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CRUDE OIL PRICES SOAR   CRUDE SOARS   YOUR FUTURE

CORPORATE GREED    KEEP PAYING   LIE TO ME

 

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*** Here’s some more misinformation that should be  dismissed as another scare tactic by the large Oil Companies. As of this minute in time most of the oil fields in the Middle East are at a 80 to 90 percent production capacity. With the exception of Iraq, some of their Oil Fields are on fire because of the mostly unreported unrest in that country, another reason why we and the rest of the Freedom fighters don’t belong there. The only reason the prices are going up is the gutless uninformed media are hyping it instead of really doing their jobs and investigating it. Next the greedy corporations and Commodity brokers, the same ones that brought you the Crises of 2008 to now are driving it up with their open marketing bidding and futures pricing,they’re doing the same with your food pricing also. To prove my point BP and the rest of the Corporate Greed Mongols have been given the green lite for futher oil exploration in the Gulf. Until these people are held accountable and better reporting by the media is done you can expect to pay and pay and pay.*** Now here’s the article:

UNCERTAINTY DRIVES UP OIL PRICES

By CLIFFORD KRAUSS and JAD MOUAWAD

Published: March 1, 2011

HOUSTON — Just when oil markets appeared to be calming, crude oil prices surged again on Tuesday as the potential for more oil shipment disruptions spread across the Middle East and North Africa.

With Libya’s oil exports almost entirely halted for the last several days, renewed unrest in Oman, Iran and Iraq rattled oil traders. An interruption of shipments from any of those countries would further tighten oil supplies, even as Saudi Arabia has rushed to fill the vacuum of Libyan supplies

The worries about the oil supply rippled through other markets, with stock markets turning lower on concerns that the higher cost of energy would slow economic recovery.

Gold prices also surged on the latest reports, and indexes on Wall Street declined sharply, with the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 1.3 percent. The Saudi Arabian benchmark stock index fell 6.8 percent.

In the latest sign that the political contagion was spreading, demonstrators in Oman on Tuesday tried to block a major road leading to the industrial port town of Sohar. Protesters in recent days have set fire to at least one police station and two government office buildings in the normally stable Persian Gulf country, which is ruled by a family dynasty and is the largest non-OPEC oil producer in the Middle East.

“To have protests in Oman, which had previously been seen as a sleepy gulf kingdom, heightens concerns that nowhere is immune from the contagion affects,” said Helima L. Croft, a director and senior geopolitical analyst at Barclays Capital. “Every day we seem to have a new country with a new problem.”

Oman produces 860,000 barrels of oil daily, almost 1 percent of world supplies, and its production has been rising in recent years with investments from Royal Dutch Shell, BP, Repsol and other international companies. Its importance is magnified by the fact that its crude is of such quality that it can be blended by most refineries around the world, although most of its exports now go to China and Japan.

Oman straddles the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic route through which 40 percent of the world’s oil tanker traffic crosses. On the other side of the strait lies Iran, another major producer, where there were reports on Tuesday that security forces had used tear gas to disperse protesters in Tehran. Iran, with approximately 10 percent of the world’s oil reserves, exports about 3.7 million barrels a day.

The price of light sweet crude rose to $99.63 a barrel while Brent crude rose 3.24 percent to $115.42. Oil jumped above $100 a barrel in after-hours trading in New York. The national average price for a gallon of regular gasoline rose by nearly a penny on Tuesday to just over $3.37, which is 20 cents higher than a week ago.

In testimony on Capitol Hill, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said that it would take a sustained increase in oil prices to push up consumer inflation significantly and threaten the economy. “Currently the cost pressures from higher commodity prices are being offset by the stability in unit labor costs,” he added.

The rising tensions across the region sent the Saudi Arabian stock market into a tailspin, with Saudi shares suffering the biggest daily decline in more than two years despite rising oil prices. The Saudi index fell 6.8 percent, to its lowest close since July 2009. Refiners around the world have been hoping that Iraq, as violence ebbed, would again become a major oil producer, with production stabilizing at 2.3 million barrels a day. But over the weekend rebels bombed the country’s largest refinery, reducing the refinery’s capacity to refine petroleum products by 75,000 barrels a day. The attack came less than three weeks after a terrorist attack on a pipeline leading to a second refinery north of Baghdad.

Greg Priddy, an oil analyst at the Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy, said it was “highly unlikely” that output in another major producer in the region would be shut off. But he said that markets were jittery because “if the Saudis are going to make up for the shortfall in Libya, their spare capacity is thinner.”

He added, “Another major country going out completely would use most of their spare capacity, and that is really what the market is worried about.”

Saudi Arabia has a total production capacity of 12.5 million barrels a day, and currently produces nine million barrels after increasing its output by several hundred thousand since the beginning of the year. Saudi officials say they are ready to pump what it takes to fill any supply gap, but much of its 3.5 million barrel excess capacity contains sour crudes that do not easily replace the Libyan sweet crude European refineries in particular desire to produce diesel. In Libya, major oil operations in the eastern part of the country remained under the control of rebel forces. While foreign operators withdrew most of their foreign workers, local Libyan employees can still produce some crude. Oil experts say at least one million of the country’s 1.6 million barrels a day of production has been shut down.

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Suddenly, a Rise in Piracy’s Price

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN NEW YORK TIMES

A RISE IN PIRACY’S PRICE…

SOMALI SOLUTION   PIRACY  INTERNATIONAL HIJACKING         FEAR         HATE           CRIMES                 S.O.S   S.O.W.  AWARDS

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*** Before you get into the article that everybody has posted on the Internet because the basic information comes from the International wire service. Here are some non violent solutions that can and will work:***

1) Invasion is insane as was Iraq and Afghanistan.

2) Missiles, bombing last resort if at all.

3) Satellite monitoring: Non violent and cheap and accurate They’re already up there and they can see a whole lot better then ships planes etc..

4) Radio,T.V. broadcasting dropping pamphlets telling them what the International limits are and what the consequence’s will be if they persist

5) Next summit meeting at the U.N or G8, 20 come up with a Universal agreement on how to put and end to this harassment and then inform Somali what it is. They have been taking advantage of the non unification of all the countries. The only ones  they fear is Israel and China because they don’t threaten (they do.)

6) Setting up a platform(s) like oil platforms off the International limits, there is oil out there they would help off set the costs. From these platforms they could monitor their moves with the satellites broadcast Radio, T.V. submissions while blocking their radars and other technical devices Internet etc. From the platforms they could  have Air to Air, Air to Ground portable rockets and a small force of International Gorilla Special Forces.

7) Tell them that if they persist their harbors and bays will be mined and then do it if they don’t respect the International warnings.

8) Catch a couple of them and then prosecute them on International T.V. And sentence them to a life time of hard labor. Execution would make them a martyr for their cause.

Here are some solutions without causing bloodshed.

The simple phrase.”Spare the rod Spoil the child.” Is appropriate here. Like children, which they are, they will push it until they are reprimanded. The longer they aren’t the bolder they’ll get.

Sending in a Army is a bad and it gets  a lot people killed.

Now here’s the article. If think I am right contact your Congress person and send them my blog.***

AT some point, Thomas Jefferson realized, you just can’t do business with pirates any more.

For years, the infant American government, along with many others, had accepted the humiliating practice of paying tribute — essentially mob-style protection fees — to a handful of rulers in the Barbary states so that American ships crossing the Mediterranean would not get hijacked. But in 1801, Tripoli’s pasha, Yusuf Karamanli, tried to jack up his prices. Jefferson said no. And when the strongman turned his pirates loose on American ships, Jefferson sent in the Navy to bombard Tripoli, starting a war that eventually brought the Barbary states to their knees. Rampant piracy went to sleep for nearly 200 years.

The question now is: Are we nearing another enough-is-enough moment with pirates?

On Tuesday, Somali pirates shot and killed four American hostages. A single hostage intentionally killed by these pirates had been almost unheard of; four dead was unprecedented. Until now, the first thing that came to mind about Somalia’s buccaneers was that they were brash and mercurial. Just a few weeks ago they let go some Sri Lankan fishermen after they essentially said, “You’re poor, like us.” They were seen as a nuisance, albeit an expensive one, but not a lethal threat.

Exactly what happened Tuesday is still murky. Pirates in the Arabian Sea had hijacked a sailboat skippered by a retired couple from California, and when the American Navy closed in, the pirates got twitchy. Navy Seals rushed aboard but it was too late. It’s still not clear why the pirates would want to kill the hostages when their business model, which has raked in more than $100 million in the past few years, is based on ransoming captives alive.

“Of course, I do not know what the U.S. will do in response to this latest atrocity,” said Frank Lambert, a professor at Purdue who is an expert on the Barbary pirates. But, he said, “Jefferson advocated an armed response and eventually war against Tripoli for far less provocation.”

For years now, Somali pirates with fiberglass skiffs and salt-rusted Kalashnikovs have been commandeering ships along one of the most congested shipping routes in the world — the Gulf of Aden, a vital conduit for Middle East oil to Europe and the United States. More than 50 vessels are now held captive, from Thai fishing trawlers to European supertankers, with more than 800 hostages. Those numbers grow each year.

But the international response has been limited, partly because the most promising remedies are intensely complicated and risky. Western powers, including the United States, have sent warships to cruise Somalia’s coast and discourage attacks. When a vessel is hijacked, ship owners cough up a ransom, nowadays in the neighborhood of $5 million, and most of that cost gets passed to the end user — consumers. Until recently, most hostages would emerge unharmed, albeit skinny and pale from being locked in a filthy room. The average time in captivity is around six months.

But recently the pirates have been getting more vicious; reports have emerged of beatings, of being hung upside down, even of being forced at gunpoint to join in raids. And now the pirates have gunned down four Americans.

“I think there’s going to be some type of retaliation,” said a European diplomat in Nairobi, Kenya, who trades ideas on anti-piracy strategies with other diplomats and was instructed not to speak publicly about the issues. “I could see the Americans going after the pirate bosses, the organizers, maybe even blockade some of the ports that they use,” he speculated. “I don’t think the Americans are going to invade Somalia, because of Iraq and Afghanistan, but they can use local allies.” Another obvious possibility would be American Special Forces, who have killed terrorism suspects in Somalia.

The American government isn’t revealing its plans but officials suggest — as long as they are not quoted by name — that the killings of the four Americans could be a game-changer. “We get it,” said one State Department official. “We get the need to recalibrate.”

Any course of action, however, will confront two huge obstacles: the immensity of the sea and the depth of chaos in Somalia.

The pirates used to stick relatively close to Somalia’s shores. But now, using “mother ships” — hijacked vessels that serve as floating bases — they attack ships more than 1,000 miles away. Sometimes that puts them closer to India than to home. The red zone now covers more than one million square miles of water, an area naval officers say is impossible to control.

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Germany Shakes Euro

GERMANY ECONOMIC ASSERTIVENESS SHAKES EURO ZONE

By STEPHEN CASTLE

Published: February 16, 2011

S.O.S. AWARDS    LIARS     THIEVES         HYPOCRITES

S.O.W.  AWARDS         CROOKS    NEWS MISREPRESENTATION

LIES MY MEDIA TELLS ME     NOUVEAU GREED

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**Take note Germany is not stressing control they are only stressing the fact that the rest of the countries need to clean up their act if they want to keep going back and asking for contentious bailouts. Greece was the first followed by Cypress then Italy next Spain. Ms. Merkel is anything but a Nazi or Faciest. She is concerned that if the rest of the nations do not want to take measures to protect their financial interest because all they have to do is run to the Bank, Germany- France, then Germany should put certain qualifications in place just like any respectable bank would when one applies for a loan. I would also like to point out that when Germany united they took all the worthless Russian currency and converted it  into Dueche Marks and still built their economy into one of the strongest in the world. It comes down to the banks and politics, there some who want the Euro to fall for profit and trade reasons and then there’s the one’s who want to play but have someone else pay.

BRUSSELS — For decades, Germans wanted to become more European and took care not to be seen bossing around their allies on the Continent. But now that the government in Berlin wants Europe to become more like Germany, the temperature is rising.

At a meeting of European Union leaders this month, tempers flared when Germany, backed by France, called on countries using the euro to agree to a pact enforcing German-style fiscal discipline and wage restraint.

The howls of protests from smaller countries illustrate the anxiety set off by the growing assertiveness of Germany, the most populous and economically successful European Union country, which fears it will have to pay the bill for the carelessness of others.

If Germany decides to call more of the shots on economic policy, that has big implications for European integration, for the relative influence of smaller members in the 17-nation euro zone and for countries outside the zone.

But it also raises a more fundamental question, one with important historical overtones, not just for smaller European countries, but for France as well: Is the rest of Europe ready to accept overt German leadership?

Germany is making its so-called pact for competitiveness the price for agreeing to expand the rescue fund set up for the euro zone. It will be introduced through an idea long championed in Paris — but until now resisted in Berlin — that could become an embryonic economic government for the euro zone as a whole.

According to the leaked German working paper, the country wants to establish German-specified, Europe-wide standards on a variety of issues, including corporate taxes, adjustments in pension systems and legal measures that would commit countries to tough fiscal policies through a “debt alert mechanism.”

Fears of French-German domination are nothing new. But for Germany to emerge from France’s shadow to press its own agenda is a departure, one that derives in large part from domestic political pressures.

Chancellor Angela Merkel faces regional elections this year, and her struggling coalition allies in the liberal Free Democratic Party are flirting with a more Euroskeptic message.

Throughout last year’s protracted debt crisis, Mrs. Merkel was largely on the defensive, unwilling to sanction a euro-zone bailout until the very last moment, when she could argue to Germans that action was vital to save the currency.

Her plan rests on an implicit bargain with the German public: By supporting the euro, even if it means added costs, voters need to be reassured that Germany’s approach to economic policy making will hold greater sway. Instead of Berlin making most of the compromises, most Germans believe, it is time for others to make concessions.

At the same time, the financial crisis has changed the terms of the debate.

“In good times the mood tends to be ‘I’m O.K.; you’re O.K.,’ ” said a European Union diplomat, who was not authorized to speak publicly. “In bad times it’s more like ‘I deliver; can you deliver?’ ”

And, as Germany’s ability to deliver economically grew compared with that of many neighbors, Mrs. Merkel began talking tougher. At a European Union meeting on economic targets in March 2010 she complained that, if the past were anything to go by, other nations would fall short and the Germans would have to work harder to compensate, a European Union diplomat said.

The assertive stance is creating greater anxiety in Brussels and elsewhere because of Mrs. Merkel’s evident loss of faith in the European Commission, which is the union’s executive arm and the traditional motor of European integration.

In a recent speech, Mrs. Merkel talked about the “union” method of integration — among governments — rather than the “community” method, led by the commission and including the European Parliament.

But this German preference for an arena where the big nations dominate sets off alarms in small ones, which see the European institutions in Brussels as a counterbalance to bigger states.

Mrs. Merkel’s competitiveness pact is bound to be watered down as it moves through the tortuous process of European agreement. That begins with a summit meeting on March 11. The goal is to settle on a package of measures by late March, at yet another meeting where members hope to agree on creating a larger bailout fund for the euro’s most vulnerable nations.

But the path to an agreement is littered with obstacles.

On corporate taxes, Ireland worries about losing the support of Britain, which has retained the pound and serves as a counterweight to France and Germany in wider European Council meetings. Without that, Ireland fears that it may be forced to raise its own low rate — which it sees as vital to its economic health — to match bigger countries.

Others, like Belgium, object to Berlin’s call to sever the link between wages and inflation. Countries outside the euro, including Poland, fret about being relegated to second-class status.

And even nations with no such fears worry about being dominated by the biggest of the big member states.

“It has a lot to do with history,” said Frans Timmermans, a former European affairs minister from the Netherlands. “States like the Netherlands are a little confused. On the one hand we always say we want Germany to take its rightful position as a leader of Europe, but once that happens old reactions come out and we say, ‘That’s not what we meant!’ ”

“They are asked to play a leading role,” Mr. Timmermans added. “But God forbid that they do.”

 

Surprise

A FRENCH DILEMMA                                POURQUOI PAS

ONLY IN FRANCE                                  A FRENCH DREAM

Well if you don’t know it the votes have been cast in the French Senate to make the official retirement age 62, semi, the full retirement at 67, here is your news flash..

As Mme. Lagarde said “You have the right to strike but not block. You have the right to demonstrate but not break.”  They never heard her a typical reaction from angry thoughtless people.

The strikes cost millions of Euro’s not just from the destroying and breaking but causing people to lose their businesses.

A truck driver caught on camera who was trying to pick up gas at one of the refineries responded to one of the strikers who was adamant about him joining the strike and was not sympathetic to their cause. “What about my family and all the ones that depend on gas to get to work, the store, church etc. What about the Gas Station owners who depend on the sale of the gas to keep their doors open what about them?”

Good question what about  them and others like this truck driver? Many of the small gas stations have gone out of business or will need Governmental aide to stay open.  Some the boats in the Harbors sat there for over 35 days their expenses didn’t go on strike and most of them were not oil carriers. This will have an inflationary effect on everything from food to cloths and everything in between.

What’s really revolting is the Gangster rapper want ta be’s who destroyed properties, public and private, costing in the millions, weren’t so active the last week of October when the final vote was cast. Why? Well they were on vacation something that happens around this time every year in France for the schools. Which shows how dedicated they were to their “weak as water” cause. Most of them have never worked a day in their lives and what’s even scarier is that they will have adopt a system like the U.S. if they want to keep their Socialized System going before most of them are in their mid 30’s.

My heart goes out to the ones who believe in their country and want to do everything they can to make life better for their families may they prosper.

The final hour

NOW OR NEVER                   A FRANCO AMERICAN PERSPECTIVE

A FAREWELL TO VIOLENCE                             WHAT NOW?

Today October 21, 2010 will be the decisive day whether Sarkozy’s 62 year old retirement age goes into effect.

Whether it does or doesn’t the Unions driven by the hardcore Socialist’s  have wounded their efforts by not coming forth and telling the students and other rioters, supposedly sympathetic to their cause, that violence is not the answer and is not acceptable. Why haven’t they? They don’t know how they know how to complain and disrupt but have no answers on what can be done to rectify and go on. Another reason is if they ignore it long enough it will go away.

Their best argument for keeping the retirement age at 60 is that their fathers retired at that age. What they won’t tell you is that Sarkozy was elected because one of his campaign promises was to reform the retirement system What happened? He’s doing what he promised to do but it’s like most everybody else forgot about that part.

October 19th they burned a school in Le Mans. Now the students have to be placed in other schools putting a burden on already over crowded classrooms and schools and an additional stress on the families concerned.

In Lyon they burned several cars and damaged several businesses, some seriously, plus several public bus stations and other public areas.

In Marsaille the trash has accumulated into huge piles so some most accommodating individuals decided it was their duty to set them afire burning several cars and damaging other property.

The Airports are a nightmare they have them blocked right before you get to the main terminals so the people are getting out of their cabs and wheeling their luggage the rest of the way.

Mme. Lagarde said it best last night on TF1. The Unions have the right to Strike they do have the right to block, The Unions have the right to protest they do not have the right to break, destroy.

There are many people here in France who believe they have a job to do and that when they are prohibited from doing it they have lost the freedom of choice which is in their constitution.

Sarkozy has ordered three of the refineries opened several more will fallow suit.

What the ones who have caused destruction and violence don’t about their country is it takes a long time for justice to prevail but when it does it comes down like a iron hammer and for the ones wearing the masks this can be construed as terrorism.