Michal Ruppert: GlobalCorp

[Nordmadr]

March 10, 2005, PST 0900 (FTW) -- I am not a politician. I will never be a politician.

With this article both I and the FTW family will never again think in terms of whom we might offend or what bridges we need to build, burn or fireproof. As Don Henley wrote in a song of profound spiritual gratitude, "Sometimes you get your best light from a burning bridge." I'm going to burn a few with this essay.

Peak Oil is no longer on the way. It is here. Forget for a moment whether or not global oil production has actually begun (see below) its hopelessly irreversible decline. We will not know that for certain until sometime after it happens. The political fact, however, is that global inertia in response to Peak has driven our species, all of it, past the point of no return. There is no changing course for us. We have committed to a path of bloody destruction that can no longer be postponed or evaded. Energy investment banker Matthew Simmons - long a smoke alarm for Peak Oil -has said repeatedly, "The problem is that the world has no Plan B." Simmons is right.

Seeing clearly that there is no Plan B, it is now also too late to come up with a Plan C or Plan D. What I had hoped to accomplish with Crossing the Rubicon is now a missed opportunity. Yet the map so many of us drew in Rubicon remains astonishingly accurate and unaltered. It may prove to be an indispensable survival tool in and of itself very shortly.

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/031005_globalcorp.shtml#0


As the Men Without Hats would say..."Pop Goes the World"

When you see it all summarized like that, it is so hard to refute. I wish you all luck and peace.

Olaf

[PROGRESSIVE1]

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[BlueEyedSon]

2. "The victim has been the (our) future."

Politicians are creatures of economics. Their success has always been measured first and only by what economic benefits they returned to constituents or themselves. The victim has been the future. We have all told the politicians what we really want them to do for us while speaking platitudes from the other side of our mouths. As I have said for so many years, we are all prisoners of the way money works. Until we change that, any solution is only temporal and illusory. No electoral change is possible now that elections all over the world have sworn their allegiance to privately owned software programs and obvious manipulation.

[BlueEyedSon]

3. Kick.

[Jokinomx]

4. Thanks Olaf for the post...

As a long time follower of Mike Ruppert, I would like to encourage everyone to read this article. Make an informed decision about what is about to occur in our world. With the coming crisis... all that we are doing in the middle east makes alot more sense. All the lies and deceptions were a smoke screen for why we had to have our troops on the last large oil reserve on the planet. In the end... I guess bush avoided an all out war with Russia or China over it.

We shall see by the end of this term whether Mike R. is correct.... maybe even sooner...

Good Luck to you also Olaf... :toast:

[Oreo]

5. Scary...

reads like a Clancy novel... but it's real.

[JohnyCanuck]

6. Connecting some of the dots as per Ruppert.

* After Canada recently refused to participate in the US Strategic Missile Shield, the US government accused Canada of relinquishing sovereignty over its airspace and prompted a statement from US Ambassador Paul Cellucci that the US would shoot down missiles over Canada whether Canada gave permission or not. - CP, Feb. 24, 2005. (Two years ago I clipped a story from the National Post stating that Canada should not be surprised when US troops occupied the country to protect the US. From Canada?!).

* US forces in Iraq have apparently attempted to murder an Italian journalist who was freed after negotiations with her captors. They succeeded in killing an Italian Secret Service agent and US stories of the account are falling under widespread criticism and rebuttal. Anti-American sentiment in Italy is bubbling over. - Multiple sources.


* China is experiencing massive shortages of coal to power its electrical generation. - Multiple sources.


* China is already buying and hoarding 60% of the world's commodities: (Oil, Cement, Aluminum, Copper, Zinc, Manganese, Steel, Coal, Gold, Silver, etc.). It has bought so much cement that it has caused a slowdown in US construction. Last year it bought 90% of the world's steel output and shipped it to China - Multiple sources.(Holy cow, my emphasis /jc) Why? Because soon there won't be enough fuel for the globalized transport of such heavy things, nor, presumably, for their industrial exploitation. The world may also be at war shortly, further endangering international trade and transport.


My thoughts /jc:

1) Whether Canada was an official full partner in BMD or not, assuming BMD ever got to the point where it actually worked as advertised, I believe it's bullshit to think they would hesitate for one second looking for permission from Canada to shoot down incomming missiles over Canadian territory. If we were partners they might give us a choice like this, "Do you want us to try to shoot it down over Inuvik, or Yellowknife?" The only difference is as non partners, they'll no doubt make that choice for us.

2) Re the stationing of US troops on Candian soil, if the energy situation is as critical as Ruppert and other Peak Oilers believe, I could easily see Canada being further absorbed willingly or unwillingly into the US orbit and US troops being stationed in Canada, no doubt to help protect us from those nasty terrists types who might try to sabotage our natural gas pipelines and tar sands plants. As Ruppert says:

The New World Order is not a monolith; no single group of rich folks sits together in one room debating our planetary future. It is, quite literally, a new order in which world power aggregates along geographic/geologic lines, forcing regions to become players against each other and running roughshod over the nationalist sentiments of their subject populations. The regions are Europe (including Britain), Asia, South America and North America. Woe to those nations who are stuck in between.

The enemies of the US will by default become the enemies of Canada, period and end of discussion.

[Nordmadr]

8. It seems numerous nations could become allies

by proximity rather than ideology. I guess when it becomes self preservation some ideologies go out the window.

Unfortunately, that will likely be the same at the local community level too at first.

Whether people want to believe it or not, in our lifetimes, culture as we know it is going to be in for a major attitude adjustment.

I think the best initial advice I have seen is:
1) Get some hands on living skills
2) Get out of debt
3) Get a network of friends that you trust
4) Get to know people in your community

From there, it's anybody's guess on where things will go.

Think me a tin hat if you like...but the evidence is getting stronger that we are about to enter the largest resource war the world has ever known.

Olaf

[Pooka Fey]

7. Kicking and Nominating.

[Deja Q]

9. As a society, no. But the few who know how to live off the land will

be what humanity is to become.

Will we still go forward and not be greedy; get rid of the concept of money that has carved us into niche groups and build societies where ALL benefit because ALL work together.

We need not like a person to get the job done.

Will the societyists make claim?

Or will selfish a-wipes, like those in power, simply do the same thing over and over again?

[cthrumatrix]

10. as Peak Oil brings the world closer to the edge ...Jacko and Judge stories

infest our airways.... our media should be JAILED.

[brokensymmetry]

11. Kicked, nominated.

We are so unprepared...and doing nothing to fix the problem. If the report is correct, and I suspect it is, it's too late anyway.

So I guess that we, like the passengers on the Titanic, will continue to party.

[DerekG]

12. I can't wait to see how David McGowan will respond

Leftist author David McGowan, who subscribes to the abiotic theory, has proved to be quite the thorn in Ruppert's side.

[robertpaulsen]

13. Another kick and nomination

:kick:

[robertpaulsen]

14. Just when I thought I couldn't get scared any more than I already am...

Wow! Michael Ruppert has sounded a lot of alarms in the past, but he really put it on full blast this time. This statement stood out:

I wake up now on a daily basis knowing that at any moment the story might break signaling that the collapse has been triggered.



I'm trying to catalogue the possibilities of what that story might be:

1. OPEC decides to price oil in euros instead of dollars.

2. China dumps their investments in the dollar.

3. Major terror attack on oil infrastructure in Saudi Arabia.

4. Israel (US) bombs Iran.

5. Chavez is assassinated, Venezuela boycotts US.

6. Major terror attack with WMD on US cities.

7. US bombs Syria.

8. Kim Jong Il detonates or sells a nuke.


Any more ideas?

[Nordmadr]

16. I think these are all very valid

and many factors are inching their way along.

Military and economic allegiances between non-traditional allies are forming as nations attempt to not be left standing alone. China and Russia are having joint military exercises for example. Ironically enough, I wonder who will truly stick with the U.S. when the SHTF. Look at all of the allies we have traditionally had, that are now alienated. As previously discussed, I think many allegiances will form based on physical location...such as possibilities with U.S. and Canada and possibly Mexico, though currently they seem none too pleased with us either. The problem with being King of the Hill is that someone ALWAYS eventually knocks you back down to the bottom.

China is openly threatening military action against Taiwan.

The demand for the year has just been revised up an aditional 33% (approx. 300,000 bpd) to put us over 1.8 million bpd demand from last year. Where is that coming from? Tooth fairy?

If we manage to avoid all out open military conflict there will be a gravitation back to local community cooperation and production. Perhaps co-op farming, barter and trade of locally produced goods and services, etc.

I was reading some CNN article that says our economy is less susceptible to oil price spikes because most of our manufacturing industry is gone. Is that ignorant or what? We still need those things, we just buy them from someone else (who is producing them at the same higher oil prices) and them ship them here (more fuel and cost).

How does that wool feel scratching across the eyes?

Olaf

[chlamor]

15. Ruppert can be ingratiating-However he is correct

The message is the important thing to focus on of course. Your post will hopefully bring the urgency of the matter to the attention of a few more souls.

Like 'Global Warming' the term 'Peak Oil' is a bit of a misnomer and tends to diminish the totality of what we are up against. As is pointed out many of the "resources" industrial society depends on are in decline. Look at the copper market for example. All of these factors are connected and inter-related. As the supplies diminish the amount of energy to get to the remainder must increase creating a feedback loop. I think we will be shocked at how fast the oil and natural gas become scarce commodities. Personally I am doing alot to prepare for the long term energy scarcities. I was not a Y2K alarmist but peak oil is very much with us and there is no fix other than a rightful return to the old ways.

:kick: Nominated

[JohnyCanuck]

17. Some video links to checkout.

Math Prof. All Bartlett's lecture on exponential growth and the impact it has on demand for resources (including oil) :

Real Player Version
http://edison.ncssm.edu/programs/colloquia/bartlett.ram

MP4 Version, playable on Quick Time.
http://news.globalfreepress.com/movs/Al_Bartlett-PeakOil.mp4

End of Suburbia (24 min. edited versions for streaming. Less than half the full DVD, VHS version)

Apple Quick Time
http://911busters.com/video/IQ1_20_END_OF_SUBURBIA_VIDEO_24.2_.mov

Windows Media Player
http://911busters.com/video/IQ1_20_END_OF_SUBURBIA_VIDEO_24.2_.wmv

Full version available for rent at Netflix:
http://www.netflix.com/MovieDisplay?trkid=73&movieid=70022083

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19. Thanks for the links.

[JohnyCanuck]

21. You're welcome n/t

[Nordmadr]

18. Opec has no capacity to lift quotas, says Algeria

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/business/2005/March/business_March236.xml§ion=business&col=




ARZEW (Algeria) — Opec does not have the oil production capacity to enable it to lift supply quotas at next week’s meeting in Iran, Algeria’s Energy Minister said yesterday.


“Opec does not have the production capacity to increase its quotas,” Chakib Khelil told reporters.

Oil prices have risen 25 per cent since the start of the year to near record highs on forecasts of tight global supply through this year. “I think that even a one million barrels per day increase would not reduce prices,” Khelil said. Opec last year raised supply to the highest level in 25 years, leaving little spare production capacity to cope with output disruptions.

“Demand in China and strong global economic growth are the origin of the rise in prices ... Speculators are profiting from this,” Khelil said. The group agreed to cut one million barrels per day of excess supply from January 1, but strong global demand allowed it to pump around 630,000 barrels per day above its official targets last month.


OPEC does not have spare capacity...or so they say (can never be quite sure when they are telling the truth)...let that sink in.

Olaf

[Beam Me Up]

20. kik

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