Obama’s Secret War Profiteering Tax; Great read and insight!

By Greg Palast
[New York, May 22, 2008.]
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.

In 1928, oil company chieftains (from Anglo-Persian Oil, now British Petroleum, from Standard Oil, now Exxon, and their Continental counterparts) were faced with a crisis: falling prices due to rising supplies of oil; the same crisis faced by their successors during the Clinton years, when oil traded at $22 a barrel.

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For those of you that don't know Greg Palast he is one last honest investigative journalist left around. He worked all over Washington for years until he was blacklisted early in the Bush Administration for exposing his Iraq lies and the assassanation attempt by the CIA on Hugo Chavez. Since he got blacklisted he now works for the BBC and BBC News still exposing U.S. government corruption. He helped expose the truth about Iraq, tremendous work on Hurricane Katrina and how Bush let the democratic vote of New Orleans drown, the U.S. Attorney scandal and vote caging scandal that is still under Congressional hearings. Karl Rove's supoena date is July 10, 2008(will be shown on CSPAN). I encourage all freedom loving Americans to go to his website and read some of archives from recently and the past few years and you will become enlightened on about alot of the atrocities our government as been committing. You won't find any of this in the MSM. Some of you might remember the UF student that got tazed a few years ago "don't taze me bro!" at a John Kerry rally that made the news and he was holding a yellow book that told the truth about diebold and the 2004 election. That book was written by Greg Palast and is called "Armed Madhouse" a great read.

Palast is currently working with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on investigation the latest attacks on the right to vote in America.