JAPAN, MORGAN STANLEY, IRAQ

First a JAPAN/IRAQ connection.
Royal Dutch Shell also partnered below:

"[Japan's] Mitsubishi to Take 5pc in Iraq's South Gas JV":

http://www.tradearabia.com/news/newsdetails.asp?Sn=OGN&artid=166290

Mitsubishi NOT ONLY Japan firm involved in Iraq.
Following is a Japanese consortium, including Nippon Oil:

"Japan Close to Winning Right to Develop Iraqi Oil Field":

http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/3435804

Now, about MORGAN STANLEY.

I POSTED previous reports regarding Morgan Stanley partnered with Japan's LARGEST bank, Mitsubishi, mentioned above.
A reminder article, below.
Please understand, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and JP Morgan Chase, are NOT competitors, rivals, as presented below.
They intertwine, often divisions of one another, overlapping circles, functioning more like cartels:

http://topnews.us/content/25899-morgan-stanley-mitsubishi-ufj-teaming-boost-loans

And, of course, my previous post BELOW regarding erstwhile NAZI ally Japan enthusiastic support for a US Sea Based Missile Defense system along with a "Rape of Nanking."

Clearly, as day follows night, Japan amply rewarded with Iraq contracts for US NAZI affiliations, partnership, participation and bona fides:

http://karlmarxwasright2.blogspot.com/2009/08/rape-of-nanking.html

And, now, I want to take just one slight detour and a step backwards to a post I did from August, 2005, on my initial, karlmarxwasright blogspot, now blocked from public purview.
So, I will simply republish pertinent information from my entry, as follows:

Saturday, August 13, 2005 [karlmarxwasright]

"The Privatization Juggernaut, Japan, Iraq, Iran's Oil Minister"

Japan is in the news, big time.
Koizumi presented Parliamentary bills to privatize the Japanese Post Office and it's banking system.
Extensive reporting available, everywhere.
For Americans, of course, this is an unknown system, as usual.
Those in Europe have familiarity with similar institutional arrangements, threatened, also, with dissolution, soon, if not already accomplished.
So, for those unfamiliar with the subject, just a couple of stats taken from a WSJ article, Aug 4, 2005,
to give you the idea:

"Koizumi's Gamble to Reshape Japan":
....Through it's banking and insurance arms, Japan's post office controls about $3 TRILLION [my emphasis], a quarter of the nation's household financial assets.
It is THE LARGEST [ my emphasis] pool of funds managed by any financial institution in the world..."

END of excerpt from 2005 POST
For ALITTLE further background snippet, reading on Japan's Post Office Bank:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan_Post

Now, returning to Iraq.
The following link, essentially, recapitulates what I had on many previous blogs, namely, the "elementary, My Dear Watson," fundamental, intractable, explosive conflict over authority as represented between Erbil/KRG/Baghdad/Iran.

The author, below, saves me the trouble of mentioning, also, after China's purchase of Kurdistan's Addax Petroleum, Iran/Baghdad Oil Minister, Shahristani, said, promised, threatened, he would EXCLUDE further Chinese investments in Iraq, mentioning Sinopec, specifically.
No problem.
There is now Japan, instead, our erstwhile NAZI ally.

And, of course, conveniently, coincidentally, Hamid Jafar's brother, of Dana Gas/Crescent Oil/Abraaj fame, now Director of Iraq South Oil Company, Basra.

As well, Morgan Cazenove became Tony Buckingham's KRG Heritage Oil advisor, in which the KRG, i.e., Talabani/Barzani, have a major shareholding interest.

And, still, there is Morgan Stanley and the First Persia Fund.

So, indeed, this plot gets intensely, enormously, thick, internecine, intertwined with simultaneous and CONTRADICTORY, multiple, competing interests:

http://gulfanalysis.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/the-second-licensing-round-for-iraqi-oil-political-aspects/

Really, it is inappropriate and misleading to say "Iraq."
There is NO Iraqi State, country, anymore.
Instead, there are only various scavengers, vultures, PRIVATE corporations who OWN and divvy up the slices, pieces of a carcass, of what was formerly the body of the State of Iraq and its excellent Constitution.

And, actually, one can extend this analogy further to the private corporations named above who OWN and control the United Suckers and Assholes.

THEY and STATE ARE SYNONYMOUS.

So, what is the main point of the above tour-de-force, exercise?
The main point to me is not the details of who gets what, but, illustrating the depth, width, breathe and scope of privatization, it's blatant, open existence, AND, the fact that THIS REPRESENTS THE MAIN POINT of PRINCIPLED CLASS UNITY, OPPOSITION, RESISTANCE.
THIS is the BOTTOM LINE, the fundamental, from which all else flows and NOT the other way around.

THIS is "scientific" socialism, not resuscitated, reinvigorated, rehashed, revised, reinvented, reinterpreted, methodologically remodeled, obscurantism, utopianism, intellectually retrogressive, regressive, reactionary, discredited, discounted theories, ideas, excuses, rationalizations, apologetics, garbage, junk and BIG LIES.