Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Watch the oil gusher tomorrow

By Dave Anderson:


Tomorrow's oil markets should be interesting.


The New York Times reports that the Saudi police have already opened fire on protesters in the major oil producing provinces on the Persian Gulf shore:



Saudi police opened fire at a protest march in a restive, oil-rich province of the kingdom on Thursday, wounding at least three, according to witnesses there. The crackdown came a day before a planned �day of rage� throughout the country that officials have said they will not tolerate. The clash with protesters in the heavily Shiite region underscored long-standing tensions in Saudi society:



Most Saudi oil is produced in Shi'ite dominated regions.  Most of the revenue flows to the Sunni elite.  The Saudi oil infrastructure is fairly brittle to any sustained assault by the locals who both know where the weak points are in the network and are unhappy with the distribution of the economic rents derived from the cheap to produce oil.  If the Saudi police and National Guard cracks down hard tomorrow, oil prices will gush. 



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