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The problem with relying on local govt (or yourself)

Gretna.

Zimbabwe - Peak Oil's First Casualty?

Sooner than you imagine, peak oil will evolve a test of mankind's humanity to our less fortunate fellows. Will some sort of oil depletion protocol come to pass allowing at least of modicum of oil to support every country's essential services? Or will peak oil be marked by survival of the richest?

This will soon be seen as the heart of the peak oil moral dilemma.

Farmer Brown

I suspect there's going to be much retrospective weeping and gnashing of teeth when it finally dawns on Cobb that filial devotion to the rich is precisely analogous to the misplaced trust that piglets have for the seemingly kindly Farmer Brown.

While our beloved knowers/providers are instigating civil war and chaos in Iraq, using the calamity of Katrina to inflame white hysteria in the U.S. to heights unseen for decades - possibly in an effort to keep up with their UK confederates who're on quite the ripsnort.

It seems to me that inquiring minds would at least consider the terrible alternative possibility suggested by mounting current evidence - in the light of abundant historical precedent - that the hand that feeds you can and will turn around and harvest you - when it becomes expedient to do so.

The Destruction of the U.S. Army in Iraq

I have an urge to say I told you so and link this to every related article posted over the past year here at Vision Circle. In the interest of brevity, I'll instead simply put it up with a set of keywords, social democracy, corporatism, dominionism, military energy complex, black gold, romanity...,

Something has happened in our country since the time of Franklin Roosevelt that we haven't directly reckoned with. The book I've just written has as its subtitle, "The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power." That polemical phrase "disastrous rise" comes from Eisenhower's famous military-industrial-complex speech where he explicitly warned against "the disastrous rise of misplaced power" in America – exactly the kind that has since come into being...…the power was empty. That's the irony, of course. We've created for ourselves the disaster an enemy might have liked to create for us. That was the essence of the Eisenhower warning. We've sacrificed democratic values. What accounts for Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo? What accounts for the abandonment of basic American principles of how you treat accused people? We've abandoned this fundamental tenet of American democracy ourselves! We didn't need an invading force to take away this one chief pillar of the Constitution. We took it down ourselves.

Tom Englehardt reads America in the entrails of the U.S. Army over at LewRockwell.com. His analysis encompasses multiple simultaneous levels down to our foundational dependance on slavery.

Kakistocratic Kamoflage for Kleptocracy?

What if, just what if, what for all the world looks like a kakistocracy is in fact a kleptocracy with moves so smooth they border on the supernatural? I'm only just asking, since we're all assessing and connecting dots here - are there competing interpretations of these portents signifying the approach of something truly wicked?

Ray Nagin no friend of ours.., the folks who Ray Nagin is actually VERY friendly with and whose interests he has served with kakistocratic finesse - converting troublesome invisible refugees into expendable and even less visible detainees - and finally, the piece d'resistance in the whole seemingly chaotic jumble. Bearing in mind there are still quite a few folks convinced that the invasion of Iraq has something to do with preventing WMD's from falling into terra-ist hands...,

NOLA TAZ

It is at times like this, when the focus is on disaster, that people show their true nature. At least that's what MLK said about the test of a man. Coming to grips with my partisan side, I recognize how best to antagonize the liberal nemesis: test his theories during times of duress.

I happened across a friend's blog and he mentioned, on his way to Burning Man, that doyenne of the diverse Hakim Bey. Bey's theory turns up at the oddest moments and from my perspective evoke little more than a romance for chaos. And so I quote from Bey wondering if Progressives here might be swayed by the highfalutin' theory as we observe what goes down in the town that drowned. To wit:

Uprising, or the Latin form insurrection, are words used by historians to label failed revolutions--movements which do not match the expected curve, the consensus-approved trajectory: revolution, reaction, betrayal, the founding of a stronger and even more oppressive State--the turning of the wheel, the return of history again and again to its highest form: jackboot on the face of humanity forever.

Superdome of Shame

Jack Duggan brings it hard and correct at LewRockwell.com on the apartheid degeneracy perpetrated under cover of Katrina. Predictably, there hasn't been a peep raised about this in the MSM or by the traditional coonshowmen/wimmin.

Let's face it. If you're poor in America, you're a "suspect," maybe. If you're poor and black in America, you're a "criminal," definitely. Even if your life is in peril, no excuses. Your rights don't count as long as any badge or weekend warrior in BDU's says they don't.

This is the real story of the Louisiana Superdome. Hurricane Katrina can certainly destroy the environs of the Louisiana and her neighboring states, but that can all be rebuilt. What will never be rebuilt is the dignity of the poorest citizens of that region, since the government acted with a greater destructive force than a hurricane. The lamp of freedom has been blown out by force-five bureaucrats, their sycophants and their head-embedded media enablers who will insure that it will never get re-ignited. For our own good, of course.

Heads should roll in Louisiana, for all those whose civil rights were violated on Sunday, August 28, 2005, outside the Louisiana Superdome of Shame.

KatrinaVision

Neocon wagerers please step to the betting window.

Katrina is a category 5 storm. It's gonna shutdown 1 Million barrels of daily oil production and 10 million cubic feet of natural gas production {which as we all know by now, peaked a long time ago in these here united states...,} and which will have an even greater impact than the approximately 2.5% disruption of our daily oil jones.

If G-Dub opens the strategic petroleum reserve today {800 Million barrels of black gold} it'll put the speculative wolves into check at market opening tomorrow morning, and, indicate that the administration is focused on the well-being of the American people. If, on the other hand, he salutes us with his middle finger, as I fully expect him to do, I will interpret this as a clear and present signal that we are strategically committed to putting in work in and around the Tehran metropolitan area within the next x months weather and other logistical factors permitting.

So neocons, is your boy about the well-being of the American people, the well-being of energy speculators, or, is he fittin to put in work in Iran which necessitates he hold that oil dear for the use of Rumsfeld and company?

Peaking of World Oil Production: Impacts, Mitigation and Risk Management

Waiting until world conventional oil production peaks before implementing crash program mitigation leaves the world with a significant liquid fuel deficit for two decades or longer," according to a report prepared for the Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) by Science Applications International Coporation (SAIC).

Here is a link to the full 91 page report and the executive summary from the report. Inquiring minds want to know, where is MSM on this subject? Who's looking out for me?

Memin Penguin and Black Gold

Anonymous dropped it like it was hot over at P6. A deadly serious fellow traveller, undistracted by the theatre of the absurd, called it like it T.I.is..., I pray that folks will take note of this. With all the other distracting hijinks now in play, this is a crystal clear synopsis of the terror of the situation looming just past the signpost up ahead.