oil

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MypQAU_Lb-E

This Week:
1. Rate Cut and Run
2. Oil Pimping
3. Asian Rice Blues

Keith Olbermann's segment on blimptv's spoof of coins minted in "honor" of George Bush, featuring Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, and others.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUblQ52YzzQ

Benchmark Boogie: A Guide to the Struggle Over Iraq's Oil

By Antonia Juhasz
AlterNet

July 14, 2007

What does a war for oil look like? American troops going into battle with tanks waving "Exxon Mobil" and "Chevron" flags right behind? Are the flags then planted squarely in the ground and the oil beneath officially declared war bounty? Well, some members of the Bush administration and U.S. oil companies may have favored such an approach. But the device ultimately chosen to win this war for oil is only slightly more subtle: a law, to be passed by the Iraqis themselves, which would turn Iraq's oil over to foreign oil companies.

The president's benchmark

Darfur Refugee CampDarfur? It’s the Oil, Stupid...

by F. William Engdahl

Global Research, May 20, 2007

To paraphrase the famous quip during the 1992 US Presidential debates, when an unknown William Jefferson Clinton told then-President George Herbert Walker Bush, “It’s the economy, stupid,” the present concern of the current Washington Administration over Darfur in southern Sudan is not, if we were to look closely, genuine concern over genocide against the peoples in that poorest of poor part of a forsaken section of Africa.

No. “It’s the oil, stupid.”