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25 comments on Cabinda: Prospects for an Oil Insurgency in the Angolan Exclave

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hightrekker on May 12, 2007 - 12:05pm

Angola has always been surreal. At on time you had Cubans defending American Oil interests against CIA sponsored South African Mercenaries. Obviously, the last thing elite oil wants is the populace in control of it's own resources, so I expect we will continue to see such relationships.

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Jon Kutz on May 12, 2007 - 2:23pm

Interesting information! Thanks for pulling it all together and giving it to us.
What I have been wondering; How long -if ever- will it be before some major consumer of oil (US, China, Europe, India,???) will tire of the problems caused by the "local population" and decide to just eliminate the entire population to end the problems? And if it happens in one place and is successful, what might that portend for the future? If it ever does happen, I would hazzard a guess that it would happen in Africa first? Post Peak Oil with everyone hurting quite a bit and the "locals" keep shutting in production and ????
Grizzly thoughts of the unthinkable - But then we are talking about Homo Stupidius?
I sure hope I live another 20 years (I think?) so I can see just what does happen. We do live in interesting times!

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MicroHydro on May 12, 2007 - 3:44pm

The preparations for the "bird flu" pandemic dieoff are ramping up downunder

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4056120a10.html

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mr f on May 12, 2007 - 4:18pm

"How long -if ever- will it be before some major consumer of oil (US, China, Europe, India,???) will tire of the problems caused by the "local population" and decide to just eliminate the entire population to end the problems?"

Well, judging by Dick Cheney's pronouncement that we can still "win" in Iraq, I don't think it is a matter of asking "when"... The way you wrote this implies an analytic difference between "[eliminating] the entire population" and what is presently going on in Iraq. I would argue that your proposition is one of semantics. Our brethren political shills decided long ago that the best way to exploit people is to shuck and jive them with feel good platitudes, while running a "business" that manages to destabilize the "enemy" (usually poor defenseless people) in order to have the leviathon's whores have better access to the energy 'teet, or lacking that at the very least markets to exploit.

The "figures" coming out of Iraq are catastrophic... Close to a million people killed, on top of millions upon millions maimed or emotionally scared--albeit, an understatement. Then, after citing this (which seems enough for any heart to bear) we must also recognize that our occupation of Iraq, and the chaos it has wrought, has caused the vast majority of "professional" Iraqis to flee the country. So, we have a population that has been bombed into "submission", a population that overwhelmingly lacks basic services like electricity, plumbing, fresh/clean water, and need I enumerate "security" for the gazillionith time? Lets not forget that they are also denied essentially human rights, and are victims of torture.

The march of freedom!

However, I agree, these are fascinating times (from a highly sadistic, unhealthy perspective) we human apes are experiencing right now...

Terry Karl seems to claim that Sudan is essentially a proxy oil war (she claims as much in Oil Crash). I think she's probably right.