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Not Dunkin Donuts.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')url=http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=107849]ENERGY MATTERS: Africa Tops Mideast As US Crude Source (link)[/url]

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--When it comes to supplying the U.S with oil, Africa is quietly trumping the Middle East.

U.S. crude oil imports from Africa topped supplies from the Middle East in 2006 for the first time in 21 years, government data show. As recently as 2001, U.S. imports from the Middle East topped African supplies by more than 10%, or 1.3 million barrels a day. Now, the fractional edge given to African crude oil suppliers in the world's largest consumer of oil underscores a number of market changes and may grow wider in coming years.

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We may run on them but they don't run on them.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')url=http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070126/wl_africa_afp/nigeriaoilfuel_070126203601]AFP Nigeria is totally dependent on imported petroleum products: official (link)[/url]

Fri Jan 26, 3:36 PM ET

LAGOS (AFP) - Nigeria, Africa's largest oil producer, now depends 100 percent on imports of petroleum products due to the closure of its three refineries and vandalisation of pipelines, officials said.

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We run over them as we run on them.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')url=http://allafrica.com/stories/200702130024.html]Nigeria: 40 Communities Protest Chevron's Neglect (link)[/url]

... ABOUT 5,000 indigenes of over 40 communities in Gbaramatu kingdom of Delta State, including men, women and youths, weekend, carried out a peaceful demonstration against the Chevron Nigeria Limited over the oil company's alleged refusal to recognize them as impacted communities and carry out any assessment, several months after the October 11, 2006 oil spillage from its Abiteye Flow Station, which polluted and damaged their farmlands and crops. ...

[americandream]

"We"..whose this "we"...are you one of the top and small group of this planet's elite resource sequestrators....I doubt so or else ypu would not be on here.

Your existence is marginally advantaged over these poor sods in Africa to the degree that you are in a position to mortagage yourself to the hilt in the never-never land of the west...get your head round that "cos" when tshtf, you will have no further use other than to draw water for the master, tend his fields or pleasure him failing which you will be on the wrong side of the barricades along with the rest of this planet's dispossessed.

Get that simple fact through your skull and you might just..might just...summon up the power you have to throw off your chains.

[I_Like_Plants]

Good one americandream

This reminds me of a discussion, one about how virtual characters on game sites like Warcraft, 2nd Life, etc., use as much energy as real people in 3rd world countries. The discussion went on a bit, then an American poster came in and asked "Is this real American people?"

This is how it works - people outside the USA are not real. They're not Der Volk, Aryan, Drinkers Of Classic Coke, Appreciators of Bruce Willis Movies, whatever deep in their consumeristic little hearts Americans think makes people human, if you're French or something, rest assured, to most of the little Eichmanns in this country, you are not real.

[NEOPO]

I agree but I dont think Bleep meant it as you may have taken it
lil eichmann's like lil' tupac's

[I_Like_Plants]

I think Eichmann was a guy whose whole attitude was, "I was only following orders, I was only doing my job".

Ward Churchill made a very good point when he referred to many Americans as "little eichmanns" because even Americans who consider themselves "nice" and "liberal" and all that, tend to support all kinds of bad shit. From 3rd world slavery, blood diamonds, slave-made chocolate and general slave-labor goods, you-name-it, they're for it. Even after being told about it - tell 'em about the slave labor conditions of those making iPods, and they'll still go out and get an iPod. Even after being shown that Israel is a bully because of the US's support of them, they'll still invest in Israeli companies. I know a guy who considers himself very "green" and aware especially of overpopulation, well, he and the wife are poppin out kids at the rate of about one a year. Got a new minivan too.

So this is what we have. So we're sucking up Africa's oil? You're not going to see a lot of concern from Americans. Not too many giving up their cars etc.

[NEOPO]

If it were actually a feasible choice I think many would yet it is not.
We/they are all perfectly trapped and trained to not even realize it at least not until its too late....spouse, children, career and a 30 year mortgage.
It's called the "american dream" for a reason

You want to believe that all the sheeple are fully aware and capable of making the morally correct choice yet they have chosen otherwise?
I say thats just you losing your ability to empathize with others and that most of the sheeple are perfectly brainwashed and addicted to an unsustainable lifestyle.
Even Heinberg echoed the thought of how surreal and still unreal the whole realization process is, that it is an ongoing struggle with denial and that few are able to change much because of the structure of our lives.
Trapped I say!!!

Anyways - African Oil appears to be increasing in importance and it seems that MEND is really giving them hell thus we have a recipe for war.
If this escalates and MEND is able to resist the initial goon squads which they apparently already have then we may just have a little "police action" and you know how well something like that would go over right about now.
Damn we could be in 4-5 theatres of combat simultaneously and I bet certain Neocon/zionist have woodies just thinkin' about it.

Anyways its a very real and relevant PO subject so I do not see what appears to be the issue with Bleeps postings besides maybe it should go in the Nigeria/africa section and if we dont have one of those then maybe we should

Oh wait a minute - u folks are the real america hater's arent you?

[I_Like_Plants]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NEOPO', 'I')f it were actually a feasible choice I think many would yet it is not.
We/they are all perfectly trapped and trained to not even realize it at least not until its too late....spouse, children, career and a 30 year mortgage.
It's called the "american dream" for a reason

[MonteQuest]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')frica Tops Mideast As US Crude Source

[MonteQuest]

America Runs on African Oil

And this thread title. Just not so.

[TreebeardsUncle]

Hi, folks.
Well, some of us don't have mortgages. Some rent and some own their places outright (like me dad). There are a lot of advantages in owning one's place outright, particularly that you don't need so much of a salary to maintain it.
Ok. So the US will use up African oil more than ME oil now. That sounds just dandy as their ability to resist exploitation is even lower.
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[Bleep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MonteQuest', '[')b]America Runs on African Oil

And this thread title. Just not so.

[Bleep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '[')url=http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=107849]ENERGY MATTERS: Africa Tops Mideast As US Crude Source (link)[/url]

NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--When it comes to supplying the U.S with oil, Africa is quietly trumping the Middle East.

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The Bush administration is the most recent proponent of a long-held U.S. policy that has called for more emphasis on regional oil suppliers, outside of the Middle East, the volatile region that produces the most oil and holds the bulk of reserves. ...