It's the Oil, Stupid! Ruppert article on secret Cheney plan, 9-11, ME

[Dems Will Win]

IN YOUR FACE

- Connections between Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force, 9/11 and Peak Oil “On the Table”

- July '04 Supreme Court Ruling on Secrecy, Task Force Documents Obtained through FOIA Suit on Collision Course as Cheney “Duck Hunts” with Scalia

- The Reason Why Activists of All Stripes are Ineffective


January 29, 2004 1700 PST ( FTW ) – Nothing can change the facts.

When, in May 2001, the conservative legal watchdog group Judicial Watch filed suit to see the records of Dick Cheney's National Energy Policy Development Group (NEPDG), it was the first to protest the unheard of secrecy at the energy task force. As the White House stonewalled, the Government Accounting Office (GAO) filed suit the following February. Congress had, after all, funded the project. Non-governmental officials had played major roles in its deliberations and, under the Constitution, the GAO had an obligation to see how the money was spent and what was produced. White House refusals prompted media speculation about deals with Enron and big oil companies; a divvying of spoils, a rape of the environment. Judicial Watch was later joined in its suit by the Sierra Club. A scandal for everyone!

It's a sure bet that of all the plaintiffs; from Congressman Henry Waxman (D – CA) and Comptroller General David Walker who fought for the GAO; to Judicial Watch's Larry Klayman, who had previously fought Bill Clinton; to the environmentalists, none had a clue as to what they were really asking for or why Dick Cheney fought them so ruthlessly.

The fight was just beginning.

As reported in the congressional newspaper The Hill on February 19, 2003, the GAO dropped its suit after the administration made threats of heavy cuts to its budget. The offer GAO couldn't refuse was delivered by Alaska 's Republican Senator Ted Stevens where a lot of new drilling was expected to take place. Judicial Watch and the Sierra Club stood firm. Both had the money to see their suits through.

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Enron seems like a pleasant diversion now. All these battles started before the first plane hit the Twin Towers . That's one reason why everyone was so shocked at the blatantly illegal secrecy and the manner in which the administration fought. This was long before The Patriot Act, Homeland Security, Patriot Act II, and all the scandalous lies that have since been revealed. One of the administration's bets was that, in the wake of 9/11, the NEPDG records would be forgotten.

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Preserving the US addiction to Cheap Oil is what's really going on around here. Anyone who doesn't think so is a COINCIDENCE NUT! If they get to reinstate the DRAFT in 2005, Dubya Dubya III won't be far off.

Activists! Be informed! Spread the word that Cheap Oil ending is the reason for the war, that Cheney needs to increase oil to Americans by 7.5 mbd if we are not going to use renewables! It's the Oil, Stupid!

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Peak Oil is one of the top 3 issues this planet will have to deal with

not sure what the other 2 are, but population might be one also.

[Dems Will Win]

2. Global Warming is number 3

Normal Range is 240 to 270 ppm Atmospheric CO2
1950 = 315 ppm CO2
Today = 370 ppm CO2
Irreversible Global Economic/Environmental Damage = 450 ppm (UNEP study)

We have about 10 to 20 years to reverse this!

[BlueEyedSon]

3. Thanks, I knew I was forgetting something!

Actually, peak oil and global warming can be considered to be related. Conservation and alternative (non-hydrocarbon) energy sources can slow the onset of both.

[Dems Will Win]

5. Exactimundo my Blue-Eyed Son!

Clean up two oily birds with one stone!

[Beam Me Up]

6. You say this so lightly...

I mean, if we'd been preparing for this for the past 30 years as we should have been (and could have been had the Elites not prevented it), our alternative energy ifrastructure (and social mind set) would already be well in place.

AS IT IS, however, current oil consumption is being driven by both POPULATION and ECONOMIC GROWTH. A sudden precipitous nose dive of oil production will have a SIGNIFICANT impact on BOTH these issues on a global scale. That's what I'm hearing. Are we ready to face the devastating social consequences of this? Yeah, in the long run, moving to sustainable energy sources will be god for society and the planet. The question has always been HOW DO WE GET THERE FROM WHERE WE ARE.

What would you say will be the population that this planet can sustain sans easy, cheap access to hydrocarbon resources (not just fuels for energy but everything from fertilizers to pharmaceuticals). Will it be HALF what it is now? More? Less? At what rate will the population adjustment be made?

[BeFree]

7. Are we ready?

The question is: Are you ready?

Hell, this has been coming down the pike for 30 years now. You can blame the media, you can blame ****, you can blame everyone else for this sudden revelation.

And now that you know, what are ya gonna do?

[Dems Will Win]

12. I agree, it will not be easy or even likely

Yet there is a way. It does involve shifting the paradigm but that has already been underway for some time and I believe is headed for a tipping-point that is still a decade off. After that, much more rapid change can be made.

I would refer you to this Web site about an exciting new technology that was just on CNN last night:

http://www.theaircar.com

There are many other new technologies out there that can help us make the leap to a renewables-based future. Making an end-run around the corporatist media is the real challenge.

[Old and In the Way]

14. Agree!

Bush1 ran Bush's energy policys in the 80s. He got SA to pump cheap oil and gave us "Morning in America". That derailed the whole discussion for 25 years.

I guess it's only fitting that his son delvers us "Evening in America".

[loftycity]

4. From the Wilderness best articles..Thanks for the Post! n/t

[ignatius]

8. Last week the earnings of the oil companies were released. The

results were the most profitable year EVER for the top 6 major U S oil producers that have refineries.

The American consumer has begun paying for the capital that the oil companies will need to plunder the ME.

Ruppert is such a teriffic investigative journalist with a sharp mind and the ablity to make logical conclusions. I hope he wathches his back from the Bushco mafiaso.

[Sterling]

9. they will only make more

as things get worse

[BeFree]

10. Another snip... how rational are you?

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http://fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/013004_in_your_face.html

The likelihood that those truths might soon be revealed is serious enough that two weeks ago Dick Cheney found it convenient to go duck hunting with Justice Antonin Scalia who will hear arguments in the case this spring.

Nature laughs as pundits spin and concerned peoples around the world frantically and frenetically expend futile, disorganized energies against the juggernaut of tyranny and madness: elect a Democrat (any Democrat); impeach Bush; write a check to support an activist group; place an ad; stage a protest march; vote; don't vote; file a suit; file another suit; demand that the major media tell the truth, as long as it's the truth you want to hear; blame political ideology; blame a religion; blame a race; blame Capitalism; blame Communism; fight each other to release your frustrations and fears. That will make it better. Do anything but accept the obvious reality that for the US government to have facilitated and orchestrated the attacks of 9/11, something really, really bad must be going on.

There are so many inconsistencies, proven lies, conflicts of interest, and contradictions in the Bush administration's accounts of 9/11 that the sheer multitude of them ? in a rational world ? would have brought the government to a halt long ago. But this is not a rational world.

It is full of people, on both sides, who are not behaving rationally.

[OutlawCorporatePolls]

11. its the Dollar stupid..

Our dollar is backed by "access" to cheap oil. black gold, not gold gold. hussein switched to the euro in 2000 for payment for his oil, and that we did not like. hence, the war.

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