Behold the Rise of Energy-Based Fascism: The Pentagon as the Global Oil Protection Service

[Octafish]

There's a big reason Bush and his cronies are toadies for the Military-Industrial Complex...



U.S. armed forces protect his oil.

Behold the Rise of Energy-Based Fascism

The Pentagon is helping to create a grim future for all of us: a struggle for energy primacy abroad and Big Brother at home.

By Michael T. Klare, Tomdispatch.com. Posted January 20, 2007.

It has once again become fashionable for the dwindling supporters of President Bush's futile war in Iraq to stress the danger of "Islamo-fascism" and the supposed drive by followers of Osama bin Laden to establish a monolithic, Taliban-like regime -- a "Caliphate" -- stretching from Gibraltar to Indonesia. The President himself has employed this term on occasion over the years, using it to describe efforts by Muslim extremists to create "a totalitarian empire that denies all political and religious freedom." While there may indeed be hundreds, even thousands, of disturbed and suicidal individuals who share this delusional vision, the world actually faces a far more substantial and universal threat, which might be dubbed: Energo-fascism, or the militarization of the global struggle over ever-diminishing supplies of energy.

Unlike Islamo-fascism, Energo-fascism will, in time, affect nearly every person on the planet. Either we will be compelled to participate in or finance foreign wars to secure vital supplies of energy, such as the current conflict in Iraq; or we will be at the mercy of those who control the energy spigot, like the customers of the Russian energy juggernaut Gazprom in Ukraine, Belarus, and Georgia; or sooner or later we may find ourselves under constant state surveillance, lest we consume more than our allotted share of fuel or engage in illicit energy transactions. This is not simply some future dystopian nightmare, but a potentially all-encompassing reality whose basic features, largely unnoticed, are developing today.

These include:

• The transformation of the U.S. military into a global oil protection service whose primary mission is to defend America's overseas sources of oil and natural gas, while patrolling the world's major pipelines and supply routes.

• The transformation of Russia into an energy superpower with control over Eurasia's largest supplies of oil and natural gas and the resolve to convert these assets into ever increasing political influence over neighboring states.

• A ruthless scramble among the great powers for the remaining oil, natural gas, and uranium reserves of Africa, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia, accompanied by recurring military interventions, the constant installation and replacement of client regimes, systemic corruption and repression, and the continued impoverishment of the great majority of those who have the misfortune to inhabit such energy-rich regions.

• Increased state intrusion into, and surveillance of, public and private life as reliance on nuclear power grows, bringing with it an increased threat of sabotage, accident, and the diversion of fissionable materials into the hands of illicit nuclear proliferators.

Together, these and related phenomena constitute the basic characteristics of an emerging global Energo-fascism. Disparate as they may seem, they all share a common feature: increasing state involvement in the procurement, transportation, and allocation of energy supplies, accompanied by a greater inclination to employ force against those who resist the state's priorities in these areas. As in classical twentieth century fascism, the state will assume ever greater control over all aspects of public and private life in pursuit of what is said to be an essential national interest: the acquisition of sufficient energy to keep the economy functioning and public services (including the military) running.

CONTINUED...

Bush lied America into war for oil.



That's totally NAZI.

[seemslikeadream]

1. Even before bombs fell on Baghdad, Pentagon officials plotting to invade another country

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/10962352/iran_the_next_war

Iran: The Next War

Even before the bombs fell on Baghdad, a group of senior Pentagon officials were plotting to invade another country.

[Octafish]

2. The only way to stop them is to band together, 'Dreamy.

If enough people in uniform learn what the turd Bush and his cronies are doing, we may still have a chance.

Population Control

http://www.apfn.org/apfn/population.htm

Otherwise, it is only seconds to midnight.

[bobthedrummer]

5. The people needed to pre-empt BFEE's ongoing "national emergency"

six years ago. Those that think that things will improve in 2008 or are still asleep may get the wake-up call of their lives. A very accurate timepiece, the atomic clock, is indeed near sounding.

Many "alarmists" warned US decades ago about what was once thought impossible, yet has happened, is continuing and will only get worse if misguided souls remain fearful of the consequences of not confronting those loyal and obedient to the BFEE.

:nuke:

[Emit]

3. Wow.

~snip~

* Fourth, the Pentagon is itself one of the world's great oil guzzlers, consuming 134 million barrels of oil in 2005, as much as the entire nation of Sweden.

http://www.tomdispatch.com/index.mhtml?pid=157241

[porphyrian]

4. Can we impeach them yet? - n/t

[NNN0LHI]

6. Good post Octafish. K&R n/t

[scarletwoman]

7. k & r Thank you as always for posting this and for all the other important information that you've

been so tirelessly posting all these years.

Until people understand the "deep politics" (hat tip to Peter Dale Scott) of what's going in the world there'll be no effective way of fighting it.

You do us all such valuable service, Octafish!

sw

[seemslikeadream]

8. A Century of LIES

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9scQ6078TU




Chapter One: The Plan Against Oil

Explosions and flames suddenly shattered the quiet afternoon at Thomas Edison's West Orange, New Jersey laboratory complex.

Time and date: 5:20 p.m., Wednesday, December 9, 1914. Upon hearing the blast, a stunned Edison ran from his laboratory and into the courtyard. There the famous inventor watched with astonishment as his film repository suddenly erupted in flames. A moment later, Edison's fire alarm gongs began clanging violently, echoing distress throughout the eighteen-structure complex. Scores of employees scrambled down the stairs of their offices, across the compound, and toward the street as intense flames raced through the "fireproof" buildings. Blast after blast, fiery outbreak after fiery outbreak, like a flaming barrage from within, spreading from the rear and then left and right, closing in from the front, and everywhere in between, most of Edison's grounds soon became an inferno. As though on an incendiary rampage, the fires systematically devoured the contents of Edison's headquarters and facilities.

Quickly, carefully, intrepidly, Edison and his wife pulled his most important papers from their offices and raced out to safety. Everything seemed to burst into blaze in just moments. The phonograph recordings and motion picture materials burned out of control. Wait. Not the batteries. Save the batteries. Edison dashed across the street to the storage battery building and ordered his private fire brigade to protect that first. With bravado, Edison himself directed much of the firefighting.

Not until midnight was most of the fire put down. Some buildings continued burning until 2:00 p.m. the next day. The flames were so intensely hot that one employee who tried to deploy a fire extinguisher was "burned to a crisp with a fire extinguisher alongside of him."

Few understood the voracious fire's extraordinary speed and broad destruction. Ten buildings completely burned to the ground. All but Edison's lab and the storage battery building were reduced to fire-ravaged rubble. It was hypothesized that a random spark from a switch in the film department suddenly ignited the surroundings. Yet it was as though the fire erupted all at once from everywhere across the fireproofed compound in building after building, and even across the walkways. Certainly Edison's complex was filled with every form of flammable chemical and material. But no one could explain certain "funny capers," as they were termed.

Reports soon documented that for some reason "in one of the little low red buildings, they found 2,000 gallons of very high proof alcohol that wasn't damaged." What's more, investigators "also found on some of the floors cans of gasoline that didn't even ignite. The flames swept right over the top of them. Corners in the concrete building weren't even touched with fire." Some rooms emerged without any fire damage at all.

[seemslikeadream]

9. Now they're planning the crime of the century

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Moy513mIeB0&eurl=



Now they're planning the crime of the century
Well what will it be?
Read all about their schemes and adventuring
It's well worth a fee
So roll up and see
And they rape the universe
How they've gone from bad to worse
Who are these men of lust, greed, and glory?
Rip off the masks and let see.
But that's no right - oh no, whats the story?
There's you and there's me
That cant be right


http://www.internalcombustionbook.com/RedDevil.php

A secret 1917 American Petroleum Institute report to President Woodrow Wilson warned that America's oil supply would run dry within four decades unless supplies were secured in the Middle East. But that did not convince America to resurrect its still popular alternatives. Instead, the leading Western industrialized nations, along with America, created an oil umbilical cord to the Middle East. The industrialized world became oil dependent, and when that dependency was threatened, it moved heaven and earth, army and navy to protect it. All the while, that dependency was immeasurably deepened by converting our pharmaceuticals, fertilizers, cosmetics, clothing, and the material artifacts of our culture--virtually every box and container--from natural substances to petrochemicals.

Today, we grow food with petroleum, digest petroleum, wear petroleum, inject petroleum, smear it across our cheekbones and breathe it. For decades, corporate combines, armies of lobbyists and vested politicians created a cavalcade of Manhattan Project-style enterprises to guarantee that the world became tethered to oil fields, and to ensure that the alternatives remained unviable. As supplies dwindled, as the cost in dollars and personal destruction soared, as the health of societies and cities choked on the success, oil interests have resisted and subverted all efforts to cure the addiction they created. In this addiction, the users were all too willing enablers, and the generation-to-generation lack of public policy created an impervious vacuum.

If the world's addiction to oil became one of the great crimes of the century, the culprits were many, and the public proved itself an eager and willing accomplice.

But as the harsh light and reality of the brittle twenty-first century streams in, the old petropolitics, the new Mideast terrorism and a fast-approaching exhaustion of oil supplies--perhaps just one to two decades away--has forced the world to break off society's global addiction to petroleum. Alternatives are being sought: new electric vehicles, hybrid autos, hydrogen fuel cell cars, vast arrays of wind turbines, solar collectors, methane plants, biomass, clean coal, safe nuclear, and an expanding new glossary of futuristic substitutes.

[Karenina]

10. Kick their ass, Take their gas

It's the Amurikkkan way!!!

[Morgana LaFey]

11. cont'd - but you forgot the link nt

[Octafish]

12. D'oh! Here they are...

It's a two-parter:

http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/46838/

http://www.alternet.org/story/46839

Thanks, Morgana LaFey! Very sorry.

[mod mom]

13. Enough is enough. Can't we arrest these thugs? highly rec'd