March 12, 2008

For those of you possibly unaware of the reference in the above heading, P.T. Barnum's Ringling Brothers Circus was America's greatest circus entrepeneur. Interesting, isn't it, the Esquire story on Fallon originated from Thomas P.M. Barnett, to whom I've linked numerous times in the past. The usual spin has come out from the same crowd, once again, with dire warnings of an inevitable war with Iran now that Fallon is gone. Of course, just the opposite is/was the case. If anything, Fallon might have disappeared or disagreed precisely because of difficulties or concern over Bush/American PARTNERSHIP, collusion, committment and marriage to/with Iran in Iraq's government, Iranian militias and death squads and the many problems and backlash this policy is creating regionally. The ONLY people who do not know this are the brainwashed Americans. But, everyone else in the entire region is well aware of what's happening. So, as reports exist over clashes with the newly resurrected Butcher of Baghdad, Sadr, and his militias, http://www.uruknet.info/?p=41944 another group requests UN intervention in Iraq until new elections can take place, http://www.uruknet.info/?p=41940 Should this happen, of course, the present American backed Iranian government in Iraq might just diminish substantially or disappear altogether. See, for example, the following two articles, "Iraq as an Occupied State at APU Conference," www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/28451 and "Zebari Criticizes
Arab Diplomatic Representation in Iraq," www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/28442
Of course, the above two articles merely represent the tip of the iceberg, since they are all collaborators in dismembering and privatizing Iraq.
It's curious to me that the timing of Barnett's piece about Fallon in Esquire and Fallon's sudden departure came only days after Ahmadimidget visited Baghdad and Iran's alliance with the US in Iraq was SO blatantly and obviously EXPOSED for the world to see. And, then, shortly afterwards, comes the Esquire piece and Fallon's sudden departure. It would seem to me Fallon's leaving might well be for the complete opposite reasons than that which is being spun, to ensure Iran's continued governmental presence in Iraq and obscure the above. It's the same purpose served by those who talk about stopping a war with Iran.
Double/triple speak. Smoke and mirrors, etc.
Of course, this is the way everything around here works.
Although not specifically related to the above subject matter, nonetheless, I feel compelled to include an article at this point by John Helmer in which he discusses the present governmental conflict around revising/limiting Russia's current law and qualifications for foreign direct, i.e., private ownership, of Russia's state natural resources. The potential implications of these developments are so enormous that I was compelled to include it in my blog, a sort of news alert or news flash, www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page67?oid=49279&sn=Detail
In the opposite direction, some of you may have heard a little news items about the well placed Carlyle Group losing money somewhere. But, not in the GCC. The Carlyle Group, as so many others, is invested heavily in the GCC. Here's alittle article from not too long ago, November 2007, mentioning Carlyle and the GCC, "Opportunities in Islamic Finance," additionally, quoting someone I highlighted from one of my previous blogs, March 11, 2008, below, Aamir A. Rehman, (http://www.rehmaninstitute.wordpress.com/ ), associated with Harvard's Business School, Middle East Center and their circle of wealthy Iraq expatriates from Kanan Makiya, Rand Rahim Francke and others on Harvard's Iraq Project, www.dinarstandard.com/finance/IslamicPE112207.htm
Depending on which source one reads, the estimated amount of monies projected in this new Middle East speculative Bubble range upwards in the TRILLIONS of dollars! To die for, literally.