Mother Zuraiha and son are washing the donkey husband sits inside drinking his tea
From the other side of the mountain they hear an airplane coming to see
Suddenly a terrible explosion house smashed to smithereens
They are all left for dead in the rubble they didn’t know what it all means
Zuraiha left holding her son as his brains fall out of his head
Her husband under the rubble her husband he is dead
Now a refugee in Kabul she is living in a tent
Made of nothing more than scraps of cloth she asks why was that airplane sent?
At night it’s minus 30 it’s not sure if she will survive
Every year thousands are killed by US and UK thousands no longer alive
Soldiers and civilians are dying but for what that’s what I’d like to know
Is it for a stable government? so the oil and gas can flow
And quietly Zuraiha is praying for her husband and her son
Quietly Zuraiha is saying would be better if I too were gone
Friday, 23 April 2010
Afghanistan: Another War for Oil and Gas
Well there’s oil and gas aplenty the last great reserves
In Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan that’s what I heard
Oil companies from the US got 75% of the rights
But the problem is they are landlocked countries far out of sight
How to transport this fuel juggernaut out to the ocean
Can’t go through Iran or China and the north is far too Russian
Just leaves Afghanistan and Pakistan down to the sea
A couple of compliant governments are all that they need
Build some bases out there for long term control
Now that the Soviet Union is gone they can be much more bold
It’s not so much about terrorism or democracy
Or women’s rights though that’d be a nice thing to see
It’s about strategic and profitable control
Of energy resources they’ll be needing down the road
The military is the iron fist that protects the invisible hand
It’s the mafia mobster that protects the bosses operation
A decade before 9/11 Time magazine
Reported that US policy elites were having a wet dream
About setting up a military presence in Central Asia
The newly available oil and gas well they just can’t ignore ya
So Unocal gets to build the pipeline
With the help of Cruise missiles Stealth bombers Tomahawks daisy cutters and land mines
And a lot of soldiers who died without any reason
Oil is not the future but to them that’s treason
The Afghanistan people they are thoroughly a dyin’
Far more than they report on TV and omission amounts to lying
And drone attacks on Pakistan in the boarder regions
Creating more terrorism because they are killing civilians
They keep telling me about extremists on the TV
But the insane hunger for oil justifies all the people we make bleed
Unmanned drones remote controlled from Nevada
You can kill and maim civilians and not end up like Douglas Bader
NASA’s chief scientist James Hansen says
There’s already too much CO2 in the air these days
The fossil fuels that are still in the ground
Must stay where they are so stop drilling down
All the money they spent on Iraq and Afghanistan
They could have put into solar power geothermal wind and hydrogen
We need an enema of the elites just flush them out
We need a new revolution without a doubt
Now as a post script I would like to add
The arctic is melting and the oil there can be grabbed
They are rushing to stake their territorial claims
Just like a heroin addict risking death to get a needle in his veins
They don’t see it as a warning just a new opportunity
To give global warming the added help that it needs
Stupid people run this world it cannot be denied
If you got some answers I will be on your side
In Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan that’s what I heard
Oil companies from the US got 75% of the rights
But the problem is they are landlocked countries far out of sight
How to transport this fuel juggernaut out to the ocean
Can’t go through Iran or China and the north is far too Russian
Just leaves Afghanistan and Pakistan down to the sea
A couple of compliant governments are all that they need
Build some bases out there for long term control
Now that the Soviet Union is gone they can be much more bold
It’s not so much about terrorism or democracy
Or women’s rights though that’d be a nice thing to see
It’s about strategic and profitable control
Of energy resources they’ll be needing down the road
The military is the iron fist that protects the invisible hand
It’s the mafia mobster that protects the bosses operation
A decade before 9/11 Time magazine
Reported that US policy elites were having a wet dream
About setting up a military presence in Central Asia
The newly available oil and gas well they just can’t ignore ya
So Unocal gets to build the pipeline
With the help of Cruise missiles Stealth bombers Tomahawks daisy cutters and land mines
And a lot of soldiers who died without any reason
Oil is not the future but to them that’s treason
The Afghanistan people they are thoroughly a dyin’
Far more than they report on TV and omission amounts to lying
And drone attacks on Pakistan in the boarder regions
Creating more terrorism because they are killing civilians
They keep telling me about extremists on the TV
But the insane hunger for oil justifies all the people we make bleed
Unmanned drones remote controlled from Nevada
You can kill and maim civilians and not end up like Douglas Bader
NASA’s chief scientist James Hansen says
There’s already too much CO2 in the air these days
The fossil fuels that are still in the ground
Must stay where they are so stop drilling down
All the money they spent on Iraq and Afghanistan
They could have put into solar power geothermal wind and hydrogen
We need an enema of the elites just flush them out
We need a new revolution without a doubt
Now as a post script I would like to add
The arctic is melting and the oil there can be grabbed
They are rushing to stake their territorial claims
Just like a heroin addict risking death to get a needle in his veins
They don’t see it as a warning just a new opportunity
To give global warming the added help that it needs
Stupid people run this world it cannot be denied
If you got some answers I will be on your side
America put the cunt in country
America put the cunt in country
With drone attacks and air strikes in the boarder regions
They are killing the bloody civilians
Then the survivors retaliate with another round of hate
Coming down to the low lands to get even
It’s a pointless loss of life making more enemies all the time
Bring hell upon your own people
With another load of aid billions from the US once again
The Military will do the bidding of the heathens
Twas just a small group of Muslims led by bin laden
They fled to the mountains to take cover
Now the war is out of hand and the devils upon the land
And Muslim brother fights Muslim brother
Why can’t they drop the SAS onto Bin Laden’s head?
Take him out like they take out so many others
They got satellites up there that can read a microdot on a hair
They got U2 spy planes that shoot over
They took out some top terrorists in Somalia a piece of piss
But bin laden seems to be a problem
Maybe it’s all about the pipelines Unocal and the sight lines
Get a good grip on the country
Lay those pipelines down on the blood drenched ground
Thank Karsai the Unocal consultant
The global economy will be saved more petro-chemicals in the veins
But with all those billions a green economy could have been resultant
Terror begets terror they always make the same error
But it ain’t the madmen in Washington a dying
They are terribly safe they make plans in the dying days
Of the children that are crying
They are denying al-Qaida safe haven in the theatre
Of war and collateral damage
Just take the fucker out how hard is that you louts?
When the ripper struck they didn’t sink Yorkshire in carnage
With drone attacks and air strikes in the boarder regions
They are killing the bloody civilians
Then the survivors retaliate with another round of hate
Coming down to the low lands to get even
It’s a pointless loss of life making more enemies all the time
Bring hell upon your own people
With another load of aid billions from the US once again
The Military will do the bidding of the heathens
Twas just a small group of Muslims led by bin laden
They fled to the mountains to take cover
Now the war is out of hand and the devils upon the land
And Muslim brother fights Muslim brother
Why can’t they drop the SAS onto Bin Laden’s head?
Take him out like they take out so many others
They got satellites up there that can read a microdot on a hair
They got U2 spy planes that shoot over
They took out some top terrorists in Somalia a piece of piss
But bin laden seems to be a problem
Maybe it’s all about the pipelines Unocal and the sight lines
Get a good grip on the country
Lay those pipelines down on the blood drenched ground
Thank Karsai the Unocal consultant
The global economy will be saved more petro-chemicals in the veins
But with all those billions a green economy could have been resultant
Terror begets terror they always make the same error
But it ain’t the madmen in Washington a dying
They are terribly safe they make plans in the dying days
Of the children that are crying
They are denying al-Qaida safe haven in the theatre
Of war and collateral damage
Just take the fucker out how hard is that you louts?
When the ripper struck they didn’t sink Yorkshire in carnage
Here come the drones
Here come the drones
They are American drones
Made in America
Here come the drones
In Pakistan and the boarder regions
In the swat valley and the tribal areas
There is lurking our enemy
He is Osama Bin Laden
The dark unknown places
Of dark skinned people
Where unmanned airborne vehicles
Shoot missiles into this evil
Into civilian populations
Operated from the Nevada
Killing noncombatants
This is our terror
So easy to pull the trigger
So easy to push the button
And terror begets terror
And it happens so sudden
They are fighting terrorism
With every strike
Into wedding parties schools or homes
And that ain’t right
There was no terrorism in Pakistan
Until America arrived
Now there are hundreds of bombs a year
As the soldiers fight
These people are not Taliban
Or Al Qaeda
What gives us the right?
To cause such fear
Little children begging
On the street
Down from the mountains
On dirty feet
They are refugees
They are refugees
Their homes are demolished
And now they are refugees
Seems like they are using a sledge hammer
To crack a nut
Where the hell is Bin Laden?
He’s the one they want
But Bin Laden is only of secondary importance
To Caspian oil and gas
And stable transport routes
Through Afghanistan
He is the fig leaf
He is the WMD they need
To have troops and bases
And long term stability
For Unocal and the pipeline
And the oil and the gas
Goes down to the sea
Down To new deli
To Pakistan from Turkmenistan
With 1/5th of the worlds oil
And plenty of gas
It’s a vital back up
When the Persian Gulf goes crash
Better to use heat pumps
And solar power
That’s a one time cost
And you don’t get charged by the hour
They have killed so many million people
Since the end of the Second World War
How many more millions are they going to kill?
Till they get bored
But here come the drones
They are American drones
Made in America
They are American drones
Made in America
Here come the drones
In Pakistan and the boarder regions
In the swat valley and the tribal areas
There is lurking our enemy
He is Osama Bin Laden
The dark unknown places
Of dark skinned people
Where unmanned airborne vehicles
Shoot missiles into this evil
Into civilian populations
Operated from the Nevada
Killing noncombatants
This is our terror
So easy to pull the trigger
So easy to push the button
And terror begets terror
And it happens so sudden
They are fighting terrorism
With every strike
Into wedding parties schools or homes
And that ain’t right
There was no terrorism in Pakistan
Until America arrived
Now there are hundreds of bombs a year
As the soldiers fight
These people are not Taliban
Or Al Qaeda
What gives us the right?
To cause such fear
Little children begging
On the street
Down from the mountains
On dirty feet
They are refugees
They are refugees
Their homes are demolished
And now they are refugees
Seems like they are using a sledge hammer
To crack a nut
Where the hell is Bin Laden?
He’s the one they want
But Bin Laden is only of secondary importance
To Caspian oil and gas
And stable transport routes
Through Afghanistan
He is the fig leaf
He is the WMD they need
To have troops and bases
And long term stability
For Unocal and the pipeline
And the oil and the gas
Goes down to the sea
Down To new deli
To Pakistan from Turkmenistan
With 1/5th of the worlds oil
And plenty of gas
It’s a vital back up
When the Persian Gulf goes crash
Better to use heat pumps
And solar power
That’s a one time cost
And you don’t get charged by the hour
They have killed so many million people
Since the end of the Second World War
How many more millions are they going to kill?
Till they get bored
But here come the drones
They are American drones
Made in America
Oh Colombia
Well in Colombia they tend to kill
Unionists at will
2.500 dead in the last 15 years
Don’t cause trouble or you are out of here
If Chiquita wants you dead
They’ll find some place for you to lay your head
Pay out millions for paramilitaries
20 years of slaughter to those capitalist deities
Displace those communities
As the coal mine expands its boundaries
As the palm oil plantations grow ever more
And the sugar cane workers fear the law
Private military companies enforce the threat
That you will join the long list of dead
The indigenous peoples are under attack
From the militarized government that’s US backed
Oh Colombia you will make them rich
You got so many resources
Oh Colombia you are in the pits
A victim of the neo-colonialists
But all we hear on the news
Is you got some bad cocaine blues
Fighting the good fight is the government
And the paramilitaries that they sent
And they swell the ranks of the FARC
With every new village that they burn up
They misrepresent the truth in the news
It’s really the government that’s killing you
They are delivering the country to the multinationals
It’s called free trade but it’s more a free for all
4 million internally displaced in an all out war
On the indigenous territories that capitals come for
Hundreds of villages burnt to the ground
The conquistadors never left town
The army is funded by America to facilitate
This free market capital escapade
Unionists at will
2.500 dead in the last 15 years
Don’t cause trouble or you are out of here
If Chiquita wants you dead
They’ll find some place for you to lay your head
Pay out millions for paramilitaries
20 years of slaughter to those capitalist deities
Displace those communities
As the coal mine expands its boundaries
As the palm oil plantations grow ever more
And the sugar cane workers fear the law
Private military companies enforce the threat
That you will join the long list of dead
The indigenous peoples are under attack
From the militarized government that’s US backed
Oh Colombia you will make them rich
You got so many resources
Oh Colombia you are in the pits
A victim of the neo-colonialists
But all we hear on the news
Is you got some bad cocaine blues
Fighting the good fight is the government
And the paramilitaries that they sent
And they swell the ranks of the FARC
With every new village that they burn up
They misrepresent the truth in the news
It’s really the government that’s killing you
They are delivering the country to the multinationals
It’s called free trade but it’s more a free for all
4 million internally displaced in an all out war
On the indigenous territories that capitals come for
Hundreds of villages burnt to the ground
The conquistadors never left town
The army is funded by America to facilitate
This free market capital escapade
Red black yellow white and brown
Red black yellow white and brown
24 trillion dollars in mineral wealth
Under the Congo under the earth
The richest country in the world
For resources that they can sell
Its no coincidence that this God forsaken land
Has long been decimated by the white man
Coveted since the late 19th century
By Britain and America’s murderous greed
Red black yellow white and brown
The international community will never let you down
Through Ugandan President Museveni
British intelligence was active says Boutros Ghali
Its all under hand connections fail to be made
In the press releases of the news brigade
Systematically looted by the international community
The same paragons of virtue in whom we are supposed to believe
You think that Iraq is bad
Take a look over your shoulder at the black Bagdad
Red black yellow white and brown
The international community will never let you down
With furrowed brow we remember the dead
And hope it will never happen again
The holocaust of gypsies Jews and the mentally ill
Swept to the chambers and there to kill
I’d write you a letter I’d send you a song
About what’s been going on
There ain’t no chambers there ain’t no gas
But I smell a holocaust that ain’t safely in the past
Red black yellow white and brown
The international community will put you under the ground
Morality has never been taken seriously
In the whole history of humanity
Principles are just a luxury
For people that haven’t been tested by necessity
You fight or die you live and learn
You finally find you got nowhere to turn
In the fiery furnace of evolution
You can be a monkey or have everything
24 trillion dollars in mineral wealth
Under the Congo under the earth
The richest country in the world
For resources that they can sell
Its no coincidence that this God forsaken land
Has long been decimated by the white man
Coveted since the late 19th century
By Britain and America’s murderous greed
Red black yellow white and brown
The international community will never let you down
Through Ugandan President Museveni
British intelligence was active says Boutros Ghali
Its all under hand connections fail to be made
In the press releases of the news brigade
Systematically looted by the international community
The same paragons of virtue in whom we are supposed to believe
You think that Iraq is bad
Take a look over your shoulder at the black Bagdad
Red black yellow white and brown
The international community will never let you down
With furrowed brow we remember the dead
And hope it will never happen again
The holocaust of gypsies Jews and the mentally ill
Swept to the chambers and there to kill
I’d write you a letter I’d send you a song
About what’s been going on
There ain’t no chambers there ain’t no gas
But I smell a holocaust that ain’t safely in the past
Red black yellow white and brown
The international community will put you under the ground
Morality has never been taken seriously
In the whole history of humanity
Principles are just a luxury
For people that haven’t been tested by necessity
You fight or die you live and learn
You finally find you got nowhere to turn
In the fiery furnace of evolution
You can be a monkey or have everything
The civilized world
We got your resources we got your land
We got your government by the hand
We got your lives by the throat
We are the democracies we all vote
We are thoroughly civilized
We are developed behind the eyes
We are technological gods
We are here to murder and rob
We are the civilized world
We democratized ourselves
We are the advanced economies
We lift ourselves up and keep you on your knees
We are good capitalists
But we do like the subsidies
We couldn’t mine without government help
We couldn’t do nothing by ourselves
We can’t be sued when the rivers are dead
We can’t be brought to book when nothing is left
We will force you off your land
We will pay no taxes to the man
We are the civilized world
We democratized ourselves
We will appoint politicians to the board
They are very handy when we’re abroad
It’s a war of the north upon the south
That about sums up what it’s all about
We are funded by your pension fund
Its little old ladies holding the gun
Burning the villages of the Colombian
And the Guatemalan
We are the civilized world
We democratized ourselves
We are the advanced economies
We lift ourselves up and keep you on your knees
We speak in neo-colonialese
Of development aid and investment opportunities
They paid off the debt about 5 times
But still it’s growing all the time
More money comes out than goes in
Its not charity that they’re needing
Just pay for what we take
Pay a good price and it’ll all be great
We are the civilized world
We democratized ourselves
We are the advanced economies
But the mind don’t know what the eye don’t see
We got your government by the hand
We got your lives by the throat
We are the democracies we all vote
We are thoroughly civilized
We are developed behind the eyes
We are technological gods
We are here to murder and rob
We are the civilized world
We democratized ourselves
We are the advanced economies
We lift ourselves up and keep you on your knees
We are good capitalists
But we do like the subsidies
We couldn’t mine without government help
We couldn’t do nothing by ourselves
We can’t be sued when the rivers are dead
We can’t be brought to book when nothing is left
We will force you off your land
We will pay no taxes to the man
We are the civilized world
We democratized ourselves
We will appoint politicians to the board
They are very handy when we’re abroad
It’s a war of the north upon the south
That about sums up what it’s all about
We are funded by your pension fund
Its little old ladies holding the gun
Burning the villages of the Colombian
And the Guatemalan
We are the civilized world
We democratized ourselves
We are the advanced economies
We lift ourselves up and keep you on your knees
We speak in neo-colonialese
Of development aid and investment opportunities
They paid off the debt about 5 times
But still it’s growing all the time
More money comes out than goes in
Its not charity that they’re needing
Just pay for what we take
Pay a good price and it’ll all be great
We are the civilized world
We democratized ourselves
We are the advanced economies
But the mind don’t know what the eye don’t see
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