tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post116882456830916377..comments2024-03-24T11:01:27.668-04:00Comments on Resource Insights: DeludedKurt Cobbhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05330759091950742285noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-1168912095880243962007-01-15T20:48:00.000-05:002007-01-15T20:48:00.000-05:00Well, I think that whether there is enough Oil or ...Well, I think that whether there is enough Oil or not to be had is not the overriding issue. If there is plenty left and most of it is outside the U. S., then the U. S. wants to have its hand on the spigot so that the rest of the world will have to continue holding large dollar reserves thereby financing our huge fiscal and trade deficits.<BR/><BR/>Now if scarcity is on the horizon, and I believe this is indeed the case, then my first point still holds and there is even more reason for the U. S. to want to control matters. It wants to both protect its currency as well as force others to go through it if they want that manna from below. <BR/><BR/>Moreover, the profit system is in deep thrall to Marx's classic theory of overproduction on one hand and, on the other hand, a crisis of now butting up against natural resource limits. Needless to say, a system based on never-ending growth will not handle these "twin evils," from its perspective, very well.John Qhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13441726004215603824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-1168907404628566172007-01-15T19:30:00.000-05:002007-01-15T19:30:00.000-05:00I support your insight into the real reason we are...I support your insight into the real reason we are in Iraq. When you hear Bush say the word democracy just replace it with the word Halliburtin. And now we must get ready for the Gulf of Tonkin 2 in the next 12 months with Iran being the Goat Victim. Expect a same type US started military strike that leads to a full scale conflict. However, this one will be much more serious and profound then Tonkin. There is the possibility of a US military iatrogenic (self inflected) death sene that will be performed to attempt to grab the public out of their credit card stuper and reverse the intense hate directed towards the president that you are witnessing on the TV every night that is downplayed usually. Yes - this is treason that not even the Nazis' would have concocted, but unfortunately you are living in the times of Peak Oil, fiat currenct, the military industrial complex, the financial elite and you the sheeple servants. Yes, expect this very soon as the price of oil skyrockets and the value of the dollar collapses and the grand diversion part 2 is begun (1A being Iraq). Thomas Jefferson saw the preview to this movie and noted a Warning To America : <BR/> <BR/>"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around [the banks] will deprive the people of all property until their children wake-up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs." Written by Jefferson in a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin (1802). <BR/> <BR/>Remember you cannot have a uncontrolled military industrial complex without a fiat currency - ever increasing - printed out of thin air that is the life blood of "it". We are doomed to be body bag recipients of their tyranny if we don't take the proper actions necessary. It is possible that it is already too late to reverse this tyranny and we are doomed but there may still be time. We must try. What else is there.<BR/> <BR/>REALIZE VOTE EDUCATE NOWAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-1168890541690944082007-01-15T14:49:00.000-05:002007-01-15T14:49:00.000-05:00Why do you think the american leaders "believe tha...<I>Why do you think the american leaders "believe that there is plenty of oil to be had"?<BR/>Would not they do just the same if they knew that they are fighting for the last drops?</I><BR/><BR/>I think that both interpretations are possible. But, so far the official line is that there is plenty of oil; it's just that it's in the Middle East and is being held back by government-owned oil companies. Opening up the Middle East's government-owned fields to private companies will supposedly liberate this oil more quickly for the market.Kurt Cobbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05330759091950742285noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861605.post-1168888852673313422007-01-15T14:20:00.000-05:002007-01-15T14:20:00.000-05:00Why do you think the american leaders "believe tha...Why do you think the american <B>leaders</B> "believe that there is plenty of oil to be had"?<BR/>Would not they do just the same if they knew that they are fighting for the last drops?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com