helaas....peak oil lijkt geen propaganda.

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The United States has never before appeared as powerful and as fragile as at the present moment. It has a gigantic military capacity. Its military budget is equal to the total military budgets of the twenty five other nations beneath it on a scale of power. The latter estimate omitting the Congressionally approved budget in order to attack Iraq. Despite all this, the U.S. is fragile because this military strength is not supported by its economy, but by its currency.
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The Doctrine of Zero Risk

Looked at closely, the United States military power dazzles because of its ineffectuality. For the past few years the U.S. has not engaged in any real military battles, but instead has shown that it would only accept a particularly weak military opponent. General Colin Powell, when he was Commander in Chief, expressed this fear, now referred to as “The Powell Doctrine”, which can be described as only engaging in armed conflicts when one is certain of victory. Contrary to official pronouncements, the United States refuses to take risks in order to defend ideology and only engages in military interventions when it anticipates no personal danger.. Before the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan or Kosovo, Gen. Powell was Commander of “Operation Just Cause” against Panama, a country with a 180 times lower military capacity than the U.S. But to quote Corneille, “To triumph without peril, is to triumph without glory”.


After the debacle in Somalia, the United States developed the theory of “zero dead” warfare. This meant devising strategic plans while witholding troops from close combat engagements. This policy was considered the way to suffer no losses while eliminating the maximum number of enemy forces. The Pentagon became the leading advocate of high altitude bombing. Pilots avoid all possibility of exposing their planes to anti-aircraft weaponry. They have no control over their targets and rely upon smart bombs, guided by echo or laser technology. These are extraordinarily precise, while being somewhat unreliable since nine out of ten hit their targets accurately, while one ou of ten, on average, will be lost and explode wherever it lands. “Zero dead” warfare is particularly cruel to the civilian population.

George W. Bush has just delivered two wars. The first. In Afghnistan did not expose the U.S. military to the Taliban forces, but instead pitted Afghan war lords against each other. The U.S. was content to buy the loyalty of this or that warlord with tranches of millions of dollars and supply them with weapons. Their military has established an important base at Bagram, on the outskirts of Kabul, from which their troops dare not venture out, leaving their imposed President Karzai’s authority to rule only over Kabul.

Bush’s second war, in Iraq, can also not be described as a brilliant military success. The United States bombarded the country with thousands of missiles, causing, by their own estimates, more than 50 billion dollars worth of damage. Then, they entered the country while meeting with little resistance because of the complicity of some of Saddam Hussein’s generals who had been bought.


Failure of U.S. power.

Apart from these consentual wars, the power of the U.S. is held back wherever it seeks to impose itself. U.S. military forces now no longer have to oppose those of Saddam Hussein, but have the opposition of the Iraqi people, themselves. Within the past six months, hundreds of dead and thousands of wounded are greater in number than those caused by the war itself. Sunday, an attempted assassination of the Pentagon’s No.2, Paul Wolfowitz. The morale of the GI’s is at a very low point. The number of suicides within the rank and file has never been as high. This has led to more troop rotation with leave and free flights to Europe being granted, but has also enabled numerous troops to desert.

The GI’s no longer believe in their mission. Previously filled with propaganda, they believed they would be greeted in Iraq as liberators, but instead met with the hostility of the population. The imperial ambitions of the United States oblige it to deploy many tens of thousands of military personnel, over the next five years. However, where will they be found, since half of those now serving are refusing to lengthen their service? Latin Americans are being recruited with the promise of U.S. citizenship, at the the end of their term of service, while mercenaries are also being engaged. One tenth of those serving in the Coalition in Iraq are mercenaries, and not regular soldiers.

This week, the Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, sent a memo to his four principal colleagues, asking them think over some questions before debating them with him. This secret memo found its way to “USA Today” which published it. The confusion Rumsfeld feels is evident when he asks himself whether the United States is or is not winning the “war against terrorism” and whether it is creating more adversaries than eliminating them. He asks himself whether the U.S. armada with its tanks, aircraft carriers, missiles and nuclear bombs can succeed in its struggle against those who oppose it. Coming to the conclusion that all this equipment, conceived to crush the Soviet Union is of little use today and that no-one knows how to adapt it to the present situation. He then proposes creating another Ministry of Defense apart from the Pentagon.


War Against the Dollar, the Pillar of United States Power

Whatever happens, Washington can no longer backtrack. In fact, the survival of the U.S. is menaced - not by an external enemy, but by internal economic weakness and tensions running between its communities. Many are becoming conscious of the fact that U.S. power is based upon a mirage, the dollar. These are only pieces of paper, printed when more are needed, while the rest of the world feels obliged to use them.

For the past three years, Jacques Chirac and Gerhard Schroder have engaged France and Germany in a pitiless war against the United States. They have sent emissaries world wide to convince other States to convert their monetary reserves to euros. The first to accept were Iran, Iraq and North Korea. Precisely the countries described by George W. Bush as those of the “axis of evil”.

Meanwhile, Vladimir Putin has begun restoring the economic independence of the Russian Federation. He has reimbursed - ahead of time - the debts that Yeltsin had contracted with the International Monetary Fund and will also make an early repayment, before the end of the year, of the remaining debts to the Club of Paris.

Putin has calmly announced that he plans State control of the natural riches of his country. He has reminded others that the oligarchs made their fortunes overnight by appropriating, with the complicity of Yeltsin, all that belonged to the U.S.S.R. and that the State can demand the return of wealth which should never have been handed over to the oligarchs.

When Gerhard Schroder visited Putin at the beginning of October, Putin intimated that he would begin by regaining control over Russian gas and petrol and that he would convert their trading, now in dollars, to euros.

On his part, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, Mahatir Mohammad, has experimented with the abandonment of the dollar in international exchanges, but in order to replace it with gold. He has signed bilateral agreements with his country’s business partners. Malaysian exports and imports will in future be traded in gold.

Buoyed by this, he has suggested to the Islamic Bank of Development a plan that would put an end to U.S. dominance. Inspired by the Arab cartel which created the oil shortage of 1974, he has outlined a decisive monetary assault. The idea is to switch world petrol trading to gold, thereby provoking the fall of the dollar and the collapse of the U.S. economy.

At first, Saudi Arabia, menaced by Washington neo-conservatives, was opposed to this plan, but became agreable to it. The Islamic Bank of Development presented the proposal at the summit meeting of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) which was held recently in Malaya, presided over by Dr. Mahatir Mohammad. It was agreed that bilateral agreements for a transition to the gold standard would be prepared between Islamic countries, during the course of next year. At the next summit meeting, to be held in Senegal, the fifty-seven Member-States of the Islamic Conference would be invited to sign a multilateral agreement.

Vladimir Putin who also attended the Islamic Conference, since a large number of the citizens of the Russian Federation are Muslims, encouraged the plan.

Abandoning the dollar presents a long and difficult struggle, for Europe as well as for Muslim countries. While an international campaign accusing Dr. Mahatir Mohammed of ressuscitating anti-semitism has been launched, Henry Kissinger and Condoleeza Rice appealed to the oligarch, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, for help in order to neutralise Putin. Last weekend, however, Putin had him arrested and detained.

Whatever happens, the monetary war has been declared. In the short-term, U.S. domination is menaced.

Thierry Meyssan
Journalist, writer and President of Réseau Voltaire

Bron: http://www.unobserver.com(...)t4.php&id=1144&blz=1

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In my opinion: Gulag communisme / "Global (social) democracy" is de sleutel naar de NWO en Rusland speelt een hoofdrol hierin. (bij voldoende grondstoffen mag ik aannemen)

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Productiedivisie Yukos naar onbekende partij

Uitgegeven: 19 december 2004 16:15

MOSKOU - De divisie olieproductie van het Russische olieconcern Yukos is in handen gekomen van een tot nu toe onbekende partij. Dat is het resultaat van de veiling van de divisie, die zondag plaatshad.

De Russische onderneming Baikalfinansgroup was bereid omgerekend 9,34 miljard dollar voor de divisie Yukanskneftegaz neer te tellen. Het Russische energieconcern Gazprom gold als de favoriet voor de overname.

Veiling

De Russische regering had de veiling gelast om een deel van de achterstallige belastingen van Yukos, ongeveer 26 miljard dollar, terug te krijgen. Of de veiling rechtsgeldig is, staat nog te bezien.

Yukos was vorige week in de Amerikaanse staat Texas, waar het ook actief is, naar de rechter gestapt om uitstel van betaling en zo bescherming tegen zijn schuldeisers te krijgen. De rechter bepaalde naar aanleiding van het surseanceverzoek dat de veiling met tien dagen moest worden uitgesteld, maar de Russische autoriteiten trokken zich daar niets van aan.

Gazprom had zaterdag in de VS nog bezwaar aangetekend tegen het uitstel van de veiling. De Amerikaanse rechter hield de uitspraak echter overeind. Zondag vlak voor het begin van de biedingen maakte Menatep, de maatschappij waar Yukos onder valt, nog bekend ook in andere landen dan de VS de rechtsgeldigheid van de verkoop aan te zullen vechten.

In eerste instantie was gemeld dat er vier partijen aan de veiling zouden meedoen. Kort voor de veilig zondagmiddag begon, bleken alleen Gazprom en Baikalfinansgroup mee te doen.

Grote banken

Hoe de overname wordt gefinancierd, staat nog niet vast. De Amerikaanse rechter die het surseanceverzoek van Yukos in behandeling heeft, bepaalde tevens dat grote internationale banken, waaronder ABN Amro, in ieder geval Gazprom niet mochten helpen bij de financiering van de overname. Waar het geld van Baikalfinansgroup vandaan komt, is niet duidelijk. Evenmin is bekend of deze onderneming banden heeft met Gazprom of met andere concerns.

De gedwongen veiling van het productieonderdeel van Yukos heeft volgens velen een politieke achtergrond. De inmiddels afgetreden topman van Yukos, Michail Chodorkovsky, zou te grote politieke ambities hebben.

Hij werd gearresteerd op verdenking van fraude en belastingontduiking. Bovendien zou president Poetin met de veiling de olieproductie voor een groter deel in staatshanden willen brengen.

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Op vrijdag 31 december 2004 18:13 schreef Oo-blackgirl-oO het volgende:
very interesting dit allemaal.

en ook zoveel zijpaden die uiteindelijk allemaal in 1 epi-centrum uitkomen nl. weer die NWO

'k ga dit topic ff in detail lezen

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Op zaterdag 1 januari 2005 04:19 schreef jogy het volgende:

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Opzich zou die NWO me aan mijn reet roesten.

Amerika doet wat ie moet doen om als winaar uit de strijd te komen.
Wij als onafhankelijke entitieit moeten ons eigen weg zoeken. De regering zal de chaos niet overleven, Amerika ook niet. Zorg ervoor dat je bij de 20(!)% hoort die het wel overleeft. Dat is het belangrijkst.

mij boeit hert zeker, als iemand iets wilt opstarten wat ons helpt om t overleven doe ik zeker mee.

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Op zondag 2 januari 2005 06:22 schreef Merovingian. het volgende:
US, China, India's 850 New Coal Plants To Bury Kyoto
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Christian Science Monitor - 23 december

America's new coal rush
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Christian Science Monitor - 26 februari

Dat het het Kyoto protocol schaad zal me een worst wezen, maar je vraagt je af waarom energie centrales op basis van schoon natuurlijk gas amper meer gebouwd worden. Bijna alle bouwcontracten zijn ervoor afgezegd. In plaats daarvan begint zelfs de VS als een gek zwaar vervuilende koolcentrales te bouwen.

Beter zetten ze er goeie zwavelfilters in...

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Op zondag 2 januari 2005 21:38 schreef Merovingian. het volgende:
Een erg goed artikel. Kern:
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Die laatste regel lijkt erop te duiden dat ook in 2004, net als in 2003, geen enkel megaveld in ontdekt, waar ook ter wereld. Dit is sinds jaren '20 niet meer voorgekomen.

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God did not post any beacons or billboards above the world's mineral deposits. Man had to find them all on his
own. Unfortunately, as our resource-hungry world has depleted its inheritance of metals and petroleum, large resource deposits have become increasingly difficult to find. The world's largest oil companies have responded to
this geological predicament by reducing their exploration budgets and boosting the acquisition budgets. In other
words, they are going shopping in the world's stock markets for the oil reserves they cannot track down in the wild.
As the big oil companies transform themselves from explorers into mere "shoppers," every mid-size oil or gas
company with a sizeable reserve base becomes a an attractive "bauble." Resource investors would do well to
determine which mid-sized oil companies the shoppers will consider most appealing, and try to pick up a few shares
while they're still "on sale."
Mineral exploration, like a kind of cosmic Easter egg hunt, becomes increasingly difficult the longer the hunt
proceeds. Today, most of the world's oil explorers are finding that the best chocolate eggs are long gone. The
only goodies remaining are a few stray jellybeans and some candy wrappers. So the big oil companies are turning their attention, instead, to the candy store known as Wall Street to satisfy their permanent craving for new reserves.
"The world's biggest oil companies are failing to get value for their money," the Financial Times observed recently, citing a study by the Scottish energy consultant, Wood Mackenzie. The newly released study shows that oil and gas exploration has produced relatively dismal results over the past few years. Specifically . . . the commercial value of oil and gas discovered by the 10 largest energy groups over the last three years is well below the sums spent to find them. In 2003, for example, the top 10 oil groups spent about $8 billion hunting for oil, but only found about $4 billion worth of the stuff.

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Tja, en als iemand ooit voedsel wilt aanleggen, mocht over 10 jaar de situatie echt nijpend beginnen te worden, is dit een idee:
Ik zou je angst van verzadigd vet verliezen en een voorraad Pemmikaan (Pemmican) maken. Dit is een mix van bv 50% gedroogd vlees & 50% dierlijk vet. Evt wat gedroogde bessen erdoor heen. Indien goed gemaakt, blijft het rustig 20-30 jaar goed, zonder koelkast. Het werd vroeger gemaakt door de Indianen en eskimo's en er is vrijwel geen voedsel dat meer caloriën biedt terwijl het zo weinig ruimte inneemt. Gooi x kilo in je kelder en je houdt het langer uit als de rest.

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Op zondag 28 november 2004 12:58 schreef OpenYourMind het volgende:
Ik heb na lang zoeken de pdf versie van het boek online gevonden. Jammer dat het boek zo slecht verkrijgbaar is want een echt boek leest een stuk prettiger en daar steun je tenminste zijn onderzoek mee.

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Type : Paperback
Uitgever : New Society Publishers
Verschijningsdatum : 01/10/2004
Gewicht : 0 gr.
Aantal bladzijden : 512
Aantal boeken : 1
ISBN : 0865715408
Categorie : General

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Op donderdag 6 januari 2005 12:55 schreef jogy het volgende:

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http://www.proxis.be/ krijgt het boek binnenkort weer in de schappen, via een andere uitgever trouwens.
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Je kan het boek bestellen met een vooraf betaalde afschrift, dus geen creditcard nodig .