Ahmadinejad says market full of oil, prices artificial

[Fireweed247]

OME (Reuters) - The global market is "full of oil" and rising crude prices are being artificially driven by forces trying to further their geopolitical aims, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday.

"While the growth of consumption is lower than that of production and the market is full of oil, prices continue to rise and this situation is completely manipulated," Ahmadinejad said in his address to a U.N. food summit in Rome.

Without naming countries, the Iranian leader said "hidden and unhidden hands are at work to control the prices mendaciously to pursue their political and economic aims."

He said the goal of "powerful and international capitalists" was to keep the price of oil and energy "artificially high" in part to justify new explorations in the North Pole and the deep seas.

In an apparent reference to the United States, he said the international community should have a mechanism to force "the bullying powers to resort to peace and amity instead of occupation and warmongering...."

http://www.reuters.com/article/gc08/idUSL0380762720080603

[Radical Activist]

1. Well, he's right about that.

He's a nasty guy but I think there are some good reasons why he gets so much more negative press attention than the many other nasty guys out there.

[JuniperLea]

3. You have a very good point there...

Who runs the media? Who benefits from this? Yep.

[Fireweed247]

5. Maybe he is not the nasty guy they have made him out to be

The IAEA found that Iran had no development of Nukes nor would they have for over 10 years, but our president, our media, our Congress(and our presidential candidate) keep pretending that Iran is a threat. WE have already killed over one million innocent Iraqis based on the same lies, and we call him "nasty"?

[JuniperLea]

7. Another very good point...

I sometimes fall into the trap of cherry picking... there is really no good way to know what is true and what is not in the media... though I think the safer bet is to think in terms of opposites... like with Bush... when he says one thing, you know he will do the opposite!

[malaise]

22. Well said

Sometimes I laugh and then I cry.

[truedelphi]

28. Well he's not American and he

Isn't willing to be American
Plus we need a new war, so of course we must fight him.

[oberliner]

19. Who are you saying runs the media?

Who runs the media, in your view, and how do they benefit from this?

[JuniperLea]

36. Corporations

They benefit from their government contacts. Therefore, they will print what their government contacts want printed. Simple.


Much like how Cheney gave a newspaper a story that was totally fabricated, then quoted that story numerous times. We've seen this kind of media manipulation increase exponentially over the past two Bush terms. We've also seen a consolidation of media corporate owners.


Stick around DU a while... this is all common knowledge.

[JuniperLea]

2. It's really awkward when a creep like him may be telling the truth

I don't doubt this is true; I've suspected as much for a long time. This plays right into the neo-cons hands... their talking point will be all about siding with the enemy.

Jeez.

[Andy823]

18. Yeah, but

28% of Americans still believe the "creep we have as a leader, and that is really scary! :wow:

[PDJane]

4. He's partly right, which is quite normal for Admadenijad.......

The other half of the equation is that there is too much money chasing too few assets; while the subprime thing created "money," that money is not backed by real assets, and smart money is now chasing a "safe haven." That's the problem with bubbles; there is only air inside, and the adjustment is problematic.

[bamacrat]

33. Why does he seem to say things that you'd like to hear in this country.

Just the admission that the prices are artificially inflated is the biggest statement I've seen a world leader make. The crazy thing is it's the people with the most oil. Twould kick ass if this affected pricing any.

[bill for obama]

6. Oh - he could tall me the sun is coming up tomorrow morning -

and I'd double check.

Worthless little piece of Sh*t.

I tell you what - I'll ride a bike before I give him a dime of my "transportation" money.

[JuniperLea]

8. How do you know? Because the neo-con media told you he was..

a wpos?

[bill for obama]

11. Because a liar is always a liar.

I am not Jewish - I am catholic - and my family were at Buchenwald in 1945.

How do I know - How do you not?

[JuniperLea]

13. I asked first...

:eyes:

[bill for obama]

15. Ok - if a liar lied to you - how do you know if or not to believe him?

I don't how to be more clear.

[izquierdista]

16. I'm going to tell you a lie

I'm lying.



(Now we can all take a break as the troll's logic circuits self-destruct. :rofl:)

[JuniperLea]

38. Self-destruct, indeed!

He wasn't long for this world... all gone now:)

[JuniperLea]

37. You first need to tell me how you know for sure he is a liar...

Since this is your base notion.

[Hannah Bell]

43. but the US gov - not a liar. US corps - not at buchenwald.

uh-huh.

[oberliner]

20. You can read his words in the Iranian state-run news media

And draw your opinions about him accordingly.

[bill for obama]

21. Amazing. Iranian state run media is it?

Guess they don't like me.

[malaise]

23. Your media is run by corporations and lied for Bush

Please identify the difference with a state run media since the so called 'free' press lied us all into a war that has led to the slaughter of over one million Iraqis and over 4,000 Americans. I'll spare you the injuries, physical and mental, that military men and women will carry to their graves. Your so called 'free press' won't even show them to you.

[oberliner]

24. My only claim is that Ahmadinejad's words are available free of Western media spin

If one wants to read his words without a Western filter or bias, one is able to do so.

[JuniperLea]

40. Iranian spin is so much more reliable?

I think not.

[Fireweed247]

41. Iran is not a threat to anyone

The only reason we hear about them is our Corporate media making shit up.

[JuniperLea]

45. I agree... that is beside the point

I don't trust their media any more than I trust ours.

[Fireweed247]

47. I agree, but it is only because of our war mongering lying media

that Iran is even in the 'news'.

[oberliner]

44. You can read his statements verbatim

They generally publish his comments in their entirity, often without commentary.

[JuniperLea]

46. As I said, I'm in agreement with his statements...

But that will only lead to neo-con blatherings about how "we" put more stock in what an "enemy" has to say than our own government.

After the past almost eight years of idiocy in government, you bet.

[bill for obama]

25. Our free press died years ago -

But we find a way - our truth, we don't find them in the MSM anymore - we find it here - on the internet - in all forms.


There is a lot of bad things I can say - about "sanitized war" being shown on TV and all that -
But I sure don't buy it - and nobody here does either.

[JuniperLea]

39. Sure, let's trust them too

They all have their own axe to grind.

[harun]

42. Go back to drinking your AIPAC kool-aid (n/t)

[PuraVidaDreamin]

9. The US has a record of labeling leaders with oil as 'nasty guys'

Sadam, Chavez, the Libian dude-

But how come not the Saudi's????- They aren't so very nice either?

[bill for obama]

12. The Saudi's may be the worst

[meow2u3]

10. Even a broken clock is right twice a day

Ahmadinejad may be a nasty tyrant, but he is right on the money this time. It's the greed of the oil companies and their bully-boy price gouging that's causing the jackup in prices, in an effort to intimidate Congress into opening up pristine areas to oil drilling. A crass attempt to extort money from taypayers, I say.

[Chulanowa]

29. Question...

How can a guy who's sole power in government is appointing ambassadors and giving input on economic matters be a tyrant?

Or do you just mean he's like Simon from American Idol when it comes to approving those ambassadors?

[liberal N proud]

14. Proves he is smarter than bu$h

But no one here has ever doubted that.

[Fireweed247]

30. Smarter than Bush, Congress, our entire media and some DUers

Everyone keeps pretending right with them that these high prices have something to do with shortages.

It has to do with unbridled greed and the Oil Mafia.

[spanone]

17. wow, if he starts telling the truth, we'll really have to bomb them

[TheWraith]

26. Whaddya know. Maddie said something accurate. nt

[AwakeAtLast]

27. And now the bombing starts.....

:yoiks:

[sarcasmo]

48. Spot on with that statement.

[halliburtonsux]

31. Ahmadinejad is right. n/t

[halliburtonsux]

32. K&R!

[Kaleko]

34. George Soros said the same thing

recently. Oil is a speculative bubble created to fill the vacuum of the subprime collapse. Reported by Bloomberg and Huffpost among other sources.

Soros has been a formidable anti-neocon fighter considering how wealthy he is.

[defendandprotect]

35. This was also pretty much the reality of the '70's oil crisis . . .

Carter hit them with a "Windfall profits tax" --- we should do the same ---

[Fireweed247]

50. Kucinich has introduced this

The Oil Companies are making RECORD PROFITS every quarter- you think that might help explain the situation?

But everyone just wants to talk about drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, as if a tiny percentage of the oil the US uses produced ten years from now will make a difference.

[lumpy]

49. It wouldn't be the first time the oil market hs been manipulated

by US 'interests'.