OPEC vs Texas

While Ed is tracking down who might have murdered his best friend, a political activist named Denny makes a huge breakthrough on the case exposing its wider implications.

“If there is a real war to be had it’s not between The United States and terrorists, it’s between Texas and OPEC. The consortium of Texas oilmen and energy merchants want to form their own version of OPEC or tear down the current one. But, what they really want is not merely a consortium that controls the price of oil but rather one that controls all of the world’s basic service supplies. We’re talking oil, gas, nuclear power, electrical grids and water systems worldwide. Even third world countries would have to pay their fees to American designed multi-national corporations.”

          Denny rolled his eyes, “But that’s not possible, our government can’t institute these policies even with an invasion. You're talking about international law.”

          “That’s right. The consortium would need backers, people with incredible amounts of money and influence. Enough so that they could bankrupt the smaller nations and use the unpaid loans as a way to force the sell offs of their basic services.”

          “But who has the power to…”

          “Think about it.”

          Denny lifted his head high. Who has that kind of power? The answer was so simple that he never even considered it before but now it all fell into place, “The World Bank, the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund…they’ve been bankrupting smaller nations for years.”

          The Captain nodded. “When a country can't repay a loan that's when a huge corporation swoops in and offers to buy their energy rights. The broke nation can't refuse, so they sell out. In doing so, they lose all control over the price of their supplies and the corporation can charge any amount that it wants to. It becomes an economically conquered nation.”

          “But where does the muscle come from? These countries rebel all the time and the bigger ones have armies. Even the IMF would need their own army to…” Denny almost bit off his tongue when it all came together, “The mercenaries?”

          “For now.”

          “But who will pay for all of it? Bush will only be in office for eight years, four if we’re lucky.”

          “That’s where project Greystone comes in.”

 

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Reviews

[Pax Analog]

More, dude! ;-) You're a bruiser-writer, eh? Gotta love it. Heard of The Shock Doctrine? Waiting at library for me. Smells like leading edge of the whole "good ol' fuckhead" racket: disaster capitalism.

You're onto one of the major puzzle pieces of psychic guerrilla warfare, which will increasingly have to be fought at the level of ontology, of meaning. We're all living in a cutthroat exploitation novel, as your tilt evinces.

My thing is to engage every conceivable objective co-relate, including all deadly institutional simulacra, while waging a psycho-molecular war at the level of language use (there's nothing MERE about rhetoric, understood w/a shamanic charge).

Keep on rockin' in the free world, as it were. And just for the record, my poems are lyrics to my whole songs posted in the playlist player. Plus, check out my ScriptureX power parable mode, if you don't mind your ears bleeding. Tough guy. I like that. ;-)

Pax/Peace

[UncleFossil]

They coin you a bruiser, okay here's my example when you have a Conservative who had made a name of being a scrapper for years.

[A.j. Dru]

Oh, I like it. I truly enjoy global conspiracy stories. I like the idea, the delivery, the whole thing. I'd be interested in reading more. Great work.

[A. Farnsworth]

Wow! I wish i was half as good as you.

[A. F. Stewart]

Oh, very intriguing. It sounds like a first rate political thriller.

[A. Kristina Taylor]

Nice. I was going to make a couple comments, but this appears to be published already, so I suppose those comments would be moot. I guess I'm going to have to get me a copy of the book, and find out where this story it going. Good luck, and great job!

[Chicagolights]

I really like this opening to the book. Politics is of interest to me and I really want to read more of your work.

[A LaDy NaMeD D]

wow i wish i wasn't broke and could buy your book. It seems like it will be very interesting and something i would love to read.

[meagansphilosophy]

I'm not usually interested in politics; but this made it quite interesting!