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As USS New York pre pares to join the fleet, she will enter a world of crises. As we obsess over worthless Afghan real estate, truly vital problems loom abroad. Violent challenges to our security and strategic position are slighted or ignored, while a combination of politics, pride and inertia bind us to a distant land of marginal relevance. The crises highlighted below are not in order of priority. Any of them could take a painful bite out of Washington's complacency: Iraq: Given its strategic location, iconic importance in the Arab world and vast oil reserves, Iraq matters to us....

KING: We're back with Donald Trump. His book, "Think Like a Champion," ... TRUP: When the economy starts getting better, you will have an OPEC problem. They'll just start raising the price of oil again and destroy the economy... I also happen to think that $150 oil destroyed the world economically. And as soon as the world comes back, OPEC will raise its ugly head and destroy it again. So somebody better sit -- and I hope it's our president -- somebody better sit down with OPEC right now and say, "Listen, we're going to straighten this mess out, but...

BLAME OPEC 1.30.2009 This thought just came to me: "The American People" and the liberal media are so busy blaming Wall Street - not to mention the entire French Nation is currently rioting against the amorphous category of all "banks" - why is no one blaming OPEC? This summer, gas was at a beyond record level - people were spending nearly 4x as much on gas as they did the year before. Clearly, this is going to cut into consumer spending. When is Obama going to call out Saudi Arabia? If we did not have a world-wide OIL CARTEL and...

FedEx CEO: use of foreign oil threatens US economy The Associated Press - Feb 23, 2009 Chief Executive Fred Smith said Monday that US reliance on foreign oil is the biggest threat to the nation's economy after terrorism.

Chavez Seeks End To Democracy In Venezuela February 11th, 2009 By PATRICK EDABURN Over the eight years of the Bush administration, many on the far left warned that he was going to bring an end to democracy in the United States, that he was going to end elections, ban dissent, and so on. Such complaints have been raised against most recent adminstrations and in every case they were wholly unfounded. But in Venezuela it looks like things are heading just that direction. President Chavez is already in position as a virtual dictator, with total control of almost all forms of...

McCain: Will end dependence on foreign oil (NECN: South Portland, Maine) - Senator John McCain attended a picnic at the Maine Military Museum in South Portland, Maine on Monday. "Everybody here knows what has happened to a gallon of gas, our lowest income Americans are hurting the most, some of them can't even get to work," said the Republican presidential candidate. "We are sending $700 billion a year to countries that don't like us very much and some of that money ends up in the hands of terrorist organizations. I will end this dependence on foreign oil," said McCain.

http://www.terrorfreeoil.org/ Cartoon In UAE Paper: Arab World Sitting On Oil, Hungry For BreadCartoonist: 'Amer Al-Zo'abiSource: Akhbar Al-Arab, UAE, May 28, 2008 http://www.thememriblog.org/blog_personal/en/7671.htm Threats to U.S. Energy Security: The Challenge of Arab Oil Therefore, "the Arab oil states were to discover that the sheer power of the oil weapon imposed equally powerful...http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/bg95.cfm    SudanTribune article : Darfur’s ugly resonance in the Arab world A troubled Arab citizenry’s silent acquiescence in violence and ... of poor governance and distorted Arab power structures over a period of decades. ...http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article4624   Arab oil billionaires have certainly found the means to influence public opinion by...

KINDA MAKES YOU WONDER... John H. at Powerline writes: For several decades, the Democratic Party has pursued policies designed to drive up the cost of petroleum, and therefore gas at the pump. Remarkably, the Democrats don't seem to have taken much of a political hit from the current spike in gas prices. Probably that's because most people don't realize how different the two parties' energy policies have been. Congressman Roy Blunt put together these data to highlight the differences between House Republicans and House Democrats on energy policy: ANWR Exploration House Republicans: 91% SupportedHouse Democrats: 86% Opposed Coal-to-LiquidHouse Republicans: 97%...

Here's the "thing", when John McCain spoke, he spoke full volume, to the point and full of substance, when Obama speaks (including on the middle east), it's all AIR, or (shall I use -- at this juncture -- Hillary's phrase, he's all 'ZEROX'). One would have to wait for any beginning of truth in these "pledges"... until Obama starts realizing that there's nothing to "talk" about with an Islamic Hitler that wants US/Israel to disappear because they interfere with his Islamofascistic-Messianic ambition and his aim to control the world via oil, nukes and terror. Only when Obama will start addressing...

Quiz yourself on the Israeli Arab ["Palestinian"] conflict       1) When was the Arab immigration to [the historic Jewish land of] Israel -"Palestine" boosted?   A When they wanted to see Jewish holy sites. B When [anti French and anti British] Arab nationalism spread across the middle east. C When the Zionists Jews came and cultivated the deserted land.     2) What's [Arab "Palestinian" highest "national" icon] Yasser Arafat's country of origin?   A Israel ["Palestine"]. B Jordan. C Egypt.     3) Why were there --initially-- more Arab immigrants ["residents"] than Jewish immigrants (Arab majority)?   A Because...

Venezuela Chavez threatens to cut ties with Spain Fri Nov 30, 2007 CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez threatened on Friday to cut diplomatic ties with Spain if the former colonial power's king does not apologize for telling him earlier this month to "shut up" at a summit meeting. http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSN3033713820071130

Saudi Arabia, which has aggressively shaved its oil output in a battle to shore up prices, will reduce production by another 158,000 barrels per day beginning Thursday and more cuts are on the way, according to a media report. The Saudi cut is seen as an aggressive move to keep the price of the U.S. benchmark crude above $55 a barrel, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday in its online edition, quoting Roger Diwan, an analyst at PFC Energy, a Washington industry consultancy. The latest cut means Saudi Arabia will have reduced production by about 1 million barrels per day...

The petrodollar pipeline that recycles billions from oil producers back to the U.S. economy has turned crude-laden nations from Norway to Iran into the world’s biggest sources of global savings. These nations are also key sources of foreign demand for U.S. assets. Now new research predicts a trend that could affect the U.S. economy nearly as much as swings on crude exchanges: Oil producers might be looking to diversify how they spend and invest their cash. Such changes are worth watching — mainly because the flood of money generated for oil exporters by sustained high crude prices has become a...

Oil seals friendship for China and 'rogue' Sudan By David Blair, Diplomatic Correspondent Last Updated: 1:19am GMT 02/02/2007 When President Hu Jintao of China arrives in Sudan today, an isolated regime waging a brutal war in Darfur will offer an effusive welcome. "We are striving to be the best friend of China in the African continent," said Zahawi Ibrahim Malik, Sudan's information minister, as he announced Mr Hu's latest stop on his tour of Africa. Khartoum has much to be grateful for. China has become a key player in Sudan's burgeoning oil industry, which poured some £3.2 billion into the...

Group to open country's first 'terror free' gas station By TIMBERLY ROSS Monday, January 22, 2007 7:38 PM CST OMAHA, Neb. - Claiming U.S. dollars used to purchase gas made from Middle East oil funds terrorism, a group called the Terror-Free Oil Initiative plans to open the nation's first "terror free" gas station in Nebraska. The Coral Springs, Fla.-based group urges Americans to only buy gas and other oil products that originate from countries that do not support terrorism. Its new station in west Omaha will sell only gas from oil companies that don't do business in the Middle East....

Jimmy Carter and the Arab Lobby By Jacob Laksin December 18, 2006 http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=26045 Nothing demonstrates more clearly the defects of Jimmy Carter’s latest brief against Israel, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, than the ex-president’s reluctance to defend the book on its merits. Rather than take up that unenviable task, Carter has sought to shift the focus away from the criticism -- especially as it concerns the book’s serial distortions and outright falsehoods -- and onto the critics. In particular, Carter claims that critics are compromised by their support for Israel, their ties to pro-Israel lobbying organizations, and -- a more pernicious...

This Week in Petroleum: Call(ing) on OPEC December 13, 2006 -- As OPEC ministers gather in Nigeria on Thursday, December 14 to discuss whether they should cut production further, many people are voicing their opinions. Recently, both the U.S. Secretary of Energy and the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) called on OPEC to refrain from further cuts in production quotas. While the price of oil certainly plays a large part in OPEC’s decision making, the expected “call on OPEC crude oil” is another important factor that the ministers will consider.

Jimmy Carter Distorts Facts, Demonizes Israel in New Book Former President Jimmy Carter has written an egregiously biased book called Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid and is currently doing numerous interviews to sell the book and its ideas.  Carter is attempting to rewrite history, and in his alternate universe, the Arabs are blameless and Israel is at fault for almost all the conflicts in the world. One gets the feeling after reading just a few pages that if he could have blamed Hurricane Katrina on Israel, he would have. His main messages are that Israel is badly mistreating the Palestinians and that the cause of the conflict is Israel's...

The Arab Lobby - Mafia, in South America too So you already know the years long grip on the UN by the Islamo Arab "lobby" mafia, how they control, threaten dictate those rediculous anti Israel resolutions or to torpedo anything US wants done in world security, or to torpedo any step that would condemn the Arab militias and the Sudanese government's most heinous crimes, slavery, and genocide in Sudan, now spilling over to Chad as well. So you know as well about Eurabia, and the Islamic Arab goliath lobby mafia in Europe, how the EU is afraid of the Arab...

The ever so predictable UN - dictated by the Islamo Areab mafia - has become a joke, no wonder Ever wondered why Iran, N. Korea, previously Saddam and others, couldn't care less about UN "resolutions" and "condemnations"? The UN, especially under Kofi Annan, cares about anything? Would it really not be effective in stopping the largest genocide today, the Arab militias' slavery and mass murder in the Sudan? How about no one sees the UN but a political tool. Take for example the "traditional" anti Israel "resolutions/condemnations", dicated by the most powerful active LOBBY - MAFIA, the Arab Muslim one...

Arab wealth and influence exceeds Jewish Wealth buys influence. Thirty years of oil wealth have given Arabs wealth that ... is considerably diminished, along with a lot of Jewish lobbying leverage. ... www.samsonblinded.org/israel_america/3arab_wealth_israeli_influence.htm

The blogger has a poll:http://www.terrorfreeoil.org/polls.php There are two gas stations, side-by-side. You know that one sells gasoline derived from the Middle East and one does not. Which one do you pull into?

Where to buy gasoline and not support terrorism, actually is food for thought. Yisrael Medad of the Begin Center sent the following information. Every time you fill up the car, you can avoid putting more money into the coffers of Saudi Arabia. Just buy from gas companies who don't import their oil from the Saudis. Nothing is more frustrating than the feeling that every time I fill-up the tank, I am sending my money to people who are trying to kill me, my family, and my friends. I thought it might be interesting for you to know which oil companies...