{"id":26,"date":"2003-04-10T15:18:30","date_gmt":"2003-04-10T22:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=26"},"modified":"2003-04-10T15:18:30","modified_gmt":"2003-04-10T22:18:30","slug":"its-all-about-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=26","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s all about Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Marduk's Babylonian Musings\" href=\"http:\/\/babylonianmusings.blogspot.com\/2003_04_06_babylonianmusings_archive.html#200127725\">Marduk<\/a> &#8216;s mention of the following makes me extremely angry and ashamed of Canada.  More like speechless with rage.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe Western oil company with the closest ties to the late Saddam is<br \/>\n   France&#8217;s TotalFinaElf. That&#8217;s not the curious fact, that&#8217;s just<br \/>\n   business as usual in the Fifth Republic. This is the curious fact: As<br \/>\n   Diane wrote in February and again last week, &#8220;Total&#8217;s biggest<br \/>\n   shareholder is Montreal&#8217;s Paul Desmarais, whose youngest son is<br \/>\n   married to Prime Minister Jean Chr\u00e9tien&#8217;s daughter.&#8221;<br \/>\n   Let&#8217;s see if I&#8217;ve got this straight: TotalFinaElf&#8217;s largest<br \/>\n   shareholder is a subsidiary of Montreal&#8217;s Power Corp, whose co-chief<br \/>\n   executive is Jean Chr\u00e9tien&#8217;s son-in-law, Andre Desmarais.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update: The Mark Steyn article is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/components\/printstory\/printstory.asp?id=a60e3cf1-eeb1-46a6-9a83-1f2e7b015cab\">here<\/a>.  The article by Diane Francis he references is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalpost.com\/commentary\/story.html?id=D78FD4C7-098B-4578-B315-9206960D3C14\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marduk &#8216;s mention of the following makes me extremely angry and ashamed of Canada. More like speechless with rage. The Western oil company with the closest ties to the late Saddam is France&#8217;s TotalFinaElf. That&#8217;s not the curious fact, that&#8217;s just business as usual in the Fifth Republic. This is the curious fact: As Diane &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=26\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;It&#8217;s all about Oil&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}