US Secretary of State told a group of journalists when the United States invaded Iraq, “this will be a war that will not end in your lifetimes.” The vision of the project for the New American Century which backed George W Bush’s bid for presidency, is that the United States will control the world economy, by controlling the world’s oil supplies. The backing of independence movements in Georgia and Chechnya has deprived Russia of the gateway to Middle Eastern oil, and prevented it building a planned pipeline to China. Combined with manouvers in Afghanistan, Iraq and Israel, it is clear that this plan is being put into effect. The news stories in this category track the progress of this project and the impact it is having on the world economy and hence, your daily life.
Although apparently random and etiquette busting, Trump’s tweets are carefully calculated to evoke particular responses. One message that is notably absent from all the bluster about Chinese trade is any discussion of China trading oil in Yuan. While the mainstream press argues that this is because it does not matter, a long term reading of Continue Reading →
My question: why bother to reduce fossil fuels if we do nothing to the major forcing: population?
We just ended the hottest summer on record. We have fuels that are in critical drought state. This is the sixth year of seven years of drought.
They know no limits. They have never abided by the norms of society and never will. We pay taxes—they don’t. We work hard to get into an elite university or get a job—they don’t.
We can’t get there obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists, corporate controllers, and Nature destroyers.
What is the matter with these people? Either they really don’t know, or they are so corrupt that they pretend they don’t know. That’s the real story.