This is a good example. From Forbes: "Ray stuck with oil, scored big with deal in Yemen. Moving into natural gas in Peru. Well connected in Beltway thanks to fundraising for Bush, seat on Halliburton board.

What you have now is gang rule in the United States, which threatening to turn into a single system of totalitarian rule - much like what IG Farben established in Nazi Germany, or what the Soviet Central Committee established in Stalin's Russia.

Almost all major markets are tightly controlled by aligned corporate interests. The American Petroleum Institute, the Edison Electric Institute, and the Nuclear Energy Institute are examples of a coordinated propaganda system that mimics the far more secretive (and quite illegal) coordinated economic behavior. Anyone who believes gas prices are set by supply and demand, for example, is either a modern economist or an idiot - but then I repeat myself, don't I?

Economics - that's the one 'science' that has actually regressed during the past two hundred years.

In essence, what's happened is that the British Corporate Crown system (Hudson's Bay and British East India Companies, for example), is still alive and well. Bush is one of their tools now, nothing more. Just as the products of the US colonies had to go through Britain before being sold on to Europe, all global oil reserves must now pass through the London and New York Exchanges before being sold on to their destinations. That's just one example of how the modern globalized colonial system works.

As a first step, high taxes on the wealthy are a good step. If they want to flee the country for the Caymans, that's fine. Watch out for global warming fueled hurricanes, though.

However, politicians are hired by the wealthiest of the wealthy, so you need public financing of elections to reverse this century-long trend. Obama and Clinton will never do anything that hurts the interests of their wealthiest sponsors, regardless of their finely tuned propaganda messages.

Then you'll have to start dissolving corporate charters and applying the 14th amendment to make it illegal for corporations to own other corporations. Holding companies and other fronts should be illegal - direct transparency to ownerships is absolutely necessary.

Seems kind of daunting, doesn't it? How to change things? First, take a walk - look at the sun, the wind, the growing plants, the soil, the rivers, the oceans, and just stop for a second. Imagine yourself lost in the desert, and ask yourself a simple question - if you were all alone, dying of thirst in the desert, what would you rather have? A gallon of clean fresh water, or one of those billion-dollar pallets of $100 bills that went missing in Iraq?

Think about it. If you answered "the cash" then you're insane, probably suicidal, and you need some immediate psychological counseling.

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I couldn't find a free version of the NYT's Krugman piece to check, but in case Krugman missed it Hunt is on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. For exactly 6 more weeks.

That PFIAB seat must be pretty... close... to the information flows on how likely Iraq's oil law is to be resurrected. Wouldn't Hunt's competitors have paid considerable amounts to get that info and get positioned close to the Kurds - where a relatively stable operational environment guarantees that Kurd oil will be flowing in large volumes ahead of other Iraqi oil?

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