The militarized economy does not balance the books

"Disarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. Together we must learn how to compose differences, not with arms but with intellect and honorable purposes. "Eisenhower, in a speech to military and industrial complex, 1961 While we devote our love and our support to those who have been so terribly affected by the earthquake and tsunami, we must not allow this to distract the other shock tsunami directed toward us.

Libya, where the cats were deteriorating

Often, more recently, and alas, it is suspected that behind us is a war for oil. But wars are not made to "take the oil," tout court: you can almost always get comfortable signing an agreement with a handshake. Who has the oil but needs to sell it. Certainly, the increased demand and diminishing resources have led to a seller's market, rather than the buyer, but the goal remains the same for both.

The oil of Saudi Arabia will be enough?

The largest of the elephants, the one who made history, and is called Ghawar is dying in Saudi Arabia. The "elephants", in oil parlance, are the deposits of over one billion barrels of proven reserves and recoverable: Ghawar, the king, it has about 80 billion. A monster that continuously provides energy to the world since 1951.

Ghawar is in its final years. It reached the maximum daily production in 2005 and is now subject to a decline of 8% per annum. Like all true greats of the Earth, its agony is long and will not be painless. Ghawar has seen the country change so much around him, in the 60 years of his life, a country that is inextricably linked and that has been transformed thanks to oil.

Put a tiger in the engine

It is a cold March morning, the road winds through fields of debris and infested ugly two-storey buildings springing up in the misty light of seven. Along the way encounter a bar before the bar of Nigerian prostitutes are rising quickly on the White Duchy. I see them every morning going from here, cutting the heart of south-eastern outskirts of Rome when I go to work.

They finished the turn of the night, someone picks them up from the road to put them in a cage, to hide the unacknowledged aspect of our civilization. The distributor is desert, has the appearance of an oil platform in the icy North Sea. Near the gas station is around a large woman in her seventies.

If we were a bank

Oh, oh, I beat you to write a serious post, or serious, which is worse. I ran away from the spin doctors-to-superficial moralist. Oh well, those who fear allergic-type reactions, read these first three lines stop and go to more qualified bloggers. If you want to go I will try, at least, to be brief. Let's talk about money.

And responsibility. And Libya. I read and I feel a bit 'indignation everywhere, position papers, to protest for what at best can be described as international relations very careful to respect the most basic civil rights of so-called developed democratic countries and those rich in natural resources but poor democracy.

Italy is losing its most valuable colony

Try to line up four facts dated February 23, 2011. 1) Il Giornale, the daily close to the Italian Government, writes: "But come on, it's time that Eni Mattei - luckily, I'll add - obtains resources from countries mainly governed by authoritarian regimes. It will also be cynical, but there is a relation of symmetry between the huge natural resources and simplified forms of government excess.

" (Readers are advised to write down the words "simplified forms of government excess"). 2) Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said the Corriere della Sera: "The problem is that Libya's Gaddafi to hand do not know anything else. (...) In Libya, Cyrenaica, as we know, there are the tribes: we have no idea who they are those of the tribe.

U.S. and UK to China survive?

I find it strange that nobody talks about war. It 's like you had in place a collective removal, as if nobody wants to face reality. We understand that this removal is right, if only for historical reasons and bad conscience past. Incomprehensible to the left. Including field ecology, including field alternative globalization.

Then I ask two questions. At all. Right, left. And also, I want to ruin, of the center. Those of you that this is safe or the next U.S. president will tell the truth to his 300 million fellow citizens, namely, that they'll reduce their standard of living during the next generation? (The same goes for Merkel, Sarkozy, who will come after Berlusconi, etc, but has not, because all these are not armed like America and have not been Empire in the last 60 years).

Meu amigo Silvio

After putting the soul (and body) in enhancing the diplomatic relations between Italy and Egypt, our dear Prime Minister did not hesitate to push for a dramatic break friendship with Brazilian brothers. Nice people, beautiful music and stunning women, but for a president legalistic - that loves to see the triumph of law everywhere - it was absolutely unacceptable a cordial collaboration with those in its territory illegally a criminal convicted by the Italian courts.