[Gandalf_the_White]

Schlesinger is currently the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The MITRE Corporation; a Senior Advisor for Lehman Brothers; Publisher of The National Interest; a Director of BNFL, Inc., Peabody Energy, Sandia Corporation, Seven Seas Petroleum Company, Chairman of the Executive Committee of The Nixon Center. He has written a number of opinion pieces on global warming, expressing a strongly skeptical position.

Schlesinger is also aware of the peak oil issue and supports it. The keynote speech at the first day of an oil depletion conference hosted by the Association for the Study of Peak Oil in Cork, Schlesinger said that the oil industry executives now privately concede that the world faces an imminent oil production peak, and argued that the report "Facing Hard Truths about Energy" by the US oil industry grouping the National Petroleum Council constituted "a backdoor admission that in the next decade or two we face a moment of truth". Conceptually Schlesinger means that the battle was over and that the peak oil movement has won.

Wiki on Schlesinger link

How many of you understand where Schlesinger fits in the web of the power elite?

James R. Schlesinger, former Director, CIA (1973); senior advisor, Lehman Brothers; member, Council on Foreign Relations.
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If you start to keep an association list for the names found here you will eventually find a trail through history since at least WWII that links you to every major issue of this country. These are the ruling elite or their direct lieutenants. I am planning on developing a web dossier on the connections to the major issues that will show who the insiders most likely are. You can also get started in this study by finding a list of those who ar members or who have attended sessions at the Bohemian Grove. If you are there, start to consider what the CIA actually represents, an arm of government that can kill people using your tax dollars without your knowledge or explicit consent. Please christians help me understand how that can be a part of a 'Christian' nation.

The wake up call has barely begun, but it is not the alarm clock you keep hitting the snooze button on that is the problem, it's what happens at Am 9:11.

[Plantagenet]

Very good link, Gandalf.

Here's more by James Schlesinger:

James Schlesinger: "If you speak to people in the industry, they will concede that "whatever my company may say publicly, we understand that we are facing a decline in our own production and that world-wide we are not going to be be able to produce more fuel liquids or crude oil in the near future."

And if you look at pronouncements by governments, including the Energy Information Administration in the United States, the National Petroleum Council (NPC) what they show is that by the early 2020s we are going to have peaked out in terms of conventional oil productions. And that is an immense change from what we have seen before in the attitude of the industry.

DS: But it's not what we're hearing publicly, is it? From the executives, from governments, from environmentalists? All seem to be in denial or ignoring this issue, don't they?

JS: Well "denial" may be too strong. "Ignoring" is probably right. One does not want to be the bearer of bad tidings. Cassandra has never been an appropriate role model for politicians. You do not ask the public to make sacrifices. If you concede that indeed the peak is coming, that we ought be making adustments, the adjustments will be costly and the public will bear the cost, which means that other things being equal, a decline in the standard of living. That is not the way to successful re-election.

... I was recently at a conference in New Mexico, sitting next to one of the recent CEOs of a major oil company. In response to a question from the audience, he said: "Of course I'm a peakist. It's just a matter of when it is coming." ... Once one is retired as a CEO, one is freer ... to say I am a peakist. And what you hear privately from almost all people - is we're coming to it.

...the American public has been coached into believing that we can have energy independence, which is not obtainable as long as we have the internal combustion engine, and at the same time as we get energy independence, we can lower the price of energy. These are simply unattainable, but they are regularly promised.

...There is not going to be a turnaround [in U.S. energy policy] until you have public support and the public has got to be frightened by a serious crisis which persuades them that indeed the wolf is at the door.

... I think that many of these politicians will ultimately find that the public blames them for [their] failure to warn them. Of course in a sense the public is responsible because it's the present public attitudes to which politicans play up - tell them what they want to hear. But when the view of the world changes, what the public wanted to hear some time ago is no longer what they want to hear in the future."