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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 09:45 AM
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Obama’s Secret War Profiteering Tax
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I admire Palast.
One of the truly independent reporters out there today.

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Obama’s Secret War Profiteering Tax

By Greg Palast for TomPaine.com/OurFuture.org



I can’t make this up:

In a hotel room in Brussels, the chief executives of the world’s top oil companies unrolled a huge map of the Middle East, drew a fat, red line around Iraq and signed their names to it.

The map, the red line, the secret signatures. It explains this war. It explains this week’s rocketing of the price of oil to $134 a barrel.
It happened on July 31, 1928, but the bill came due now.

Barack Obama knows this. Or, just as important, those crafting his policies seem to know this. Same for Hillary Clinton’s team. There could be no more vital difference between the Republican and Democratic candidacies. And you won’t learn a thing about it on the news from the Fox-holes.

Let me explain:

MORE:
http://www.gregpalast.com/obama%e2%80%99s-secret-war-profiteering-tax/

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IndyOp Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 09:52 AM
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1. A billion dollars a day. Not bad. Not bad at all. (n/t)
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mac2 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 09:53 AM
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2. Both Democratic candidates are members of the elite, secret groups.
We should demand they get out of them now or go to jail (three years).

They violate the Logan Act dividing up the world and its resources behind closed doors. By us ignoring this law we give it power and even more join them. They join the power group for their own profit.

Pretty soon our elections and government will just be a sham of puppets run by the few. It destroys democracy. Once they have power they don't want to give it up. They are the "economic royals".
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thunder rising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 09:58 AM
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4. Break out the tin-foil
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thunder rising Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 09:55 AM
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3. Get even...End the sugar quotas and subsidies. Bring in Brazil's ethanol and make our own from sugar
not corn.
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