tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post1499249032215372858..comments2024-03-28T16:22:14.888-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Meanwhile, in strategically located Mali ...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger52125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70533571813340928352012-10-03T16:45:42.803-07:002012-10-03T16:45:42.803-07:00Oil is a fungible commodity. Saudi is the swing p...Oil is a fungible commodity. Saudi is the swing producer, they set the market price. It doesn't matter where you get your oil, Saudi sets the price. That's why Saudi will never admit they have hit their production peak. At Saudi peak oil they lose their leverage and become just another bunch of high-paid camel jockeys.Unanimousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8207615538434088982012-10-03T15:45:01.328-07:002012-10-03T15:45:01.328-07:00Not true. Saudi Arabia is second after Canada...
...Not true. Saudi Arabia is second after Canada...<br /><br />http://www.eia.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/company_level_imports/current/import.htmlTruthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-6968417296976505122012-10-03T14:47:14.294-07:002012-10-03T14:47:14.294-07:00The USA actually gets very, very little of its oil...The USA actually gets very, very little of its oil from the middle east or the Arab/persian world. it is a canard, though widely believed that the usa is dependent upon mideast oil for ist energy needs. Most foreign oil to the USA comes from Canada, Mexico, Venezuala, Nigeria and Angola.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-74952077169025236512012-10-03T01:47:12.810-07:002012-10-03T01:47:12.810-07:00"Quackdaffy controlled immigration by patroll..."Quackdaffy controlled immigration by patrolling offshore and generally giving African immigrants a hard time. He had an agreement with Berlusconi to stop the boats to Italian islands. The moment the 'revolution' began, as in Tunisia a lot of people started taking ship for Panatella or whatever it's called."<br /><br />Qadaffi was threatening them with loosening that however. And during the revolution a hell of a lot of people got the hell out of libya, I lost count at 500k. That is ultimately the goal, shutting down the immigration network itself, rather than worrying about the individuals who use it on any given day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-92043181236650256982012-10-02T23:17:47.307-07:002012-10-02T23:17:47.307-07:00"Gadaffi is a slightly different case: Europe...<i>"Gadaffi is a slightly different case: Europe wanted two things, control of the oil, and the end of african immigration through Libya."</i><br /><br />Quackdaffy controlled immigration by patrolling offshore and generally giving African immigrants a hard time. He had an agreement with Berlusconi to stop the boats to Italian islands. The moment the 'revolution' began, as in Tunisia a lot of people started taking ship for Panatella or whatever it's called. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53610656106713108252012-10-02T22:50:57.103-07:002012-10-02T22:50:57.103-07:00"a very knowing American said...
Henry Kissi..."a very knowing American said...<br /><br />Henry Kissinger once joked that Chile was "a dagger pointed at the heart of Antarctica" (riffing on the more serious observation that Korea was a dagger pointed at the heart of Japan).<br /><br />A quick look at the map shows that Mali is a battle ax pointed at the heart of Niger. Or maybe a mattock of some kind pointed at the heart of Burkina Faso."<br /><br />Your comment was funny. As was Kissingers'. He may by an amoral creep, but at least he has a sense of humor.<br /><br />Mali - a toothpick pointed at the olive of Guinea.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17981859731433937802012-10-02T21:27:29.737-07:002012-10-02T21:27:29.737-07:00"Or how about we just stay clear of the whole...<i>"Or how about we just stay clear of the whole area altogether? Get our troops the hell out of there and keep them from immigrating here? Call it a Japan strategy."</i><br /><br />Agreed. After all "Death to Japan" isn't a common slogan these days. Except in China.Funcrushernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-81673079111857349592012-10-02T21:06:33.515-07:002012-10-02T21:06:33.515-07:00It proves that the Muslims aren't all that bri... It proves that the Muslims aren't all that bright that they haven't figured out that you can build a drone out of a car engine, a carved wooden propeller made with fixtures easily built in a garage, bicycle tubing, plywood, and linen sheets covered with guncotton dissolved in acetone. Just how WWI aircraft were built. <br /><br /> Automotive computers and sensors can be made to work very well as flight control computers if you can figure out how to hack into their firmware, and are available for a few dollars from junkyards. Power antenna motors make pretty good control servos. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43562900038855894162012-10-02T20:57:01.395-07:002012-10-02T20:57:01.395-07:00"I don't buy it. We can do like every oth..."I don't buy it. We can do like every other country in the world - buy the oil from whoever manages to be on top this week. If we had let Saddam keep Kuwait do you think he wouldn't have sold us the oil?<br /><br />No, this is more about the futility of remaking third world shitholes in our image than it is about oil." - Oil is the reason for our overall presence. I'd agree that taking down Saddam and mubarak was more the product of a fever dream of democracy(and by implication the end of dysfunction) in the middle east, than any tangible gain. Gadaffi is a slightly different case: Europe wanted two things, control of the oil, and the end of african immigration through Libya.<br /><br />Lastly, every other country is free to buy oil, as long as they do so in the reserve currency for oil.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57676155444528641262012-10-02T20:29:39.473-07:002012-10-02T20:29:39.473-07:00Thanks to Steve the 21st century is going to have ...Thanks to Steve the 21st century is going to have Lenin as the darling of the right and Carl Schmitt as the left's darling. Wilderness of mirrors squatting Jews screw Eliot for always being right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51826066298086469362012-10-02T20:23:26.749-07:002012-10-02T20:23:26.749-07:00Yea that's a good point. I'm pretty sure s...Yea that's a good point. I'm pretty sure sage Lenin, he of the supreme wisdom of who/whom, would have preferred to have drones than not. That quote is always taken out of context. It is a captain trying to buck up his men before battle not some lord at his club after dining. If anything Belloc is arguing that "Blood" was too soft. I don't think that's the AmCon/taki line these days.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-13147232515629296222012-10-02T19:55:04.156-07:002012-10-02T19:55:04.156-07:00I'd've thought that we'd prefer to hav...<i>I'd've thought that we'd prefer to have as much of a monopoly on this particular technology as possible but apparently Ike was wise even beyond his years and experience would suggest.</i><br /><br />The US has never had a monopoly on drones. In fact, we've been playing catch up for a decade. The most effective drones we have now are based on Israeli technology. Israel, China, Russia, and France (and probably more that I don't know about off the top of my head) have their own drones either in testing or in service.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10330712047609650184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-466021231639917072012-10-02T19:33:50.617-07:002012-10-02T19:33:50.617-07:00Dunno, if you all know this but in my travels thro...Dunno, if you all know this but in my travels through the hinterlands of our vast nation I've come across foreign soldiers and technicians here to be trained in the Ways of the Drone. <br /><br />The diversity of nations that the USG is training in drone technology is rather surprising. I'd've thought that we'd prefer to have as much of a monopoly on this particular technology as possible but apparently Ike was wise even beyond his years and experience would suggest.<br /><br />The MIC requires endless military sales. We must arm Eastasia for their allied battles against the accursed Eurasia and, with any luck, Eastasia (read: Bin Laden, Hussein, Libyan militias, etc) will get to use that technology against us at which point we'll need even cooler weapons with which to take <i>them</i> on - to say nothing of arming our new Eurasian allies.<br /><br />The people video-game-playing OUR drones (and yes I know some of them personally) are no longer discoverers of the tech or random soldiers pulled from other duty but particularly Aspergey-types who can 'shoot em dead' in 9-5 shifts and then go home with no concerns greater than those weighing down their accountant brethren. The guys learning to run drones for foreigners however are still of the interesting sorts (again, we're talking about some countries well weirder and less stable than France or Japan) and it's truly amazing that our government has the right to train such countries with such powerful and easily misusable technology as drones without its citizens' knowledge or permission.<br />Rabbi Moshe Rudnerhttp://www.exoticjewishhistory.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53304973940805574252012-10-02T19:09:55.922-07:002012-10-02T19:09:55.922-07:00Theres one problem with that, oil. We'll pull ...<i>Theres one problem with that, oil. We'll pull out of there the second we/our allies/interests don't need the stuff from them.</i><br /><br />I don't buy it. We can do like every other country in the world - buy the oil from whoever manages to be on top this week. If we had let Saddam keep Kuwait do you think he wouldn't have sold us the oil?<br /><br />No, this is more about the futility of remaking third world shitholes in our image than it is about oil.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10330712047609650184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86330518119817996872012-10-02T17:36:53.707-07:002012-10-02T17:36:53.707-07:00"Whatever happens
We have got
Remote controll..."Whatever happens<br />We have got<br />Remote controlled drones<br />And they do not."<br /><br /><a href="http://diydrones.com/" rel="nofollow">Maybe not for long.</a>Unanimousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-18879109984569167002012-10-02T17:01:20.890-07:002012-10-02T17:01:20.890-07:00" We wouldn't have to invade or (god forb..." We wouldn't have to invade or (god forbid) govern these awful, armed-religious-fanatic-infested places."<br /><br />The issue is, if we don't invade and govern, we can't control how much oil OTHER countries get.Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87695102073401988082012-10-02T16:53:53.706-07:002012-10-02T16:53:53.706-07:00Mali is not important. Egypt, Saudi, and Libya are...Mali is not important. Egypt, Saudi, and Libya are. The Gulf most of all (Saudi, Iran, Iraq, etc.) Somalia lesser so because it sits aside shipping lanes but still is important. Not Mali.<br /><br />This is likely Obama propping up some crony's business venture in Mali, oil/gas/minerals, with a payoff to be named later. Just like Rwanda and the Lord's Resistance Army. You don't think Obama actually CARES about Black people in Africa do you?<br /><br />NOTA yes its ludicrous because Iran and Russia want to restrict oil production by oh I dunno, MILITARILY DOMINATING THEIR NEIGHBORS. Much / Most of the commentary here is stupid on the fifth grade level, assigning the US blame for everything and natives and other nations (like Russia and China) none at all.<br /><br />The has zero, zilch, nada interest in Mali and is using the US military to prop up Obama crony interests. The US has MASSIVE interests in and around Saudi Arabia, and the corrupt, decadent, debauched, and totally awful House of Saud (unless you compare it to a Saudi run by Iran and/or the Muslim Brothers).<br /><br />The US under Obama tried to do everything CHEAP. Drone attacks not in the media via worshipful press, minimal boots on the ground; everything CHEAP CHEAP CHEAP. Not an empire (Empires don't have their embassies over-run and ambassadors killed without severe consequences) but a collection of cheap minimal responses to the strategic challenge of Iran/Russia to dominate the Gulf and push oil prices to ~$200 a barrel, making them rich and us poor.<br /><br />It is the delusion and childish nature of the modern American nerd to think that fights, conflicts, and war can be avoided by goodwill, moralism, and technology. A post-Christian heresy, basically, spread culturally to the nerdiest. A world where White guy nerds actually believe Star Trek Next Generation is a blueprint for society. Whiskeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854764809682029464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-63544216404375464422012-10-02T15:39:11.589-07:002012-10-02T15:39:11.589-07:00"There is a vast array of companies that prof..."There is a vast array of companies that profit from our far-flung military empire."<br /><br />Mr. Anon, you are DEAD ON RIGHT once again. All except the silly minority owned companies thing, they are a drop in the bucket in the "war effort", however, I realize that with Svigor calling you a N(Obama) lover, you have to re-establish your bonafides.<br /><br />Funny thing, even with your bouts of weirdness, you are the poster I probably agree with most, here.Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-44241908496762196552012-10-02T15:17:36.395-07:002012-10-02T15:17:36.395-07:00Niger has French pronunciation and existentialist ...<i>Niger has French pronunciation and existentialist spelling.</i> <br /><br />You telling me I'm supposed to pronounce it, "Nee-Zhay"?!?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-275407002415480312012-10-02T14:50:08.193-07:002012-10-02T14:50:08.193-07:00Hey, I have a really crazy idea. What if we inter...Hey, I have a really crazy idea. What if we interacted with godawful misgoverned hell-holes that produced oil by, say, producing material wealth in the form of machines and computers and medicines and stuff, and offering to trade those things, which we can produce in great abundance, for the oil under their ground? We wouldn't have to invade or (god forbid) govern these awful, armed-religious-fanatic-infested places. We would no longer need to care whether the Islamists were torturing the secularists or the secularists were torturing the Islamists, except in the sort of empty sense that we all understand that a lot of countries have really ugly stuff going on, and we're all vaguely sorry that's so and really, intensely glad we don't live there. We wouldn't need to try to prop up nauseating dictators, or smile and pretend to like evil regimes like that of Saudi Arabia. We could respond to the democracy or apartheid decision of the Israelis with the proper level of detachment due to hard decisions made by friendly foreign countries half a world away: Gee, I sure hope you guys work that out somehow, best of luck! <br /><br />I know, this is crazy talk. Serious people know we must keep bombing foreigners in third-world countries until China stops lending us the money to keep doing it. NOTAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85582494757390824412012-10-02T14:40:40.121-07:002012-10-02T14:40:40.121-07:00I think this must be the first time in human histo...I think this must be the first time in human history that Mali was strategic.<br /><br />.<br />"Niger and Nigeria?"<br /><br />Niger has French pronunciation and existentialist spelling. That's the only difference. Neither are strategic. Not today anyway.<br /><br />.<br />"Historically, didn't empires generally profit in some way from their possessions"<br /><br />They start that way.<br /><br />Also sand, you never know when there might be a sand shortage.<br /><br />.<br />"Al Qaeda might have fizzled out"<br /><br />That's why you have to keep bombing new countries. Otherwise they might fizzle out.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-73792155829719209222012-10-02T13:53:07.761-07:002012-10-02T13:53:07.761-07:00"The middle east was going to explode regardl..."The middle east was going to explode regardless due to demographics. [N]othing we can do about that but play whack-a-mole, or engage in what would be considered crimes against humanity."<br /><br />Or how about we just stay clear of the whole area altogether? Get our troops the hell out of there and keep them from immigrating here? Call it a Japan strategy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-64359165666715300302012-10-02T13:52:48.411-07:002012-10-02T13:52:48.411-07:00"Or we could close up shop and leave them to ..."Or we could close up shop and leave them to their own devices." - Theres one problem with that, oil. We'll pull out of there the second we/our allies/interests don't need the stuff from them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22316434906666595482012-10-02T13:49:58.552-07:002012-10-02T13:49:58.552-07:00"Yep. It's hopeless. Can't do anythin..."Yep. It's hopeless. Can't do anything but drone strikes and executive bills of attainder. And lots and lots of foreign aid. And spreading a lot of green around to groups whose motives we don't understand, and overseas deployments, and inviting the protagonists from all sides of foreign conflicts over here." - Yes, thats option whack-a-mole.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-88648501762846181822012-10-02T12:53:41.323-07:002012-10-02T12:53:41.323-07:00Obama is blackish. Obama is blackish. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com