US Government Worked To Scuttle Haiti Gas Development Deal On Behalf Of Big Oil

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Haiti was negotiating an oil and development deal with Venezuela and Cuba between 2006-2007.

Haiti would join the Venezuelan-led oil alliance known as PetroCaribe and it would purchase oil “only 60 percent up front with the remainder payable over twenty-five years at 1 percent interest” — a remarkably good deal for the Western hemisphere’s poorest country.

The U.S. embassy at the time noted that Haiti would save a hundred million U.S. dollars a year under the terms of the PetroCaribe deal; the saved dollars would then be earmarked for development in schools, health care, and infrastructure.

Yet, under the charge of ambassador Janet Sanderson, the embassy immediately set out to sabotage the deal.

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Saudi Prince, Part Owner Of FOX News, Says, "Keep US Addicted To Oil"

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"We don’t want the West to go and find alternatives, because, clearly, the higher the price oil goes, the more you have incentive to go and find alternatives. So, really, our interest coincides with American interest, to have the price for around $70, $80 which is a price good for consumers and producers."

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Slippery Rush Limbaugh Says, ‘If I Were A Political Leader…I Would Defend Big Oil’

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But as the White House and Democratic lawmakers congratulate Boehner on having “seen the light,” right-wing mouthpiece Rush Limbaugh is choking on Boehner’s betrayal. Aghast that Boehner failed to defend Big Oil’s slick situation, Limbaugh said that, were he a Republican political leader, “I would defend Big Oil“

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Former Nobel-winning UN Inspector Suggests Iraq War Crime Probe of Bush Administration

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The former chief United Nations nuclear inspector Mohamed ElBaradei suggests in a new memoir that Bush administration officials should face international criminal investigation for the shame of a needless war in Iraq.

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Clown Newt Gingrich Says Trump Is P.T. Barnum Of The Barnum And Bailey Circus

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GINGRICH: Well look I think that he is a little bit wild. A little bit..some have compared him to P.T. Barnum and the rise of the Barnum and Bailey Circus. He is one of the great showman of our lifetime. He is very clever at getting news media attention. And he’s in his “Apprentice” candidate phase.

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Secret memos expose link between oil firms and invasion of Iraq

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Graphic: Iraq's burgeoning oil industry




Plans to exploit Iraq's oil reserves were discussed by government ministers and the world's largest oil companies the year before Britain took a leading role in invading Iraq, government documents show.

The papers, revealed here for the first time, raise new questions over Britain's involvement in the war, which had divided Tony Blair's cabinet and was voted through only after his claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

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TRUMP & PALIN 2012

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TRUMP 2012 (VIDEO)

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DONALD TRUMP 2012

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The Donald's latest book

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Donald Trump says US should steal oil from Libya after saying US should steal oil from Iraq last week (VIDEO)

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And they said it was about regime change and humanitarian aid.

Trump: ‘When you have a war and you win, that nation is yours’

Donald Trump said Sunday that as president, he would not have acted to protect civilians in Libya until they agreed to write a big check to the U.S.

“Why aren’t they paying us?” Trump asked CNN’s Candy Crowley. “When they said that you should have said, we’ll go in. We want $5 billion. We have already spent $1.5 billion on fighting Gaddafi. We want $5 billion right now and we’ll go in. You know what? That’s peanuts to them. They’d give you a check in two seconds.”

The billionaire also said he was nostalgic for a time when the U.S. could claim the resources of defeated nations.

“In the old days when you have a war and you win, that nation is yours,” he said. “Either I go in and take the oil or I don’t go in at all.”

“Just take their oil?” Crowley asked.

“Absolutely,” Trump replied. “I’d take the oil, give them plenty so they can live very happily. I’d take the oil.” WATCH VIDEO HERE

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Tens of Thousands of Iraqis demonstrate against US troop presence

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O.I.L. (Operation Iraqi Liberation)

Tens of thousands of demonstrators in eastern Baghdad marked the eighth anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime with a protest Saturday against the American troop presence there.

Largest US Embassy in the world, based in Iraq, to Double Staff to 16,000 workers plus 5,500 private US security guards

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CIA Operative Appointed to Run al-Qaeda Libyan Rebels

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As it turns out, Mr. Hifter is a CIA operative, which likely explains his lengthy stay in Virginia.

In 1996, the Washington Post reported that a Col. Haftar (a variation on Hifter) had arrived in the United States and he was “reported to be the leader of a contra-style group based in the U.S. called the Libyan National Army,” the Wisdom Fund noted at the time.

“This group is supported by the U.S., and has been given training facilities in the U.S. It’s a good presumption that Col. Haftar’s group operates in Libya with the blessings of our government.”

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US ground forces may be ordered to fight in Libya, counter to Obama's pledge

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Speaking to members of Congress today, Adm. James Stavridis admitted that, while allied forces were not yet considering the deployment of troops on the ground in Libya, it was a possibility.

This could run counter to President Barack Obama's pledge that no U.S. soldiers would set foot on the ground in the embattled country, where the decades-long leadership of Col. Muammar Gaddafi has come under an intense challenge from civilian protesters.

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