to renewed hope that tensions in the Niger Delta will ease. Still, inequality and poverty are rampant.
In recent weeks, desperate Nigerians caused deadly explosions when they tapped pipelines to siphon oil for sale in the open market. These explosions, while they can’t be blamed directly on the oil companies, are caused by the crushing poverty faced by many Nigerians, especially in the Niger Delta. Halliburton and its business allies have turned a blind eye to this inequality created in part by the exploitation of the area's oil.
In July 1997, an incident occurred in the Niger Delta that should have set off alarms in Halliburton executive suites. A youth by the name of Gidikumo Sule was killed by the Mobile Police, notorious for their brutal tactics. Sule was among dozens protesting Chevron in a dispute involving a Chevron contractor. That contractor was Halliburton.
The versions of the story vary, but what is known is that a group of youths trying to send a message to Chevron stopped a barge owned by Halliburton, blocking access to a Chevron facility. The youths were apparently protesting the fact that Chevron had failed to hire any local workers for a project.
Mobile Police units were sent in to break up the protests and in the ensuing confrontation, the police fired at the youths killing Sule. [See The Price of Oil, Human Rights Watch,
http://www.hrw.org/hrw/reports/1999/nigeria/Nigew991-08.htm .]
After the incident, Halliburton, which owned the barge at the center of the controversy, increased its business dealings in the area.
dahbud's HOME PAGE
