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Oil Execs Celebrate in SF : Mission (nearly) Accomplished
CEOs of Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, and BP Celebrate Iraq Oil Theft Law at Gas Station in San Francisco.
David Reilly of Chevron, Rex Tillerson of Exxon Mobil, John Browne of BP, and even Dick Cheney were some of the oil executives on hand to celebrate "Mission (nearly) Accomplished" with the new oil law set to go before the Iraqi Parliament this month.
According to Antonia Juhasz's article in the New York Times in March, if passed "the new law would go a long way toward helping the oil companies achieve their goal... transforming Iraq's oil industry from a nationalized model closed to American oil companies except for limited ( although highly lucrative) marketing contracts, into a commercial industry, all-but-privatized, that is fully open to all international oil companies".
There were no fancy landings on aircraft carriers or flight suit costumes, rather the main oil executives together with key players from the Cheney/Bush administration walked from Civic Center Bart to the Chevron station at Howard and 9th for a somewhat conservative but festive street corner party. Condoleeza Rice arrived wearing a black velvet jacket, pearls, and high heels and held balloons reading " Iraqi Oil Theft Law" and "Mission Accomplished". Dick Cheney, looking confident wearing his usual Pacino-like snarl, held up a Chevron sign that read, "This war is not about oil". And an attending corporate lackey, apparently from Chevron, carried a big sack of cash and a sign that read, "Give Blood for Oil ".
The gas station attendant at this 9th and Howard stop ( a Soma favorite for SUV-owners, commuters and unsustainable city dwellers alike because it combines a Burger King, a Starbucks, and a car wash) commented from behind his bulletproof glass cage, "I had no idea this was happening today. It's a complete surprise. But I don't think my manager will be happy, it appears to be discouraging many customers from coming in."
According to Antonia Juhasz's article in the New York Times in March, if passed "the new law would go a long way toward helping the oil companies achieve their goal... transforming Iraq's oil industry from a nationalized model closed to American oil companies except for limited ( although highly lucrative) marketing contracts, into a commercial industry, all-but-privatized, that is fully open to all international oil companies".
There were no fancy landings on aircraft carriers or flight suit costumes, rather the main oil executives together with key players from the Cheney/Bush administration walked from Civic Center Bart to the Chevron station at Howard and 9th for a somewhat conservative but festive street corner party. Condoleeza Rice arrived wearing a black velvet jacket, pearls, and high heels and held balloons reading " Iraqi Oil Theft Law" and "Mission Accomplished". Dick Cheney, looking confident wearing his usual Pacino-like snarl, held up a Chevron sign that read, "This war is not about oil". And an attending corporate lackey, apparently from Chevron, carried a big sack of cash and a sign that read, "Give Blood for Oil ".
The gas station attendant at this 9th and Howard stop ( a Soma favorite for SUV-owners, commuters and unsustainable city dwellers alike because it combines a Burger King, a Starbucks, and a car wash) commented from behind his bulletproof glass cage, "I had no idea this was happening today. It's a complete surprise. But I don't think my manager will be happy, it appears to be discouraging many customers from coming in."
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Why would the US military occupy Iraq other than to protect the assetts of Dick Cheney's Halliburton petroleum infrastructure, the most heavily guarded places following the collapse of Saddam's statue??
"At any time within the next few days, the Iraqi Council of Ministers is expected to approve a new "hydrocarbon law" essentially drawn up by the Bush Administration and its UK lackey, the Independent on Sunday reports. The new bill will "radically redraw the Iraqi oil industry and throw open the doors to the third-largest oil reserves in the world," say the paper, whose reporters have seen a draft of the new law. "It would allow the first large-scale operation of foreign oil companies in the country since the industry was nationalized in 1972." If the government's parliamentary majority prevails, the law should take effect in March.
As the paper notes, the law will give Exxon, BP, Shell and other carbon cronies of the White House unprecedented sweetheart deals, allowing them to pump gargantuan profits from Iraq's nominally state-owned oilfields for decades to come. This law has been in the works since the very beginning of the invasion – indeed, since months before the invasion, when the Bush Administration brought in Phillip Carroll, former CEO of both Shell and Fluor, the politically-wired oil servicing firm, to devise "contingency plans" for divvying up Iraq's oil after the attack. Once the deed was done, Carroll was made head of the American "advisory committee" overseeing the oil industry of the conquered land, as Joshua Holland of Alternet.com has chronicled in two remarkable reports on the backroom maneuvering over Iraq's oil: Bush's Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq's Oil and The U.S. Takeover of Iraqi Oil."
read on @;
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=989&Itemid=135
So Exxon-Mobil planning to set up shop in Iraq? Think that'll drive down the prices of gas in the US? Talk about record profits, Exxon-Mobil CEO is worth billions in ransom!! Call Wackenhut security in for extra measures, cuz ya'll petroleum execs really are surrounded!!
We encourage ALL U.S. Soldiers and US military personal to cease and desist their operation in Iraq ASAP! Don't sit around waiting for slowpoke Democrats to initiate a troop withdrawl or yOUR HEADS WILL EXPLODE!! Really, they will! Try thinking for yourselves for a change, you're not helping ANYONE (except petroleum CEOs) by being in Iraq. Better off going AWOL & hiding out from MPs and having all your body parts in tact, eh tough guy?
The Islamic resistance to US occupation of Iraq needs to become better organized! Stop all the Sunni/Shia infighting! While you're so busy killing each other in sectarian conflicts the oil is being sucked out from under your feet!!
We encourage any Iraqi freedom fighters, Muqtada Al-Sadr, Hezbollah etc.. to assist US soldiers in non-violent escape plan to undisclosed sheltered location. Out of Iraq, out of harm's way. Most US soldiers are just misled youth from lower income neighborhoods who are exploited by this US government. Just give them some good humus and some hookah hash in a warm cave for a few days, they'll be happy as clams!!
Then the US soldiers can return to north america alive and intact!!
"At any time within the next few days, the Iraqi Council of Ministers is expected to approve a new "hydrocarbon law" essentially drawn up by the Bush Administration and its UK lackey, the Independent on Sunday reports. The new bill will "radically redraw the Iraqi oil industry and throw open the doors to the third-largest oil reserves in the world," say the paper, whose reporters have seen a draft of the new law. "It would allow the first large-scale operation of foreign oil companies in the country since the industry was nationalized in 1972." If the government's parliamentary majority prevails, the law should take effect in March.
As the paper notes, the law will give Exxon, BP, Shell and other carbon cronies of the White House unprecedented sweetheart deals, allowing them to pump gargantuan profits from Iraq's nominally state-owned oilfields for decades to come. This law has been in the works since the very beginning of the invasion – indeed, since months before the invasion, when the Bush Administration brought in Phillip Carroll, former CEO of both Shell and Fluor, the politically-wired oil servicing firm, to devise "contingency plans" for divvying up Iraq's oil after the attack. Once the deed was done, Carroll was made head of the American "advisory committee" overseeing the oil industry of the conquered land, as Joshua Holland of Alternet.com has chronicled in two remarkable reports on the backroom maneuvering over Iraq's oil: Bush's Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq's Oil and The U.S. Takeover of Iraqi Oil."
read on @;
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=989&Itemid=135
So Exxon-Mobil planning to set up shop in Iraq? Think that'll drive down the prices of gas in the US? Talk about record profits, Exxon-Mobil CEO is worth billions in ransom!! Call Wackenhut security in for extra measures, cuz ya'll petroleum execs really are surrounded!!
We encourage ALL U.S. Soldiers and US military personal to cease and desist their operation in Iraq ASAP! Don't sit around waiting for slowpoke Democrats to initiate a troop withdrawl or yOUR HEADS WILL EXPLODE!! Really, they will! Try thinking for yourselves for a change, you're not helping ANYONE (except petroleum CEOs) by being in Iraq. Better off going AWOL & hiding out from MPs and having all your body parts in tact, eh tough guy?
The Islamic resistance to US occupation of Iraq needs to become better organized! Stop all the Sunni/Shia infighting! While you're so busy killing each other in sectarian conflicts the oil is being sucked out from under your feet!!
We encourage any Iraqi freedom fighters, Muqtada Al-Sadr, Hezbollah etc.. to assist US soldiers in non-violent escape plan to undisclosed sheltered location. Out of Iraq, out of harm's way. Most US soldiers are just misled youth from lower income neighborhoods who are exploited by this US government. Just give them some good humus and some hookah hash in a warm cave for a few days, they'll be happy as clams!!
Then the US soldiers can return to north america alive and intact!!
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