tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post3044250304358173217..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Applebaum: The Kremlin's krazy konspiracy theoriesUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger46125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-3937168494437567512014-05-04T14:32:54.963-07:002014-05-04T14:32:54.963-07:00"It was definitely about oil for the Japanese..."It was definitely about oil for the Japanese. They had to seize the oil in Indonesia (then Dutch East Indies) or else."<br /><br />Japan got too greedy for its size and power. US was willing to let it keep Manchuria, which is a HUGE piece of turf. <br /><br />Japanese just got greedy. US did the right thing. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70410214880711233212014-05-04T12:20:19.891-07:002014-05-04T12:20:19.891-07:00Jody,
Current natural gas imports and exports are...Jody,<br /><br />Current natural gas imports and exports are cross-borders affairs between Canada and Mexico with substantial imports from Alberta to the West Coast, especially California. We export some to Mexican border states as a matter of convenience.<br /><br />The US Energy Information Agency predicts net US exports by 2016:<br /><br />http://www.eia.gov/forecasts/aeo/er/early_production.cfmWhitehallnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10480531067682752212014-05-03T16:38:45.471-07:002014-05-03T16:38:45.471-07:00Of course it's true, the USSR and the Free Wor...<i>Of course it's true, the USSR and the Free World waged incessant economic warfare against each other, and tried to hurt each other in any way possible.</i><br /><br />So, we fluoridated all that grain we sold them?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-55493892637149904662014-05-03T14:08:45.703-07:002014-05-03T14:08:45.703-07:00"pat said...
Early in his administration the..."pat said...<br /><br />Early in his administration the liberal media raked him over the coals for being stupid and out of touch."<br /><br />It is pretty obvious from just listening to Reagan speak that he was not stupid. Or, at least, even stupid people were smarter back then. Reagan actually spoke in complete sentences, expressed coherent thoughts, and made logical arguments. He spoke better than does any contemporary American politician of either party. Public discourse has been reduced to the level of late-night talk-shows and reality televsion.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62416673902861464162014-05-03T11:32:41.388-07:002014-05-03T11:32:41.388-07:00"So who exactly is behind the domestic opposi..."So who exactly is behind the domestic opposition to exporting US LNG?"<br /><br />the US is a natural gas importer. so that should put an end to the discussion right there. you can't export when you are a net importer.<br /><br />but if somebody wanted to take it further, what it would mean is packaging all the US natural gas and shipping it all the way to ukraine. if they did the math, they would realize that by the time that stuff got to ukraine, it would be a least twice as expensive as the stuff coming out of russia. economics kill the plan.<br /><br />then you get into, that whole system of NG transport from the US to eastern europe would not even be ready for years.jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-88528532409254717642014-05-03T01:04:46.534-07:002014-05-03T01:04:46.534-07:00The Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s had more to do with...The Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s had more to do with the collapse of oil prices in 1985/6, than anything Reagan might have cooked up.<br />If you can recall, both nations locked into a pointless and fruitless war of attrition needed to raise cash fast, so 'bang' went OPEC's carefully crafted and rigidly enforced quotas.<br /> Also if you're old enough, cast your minds back to that terrible and blighted decade. It started off with the Iranian revolution. Oil prices sky-rocketed as a consequence, higher in real terms than the 1973 debacle, (which itself caused immeasurable damage), sparking off massive inflation and a following industrial depression in the west.<br /> 1980 was they year that Paul Volcker squeezed the life out of the US economy. The early '80s were a terrible time of mass uunemployment and falling GDP throughout the west. This natural reaction caused oil demand to collapse, the price collapse, helped by Iran/Iraq over production followed. What happened was that the OPEC cartel basically broke down as nation states pursued their own selfish interest and cheated on quotas. OPEC f*cked itself up by getting too greedy. They killed the goose that laid golden eggs and consequently had no one to sell their surplus oil too.<br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-65482662109784881932014-05-02T22:03:30.807-07:002014-05-02T22:03:30.807-07:00Anne Applebaum = the fevered imagination of the Po...Anne Applebaum = the fevered imagination of the Polish govt.<br /><br />Shouldn't she have to register as a foreign govt. lobbyist?<br /><br />I mean, pillow talk counts, doesn't it?<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-3710324540110410172014-05-02T21:59:24.469-07:002014-05-02T21:59:24.469-07:00"Wait wait wait... Was WW2 about oil?"
...<i>"Wait wait wait... Was WW2 about oil?"</i><br /><br />It was definitely about oil for the Japanese. They had to seize the oil in Indonesia (then Dutch East Indies) or else. The US imposed an oil embargo on the Japanese and well, that was that:<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Events_leading_to_the_attack_on_Pearl_Harbor#Background_to_conflict" rel="nofollow">"Responding to continuing Japanese aggression in China, the U.S. froze Japanese assets... ...established an embargo on oil and gasoline exports to Japan. The oil embargo was an especially strong response because oil was Japan's most crucial import, and more than 80 percent of Japan's oil at the time came from the United States."</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21858255770983579812014-05-02T19:49:23.642-07:002014-05-02T19:49:23.642-07:00Wasn't the oil flood beginning in Oct 85 the S...Wasn't the oil flood beginning in Oct 85 the Saudis retaking control of OPEC by finally "opening the spigots" as they had far so long threatened?<br />It only (long term) benefitted the Saudis. Only the Saudis could afford it(it was terribly expensive). And the Soviet Union was an innocent bystander.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90425741180250636172014-05-02T18:44:10.136-07:002014-05-02T18:44:10.136-07:00It's not exactly a state secret that the U.S. ...It's not exactly a state secret that the U.S. and the Saudis worked together to lower oil prices to economically break the USSR during the Reagan administration. It had to be one of the least well kept "secrets" of all time.<br /><br />Victory by Peter Schweizer, one of the first wave of books about the Reagan Adminstration and its role in ending the Cold War, devotes a great deal of time to the subject.<br /><br />http://www.amazon.com/Victory-Administrations-Strategy-Hastened-Collapse/dp/0871136333Oswald Spenglernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-14643888191494030812014-05-02T18:29:21.204-07:002014-05-02T18:29:21.204-07:00from wiki
"A predecessor "minimum tax&...from wiki <br /><br />"A predecessor "minimum tax", enacted in 1969, imposed an additional tax on certain tax benefits for certain taxpayers. The present AMT was enacted in 1982 and limits tax benefits from a variety of deductions"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-2474616424949402242014-05-02T17:43:53.159-07:002014-05-02T17:43:53.159-07:00I think she's very well informed. The neocons ...I think she's very well informed. The neocons are playing for keeps. Fromo Wiki: Applebaum married Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski in 1992Anne Applebaum-Sikorska became a Polish citizen in 2013.<br /><br />2Degreesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-51076305161017658122014-05-02T16:32:57.288-07:002014-05-02T16:32:57.288-07:00@Chubby Ape:
Two reasons Anne Applebaum would hav...@Chubby Ape:<br /><br /><i>Two reasons Anne Applebaum would have said this:<br /><br />1)She knows this did happen and she's lying to us and the Russians.<br /><br />2) She doesn't know this happened but she's so incapable of imagining the Russians might have a point on anything that she never bothered to research it.<br /><br />My guess is the second is true.</i><br /><br />+1reiner Torhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07870196532441237336noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91852297247972597242014-05-02T15:07:14.347-07:002014-05-02T15:07:14.347-07:00Reagan continued the Carter deregulation policies....Reagan continued the Carter deregulation policies. Carter deregulated airlines causing a collapse in ticket prices and the destruction of airline pilots pension and retirement plans. Reagan deregulated the petroleum industry. He was not nearly as thrifty as Carter but he did not print money as fast as possible. He also raised taxes quite a bit(*) <br /><br />So petroleum deregulation coupled with moderation in money printing, and increased taxes lowered the cost of things like gold and oil prices. Fed Chairman Volker, originally a Carter appointment was permitted to raise interest rates.<br /><br />FWIW the Carter deregulation of the airline industry was mostly undone by the Bush II creation of the TSA. <br /><br /><br />* Reagan raised social security taxes making it impossible for low income people to save for say a down payment on a house. He also created the Alternative Minimum Tax, which rich people whinge about. So the seeds of the mortgage meltdown were sown by Reagan making it impossible for low income people to save for a down payment or college or anything else. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1141148834143928842014-05-02T14:25:05.125-07:002014-05-02T14:25:05.125-07:00"It seems laughable" is the giveaway. "It seems laughable" is the giveaway.Laguna Beach Fogeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08027025872132699493noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45444907094829330742014-05-02T14:01:46.362-07:002014-05-02T14:01:46.362-07:00Two reasons Anne Applebaum would have said this:
...Two reasons Anne Applebaum would have said this:<br /><br />1)She knows this did happen and she's lying to us and the Russians.<br /><br />2) She doesn't know this happened but she's so incapable of imagining the Russians might have a point on anything that she never bothered to research it.<br /><br />My guess is the second is true.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04017589590769465615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89140834629600381542014-05-02T13:28:15.548-07:002014-05-02T13:28:15.548-07:00the number one thing that could be done to sink oi...the number one thing that could be done to sink oil would be to bring back restrictive covenants.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12125225546830787572014-05-02T13:27:11.887-07:002014-05-02T13:27:11.887-07:00Applebaum writes: A European Union thinking strat...Applebaum writes: <i> A European Union thinking strategically about its future would create an energy union, <b>as some have already suggested</b>, and begin to bargain collectively for its gas.</i><br /><br />"Some" like the <a href="http://tinyurl.com/kqmk9kd" rel="nofollow">Foreign Minister of Poland</a>.Matranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84912986545117531392014-05-02T13:06:43.941-07:002014-05-02T13:06:43.941-07:00"Is Applebaum being fashionably stupid, or is..."Is Applebaum being fashionably stupid, or is she just lying?"<br /><br />She just doesn't like 'anti-American canards', especially as her ilk now control America. <br /><br />You see, America does everything straight. <br /><br />We really did go into Iraq to create a new democracy. <br /><br />Nuland was only vacationing in Ukraine. <br /><br />Applebaum the neocon said she voted for Obama cuz she couldn't take Palin seriously. But Palin sucks up to such neocons. <br /><br />American Cons are the most pathetic fools in the world. <br /><br />Just take open borders. <br /><br />The Jewish logic according to Abe Foxman. <br /><br />"You white conservatives are racist for opposing open borders and massive migration from Mexico. We hate you for that. But, Mexicans are very antisemitic, and we Jews have a problem with that. So, we expect you white conservatives to stick up for us against all those nasty Mexicans."<br /><br />So, Jews insult whites as 'racist xenophobes' for opposing massive influx from Mexico but then demand that whites do something about all those nasty 'antisemitic' Mexicans who don't like Jews too much. <br /><br />I mean how much of this crap can we take? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-35374456346297590522014-05-02T12:59:51.612-07:002014-05-02T12:59:51.612-07:00it's hard to see how that would have been in t...it's hard to see how that would have been in the saudi's interests, but yes, saudi output directly affects global price and has small to moderate effects on all kinds of stuff.<br /><br />this is the main reason (among several) that the cultural marxist's initial plan back in march, to hurt russia by flooding the global market with US oil from the SPR, made no sense at all. the saudis would simply reduce output by an equal amount, to maintain price.<br /><br />i would guess this is the reason obama went to saudi arabia last month, to try to talk them out of that. they pretty obviously told him to shove it. his trip didn't last long.jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-70524465738464523092014-05-02T12:52:01.919-07:002014-05-02T12:52:01.919-07:00So, the Russians are implying that the Soviet Unio...So, the Russians are implying that the Soviet Union would have survived if the USA did not lower oil prices through increasing output?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54167977596448056492014-05-02T12:48:09.204-07:002014-05-02T12:48:09.204-07:00If not the oil glut, if not the USSR overreaching ...If not the oil glut, if not the USSR overreaching in Afghanistan, it would have been something else. Empires based on ideological cults are untenable, the only thing is which particular spark brings about their decline.<br /><br />I'm not just talking about the old Soviet Union, either.<br /><br />In the mid-'80s oil glut, while leaded gas was still available, it could be had for as low as 59 cents a gallon in St. Louis.countenancenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-65316368097680598502014-05-02T12:41:57.527-07:002014-05-02T12:41:57.527-07:00"We Civilization gamers tend to see ideology ..."We Civilization gamers tend to see ideology as excuse. The real deal is the struggle for resources and the domination of trade routes."<br /><br />And you're completely wrong because it's almost always cheaper to buy resources than to fight for them. Heppnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-43094440742818473912014-05-02T10:09:52.060-07:002014-05-02T10:09:52.060-07:00Does she offer some alternative theory of Soviet c...Does she offer some alternative theory of Soviet collapse? US-engineered low oil prices and a fear that the US might get SDI to work is the standard story of the proximate cause of the collapse, isn't it?<br /><br />She's been on a roll lately, though. Check out the bizarre farrago of lies which constitutes her last few contributions to Slate. Praising the peaceful Nazis of Kiev and everything.<br /><br />Doesn't she kinda look like Ayn Rand? About as rational, too.Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45307232455960237212014-05-02T09:57:32.125-07:002014-05-02T09:57:32.125-07:00This may have been an instance where coordinated g...This may have been an instance where coordinated government action could have brought down oil supplies. Supply was artificially high after the 70s due to cartelization by OPEC, so Saudi Arabia letting production ramp up to the market equilibrium completely changed the picture.<br /><br />Today's high oil prices probably could not be changed so easily by coordinated action. There isn't as much excess supply that could be switched on.<br /><br />Side note: The Soviet Union seemed like a big success story to Western journalists in the 1920s and 1930s because high commodity prices spurred incredible economic growth rates. <br /> <br />This made many westerners believe Communism was a superior ideology, but all it really proved is that there are so many random variables that influence economic growth that government policy is a tiny eddy in a vast current. That never gets in the way of top-down development schemes by politicians to increase homeownership, invent new energy sources like biofuels or hydrogen fuel cells, Obamacare, Head Start, foreign aid, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com