Bush Offers Saudis Nuclear Power
16 May, 2008 — RickBU.S. President George W. Bush, visiting the Saudi capital on Friday, hoped to formalize new agreements that would give the relationship between the two countries a boost.
Among them was an agreement for the U.S. to assist the kingdom in developing civilian nuclear power. Another agreement involves U.S. promises to help protect any Saudi nuclear infrastructure with training, the exchange of experts and other support services as needed. Hadley said it would not involve U.S. troops.
But the rising price of oil commanded attention. Saudi Arabia’s leaders made clear they see no reason to increase oil production until customers demand it, apparently rebuffing Bush amid soaring U.S. gasoline prices.
That would be the ‘Kingdom’ from where most of the 911 hijackers originated and that Bin Laden chap…kinda a Saudi bigwig, but Iran….Noooo, they mustn’t have nuclear power, they aren’t Empire aligned. They don’t hold hands with George.
17 May, 2008 at 12:32 am
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17 May, 2008 at 12:43 am
Your concern for one country’s wellbeing to the exclusion of all others is truly…erm, touching? Go Patriotism!
Ahem.
17 May, 2008 at 12:58 am
Well being? Nukes being spread around the world? I must be reading that wrong.
That we know of: Turkey, India and now SA?
Yeah, that will provide well being for everyone on the planet, now won’t it?
17 May, 2008 at 1:11 am
Hello MsJoanne!
Wellbeing as in ‘America for Americans’ surely a wonder tech miracle should be for everyone. Especially given the mess oil addiction has made and the awful prospect of nuke power being hailed as our saviour. There’s no planet B as they say.
17 May, 2008 at 4:04 am
The idea of Saudi Arabia having nuclear power is far more frightening than Iran. There are Al Qaida sympathizers in the Saudi royal family, while the Iranians and Al Qaida are enemies.
17 May, 2008 at 4:33 am
That is bizarre. At the start of the Iraq War, when neoconservatives were in the driving seat, there was even talk of invading the Saudis, in the future.
17 May, 2008 at 7:33 pm
GLH- Absolutely and the Saudis human rights record is appalling too, yet they are aligned (but also close friends of this big oil Whitehouse) so the foreign policy can be summed up thusly- their shit don’t stink. Also it was an offer not of independent nuclear power (what Iran desires) but US supplied tech and resources so maybe the Saudis smelt a rat. I think in truth how the ruling class Bush family (& the House of Saud) perceive AQ as like a rebellious younger generation/black sheep vandalising the golf club. They all stopped flying commercial before 911, they had warnings, they just didn’t expect the rabble rousers to pull off such a spectacular and terrible act, I think they suspected/expected some plane hijackings, maybe lose several hundred citizen’s, they could live with that especially as it gave them the climate to instigate the full neocon agenda. But when it was as huge as it was they got caught with their pants down and had to manipulate the commission to hide the incompetence and deliberate ignoring of intelligence. I think it was a combination of both, things usually are. So not a good combination to add nuclear power to!
Hey RE- I am supposing the close ties to big oil and the price situation elevated this offer, I think neocon aggression is tempered by the quagmire in Iraq and the immediate need to keep oil below $200 a barrel. But yes in extremis the neocon plans are to basically invade and install client regimes in all and any nations not 100% servile to their world view. The House of Saud are not a threat but ideally the empire would like a more pliable set up. Luckily the reality of invasions and resistance have moderated their plots, though I think they are insisting on attacking Iran as a consolation for not getting their world war for alignment.
21 May, 2008 at 8:28 am
Being the sad scientific type, I tried to find out what a “fluid dynamics worm drive power plant” might be. Unsurprisingly I failed to come up with an answer.
Lets go back to basics here. You can’t get something for nothing. That’s a truism, that is based in the laws of thermodynamics. In respect to engineering, it means that to get energy out of something, like an engine, you need to put something into it - fuel.
No if you want to make clean engines, and hence, clean buses, trains and, dare I say it, cars. You need to find a method of producing energy cleanly, and the type of fuel has to produce few, if any byproducts. Perhaps the person behind the first comment knows an ex-marine who has produced an electric motor that can be charged from renewable energy sources. This in itself would be interesting, but isn’t new, and is unlikely to get meu26thumper’s friend death threats from the Saudi Government.
Of course, it’s possible I am wrong, and I’d be willing to admit this, if I meu26thumper can post a URL to an article, in a scientific, peer reviewed journal, explainging where his energy comes from. Should it turnout that the transduced engine can really pluck energy out of nowhere and produced “no emissions, no polutions (sic)”, I’ll eat my hat.
Of course big Oil, and the other fossil fuel corporations will do anything they can to hold onto their profits and their industry - hence the fortune they spent in denying Global Warming. The solution to this is a political movement that will challenge their power, and their priorities, not pseudo-scientific gobbledegook that amounts to wishful thinking.
21 May, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Hey Anti-Racist, nice to see you from the far off lands of the very fine Lancaster Unite Against Fascism!
I will join you in the hat eating (luckily I have a bonnet made of marzipan, mmm), Yeah I couldn’t find anything about that engine, I did wonder is it related to this-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Meyer
which seems similarly improbable. But as you point out it’s not simply technology but the structural elements of energy capitalism that needs changing, Big Oil is like a pusher keeping us hooked until we die, maybe they are secretly a nihilistic cult bent on war & ultimately extinction. Because that would explain a lot.
22 May, 2008 at 8:31 am
While the LUAF group is indeed very fine, it isn’t anything to do with me, and I wouldn’t like to get credit for it, nor confuse any future commentators by neglecting to correct this error.
Stanley Meyer seemed to be one of the more recent inventors who believed that they had a special ability to ignore the basic laws of physics and invent a perpetual motion machine.
22 May, 2008 at 9:43 pm
Oh right ok, well good link anyway.
Oh the dream of perpetual motion, such a seductive mistress compared to that musty old thermodynamics law.
Also sort of odd to press on with combustion engines, old habits die hard. If we want anything like the private mobility vehicles of today it’s gonna mean electric, time to concentrate on ways to generate that with less harmful consequences. And the automobile mob need to stop killing electric cars. Honestly this 21st century is really turning out to be rubbish, I haven’t even gotten my jetpac I was promised.