Sorry, is Carlyle Group some kind of new Bilderberg?
In addition to the signficant economic worries, the entire logic of the conspiracy theory behind 9/11 falls down on the basic origin of it. I saw a new film called
Oil Smoke and Mirrors which starts off as an interesting examination of the possibility of Peak Oil - ie that we've found and extracted the maximum amount of oil from the Earth, and that the amount of oil available for use will start declining. Then at roughly the half way point the movie says,
It is universally accepted by the mainstream media that the War against Terror is a battle between rational Secularism and religious extremism.
*fade out*
*fade in*
There are other views, however.
However interesting the various talking heads were up to that point, immediately my BS meter went off. Because only CT-inspired documentaries make baseless statements as an article of faith like this. And the leading Peak Oil proponent started talking about his suspicions about 9/11. His theory, however - that in order to gain control of Iraq's substantial oil fields before all the oil ran out, America staged the 9/11 terrorist attack and then used that as a pretext to invade - suddenly made you doubt the value of his Peak Oil research. I haven't seen the film further than his assertion that six of the 19 hijackers "are still alive and well". So does
everything he says come straight off Internet conspiracy sites? Because I believed in Peak Oil!
But my point is this: America gave Saddam arms and supported him in his war against Iran. If it's the oil they wanted, then they would have remained friends with him. As it is, for the second time in two decades they destroyed or forced the destruction of millions of barrels of the very stuff they were trying to save, replaced a tyrranical but secular and stable government, with an unstable system fundamentally undermined by religious differences, the end result of which could easily mean the loss of all oil input from that region altogether!
It's so facile to claim that because the oil price went up, then oil barons automatically become richer. Every thing that has happened - 9/11 itself, the Iraq war and finally the sheer increase in usage of fossil fuels will do nothing except put the price of oil
up. And it's a sad fact, but it's true - that no American politician expects to keep his office if he puts the price of petrol up.
The Bushes did not become Presidents and governers to do stupid things to put the price of oil up and "increase their profits" (push their customers into Prius cars is all that
that has achieved). They essentially became oil barons in order to become Presidents and Governers.
