So basically, the U.S doesn’t put a new president in office, when they’re in a war with another country. It’s like a fresh start for the new president, except in this case (2008-2009) the economy is unstable and Barack Obama will have a load to deal with the first few months following his arrival in office.

hes prohibited (written in the American Constitution) from declaring a war or invading a country, or make any major changes that will affect the U.S in the time period.

Oh, umm… no, the next president was already elected long before the discovered the oil, and the date in which Barack Obama goes into office in the inauguration day. I mentioned this because “7Boon” said “So George Bush has a month to claim that Ghana is stockpiling WMDs and funding terrorists, and then invade them.” but because the next president has already been elected, George Bush has limited authority.

Is the Ghana oil story mixed with american elections

mixed with what? I don’t understand what you’re asking about, please be more specific.

what? The Ghana oil is mixed with that?

haha it makes sense.

look at your profile

is the next president, hes in office on January 2009. In this period, George Bush is not allowed to start anything major; example an invasion, war, amend (change) or make laws. So George Bush can’t invade Ghana either way.

not necessarily. There is a period of time, called the presidential transition, which starts from election day, to the inauguration day. Right now George Bush is in that time of period, Barack Obama

and you didn’t answer my far most important question. To refresh your memory; it’s the first line of my previous comment. (:

The queen has a representative to sign off on anything mundane, but know full well that anything of any importance goes through the monarchy first. IT’s in our constitution. You probably think the Canadian Mint isn’t a For-Profit Corporation, and it woudn’t be your fault. Transparency is a game being played on the 99.9999999% world by the ruling .000000001%

First of all, How did you know I was Canadian? and you were right I am Canadian. Second, your statement is not true, Queen Elizabeth is the head of the Commonwealth, but she doesn’t rule the countries. Queen Elizabeth does not have as much power she would would have many years back. These countries have democratic governments not Monarchy governments. In Canada, our laws are not signed by the queen overseas, we have a representative of the queen; Governor-General
Michele Jean, to sign our laws.

regretable i can’t as well i think your aware. But that wasnt my point. My point was to highlight the point you are trying to make. We are so used with well groomed pre-thought out speeches written by spin doctors that to hear an ‘of the cuff’ comment like what was said in that interview was pretty damn clear. To anyone who doubts we are ever told the whole truth.

I agree with you… except that there is a distinct difference between privatization and democracy. One does pre-requesit the other. one can have state owned assets and still operate a democracy. in fact privatised assets only lead to corporate greed. True democracy is where the state owns the assets on behalf of the people who have a say how that asset is used.

I just returned from this very village. There is a Lodge there that is owned by a British guy and his Ghanaian wife.

Miemia Bay is very remote, a fishing village that has lived here for literally thousands of years. This will be the end of them.

You can see the area in my latest video post.

Again, this is bad.

Watch out for Nigerianitis when it comes to petrodollars in Afrika. Niger Delta has the oil but is obscenely underdeveloped. It seems like Ghana’s oil is way offshore, and its government is seemingly a bit more open than notorious Naija. Yet Angola, and their “revolutionary” MPLA, has oil now too, but it remains a backward place where the masses benefit not. Afrikan countries should be on the forefront of alternative energy, not chasing western oil deals. The Afrikan Revolution should be green.

So George Bush has a month to claim that Ghana is stockpiling WMDs and funding terrorists, and then invade them.

Sry, MAlta’s part of the British Commonwealth, and therefore ruled by the queen. And as you and i are both Canadian, we can attest to the fact that we are told we have our independance when in fact we still report to the queen as a member of her colony. However meaningless it seems, she overseas and signs off on every law.
That’s not transparent and i implore, nothing else is, either.

There is democracy in Ghana! Jeeze, they just had a fucking election. Where are you getting your information?

Malta? … It’s one the smallest country, everyone there is like one big family. I doubt the government (if they have one) can keep any information from the public.

Ghana might turn out to be like Iraq. President George W. Bush invaded Iraq claiming he was going to make it a democratic country, when clearly he was invading it for it’s oil. My history teacher told me most wars are fought for profit. Iraq is an example of a war fought for profit, and Ghana has to watch out for this.

You tell us. I dare you to name one country where information isn’t suppressed from the public forum.

democracy in Ghana ???? you do not even deserve a reply and you know it ….

there is democracy there moron!