The Kuwait Thread (merged)

[mos6507]

I thought they were going to keep this hidden at all costs?

They've been doing a pretty bad job of it all this time.

It's not that the MSM doesn't write about peak oil at all, it's just that they don't write about if often enough, and like climate-change, they give too much credence to the denialist position.

But I've seen no evidence of an outright ban on peak oil coverage in the MSM.

[frankthetank]

I guess its something to continue to watch, to see if media increases coverage of the topic, although i highly doubt it.

[SFDukie]

I loathe the term "scientists" as applied to these authors. Analysts, modelers, mathemeticians or variants thereof, sure. But it wasn't as if they undertook a scientific study, where they generated information through measurements, geology or whatever.
Rant off.

[Windmills]

Both coverage and attention will vary in direction proportion to the price of gasoline.

[eXpat]

Kuwait cabinet resigns amid political crisis

Prime minister and cabinet submit resignations to emir following accusations of corruption, state television reports.
Kuwait's cabinet has resigned after protesters and opposition deputies demanded that the prime minister step down over allegations of corruption, state-run television has reported.

"The prime minister [Sheikh Nasser Mohammad al-Ahmad Al-Sabah] has submitted his resignation to the emir," Kuwait TV said, without specifying whether it had been accepted.

Earlier, opposition member Khaled al-Sultan said the cabinets's resignation was accepted amid a bitter political dispute between the prime minister and opposition MPs.

"We are waiting for the appointment of a new prime minister before parliament is dissolved in order to be assured of fair elections," the Sultan told reporters outside parliament.

Parliament speaker Jassem al-Khorafi said he had not been informed about a dissolution of parliament.

If it is confirmed that Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah, the emir of Kuwait, has accepted the resignations, he may then also dissolve parliament before setting a date for new elections.

Several opposition MPs welcomed the resignation.

"I hope that the emir will please the Kuwaiti people by dissolving parliament ... and forming a transitional cabinet to supervise the elections," opposition MP Falah al-Sawwagh told reporters.

Multiple resignations

The announcement of the resignations came after the emir chaired an emergency meeting of the cabinet headed by the prime minister to discuss the political crisis.

Sheikh Nasser, 71, had been due to be questioned in parliament by three opposition MPs on allegations of fraud, including charges that he transferred public funds into his overseas accounts.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2011/11/20111128112619355567.html

[Tanada]

Will the USA allow the unrest that has swept the Middle East to take over in Kuwait as well? Doing so would cut the link between USA forces in Iraq and the Persian Gulf but who knows what the ultimate game plan is any more? If Kuwaiti oil sales are disrupted even for a short time it will be much worse than losing Libya. The MSM knows Kuwait is a major oil exporter and would be trumpeting it far and wide as TEOTWAWKI.