oil prices

I found my original post - I will refer to it momentarily - the article was posted under 'New Topics' but ended up in 'Online Campaign"

I was a little frustrated - I'll try to explain with  the following example - 'you hear about a car crash and you think - that's too bad - but you SEE the car crash and you think - that's TERRIBLE! - well, the article  I am about to post (repost) came from a major international news source - and within hours of it being posted it was removed, rewritten, reposted without accusational/condemning perspectives. 

It makes the same kind of difference as hearing about a crash and seeing it. Why they do this I don't know - can take a good guess though.  The article is copied verbatim as follows -

"Oil prices have risen after emergency talks among the world's top oil powers and leading consuming nations over the weekend ended with no real resolution. This prompted Saudi Arabia, the world's top exporter, to call a summit in Jeddah with top energy policy makers to discuss the situation.

Before the meeting, Saudi Arabia had pledged to lift daily quotas to 9.7 million barrels by the end of July, an increase of about 500,000 barrels since May. But without specific commitment from other members of the Opec cartel to lift production, the market considered that Saudi Arabia's move would not be enough to meet soaring demand, especially from fast-growing emerging economies such as China and India."

In particular, the line " but without specific commitment from other members of the producers' cartel, OPEC, to lift production (output), the market considered that Saudi Arabia's move would not be enough to meet soaring demand - ......

That whole story was sanitized, - rewritten and reposted and placed in exactly the same spot on CBC and CTV newsboards. Instead of referring to the 'non-productive' OPEC members as being 'uncommmitted' the story was changed to blame African production issues and domestic use as culprit for high oil prices. The rest of the report was the same.

This is media manipulation. In a place where media has a grave responsibility to keep the public accurately informed to what amounts to the reason for war. Big Oil/MIC has played Big Brother and told us what they want us to know - and not the truth. Oil interests are all out and out lies at this point. There is a massive, massive difference between what is going on - with China and Iranian oil, - Iran and Israel, - the reasons for  being uncommitted, and why facts were changed to stem from 'domestic' usage related instead of the illegal war, - and reported as such.

The National Security Act  is just an arm of censorship. When facts are intentionally misconstrued to deceive the public in issues that will in all likelihood lead to furhter military intervention, the responsibility for the media is to the truth. But, we are being told the problems Bush has created have in fact, been created by ourselves.

Not true.

The problems I have had with this post may be due to 'minor' technical glitches - it wouldn't be the first time esp. with this site - overall it has performed well - but the issue of censorship and misinformation is not just 'too bad' - it is 'terrible' 

Shall we keep reading between the lines? China signed Iran to long term oil production. Non-US aligned oil producers will NEVER willingly give us a drop. Period. THIS IS WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN REPORTED. China will take all it can get at any price. Maybe that is why Israel was sabre rattling with Iran this past week. Bush isn't done yet, but there will be no doubt of the outcome if Iran is invaded for any reason - the fate of that incursion will not be in the hands of America.

Think it will be interesting to see how this all plays out? Like, for instance, the recent spate of female suicide bombers in Iraq? 

I must ask,  "what possesses a woman to strap a bomb to her body and blow herself up? A little misguided foreign policy? The state of African oil production? Hardly. But we, as good citizens should accept that rationalizing?

Bush is a bad man. A bad businessman. He couldn't find oil in Saudi Arabia, hell, he couldn't hit water if he fell out of a boat. But he IS qualified to run this country.

Who can believe that?

If Obama doesn't do what the MIC tells him to do, do you think for a second anything he tries to do will be supported in Congress?

Those who hold the power actually do that, and they're not just sitting on their hands with it.