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Foxhounds killed after being hit by Iarnród Éireann train

A number of fox hounds that were out on a hunt were struck by a train travelling to Dublin.

A NUMBER OF foxhounds were killed yesterday after an Iarnród Éireann train hit the dogs who had strayed onto the railway track.

It is believed the dogs were taking part in a hunt along the railway tracks.

Waterford to Dublin train

A spokesperson for Iarnród Éireann confirmed to TheJournal.ie that a pack of hounds that were on the railway line just outside Mullinavat County Kilkenny were struck by the 14.50pm train from Waterford to Dublin train.

They also confirmed that a number of dogs were killed and the train suffered a small amount of damage.

The incident also caused the train to be delayed for a period of time.

“We would advise that no one should cross the railway line where there is not a designated crossing,” said the spokesperson, adding “it is extremely dangerous”.

No prior notification

She also added that no hunt group had given any prior notification that a hunt was taking place and that they would be crossing the line. “There were no prior arrangements made with Iarnród Eireann,” she said.

The Association of Hunt Saboteurs Ireland said they “wholeheartedly condemn the failure of the hunters to control the pack of hounds and to protect their welfare. The death of hounds while hunting is not an isolated incident, accidents in the past have involved road accidents, other train accidents and deaths of other animals caused by hounds out of control,” said their spokesperson.

Fox hunting

“This is further proof that hunting with hounds is a danger to both animals and humans. Hunt hounds cannot realistically be controlled by hunt masters once they are on the scent of another animal. Hunting must be banned in this country for the welfare of all animals,” they added.

The name of the fox hunt group involved in this incident has yet to be verified. Hunt groups that operate hunts in the area have stated that they are not aware of any incident involving their group.

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    Mute Paul Murphy
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    May 7th 2013, 7:46 AM

    The end goal may not be the oil, but the fact that the US needs oil to be traded in dollars as it has been for decades. The US has no gold reserves and needs other countries to keep reserves of Dollars to trade with.

    Sadam was beginning to trade in euros, and even recently Libya were pushing the North African nations to trade in a new currency based on Gold reserves.

    Its not the oil they need, but the stability of their currency. without oil being traded in dollars, the world markets will be flooded with them & the dollar will be devalued to the point where the US economy will be unsustainable…

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    May 7th 2013, 7:50 AM

    Paul,

    Way too clever comment.

    Be prepared for the attack of the sheep shaped drones.

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    Mute mattoid
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    May 7th 2013, 8:13 AM

    @Paul
    The US has no gold reserves??

    You mean apart from the 8000 tonnes held at Fort Knox?

    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold_reserve

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    May 7th 2013, 8:19 AM

    matt,

    most of the gold the us has does not belong to them. The usa refused to repatriate french gold back to france in the earlt 70′s when asked to do so by the french, other countries have suffered similar fates.

    Germany at present is trying to get all its physical gold back to germany. Back to the deutchemark, no doubt.

    Wikipedia is not a source.

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    Mute mattoid
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    May 7th 2013, 8:27 AM

    Then can you provide your sources?

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    May 7th 2013, 8:56 AM

    By the way, the Wiki article which you’re so quick to try and dismiss clearly references where the figures come from, and also clearly states that the figures represent the gold holdings of each country regardless of the physical location that those reserves are kept.

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    Mute Derek McKenna
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    May 7th 2013, 8:57 AM

    I love the fact that you use Wikipedia as a source then challenge someone over their sources. Ha ha classic!

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    Mute Paul Murphy
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    May 7th 2013, 9:00 AM

    US Federal Reserve has no gold, according to Ron Paul of the USFD…
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhrjcnwLBec

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    May 7th 2013, 9:02 AM

    Errr… Think you have that a bit arseways Derek! :-D
    I was challenged about posting a Wikipedia link as it was “not a source” (read my last post – wiki itself is not the source but it clearly references the source…..) by someone who was providing no source whatsoever for their own statement.

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    Mute Martin Gregory
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    May 7th 2013, 1:35 PM

    Watch the money masters, explains about fort know & the gold > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfpO-WBz_mw

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    Mute Leigh Barker
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    May 7th 2013, 1:56 PM

    Surely the point is that the post WW2 the dollar was tied to gold, then later tied to oil, forcing economies to trade in the US dollar. When Saddam tied Iraqi oil to the Euro in November 2000, as other countries have done, the US dollar lost some of its stability and the US wanted to make an example out of Iraq to other Middle Eastern oil producers.

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    Mute Padraic O'Dwyer
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    May 7th 2013, 3:23 PM

    This was the reason Germany or France did not partake in this war, because it would have been good for the Euro. Holland did because of eventual contracts for Shell, BP.

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    Mute Dom Morgan
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    May 7th 2013, 8:06 PM

    Well except the fact that oil is PRICED in USD and about 85% of oil being traded off market exchange in under the counter contracts traded in whatever currencies or even goods swaps suit the parties. Same bullshit was peddled about USD ceasing to be the world reserve currency of choice and this process has been going on for a while and USD has been steadily declining in its role as the reserve currency with no discernible consequence.

    Padraic, that’s a brilliant analysis. Central banks ECB included are falling over each other in the efforts to debase their currencies at least as much as the next central bank and yet there are people who think Germany and France opposed the Iraq war to make sure Euro remained overpriced. Had nothing to do with the fact that German and French companies had deals in Iraq with Saddam’s government.

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    May 8th 2013, 12:44 AM

    I was always of the view that Saddam and Gaddafi were allowed to be killed , rather than exiled or more recently brought to the Tribunal in the Hague, like the Slobodan Milošević’s or the Idi Amin’s or other unpalatable despots before them.
    This seems to be a message to anyone who dares attempt to peg another currency to the trading of oil other than the USD.

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    May 9th 2013, 2:17 PM

    Not true. Germany and France wanted a strong Euro at that time. That they want a weaker Euro now is of no consequence. They were aware of the fact that all trade agreements would become null and void in any case in the event of a war, and could only be secured if they partook in this illegal war. If Iraq succeeded in trading oil in Euros, many other countries would have followed suit. Angola and Nigeria among others ,were interested.

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    May 7th 2013, 7:14 AM

    Ahhh Scott, you know that a reasoned analysis of the situation backed up by statistics isn’t going to go down well on the Journal….
    ;-)

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    Mute Stephen Ring
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    May 7th 2013, 7:30 AM

    I agree, you need a few more slogans (burn the bondholders) and a few less logically sound propositions and facts.

    Definitely gonna get a few nuts talking about our (unfound) €600 billion oil and how we gave it away (despite not having found it)

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    May 7th 2013, 7:32 AM

    Excellent article. I wonder how many people are going to read it before commenting.

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    May 7th 2013, 8:16 AM

    They didn’t even have to invade us, we just gave our oil away man…

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    Mute Barry O'Brien
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    May 7th 2013, 8:29 AM

    The columnist completely missed the point of the oil wars. It’s not about gaining oil as a resource, it’s about the trading of oil in dollars. As long as the nations of the world need to trade in dollars for oil then the dollar is the de facto reserve currency for the world.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrodollar_warfare

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    May 7th 2013, 8:55 AM

    Bush and his cronies weren’t robbing the oil for the American people, they couldn’t give a toss about them. they were robbing it for the cash. Halliburton is the number contractor in Iraq for oil and security and have made BILLIONS since the invasion. Lots of oil and no security.

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    May 7th 2013, 8:59 AM

    The columist is correct and Alan Greenspan is wrong? I don’t think so. Petro Dollars and a vested interests arms industry are just two of many other factors that were completely overlooked by the author. Not as reasoned analysis as you suggest.

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    May 7th 2013, 10:53 AM

    The author is a disgrace. I can’t believe he is allowed to pedal this propaganda in schools. #whitewash

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    Mute Barry O'Brien
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    May 7th 2013, 10:55 AM

    I’d be interested to see the columnist respond to these comments on this article. As a lecturer on the causes of war he’s overlooked some common knowledge on the oil wars.

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    May 7th 2013, 11:16 AM

    Unfortunately, reasoned analysis & scholarship are not what Scott Fitzsimons is offering here. Whatever he knows about ‘International Relations’ (sounds like the perfect cover for a propaganda shill?), he certainly either knows nothing about fossil fuels or the hegemony that accompanies them, or is spinning a clever sounding, but nonsense story.

    From start to finish, it’s a litany of half truths & contradictions. For a start the terminology of the FF or ‘Oil’ business is itself highly confusing. ‘Oil’ itself can mean anything from lumps of Tar to methane hydrates locked in crystaline ice molecules under high pressure & low temperature at the ocean floor, and all shades in between.

    The details concerning reserves, recoverable reserves, economic costs & EROI (energy return on energy invested), markets & infrastructure vary massively.

    Fitzsimons just lumps everything in together in one of the crappyest articles I’ve ever seen on the subject.

    Which begs the question, why? (And this isn’t the first time.)

    He’s either an incompetent fool, or peddling an agenda for someone, or possibly both (wouldn’t be the first time).

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    May 7th 2013, 4:20 PM

    Excellent analysis mike

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    Mute Dom Morgan
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    May 7th 2013, 8:52 PM

    Drogcolm, mike hall, Kevin Cooney and Barry O’Brien, you boyz are completely clueless.

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    May 7th 2013, 9:04 PM

    Sure why not enlighten uz boyz with your expert knowledge?

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    May 7th 2013, 7:55 AM

    In regard to the invasion of iraq and oil, there was a short term and long term goal for American and interested oil companies.
    Bush speechwriter David Frum, key war architect John Bolton, and a high-level National Security Council officer all say that the Iraq war was about oil. Documents backed up by bbc & the guardian both state similar soundings that the war was actually focused on keeping Saddam’s oil off of the market … so as to keep oil prices high. That was the short term goal, as not to flood the market with new oil hence why it is still only 3% output.
    A longer term interest is that Iraq has one; if not the largest, ‘proven’ oil reserves in the world, over 150 bl barrels, that is 10% of world oil.
    Now before the invasion Iraq’s domestic oil industry was fully nationalised and closed to Western oil companies. A decade of war later, it is largely privatized by foreign firms such as exxonmobile & BP.

    Lastly to relate to bbc investigations on the British side they uncovered official documents that The Foreign Office invited BP in on 6 November 2002 to talk about opportunities in Iraq “post regime change”. Its minutes state: “Iraq is the big oil prospect. BP is desperate to get in there and anxious that political deals should not deny them the opportunity.”

    War for ‘future’ oil, should have perhaps being the slogan.

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    May 7th 2013, 1:07 PM

    Excellent analysis Sean.

    Amazing how the American people just sit back and let their citizens get killed by the thousands, all for the sake of a handful of companies making a bigger profit down the line.

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    May 7th 2013, 7:52 PM

    This is because the Americans are stupid. Ten years before invading Iraq they invaded Kuwait for oil too. But stupid nas they are they quickly forgot why they invaded and returned the country to its rulers. Instead of giving all oil rights to the American companies, the oil rights remained with Kuwaiti government and the western companies get service contracts for extraction. Also now it is obvious they invaded Iraq so that Exxon and BP can increase their upstream oil operations by 2% globally. Given that Exxon and the likes make about 8% ROCE this is a whopping profit increase of a few billion a year as a return for hundreds of billions spent on the war annually. Did anyone teach the Yanks accounting? Obviously not. And yet again royalties and oil ownership remains with the Iraqi government and the western companies get service based contracts and make 10% margin. That’s a jolly good analysis there Sean, are you perhaps an American?

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    May 7th 2013, 8:45 PM

    Dom. You claim the US invaded Kuwait in 1981 10 years before the Iraqi invasion. Yet there is NO record of this “Invasion” anywhere. So maybe you can supply the link to where you got this info from.

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    May 7th 2013, 9:02 PM

    Wtf are you on about? USA and allies invaded Kuwait in 1991. USA invaded Iraq about a decade later. Ok it’s 12 years later, not 10 but if that’s what you want to build your argument on …………

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    May 7th 2013, 9:14 PM

    No Dom they LIBERATED Kuwait from the Iraqis at the request of the Kuwait Government. Big difference between INVADING and LIBERATING.

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    May 7th 2013, 9:43 PM

    I was being sarcastic.

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    May 7th 2013, 8:35 AM

    Whether it’s oil or opium it’s really just blatant new age imperialism masquerading as civil liberty/human rights

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    May 7th 2013, 8:11 AM

    It’s not about seizing more oil, it’s about keeping the price of oil at nearly 3 times what it was pre- 2001 and it’s nothing to do with countries, it’s about corporations.

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    May 7th 2013, 8:52 AM

    A different view from an article on CNN by an oil industry analyst: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/03/19/opinion/iraq-war-oil-juhasz

    “Oil was not the only goal of the Iraq War, but it was certainly the central one, as top U.S. military and political figures have attested to in the years following the invasion.
    “Of course it’s about oil; we can’t really deny that,” said Gen. John Abizaid, former head of U.S. Central Command and Military Operations in Iraq, in 2007. Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan agreed, writing in his memoir, “I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.” Then-Sen. and now Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said the same in 2007: “People say we’re not fighting for oil. Of course we are.”
    Witness to war in Iraq Baby Noor: An unfinished miracle Iraq: Where were the journalists? Surviving al Qaeda
    For the first time in about 30 years, Western oil companies are exploring for and producing oil in Iraq from some of the world’s largest oil fields and reaping enormous profit. And while the U.S. has also maintained a fairly consistent level of Iraq oil imports since the invasion, the benefits are not finding their way through Iraq’s economy or society.
    These outcomes were by design, the result of a decade of U.S. government and oil company pressure. In 1998, Kenneth Derr, then CEO of Chevron, said, “Iraq possesses huge reserves of oil and gas-reserves I’d love Chevron to have access to.” Today it does.”

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    May 7th 2013, 8:56 PM

    CNN and their ‘analysts’ have been a laughing stock of news reporting for a while. This ‘analysis’ is based on bunch of other opinions. Anyone can do that – find a few guys who share your viewpoint and hey presto the ‘analysis’ is done!

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    May 9th 2013, 2:27 PM

    Joke, from Dick Cheney from Halliburton just before Iraq invasion : Whats our oil doing under thier sand ?
    for over 3 million dead Iraqis, no joke.

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    May 17th 2013, 5:06 AM

    Over 3 million, dead, wounded or displaced.

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    May 7th 2013, 7:43 AM

    Opium is the real cause of wars. Oil is a clever disguise.

    The opium wars have never ended, more opium is coming out of afghanistan now than ever before, pushed on working class peoples by mi6/cia et al.

    When will people learn?

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    May 7th 2013, 7:57 AM

    And where is your proof?

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    May 7th 2013, 7:59 AM

    The ‘p’ word again!
    Shut up! Shut up! Shut up!
    ;-)

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    May 7th 2013, 8:03 AM

    Jason,

    A small bit of research will give you all the proof that you need, if, of course, you are open to it.

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    May 7th 2013, 8:20 AM

    So you won’t give anything to back it up? Nice to know you’re waffling.

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    May 7th 2013, 8:32 AM

    Jason have o look back at the Vietnam war it really kicked off then

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    May 7th 2013, 9:14 AM
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    May 7th 2013, 10:05 AM

    Amen sneath
    You don,t.need to be a genius to figurw this out folks
    just look at how qucik the heroin epidemic spread right across western world since the afghan invasion ,
    Heroin is now freely available in every city town village hamlet and townland in ireland , and its the same now in almost every country.
    the export of opium from afghan is a bit bigger than a few farmers and donkies ,
    Much like the south american export of cocaine to the us ……its big big business.

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    May 7th 2013, 12:35 PM

    @ Sneachtaitall

    Check this out > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22150482

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    May 7th 2013, 12:40 PM

    @ Joe Kinnane

    Alex Jones is the Jim Corr of the USA………..

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    May 7th 2013, 1:25 PM

    That link should be used to teach people how to spot propaganda.

    Hideous bbc lies and propaganda.

    The brits and yanks actively encourage opium growth

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    May 7th 2013, 2:08 PM

    @ Sneachtaitall
    And your information as to the truth of what’s happening comes from where exactly?

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    May 7th 2013, 2:48 PM

    The Golden Crescent trade in opiates constitutes, at present, the centerpiece of Afghanistan’s export economy. The heroin trade, instated at the outset of the Soviet-Afghan war in 1979 and protected by the CIA, generates cash earnings in Western markets in excess of $200 billion dollars a year. Since the 2001 invasion, narcotics production in Afghanistan has increased more than 35 times. In 2009, opium production stood at 6900 tons, compared to less than 200 tons in 2001. In this regard, the multibillion dollar earnings resulting from the Afghan opium production largely occur outside Afghanistan. According to United Nations data, the revenues of the drug trade accruing to the local economy are of the order of 2-3 billion annually. In contrast with the Worldwide sales of heroin resulting from the trade in Afghan opiates, in excess of $200 billion. (See Michel Chossudovsky, America’s War on Terrorism”, Global Research, Montreal, 2005)

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    May 7th 2013, 4:10 PM

    Global Research?? May as well be watching Fox News!

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    May 7th 2013, 12:33 PM
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    May 7th 2013, 11:41 AM

    The think tanks that influencedUS govern policy in particular the Iraq invasion and the Bush govt was all about securing global dominance for the US , this was a combination of displaying military strength and securing energy supply for the US for long term , the whole Project for new America century etc was very flawed but they did have the US government ear , remember they developed their policies in the late 90s and went to war in Iraq over 10 years ago , looking at the prism of only oil misses the point…and writing these articles now that there is the benefit of hindsight and suggesting oil had no part to play because because the wars didn’t quite work out as they expected seems like a bad case of rewriting history….or was it for WMD that the wars were started ? I think not…

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    May 7th 2013, 1:40 PM

    You might be interested in this then > http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/breaking-the-silence/

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    May 7th 2013, 10:10 AM

    !IN MY VIEW!
    its not about the oil (well not totally), US economy was on a downward direction with large unemployment issues -spark up the war machine to get business moving. War machine = a lot of jobs.

    Then on another plus side for the government of the day it also deflects people from seeing their failings with the economy by managing the peoples fear – level yellow, level orange alerts etc – highlighting the common enemy while controlling the media to paint one view of the outside world (world outside the US).

    It was a political move to buy time for the US economy to get off its knees – oil was only a part of the puzzle.

    Sure the Bush family was doing big business with Iraq/ Afgan power families in terms of oil.

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    May 7th 2013, 8:54 PM
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    May 8th 2013, 12:20 AM

    Meanwhile in sane America > http://youtu.be/G_XF0y5VE0E

    Don’t watch part 2 and 3, it will give you nightmares………………

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    May 7th 2013, 11:05 PM

    Its not that each individual war is about oil par-say its that each individual war is about the game of thrones played out over oil, i.e. Libya wasn’t a war for the countries oil resources it was a war fought to maintain Americas position in a region that is rich in oil. There is a whole game of geo-politics played out over oil in the Middle East.

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