http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1273982,00.html

i have been wondering to myself why dafaur made it to the front of the world dailies, why it was this months atrocity, why it was chosen over the pygmies in the Congo for example. how one genocide seemed to win a lottery to be the offical, symbolic genocide that we as westerners will care about this month, and then the next month it will move onto another.

this gaurdian article answers such meta questions, with obvious and clear answers, roughly--its the oil stupid (can anything be reduced to oil, apparently why we are having so high oil prices lately is that both china and the us are stepping up demand and opec is cutting production, there is less and less oil for us to get)