[Colorado-Valley]

Okay, let's do some role playing and pretend for the moment that we are Dick Cheney.

More than anyone, he seems to be the architect of whatever the hell it is that the U.S. government is currently doing. The lies, the frantic Iraq invasion, the threats to attack Iran and probably Central Asia.

Why?

All right. You know all about Peak Oil and probably have for a decade. You know it's coming faster than anyone thought. (You also know you're pretty responsible for it, since as a government and oil official, you've spent your entire career poo-pooing the environmentalists and conservationists and making sure the entire world is completely dependent on oil.)

How do you get out of this one?

Well, you have to immediately seize all the world's major oil supplies, and then strangle off any competitors to controlling the planet. You use the U.S. military and space command to neutralize Russia and China, and use any threats you need to to neutralize Western Europe.

With 750 U.S. military bases around the world hardened off to attack by locals, you then simply allow the die-off to occur. You allow the world, including the U.S., to fall into anarchy, famine, disease, etc.

You and the U.S. military, as well as a few hundred thousand well-connected friends and family and specialty technicians, now control the rest of the world's oil, which should last forever. Hi-technology, high-comfort society and culture will continue for you behind fortified villas and military installations around the world. Anyone who attempts to organize against you will be quickly neutalized.

The melting of the polar ice caps is now no longer imminent, and places like North America and Africa become huge hunting preserves for you and your selected friends, who can easily jet from military bases around the globe, stop by the huge fortifications in the Persian gulf and then cruise on down to Nairobi for big-game safaris.

This makes sense to me. Why even attempt the impossible task of trying to keep 6.5 billion people alive if they're going to scavenge all the world's resources and create planetary destruction.

Basically, why share what's left of the oil when you can have it all to yourself instead of living in a world filled with privation and pain?

[savethehumans]

And I think to myself,
"What a wonderful world!"
--Ray Charles
(used at the end of "Dr. Strangelove," of course!)

[sol]

How 'bout chucking in a nuclear exchange to speed the die-off bit

[Turlox]

I believe you mean We'll Meet Again by Vera Lynn


http://l.swazzo.tripod.com/veralynn.html

[Turlox]

I believe Ruppert imagined Kissinger saying the following:
"The Problem isn't that there is not enough oil, the problem is that there are too many people"

[Strangelove_MD]

Close, C-V...
Cheney and the NeoCons are, of course, minions.
Now shut the f... up and go back to working on your local paper.
~SL


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Colorado-Valley', 'O')kay, let's do some role playing and pretend for the moment that we are Dick Cheney.

More than anyone, he seems to be the architect of whatever the hell it is that the U.S. government is currently doing. The lies, the frantic Iraq invasion, the threats to attack Iran and probably Central Asia.

Why?

All right. You know all about Peak Oil and probably have for a decade. You know it's coming faster than anyone thought. (You also know you're pretty responsible for it, since as a government and oil official, you've spent your entire career poo-pooing the environmentalists and conservationists and making sure the entire world is completely dependent on oil.)

How do you get out of this one?

Well, you have to immediately seize all the world's major oil supplies, and then strangle off any competitors to controlling the planet. You use the U.S. military and space command to neutralize Russia and China, and use any threats you need to to neutralize Western Europe.

With 750 U.S. military bases around the world hardened off to attack by locals, you then simply allow the die-off to occur. You allow the world, including the U.S., to fall into anarchy, famine, disease, etc.

You and the U.S. military, as well as a few hundred thousand well-connected friends and family and specialty technicians, now control the rest of the world's oil, which should last forever. Hi-technology, high-comfort society and culture will continue for you behind fortified villas and military installations around the world. Anyone who attempts to organize against you will be quickly neutalized.

The melting of the polar ice caps is now no longer imminent, and places like North America and Africa become huge hunting preserves for you and your selected friends, who can easily jet from military bases around the globe, stop by the huge fortifications in the Persian gulf and then cruise on down to Nairobi for big-game safaris.

This makes sense to me. Why even attempt the impossible task of trying to keep 6.5 billion people alive if they're going to scavenge all the world's resources and create planetary destruction.

Basically, why share what's left of the oil when you can have it all to yourself instead of living in a world filled with privation and pain?

[Colorado-Valley]

Minions of whom?

Grover Norquist? The global corporations? The Likudniks? Sauron?

No, Cheney is the mastermind, always has been ...

[Strangelove_MD]

The great mastermind from the U. of WY.?? Couldn't even make passing grades at Yale. For a moment I thought someone here might actually be on to something.


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Colorado-Valley', 'M')inions of whom?

Grover Norquist? The global corporations? The Likudniks? Sauron?

No, Cheney is the mastermind, always has been ...

[alpha480v]

Interesting theory,but not going to happen unless there is a military draft.
Not enough troop strength to seize all the worlds oil.No draft=no conspiracy theory.

[entropyfails]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Strangelove_MD', 'T')he great mastermind from the U. of WY.?? Couldn't even make passing grades at Yale. For a moment I thought someone here might actually be on to something.


$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Colorado-Valley', 'M')inions of whom?

Grover Norquist? The global corporations? The Likudniks? Sauron?

No, Cheney is the mastermind, always has been ...