[grabby]

My bump. sorry

[grabby]

The leaders of a communist country have it better than any rich hollywood person here in the states.
they can do anything they want and they have all the money they want despite the country being poor.

same with communism. even though it si a sham, the leaders live the good life.
they will never change as long as they have a potential for being a leader.

[GreyZone]

Richard Heinberg has written An Open Letter to Greg Palast. I commend him for his approach, sticking to the information he has, not resorting to name calling, and keeping the discussion civil. I don't expect Mr. Palast to recant his position but he might at least acknowledge that his prior writings were excessive and unwarranted.

[WebHubbleTelescope]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('GreyZone', 'R')ichard Heinberg has written An Open Letter to Greg Palast. I commend him for his approach, sticking to the information he has, not resorting to name calling, and keeping the discussion civil. I don't expect Mr. Palast to recant his position but he might at least acknowledge that his prior writings were excessive and unwarranted.

[TonyPrep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WebHubbleTelescope', 'T')hat's quite embarrassing for Heinberg to write that without apparently having carefully understood Palast's appendix entry called "Why Palast is Wrong: Return to Hubbert's Peak" and realized that it is a rebuttal to his earlier passages.

[WebHubbleTelescope]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TonyPrep', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WebHubbleTelescope', 'T')hat's quite embarrassing for Heinberg to write that without apparently having carefully understood Palast's appendix entry called "Why Palast is Wrong: Return to Hubbert's Peak" and realized that it is a rebuttal to his earlier passages.

[TonyPrep]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WebHubbleTelescope', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TonyPrep', 'H')ere are a couple of quotes from that so-called self-rebuttal:$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Palast', 'A')t low prices, there’s not much oil. As prices rise, so does supply.

[WebHubbleTelescope]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TonyPrep', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('WebHubbleTelescope', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TonyPrep', 'H')ere are a couple of quotes from that so-called self-rebuttal:$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Palast', 'A')t low prices, there’s not much oil. As prices rise, so does supply.

[threadbear]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dub_scratch', 'P')alast is a reporter with an axe to grind. His latest conspiracy tale is that the Iraq invasion was done in order to keep Saddam from flooding the world with cheap oil and that Bush & co wanted to create an artificially tight supply in order to pad the wallets of big oil

Listen to this:
http://tinyurl.com/fmnqx

I think he is full of shit. His latest attack on peak oil probably is because it is inconvenient to his conspiracy theory about Bush trying to screw Joe Sixpack and make Exxon even more rich. It's populist propaganda.

[Concerned]

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$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MattSavinar', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('dub_scratch', 'P')alast is a reporter with an axe to grind. His latest conspiracy tale is that the Iraq invasion was done in order to keep Saddam from flooding the world with cheap oil and that Bush & co wanted to create an artificially tight supply in order to pad the wallets of big oil

Listen to this:
http://tinyurl.com/fmnqx

I think he is full of shit. His latest attack on peak oil probably is because it is inconvenient to his conspiracy theory about Bush trying to screw Joe Sixpack and make Exxon even more rich. It's populist propaganda.

[directinfo]

Palast has been an excellent gonzo journalist on 911 and the Iraq War crimes, the rising Patriot Act Police State and the general New World Order stuff.

Greg is OK for the most part. He is a showman, and he got Peak Oil totally way wrong... and so what? That doesn't detract from his good work nor the fact that he sensationalizes his presentation. It takes a show to even catch 10 seconds of thought from the average American these days.

He is a part of the truth movement, with his left foot. And his right foot is in the counter-truth movement.

Is there really such a fine line between conspiracy theory and truth movement?

No.

But it takes a guy like Heinberg to get into the details without emotions, using his library of relevant facts and cool-headed approach.

I dare say that there is not but one Heinberg on the planet, and lucky for us, he took the time to hit Palast because I, like many others do respect Palast for his gonzo tactics against the doomsday war profiteer machine grinding away with resource wars and false flag "phony wars", as Matt Simmons calls them.

The truth movement is bigger than any of us can handle. So we have fragments out there really believing in their heart that they "got it".

It takes a guy like Heinberg to address the derailed gonzo anti-Peak Oilers like Alex Jones and Greg Palast and a number of others out there. There is a lot of division out there among otherwise good people with good hearts and the right intentions.

Three cheers for Heinberg!