Bush wants history to see him as liberator of millions...

Nuremberg type of trials should address:

1. numbers dead total on all sides
2. treasonous reasons to instigate the war
3. Who profited and what connections do profits have to instigating the war
4. depleted uranium and white phosphorous use as a crime against humanity
5. Torture and illegal detaining for many years innocent people
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http://www.justforeignpolicy.org/iraq/iraqdeaths.html

Iraq Veterans Witness War Crimes / Support GI Resisters!

Pretty much as we assumed, the financial crisis will bring civil disorder and a hard reaction from the police state already in place.

From there we will see efforts intensified to bring forward the global government + global currency.

But will the globalists actually get eveything they want amidst such confustion? Are they trying to unify the world against false flag "terrorism" during this unravelling process?

Cheers, Tate
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Ron Paul Warns Of Secret Plans To Create International Central BankTexas Congressman Ron Paul has warned that international forces are planning the creation of a global central bank that will see a new fiat monetary system come to dominate the world economy.

Financial Disaster Will Lead to Civil Disorder in 2009 or 2010, Says Secret Citibank Memo

Hyperinflation of Dollar to Drive Precioius Metals Boom

Let's see here...

1. On the one hand, we have record demand exploding upwards for precious metals in the very beginning stages of a global currency and economic meltdown.
2. and we have on the other hand, we have an artificially high dollar that is cresting the peak of a deflationary period now poised to crash in value through an enduring period of inflation, resulting ultimately with hyperinflation of the world's dying global currency.

I smell a huge opportunity here for people who shift totally away from paper and totally into precious metals.

The downside is minimal and the upside is unprecedented. The stories on the one below are slowly filtering into the mainstream economic press.

We saw big gains in precious metals (in dollar terms) over the last 5-years. Much bigger gains are coming as the dollar begins now to slowly tip into the next stages out of deflation, into inflation and then hyperinflation, leading towards eventual collapse as all fiat currencies always have done among thousands of examples and no exceptions ever in history.

Any questions? :-)

Cheers, Tate

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Is The End Of The COMEX Nigh?
-- Posted Sunday, 30 November 2008 Digg This Article Source: GoldSeek.com
By Andy Hoffman

The war over gold and silver rages on, with its center stage as always at the NY COMEX futures exchange, often referred to affectionately as the “CRIMEX”. Myself and other metal market observers, most notably Jim Sinclair, Marc Faber, Eric Sprott, and Bill Murphy, have painstakingly watched this horror show play out over the past decade, under the guise of the U.S. “Strong Dollar Policy”, the ultimate oxymoron and falsehood.

We and others have discussed at length the incredibly positive fundamentals for both gold and silver, and by now it should be clear to all that supply for both are PLUMMETING while demand is EXPLODING. And there’s a reason why I’ve capped these words, as I cannot underestimate how powerful these forces have become, and how much strength they gain each day. Aside from the sharp increase in demand, depicted in last week’s World Gold Council quarterly report and by the fact that the Perth Mint, one of the world’s largest, is not accepting any more orders, supply is completely collapsing in nearly all markets.

But, once again, the key to this story is NOT the dollar, NOT other commodities, NOT the credit crisis, and NOT even gold’s supply/demand balance. It is one thing, and one thing alone; the ability of the gold/silver Cartel to surreptitiously (and in many cases illegally) sate the soaring physical demand. Clearly, they are losing the battle of the physical markets, given global shortages, record demand, and record premiums being paid over spot prices. Not to mention that gold is hitting new record highs in nearly all global currencies outside the yen and the dollar, the two currencies that have benefitted the most from the deleveraging (NOT safe haven buying) going on over the past two months. See the link below.

http://jsmineset.com/index.php/2008/11/24/gold-in-us-dollars-is-only-part-of-the-picture/#respond

But the WAR is fought in the NY COMEX market from 8:20 am to 1:30 pm EST each day, as that is where essentially ALL of gold and silver’s losses occur. Amazingly, throughout this nearly nine-year bull market, gold has declined far more than it has risen in New York, and last I read it had fallen in something like 93% of this year’s trading sessions despite being down just 2% this year. And, by the way, that 2% decline has outperformed essentially every asset on earth, not just this year but for seven straight years, soon to be eight!

Anyone wonder why in today’s massive “reflation” trade, in which copper, oil, and stocks all rose sharply, somehow the ONLY asset to decline was gold, which by definition is the asset class of choice if one is betting on “reflation” (read: inflation)? I think you know the answer, an answer which once again was given between 8:20 am and 1:30 pm EST in the NY COMEX futures market.

But the COMEX’s days of setting global gold and silver prices appears to be nearing its end (in itself a ridiculous concept, given that such a tiny percentage of futures traders have anything to do with the business of gold and silver production). As I have been noting for some time now, COMEX open interest, or the number of outstanding contracts, has been plummeting for both metals all year. Consequently, open interest for both gold and silver are currently at multi-year lows amidst the greatest financial crisis in a century.

The gold open interest has plummeted from an all-time high of 593,000 in January to an astounding 276,000 today, a level not seen in three and a half years, at a time when the gold price was just $430/oz versus $817/oz. today. In silver, open interest has fallen from a record 189,000 in February to a scanty 86,000 today, a level not seen since 2004 when the price of silver was about $6.80/oz versus $10.35/oz today. See the charts below.


But the crazy part of this year’s plunge in COMEX gold open interest is that during this period, the price of gold only declined by 10%, from $910/oz at the peak to about $815/oz. today. In silver, the price decline was more significant, but as you know the CFTC is currently investigating this price drop due to the fact that one or two banks (evidence suggests it was just one) shorted 25% of global silver production this summer, taking up something like 90% of the entire short position on the COMEX. Silver is a much smaller market than gold, which is why it tends to be more volatile (read: more manipulated), but either way the record physical demand shows that this drop in the futures price had little semblance to reality.

The other crazy thing about gold and silver futures are that they are the ONLY commodities to have lopsided short positions, not just now but ALWAYS. Gold and silver have been in bull markets for nearly a decade, with nearly all mining companies DE-HEDGING over the past five years. However, somehow the “Commercials” always seem to have a vastly lopsided short position. Remember when oil and copper blew their tops this year to the upside, or corn, soybeans or you name it? Well guess what, none of them EVER had a short position materially larger than their long position, OR vice-versa. In fact, silver has had an acknowledged supply/demand DEFICIT (by CPM and the Silver Institute) for 15 years in a row, but is the ONLY commodity to have had a non-stop commercial short position over the past decade! In fact, as gold and silver continued to rise from 2000 to 2008, each year the “Commercials” short position got LARGER. See charts below.



But let’s see WHY the open interest has dropped to multi-year lows at the same time that global demand for physical gold and silver has reached ALL-TIME records. Looking at the two above charts, one can see that the “Commercials”, which for the most part are really banks such as JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, have been massively covering their shorts this summer, to the point that net positive positions are starting to look like a near-term possibility.

The net Commercial short position in gold has not been this low since mid-2005, when gold was about $420/oz, and in silver since EARLY 2003, when silver was just $3.80/oz.. And this trend is not just seen in the U.S., but in Japan as well where the “Commercial” shorts have now gone essentially neutral (including Goldman Sachs) after having MASSIVE short positions 12-18 months ago. In Japan, individual firms such as Goldman Sachs must disclose their long/short position, but in the U.S. the NYMEX allows them anonymity by simply publishing the collective position of the “four or fewer” and “two or fewer” largest positions.

Of course, given that JP Morgan holds the most derivative contracts on the planet, including the most gold derivatives (in amounts FAR EXCEEDING the actual amount of gold in existence), it is reasonable to deduce that they are the largest and most powerful player on the COMEX. And slightly off topic, does anyone find it weird that JP Morgan, the company with BY FAR the most derivatives outstanding, has been not only spared an equivalent level of financial carnage as the other money-center commercial and investment banks , but has additionally been used essentially as a “government garbage can” for smaller, insolvent firms like WaMu and Bear Stearns? Just as Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were ambiguously called “quasi-government entities” before being fully taken over by the government this summer, I believe JP Morgan has become a de facto “quasi-government entity”.

On the other side of the coin (no pun intended), let’s take a look at the “Large Speculators” positions, in other words the positions of honest to goodness traders simply looking to profit on gold and silver price trends:

Except for a few minor blips, these positions have also fallen to levels last seen three to four years ago. This will happen in a market that falls 93% of the time despite being in a bull market for nearly a decade. Aside from the obviously massive financial losses that gold and silver futures traders have amassed on the COMEX, it is becoming crystal clear that they are fighting the house in a rigged casino.

This likely explains not only the colossal decline in gold and silver open interest during an historic “safe haven period”, but also the massive increases seen in the physical holdings of physical ETFs (such as GLD and SLV), as well as the enormous growth in physical closed-end funds such as CEF.

Yep, it is quite amazing that despite 30% and 60% declines this summer in the prices of gold and silver, respectively, both GLD and SLV are now holding all-time record holdings of actual physical metal. To find this info, use the below link and scroll down to the charts titled “SPDR Gold Shares – Gold held in Trust” and “SLV Silver Holdings”.

http://www.resourceinvestor.com/pebble.asp?relid=48202

Not only are such losses enormously apparent in the COMEX futures market, but in the real world where essentially ALL gold and silver miners are operating at losses, with several of the larger players moving toward bankruptcy as we speak. And don’t forget about South Africa, once the largest gold miner in the world by far, where its entire gold industry is now underwater and on the brink of economic catastrophe due to the artificially low price. Unless gold trades well above $1,000/oz for an extended period of time, not only will much of the gold industry shut down, but the risk of civil unrest will increase exponentially.

Anyhow, what makes me think the end of the COMEX is nigh, at least in its role as a price-setting mechanism for global gold and silver prices? Well, nothing is guaranteed, but the December futures contract is the largest of the year, and is set to expire shortly. Physical gold and silver have already started to slowly leave the COMEX warehouses (particularly in silver), and the amount of outstanding contracts this late in the contract yields the potential for significant demands for physical delivery.

Several well-known Precious Metals experts (such as Jim Sinclair and Eric Sprott) have been actively bringing this point into the public light, doing their best to organize physical offtake of the 100 oz. gold and 5,000 oz. silver contracts. At current prices, one such gold contract would cost about $80,000, and one such silver contract about $50,000, hardly large amounts in today’s world of multi-trillion bailouts and “liquidity injections”.

All of the COMEX inventories (currently 8.5 million ounces of gold and 129 million ounces of silver) do not need to be delivered, but any kind of material change has the potential to spook the market into fearing a run on the metals. If this occurs, the COMEX market rigging scheme will be finished, with the obvious results being that 1) gold and silver prices would immediately rise to significantly higher levels, and 2) the non-stop attacks on COMEX gold and silver would either halt or lose their ability to impact the REAL global gold and silver prices. Would such action also have a spillover impact on industrial metals such as copper? It is hard to tell, but clearly the inflationary signal given by rising gold and silver could only help the base metals, particularly at a time where global inventory levels are historically low.

I am not naïve enough to believe the Cartel is not aware of this potential “situation” on the COMEX, and will likely do everything in their power to prevent it from happening. But the December contract will likely see them face some stiff competition, perhaps the most they have experienced yet. And even if it doesn’t happen now, the odds of it occurring in the near-future are rising exponentially, especially given the escalating nature of the financial crisis and its accompanying bailouts.

Citigroup is also predicting that this bizarre vacuum of space-time that we call "Deflationary Period" will end soon when a lot of inflation in prices starts to affect everything that we buy with currency.

So to be clear:

1. Prices will rise in dollar terms from here forward.
2. Prices will be either flat or lower in gold and silver terms here forward.

What is happening is that the dollar is getting printed into value-less-ness, thereby affecting all prices in dollars. And as a result, people of course exit the dollar and buy stuff. Stuff like food, a generator, a water purifier, and if anything is left over to save for a rainy day, a lot of people will get gold and silver. The effect of that will be, as all things rise in price compared to dollars, the price of gold and silver will go up faster because of their increased demand.

Now some strange things can also happen with gold and silver. They are such small markets compared to paper. The whole world is coming under inflationary pressures. With debt and housing, everyone was using their own currency and housing market to run into the housing bubble world wide. Now with gold and silver, there is just one ultra small yet global market. It won't take much to light this powder keg.

Not everyone in the world is able to get a suburban home in Iowa or a GM stock certificate from DOW Jones, but almost everyone knows how and why to get an ounce of silver or gold.

Bottom line: We could be looking at a perfect storm here in relation to supply and demand. And I further suspect that the globalist want a perfect storm in precious metals because 1) they have most of the stuff and 2) their actions of manipulation seems to be setting up the scenario quite nicely.

So if you missed the dot com boom, if you missed the housing boom, don't worry, you have in front of you the precious metals boom and the food boom. Just position yourself with silver and a garden.

Cheers, Tate
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Citigroup says gold could rise above $2,000 next year as world unravels
Gold is poised for a dramatic surge and could blast through $2,000 an ounce by the end of next year as central banks flood the world's monetary system with liquidity, according to an internal client note from the US bank Citigroup.

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Last Updated: 7:29AM GMT 27 Nov 2008

An employee of Tanaka Kikinzoku Jewelry K.K. displays a gold bar at the company's store in Tokyo Photo: Reuters

Is it any surprise that Venezuela gave contracts out to all of the big Russian oil majors?

Gazprom, Lukoil, Rosneft, Surgut, TNK-BP to Pump, Refine Venezuelan Oil OAO Gazprom and four other Russian oil companies will create a joint venture with Petroleos de Venezuela SA to pump and refine oil from the South American nation's Orinoco Belt, Gazprom Deputy Chief Executive Officer Alexander Medvedev said today in Caracas.

If big bullies ultimately failed in high school, they also ultimately fail in global politics.



Being a big bully just makes everyone angry and spiteful.

The US has pushed 300 million innocent Americans into the bully image and we need to throw out our leaders sooner... 8-years is simply not acceptable. How many countries out there do we invade and then justify in the press saying that their own people should have overthrown their tyrants.

What about us?

American policy hacks need to be looking into the mirror introspectively for correction necessary to function in society.

Of course it is too late to make changes because our bully policies are reaping results that currently are snowballing out of control.

Rich become like new slave lords as the world trends into dieoff

This seems like a logical progression from where we are to the New World Order of Neo Feudalism...

From here, the plan in process seems to be along the lines of:

1. First crash real assets
2. Then print up a bank robbery bailout and give it to corporate insiders
3. Then the corporate insiders buy up depressed real assets (SUCH AS FOOD PRODUCING LAND!)
4. True ownership of productive capacity shrinks into the hands of increasingly few while the rest of the world experiences an undevelopment, and uncivilization effect in their lifes: owning nothing, they live hand to mouth, they comprise of 95% of the world. Welcome to Neo Globalist Feudalism
   

Actually, we were already pretty aware of the oil-food-people related dieoff here.

But I was not really predicting that the big banks and industrialists would buy up control over the market for food producing land in the third world.

Such seems to be the case below. Ugh, not just a dieoff, but a profitable and controlled dieoff that puts further distance between the haves and the have nots (have nots become the deads).

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Rich countries launch great land grab to safeguard food supply

• States and companies target developing nations
• Small farmers at risk from industrial-scale deals

Julian Borger, diplomatic editor
guardian.co.uk, Saturday November 22 2008 00.01 GMT
The Guardian, Saturday November 22 2008
Article history

Rich governments and corporations are triggering alarm for the poor as they buy up the rights to millions of hectares of agricultural land in developing countries in an effort to secure their own long-term food supplies.
The head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, Jacques Diouf, has warned that the controversial rise in land deals could create a form of "neo-colonialism", with poor states producing food for the rich at the expense of their own hungry people.

Rising food prices have already set off a second "scramble for Africa". This week, the South Korean firm Daewoo Logistics announced plans to buy a 99-year lease on a million hectares in Madagascar. Its aim is to grow 5m tonnes of corn a year by 2023, and produce palm oil from a further lease of 120,000 hectares (296,000 acres), relying on a largely South African workforce. Production would be mainly earmarked for South Korea, which wants to lessen dependence on imports.

"These deals can be purely commercial ventures on one level, but sitting behind it is often a food security imperative backed by a government," said Carl Atkin, a consultant at Bidwells Agribusiness, a Cambridge firm helping to arrange some of the big international land deals.
Madagascar's government said that an environmental impact assessment would have to be carried out before the Daewoo deal could be approved, but it welcomed the investment. The massive lease is the largest so far in an accelerating number of land deals that have been arranged since the surge in food prices late last year.

"In the context of arable land sales, this is unprecedented," Atkin said. "We're used to seeing 100,000-hectare sales. This is more than 10 times as much."

At a food security summit in Rome, in June, there was agreement to channel more investment and development aid to African farmers to help them respond to higher prices by producing more. But governments and corporations in some cash-rich but land-poor states, mostly in the Middle East, have opted not to wait for world markets to respond and are trying to guarantee their own long-term access to food by buying up land in poorer countries.

According to diplomats, the Saudi Binladin Group is planning an investment in Indonesia to grow basmati rice, while tens of thousands of hectares in Pakistan have been sold to Abu Dhabi investors.

Arab investors, including the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development, have also bought direct stakes in Sudanese agriculture. The president of the UEA, Khalifa bin Zayed, has said his country was considering large-scale agricultural projects in Kazakhstan to ensure a stable food supply.
Even China, which has plenty of land but is now getting short of water as it pursues breakneck industrialisation, has begun to explore land deals in south-east Asia. Laos, meanwhile, has signed away between 2m-3m hectares, or 15% of its viable farmland. Libya has secured 250,000 hectares of Ukrainian farmland, and Egypt is believed to want similar access. Kuwait and Qatar have been chasing deals for prime tracts of Cambodia rice fields.

Eager buyers generally have been welcomed by sellers in developing world governments desperate for capital in a recession. Madagascar's land reform minister said revenue would go to infrastructure and development in flood-prone areas.

Sudan is trying to attract investors for almost 900,000 hectares of its land, and the Ethiopian prime minister, Meles Zenawi, has been courting would-be Saudi investors.

"If this was a negotiation between equals, it could be a good thing. It could bring investment, stable prices and predictability to the market," said Duncan Green, Oxfam's head of research. "But the problem is, [in] this scramble for soil I don't see any place for the small farmers."
Alex Evans, at the Centre on International Cooperation, at New York University, said: "The small farmers are losing out already. People without solid title are likely to be turfed off the land."

Details of land deals have been kept secret so it is unknown whether they have built-in safeguards for local populations.

Steve Wiggins, a rural development expert at the Overseas Development Institute, said: "There are very few economies of scale in most agriculture above the level of family farm because managing [the] labour is extremely difficult." Investors might also have to contend with hostility. "If I was a political-risk adviser to [investors] I'd say 'you are taking a very big risk'. Land is an extremely sensitive thing. This could go horribly wrong if you don't learn the lessons of history."

Another thought provoking update from Benjamin Fulford.

I took this story from www.rense.com

As always, Benjamin Fulford brings a heavy meal to the table.

And true to form, I am always wondering how much of the food is edible and how much is made of plastic.

Regardless, he does bring a lot to think about. Certainly there is something more to secret society than a handshake and funny clothes and silly rituals and so many symbols that the head spins.

Maybe the best gift Benjamin brings to the table is the need to reconsider outdated paradigms we all have been taught about how the world works. Based upon just a handful of documented data that permeates the web these days, I am also pretty sure that both human history and natural history need to be re-examined and re-written from scratch. Surely these times of great change are showing us that much of what has been taught is spin, disinfo, misinfo, deliberate lies and much of it visibly false on it's face. A total re-write is in order but only after a total review of the knowns and the unknowns. Then a scientific process for checks and balances and constant third party reviews should be welcomed throughout all time. Shutting out questions like holocaust or evolution or 911 or secret societies or how money works... these are normal questions that should be considered ongoingly in a free debate.

But oh how profitable it is to have slaves.

When will we ever learn to not be controlled?

Cheers,
Tate

Rockefeller's Ninja Goes Public
With Illuminati 'Truth' About 'God'
By Benjamin Fulford
11-16-8

A senior member of a secret society that has ruled much of humanity for the past 5775 years has gone public. This society is none other than the "God" of the old testament. While it is impossible to independently confirm the truth of much of what he has to say, and while it is almost certain what he has told me is a mix of truth and disinformation, much of it does fit with what we truth seekers have all been learning since the events of 911. His testimony has finally given me enough pieces of the puzzle to reveal much about this "God" organization know known to us as the illuminati. Before I proceed further I wish to remind all truth seekers of that old adage: "the truth is stranger than fiction."

The Ninja's name is Shiramine and until now he went by the code name "OK Corral." The Ninja's are an organization that date back to 7th century Japan. They are not to be confused with the Chinese secret societies that go back to 500 B.C. The Ninja's come in three basic ranks. The first rank is the martial arts experts (sometimes completely covered in black clothing for night work) we usually associate with Nina's. These were and remain today the Japanese elite forces. The head of the Ninja elite forces today is a man by the name of Hatsumi. Hatsumi has trained over 170,000 US, UK, and Israeli special forces and is considered one of the world's premiere martial arts experts.

The second level Nina's are like military planners or senior bureaucrats. They are charged with strategic planning.

The highest level Ninjas are people who make history. In the old days they served the Emperor or various war-lords. Today's high level Ninjas serve the Emperor of Japan or else the Rothschild or Rockefeller families. Shiramine was, until recently, David Rockefeller's Ninja charged with enforcing his secret rule over Japan. However, according to Shiramine, there has been a generational change in the secret government of the West. David Rockefeller has ceded power to his Nephew Senator Jay Rockefeller. Evylin Rothschild, for his part, has ceded power to Baron David Rotschild. Just as a new king brings forth new policies, so does a generational change in the Western secret government. So, Shiramine now reports to Jay Rockefeller.

The reason Shiramine decided to go public is that his bosses in the Ninja organization (those who report to the imperial family) found out he was an illuminati agent. They contacted me and asked if they should have him "taken care of." A terrified Shiramine came to me for support. I told him that since he had been un-masked, his best policy would be to go public. And so he has.

According to Shiramine and many other sources(including secret Rothschild documents I have in my possession), the Japanese imperial family dates back 442 generations or 8000 years. Back then Japan was a refuge in a world ravaged by radical environmental change and the collapse of advanced civilization. There is evidence, such as 8000 year old stone tablets with unknown writing on them found in Okinawa, to back up what he says.

We Westerners have been taught that civilization began about 3,000 BC in Mesopotamia but that is most certainly a lie. For example, they have recently uncovered a 9,500 year old civilization 36 meters (120 feet) underwater off the coast of India:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/1768109.stm

Please do your own research on this issue until you are satisfied with the evidence but it is becoming clear there were very advanced civilizations dating back at least 15,000 years that were ravaged by war and extreme environmental change such as the global floods caused by the end of the ice age.

According to Shirame survivors of the ancient civilization of Atlantis who still had much of their advanced knowledge decided to use that knowledge to become God-like rulers of illiterate farmers and herdsmen in Babylonia.

The best evidence I can find for this is in the old testament. We can recall how when "God" contacted Moses, he turned the river Nile red and there were plagues of frogs and plagues of locusts. When the Romans re-conquered Judea they captured a lone survivor at Masada, who later became the historian Josephus. According to Josephus a toxic red rock (probably containing mercury) was dumped into the river. If the water become poisonous, the frogs will abandon it. If the plants die due to poison, the hungry locusts will start to swarm. So we see a group of people creating 911 type events around 1400 BC.

The entire exodus story appears to be the story of Babylonian God kings stealing the Egyptian God-king's pyramid building slaves.

Please also take a look at a non-King James version of the bible (that being a bowdlerized version) and read the part where Moses gets the ten commandments. A barrier is placed around Mt. Sinai and only Moses and his "high priests" are allowed to go and see "God." If anybody else tries to go, they will be killed by "rocks" or "arrows." If God can create the universe, surely it could at least use bolts of lightning instead of arrows and stones. Furthermore, "God" summons Moses with a "ram's horn trumpet."

Later God asks the Jews to bring gifts like:

Exodus 25

Offerings for the Tabernacle

1 The LORD said to Moses, 2 "Tell the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive the offering for me from each man whose heart prompts him to give. 3 These are the offerings you are to receive from them: gold, silver and bronze; 4 blue, purple and scarlet yarn and fine linen; goat hair; 5 ram skins dyed red and hides of sea cows [a] ; acacia wood; 6 olive oil for the light; spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense; 7 and onyx stones and other gems to be mounted on the ephod and breastpiece.

So, here we have a God who created the entire universe in 7 days asking for "hides of sea cows" and what-not. Clearly this is not God but rather a Babylonian God king.

The first three commandments are to not make an effigy of God and to obey absolutely. Clearly the God kings found it convenient to keep their existence secret so that their slaves would not figure out they were being ruled by mere people such as themselves.

Since I have written much of the middle part of the story elsewhere, I am now going to fast-forward to the present world situation.

Basically, we in the West are still under the rule of Babylonian style-God kings. They control us by controlling finance, world grain markets (Property of Queen Elizabeth), energy markets and the world's biggest military organizations. Just like in medieval times, they have orders of Knights such as the Knights of Malta or the Order of the Garter. Beneath the knights lie secret services like the Freemasons, the CIA and the Jesuits. Let us recall that a mason is a stone worker. The Freemasons are the organization that lay in-between the God king and the pyramid building slaves.







Here is a picture of me with the Ninja just after I was given a Freemason badge and offered the job of Finance Minister of Japan. I have a tape recording of the conversation where this offer was made.

The Freemason lodge set up by General McArthur in Japan after World War 2 (it is subject to the Philippine lodge which in turn reports to the Blue Lodge in London) contacted me and took a picture of my badge. They looked it up in a book of badges but they could not find it. However, they said it appeared to be a genuine Freemason badge. Well, according to Shiramine it is in fact an illuminati badge. He says only 20 exist in the world. Here it is:



If you look at the top of the badge you can see the crown of England. The Queen's representative in her Japanese colony is the Emperor of Japan. The badges such as the one I got must belong to the senior secret representatives of the British Crown in Japan.

The reason I refused to accept the offer and its implied billion dollar bribe is because Shiramine told me they were planning to reduce the global population to 2 billion people via disease, starvation and war "in order to save the environment." I was given this offer because I was about to expose to the Japanese people the fact that their country has been systematically looted by foreign oligarchs who were planning to start world war 3. They must have figured it would be easier to induct me into the ranks than kill me since they knew I have hundreds of hours of tape recorded conversations containing explosive information.

Perhaps now is a good time to put some of this information on the public record. First of all, I found out that numerous Japanese Prime Ministers have been murdered in the post war years because they were not being obedient enough. My sources include senior Yakuza, and senior associates of former Prime Minister's Hashimoto, Takeshita and Tanaka among others.

The other shameful thing is what really happened before the 1985 Plaza accords were reached. The Americans actually shot down Japan airlines flight 123 in August to force Japan to agree to the Plaza accord reached in September of that year. Since that time, the Japanese people have been systematically looted of their wealth to finance the US/UK/Israeli military machine. They actually attacked Japan with HAARP several times over the years to continue to enforce their looting.

The final insult was the handing over of control of the Japanese banking system to proxies of the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds during the Koizumi administration.

The first hint to me that something was wrong came when the Japanese government first decided to use tax-payer money to bail out failing financial companies. I found out more than half the bad debts from the bursting of Japan's financial bubble went to Yakuza or Yakuza front companies. I started to make connections with the Yakuza and they told me they were just middle men. The trail took me to senior politicians and through them eventually took me to the illuminati organization of the Western aristocracy. That is when I got the offer from the Ninja.

The reason I am still alive to tell this story is that an Asian secret society offered me protection.

Peter Schiff On Fast Money - “The Man Who Called The Collapse”

When will these knuckleheads "get it"?

The dollar is dead, the debt-flooded economy is unwinding, we have a long way to down from here and then we have to de-link cheap and abundant petroleum from our industrial models. The very basis of modern civilization is no longer viable as petroleum dwindles. Food and people numbers will trend down along with supply of oil. And this economic mess with debt is just the spark to a far bigger picture.

Peter Schiff is just addressing a fraction of what is ahead and yet these idiots on TV can't understand even the debt cleansing effect on the dollar going on right now. What hope do they have for understanding the petro-collapse to follow shortly after?

Cheers, Tate

Will the Real Pirates Please Stand Up?

Just a thought... but is there something fishy about piracy in Africa leading to the Saudis joining a Nato effort to help end the threat?

I wonder if it will come out how African pirates were helped by US secret services to grab 12 ships in 2-weeks.

I have no proof of this other than simply drawing historical reference from 911 and Liberty and Maine and Tonkin and Gladio and Shah of Iran and about 100 other precedents covering the globe.

Not that I am biased or anything.

Cheers, Tate

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Below article from Drudge today...

WAR: SAUDIS JOIN NATO NAVAL MISSION AS PIRATES BOLSTER DEFENSES...

Perth Mint suspends trades due to unprecedented demand!

This is big news for precious metals.

Perth Mint has frozen all orders through December. They will not sell you gold anymore due to unprecedented demand from Russia, Ukraine, Europe and US.

The gold correction is over. That means that the silver correction is also over.

We will now see the trend for the so-called "strong hands" that are cash heavy begin shifting into gold increasingly as they have already done and as both gold and silver move up, the silver story will eventually become understood by the market and silver will shoot up to 50 - 100 and beyond.



The time is now to get in at the 9 - 10 dollar level for silver. I was saying this since silver was at the 4-5 dollar level back in 2000 - 2004. Nothing changed except that now silver is booming up again and won't ever go back to this artificial level again because cost of production is already 16-17 dollars an ounce!

Precioius metals are perfect for times of economic collapse because people rush to them. Besides booming in value, they are not taxed or traced normally. By staying under the radar, you can shift medium sized estate into a multiple of 10 quite easily by simply throwing that which will be worth nothing (US dollars) into something that will be worth a great deal (Precious metals). To make matters more interesting, precious metals have been artificially depressed with naked shorts for decades. There is so much more paper out there than actual metal that people are going to get hurt when paper holders of the yellow and silvery metal get nothing in return. That favors those who buy physical. And the story will get bigger for both silver and gold when that happens. Silver being an industrial metal has as much or even perhaps less above ground available supply than gold... striking up another match for the silver boom side of the argument. Regardless, both are bottomed now and the boom-side awaits. This will be a wild ride. It starts approximately now.

Story below...



Cheers, Tate





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Perth Mint suspends orders amid rush to buy bullion


Sarah-Jane TaskerThe AustralianFriday, November 21, 2008
FEARS of the unknown long-term effects from the global financial crisis have sparked a new gold rush.


With retail and wholesale clients around the world stocking up on the precious metal, the Perth Mint has been forced to suspend orders.


As the World Gold Council reported that the dollar demand for gold reached a quarterly record of $US32 billion ($50.73 billion) in the third quarter, industry insiders said the race to secure physical gold had reached an intensity that had never been witnessed before.


Perth Mint sales and marketing director Ron Currie said the unprecedented demand had forced the Mint to cease orders until January, with staff working seven days a week, 24-hour days, over three shifts to meet orders.


He said Europe was leading the demand, with Russia, Ukraine, Middle East and US all buying — making up 80 per cent of its sales. One European client purchased 30,000 ounces for $33 million.
“We have never seen this before and are working right at capacity. And we are seeing it from clients in the shop buying one ounce, right up to 30,000 ounces from overseas clients,” Mr Currie said.


Robert Jaggard, manager of bullion and rare coins dealer Jaggards, said business had picked up strongly and he expected it to increase further.


“All around the world there has been a heavy run on physical gold and there is a shortage of supply,” he said.


Full story here.

Will Obama bring Change to America?

Yup... the globalist structures will move faster to defeat the US now with Obama.

Look no further than the constitutional crisis of his probable illigitimate Presidency!

1. Lawsuits proliferate, including high visibility complaintants (NO birth certificate yet shown!) --> http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/nov/08111903.html
2. Kenya Ambassador says Obama born in Kenya. Source--> http://my.wrif.com/mim/?p=916
   

Of course it will be played as a race issue. And of course to some it will be a race issue and the media will pick up on that angle for all to see and fight about.

Folks, all this looks too fishy to me... like the US is being set up for a a big fall and then of course we can all look forward to being a citizen of a one world monopoly government / currency / religion. For our security of course.

This is just the start of the show. More to come from here... Will Obama show his Birth Certificate prior to taking the oath? Does it matter?

I was called a Liberal by a close family member for supporting the anti-war postion of Mother Cindy Sheehan. Yet I feel myself far from all those false paradigms of left versus right or party versus party or race versus race. This is a show being run by big money interests and we are just spectators. We might as well admit that our own team is just playing a game and we are paying the ticket. It isn't left versus right. It is elite versus common, government versus citizen, corporation versus family, printer versus earner... top versus bottom in all those cases...

So if Obama really was born in Kenya and if he continues to deny showing his birth certificate, this will eventually bubble up to the mainstream artery of mass media and a constitutional crisis will be there to use as a pawn for instigating yet more divide and conquer distractions that keep Americans busily looking away from the money crimes and war crimes and ecological crimes of their two-party collusive corporate system.

Take care,
Tate

Speaking of mass media deception... here are some more...

The floodgates seem to be opening now that crisis is upon us...

'SHOW US THE PLAN, WE'LL SHOW YOU THE MONEY'......

FORD, GM: Bankruptcy Filing Not an Option..

The above is all wrong.

The first news item should be "Show us that you are going to comply with our every demand and we will print the money from nothing and let you use it so long as it helps government get bigger and more intrusive."

The second news item should read "Ford, GM: Bankruptcy will kill sales and finish us off and it is the medicine we really need right now because the disease of energy reliance is terminal on the scale which we have become dependent."

Gee.... this news interpretation stuff feels extra easy knowing a few things about energy and money... the whole world makes sense.

I pity the people who try to make sense of the news by using the news as a lens from which to make sense of the news. Like studying madness to understand sanity. Can't be done.

Cheers, Tate

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