Christmas Shoppers - get your shopping done quickly, but not too quickly

Written by Gary R. Hess


For now on, everything goes, clothes, game consoles, diamond rings and withrepparttar Christmas Season officially starting, everything and anything will be on-sale but one thing’s for sure, it’s never too early to start shopping.

However,repparttar 125345 after Thanksgiving Day Shopper is a ferocious creature, so if you tend to stay away from rushes which kill hundreds each year, you might want to wait untilrepparttar 125346 week after.

Every year there is a hit toy or electronic that your loved ones would love to have, but you got there too late or went torepparttar 125347 wrong store. Last yearrepparttar 125348 DVD players from Wal-Mart, years before Tickle-Me-Elmo’s, so why not start your Christmas shopping now, before it’s too late?

OIL IS THE MOST IMPORTANT COMMODITY IN THE PRESENT TIME

Written by SOHAIL TARIQ


Oil isrepparttar most important commodity ofrepparttar 125344 present times. The importance of oil cannot be denied. Oil isrepparttar 125345 major source of energy. It is a prerequisite forrepparttar 125346 industrial sector, agro-based industrial development and traditional agriculture. The demand for oil is increasing day by day. The world consumes 76 million barrels of oil a day. According torepparttar 125347 IMF, ifrepparttar 125348 price of oil is increased by 5 dollars per barrel, and if it is sustained for a year,repparttar 125349 global economic growth rate will decrease by 0.5%. This showsrepparttar 125350 crucial importance of oil as a source of fuel.

The renaissance movement (rise ofrepparttar 125351 modern world) brought aboutrepparttar 125352 industrial revolution. The industrial revolution dividedrepparttar 125353 world into two distinct groups. Industrial countries ofrepparttar 125354 west becamerepparttar 125355 developed countries (DC's). The second group isrepparttar 125356 group ofrepparttar 125357 underdeveloped countries (UDC's). These countries could not enjoyrepparttar 125358 fruits of industrial revolution.

The development and growth ofrepparttar 125359 developed countries solely depend upon their industrial progress. And industrial progress is always attributed to continuous oil supply. Onrepparttar 125360 other hand, growth and development of underdeveloped countries (UDC's) depend uponrepparttar 125361 traditional agriculture sector, natural resources like oil and mainly on foreign aid. DC's arerepparttar 125362 major source of foreign aid for UDC's. Therefore it can be assumed that if there will be any discrepancy inrepparttar 125363 growth and development of DC's it will have a direct effect onrepparttar 125364 economies of UDC's. Another important fact is thatrepparttar 125365 oil reserves of DC's are insufficient to meet their domestic oil demand. Most ofrepparttar 125366 oil reserves are situated inrepparttar 125367 OPEC countries (Algeria, Ecuador, Gabon, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and Venezuela). The two countries ofrepparttar 125368 central Asia, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan, are also oil rich countries and they haverepparttar 125369 potential to export oil. Both these countries are notrepparttar 125370 members of OPEC. Russia is also an oil exporting country and 40% of its exports are based on oil products.

All of above mentioned countries of OPEC and central Asia have nothing but oil. The economies of these countries, despite having rich oil reserves, are fragile. Any discrepancy in oil demand results in economic instability. New foreign aid becomes inevitable forrepparttar 125371 economic growth and development of these countries.

The DC's look towards these oil rich countries in order to meet their oil demand. On other hand, these oil rich countries seekrepparttar 125372 foreign assistance from these DC's in many fields.

In 1973, oil was forrepparttar 125373 first time used as a political weapon byrepparttar 125374 Arab oil-producing countries against Israel andrepparttar 125375 west. Many analysts are ofrepparttar 125376 view that it wasrepparttar 125377 start of oil politics. In my opinion, oil politics started withrepparttar 125378 advent ofrepparttar 125379 industrial revolution whenrepparttar 125380 countries ofrepparttar 125381 west feltrepparttar 125382 need and hunger for oil. They came to know that their own oil reserves would not be able to meet their oil demand.

This oil politics has many fatal consequences. As cited above, oil is playing very vital rule inrepparttar 125383 prosperity ofrepparttar 125384 west. Therefore, DC's ofrepparttar 125385 west have been doing and will do every thing they can in order to have a hold on oil reserves of these oil rich countries. This race for grabbing oil will result in debacle and turmoil on a global level. This will affect those countries that are neither oil seekers on a large level nor have oil reserves. Most ofrepparttar 125386 third world countries of Asia and countries of Latin America are included in this list. Some ofrepparttar 125387 consequences of oil politics are discussed below. The Wealth of Middle East countries is lying inrepparttar 125388 banks ofrepparttar 125389 west. This situation enablesrepparttar 125390 west to hijack, dictate and interfere inrepparttar 125391 policymaking of these oil rich countries and further aggravate economic and social conditions of these countries. The DC's, because of their pervasive influence, moldrepparttar 125392 policies of these countries according to their own vested oil interest.

The west, especiallyrepparttar 125393 US and UK, is considered as promoters of democracy. But in reality, on one hand, they force different countries to induct political governments and onrepparttar 125394 other hand, they have been indirectly supporting those monarchies and kingships that suit their own interests (kingships in Saudi Arabia and military and other form of dictatorship in different countries). This showsrepparttar 125395 dual standards practiced byrepparttar 125396 developed countries. In all case, one must be clear about one thing;repparttar 125397 prime motive ofrepparttar 125398 west is to have an easy access torepparttar 125399 oil reserves ofrepparttar 125400 oil rich countries. Oil lust ofrepparttar 125401 west often results in political and physical wars. Forceful change of regimes underrepparttar 125402 fake doctrine of pre-emptive measure byrepparttar 125403 west, especially USA and UK, has exposedrepparttar 125404 real intentions of these countries. The only aim behind these pre-emptive strikes is to induct new regimes, which can supportrepparttar 125405 oil interests ofrepparttar 125406 western countries. US attack on Afghanistan andrepparttar 125407 recent US attack on Iraq have showed that USA and UK want to hold a strategic geographical position from where they can control and manipulate world's oil resources. The UDC's regimes andrepparttar 125408 masses of UDC's often have to facerepparttar 125409 severe consequences of wars. They arerepparttar 125410 first casualties of war. First of all, war no doubt is a human tragedy. Innocent civilians, including children, men and women lose their lives. Wars, which become inevitable because of oil politicking ofrepparttar 125411 west, bring economic problems, especially forrepparttar 125412 poor countries ofrepparttar 125413 world. According to United Nations,repparttar 125414 war of Iraq might create 0.6 million refugees. Those refugees will seek refuge in neighboring countries. This will increase pressure onrepparttar 125415 economies of these neighboring countries. Inrepparttar 125416 US-Iraq war, Iraq has burnt its oil fields, which will result in an environmental disaster and coming generations will suffer from this future environmental pollution. This act of Iraqis will also causerepparttar 125417 loss of huge quantity of crude oil, as we

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