Important Message for All Americans: 1+1=2 and 2+2=4

This ia a basic math calculation. What does it mean when we apply these simple skills to the current war in Iraq and Lebanon and Afghanistan?

When we kill massive amounds of innocent children we get the "1+1" part (extrapolated out a few hundred thousand times so far). As a direct result of that, we will have wailing and crying and suffering among the living, which is the "=2" part. Lots of =2 people out there for every dead baby.

When we have a lot of crying, wailing suffering people, that is the "2+2" part, (again, extrapolated out to include all of those who care for dead innocents in the "1+1" part.

After that, we will get rebellion among the disenfranchised, destitute, angry, vengeful rebellios ones, which brings us to "=4".

Let me try to say this another way...

1+1 is below, extrapolated to hundreds of thousands of innocent (so far)


Dead innocent children. Not pretty for anyone with a human soul. Certainly not a chance to say "mission accomplished" or "bring 'em on" or "war on terror" or "Iraqi freedom" or "pre-emtive strike" or "hunting for WMDs". I don't know, maybe I'm extreeme but it seems only logical to assume: If a war costs one child's life, it isn't worth fighting. Any child anywhere in the world. And we have hundreds of thousands already dead, directly resulting from US munitions and millions more ingesting depleted uranium made in the USA in the form of du munitions for export as shells of all sizes and shapes by the thousands of tons... real WMDs, not fantasies... and being used right now ongoingly... The biggest crime against humanity since Hitler and, I believe, far bigger a crime than Hitler's just based upon the 4.5 billion year half-life. Annualize the deaths on those numbers!


=2, is below, and 2+2 extrapolated to millions of crying and wailing (so far)

These are caring Mothers, Fathers, Brothers, Sisters, Grandmothers, Grandfathers, Cousins, Distant Relatives, Friends, Neighbors who cry out in the name of the God they worship and in the name of humanity that is hard wired into all of our conscioiusness - Why? Why did they do this to us?

=4 is below, extrapolated to the mis-named "insurgency", both seen and unseen, present and rising new "insurgents" yet to come.

And this is not al-CIA-duh. These are former vegetable salesmen, taxi drivers, farmers, goat herders, newly homeless people who rise up against an occupational force after losing their children, so many children... hundreds of thousands of children, and mothers, elderly fathers, homes, and means of living. This is a truly dedicated soldier that isn't afraid to die...

... but he probably won't come to America and plant a dirty bomb. Only our own governmment would have the best means, the most opportunity and the most to gain from such an act.

Some recent stories from both Lebanon and Iraq may help Americans to understand basic math of human crimes. 1+1=2 and 2+2=4, you lose!

Morally, militarily, economically, and anyway you calculate those numbers, American Citizen, you lose because you failed to stand against this war and this black op, false flag, pre-emptive resource war.

Support your troops, bring them home alive.

-Tate Ulsaker

Some relevant and recent stories attached below...
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Every time I think that things can't get worse, they do
Zena el-Khalil writing from Beirut, Live from Lebanon, 1 August 2006

There is a black dust that is filling the air. We are breathing it in ... constantly. It has settled on my clothes, in my kitchen -- it is everywhere. We are guessing it is from the Jiye power station that was bombed. It is still on fire. It is the power station from which the oil spill originated from.Today I had my first experience at queuing for gas. The shortages have arrived. So many gas stations have shut down. The few that are left have long queues. I waited for 40 minutes, and when my turn came, I was give $10 worth only. I only have a few minutes left before the electricity gets cut. we are running on generator now and they usually turn it off at midnight. [MORE]

Four-year-old Qana survivor's night between the dead
Hanady Salman writing from Beirut, Live from Lebanon, 31 July 2006

Three of my colleagues went to Tyre today. I will spare you the details of what they saw and wrote. There's only one thing that I need to share with you. Saada went to Jabal Amel hospital where she found a four year old boy, Hassan Chalhoub, who had spent the previous night in the morgue between the dead. He had been sleeping next to his sister, six-year-old Zeinab, in the shelter in Qana. There with him were his mom and his dad, who's confined to a wheelchair. Many of the people of Qana are survivors of the 1996 massacre, when 110 people were killed and more than 100 were injured when by Israeli raids on civilians who had sought shelter in a nearby UN base. Thus, many of the people of Qana have special needs. [MORE]

They Have No Wine
Patrick McGreevy writing from Beirut, Live from Lebanon, 30 July 2006

We visited Qana six weeks ago. To get there from Beirut, you pass through Tyre and then head southeast. The village clusters about a hilltop less than eight miles from Lebanon's southern border, and about thirty miles from Nazareth. There is a scholarly debate about whether this was the site of the Wedding at Cana, where Jesus is said to have performed his first miracle, creating wine from water. The Roman historian Eusebius and St. Jerome both believed this was the place. There is no doubt that Qana was an early Christian site. For those schooled in Hollywood movies and religious picture books, this is a Biblical-looking landscape that exceeds all expectations. [MORE]

A loyal Beirut heart
Cathy Sultan writing from the United States, Live from Lebanon, 30 July 2006

My love affair with Lebanon began when I left America in 1969 to settle in Beirut with my Lebanese husband, Michel, and our two small children, Naim and Nayla. In Beirut, I found my place to grow. My commitment to stay there through the first eight years of the civil war was a consequence of that deep love affair. I had married into a family that was loving and accepting. It was exciting to wake up every day as a foreigner embraced by a Lebanese family. This is the kind of love which develops a loyal Beirut heart, one which never dissolves. When war began in 1975 I chose for practical reasons to stay and fight. When I say 'fight' I mean fight in a way a housewife does. [MORE]

We have lost our faith
Mayssoun Sukarieh writing from Beirut, Live from Lebanon, 30 July 2006

I have been feeling numb for a while; the overwhelming news in the past few days has focused on the displaced, the searing stories of people who fled in fear and left all their possessions behind. Calls on TV stations and on the radio of people who lost their loved ones ... Stories of their anxiety about homes they left behind ... Scenes of people murdered on the roads as they fled ... And stories of the destruction they saw on those roads. I get confused: Am I seeing and hearing the stories of Palestinians who fled their homes in fear in 1948? No: I am in Beirut, it is 2006, and these are the stories of the Lebanese who have been rendered refugees, but by the same perpetrators of the 1948 displacement: the State of Israel. [MORE]

A night at the symphony in Damascus
Leila Buck writing from Damascus, Syria, Live from Lebanon, 30 July 2006

Salaam a'laykum - peace be upon you. The greeting used by Arabs and Muslims all over the world - and for the people of Lebanon, Palestine and Iraq, a poignant reminder that peace is a precious thing. Seeing the images of massacre at Qana today I don't know where to begin - or how to stop crying. I feel I can only convey fragments - perhaps because my heart is breaking. I'm trying hard not to seem melodramatic, because I know how it is there - you read this in the midst of a long, exhausting, busy day and too many of these and it's too much to bear, it feels so far away. [MORE]

The recurring scenario of death at Qana
Beshara Doumani writing from Nablus, occupied Palestine, Live from Lebanon, 30 July 2006

It is mid-morning here in Nablus and the sound of bullets are ripping through the air from somewhere very close by. Sirens are wailing in the distance. Yesterday, around midnight, special Israeli forces assassinated two activists near the old city of Nablus. The scattered volleys and the sound signatures of different caliber bullets are tell-tale signs of a funeral procession. But what I see in front of me on the television screen is much more disturbing. Videos of little boys and girls, all dead, being pulled out from under the rubble of a building. It is much too painful to look for more than a few seconds at a time. [MORE]

"And still, it continues ...": Lebanese bloggers react to massacre at Qana
various writing from Lebanon, Live from Lebanon, 30 July 2006

"The families will grieve. The children will grow up without their mothers. The memorial at Qana, already displaying the coffins of 106 civilian deaths, will swell by at least 55 more, at least 20 of them children’s sized. And the atrocities, tacitly and repeatedly permitted, will continue. " Today in the Lebanese village of Qana, over 54 civilians, including at least 34 children, were killed in Israel's most deadly strike on Lebanon since it began bombarding the country 19 days ago. The attack echoes Israel's strike on the same village 10 years ago, when 100 civilians taking shelter in a UN base there. Here is a collection of posts made on Lebanese blogs in reaction to the massacre. [MORE]

Emergency in Sulaymaniyah
Cathy Breen, Electronic Iraq (30 May 2006)

When I stepped off the airplane in Sulymania in northern Iraq my eyes filled with tears. Back in Iraq after so long, and yet it is not the Iraq that I know. The Iraq that I know is exploding with violence and death, with fear and uncertainty. Here we were for the first time in Kurdistan. What might this trip hold for us?


Enduring Memories
Kathy Kelly, Electronic Iraq (27 May 2006)
"Anfal." It means, "to take everything." In 1988, Saddam Hussein ordered the Anfal operation against thousands of defenseless Kurdish villages in northern Iraq. According to a 1993 Human Rights Watch report, tens of thousands of people were killed and at least 2,000 villages were destroyed.

The Eve of Departure
Kathy Kelly, Electronic Iraq (20 May 2006)
Yesterday, I eagerly awaited a visit from a friend who had just arrived from Iraq.

We greeted each other warmly and marveled over having managed to stay in touch with each other through ten years, this in spite of distance, siege, warfare, occupation and his recent, acute need to maintain a low profile. Then he showed me his passport. Success! In it was a stamp allowing him to travel for six months to another land. "Tomorrow, we go!" he said, his usual upbeat and cheerful derring-do apparently intact.

Imagining Survival
Kathy Kelly, Electronic Iraq (12 May 2006)
I've been studying Arabic in Amman, Jordan for five weeks. When I stumble over a word that I can't recognize, I often turn to young friends who work at the front desk of the small hotel where we stay. One night, after struggling with a difficult sentence, I headed downstairs. A minute of instant charades revealed that the sentence was about pigs at a trough. "Oh!" I laughed, "Like my country!" "Yes, yes!" they chorused. It was a good-natured exchange, typical of the gaiety and laughter that marks years of friendship with these young men.

Uncertainty...
Riverbend, Baghdad Burning (30 March 2006)
"I sat late last night switching between Iraqi channels. It's a late-night tradition for me when there's electricity- to see what the Iraqi channels are showing. I was reading the little scrolling news headlines on the bottom...Suddenly, one of them caught my attention and I sat up straight on the sofa, wondering if I had read it correctly. The line said: 'The Ministry of Defense requests that civilians do not comply with the orders of the army or police on nightly patrols unless they are accompanied by coalition forces working in that area.'" Award-winning Iraqi Blogger Riverbend writes about death and uncertaintly in this chilling post.

Three Years
Riverbend, Baghdad Burning (19 March 2006)
"I'm sitting here trying to think what makes this year, 2006, so much worse than 2005 or 2004. It's not the outward differences- things such as electricity, water, dilapidated buildings, broken streets and ugly concrete security walls. Those things are disturbing, but they are fixable. Iraqis have proved again and again that countries can be rebuilt. No - it's not the obvious that fills us with foreboding." Iraqi blogger Riverbend reflects on Iraq after three years of occupation and war.

"Do not do what you hate," Excerpts from Tom Fox's Iraq Blog (Part 2)
Editors, Electronic Iraq (12 March 2006)
Intermittently during his time in Iraq, Christian Peacemaker Teams volunteer Tom Fox posted to a blog he titled "Waiting in the Light." In the wake of his murder after nearly three months as a hostage, Electronic Iraq presents excerpts from Fox's blog so that his decision to go to Iraq and the convictions that kept him there can be better understood. In part two Fox writes about meeting with contractors and a U.S. colonel, escorts a group of Palestinian Iraqis to Syria where they hope to obtain refugee status, and grapples with the challenges of doing good work and staying sane in the face of suffering.

Chasing oil and coming home to another massacre
Zena el-Khalil writing from Beirut, Live from Lebanon, 30 July 2006

I had a really bad headache all day ... we were driving on the coastal road, stopped every few minutes to document. The smell was so strong. When I got home, I blew my nose and the tissue was all black. I made sure to take a really good shower. We were going to send out the press release, pics and video today, but we got even worse news ... There had been a massacre in Qana early this morning. History repeats itself. The Israelis dropped a bomb on a building that was sheltering refugees. The news at this point is that 55 were killed. It was only a few years ago that the Israelis did the same thing, except last time, it was a UN building that they hit and over 100 people were killed. [MORE]

Islands in Arabia
Patrick McGreevy writing from Beirut, Live from Lebanon, 29 July 2006
Sitting on my balcony staring down at the Sea Gate of the American University of Beirut, and to the Mediterranean beyond, I am in no danger. The bombs are in the distance. The fighting is in the south. In Tel Aviv, Israeli citizens are staring at the same sea, in perfect safety. The missiles are landing in Haifa and farther north. And those following this war from living rooms around the world are in utter cocoons of safety. Most of us are separated from the violence that under girds our world and its order. But are we safe from fear? And does our fear make us wish for an order more and more strongly under girded? [MORE]

The grid-reliant lifestyles of about 300 million Americans is a wide path, indeed.

Americans are the most invested in the three most popular doomsday machines of our time: resource wars, on-grid homes and fiat currency collapse. All three systems are sure to lead us along the wide path of destruction, which may be described more accurately as a marginally harder and steeper Peak Oil cliff than would otherwise be the case if we had any sense.

Amazingly, the whole world is willingly following us on our doomed path towards ever more oil-reliant lifestyles, grid-reliant homes, petroleum-based mining and fabrication of automobiles and heavy capital equipment, plastics, and food... Oh the food. All of that food made by so few people using nothing but oil and gas to plant, fertilize, irrigate, harvest, store, process, package, retrieve and prepare... then haul away in the form of waste.


And Look at us all, humming and buzzing and droning out on the grid like electric zombie slaves, far removed from anything natural. Industrial agriculture has long ago pushed almost all 6.5 billion of us off the land and into our cubicle homes and cubicle working places.

And for what? For the most of us, our "work" is nothing more than a PC and a cubicle and the harnessing of petroleum energy slaves to do work more efficiently. From our cubicles we enter into electronic warfare on the grid and the one who wins the most credits on our plastic cards wins. We all want to be lords of petroleum and we are wiling slaves of the grid that petroleum feeds. Nobody wants to imagine a world without the power of grid-lordship because that means breaking a sweat, getting back to family, thinking in terms of seasons, etc...

You want an example of insanity? Check this out, from today's edition of the "Daily Mail": 19 minutes - how long working parents give their children.

Ha! 19 minutes... let's read the first two sentences of that story...

A typical working parent spends just 19 minutes a day looking after their children, official figures revealed yesterday.

The startling research shows the devastating impact that working full-time has on children who hardly see their parents.

...and we wonder about all of the psychological problems, like, where did that come from? Parents make their kids into zombies right from birth... and then they throw their parents into the nursing homes, the kids to daycare, the spouses to divorce court... and the rest of the free time is spent receiving signals from electronic gadgets to the suggestable alpha brainwaves. That's the life of the grid addict. "I didn't mean to do it, the grid life forced me. I'm a victim of the grid."

And the number of grid zombies only increase as time goes on and populations grow and as demand for more finite petroleum resources (grid enablers) grows even as supply flows now are finally threatening to shrink... and all we want is another quarter of profits. To hell with our own children, right? And forget about the increasing numbers of extinct species that we are slashing and burning and burping up from our Mac bellies. We are a patriotic people, waving plastic American flags made in China, saying "Support the troops and keep the oil flowing into our grid. Our grid-life is not negotiable".

It is like we are all competing in our own version of The Lemming Olympics, a race to the rocky bottom of the fjord with our doomed lifestyles and overextended crowds.


Why? I don't know. "That's just the way things have always been done around here", they say. Insanity. We are all relying upon industrial agriculture, which relies upon oil and gas, which are peaked in terms of supply flow even as demand rises.

If the path to destruction is wide, then truth is the path less traveled. If we live in truth we can avoid the life of a lemming. From that analysis, our job in life becomes very simple. All we have to do is seek and speak the truth at every possible corner to anyone who will listen.

I used to get frustrated when people wouldn't listen to me about fiat currency or peak oil. But that isn't so much the case anymore. Why should I take responsibility for their actions? It is difficult enough already to take responsibility for my own.

But you know? Something amazing happens when you just tell the truth: You learn more and you grow in wisdom and your skills of communication increase and you gain understanding of the human condition. When I empty out everything I know about Peak Oil and what I think people can do to prepare for the coming crash and post-oil age, I suddenly have a whole lot of room in my head to learn more. It is like I have just written one chapter and am ready to move on to the next.

On the other end of that experience, people stunt their growth if they withhold telling the truth.

I am not talking about telling the kind of truth like "Mom, I don’t like your necklace." I am talking about "Mom, your lifestyle is doomed! Sell your home and stocks. Buy silver. Run for the hills!"

Neither truth goes over well, but the first one is more easily forgiven... even if both are true, which surprises me still because the second one can save your life. Oh, but the worst kind of truth is the one that forces fundamental change and a total re-think of decade issues like "retirement" and "vacation home" and "financial planning"... all of it going to the post-oil dust bin.

I was just re-explaining to a relative recently (not my Mom, that was just an example) about the coming crash of the housing market and dollar and, well, industrial civilization eventually. The person in question wants to buy a house. Now you and I know, at least we should by now, that an on-grid house in the middle of mega-city sprawl is not the best way to prepare for the coming events that are currently underway even right now.

And this person already has known about peak oil for years. So none of this makes any sense. The disconnect happens like this: Person realizes Peak Oil. Person wants a house. Person willingly forgets about Peak Oil because person wants house. Person won’t talk about Peak Oil anymore because person wants house.

I just described “compartmentalization”, which is a human condition when people disassociate themselves from one kind of truth for a while, suspending belief in order to avoid living incongruently… or to put it another way, to avoid feeling or looking like a hypocrite. That word might be a bit strong but you get the idea.

It makes no sense to jump on the grid in the middle of mega-city sprawl right at the very peak oil energy output. It is like investing in the titanic AFTER it has hit the iceberg.

The big picture is crash in the grid-reliant US housing market for two reasons:

1. Housing valuation crash
2. Grid-reliant housing crash

It doesn’t matter whether we are talking about a house in NY, Las Vegas, LA, Minneapolis, Austin, Dallas, Orlando, St. Louis… and smaller towns too. And I realize that in some localities, housing prices continue to go up even now. Neither you nor I need to be interested in which housing locality peaks last. The big picture is nationwide collapse.

Here is what we will see Nationwide...

First we will see bankruptcies and then we will see a glut of homes on sale and then we will see sale prices go down and then more bankruptcies and people get "upside down" against their mortgages. The term upside down happens when someone's house is worth less than the amount due from the mortgage.

So what, right? Bankruptcies don't hurt me.

Well, when a lot of people go bankrupt. housing values go down. That's what happens when more people want to sell and less can afford to buy.

But the price going down is just the small story. The bigger story is that all of this grid-reliant stuff is the wrong direction because, as you and I might already know, civilization is in the beginning stages of collapse due to a phenomenon called peak oil. That means, whatever kinds of housing and lifestyles and business require cheap and abundant oil in order to function are danger zones.

That means -

• cities and suburbs are danger zones.
• relying upon industrial agriculture is a danger zone.
• even holding dollars or dollar denominated paper (stocks, etc...)is a danger zone because the dollar is tied to no asset but is justa reflection of people's confidence in the US market health.

.... all about to change or in process of changing.

There is no other way for grid-reliant homes to go except down. Grid costs rise when energy costs rise. All this is due to less energy available related to demand. Saving on heating and cooling costs won’t help at all, it is all about the grocery store becoming empty and the car rusting in your riot-zone neighborhood. The whole way of grid reliant living is about to hit the panic button.

Even the mass media can’t hide what is happening economically to the US housing market.

Housing US -

http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&ned=&q=housing+US&btnG=Search+News

So I can’t decide anyone’s strategy but I can speak truth.

Grid-reliant housing near big-city / big-sprawl is a danger zone right now. We need to be thinking in a totally different way. When we make a decision, whatever it is, then we automatically at that moment cut off a bunch of other possible decisions, like getting into a sustainable lifestyle and living arrangement that suits what will be in the future. So any big-city / big-sprawl housing purchase will, in the best case, delay other, more suitable efforts that greatly benefit you down the road 5, 10, 20 years and beyond.

I know that it isn't common opinion and I know some may think I have wacky ideas about what causes peak oil will bring. And that is OK. I just speak truth as I know it and let God show who in
foolish in His own way.

So far, I have been right about silver vs the dollar or stocks. And I believe that silver will continue to appreciate better than stocks or the dollar, both of which I believe are doomed to endure

Unprecedented crash before this is over. And even there, it is not about the money but it is about getting out of a doomed and stupid system that is bound to fail utterly and getting into something that makes more sense. Dollars benefit the printers and the printers steal from me if I hold dollars by the simple act of printing more dollars, which devalues my wealth. By me holding dollars, our government is empowered to hit foreign countries with depleted uranium munitions. It is a good thing when we decrease the power of corrupt governments by trading their fiat paper confetti for the world’s only 5,000 year storage of wealth, gold and silver.

Same idea with housing. It is a good thing to get out of a doomed grid-reliant style of life before being forced out.

The housing thing is just now starting to peak and will crash along with the general economy. Everything is tied together. This is a time to think differently.

Be ready, my friends and fellow ArkBuilders... some people are thinking that the US economy will hit a brick wall at about 5 dollars a gallon. That might have been Kunstler but I don’t remember. I don't know when the point is, but I know that we can't have gas push us forever in our current direction.

OK, I just found this from peakoil.com –

“I think Kunster is on to something regarding our suburbian society. In the reader's digest version of the reader's digest version of his book the Long Emergency, he states that our economy is now built on the continued expansion of the suburbs. When gas hits $5 a gallon, the suburbs will hit a break wall. Probably before that price, but $5 is a nice number, right? Once it costs $30 to feed your car to drive to your $120/day (gross) job, most people won't be able to afford it. Sure the middle managers can, but most of America makes far less than a middle manager.” http://www.peakoil.com/fortopic7929.html

Clearly, we don’t have decades. We may not even have years. What we do now will determine how we live in the post crash world.

Figure 4. The Olduvai Theory: 1930-2030

- Tate Ulsaker

The Wall Street Journal
All the disinfo that's fit to print about Peak Oil.
- a Tate Ulsaker commentary

My favorite intellectual, Richard Heinberg, said recently, to disinformed anti Peak Oiler Greg Palast: "One of the problems with argument by innuendo is that it often requires us to speculate about other people’s motives. The only question that really matters here is, which line of argument is correct? And the only way to make an informed judgment in that regard is to examine and weigh the evidence and the quality of reasoning on each side."

That statement comes from this excellent Heinberg article - http://www.energybulletin.net/17914.html

I thank Heinberg for his correct analysis which is easily recognizeable as truth even though I could not articulate it that concisely.

The path of truth is narrow and less travelled. It is uncomfortable at times and people often despise it. But it is the only way. To find the path of truth, we should put less time on guessing the sensational motives of others. They can be neither proven nor disproven. We need to ask "which line of argument is correct?" and we need to examine and weigh the "evidence and quality of reasoning on each side."

While that may seem an arduous task, it is nothing compared to taking the wide, stupid, big, populated road of the masses, the deceived.

Deceived by whom? With what false arguments? With what selfish motives?

Well, let's ask a couple of Wall Street Journal Journalists that question. I welcome to the discussion, Mr. Chip and Bhushan, paid SS corporate disinformationalist specialists, middle-men for the New World Order Prison:


>> Power shifts to countries with oil reserves
>>
>> Wednesday, June 14, 2006
>> By Bhushan Bahree and Chip Cummins, The
>> Wall Street Journal
>>
>> There is more to today's oil crunch than
>> temporary jolts to supply and demand. What is
>> also roiling the energy world is an enduring
>> shift in the balance of power between the fuelguzzling
>> West and oil-rich developing
>> countries.
>>
>> Since World War II, the industrialized world
>> has relied on stable and affordable supplies of
>> crude to fuel economic growth. The U.S.,
>> Europe and Japan together needed more oil
>> than they could produce. The developing
>> world had plenty of oil, but little use for it and
>> few alternative markets. So industrialized
>> countries tapped the cheap resources of poor
>> ones.

No mention here about how the Western countries kept resource-rich countries embroiled in civil wars, brutal dictatorships, etc... No, but fascinating when you look at the world at night you see all of there source USING countries light up and they increasingly rely upon war in resource rich areas to keep what's left coming online cheap.

>> Now this mutual dependency is unraveling and
>> a new order is taking shape, turning the tables
>> on America, its allies and other big energy
>> consumers. Major exporting nations have
>> concluded that they have more leverage than
>> ever before over consuming countries.

Well, Russia says that sure. And now Iran is saying it. But I don't see Iraq yet having a voice on the issue.

>> Two forces are behind this change. The
>> accelerating industrialization of the billionperson
>> economies of China and India means
>> that global energy demand is likely to keep
>> growing rapidly for years to come. And just as
>> important, the world's top crude-producing
>> countries are keeping a tighter grip on their
>> spigots.

Well wait a minute here. You mean to tell me that runaway demand, on the one side is met with suppliers "keeping tighter grip on their spigots".

Whois writing this? Is there no account for finite supply? "Tighter grip", ha. Well, no I won't be buying that yacht from Donald Trump next week, my wife is keeping a tighter grip on the finances these days. What a loony statement.

>> Saudi Arabia and other oil-rich states have
>> balked at making the large investments
>> Western policy makers think are necessary to
>> meet demand in coming decades, although
>> they plan to expand production somewhat in
>> the medium term. Moreover, these nations are
>> using more of their oil at home to meet surging
>> domestic demand, driven in part by new
>> industries that were once the preserve of the
>> developed world.

"Balked at making the large investments... necessary to meet demand" - another good one! Boy these authors, Bhushan and Chip, they must be part of a comedy routine! Good show Wall Street Journal. Nice way to lighten the mood near the Peak Oil collapse. I "Balked" at squeezing blood out of a turnip. I was unwilling to make the investments necessary to meet demand.

By the way, didn't Saudi Arabia already do their part by promising to lift output by 50% at the mere turning of a spigot? Why invest into squeezing blood from a turnip? Just say "I can squeeze blood from that turnip anytime I want". It is much easier to cut out the middle man and just make the claim. Same difference, eh?

>> "The idea is to use (the) advantage of the
>> availability of energy and build industries on
>> that basis," said Saudi Arabian oil minister Ali
>> Naimi in a recent interview in Riyadh, as the
>> sound of jackhammers pounded through the
>> windows of his office overlooking the booming
>> city. "Any industry that requires intensive
>> energy will be welcome in Saudi Arabia."

"availability of energy" Right... and then "build industries on that basis". Right again. And then what about the next statement? Shouldn't it go something like "... and then watch the whole thing collapse from my armed fortress, having consolidated power and implemented a police state."

>> In addition, petro-states from Iran to Ecuador
>> are flexing their muscles, brandishing fossilfuel
>> supplies as a weapon in diplomatic
>> disputes, or tearing up contracts with foreign
>> companies.
>>
>> Major importing nations are scrambling to
>> adapt. Energy security has emerged as a
>> central foreign-policy concern from
>> Washington to Beijing. Last month, a U.S.
>> House of Representatives subcommittee held
>> hearings on how to cope with nations that use
>> oil as a weapon. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer,
>> secretary-general of the North Atlantic Treaty
>> Organization, said last month that the alliance
>> would consider using force if energy-supply
>> lines were threatened, a major broadening of
>> the group's mandate. "As far as oil and gas is
>> concerned, I think NATO could play a role to
>> defend the sea lanes," he told European
>> parliamentarians.

Nice analysis when it comes to demand-side. But their supply-side analysis is real comedy. Oh the mass media struggles to keep a straight face on the supply issue. Why is that? HMMmmm... it wouldn't play too well with the whole geopolitical paradigm of us being the good guys if we just look at energy supply very closely now would it?

>> Major Western oil companies are also
>> struggling to adjust. Ninety percent of the
>> world's untapped conventional oil reserves are
>> in the hands of governments or state-owned
>> oil companies, far more than was the case
>> several decades ago. It doesn't appear that
>> the planet is running out of crude, as
>> proponents of the "peak oil" theory have
>> argued. But some oil experts foresee the big
>> Western oil companies running out of easy-totap
>> oil, and most of them are already turning to
>> harder-to-recover reserves.

I can see the Authors of this article talking to each other:

Chip - Well, those "Peak Oil" guys are all wrong. We aren't even close to "running out" are we? Well, by golly, we at least got about half left. And that's a lot, ain't it Bhushan?

Bhushan - Yes, our kind and honorable corporations have been losing ground to nationalization of oil. The experts say we have harder-to-recover reserves. Chip, do you see a trend here? We have seen "easy to-tap" become now "harder-to-recover"... maybe we will see "difficult-as-all-hell-to-pump" next?

Chip - Aw Bhushan, that isn't proper analysis. We're writn' for the Wall Street Journal here. What we need to do is focus on how to get money through the corporations and into the stock market. Get it? WALL STREET Journal Bhushan... Jeez!

>> Royal Dutch Shell PLC and Exxon Mobil Corp.
>> are making gargantuan bets on liquid fuels
>> derived from natural gas. Shell and Total SA
>> of France are extracting fuel from the gooey
>> tar sands of Canada. ENI SpA, the Italian oil
>> major, this month paid $900 million for the
>> right to explore for oil off the shores of Angola.
>> The search for new reserves has become "a
>> nightmare," says Paolo Scaroni, ENI's chief
>> executive officer.

What's that? Chip and Bhushan knock the Peak Oil movement in a way that makes no sense and then they quote a guy who gives solid evidence of the whole Peak Oil position: "The search for new reserves has become 'a nightmare'".

Indeed. That is kinda what happens when we get to peak production. Not that we "run out". but getting new reserves online is a "nightmare". Ha ha... but Chip and Bhushan will keep pretending that supply is no problem I suppose... let's see...

>> Oil accounts for 98 percent of the fuel used by
>> the world's cars, trucks and planes. With new
>> crude supplies lagging behind demand growth,
>> a new energy economy is emerging in which a
>> mosaic of other fuels will supplement crude,
>> some energy experts contend. "Bio-diesel," a
>> specially processed vegetable oil that is often
>> mixed with petroleum, and clean-burning
>> liquids squeezed from natural gas are among
>> the resources that will become essential for
>> keeping the world humming, they argue.

A ha... so we are to believe that Oil today accounts for 98 percent of the fuel used in transport, but we can somehow put something other than oil into the transport industry? Like what? Mac Donald's vegetable waste and natural gas liquids? Where does one start ripping into these clowns? "... essential for keeping the world humming". Who could say such a thing? Are we in the twilight zone now?

Does bio diesel come from industrial farming or no? Does industrial farming have a prayer with bio-diesel? Are we going to mine, fabricate, assemble, transport and service all of that capital equipment on the power of squeezed soybeans? And then still have enough left over to plant, spray, irrigate, harvest, store, process, transport, cook and eat? Ha ha ha... Chip and Bhushan aren't only clowns, they are magicians too! Soybeans for "keeping the world humming". I like that.

>> "The transition away from oil may take 20 or
>> 30 years, but it has to start now," says Joseph
>> Stanislaw, an energy adviser at Deloitte &
>> Touche USA LLP.

Brilliant! Now that we are at Peak Production, it takes an energy adviser at Deloitte & Touche to tell us that we gotta "start now" in our transition away from oil. Great! How much did he get paid to figure that oneout?

>> Crude has tripled in price since 2002 due to
>> swelling demand, supply outages and slow
>> growth in output. Oil hit a record of $75.17 a
>> barrel in April, and Tuesday settled at $68.56,
>> down $1.80.
>>
>> Wealthy industrial nations have weathered oil
>> crises before. A wave of shocks in the 1970s
>> and 1980s, including oil-field nationalizations
>> and the 1973 Arab oil embargo, sent prices
>> soaring and tilted power toward exporting
>> nations. But rich Western nations stayed in the
>> driver's seat because they were the main
>> consumers of exports. And the U.S. and
>> Europe had vast and proven oil reserves in
>> Alaska and the North Sea, which they
>> exploited when developing-world suppliers
>> refused to cooperate.
>>
>> Three decades later, the Western world no
>> longer has such leverage. Crude-oil
>> production by nations who aren't members of
>> the Organization of Petroleum Exporting
>> Countries is widely expected to peak around
>> 2010. Outside of Russia and the Middle East,
>> the biggest opportunities today are in deep
>> waters off politically volatile Africa and in the
>> Caspian Sea, not in the West.
>>
>> The International Energy Agency, the
>> industrialized world's energy-market
>> watchdog, has forecast that world oil demand
>> will rise 37 percent by 2030, to 115 million
>> barrels a day from about 85 million today. But
>> the oil-producing nations with the greatest
>> pumping potential either will not or cannot tap
>> their resources sufficiently to meet those
>> projections.

Ah, interesting question - "...will not or cannot tap their
resources sufficiently to meet [demand."]

So which is it, "will not" or "cannot"? Hmmm? Any guesses out there?

Hint #1 - Oil is finite or infinite?

Hint #2 - Earth is a closed system or open?

Hint #3 - Oh nevermind. Just keep writing for your corporate overlords and enjoy your meaningless lives. Idiots, all of them! Is there a grownup in the house please? We on earth need a grownup over here. Please send one quickly, thank you.

>> The Paris-based IEA has long expected the
>> Saudis, who now supply about nine million
>> barrels a day, to contribute 18 million to 20
>> million barrels a day toward that figure. In an
>> interview, however, Mr. Naimi suggested that
>> the Saudis are unlikely to go much beyond 15
>> million barrels due to concerns about depleting
>> reserves too fast and damaging fields by
>> pumping too quickly. Other suppliers, including
>> Mexico and Kuwait, also appear unwilling or
>> unable to meet the expectations of Western
>> planners.

But, but... I don't understand. Mr. Naimi sir, I grew up being fed by the forever growth idea that we will just let the market handle stuff like this. Isn't that your understanding out there at the good 'ol IEA? I mean, surely with oil jumping beyond 70 to 100 dollars a barrel at the supply-demand gap, there will be plenty of innovations out there in the marketplace right? Can't we just let the market deliver us alternatives and let this whole Peak Oil misunderstanding take care of itself?

>> OPEC members have expressed concern that
>> demand projections such as the IEA's may be
>> overstated. The IEA has concluded that
>> because OPEC does not appear to be
>> investing as much in production as expected,
>> global oil supplies probably won't reach the
>> agency's 115-million-barrel target for 2030.
>> "We are likely to see higher prices for years to
>> come," says Fatih Birol, the IEA's chief
>> economist.

Ha, so the poor guys are OPEC led by Saudi Arabia are out there with spigots full blast, but that's not enough. They also have to be made stooges in front of the western cameras to help "calm the markets" with absurdities. Then, when that's all done, the IEA starts asking them to meet their promised quota by, now get this, investing money. Yeah, into western raider corporations. Go get em IEA! Loot, pillage, burn. Send out the Viking IEA warships to pick up some more energy slaves. We are thirsty out here.

Oh no. I just had a thought. Again, I am reminded that this ain't gonna end good. All the focus is on human conflict issues, a total denial of supply issues. Wall Street Journal, I think you are winning prizes in Hell right now. All the news that's fit to print for the devil's best endgame. The real "ragheads" are the publishers of the Wall Street Journal, because it is a rag of a paper.

>> Demand patterns have also changed
>> markedly. During the 1970s oil crisis, oil
>> consumption was still concentrated in the
>> industrialized West and in the Soviet Union,
>> which produced more than enough for itself
>> and its satellites. Today, the Saudis and their
>> OPEC allies have many more big, attractive
>> markets, starting with India and China.

Well, demand growth is a good thing. That's one way to look at it.I might also say: Demand patterns have changed with the lack of rain in the ancient tropical zone where the Gobi Desert now exists. There are many attractive markets for water in the desert as humans and hoofed animals hover on the edge of existence.

>> Producing nations also face booming demand
>> at home. Gasoline use in Iran, where the
>> capital city is clogged with cars, is rising by 10
>> percent a year. Oil demand in the Middle East
>> has risen by 13 percent since 2003, a growth
>> rate nearly as high as China's. The Middle
>> East was consuming 6.1 million barrels a day
>> at the end of 2005, compared with 6.6 million
>> barrels for China. This soaring demand
>> equaled about one-third of the increase in
>> global crude supplies, including from OPEC.
>>
>> Saudi Arabia, which sits on a quarter of the
>> world's oil reserves, also intends to consume
>> more crude at home. The world's largest oil
>> exporter is building new industries that rely on
>> petroleum in an effort to leverage its primary
>> resource, much as China did when it
>> harnessed its vast labor supply to become a
>> global manufacturing power. Mr. Naimi says
>> one of his biggest goals is to create exportoriented
>> fertilizer and aluminum industries.

Good, Mr. Naimi. Good goal you have. More industrial consumers of oil right there in Saudi Arabia. And what better industrial demand than more fertilizer? That will keep the people numbers rising a bit longer. And then, as Chip and Bhushan have already indicated, we will live on soybean oil for replacement...

Hey wait a minute. Mr. Naimi, will soybean oil get sent to Saudi Arabian fertilizer production facilities when the oil is dry? Let's run this through some calculations Mr. Naimi. Your goal seems a bit Malthusian in the long term, wouldn't you say? Are you ready to explain to your great grandchildren just what your goals are today Mr. Naimi? Hmmmm?

>> At Turaif Camp in the Arabian Peninsula's
>> northern desert, state-owned metals giant
>> Ma'aden has dug an open-pit test mine for
>> phosphates, an ingredient in fertilizer. Piles of
>> the white mineral glitter in the sun, sprinkled
>> with tiny fossilized sea creatures. Nearby,
>> workers are digging another mine to excavate
>> bauxite, the raw material of aluminum. These
>> mines are part of a $10 billion project that will
>> include a new coastal city with aluminum and
>> fertilizer factories -- all powered by Saudi's
>> huge reservoirs of heavy crude.
>>
>> Other oil exporters are using their oil
>> resources in more belligerent ways. Last
>> month, Ecuador expelled Occidental
>> Petroleum Corp. over a contract dispute.
>> Bolivia's president nationalized his country's
>> gas fields, dispatching troops to 53 fields and
>> ordering foreign firms to renegotiate contracts.
>> In April, Venezuela seized fields from Total
>> and ENI.

OK, now it is time to take the gloves off figurativelyspeaking.

Chip and Bhushan should be investigated for criminalnegligence and crimes against humanity.

How can they advocate using oil for the developmen tof new industrial demand at peak supply? OK, Iunderstand that they write for the Wall Street Journal,and as intellectual prostitutes. that is the term used byJournalist insider John Swinton in New York in 1890to describe people like Chip and Bhushan... and we need to start holding these guys accountable.

All the more these guys need to be accountable whenthey start accusing oil exporters of being "belligerent"when they resist the corporate doomsday machine bynationalizing reserves, ripping up contracts andthumbing their noses at exploitation. In the end, doesn't slowing down the tappers give a marginaladditional buffer to the eminent Peak Oil collapse? History will show soon, because we are at Peakproduction now. Several quotes in thisdisinformational piece alrady indicate that quitestrongly.

>> The new supply-demand landscape has left
>> the West increasingly vulnerable. The IEA
>> estimates that the 26 industrial countries that
>> are members of that organization will need to
>> import 85 percent of their oil by 2030,
>> compared to 63 percent today.

Well, are we to assume that the top 26 industrialcountries automatically have a right to get that 85 percent? Chip and Bhushan, you are dangerously close to advocating a prison planet and global enslaving system. And if you do advocate that, do you think you will benefit from such a system? Will therebe a bigger demand for disinfo journalist sycophants in that age? You are probably right if you think so. But you won't be paid for exploiting little people because you will always be little people to your masters. Disposable go-betweens. Nice career prospects for you then, eh? Slave decievers. Like the German prisoners at Soviet gulags used to exploit their own people, they all thought that they could win the respect of their overlords. Ha, expendable they were! All of them. The only ones that held respect were the prisoners that kept a solid ground in truth. Far from your minds right now, eh? Good luck to you then in your bright future if that's the case.

>> This is forcing a rethink of U.S. and European
>> diplomatic and military strategy. For half a
>> century, the energy-security formula had been
>> simple: Protect the oil-supply lines from the
>> Middle East, and the industrialized world
>> would be safe. President Carter codified that
>> thinking in the Carter Doctrine of 1980, which
>> declared Persian Gulf oil a vital national
>> interest and vowed to use military might to
>> defend the region from attack.
>>
>> When Arab members of OPEC embargoed oil
>> exports in 1973, the West responded by
>> squirreling away strategic stocks of oil for dire
>> emergencies. The oil embargo ultimately
>> fizzled, and the U.S. re-established close ties
>> with Saudi Arabia. After Iraq invaded Kuwait in
>> 1990, the Saudis swiftly increased production
>> to make up for almost all the oil lost in Iraq and
>> Kuwait. They did the same before and during
>> the invasion of Iraq in 2003.
>>
>> But the Middle East is no longer the shock
>> absorber it once was. Last fall, when
>> hurricanes devastated U.S. oil facilities in the
>> Gulf of Mexico, the Saudis already were
>> pumping about as much as they could. The
>> U.S. and its allies orchestrated a release of
>> strategic stockpiles to stave off shortages.
>>
>> Regions outside the Persian Gulf now are
>> capable of supplementing Western supplies.
>> But that means the West must build alliances
>> and deploy ships and troops to protect modest
>> supply routes as far afield as the Caspian Sea,
>> the Andean region of South America and West
>> Africa. Now every oil field matters.

Good history telling and then we arrive at the phrase: "Now every oil field matters." Kinda like they say today in the once tropical zones where the now Gobi Desert resides: "Now every water well matters." If it isn't Peak Oil, then what is it?

>> The consequences were clear at a recent
>> NATO conference on energy security in
>> Prague. Addressing NATO officials and oil
>> executives, U.S. Air Force Gen. Charles Wald,
>> at the time the U.S. military's deputy
>> commander for Europe and Africa, blasted the
>> industry for what he saw as lax security
>> around the world. He ticked off crucial
>> pipelines and energy-transportation choke
>> points in his theater. Such vulnerable points
>> include the Oresund Strait between Sweden
>> and Denmark and a pipeline running out of
>> Chad, a small producer.

Go get 'em Her General Wald! You go and fix that Oresund Straight between Sweden and Denmark big fella. That's the way to secure our oil from those radical Swedes.

>> The energy-security model laid out by
>> President Carter needs an update, said Gen.
>> Wald, who has since stepped down from his
>> post and is set to retire in July. "You just can't
>> call 1-800-dial-the-military," he said. "The oil
>> companies themselves have to start stepping
>> up." During a break in the session, footage of
>> burning oil facilities flashed across the
>> conference hall's screen as the 1960s tune
>> "Eve of Destruction" blared.

But General Wald, you CAN dial the military. That's just what we do, don't we?

Didn't we dial the military to enter into Iraq, a country with the greatest under-exploited oil reserves in the world? Aren't we spraying depleted uranium with abandon there right now.

And by the way, they call it "depleted" uranium? Sixty percent radiocative uranium is not any more "depleted" than 60% cyanide is depleted. If anyone thinks that 60% is safe, then I welcome them to drink 60% cyanide coffee or spray 60% du on their chicken sandwich... well, that is exactly what we are doing in Iraq right now. Prove me wrong WSJ... I dare you. Chip, Bhushan, you elite sycophant journalists... prove me wrong that 60% less radioactive is a good flavor for your chicken sandwich.

Jeez, what it takes to communicate to these guys!

>> Officials in Iran and Venezuela have warned
>> they could disrupt oil supplies if threatened by
>> the U.S. In January, Russia briefly shut off
>> natural-gas supplies to Ukraine, which many
>> observers read as a political warning to
>> independent-minded Kiev.

Those Bastards! How dare they turn off their spigots just because we threaten to kill their leaders and bomb their countries and forbid them from developing nuclear power and spread depleted uranium dust into their countries from our radioactive munitions. How dare they, slaves of the global elite, resist us! Don't they know who is boss? Go tell it like it is Chip and Bhushan! The natives arerestless, eh? We need to exert a little "attitude adjustment" on those resisters.

>> "The power of (energy) coercion is really
>> equivalent to a military attack," says Richard
>> Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign
>> Relations Committee. The Indiana Republican
>> says his stance on energy security hardened
>> in August after a diplomatic mission to North
>> Africa. He spent a night in Libya at Tripoli's
>> gleaming Corinthia Bab Africa Hotel, where he
>> saw Chinese, Indian and Western oil-company
>> executives vying for business in the country oil
>> fields, which had been closed to U.S.
companies for two decades before the U.S.
>> lifted economic sanctions in 2004.
>>
>> Mr. Lugar is now pushing for a treaty with
>> China and India that would spell out ways for
>> the three nations -- all large consumers of oil --
>> to cooperate rather than compete in the event
>> of a supply shock. In today's energy world, he
>> said, natural resources "are strategic
>> weapons."

That's right Herr Honorable Lugar! And if they attack us first, by not selling us all the oil we want, when we want, at the price we want, and how we want it with the big investments into our stock market and all that, well then we need to retaliate don't we? And what better way to retaliate than to get together all of the top users of energy and spray their whole country with depleted uranium?

Dear Herr Lugar Honorable Sir, can I be your armchair General? I just love to exploit people in the name of honor and justice. And our constituency will believe us to be heroes won't they? Best of both world's isn't it? All the wealth and all the glory, none of the risk. The only problem is that damn conscience. However, I found this great new religion that is helping me a lot with my conscience. "Do as thou wilt" is the only one commandment of Satanism Herr Lugar. Won't you join me at the next sacrifice? I'm just sure that you will like it. You might make Dark Deacon Lordship in a year if you get the US to attack another innocent country.

>> Western oil giants are racing to adjust. Ever
>> since Edwin Drake started drilling for oil in
>> Pennsylvania in 1859, launching the modern
>> petroleum age, oilmen have dreamed up
>> technologies to coax more crude from the
>> ground. Goldman Sachs estimates the
>> industry will spend $660 billion over the next
>> six years on big projects. Just 13 percent of
>> the oil expected from these efforts will come
>> from "traditional" extraction, the firm said. The
>> rest will involve more-complex technology or
>> resources formerly deemed too costly to
>> extract.

Again, the trends. Whereas everything used to be traditional extraction, now we have fallen to "just 13 percent".

Anyone over there at the Wall Street Journal Forecasting desk see a trend? Hmmm?

Bozos, all ofthem!

>> Shell, for instance, is spending heavily on
>> projects that have more in common with
>> mining operations than with the exploration
>> efforts of the previous century. It recently paid
>> $400 million for rights to explore for oil buried
>> deep in Alberta. Companies have rushed to
>> the region to mine its oil sands, a tar-like muck
>> that requires expensive excavation and
>> processing. Shell says it doesn't yet have
>> commercially proven technology to get at the
>> sands, but considers it a risk worth taking.
>> "I don't know how long exploration will
>> continue to be a major play" for big oil
>> companies, "but 50 years from now it will be
>> that much more difficult than it is today," says
>> Malcolm Brinded, Shell's head of exploration.
>> "You want to get in there now to get access to
>> the best acreage and drill the best wells. You
>> don't want to hang back in a situation like this."

Well there you go again, another insider spells it all outfor us. "but 50 years from now it will be that much more difficult." Isn't that a kinda significant indicator of Peak Oil right there? But no! Chip and Bhushan advocate the big corporate solution, which is to get into all of those helpless countries that have easy to access reserves and plunder them outright. What is good for Wall Street is good for Chip and Bhushan. Never mind the steeper cliff that would result if the big money get's their way. Chip and Bhushan don't pay any attention to those lowly concerns of "smaller" people, you know, the ones who read and actually believe what they write.

As we lose cheap petroleum, we will switch to that other time tested energy slave - people. My bet is that Chip and Bhushan will be out there telling us about how the stockmarket would be higher if only the little people would cooperate more and give more of their human energy to the big corporations - free, and under threat of death. Isn't that about the only available angle for a corporate shill journalist in the corporate controlled world of our coming post oil collapse?

>> Oil surpassed coal as the dominant source of
>> energy early in the 20th century, and was
>> essential to the development of aviation and
>> motorized transport. The world now appears to
>> be in the first stage of a bumpy transition to a
>> system in which oil, while still the economy's
>> most important fuel, will no longer so
>> thoroughly dominate it.

Very artistically spoken. How about a little adjustment to the last sentence for the sake of clarity. "The world now appears to be in the first stage of a bumpy transition to a system in which oil will be replaced by human slavery, a prospect that might hopefully keep disinfo journalists gainfully employed by their corporate masters."

>> Henry Groppe, the 80-year-old founder of a
>> Houston-based energy-consulting firm, has
>> watched the industry morph for half a century.
>> He divides oil history into three epochs. The
>> first was a 100-year era of plenty and U.S.
>> control that lasted until 1970, when prices
>> averaged $13 a barrel in 2004 dollars. The
>> second, an era of transition and rising OPEC
>> influence, lasted until 2004 and saw prices
>> average $36 a barrel over that period.
>>
>> The current era -- just two years old by Mr.
>> Groppe's reckoning -- looks to be a messy
>> one, with more potential for supply shocks and
>> clashing over resources. Prices are likely to
>> stay volatile as consumers try to outbid each
>> other for constrained and vulnerable flows of
>> crude. Rising prices tend to act as a rationing
>> device, knocking some consumers out of the
>> market altogether.
>>
>> "We have entered the era of scarcity and price
>> rationing," Mr. Groppe says.

Chip, Bhushan, Your article is a mess guys. I kindly draw your attention to your previous statement up top where you say "It doesn't appear that the planet is running out of crude, as proponents of the "peak oil"theory have argued."Then you go on to argue against national ownership of energy supplies, favoring Wall Street Corporation exploitation by any means, even going so far as to quote Herr Lugar's position of naked aggression against any country that doesn't relinquish natural resources on his terms.

Then we arrive here at your conclusion where you quote a Mr. Groppe who basically contradicts what you said about the planet not running out of oil.

All the disinfo that's fit to print, isn't that about the sizeof it guys?

I would like to take you guys on a journey beyond the "current era" described by Mr. Groppe which envisions an "era of scarcity and price rationing" as you quote.

OK, so what is the next era then beyond scarcity then? We will look out for your next excellent article Chip and Bhushan! The next era of human slavery. What willyou call that one? Maybe "Power shifts to Countrieswith human reserves"? Ha ha ha... you sycophant losers!

Original article taken from here -http://www.postgazette.com/pg/06165/698172-28.stm

Tate Ulsaker is a Peak Oil informed jester for peace and humanity. God help us. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ArkBuilders_org/

Anyone may post this article freely anywhere. Ugh... hope it helps somehow but I doubt it.

-Tate, Moscow

I just woke up from a terrible dream - Tate Ulsaker
[Update - subsequently published on Uruknet.info, click here -->>]
Oh, my aching head.

I just woke up from a terrible dream. It must have been the Trappiste beers from yesterday. As I shake my waterlogged head, the visions from the dream start coming back into view. I was in an America football stadium and I was supposed to sing the national anthem. But instead, I grabbed the microphone and started telling the crowd that they are all guilty of war crimes unless they get out of the dollar and renounce the US government of all power over their lives.

From that moment in my dream I must have been knocked out or drugged because, in my dream, I blanked out at the football stadium and suddenly found myself in a court of law.

"Are you guilty or innocent?" came the voice? I shook my waterlogged head once more...

The prosecution had already spoken and now I was supposed to say whether I was innocent or guilty. I asked the judge to please repeat what I was being accused of doing and he said that I am accused of being a domestic terrorist, of inciting the people to riot, and of crimes against humanity.

I said I am innocent of those things.

But the judge said that all of my guilt had already been proven and so since I failed to admit my guilt that meant that I had to be put to death.

Just then, my chair automatically shackled my arms and legs and waist and a hole opened up beneath me. I was dropped into a dungeon with masked executioners and given two buttons to push. They said that since I didn't resist arrest, I could chose how I was going to be executed.

They gave me something that looked like a a TV remote control, except this one had only two buttons on it. One button said: "death by hanging" and the other button said "death by fire". Not a lot of choices in this dungeon.

Thinking quickly, I asked them if I could have some last words. Of course the masked executioners weren't ready for any last requests so they radioed in to the courtroom and asked if I was allowed any privilege of "last words".

After some noises from the speakers that sounded like secretaries fumbling with files and law books, the judge's voice came over for a calculator and said with a pained voice, "the condemned is allowed 20 minutes and access to nationwide cable TV.

Well, this was a spot of good news to me. And I realized that such a loophole as I have found would be wiped off of the law books before the next domestic terrorist meets his maker so I would have to make the best of it.

Thinking quickly again, I asked for a calculator. Of course I took the executioners about 10 minutes to find one and I was getting pretty nervous about all of their fumbling and beginning to suspect that they were taking too long on purpose but anyway, I got the calculator and put the calcualtor screen up to the nationally broadcasted TV and I began typing in the digits: 4,500,000,000 explaining that this is the number of years that our government has condemned the people of the eath with exposure to depleted uranium nano particles from thousands of tons of exploded munitions in the Iraq war.

Then I multiplied that number times two and explained that the first number of 4.5 billion years was only the half-life. The new number representing 9 billion years was about half as deadly as the 4.5 billion but still, pretty scary since it only takes one little speck to cause cancer, disease and death.

Then I multiplied the number again times 2 and showed the number 18,000,000,000 and said that this is the fourth half-life. The specs of du are 4 times less deadly so it might take for example 4 specs of du to kill someone in the same rate that only one spec killed someone 13.5 billion years previous but still, I said, that is a long time to wait for such small amount of security.

One of the guards showed me his watch and told me that I had only 2 minutes left. Thinking quickly once again as sometimes we do when we are in a life and death situation, I turned his watch upside down and said that it was 5 minutes and not two. To this, he seemed satisfied although I may never know because he had on a black ski mask and a Darth Vader type of helmet. Anyway, I was glad that he had a digital watch or he might not have fell for that trick.
Making use of my time, I asked the guards to estimate for me how many people would die per year average during the next 18 billion years as American depleted uranium dust circles the globe in the air, sand, water, food supply and genetic code of people, animals, insects, fungi and every live and dead thing that it comes into contact with. They just looked at each other and shrugged.

I said that I can't finish my last words until they give me a number and if they give me the wrong number then they might be found guilty of the same things as I. This made the nervous enough to radio back into the judge, who was already out of his chambers by then.

With the national cable TV still running my last words segment, I pleaded with the audience to please phone in and give the guards the number of humans to die from the thousands of tons of du spread by the US government over the next 18 billion years. I explained that I wanted to have a number for humans separate from the number of each mammal species and each bird species and each insect species and each biological species that has ever been identified as a separate number and I said that they were obligated to assume that du will continue contaminating even after being ingested because the reproductive organs of each of those species would produce still births and the dead carcasses would still contain du which could still re-enter the food supply, water supply and possibly air supply if a big wind blew over the mummified remains and so on.

Nobody could give me my number in the alloted 5 minutes and the time was just about up when I awoke from my dream.

Unfortunately, countless hundreds of thousands of people in our world right now today cannot wake up from their nightmare of depleted uranium poisoning, brought to you by the United States Government "War on WMD's" and "War on Terror" and "War for no-bid Contracts". We Americans who do not voice active opposition against this war may be considered silently compiant in the greatest crime against humanity ever.

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing." (Edmund Burke)

Americans remain largely quiet in the face of depleted uranium. Thus, the insanity continues for us all. -Tate Ulsaker

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Legacy of Treason
Depleted Uranium and the Poisoning of Humanity
Alok O'Brien


June 24, 2006DOWNLOAD A .PDF FILE OF THIS ARTICLE In recent years I have become aware of the issue of depleted uranium (DU) and its use by the US Military in Iraq in 1991 and again in the current Iraq war. The photos of birth deformities and stories of suffering resulting from DU shocked me, reminding me of the Agent Orange victims of America's Vietnam war. Then I watched David Bradbury and Peter Scott's new film, Blowin' in the Wind . Its content shocked and appalled me, and spurred me into researching and writing this article. It is undoubtedly by far the most significant issue on the planet today, and yet the mainstream media stays quiet.

Published March 06 issue byronchild magazine
Republished Living Now magazine, May 06

treason n 1 betrayal of one's sovereign or country. 2 any treachery or betrayal. treasonable adj treasonous adj

Depleted uranium (DU) is what is left after raw uranium has been enriched to the highly radioactive isotope U-235 used for weapons and power generation. For every ton of U-235 produced, there are seven tons of DU. Estimates vary, but it seems that currently the US alone has in excess of five million tons of stockpiles of DU. This has no commercial use beyond its use as a radiation shield in medical devices, and for adding to concrete to form radiation containing bunkers. However, this requires an insignificant quantity of the DU produced each year.

The half-life of DU is 4.5 billion years, so storing it safely and indefinitely is cost prohibitive. To remedy the situation, the US Department of Energy has made it freely available to the Pentagon and US armaments and armour manufacturers, and it has been used in weapons exported to 29 countries. It is simply cheaper to make it into weapons than store it.

It is widely accepted that DU itself is fairly stable, as the dangerous alpha particles which it emits cannot pass through more than a couple of centimetres of air. The problems arise when DU is in contact with water or is used in weaponry and explodes. (See the photo above — the sparks are DU that is on fire and exploding.) It then creates a vapourised, radioactive gas comprising of tiny nano-particles. The microscopic particles in this vapour are then littered, depending upon prevailing winds, up to 100 kms around (estimates on this vary — with some sources citing up to 1000 kms), where they fall on crops, water, or just on the ground to be picked up by the next gust of wind or by car tyres. Later, when this gas enters the atmosphere, it can spread worldwide.

The nanoparticles of DU enter the body, from the air, from landing on clothing or skin and from food or water. These nanoparticles penetrate all protective clothing and masks, and once it comes in contact with the body it immediately disperses and begins to alter DNA. As it is not soluble it cannot be excreted from the body. Uranium is a toxic chemical element, just like lead, mercury, cadmium and chromium.

According to the declassified Groves memo from the Manhattan Project in 1943, the properties of DU in weapons has been known and strategised with for 60 years. It is clear that the US has known for 60 years about the effects of DU on the battlefield, also the danger to its own soldiers.
Why is DU so useful as a weapon?

DU is very hard, the hardest and densest of metals, and so is used for armour piercing rounds, fired from tanks, ships, aircraft and snipers, and for the bunker buster bombs made famous in the 2003 attack on Baghdad. It is also in the Tomahawk Cruise missiles fired from ships. Being so hard, it is also used extensively in the armour plating of tanks and armoured cars.

DU is a pyroforic metal, meaning it burns. The bullets and large calibre shells are actually on fire when they come out of the gun barrel because they are ignited by the friction in the barrel and explode on contact — armour piercing incendiary ammunition. Most of the DU metal becomes a metal vapour, so it is really a radioactive gas weapon once the initial destruction has occurred. DU weaponry are nuclear weapons. No question.

However, the military use of DU violates current international law including the principle that there is no unlimited right to choose the means and methods of warfare.

When speaking of the quantities of DU used in various wars it is worth understanding that the amount of uranium used in the bomb that destroyed Hiroshima was approximately 13kg, about the size of a two-litre milk container. A Japanese professor, Dr. K. Yagasaki, has calculated that in terms of the atomicity, (the amount of radiation produced), a ton of DU used on the battlefield releases the equivalent of 100 Hiroshima bombs worth of radiation released into the atmosphere. Thus when experts refer to the 2000 tons of DU dropped on Iraq in the past three years, what is being released in the Iraqi atmosphere, and then spreading worldwide, is the equivalent of 200,000 Hiroshima bombs. The total amount of DU the US has used since 1991 is approximately 4600 tons (1000 in the first Gulf War, 800 in Kosovo, 800 in Afghanistan and a further 2000 tons in the current Iraq war.) This amounts to approximately 460,000 Hiroshima bombs, ten times the amount of radiation released into the atmosphere from all previous nuclear testing worldwide.


Sailors sort blue-tipped depleted uranium MK-38 25mm machine-gun shells while another fires them out to sea in exercises at Shoalwater Bay. Notice the protective clothing and gloves.
Gulf War Syndrome

Over the past 18 months there has been an erupting scandal in the US in the Department of Veterans Affairs as DU is blamed by more and more respected scientists for Gulf War Syndrome (and also, Balkans War Syndrome).

Of the 580,000 US soldiers that served in Iraq in 1991, by mid 2004 518,739 were on medical disability pensions. This figure is 150,000 higher than just one year earlier. There are no more recent statistics, but it would appear that by now the percentages of soldiers affected would be reaching 100% According to Leuren Moret in a group of 251 soldiers from a study group in Mississippi who had all had normal babies before the first Gulf War, 67% of their post-war babies were born with severe birth defects. They were born with missing legs, arms, organs or eyes or had immune system and blood diseases. In some veterans' families now, the only normal or healthy members of the family are the children born before the war. 'The use of depleted uranium weapons is a crime against humanity, a crime against all species, and a war against the earth,' says Moret. 'It is imperative that we demand a permanent international moratorium on the sale and the use of depleted uranium weaponry.' DU: Coming to a country near you
A 20-year agreement was signed last year between the United States and Australia, the specific terms of which are secret, but which allows the US military to train and test its latest weapons in Australia. This involves bombing ranges in the pristine Shoalwater Bay near Rockhampton in Queensland and at Lancelin, the lobster fishing village 150kms north of Perth where there would be ship-to-shore bombing from nuclear powered and capable US navy ships.

Also in the Northern Territory a 'test' bombing range has been designated where B52s and Stealth bombers will, as of January 06, and as you read this, be dumping their payloads on their flights from Guam. The US Navy uses DU in its shelling, and the B52s will be most likely (presumably they will be testing the weapons they actually use) carrying bunker buster bombs with their 2.2 tons of DU each. Retrospective legislation was passed to remove the need for any Environmental Impact Study (EIS) before or after the duration of this agreement.

When asked in the Australian Senate about whether or not the US would be using DU in its bombing of Australian sites, Defence Minister Senator Hill said, 'In relation to Depleted Uranium used by our allies we have said that, if they believe it is the most appropriate element to use in their particular munitions in certain circumstances, we do not think it is appropriate for us to press a different view upon them.' Senator Hill has since retired from Australian politics and has taken up residence as the Australian UN Ambassador in New York

The death economy

More and more it appears that the things which are most important are simply those that generate the biggest growth in profits, in the GDP. Sickness generates business, cancer rates generate research dollars, war accelerates growth, and we wonder why peace is so elusive when we worship the economy. The following is equally applicable to Australia now as it was to the US in the 1960s.

Too much and for too long we seem to have surrendered personal excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product now is over $800 billion a year.

But that gross national product, if we judge the United States of America by that, counts air pollution, and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors, and the jails for people who break them. It counts the destruction of redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and it counts nuclear warheads, and armoured cars for the police to fight the riots in our cities. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television program which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.

Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our passion nor our devotion to our country.

It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile. And it can tell us everything about America — except why we are proud that we are Americans.
— Robert Kennedy, 18/3/1968

Ultimately we do not know how much DU is being used in Shoalwater Bay, or Lancelin or dumped daily in the Northern Territory.

We do know that Japan, the Philippines and Puerto Rica no longer allow the US to bomb their lands with DU, and that there is no ship-to-shore bombing allowed anymore on the US mainland.

We know that there are hundreds of very vocal groups in opposition worldwide to the use of DU, who have devoted their lives to this issue.

We also know that the US government does not particularly care about the safety of their troops or anyone else's, and is seemingly content to poison the world for eternity, and poison themselves in the process. We know that weapons usage is classified and that such information will never be freely supplied to the Australian people, while nuclear powered and armed ships are cruising the waters of the Great Barrier Reef. In January, the largest nuclear powered and capable aircraft carrier in the world, boasting 6000 marines on board, docked in Brisbane.
If the contamination of Shoalwater Bay and Lancelin is anything like Iraq, Kosovo, or Afghanistan, then the vicinity of these places should be avoided. But it would be a mistake to think that the troubles are confined to those areas. The beef and pineapples from Rockhampton, and the seafood from Lancelin, could be contaminated and end up on your bbq. After this article was first published a reader contacted the West Australian Government who assured them that the Federal Government had told them, in writing, that DU was not being used in WA. The Federal Government may in fact believe what it is saying, but given the photo that appeared on the US Navy's own website, of DU shells being loaded into a ship's gun in Shoalwater Bay (see http://www.c7f.navy.mil/ts05/photos.htm, scroll to near bottom of page), it beggars belief that they would not be using DU in WA. After all, according to the Defence Department, DU is perfectly safe. They test weapons that they use, and they certainly use DU weapons.
According to Leuren Moret, it is simply no longer possible to go to Afghanistan or the Middle East without being contaminated. How long before that is also true of Australia?
There are questions that need to be asked by everyone related to the integrity of our political leadership.

Does our government have our best interests in mind

• when they sign up for bombardments on Australian soil and in Australian waters by DU tipped weaponry?
• when they refuse to stipulate that no nuclear weapons are to be used on our shores, and will they guarantee that our children will not grow up breathing in DU nanoparticles?
• when they sign up for Son of Star Wars , which will cost in excess of $50 billion? (To protect us from what? Who?)

Does our government have our best interests in mind when they decide to sequester large tracts of land in the Northern Territory for eternity for a nuclear dump, so the US and UK can dump their 'spent' nuclear fuel and we can export more uranium?

Do they have our best interests at heart when they sign up for a de facto [unshielded] nuclear dump under the guise of a joint bombing facility in the Northern Territory?

Who is running the agenda that says that all of a sudden it is OK to talk about new nuclear power stations as if nuclear power is an answer to global warming? David Goodstein, professor of physics at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) said on ABC's Lateline in October 2004 that if nuclear power were to provide all of the energy that fossil fuel currently provides there would be enough uranium for just 10 years!

Westinghouse and GE build most of the nuclear power stations in the world, and also happen to own significant stakes in most major media companies in the US, which is largely why no real discussion will arise from the US on this issue. Nuclear power becomes unviable if the cost of disposing of the DU is factored in, which is why it is given to the Pentagon. Now Australia wants to expand the number and size of its uranium mines to sell to India and China (Who knows how they will dispose of their DU!). Now Australia, thanks to John Howard, is talking seriously about building power stations when our largest single electricity supplier, the Snowy Mountains company, is running at 13% capacity! (SMH,24/5/06)

Together we need to do something. Research the internet, find out for yourself what the DU debate is about. Do the research before you speak to anyone so you know what you are talking about, as you will find that most people will not want to believe that this is happening. The list of websites supplied at the end of this article is by no means definitive, but is a good place to start. Get in touch with any of the many groups that have mobilised over this issue all over the world. Start your own group. Do not let the size of the opposition and the scale of the ignorance and unwillingness to know the truth that you will be confronted with, convince you that you are helpless and cannot do anything about DU. This is what they depend on .

Contact your local politician, and do not accept anything that smells like a brush-off. This may well be the most important thing you ever do.

Buy a copy and arrange a showing of the film Blowin' in the Wind at your local cinema, and get your local community radio station to broadcast talks, interviews and lectures like those available on www.alternativeradio.org or www.traprockpeace.org and many other websites.
If you live or holiday near the affected areas, make lots of noise with the local councillors and media. Be disobedient. Be seditious. Get the use of DU weaponry stopped. It is nuclear weaponry.

Find out who provides the Public Liability insurance for the army, and does that insurer know the risks associated with DU? Perhaps the way to stop this is through the public liability requirements that the Australian population is tied up with. Any insurance lawyers out there?
This is our home that is being poisoned. It is our country. Demand that it is respected and protected for our children and their children. History will not forgive us if we stand by idly.

This article was first published in byronchild magazine, issue 17 (www.byronchild.com).
Alok O'Brien is a writer and publisher who believes that there is no longer time to pretend that everything will be alright, and that all thinking and feeling people need to unite in their hopes and dreams and reclaim the earth and their birthright before it is too late. With wife Kali he publishes byronchild and holds together the technical aspect of the magazine. For a pdf version of this article for photocopying and/or reprinting, email Alok at alok@byronpublications.com.
References

• US Nuclear policy and Depleted Uranium: Testimony at the 28/6/2003 International War Crimes Tribunal on Afghanistan, by Leuren Moret.
http://www.c7f.navy.mil/ts05/index.htm
What you can do?
Activists websites

• Dusk: Depleted uranium, Silent Killer
http://www.dusk-qld.info/
• IDUST. International Depleted Uranium Study Team
www.idust.net
• Campaign Against Depleted Uranium (UK)
http://www.cadu.org.uk/
• Sea Swap. Lancellin bombing, Western Australia, DU. www.seaswap.org
• Irati Want. Site related to proposed nuclear dump in South Australia. www.iratiwanti.org/home.php3
• Depleted Uranium Education Project
www.iacenter.org/depleted/du.htm
• Depleted Uranium: Hysteria or health threat? Anti Nuclear Alliance of Western Australia website
www.anawa.org.au/weapons/du.html
• WISE (World Information Service on Energy) Uranium Project.
www.wise-uranium.org/index.html
• Map of Uranium mines and facilities in Australia:
www.futureaus.net/map/index.html
DVDs, radio interviews, talks

• Blowin' In The Wind , DVD by David Bradbury, Peter Scott.
http://www.frontlinefilms.com.au/
• Dr. Doug Rokke, USA

Further reading

• What does the US government know about DU? By Leuren Moret
www.traprockpeace.org/depleted_uranium.html
• The Depleted Uranium Project
• Depleted uranium and health: Facts and helpful suggestions
• 'The Trail of a Bullet,' Christian Science Monitor .
• Heads roll at Veteran's Admin: Mushrooming DU scandal blamed, Bob Nichols, San Francisco Bay View, December 14, 2005.
www.sfbayview.com/012605/headsroll012605.shtml
• DU FAQ. What the Pentagon has to say
www.gulflink.osd.mil/faq_17apr.htm
• Local troops victims of America's high tech weapons. Juan Gonzalez, New York Daily News , April 2, 2004.
www.nydailynews.com/front/story/180333p-156685c.html
• Radioactive Wounds of War. Dave Lindorff, In These Times , August 25, 2005 www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2298/
• 'Where and how much depleted uranium has been fired?'
www.laka.org/teksten/Vu/where-how-much-01/main.html
• Depleted Uranium Weapons and Acute Post- War Health Effects: An IPPNW (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) Assessment. www.converge.org.nz/pma/dupost.htm
• American Free Press four-part series on DU by Christopher Bollyn.
- Part III: 'DU Syndrome stricken Vets denied care: Pentagon hides DU dangers to deny medical care to Vets',
- www.coastalpost.com/04/08/01.htm
• World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference, Hamburg, Germany, October 16-19, 2004:
www.uraniumweaponsconference.de/speakers.htm
• www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/uran/index_e.html
• Depleted uranium may stop kidneys 'in days', Rob Edwards, NewScientist.com , March 12, 2002
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn2024%20
• The War Against Ourselves, Doug Rokke, YES! , Spring 2003. www.yesmagazine.com/article.asp?ID=594
• Science or Science Fiction? Facts, myths and propaganda in the debate over depleted uranium weapons, Dan Fahey, March 12, 2003.
www.antenna.nl/wise/uranium/pdf/dumyths.pdf
• US Army Training Video: Depleted Uranium Hazard Awareness
www.informationclearinghouse.info/article3581.htm
• Extreme birth deformities of Iraqi children (Warning: these photos may distress viewers)
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