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Edited on Fri Oct-08-04 12:45 PM by GoreN4
Here's a passage from Ruppert's new book (pgs. 572-573):
The Why and the how
"It is my belief that sometime during the period of 1998 and early 2000, as certain elites became aware of the pending calamity of Peak Oil, they looked at the first highly confidential exploration and drilling results form the Caspian Basin and shuddered....The data could not be kept secret forever The data would surely come out, and what would happen to the markets then?..."
"...The CIA is Wall Street. Even of the oil had been there, it could not be monetized, because there was no safe route or pipeline to get it out. Alarms starting going-off"..."Dick Cheney and the neo-cons stepped up with a plan. That was probably more than Al Gore and the neo-liberals had to offer in light of the emergency now building. Any plan was better than no plan..."
"...Obviously, the first objective for Dick Cheney and the neo-cons had been to secure control of the White House in the 2000 election so that the rest of the plan could be implemented if necessary..."
"From their perspective, the Republican neo-cons were faced with a choice of massive panic and collapse of the financial markets; a loss of public faith in the political system; and the loss of most of their power and wealth if the truth were known. To borrow a metaphor from Professor Peter Dale Scott, both the neo-libs and neo-cons were players at a very lucrative crap game. Through they often played viciously against each other, their prime objective was to keep playing the game at all costs. Whenever the game was threatened - as is the case with 9/11 - they quickly closed ranks to protect it while the turf over which they continued to fight among themselves grew smaller and smaller and the contests more heated and bloody."
"Within their own mindset and within the parameters of an economic and governmental system that functioned (and it continues to function) in the mode of organized crime - incapable of transparency, riddled with corruption and cooked books, based upon the destruction of life for the sake of net profits and supremacy - these men, led by Dick Cheney, chose what they thought was their only logical option. I believe it seemed to them the "right" thing to do; after all, it was only a few thousand lives. Other rulers have made similar choices in the past. But as all empires learn, once the river is crossed there is no turning back..."
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(Hence the title - Crossing the Rubicon)
Bottom Line: Millions of years ago Mother Earth endowed certain geographical areas under the Earth's crust with disparate levels of hydrocarbon molecules, and for the past 80+ years men have engaged in tremendous amounts of slaughter and political oppression to gain control over of this black gold - or hold onto the wealth of this black gold through various unsavory means (now including petrodollar warfare).
As we all know, the latest chapter in this contest has involved the tragic death of over 1000 U.S. soldiers, 16,000 wounded, and probably 55,000 dead and/or wounded Iraqis, most of whom were regular civilians. Ruppert argues with considerable research that approx. 3000 civilians were essentially "sacrificed" on 9/11 so the Bush/Cheney junta and their elite backers (the industrial-military-petroleum-banking Conglomerate) could begin a radical agenda to gain control over the world's energy supply and hopefully thwart a currency collapse. My opinion is this plan was doomed to fail, and has only exascerbated geopolitical tensions and macroeconomic forces that are making the situation worse. Will Kerry make a difference? I have no idea, but we certianly need real LEADERSHIP. Now.
Well, my naive hope is that humanity will somehow see the self-defeating outcome if this pattern continues into this new century, and begin to do things differently - and soon. Either we do it via multilateral negotiations and compromises, or time and Mother Nature will do it via physics - but neither physics nor time is negotiable. I still think history shows an irrefutable pattern of an ongoing resource curse. That's enough for now...
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