U.S. sanctions have taken hundreds of thousands of barrels of Iranian and Venezuelan oil off the market.
The only reason prices haven't skyrocketed is increased U.S. and Saudi production.
Now this happened.
EDIT: These videos are from 2013 and were reposted at the RNN today.
This is a delicate topic, but it has a singular point to make - a point about the cognitive dissonance of those citizens who cling to Hillary because feminism. These Fem-Dems go along with all our shitty foreign policies because Hillary. Case in point, the free pass that the medieval, misogynist theocracy of KSA has gotten from the US for 70 years.
I am posting this comment from Consortium News because it states so well the hypocrisy of our media and government.
https://consortiumnews.com/2018/10/25/the-khashoggi-affair-and-the-futur...
Stephen J.
October 26, 2018 at 11:19 am
The “power structure” is filled with:
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“The Horrified Hypocrites”
It's Day 290 of the Year 2018 CE
So, October 17, 2018 - for my reference if nothing else.
Much of this week's news cycle makes it plain that as a species we react, but we're not very good at acting today for a better tomorrow. Give me mine NOW! It isn't just the hurricane and UN climate report that drive this lesson home to me but also the WaPo journalist slaughtered in Turkey by the Saudis - where has the outrage been about the Yemeni children whose blood is on our hands too. And how about the so called correction (crash) of the market this week "caused by the tariffs"...while ignoring the over valuation caused by corporations using their tax cuts to buy their own stock (which used to be illegal). So humans seem pretty good at jumping after they've been burned, but not so good at avoiding setting the woods on fire in the first place.
Karl Marx has been proven accurate with his predictions on capitalism...
Marx believed the coming crisis would result from contradictions within the capitalist system itself, and predicted that these contradictions would become more and more acute as the capitalist system evolved. Over time, Marx writes, capital takes control over the handcraft production processes and later manufacture where the workers were in control of the work process, centralizing the workers into workshops and factories. Through the process of competing for markets, some firms win and others lose, capital becomes enlarged and centralized; science and technology are consciously used to improve the productivity of the workplace, thus throwing many out of work while creating new jobs in service to the machines. In the process of competing for markets, unsuccessful capitalists fall into the proletariat and all productive labor, worldwide, come ultimately within the capitalist system
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In addition to the booms and busts of capitalism that swing wider as capitalism evolves there is a constant churning of employment as machines replace men in one industry after another, throwing thousands out of work, thus swamping the labor market and lowering the cost of labor. In all of this the labourers suffer. Mass production, machine technology, and economies of scale will increasingly be applied to all economic activities; unemployment and misery for many men and women results . As capitalism develops the system must necessarily create enormous differences in wealth and power. The social problems it creates in its wake of boom and bust—of unemployment and under employment, of poverty amidst affluence will continue to mount. The vast majority of people will fall into the lower classes; the wealthy will become richer but ever fewer in number.
http://www.faculty.rsu.edu/users/f/felwell/www/Theorists/Essays/Marx5.htm
200 years- 5 May 1818
You may be aware that Saudi Arabia is leading a coalition against rebels in Yemen.
Saudi Arabia's air force has done the bulk of the bombing on civilians, much of which can be described as war crimes.
Saudi Arabia mobilised its F-15 fleet to launch a military operation against the Hezbollah in Lebanon.
