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They are all quite mad and we are all living in an insane asylum...

Ibrahim Turner

Sure seems like it on the surface…

But are ‘they’ mad or just following a hidden agenda? And what could that ‘hidden agenda’ be?

All that ‘they’ have done seems like a mad house on steroids.

But what if they are working to a plan? Could all this carnage, deception, power grabs, Gitmo, constitution shredding, renditions, no-fly lists and the like possibly be planned, and if so, what is the end game? You have to take not only the long view, but also the global view.

Using daisy cutters, depleted uranium shells, unexploded munitions littering Lebanon, Serbia, Iraq 1991 and the current ‘shock and awe’ war/occupation; are they part of the plan?

It is obvious that Iraq will not recover to its former state for many years. Bombing a country ‘back to the stone age’ has been quoted by every belligerent, war mongering neocon regarding every country that has been attacked, or threatened with attack. For what underlying purpose? Can it be gleaned from their statements of policy, however insane those seem?

Or is there something that they are careful to NOT say?

They want the oil in Iraq, and by inference, they want the oil in Iran. North Korea has no oil, so it is not in this particular equation. Syria has very little oil so it is a second tier country in this scheme of things, but is an ally of Iran and has occupied Lebanon and has been accused of letting/sending suicide bombers into Iraq.

Perhaps the geopolitical chessboard ‘great game’ is to deprive China of the oil, as a way to prevent their rise to appose the Americans. And surrounding Russia with missiles is another part of the plan, as Russia seems to have found a way to find oil and gas using a different geology theory than the west uses. They have been finding oil where no one expected to find it, using their alternative methods, hidden from the west by the cold war stand off, but in reality, the western oil companies did not really want to consider anything new in the geology theories, after all, reputations were at stake. So Russian cannot be blackmailed by cutting off access to oil, because they have all they need and can export as well, so their economy is beginning to boom, just like China’s.

I read an article about energy resources and the author attended a conference of bankers, CEO’s and captains of industry. He reported that not once was ‘Peak Oil’ mentioned. And when he asked a few bankers, what did they think about peak oil, most of them did not even know what it was. You can bet your bottom dollar though, that the oil companies do know all about it, in intimate detail.

It was predicted that peak oil would occur around 1995/2000, but the price hike from the OPEC countries in the 70’s pushed that estimate a further few years into the future. Some estimates put the peak oil time at 2007/2010, and others say 2020. Whatever the true date, it is certain to come and the civilization built on cheap oil will no longer be viable.

The other ‘alternative energies’ thoroughly investigated and detailed in the article showed that the highest percent of price to power ratio would be about 3% or with some innovative scientific breakthrough maybe 5%. Let’s suppose that it could be 10%.

The ratio for oil is 30%. Nothing else comes even close.

The shale oil, often cited as part of the American reserves, which would be profitable if the world price of oil rose high enough, overlooks the fact that it would cost $1 to get 50 cents of oil, a very negative ratio, so nobody would do it.

No new oil refineries have been built for 30 years and many have been closed down - doesn’t that tell you something about how the oil companies are viewing the available reserves. There is also speculation that there has been some skulduggery with the estimates of reserves of oil under the ground in Saudi Arabia over the years.

Consequences

So what are the consequences of peak oil? Every item of food, everything that people buy in the supermarkets and the city malls, is delivered by truck. Delivered across America, Europe, and Asian countries - to every large city around the world. Forget container ships and rail, which also use oil, because at the end of the trip, the only way is by truck. If the oil goes to $200 a barrel, the trucks will probably still run, But the price of goods and food will skyrocket and if the oil gets scarce and you have to queue up at the gas station for hours to get a rationed amount of fuel for your SUV, what do you think the average citizen will think of their governments then? Now do you see why they have built those Halliburton holiday camps?

A million or more hungry people, with jobs going down the toilet every day, will be a big problem for their safety. A few dissidents marching on Washington are hardly going to cause any trouble for the Whitehouse, surrounded by police, armed FBI agents and the soldiers that were moved to the District of Columbia from Florida some months ago.

And the sub prime fiasco engineered by Alan Greenspan lowering the interest rates to an astonishing 1% leading to the explosion in crazy, lending – was this fiscally sound, madness, or another facet of the underlying plan? A plan which might be to bankrupt the American economy, thereby causing a financial global recession/depression which would bring the world economy to its knees, with the inevitable result that many more millions would suffer the consequences and die of starvation.

Surreal and horrific as it might seem, the depleted uranium and all the rest, will cause many illnesses and deaths not only of Iraqis and the soon to be attack on Iran, but the US soldiers are exposed to this horror as well. If you are ill from radiation poisoning, hungry because the artificial food chain has broken down, you will not be in any state to appose marshal law, written into that executive order 51.

Kissinger in 1989 inaugurated a think tank with the express task of working on the over population problem. Isn’t it possible that this is part of the overall plan? Millions starving to death, ill and dying from radiation poisoning, after all, the USA military suppressed all the data from the Hiroshima and Nagasaki radiation aftermath of the bombs for 20 years. It began to known because the Japanese began to publish stuff.

If there are people with a plan, they have no compunction in poisoning the environment and having a high IQ and writing plans for global ‘spheres of influence’ like ‘the great game’, does not necessarily mean that it comes with a conscience.

Plans to manipulate entire populations for strategic perceived gains without regard to the deaths of thousands or even millions – does that get a mention in their dry academic equations?

Do you think that the current crop of Neocons calling for the bombing of Iran have any conscience about the everyday Persian people, unfortunate enough to be saddled with a Mullah theocracy?

And what about the other countries with just as bad rulers all over the Middle East? Everywhere you look there are rulers oppressing people in one way or another, with an ideology that suits their purpose, the communists in China, the Russians, theocracies of Saudi Arabia, the Baathists of Syria, the military rule in Turkey, and even the socialism of Venezuela, the problems in Sudan – the leaders all seem to take absolutely no thought for the people they govern, just as long as they remain in power. Pakistan’s latest marshal law is a good example of this. Every where you look, the rulers want to stay in power, to the detriment of the populations, either by outright oppression or distraction of wars and the manipulation of ‘democracy’ - what a hollow joke that is!

In my view peak oil is the reason behind all of the nefarious things the Bush Junta are doing and have done. Clinton was responsible for Serbia, so it is just not the republicans under Bush that are in on the plan. It also gives a plausible reason why the Democrats, voted in to stop the war in Iraq and bring the troops home, seem to be powerless wimps.

It makes perfect sense to me, that all these things are part of a plan and that Bush is just the front man, backed up by Cheney and the Neocons and perhaps others not in the public eye. Lately I’ve read articles questioning George Bush’s sanity and pathological demeanour, probably with a view to committing him to an institution, so as to save the Republic and the American Constitution.

But consider the front-runners of the Democratic Party’s candidates for President. Have any of them said that they will bring the troops home soon? Have any of them said that will take anything off the table regarding Iran? And what about those military bases in Iraq and that boondoggle the Largest Embassy in the world in the green zone? Does that look like they will ever leave, especially as Bush likened Iraq to Korea, a fifty-year stint and still going?

I’ve heard many times the phrase ‘the one party system’ with two faces, keeping people enamoured with trivia on TV, giving them false hope that there is a difference between the Democrats and the Republicans, that a ‘saviour’ in the shape of Al Gore will rescue us all, that AIPAC runs the country, that American foreign policy is run from Tel Aviv, but is any of this really credible? After all, there are other ‘lobbies’, the Pharmacy lobby the gun, the oil, the farming, the Christian, the Muslim, the sustainable energy lobby and on and on, every industry and grouping has its advocates and lobbies, so what is so special about an Israel lobby. I would think that there is also a European lobby and that Russian and Chinese interests do not go un-represented I’m sure, in every country in the west.

Now, given that there might be a plan, who do you think planned it all, and why? I’ve heard about the Bilderburgs, the Carlyle Group, Halliburton and the like. And I’ve read comments from people about the ET connection which has for 50 years has prevented the madmen in power round the world from starting the ‘last’ war, in the sense that, as Einstein is reported to have said, ‘I do not know with what weapons the 3rd World War will be fought, but I know that the 4th World War will be fought with sticks and stones. And of course, implied in that scenario is the fact that there will be a lot less people on the earth.

Do your own research. Google ‘Peak Oil’, the information is out there and it is credible.

There is no solution to peak oil whilst continuing on our insane passion for growth and industrialization. Nothing can replace oil - it will run out, and soon. With dire consequences for this way of life, riding along in our cars, using electricity for all our toys and appliances, from central power plants like there is no tomorrow. And there are an unbelievable number of things that are manufactured from oil – from pharmaceuticals to plastic. If you Google ‘things made from oil’ you will find whole pages listing things which you would never have thought of.

Oh and the article I read - and it is long and thorough with many charts, references - also considered Nuclear, and guess what, uranium is finite too, and there is a lot less of it than coal - never mind about the problem of nuclear waste, still not solved, regardless of what they might tell you. Where does all the Depleted Uranium come from? Nuclear power stations, and apparently there are tons of it with no use, until some bright spark came up with using it in bombs and shells and armour on tanks.

So unless somebody comes up with a power system that can be portable enough to fit into a car, cheap enough to rival the oil ratio costs to power, then this civilization based on cheap oil and the car, as it currently is, will have to change. The age of the ‘commuter’ is doomed.

All alternative energy sources (in the article) have been considered, from wind, solar, geothermal, coal liquefaction, tidal, estuary, nuclear, hydrogen cars, hybrids, oil from plants, etc. and none have the cost to power ratio of oil, and implementing some of the infrastructure to bring them on line should have been started years ago. A tank of gas in equivalent battery power would require several tons of batteries. A hydrogen fuel cell will only last about a year, and there is no infrastructure like gas stations to fill up widely available.

It is already too late.

The trouble is, EVERY government, democracy or dictatorship, is sleepwalking into a very bleak future. Either they know all about it behind closed doors and have some kind of plan, or they have a plan that does not include you and me, the John Doe’s, the man in the street and his wife and kids.

That there is a plan by some few or many is self evident to me; nothing else fits all the available facts.

I’m not able to give links, I don’t know how.

Authors Bio:
A well traveled and slightly worse for wear 72 year old Englishman; widower, several children and grandchildren and a penchant for wondering 'what is the hidden agenda' in almost everything I read. A keen interest in American culture (an oxymoron?) (JOKE!) and politics and an international world view, except where I haven't got first hand experience of the parts of the world I have not visited. Editor of some books about the Qur'an and Islam. Teacher of English in little known countries like Mauritania, Istanbul, Turkey and Morocco.