Cool guy? America's number one Good Ole Boy.

Yahoo! William F. Buckley.
dailynews.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index&cid=760

Only 17% of Americans knew where Iraq was before the Tomahawks started flying. How many know anything about Wild Bill Buckley?
"To brutes of the left, Mr. Buckley is Savonarola; to those on the right, he is St. Francis of Assisi."
conservativechronicle.com/columnists/buckley.htm

Jesuit education? Hasn't hurt Wild Bill Buckley.
Jesuit Founder Ignatius LIEola's motto was "convert or die."

What a loss for the best of all possible worlds if he were to discontinue writing books and op/eds. There is something quite pleasing about both his style of syntax and his semantic style. His use of tradition as a definitive (social construction of) reality for an endless creation of smoke screens is potentially quite amusing. Imagine what a semanticist/ anarchist such as Noam Chomsky might say. See why we like this guy. Here are some recent op/eds available at Yahoo!:

ALL ABOARD FIASCO

KERRYING THE FIGHT HOME
Don't miss this one. It's funny. "Sen. John Kerry was spoiling for a fight with former governor Howard Dean. Both men want to be president of the United States, and they have to quarrel about something, since they are contenders for the same Democratic nomination."

GREAT WORDS FROM W

ONWARD CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES
"The program initiated by sundry evangelical Christian ministers to accost Islam by teaching the tenets of the Christian faith to those who seek to bring that faith to Muslims is very good stuff, overdue. There is, of paramount concern to them, the commanding message felt by these Protestant missionaries. One of them put it this way to a reporter from The New York Times: 'If I had the answer for cancer, what sort of a human would I be not to share it?'"

It could be put differently. If cancer were infective what sort of human would attempt to infect every other human?

THE PRESIDENT IS CALLING

PROBLEMS IN COMMON

HARD LANDING AHEAD?
Ya gotta luv his math:
"Perhaps future moral theorists will acknowledge that the price paid for victory in Baghdad was startlingly low. Every man's death certainly diminishes the family of the deceased, but cannot affect, in the numbers we experienced, the moral arithmetic that asks whether the cost was bearable. There is, we learned, one authority that claims that Iraq's civilian casualties were small, measured even in double digits. U.S. casualties were about what we lose between Monday and Wednesday on U.S. highways."

Go ahead and read all the above articles by William F. Buckley. One simply can not dislike him automatically. That would be intellectually dishonest. And you would do yourself a disservice. Actually, in the sixties, on numerous Sundays, we joined a group of Lawrence Radiation Laboratory scientists in Livermore, California and cheered as he systematically destroyed one defenseless guest after another on his Firing Line television series. These days, when you read a William Buckley article, you may find yourself agreeing with most of what he has written. What a shock that may be for some. At other times he may try to bamboozle people or try to justify an untenable position. He is so intelligent that he can have fun with what he does. And that's important, don't you think? Here are such examples, with caveats omitted:
Who Screwed Up?
String Them Up.
Free Medicine, Ho, Ho, Ho.
"If there were a drug that required politicians to divulge the true reason for their legislation, that drug should be free, and compulsory."
Disgrace Abounding, July 18, 2003

Elephants can get in the way. Just ignore them.

(rem AH-koo TAHN-geh-reh)
"to hit the nail on the head"

An article by Ignacio Ramonet from which we have quoted those parts which hit the nail squarely on the head.

monde-diplomatique.fr/2003/05/RAMONET/10073

Néo-impérialisme
Par IGNACIO RAMONET
« C'est un grand jour pour l'Irak ! », a déclaré le général américain Jay Garner en débarquant dans Bagdad bombardée et pillée, comme si son auguste apparition signifiait la fin miraculeuse des mille et un fléaux qui accablent l'ancienne Mésopotamie. Le plus stupéfiant n'est pas tant l'indécence du propos que la manière résignée, apathique, dont les grands médias ont couvert l'installation de celui qu'il faut bien appeler le « proconsul des Etats-Unis ». Comme s'il n'y avait plus de droit international. Comme si nous étions revenus à l'époque des mandats (1). Comme si c'était finalement normal que Washington désigne un officier supérieur (en retraite) des forces armées américaines pour gouverner un Etat souverain...

Prise sans même consulter les membres fantômes de la « coalition », cette décision de nommer un officier supérieur pour gérer un pays vaincu rappelle fâcheusement d'anciennes pratiques du temps des empires coloniaux. Comment ne pas songer à Clive gouvernant l'Inde, à lord Kitchener commandant l'Afrique du Sud ou à Lyautey administrant le Maroc ? Et dire qu'on croyait ces abus condamnés à jamais par la morale politique et par l'histoire...

Cela n'a rien à voir, nous dit-on, il faut plutôt comparer cette « transition en Irak » à l'expérience du général Douglas MacArthur au Japon après 1945.

N'est-ce pas plus inquiétant? N'avait-il pas fallu les destructions atomiques des villes d'Hiroshima et de Nagasaki, bref presque l'Apocalypse, pour que l'Amérique décide de nommer un général administrateur d'une puissance rivale vaincue? A une époque où l'Organisation des nations unies (ONU) ne fonctionnait pas encore.

Or l'ONU existe, du moins théoriquement (2). Et l'invasion de l'Irak par les forces américaines (avec leurs supplétifs britanniques) ne vient aucunement parachever une quelconque troisième ou quatrième guerre mondiale... A moins que le président George W. Bush et son entourage ne considèrent les attentats du 11 septembre 2001 comme l'équivalent d'un conflit mondial...

Certes, le général Garner a laissé entendre que cette occupation ne serait pas éternelle : « Nous resterons le temps qu'il faudra, a-t-il affirmé, et nous partirons le plus rapidement possible (3). » Mais l'histoire nous enseigne que ce « temps qu'il faudra » peut durer. Ayant envahi les Philippines et Porto Rico en 1898, sous le prétexte altruiste de « libérer » ces territoires et leurs populations du joug colonial, les Etats-Unis en vinrent très vite à remplacer l'ancienne puissance dominante. Après avoir réprimé les résistants nationalistes, ils ne quittèrent les Philippines qu'en 1946, tout en continuant d'intervenir dans les affaires du nouvel Etat et en soutenant, à chaque élection présidentielle, le candidat de leur choix, dont le dictateur Ferdinand Marcos, qui resta au pouvoir de 1965 à 1986... Et ils continuent d'occuper Porto Rico... Même au Japon et en Allemagne, cinquante-huit ans après la fin de la guerre, la présence de l'armée américaine reste massive.

En voyant débarquer à Bagdad ce général Garner et son équipe de 450 administrateurs, on ne pouvait s'empêcher de penser que les Etats-Unis, en cette phase néo-impériale, reprenaient à leur charge ce que Rudyard Kipling a appelé « le fardeau de l'homme blanc ». Ou ce que les grandes puissances, dès 1918, qualifiaient de « mission sacrée de civilisation » en direction de peuples incapables « de se diriger eux-mêmes dans les conditions particulièrement difficiles du monde moderne (4) ».

Le néo-impérialisme des Etats-Unis renouvelle la conception romaine d'une domination morale - fondée sur la conviction que le libre-échange, la mondialisation et la diffusion de la civilisation occidentale sont bonnes pour tout le monde -, mais aussi militaire et médiatique, exercée sur des peuples considérés plus ou moins comme inférieurs (5).

Après le renversement de l'odieuse dictature, Washington a promis d'établir en Irak une démocratie exemplaire, dont le rayonnement entraînera, impulsé par le nouvel Empire, la chute de tous les régimes autocratiques de la région. Y compris, assure M. James Woolsey (6), ancien directeur de la CIA et proche du président Bush, ceux d'Arabie saoudite et d'Egypte...

Une telle promesse est-elle crédible ? Evidemment non. M. Donald Rumsfeld, ministre de la défense, s'est d'ailleurs hâté de préciser que « Washington refusera de reconnaître un régime islamique en Irak même si c'était le désir de la majorité des Irakiens et s'il reflétait le résultat des urnes (7)». C'est une vieille leçon de l'histoire : l'Empire impose sa loi au vaincu.

(1) Inventé à la fin de la guerre de 1914-1918, le régime du « mandat » remplaça celui de « protectorat », terme considéré par le président américain Woodrow Wilson comme trop colonialiste...

On the same date, from the front page of the website, Le Monde-Diplomatique
monde-diplomatique.fr/2003/05/

PRÉDATIONS
La victoire des Etats-Unis contre l'Irak ne saurait cacher la faiblesse idéologique et morale de leur domination. En outre, le protectorat qu'ils installent à Bagdad risque, comme ailleurs, de se révéler inefficace et fragile. C'est pourtant ce système que Washington voulait imposer à la France en 1944 et qu'il a installé dans quelques pays, notamment en Amérique latine. Mais le récent conflit traduit surtout la crise d'une civilisation qui valorise l'instinct de mort, au risque d'installer un chaos mondial. Car, de destruction massive ou pas, les armes tuent les civils, alors que la justice internationale reste impuissante et que l'Union européenne peine à se détacher de Washington.

Do you read French? These diplomatic French journalists make observations which are pertinent, germain and welcome. Their comments represent a common viewpoint held by a majority of the French population at the time the article by Ignacio Ramonet was published. Refreshingly astute, circumspect and historically correct, they nonetheless represent a critical lack of understanding of one crucial key point. What is a Good Ole Boy? A deceitful inveterate liar capable of the most convincing asseverations. A Good Ole Boy is an interesting entity. Interesting in the same way that a scorpion commands one's attention as it crawls over one's bare skin. How do the Good Ole Boys view the destiny of the world? Even the French have much yet to discover.

From Luis;
Regarding the exposition of the American masterplan.
buddycom.com/entertain/veejay/vj28.html
buddycom.com/entertain/veejay/vj29.html
buddycom.com/entertain/veejay/vj30.html

Some comments from a person whose family valiantly escaped the persecution of both Stalin and Hitler and who can recognize a tyrant when they see one.
These pages disclose the mind of GWB, and that helps understanding the intellectual and moral background of the actual USA president, and therefore of his world vision. Although this Pat Robertson seems to be a well known evangelic priest in USA, his world view is quite in line with the KKK ideology. He seems to be a sort of illuminated fanatic. Are the other visible Bush team members of the USA government, such as Cheney and Rumsfeld, fanatical religious followers of Pat Robertson?

Fanatical religious followers of Pat Robertson?
No more or less so than the king himself. Monotheistic (Judeo)-Christianity had been the most useful tool of western cultures, or those described by Saul Bellow as, "the culture peddlers." It has most recently become the most useful tool of American theo-democracy.
The need for spreading such a mental straitjacket worldwide has been an explicit goal expounded from every pulpit in America since long before we were born. It has become completely mainstream, a cornerstone of the Bush faith-based democracy where separation of church and state have been eliminated. After many decades of waiting, church and state have finally been melded together. American democracy is not yet officially and explicitly described as a theocracy so that those who would find such a thing as offensive can be placated. The need for Christians to march onward has been sung hundreds of thousands of times each week in a great majority of sabbath rituals, "Onward Christian soldiers, marching as to war. With the cross of Jesus marching on before." This is seen as a matter of common sense and not at all fanatical.

If you have forgotten the melody, click here.

Pat Robertson...A sort of illuminated fanatic, nothing in common with any deep and honest christian understanding. This type of TV priest, so common in the USA, call themselves as Christians and recitate like parrots some citations from the New Testament, but at the same time preach and justify war against infidels, with arrogance and intolerance. As far as I know Christ preached for love and compasion, for justice and forgiving, for spiritual values instead of material greed; and because of that, he was not recognized as the messiah by the jewish Sanhedrin, who expected a warrier type of messiah capable of destroying their Roman rulers. So that Christ was condemned to death for not being the right messiah prototype. It seems that many so called Christian sects are followers of this desecration of Christ in our days. Why do they call themselves Christians? Do you think that USA Americans in general, their Christian sect priests, and their political leaders may honestly be called Christians? So, when the word judeo-christian is used, what is really meant?

Any reasonable person, even any reasonable Christian might make such obvious observations. The contemporary social construction of reality in the United States views Pat Robertson as merely eccentric and not at all fanatical. Judeo-Christian is a term which in common parlance is interchangeable with the term "Church".

"It is not just that the Americans are God's chosen people; America itself is now perceived as a divine project"
"As Clifford Longley shows in his fascinating book Chosen People, published last year, the founding fathers of the USA, though they sometimes professed otherwise, sensed that they were guided by a divine purpose. Thomas Jefferson argued that the Great Seal of the United States should depict the Israelites, 'led by a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night'. George Washington claimed, in his inaugural address, that every step towards independence was 'distinguished by some token of providential agency'. Longley argues that the formation of the American identity was part of a process of "supersession". The Catholic Church claimed that it had supplanted the Jews as the elect, as the Jews had been repudiated by God. The English Protestants accused the Catholics of breaking faith, and claimed that THEY had become the beloved of God. The American revolutionaries believed that the English, in turn, had broken their covenant: the Americans had now become the chosen people, with a divine duty to deliver the world to God's dominion. Six weeks ago, as if to show that this belief persists, George Bush recalled a remark of Woodrow Wilson's. 'America,' he quoted, 'has a spiritual energy in her which no other nation can contribute to the liberation of mankind.'
"Since the attacks on New York, this notion of America the divine has been extended and refined. In December 2001, Rudy Giuliani, the mayor of that city, delivered his last mayoral speech in St Paul's Chapel, close to the site of the shattered twin towers. 'All that matters,' he claimed, 'is that you embrace America and understand its ideals and what it's all about. Abraham Lincoln used to say that the test of your Americanism was ... how much you believed in America. Because we're like a religion really. A secular religion.' The chapel in which he spoke had been consecrated not just by God, but by the fact that George Washington had once prayed there. It was, he said, now 'sacred ground to people who feel what America is all about'. The United States of America no longer needs to call upon God; it is God, and those who go abroad to spread the light do so in the name of a celestial domain. The flag has become as sacred as the Bible; the name of the nation as holy as the name of God. The presidency is turning into a priesthood.
So those who question George Bush's foreign policy are no longer merely critics; they are blasphemers, or 'anti-Americans'. Those foreign states which seek to change this policy are wasting their time: you can negotiate with politicians; you cannot negotiate with priests. The US has a divine mission, as Bush suggested in January, 'to defend ... the hopes of all mankind', and woe betide those who hope for something other than the American way of life.
The dangers of national divinity scarcely require explanation. Japan went to war in the 1930s convinced, like George Bush, that it possessed a heaven-sent mission to "liberate" Asia and extend the realm of its divine imperium. It would, the fascist theoretician Kita Ikki predicted, 'light the darkness of the entire world'. Those who seek to drag heaven down to earth are destined only to engineer a hell. George Monbiot's books Poisoned Arrows and No Man's Land are republished this week by Green Books. www.monbiot.com "
monbiot.com/dsp_article.cfm?article_id=596

I thought that they are merely oil business men.

Replace oil businessmen with simply businessmen. Businessmen adroit enough to use all the tools at their disposal, including the most useful of tools.

The American Ideology, The US claims to be a democracy, but its religious rhetoric betrays totalitarian ambitions:
by Samir Amin
"The combination of a dominant religious practice -- and its exploitation through fundamentalist discourse -- with the absence of political consciousness among the oppressed classes gives the US political system an unprecedented margin of manoeuvre, through which it can destroy the potential impact of democratic practices and reduce them to benign rituals (politics as entertainment, the inauguration of political campaigns by cheerleaders, etc.). However, we must not let ourselves be deluded. For it is not the fundamentalist ideology which occupies the command post and imposes its logic on the real holders of power: capital and its servants in government. It is capital, alone, which takes all the decisions, and only when it has done so does it then mobilise the American ideology to serve its cause. The means which are deployed -- the unprecedented and systematic use of disinformation -- can then serve their purpose, by isolating critics and subjecting them to a permanent and odious form of blackmail. In this way, the establishment can easily manipulate 'public opinion' by cultivating its stupidity. "
globalresearch.ca/articles/AMI307A.html

I resist to believe that such primitive views can control the USA opinion, even less the world public opinion.

Any reasonable person would react in such a way. This is precisely what is anticipated by the masterplan. USA opinion figures most prominently in the masterplan for obvious reasons. World opinion is blissfully unaware of the masterplan in any case. BTW, in this context, your choice of the term, "primitive views" is spot on.

Stupidity? Just greed? It is more than that. Hegemony maintained. Course for Armageddon maintained. Upsetting? Dr. Stranglove's advice: Relax and learn to love the bomb.
Senate Rejects Auto Fuel Economy Boost Jul 30, 2003, by H. Josef Hebert, AP
"A new energy agenda being fashioned by the Senate will do little to force automakers to substantially increase fuel economy, although cars and SUVs gobble up 40 percent of the oil that is used daily in the United States.The Senate turned back an attempt Tuesday to include in the energy bill a requirement that automobiles cut gasoline use by 45 percent over the next dozen years. Instead it approved an industry-supported measure that includes new requirements that must be considered before the government can imposing future fuel economy improvements. With the auto fuel issue essentially disposed of, the senators planned to turn their attention Wednesday to electricity market issues. Democrats have criticized a largely GOP-crafted electricity proposal, saying it fails to adequately address consumer protections ? an area of increased concern in the aftermath of the California power crisis and market abuses by Enron and other electricity traders."
Story ...

One of the elephants in the middle of the room:
Oil crisis? What oil crisis?

The other matter is the oil reserves apropriation that has started with the Iraq war, placing the USA politics in control of the main world oil reserves.

Ah, yes. The Hubbert peak. Precisely why this whole religious charade is so necessary. Remember the two elephants? Overpopulation? Energy peak? Saul Bellow, "A great deal of intelligence is invested in ignorance when the need is great." World population at three times what a world without fossil fuel will maintain. Biblical prophecy can and must be self-fulfilled at this time as is predicted. If not, both believability and opportunity will have been squandered. When the need is great? The need has never been greater.

Elephants get in the way. Just ignore them.

In that respect I share the fears of the scenarios that may follow. The power of these world managers is such, that countries as France, Germany and Russia do not dare to oppose frontally, fearing their revenge. That was quite clear with the approval in UN security council of the USA postwar resolution, endorsing in the aftermath the previously illegal war.

Not because they fear revenge, Luis. But because their destinies are joined at the hip. The timing of the agreement-disagreement is merely Tate Mae posturing.

So take care, anyone opposing or simply disclosing their plans, may be fall in their characterization of a terrorist to be annihilated by any means, such as the patriot act that you have also disclosed. Democracy is disappearing very fast in this world contest. The superpower government is becoming clearly closer to Stalin and Hitler than to Lincoln or Jefferson.
Kind regards, Luis

Hmm... Why can't we accept that, second only to the mythical flood of Noah in relative magnitude, there is a need for a cleansing of humanity?

Truth? Honesty? Justice? Fairplay? The good of all humanity? Without the necessary apriori self-deception so generously provided by contemporary American theo-democracy, these anachronistic concepts may perforce be self-destructive. We probably would not mind being just as fundamentally and unabashedly cold-hearted and selfish as any other American. But, "Gee officer Krupke, we're just a product of our environment."
If only we had been born three or four decades later.

ALBERT EINSTEIN: "A human being is part of the Whole...He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest...a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. Nobody is able to achieve this completely, but the striving for such achievement is, in itself, a part of the liberation and a foundation for inner security."

Consider the chosen epitaph of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz: "Provided that something of importance is achieved, I am indifferent whether it is done in Germany or in France, for I seek the good of mankind. I am neither a phil-Hellene nor a philo-Roman, but a philanthropos." Or, as he described his social philosophy at other times: "Justice is ... that which is useful to the community, and the public good is the supreme law—a community, however, let it be recalled, not of a few, not of a particular nation, but of all those who are part of the City of God and, so to speak, of the state of the universe."
MORE....
larouchepub.com/eiw/

Kind regards, Buddycom

From Luis;
If one had been born three or four decades later, there would be more time available at this moment, but probably one's environment and resulting understanding would also be different. Isn't the power of the world manipulators overestimated in assuming that they have a failproof plan to complete the full world conquest to benefit of their ruling plutocracy? In many respects they do control the world, impose their rules, conditions, trade, massculture, and so on. And now by using military means increasingly. As good fundamentalist fanatics they believe that the best success insurance is to complete this imposition by eliminating any dissent, any critical thought, and that is precisely where they are doomed to share stupidity.

The manipulators know what is being done. It doesn't matter how stupid the rest are.

The world energy crisis will not only cause chaos and destruction in the peripheral underdeveloped world, but also at their home. In many respects the overdeveloped societies are more vulnerable due to their dependance on huge energy amounts.

Of course. The clusterfark would have to be huge. The bigger it is, the more probable that both of the required birds would be killed by that same stone. Bird one: Magnitude. In terms of humans eliminated, it would have to be 20 to 100 times greater than WWll in order to eliminate a sufficient number of expendables. Bird two: Blameability. To start things off, what is needed is a contest between good vs evil. This is how it has been portrayed in biblical prophesy, particularly in the New Testament. This is how people can be motivated to commit the necessary atrocities and lay the groundwork for many more. Thereafter, the larger, the more complex, the more confused, the conflagration becomes the more impossible it becomes to point a finger of blame at the original instigator. After the holocaust is over, Christian prophesy having been blamelessly fulfilled, the legitimacy and believeability of the dogma will have been strengthened by quantum jumps. There are those, in the overdeveloped societies themselves, whose natural unsympathetic character and disposition render them undesirable. These could also be eliminated more effectively in the largest possible conflagration. The goal being extremely important, precious few would not be considered expendable.

Stupid people can be more dangerous that simple bandits. They may grab all the middle east oil reserves but, that would buy only some 20 or 30 additional years of control. But they are so dumb that, due to a shortsighted ruling economic ideology, they are not investing serious resource to develop any sustainable alternative, while they could. This is why I believe that they are stupid.

Most reasonable persons have voiced the same complaint. Try thinking of it in terms of a chess game. It amounts to giving up a knight to gain a rook and a pawn and strong strategic advantage. Serious and significant development of new energy sources too soon would remove the sword of Damocles which the hegemonists have put in place. Sure fossil fuel limitations were known fifty years ago. Sure, the production scales of wind and solar and down sized fission reactors producing both electricity and hydrogen could have been instituted at least a decade ago. But why in the world should they do that? Their best course of action would be to control and burn up fossil fuel reserves while postponing development of new energies by twenty or thirty years. Persons who wish to believe in the omniscience of technology would still have that mirage on which to hope. The plug could then be pulled on energy at the time when an unsuspecting world is most vulnerable. Simply put the strategy amounts to painting the world into a corner without an alternative for escape.

ackland.org/tours/classes/westall.html

Well anyhow, for the time being, while we yet live, let's use our fraction of lifespan so that our remaining existence has at least some meaning for ourselves, using our freedom to live with dignity. That way life may still be bearable, don't you think?
Kind regards, Luis

Why not.
Kind regards, Buddycom

From Luis;

Further thought about the grim scenarios for the oil shortage or strategic cutoff that could be malevolently used to realize those idiotic religious prophesies. Several countries are advanced in developing alternate energy sources. Instances are Denmark with wind generation more than 25% total energy today and expecting to reach 50% shortly, France electric energy generation based on nuclear power, the small Island engaging in hydrogen based energy using as primary energy source its geothermal potential. What are the situation, plans, and potential in this regard in Japan? The message is that there are alternatives to escape from the USA technological political blackmail, it is only a matter of decision, and of course courage for the rest of the world. Such incipient examples are clear indications that it is possible today have a technological change to end the oil dependency.

Pathetically too little, too late.

Only USA is proactively choosing the oil dependent economy, which makes sense in shortsighted economic terms, if oil reserves can be grabbed by military means as is occurring. It only makes sense for them to continue and increase the world domination by control of the energy business.

That's a right, jelly bean!

I do not like really the fatalistic supposition that the conspiracy is so powerful and inevitable, from which is impossible to escape, and leaves us paralysed until their orchestrated chaos arrives, and the holocaust of half world population solves their problems forever, to fulfill the plans of those fanaticals' gods and their priests' prophesies.

I suggest that some of the above be included, so that not all hope is lost. Otherwise there would be no reason even to spend a drop of ink, a minute of our living time, to spell a word, or transmit a byte to internet.
Best regards, Luis

We don't like the situation. We don't like bringing up bad news. The Greeks had a custom of killing messengers with bad reports for the generals. Uh-oh.

But, being a chemical engineer, at least you are able to smell the coffee and wake up a little bit.
Renewable energy sources? Save the day?
These boys are serious. Really serious. And serious boys would know that if the world would wake up and try to wiggle out of the headlock they have it in by developing new energies which could release the world from the hegemony they have spent the last 500 years to create and maintain, they have a contingency plan for that too. Look at what GWB has implemented thus far. He's not at all searching for any common ground with humanity. He's doing all the things necessary to blow the thing up to the largest proportions possible. If they couldn't get Islamists angry enough to attack the oil supply, they could simply stage oil supply attacks and blame it on the Islamists anyway. Everybody greatly underestimates the strength of their position. If one truly understood the total picture and were a betting man, one would have to put money on them and not on powerless optimistic hopers. All they have to do is pull the plug on energy. They could do it at any time.

A sword of Damocles threatening all of humanity. All except those relaxing underground in the bunker with Good Ole Boy, Dick Cheney. Will they pull that plug? You hope not. We hope not. Almost everybody hopes not. But that's not going to stop them whenever they decide they want to go ahead and do it.

Dick Cheney, whitehouse photo

It's hard to resist a temptation to point out that which is obvious but unsaid. Are we kibbitzers and blabbers? Or are we just telling it like it is? We didn't twist Pat Roberts' arm. We didn't make him go on ABC's NightLine. We didn't force him to say what he said there and elsewhere. What has he been jumping up and down about? It's no secret.

According to Pat Robertson, the guy who got over 40 million morons together to put GWB into the whitehouse:
There's no such thing as Palestine or Palestinian rights. Isreal is a nation now. Pat Robertson wants Isreal with an undivided exclusive capital in Jerusalem. That's part one of the prophesy. What's part two? Tearing down that silly mosque and rebuilding the temple which was there before. What will that guarantee, positively, absolutely? Over a billion (very silly and) very, very angry Islamists. They'll be as mad as hornets. And you don't really want to mess with a billion mad hornets, do you? About half of whom will be wired with explosives.

"These poor people are in the grip of a massive demon. A demon that has indoctrinated them with hatred from birth. It is not an urban legend; these poor kids actually believe that if they die while killing an infidel, they will inherit in heaven, 72 virgins. It is spelled out in chapter and verse in the Koran. And they believe it as strong, or far stronger, than any fundamentalist preacher believes the words of Jesus. And now from every source, from their parents, from their teachers, even from the TV news stories they are fed hate, hate, hate. It seethes inside them and makes their blood boil. And now that many of them have nothing, not even enough food to eat, hate is all that keeps them alive. And if you think it is bad now, just wait. You ain't seen nothing yet! Remember b, I lived in an Arab Moslem country for five years (Saudi Arabia). And in addition I have studied the subject extensively. It is quite obvious from your post that you have never lived there nor studied the subject to any great depth. You show a remarkable lack of knowledge as to the emotional depth of the Moslem hatred. But you are not alone, the vast, vast majority of Americans, and perhaps Europeans as well, share the exact same naivete, the same lack of knowledge of a people from whom we are about to be almost totally dependant for the majority of our fossil energy. And that really scares the hell out of me." -- Ron Patterson
groups.yahoo.com/group/energyresources/message/39905

WWlll? It sure looks like a forgone conclusion from where we're sitting. It's going to take one heck of a lot of hoping to hope us out of starting WWlll.

And guess what, jelly bean? The Good Ole Boys are serious. Very serious. From the top on down.

Kind regards, Buddycom

Final comments from Luis;
Neither the mouth of Bush nor of Blair was twisted and forced to utter cynical lies about the presence of WMD in the land of their twice useful tyrant Saddam. Cynical lies were used as justification for the oil grabbing war, and at the same time to decapitate the UN, to make a mockery of international law, and even to divide Europe between those that "are with us and those that are agaist us," but,

One ambiguous statement really puzzles me, the conclusion that if one truly understood the total picture and were a betting man, one would have to put money on the Good Ole Boys and not on powerless optimistic hopers.

The odds are in their favor, isn't it evident?
But if the master plan were exposed, and then a Gandhian strategy of global non-violent, non-cooperation were instituted, that would be the only way to beat the smirking little devils.

As far as I see, most people in the world are putting the money on them, accepting the hegemonic shameless power with either admiration or resignation. Most governments are prefering to have a share of the spoils of war from any confrontation.

Indeed. People are putting their faith in the illusions of perpetual growth, omniscient technology, conventional military strengths and a business-as-usual paradigm. That the fossil fuel supply has been dominated is obvious to most. But the reason why is the furthest from humanity's collective comprehension. Why isn't it on humanity's radar screen? Religion. The pivotal role which religion plays makes it the last thing which is even remotely suspected. All the wrong people don't take religion seriously.

Yes. Poland, the birthplace of the Pope, sends 200 troopers, gets a chunk of Iraq. What a signal to the naysayers. China gets Taiwan for keeping on the QT. Time will tell whether that's a temporary gain or not.

Therefore one would conclude that everybody is quite aware of the master plan, or that knowing or not knowing has become completely irrelevant.

No. That is nonsequitur. There may still be a chance. People are putting their faith in the illusions of ersatz democracy, perpetual growth, omniscient technology, outmoded military strategies and a business-as-usual paradigm. That the fossil fuel supply has been dominated is obvious to most. But the reason why is the furthest from humanity's collective comprehension. It is the last thing which is even remotely suspected.

And then what? What is the real question to ask ourselves and to ask the world?

Any criminologist will tell you that three things are necessary for a crime, means, motive and opportunity. What an abundance of all three are present here. First make clear that pulling the plug on energy is completely within the range of options available to the Good Ole Boys, especially now with Iraq's reserves and strategic location in the bag. Then make people understand that for the Good Ole Boys, any other option runs counter to their best interests, that they not only can do it, they must do it. If they don't, their control of the world evaporates. And Good Ole Boys would also lose in many other ways.

The questions to ask the world are:
"Are the mirages of ersatz democracy, perpetual growth, omniscient technology, conventional military thinking and a business-as-usual paradigm so overwhelmingly seductive? Does the world really want the Good Ole Boys to lead it by the nose to the holocaust of the WWlll cleansing plan?"

How to do something?
If you can find any URL which makes it as clear as we have, make links to that. Time is wasting away. The ball is in your court.
And smart money is on the Good Ole Boys.
Kind regards, Buddycom

One of the elephants in the living room:
Overpopulation? What overpopulation?

One of the elephants in the living room:
Oil crisis? What oil crisis?