behaving themselves like civilized beings will work… and has been used for a very long time, to NO effect.

Sorry. Shouldn’t try to comment so close to bedtime….

I will be able to stand up before the world and state that, far from denying racism, getting the hell past it involves modulating the impulse to assume entitlement to whatever it is one covets… classically, merely the sense of being better than someone, but also to facilitate takings. Pointing to racism to explain that is as ultimately useful as pointing to, say, their cooking. I’m saying that our wish that mentioning racism, or flatly accusing people of racism, on top of being beside the point, is really just wishing that guilting avaricious fucks into behaving themselves like civilized beings… and has been used for a very long time, to NO effect.

I’m deeply serious about at least curtailing that. So I hope they take your nomination of me seriously.

Fisk’s theatrics aside, the dollar is threatened not by a “cabal” of oil exporters but by the US financial industry’s criminality.

Mike Whitney has a much better analysis:

Dollar Hysteria
Is the Sky Really Falling?
06.10.2009

http://alethonews.blogspot.com/2009/10/dollar-hysteria.html

The entire hoopla about the Iranian oil bourse was also really just another way to paint Iran as a threat:

Is the Left Promoting War on Iran?
By Bob Finch (includes excerpt by PCR)

http://obamboozled.blogspot.com/2009/08/is-left-promoting-war-on-iran.html

The “reduce our dependence on foreign oil” may have elements of greed, power etc. But it is undeniable that there is a core element of racism. Behind it are assumptions that the peoples producer states are evil and should be denied benefits financed by their natural resources. Many go much further and promote “reducing our dependence on foreign oil” as an anti-terror strategy. Buying oil in this mindset, finances terrorism.

I highly recommend to you Dr. Jack Shaheen’s “Reel Bad Arabs” which catalogs decades of anti-Arab propaganda in the United States that make all manner of verbal and ground campaigns against the region easier to sell.

America has not “outsourced” almost all industry already. Ford and GM products were once the most highly prized vehicles in the region. They’ve lost it because the US policy has been making it too hard to trade and too easy to bomb. Their collapse can be directly attributed to flawed policy, government as well as business.

We do not stop the us vs. them or the clean vs. the dirty with this claptrap about racism. It’s all about greed, greed for money, for status, for power, for whatever. You don’t solve that by whining harder about “racism”… subtle or overt. You have to get to the heart of it and cut it out.

America is an equal opportunity oppressor. We do not give a fig what race you are if you stand between us and what we want. PERIOD.

And Arabs have no choice but to lower their demand for American consumer and industrial goods, BECAUSE AMERICA HAS OUTSOURCED ALL MOST ALL OF THOSE ALREADY.

AIPAC is no doubt very happy about this because when all the SCO and allied countries drop their dollar reserves, they will then be in control of the ME… will they not?