up and running. Be sure to say thanks to the lady who leads the way in asking the questions that matter.
"Ms. Thomas,
Thanks for your career efforts as an informed critic of all those who find selves fortunate enough to be questioned by you in Executive functions.
There's one key item to consider, a request to be made. It has to do with the office of Vice President. Michael Sheldon Cheney was the first ever PR director for ARAMCO, the Arabian-American Oil Company. The Cheney name is legendary for attracting venture capital of the monied West to the Saud sands, and other areas. The outing of Valerie Wilson as NOC for Brewster Jennings dealt in particular with Aramco. The one item nobody has mentioned is that NSA 'phishing' of information may have been applied to John Kerry's campaign donors and inadvertantly led to a highlight of her name. Cheney's visits to the CIA, which is currently undergoing a shakeup, could well fit such a timeline. It appears the McCarthy firing may have been an effort to curtail internal ethics reviews, possibly regarding further Plame fallout. The NSA program, and its misuse to spy on Americans, is about to be an important topic on Hayden 'himmler' if he is put up for consideration as the new CIA head.
Back to the original item of import, Michael Sheldon Cheney.
Is this name more than coincidence regarding the Vice President? Was such why he personally attends the Saud King's funeral, instead of the head of State?
For more on Michael Sheldon Cheney see "Oil Barons, Men of Greed and Grandeur," by Richard O'Connor. c 1971 by Richard O'Connor. Little,Brown and Co. Boston-Toronto. Featuring the American Petroleum Institute's staffed library of New York City and the Library of Congress' Manuscript Division.
See also:
"11. Michael Sheldon Cheney, 'Big Oil Men from Arabia,' 35. Cheney went out to Saudi Arabia as a public relations man for Aramco early in the 1950's and brought back a very lively and informative book on his experiences." p 477, Notes on Sources.
It would come as no surprise to see the press has been mum on the history of Cheneys in oil with regards to the shaping of the foreign policy since the time of the Lend Lease Act.
Of interest:
"The American living in Saudi Arabia, in fact, submits himself to living under a virtual dictatorship. No one of the Jewish faith may be employed by Aramco. Even the practice of Christianity, in its outward forms, must be suspended for the duration of an Aramco contract. It's a bigot's paradise, provided you are both anti-Semite and anti-Christian.
Michael Sheldon Cheney, looking back objectively on his own service with Aramco, pitied the executives who had to deal with more than twenty thousand Americans, plus the Arab nation, and its headstrong rulers, who had a "brief life expectancy." They were always conscious that Aramco was "a guinea pig whose fate was watched with interest by industrialists and statesmen all over the world... set against the popular picture of a big bad oil industry, our little band of altruistic executives clinging to their shining doctrine amid the Stygian night of Middle Eastern politics suggested a troop of boy scouts set adrift in a brothel... Striving to please everyone in a complicated and potentially explosive situation, they seldom pleased anyone. The interests of many diverse groups of employees had to be reconciled with those of four competing owner companies. Worse, these in turn had to be brought in line with the interests of the Saudi government, which also conflicted with those of the Saudi people, and notably of Aramco's own indigenous employees... Aramco was, in effect, the neurotic child of four parents, subject to the whims, qualms and jealousies of each. The simplest of policy decisions had to be referred back to the States..."
p347 chapter titled 'The New Arabian Nights, Revised Edition.'
So essentially the entire libertarian business spiel we hear about Iraq was first gamed in Saudi Arabia in the previous generations.
People of corporate nature went to a land and helped interests there establish a rigid idealogically driven shell corporation as part of a government that had anti American and anti Israeli interests at heart.
We've seen it reborn with the neoconfederates in the White House. Only this time there's no Iron Curtain menace to distract from the fact. Run amok with their profit and ambition compromising the very ideals that supposedly justified intervention in the post-WMD shell game of war rationales. Is it not just coincidence the Cheney name is in the quagmire, alongside post peak Sauds?
Again please help verify the background of Michael Sheldon Cheney. It stands to reason such may well be the fulcrum upon which our policy abroad, and at home regarding fuel policy, is placed. For humor I'll bet you enough for a gallon of gas that it is, and that could be more than anyone is really ready to pay very soon.
Again, thanks Helen.
-Chris H.