As the aging carrier USS K(Sh)itty Hawk made its way into Sydney Harbour, Oz defence minister Brendan (studs) Nelson announced on national radio that oil was a major factor in Australia's (criminal) involvement in Iraq. Howard hoped this apparent rogue statement from one of his loyal minister’s would create political hysteria and grab headlines internationally and he was right! Setting the agenda and stealing the debate are well known tactics of Howard. Few possess the highly refined skills required to manipulate the local (and international) media to the extent that Howard does.
In a political environment where conservatives lead the two major parties the real battle is for media exposure and headlines not policies, as many believe. It should not be forgotten that content that steals headlines does so at the expense of ALL other information. The impending economic collapse resulting from a circular credit economy is lucky to find the back pages, regardless of the crucial nature of that information! The amusing aspect of Howard stealing the debate over the past few weeks is witnessing the bereft opposition leader and his proven loser advisers attempting to mount counter attacks and FAILING!
The current media hysteria created by Howard confronting the world’s worst kept secret has been a long time coming. It took a politician with the survival instincts of a sewer rat to realise that remaining in denial over the oil-Iraq issue was counter-productive and would only serve to engender more opposition. The criminal intervention in Iraq is not related to oil theft, OIL THEFT WAS THE PRINCIPAL MOTIVATING FACTOR! Releasing the information in palatable form was the trick, cover the moderate old argument yourself and utilise a minister to drop the media bomb, a tactic that has caught almost everyone unaware. Neo-colonial expansionism and plunder are safe in the hands of our local chicken farmer Johnny ‘Heinrich’ Howard – people seem to imagine that only Hitler’s Nazis were capable of sewer politics, criminal plunder and the murder of innocents!
Neither party has any real distinguishing policies so the battle is for maintaining the dominant presence in the public consciousness via the media -- lunch with Murdoch is not enough, Kevin; you lack a distinguishing and clearly defined ideological identity.
The apparent wayward statement of the defence minister is simply the ingenious political use of the well-known ‘good cop-bad cop’ tactic.
Did anyone really expect that stating the truth would have negative political repercussions? Consider the current political climate, Bush and Cheney highlighting their power over a submissive American public by defecating on everything once considered sacred by Americans -- in just ten short years the neo-cons have altered the ‘eating’ habits of the average American! Consider Blair’s outrageous and inflammatory appointment to the Middle East as a ‘peace’ negotiator -- Arab snipers are adjusting their scopes waiting for a clear shot! And of course the international debt crisis, ready to wreak more havoc than even Bush-Cheney and the coalition of willing criminals are able to inflict. The crash promises to create a runaway effect, big finance is aware the economy is running on air; as soon as the big players make their move the house of cards will tumble in the scramble!
In the present political climate the role of the mass media is clear, keep ‘em confused fearful, and completely distracted. But I’m afraid current instabilities promise to spray everyone when it finally hits the fan; however, some like Howard are still able to turn an advantage.
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http://cleaves.zapto.org/clv/story-568.html
The current media hysteria created by Howard confronting the world’s worst kept secret has been a long time coming. It took a politician with the survival instincts of a sewer rat to realise that remaining in denial over the oil-Iraq issue was counter-productive and would only serve to engender more opposition. The criminal intervention in Iraq is not related to oil theft, OIL THEFT WAS THE PRINCIPAL MOTIVATING FACTOR! Releasing the information in palatable form was the trick, cover the moderate old argument yourself and utilise a minister to drop the media bomb, a tactic that has caught almost everyone unaware. Neo-colonial expansionism and plunder are safe in the hands of our local chicken farmer Johnny ‘Heinrich’ Howard – people seem to imagine that only Hitler’s Nazis were capable of sewer politics, criminal plunder and the murder of innocents!
Neither party has any real distinguishing policies so the battle is for maintaining the dominant presence in the public consciousness via the media -- lunch with Murdoch is not enough, Kevin; you lack a distinguishing and clearly defined ideological identity.
The apparent wayward statement of the defence minister is simply the ingenious political use of the well-known ‘good cop-bad cop’ tactic.
Did anyone really expect that stating the truth would have negative political repercussions? Consider the current political climate, Bush and Cheney highlighting their power over a submissive American public by defecating on everything once considered sacred by Americans -- in just ten short years the neo-cons have altered the ‘eating’ habits of the average American! Consider Blair’s outrageous and inflammatory appointment to the Middle East as a ‘peace’ negotiator -- Arab snipers are adjusting their scopes waiting for a clear shot! And of course the international debt crisis, ready to wreak more havoc than even Bush-Cheney and the coalition of willing criminals are able to inflict. The crash promises to create a runaway effect, big finance is aware the economy is running on air; as soon as the big players make their move the house of cards will tumble in the scramble!
In the present political climate the role of the mass media is clear, keep ‘em confused fearful, and completely distracted. But I’m afraid current instabilities promise to spray everyone when it finally hits the fan; however, some like Howard are still able to turn an advantage.
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http://cleaves.zapto.org/clv/story-568.html 
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OIL THEFT WAS NOT THE PRINCIPAL MOTIVATING FACTOR
06.07.2007 09:09
The principal motivating factor was regime change and emasculation of Iraq to serve the zionist interests IMO.
styx
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06.07.2007 10:44
Add to the piece if you wish. The author has succeeded in exposing the ruse, which few detected.
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06.07.2007 14:07
As for the tactics of the Oz politicians they may not be anything different than Bush saying implicitly that we went in Iraq for oil when he spoke about doing things for curing America's addiction to oil.
Unless I am wrong, they seem to say we went in Iraq because we all need this oil, our civilization relies upon this oil, inventing a third "good" justification of the invasion after WMDs and removing a genocidal dictator, and one that is meant to show them as caring for their own people.
They don't say we went there for the sake of the greed of the shareholders of major oil companies (and the zionist lobby) to which we, politicians, blindly obey because we owe them where we are, which is way closer to the truth IMO.
And besides the nearly total subservience of the global political class to megacorporations and the zionist lobby there are also the extra personal motivations of the two main actors of the Iraq war, Blair and Bush, that are interesting to consider.
Bush possibly had a personal vendetta towards Saddam Hussein and he finally managed to murder him. It is rumoured that Saddam tried to have father Bush murdered at some point in the 1990's because of the invasion of Kuwait in 1990 for which father Bush gave him the green light only to set him up.
And Blair has been such a zealous bastard only because of what he expects to reap as a reward IMO. A ticket in the very upper class to which the Bushes already belong since generations.
styx