Anyone spot those Chinese that are drilling offshore?

[docmercer--banned]

Remeber the FLOCKIES on this board yapping about the CHINESE drilling off the Coast of Florida??

And ya wonder why Rove was able to convince them about the "Magic Show" on 9-11?


Cheney Acknowledges He Lied About China Drilling ‘60 Miles Off The Coast Of Florida’»

On Wednesday, Vice President Dick Cheney gave a speech to the Chamber of Commerce in which he claimed that China, in cooperation with the Cuban government, is drilling for oil “60 miles off the coast of Florida.” “Even the communists have figured out” that drilling for oil is the solution to the energy crisis, Cheney argued.

It’s a talking point favored by the right wing. Cheney was quoting conservative columnist Geroge Will, who wrote on June 6 that China is drilling “60 miles off Florida,” “closer to South Florida than U.S. companies are.” The same day Cheney spoke, Rep. Roy Blunt (R-MO) wrote that Castro was allowing drilling “45 miles from the Florida keys.” Rep. George Radanovich (R-CA) and House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) have also raised the specter of Chinese drilling just off U.S. shores.


The problem, of course, is that the claim is completely false. After his claim was thoroughly debunked in the press, Cheney acknowledged that he had, in fact, lied in his speech, though his statement today offered no apology and issued only a half-hearted backtrack of his original claim:

It is our understanding that, although Cuba has leased out exploration blocks 60 miles off the coast of southern Florida, which is closer than American firms are allowed to operate in that area, no Chinese firm is drilling there.
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Cheney’s comments were so egregiously false that a member of his own party took to the Senate floor to correct the record. Sen. Mel Martinez (R-FL) decried claims of “some fabricated Cuba/China connection,” saying they have “no merit.”


Peddling stories of false connections that have no merit is hardly a new practice for Cheney. But being called out by his own party — and having to admit error — is certainly an uncommon occurence for him.



:lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

 

[Dawoofdaddy]

the chinese are moving around the world making friends and money.

meanwhile, the united states is more occupied with blowing up muslims and spending itself beyond bankruptcy.

 

[eek.]

To a great extent America is run by its Jewish media, so America is told 24/7 it is under threat from da muzzies.

:grandmais

Tonights TV listings:

channel 1:...the baad muzzies are going to get ya. woooooo...
channel 2:...the baad muzzies are going to get ya. woooooo...
channel 3:...the baad muzzies are going to get ya. woooooo...
channel 99:...the baad muzzies are going to get ya. woooooo...

 

[docmercer--banned]

Rome eventually dissolved and they had the most powerful military machine
in the world

We are Modern Day Rome and quickly heading down that same path

 

[ProPokerPlayer]

According to the Democrats the Chinese couldnt be drilling since the leases were just recently sold. By their own words it will be AT LEAST 10 yrs before any oil comes out the ground on these new leases ...

Anybody post the names of the companies who bought these leases??????? anybody?

 

[docmercer--banned]

Are the Chinese drilling as we speak?

NOOOOO ....

right in line with the 935 lies used by BUSCHO to illegally invade a Muslim
country Bush publically admitted had nothing to do with 9-11

 

[ProPokerPlayer]

China's Sinopec oil company does have an agreement with the Cuban government to develop onshore resources west of Havana, Piñon said. The Chinese have done some seismic testing, he said, but no drilling. Western diplomats in Havana told McClatchy that to the best of their knowledge there is no Chinese drilling offshore.

 

[Mistermj]

the chinese are moving around the world making friends and money.

meanwhile, the united states is more occupied with blowing up muslims and spending itself beyond bankruptcy.

Ha ha...we are making them pull their own share.

They get Africa...because we don't want it.

Always a clown Dawoof

 

[Dawoofdaddy]

we dont want the oil in africa?

yeah, um, ok, sure the us doesnt...you are the clown here.

furthermore, chinese are all over the place in countries like panama doing business.

 

[Mistermj]

we dont want the oil in africa?

yeah, um, ok, sure the us doesnt...you are the clown here.

furthermore, chinese are all over the place in countries like panama doing business.

LOL..so what? The Chinese will be our ally going forward.

The only people that can't see that are the lefties ...you don't even have the slightest clue of the geo political economic shifts going on.

And yes...we aren't willing to do the dirty work in Africa....we are leaving it to the Chinese.

Read Barnett some time...get a clue.

African economy tied to rest of the world
By Thomas P.M. BARNETT (Contact)
Sunday, March 23, 2008


Based on a new World Bank study entitled "Africa's Silk Road," I'm happy to report that recent economic developments in Africa are both real and indicative of tremendous opportunity.

I know you've heard a lot about Africa's "resurgence" lately, but these developments are truly market-driven and not merely the result of outsiders' good intentions.

As economist Paul Collier likes to say, it's important to distinguish between the development "biz," or the world of official development aid, and development "buzz," or the periodic rush of celebrity interest.

Both are worthy in their own ways but largely ineffectual over the long haul in that they treat symptoms more than disease. While it's crucial to respond to humanitarian crises, such resource flows tend to evaporate once the triggering events die down.

Worse, like the "oil curse," outside aid tends to displace local capacity and initiative, making governments less responsive to their own citizens.

When leaders have little need to tax the people, they needn't listen to them, either. Collier estimates that more than one-third of military spending inside Africa is indirectly enabled by foreign aid flows.

So, when military coups happen, it's basically "profit taking" by military elites who know full well that there's more where that came from.

I'm not arguing we should reduce foreign aid, only that we must never make it too large a component of any country's GDP or continue it indefinitely in the absence of serious reforms. That's why the Bush administration's Millennium Challenge Account is such a brilliant innovation.

By luring near-emerging market economies in the direction of much needed reforms by the promise of significant rewards, we encourage governments to decide for themselves whether they're serious about change.

Now let's move on to the truly good news.

In a nutshell, globalization integrates trade among countries by disintegrating production chains and dispersing them across economies. As such, multinational corporations account for roughly two-thirds of global trade, and half of that share is actually intra-industry or intra-corporate transactions. Such traffic is called "network trade."

As rising Asia increasingly looks to Africa for resources, there's also a natural tendency to want to shift production facilities there for three potential outcomes: producing and selling to local markets, doing the same for home markets, and doing the same for advanced third-party markets - i.e., the West.

Right now, most of what chain connectivity is brewing inside Africa is of the buyer-chain variety, with Wal-Mart as a logical template. Buyer chains feature a focus on consumer products with retailers, branded marketers and branded manufacturers playing the central role. These "buyer-driven networks" tap into Africa's cheap labor pool by concentrated purchasing of labor-intensive, low-end goods.

The bigger opportunity here is to migrate African economies into producer-driven networks, where a major manufacturer like Toyota is more the model.

Producer chains feature multinational corporations with strong vertical integration in capital - and technology-intensive industries looking for cheaper inputs and further opportunity to disperse production in the most cost-efficient and resilient fashion. The fact that Indian and Chinese companies are already looking at Africa along these lines is hugely positive.

Yes, in the grand scheme of things, these Asian investment flows are currently small, but they're rising dramatically, and they're quickly becoming "about far more than resources," as the report notes.

CHINA and India have become global leaders in forging "bilateral investment treaties" with other developing economies, and wherever their investments go, there follow three important and positive trends: more trade with Asia; more internal competition within the target economy; and more trade connectivity between the targeted economy and the rest of the global economy.

The big hold-up is, in many ways, the poor and complex regulation of the investment climate in Africa. Simply put, there's a "spaghetti bowl" of overlapping free trade areas. American efforts in the region should logically pursue simplification of this investment landscape wherever possible, facilitating India and China's deeper penetration, along with any American companies prepared to play this game.

This is a complete win-win in grand strategic terms. Instead of pretending that weak African economies can scale the development mountain on their own, we hitch their future to rising India and CHINA, who in turn link African workers to their firms to our firms to everybody's markets.

You want to drain the swamp? This is how it's really done.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/mar/23/african-economy-tied-to-rest-of-the-world/

 

[DarrylParsons]

the chinese are moving around the world making friends and money.

meanwhile, the united states is more occupied with blowing up muslims and spending itself beyond bankruptcy.

Love your "colorful" choice for location. Belle Glade :lolBIG:

 

[paftraft]

The Chinese are an emerging giant power with oil on their minds. What's to prevent them from drilling west of Havana in Cuban waters then drill horizontally into US waters where perhaps more oil lies.
Canada, Norway & Britain are much more environmentally conscious than the US is yet they have no problem drilling offshore. Seems to me that the left wing Dems and their environmentalist allies are destroying the hopes of the US to remain a super power by limiting our ability to
corral the vital necessities we need to do so.
Almost like a 5th column, in disguise!

 

[JoeContrarian]

To a great extent America is run by its Jewish media, so America is told 24/7 it is under threat from da muzzies.

:grandmais

Tonights TV listings:

channel 1:...the baad muzzies are going to get ya. woooooo...
channel 2:...the baad muzzies are going to get ya. woooooo...
channel 3:...the baad muzzies are going to get ya. woooooo...
channel 99:...the baad muzzies are going to get ya. woooooo...

The bad muzzies got us pretty good on 9/11....woooooo....
and in 1993 with the first WTC...woooooo....
there was of course the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia....wooooo...
the US embassies in Africa...woooooo
the USS Cole...wooooooo

(did I mention the time 3,000 Americans were incinerated within seconds -- the worst terror attack on US soil in history?)...

Thank God the Bush-Cheney Killing Machine sprang into action -- nearly 20,000 of these muzzie scumbags dead who were plotting further attacks. Bomb by bomb and torture chamber by torture chamber, their entire terror network has been obliterated. Somehow all that terror 'noise' and cheesy color-coding alerts have dried up. :think2:

Instead Americans are inundated with how shitty the Bush economy is. *sigh*

Bush's Legacy: 100% terror-free since 2001. Find me one person who would have predicted that on Sept 12th 2001 -- just one.

Loony libs may not care for this president, but historians sure will -- especially if Jimmy the Dhimmi II somehow manages to capture the White House this Nov and FUBAR the whole kit and caboodle.

On a somewhat selfish partisan side, Republicans will come roaring back, however that isn't much consolation if many less fortunate Americans will have to endure unfair hardships because a group of politicians back in 1971 decided it was a good idea to let young people vote.

 

[Dawoofdaddy]

Love your "colorful" choice for location. Belle Glade

Belle Glade doesnt have anything on Tuskegee, where I was earlier this week.

:cripwalk:

 

[jambolaya1]

the chinese are moving around the world making friends and money.

meanwhile, the united states is more occupied with blowing up muslims and spending itself beyond bankruptcy.

This may be a soft and suttle statement.. But its implications are truer than shit! Sharp economists already know that the moves china is making right now will probably be the impetus for WW3...


Before you go calling me an alarmist you need to look up how
china is buying up oil "blocks"

Right now the UN is debating as to which is going to come first...War for oil, or War for fresh Water.....(The UN is betting on fresh water wars to come first and believe it or not they are currently preparing for this. NOT oil wars)

And before you right wing buffoons come out dissing the UN i will remind you and even go as far as posting crop reports and numerous warnings, that the UN for up to a year before this global food crisis was warning people of the low food production we would see in the current and next few years.


I will also say this...Food prices in the US will rise to levels that they probably never ever decline from in the next few month...(they will probably stabilize in about 4 to 6 months..But food prices will never ever go down..They may increase...But they will not ever decrease..


(too drunk to post the relevant article on how gas prices affect food prices and the reality that gas prices willl NEVER EVER go down..)

EVER!!!!!!

 

[ScottL]

To a great extent America is run by its Jewish media, so America is told 24/7 it is under threat from da muzzies.

Go Fuck Yourself, Nazi pussy!
(There ya go Mercer; that's what a real Nazi looks like)

 

[docmercer--banned]

Eek: dont ya love it

Having ScottL calling someone else a Nazi is classic .... this clown probably
has copies of Mein Kampf in every room of his house

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[ScottL]

Did you know I was Jewish doc?

Do you know the Nazis killed members of my family doc?

Do you have a single moral fiber in your entire being doc?

 

[docmercer--banned]

I didnt see ya crying while Bush has murdered 1,000,000 in Iraq

Why is that?


I had relatives also killed in WW2 ... your pt would be besides having
a reason to run to Wil?

 

[ScottL]

If you don't answer questions you don't get to demand answers. Get it? Thought so!