Cheney visits Kazakhstan U.S. eyes huge resources, also notes country's weak human rights record
Yeah, well that's what the US likes best - business arrangements with countries who have no respect for human rights.
Easier to get a good deal that way. Simpler to put the squeeze on. After all, this is all about the bottom line, about profit, only profit, and nothing else matters, if you believe the republicans.
That's how they got into bed with Saddam Hussein, the Shah of Iran, Ariel Sharon, etc.
The age of oil is over, yet BushCo continues to squander public resources on oil hunts and wars and deals in order to enrich itself even further, rather than muster what's left of America into a drive for the new energy century, the one that won't rely on oil because it can't, because it's all pumped out, but what isn't pumped out is so expensive to extract and so damaging to the ecosystem to use, it just isn't worth it.
Amerikkka is all about oil. Amerikkka's global dominance is oil based. The entire infrastructure, physical and economic is built on the idea of cheap, easy oil.
Those days are gone. Cheney can roll around in bed with dictators who boil dissenters until his hemorrhoids bleed buckets and those days still won't return.
Administration after administration has refused to deal with the fact of oil depletion. There has been no political will to push solar power or geothermal heating and cooling or wind power or reduce gasoline use by automobiles. Quite the contrary. Such measures as retooling the economy are deeply inconvenient for the people who own the politicians and the economy as it is now.
Bush should be working to transition the economy, not drive up the debt, not conquer the world for oligarchy.
Congress should be legislating a Manhattan project for energy, not insulting the country with 100 dollar rebate nonsense while it sniggers in its sweaty, lobbyist-cash clinching fist about reform
No leadership. That's the real problem
What would FDR do? Or Kennedy? Not this shit. Because those presidents gave their loyalty to the idea of America, to American democracy, not multinational corporations and heaps of profit so large they'd fill the moons of Saturn. At the expense of human rights, civil rights, the first amendment and so on and on as the business en take away another bit of the constitution and burn it on an oil fire.
Easier to get a good deal that way. Simpler to put the squeeze on. After all, this is all about the bottom line, about profit, only profit, and nothing else matters, if you believe the republicans.
That's how they got into bed with Saddam Hussein, the Shah of Iran, Ariel Sharon, etc.
The age of oil is over, yet BushCo continues to squander public resources on oil hunts and wars and deals in order to enrich itself even further, rather than muster what's left of America into a drive for the new energy century, the one that won't rely on oil because it can't, because it's all pumped out, but what isn't pumped out is so expensive to extract and so damaging to the ecosystem to use, it just isn't worth it.
Amerikkka is all about oil. Amerikkka's global dominance is oil based. The entire infrastructure, physical and economic is built on the idea of cheap, easy oil.
Those days are gone. Cheney can roll around in bed with dictators who boil dissenters until his hemorrhoids bleed buckets and those days still won't return.
Administration after administration has refused to deal with the fact of oil depletion. There has been no political will to push solar power or geothermal heating and cooling or wind power or reduce gasoline use by automobiles. Quite the contrary. Such measures as retooling the economy are deeply inconvenient for the people who own the politicians and the economy as it is now.
Bush should be working to transition the economy, not drive up the debt, not conquer the world for oligarchy.
Congress should be legislating a Manhattan project for energy, not insulting the country with 100 dollar rebate nonsense while it sniggers in its sweaty, lobbyist-cash clinching fist about reform
No leadership. That's the real problem
What would FDR do? Or Kennedy? Not this shit. Because those presidents gave their loyalty to the idea of America, to American democracy, not multinational corporations and heaps of profit so large they'd fill the moons of Saturn. At the expense of human rights, civil rights, the first amendment and so on and on as the business en take away another bit of the constitution and burn it on an oil fire.
posted by TheFuriousGourmet | 9:49 AM
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Isn't Kazakhstan the place where the president boils torture victims into talking???
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