[Vwdiesel] Those anti-SUV ads

[Harmon Seaver]

On Sun, Jan 12, 2003 at 09:54:46PM -0600, Scott Kair wrote:
>     Harmon, surely you're familiar with Daniel Yergin's >The Prize.<
>      Breaking up the Seven Sisters, as the oil companies were once called,
> would have been impossible even 60 years ago- at least without bloodshed on
> an unimaginable scale.  Trying to break their privileges with an oil man in
> the White House, an oil man as vice-president, and a corporate owned news
> media dependent on oil & automotive industry advertising revenue defines
> futility.

    Yes, of course, you're right. One can only hope and pray, just as I pray
every day that someone will kill Dubbya, Cheney, and Asscruft, and that a
hurricane will come up to send all those troop ships heading for Iraq to the
bottom of the sea with no survivors. Probably won't happen, but there's always
hope.
    Although actually, the end of Big Oil will probably occur sooner than later,
since world oil production will peak this decade, and it's all downhill from
then on, at least for the oil-based technologies and economics. Two of the
Sisters, Shell and BP, at least, have acknowledged this and are diversifying
into alternative energy fairly rapidly.

(snip)

>     The determining factors in what directly caused and facilitated the 9-11
> attacks have yet to be discerned, and will be well concealed for decades.
> The only certainty is that the terrorists learned their trade at our behest
> and expense fighting the Soviets.  Those few serious journalists who stayed
> with them in Afghanistan, such as Robert Kaplan, and warned that the
> mujahedin were not the "freedom fighters" the CIA claimed,  and would one
> day turn against us, were ignored.
>     Scott Kair

   And if you're paying attention to what's going on in Afghanistan, it's clear
that the US is wearing out it's welcome there quite rapidly. Only a matter of
time before they get the same treatment there that the Soviets got. And the
Brits before them. Arrogance and brute force only go so far. The US is creating
more "terrorists" faster than it's killing them, which will always be so. If
they are stupid enough to attack Iraq, the suicide bombers will become an
unstoppable wave.


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Harmon Seaver
CyberShamanix
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